skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I set a goal of 50 books in 2018 and once I got into the habit it was purely for enjoyment. I ended up doing 86 in 2018, and upped my goal to 75 for 2019... then ended up doing 122 books that year. I'm somewhere in the 50s or 60s for 2020 right now.

I retain audio much better for most things (unless it's data-heavy), so getting into habits of keeping my headphones on me and actually starting a book when I had the brain-space to listen helped increase the quantity. No idea on tips for physical reading (though getting the room lighting right and using one of the paperwhite-or-better Kindle screens makes a big difference for me, anecdotally).
You wouldn't--you'd have to take my word for it :)

The colorful passages were mostly untouched, but I did have to lightly edit the chats with GPT-3 for clarity and coherence.
it's appreciated!
Is uber still running?
See https://borsche.de/res/Vitamin_D_Essentials_EN.pdf
Wait, the SC ruled in favor of the government in that case, overruling the district court.
I really enjoyed parts of Man Without a Face, especially the details on his early life and how/why he was chosen by Yeltsin.
The demo gif is too long. Gave me the feeling that this product would force me to waste a lot of time waiting for it to load
Huh, I've never heard of one. Nearly all of taxi drivers are contractors, often owning the (company-branded) car they drive.
Not a fact per se, but: the sheer amount of living things that came before me, in the sense of my direct ancestors and their direct ancestors etc. etc – not only my human ancestors, but the whole of my ancestors all the way back to the origins of life itself – and I would not be here today if even one of them would have died before reproducing... that manages to blow my mind every single time I think about it.
Our hubris is rooted on our systems. We expect accelerating growth without bound. And, by Conway’s Law: “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”
We have a social and economic system of Survival of the Fittest, which is loosely based on evolution. Evolution has killed 99.9% of the species that have every existed, and our systems do the same.
My internal dialectic tells me that there’s three responses to this:
1) The metaphor is lost, and that the statement is “all over the place”, exemplifying the point of the article, that, we cannot communicate effectively outside of our limited understanding. That we cannot have new thought, in part because it cannot be clearly stated.
2) Full throated support for the system prevents us from being able to objectively question why were doing the things that we are doing, which is precisely what Conway’s Law is trying to state.
3) Having a understanding, but idealistic perception, of the world means not being able to do anything about it. Survival of the Fittest means that cooperation will be exploited, and definitely not reciprocated.

In order to find new ground, you may find yourself needing to do something truly out of the ordinary. Try holding board meetings in Swahili. Try “running your business” (which loses context given the next few words) without the concept of ownership or property. Seek sources of knowledge and wisdom outside of the scientific method, religion, business schools, political systems.
Of course these would obviously fail (see 3 above) in the current system. We don’t tolerate failure. And we like to see out-of-the-box thinking fail because it further validates our existence systems.
We may very well be at a maxima for social and economic development. The cost to try something new would be tremendous. We’re also disadvantaged that we have homogenized culture and thought. Even the simplest changes may require a step back that would be considered another dark age.
Uhhhh... I stopped at the abstract. It's describing an insane scientific concept with literally no preexisting support. Even if the experimental design wasn't flawed, the results wouldn't convince anybody that what the author claims is true.
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Do these things need to be drydocked? We have very fast and aggressive bottom growth where I live, race boats get cleaned every few weeks, cruisers develop a bit of sludge that turns into a full on boat bottom salad pretty quick.
That wasn't the claim. You should read the reply chain but the point isn't about archaeology but our interpretation of civilization outside Rome and Greece. You wanted to know why these civilizations get that share of work...the reason why is that their thought was more relevant to us (again, most Europeans believed in Aristotelian science until humanism). And, again, these civilizations were more African than European...it is nothing to do with racism (which was the implication).

That wasn't the claim. I will explain, although you would do just as well to go back and read what I said more closely...again. The point is: many people who are perceived to be part of the European tradition (i.e. Rome/Greece) are not Europeans. So when someone says: Europe has got a disproportionate share of work, these regions are ignored, their civilizations are ignored...this is wrong. Most of these civilizations were mutli-culutural/multi-national, and included Africa (the other big contributor would be the Middle East). Again, attempting to read the current political view onto the past. And the point about Augustine is that he was African, the point about academics who say things like: we are too Euro-centric is that they define Europe in a way that makes no historical sense (unsurprisingly, as they are usually arguing about things in the present, not anything related to history...the concept of Europe itself is not something with a clear historical meaning).
I think lumping everyone together is the least biased group of outsiders.

