skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His post said he sets the alarm for 6-7 hours. And I’d agree with this reply to just plan more sleep initially, and (if you can) skip the alarm. Why? I have had the same experience as him with resuming dreams, and know that the “cure” for me (and just generally feeling more awake for the rest of the day) is consistently about 8h15m of sleep. That’s my number, from estimating the average over some years and mostly avoiding alarm clocks, and yours is probably different. I believe I happen to need more than average. Sometimes changing time zones by 4-5 hours can help me reset the rhythm, as does planning my sleep timing based around when I want to wake, rather than my natural habitation as a night owl.
I always see these hallucinogenic articles and think wow why is everyone advertising for hallucinogenic usage. I don't drink, not a single drug besides caffeine and never smoked but there is an appeal to use hallucinogenic for health reasons is crazy to me.

I am too square I guess.
The role of fact checking is not to strive for partisan balance but rather to identify public comments that are untrue.

American conservatives would fall afoul of fact checking far less frequently if the conservative worldview wasn't wedded to talking points that are not factually accurate. For example:

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. There is no evidence of ongoing large-scale voter fraud in US elections. There is no evidence that the incoming Biden administration intends to end capitalism. There were no 'convoys' of migrants preparing to violently storm the US-Mexico border prior to the 2018 midterms. Barrack Obama was not ineligible to serve as President. There is no evidence that the Democratic party is detaining children in the basement of a pizza parlor. There is no evidence that the Democratic party is run by a cabal of pedophile cannibals. Etc.

A fact checker who does not point out the fact-free basis of these, and other, deeply-held conservative talking points is simply not doing his/her job.

If the weight of fact checking falls primarily against conservatives, then conservatives can fix that problem by lying less frequently.
In America chiropractors claim to treat diabetes, etc.

It was invented by a guy who practiced healing with magnets and said that a ghost taught him about spinal adjustments - it has always been pseudoscientific nonsense. There may well be places that have extracted only the meaningful parts, but I’d be skeptical.
The problem is that these coexisting fantasy worlds run into issues when you actually do touch reality, which does not go away simply because one choses not to believe in it.

covid of course being the most recent example. We can all run into whatever bubbles we want, but it won't stop a biological virus. Everyone can spin it into their own virtual narrative, but people will die nonetheless, and underlying the cloud and the internet is good old hardware and infrastructure, which is very real and very decaying. Fleeing into digital worlds is only a temporary solution.
From the responses, it seems like everyone here is 17 and can use unlimited sleep. In my late 40s, I can't sleep more than 6 hours and if I do, I end up groggy with an aching head. Sleep habits are very diverse and if you're lacking sleep, you'll find out in short order as there's no way to ignore it. OTOH, worrying about whether you are getting enough sleep is creating unnecessary stress in your life.
hyper-optimized distractions are one of our new challenges we face today as attentional beings.

hyper-mindfulness and hyper-awareness is one of the best tools I've found to overcome them.
Though you may be paying the device manufacturer for their (probably terrible) re-skinning of the stock Android UI (Samsung and Xiaomi come to mind as examples that make a pretty different-looking/feeling skin on their devices).
People are just projecting their own cognitive biases.

As Werner has said before everything fails all the time, so you need to design your system/architecture to accept that constant. US-east-1 is by far the largest of the regions, and at that scale you can probably assume that at any given point in time there is hardware in there failing that needs to be physically replaced. As a result it's the region most well equipped to tolerate that level of constant failure (it's got 6 AZs!). It's also the the most popular of the regions, is typically one of the launch regions for new services, and runs a bunch of critical Amazon infra too. If anything it holds a special place in terms of importance for AWS to keep it up because the impact of a widespread problem here is amplified. For the same reason though any problem here is much more visible across the entire internet. Which is why the handful of outages are so memorable to people.
The most fragile part of the PlayStation, just like the GameCube and many other consoles, is the optical drive. I don't know what the AFR is for a typical CD-ROM drive, but when you consider that the PlayStation hardware is 20 years old, it's unsurprising that so many of them have failed.

So I think flash card readers for the PlayStation are a much more interesting technology.
Played a lot of it today! I’ve known this game forever but still don’t understand the exact rule. Also, it didn’t work well offline (I was on a boat most of the time so I had trouble restarting new games)
Yes, you're stating the obvious, but this service by Purism solves nothing if you think you're hiding from the mobile network operator this way, without taking other quite extreme measures on top.

And whether you've revealed your identity or not is in fact binary. This issue is not about security, but privacy.
Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world served from a raspberry pi than twitter is.
Can it run sway?
Also GOG and Humble Bundle ;)

It's generally a joy to use Linux. In some cases (like HP LaserJet printers) even more painless than Windows and macOS!
> The truth is that an Iranian will never understand just how much fun it is being a foreigner in Iran, we really are treated well (tarof or not).

