skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The books which really affected my life, and which all-too few people have read:

- Hal Clement's _Space Lash_ --- a collection of short stories, these are still thought-provoking now, esp. "Raindrop" and "The Mechanic", w/ the former seeming esp. prescient. These are available in: _Music of Many Spheres_: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939760.Music_of_Many_Sph...

- Hal Gordon's _Divers Down! Adventure Under Hawaiian Seas_ which is available as a podcast: https://www.sffaudio.com/uvula-audio-divers-down-adventure-u... --- where I got my work ethic

- Susan Cooper's _The Dark is Rising_ pentalogy --- early urban fantasy billed as a young adult series --- good insights on morality

- Steven Brust's _The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars_ --- art and life and love by a writer who always has something interesting to say --- other books in this series are quite good

- Oscar Ogg's _The 26 Letters_ and Warren Chappell's _The Living Alphabet_ and _A Short History of the Printed Word_ --- these books, which I read when I was quite young were why I studied graphic design and did book composition --- if you read and understand them, you'll know more about typography than most professional designers

- H. Beam Piper's _Little Fuzzy_ --- a delightful book, which is beautifully read by tabithat on Librivox: https://librivox.org/little-fuzzy-by-h-beam-piper/

- C. J. Cherryh's _Rimrunners_ and the balance of her Alliance-Union books --- her stuff is always worth reading.

One book which I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned, and which I need to read for myself is _Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics_ by Alfred Korzybski
On top of that I assume that the NSA (mostly) still has a PRISM-like programme in place, it would be foolish to assume otherwise. More exactly I do think that they (NSA and some other agencies) still have direct access to the servers of Google, MS, Facebook and Apple.

But I 100% agree with you, such lowly use-cases like the SEC chasing some bankers don't register on NSA's (and similar agencies') radar, it's only money, after all, I think they're more interested in dealings involving power itself.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies - Elizer Yudkowky

Truly a life-changing book that completely changed the way I think about the world and about people
> We suggest that the adaptive function of consciousness is to enable emotions to operate.

I wager a good number of religions are based on the concept that the purpose of consciousness is to regulate and inhibit the operation of emotions (through the guidance of their faith).
It appears that while the TPU is capable of ingesting the inputs of a few matrices each clock cycle, it likely takes several clock cycles for the matrix multiplication operation to percolate through the systolic array pipeline. That means while it may be able to sustain an average of one matrix multiplication per clock cycle, any particular matrix multiplication operation will require multiple cycles before the result is valid.
Pff sacrifice, he needs to keep his mouth closed and stop broadcasting to the society he has this money and keep it all for himself. life is long. He has avoided an enormous amount of suffering the society would have happily pushed on him for their gain if he was some broke suck. The entire society is set up to take advantage of him if he did not have this money.
OK, my understanding is to take your comparison as more of an Office Space style critique of the modern corporation then.
My favourite thing about this is that the Wikipedia article has a list of all of the years since 1966 and if it survived or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat#Timeline
It performs extremely well; lead glazes can be fired at lower temperatures, produce smoother and glossier finishes with fewer flaws, and prevents crystallization (that's desirable in some glazes, but you don't want it all the time). I'm probably forgetting a few other benefits.

Of course, toxicity means that it pretty much isn't used any more, so alternatives have been developed. They're just harder to work with.
Could you point to what you think is over-engineered here?
It’s a giant game of Go.
Having dived with pacific otters, they are just plain aggressive. They seemed to genuinely just enjoy being mean.

Sea lions, on the other hand, are super pleasant and playful.
Using mmap() is popular because it is easy despite its many sharp edges, but outside a limited number of access patterns and hardware setups it is often quite slow because the page cache behavior is poor for many use cases. Manually buffering is often simpler, and with better performance, than trying to make the page cache perform well. Furthermore, mmap() doesn't work for large storage volumes generally, so you might find yourself doing your own buffering regardless.

If you have a relatively simple access pattern, and most applications do, then you don't need to be a database kernel engineer to design a trivial manual buffering system that can significantly outperform mmap(). It is a handful of lines of code in most languages.
This is a good place to ask that question, because a reasonable number of people on here have done that.

First, you don't have to do anything immediately. Park the money someplace safe for a while. (That's harder than it used to be. When I was in this position T-bills paid 7.5%.)

Second, most people who make a lot of money all at once blow through it in seven years. Don't be that guy. I know a couple who blew through US$15 million, lost their house, divorced, and the wife had to take a job cooking in a restaurant.

