skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regimes like this often underestimate their own stability. There are tons of useless princes and government workers that are not really in a position to revolt if they get less money.

Unless there is a serious rift in the top level elites, they can survive.
Ah ok, you started with suggesting Hugo might be a bit complex...

I thought I might have found an ally, someone who has been around for a bit and wary of the cambrian explosion of software projects. Someone who no longer believes in all that software that comes out, with new, cool features that add functionality, but, in my opinion, add subtle difficulty along the way that's hard to account for, death by a thousand cuts that must eventually lead to some kind of fatigue. Things that update and break and change and are deprecated and abandoned and require use of a different language, different build chain, different mental model, just to "add some posts from time to time" to a blog.

Please excuse this little rant. I truly believe that anyone can find their sweet spot with any system. But what is the right fit for your relatives who want it dead simple?
I have ADHD, and I used to worry about wanting to learn everything. After many years of attempting to do so, I found out that there simply isn't enough time to do it all. The surface area is too broad, and there are too many demands in life that will take priority. Without focus, it won't be as easy to excel in a particular area.

Instead, use projects to drive your learning, otherwise your knowledge will atrophy as you attempt to learn subjects broadly. Hands on learning will be more productive as it integrates all of your senses.

Figure out what you want to do. That isn't to say your interests can't change, but your learning should benefit your current objectives.

You might find that what you work on requires interdisciplinary understanding, and in that case you might integrate a broader field of skills. But let your projects guide you to that, otherwise you're making a premature optimization. Perhaps an incorrect one.
> perpetuate the perception that, when it comes to the rigors of science, crisis situations demand exceptions to high standards for quality.

Where are the high quality studies warranting strict lockdowns?
Singapore is doing fine and has one the lowest death rates in the world.

Nearly 100x less than the global average for case fatalities. For all these people testing positive no one is actually dying, most don't even have symptoms.
My solution: I commit to a meetup talk in on the topic.

- meetups are open & friendly. They are more than cool with “I am learning X” informal talks without too much judgment or pressure

- the deadline still makes me bust my ass

- I dont believe I know anything unless I can teach it, a meetup talk means I need to communicate my understanding, which means I actually learn it

Nothing happens without a deadline with real social consequence. My buddies call this “embarrassment driven development”
This is a medium hijacking.
This rust monoculture is toxic to the variety of subjects that must be shown each day on the front page.
I would argue that HashMap is actually the least useful structure for algo challenges/questions. They are often forbidden as an answer by the interviewer (especially since they usually lead to easy O(1) or O(n) answers), pretexting "memory limitations", to force the interviewee to use arrays/lists.
The internet existed before ads, too. This website we're on now has no ads.

Advertising is not the inevitable endgame of any particular forum. It's only there because we accept it. If I go to my public library and ask if I can put up a flier, they say "Are you a local non-profit? Then you can post it on the bulletin board in the back corner." Just because they can run ads doesn't mean they must.

It'd be great if the people who want an ad-laden web could have their side, and the people who want a free volunteer web could have their side. There was a time when I might have thought that .com/.org could do this, but clearly that distinction is long gone.
It was hard for a moment to get my head around the idea of static activation records. That makes “procedure call” simply into a goto. I guess I tend to write assembly code this way though.

Ironic that almost 20 years later the idea of dynamic activation had been so well absorbed that it was possible to write an influential paper all about how procedure call (and lambda) could be considered a goto (via tail recursion)!
It could be that all our historical records are modern forgeries to prop up the current zeitgeist. It all comes down to how much we can trust anything beyond our immediate sense perception and reasoning. But then if you go down that rabbit hole, how much can we trust our own sense perception and reasoning?

On the other hand, who has the time, or inclination, to construct such an elaborate conspiracy? And if they were brilliant and powerful enough to concoct such a thing, why would they bother going through the effort to control a bunch of much inferior beings?
Add asteroid strike at with the energy level of a nuclear warhead to that list. Fortunately, it is 71% likely to come down in the ocean.
Stock price is very often disconnected from reality.
A new Android Exploit was born
does knowledge of biochemistry give you knowledge of epidemiology? it might look related, but it's not.
Don't let the troll drag you into this. It's a pointless distraction.
Clearly, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.
Whenever I’m hiring, I consider an engineering degree equivalent to (if not a little more impressive than) a CS degree. Of course, you do have to be able to show you know what you’re doing.
> at first they thought it would sell quad-core processors, but discriminating consumers learned that third-party antivirus makes your machine slow, unstable, hot and runs down the battery. Thus it damaged Intel's brand.

