skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points and they remind me of 'Affirmations' by Scott Adams - discussed a lot on his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and still win big "https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp...
When I show this kind of behavior it’s usually because of a lack self confidence or depression. My Buddhist teacher told me that depression is literally a selfish thing because you are so busy worrying about yourself and don’t have capacity to think about others or to be generous.

Besides seeking professional help I think it helps to review the day in the evening and see if you did any of the behaviors you want to improve on. That way you slowly develop awareness and can start catching yourself from time to time when you do it. And be kind to yourself. Changing deeply ingrained behaviors is very hard.
First Atari Hotel to Begin Construction in Phoenix in Mid-2020
I'd hazard that this would be an obvious "first application" for this technique. If they can improve the absorption efficiency by 130%, that translates to reducing the number of mirrors by something like 25%, so a fairly significant cost saving. Alternately, if you can capture and store that energy without increasing costs too much you end up with a more efficient power plant per unit-area of land. Sounds good to me!
> I have never heard of any efforts to automate bug discovery beyond static code analysis tools in IDE's for example

What is test automation except automating finding bugs?
This reminds of a line from 30 Rock by Jack Donaghy:

"Diversity is the engine that drives this country. We are an immigrant nation! The first generation works their fingers to the bone making things, the next generation goes to college and innovates new ideas, the third generation... snowboards and takes improv classes."

Feels like one of those things that we all thought was true.
I don't think those rules reduce the entropy significantly, maybe 1 bit compared to a rule of "any character on a US keyboard, max length 12". You can try generating a random password with that rule and see if it passes the test - more than half of the time it will.

The problem with overly restrictive password rules is not generally a lack of entropy. It's that people can't remember their passwords, which might be a bug or a feature.
What do you mean when you’re talking about learning deeply about the psychological mechanisms of procrastination? Do you have any links to start with that? It’s something I’ve struggled with my entire life, and if there’s something I can do to learn more about it and be able to overcome it over time I’d love that.
So how did OpenWRT manage to build firmware with up to date components for it? The Qualcomm chips inside of it seem fairly modern for such an old kernel.
Ever been in a relationship? There are a lot of problems you can’t just solve with rational thinking.
Every single popular language was rushed, and every single one borrowed many ideas from elsewhere.
Most routers run 2.6.32 kernel.
I think it's the same on Facebook.
Replace government with large, complex organization. There is litle difference. I've worked in government and large companies, and they are pretty much the same.

The only difference is the governance structure. In .gov, you tend to have professional / civil service people at the senior director level who know their business inside and out, with a political layer of management who drive change and vary in competence.

Medical records are a great example of how .gov/.com doesn't matter. When stuff gets complex, IT sucks.
Ive had the pleasure of interacting with Robin via email a few times over the years. He is the expert when it comes to modifying your Roland X0X machine. I paid him for a few hours of consulting time to modify my TR-808. This guy was more than fair about what he shared with me, and gave me extremely detailed notes beyond the scope of what I asked for.

I've been following the Behringer "synth wave", and Ive purchased quite a few of them(RD-8, TD-3, K2, and WASP). I purchased the RD-8 as the platform to try the 808 mods since I didnt want to really tear up my 808. The other things I purchased were all out of print synths, and I think it makes total sense for Behringer to revive these models. They have the scale and tooling to make it happen at low cost, and I generally support that mission.

However, Uli has a cloud over him regarding his business practices that never really goes away. In this case, I cant support Behringer at all. Boutique gear is always going to cost more, and if you want to use his designs (patented or not) you need to compensate the responsible party. He may not be legally entitled to, but ethically and morally its the right thing to do. I dont have a window of the economics of building the TD-3 or any Behringer synth, but I would imagine that R&D is pretty low. Existing schematics are used and most of the R&D would be around finding suitable replacements for the circuits if the original parts are not available.(or in Music Tribes case, they can reproduce ICs)

I may reconsider future purchases from Behringer in light of these events...
This must be what they're thinking of. The Neutron is probably the most original design they have. Plus, it's using the 3340 oscillators, which sound nothing like the saw based one's that Moog uses, imo.
Fractional reserve banking is one of the most dangerous things homo sap does, it is right up there with Tide Pods and the Space Shuttle and is worse than nuclear power by a large margin.

(e.g. the basis for the instability is that banks borrow with a short term and lend with a long term; when there is a recession naturally some of those long term promises are broken, short term depositors walk, and banks can fail in a cascading chain failure.)

