skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all, the creator here :)

I am trying to create an online experience that is like wandering through your local bookstore. Along with little notes pointing out great books by people who really know that topic. For the beta launch, I’ve got a little over 400 book recommendation lists by authors on specific subjects. These are all hand curated.

Some of my favorites:

The Best Books On The Power And Wonder of Mathematics
https://shepherd.com/best-books/power-and-wonder-mathematics

The Best Books On The Meaning Of Life
https://shepherd.com/best-books/meaning-of-life
Tom is one of my favorite video essayists and worth a watch.

The Best Books For Understanding Human Nature
https://shepherd.com/best-books/understanding-human-nature

This is just the start and I have a lot of improvements coming. I will be adding related book lists so that you can keep following your curiosity from list to list.

I know the homepage is a bit shitty. I will add actual topic support and topic pages this summer (and an improved card format coming soon for the listings on the bottom).

I am hoping to get into NLP later this year to help me with topics around the books and book lists.

Feel free to ask me anything!

My email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to say hi or share some thoughts,
Thanks, Ben
So it does- weird, it was working before, maybe it is time or click limited? In that case go to the root and enter the URL to the page you want to see.
Instagram and Youtube did the same with TikTok. Maybe one day all the FAANG companies will have massive identical apps with a gazillion features cobbled together. The social media equivalent of Emacs.
I've been using the Ian knot for years now and every now and then (like once a year at most) someone will notice how quickly I tie my laces. It looks impossible for people used to the school method.
This is specifically not happening. There have been multiple attempts to pass a bill to recapture the unused greencards - none of the bills have been passed.

I am talking about the employment based greencard backlog. I’m not familiar with the situation with other categories.
Eh, SGML spec is entirely unnecessary. Use HTML5 parsing spec. ("The HTML syntax" chapter.)
The environment, for one thing. Cities emit much less CO2 on a per capita basis. E.O. Wilson put out a bold plan turn half of Earths landmass into a wildlife preserve[1] and something of that scale can only be accomplished by building very, very large cities.

The other reason is economics, cities inherently generate greater GDP per capita, especially in highly creative fields. In parts of the world where real estate isn't subject to "hot money", they're also engines for economic advancement and social mobility. (And to an extent, they're somewhat that way in the US, UK, and other locations as well, but their impact is heavily diluted by lack of housing affordability.)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200318-the-worlds-large...
That sounds complicated, and I can't imagine landlords voting that policy in.

If renters want to invest why can't they take that bit extra and invest it elsewhere?
another one up for di.fm. Just absolutely great quality and fidelity and a good selection of stuff.
> What's this obsession with increasing housing density?

Wealth inequality is compounded when urban real estate appreciates faster.

The Economist blithely ignores why governments are obsessed with homeownership, though--because homeownership tends to negatively correlate with wealth inequality. That is, the greater rate of homeownership, the less wealth inequality. So rents may be stable in Germany, but so is its moderately high wealth inequality.[1]

However, mortgage burden positively correlates with wealth inequality. Using easy financing to make ownership more common tends to cancel out the former effect. So, really, what correlates with lower income equality isn't nominal ownership, but actual equity.

[1] See https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocument... and https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.1...
I never really understood why IoT devices don't communicate via the power cable; at a guess it's because the hardware needed is too bulky or more expensive than wifi.
What does the IOT cook top do?
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That would be the ideal solution, but they'd have to adjust tx power on all of their devices. Or at least a significant number of them. Which might prove problematic, since most of them don't allow manual adjustment.
I think the bit I missed out was, I'd like a way for when I take pictures for them to be automatically synced to my cloud storage (not one of the main providers) and/or published on my website.
>It makes no sense for Musk to be deep in the details of a single crash

I'd say makes more sense than a lot of his twitter usage, actually. Musk deciding to personally involve himself in an incident like this tracks with just about everything I've heard or read about him as a person and a CEO.
So am I reading this right, that the Economist is suggesting “mortgage bad, rental good”??

Seems I’ve seen something similar referenced quite a lot recently... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/how-life-could-change...
Not really into this type of music, but I'd notice, it sounds pretty average.

It's a cool project and concept, but people in the know would notice.
Keep them peasants looking at the dirt!
The kitchen appliances are a little weird. People keep claiming that it impossible to avoid, but I have yet to see any of them in stores. Not even a gimmicky smart fridge is available.
> I just want enough space to experiment with my own land and not have to deal with neighbors or HOA crap.

