skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020?

Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly copy and pasted from Charged Retail, and didn't even bother to format/ edit/ paraphrase anything. Even text from the link to sign up for the Charged Retail news letter is in there (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lidl-owner-l...).

So the way I see this, there is no story here. This is not real news. This is a rumor. Maybe even fake news. Nothing more, so let's stop talking about it.
Low cost to insert, low cost to keep it there, high cost to retrieve is exactly the combination you want when looking at disaster backup solutions, since you don't intend to retrieve the data frequently. Buy some earthquake insurance (I know, easier said than done) and only pay for 1/20 of the retrieval cost.
Whatever happened to their copy in Canada?

https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-...
AH! I did not know that. Thanks. I had only assumed the left. Many years as an art teacher gave me a sixth sense to detect when a painting has been cropped.
Bernard Moitessier - Tamata Alliance

A life changing book!!! about sailing, freedom and Life.

https://www.amazon.com/Tamata-Alliance-Bernard-Moitessier/dp...
Covid-19 tracing apps threatened by Blyncsy software patent
While GT isn't MIT, it is highly rated. Last I heard, GT had the 7th highest ranked CS program in the world. It's a fraction of the price too.

https://www.gatech.edu/about/rankings
AI, Robots, and Ethics in the Age of Covid-19
Netscape had a plugin API and there was a Tcl plugin for it. As I recall the Netscape API was the de facto standard for as long as plugins were a thing, so the Netscape plugin was usable in conforming browsers.
Theoretically, I don't see why this couldn't be like the cockpit of a racecar which is capable of protecting drivers from high speed accidents. Realistically, however, one of the reasons they are making it have 3 wheels is so they don't have to be as safe so it will probably not do well in crashes.
Looks nice!

Some feedback: if I saw those disabled buttons without an active button next to it, I would have no idea they are disabled and would wonder why the button isn’t working. I recommend using gray for disabled, instead of just a lighter color scheme.
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Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea
Yes but (if we believe they are telling the truth) this was only done accidentally and they only intended to sniff the SSIDs. https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collec...
Read the philosopher of science David Stove's "Darwinian fairytales." You'll realize that Dawkins book is

1) Not orthodox science in any sense of the word, nor really philosophy of science (though it is a popularization of the work of people like William Hamilton)

2) Philosophically bonkers; it's essentially medieval demonology repackaged where the demons are called "genes."

3) Not written by an actual scientist.

It's also a hilarious takedown, as are most of David Stove's essays and books. I liked Dawkin's fairytale when I first read it, for the same reason I liked death metal music and fedora tier atheism arguments on usenet. But it's horse shit. FWIIW another nail in its coffin; Dawkin's ideology originates in part from a guy named George Price: have a look at part 3 of the Adam Curtis documentary "all watched over by machines of loving grace" for more on what became of him.
Buy an electric car.
Put solar panels on your house.
Plant trees.
Social philosophy/psychology, or cultural anthropology, is mind-bending to me.

Erich Fromm's The Sane Society - on how society impacts people's mental health, and how to build towards a sane society

Fromm's The Art Of Loving - an analysis of different kinds of loves, trying to dispel pop culture's lies about love, and love is actually hard work

Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death - on how not our fear, but our complete denial of death existing leads to the weirdest outcomes in our society

Then there's political stuff -

Orwell's Essays, any large-ish collection. I find Orwell to be a much, much better non-fiction writer than fiction writer. Extremely insightful into political processes.

Robert Caro's books, perhaps the first The Years Of Lyndon B Johnson. Can't get better insights into how power works on a local and not-so-local level.

Popper's Open Society and its enemies, hard to summarise - a defense of Western society in light of the then-ongoing WW2. You probably saw the paradox of tolerance a few times pop up, that's from that book, among a ton of other stuff.
Means not updated. Say Www visitor logs. No reason to ever update a previous log. What happened happened.
Oh, no, he's referring to the little-known Vermeer painting of a literal young chicken with a pearl earring on its head.
Thanks for sharing this list! John Peel was an international treasure. I'm American and I'm still quite familiar with him.

My biggest gratitude to him is for doing everything in his power to bring my favorite band (and also, his favorite band), The Fall, to a greater public recognition. Without him, who knows if they would have ever got a national TV spot - and for my money it still goes down as one of their best live outings. The video of their national performance on The Tube (1983) is below. As John Peel once said of the Fall: "They are always different; they are always the same". Rest in Peace to both John Peel and Mark E. Smith - both have added an non-quantifiable value to my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-6xoh1khg
Much less whimsical
The New York Times: “In a Crisis, True Leaders Stand Out”
I guess a mathematician might look down upon sticking with 2d and 3d stuff because it leaves out all the interesting things that happen at 92382 or negative infinity. But yea, matrices are basically just a convenient way to write rows and rows of "ax + by + cz...". In linear algebra, you just do it so often, people made up their own syntax. And nothing can visualize it like transforming graphics, IMO.