The 2008 crisis showed many reasons why you shouldn't trust ordinary banks. The folks involved with Bitcoin have the same problems, except unlike bankers they aren't regulated and we don't have any control over their bad behavior.
What is your business model outside of IAP?
Tilt indicators are kind of inertial locks used in practice. When tilted over a threshold they lock and indicate that the transport company broke the "do not tilt" spec.
Thanks! I tried again, and it is working. It was so simple (and no cursor until select), I thought it was just a blank screen.
I will say, even with all the problems, even our ERP is capable of quite a few things, and I couldn't fathom rolling my own.

They just don't want you to plug anything of your own into it.
Thankfully non-government industry is exempt from this kind of thing. For example, the airline ticketing industry has kept up with modern technology and paradigms with its corruption-free SABRE system. Banks these days exchange trillions daily through modern full-stack phone apps.
> Microservices provide an abstraction.

So do modules/classes/interfaces etc. You don't need a layer of HTTP in between components to have abstraction.

In addition, it feels like microservices solve a problem that very few people really have. I've never run into a case where I though "boy, I'd sure like to have a different database for this one chunk of code". If that did happen, then sure, split it out, but I can hardly believe that splitting your entire code base into microservices has a net benefit. The real problem in nearly every project I've worked on is complexity of business logic. A monolith is much easier to refactor, and you can change the entire architecture if you need to without having to coordinate releases of many different applications.
I've got cash in my pockets and credit cards too.
I have the feeling most home routers are designed by the same OEM shop in Shenzhen.
Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor
Many companies started using Scala a ~5 years ago, it was better, there was no reason not to, until the developers found that better is not as good as do the basic stuff that works and holds to the future have proven past, and have many more developers and more people in community this is what rules the game.
Then why has a full count taken so long to do? The paper records were supposed to be failsafe.
Oh yes I agree completely. When I said "a tiny bit more", I meant it literally: it's a bit more, but only a very tiny bit.
Any that involves interaction with multiple people; you cannot predict others, especially since most people don't always act fully rationally.
ENSIME was abandoned several years ago because the maintainer felt bullied[1] and LSP/Metals has a ways to go.

[1] https://medium.com/@fommil/hide-your-real-name-in-open-sourc...
Coronavirus wreaking havoc on electronics industry: Apple, Nintendo and more
It sounds like you've _had_ the epiphany.

The important thing now is to remember it, and apply it to your daily life.

This is much less fun, and much harder work. But basically, whenever you're about to do something, ask yourself if you're doing it for the right reasons.

After a while you'll have internalised this to the point where you're not having to correct course hardly at all, and it will be near-zero effort.

And then you can move on to the next thing ;-)
Ask HN: Is there a reason to move from Go to Java or C#?
I'm just curious to see if I'm missing out on something. I did webdev with PHP previously so I get the "generics" aspect but I don't miss them that much.
But not 3rd party tracking ads. HN's "ads" don't get blocked by uBlock either.
Why use Node.js has been sublime for e-commerce website development
I think you can certainly say that some people benefit more than others from the "redistribution", even if you don't account for every single spending. There are certainly people who pay more than they receive.

In the case of family support, it is clear the non-parents receive less than parents. If there are no things (or fewer) things that non-parents benefit from that parents don't benefit from, then it is a net loss for non-parents. (Non-parents could for example benefit more from government sponsored care of the elderly, which might in part be taken care off by children of parents).
The neutron was pretty original as far as analogs nowaday go
Where does consciousness originate
My dream research job.
But what about when you get old and wrinkled, and you haven't optimized time for learning skills? You will be deserted, won't you?
Shifting Baseline Syndrome Affects How We Perceive Nature
I suppose many people use relatime, which is good enough for popcon I think.

Edit: Debian uses relatime by default. I don't know about other distributions.
How about “install linux-image-rt-amd64 using the debian package manager GUI” then?

(Not at a debian box to look up the start menu item name, and I don’t use the GUI these days...)
Read this

https://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Self-Psychoanalytic-Narcissi...
Customer service doesn't scale, and it's sorking out OK for google so far.
Immigrants are frequently working below what you'd expect of similarly talented/skilled/educated (especially if you exclude consideration of English language fluency) native born, so it's not really surprising that their children do better by comparison to them than the children of the native born.
oh, people have NO idea. the information in the mainstream media barely scratches the surface and the "official" numbers are nowhere near reality. pumping billions of dollars into the stock market to give the illusion that all is fine will work only for so long.
> The deadlift is certainly dangerous, but only in the sense that almost any large lift is dangerous for the untrained.

Exactly! I, personally, would not do ANY heavy lifts when starting out.

