skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sell your information or infect your computer with malware from their advertising network partner.

Safari + reader view can view most articles except for the economist.
Engineering management is emphatically not about the tactical execution of specific projects.
This resonates with me on every level. Great article.
You're mistaken about the price of items on AmazonEssentials. Some of these items can range to nearly $100 (though, admittedly most of it is clothing). If a $80 jacket (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Heavyweight-Peacoat...) I bought started falling apart in under a year, I'd like a warranty. I don't know about you.
I know so many projects with barely any popularity being forced to move off of IPFS cause of performance problems.

DAT,SSB don't work in browser.

WebTorrent is the original better choice.

But I'm seeing most big projects move to GUN (mine, https://github.com/amark/gun). Internet Archive, HackerNoon others using it in production, with over 10M+ users, decentralized.

If IPFS team doesn't seriously fix their performance issue within 2 years, they're gonna see a lot of backlash. With $250M+ raised and 100+ employees this should be possible, I know they can do it, dWeb would be better for it.
Well, I question the reality of the idea of "utter clarity", or its usefulness to a narrative.

Common to all story-driven narratives is that the writer purposefully hides information. The author knows everything, and knows how the story will end; the characters don't. This creates suspense. That doesn't make the book a "puzzle".

Further, the choice of "dialect" has nothing to do with puzzles. Rather, it imbues the narrative with character. There's nothing in Bascule's particular language that obscures the plot. His first-person perspective certainly does, but that's because the character's understanding is more limited than the reader's. Bascule's odd and uneducated (and possibly dyslexic) choice of spelling reflects his young and carefree personality, but it also causes the reader to underestimate him at first; Bascule comes across as a simpleton, which he isn't. Feersum Endjinn is otherwise a pretty straightforward sci-fi novel.

Ultimately, good novels aren't about plot, they're about stories and how they're told. Take away that, and you're left with just plot.

As an aside, Wolfe is on another level entirely. He absolutely wrapped his stories in puzzles, and in his case the puzzle and the story are two sides of the same coin and completely inseparable. To decipher the puzzle is to understand the story. In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, for example, it's at times unclear exactly who is narrating the story.
Sounds familiar except for the walking part; as a rule we don't walk much in Houston because the city is not designed for it and it's also sauna levels of hot and humid much of the year.

https://www.chron.com/business/article/One-on-corner-there-a...
It goes in cycles. Remember only a few years ago when eggs were an epidemic, killing Americans daily.

Dietary science really was awful, and probably still is comparatively weak. I think it's getting better though; I'm pretty convinced that sugars are bad.
Is SLAN unknown now? It's a great book, along with Null A, and the Weapon shops of Isher.

Here's SLAN online its out of copyright now apparently https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article260
I would love to read that paper of yours if you have it handy!
I see. So, let's say I have a tree with arbitrary number of nodes branching into further nodes and so on. (My 'state')

Can I now make a single call to some API-function that gives me an almost identical (immutable) tree as a result except that some leaf somewhere has a modified value, or where some node has been deleted?

And, would this internally happen without much copying?
I want to call out this attitude as incredibly entitled and related to the exact root cause of all the open-source drama we've been seeing lately.
If you make too many returns, they shut down your account.
It should be, please have a look at http://scion.scxml.io/tutorials/fundamentals
It is a pretty faithful implementation of SCXML in js
Having never gotten into the habit, I just don't see the point. I understand that some people feel like they need it to function properly, but isn't that easily solved by getting more sleep?

Instead of staying up late doing things, I just go to bed and do those things in the morning. I find I don't waste as much time and I'm excited to wake up. Rolling out of bed is much easier when video games or a good book is waiting for me. I guess coffee could fill that, but I guess it's not as interesting to me as a hobby.
Statutory warranties.
Subscriptions for the “modern newspaper” did not pay the bills, but were proof that people were actually reading the newspaper.

Prior to that there were papers which did indeed make their money from subscriptions. But their content was different as well: explicitly ideological and argumentative. The NYT or Wapo idea of neutral journalism was a later development.
I wish there was a well-understood convention to opt out of "social coding". A way to put up a project under an open source license (or CC0/public-domain) along with a notice that says effectively, "feel free to fork, but don't file issues or submit patches."

You can put that in a README, but people won't read it. Github won't let you disable i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶e̶d̶ pull requests, unless you archive the project (making it read-only). Is it possible on one of the other hosting services, like Gitlab?

We need better ways to draw boundaries around open source projects and contributors.

