skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think San Francisco has poor quality food, you clearly haven’t spent much time there (as you admit) or you don’t have very discerning taste.

Or just are following shallow, presentation-focussed hipster-targetting marketing and being surprised that it leads you to presentation-focussed hipster-targetted food offerings.
Open Letter to Australians [Re News Media Bargaining Code]
“Rich People Can’t Stop”: The Luxe Quarantine Lives of Silicon Valley’s Elite
Not really. Except if one confuses free trade and protection with planned vs market economy (which is a different distinction).

The big powers that profited most in the 20th century, weren't following free trade - they were colonial and post-colonial overlords, enforcing their trade deals and terms on lesser countries.

Free trade was OK for those big countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, etc they were running the shots, and were net top exporters themselvess...

And even at that, they themselves could not care less about "free trade" doctrines. Sponsoring your own country industries, using your political force to get global deals, subsidies, etc, were OK for the mid-20th/early 21st century, when they had done it.

When that changed, and their trade partners got increasingly bigger, "free trade" got too much for them and pressured their partners countries (like with the Plaza Accord).

Now that the US can't do the same to China (due to its sheer size and power), old globalization and free trade flag-bearers discovered suddenly that free trade might not be the "be all end all".
If you look a few lines down in the same infobox, you'll see its parent is "News Corp" which is in the US.
For how long will blockchains be considered a novelty? We are 1 decade after bitcoin release.
I hope US cities wake up, become humble, and actually try to fix the deep hole of social issues they’ve dug themselves into. Best I can say is be active and vocal in your local government, since that’s where these messed up policies come from and you have a lot more power to impact your city than you do the federal government.
You sort of have to go full sleep hygiene mode for it to work.

I use flux, but I also cut all blue light after 10pm. I use 1850k lights (aka candlelight) throughout the house after 10pm. My phone is also yellow shifted and I watch tv yellow shifted too (by only watching from a computer with flux at night).

All those things together made a huge difference in sleep quality.
Heh I happened to also write up a blog post about development and Factorio last night! https://blog.quigley.codes/dev-lessons-learned-from-factorio...
I went ahead and played this without reading the description. I'm not sure if it's just me, but it seems like the game starts with a lot of 1s and 2s, and a few 3s, and later on, it's mostly 4s and 5s.

It's intriguing to see a game change by how the players play - like if there was a 50% chance of losing, you'll either have a 100% chance of winning or losing. Something like XCOM can just change difficulty by making a 'default lose' difficulty or 'default win' on easier ones.
This is really fascinating.

It reminds me of Chinese characters. Sure, you could use latin characters to represent a word or phrase. OR you could write a tiny little pictogram that captures the same thing in a fraction of the time and space.

The only problem is that you now have to memorize thousands of unique symbols instead of just ~26. I imagine stenographers must go through a similar process and memorize the "shape" of thousands of words and phrases.
QAnon is so mild, it's bonkers the coverage it's getting. The whole thing revolves around the idea of "the patriots are in control, trust the plan, justice is coming, enjoy the show"... It's like a sedative, and harmless in my opinion. Whoever is LARPing as Q hasn't even posted in August, but the media is amping up coverage and increasing search interest (why?).

How do you hold these 2 conflicting things in your head: 1) It was okay for the entire establishment (including elected officials) and media to spread (and claim as fact) conspiracy theories about the President being involved with Russians with zero evidence of such, and 2) It's not okay for random people to organize and share memes about an alleged gov't conspiracy?
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why can’t it tackle other problems? does every charity now have to “tackle racial inequities”? is cancer not enough?
ElectionGuard open-source homomorphic encrypted end-to-end verifiable voting
I'm wondering if this assertion comes from some kind of "search bubble" among developers of these tools.
See also the current COVID-19 situation, where the Democrat-controlled House passed a second stimulus bill, while the Republican-controlled Senate... did nothing. No yes-or-no votes, no counterproposals, just McConnell leaving everything tabled indefinitely.
The author mentions Shenzhen IO. I found great value in that game. It's limitations force you to think about simpler, elegent solutions in ways we frequently don't have to today because storage and ram and CPU cycles are so abundant. I actually feel it's helped me seen simpler, more easily maintained options in my work.
I didn't say anything about election funding. Having money to hire lobbyists lets people influence legislation to their benefit.[1] Big businesses can demand larger tax breaks by playing cities off each other.[2] These are just two ways in which more money translates into more influence.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2#Criticism_and_oppos...
Two kids, both on formula from day one. It was probably the right choice for a number of personal factors: we both could easily take turns feeding, it’s easy to know and track how much they’re consuming, and simplified things for eventually going to daycare.

