skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein.

It ultimately led me down a path that changed a lot about how I approached investing, and how I perform value appraisal / how I view value in general across all aspects of life. The principles of value investing and value judging apply to most things, rather than being narrowly limited to eg stock investing. It introduced me to some of the basic foundations of value investing. It's not a super renowned book (ala Ben Graham's various treatises on value investing), however it's my favorite Buffett book regardless and the one I most often recommend to new investors.

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. Such a simple concept, so extraordinarily important as a distinction.
Agreed, I was at a Xmas dinner party last Saturday with 9 people, all who were double vax'd with Pfizer and 7 of the 9 were previously infected either last year or earlier this year - in short as a group we should have been close to maximum theoritical immunity (all of us are 35 or under too). Everyone at Dinner except myself (somehow) has now contracted Covid again (confirmed via PCR and Antigen testing). Its just nuts, I am buying SPY puts ;)
I would agree with this. Although his delivery is a little over the top, I think there is some real truth in managing debt and finances.
The derogatory and inaccurate use of “monkey patch” to describe adding methods to an open class identifies you as a Python advocate, so grains of salt applied, but:

I can’t speak for this particular Rails usage, but one of the most powerful things you can do with Ruby is build domain-specific languages without modifying the language itself. *This is a core feature of Ruby.*

The criticism you’re making is one of the Rails DSL — there’s nothing in Ruby preventing you from instead writing account.desposit(Dollar.of(100)).

Put another way: This is like people criticizing RISC-V for not having multiplication in the core ISA — they don’t seem to grasp that RISC-V is an ISA construction set. Ruby is a language construction set.
I must be the only person on the planet who likes AppleScript :)
“The Machine that Changed the World” and “The Toyota Way” provided me with numerous insights into a number of activities, both professional and recreational. Some of the thinking may be out of vogue in management circles, but the case laid out by the authors is compelling in itself and provides a new lens through which to look at workflow.
I don't know why you're speaking for me here?

Laws are made by lobbyists purchasing government seats in your "free market". It's laughable you think consumers have an impact on the passage of laws or their contents
Yes, his idea around model agnosticism completely changed the way I engage with reality.
This tight integration between language and general purpose tool is a nice idea with a terrible price. It would make tools a lot harder to develop and they would be a lot slower as they now have to perform significantly more work.
This isn’t how I see it really. It doesn’t make sense to label DHH as just a product guy. He is an engineer that designed a software framework.

The fact that all alternatives you see are done by engineers doesn’t feel that shocking because, well, all software frameworks require them to be built by software engineers.

Some are lucky to have a good sense of customer/user needs and the desire to build products too. Frameworks like Remix are thinking about balancing good UX, DX an what the tech of today can today and not simply solving engineering problems.
The website would be GPL, but since you're not giving anyone binaries you also don't have to give anyone the source.
Greg Egan's Permutation City had a major influence on my own thoughts on consciousness and AI, as did Hofstadter's G.E.B. The Dust Theory in Permutation City is fairly mindblowing, and in a sense takes the ideas behind a Boltzmann brain to even further extremes.

Epictetus' Enchiridion helped me massively with depression and anxiety over the past few years. I still read a few excerpts from it weekly. Much of it is self evident, but it's reassuring and reinforcing.

The works of Terry Pratchett shaped my sense of humor, and my outlook on life. I would definitely be a different person today if I hadn't encountered Discworld at such an early age. They've made me a optimistic cynic.

I'd highly recommend anybody interested in starting the Discworld books to start with Mort, and then the rest of the Death series in order (Hogfather in particular).
Has anyone tried it out and knows if this also gets rid of the Cookie banners?

Blocking them with uBlock origin is a bit of a PITA, as the rules always break sooner or later, and whenever I happen to end up on google somehow, getting the banner does tend to get a bit annoying
I kinda doubt that. The US Mint manufactures a ton of commemorative coins in denominations and materials (e.g. silver dollars, gold $5, etc) that have no relationship to the circulating coinage. As long as there’s an audience for it, I expect they will keep launching products.
Would your bank add third party js to their site without vetting it and locking it down?

