skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stamps are one of the most portable collectibles. (Along with bugs.) Moves forced the loss of other collections ... but I've kept the collection of "only about 6000 or 7000 stamps" I made as a kid (I counted once).

It went with me to stay at grandma's, on babysitting jobs, on summer trips that went to nowhere to do nothing. Open the book, get out the hinges, dive in.

I learned a lot about world geography, culture, arts and crafts, and political BS from those revealing little bits of 'official' history. The 'most valuable' stamp I found (nothing printed on it) taught me -nothing-.
Filecoin.it is much further ahead than Chia and has the third highest amount of developer count in the blockchain space.
Unfortunately most writers of fiction make next to nothing too. Writers often are not happy writing either (unlike painters and video artists who seem to have a whale of a time).

Sadly I toiled for 8 years on a novel (while working a day job). It was a massive effort.

It might be hard for people to understand but I felt I had to write it (i.e. writers curse).

I wish I had spent all that time on studying programming etc. Unfortunately humans are not fully rational. I actually like my novel. But it wasn't worth it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-Get-Restart-Jack-Gowan-ebook/dp...

But hey that's life. Shrug.

Writers should just write for the pleasure of writing and expect that the majority won't make it. It's about as likely as winning the lottery
Social media algorithms are designed to show you things which make you upset because that type of content is highly likely to "engage."
New study puts Covid infection fatality rate at only 0.15 percent
One thing I have found, is that buying stuff that constantly breaks down and becomes useless, ends up making these posessions own me, instead of me own the posessions because I constantly have to reorder new ones.

Especially with kids, when I have a long lasting products, I don't have to worry about coughing up a ton of money over the course of a few months or years just to keep replacing them, and I don't have to worry if they trash it, or get it dirty because I know it's covered. I also don't have to worry about losing it because me and my family are responsible and rarely lose things, mostly because the higher quality and warm fuzzy feelings we get from spending money with a moral company, we tend to all value the things we own much more. As such my kids tend to clean, organize, and protect them without needing as much discipline, and our friends and house guests also respect us more because we take good care of ourselves and our investments.

So not only is the total cost of ownership less for our more durable, reliable products, but we also all feel very secure and happy about the small purchases we make because they provide so many benefits it feels more like an investment in our world and each other. However, when it comes to disposable and poorly made products we lose all of that before we even buy the product.

p.s. we also don't have to spend nearly as much time shopping or searching for good products because we can place a reasonable amount of trust in the companies we are familiar with, and whose products are tested and kid/spouse approved.

p.s.s. it feels amazing knowing we aren't enabling immoral businesses and their employees, who would turn around and lobby against important rights such as the right to repair our own belongings.
How sad did this experiment really make people? The chart in the study says that people who saw fewer positive posts used one percent fewer positive words and about 0.3% more negative words. But on the other hand, they were seeing fewer positive posts, so maybe they were just replying to the posts they saw in a way that was natural, without their inner emotional state being very affected.
> A friend recently pointed out that fandoms are like a fractal, and as you zoom in it becomes increasingly hardcore and dedicated.

Almost everything is like that. Turtles...
I would go with "big data is when you have to spend more effort on the mechanism of performing the computation than on the details of the analysis itself."
Thanks a lot!! Yeah it's an epic song and is so nostalgic.
Hacking Life: Defining a Data Diary
They're not irreconcilable positions though. One can support authors having rights over the distribution of their works, while believing at the same time that the different DRM technologies are an overreach.
> most idea i have seen, like a tor browsing, is focusing on changing fingerprint and not so much on making fingerprint non-unique.

Not sure if I exactly understand what you're trying to say here, but the Tor
Browser itself certainly focuses on making its users' fingerprints identical.
At least it's the only browser I know of that passes fingerprint tests
(Panopticlick and friends) with JavaScript enabled.
Is this the Reddit board turned site or a separate venture?
Milking existing familiar to everyone universes is just more profitable. MCU, as primitive as it is(my apologies to fans), has been best money maker of last decade for a reason.
You're breaking some data scientist's heart by calling their model "just making a guess".
Smells Like Teen Spirit (30y ago)
That would be fine if the files were not already messed up, or if the Electron app framework they used building Signal could be persuaded to actually UI.
A Firefox OS computer in a book form factor
It's hard to get a lot of positive reinforcement by interacting with like-minded others at scale through a movie. Facebook's original stated intent was to study contagion of emotion, which seems to me to suggest a multiplayer, interactive effect.
Separate venture (I'm not affiliated, just really like it)
And In that case they don't get to down vote. Problem solved.