I don't get the anti-virus market at all. Granted all AV products are probably horrible and I haven't used a third party AV on a personal machine ever since about 2009-ish [0] but back in college I distinctly remember the consumer AV stuff was so much taxing on performance compared to "enterprise" stuff. I don't think there was ever a technical reason for this, was there? So, why?

Now I do remember subversion checkouts or anything file intensive was pretty bad (and it still is if you don't have a decent SSD) but my impression is that the enterprise av was better than consumer? Am I misremembering this?

[0] I think I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials or some variant of it if I recall correctly.
If there are aliens flying around, it would be nice if at least one country made high quality evidence public.

The U.S. Navy videos are intriguing but very far from conclusive. And yet they are likely withholding a ton more data that citizens should have access to.

If it's all a cover story for top secret stuff, then it's likely an unnecessary deception. I doubt any U.S. military project is actually safe from Chinese and Russian spies. So all they're doing is increasing the sense of distrust between U.S. citizens and their own government.

Modern people don't want to live in the Cold War secrecy paranoia of the last century. The U.S. military should focus on what really matters and leave that toxic cold war culture behind.
Gresham's law doesn't work in strictly free market economy. By definition, debased coins will drive out regular coins only if you force the acceptance of both coins at face value. It only works under legal tender laws.

If people read the conditions of the free google account they realize that the service can be terminated at any time for any reason without warning, and there's absolutely nothing there about any corrective mechanisms.

Contrast this with terms of [especially national] domain name ownership.

Anyway, given the number of people who will give their data to such a service under such conditions, you may well be right that some regulation would be useful, especially around getting your data out in some short time period after account termination. (But only to holders of the valid authentication credentials.) Forced email address portability would be also nice (provider would have to forward incomming emails for a reasonable fee or for free), for some limited time, maybe a year.
Care to link to any of those studies? I'd love to read them.
the point would be that the standard library should be forward compatible while crates should be backward compatible.

so that current crates work with old version of compilers/toolchains.

this applies here as each new Unicode standard requires an update of the Unicode crate. ideally the best case would be to make it so that in 20 years Rust 1.0 can still use the most updated version of Unicode fragmentation. similarly to how some C libraries insist on C89 compatibility to still work on older systems.

I guess Rust would like it if this never became indispensable but also should be possible
If you really want to, the pg_hint_plan extension can be used for this - though I would use it very sparingly, if at all:

https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html

(available on some cloud providers as well)
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The fact is, the Republic of China exists and is independent of the People's Republic of China. They have a military and a government that doesn't answer to Beijing, and have maintained that government in Taipei for 70 years.

That's reality.

Recognizing reality need not be political, but refusing to recognize reality for political reasons definitely is.

But the main point is that politics, not medicine or science, is dictating the WHO's decision here. Would health outcomes for the Taiwanese be better if the WHO included Taiwan?

As for Mugabe, you're arguing that it was good politics by some measure, and it may very well have been, but it also erodes faith in the organization from people who don't think it was good politics.

> Would health outcomes for the poorest Zimbabweans be better or worse if Mugabe had kept the title?

If we assume that outcomes would have been better, that implies that listening to the WHO does improve health, and therefore we should also assume that other people who would have lost faith in the organization would have had worse health outcomes as a result. I don't know how it would all balance out, but again, the point is merely that it's a political decision, not a scientific one.
YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
Is this being greedy when others are fearful or fearful when others are greedy?

Seems like being fearful when others are fearful. Surely the market swing has already corrected for the over-valuation. Is this long term thinking on Berkshire's part? Do they think they know something the market doesn't?
I think this really sums this article up:

> One thing I’m certain of is that this shift cannot emerge from dilettantes, outsiders and proverbial basement hackers. One does not unseat a platform without already being part of the patriciate that calls the shots on what gets integrated where across the largest nodes in the ecosystem.

