skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originality is an interesting thing. The word itself is highly favorable and when confronted with the word alone most people have a favorable impression of it.

In practice most people absolutely despise originality. It isn't that something original is merely disinterested or disagreeable. It is a thing of emotional revulsion that frequently brings forth hostility.

Ray Dalio, as I discovered when I interviewed at BridgeWater in 2014, had figured out how to test for originality as a psychological personality characteristic and comparatively measure people using a standard metric. Strangely enough if you score high enough on such a metric people will be interested in you for interesting reasons such that they might be able to identify or measure the concept and yet not have any idea how to explorer it or exploit it.

What I have learned most from originality is rejecting feedback and scoring ideas not in what people say but what they do next or whether they come back. I have also learned that originality appeals highly to a very specific class of people eager to explore new things. These rare people are precious to early stage ideas of any kind. Identify them and go out of your way to appreciate their time even when they disagree with you.
India and Pakistan are clashing again. This time it’s about rice
Imagine how the settlers on Uranus are going to feel.
Discharge rate of batteries falls with temperature. 10C is a very common lower limit for high performance lion cells. There's a complex set of tradeoffs vs fundamental physical limits here. It's not at all a case of "aw shucks we forgot places other than CA exist" which is something you're just projecting onto the situation.
At the end of the day, thinking for ourselves is hard. It takes time and often the stakes aren’t that high. I think that being a bit sceptic and cynic can help. You don’t need to be born with those traits; you can acquire them with some practice.

It’s an investment that is valuable especially when dealing with politics, or one’s career.

There are always multiple sides to a story. Just try to get a grip of what each side is saying, and what their interests are. Then, gather data if you need to. Analyse it, reason about it, discuss it openly. I do it sometimes. Other times I just trust the source enough to let it go.

Don’t put yourself in a silo. If you do, you’re surely thinking for yourself, but you could also be missing on something you didn’t consider.

Edit: I guess that there’s also a biological side to it. It’s safer to go along with the mass. If not from an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense from a social one.
"I know I shouldn't stay with them, but they are a good person, and even if they beat me, I just don't know if there are any better options out there."

No offense intended, that's what your comment sounds like.

If you start looking, I bet you will find some options.
Note that Python applies same logic to other operators, which can be pretty unintuitive:

1 in [1,2,3] is True

evaluates to False.
‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Startups
Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook (2014)
Most people use web UI-equipped home routers.

In a cloud-bullshit-free world, a UPNP-style autodiscovery/port could be useful, perhaps with Urbit-style access control.
Excellent article

> When you hear someone say something, stop and ask yourself "Is that true?"

This is one of my favorite things to do, though the list of people who will talk to me again after I do it is very short. (Edit: To be extra clear... While this is a bitter pill - I do not like it when others do it to me - I do find it to be very effective for reinforcing good faith in close, trusting relationships. I also do appreciate when others use this question on me; the temporary frustration/discomfort is worth reminding me to center myself.)

When someone is feeling outraged about something (often politics) simply ask: "but are they correct?" The answer is almost always: "I'm not sure" (myself included). When doing this to myself, this is often enough for me to shrug off the outrage and realize that I actually do not care. It really doesn't matter to me what political statements a mayor from a town in another state made.

> In the most independent-minded people, the desire not to be told what to think is a positive force.

This subject implies another that is closely related, and is my biggest complaint about ads. Ads try to tell you what to think, and they are sometimes successful. But more importantly, they tell you what to think _about_, and they are much more successful at this. I like being focused on the problems that I have, and ads try as hard as they can to take that focus away.
Thanks! I just watched the video and it looks great, will also read the article later.
Also - did you happen to share your (programming related) anki deck? I would love to see that!
Hmm, I thought they did, but now that you mention it I realize I'm not sure. In the UK they do, but "crosswalk" refers to the US one.

Can any US people clarify?
I love searching for very American-looking fire hydrants or pedestrian crossings. Great case of US cultural imperialism - I suspect that the developers didn't even think it might not be the same thing abroad.
Interestingly the one other mainstream language that manages to mess up

- equality

- type coercion

- array handling

and more to the same degree as PHP :-)
So, Gavin Wood, r u telling centralization is the new pink on blockchain?
For the sake of your own mental health, you should stop caring about what makes random internet strangers happy. There will be always a minority reacting with animosity to even the most milquetoast of content, and responding in frustration will only make it worse.
I don’t think you’re being entirely reasonable here. If you need a laptop that works at 3°C, don’t buy one that states it needs 10°C. If you just didn’t know, you’re presumably still in the laptop’s return window.

Fwiw, I’m in New York, and I really do think this is a reasonable operating temperature for a laptop.
Doesn't work for me, doesn't even tell me it doesn't work.

