skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to be independent-minded is to be actively evidence-seeking, as opposed to being conventionally reflexively consensus-accepting. Positive traits are skepticism, honesty, and curiousity. As a complement, it always helps to be smart. Start ups attract and benefit from independent-minded doers. It's nice to think about "independent-mindedness" as a superpower.

There's one thing missing. Being useful. If you frame a start up experience as an opportunistic search for a sustainable market, plus rigorous service to customer experience in that market, it helps a lot to have strong drive to be relevant, to serve. A ideal organization will help independently minded people to be mission-effective. That suggests an organization that is flattish, decoupled, and with explicit goals and values. But won't an organization, pragmatically, also need incorporate conventionally-minded people - who can also be smart and useful? A ideal organization for the "conventionally minded" suggests hierarchy and normative culture and policies. What's the right structure for a mix of "independent" and "conventional" contributors?
Which naturally includes junkets to posh resorts.
"In 1985... yes I said 1985, the Amiga did all I/O through sending and receiving messages"

I do remember that, and it was cool. But, lightweight efficient message passing is pretty easy when all processes share the same unprotected memory space :)
hilarious and true-- hype trains are drains. I'm with ya on mongodb. nodejs is awesome though :) that sweet sweet async event loop. sure, the language has some imperfections-- it's not perfect for all use cases (nor is any other)-- but overall I enjoy working with it. the community is fantastic as well.
I'm looking into the event creation problem. Restarting should usually help at least temporarily.
The british government has had many energy saving initiatives by increasing home insulation, energy saving light bulbs and their ilk, which have been pushed for at least 20 years.
I am American, and it confuses me, which perhaps proves the point.

In particular, why is it necessary to point out that parking is prohibited from 11 to 1 on Tuesday, when stopping of any kind is already prohibited on a superset of that time (7:30-4 M-F)?
> More generally your goal should be not to let anything into your head unexamined.

I can accept this way of reasoning if 'unexamined' is not directly linked to attention. The brain consistently tries to automate thoughts/behaviours and with confidence comes relaxation in the attention muscle, as to say well defined areas will need less 'examination'.

On another note, there's a reason why conventions exist and it is not always the right path to opt for independence. Being able to relate to people is a huge blessing and should not be completely overruled if the object is piece of mind.

All in all an intresting article
Connections, Connections 2, and Connections 3 are gold-mines of information. The information density is incredible, and it's enjoyable to watch.

The show holds up very well given it's age, but the image quality is especially difficult to watch on modern LCD screens.
Not necessarily. I start most of my sites with a blank theme and use Beaver Builder to lay things out.
Or... disable any JS runtime in a webview/iframe for the message. I get using an HTML rendering engine, I don't get ever enabling JS.

Worst offense was when Outlook (and Express) used the IE rendering engine with JS in "local" (unrestricted) trust mode. Melissa/ILoveYou etc...
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving Dang!!
Not sure that will ever be possible. Psychedelics opens you up, for better or worse, which is one of the main benefits of it. MDMA is a stimulant and empathogen leading to you just feeling better, almost no matter what circumstance.

They are different uses, but psychedelics will never be "unanimously enjoyable" as it depends too much on the person and how they feel as a person when they decide to trip.
Right but it's not even a single spectrum. It varies by topic and context. You can be an independent thinker in some regards but highly conventional in others. As others have pointed out this essay is actually highly conventional for a certain point of view. So whether you're viewed as a conventional or independent minded person is also a subjective factor of the community around you.
Explain. In what way?

Edit: I tried to just post that I think I understand where you’re coming from: people disagreeing but without giving actual reasons. Which is toxic. And guess what: I got “you’re posting too fast”. Thanks for enabling real discussions by nonconformists, hacker news!
We will never ever rename Batman!
What Is the Internet of Behaviors?
1937? So, while they were helping Germany organise the holocaust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Were you microdosing?
same for self driving cars. Some West Coast CEO affirmed that he was training his autonomous cars in SF rather than AZ because he wanted to do "the hard thing". He'll have a surprise when he sells his system to India. with his system that struggles to turn left in SF and not kill bikes in a bike lanes.
Seems more like reposts than beating around the bush to me.

He maintained a significant following through essays and probably feels it still works.
Have driven all over the US, and while roundabouts (aka traffic circles) are more common in the northeast, they’re common enough all over that I doubt anyone would struggle with that captcha. /Maybe/ some people would trip over the wording (expecting traffic circle and unfamiliar with “roundabout”).
Make a community hard to use for the conventional-minded.