It’s a long, turgid “why wasn’t I consulted?” complaint which really just comes back to the question of how open-source projects work. An init system is harder than it might seem at first and requires buy-in from an unusually large number of parties since it affects the OS, everyone shipping daemons, and the operators. If you’re not going to invest that level of engineering time, I don’t see how it’s reasonable to expect an equal voting share with those who do.
Probably not, unless there were extenuating circumstances like you got arrested for dealing. The paperwork you fill out for a security clearance doesn't care about drug use more than 7 years old (unless it led to jail time), and lots of people who do have drug use in the last 7 years still don't have major issues.

There's different types of polygraphs. The counterintelligence one is basically asking if you're a terrorist, so no trouble there. There's also a "lifestyle" polygraph that is sometimes necessary, which is more focused on how blackmailable you are. It might be an issue there, but I wouldn't be surprised if the questions for that have the same "within 7 years" qualifier.
Perhaps these are truly unidentified objects but you can’t ignore the sophistication of the scams associated with UFOs. There are elaborate hoaxes that require a serious amount of work, sometimes allegedly leaking classified information to mix into it.

For example, Project Serpo, some conspiracy theory about a secret space mission in the 1960-1970s. Somehow decades later this convinced a well known former CIA employee. Who later claimed he was naive to be associated with them.

This led to an unusual case of a current CIA employee leaking emails denying that the former DDI and Chairman of the NIC was involved with the Serpo hoax or the other CIA employee.

That employee quit the CIA in 1982 but was later affiliated with the DDI through medical research.

In the emails, described a meeting at CIA that occurred after the 1988 NBC broadcast of UFO: Cover-Up Live. Mentioned with two Colonels and the dubious AFOSI character who allegedly ran the original Serpo hoax for the Air Force. This person is the focus of the documentary Mirage Men. He also worked for Robert Bigelow and employed the chief scientist to Tom DeLonge’s company.

That scientist was introduced to DeLonge by the former CIA employee who fell for the later Serpo hoax.

The story is confusing but who would spend all this time on this? If you look closely, all the scientists involved even the Stanford guy, are kind of true believers. The rest are con-artists or deceived by a quest to uncover a great secret or technology.

Here is the 1988 broadcast, Falcon and Condor are around 1h10m. Falcon is the Serpo hoaxer AFOSI agent and Condor is a retired Air Force captain. There’s no covert conspiracy here, just a bunch of weird people who claims fantastic things. There’s no prime mover just human nature (ie disinformation, intelligence traps and scams)-

https://youtu.be/5CzZyrGolAg
It's not surprising considering if Apple pursues their own arm based laptop / desktop implementation 2021/2022?

What kind of impact will that have on the ecosystem?
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How is it secure though? It’s unencrypted!
Something about this reminds me of Snow Crash.
Rather than a outright death sentence for a corp, something like a 30 day "timeout" would be interesting. No network traffic for 30 days, in or out. Would a 30 day loss of service be equivalent to a death sentence? We know certain companies can survive hours to up to a day without service just due to tech glitches. After 30 days, people would be suffering withdrawal like symptoms, but would start using the service as soon as it came back. It's not like a FB replacement could start up in 30 days and acquire their users.

This of course would incur collateral damage from companies that "require" offending service to operate.
For the record, I submitted the article with the original title (the text before the comma, due to HN's 80 character limit). The title was later edited by an HN moderator.
I often feel this way. I think it helps _a lot_ to have an effective task management system.

Why?
There is this thing called the Zeigarnik effect. The Zeigarnik effect states that unoccupied tasks tend to overwhelm your conscious thought. When you have too much stuff to do you get overburdened and stressed and start watching Youtube. (I've definitely been there).

How do you deal with the Zeigarnik effect?
Well, you can complete the task, but that's often a tall order. There's been research that shows that simply having a plan for how to complete a task helps you overcome the Zeigarnik effect.

How do you make sure you have a plan for all your open tasks/projects?
This is where the task management system comes in. I'll tell you a few that I've tried and the software I use.

