skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you become an active reader and deep thinker?
Even though I'm mostly surfing the internet because of procrastination, most of the time I do find some interesting nuggets of wisdom, though I never make notes on them, do not reflect and forget most of them pretty soon.

Some time ago I've read a bit of pretty good advice: "Every time you encounter a piece of new information (lecture, blog post, book, etc), you should try to recall it immediately after". I understand the importance of active recall, and I've been pretty much hard on myself since most of the time I'm on auto-pilot just skimming everything.

Nevertheless, I struggle to make efforts to consistent active, mindful reading, questioning and engaging with information.

How to stop consuming and begin to think?
Couldn't be further from the truth. All Arm SOC manufacturers are competitors of Nvidia.
I don't think so, most teams never do the last 10% on any project ever. They pick the low hanging fruit with the first 80% and if they are thorough they might bring it up to 90%, but 100%? I've never seen such a software project.
Turning $0.01 into $1k in 24 Hours
> It's what Yuri Bezmenov refereed to as useful idiots

Apologies for derailing the interesting ideas, but my reaction to this was: Who? What? Surely this is the concept due to Lenin.

Wikipedia-depth research says this is probably a myth; that it likely originates from early Cold War journalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
> But there's no "value with any unit" type the way we set it up - after all, the whole point was that you _can't_ substitute the wrong kind of value - so it becomes impossible to EXPRESS the type of a generic function from "List of values with units" to "graph".

Are you able to parse each type to an integer and graph the output?
Don't tell Suncor or Alberta. They'll be happy to build you a pipeline anywhere.
Sony admits it made ‘wrong decision’ and will keep PS3, Vita stores open
Is this supposed to be a joke? It's gibberish.
So true, as long as I'm being paid a living wage I'd rather build skills than wealth
NVidia has embedded product lines, which have a lot more competitors. All of which depend on ARM licenses.
> Where new worlds could be built, shaped by the will of the participants as opposed to the hard rules of physics, therefore granting a whole set of new universes in which to search for meaning.

There was a social oriented MUD in the 90's exploring that.
Reminds me of the classic summary of Wizard of Oz: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
I'm going to try to push this towards the back of the list because I don't have health insurance... I was on antidepressants when I was severely injured and I do remember being in a fairly good mood in the months I stayed in the hospital despite my circumstances. I encourage anyone reading this in the future to consider this as a viable option.
Functional Flocks
> I use crypto as an expression of protest

that is your opinion. for me it's real value. you do realize that all value is subjective?
And yet this is a very important game to play that you must participate in if you want your company to grow. What use is having a very good product with 15+ years of history and integrations to any system you consider relevant in that space, if nobody can find you even in the first 20 pages of Google search results in your category?

Faced this case recently, only found out their product via word-of-mouth recommendation.
Why preventing and closing bugs help you sleep better
"Do you honestly believe only "cogs in a machine" should be / would be interested in fixing that sort of issue?"

No but there are many types of people for whom it has no motivational value. Like they'd rather watch paint dry.

And that's their personality not something that can just be worked around.
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)
Angela Carter's BioEnergy Code Help You?
There’s a Big Gap in Our Cyber Defenses. Here’s How to Close It
I love wire, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves right now. I can't tell someone to just "go download Wire" on the desktop without giving them navigation instructions ("Resources" menu at the top, then "Downloads" because there's so much focus on the paid products.)

Not a pro move in my opinion.
Have any good adult animes come out these past few years?
There's always been a lot of gross stuff but I'm starting to lose faith in the medium when I see stuff like Mushoku Tensei being praised as wonderful in the mainstream, the latest few seasons have felt like complete garbage.
Here's a hot take: stop trying to label people and neatly place them within Venn diagrams.

People can have complex positions that don't neatly fit into a binary view of the world.
Are you in the US? Is there a display industry in the US for getting backplanes?
Biorhythm and Its Impact on Human Functioning
Big Corp lost a big project few months ago. Big Corp will loose another one soon. I hope, I can get senior title before shit hits the fan. Contribution does not matter for the title, only employment duration is important.

However I am consulting a cool startup for free, do code reviews for them for free and could start immediately there with ~8% lower salary but 100% home office. That’s my plan C. Plan B is my own small hardware business selling Raspberry Pi based lidar and radar. I am not far away from the first product. I love these topics and compensate boredom at day job this way. As I mentioned, big Corp does not see interest conflict and I may sell these cool gadgets for wide Raspberry Pi community.
I'm lucky enough to not be glued to social media. Sugar is definitely on the higher side. I'll add it to the list. Thank you.
I would imagine most Uighurs would be pretty excited for what you refer to as deregulation.
Very similar, but without the case, $37.45: https://www.tindie.com/products/ttgo/lilygo-t5-47-inch-e-pap...
In all seriousness, can you name one system that exist in absolute equilibrium. I propose that a system must have inequality to exist.
We're not talking about that kind of risk to humanity here. We're talking specifically financial risk to the bank.
...40 years ago.
> this particular views haunts me to this days and I'd better like to have never seen them

According to sleep research, you have to dream of those to lessen the emotional load associated with them, so go and have a couple of bone cancer nightmares.
Do not run it if you use ssh-agent!

