skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article he mentions using illegal drugs and how quitting drinking may have saved his marriage. Do you think it's really that crazy that a young beginning-to-rise star living in Los Angeles in the 80s and under incredible pressure to perform without sleep used something to stay awake? It's not a condemnation.
We're symbiotic
Well, I think the bigger problem is the actual general insanity of the last 4 years, mixed in with growing social media. It's horrible for people to have to be bombarded by trolling and lies by the president on a daily basis. (To those who wish to deny that, please don't bother because you are wrong, it's not a debate).

>For years I thought he'd be removed from office. Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion

Eh yes and no.. any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times. I don't think it's blowing things out of proportion when the PRESIDENT is constantly calling people names on twitter on a daily basis and doing his best to divide.

Anyway.. I agree the best solution is to try and avoid seeing shit daily, and I'm really really hoping in two months we can go back to not hearing about politics every fucking day unless we really want to seek it out.
My Wife surprised me with the Pantheon. We were walking through Rome and she steered me to this rather ugly building (at least on the outside). When we got in I was flabbergasted. It is an astonishing space, surpassed only by Saint Peters in Rome to me anyway. I had studied it as a kid but only in books, and never paid much attention to the outside, so the surprise was magnificent. One of the great experiences of my life.
> What is the root cause of those incentives?

Belief that collecting more data gives them an edge in targetting customers, with an assumption that user_analyze.py can think like humans and optimally target users.
Ask HN: What do you think of mention messaging concept?
Group chats are good but it kinda suck when you are part of wrong group or a good group with wrong people who sends 100 forwards every day. I want to try an experiment with a new way to send messages to single person or a group. @mentions are part of our social habits now, so thought of a way to use @mentioning to direct message a person or group.

How? You @mention recipients in the message itself. In other words, any message will be sent to all the @mentioned users. Does anyone want to participate in this experiment? If so drop in your details here in this form.

https://forms.gle/Ccr77ZNG1ZQ6nRxq6
Csikszentmihalyi says that attention "is an energy under our control, to do with as we please".

If only it were true that we have attention under our control. There are so many things we can pay attention to, and so many people whose job it is to distract us, that we can rarely direct it as we want. And biologically, we're set up to be distracted by threats and unexpected phenomena.

That's not to say we don't pay attention. As he points out elsewhere, Csikszentmihalyi identified 'flow', which is when we get into a nice state of focus on something positive.

Luckily, we're finding out more about how to pay attention to things we want to pay attention to. Prioritising, dividing tasks into chunks, getting enough sleep, choosing what we attend to more wisely are all helpful.
Good thread on this from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18732832
If concurrency were so hard that switching away from some decent language to JAVASCRIPT seemed like a good idea, I would agree, but it isn't that hard. Not even close. Threads are a very well understood concept.
Re his foundation: I tend to find websites for research foundations frustrating. I always want to know "In a nutshell, what practical solutions have come out of the research you back?" and an answer to that seems to never exist.

But their FAQ has some tidbits about them looking for biomarkers and that makes enough sense to me that I was less frustrated than I usually am when I look at foundation websites: https://www.michaeljfox.org/faq

And I think this link was somewhere in the article and it gives a good summary of what Parkinson's is all about:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/parkinsons-disease/causes/
Source: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
Are those Penrose tiles on the logo?
JavaScript has optional chaining now! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I'm afraid I don't have a list of good ones, only bad ones.

The easiest way to vet them is to call them and ask them what their policies are, then test them (for legal reasons, against your own test domains would be best...). See whether you can find documentation about their policies online. If you can't find them: potential red flag. If you can find them but it doesn't seem thorough/very secure: red flag. If they don't seem to deal with international customers: potential red flag. If they don't support TOTP or U2F, or you can't disable SMS validation: red flag. If their password policies suck: red flag (just create a free account and see what it lets you use). If they don't do both registry & registry lock for your TLD, or won't explain how the process works for that TLD: run away.

Often they may document their online process for doing things like registry lock. Call them up and say you are a potential customer and you want to know what you can do over the phone, then ask them what you need to provide in order to do each thing. They're not going to try to hide anything from you, so they may tell you if (for example) all they need to know is your full name, e-mail address, and what domain you want to unlock. They'll also tell you if they only send EPP codes over e-mail or their web interface, or if they have a way to record customer support requests (like a special verification code for phone support, select lists of people who can administrate the account, etc).

Of course, it's up to each customer service rep to actually follow the Registrar's rules. It just takes one lazy SOB to skip all the steps and just do whatever you ask to ruin everything. So you might also ask to talk to whomever manages the support reps and find out more about them, like how much training they receive and how much oversight is done over each support call. You'll probably have to settle for correspondence over a ticketing system.

