skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly reading is just a skill; like any others you get better at it with time.

My intro to reading for fun was via comic books: I got bored really easily reading regular books. The next step was reading Harry Potter series, which I found incredibly immersive and enjoyable.

I guess my advice would be to try things you might like rather than what are considered to be important or classics. If there’s something that piques your interest, reading is almost like an adventure, trying to get to the end to know the full story.
I think there's some confusion about what Google Analytics does. It doesn't really engage in browser fingerprinting. It only tracks down to the individual session.
This reminds me of the South Park where the kids had to become skilled at baseball in order to lose the game and go home sooner. The instructions are basically to be an incompetent manger at middle levels, inefficient bureaucrat high levels and a Karen at every committee. But instead of just being that archetype, you're doing it carefully and methodically as a sabotuer.
Sun was already on life support when they tried the open source strategy. Their failure isn't related to open source.
I wouldn't mind a sign over the avocado bin at the supermarket warning consumers about knife injuries and an infographic showing the correct way to cut them. The avocado lobby has enough money to help fund it.

I kind of like the giant seeds. It reminds me that this bizarre fruit is a leftover from megafauna eating and pooping out the giant seeds over long distances (you need a big seed to survive dinosaur digestion)
Perl has "taint mode":

http://man.he.net/man1/perlsec

It is not exactly what you are looking for, but I am not aware of anything else that matches what you want.
48 laws of power, influence, win friends, and to some degree rich dad, when put together in a list, could tell a story about someone. I’m curious in a non-attacking sort of way, do you consider yourself a sociopath, or to have more manipulative tendencies than those around you?
If the source is available to anyone, it's open source.
That is independent of the licensing model. Saying "That's not real open source" is just gatekeeping. There are different licenses, and when you insert the word "freedom", then you can start talking about how free said OSS is. It would be much more acceptable to say "If you just release the source and don't accept patches then that's not real _free_ open source", but even then, if their license is permissive, it still could be considered free.

Free as in freedom: You're free to do whatever you want with the code

Free as in beer: The product does not cost money

Whether or not they accept patches is up to the maintainer, and does not affect the freedom or open source nature of the software
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi(rip) and Psycho Cybernetics. I am battling a personal identity crisis(mid life existence) and these two books have guided me on what is important in life and how to lead a truly fulfilling life.
Just for reference: a Google TPU can multiply a 256x256 matrix in 1 clock cycle[1]. That seems astonishingly fast, considering the TPU operates at 700MHz:

The TPU Matrix Multiplication Unit has a systolic array mechanism that contains 256 × 256 = total 65,536 ALUs. That means a TPU can process 65,536 multiply-and-adds for 8-bit integers every cycle. Because a TPU runs at 700MHz, a TPU can compute 65,536 × 700,000,000 = 46 × 1012 multiply-and-add operations or 92 Teraops per second (92 × 1012) in the matrix unit.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...
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No book is totally life-changing IMHO, but many are life-altering… life-shifting? But for a good shift in perspective, I would maybe try the following:

For fiction, best no reasons given, go into these blind:

- Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

- The City and the City, China Mieville

- Exhalation, Ted Chiang

- Never Let me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

For non-fiction:

- Any book that tells some of the history of the field you have a career in. You need it for perspective. For me it was the books Hackers by Stephen Levy (problematic as it may be) and Journey Through Genius by William Dunham. They led me into deeper dives and other books which rooted my knowledge in some chronological perspective.

- Surreal Numbers by Donald Knuth, a “fiction” book about Conway’s surreal numbers. Holy cow, this shifts your perspective on what a number can be.

- Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter, recommended by others, as a mind bending book

- What We See When We Read, by Peter Mendelsund. Really changed my perspective on the act of reading in general. Very easy and quick read.

- Debt, by David Graeber (sure to hear about this in the comments lol)

Biographical:

- Read at least one book from someone who has had a different life experience than you have had. For me, it was Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain which wasn’t totally a biography but told a lot of experiences in his life completely different than mine that offered some perspective.

- One anti-recommendation: any book that a CEO writes or has ghost-written about their life. None of that is applicable to your own life, even if you are a CEO.

Self-help: no recommendations.

Self help books only help the person selling the books IMHO. I’ve read my share, and it tells more about the person writing the book than it does give life tips about how to live one’s life.
Brother Karamazov, first read it when in 20s, read a few times later (but never fully). The chapter "The Grand Inquisitor" is the cream of the cream.
Agree with all the ones in the list except #3
What's Bad about Julia?
Yes, x86 is dead. But ARM is just going to be a pit stop on the way to other open architectures like RISC-V AND OpenPOWER.
Off topic but related: sometimes I see developers who track interactions without checking if analytics is available.

onclick="trackInteraction();doInteraction()"

Because the first action gives an error the other actions is not called. This means a broken site and a user that will not return.
A more practical approach, on mobile at least, is TrackerControl which will let you choose which trackers you want to allow per app. E.g. I can allow Spotify to connect to some CDN but not Facebook, and disallow internet access altogether for a photo editor and my keyboard.