What kinds of experiments? Depending on that answer you may want to investigate States, Counties, and Cities by their regulatory regimes vis a vis what you want to do. Make a short list of likely places and go visit them. Get a feel for these places. Does the altitude suit you? Humidity or lack thereof cause you any issues? What is the fire danger, or risk of other natural disasters? Are there sufficient ways close by to supply your lifestyle? What are the school choices if you have kids? Are there enough pursuits in the area to sufficiently entertain you? Can you adequately practice your religion in these places or withstand those that do? Are there good places to make friends? Finally, how easy will it be to recover from a mistake moving there? Answer these kinds of questions and you’ll know better what you’re getting into and you’ll know whether you really want what you think you want and you’ll know where to go.
Also I don't trust for a second that posts could have a thousand votes and no comment. The first impression is that the points are faked.
Of course socialism has a lot to do with this discussion. It is a symptom of the rise of the woke and SJWs, who want to establish control via their ideology (in this case, feminism as a vehicle for socialist control). Everybody who doesn't adhere to the ideology has to be cut down.
He should not have used 'granny knot' as the name of the bad shoe-tying method. A granny knot is a reef knot tied wrong, not the shoe tie, he even mentions it in the article. It would have been more appropriate to call it a 'granny tie' I think. I'm outraged. This is violence.
Do you really want your sink leakage sensor be connected to mains?
I assume you know about the orchards of Silicon Valley? It's an interesting bit of history to me. I didn't realize the same thing was happening along the Wasatch Front, but it makes sense.

E: forgot the link https://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/the-last-of-his-kind-f...
are there any book or blog that would list all those kinds of different original ways of organizing a company ?
For fusion to be possible the reaction must be exothermic, which means that the average mass per nucleon in the resulting nucleus must be smaller than the average mass per nucleon in the reactants.

Until the iron 56 isotope, the average mass per nucleon decreases quickly, then it increases slowly with increasing atomic mass.

For reactants heavier than iron 56, fusion is not possible, but for some reactants lighter than iron 56 it is possible to fuse into nuclei a little heavier than iron 56, belonging to the few elements placed immediately after iron, where the average mass per nucleon has not increased much yet, so it is still lower than that of many of the lighter elements.
I think Musk has said he'll get to 99.9999% safety by the end of 2020 (what he said they needed for complex intersections required for the level 5 robo taxi network they were to launch in 2020).
The granny knot is caused by the starter knot and main knot not agreeing with each other. If you find that you do granny knots, as I did, then you'll probably find it's quite hard to reverse the direction of your main knot. It's essentially learning to tie your laces again! It's much easier to reverse the starter knot. This alone will fix your knot.
> tbf, put in place mostly by homeowners

There you have it. Follow the money. Home ownership concentrates wealth. Wealth often determines political clout and thus directs legislation and policy. The cycle continues.

So surely - largely by your own logic - home ownership is the problem?
The focus is because people were assuming Autopilot was the path of least resistance for stupidity here, not realizing that Autopilot has constraints to try and prevent people from doing crap like this, and because it becomes an opportunity to dunk on Tesla's self-driving.

(I'm not defending Tesla in general; I think they're a deeply flawed company. I just think it's important to have a confirmed factual basis for dunking on companies.)
I didn't say you were operating in bad faith, I said you were removing context. And I stand by that.

> It’s conversation drift

You were quoting something that was being directly applied to the article. If you were only talking about twitter it's on you to make that clear. To me, your post very much reads as talking about both.

> I have to make this public.

Good. Someone clarifying what they meant should be public.
I think it's me tbh. Trying to hold the phone, and press the on-screen buttons just isn't a nice workflow for me. I miss using a proper camera form factor.
But the opposite can happen like when Instagram copied Snapchat's functionality. I think the difference was Tiktok has a lot of creators entrenched in the platform with a strong community while Snapchat didn't have any sense of community. If Facebook/others are successful will probably depend on what kind of community they can build.
This craziness in "meme stocks" and cryptocurrencies cannot go forever.

"This time, it's different." No it's not.
The goal is to make anyone able to invest in a listed Startup.
I'm so happy to just develop desktop apps in C++ / Qt. I commit, I tag a release, this generates mac / windows / linux binaries, users download them, the end.
That's what the government is for. Regulate on behalf of the majority. Sadly, that seems to be evolving backwards, from practice to theory.
One of the differences between the atom bomb and any "breakthrough biotech" project is that the developing the atom bomb, directly, isn't likely to kill people.

It did kill people - of course - due to the criticality experiments - but that was in part caused by cavalier experimentation by a researcher (over the objection of colleagues at the time to boot).

Contrast to biotech: you can't do human targeted biological experimentation without humans. At it's core you put lives at risk doing the most mundane things in biotech. You can easily wind up killing people trying to develop something and the further you're reaching the more likely it is. We don't have disposable, non-sentient human bodies to experiment on with complicated biotechnology and won't for a very long time.
Fat chance. It doesn't implement any CSS selectors at all.

