skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is an innate human bias to weight negative experiences more strongly than positive ones.

For example, I will forget a compliment a day later, but I will never forget that one time I was harshly criticized.

It makes sense from an evolutionary perspective as well, the worst possible experience (death) is far worse than the best possible experience (food,sex,comfort,etc).

Re: your example about politics. Politicans explot this by talking about how bad the others are, rather than how good they are.
I'm not familiar with this category of motorsport, but at least in F1, all safety systems need to allow the driver to leave the car in less than X seconds in case of accident (for example, if the driver needs to get out of the car in the case of a fire).

So maybe, and this is a guess, airbags are not activated in lateral impacts like this one as they could make this escape more difficult than the damage they are preventing.
Well, it can get worse in the way you write but we must be careful right now. PayPal freezes accounts, states know every single bank transfer, credit cards companies ban some kind of businesses. Add more examples.
Indeed. When hundreds of scientists send a letter raising concerns around “the” “science” published on a platform, it would be great if those platforms took that to heart.
This was literally the first comic book I ever read. Got me hooked.
Gold(Noble Metals) Standard, where are you?

There is a local saying here "When fences eat crops, what can you do?" or "Fox guarding the hen-house", can you blame its instincts.
Thanks for this comment. This is basically my position. While I prefer that sites would respect "do not track", ultimately I just don't want to see all the shitty ads. I don't really care if you're trying super hard to track me, though I think you're a fool if you do based on what I do online (read HN, wikipedia; download academic papers, mostly?).

I sympathize with the people who are going for pure anonymity. If I could be anonymous and still have a usable web, then I would do that. If you really think you'll learn something about me by tracking me, then whatever. I have still never been served a relevant ad in my life, so, uh, great job there. But in the end I just don't want to see all the shitty ads.

I would be interested to know what these people think they know about me. Based on my experience as a cognitive scientist, I suspect they know an awful lot less than they think they know ... or at least claim in their sales pitches to advertisers.
Like how most things is for a reason. Especially within rigorous domains such as engineering, math, physics and programming. It is not to be expected in BS vendors safe space in subjects like politics, economics and social science.
I guess it would depend on the category, like if you are doing any sort of front-end dev then one book I'd recommend over any other is Don't make me think which is still relevant today.

For the smb/indie-hacking I think E-myth revisited really changes your whole perspective about running a small business, especially when you read yourself on the pages.

Also there is one book which I don't think everybody should read but was truly life changing for me was Driven to distraction. It helped me get a evaluation and understand that ADHD is a very real thing (real as something which Doctors can spot on a MRI and it's not something you can overcome with strong will and determination).
I’ve read the Bible and frankly I wouldn’t recommend. Putting aside that the different translations can sometimes drastically change the meaning of some stories, the English Bible as a whole is harder to grok than Shakespeare.

Then there are issues about how it was written by man, in the literal sense. Female testaments were left out. And some of the male testaments were only included hundreds of years after the death of Jesus. And then you have parts that are routinely taken out of context (because it’s such an massive and hard to read body of works) and other parts that contradict itself.

Regardless of whether you believe in God or not, the Bible isn’t a particularly good book in my opinion.
Well, can't you? Sure it depends on country, but the problem normally seems to be that companies want to fire people and not compensate them. I think most countries allows you to fire people pretty much when even, it's just that it can be rather expensive.

You can't fire pregnant women, that's almost impossible, you can't fire because of skin color, religion, handicaps (unless it prevents you from doing your job), but other than that you can normally just fire people if they aren't a good fit, in terms of both skills and personality.
Agree on the privacy points, disagree completely on the security aspect. A centralized, government issued digital currency is FAR more secure than a decentralized one. The best security is deterrence: there is no better deterrence than having your security guaranteed by the FBI and the US Army (in the case of international hackers, messing with government systems is an act of war). Also, mistakes and hacks can be reversed -- it's just a central database, so it can be reset.
Filen.io – Zero knowledge end-to-end encrypted cloud storage, redefined
I would not recommend a single book for everyone to read, because people have different tastes and interests - and even if you recommend a single book based on people's interests - if they are really interested in that and the book is important to that interest it's likely they've already read it.