You don't even have to go 3D, just starting with the points of a rectangle in 2D and asking, "how do you put the edge points of this rectangle 10px to the left, rotate them 45° and stretch them 200% vertically?" and you've applied a matrix. Even if you're not using the fancy brackets, you're using a matrix, and understanding it.
Interesting, though that seems to be the camera system cost only.
Why shouldn't billionaires have more power than you? I assume that you come from a western country, and presumably you work on Engineering or IT industry. Based on statistics we can easily assume that you belong to the 1% richest population of the world. Are you willing to give up on your wealth? If not, why should a billionaire then?

Besides that, hierarchies of power exist outside of realm of money. And they are a natural occurrence. You will not only find billionaires with more power than you, but also a lot of other citizens that belong to these other hierarchies that have achieved their power via their competence.

Power in itself is not dangerous or undesirable, power that becomes tyrannic is.

What is more dangerous is inequality, specially inequality of opportunities. Certainly some times of inequalities of outcome can also be dangerous in certain situations if not kept at check, basically because they may become a source of violence.
Perhaps in spite of, not because of.
You most definitely can.

It feels less polished because modern software releases doesn't get tested with it anymore, so occasional e.g. indicators don't work as well, and it doesn't support wayland IIRC. But it most definitely works.
Ask HN: What are your experiences with source-available licensing?
I am working on some software that I would like to open-source. I want to build a business around the software though. Therefore, I have (seemingly common) concerns regarding a competing company using the software.

There are some source-available licenses that seem to offer most of the good parts of open-source and protect against my worries. However, I'm not sure if source-available or these licenses in particular are the right way to go.

https://polyformproject.org/

Does anyone here have source-available experience they can share? There are almost certainly aspects of this decision that I haven't considered.
The "Architect" role varies from business to business. If you don't understand exactly how to be successful in your current role it sounds like you have some work to do. Find out who will make the determination about whether or not you are successful(spoilers it may not be your direct manager). After finding out who they are you need to find out what they consider success. Before you let that person go you have to setup a system for validating their expectations. "If we do this do you think we're headed in the correct direction? Can we meet on this regularly until you are convinced?"

Generally speaking one thing you can do in any technology leadership role is to understand your space. Take the space in which you are working and distill each major technology component into a one-pager. You should know from a high level how it works, what purpose it serves in the business, some basic cost/return metrics, what it interfaces with, what projects/initiatives are currently in flight etc. Basically a crib sheet.

Once you understand your space and what your organization considers success you are ready to get started. You need to build a plan to take the pieces of that space and manipulate them to make your handler's expectations a reality.

easy peasy.
Data is only inserted, not changed or deleted.
> Nothing wrong with the stuff we do today, ...

Nothing? There are quite a lot of things if you ask me. As much as things are more complicated out of necessity they are also more complicated for completely unnecessary reasons too.
Howcome the German Apple store are using “du” all over the place?

Are they not well advised by their localization partners?
> 1) learn to say no

This is difficult for me. I think part of my success until now was a strong "can do" mindset. Thankfully, I have a superior who is extremely skilled, both technically and in professional cut-the-bs skills, so I'm trying to learn.
I'm sure we would have noticed. I'm not sure we would have noticed as quickly. We certainly would not have tested to find that nearly a quarter of NYC could have it.

Yes, it can do damage and is very dangerous for an at risk group. No, we don't know who that is, yet. Age clearly proxies for a risk factor. But which one?

Unless you are wanting to claim that no children have gotten this. Which, seems highly unlikely. (Or is the risk whether it will provoke an immune response?)
Worse, people will deliberately refuse to wear masks simply to spite you. Spite has become a distubingly important factor in Western politics.
Chick is "informal + sometimes offensive"
Shared this mostly to express surprise and uncertainty about it, and to gather others' views.

Compare with criticism: https://medium.com/@indica/in-the-nytimes-only-white-leaders...
It used to be even worse in Britain before the invasion of Aldi and Lidl really had an impact.

They had lots of 'buy 5, pay 3' and similar nonsense deals. Often, the software in the register would "mysteriously" not have the deal, and you pay more.

And, of course, a 50% reduction usually meant that they just doubled the price in the week before.

Things got much better in the last ten years or so. That's roughly when Lidl and Aldi really started eating Tescos lunch.
The Dispossesed.

Collective activity, ie the bedrock of humans human-omg, has not looked the same since
"The medium is the message" so they say. This is what the Internet has become.