Also, please don’t answer that honestly because lots of banks actually had vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to inject js into their sites to steal login info.
Doesn't help that every product is trying to be as addictive as possible these days. All the psychological devastation of hard drugs and none of the euphoria.
I've lived in many of those areas. I agree, plenty of smart people, but not the same density compared to the Bay Area.
This is just a small microcosm of what’s going on in the cable TV world. Many channels are raising their fees, but the cable providers are very reluctant to raise the price charged to end users. Instead, cable providers are opting to drop channels. This is leading to an increasingly fragmented cable TV market where it’s impossible to get all the channels you may want to watch. For instance, Comcast just dropped MSG, which is a channel for NY-based sports. The only alternative many people have is to use FuboTV, but Fubo has dropped Adult Swim for the same reason. So now it’s impossible to get both MSG and Adult Swim.
I think previous poster is saying this is not really the place for titillating innuendo, or low effort jokes about such, which I’d tend to agree.
I seem passing by this really funny captcha on the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service's [1] signup page.

[1] http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the best EV we drove in 2021
I guess the point is that the scale is actually not that large, but that's perfectly ok because most problems will never need that large scale either.

In fact, the article makes a very good point how just doing it in postgres is great, it doesn't really scale (because of ACID), and adapting it for scale after you need it will lead to a better design than what you would do if you started optimizing without any information.
Wikisource also has On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures[1] in their current Monthly "sprint"[2]

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:On_the_economy_of_machi...

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Community_collabor...
> China essentially beat the virus by April 2020, and has had almost no cases or deaths since.

China has paid a huge economic cost for its zero COVID policy, not many other countries could or would afford such a solution. They aren’t the envy of the world (let alone America) in this regard.
May I suggest the Expanse series. It’s I think a good “split the difference” book series. Not too pulpy, not too intellectually straining that I’m struggling to hold my attention like a Neal Stephenson book either.
> keeping the web truly machine readable. There's tremendous value in restoring some of it.

:-)
I'm not claiming that both sides are equally terrible, only that both sides are terrible.

It's like having two colleagues, one of whom is an openly hostile, selfish asshole, and the other who is nice to your face but talks shit about you when you're not around and sometimes stabs you in the back when it's convenient for them. If you asked people who they'd rather associate with if they had to choose one, I think you'd get a pretty even split roughly along partisan lines.

I also think it's pretty clear that the two-faced one would easily get a majority if they weren't so duplicitous and didn't stab you in the back so much. Instead of insisting they do this, people are instead expending all of their energy complaining that the other guy has recently become an even bigger asshole.
Well obviously you should be using a browser that actually supports uBlock Origin for it to work.
Would the first book be valuable for someone in their late 20's? I'm fairly happy with what I've done this decade, but maybe I could apply the relevant stuff to my 30s...
I really like arxiv-sanity. I browse the trending lists and also like to surf the “similar papers” links

I wish there was something similar for the general literature, it only indexes like the ML and vision related communities

http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/
You don't need to offer an improvement to the SAT to complain about its obvious faults.
A product that is worn on one’s head potentially exploding or spontaneously causing a chemical fire due to to suboptimal environmental factors counts as a design flaw, at least in my book. Something that is used on people’s heads should not fail that way if it is going fail.
Actually this is not true. Hotspot can deoptimize code. It optimizes making some assumptions. If these assumptions stop holding, code gets deoptimized, measured for a while, and reoptimized with new assumptions.

For example, an interface implemented by only 1 class might get the class inlined. If a second implementer pops up (which can happen at runtime for e.g. some dynamically generated class), all of this will get undone.

There was a series of small articles with all these things, but I can't seem to find them right now.
> sadly enough they aren't applying planned coordinated actions

If you have an organization, it can be attacked, both legally and extralegally. Cf. the history of labor organizing in the US.

And without it, distributed, uncoordinated action is less likely to lead to positive-sum outcomes, but is also a far harder-to-suppress tax on the corporate order.
What it does, under the covers:

(function() {
var a = document.createElement("script");
a.type = "text/javascript";
a.innerText = 'window["_gaUserPrefs"] = { ioo : function() { return true; } }';
document.documentElement.insertBefore(a,
document.documentElement.firstChild);
})()

And it injects that into every site you visit:

"matches": [
"http://*/*",
"https://*/*"
],

They should probably replace it with their declarative blocking functionality.
Normally people say that power is being wielded dangerously when the power is used to do something disagreeable. Simply enforcing the law correctly doesn’t seem dangerous to me.
That would add a directionality component as some objects closer to said black hole would accelerate faster.