So probably a recommendation on any field should be made based on calculations both of how essential it is, but also how it's reading may change assumptions about the field if the person has not read it. It seems somewhat arrogant.

And in the end it's annoying to get recommended a book one considers essential to the field, as it implies one does not know what one knows.

All that said - for the field of:

Fantasy - Gormenghast

America - Democracy in America

Programming - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Agreed with this one. But whole chunks of it are incredibly boring. So not one to be read cover to cover. I wonder if someone could point to an annotated bible or even a text book on the historical and culturally important points that are central to the bible.
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Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.
I can believe that more people started to read it than actually finished it. Plot points from the latter half of the book are only referenced very rarely.
Definitely not a recommendation I see often.

I only came to know of the Gita by this quote: "To work you have the right, but not to the fruits thereof". Resonated with me, and brought me to the concept of "karma yoga".

How did you come across it?
It was a weird, fun ride. My writing partner Lutz and I work in tech, but have a real passion for filmmaking. We lost some money on $GME, so we had to tell the story from our point of view.

The result is STONKS, a comedy/drama feature screenplay [0], fictional but inspired by the GME events, and a love letter of sorts to WSB. We queried Hollywood producers but were ignored; we shared on WSB itself but we were insta-banned and never told why (but given the founder sold the rights to his life story to Hollywood [1], we can make an informed guess).

Anyway, here it is. Feedback welcome.

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/files/STONKS-2022-02-02.pdf

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/reddits-wallstreetbets-founder-...
in case you missed it

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=A%20Declaration%20of%20the%20I...
Does this quote from Alan Watts help?
“There’s nothing in your life that is supposed to happen. if you have no fixed view, you remain elastic.”
My advice is to explore spiritual philosophies that focus on waking up from our constant thought world, and to realize that all this idea of where one is supposed to be in life at certain stages or ages, is just made-up mental load.
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson.

Just an amazing survey of how people have thought and created over the course of human history. For me, it put so many periods into context; I finally know the different between the renaissance and the enlightenment!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408204.Ideas
You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships by Richard C. Schwartz

Despite the horribly long title it turned out to be a great book on what we actually look for in relationships, and how to deal with the difficulties every relationship causes. A very non-boring psychology book.
Sure, but if your brand is "apples worth eating" and I run across several completely rotten apoles with your sticker on them, I'm going to stop trusting that brand.
Both crews repeatedly used the trim switches to bring the aircraft back to normal trim. The cutoff switch was within easy reach, easily set within 5 seconds. And even if it took them 6 seconds, or 7, the trim moving does not mean it's instantly hard over and unflyable.

You can also turn off the trim system while using the trim switches giving a 0 second delay. The reason is the circuit turning on the trim is a wire with the trim switch and the cutoff switch in series. Both have to be on for current to flow. Think of it like a light switch in a room and the corresponding breaker in the breaker box. Both have to be "on" for the light to come on.

The evidence that this is quite possible is the first LA crew experiencing MCAS malfunction trimmed back to normal, turned it off, and landed safely.
I see a lot of comments about firing and chaos, but the single most important point to me is "you manage processes and lead people".

So many managers get this wrong that just fixing this one thing probably gets most startups 60% of the way there.
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Check how to reach GOD-level DI in Ruby! Dependency injection brings you great power but comes with its own headaches. If you can get rid of them, You're left with the power only. In Ruby, with dry-system, it's possible.
I know people love 1984 but I found it exceedingly boring when I tried to read it. But it does have some very interesting ideas. My issue with 1984 may have been prior exposure to it's best ideas elsewhere.

Orwell is a great writer, highly recommend both "Homage to Catalonia" and "Animal Farm". Complex topics written in an accessible style.
I didn’t say it was an easy read. For good or for bad - those books require efforts.

But once you dig to at least 1% of the stories and ideas - you save weeks skipping tons of shallow books out there.
Chris Voss (Never Split the Difference) is largely responsible for my income level today.

Absolutely life-changing book.

He also made a MasterClass.com video course with the same content, if you'd rather watch than read.
Yes, most states are "at-will", which means you can be fired for any non-illegal reason at any time, barring any existing contracts.
- Maximum demonstrated throughput ~1.2M transactions per second.