The commentary is what makes this interesting, not the content of the article.
For higher dimensional mind bending his Diaspora book is a must read!

For mind games: The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.

Plus for a related rabbit hole: the idea that a random pattern can just pop into existence and have consciousness is basically the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain concept.
Note that sometimes the right DB is one specific one. Other times it is enforcing everyone use a DB abstraction so that you can switch DB. If you choose the later make sure you have 3 databases at all times to enforce using the abstraction. Ideally one isn't sql.

Likewise sometimes you choose the language (or maybe two), sometimes you choose an inter language communication protocol and allow any language. Either can be good or bad. The right answer for you is important.

Some choices above are hard to undo if you are wrong. However the hardest to undo often have significant advantages if it all works out.
Anything by Hermann Hesse.

Not mind bending. No Twists. No roller coasters. Just a calm conversation with the author and yourself.

And yet, it had a profound impact on me.

One poem I revisit every once in a while: https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=119749

If you understand German, I do believe it needs to be read in its original tongue. The translations I found thus far were not entirely convincing.
I don't argue that it would work but when you do that you're still sending all the data over some data link.

For example if I have 1.5TB of VM and only 10-20Gb changed today I'm still sending everything to a remote storage. Snapshotting locally and sending the zfs volume seems to be a more efficient solution
Even some code writing practices exist with the goal of "making the mistake impossible to be made". E.g. in C or C++ introducing the practice of writing the constant first in the conditionals:

if ( 0 == x )

makes the mistake of accidentally writing assignment there impossible (0 = x would generate an error). However, my belief is that we should both demand and expect from the tools to have the "reasonable defaults" i.e. even if the

if ( x = 0 )

is a valid code, the "reasonable default" of the compiler has to be at least a warning. But who says that the environment where the compiler is used has "reasonable defaults" itself? I've worked in some environment where it was really expected from every participant to "ignore the warnings" produced during the build process. Which just shows how hard it is in some environment to even start a culture of "making the errors less possible": "don't waste the time, we have other methods to detect the problems, just do how it is done here" etc.

Viewed from the higher level, it is always about human weaknesses, still, it's always harder to address such weaknesses present on the higher levels.
Nassim Taleb's books (Black swan, Antifragile, Fooled by Randomnesss)

Thinking Fast and Slow

The Organized Mind

The Vital Question by Nick Lane.

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
First of all, congrats!

One of the most important things I've found is to know exactly what is expected of you. Everyone has different ideas about what an architect is, and an architect's responsibility in one role can differ from another role. For example, how much coding are you expected to do, and in what capacity?

You're going to have to be able to stand up for yourself. It might be a senior dev that thinks they should be in your role, or a BA/PM that tries to push through a feature/change. You're going to have to explain why you made certain choices and took certain paths.

Your communication skills will need to improve. Now previous in person conversations might be better off documented. You're going to need to be clearer while also being concise. This is where knowing the expectations really helps: how much should be documented and how thoroughly? You may end up speaking to business more or less than you did previously and must adjust accordingly.

Good luck and I hope this helps!
All I have to say about concluding that some genotypes are lesser by "scientific standards" can be summed up in the following HaHaOnlySerious joke that I have been telling my children from the time they could understand English:

"Humans are the greatest species of Life on Earth, according to all of the metrics that humans have chosen to measure greatness."

Science also tells me that insects are better than people, if I pick a different metric. I suspect we agree on this.
Certainly. I am not implying that we should just let it run its course. Just as I would not let any disease we have a vaccine for loose in a nursing home without the vaccine.

I just think the total IFR actually undersells how dangerous this is.
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Thank you! Appreciate that feedback, I'll look into that. Sounds like it might be a good tweak to the styling. However, I also like it when a button, even when disabled, may still convey meaning of success, for example. So that I know that I want that button to become 'active'. At least, that's my view on it.
+1. I think hooks is what finally pushed me over the edge towards saying to myself, enough with this insanity.
Title was intentionally misleading before mods updated it.

This is a very one-sided article meant to make Hutchins look good.

The valuable bit of the article is a a reminder of why it's important not to start being criminal/evil, because it traps you in a postive-feedvack loop of criminality as you feel a need to commit ever-greater criminal acts to cover up past acts.

The only escape from this is to create a culture where criminals know that it safer to turn themselves in and turn informant on their co-conspirators, than to try to evade the authorities.
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> Germans will never prefer Amazon over known local stores [...]

Huh? Amazon does pretty well in Germany.

Germans aren't mythical creatures. Even if some of them like local stores, prices and convenience and quality still matter.