Unless it's just photo and a smear-like effect under the cursor?
About #governance on #Kusama and #Polkadot

At 13:24: "A grand oracle system so that we can implement oracles with a reasonable guarantee it won't just ultimately come down to opinionated validators or random oligarchs that have been elected to the council"

Instead...:

"A jury elected on objective real-world criteria... they'd operate as a offchain body"

"... some game theory as to why they would actually tell the truth ... a combination of professional liability w/ Michelin points and economic incentives"

#blockchain #oracles #centralization #decentralization
Diabetes is one of the oldest diseases described in written form (circa 1500 BCE in Egypt). Just how long have these "scientists" wanted us to eat "shit food"?
Or just leave that website. Why should you be subjected to torment for the privilege of boosting some website's visitor numbers?

Imagine if, every time you went to the supermarket or the library, there was some goon on the door who wouldn't let you in unless you could do ten press-ups and answer half a dozen general knowledge questions. They'd soon go out of business --as all websites which treat their visitors with such contempt deserve to do.
> How does it help a bird to have four sexes?

By making procreation harder to achieve, you intensify the selection effect, since only the fittest individuals will be able to achieve it. So maybe it can be thought of as a kind of extra layer of "culling of the weakest" built into the genetics of the species?
Geometric Algebra (2012)
> To feed the hungry shouldn’t be on the basis of whether they ‘deserve it or not’.

But that wasn't my point, it's not about "who's deserving of what". It's about dying of thirst in the desert and turning down somebody offering you water because you insist on getting Gatorade instead.

At that point it's not about "deserving" anymore but it's very much entitlement. It also means whoever is dying of thirst there either doesn't have their priorities right or they ain't actually dying of thirst if they can still be so picky to demand Gatorade over water.

Or to apply it to your example of food being handed out at temples: Imagine if somebody turned down all that food on offer, while insisting that they get exactly the dish they want like in an à la carte restaurant.

Don't you think that would come across as tone-deaf and entitled?
I do wonder about that, could it be battery operation? I know when I'm out using my GoPro on the slopes the battery will die very quickly when it's a super cold day. I blogged a while back about a possible problem of using Macs at altitude when it comes to battery swelling: http://leejo.github.io/2019/07/27/altitude_sickness/

Anyway, on the original topic here's a talk on the [mis]use of CAPTCHAs which is definitely worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gKRTg-RXsc # note the first 10s or so are cut off.
> AWS-dependent vacuums

What a world...
At least in Scandinavia, all road traffic (including bicycles) must give way to pedestrians at crosswalks, unless the crossing is controlled by traffic lights
Lithium batteries don't like extreme temperatures. Is it possible to make a laptop that copes ok with extreme temperatures?

edit Apparently the Toughbook is able to cope with -16°C. Wonder how they do it.

https://business.panasonic.co.uk/mobile-solutions/more-about...
Diana Johnstone: The Great Pretext for Dystopia (WEF)
I do. In fact, all of my work emails are GPG-signed by default. But I never liked Thunderbird, I've been using claws-mail for more than 15 years.
1. Start by following someone's else advice, about how to think for yourself. That should work. Because why not?

2. In case it did not work out, for whatever reasons, became an autist, in whatever way you can. Not that it is possible, or that you will really understand anybody after the fact, but hey.

3. Still interested? Learn a different (alternative) language (semantics), based on nothing (emptiness) at all. You may start by giving me money, in return, i will give you nothing and not say much or anything. Then you'll achieve something like no.2. (Warning, you may go mad or broke or both). Afterwards, you'll probably start doing things, that you have not been able to think about before, achieving the ultimate goal. Warning: you'll be someone else by then.

4. What is psychoanalysis?

5. If you are reading this, then you are using words and language invented by someone else. Therefore you are not thinking for yourself.

6. Attend transformational festivals, until you will know why are they called that. You may still not think for yourself afterwards, but you may think in a different way.

7. Become an artist.

8. What is art?
Aren't cons cells just an implementation detail? I have no problem calling "lisp" any language where s-expressions are imlemented by any other tree/list data structure, and thus it doesn't have the dot.
Only works in Firefox for me... "click play" button doesn't show in Chrome
Console Living Room
The problem is not in the supermarket. The problem is when YouTube is taking down how to videos because someone used a special word for cheese.
Being an African born & bred in Nigeria, I particularly find this appalling. Captcha usually asks users to identify fire hydrants, crosswalks & other objects with design patterns that are not common here, in everyday living. There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet, especially since the demographics are much different from existing internet users.
> then he knows there is not much to get and will walk past next to a bit better protected door.