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/27/939437147/australian-professo...
Wow! Didn’t know Japanese played majhong too! What are the differences?
We've fixed that typo in the GP comment now.
“I have nothing to hide” why even say that on a hacker-site? Of course everyone has, the rules and behaviours that make one oneself. If those behaviours and the bugs within them can be replicated, one becomes a easily manipulated puppet, a zombie going were ones master wants one to go, without any reason and lots of emotions, maybe occasionally wondering why ones actions result consistently in outcomes against ones own interest.
Farmers have already been pushing the genetic envelope of their crops for thousands of years simply by exerting evolutionary pressure towards bigger, tastier, and more drought tolerant crops. Every time a farmer decided to grow more of the seeds from one healthier looking plant vs the other they pushed the envelope of the plant's genetics a little further.

Look up some examples of what wild corn looked like several hundred years ago, versus how it looked at the start of the 20th century. This was all accomplished using natural processes and evolutionary pressure. Our biosphere has been a petri dish for thousands of years already. The farmers aren't scientists wearing lab coats but they have been modifying our plants' DNA, slowly and surely over thousands of years by propagating accidental mutations.

The problem is that today we are reaching a point where our ecosystem is changing far faster than plants can adjust using 100% natural processes. Temperatures are rising faster than they have in millions of years, and the last time we saw such a dramatic rise in temperature it was accompanied by mass extinctions.

At this rate if we still want to have food in 50 years we absolutely need to do some lab driven genetic modification to add more drought and heat tolerance (among other traits) to our crops. Otherwise we are looking at a future with at best greatly reduced food variety for the vast majority of the population, and at worst outright starvation for large portions of our population.

Your comment is focusing on the worst possible application of GMO, but forgetting about the tremendously good applications of GMO. The solution to the problem is simple: you outlaw the negative applications, and you encourage the positive applications. If we don't get started on this soon then we are looking at a dark future where only the richest can afford to eat like we do today.
Then the supercomputer, mobile, and embedded markets as well.
Damn, that's awesome
I live and work in Tokyo, this is pretty accurate. Of course you can also work on a scale of increasing commute time in order to decrease rent or increase housing size.

Companies typically pay your commuting fees so it's an attractive option for some who don't mind riding trains for awhile.
Surprised this isn't higher. It was absolutely incredible at the time. It was cutting edge: the now well known optimizer RMSProp was presented by Hinton in this course and not even published anywhere else; people cite the lecture slides for this course in their papers when they use it.

The field moves fast so it's a little outdated now, but this course gave me a strong and deep foundation for understanding the techniques of deep learning. I was able to apply it at work later with great success. I think this course was more worthwhile than Ng's.
How do you get followers? At sign up there is a flurry of views but no friend requests.
Please don’t westernize the game by translating the characters, that’s like what’s so special about the game!
I’m American, my wife is Japanese, we have a young half daughter. (I also studied Japanese in college and lived here, so it would be a good culture fit for myself.) When I’ve broadly looked into working in Japan the pay seems to be better for foreign companies than domestic ones. But on the whole, I think the job opportunities are less.

A large foreign company like say Google or an international bank will pay more competitive wages than a domestic company. While startups likely have more variability in pay the same pattern holds.

I’ve seen ranges senior devs that are for approx $70k USD. That’s a huge pay cut for someone coming from the US. If you were teaching English in Japan that would be a huge step up however.

Similarly culture will be better for a foreign company than a domestic one — hours, overtime, company politics, etc. Your language ability would also be a critical factor.

Consequently, for me, it seems better to develop a career in the US and visit Japan. Now a company that is 100% remote that would allow you to live anywhere in the world and pay US wages would be an interesting opportunity.
So, like... the Democratic Party? I'm less than half joking.

At least in the US (and oversimplifying) "tribalism" is what keeps the conservative party intact, while the liberal party is a big tent. One way you see this is that liberal policies tend to be broadly popular when presented outside the partisan frame. Meanwhile Republicans eneltered the election without even an official policy platform.
> When people believe the Earth is round only because that's what they were told, it's not that hard for a clever talker to convince them the Earth could be flat. When people know the Earth is round because they actually understand the physics behind it, there's no way you're ever going to convince them the Earth is flat.

The problem with understanding things from their fundamentals is that it doesn't scale. The world is too complex.

Are vaccines safe? Maybe I'll just should read through the Institute of Medicine's definitive, 900 page "Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality."

Can these robust explanations be simplified for lay people? Yes, but faced with competing, simplified explanations, can lay people dependably evaluate which is correct? Can they do it better than a domain expert?