Servo passed Acid2 in 2014: https://research.mozilla.org/2014/04/17/another-big-mileston... This is really far behind.
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I wonder if that pop open 8P8C/RJ45 Ethernet jack is a custom design, or something one can buy from a major interconnect manufacturer?

I have to say it's nice to see a hardware 1000baseT port on a laptop. Last time I saw one of these pop open ports, I think it was one of these...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/8/16750574/p...
> Any idea if this would work effectively on a large projector screen?

Funny you should ask that! My set up IS a large projector screen (110"), and yes it does work. In fact the size enhances the experience. :D
no one would notice anything's amiss

I doubt it. Perhaps you were lucky with the piece you listened to, but I checked it for 5 minutes and the off-beat things it generates are pretty much unheard of in this genre. Not that there's no off-beat produced by humans, but it doesn't sound anything like this. Simply because what the machine is doing here brakes the rhythm too much, making it harder to dance on, and after all that's what this music is for.
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Yeah. Tesla's require power to open doors. There are mechanical emergency release latches, but the back doors can't be easily opened, because the latch is not in an obvious place, but hidden in the base of the seat. Front doors have mechanical latch in the door, but I'm not sure how easily the door opens without power.

See the placement of back door emergency release in Model S: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01lXcD_Uz74&t=42s

Model 3 doesn't have emergency release latches for back doors.
As household sizes have gone down, it stands to reason that household density should go up.
Can you elaborate on that? I've heard this too, but also Tesla praises their software is unhackable...
Read "Beat the market: A scientific stock market system" by Edward Thorp
Easy financing only drives up prices.
Another public policy that would help tremendously would be providing financial incentives for big industries to relocate or expand in low cost of living areas.
This would also have other benefits besides more affordable housing.

Other than that I find the author's casual dismissal of other people's lifestyles as a bit off putting. Calling home ownership a cult and providing Tokyo as a model to follow, ..., I personally don't like this style of writing that does not acknowledge that people might have different preferences from the author. As a young millennial I of course don't like the high rents in big cities. I would also like to live in a house that I own, and I would also not like living in a very big city with a skyscraper skyline.
I don't think this article makes a logical argument at all. It says house ownership is bad because it gives people a vested interest in constraining the supply of housing. That's true but that's not a problem. If people didn't own houses then someone would, and that someone is still incentivized to constrain the supply.

I'm also not sure that reducing home ownership is a good idea - "let's make everyone poorer" doesn't sound like great policy to me, especially at a time where asset prices are inflating like mad. What's the actual alternative to people owning their own homes. Would we be better off all holding shares in housing companies?

I also take issue with this idea that we should all be living in skyscrapers. If you go off and build skyscrapers. Maybe some people want to live in skyscrapers but if the result of this policy is that the middle class who used to be able to live in a nice semi/detatched house are now living in flats in a skyscraper that is a massive detriment to their quality of life. It's like the problem we have with Houses of Multiple Occupancy in the UK. It's a fine concept to break up a 4 bed house into 3 flats and sell each individually but you need to understand you're making it economically unviable for anyone to ever afford a 4 bed house anymore in that area.

There are serious issues with housing, and the massive disincentive for people to downsize is definitely one of them, but a lot of these policy solutions are just trash.
It's pretty common in the industry to have these type of IP clauses. I get the impression most people don't read their contract.
Facebook is just copying anything and everything that is social media. They want to own all your personal conversations online. That itself should be scary enough for anyone.
I think that is called a mortgage :)
I remember chasing down history of acid music online and discovering Charanjit Singh who created Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat in 1982:

https://youtu.be/sB4RYBpwV0A
DAAA!
It has with proprietary protocols :)
First Debian is a distro composed of several third party software. The closest equivalent to browsers in scope in Xorg and that has gone in maintaince for being unmaintainable. Web browsers could be simplified if designed differently(internal architecture). We browser are monolithic programs but with stuff like nodejs, gjs, web view, pwa, etc. , Parts of browser must really become system library (that has some stability) and daemon that run on login. Aka the solution to the bloated web is modularisation of certain components.
Seen from another angle, homeownership (once the mortgage has been paid) grants freedom, while a rent-dweller will remain a slave to his landlord forever, with Damocles's sword named "Eviction and homelessness" always dangling over their heads.
That's pretty impressive. Take it to the next level: pattern of patterns. Your level-1 patterns look like a sum of simple repetitions. A level-2 pattern would be a simple repetition of level-1 patterns. And so on.
I may be opening a can-of-worms by asking this question.