Registries you'll probably have to e-mail for their rules, or ask a Registrar. Some registries can be unnecessarily cloak-and-dagger about their policies, but some registrars don't care and will tell you anyway. Personally, I would stay away from the Registries that require two weeks of paperwork just to change WHOIS information.
You would build or rent a shelter, proving food, housing, education and child care. Helping people that want to get back on their feet and need some support.

You would probably also want to provide medical supervision to manage withdrawal symptoms. Because you would be wasting your time if you didn’t make it a sober shelter.

And we have these. The people you see on the streets don’t want to use them.
I do all that stuff, and more. Thank you, but it doesn’t help much. One one thing that helps is not having any screens or audio in bed and waking up at the same time every day. The latter is excruciating for me.
What options can you take for immigration?
I am curious as well as I am an Undergrad aged 20 who wants to live in different countries (especially EU and Canada).
I was thinking of taking a masters as I can then make connections.
Are there any other ways which can be taken?
Ask HN: People with an M1 Mac, how is your experience with it?
Skinwalker Ranch Became a Hotbed of Paranormal Activity
As someone who drinks 5 or 6 cups of coffee per day in various types of vessel, I think is safe to say: uh oh.
It depends on the context. I like one-liners because it's much easier to iterate over a command line and building them is a bit of a personal challenge since it's not worth writing a script or saving to a file.

I don't know about most people, but interactively I use short flags and when writing Bash scripts I try hard to use long flags and will often break things up specifically for clarity.
I hadn't heard of it until I saw an interview Glenn Greenwald did after he quit The Intercept where he said he was already making some ok money there, as his readership was stronger than he thought might be the case, and they followed him there. I get the impression it's a place where bigger writing names can actually generate some revenue by having a subscription model, but with more opportunity for new names to get a foothold simply due to it being a newer space.
If their ops sec doesn't get any better, they may just give them away.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/wyze-data-leak-key-takeaways-s...
Similar to "chink in one's armor. A "chink" means "a narrow opening or crack", and a chink in one's armor means a weak point that makes you vulnerable to attack.

But "chink" is also an offensive term for a Chinese person, so "chink in one's armor" can be misunderstood, especially if what you are talking about actually involves a Chinese person. ESPN got in trouble a couple of times with it, even though they had used it thousands of times before without incident, because of a couple articles where the weakness they were describing on some team was a player who was Chinese.
> Researchers in India reveal drinking coffee and other hot beverages from paper cups can release tens of thousands of potentially harmful plastic particles into your drink.

In summary, paper is not the problem here.
When was the channel unblocked? It is disheartening to know that a company was able to silence legitimate criticism on all major platforms and even on places like LBRY.
It wasn't at first. At time of posting, the title of the article at Medium used "loss", and is reflected in the headline here.

I also figured it was about yet another cofounder quitting yet another company.
https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-city-building... is one example. You build tiny homes or other self-contained high density housing and give it away for free to the homeless. Ideally, there is a spectrum of housing for people with zero income, low income, median income, etc. But this always runs into politically blocks by the nominally liberal Bay Area voters.
My take is that plastics are the new asbestos. It's just harder to prove it, but at some point we're going to have that eureka moment

Glass, silicone and plant-based materials are the logical solution here
I had no idea what "disposable terracotta cups" were, but they're pretty interesting:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2016/10/26/kolkatas-age-ol...
Right, the problem is everything is lined with BPA or lesser known but still likely very similar alternatives
People sometimes do bad things, and aren’t held accountable.

Sometimes, these unaccountable things are secret. Some secrets will remain secrets. The secretes that will become public knowledge are my worrisome.

It’s common to do bad things and be unaccountable for them — from your own actions or the actions you take on behalf of the group. Society is best when people think about how their worst actions effect other people. If we all try to help each other, surely we can find a way.

This is my dummy translation, and it doesn’t hold a flame to the remorse, regret, and hope of the original.
24/7 live stream != video call
> I don't need my own personal omnipotent digital god dictating everything in my life. Even if it saves me a few bucks.

You can opt-out/not opt-in all you want, but as long as enough people opt-in (or don't opt-out), they can just apply an existing model against you, get good-enough results and you're almost as screwed.
Yes but then someone else has the tether.
Fair. And agreed it's a weak argument to pick on zealots. I like your argument that all cultures have things in common. I don't argue that are all the same as in not a simpleton. I say that to me there are more similarities than differences between secular and religious culture. I say that the similarities are critically instructive.