“It found that Russia was the least popular G-8 country globally. ... Overall, the percentage of respondents with a positive view of Russia was only 31%.“

That supports the wider point quite well. Though Russia has very positive relations with a small number of countries. For example providing China with massive aid in living memory.
Kotlin provides pretty nice syntax sugar for that:

num.coerceIn(min..max)

That's it. This human reader finds it considerably more readable.

It also has

coerceAtLeast

and

coerceAtMost
That sounds good in principle, but in reality GPT-3 is pretending to be a human pretending to be an AI, rather than write like "itself", since there's no self involved. Rather, it simply comes up with the most probable continuation.
Sourcing is definitely an issue. With GPT-3 there is no "source," as it is still essentially a bag of word vectors. I've also seen it take existing quotes and misattribute them to the wrong (but similar) person.
A fact that will not change for the next...idk ten years.
'kinopio' in japanese is a general word meaning mushroom, and kinopio.com just happens to a bicycle store in japan
I looked into Dvorak then settled on Colmak. It gives most of the advantages (some claim it's actually better) without messing up every single shortcut I've learned over the years.

I was doing lots of typing at the time and my first day learning Colmak, I was amazed that I'd been typing for hours and my fingers didn't hurt.
Who said anything about barring anyone from work?

It is a specific employer choosing to question someone on their voluntary relationship with facts.

How is it that people insisting on believing in provable falsehoods (not religious beliefs) is somehow a protected class?

There is also nothing preventing a flat-earther employer setting up the same filter with the opposite polarity, i.e., filtering out people who actively work with scientific principles, perhaps because he considers that science-minded people are less likely to follow direction. It's his choice.

Real example, a lawsuit in Connecticut affirmed that a police department was within its rights to deny employment to a candidate who scored too HIGH on their intelligence test.
Have you tested this in marketing emails? that seems to be the profitable marketplace. Even if you can prove 5% increase in roi that's worth a lot to a lot of people!

There are some interesting studies showing short emails perform better but we haven't found that to be true it seems the message is the biggest factor. Some way to improve the message is even more valuable but also likely a much harder ML task
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I'm curious how space x and their re-usable rockets impacts this arms race (not to mention blue origin, rocket labs, etc.). Seems like a huge advantage.
Wow, no kidding, that's the abstract!

It doesn't talk about the experiment or the findings, it only postulates some reaction that they expect to be happening.

There is certainly not enough evidence on the paper to decide on that complex model. I'm not sure there is any evidence on the paper at all, since it's noisy and hard to read - but certainly not enough for that.
Lyft is being petty here. I understand that they cannot make all drivers employees, but they could have some drivers on the road and not pulled the rug on users.

This goes to say that you cannot trust private companies like Lyft for critical services. The government actually has been transparent about this change and Lyft is acting like a spoilt child, not even willing to try the employee route.

Lyft pulling the rug overnight is in bad faith.
It's probably most important in language ecosystems like Ruby which seriously depend on test suites for catching bugs.

One way to view the problem that Mutation Testing solves is, there's no test suite for the test suite. And so there's no safety net to enable refactoring the test code. It's test suites all the way down.

Mutation testing solves this infinite recursion problem by automating the test-suite-test-suite creation.
Another discussion on the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224882
Are they still going to run their global operations from California?
I completely agree with you. I have been completely fascinated and astounded by the capabilities of the System Z (and also System P in my case), yet utterly flabbergasted and disgusted by the incompetence of IBM in business dealings.

For example, the hypervisor on P series has been around since the introduction of Power5 and it allows you to create micro-LPARS with a small fraction of the CPU resources. Even back in the Power5 days, there was something called entitled capacity that lets you specify the minimum amount of CPU resources your LPAR would receive even if the entire server is being hammered simultaneously. It's an engineering marvel. Back then it was called APV. I believe it's called PowerVM these days. I'm sure that most people in our industry have no idea that this capability exists, let alone that it's been around since Power5. Sad, really.
Zoom is coming to Facebook’s video-chat device, Portal
+1, it's excellent
You can't attack another user like this on HN, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. It does nothing to help the "lower class" or anyone else, and it destroys the commons here, which doesn't make anything better.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. You've unfortunately broken them more than once lately.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225001.
> I think you can employ W-2-style employees without providing them healthcare. It’s a perk, but not legally required to have a W-2 employee.

If you have fewer than 50 full time employees, yes (depending on the state).

If you have 50 or more employees, you have to offer healthcare (or pay penalties).
It seems like they are just have bad names, as their unit probably is seconds not 1/seconds.
Both parties have supported Fed leadership that relied on worker insecurity to keep people in their jobs:

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

America does not have a stories history of being labor friendly. It’s pretty much old European pissing competitions imported anew after WW2. Identity which the country had begun to schlep off between the Gilded Age and WW1. Refugees brought it back over.

