skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends for me, if I am working on a tough logic problem I usually have to turn down any music with lyrics or high complexity as I will try to focus on the music instead. Otherwise it helps me stay focused by catching my moments of distraction, like a baby sitter for my brain.
They erroneously hosted their free speech site on AWS. Smart people are not employed by the company.
Apparently that wasn’t a problem for SpaceX. The problem with NASA is its corporate culture and political micro-management not lack of engineering skills.
Related: Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), “a locally initiated, democratically organised, not-for-profit community enterprise that provides a community information service and records transactions of members exchanging goods and services by using locally created currency.”

“LETS allow people to negotiate the value of their own hours or services, and to keep wealth in the locality where it is created.”

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

Basically LETS are similar to the system described in the OP article, but in LETS you cannot take without having given, and value is assigned to transactions so that in order to get something of a certain value you must have previously provided at least that much value to someone else.

LETS are basically like a money based system except that they don’t use money, and the points can only be spent in your local LETS community.
No, I use a Python-based static site generator so I essentially generate a new page for each tag, populated with links to the posts containing that tag.
The author states switching from cooking to washing dishes is a huge context switch and a waste of time...I disagree. Everyone who cooks efficiently is constantly switching between tasks, since you're often waiting a few minutes before your next cooking step can occur. Maybe in a professional restaurant where your role is defined, then no, don't switch roles.

But in your own kitchen? While my toast is toasting, you know I'm going to get a head start on the dishes, or chop those garnishes, or check in on a second dish, etc. If I cooked by focusing solely on each task until it's done, I'd probably use 50-100% more time to do the same job maybe 10% better.
Telegram/WhatsApp/iMessage/FB Messenger all go pretty far down the 'this is secure messaging' path, with far less justification. (And for a Chinese iPhone iMessage is completely broken.) Far more people use the big platforms. Getting a significant user base for Signal is a big comparative win, even if the handset security it weak.

Should they be less minimalistic on their website? Probably yes. Would anyone read it? Geeks, yes. Maybe people who are worried. But I think it is a small win at a high cost.

Maybe it's possible to write a basic phone opsec guide and just stick it on medium or something. Rely on the magic of Google to help people find it. (Would Baidu index it? I wonder.)
Have you read that Wikipedia article you cite?

Because extra-judicial persecution of "bad people" [0] is something Popper never discussed or advocated for in _Open Societies and Its Enemies_. He very specifically advocates for this only when all else has failed, and only by the state itself -- being as such action doesn't bode well for any liberal democracy that undertakes such action.

I know you've not read the book, but perhaps read the Wikipedia article you're citing.

0. I've seen a whole range of people called "bad people" by antifa types these days, from centrists all the way to white supremacists.
There was a semi-famous study (one that I feel every developer should have at least considered) that gave software developers a problem to code in the form of some convoluted set of steps, and they were either assigned to listen to music or not to listen to music. There was (usefully) no difference in the correctness of the implementations, but people who listed to music reported more subjective happiness / less boredom doing the task... only... they were also much less likely than the people who did the task in silence to notice that all of those steps collapsed down to "return a constant number".

I personally feel like there are different components of my brain and some of them just want to do something, and if I don't "distract" them then they do something arbitrary and maybe in turn distract me... but if I need them, and they are busy deciding some music I am listening to, I lose out on the maybe-even-often subconscious processing they do that gives me valuable insight. I thereby find some (mostly useless) tasks easier if I am seriously even playing a video game with a targeted skill while doing them (people hate me in meetings sometimes ;P), or maybe listening to music, but if I am doing the hard coding work I "should be doing" I just can't :(.
For me, it depends on how familiar I am with the song—if I've heard it a thousand times, the lyrics fade into the background for me. But if it's a new song, for example, my concentration plummets.
What are you trying to say? It seems like the point you're making is that given a certain standard we are not able to say how someone's thoughts came to be for certain. But how is this a relevant or interesting point?
They're not opposed to currency necessarily, as I read it, but a scarcity model which happens to be tied to the current paradigm.
Excuse me?

While my account is relatively young (13 days), it's not one day old. You can also look into my comments over this time. So, the accusation is clearly off.
Completely agree.