See downvoted already, point proven.
Believe it or not, they didn't have the front end devs design it.

There was a specific task force at Facebook intended to better understand customer psychology. Came from them.
Well, if so the problem goes a bit deeper than Facebook.
Not just consent! informed consent.
Which strap lock sounds best? I hear schallers don't resonate well.
Which part of this conception of experimental ethics does this violate? Facebook's experiment did not directly cause the emotions, the posted content for that. Even if it did, this sort of thing is well within the bounds of normal experimentation with large systems.

This is similar to claiming that traffic experiments which change the flow of cars, in term causing some people to experience more traffic and become unhappy, are unethical. Do you think traffic experiments are unethical?
It doesn't get transferred to a different physical instance, right?
So how could someone ethically run social media of any stripe?
That's hilarious. Enjoy the book :)

Marketing requires a huge budget in the VC age since you're competing with ever increasing ad prices. I have spent a lot of money on advertising regardless.

One thing that has been a major sticking point for me however, ist hat distribution has been a huge issue. I wouldn't say my target market is that small. Most of the Middle East and Asia is quite ripe for my book but amazon doest operate it's self-publishing arm out there and the alternatives have not been that enticing.
I'm aware of a number of backdoor that have been inserted by western governments. Linus claims at one point the NSA asked him to put in a backdoor in to Linux. The difference is that in a free society Linus can go public and that makes it much more risky for a intelligence service to try it. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

The "Back doors" in AXE are a slightly different thing. Many countries have laws that says that law enforcement have the right to wiretap phone calls under some circumstances. This means that telcos want and ask for this feature so that they can comply with the law. The telcos are aware of the systems capability because they need it to be there. Anyone who reads the law can see that the telcos has to facilitate wiretapping, but they obviously dont want to advertise it, so its an open secret.

Its quite different if you deliver a solution, with a hidden back door that the customer dont know about or have asked for, for the benefit of the intelligence service in the country of manufacturing. Enabling a nation to wiretap illegally in countries where they do not have jurisdiction.
How does this /dev/printerfacts react to partial reads? Does it mix multiple facts?
How the Financial Collapse Happens
And "finance for kids" somehow equips them for running the regression that
estimates the expected value of college? Realize that the
kinds of people for whom post secondary education is financially net negative are
generally the ones who've never mastered basic math.
Get an advanced health directive worked out well before you need one.
The flight is scheduled at 3:30AM. You are talking about the data download.
Moral Lessons from Switching to Emacs
Much of the die is unused, especially the large metal area in the middle.

I don't think the word "unused" is appropriate.

1) Probably they wanted to physically separate the comparators, for better noise isolation between them.

2) the large metal area is connected to V+. By using such a large amount of metal they get slightly lower voltage drop in their power distribution.

3) But here's what I think is the main reason. The metal is being used as a power decoupling capacitor. I can't be sure of what's underneath, but most likely the area is connected to V-. Voila! You couldn't possibly get a decoupling cap any closer to where it's needed than that.
In text, the blog post: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-04-16-emacs-moral-lesso...
What I’m not understanding, how is a Peloton more dangerous than a regular treadmill?
You’ve missed my point. Politics is a team sport and optics depend on your worldview and biases. “One mans X is another man’s Y” is me pointing this out.

But also, please refrain from calling other commenters’ thoughts “your bullshit” because that’s not nice or productive discourse.
Thanks for checking out the link and commenting. Will include the relevant filter for this purpose.
Bangle.io looks interesting, thanks. I can edit my local Markdown files in a web browser.
How does it connect to GitHub? I tried the "Workspace: Import workspace from a Github URL" but it didn't appear to do anything. It would be great if Bangle.io could use GitHub as a backend store as an alternative to local hard drive storage.
If your buffer is too small it will just fail. It ends the file after a fact is returned. I think I forgot to shout that out in the article. Oops.
Totally agree. Traction is even harder than 10yrs ago. I hope you're able to crack it.
Potentially controversial view: it really doesn't matter how you do it and it probably never did. Dya think your audience knows if you're using tables or grid or flexbox or php or React or Flash or Perl or a huge image that looks like a web layout? Nope. If it works in a reasonable way, they're probably happy.
Installing a backdoor to a a piece of equipment that handles SS7, for instance?
This is the problem with these writers is that they lack precision in their arguments and conflate partial facts with delusions to come to a desired outcome.

From the article:

“Faced with a trade deficit with China, the British Empire flooded their country with cheap opium they had shipped over from India. A luxury drug became an addiction, and the British traded their opium for porcelain, tea, and silk.”