So definitely finish the degree. You're going to need it later.

I basically chose to have a modest but comfortable life. Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. I still program for fun. My other screen has a program in test running right now.
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
There's a reason why most chemistry equipment is made out of glass.
I Stopped Cosmonauts from Carrying Guns (2014)
> it would also be easy to miss us

Or maybe they found us but they just don't care because on cosmic scales we aren't as special as we appear to be from our own limited perspective.
Smart person!
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2021
> How the hell do I explore that without spending 2 hours derailed by fun history facts? Answer: I do not.

Actually, the answer is "train your brain". Nobody's forcing you to get distracted and start clicking/tapping on other things - you're taking the actions yourself.

Now, of course, TikTok is designed to pull you in as much as possible, but ultimately it's still completely manageable. The maximum addictiveness of the internet (and adjacent things) is still not even comparable to that of hard drugs, and people can quit those.

It can be hard (depending on brain chemistry and how deep you're in), but it's doable, just like starting an exercise habit, quitting smoking, or learning to control video game use or eating habits.
Logging can easily be a legal requirement.
Anecdotally, this is the same anywhere. Cops take forever to show up. I always assumed it was a coordinated effort to pump the populace for more funding.
Hah, https://dbenamy.blogspot.com/2010/01/most-expensive-keyboard...

+1 on them being an awesome company!
I suspect ‘killer robots’ wont be banned until after they are used to great effect in some future conflict. Think chemical weapons bans that emerged after WWI.
> The title appears neutral, but I can't help but think "I've definitely been unwittingly poisoning myself"

Probably because this abridged title isn't neutral (flagged accordingly). By simply stating "Lead exposure from [x]," the implication is that impactful exposure risk exists.

The original title and even the condensed title (everything after the colon scrubbed) were both at least 18 characters too long, but a better abridgement of the title would've been "A pilot study to assess lead exposure from routine consumption from ceramic mugs" scrubbing the coffee/tea reference as the subject happens to be the mugs themselves
Why bother to implement something when someone else did it ? Why bother thinking to check the quality of the code when someone else did it ?
Since this is new-found money, don't do anything sudden or drastic, as you emotionally need to find a new equilibrium. But if it continues to be a motivation killer, there is a simple solution: give away some of the money.

Various studies have shown that giving a gift of $X to someone brings more happiness than receiving $X. Of course, people who are economically marginal need the money more than they need the positive feelings of helping someone else, but that isn't your current situation. Take your time and investigate some charities. Don't make one big donation; by spreading out the time considering things, you are also spending more time imagining how many people this could help.

One important concept is: effective altruism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

One shouldn't pick a charity simply because they have the smallest overhead. Pick one which can do the most good for the worst off. For instance, yes, you could buy a custom vehicle for 50K euro so someone without legs can drive around, and it is fantastic for that one person. Or with that same amount of money you could literally prevent ten deaths, or 1000 cases of blindness through medical interventions in some of the poorest countries.

Here is an example: if a woman is in labor too long, the pressure of the fetus can cause an ulceration of the woman's vaginal wall. Without proper medical care, it leaves her with a permanent hole between her intestines and her vagina. As a result, gas and feces can freely run out of her vagina, making her a social outcast. $750 is what it costs to give such a woman the surgery to fix this and a month to heal, allowing her to return to a normal life.

https://fistulafoundation.org/

You don't need to give everything away. Start with an amount that is significant but doesn't materially effect your lifestyle, say 250K euro. Then find a basket of charities that are meaningful to you over the next year, and donate. After that year, decide if you you want to do more or not. If not, at least you helped some people and you still have 95% of your windfall.

Finally, as other people have said, don't advertise your wealth. You will find "friends" who are happy to spend it for you. At the time it will seem fun and exciting to have so many friends doing so many things with, since it will be filling an emotional hole which you've expressed. Unfortunately, this exact scenario happened with my son (a smaller amount than yours, but over $1M). He had a lot of shallow friends for a couple years until the money ran out.
Saying things like "I don't like this software because <concrete reason>" is reasonable; it can be considered constructive criticism, especially if you include a way it could be done better. Heck, even just "I think it's too complicated to use, and the underlying code base needed to support that complexity lends itself to bugs that can be exploited" would be better.