Thinking about it, though, I find myself reaching for music when it feels like my mind wants to wander and not focus on my job. Once the music is on, my mind has an immediate outlet for wandering - it jumps to the music while I'm still looking at the code. So while maybe music and programming do compete for resources, music maybe acts as a sort of safety net that makes it less likely for me to derail completely.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lighthouse_2019
Your URL but without the tinyurl redirect: https://ethw.org/w/images/thumb/6/6d/Compression_hierarchy.p...
Music is the only thing that frees my creativity and focus as when I'm lost in it I find I've solved the problem in no time at all because I don't realize the passage of time.
iocage and bastille are also great options.
As it turns out, people have differently structured brains. I cannot write code and listen to music at the same time, for example.
Reyes isn't a global illumination algorithm, in fact it doesn't prescribe any kind of illumination at all. Global illumination was first described by Cindy Goral, Ken Torrance and Donald Greenberg in the constrained setting of diffuse reflectance in polygonal scenes; the first general GI algorithm, path tracing, was introduced in 1986 by James Kajiya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity_(computer_graphics)
As someone who has (re-)implemented and shipped quite a few native applications across ecosystems (Apple, Android, Windows, Linux) all I can say about this is:

Xcode development, the Apple Developer Program, and the whole experience of trying to ship your application on the Apple ecosystem is the fucking plague.

I will do it if I'm paid for it - I generally charge twice my hourly rate for anything Apple - but I certainly won't go through the trouble of trying to get any of my hobbyist projects into Apple's walled garden. I like to do enjoyable things in my free time, and the timesink that is Apple's proprietary clusterfuck is anything but fun.

Apple's desktop market share being what it is, I cannot comprehend how they're generally getting away with this.
so you either don't understand free market theory or anarchism or both!
Speaking as a former anarchist, saying it’s hard to imagine an anarchist not embracing ____ is folly.
Your answer suggests that you don't fully understand what problems Spanner is solving and why it's worth paying for that. CRDB is improving but I don't think it's consensus production-grade quite yet.
Dark mode is an eyesore to me. It physically hurts me to look at white text in black backgrounds.
So - if the elderly can't be saved and people with healthy immune systems overwhelmingly survive without any noticeable effect...

Oddly it was always emphasized that the elderly were killed by covid, but now when vaccinated it's phrased as though they were just going to die anyway.
Seems like they would want to launch higher than 35000 if they can since that would require less fuel for the rocket which seems like that is at least part of the point.
How has tech changed since you started?

Technology is more mainstream and affordable. The concepts are the same but renamed and reimplemented. Before the internet the airlines were able to conduct transactions worldwide and in real time with green screen technology. The only real innovation the last 20 years is the widespread adoption of smartphones with LTE and now 5G. The entire world now is on the internet(s) and communicating with each other.

If you could change tech today, what would you do?

I wish more of the tech infrastructure we take for granted is in the hands of nonprofit foundations whose goal is the common good.

What are some negatives and positives of the current tech landscape?

Big tech has captured market share and is behaving like every other big corporation and has little regard for their customers or their employees or their communities.

What advice do you have to give to others?

Think for yourself. Master your craft.
I’ve also seen companies with quality brands milk it for all it’s worth. Newer products get made with 1/4 the quality while trading on the reputation they built with their previous higher quality products.

Craftsman was a good example of this. They use to have high quality tools with lifetime warranties. Now, that warranty is gone and they don’t seem much different than any other low end manufacturer.

Anyone have other examples?
It is designed to be more inclusive that way -- otherwise, some people grab everything and others are discouraged and become disengaged. Also, a big mission of the Buy Nothing Project is to build a sense of community among the members and a lot of that plays out in the comment thread interactions. It's better for the community-building if people take the time to type out thoughtful comments and share a little about themselves, as opposed to race to be the first to type "Interested" or "me!"
The way I implement REYES, it does. But no doubt- Kajiya was the man.
I’m not an expert but my understanding is that defending against DDOS requires immense infrastructure. Can a single site in its own achieve that with a load balancer or the rate limiting you mention?
Well, that goes without saying. If you want a blocker, you want a blocker. So all the nigerian princes and the like should still be blocked.

You just don't want to give control over the blocking blacklist/whitelist to a single entity, even less so to a huge powerful one, possibly in a country other than your own (which e.g. forces their foreign policy dictums to your blacklist), and even less so the one that already makes your browser, that should be a totally neutral conduit.
Out of curiosity, if not rails than what would you recommend?
I upvoted this upon reading the first paragraph. Because that’s good stuff. Reading the rest now...

... yep 100% glad I upvoted! This is exactly my mindset on this.
Upvoted and upvoted before. This deserve some more love. Great solution for 'font swapping' / FOUT.

Demo:
https://y2z.github.io/projects/invisible-ink/
To me I think there are two "parts" to being in the zone.

Say depth and duration.

Depth is kind of like how many digits of a number you can memorize.

Duration is a little like endurance in a race, but a little like tying
yourself to the mast too [1].

I get much deeper into the zone without music, and I also stay in it longer.

Might not be as fun, but for me, I know this without a shadow of a doubt.