A more plausible but unprovable option is that we are close to the center of a big void (the density of the matter in our neighborhood is much lower than outside the observable universe). So the higher mass concentration attracts objects in our neighborhood giving the impression of an accelerating expansion.
The problem with this theory are that we would have to be almost at the center of this bubble of almost nothing (so the notion that earth is not in a special position is lost) and that if spacetime is not expanding we cannot explain why very distant galaxies recede from us faster than light. FTL travel though spacetime should be impossible but spacetime expanding faster than light is.
Maybe the post is a "Parable of Lightening / Kolmolgorov Complicty" trap, but I would like to say what I think this is being used as source material for, and I won't directly because there isn't an easy way to make a comment on it without being antagonistic, but it's important to recognize that there exists a manual of these organized tactics, produced by an organization that employed Herbert Marcuse, whose work is taught in every humanities undergrad in the western world, where their graduates largely go on to work in organizations appendant to the public sector.
Wow. It might be possible that our relation/domestication of dogs started well before we become sapiens. Because, why would the baboons pick a dog and not a tiger.
C11 had some very good updates for multithreading, unicode support and alignment specifications. All of those things made the language better. Yes compared to the crazy changes going on in C++ land all of these are minor, but they are good maintenance improvements.

C11 also had _Generic as a "major" addition (and a crappy one IMO). I agree that if C is not going to evolve in any meaningful way, they should probably just stop adding stuff to it entirely. Either go for a "C++11" or let it be frozen in place.
I'd argue the Democratic Party in California is mostly Neo-liberals (shit-libs really) and not actual progressives (yes, no true Scotsman fallacy). That's why they focus on woke issues and not actually raising minimum wage, universal healthcare, free college, subsidized childcare, guaranteed paternity/maternity leave. The democrats who control California are like Pelosi--using their positions to enrich themselves but actually only giving out breadcrumbs to everyone else. Bernie is the only real progressive I'm aware of, everyone else is some woke, virtue signaling Neo-liberal that is actually not that different from Hillary or the third-way democrats.
A notable excerpt that I often see in quotation:

(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production

(a) Organizations and Conferences

(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.

(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.

(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
Unfortunately the industry "bundles" (which is really de facto tying, illegal) channels with no value to most with those have are high value. The market for joint subscriptions to History, Bravo, TLC, and ESPN is probably fairly slim.
Not really. I buy youtube tv because I still want certain channels but I like the strraming aspects like not using a standard aweful cable box, watching from anywhere and from any device and the unlimited cloud dvr (which makes commercials a moot point except for the rare live show I watch). Losing ESPN is a big deal for me as I am a sports junky.
Well, that's a cancelled subscription from me.

I have no problem with them not being Open Source, but these arguments are all orthogonal to being Open Source.

There is a valid argument for not being Open Source: "We think a proprietary program with a monthly license fee is the best business model for our company and product."

You say that, I respect you.
You bring a bunch of bad arguments, I lose trust.
x86[-64] has its place (especially in "legacy" applications that have been running on it for running on half a century)

ARM has its place

RISC-V has its place

Along with myriad other architectures out there
NFTs, OpenSea and Conflicts of Interest
This is a gem for Karl Pilkington, true monkey news!
I dont understand this anti-digital-books attitude honestly. The books themselves are just paper. What really matters is their content. And everyone can read the same content on their phone.

Having this in mind, how is reading an EPUB any worse than reading a hardcover (besides personal preference)?
If we can agree that a student harassing another student while being enrolled in a US university is not acceptable under any situation, this should be able to be dealt with without mentioning 'China' at all. When I said separating political, I meant not bringing 'China' into the issue. As an example, if there was a clear case of assault by a perpetrator (in a different situation), even if there was a hate crime involved, the fact that an assault took place should be enough to press charge.
the chromium variant I use will be impacted; FF is adopting Manifest V3 too, it seems - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...
Also agree with this. The way we communicate with each other is the most direct method of changing the environment around us. I think NVC helps people to understand their own motivations, needs, and projections while they are having these conversations.
I'd rather just firewall off AS15169, which also solves other Google-related problems for entire networks of machines.
For the record, shitting on other languages does not represent the values of Libera #perl. Though I personally would not use python or PHP, use whatever gets the job done.
If they only ship the credit card mining code to 1 in 10k users, they could go undetected for long time and still make a tidy profit...
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky

https://bookshop.org/books/deterring-democracy/9780374523497

gave me a diff pov on the US/government, in particular. helped start shifting my perspective, break out of the 'indoctrination' of a standard US education, which already included college, gd.