In parts of South Africa there has been a continual levelling up of security systems in neighbourhoods where crime can involve fatal assaults in your own home as well as casual burglary. As soon as one resident installs something that seems to add security, the neighbours may rush to install it themselves so that they aren't seen as the softest target. This is in places where many houses have signs saying that they are protected by armed rapid response teams.

Source: expat friends of mine who lived for ten years in communities that went from 'normal' houses (locks), protected properties (e.g. sharps on walls), gated communities, high-protection gated communities.

[Edit - clarity]
Contextualise: https://contextualise.dev/. It's an open source project of mine: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
You would change where some of it goes. You also force companies to either not employ some people or to employ them on a basis that loses the company money every week.

Imagine someone today capable of creating $1 of variable gross profit for their employer every 5 minutes before they were paid. Under a free labor market or a $10/hour minimum wage, that employee has stable and good employment prospects. Make the minimum wage $15/hour and change nothing else and that employee is on shakier ground. Either they must hope that their employer doesn’t know their individual productivity (likely somewhat true), that there is so much money being generated elsewhere that the company doesn’t care if they lose some here, that their job is practically required structurally (no one will close their shop from 10-12 and 2-4 just because the foot traffic drops off and those hours lose some money), or that their employer feels charitable but wants to dress that charity up in work clothes.

Total wages have some elasticity. I have to believe it’s not generally beyond what is advantageous to the employer and their customers (who are paying all the wages ultimately).
I've seen a grown man turned into Filet American by an ordinary housecat with a grudge. A tiger is off the scale in terms of the damage that it will be able to do and no matter what body protection you wear short of a full body armor you will likely end up slightly dead.
I'm more interested in the headless/processing performance of x86 emulation, as I don't use a GUI for linux.
It would be a case to be heard in court no doubt. It could be argued that the footage is but one corroborating account of events in the dream theatre. All it would take would be to independently capture some off camera activity. Director has to assert that somehow your work is derivative. I’m not a lawyer of course and if you are I defer to your expertise. It’s an interesting thought experiment none the less.
Sounds like an opportunity to sell road signs to tourists.
I use gmail but I never see ads because I always use a non-Google mail client. (Thunderbird on Windows and Linux), SimpleEmail on Android.
The native font stack is absolutely fantastic, at least it is in 2020. I used to think that a custom font is a must to have a "professional" website and to escape the bore of Time New Roman.

When I first used the native font stack for a new website I set up [1], I was surprised that it looks very nice on all devices! Without any additional network requests or CSS hacks to load the fonts.

1: https://devutils.app
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When I got a (remote) Irish jobs a few years ago I had to fill in a post code at my tax service and a few other things, and I also had to fill in an address in the format of "street number". This makes perfect sense in the Netherlands, and I can't really blame Dutch folk for not knowing that Ireland doesn't have postal codes and that not all houses have house numbers (but rather house names).

tl;dr: making stuff international is hard.
Finland has a lot of intentionally rude place names, especially in the north. Places like "cunt pond" ("vittulampi"), "cockpile" ("kullirova"), "cuntwhistle bog" ("vitunviheltämänjänkä") etc.

As to why this is, I've heard a number of theories. One is that people used to be less prudish and this kind of talk was much more commonplace back in the day. Also that the culture up north is more conducive to crude language. It's also possible that when these areas were being surveyed, the locals made some of these names up just to mess with the likely southern officials sent to talk to them.

Also I've heard that this is why there are so many lakes named "Holy lake" ("pyhäjärvi") - at some point, enough was enough and the officials just stopped accepting the local names. True or not, who knows.
Assuming it does not use TLS cert pinning, you can use mitmproxy [0].

[0] https://mitmproxy.org/
I don't know how they solved it in KSP, I was just presenting a general approach for when you need to have things happen in multiple places around a large simulated universe.

I can imagine KSP going with what you described, because in that game, things you aren't actively controlling and that aren't in "physics range" (2.5 kilometers IIRC) are either treated as stationary or on-rails (i.e. they're in orbit, and their positions are computed with a closed-form equation); anything that's neither stationary nor in orbit will be deleted once it leaves the physics range. This way, there is no physics simulation to be done on things you don't control or aren't withing few kilometers of, so centering the coordinate system at your active vessel would be a very good approach.
I stopped reading this when it became evident that the author was just promoting a library he’d written. I might have been a tiny bit more interested if I were a Rust developer.
So basically it seems that in almost every country in the world they're referred to as 'Zebra Crossings' except in the US. But, of course, we've all got to 'adopt' their terminology.