Lot's of great exercises with near-zero risk of injury available. Why start with something that might wreck your spine?
Pyramid of Capitalist System
Couple of questions for the author as well as the HN crowd:

1. Should I interpret each X number of users as stated in the article to be "simultaneous" or "generally active over the past Y amount of time" or even "total user count ever?" "Unique per day?"

2. What do you think in general about skipping the step "100 Users: Split Out the Clients" if one is reasonably certain to not want or need multiple clients? It would seem as though this could keep the deployments and testing simplified until later in the growth stage, as more code can be deployed/tested as a single bundle. But also, I want to be sure I'm not missing something by just trying to justify my own interests.
I grew less distrustful of the book when I read in it that, in the author's view, the key ingredient to its advice was sincerity. Carnegie even makes the point that the advice is useful whether or not you are sincere, and calls out its danger.
Chances are that if you are a truly narcisitic (I would check with a therapist before self-diagnosing a pathology) you might have a relationship with someone co-dependent on you, either work, friend or sentimental relationship, you could look into interpesonal conflicts, are you steping constanly into some else boundaries, for your own benefit?

Search on youtube about this pattern there are a couple of pshychologist talking about it.

If you are not hurting anyone, maybe your are not involed in co-dependet pattern with anyone, and all you need it's some mindfulness and social skills.
Sounds interesting! I don't like dropbox due to the price as well. Also, I'm looking for a better solution in terms of privacy, that's why I'm considering running my own little server
Alright. What are we optimizing for? Productivity? Or the end-goals of any of: achieving more, climbing the corporate ladder, making more money, etc..?

As years go by, I realize more and more that productivity is only a small part of the equation. Even more, it's a 'metric' that if increased past a certain threshold, it actually provides diminished returns in the grand scheme of things (basically working more for less results).

What I found to be the perfect (for me) solution is to maintain a stable and consistent productivity but be really REALLY picky about what I'm working on. Trying to improve my productivity was something I was doing in my early 20s and It's often a trap as it's conditioning your mind to be brave about taking on more work. Nowadays, that's something I actively avoid so that I focus all of my energy on stuff that actually matters. Thorough the years this has proved to be a way better way for me to be successful in the work environments I've passed through...
I'm referring to the very entertaining, but a bit truism-heavy and patronizing presentations of Clojure's Rich Hickey, for example "Hammock driven development": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

I like Rich Hickey's philosophy and personal style, but Clojure just falls short in every aspect as an implementation thereof, in my opinion.

For example, it switched from heavily promoting STM as a concurrency primitive to "app state in atom" to new async/channels.
Hasn’t this been widely known for a long time?
Show HN: One Comment lead to 200 downloads of “Understanding SEO”
The Story of an Indian Village with 60 Millionaires (2017)
Can we get a title update? Article reads `Lasers etch a 'perfect' solar energy absorber`.
I hate how we are just giving away control over the internet to Amazon/Google.

How does a small cloud provider stay in business when up against these multi billion dollar companies? At any point in time, these companies can just lower the cost of their products, and suffer through a few bad quarters while the small businesses slowly bleed out and die.
Of course. And if you are using any sort of 3rd party library, there's a good chance it has some bad design decisions in it. Having extension methods allows you to clean them up.

If the library is open source, you can of course try to contribute changes, but they may or may not be accepted, and maybe the library is in such wide use that they don't want to break backward compatibility.
At my very first coding job, I was hired to update the design of a .net webforms website. My academic background was in java. There was no on the job training. It was just me, 2 C# books, and stackoverflow.

I remember writing monolith methods/functions with 1000+ lines of code.

I remember manually generating SQL as a string for ado.net. I also remember being unaware of stringbuilder and doing tons on += on strings and wondering why the application was slow.

Looking back now at my first time, it seems funny more than embarrassing. I remember it fondly.
Take a few minutes to skim the Wikikedia page summarizing "The No Asshole Rule:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

You probably don't fit the author's definition of "certified asshole."

No one's perfect. Learn from your mistakes and grow into a wise old person.
Truth or knowledge is not how science works.
I think it doesn't make much sense to protect it because in popular Linux distributions an unprivileged user can access such identifiers as MAC addresses of network interfaces, HDD serial numbers etc.

> If a stable unique identifier that is tied to the machine is needed for some application,

Ideally there should be no stable identifiers accessible to untrusted applications.
Only aggregate
It has been hypothesized, but not proven definitively, as in this paper.
Wait, you can literally control machines with SAP?
I suspect a certain book retailer also didn't see the opportunuty in the first place.
I think it's been known by every grandmother and stressed out mom since we left the ocean as a species, but this is a case of "proving the tale" scientifically.

