skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother turned me onto Adam Gordon Bell's Corecursive. https://corecursive.com Fantastic.

I wish I was more like AGB. He's very good at adopting the worldview of the guest on their terms. Whereas I still have the toxic habit of compiling all the ways I disagree, instead of really listening. So I'm really enjoying how much AGB is stretching me.

In totally different way, I'm also getting a lot out of 5x5's Critical Path. Very unpolished, long winded, but somehow works. http://5by5.tv/criticalpath

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Podcasts have done a lot to get me out of my filter bubble.

I now regularly learn (of, about, from) people I would have never bothered with previously.

And some of the curation value add has greatly expanded my horizons by bubbling up people I would have never discovered on my own.

Ezra Klein's interview of Grover Norquist is a master class on building a movement.

Ben Shapiro's interview of Ezra Klein was a master class on constructive disagreement.

Eric Weinstein's interview of James O'Keefe was both illuminating and infuriating. (Come one guys, you're not the first to discover "journalism".)

Ezra Klein's interview of Rebecca Solnit blew my @#$!! mind. Really put a lot of my past experiences into a whole new light.

I started binging on Philosophy with No Gaps podcast after Klein's interview of Madeline Miller. (Their comparison of comic superheroes to ancient myths is nerd paradise.)

I wanted to punch the asphalt during Lex Fridman's interview of Jack Dorsey. (Explains Square's success is due to their novel strategies for identity and authentication, but then says nothing about Twitter's utter rejection of those traits.)

Of course, Joe Rogan. Wow, I really reject the worldview of about 25% of his guests, grrr. But I've also learned so much. Dr Patrick Rhonda and others. I've been struggling to get out of a post surgery rut, so I just rewatched the David Goggins episodes and clips, which I imagine is helping me.

Lastly, Philosophy Tube is about the best thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2PA-AKmVpU6NKCGtZq_rKQ Like other geniuses said of Feymann "Often you think, 'Oh, I could have thought of that if I was a bit smarter. But with Feymann, you couldn't ever imagine coming up with his insights.'".
For now, they are doing this in good intention. But they will not stop at that. Privacy is like a joke in India.

This is just the beginning and just an app. Further they do plan to track citizen movements directly from the mobile towers, the app will not be required - it requires them to legally acquire live data from mobile companies. And they have found an excuse to make such privacy intrusion laws. It is making of a police state. There are a few officers in the govt advising against this, but the bottom line is that the govt does not trust the country's citizens.

With Covid-19, the govt officials are publicly sharing the names and addresses of all positive people. The intention is good (to let others know whom to stay away from) and fortunately there is not much social stigma against infected people.
Julia Galef remains the best interviewer I have ever heard. She is so incredibly sharp. Her guests will make a point about an abstruse philosophical/economic/statistical topic and she will reply with a perfect, novel, challenging question that betrays an immediate understanding of the complex idea she just processed. Shame the show is on hold.
For a studiously centrist look at politics, I just got done with Jonah Goldberg => https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=69305785&refid=asa

If you find politics emetic, the Futility Closet is somewhere between Paul Harvey and Ripley's Believe it or Not => https://www.futilitycloset.com/podcast/
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I see you used "width: 60%" to specify the width of the article text. That's probably good for narrower screens, but on its own can have unpleasant effects on wider ones. Consider adding "max-width: 39em" to mitigate it. You may fiddle a bit with the exact value there to see what works for your website.

As to the text size, you used "font-size: 1.4em". I think that in this regard it's best to rely on the defaults and set "font-size: 100%" in "html, body" and then "font-size: 1rem" for the tag where the main text is contained.
Friendly reminder that there were massive bot compaigns on both sides of the issue. https://archive.fo/sp9Q7 this WSJ article found thousands of people that said they never posted the comments attributed to them.

>One 369-word comment supporting the Obama-era net-neutrality rules was posted on the FCC website more than 300,000 times. One of those was attributed to Gloria Burney, 87, a retired speech therapist in Los Angeles. She isn’t in favor of repealing those rules, she said, “but I never wrote that.”
A comment from “Elzor The Blarghmaster” at 9632 Elm Road, Maywood, Ill., was among the 818,000 identical FCC comments backing the Trump policy. No such address could be found, said Jimmie Thompson, a U.S. Postal Service carrier in Maywood.

If you've got the impression that the bot compaigns were only from one side, you've just been misled by biased media like OP, which links to prior coverage of one company and doesn't bother to tell you about the broader picture.
This is an old problem, it’s a mixture of amusement and resignation to see it keep coming up in new areas.