Remember agent will forward all of your ssh keys to the untrusted server.
Yes, you're right. I forgot about this step because I also corebooted my Thinkpad and replaced the NIC at the same time as keyboard. For the keyboard, I used these instructions: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Classic_Keyboard_on_x...

(Corebooting was not needed to flash the bios, it just seemed fun at the time)
It's a simple order of magnitude calculation. 2^256 is greater than one billion to the eighth power, times 100,000. There are probably several possible ways you could estimate how many different objects a person could distinguish between, but I think it's unlikely you'd come up with even a single billion.
Yeah. I thought it was odd to use the term TFA when you're not trying to attack the piece.
PDS: Opinion: One of my favorite "hustling" videos of all time.

Why?

Because unlike all of those other "go from $X to $Y" (by flipping things) videos on YouTube, when the author of this video gets the flute, and subsequently tries to sell it --

he gets rejected, not just once, not just twice -- but over and over again!

That's a more realistic view of the real world -- than most of the other videos in this genre...

Recommended -- for the "trying to sell the flute section" alone!
>I went down to a 30-character password, to stay far away from any further off-by-one issues.

Heh...

Developer: Shoot, we've got an off by one error here. No problem, I'll just add one. Or should I subtract one?

*10 min later*

OP: That's weird, my 30 character password is now failing.
I had a runtime TYPE error not too long ago. Integers in elm are a lie. I got scientific notation for a float back when an integer went over the limit of javascript floats.

It was a stupid bug on my part that numbers got that big obviously but still. Take the no runtime errors with a grain of salt.
If they are in a place with a really small minority of their population, they band together as African. If they go to a place with relatively larger sizes, they tend to go by their nationality. Never have I met an African who goes by their race or by the colour of their skin.
Likely you were able to poach them since they didn't thrive in that environment. Or you got them from the more traditional top-down Microsoft, Apple or Amazon.
Indeed. I use a passphrase, or a series of typeable but random words in the 'correcthorsebatterystaple' vein for that.
Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.2160p.x265.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NO-COKE-AD.torrent
Ebay and a serial USB adapter are you friends :).
I suspect if they cared about RSS they wouldn't have removed support for it from the browser...
ah yeah I've gotten that

error[E0308]: `if` and `else` have incompatible types

before.

I was trying to write a simple little program that would output data and optionally reversed (like sort -r). Nothing I could do with iterators would work because it kept trying to tell me that a reverse iterator was not compatible with an iterator. It would work if I hardcoded it, but any code like

output = if (reverse) { result.rev() } else { result };

would fail to compile with a completely nonsense error message. I think I eventually got it to work by collecting it into a vector first and reversing that. Haven't really touched rust since. Honestly the compiler might as well just tell me to go fuck myself.
I believe firefox lets you set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled => false
> It's not like it would stop working out of the blue.

Unless the benevolent dictator pushes out a new Elm version that is not backward compatible.

And, if the process is the same it was a few years ago, it could happen next month and only a happy few know it. The development is done behind closed doors.

It happened to a project of mine, from version 0.17 to 0.18 IIRC. The choice was between letting the code slowly rot, rewriting a large part of it still in Elm but with the new paradigm, or switching to some stable JS framework. I had overall enjoyed working with Elm until that.
That's an interesting idea. There could be a sort of markup language for describing the text and other elements. A sort of hyper-text markup language. And then there could be a separate declaritive language for styling. Of course, you'll need something less declaritive to implement advanced interactivity, but that could just be a small, simple scripting language.

:-)
I'm also getting into this as well. Currently working on a PCB schematic for a compute module 4 with a full sized nvme, usb port and ethernet port for clustering.
Difference between learning writing and painting
this is the same execuse facebook's been using, although they're trying to push the narrative that limited tracking in Apple's iOs 14+ "hurts Small Business!"

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1383391849902075911 (video in thread)
Could you share some screenshots of the complex UIs you're building over at GWI? It always helps me to understand other perspectives as difficulty/complexity seems to be relative in discussions around UIs most of the time.
Part of my urgency to get things done is so I can afford the time and money to consider therapy. It's funny that by the time I can afford it, I'll probably have already solved my issue. Aww man, I made myself sad.
> Demand would be much lower

Lenses for full frame cameras are super cheap -- you can find tons of old Russian, Japanese, and East German lenses that will work really well. Many of those lenses are built like tanks and can be had for <$100, some <$50. Most of them produce very nice images and aesthetically have much better look than what I see out of these CCTV lenses for the Pi HQ camera. CCTV lenses were never designed for art, and among other things produce horrible out-of-focus highlights.