Some say there are no novel insights. But we still try. Here's one effort: suppose we hypothesize that fiction is more effective at building political consensus. When I say "fiction" I don't say falsehood. I say fiction to mean representation of reality that aim to be convincing rather than truthful. We all have seen this in action.

Suppose I say this is what religion looks like to me: the ancient study of social and political fiction.

I think modern science has lost its way. It has lost moral context. I think it looks a lot like the advanced institutions of the Roman Catholic Church near the time of the Reformation. Not exactly mind you, but in that it's existing to maintain itself rather than as a responsive, living language of healthy communal culture.

I think it's language that fascilitates rapid change in cultural realities. It's this form of religious realism that interests me in critique of modern science institution. That's not because I like to argue with people on the internet, but because I think there's a novel, applied approach that emerges in looking at the problem that way.

But I don't expect that to be clear, and while it's been interesting I'm not much for basic arguing!
Red cloth is commonly used in Pooja, and you put Red tika (and rice grains) on forhead. Brides traditionally wear predominantly red clothes for certain ceremonies during wedding. Red, Yellow/Amber, and White are quite common during rituals in North. Are they not in South India?
Great pics in that article. Definitely a nice refresher to my perspective...
Leaving this here as comments on that blog seem broken. TL;DR: access(2) is a bit more lightweight than write(2) for this purpose.

Consider the following (from memory, untested):

word_t peek(word_t addr, int success) {
word_t ret;
errno = 0;
access(addr, F_OK);
if (success)
success = (errno != EFAULT);
if (errno != EFAULT)
ret = *addr;
return ret;
}

I first learnt about this trick in http://www.gcu-squad.org/2005/08/non-ce-n-est-pas-sale%21/
That’s one positive example.

What about all the negative examples? How many cats have they killed? How many cats have managed to survive without intervention?

A single positive example, however cute the cat might be, is just an anecdote.

We need data. We need lots of examples, both positive and negative.

To the speaker in the video, I would say the following: That’s a single example of a cute cat that you found, but where is all the other data?
Good start, but I’d like to add technical empathy and literacy to the list.

I’m a PM and too many of my peers don’t know a lick about how the products in their portfolio even work at a fundamental level. This lack of basic technical literacy leads to the inability to communicate and empathize with their development team. That makes requirements writing a Herculean effort of wading through abstractions, which obviously isn’t going to translate to quick delivery.

Perhaps worse is these types of PMs instinctually don’t include their developers in the ideation process, because they struggle to understand what they could even add to the discussion.

A PM must be curious, and that includes curiosity about the underlying tech. They must be in the business of demystifying and democratizing the building blocks of their products. This shouldn’t be at the expense of the business functions of the job, but it should be part of the multi-pronged nature of the job. PMs shouldn’t just be lobbing requirements over the wall with no idea what they’re asking for. And this doesn’t mean we always need to hire PMs with a technical background. One of the best things about the nebulous “product manager” profession is that it’s really just a catch all for people from all related disciplines who have a talent for working at the intersection of the user and the business. All I’m saying is at least watch a damn YouTube video about React Native, GraphQL, Drupal, or whatever the heck you use and I guarantee it will pay dividends in your requirements writing and your communication with your developers.
This kind of stuff is useful when looking at big populations, but much less so when just talking about a single individual.
You will enjoy this classic.
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>Researchers say these nearly-invisible microplastics are becoming a major threat to human health. They’re typically less than 0.2 inches across, but can be as small as one-fiftieth the width of a human hair.

Less than 0.2 inches across huh...technically true I suppose.
I created an AI palette generator using two neural networks trained with the Tailwind CSS shades.

It works better than I ever expected, but it has of course its corner cases.

It's open sourced:

tailwind.ink
How does this relate to the information-theoretic derivations of Schrödinger wave equation, DeWitt/Wheeler, etc. found in Roy Frieden’s Physics from Fisher Information, Cambridge U Press 1998?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3615
> You have more choices available than either climbing the corporate ladder or sitting on the couch watching Netflix

I think you are taking this point too literally. The question is: what proportion of your life are you spending pursuing career goals?

For a bit of background on this, I strongly recommend Skidelsky & Skidelsky (2012) How Much is Enough? [1]

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/216918/how-much-is-...
Very cool! The Bhar clay is dug out of the Ganges though so I’m not sure its all that much better for your health haha
Someone's Already Playing Cyberpunk 2077
Remember: Your focus determines your reality.
— Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Don't aim to be liked or respected
I just finished reading it the other day: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
I got there from Erik Meijer's excellent "Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman: Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72....
I try to browse with JavaScript off by default and a lot of sites just don't load anymore - and I'm not speaking of SPAs here. Anything Cloudflare had a 50/50 chance of throwing me a "please enable JavaScript to continue" error, and when it doesn't happen, anything that looks like an email address is filtered out.