ETA: How can we counter the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
This is a thread after my own heart! I love finding out and reading old, less well-known and thought provoking books on a variety of subject matters. I have come to the conclusion that "popular" almost always equals "lowest common denominator" and "fad of the month" particularly given today's media hype cycles. Moreover one has to guard against having ones mental models bounded within a box. By actively seeking out lesser known and out of the way viewpoints one truly grows. Some books from my collection which i have not seen mentioned here (in no particular order or categorization);

* The Natural History of Nonsense by Bergan Evans

* Programming on Purpose, Essays on Software Design by P. J. Plauger

* Management: A Political Activity by Ted Stephenson

* The Energy of Life: The Science of What Makes Our Minds and Bodies Work by Guy Brown

* Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems: Building Reliable Applications with the 8051 Family of Microcontrollers by Michael Pont.

* UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers by Curt Schimmel.

* Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi) by Francesco Guicciardini

There are a bunch more i have to root around for :-)
> Boutique hand crafted artisanal catalogs?

I think those are called books. ;-)
No, I would not have high hopes for an $80 peacoat. If I bought that I would expect it to fail.
Thoughts on Overthinking
Not necessarily just professional skills, but all skills.

I am saying that confidence comes from being able to navigate the world with skills you have learned and not from dwelling on your history (alone or with a therapist) long after you already understand it.

Your emotions are too powerful to control and you can't change the past. Literally the only thing you can control is your behavior. What you personally, actually physically do.

If you take that control and focus it on being competent; you will gain confidence. You will trust yourself.

Meditation and therapy are good for introspection and knowing yourself. I have had a ton of breakthroughs of self understanding with both of those. But it's the times that I took action that made an actual tangible difference in my life.

I am a competent singer (for instance). That did not come easy. I spent hundreds of hours at karaoke sitting there my heart pounding waiting to get called up in front of people I didn't know. I have been boo'd. I have been on a stage when someone yelled YOU SUCK when my new girlfriend was there.

I kept going back and now, at the beginning of the night when everyone is far too sober to sing, I sing 4-5 songs. I have absolute confidence that if there is a microphone somewhere I will walk up to it and sing. Without music or prompting. I love music and that was my driver, but it was the focus of my behavior that lead me to being competent at singing. When I was single I'd ask attractive women to go up and sing with me. It bonds you to sing with someone, it feels great. I am not a great singer, but I'm more than good enough for karaoke, which is all I care about.

Replace singing with communication, coding, negotiating, driving, cooking, debating, talking to women, bidding on jobs, leading developers, writing, etc.
People who make returns aren't making a decision based on the environment either.
Why rely on caffeine instead of just getting more sleep? Go to bed earlier and do your nighttime hobbies or whatever in the morning. It saves money and time since I'm actually excited to get out of bed in the morning.
Cheating sounds bad. But if it makes it run faster, without any bad side-effects that would seem ok, and I'm not sure if it should even be called "cheating".

Basically as I understand it functional languages must internally "cheat" all the time, because they must run on top of non-functional hardware abstractions. Tail-recursion-elimination happens by turning what looks like a recursive function into a while-loop internally, updating some mutable data.
> the starships had 3-way voting computer systems, where 3 computers get the same sensor inputs and 2 of them can overrule the 3rd in the case one differs.

Clarke invented the communications satellite. Did Heinlein invent the consensus algorithm?
Agreed and those are all great pursuits. I would also say don't forget things like listening, communication and recognizing your own feelings, as skills as well.
Not at all. Where you solve the transportation of waste and getting in water through the river, only the most upstream city was getting potable water, downstream was after washing and waste went in. Wells frequently went down to a polluted or at least unsafe water table. Wells out of the towns and cities were generally safer. Few if any towns were the sole town on a river.

Tea was initially an elite drink in China, the expense in part explaining the rise of the rituals and ceremonies (and lots of equipment) surrounding it. Much the same happened with coffee.

Rome was indeed an exception thanks to their development and aqueducts, but that potable water was coming from well outside the city. In the outlying regions of the empire, without that infrastructure, wine seems to have been the usual, and water for bathing.

Remote enough is akin to upstream enough -- with no shite, washing and other pollutants, getting potable water from a remote spring or well is perfectly feasible.
You can do this on SourceHut, just make a git.sr.ht repo and don't make anything else (ticket tracking, mailing lists, etc, are opt-in).

On GitHub you can disable issues but not pull requests.
(van Gogh)
It's about first contact with aliens, who turn out to have a really good version of the Internet Archive's software preservation project.
How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017)
Do they? They get moderately annoyed, certainly, and they have every right to. But the DMV issues mistaken suspensions all the time, and I don't think many people see that as either a critically important issue or proof that the government is evil.
> But the 737 Max is still a very safe plane. I have no qualms about flying on it.

No, no it's not safe.

Your entire argument is complete nonsense.

When the AoE sensor is damaged, the chance of a MAX problem is 100%.

> But the 737 Max is still a very safe plane. I have no qualms about flying on it.