- Geo-replicated latency <1 second.

Amazing technical feat.

[1] https://github.com/mit-dci/opencbdc-tx
I found one such list here: https://speakerhubhq.medium.com/ted-the-banned-talks-and-wha...
I think that part about the yoke feels is incorrect. MCAS only changes the trimming and that changes the yoke force required when trying to maintain the same angle of attack.
So because people traded (sometimes) using services that had associated fees... Wall Street won? There's nothing in this article that supports the click bait title.
I can't do anything from home. Pure lack of motivation. Too much distraction from other things. No social interaction. I think I need to have interaction all day. Not via a computer screen. I hate working from home really.
For the Art of War? If you need a trigger warning for a book that’s been around for 2500 years you should stick to Golden Books.
Was skeptical about Issyk-Kul Root, until understood it's same as chemotherapy.

Here in Kyrgyzstan, some people consume the Root regularly, with long delays in between (multiple years). Guess, this kills starting cancer.
Human Technology: Text Files
Or th4ey
What if you are the only one in your area that uses FF RFP ?
"persons wishing to remain anonymous" is disingenuous.

Is it lawful to run a multi-million-dollar enterprise, anonymously? Is it acceptable ?
Don't forget with the consolidation in that space, there isn't exactly a large swathe of competitors to get hired by.
Does this "tough love" bullshit work on anyone? This whole comment is just neg after neg. "Yeah dude, you're right, you suck ass! Maybe you should try sucking less, bro!"
I've seen this argument several times and while it's probably true for some segment of the population, it's definitely not for everyone (who feels this way).

I have this sentiment, yet I hang out with one or two friends once or twice a week, occasionally some family every couple weeks or so, and constantly on a daily basis get to socialize with the parents of my dog's friends while on walks.

None of that makes up for working alongside people. And I don't just mean work specifically but forming connections with my coworkers. I'm a huge proponent of making real social connections with coworkers so that it's easier to be collaborative with them. There will be times when your work is not siloed and you either need context about something that your coworker has contributed to before but you haven't, vice versa, etc. and it helps if you both have some kind of connection and stake in the work relationship. If there's no stake in it, then other than the bare minimum (such as not wanting someone to totally screw up something owned by the team), nothing will be contributed. It can make gathering context brutal, work more competitive (resource starvation where one coworker can let their coworker have more trouble which results in them getting a better pick of things to work on, etc.).
Does Transparency in Moderation Matter? (2019)
> a bad cop or doctor and the whole police force or medical establishment is corrupt.

I’m not sure these are the greatest examples.

If “good” cops stand by watching “bad” cops abusing their position including stealing, lying, assaulting, murdering or torturing people, then maybe we are speaking of institutional issues blurring the lines between behaviors typical for organized crime and ones observed with the police force. Especially if whole police teams threaten to stop doing their jobs if their insanely inflated budgets get reduced.

Of course there are good cops. You can often hear about them getting pushed out of the police force for reporting the crimes of the bad ones.

If doctors are allowed 20 minutes per patient visit and are constantly pressured to prescribe medication and procedures for profit then we might have an issue there, too.
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
One of my all time favorites is when mkdir fails with "No such file or directory". Like, yeah… that's why I'm asking you to make it. I've basically hard-wired a section of my brain to recognize this & realize that there's some parent that doesn't exist.

Recently got a beautiful error from Azure AD which is grammatically broken. In the "I accidentally it" sense, whole verb missing. Sensible additions to try to fix the parse of the error message results in a message that says "you can't do it because X isn't true" … except that X is true. (Over week later, and Azure Support missing their alleged SLA yet again … IDK, we're still waiting for an answer.)

Once had an x86 fault with #DIV in some assembly code. Normally #DIV means "division by zero" … and that's what I thought it meant exactly at the time, but it turns out it can also mean that the destination register was too small. Spend a good while wondering why I was getting "division by zero" when the register wasn't 0.
How to Deal with an 'Alpha Wolf'
> At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I think this is part of an overarching move to slowly phase out physical cash co we could have practical negative interest rate one day.