I have some understanding of how vaccines work, from school and popular science literature. But if tomorrow leaders in the field of medicine broadly announced that all of our understanding of vaccines up until now had been mistaken and that there was now some new explanation, well I would accept that new explanation. Whatever education I have had on the topic, it is obviously not going to be better than the education of experts in the medical field.

Epistemic humility and a consequent reliance on domain experts is an essential part of being informed in our wonderfully complex world. This also means it is possible to be mislead by experts who are in the wrong, but I don't really see how this can be entirely avoided.
This is super useful for home networks, I do this for my k8s cluster hosted by a bunch of pi's.

But in production, I'd rather my ability to launch a new pod not be dependent on a DHCP server being reachable and functional. In that case, this particular trick is rather neat, since assignment of IP addresses is fully static/local (without having to agree upfront what range of IPs each node can use for bringing pods online), while retaining the benefit of everything being directly routable. You can now also run a ridiculous amount of pods on a single node.
1) Treatment for severe depression (brain plasticity and resetting long wired state might be why this works)

2) Treatment for end of life (it seems to help with some kind of acceptance of the impending death, creates mental states which make for a less agitated ending)

If you aren't needing 1) above, then thats good. Keep not needing it.

If you aren't needing 2) above, you need to remember we all get there...
Pretty much anywhere with a 10 minute walking distance to the Yamanote line will set you back about the numbers I've mentioned. You can of course go far out of your way and pay half as much, if you don't mind a very long commute each way to work. I would not recommend it given how crowded Japan's trains get during rush hour.
Some discussion of flaws of deterministic password managers can be found here [0] (HN discussion [1]).

Security experts generally seem to agree that a stateful password store is a more security password manager than a deterministic scheme.

[0]: https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132
I also find the scoring stressful, so I just ignore it and do the puzzles at my leisure. I still burn out/run out of time eventually, but it’s much more peaceful
The fingerprint is:

Primary key fingerprint: A92D 5A61 7818 99B0 401F D8AC 0355 E91D FA3E FAB3

Which matches yours...

Again, it really depends on the situation. I wouldn't trust sending an anonymous message through Signal for example as it is tied to a phone number, whereas, I'd happily post through a VPN an anonymous message somewhere on HN that would go unseen other than to the recipient who would be directed to it at a later date across a different medium for example.
Ask HN: Where to relocate our algotrading project ?
I started a crypto trading project with a friend in March. It has been doing really well. In march of 2020, we invested modest sums of our own money (in the 50k). Today we trade around 1B per day (or 3 to 7% of binance futures volume depending on volatility).

We incorporated a company in July in France. Now, we want to exit France and live somewhere else, both personally and to continue our business. In the past two weeks, we moved to Hungary and I am now seriously questioning if it was a good idea.

Our respective goals in ~1 year: My partner just wants to exit as some point and live another life. I want to create an AI/ML research lab by reinvesting the profits. This has been my plan all along: I started algo-trading with deep learning as a fancy way to raise money to then do AI research.

My criteria for where I want to go:

- English speaking country
- Availability of talent in the crypto/trading space (short term) and AI/ML space (long term) for networking and recruiting
- Not polluted

My partner's criteria:

- Not France
- Not Switzerland
- Good social life

Our common criteria:

- Good corporate + tax law and economic freedom
- If possible, not too high cost of living
- If possible, sea, mountains and/or good weather

Where would you go ?
Generally that's the starting rate for a college graduate, who I assume would be most likely to be interested in relocating to Japan.

Here's some good numbers at different experience levels: https://www.tokyodev.com/2020/01/07/japan-developer-salaries...

I'll trust his higher end estimate of 16+ years netting you 11 million yen, but I've never seen a job posting anywhere near that even for senior engineers. And even if that is the case, 11 million yen is still far below a FAANG salary with equivalent experience.
I don't understand how someone can look at a metal box held together with standard rivets and think "the aliens did it".
Well considering that in my dept fewer than 5% of people also use their webcam for meetings I think I am in the majority not the minority
My living arrangements vary. If there is noise, I wake up and then go back to sleep. If it keeps repeating, I gradually get used to it and it doesn't wake me anymore.

I surely sometimes have to get up when I don't want to, it just happens less often than it used to, every couple days or weeks rather than every morning.
Sound advice. Sadly, the industry is by and large ignoring it, and the median k8s cluster size is single digits. There are a few elephants who run thousands of nodes, and at that scale the benefits outweigh the complexity tax. But a huge chunk of the industry is tiny and has been convinced they need to k8s, while another chunk of the industry is trying to figure out how to scale k8s down, on the faulty hypothesis that you can then grow effortlessly.
There were changes in 1965 and the 1967 version is considered the official one. Companies who adopted ASCII before that, like Xerox and DEC, had a left arrow instead of "_" and up arrow instead of "^" in their equipment.