You can let a browser with privacy extensions access Google services but not other apps that don't need it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.f...

I'm not affiliated, just a fan. No root needed, it pretends to be a VPN. It does take some time to set this up, though, especially if you take the strict approach and block all trackers for all apps by default.
It seems that this software predicts higher levels of crimes in areas that have had higher levels of crimes in the past. That's not bias--it's realism. And it would be inefficient to send police in equal numbers to all neighborhoods regardless of crime level.
At a previous employer they wanted me to install some work software on my iPhone. Nothing particularly invasive as far as I could tell, just Okta, gmail, etc. I told them up front that it violated my personal security policy to install any work software on my personal devices. I told them this was for their protection as much as my own. This brought my boss up short and he wondered aloud why this wasn’t already company policy. Fast forward two months and it became company policy. So it’s my fault that everyone that needs to use company software on their phone has to carry a separate company phone.
A computer scientist might find it confusing, 1321-2021 is not the date range on HN :)
Now that I think of it convergence on a trait crucial to survival is a trivial result, though it’s often non-trivial to spot.

Still there is something in the longevity example that’s evading the trivial explanation.
I like this idea except for YouTube, I don't want to have to stay on top of what IPs are used for its main page, API, thumbnails, etc.
"Open source values" is just a covert way of saying "RMS values"
> Google is not a democratic institution -- it has a strict hierarchy decided from the top, so it's pretty resistant to these tactics.

Dictatorial control only prevents this for institutions small enough for the dictator to fully understand every part of the organization.

Without that, you get middle managers jockeying for position and playing CYA and the people at the top are too far away from it to put a stop to it.
No, you guys are all dead... It'll just take years. Because you're all locked into a proprietary architecture that has an external root-of-trust that doesn't care about you and is using all of its influence to exploit you. Power10 will be the way if Raptor removes the blobs. AMD chips will be the way if Project X has any serious success.
> Is there a pattern to the above? It seems like a combination of [a] big complex software with lots of features, [and a] GUI... often means that open-source collaboration model falls behind the proprietary commercial offerings. Why?

Interaction Design (IxD) isn’t something that can be done piecemeal; it needs to be done top-down, with an overarching vision, to achieve its ends (an intuitive design.) Intuition comes from obvious implicit structure, where you can easily “get into the mind of” the designer, discover their mental model, and then use it to predict how other features will work. If there’s no single designer (or very-tightly-constraining design document) then there’s no unified mental model to learn, and so no intuition.

And there are relatively-few professional designers in the open-source community.

It’s easy and low-friction for a professional programmer to “scratch their own itch” by implementing just one little change in a piece of software, and by that means, FOSS software’s source code quality can be improved piecemeal. But it’s both difficult (you have to re-do everything at once for it to help) and high-friction (hard to convince the software maintainers to accept the change) to contribute a design change to FOSS software. So useful FOSS software design changes are almost impractical (unless the stars align); and so professional designers just don’t bother to even try to take part in the community.

So instead, FOSS software just tends to languish without any unified design vision ever being applied to it. (Or with a bad, arbitrary, and unintuitive design vision being contributed at some point by some inexperienced designer, and being accepted because the maintainers are all programmers with no sense for IxD themselves.)

There’s also the fact that a lot of IxD needs to be informed by data — e.g. user workflow studies — that cost money to run; and FOSS projects don’t tend to have the budget for this, or don’t tend to see it as a priority for spending what budget they do have, since they have no “design advocate” on the team to ask for it.
Games are completely out for me, except for Microsoft Solitaire on my phone for odd moments. I haven't found an immersive game since playing Harpoon in the early Aughts. They require too much time, too much hardware, and give me little return.

But I do read a lot, still, thanks to the Kindle. I re-read a lot of beloved books, so having the library on the device or easily available is important. But I also find as I grow older it can be harder to concentrate on things. The TV is on too often in my house, and there's really not a good place to escape from it, and it is much more a distraction than the Internet.

Still, I manage to get through between twenty and forty books a year, both new and old.
Read it last month. Always thought it would be overhyped boring and trivial. Wow I was wrong!
It's recommended everywhere because it is that good.
This will not. Cooke banners are implemented by the legal team. 95% of the time they come as a prepackaged service that runs on every new web session.