In the salad days of my early undergrad, i spent about three weeks hand tuning (very poorly) an init.el, learning latex, fiddling with auctex and bibtex and makefiles, and doing no work. Quite literally sophomoric.

Learned a lot about elisp, and fuckall about mechanics, but dang if i didn’t have the prettiest lab reports.
Having just read Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now", I'm skeptical of any article that paints this cynical view of how humans are wasting the earth, living their short-sighted lives with no regard for their future descendants.

The reality is that science, described here as "keeping the whole system of technical improvisation from falling down", is eradicating extreme poverty and disease on an incredible scale. It is also making poor countries less poor, which in turn makes their people better off and, yes, make them contribute less to pollution (it also slows population growth). It seems likely to me that the hits taken by the economy in these circumstances will be felt harder in poorer countries, slowing this positive progress for a while.

The author actually notes that the earth holding close to 8 billion people is only made possible by science. He describes this as "unnatural and unstable". This, combined with the fact that further scientific progress is required for all these people to be healthy and well-fed makes me tend to agree with the poster reacting the the novel Aurora and noting "we don't have anywhere to go back to".
Multiple people have brought up Econtalk and Conversations with Tyler. Those two are my top 2 as well.

If you're into pop culture (sports, music, TV and Movies) I'd also recommend the Bill Simmons podcast. The interviews are usually great (especially the ones with actors) and the sports takes are entertaining as well.
I was amazed to find Notion which replaced a lot of apps with features like database, notes, spreadsheet, wiki. But later on I realised it was better to use different solutions which were the best in their domains instead of a huge universal app which tried to do all the things in a half baked way.

Right now I use Bear for notes, google sheets for spreadsheet/database etc.
Well, you might have have got the job done faster with awk (and other tools like it)...

ETL and anything dealing with importing large data sets come to mind.
Are you working in a Linux development environment? Targeting Linux systems? You're not going to come across much of a use for awk if you're in the Windows world. I'm making an assumption based on C#.

I've used perl and awk extensively for all sorts of things. Log parsing embedded device logs to generate reports was a big one for me, that's where I really learned both languages. And they are superb tools for that task. We also used awk quite a bit for configuration parsing as a sort of intermediary between different processes and scripts on those devices.

As I moved into web development, I've found myself using both much less. I haven't touched perl more than once in the last 6 years -- I was given a script to maintain recently but it only needed an hour or two of my time to add a small feature to. That perl script is part of a legacy build system. I still use awk every couple of months but it's just part of some pipeline on the command line.
MoltenVK is an exciting prospect, but until I see games running it I will be skeptical that it exists.
> Most food is irradiated, yes.

No, far from it. Extremely little food is irradiated.

"103,000 tonnes of food products were irradiated on mainland United States in 2010"

"6,876 tonnes of food products were irradiated in European Union countries in 2013"

The average American consumes a tonne of food per year, and the average European probably isn't much different. That's 0.03% of food in the USA, and less than 0.001% respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
Or probably even 192.168.1.1
Hmm, that really depends on the market you’re in and the rate of the car loan. I bought a car on credit at 1.8% and freed up money to invest in the market, which appreciated by a lot more than 1.8% per year. Also buying a car in cash is not considering the time value of money. If I spend $30k in one transaction, yes I don’t pay the extra 1.8% of interest but I also don’t have $30k with which to invest or partially hold as emergency funds.
It’s for the imposed quarantine, so my understanding is if you cross the border or have a positive test.

More information:

https://www.gov.pl/attachment/dfc022ca-df40-4b81-94e4-44ef20... or:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Isn't spec just a way to bolt on types to a dynamic language? And if you look at this way, can one have its cake and eat it too?
> or whatever imaginary identity you’ve given to me

exactly, don't take it personal. I don't know you. my reply rather speaks to a stereotype. but some aspects about the article, its language and some of the replies rubs me the wrong way. in that sense, sorry, for any disturbances.
Right, I was thinking USD so ~13€. For that you have a nice main, wine, and coffee in half the ethnic places of Berlin. Not in Mitte as you said though.