I agree it's no coincidence that this development is occurring when interest rates have dropped to zero. A negative interest rate is most likely the main motivation for central bank digital currency. How else will the asset market be propped back up after the next crash?
Hijacking top comment with a shallow compliment and a self-promo is not nice.
More of a C-level executive
Not everyone but since this is HN I'll say Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors. It's intended for technical writers as an audience, and there's a couple chapters developers can skip that are about formatting with pretty diagrams and using DITA and stuff, but at least 80% of it is applicable to all kinds of writing that devs will have to do, and everyone needs to be able to communicate with the written word effectively. Literally every developer should read this book (and everyone should read some writing book relevant to their own field). It's amazing.
Yes, Sowell has that effect on people. Once you get your mind back together, I recommend that you (and anyone) read Zola's masterpiece, Germinal, a testament to the virtues of capitalism.
Would be cool if the individual rotation columns responded to the mousewheel.
Awesome!

I'd definitely be interested in that, I actually started the tutorial about an hour or two before seeing this comment.

I'm thinking I'll run through this tutorial and then try to implement a couple basic ideas I've had bouncing around, is there way I should contact you when I get there? I'll try to check back here for any updates, an email address is in my profile as well if that works for you.

I'll probably need to work with Hypercard itself more first as well - at this point I only know how it works in theory plus a couple minutes of demo video.
Like Robert Malone, the vaccinated anti-vaxxer? The “doctor” who never completed residency and has absolutely no clinical experience?
well in our present world potentially everything communicated has a global audience, but it would seem a losing strategy to try to make every prerequisite of every idea understood by everyone who might ever encounter your communication because you would never get to the idea itself but instead be stuck in one of those silly comedy routines where someone says start at the beginning and the protagonist says "so, first I was born..."

on edit: in other words, just because something might end up uploaded to YouTube there's no obligation to dumb it down.
Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash
The power of stupidity, Giancarlo Livraghi

Quite unknown, I discovered it more than 10 years ago. It is an easily and pleasantly readable book: I discovered my stupid actions, and I still use it to evaluate what I am going to do.
It isn’t a survival guide
or a “how to” manual, but it offers practical solutions to improve those human qualities that counteract stupidity.
I read it recently and didn't like it that much. 1/3 of the book is author praising himself for what he had accomplished, another 1/3 are success stories from his patients and one-sided presentation of research that agrees with his points. The rest 1/3 of the book I found interesting.

As many modern books - it suffers from lack of focus; my opinion.
Untitled post about Kant, the concept of the universe and the dual to Laplace's
Correct, because the AoA sensor was indicating the plane was busy belly flopping into the airstream according to one flight or another's Flight Data Recorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0rnB1XlQw for the lazy ublockers like me
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The logic here is the same as the logic behind UBO registries. The proponents of such argue that there is a significant benefit to the public from knowing who owns what.
There are still many retail investors who think the saga is far from over, and are now betting on direct registration (DRS) of their GME shares with the goal of triggering another, much bigger short squeeze than last year.
Are you sure you're replying to my line of reasoning?

Because I'm saying just because the goal is extremely worthwhile, it's not carte blanche to move fast and break things.
How practical would this method of recognising your fingerprint with CSS be?
start using voice for typing, you can speak faster than you can type
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
I wonder how unique this fingerprint really is. Getting the same fingerprint every time is only half of what makes a good fingerprint.

Fennec on Android: cdec914cb91d1a88fbd3e7834b7968c8
Yea, I'm not sure how well it'd have fared with me if I'd read it in my 20's, but at 13, it was mostly new stuff to me (this was also before The Internet was really so much a thing, so my exposure to ideas was somewhat limited).. I did also enjoy the dystopian style described, I still remember it described the hallway as "smelling like cabbage" and I pondered the significance of this and found that cabbage was "poor people food" and other such details that enriched my experience, but yeah.. I'd be surprised if some single book could introduce wholly novel and interesting ideas into an informed adult in 2022. LaVeys bible would be a healthy read for a lot of people I think, but it's kind of difficult to convince people to read that one..
I had completely forgotten about Alien Breed. It was a great series of games, especially Tower Assault.
also Jacobin and magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
Full PDF: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359252