[1] ironically, odysseus tied himself to the mast to listen to music.
I use Linux at work for development (10+ years) but prefer Windows at home. I can’t stand any of the Linux desktops. And believe me I have tried hard to like them. I love programming and have been programming since I taught myself machine code programming when I was 11. I recommend not assuming that people who choose to use Windows somehow don’t get it or don’t see the “magic” of whatever you happen to like. People are different with different tastes and experiences.
>It is not clear to me why Apple cannot sell a small handful of models. Two otherwise identical machines, one all-in on usb-c, the other with a mix of ports.

No technical reason, that's just not how Apple rolls.

If they do that, they do it with 2 different models (where the lack/presense of some feature makes sense based on the target market, e.g. college students), not with two otherwise identical models.
These very helpful types of reviews won't be that helpful if by the time you get a review, the product has already been pulled from the market ...
We've had modern witch hunts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
Seeing how their software is very far from being secure...it's probably very far from optimized, too.
> not first-come-first-serve.

I participate in a similar group (freecycle), and this is very important. Otherwise a few people who are always on the group get everything, and I'm pretty sure some of them just resell anything valuable.
> "piling on"

I don't think it's used in that context at all. There doesn't need to be more than one "witch hunter" for something to be called a witch hunt.

> The target may or may not be guilty, but the phrase implies that their alleged guilt doesn't necessarily merit the amount of attention that they are getting.

This is correct.
They released a post saying they don't think there is any point blocking legal but nasty sites because their service is easily replaced. Its a lot easier to switch cdn than server host or get back in to the app store
In covid times I have been teaching myself how to cook, basically from nothing. It takes me forever to do anything. Chopping an onion takes what feels like an eternity.

Recipes that claim “5 minutes of prep” are more like 20 minutes for me. It can be very discouraging.

What you describe is definitely something that comes with experience. Like using vim effectively. I’m improving but it literally took a once in a century global pandemic to overcome the initial learning curve.
I like to click on the weirdest ads I see, either because I'm curious or because I'm a sucker.

It does ... weird things to the ad targeting; I'm currently seeing ads for crystal figures that cost six figures. They're pretty, but not that pretty.

It's fascinating to me that people buy ads pointing to things that essentially no one can afford. I guess the idea is that they'll attract attention and people will click around the site to find cheaper things?
maybe not as uncommon as you may think. I do 2) a lot; most of my friends from college are not software engineers and I don't want any of my friends to be "priced out" of hanging out. I usually try to do it in a subtle way (eg, spend $30 on pizza, not mention what it really cost, and ask everyone for one or two dollars), not sure if that makes it more or less awkward. 3) and 4) I agree with, though I never find myself in a situation where that would be relevant.

I do 1) differently. I was more generous in the past, but some people took advantage of that. I've also come to feel that simply giving money jeopardizes the peer relationship. instead, I now give any friend who asks a 0% interest loan with no due date. no questions asked, but I do keep track (roughly) of how much I've lent out to each person. I never say anything about it, but if they hit $1000 or so, I start saying no to further requests. I guess this probably violates the spirit of your policy, but I prefer this approach over having to decide yes or no for each individual request.
Agreed. You're also not carrying nearly so much context in your head, and a lot require none, so you don't need to clobber your stack.
Well, it's not like Extensions are that much useful. Most people (the huge majority) don't use any (or even know how to install them, in Chrome or elsewhere).

Case in point: "Beyond20, an excellent extension that connects the D&D Beyond character sheet to virtual tabletop services like Roll20"

Wonder how Safari users will make it without this usability booster!
The mental cost of getting over the hump of procrastination is also not uniform. If I clean dishes in chunks at least somewhat as I go, then the kitchen is less of a catastrophe when I'm finished. I'm more likely to put off the subsequent washing and cleaning after eating if the kitchen is a ruinous crater.
I'm curious how you would solve the GI problem with Reyes; note that doing something like like photon mapping or radiosity isn't Reyes itself.
I have the (somewhat) opposite problem of needing to concentrate to hear the lyrics of a song. By default the lyrics fade into the background and I only notice the beat and/or musical instruments.
Soooo, what you're saying is that I need to pipe all of my WA traffic through a TOR exit node?

I wonder how Facebook treats traffic coming through its TOR address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebookcorewwwi.onion
Listening to songs that i know lyrics of are far more intrusive than the ones that i am not familiar with our are completely new.

I generally listen to lofi music while coding. Increases my focus for some reason.
Seems like it ought to be scriptable to wrap a little boilerplate around the custom js and call xcodebuild on it.

Unfortunately "ought to be" != "easy". But if someone could do this it would be a service to extension developers and Safari users alike.
The other day I was being frugal and ate some But Kut Teh (pork soup) that was left in room temperature for 5 hours. And then I had stomachache and lost plenty of time.

Similarly, another day I was trying to be frugal with time and didn't refactor a React component properly before building plenty of features on top of it. And now I'm facing the consequences and have to rewrite the whole thing.