The best part of all this is Adam Smith only ever mentions markets in the context of a free labor market, buoyed by government support of equality of condition.

But Smith and Aristotle, who wrote Democracy is likely the most moral government, are cast aside for James Madison who wrote the Senate ought to protect the rich from Democracy or the people will take all the aristocrats stuff.

This is all 2,000+ years old rhetoric. Human biology hasn’t evolved so fast in that time that such concerns of the past are rendered obsolete.
This is why everyone who requires freedom should consider GNU/Linux phones Librem 5 or Pinephone.
Friend does this - she raves about the results.
One of the most frustrating aspects of these liberationist counter-narratives is the pretense that whoever conquered or succeeded certain civilizations/cultures, did so by a unique application of force.

Roughly: 'our people were good and peaceful until evil warlike invaders with wholly-different human motivations wiped us out.'

We should aim to fix injustices in the world. But building false narratives of differential demonization will only recreate problems in the long run.
I am by no means conservative but the taxes on regular people in California are so high because the taxes on longtime landowners are low. And I also don’t think the taxes are being spent well enough to justify them. It’s also quite a stretch to call anything about obstructionist NIMBYism “liberal”

Also many of the people paying the highest taxes in CA are not even from there (executives, tech workers, entertainment workers), which kind of breaks down the argument of giving back to the environment that produced you.

I would be perfectly happy with paying income and sales taxes as high as they are in California if they were assessed more fairly (no low taxes because your grandparents lived here) and if I felt like I got enough out of public services.
Sure, if you can catch any wind.
The demo song is a mashup version of Drake's hotline bling that I found on youtube. It'd be awesome if Nintendo went after me for using it though, because it might mean that they'd use the iconic tune for themselves again
Also, don't forget that you've actually got to drive.
> in the popular imagination, there was nothing except Greece, Rome and Egypt until this side of 1 AD.

Really? The Romans are known for their expansionism. Who were they conquering? Who was everybody fighting against in 300?
Yup, could be.
True. It just illustrates how deep a problem we've got here: once you've gone down the rabbit hole, there's no way back.

The only solution, if any, is democratic: containing the damage and reducing the numbers. They cannot be persuaded, but other people can. And unfortunately, I don't think that's all that effective, either -- in part because they ally themselves with other conspiracy theorists who insulate them from some of the consequences of their actions. They may not agree, but don't attack each other, and bolster common causes. Enough to win elections, especially when geographic, demographic, and historic quirks assign more political power to some regions than others.

If it were just creationists, they'd be (relatively) harmless kooks. As it is, they're always a step away from theocracy.
Ever heard of this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

In an nutshell: USA auto manufacturers purchased and dismantled the streetcar business to force people to have to buy cars.
100 books in 2 years comes out to about a book per week, which isn't too many to enjoy for someone who reads a lot.

But also, many of the classic sci-fi novels are actually very short, possible to get through in a couple days, even if you don't read particularly fast.

Alas, I don't have any tips to read faster...
No, do not entertain yourself with such thought.

The fact of:

1. Sings of long term preparation, and surveillance were there.

2. His hospital room is now "guarded" by KGB agents out of Moscow who appeared out of nowhere within a few hours. That's pretty much a very deliberately displayed smoking gun.
Robin misses the point that blackmail harms people as it is an ongoing threat. How would you write a contract that says what you are being blackmailed for without the lawyers involved that wrote the contract also blackmailing you? How do you prevent someone from leaking something anonymously and reneging on the contract to blackmail you repeatedly for the same thing? I feel the con side was really weak and didn't dive into the actual implementation problems at all.
I can't find a good article, but my (albeit anecdotal) understanding is that the hole pulls down your butt muscles while the ring compresses the veins responsible for blood return.
You know what's great about that? The order of the arguments doesn't matter. So all the debate about "should it be num, min, max or min, num, max"- your solution does not care. Put them in any order you like!

You've redefined the problem from clamping a given value into picking the middle value from 3. This is a lovely way to re-interpret it.
It is being downvoted because it is making an unsound claim without any backing.

Most likely there is not a single explanation, usually issues like these are more complicated then that. There is no consensus on whether unions are more powerful in the US then elsewhere, I’m sure you can easily find examples—or spin the narrative—to back either case. And finally there is no evidence for some ulterior motive of driver’s unions, nor even a convincing narrative. Quite the contrary there is both evidence and a somewhat convincing narrative for why the ride-share companies would want to keep their workers from unionizing and asking for full-time worker’s benefits.
> If we want to people to use public transportation, the solution to that is to make public transportation better than the alternatives

There's no better way to burn up al of your free time than by taking public transportation. I've never had the balls to pull out my laptop to try to get some work done...
Agile isn't, strictly, about software though it certainly is the predominant application. So first, let's separate two things:

- building

- designing

Some parts of agile do apply to building. See Lean Manufacturing, parts of it are responses to maintain quality (Andons used to stop production) and parts are to change over the manufacturing floor to build something else (same plant can make many kinds of cars without a fixed production line for each, letting them meet demand).