Saying things like "No amount of money is going to impart good taste and best practices onto these projects" is insulting the people who wrote it with no real basis. It's not helpful and it makes you (and some other people in the thread) sound like a jerk.
And to answer your question, because my other post was a question itself:

> after a certain point it does require some manual work from the customer

Once you gain traction, you can become a platform, intermediary between customers and engineers that will fine tune scraping to what the customer needs. This could either be some sort of "Solution Engineer" that the company hires, or open it up to outside developers that get paid per integration (either by you or by the customer, or both). There's a solution to every problem.

As far as the business itself, I think you could be on to something. Of course, ideas are cheap and it's the execution that counts, but here's how I'd think about it: with scraping, every website on the web has an API. Before, only 0.1% of websites had an API.

And certainly wouldn't hurt to change the "scraping" word – such an ugly word.
Need to correct. Thanks for catching.
What the hell are you talking about? No-name Shenzhen manufacturers rocket to the #1 slot all the time, through a combination of being cheaper and literally paying for 5 star reviews

Just search for anything on Amazon right now and you can see what I mean. I ran afoul of this when I needed a humidifier last year, but just now I searched for "phone charger" and the front page was mostly brands that exist solely on Amazon and some tiny Facebook page
Never mind business, a web-scraping command-line utility as comprehensive and easy to use as say curl would be something. I would even pay for that.
It's the responsibility of the multi-billion dollar financial institution to ensure that their employees know the rules via regular trainings. This isn't mysterious.
I'm not a Java developer, but I don't quite understand your complaint. You haven't used the library in question, you don't have any experience beyond the 'smell of the ecosystem' two decades ago, but you're opining at length on its 'poor design' and proneness to security disasters.

What knowledge do you have, about this library which you've never used, which qualifies you to say that it's especially prone to security vulnerabilities - other than hindsight bias?
Wait… is this satire?
Having been primarily a Scala dev for the last 12 years I feel like people have slowly lost their minds over what pragmatic FP in Scala should be.

People are willingly recreating the Java situation of 'I don't know the project yet but I know we need Spring!' with these ridiculous libraries from Haskell zealots for no obvious benefit.

The ergonomics of this lib out of the box are literally worse for no reason, and worse than most other existing logging libs, because of it
> You can release the source but still maintain central control.

Until someone with a larger budget than you forks it and uses their immense resources to force you out of the market. Then you liquidate your company and someone else gets the rights to maintain your fork.
nah, CIA’s greatest trick is making people look over their shoulders, sabotage themselves through paranoia.

All the things in the quote happen naturally, through people’s general incompetence. To put it in a field manual is very tongue in cheek, reads to me as irony. Corporations and political parties run themselves as poorly as if they were infiltrated by sabotagers, but they do it to themselves.
Insurance firm Admiral fails grab phone location data of fraud claimants mother
Indeed. Every Node.js/npm installation, ever.
Parachuting has a risk association, the probability of injury/death or safety, which is 50/50 each jump, the math of parachuting is well researched and known.

<https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=injury%20or%20death%20rat...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachuting>

All of which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the Article.

P.S. I did enjoy the Herring ;)
I feel like a lot of microservice advocates fail to price in the overhead introduced when you split stuff up into multiple independent communicating units.

Example: Replacing a simple database query (effectively instant) and relaying the data as a local variable, with poking a seperately hosted microservice which ends up adding 20ms of overhead doing a HTTPS request, encoding and de-encoding the result in JSON, etc.
I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but it made me chuckle:

Your pain is our concern so here's some wisdom:
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Wholeheartedly agree :-)

(See my handle too!)

Nice to find a kindred spirit.

Might I recommend giving Iliad and Odyssey a go - if you haven’t already.

Less history, more poetry. But enthralling all the same.

I particularly enjoyed the Alexander Pope translations.
Well what if all that we can do is run interference on entropy. By executing perfect uselessness at a higher order the local councilman fights against the gnawing maw of the HOA.
Can breaking terms of service result in anything more than being banned from the site you are scraping?
bc log4j isn't some random library people found on the street it's been used in industry forever lol

yea literally any library/dependency can introduce risk, including stuff coded internally for those purposes
There is an abstract in every academic paper and this paper had this bit in the abstract: "The estimated daily dose of lead exceeded the California Maximum Allowable Dose Level of 0.5 μg per day for one of the five mugs tested. Blood lead levels did not increase above regulatory or guidance values.". As others have written, "Blood lead levels did not increase" does not mean there is no long-term health problem, it was simply outside the scope of the publication. Academic paper titles are almost always describe what the paper is about, not what the conclusion is. Academics don't do frontloading, thankfully.