> The image processing code

Well yes, that's also the point, by having an open source APS-C or full frame camera you can tinker to your heart's content with changing the image processing code.

I use Magic Lantern extensively and there's only so much you can do with it, and it's a pain in the ass to recompile code for it. Having a full-fledged Linux system with gcc, opencv, python, and pytorch at my disposal on camera, and with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, and running an SSH server, and the ability to connect arbitrary I2C and SPI sensors, would be freaking amazing, to say the least.

Wildlife camera with thermal camera trigger and a neural net that recognizes mountain lions? You got it.

LIDAR-based insanely accurate servo-driven autofocus? You got it.

Microphone array that figures out who in the picture is talking and refocuses the camera to that person? You got it.

Home-made Alt-Az tracker with built-in autoguider and remote Wi-Fi progress monitoring? You got it.

And if it can be made to work with the Pi, someone will hopefully also make it work with a Jetson Nano or Xavier NX and then voila I could do some neural net processing in real-time on-board. I've been able to blow Canon's in-camera denoising out of the water with state-of-the-art neural nets by postprocessing RAW images, and if I had a Xavier or Nano on-board I could easily put those neural nets in-camera for convenience.

The possibilities are endless, which is why I really want this hardware so much.
dumb code are nationless, that's for sure
I pay for multiple print subscriptions but I see your point.

What's free often proves most costly. Less fortunate people can't afford to pay and consume whatever is shoveled into them for free. Moneyed interests can afford to subsidize bullshit.
But white people from Africa also call themselves African. People rarely refer to themselves by their race, anyone can see that they have dark skin, so they just say which region they are from.

If you think it is wrong for white Africans to call themselves Africans then how can white Americans call themselves Americans? Similarly when I talk to dark skinned people in Europe they call themselves Europeans and not Africans. When they talk about their "race" they say they are black or brown, because that is the only thing separating them from the other people.
CSemVer – Constrained Semantic Versioning
> Couldn't you hash some obvious variants of the new password to test against?

This is impractical if you're following good password storage practices. Assume the user's new password is 16 characters long, and that only the 95 printable characters are allowed in passwords. Then to test that the Levenshtein distances between it and the user's last 5 passwords are all greater than 1, the server would have to compute (5 * (1 + 95 * 17 + 16 + 94 * 16)) = 15,680 different hashes, which will take quite a while if you picked a secure iteration count for your password hashing function. And even if you did this, it still couldn't detect mypassword100100 -> mypassword101101 -> mypassword102102, etc. (Making sure the Levenshtein distances are greater than 2 would require checking millions of hashes.)
Check out this Github list of all repos included in the helicopter:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
I like Anki[1] for embedding into long-term memory. I’m using it now for phone numbers, in case of emergency and as a bridge to get back into regularly using Anki.

Start small and be forgiving as you build a habit. Per BJ Fogg’s “Tiny Habits”, if you remember the next day that you forgot to practice guitar, celebrate the fact that you remembered!

Edit to add:
[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
You file a good complaint, and I should clarify. What I mean is more like Go is secretly quite explicit about its allocations, if I may. It superficially looks like it doesn't really care with a variety of syntax glosses that can make it look like it's more like a scripting language where it doesn't care, but it actually does care quite a lot even at the syntax level, and if you dig past the syntax glosses, it is actually explicit about what gets allocated. It doesn't successfully hide it from you like a scripting language does.

Also, allocations are just... allocations. Go qua Go doesn't have stack vs. heap, and it's a mistake to care except when optimizing. So in Go qua Go, it isn't an issue that it may "reuse" a particular address, because in Go qua Go you can't witness that anyhow. (If you try to keep a pointer around to witness it with, you'll keep the thing pointed to alive.) From Go's perspective, it's still an allocation even if the implementation manages to re-use a particular memory address to do so.

I'm talking about the runtime Go implements here, not the implementation.

This actually took me some years to correctly internalize, for what it's worth. It does a "good" job of glossing over things. However, if you really poke at it, allocations are still explicit. They just may not look like what you are used to from other languages.
You're tldr; is a bit wrong.

They had unauthorized access, which means they used it. It's not clear for what currently, that's why it describes the scope of access.

They also found that the application can tap entire phone calls, which was forbidden.

Edit:

What do you think the following means ( Dutch is my native tongue, lol):

> ‘Ongecontroleerde en ongeautoriseerde toegang vanuit China heeft na 28 oktober 2009 daadwerkelijk plaatsgevonden’, vermeldt het rapport in april 2010.