There are certainly people who will discourage you from formula. But you have to make your own choice for yourselves and your baby. But frankly neither choice is “bad”.
Define the same scripted startup on whatever floats you boat and run it.

We used to be able clone 400 VMs in 1 hour, sanitize all customer data and refresh a full dev environment from m prod in an hour. TBs of data.

But let's all stand around and claim k8s is not your flavor of the day solution to a very old problem, but one that caries a huge amount of complexity and so much network effry that it scares the pants off most people.
Where did all those traditional Republicans go?

It’s a bit like my southerner friends with Battle Flag bumperstickers calling themselves members of the party of Lincoln.
Do you live in the Bay Area? Your take doesn’t match my experience at all...

* Most of my friends are members of one museum (or have season tickets to SHN/SFJazz/etc)

* Most of my friends go hiking in Marin or Big Basin or whenever at least once a month, and spend a weekend somewhere like Big Sur or Yosemite a couple times a year. Bay Area nature is unparalleled.

SF may be in a tough place for a while, but don’t underestimate why it’s special.
Seems we need a system where existing and potential policies and evidence and plans could be noted and assessed, with some form of wiki, consensus, polling and liquid democracy mechanisms, somewhere fit for such purpose compared to platforms that are dire for real debate (let alone policy formation) like Facebook or Twitter. I often wonder if political parties are to scared to actualise an efficient ideation system, least the bottom up contradict the leadership. Opportunity for it to be an outside venture though.
Well, wealthy students who opt out of government secondary schools could be given lowest priority at government colleges, and if that offends someone they can expand government funded colleges so that all could attend.
Unless something has changed in the past few years, you kind-of-sort-of-maybe need to do that. The US doesn't actually enforce anything like it, but all of my naturalized coworkers were required to surrender their previous passport when they took the oath of US citizenship. The US gives the passport back to the home country. Canada mails it back to you and says you are still Canadian too, while China does not and says you have to get a visa like any other tourist if you ever want to step foot in China again.

Has this changed?
Formula is pretty close but the antibodies are a big deal, especially early on. It’s a good idea to breastfeed or pump if at all possible, but it’s not possible for everyone.

My wife would spend hours pumping (baby wouldn’t latch) and only produce a few ounces. We always started with that and then supplemented with formula. The kids seem fine.

On the idea of a wetnurse being “gross”, do you drink cows milk? Because that’s basically like having your own cow wetnurse. Sharing milk obviously isn’t for everyone, but don’t dismiss it offhand.
Your child may not necessarily make you happy. As a parent, it is your responsibility to take care of your child and not the other way around.
This seems similar to the fuzzy-filtering found in many text editors... I’d never type “IInstantiationService”, I’d just do something like “IIntSer<Tab>” (And get the module auto-imported too if needed!)
I think these interviews test whether or not you're willing to work hard-- you can't just use critical thinking to get the answer, you actually need to study to learn all the tricks. That's an important characteristic to screen for imo.
Do you really think Musk had anything to do with engineering design of those rockets? You really think he contributed to the rocket stabilization system or something?
People said that, and flux and other apps came out. Then Apple added it too (and perhaps other OS makers).

But there's this too - and increasingly more stories like it:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191216173654.h...

https://time.com/5752454/blue-light-sleep/
If I were interviewing I'd take a LeetCode over take homes any day of the week. Preparing for LeetCode prepares you for nearly 70% of the jobs you will likely interview at.

Whereas with take homes the amount of time doing say 12-take homes can easily be too much. You end up in this weird positions where you can only devote so much time for certain take homes but with the LC & System Design you can at least prepare once and hit up a bunch of companies.
I know about `-site:`, but it is a pain to have to keep on typing it in, they used to have a feature to permanently block certain domains in results, from your Google settings. (Plus, `-site:` only works for a few sites, since it counts against the search keywords limit.)

When I go to news.google.com, I can't work out how to hide news sources. I do have a "Hidden Sources > Manage" option in the settings, but it doesn't let me add any, just tells me I don't have any. Each individual result has a few options under it – Share, Save for later, and a "More" menu with a "Go to..." option that takes you to the page for that media source. But even on the "Daily Express" media source page, I don't see any "hide" option, just "Follow" and "Share"

Does this feature still exist? Is it disabled for my Google account (maybe because of some privacy setting I set)? Does it only work from certain countries? Google is inscrutable as always
US passport means US permanent resident. Most other nations can’t enter the US right now. Have to be a permanent resident.
Are blockchains truly decentralized when a small central group of developers control their codebase? Sure, you can choose not to use the latest version, but then you're likely not going to be part of the main network.
You can downvote me all you want, but the before and after for my lived experience speak far louder than your petty retribution. I have come to notice that many people seem personally offended by the very idea that sleep is not a one-size-fits-all scenario.