It's grounded world-wide, so you're the only one.
GitHub let's you disable Issues but not PRs. Not sure since when.
This is literally the dumbest thing to do with a word. I mean literally, not literally.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100531174024/http://neworleans...

O'Keefe plead out to a misdemeanor and served probation + a fine. But the crime he committed was a felony.

> In January 2012, O'Keefe released a video of associates obtaining a number of ballots for the New Hampshire Primary by using the names of recently deceased voters.

That's probably a felony in most parts of the US, although O'Keefe claims it wasn't since he didn't actually vote.
Serious question: how much does this differ from what would be expected in a Poisson distribution? Does this line up with the Pareto Rule?
Yea you go dhabxkxbx! Anonymous or bust!
A piece of paper, a pencil, a ruler, and a compass - these are the best tools to learn about geometry. (It’s like having a cat is the best way to learn about cats - vs., say, watching YouTube videos.)
I understand that English is defined by those who speak it, not by committee, and that the colloquial use of the word "literally" as an intensifier is widespread. I still think the word "literally" is worth fighting for. It would be a pity to turn a word with such precise, significant, and unique meaning into yet another mediocre intensifier, of which we have dozens. In doing so, we would not merely add a definition, we would destroy the old one.

So, I'm with GP: the word "literally" doesn't fit the context and ought to be replaced.
My wife has returned 166 items in the last 12 months with no issues
This is the ultimate result of any taxation system that penalizes income and encourages property ownership.
“Kimberly Guilfoyle is the national chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee and a senior adviser to Donald J. Trump for President Inc.“
Jaron Lanier's You are not a Gadget. It really changes your ideas about software and I really wish people would read it. Especially regarding Open source and regarding design.

Keep in mind It isn't a programming book though and it really shouldn't be read as one.
Grassroots for Hire by Edward Walker, https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Hire-Consultants-American-...
I'm surprised to see something so politically charged on the front page of HN.

The article sounds pretty bad, but the author is

>The chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee and a senior adviser to Donald J. Trump for President Inc

So is there a lighter take to this development, or has a communist revolutionary actually taken over the SF justice system? If the facts in the article check out, that a former translator for Hugo Chavez, adopted by former members of the Weather Underground, just became SF's DA and fired seven prosecutors apparently without cause, maybe it's worth a read...

This is the stuff of movies!
Roasting immediately before brewing is not a great idea.

I've been roasting my own beans for 20 years, and one of the first things I learned is that hardly any beans are at their best right after roasting. Freshly roasted is OK, but the beans are outgassing for some time after that. 2-3 days rest after roasting improves the flavor of just about any coffee, especially the fruity dry process Ethiopians I like.

Feel free to email me (address in profile) if you'd like to talk about home roasting - always happy to kick it around with anyone interested.

Also visit https://www.sweetmarias.com/ for lots of information about green coffee and roasting, grinding, and brewing equipment. (I am not affiliated with them at all, just a long time customer.)
Warranties these days are shit anyway. You have to jump through a million hoops to get anything and they often are "pro rated" over the time period so they decay over time.
In developing countries a lot of rich people (mostly politicians e.g. in India) do not even make it to the official rich lists. I am assuming they have a complex web of control for their wealth. Shell companies is one example but i know India has a lot of Benami property which essentially means property registered to 1 person but actually owned by someone else. DO not ask me about how it is enforced but an important concept because a lot of wealth is held in land or real estate holdings.
Hm, so if we were to redistribute the assets of group B to group A, then each member of group A will be at least 2153e9/4.6e9 = $468 wealthier.
Here is a blog of an Aussie bloke playing with a lot of old drive technology. SyQuests, Zips, Jazz, Superdisks, etc https://goughlui.com/2019/09/08/project-data-recovery-from-a...
I'd say it's the ultimate result of any economic system that rewards property ownership above all else.
Thanks for the recommendation, bought it today.
Hmm...I remember a time before "realICE".
What modern debuggers/tool can do what SoftICE did? How do you debug services and device drivers modern Windows?
Piramal Sells Off Its Healthcare Insights Firm DRG for $950M
Yeah, you're right. I'm getting two events mixed up. I'm sure something similar to what I described did once happens with an image board/8chan reader but in hindsight it was a different platform... Maybe the Ubuntu installer centre? I don't remember.
Is that very different from let's say 100 years ago? Better or Worse?

> Oxfam said reducing inequality has a bigger effect on lowering extreme poverty than economic growth. That analysis “shows that if countries reduced income inequality by 1% each year, 100 million fewer people would be living in extreme poverty by 2030,”

I thought that extreme poverty has been steadily declining for years according to several reports (here's one from the world bank: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty)
Assuming the author uses their own software, disabling the ability to hear about problems with it before you trip over it themselves is counterproductive. The minority of users would fix it and offer a PR in my experience, more would be willing to drop the author a note in an issue.