As a side note, I don't know anyone actually tipping 10%. At this price range usually it's rounded to next full euro.
If you're open to being pissed off and want to go exploring beyond the SF / SV / liberal / rationalist / techie / IDW / iNtElLeckshualLY sTiMUlAtING hivemind, I'd recommend the following, all hosted by academics radioactive in one circle or another:

What's Left

What's Left? is a podcast hosted by Aimee Terese and Benjamin Studebaker, discussing political theory, philosophy, and current affairs from a [editor's note: materialist / marxist] left wing perspective.

https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod

Manifold

Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics.

https://manifoldlearning.com/podcasts/

The Classicist

The Classicist is the weekly podcast of Victor Davis Hanson, an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

https://www.hoover.org/publications/classicist?go_type%5B0%5...

Reasonable Disagreements

Hoover fellows Richard Epstein and Adam White discuss major legal and policy issues and debate points of disagreement between their libertarian and conservative perspectives.

https://www.hoover.org/publications/reasonable-disagreements

(all the Hoover pods are pretty interesting)
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They aren’t super difficult?

Teachers, nurses, firemen, and police officers would like to have a word with you.

Programming may be mathematically complex and difficult to learn, but it does not corner the market on difficulty.

Try adapting a teaching curriculum for online learning for fourth graders, working 16 shifts in an ICU during a pandemic while trying to keep people safe, planning and organizing a response to statewide wildfires, or de-escalating complex interpersonal issues dealing with crime, safety, and mental illness on the daily.

Do any of those sound easy to you?
If I've got this straight, the $20 per barrel cost of production includes the up-front CAPEX costs. However those costs have already been paid. The marginal cost of production per barrel is lower, so right now ignoring sunk costs $20 per barrel oil is still economical to pump for many producers. Is that right?
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I don't see that as a problem. You use what you have. As a country you have some resources and you need to learn make best use of them. Norway is producing gas at a very substantial cost, yet it was able to save a huge amount of money and current situation is largely a speedbump rather than catastrophe.

It seems the problem is not with the costs of production but rather maturity of the country that wields the power over the resource, whether it understands that a) they are largely dependant on it, b) it is not given that tomorrow the prices will be the same, c) it will run out some day and d) it is easy to spend money now but actually you have to be frugal to save them for when it runs out.
Interview with YC-backed founder Pedro Góes on his journey to founding InEvent
Noone has solved identity in decentralized systems.

Quadratic funding allocates a pool of funds based on the number of unique donors a project has.

The proposed solution will exclude a very significant portion of potential contributors. Vitalik hints politely on that by saying that there are trade-offs between security and inclusiveness...
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If what you say is true, theb why build it at all? Why spend money when existing infrastructure if government can already do it? Neither answer results in happy conclusions.
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>He said the FCC received more than 7.5 million comments consisting of the same short-form letter supporting the current rules from about 45,000 unique email addresses, “all generated by a single fake e-mail generator website.”
He said the FCC received more than 400,000 comments supporting the old rules “from the same address in Russia.”
This reminds me of a friend who got on the 1400 calories diet with reduced carbs. He lost 50 pounds in about 3 months but the losses started to slow down after 3 months. He is unrecognizable now. Not sure if this counts but he first put on this extra weight during the last 3 years and mostly from stress eating.
I keep being intrigued by Notion but ultimately old warhorse Evernote remains the core of my knowledge system. It amazes me that this long into the lifespan of the iPad there is really no competitive way to read/annotate/search and store large numbers of documents across iPad and desktop other than Evernote.
Some books that I liked:

- “Good Strategy / Bad Strategy” : it’s an introductory book to business strategy with tons of examples in the software/hardware business.

- “Understanding Michael Porter” is another one about business strategy that I enjoyed.

- “Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love”, a book about product design with some interviews from the industry (I enjoyed the interviews)

- “Why We Fail: Learning From Experience Design Failures” another book about product design using some well known cases as examples.

- “Sense and Respond”
Does the time spent end up to be a product of the two? If so... don't ask if you can, but whether you should...
This is really fantastic to see. I've been involved in contracts using HL7 protocol, and it's always a big and expensive beast with proprietary connectors. The fact that you figured it out so quickly is awesome.
And of course, if the tinfoil hat mentality is appealing, why not one actor spamming comments for _both_ sides? If said actor prefers one position they can just have a an order-of-magnitude difference in what they submitted; either way, said hypothetical party can be satisfied with eroding public trust in the process.
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I guess the issue with this is that it’s a physical item being delivered to the US, not any country. I’m not sure what the laws are when it comes to burning stuff off in the US.
You can also get omega-3s from grass fed beef and pastured eggs. 3 quality eggs in the morning and I get 210mg+ DHA. The more people knew this the more demand there would be for local meat and away from factory slaughterhouses, especially now that the pandemia exposes their vulnerability. We've got workers risking disease to bring us low quality, nutrient sparse meat.
Indeed it's a later standard part of the wider "Universal Time Standard". It specifically tracks earth phase expressed as Universal Time UT1.