Britain started a series of wars on China to accept the drug Opium which was banned in China.

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

Modern Germany and the technological advancements was not enslaved, weakened or slowed down by the universal social security and healthcare system enacted by Bismarck in 1883:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Social_legis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany
On the other hand, crappy knock-off products aren't going to be the right tool for most jobs and will fail when you need them most. The trick to not being owned by your possessions is to only own what you really, truly need.

Further, buying low-quality throw-away type products ends up supporting the greedy, lazy low-quality manufacturers. We all end up with only junk for choice.

And as @desine already commented: all this junk ends up in the landfills, oceans, etc.
Not exactly sure what they meant, but maybe just that it's often hard to install a single Python package if the machine can't reach PyPI. If you download a tarball or wheel of some Python package on a different computer and transfer it to the isolated computer, there's a pretty good chance the package is going to have at least one third-party sub-dependency, in which case trying to install it with pip or setup.py will cause it to try to install more packages from PyPI.

Docker's a decent way to address this, since you install the dependencies when building the image rather than when running the container, so you can build the image elsewhere or through CI and run the container on any server without having to allow access to package management repo servers.
Scroll: A Web Experiment that changes masks and transitions as you scroll
Was my comment mansplaining? I'm genuinely curious.

Apple Mail sucks and I'm always shocked how many people think it's "good enough". All the Apple apps are barely functional but fall short when it comes to replace groupware (or actual standard compliant clients. Don't even get me started what Apple Contacts does to vCard).

>>I just think it's annoying that I had to change my perfectly good workflow that is enough to get me hired at large companies for this.

I don't get what workflow you are talking about.
One does not simply "get 'influencer' type accounts on Twitter to retweet your link and ask a few journos to write an article about it". These people are all receiving tons of requests from everyone who is trying to promote anything. You're right that everything before that is super easy, but that part right there is the filter function.
I need tp for my bunghole. What is your toilet paper situation?
March 2020 I published this website to try to record the toilet paper situation around the world.

Everyone went crazy about the lack of toilet paper due the Coronavirus situation - and I thought it was a fun idea to show the demand on a map.

Unfortunately it was far away from getting viral but some different places (I am from Germany) posted their data.

How would you have promoted this kind of project to get more visits?
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
from an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846861
For me, LotR hits a sweet-spot. Long enough to get your teeth into, fantastic world-building, amazing music that I still listen to, and it was made at the point in time before films over-used CGI. Don't get me wrong, I like computer graphics (I used to work in video games) but modern films are almost lazy in their use of CGI. Ridiculous camera angles that simply wouldn't be possible take me right out of the movie. Characters (CGI models) swinging and jumping all over the place that don't feel "grounded" (see the Marvel movies for example). LotR did have plenty of CGI but I get the feeling they were conservative with its use, and resorted to physical artefacts such as sand in-place of flowing/gushing water in scale-models (yes they still used scale-models!).

I can compare it to Jurassic Park - whereby the CGI looks great even today, but due to the high cost at the time was used conservatively.

The Mandalarian used physical models for a lot of the space sequences, so I think at least some people in the business are realising that CGI has to be used appropriately.

Anyway rant over :)
Does it, though?

I assume you mean "Billion Dollar Muslim: Why We Need Spiritually Inspired Entrepreneurs".

It clearly makes mistake #3: "writing broadly about the topic instead of making a clear promise about what the reader will get out of it".

What is "clear promise about what the reader will get out of it" in "Billion Dollar Muslim"?

Frankly, based on the title I don't see why I should read it, even if I'm somewhat interested in entrepreneurship.

"Why We Need Spiritually Inspired Entrepreneurs" never occurred to me as a question worth answering. Not the way "how to increase sales?" is a question I might be interested in knowing the answer to.

BTW: you website has expired SSL certificate so the main source of promoting your book is as good as gone.
Tell HN: SupportaaS not answering tickets.
The SolarWinds hack in addition to election interference should easily be seen as an attack worthy of taking out Putin IMO.
The last commit was 18 days ago, though I do see the last release is October 2020.

Well if it is dead then that is a damn shame.
This is incredible, hope this video gets more traction! Subscribed.
9 years later and still a whole lot of straw left.
I think this is just a mindset issue. Which is non issue.
Normal treadmills have a safety limit switch that disengages the motor when it senses an obstruction.

Many years ago I was at the gym and a exercise ball got loose, jammed it up, and the guy fell off. After removing the ball the treadmill didn’t resume operation.