Dark patterns, but for user selection.
That is still not good. At least on the Intel Macs you could boot Linux on USB natively. Now people cheer being able to virtualize OSes and wait for a hack that will allow them to boot other software on a platform where this is discouraged and actively prevented.
A Faraday cage will also do nothing to stop an X-ray or gamma photon.
It's not M-F, it's school days, i.e. not in school holidays?
Wait, Wait, Don't Inaugurate: Why the U.S. Takes So Long to Change Presidents
It’s used that way in a lot of mobile applications. A really solid JSON store with easy query ability.
This makes sense, although it clearly isn't enough to induce HN-like moderation. Surely there are professional moderators on similar platforms such as Reddit (besides just their volunteer subreddit moderators), and there are certainly professional moderators on Facebook as well given their revenue streams. Neither website has arrived at something like Hacker News, at least as I value it. Part of this might be the scale of those websites because it's presumably difficult to scale up moderation teams that require human training.
I wonder if it was produced on film. This would allow a remastering, similar to Seinfeld [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIrsitJW5M
> Nonsense. Protected origin status is protectionism plain and simple. That's not to say whether it's bad or good, just to call it what it is.

Such as brands, there's no real difference in intent between a protected origin and a company brand. And I never heard people complaining why they can't distribute their own Coca Cola either, even if it's up to the standards.

In fact the similarities are even stronger when you realise that some protected origins are very small in size and that you have bigger Coke factories than some protected origins.
Schopenhauer on thinking for oneself: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Thinking_for_Oneself
Indeed, the pre-1960s working class was in a much less privileged position, but liberalism was still important among those at the higher end of the social ladder – the intellectual, scientific, entrepreneurial and political elites. A child from a wealthy upper-class family whose father owned a cotton factory would first receive high quality education, and then would, for example, become a credible scientist or an engineer.

Post-WW2, the working class was largely replaced by a well-off middle class, and that created other problems in itself.
Off topic: imgur showed me the image, then gave me a cookie popup and when I clicked decline, the image was replaced by the text “could not find image”
Folks, do not shoot the messenger (aka PG) here: he actually created something novel fifteen years ago, while coalescing brilliant minds around something people needed. He even went on making an institution of that! With the miracle turned institution and now organization, it is human to look back and preach to the good savages of today.

More in depth, this is maybe the difference between the do-it-first American approach and the study-it-first English attitude? Special relationship at play, you know, but the world is multipolar today, so you also have the socially regulated Euro approach and the paternally autocratic Chinese approach to reconcile. All these, even without taking rogue approaches into consideration.

Maybe the ultimate dream of PG these days is being acknowledged as the headmaster of outsiders, connecting curiosity with prototyping for the markets, in that by-passing the canonical school curricula by virtue of intuition by necessity and fast implementation?
> For instance, most conspiracy theorists are highly independent-minded people.

I agree with Graham's take that conspiracy minded people are not independent minded at all. They just have a different group whose authority they accept without question.

Very few conspiracy minded people come up with the conspiracies they believe in entirely on their own, or deeply investigate to find out if the conspiracy is true. They just latch on to a conspiracy someone else articulated and accept it unquestioningly.
Disagree. This sounds a bit harsh, nitpicking at one instance of a class.

Go back and read all his essays. You'll learn more than if you got your MBA. (I know. I've done both.)

Believe me, I'm not PG fan boy, but he doesn't have to do this and I hope he never stops.
Maybe in some. Not in any I’ve worked for.
I think questioning someone's ideology or beliefs to their face has never and will never win them as a friend. These things generally aren't rationally founded anyway. If you ask about some political issue, you're going to get regurgitated talking points and tribalism, not a thesis. I think it's quite rare to meet someone willing to suspend belief for a bit and engage in unbiased debate, or at least I haven't met too many. This line of thinking can be helpful in a technical context though.
Kind of but you get significantly better precision than if you just use a normal double float type because doubles only push the issues further out. Especially in games you're likely already breaking the world into cells for streaming chunks into/out of memory anyways.
I get them wrong more than I get them right. Half the time I don’t bother anymore and just think “well, another website I won’t be visiting”. I really do believe that a bot would be better at solving them than I am.
Drop out now to focus on startup or complete masters
So I'm currently studying an integrated masters; MEng Mathematical Computation, and I've also recently been working on a startup that's been gaining traction launching in January.

I've been struggling to cope with doing both the Masters alongside the startup work, and so I'm considering three options:

1) Keep working on both the startup and my degree, and sacrifice everything else like my social life, health, time etc

2) Drop out now with a BSc in Mathematical Computing and work on the startup full time (I don't know if I'll be allowed to do this yet, as I have some outstanding resits to complete before I'm allowed to graduate, and so I can only take this option if I can sit those resits post-dropping out)

3) Defer my studies to next year, which'd mean if I don't return after the year for whatever reason, I'd be left with what's called an "Ordinary Degree without Honours", that'd just be pass/fail.