Source: I've been on several implementation teams for cookie banners.
Not really. The US companies have some bad reputation regarding work culture ( no holidays, expectation to be available after hours).
There are a lot of European companies.
Mathematica also has the more specialized packed and numeric array types.
Yes, but the arrival of M1 and the increasing use of ARM in the cloud means many of us in this space are fully ARM for the first time. It is supplanting X86 as our default.
Although they're still not the highest grade comments on the internet I have noticed a marked improvement in Youtube comments over the last 5 years. I'm not sure what Youtube changed but it's definitely working. However they're still utterly toxic in some circles (eg, anything gaming related).
When people are just following the rituals then it’s not a protest over actions that happened in the past by people since dead. It’s a protest of the continuing harm being felt by those groups. It’s also a recognition that those problematic self sustaining rituals are sometimes hard to see from the inside.
Firefox + NoScript is the only easy solution that actually works.

That said, you have to keep in mind that ms/apple/google crap is whitelested so you're going to need to purge their pages. Takes about a minute to disable all whitelisted entries.
My Favourite "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions"
Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (2017)
I would rather pay the Internet Archive to persist the corpus, Cloudflare to front it (CDN), and directly pay the devs and editors. The Wikimedia bureaucracy has needlessly grown to meet the needs of the ever growing bureaucracy, having captured users with the centralized library.
A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Secret-Whispers-those-living/...

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211299/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happin...
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Those are your own definitions. open-source/free software is about the license, period.

Then some people wants to add some romance around it but that is just their own opinion.
imo, good! that's empathy

i try to convince everyone with a scammy idea to think twice, simply by asking how they would feel if someone else had tried that same scam on their mom/dad/grandparents, and what they would do to the scammer

another trick is "how would your mother feel if she knew you make money by scamming", but thats a bit more pointed and reserved for actual friends since it can lead to a fight

the few % who would actually scam their own mother, bless them. i'm just happy the total number of scammers to people is still <5% ish :)
Thanks to all Log4j developers. As users of your free software since ~20 years, we're sure that, if this vuln disclosure had been better and there were no sign of widespread in-the-wild exploitation, you would have done a better job at patching it, and a single release would have been enough.

We won't hold a grudge against you; open source means collaboration, and you don't blame hard-working people that give away their software for free for honest mistakes. Your software still did far more good than bad to the software world.

Thanks!
Progress has slowed down because we solved all the easier problems that we could with the human mind.

Now technology is catching up to give us the computing power, massive collective memory, digital records, and AI to start gaining again. We basically have to build a better mind to get to the next level.
Lots of ordinary phrases have their origin in sailing.

Touch and go - when a ship didn't dock but just put in a boat for resupply/rewater

Devil to pay - putting pitch between cracks in deck boards for waterproofing, and the 'devil' was the board right at the rail, difficult to 'pay out' pitch there

Leeway - allowance perpendicular to ship's desired direction of travel, due to slipping sideways due to wind pressure

By and large - you either sailed 'by the wind' (nearly into the direction the wind was coming) or you sailed 'large' (with the wind)

Pipe down - last signal of the shift from the piper; all quiet after this

Six sheets to the wind - a slack ship might not have all the 'sheets' or small cords used to trim sails, properly tied off. The would flap in the wind, and everybody would know you were a slack crew

Cat's out of the bag - when a sailor stood before the officers to address some accusation, the officer in charge of the whip (cat-o-nine-tails) kept it in a bag. If it wasn't going well for the sailor, they might take the cat out of the bag and perhaps begin practicing

The list goes on and on. Read Patrick O'Briens series "Master and Commander" to get a good sense of their prevalence and usage.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamb%C3%A9 , even a 40% ethanol solution is ignitable.

"Cognac, rum, or other flavorful liquors that are about 40% alcohol (80 USA proof) are considered ideal for flambé. ... High-alcohol liquors, such as Bacardi 151 or Everclear, are highly flammable and considered too dangerous by professional cooks."

The recommendation from the FDA seems to be that hand sanitizer needs to be at least 60% alcohol.
Ask HN: Tips and suggestions for starting a software development firm?
I’m in the preliminary planning stages of starting a new software development company and wanted to see if any of you nice folks had suggestions or tips for doing so?
I laughed so hard at this. It's like "We took all the good parts of being open source, and the good parts of NOT being open source".
You're assuming they didn't make more than $200 MM by evading regulations. I'm willing to bet they made significantly more than this and will continue to operate profitably as that is their business. This fine is barely 1% of their quarterly profits.
Most humans actually don't run around attacking stuff.
Being objectively less secure is not a solution.