See eg https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/e-commerce-how-...
A lot of the book is going through various types of specific bias (e.g. anchoring, sunk-cost), and going over the way in which it was studied and shown to exist. I see this as valuable as because, as you say, accounting for irrationality is important, and having an indepth account of exactly how bias arises is key to internalizing the reality that we are all prone to succumbing to these errors.
Hmm strange. I'm on a Galaxy S8 with Chrome and I only notice a slight lag with the parallax elements. The other elements all seem to function very smoothly. I'll look into it and see what I can find! Thank you :)
Not an official canonical product.

Also, a little more, but not a lot more, than a few "apt install" commands.

I guess it's useful for people who use Linux, like Unity, do not know how to "apt install" it themselves, AND trust a random googledrive/mediafire download as their main OS. I don't know any of these people myself, but I'm sure they must exist.
Thanks for this -- do you know if there's a consolidated list anywhere of other books Springer is making available for free right now?
Salina native here who never thought I'd see Brookville Hotel on HN.

Brookville Hotel chicken really is great, a lot of food, but great. If anyone reading this is ever driving down I70, you won't go wrong stopping there, right off the interstate in Abilene. Hey, make a whole trip of it and visit the Eisenhower Museum, too, they have done a lot of remodeling and it is a fascinating slice of WWII and Eisenhower's presidency.
Or make it part of a plea deal
Meta-analysis of published research data on Covid-19 infection-fatality rates
Only for people ‘of a certain genderation’ :)
But very slow by 70s PC standards :) (Except my PC had a 9600 baud connection internally between the computer and the terminal! It still had keyboard echo in under 20ms, though.)
Twitter crops images to focus on text
Okay I'll see if I can apply that fix in a future update, thanks! It's probably a Chrome specific thing then.
The article just got it wrong, their source is about Differential and they put "Digital" instead.
Technology? Take a step back for the big picture.

GDP growth cannot be decoupled from greenhouse gas emission growth.
Even tech services require building and running an infrastructure to back them up.
The contribution of the sector to greenhouse gas emissions is non-trivial and increasing.

Continuing on a growth path inevitably leads us to total failure.

Unless we can manage degrowth for an extended period of time, we're done.

This is of course heresy and cannot even be discussed.

I know what you're thinking and no, there is simply not enough time left to implement a technical solution and/or decouple growth&energy, sorry.

Meanwhile - pr babble and CV19 pause aside - we as a species are ramping up fossil fuel extraction and getting ready to exploit the thawing arctic.
I don't have to single out a nation or an energy company, because it's all of them. See investor letters and fossil market outlook communications.

We all must do everything we can to buy more time - but at this point in time technology can only be a plaster on gangrene.

Force policy change and force economists to come up with a new economic model.
And force yourself to accept a cut in your standard of living.

Do you see it ever happening?
If you do stuff like drop columns, you totally need to do a vacuum full or you are never getting back disk space...
Two things -

1. Seven habits - I can't get past Covey's personal 'experiences'. They are just seemingly so contrived and fake that they just ruin the entire thought process for me. It seems like he had to make up things that related to the covenants. Is that just me?

2. For writing - I would also suggest 'On Writing' by Stephen King for this as a different take. It's probably the best 'how to write' book ever made. It's King's personal take on the theory of writing, with lessons sprinkled throughout. So good.
No, probably not. But it's possible that any particular (loosely speaking) underpaid developer can, because not all of them are actively looking for remote work.
I don't usually tag my entries though I could. Here are two interesting ideas (by other people) that I came across, which I jotted down in order to process later. As I come across other related ideas, I cluster and rewrite when I feel like it, if they pique my interest.

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Credit cards are a form of microfinance for the privileged — they’re essentially 30 day interest free loans.

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Tobi Luetke: use systems thinking as a shared language. Drawing diagrams elucidates an idea and exposes assumptions.

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I was a bit confused with the pricing and licenses.
All three licenses seemed to be the same price when I added to cart (although it says "from 49€", so I expected the licenses above standard to be more expensive).

I generally found the licensing to be a bit confusing tbh (but that probably due to them all being the same price).
Just grind it fine enough and mix it with vegetable shortening.
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Y'all just don't know how scary is for LGBTQIAP+ women in the community to get started in programming; GitHub algorithms recommend software projects based on the attention they get, and not on how welcoming or easy-to-contribute they are. This is just one example of how exclusionary algorithms contribute to expanding the ever growing gender gap in our industry. We. Must. Fix. That.

And now, if you disagree with me and are white, male, and able, please spend that time in silence instead and reflect on how your privilege is blinding you.

PS: if there's any non-binary non-cis afghan being with a poverty background who wants to join the latest Non-binary Beings who Code initiative, please send me an email, we urgently need more diversity right now. My email is on my profile, include "HN" somewhere in the subject.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/87226000049159372...

This is an attempt to normalize the behavior.