But, what are the rights around using this algorithmically generated music? Is it free use? Who owns the copyright
I have been observing it at my work - the production systems were getting more and more complicated and it was harder and harder to set up dev and test environments. It also started to break the underlying system when you had to install old libs for the project - and then maybe you needed two versions of the libs for different branches of the project. So I started to develop in virtual machines. Then people started using containers for that. That felt like a step back, because it was a different abstraction - and you had to do things differently on the dev machine that on production.
Then I learned that people use terraform or ansible to setup the production and I hoped that I could run the same scripts on my dev machine in a vm and have environment just like production. But no - when I encountered a project with terraform and ansible - the scripts contain lots of AWS related stuff, it is impossible to untangle it and run on dev machines. I have never learned kubernets, I don't do much programming any more, with containers both in production and dev that would make sense - but I still don't see scripts that would just spin off a dev environment. Maybe dev environments on a dev machine is really a dead end now - and what we need is a way to spin of dev envs in the cloud.
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A generation is "generally considered to be about 20–30 years"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
Those are amazing questions to consider. Thank you!
The statement from Musk was "Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled & this car did not purchase FSD.", which I would interpret to mean "Autopilot was purchased but wasn't enabled at the time; FSD wasn't purchased at all", otherwise I'd expect him to have written "this car did not purchase Autopilot and FSD."
If I had that many devices I'd definitely have them on their own subnet / NAT setup and block egress to the Internet
What I miss most about my now defunct ipods is the clic wheel, even to this day that's really something I would consider buying such a single purpose hardware device just for.
That's true! I event sent my friend a couple of DOGE for his birthday. SpaceX may put it in their sheets, but for early-stage startups this could be a way to be get funded from crypto investors who got big early on.
Agree, the other problem is that the knot hardly ever comes loose. So you have to put in extra effort to create those spontaneous moments where you have to tighten your laces after someones points out they went "loose".
The bubble is back. Look at the housing market and the valuations of do-nothing bullshit companies.

People don't learn.
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magnetic rose by otomo. one of my faves.
I really, really like the idea of open hardware & the Librem projects but I don't think I'd order another device from them until production is fully scaled up.

Ordered the Librem 5 back in August 2019 (so ~1¾ years ago) for £500/$700 and still waiting to hear when my unit will get shipped.

I still really like the ethos & support the goals and I'm sure I'll use the phone when I get it, but in my head the cost is basically a charity donation at the moment, unfortunately.
Loss of greenspace mainly.
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Not strictly ML, but "Optimization Methods in Finance" by Cornuejols et al [1] a great reference. It introduces optimization algorithms and modeling technique as well as finance applications in alternating chapters.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107297340
oh, and perfect blue.
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Any system capable of fusion is going to yield more energy from turning into Iron then turning into anything else.

If you fused into something bigger, it would still be more efficient to split that atom and fuse it's nucleons into more Iron.

Atoms are mostly empty space - chemical lattices are mostly empty space - so in something like a star you can make super-dense iron and turn anything else kicking around into more iron.

EDIT: I feel like the problem here if you're assuming that the size of an atomic nucleus is anything other then negligible compared to it's electron shells. There's no situation under which a non-neutron star will "fit" more of a heavier nucleus in, compared to just densifying iron.
The site lists the FiiO M3K port under unusable. Did you find it usable?
I struggle to figure out how to reach 120 devices, but I can easily see 60-70 if you want a smart home. 3-4 lights in each room, a thermostat, air quality sensor, smoke alert, window sensor, door sensor and a camera. 10 sensors in one room. It's only seems like a lot because it's not mainstream yet.
Why is cash withdrawals from circulation be important to CBDC?

Btw I don't think OP argued citizens wouldn't need an account.
Agreed. You mentioned ML though, and that's a different matter.

Checking hashes is definitely viable, but only works for known good examples.
I agree-disagree.

I agree that the main appeal of HN is undoubtedly the community. There's no other place where you can be exposed to so many no-bullshit comments and submissions from so many people so deeply embedded in the industry.

However, I disagree that the design has nothing to do with it. I think the spartan design keeps the appeal of HN low for those who don't fully appreciate the value the community itself brings. Case in point, many people who post here are also probably on Twitter and/or Facebook. But Twitter and FB knowingly pursue such directions in their UI and UX and overall service design that having anything like HN on those platforms is all but impossible.
So, if you have a great bunch of nucleons, is it more energetically favourable to have them as iron or as uranium?
Do your fire detectors still work if the power or wifi go out?
The button presser could make a claim on the copyright. I could see a legal challenge being filled as this not filling the requirement for being a creative work and hence not copyrightable.