It does feel a bit moot though.
Nice, left a singular comment on this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181093
and one week later my book was downloaded ~200 times. Nice & Thx.
The first line of the article

> For a long time, anecdotes have connected stressful experiences with the phenomenon of hair graying. Now, for the first time, Harvard University scientists have discovered exactly how the process plays out: stress activates nerves that are part of the fight-or-flight response, which in turn cause permanent damage to pigment-regenerating stem cells in hair follicles.
Note that openwrt has a big community of contributors and not all devices/features are supported. In contrast the manufacturer firmware is at least feature complete and easy for regular users to set up.
In that they will have severe problems in justifying or even allowing this kind of surveillance for anything, since they themselves don't want to be subjected to it. It is pretty important since it acknowledges that there can be rejection of it without stating any reason. For now, I am very happy with that. But as I said, vigilance is still necessary.
Learn about and practice meditation. There are scientific studies proving that the practice increases empathy. Narcissism is also related to a low level of empathy.
Science Hasn't Refuted Free Will
When graphs are shown next to each other like this it is important to use the same scale across them. The Percentile graphs make IBM cloud functions look significantly better than the competition, despite being middle of the pack or worse.

Aside from that nit (which I see everywhere), this is awesome.
Big giants fighting each other giving free computing to small startups? I call that a win for the little guy.
Modern Java is actually quite good. The main three things that Kotlin offers, in my eyes, are Data classes (in preview in JDK 14), Coroutines (should be coming soonish with loom), and nullable reference types (not big enough for me to switch).

Outside of Android I wouldn't choose Kotlin.
> 3. Learn how to manage other people so they do the work for you. Learning psychology will also pay it back here. If you master psychology, people will be able to do things under your management that they are not able to do on their own.

I hope you're referring to cases where you're a project lead or in a position of management. Because if not, tread with care as most people can be easily influenced but if you run into another person who 'masters psychology' you may end up having a really bad time.
I've done the same by never logging into google and sharing my residential connection via VPN with friends and family. Google, Facebook, and Instagram all get very confused especially when the other users are sometimes logged in, and physically located in faraway locales.

Downside is that sometimes google.com gets redirected to a foreign language, or I get tons of captcha challenges. Worth it though to see the random locations it thinks I'm at and ads it thinks I'm 'interested' in.
Paper, Procreate, or Affinity Designer? Comparing Popular Apps
I'm not sure if using the word "narcissism" is helpful in this context. We are all self-absorbed to some extent and it's good to maintain a practice that keeps this at bay.

I found these two things particularly helpful:

1) Developing a practice of meditation

This helps to notice the self-absorbed thoughts and recognize them for what they are. I'd recommend in particular attending a silent retreat in Vipassana tradition https://www.dhamma.org/

These retreats are organized all over the world and are donation-based, so you can afford them regardless of your financial means. It only takes time and dedication.

2) Developing interest in other people

I was surprised that this can be learned, but it certainly can. I've often heard things like "assume everybody knows something you don't know" or "everybody can teach you something". I've found this advice to not be particularly helpful. It didn't offer a process for developing this interest.

The advice here offers a more practical approach: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-genuinely-interested-i...
(tdlr; it's an exercise of writing down things that you appreciated about the people you've encountered).

My personal experience with this practice:
a) I notice what I appreciate and find interesting about the person I am speaking to more frequently and sooner into the conversation.
b) I notice afterwards that I derived far more satisfaction from conversations in which I was interested in the other person rather than when others were interested in me. However, during the conversation I still crave attention. I am starting to notice these cravings as they happen. It's a little like eating a healthy meal vs. eating a cookie.
How old are you? Pretty much everyone's a narcissist until they hit their late 20's/30's, so nothing to worry about if you're younger

Otherwise, just let your experiences be the lessons
They have to target a different market. They have to provide customer support. They need to provide a lot of white glove services. They have to offer "tours of our facility" to those who think that has value. This could be businesses like lawyers but not tech businesses.
You're entirely missing the point. If I'm spending a month to optimize some code so that it is 25% faster, these gains don't go away again once I'm done optimizing. They stay in the product for months or years. And this is where the effort pays off.
You taking about Penta or n26?
How low is low? Wheel good, fire good. Knife, mixed results.
Cause openwrt doesnt care if some feature doesnt work but oem should support all features
M'narcissist. tips fedora
It’s an option, you can choose to log out all devices when you perform a reset.