As I explained elsewhere in this thread, after fighting ever-present grogginess for my entire adult life, I switched to a 20 up / 7 down schedule six months ago. My output has doubled, my depression has gone away, I have more energy for exercise and I crave sugar and carbs far less.

You should do what works for you instead of getting upset when something different works incredibly well for me.
I like DigiKey, but sometime they're neither convenient nor competitive.

Food for consideration: since 3M is a ECIA member manufacturer[1], if the source isn't direct from the cow's mouth or one of their authorized distributors, it's prima facie suspect in my eyes and cannot be trusted on anything with skin in the game.

[1] https://www.trustedparts.com/en/manufacturers/3m
The context you're missing is that in Australia, the "big monopoly" is News Corp and not FAANG.
I also think that while these engineers all went to schools where they got both high level and low level programming under their belts, not enough of them really made the connection to understand what their code actually makes the computer do, aside from in the theoretical sense (Big O).

We're not really training enough truly full-stack engineers.
This has been my schedule since COVID, too, almost to the minute!

At first I felt really weird about working before showering, like it was out of order so it felt wrong. Now, I can’t imagine doing it any other way. Weird!

I’m usually done with breakfast and tea around 8:45, and then I work through until noon. Go for a run if the weather’s good, shower, quick bite for lunch, back to work till 6ish.

I used to get in to the office around 11 before, regardless of what time I woke up. I can’t help but feel the current (weird) schedule is at least 20% more productive for me.

Yea, the office readjustment will suck.
> In 2019, Fu and Ptacek discovered two more genes connected to natural short sleep, and they’ll soon submit a paper describing a fourth, providing even more evidence that functioning well on less sleep is a genetic trait.

Several years ago I was listening to a Freakonomics Radio series where they interviewed a bunch of big company CEOs, and one thing that I noticed was they all described their normal routine as involving very little sleep.

It struck me then that being a high power leader is almost certainly genetic in the same way that genes for height are essentially required to be a serious / professional basketball player.

I struggle with sleep, always have, and rarely feel good in the morning without about 8 hours or more in bed. And I’m acutely aware of many of my friends and peers who need much less than this and feel fine. Occasionally I’ll find myself at a conference or something and the group I’m with will stay out late and then get up early and go about their day as normal. I used to try and keep up, but I would be so hung over the next morning (regardless of whether I had anything to drink) as to be non-functional.

It’s a sad thing to me to think that I don’t have the genetics to keep up with the people who need a lot less sleep than I do. However, I’m gradually making peace with it, as I focus on finding things I can do with my life that are compatible with my need for more time in bed.
Yes, this is a complete game-changer; I love showing experienced embedded engineers how to connect to the REPL, and poke live, interactive I2C or SPI at a peripheral. :)
There's some examples in the article, but it seems like the gist is you assign a chord to various symbols. Like a curly brace { might use a modified chord for the word "brace"
Being Uncomfortable with Discomfort
I started using the inurl: feature to search for things, and Google started telling me I was a bot like every third search and requiring me to do another captcha.

It was pretty horrifying; while I get that 99.9% of people don't use it, it was like a glimpse of a future where the AIs watch constantly for anyone who can add 2 + 2 without help and then alarms go off.
The trash and homeless problems suck. They should do something about it. Oh and cut taxes too.

Everyone wants to make more and pay less to clean up their mess.

“I’m voting cognitive dissonance for 2020!”
I really enjoy this game. I got pretty addicted a couple years back and decided that to truly "beat" the game, I'd learn c# and program a bot that could beat it faster than I could. My handiwork is here: https://github.com/Loufe/GroundPenetratingRadar . I'm not a career programmer so it's not great and the main solving uses heuristics (but I intentionally avoided looking up how others programmed their solver). Still a great, simple game.
Interesting point. I can only do very limited testing, but I just sent an email with one very long line from mutt on my laptop to my gmail address. The long line was not broken, and the display flowed perfectly on the gmail client on Android.

I think you should be able to use a hook in Mutt to process the markdown to HTML (using Pandoc) before sending. I've never tried anything like this—it has interesting possibilities.
From want I could tell milk is still better simply because basically only the things we’ve identified as nutritionally significant have been added to to it. Imagine a time before we knew what vitamin B is so we didn’t add it to baby formula. Then it turns out it’s not just a thing but actually important. That’s where our understanding of nutrition.