I think the two biggest systems for managing your todo list are Agile (adapted for personal use) and Getting Things Done (GTD).

I have been using a person Agile system for about two years now. It has definitely helped with stress a lot. I have weekly "sprints" where I plan what I want to do for the week. I review every week - what went well and what can be improved. I have a backlog with all the tasks that I want to work on divided up by projects. I also have a board for projects and what state they're in - TODO, in progess, done.

GTD is another system that I've been meaning to read about. What I know so far is that it's basically a flow chart for each item you have to do. There are lists for items in different categories - projects, backlog, current work.

The key point is that both of these systems _never leave a task incomplete_. By "incomplete", I mean not finished or reviewed. Yes, reviewed. If you recall, these are exactly the two ways of eliminating the Zeigarnik effect and the stress it entails.

Furthermore, with an effective task management system, you gain confidence and momentum in seeing your record of complete projects stack up. (I sometimes scroll back on previous years just for fun).

What about software?
I started out using Trello. It's simple, free, and has almost no learning curve. I have a board for my sprint, backlog, and projects. On my sprint board, I have 3 lists - TODO, in progress, and done. At the end of the week, I move the done list to the completed board. Then I have a visual record of everything I've completed over the past year (I make separate completed boards for each year).

However, I've been slowly trying to convert all my stuff to org-mode in Emacs. Look up org-mode if you're unfamiliar with it. It's very popular among GTD enthusiasts.

In short, have a plan for everything you're working on, keep a "scoreboard" or list of things you've accomplished, and review constantly - review each task at the EOD and review on a weekly basis at least.
I think on the social level there's a lot of people that go "urgh systemd" because that's the popular opinion but overestimate their actual technical knowledge to comment on the matter.

I remember reading some advice about not doing rm -rf / on UEFI systems and looking that up, it looked like some MSI laptops would brick if certain UEFI variables were wiped.

I found an issue in systemd's issue tracker. And from what I could tell the ability to write to these variables was required to perform certain functions like rebooting into the UEFI system.

But it looked like that some forum or another had linked to the issue. And plenty of people were up in arms about it without anything substantial to say.
And there appears to be some sort of safe harbor provision where if you were granted funds you can return them by a certain date. One group I advise projected things crashing, applied, the projected crash didn't occur, got money (low 6 figures), and returned it within a few days.

They didn't do it in bad faith, they just had a bad model.. not like they'd worked this one out before.

Regardless, it did force them to work out some information and answer some questions they hadn't considered so it was a learning experience, just a time consuming/stressful one.
HoTT is a strictly worse foundation for mathematics than ZFC, and in the end has to end up copying a bunch of the usual constructions anyway (like defining the real numbers). So this is not convincing.

One amusing problem is discussed here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289711/defining-sun-in-ho....

But suppose HoTT were equally good. What compelling reason is there for a working mathematician to learn it? We already know about set theory, and it meets all of our needs.
It's such a nice language I feel calm writing it
> an insurance check wouldn’t be very useful for keeping the rest of us alive

True. I meant "insurance" in the general sense (clarified my post). Insurance can be any number of things, as you mention, including hedging and diversification.
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> And as a paying customer there’s no practical way to contact them.

Support is one of the things you get if you pay for storage, though?
Not to be all Word of God, but Nassim Taleb does not consider COVID19 a black swan at all.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...

It's not a black swan because everyone with half a brain could say that there would eventually be a global pandemic respiratory disease. H1N1 was technically one, it just happened to be mild. We thought there was going to be one in 1976 and raced to vaccinate everyone against it. These things happen, like earthquakes. Nobody knows when, but if the San Andreas went tomorrow it wouldn't be a black swan.
The author 'calls bullshit' on the saying, implying the author thinks the saying intends to imply that a bad idea will work
Cicadas are what you’re looking for!

https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/seventeen-year-cicadas-are-abo...
He means side projects or businesses. If you want to build Uber, don't try to build eBay or PayPal on the side. Founders and other early employees have to do a little of everything as there isn't anyone else to do HR, sales, marketing...
FWIW, this is the kind of problem where using a superoptimizer can give good results.
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