Also: When I was 17 I got my first job as a full stack developer. My boss at that time was being frugal and underpaid me and so I left 3 months later. It has been 8 years since then and his start-up has somehow survived and is doing decent. But I'm pretty sure my current start-up (which doesn't underpay talents for frugality) will be way successful than his.
Your comment made me think of this essay “How to Survive as a Woman at a Chinese Banquet”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/opinion/sunday/women-chin...
Same thing for me. If I have a novel problem I am trying to solve, then I'll usually turn down (or off) the music. If I'm refactoring or the problem is well understood and I'm just typing, then I vastly prefer doing it with music on.
It’s fun to test the same recipe, but just cut the onion differently each time. It shows you how purposeful, or not, you need to be.
Its almost impossible for me to code while listening to music while coding in a high-cadence big-brained language like Python. When I do c, Java or markup like HTML less so.
Perhaps this has to do with the fact that Python is very succinct, and you can affect more per line than in "dumber" languages.

Music with lyrics is impossible to code to though.
Astronauts on the ISS have proven that living in space even for a few months is extremely unhealthy. Seems like that might be a harder problem to solve than building the space cities.
While the text here doesn't strike me as too egregious, compared to some that I've encountered, I admit that I hate it when technical book authors attempt a folksy, light-hearted, jokey style. Why? Perhaps I'm just a curmudgeon and grouchy old git, but most technical book humour comes across, to me, as puerile, stale, and flat. Case in point? The Little Schemer. I really wanted to like this book, but the insufferably twee cartoons and food-related jokes just annoyed me to the point where I just couldn't go on with it. Remember "This space reserved for jelly stains"? Why? Why would you, as someone trying to explain a difficult technical subject, write something like that? So this book has been thrown in the "sell" pile, as I'll not bother with it again.

The best technical books I've read all have a style that could be called plain, unadorned, and direct. And I believe they're much the better for it.
I was very curious to find more info on the constant number study. So far I found this older HN post, which is itself quoting from an apparently famous book, which according to some replies was BSing the whole thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995239
Compilers Are Hard
lock him in the galley till he gets sober
Congratulations for your new laptop : )

What we mean by automatic model detection is that you don't have to add experiment tracking code to your notebook to "log" most of the usual stuff such as model, parameters, metrics; we do that for you so you don't clutter your notebook. You can do it explicitly if you want to or if you're trying to log something in particular, but you mostly don't have to think about it, or generate experiment names, or worry about where you are logging your models.

- You use a notebook to write code to train and evaluate your model

- You schedule it (https://iko.ai/docs/resources/img/async.gif)

- Your notebook is executed and the experiment is tracked (notebook, model, parameters, metrics). This way you can compare your runs.

- You can then deploy your model to a "REST API" (https://iko.ai/docs/resources/img/deploy.gif), or build its Docker image and push it to use elsewhere (https://iko.ai/docs/resources/img/model_docker_image.gif).

Then you can monitor your deployed model's performance on a live dashboard.

>So at some point I am not sure that Jupyter is going to be right. But I like it so maybe I can stretch out it's utility.

Generally speaking, you use the notebook to train models and you use these models to return predictions. In the workflow I described above, the models produced are deployed and interacted with through requests.
It could be useful in understanding a brand, as long as the brand hasn't majorly changed their behaviors and the ingredients they use for their products
According to Wikipedia, Parler has only 30 employees total. That presumably includes everything from management to engineering to legal. I wonder how big the engineering team is and how that affects these requirements. My casual guess is Facebook and Twitter are an order of magnitude more efficient with their hardware given their large staff and scale?
I work at a place where developers have no problem switching between different OS’es. And I would not hire and prefer to not work with developers who refuse to work on anything but a specific OS.
Do you have a link or pointer to the title/org/authors? It sounds interesting and I'd love to read it myself. Absolutely I definitely feel like I'm not reasoning as well as usual when I've got something on.

[ETA]

According to [1] it's described in "Peopleware"[2]. Apparently needs corroboration (see sibling reply by 'civilized)

[1] https://www.quora.com/Does-listening-to-music-while-programm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
I wonder how the TSH levels were a week before the 3 day fasting, I'm curious if that -2.37 delta is from only fasting or your TSH varies that much too often.
The Commodore 64 Has A Successor (and it’s amazing)
Photon mapping. I've never gotten radiosity debugged properly. I tend to like Reyes as something that works for NURB tersellation for me than the triangle interpolation thing. It could be that I'm a lazy programmer that has trouble with textures using classic z-buff techniques.
I would not look at fb alone, meaning no WhatsApp and no instagram, as successful in North America. IMHO they blew it, fb groups are good for local happenings, I do not see any other value
Same!! I cannot do things like “while x is boiling, chop the vegetables.” I have to get everything prepped before I cook because I’m not skilled enough yet to be able to multitask.