Use Chromium. Use Vanadium.
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I advise careful consideration about what it says that these things tend to be correlated. Social technologies that have existed for a very long time tend to have strong second-order effects in seemingly unrelated domains; those social technologies survive because their users are better adapted.
To the people recommending Firefox. I would if they decided to support the modern web. Start supporting Web Bluetooth/USB. Have a Firefox based version of electron. Make it easy for people to make forks of your browser engine (there a ton of chromium based browsers, not a lot of firefox based ones). Oh, and NodeJS uses Chromium's JS engine. Mozilla lost the fight for the modern web. I want competition but I don't see how Mozilla is going to be it, maybe another browser engine will come.
I both hate and love you all at the same time.
>But then, it's log4j developers and Apache that should be blamed. Bah. That's SO pretentious.

Um, yeah. They wrote the idiotic code that allowed this to happen. Who should get the blame then, the users? Duh, no. Should the hackers taking advantage of the exploit? Maybe, some, but they wouldn't be able to do it if the code wasn't so badly wrritten.

>Why didn't anybody else step up to help them?

To me, this is the pretentious part. I didn't write the code, I don't use the code, so why in the world should I be expected to fix the code? Do you use the code? Why didn't YOU fix it?
Meditations and Freakonomics for sure. Also when I was down in life, Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living helped a lot too.
What is my worst pain? I hate paying medical bills
I was vacuuming listening to YC startup school. I thought, what is my worst pain in life? Paying medical bills popped into my head. It's just such an annoying adult chore to sit down at the computer, type in a long url, punch in an account # and pin, and pay. I just want to text a picture. So I made it.
"they"? It's an open source software. What exactly do you expect?
Isn't this a series of novels targeted at 12 year olds?
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It's an autobiography that uses permaculture to inspire a simple life.
> How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?

For papers, mostly through social sharing I think. HN, reddit, and slack communities. For videos, I subscribe to a few youtube channels, like PapersWeLove. Reddit has /r/contalks as well for a broader list.

The rest is second order effects. If in the course of reading an article, I notice the author because I've seen another article from them I like, I'll subscribe to them. Bloggers have RSS feeds, and even researchers like Cormac Herley can be followed via Google Scholar. Or if a conference seems to produce a lot of interesting research, I'll add it to my calendar for next year to review next year's crop of papers. And the stuff I read typically has references, so if a subject interests me, I'll typically glance at the citations as I encounter them and put interesting ones in my backlog.

> a tool capable of tracking articles/papers/talks you read/like and suggest things you could be interested in. Does anybody use/know a tool like that?

Youtube does this. I get recommendations for USENIX talks that are fairly newly uploaded, because ive watched a few in the past. This is actually useful since sometimes USENIX uploads videos years after the conference; I seem to be getting a few recs from conference recordings taken years ago but uploaded this week.

I'd imagine Mendeley and other citation managers could also help here, but it's pretty niche and as a not-professional researcher, adopting these for professional use is far down my backlog.
It would be much simpler to block all requests to download the analytics javascript/web bug URL. Makes me think they want to keep collecting user data even if you install this.
Most licensed EEs are completely unqualified to weigh in on product safety and liability too! Licensed EEs sign off on building power, basically.

EEs that work on products fall under the "industrial exemption" - their employers are responsible for having appropriate processes in place for product safety.
Timeless
Yes, I've experienced this. One new CEO said he didn't want to spend the time and the money to do a good job building a great community. It was cheaper and simpler for him to focus the company's energy on their 20 big clients. This isn't true for many applications, but it is for his. And I had to agree.
Find me a reputable source on the same level as Wikipedia, the open source foundation or red hat that defines open source in a different way.

This is not about owning a term, it's simply about the fact that term had a definition that people agree on. The fact that some people don't know about that definition or that some people don't agree with it doesn't change it.
Every single hacker here should switch to Firefox. If not for how much better it is (IMO it is), purely for the sake of common good.

Firefox team also needs a bit of spanking - WTF are you doing with this product? The PMs and the leadership of Firefox is fucking things up. We just want a goddamn browser. Stop changing the UI. Stop with all this other bullshit. No one is asking for it. I really don't want a future Firefox-AI assistant. The way things are going, the probability of this is pretty high.
Is Firefox really a solution anymore? Recent news about Firefox implementing [Manifest V3](https://9to5google.com/2021/05/28/firefox-manifest-v3-extens...) with "Manifest V3" appearing to be another attempt from Google to kneecap privacy extensions. I've been considering Brave which I had pretty much ignored but I honestly don't know who to trust. I think it's basically common knowledge we can't trust either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
So I'm guessing that without intervention, two distinct sentient groups would be at constant warfare with each other until one group was extinct.

Is this what happened with early hominids and why there aren't other creatures that have evolved to the same level of intelligence as humans?
Is that what they're slurping?

Or just what they're showing you?