I'd really appreciate any advice on which option would be best, as well as in the case of option 2 not being available.

Thanks!
Well, hydrogen tanks are kept at crazy crazy pressures, so if you stand next to an active leak it will literally cut you in half - high pressure tanks are pretty scary stuff. On the other hand, pure ammonia will kill you straight away if you breathe it in. Diesel is not great, but short of drinking it it won't kill you, and it doesn't really like exploding either. I'm not really trying to make an argument against hydrogen/ammonia, I just find this stuff interesting.
> ARM instances and servers will be used. #savetheplanet

You just prolong the agony. Saving the planet means we all go back to middle ages, the rest is feel good wishful thinking.
I'm suggesting that monogamy increases mixing compared to the alternative types of society that have been tried, in particular to ones where only high status males have children.

Maybe we do need to move to adopt polyamory, the evidence from online dating suggests we are reverting instead to default primate behaviour.
Video not available, in the UK at least. Although I think I know the scene you mean.
We always called them roundabouts, though “traffic circle” would have been easily understood. Maybe it’s a regional thing (I’m from Arizona).
I think trucks are cars. I would pick any automobile, really even anything with 4+ wheels and a motor. I generally pass those.

The ones that get me are the street sign / street light ones. Do the poles count? What about a tiny edge of the sign that is barely visible in a neighboring square? Ugh.
Trick question? The bullet typically comes out the end, the cartridge/casing comes out the side/top.
In the US we have deer crossings, moose crossings and even the occasional duck crossing or goose crossing.
Is rearranging existing chords into a new sequence "Invention" or "Discovery"?
In that era typically only things recorded in studios would be video, the rest would be film. So Connections could certainly he remastered, and I hope the BBC does so. Some of their older documentaries, like Ascent of Man, already got that treatment.
If you’re the one with the unpopular opinion, even if it is correct, then you will always find yourself being the one “shouted down”. But if you never find yourself shouted down, perhaps you are less nonconformist than you think?

You can’t be both nonconformist and also never shouted down. It’s a contradiction.
Never would have imagined I'd witness Big Parma sending cheese and desist letters.
Also pornhub gave every resident of Fucking a free lifetime premium account. Wonder if they'll revoke it now.
I am clearly bringing bias to this conversation, but I have dabbled with some smart items (hub, locks), and have a friend who is into them. It’s non stop fiddling and fixing from all my actual experiences.

You also have to remember the negative externalities of extra e-trash affect everyone, so to read about yet another iot failure, it’s easy for me to continue to trash the whole industry.
Not sure if it answers you question, but WhatsApp takes most full-size photos down to 200-250kb~
As much as people complain about the community in here, this is the best online community I'm part of (even if as a lurker mostly), and I'm always impressed by the quality of moderation. And now that I find out it's only dang doing it, it's even more impressive. Well done and keep up the good work!
The simplest thing you can do to make a processor faster is to have faster memory. Usually this means bigger caches or wider memory buses.

You can decode more instructions at the same time. In theory there is no limit to how many instructions you can decode at once.

Those decoded instructions end up in a buffer and execution units can process them if there are no data dependencies. You can add as many execution units as you like if there is enough work for them.

You can avoid performance destroying events like pipeline stalls by predicting the execution flow of instructions. Better branch prediction means less performance is lost.

None of these have anything to do with clock speed.
> This essay is an object lesson in how this leads to profoundly conventional thinking. This entire thing reads like it was torn from the journal of a clever middle-schooler who thinks he's so much more clever then the world.

You've hit upon something that's always bothered me with this characterization of nerds. It's like if someone framed adult life by superimposing stereotypical high school nerd vs jock social dynamics onto it, and then went on to portray nerds as heroes.

In real life "nerds" are part of the same system. They are utterly conventional. You don't get to call yourself unconventional just because you deride sportsball and like computers.

This essay reminds me of an xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/610/. I think it would be too harsh to call him self-aggrandizing, but he does seem to dress up otherwise good insights about how to think critically with celebration of how unconventional this is.

It's like when Peter Thiel expanded one good insight about critically finding ideas from uncommon beliefs into an entire book.
I read “tow-away school days” and “No stopping M-F” as separate regulations, because they are divided by a horizontal line.

I don’t drive anymore (and when I did, it was mainly in suburbs) so perhaps I’m just not familiar with conventions?
A headmaster for outsiders or a thought leader for independent thinkers if you will?
It's not just IBM who seem to like this kind of thing we also have entries from :-

Ernst & Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIq9o1H1yo , PWC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0k-VyJ1NE , KPMG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44We3OlEQMo and Deloitte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smpbcGt-urQ
That's a fair reminder but it's also worth noting that there are on-going research in the field of improving storage density for hydrogen. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ee/c8ee0...
In my experience it's faster for learning because you will recall more after a study period if you do the flash cards vs. rereading things a few times. Not an either or thing as well. I would put a lot of my lecture notes in the extra section of the flash cards, then if I want to get more context I can scroll through my cards sorted by created_at in the browser.