Other parts of agile, though, are aimed more at the design portion. Sprints, for instance, are meant to give you short iterations that let you frequently evaluate both your process and your product's success/failure.

You can apply agile concepts to developing almost any kind of thing. Actual rocket scientists create simulations, scale models, full-scale models, prototypes and other things on their way to the final system. So they're already applying the same iterative approach that most agile proponents endorse. The question is, is the iteration deliberate or accidental? Or do they try to deny the iterations even exist? Once they get to building the rocket, that might be less agile depending on circumstances (is it the first one they've built? are they setting up a production line? is it a one off?).
html embed is def possible , but using an actual iframe might lead to some performance impacts. Instead what I eventually plan to build is a url unfurling/screenshot tool that I can use on cards with urls
He could just use AWS.
Those hungry peasants weren't educated. You have far more bright people in the 99.9% today than in the 0.1% cream at the top.

Unless you decide on complete and utter genocide, An Army is utterly no match for clever people who will utilise every inch of their ingenuity in guiding riots, carrying out guerilla warfare with committed assassins targeting the 0.1% (and their families).

And a nation who chooses to kill its citizens 'en masse via its military forces will not be a nation for very long. There will be civil war.

Without shared prosperity, a nation will shatter very soon. A revolution doesn't need to "win" for the prosperous to loose their lives by the million-fold.

This also has been proven in history.
Your central error is in assuming that people work because they want to ("freely"), rather than because they have to.

If you can't understand why people have to work, I don't think I can help explain that.
> EVERY insurance increases premiums for high-risk situations EXCEPT health insurance because reasons.

Of course, because reasons. Because health is a bit more complex than "you get a speeding ticket, you're a bad driver"

> My main point was that we are already super-socialized

You mean to say that the US already has super-socialized medical care? Erm, no. It's nowhere even close to being "super-socialized".

> and the real issue lies elsewhere.

Indeed. And I mentioned this in my comment:

Healthcare is a complex problem which should also include solutions for crazy amounts of sugar in American foods and drinks, better food in schools, better access to healthy foods for low-income families etc. etc.

Before punishing obese people the US should take quite a few steps towards helping people not become obese. Because even fast food is healthier in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMaW6TamNAc
Lol okay I used poetic license. The point is we had international travel and was not under lockdown due to these other diseases because they're under control. Maybe the ship has sailed for C19 but just saying it's possible.
Content creators are going to be in high demand in coming years
I created my profile on Twitter in 2015 and until recently i have been just a consumer on the platform. I never posted anything and didn't understand the importance of giving it back to the people on the twitter community.
Around a month back, I started following this person Daniel Vassallo who had quit his 500k job at Amazon in Feb 2019 as he had lost motivation at his job. Since then he has grown his twitter profile from 150 followers to 35k followers in little over an year.

It's amazing how one can influence people by providing valuable content on Social media.

He has a course on Gumroad where he explain how he was able to do this by building credibility on the platform.

I bought his course and absolutely loved it. After buying this course I've been a active content creator and met some people on twitter and learning a lot!

I just wanted to share this with Hacker News community if someone is interested to grow their profile as well.

Here's is the course link:

https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/PBkrO
> What else are you claiming is made up

"Motivates working, avoids a blanket handout which would just raise the prices of everything in response"

"More fair, less cost, and better purchasing power"

I mean that it's a made up difference between UBI and NIT, they are simply equal in this regard, for better or for worse.

It makes no sense that they would be different, as the net money flow between individual (or household) and the government can be made exactly the same between UBI and NIT scheme, and how much money someone actually has in their hands is what determines motivation, fairness, purchasing power, inflation etc.

Under UBI: NetMonthlyIncome = income + UBI - taxes_ubi(income)

Under NIT (where taxes_nit can yield a negative value): NetMonthlyIncome = income - taxes_nit(income)

You can make taxes_ubi(income) == taxes_nit(income) + UBI and you get the same exact real life result, it's just that the accounting is different.
But things changed - Russia is much more known - while something remained the same - perception of the threat. Only now there are causes for that, so the article isn't accurate, portraying West as being "unnaturally" negative to Russia. West is negative for specific reasons, something which the article fails to address.