Edit: to look into the title further, you can see that it starts with "A _pilot_ study". This can indicate that the sample size of 5 mugs was not a mistake and the main purpose of the paper is to get feedback on the methodology and a larger follow-up study may be underway and we shouldn't be deriving any (health-related) conclusions from this paper.
Also it's very easy to get blacklisted if you scrape too often or too quickly. You definitely have to be "polite" about it.
I mean, I'm not sure how Tranco would get those traffic numbers, since I'm not sharing traffic data with anyone. All of my analytics are within my own system.
Problem comes when you have a lot of various parts that want to log.
Lets say you have a message processing system getting messages from http and throwing that in a db and keeping counts on an external API. Now every module can use a log library and you, final user of the system can decide where the db log goes, where the http client debug message go, how much detail you want on any of these etc. So in the world of small applications and services, you can come up with a simple logging function. On large projects it is much more complicated.
You can just select that ruleset in ublock...
Why is it bad though . I don’t have hours to spend reading a book. Did they not say the same thing when TVs initially came out ? Seems like just another “back in the good old days” post .
It's not a great journal. Per the metrics:

0.882 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.37 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
4 - Cite Score

This is a place where niche papers get published. Springer runs tons of crap journals.

(for reference, SJR scores for all journals: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php)
You are conflating "open source" with "open contribution". https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#open-source-not-open-contri... explains it neatly:

> Similar to SQLite, diagrams.net is open source but closed to contributions.

> The level of complexity of this project means that even simple changes can break a lot of other moving parts. The amount of testing required is far more than it first seems. If we were to receive a PR, we'd have to basically throw it away and write it how we want it to be implemented.

> We are grateful for community involvement, bug reports, & feature requests. We do not wish to come off as anything but welcoming, however, we've made the decision to keep this project closed to contributions for the long term viability of the project.
Re. Dune:

"I must not fear, fear is the mind killer." ... possibly the single best piece of advice for prospering in western corporate environments.

Can be seen as a rephrasing of the SAS motto "Who dares wins", but with an added insight on how fear cripples your higher thought processes.
Was your drive money for the sake of making a living or the like?

I personally have a project I would like to fully invest my life on and I would love to have the opportunity of not having to work (even when I am doing it for a FAANG) so I can see it progress, i think it may give me a fair amount of money, yet the real drive behind it is so I can improve people's lives. I think you need that, find that something "you would like to be rememvered for". Notice I am not siggesting you to put all your money on it, but your hearth. Figure out a cause that engages you, IDK what would that be for you, preserving nature. Researching something you are interested on. It does not has to be something radical nor new, you could follow the path someone else has already walk just for the joy of learning, who knows,aybe you will see something they did not.

And please! Stay out of drugs. I am a christian believer and yet even if you are not there is plenty of wisdom on that book so please note the following:

KJB - Genesis 3:17

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life"

cursed is the ground for thy sake

The curse of having to work toake the land productive is FOR THY SAKE.

Leisure and money will destroy yoyr life if you dont handle it properly so keep yourself meaningfully occupied.

Enjoy such a great blessing, dont tunr it onto a curse on yourself.

Cheers
Procedure: something that has only side effects.

Function: something that may have side effects but that also returns a value.

Pure Function: something that only returns a value, and has no side effects.

That's how I always understood the terms.
damn i checked ur profile and ur actually based respect
the french revolution wasn’t fun for anyone, and don’t be so confident on which side of the guillotine you’ll find yourself
> The uncomfortable truth is these libraries need scratch rewrites with better authors.

If that's true, do you think that having money might possibly be helpful to that effort?
because Log4J is also used by libraries. Which means you can configure the log level and capture logs from libraries and dependencies you use in a global configuration.
I like it design wise, but like a lot of these "de-clutter" tools it defaults to disabling security features without warning and will break some sites while making most sites slower. Plus it ironically installs a bunch of browser addons.

So if you hit next, next, next you'll lose: Google Safebrowsing (security), malware scan (security), DNS over HTTPS (security and sometimes functionality), Automatic Browser Updates, access to content that requires Widevine, all third-party cookies-based authentication, anything that relies on referers, anything that relies on IndexDB, anything that relies on extended session info, anything that uses WebGL or WebRTC or WebAudio, et al.

As I said, I like the design, but the current defaults get 0/10 from me. Simply awful. If use the default profile here your browsing experience will be objectively worse and less secure.
From a utilitarian perspective: money represents choices. If you have a lot of it, you have more choices: whether to go to work or not, live in any country you like, doing chores or not, and living in any neighborhood. The less money you have, the fewer the options are.