Another concerning thing with formula is how it’s made. For example, one brand of top shelf organic formula used a chemical known to be a neurotoxin but claim that they remove it all before the manufacturing process is complete, while a competing top brand was using palm oil as one ingredient which is know to be an irritant to newborn’s GI system. So it always felt like choosing the lesser of evils.
I disagree with the notion that the "rent seekers" add value to the economy. All I can see is their parasitic influence on not only cost of living but also wider social issues like homelessness, which the rest of the economy then has to put up with and pay for
Bit of shameless plug, but I put this [0] together to make it easy to build a simple, flashable MicroPython image with your code included.

[0] - https://github.com/dcmorton/esp32-micropython-image-builder
> Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?

For the sake of, err, discussion, I can envision some sort of wearable glove like input device. I know I can play notes on a guitar far faster than he is inputting characters because of the technique involved. I feel like it could be possible to come up with a faster method playing around with that idea.

But the ultimate would be hands free, no? Makes one wonder if this is yet another skill/job about to be blown away by automation.

Offline speech recognition with perfect accuracy will probably come standard with every phone in a couple of years.
your numbers are complete nonsense. the electricity they are using to mine is way less expensive. it’s not like the chinese hydro dam electricity can be sent to kansas, using the average is pointless.
Also, error handling seems to be the worst part of working with Go by miles. I can't even imagine building such a system in the language.
Same place as the sorts of Democrats who want infrastructure projects and moon shots: they're not getting elected. A Qanon nut just beat out a former neurosurgeon in a Republican primary in Georgia.

We do in fact live in a democracy. It's a dysfunctional one, but it is one. The people get what the people elect.

P.S. In many ways primaries are more critical than main elections. This is particularly true in states that lean strongly toward one party or the other. In that case the primary is the election.
Sure: what would you like to know?

Off the top of my head:

- easier to find the will to exercise
- less cravings for junk food
- depression symptoms occur 80% less
- back pain frequently forgets to manifest
- I feel more optimistic

It's not all roses, though. I am not traditionally employable because I work unpredictable hours. It can be hard to schedule doctor's appointments, for example.

The hardest thing is syncing with my SO. She's actually inclined to keep similar hours, but has a 9-5 job. Still, this hasn't been a huge issue.

I don't think it could work if you had young children.
Changeling (The Dark Fae Series Book 1)

Faery Tales (The Dark Fae Series Book 2)

By McKenzie Rae

Book 2 was just released last week. I sat down this morning to read and as of this evening I am about 200 pages in. It really sucked me in.

Disclaimer. I am the father of the author. But when she was younger I would read something she wrote and if she asked for my reaction I was honest. I would say, it is really good for a 14 year old. That would drive her crazy. But I would tell her I will always give you my honest reaction.

When she was picked up by a publisher in her early 20s, she was kind of bashful about me reading her work. It was so gratifying to be able to walk in about 2/3 of the way through that first published novel and tell her that even though it wasn't my preferred genre I had started to care about the characters and the plot and I had to finish.

I feel like each book has gotten better. This latest book captured my attention within the first few pages and I spent way more time reading it today than I originally intended.

Sorry if anyone is offended at me promoting my daughter's work.
On a computer yes. I think there's potential for chording to be a decent input method for a phone or AR display.
I like the idea that I can just write for loops instead of weird numpy magic, I really do.

But languages doesn't work in silos. I don't want a fast language that I cannot use for writing, say web servers, without rewriting 90% of django.

The proposition of python is that you get acceptable performance with an insane package repository that means you can ship so much faster.

And if you absolutely need to write for loops, use clever things like numba or cython.

Stop reinventing the wheel people.
Its great to see this here.

I vaguely recall some mention in one of the docs I read a while back that you were having difficulties with the JIT causing noticable pauses/latency in interactive environments like Morphic, comparison to the OpenSmalltalkVM.

Am I recalling correctly, and if so is it still the case?

And more generally, in comparison to the OpenSmalltalkVM, what are the TruffleSqueak downsides? The upsides seem nicely obvious!
> There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are rewarded extremely well for doing so by a global group of investors involved in this alternative financial system.

You are not rewarded for "solving tough problems" or anything else related to creating actual value. It's FOMO driven gambling, scams and enabling organized crime that gets money into the crypto ecosystem.
The two students who took on Coke and Pepsi
See the other answer - captures what I was referring to.
I've done something pretty similar that with my project here [0]. Instead of using MQTT the ESP32 feeds directly to an InfluxDB database.

[0] - https://github.com/dcmorton/esp32-dht22-upython
They truly do entice you to find more elegant solutions. One thing they show in the post-mission report is your solution's code line count, energy use, and component cost versus others in a graph. I didn't consider myself "finished" on a puzzle until I had figured out how people got to that super-optimal solution which sometimes took multiples of the amount of time of the original solution but damn was it ever satisfying.
Just because they're not required-classic-pop-learning for kids these days doesn't mean much.

Do It Again gets radio airtime to this day.