i think it could matter because, if we're going to survive, americans will probably have to start looking at the world a bit differently -- since the US is still, for now, really the sole superpower in the world and effectively sets global policy, including and especially on climate collapse.

i imagine we'll maintain our 'sole superpower' status indefinitely, which doens't bode well for continued organized life on earth, unfortunately, but maybe we can still change our ways. maybe we'll be able to force the 1% to let us live, even in this much-diminished environment.
OpenSea does delist nft's for DMCA issues. They require folks filing DMCA requests to fully dox themselves to keep competitors from griefing projects that aren't violating anyone's copyright, but they do respond on it.
Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution of horses, disappearance of the .400 in baseball, where are all the modern Geniuses, and the most integral part- the dominance of bacteria- and how evolution and the progression of entropy/ the 2nd law, does not, against most intuition, generally _lead_ to the increase of complexity, but merely _allows_ for its existence.

I do disagree with him on the premise of "hot-hands," and the bit about joe dimaggio's performance being the most (statistically) outstanding in human history is also unintuitive.

The book does have such a general sense of applicability though, cannot recommend it enough.
> open source distributes design over small, self-assembling groups who individually tackle parts of an overall task, but large-scale, unified design needs centralized control and sustained effort.

I actually think at a minimum that this isn't true, but it's also possible that the complete opposite is true.

OSS has maintainers who know what they're doing. Fundamentally, one of their most important jobs is to gatekeep bad code and ideas from their project. It can be distributed, but it's not intrinsic to OSS at all. I find that usually the opposite is the case, and that maintainers leverage the technical controls they have over projects (basically PR's and RFC's) to "anchor" all decisions through them, while still trying to scale the work by having other people do as much of the work as possible.

However, I would say that potentially the even the reverse of what the author is saying is true in same cases.

> design over small, self-assembling groups who individually tackle parts of an overall task

From my perspective in a lot of privately run companies, the design and features that end up making it to production are actually a bunch of little compromises between special interests within a company, who are all vying for control and credit of the product. It's precisely because OSS is free and requires an extremely high degree of skill upon the maintainers that it's able to eschew these kinds of office politics and deliver what they think is the "best" for the software.

Obviously some projects are better than others, but I think there's a reason that OSS almost always tends to be of much higher quality than privately developed software. These "self-assembling" groups that organize along political boundaries of various product owners or managers is probably one thing that doesn't help get the best ideas to find immediate traction.

Am I wrong about this?
Yule Goat
> (3) Using a very rapid stroke will wear out a file before its time. So will dragging a file in slow strokes under heavy pressure. Exert pressure on the backward stroke as well as the forward stroke.

i'm learning more about proper technique than sabotage from this
Do stamp collectors qualify?
> it commoditized CPU architectures by providing an abstraction layer over them

I think that was part of the point - let people run their existing applications on Sun hardware. Yes it was more expensive but it was also more capable. Emphasising running on lots of smaller 'commodity' instances wasn't yet the done thing at the time.
Here’s JS for letting people opt out on your own site, if you use GA but want to offer the option: https://www.ercule.co/google-analytics-opt-out-javascript

(Disclaimer, written by me)
"why" has more works, i think somebody published a compendium
Prometheus (YC W19) Is Hiring
The basic functionality of Google Analytics does not have a way to identify you server-side. It uses first party cookies and does not store personally identifying information. Therefore the only reliable way to opt out of it is client-side.

Obviously ad blockers will accomplish that. But Google can’t just tell people “go install ublock origin.” It’s not a project under their control and they’re not going to vouch for it in that way. And of course they don’t want to promote ad blocking in general.

One of the comments posted the code; it seems pretty simple. It looks like it just tells every website the same thing: basically “this browser opts out of GA.”
I work in marketing. For general audience it might be something like 3% of users have a tracking blocker, and specifically for developers it's something like 30%.

It actually becomes a bit of an issue when some idiot somewhere designs a business process around client side tracking. I'm currently fixing a broken process with a client where their users can request an upgrade, and ~1/3 of them (the technical users from above) never even process because some yuckster built it all inside of the tracker.
Obligatory link:

Gallery of split keyboards

https://t.co/3hrNmk2PMX
https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/?s=09