Ideal workflow is watching lecture online at 2x speed with Anki add card window open along side lecture window, pausing when it's time to make a card, write the text for the card and use Lightshot screenshot to quickly grab any images or text (or for image occlusion if you're using that, rebind screenshot capture to F4 so you don't need to use your mouse hand to press PrntScrn). Once you're done adding cards, go through them once that day. Or, if you're using a premade deck, watch the lecture, unsuspend cards relevant to the lecture, then go through them right away.

Not sure if you're using it for school or not, but I think the process will work the same either way. Works even better if you're using it along with a memory palace kind of thing like SketchyMicro or Pixorize. Those images will be burned in your brain and your recall will be insane.
It would be extremely useful to be able to switch between originals/English covers like this.
The reddit trap. Upvotes are supposed to be given for a good reply, even if it's against your opinion, not a reply that you happen to agree with. Same with downvotes.

Never happens, thus censorious fence sittery.
And in the age of smartphones, the first thing you should do is start recording your crazy boss.
Simple and Quick 'Low Hanging Fruit' Ways to Increase Ecommerce Sales
Somewhere between DH3 and DH4 here: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
"What we can do now is probably not a good idea to rely on the same company for half of our Internet infrastructure."

Am I the only one who feels like this is kind of a ridiculous conclusion the article makes? I don't know the author's credentials but it feels like a knee-jerk reaction by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. I'm not aware of any other cloud vendor that doesn't ever have outages, and I'd be even more worried if my vacuum relied on the manufacturers own data centers. I think a better conclusion is for vendors to use redundant cloud regions and availability zones, and for consumers to maybe not buy internet-enabled devices if %0.001 downtime is unacceptable to you.
I think PG is trying too hard to generalize with a lot of his latest essays.

Many of those essays seem like he's trying to take his experiences and take them up a level of abstraction, and apply them across a whole swath of human experience. That's hard, and it falls a little flat on the receiving end when it doesn't land.

He's still got it on some topics. I loved his essay on having kids.
That's correct. I use it occasionally, but it's pretty inconvenient for more than a single photo. Also, since we're talking about sharing, this requires 'educating' the people you're sharing with.
> it can’t be that hard to relate to the core struggles of anyone you don’t know yet,

The issue is more in the relating to struggle that you never went through and never observed. In order to relate, the other person would need to be unusually great at expression what it is like, what constrains they have and you would also have to be very good listener.

That is unlikely combination typically.
Cards Against Humanity not doing Black Friday stunt this year, Donates $250,000
Why is the lack of length questionable given its stated goals?

Resource constrained hardware is not a stated goal, by the way, quite the opposite. See 2.13: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html (and 2.11 for content-length).
Amazon has already hired the Pinkertons, so that's not a foregone conclusion. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

Quick history lesson if anyone needs one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
Nobody should have to know this, frankly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_pipeline_transport

Hydrogen pipelines exist and for the most part work as intended. There are straightforward ways of avoiding the main problems. AFAIK, these are cost effective solutions.
The Grove release 9 – growing trees in Blender
Full seasons of this show are available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke/

I've been meaning to watch more of them...maybe I'll get around to it over the holiday weekend. :)
In his followip video he says he will find subtle ways to refer to what he is cloning.
HTTPS MITM + Wireshark
If it even uses HTTPS lol
Good insight! I have probably been guilty of this same behavior.

But the upvotes/downvotes system kind of encourages this behavior. I’m trying to think of a better system but it’s a hard problem..
It just drives me nuts to know that with the same price you can get a 12CPU+128GB of memory on Hetzner, on AWS you get 4CPU+8GB memory.

I will not even mention the bandwidth costs :)
The issue with storage is being addressed and being fixed rapidly with battery and other technologies while hydrogen has been promised and invested in by governments for 50 years with very little results.

Some technologies with far more promise see almost no investment because the continues dream of hydrogen is always being hyped up and then governments give money to the fossil fuel or car industry to work on hydrogen.

Its far more sensible along every dimension invest money into battery and other grid storage system compared to making the highly inefficient transformation to hydrogen and back.

Not only is in inefficient, its also inherently expensive and inherently dangerous. Hydrogen sucks as a storage system and the only reason we pursue it so much is that it has been the intellectual darling since 'the hydrogen economy' came out.

Liquid Air, Liquid Metal, Redux Flow Batteries, LFP, traditional Li-Ion, Compressed air are all better technologies to invest in.