When Smalltalk-78's internal character set was replaced by ASCII in Smalltalk-80, it was the 1963 ASCII that they adopted since that is what they knew at Xerox. Though the goal was to be friendly to the rest of the world, the fact that almost everyone else saw their assignments as underscore causes problems to this day.

So it is possible that 1964 was too early for IBM to embrace ASCII. But to be fair, the 1963 x 1967 ASCII problems are trivial compared to any ASCII x EBCDIC.
You don't have to read the whole damned thing.

There are sections you may fully ignore. The front page / first section, and selected other bits, may be of interest.

One of the prime affordances of a newspaper or other print publication is that when you're done with it, you bundle and recycle the whole damned thing. No mass of tabs sitting lying in guilt for you.

If something's important enough, it'll come around again.

What is your intent in subscribing to a paper? How is thaat intent serrved?
If ingestion of proteins can’t have any effect on your health, I’d like to introduce you to some prions...

I do agree that some GMO fearmongering is overblown. I’m just responding to the claim that ingested proteins can’t be absorbed or have any impact. The gut does break things down but not absolutely 100%. A little does make it into the bloodstream.

Prions via GMO plants are unlikely but foreign or altered proteins causing mysterious and really hard to isolate food allergies in fractions of the population is plausible. These could go undiagnosed for a very long time since GMOs are not labeled or tracked the way drugs or food additives are.

Most of the credible objections to GMOs revolve around their use in tandem with overuse of herbicides and pesticides (e.g. round up ready crops), the potential to impact pollinators, and gene patents and IP lock-in.
who hired that agent? you? how did you choose him?

it's entirely possible that there is an effective solution without involving inefficient government bureaucracy
+1 for Web Development with Steve Huffman. This is the course most responsible for my career as a software developer.
In India We have Ponzi Schemes Run By Tech People who claim to
teach programming to kids Its called White Hat Junior https://www.whitehatjr.com/
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The job security is on a different level though. Also, I suspect real estate around Tokyo, albeit inflated since the '80s, is not as bad as London, because attractiveness of the city is significantly restricted at the cultural level (London attracts loads of people from everywhere, Tokyo mostly attracts "only" the Japanese).
Yeah I used to be in a weird position where most of my time was spent figuring out how to use and abuse a bunch of off-the-shelf things to build out one-offs of whatever crazy crap people could come up with. Lots of hardware and software reverse engineering and integration.

I’d never in a million years expect a company to do my R&D/integration work for me when I’m buying one mass-produced consumer item and using it outside of its intended use-case.
> Looks like it is difficult for some Europeans to acknowledge that not everyone on earth lives under the rule of unelected EU technocrats.

Your comment reads as a textbook example of the expression "cut off the nose to spite the face".

Do you honestly believe that abusive tracking is in anyway in your best interests?
The denouement is You didn’t read anything, did you? No, you will actually get 500 new followers, and actually make $5,000. The ones who won’t are the suckers who buy your course.

Sucker being the operative word.

(also, its satire, the real denouement is his last guidance: "make things of value, don't seek money, seek problems of high value to solve")
> The short lived and of limited scope OS/2 subsys was for binary compat, but given the origin and NT and the similarities of some techs it is not surprising

They could have used a more classic NT environment subsystem architecture for WSL1, it would have mostly worked. The primary reason they didn't was performance, and to a lesser extent compatibility.

Unix systems create lots of short-lived processes, because processes on Unix are relatively cheap. By contrast, NT processes are much heavier weight. This is part of why the POSIX subsystem / Interix / SFU / SUA and Cygwin too always have had performance problems. Introducing a new lightweight process concept, the picoprocess, helped get over the performance issue. But these new lightweight processes can't be allowed to make arbitrary NT syscalls, which rules out the classic NT environment subsystem implementation pattern - have DLLs which make NT syscalls instead of e.g. OS/2 syscalls.

If they'd followed the classical Windows NT environment model, they would have enhanced NT to be able to load ELF executables and then shipped their own libc.so which made NT syscalls. That would have worked fine for most apps which don't make Linux syscalls directly, but would have had worse performance than WSL1 had. It also would have meant more work for them, since they'd be emulating not just the syscall layer but the libc layer too. (They could have sped things up by reusing the GNU libc code; to do that, they would have had to have open sourced most of the code of their subsystem, which would have probably been a positive overall, but I'm not sure how feasible that would have been given internal Microsoft politics around open source.)

To support the minority of apps which make Linux syscalls directly, bypassing libc, they needed something in the kernel to intercept the SYSENTER/SYSCALL/INT 0x80. They could have redirected it back to user mode for handling in their libc.so. That would have worked, it just would have been slower than WSL1 is. (And WSL1 already has enough performance issues, that performance was one of the main motivators for switching to the new architecture in WSL2.)