And even if I do enable JavaScript wholesale, website isolation means that reCaptcha thinks I'm an evil bot because I don't allow it to see my activities elsewhere.
TIL, plastics degrade into millions of tiny pieces in only 15 minutes of exposure to coffee... and yet remain non-biodegradable for thousands of years.

Seems only one of these can be true.
No. Even with Gatekeeper enabled, running binaries that you compile from source on your own machine doesn't require that they be notarized. As of Big Sur, they must be _signed_, but can be self-signed by a certificate you create locally. No need for Apple's approval in any way. I don't know what the status of supporting this new requirement in MacPorts (or Homebrew) is, but it's certainly something that can be dealt with.
Developer job interviews – Start with yourself
> why cut your business in half and alienate half of potential customers/employees over mere democracy?

I can foresee a near future where this becomes a very pertinent question. Suppose that, due to some underhanded dealings of the Electoral College (and/or SCOTUS), the current President were to be granted a second term. Further suppose that 70% of the country saw this process as illegitimate, but wanted to avoid any direct violent conflict.

My question is: Would big tech companies (or key employees within them) work together to implement a digital General Strike across the country?

This would be an extreme and probably criminal form of civil disobedience, although I imagine the perpetrators could be motivated by an expectation of receiving a presidential pardon if they were successful.

I'm sure that someone in the contingency planning departments of these big companies someone has gamed out what would happen if Apple and Google and Microsoft all pushed software updates to devices and online services which blocked certain activities (e.g. use by fossil fuel companies?) while controlling the media narrative by promoting messages from their side.
Were you able to stop smoking cigarettes?
I think he's suggesting that Apple would have donated them to Homebrew and MacPorts if they had asked. Seems extremely doubtful to me...
Oh no, the article says that the plastic could contain ions!
I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.drugood.com/2018/07/15/gleevecs-cost-and-price/

Gleevec did not take many years at all for Novartis to recover its trivial relative costs and generate billions of dollars of profit for nearly 2 decades. The problem is when you have a disease and there's only one treatment around, you'll literally pay whatever it costs - because not having it means you're dead.

These companies then turn around and extract as much money as they possibly can. They're monopolies, pure and simple.

I've seen this with my son's diabetes as well. The costs continue to rise (insulin, Dexcom sensors/transmitters, etc.) I've turned down jobs because their health benefits only covered a lousier insulin pump / glucose monitor due to an exclusive agreement with their chosen health insurer.

The problem is if you or a loved one isn't sick, this doesn't affect you one damn bit. My dad (an italian-born immigrant) has always complained to me about our healthcare system (and he had a great healthcare plan as a GM employee.) I didn't really paid it much attention because I was young and healthy. Now, quite a bit older and with family members with a variety of health issues, I realized that he (in my opinion) was right.
Usually the ones for erosion control are wired together in gabion baskets.
I keep seeing this popup in search results, and I'm curious to try it in anger.

I've recently switched roles, and have gone from sharing a pretty large terraform deployment on AWS/GCP to managing infrastructure written with cloudformation and troposphere.

(Trophosphere is a python library that generates cloudformation templates. Nice to have a real programming language, but still pretty constrained by the fact that the output is "just" cloudformation.)

Of the two I have had less pain with terraform, but both have caused their days of pain in different ways.
Yeah, Nazi Grandpa was a good man and Serb genocide could have been prevented if we had just been nicer to fascists after they lost the war they started to annihilate everyone else.
Would compostable cups still have these issues?
I wore those throughout high school, until such time as Casio delivered their first calculator watch.

WTF?!?
It's just that JavaScript has no threads, which is it's problem.
> no protection from invasion of privacy ... then we expect (though probably don't have rights to) privacy driving our car down the street

That's the key difference. In the US, public places aren't generally afforded any privacy protections and thus video can be recorded and shared. Police go many places that aren't public, so a significant portion of body cam footage is likely illegal to share.

Of course in this particular case (Ring live streaming) there's a question about whether it's legal or acceptable for police to engage in such practices on a wide scale. An end user doing something once simply isn't the same as a large government agency doing it many times over.
This isn't a throwaway. I've been lurking HN for a while and never felt the need to comment before now. In retrospect that was a bit silly since OP has been pretty nice in all of their follow up comments. I still feel that while their criticisms are generally valid, they're a bit harsh.