It's a bit like that idiotic back to front MM-DD-YYYY date format that no-one else uses outside America, but even non-US gadget manufacturers insist on making the default. I nearly sent my Xiaomi MiBand back when I realised it was hard-wired to display the date back to front. Luckily, with my middle-aged eyesight and the minuscule 3pt text it uses to display the date, I can't read the fecker anyway, so the annoyance is slightly diminished.
1. Don’t read advice on how to think for yourself
Creating a Zip File from Scratch
Creating a ZIP file From Scratch using C.
It also isn't cheap in most comparable countries. I think that a quick look at the interactive map show some correlation between labor cost & broadband price (that's probably why Norway stands out, for example), but it's also obvious that it doesn't dictate the price .
1a. Read advice on how to think and make up your own mind
Please, get informed on what real-time is before you comment (in general it is good idea to understand a concept before you place confident comments like yours).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Real-time has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with predictability and deadlines.

People are put off when they find out that real time versions of Java or Linux are actually slower than the regular ones. Until you think about it a little bit and if they were faster there would not be multiple versions.

Real-time versions of products are created because sometimes performance is achieved by means of stochastic processes or amortizing costs and you need to remove these optimizations to be able to support deadlines.

Real-time programming emphasizes ability to calculate how long an operation will take as more valuable than raw performance.
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People will purchase from Walmart.com for 5 cents cheaper.

Also, the person in charge owns equity that when multiplied by the most recent share sale price equals a valuation that might be the biggest number in the world for a publicly traded company. But that isn’t the same as money, and if it were to be liquidated, the share price would not be worth nearly as much, which it partly is because Bezos owns much of it.
Three issues:

- The main issue is that your private key is supposed to be secret – not uploaded to a server you don't control. Of course Protonmail encrypts it, but passphrases are supposed to be an additional layer of security, not the only one. If Protonmail has a data breach, is compelled to surrender your keys or turns out to be untrustworthy, your messages are only as secure as your password.

- You cannot control when a web app is updated or verify that everyone else got the same update. So Protonmail – or an attacker that took control of their systems – could give you an update that gives them your unencrypted keys. That may be mostly a theoretical issue because few people do that with their local software either. Still, I'd trust the Debian/Ubuntu repositories more.

- Web apps have additional attack surfaces compared to local software. Malicious browser extensions can't access the data of local software, nor is local software suspectible to things like XHR attacks.
Can't we make systems that work for people with below average abilities? i.e. half of the population.
hohmann transfer orbit, I read somewhere.
It works totally for me, sorry. Using a smartcard so Thunderbird doesn't give me another option right now.
> I worry that detailed knowledge that results from everyday use of an OS for things like VMS, mainframe OSes, OS/2, Beos, NeXT, Plan9, etc will begin to die off, and UNIX monoculture will consign all other OS ideas to the scrap heap of history.

One idea I suggest people look at is CMS Pipelines (aka Hartmann pipelines). John Hartmann of IBM ported the concept of pipelines from Unix to VM/CMS, but in the process made a couple of major changes: (1) made the pipes record-oriented (they aren't just an unstructured stream of bytes, they have message/record boundaries); (2) made it arguably easier (compared to Unix shells) to build complex pipeline structures with multiple inputs and multiple outputs.

> More simply, I'd like a JSON output option for every unix command. The fact you STILL can't parse ls -la is a crime.

I think Unix pipes could be enhanced to have an out-of-band channel for transferring metadata, content negotiation, etc.

If I do command1 | command2, command1 should be able to send an out-of-band message "here is the MIME type of my output". If command2 knows how to receive these messages (an ioctl? ancillary data/cmsg on recvmsg?) then it can respond appropriately; if it doesn't know, well that's the same situation as at present.

A more advanced idea would be that command1 would send a message saying "I can provide output in these formats". If command2 is enhanced to support this, it can send back a message to command1 over the control channel saying e.g. "send me application/json please". There would have to be some way for the OS kernel to notify command1 if command2 doesn't understand. (e.g. if command2 doesn't call IOCTL_RECEIVE_PIPE_METADATA on the input fd before the first time it reads from it, the OS kernel synthesises an "I don't understand pipe metadata" control message back to command1)
Which GMO species are invasive? And how do you know which genetic coercion methods pose a greater danger of mutating a non-invasive species into an invasive one?
Oh, that actually reminds me of an entire other dimension of the whole thing. I blame rage induced fugue state.

What I described was just the procedure of 1 "level" of captcha. I had to complete either 2 or 3, the delineation is kind of blurred at this point.

The one I had before the above was audio based, but it failed to load a bunch of times, and failed my answers a few times as well, inexplicably.

It read out not 4-5, but 10-12 numbers, which honestly was manageable, but there was no audio spacing between the numbers that anyone who has to look at their keyboard to type would have to re-listen to it a few times to keep up. This one would also be entirely solvable by a bot, but problematic for a significant portion of humans.

I just don't understand how they make money, nor why Microsoft specifically would pay them for their services. I find the LEAST outrageous explanation that they're bribing someone in Microsoft's COTS purchasing.