Unfortunately that useful information comes mixed in with, eg, users who think the author's time is worth so much less than theirs (didn't the author demonstrate it was worth nothing by offering this work for free?) they want hand-holding for every little thing. The author can put it in README.md and point these guys at it when closing their issue.
No you give it to me to fair and square investments and I pay the dividends to the poor... Oh wait...
That's DDG, not google.
People are too quick to dismiss other's work when they don't know how hard it is or have done anything significant in the same field. Once dismissed, it becomes
a matter of what they feel about it at face value.

To everyone, it seems programmers write 500 words SEO spam posts so not worth much or hard. They can program the same if they wanted to.

(Note - SEO spam posts here refers to subjecive low quality code, duplicate of existing solutions or very similar to what you can do by combining two existing tools.)

Perception or feelings like above are quick to convey so they get conveyed.

Spitting out code is not the hard part of open source imo. It's dedication, commitment, building a community and sustaining feedback. If I am writing software to solve trivial problem, then it wouldn't take me much time but if I am writing software to solve trivial problems for others, It would take me tremendous time to write insignificant piece of code because it needs to be documented, accessible, thoughtful, clean, hosted, testable, branded (naming is one of the hard problems, after all.) and pass through many such criteria.

It doesn't need to but most people who love open source feel this way about their projects.

It's hidden. It's not visible to someone who just created an issue. Somehow we live in meritocratic ideals but forget that meritocratic solution on their own don't get much attention. Without a good readme, a lot of people simply ignore the project. We are actively optmized to go through ton of information that it de-empathizes us to human touch or mistakes. It's quick to notice a typo and make an insignificant comment about it because you can't focus on everything. Anything unexpected is a distraction and we get easily distracted, thus sometime vent on meaningless things.
Introduction to OpenVINO: Learn with Their Face Detection Model
>Basically as I understand it functional languages must internally "cheat" all the time, because they must run on top of non-functional hardware abstractions.

By cheating I mean functions must eventually execute a side effect and that side effect is usually mutating state. The IO monad is a cheat depending on your perspective. The very pixels on your screen are entities with states: RGB which even a "pure" program like haskell will be modifying.

What haskell does is call these pixels IO and it segregates the actual mutation from the rest of the program.

This is just my opinion but the main benefits of functional programming lie not in performance but in organization of code or what most programmers refer to as "design."

If you're looking for extreme performance FP is not the the way to go. Assembly language is the way to go, but even before that I would pick a procedural language like C long before I use an FP language.
As somebody who works with data a lot, the need for analysing and transforming CSV files comes up and I recall, how I needed something fast. Then I discovered `xsv` about a year ago, and since then I still use it on a weekly basis. since then also discovered ripgrep.

It was also for me a gateway in the sense I see rust come up on HN, but only when I started using these tools I realised how fast and light those little apps can be. It made me want to learn Rust and seeing the community around it I realise, it is a very wonderful thing.
$468 would probably make a world of difference to the poorest half of the global population.
A different recent take on "where is X really located?" is The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich, which argues that our useful intelligence is largely in our culture and our capacity to build it incrementally, rather than in our individual minds' capacities.

He starts off with observations about well-educated, intelligent, capable people in possession of sophisticated technology starving or freezing to death when they were stranded in unfamiliar physical environments, in which other cultural groups could thrive.

If Turner thinks that your constructed habitat is part of your body, Henrich thinks that your culture is part of your intelligence, and for a wide range of purposes, the most important part.
“The pyramid shows that: half of the world's net wealth belongs to the top 1%, top 10% of adults hold 85%, while the bottom 90% hold the remaining 15% of the world's total wealth, top 30% of adults hold 97% of the total wealth.”

This seems way off from 20% of the population holding 80% of the wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#Wealth_...
Other than the speed, I have problems with the interface. Search is virtually useless (sometimes returns nothing, sometimes too many results in a somewhat random order), and the information for every app is usually lacking. No reviews or rating system either so you just have to install things first to check out if it's really for you or not. There is not even a popularity indicator...

All in all, it's far cry from what a "best in class" app store could be.
There are plenty of coloured text fields out in the real world that a lot of people don't seem to have a problem with though.
“$0 down payment” billboards for homes in the Bay Area – what's the actual cost?
It was the Hercules monitor support that had those amber fossils still sitting on the desks of every video card driver authors desks (and games programmers too) into the late nineties. VxD dot commands allowed you to extend and use a plethora of debug commands beyond the built in. Once Windows had working multimonitor support, that crucial aspect of Softice's utility was no longer unique.