NB: UTC is part of the Universal Time Standard, it is not the time standard. I think from your comment you are mixing the two.
A woman can just as easily write a bro-culture article as a man, and you don't have to have worked in Silicon Valley to pick up on the culture. It's splashed all over the internet.

If the article reads like bro culture, that's a valid observation, irrespective of the gender or background of the author.
My understanding is that at least some oil fields have a decay rate once drilled whether producing or not.
That makes sense, and I feel like copying the first part that is a general prediction of what is to come in the economy and send it to friends and family who suffer from too much optimism on the economy recovering quickly. I am retired (ha!) but even so I have had his book High Growth Handbook in my book buying wish list for along while.

Sorry for being off topic and sorry for the following rant, but I think that the whole world is starting a permanent process of change/upheaval and not all results will be bad. I expect cruft like stupid consumer buying of needless shit to slow down, people and institutions will increasingly cherish strength and long term viability. In the recent sickness of neoliberalism (basically more rights for corporations than people) my hope is that there will be more investments in people and training in ways that enhance technological progress. For years the world will be harsh for the ‘bottom 50%’ but we can hope for some sort of transformation.
There’s plenty to do even if you’re not a talented musician: volunteering for a good cause, inventing, crafting...

I strongly suspect that if the most tedious jobs were automated away, so long as people had their needs met, they’d find something much more meaningful than the work they were doing before. I know I sure would!

“So long as they have their needs met” is a big assumption, though, and one that wouldn’t hold up in our current society.
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You have a pool of funds as well as a number of donors that donate to a set of projects.

The pool of funds is then allocated based on the unique donors each project had.

The math is quite interesting, but unfortunately it assumes identity in order to be implemented in a decentralized setting.
Interesting. As I understand it, deflagration is usually used in rocket engines because detonation is hard to control, but they’ve managed to control it using very precise engineering.
> Most formulas students need to learn are actually quite intuitive when you replace the symbol with a one or two word description. But they'd rather force you to memorize the symbol.

Can you give some examples of this?
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In general, at least through high school, probably way too much teaching involves basically memorization of trivia.

Yes, some foundations of facts are needed. For example, there's some very basic operator precedence that students should internalize. And history inevitably does involve names and dates. But too much attention is probably devoted to remembering whether a battle was fought in 1746 or 1750.

It's somewhat understandable because testing for those things is easy and unambiguous. But it's unfortunate anyway.
WesterosCraft too: https://westeroscraft.com/

These kinds of large-scale projects never cease to amaze me.
Another study (from 2006): https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/oct/17/prisonsandp...
"Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat ... Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive behaviour ...
Demar has been taking part in a clinical trial at the US government's National Institutes for Health, near Washington. The study is investigating the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplements on the brain, and the pills that have effected Demar's "miracle" are doses of fish oil. The results emerging from this study are at the cutting edge of the debate on crime and punishment. In Britain we lock up more people than ever before. Nearly 80,000 people are now in our prisons, which reached their capacity this week. But the new research calls into question the very basis of criminal justice and the notion of culpability. It suggests that individuals may not always be responsible for their aggression. Taken together with a study in a high-security prison for young offenders in the UK, it shows that violent behaviour may be attributable at least in part to nutritional deficiencies. The UK prison trial at Aylesbury jail showed that when young men there were fed multivitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids, the number of violent offences they committed in the prison fell by 37%. Although no one is suggesting that poor diet alone can account for complex social problems, the former chief inspector of prisons Lord Ramsbotham says that he is now "absolutely convinced that there is a direct link between diet and antisocial behaviour, both that bad diet causes bad behaviour and that good diet prevents it." ..."
The DoD is relatively simple in comparison to the giant mess of interrelated healthcare systems the US government deals with. ASD NII then DISA has worked for years to get systems to at least talk to each other reasonably well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Information_Systems_Ag...
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There used to be a time when products and innovation made in America were deemed high-quality and highly desired for. I am talking non-software.

Here we are talking about people who make a living out of cheap potentially slave labor and to top it off, selling courses to others to be a marketing/ecommerce snakeoil salesperson.

Truly disgusting to think about what we are turning into as a society.

Is there a future in which manufacturing would ever return to the US? Legit question....