Translation: Unchecked and unauthorized access has taken place from china after 28 October 2009.

Original article:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Also fix the interface so that you can actually record 4k video. The sensor is capable but the interface is not.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=281095
I don’t know how true it still is, but didn’t Russian programmers earn a reputation for doing amazing things within very restrictive constraints, particular in memory?
> have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style

I would hate that very much because I don't see the necessity for a whole page.
Ask HN: What happened to sick time banking?
I once met a construction worker who had 3 years of banked sick time. He refused to take it, despite his very honest hatred of his particular job, but he still had it.

Today, you're lucky to get track-free vacation, and even that has to be approved case by case for bookings off.

So what happened? I'd love to be able to bank sick time or vacation time, but it feels like one of those previous generation luxuries we never see anymore. Is it gone forever?
This is also NIST’s guidance. The problem is that PCI requires it pretty explicitly, so if your company requires PCI compliance then you have to convince your auditor to give you an exception.
The financial well-being of banks is inextricably tied to the financial well-being of their human customers and employees. Until they can find a new species to take over, "risk to humanity" is relevant.
>"My question is: is this actually happening?"

I think what is happening is they are buying their ability to publish news. Once accomplished you will see plenty of those "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" I think.
There's a similar company https://goodgigs.app/ that does this as well, but more built-out (and seemingly more focused on non-technical roles).

Not sure your plans for this page, but could be an interesting conversation with that founder.
I think FB does this?

Though it's a little bit different when it's an intentional tradeoff decision vs. just being bad at software.

In FB's case with billions of non-technical users the tradeoff is probably valid.
The harmonic table layout has multiple keys for each note too. It is different, but it seems to be borne out of a similar motivation.

Changing keys on standard keyboards just seems unnecessarily difficult.
I promised myself I'd try whatever I can. I'll give it a shot. Thank you.
> I simply see regulation as a far more likely solution than users demanding an ethical business model with their wallets.

In the short term, I agree we're far more likely to get regulation than a significant change in user demand. I do not, however, think any regulation we get will be a "solution".
Twilio’s Open API Specification Beta
APS-C sensors are maybe only a few hundred bucks.

I would love to have a nice APS-C or full frame board-level camera that can be easily integrated into something like a Raspberry Pi. At present it is nearly impossible to get something like that --- dev kits for large sensors from Sony Semicon, Canon, and ams are profoundly expensive, only sold to companies, and go through a lengthy quoting process.

> The sensor alone doesn't deliver 100% of the result of a modern SLR. The image processing code does a lot of heavy lifting that is mostly proprietary.

This is HN, hackers like us love to be able to tinker with the heavy lifting. That's the whole point of the Raspberry Pi cameras. Even with the current HQ camera, a used point-and-shoot camera with a similarly-sized sensor (or even bigger sensor) would tend to produce better images and videos while being more compact, robust, convenient, and cheaper than the DIY camera.
KOReader is fairly straightforward to install on a Kobo and it supports RSS: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader

You don't even have to say goodbye to original firmware, you can just restart into original. Its interface leaves a lot to be desired though.
So, because collapse isn't certain, you'd rather stuff cotton in your ears, cover your eyes and yell "lalalala can't hear you?"

BTW, your suggestion that my post in any way represents or resembles a call for ethnic cleansing is in extremely poor taste and bad faith. Stop putting words in my mouth.
part of my company's long term onboarding of this prospective employee will include an intensive course in Buddhism, with the purpose of slowly teaching him to find something interesting in everything he works on. I believe that within 6 months to a year we can have the perfect highly competent employee, willing to work for very little and doing whatever asked of them because every task, no matter how mundane, is filled with interest.
The primary e ink patents also have already expired, they are from late 90s: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5930026
Exactly. Most developers do not seem to understand the cost of onboarding, dealing with them, dealing with their code and so on
I wanted to like that site, but it seems to equate real charities and non-profits that address issues that people actually face with nonsense like MIRI.

I would absolutely love a site like 80,000 Hours that wasn't tainted by a weird nerd ideology addressing paranoid fears of a malignant AGI.
I do scanning to PDF just with Google Drive on my phone. You can also buy (or DIY) a scanning box like this guy:
https://smile.amazon.com/Scanner-Bin-Document-Scanning-Solut...

I've seen models that also have LED strips for even lighting. What I haven't seen is a gadget that can feed multiple sheets easily.
Anything by Satoshi Kon is great, and in line with what you've been watching. If I had to pick, Perfect Blue for movies and Paranoia Agent for series.

In the lighter more children spectrum, Mamoru Hosoda does beautiful things like Summer Wars or The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

The Tatami Galaxy is another great one
Kobo devices come with built-in Pocket support.

Not a great Pocket support (for example: no highlights), but reading experience is fine.