You can see in the video the peloton jogs the motor in an attempt to free the obstruction. I presume the initial feature is to unjam a off track belt.
I don’t have data to accept your generalization, and I think you’re arguing a strawman. Teaching kids financial literacy can help them make better informed choices, and for some of them, they might learn concepts like investing and planning for their future earlier in life as opposed to late.
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Going to avoid getting into a religious argument, but it's my view that TypeScript's types are much stronger and more expressive than Go's. There are some holes, but the mere fact that you can distinguish nullable from non-nullable gives it the edge from my perspective.
Unfortunately, the greens also oppose GMOs, fluoride and wifi, and flirt with all sorts of other pseudoscience... so empowering them is just trading one issue for another.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/elizabeth-mays-so-cal...
The Universe Might Be One Big Neural Network, Study Finds
In theory yes. In practice: 1. those keys will be accessible from the same place/machine 2. people won't do it correctly or will ignore the issue. (if developers can't reliably manage PGP keys, general population balancing multiple wallets is just not happening)
Hacking Life: First Evaluations of Correlating My Life
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I would argue that Carol Dweck argues that if you believe and are motivated, you can achieve. The criticism is that while motivation and belief i.e. grit is important -- it is only half the story. Countless studies have proven what really drives academic success -- financially well off parents who emphasize education and provide time/money/resources to help their children succeed.

"What the team found was there is a correlation between someone having more of a growth mindset and doing well academically. However, the correlation is small and the findings do not support claims that growth mindset interventions have profound effects on academic achievement." [1]

"The attempted replication of Dweck’s work that is about to be published concerned the 1998 study on praise and part of the 2007 study. Bates and his student Yue Li conducted a series of studies in a group of more than 600 Chinese students. Their results were mixed but mostly found no effect." [2]

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/growth-mindset-education-psy...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-arises-ove...
that sounds like a terrible design decision of the app.
aren’t they designed to optimize for most engagement, in whichever way they can (which turns out to be with upsetting content)?

Or are people actually selecting specifically upsetting stuff?
Doing something that’s fun and hard.
Vs Google Earth Engine. Who would win?
... What would the proper ultra-centrist way of characterising lying and insulting Mitch McConnell be? Like, are you expecting them to use euphemisms, or just not reporting on former presidents lying?
I skimmed through that review and it mostly references mice and rats, as well as cell models. There is a huge difference between that and “in most people”. In fact, you’d need a lot studies in actual people(not cell models) of different ages and and conditions to say it works.
This won’t work if your tall. On fast runs my ankles routinely left the back of the treadmill. Keeping your torso tracked in the “middle” is harder the more fatigued you get. A sudden e-stop will fuck you up if your running at 8mph.
Gandalf is an angel, like Sauron and Saroumane. Well, rather: all wizards are Maiars, and Maiar are immortal spirits, brought down middle-earth by the gods to stop Sauron.
And the package manager knows exactly where all the files are unless they are just config files, which are generally in .config or .local/share, and they are a lot easier than to track than the Windows registry.
With no disrespect (especially with children, I know their destructive tendencies well enough), this sounds like a shunning of responsibility, and irks me. Our cheap, disposable consumer goods are ending up in landfills, our plastic waste has permeated every square inch of the earth, and we continue to justify these destructive habits.

If you need something, you should care for it, you should maintain it, and you should commit to a certain level of care. Not caring about your possessions and seeing them as disposable validates the business models of shelling out crap quality products and the further destruction of our environment.
Reviewing profiles of Peloton mechanical engineers suggests they employ experts, including from heavily regulated industries. It seems unlikely that this was built without discussion or research. However, it’s true that they misjudged the risk here.
I basically never do personal projects any more, and I'm much happier.

At home, I love cross-stitch. I can sit for hours after work just embroidering away.

When I'm at my parents' house, I love helping my dad in his workshop. He himself is an amateur, but he's extremely driven. Previous projects have been furniture for the house, a series of scrabble boards, and lately, jigsaw puzzles. I am now considering getting a jigsaw puzzle setup at home because it's so satisfying to do.

I also love sailing and walking. When I'm walking I'll completely disconnect. I don't even take my phone. I have an old flip phone which I keep switched off, and a GPS tracker with an SOS button that will send a text message if I press it.
Infinite Gifts: A Christmas Web Experiment
Ask HN: What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?
Engineering is a team sport and leadership is a major dynamic necessary for groups to get stuff done together.

What was your biggest leadership challenge of your entire career? How did you overcome it? What happened then?
I agree, although I don't know that ML is actually a "leap": my general impression is that a certain subset of "AI" techniques became practical because of GPU advances, which lead to an explosion of practical applications: the technique itself isn't particularly new, afaict.