skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the mind works - Steven Pinker.
If past experiences are an indicator, the security model itself doesn't matter - apps will simply request the widest permissions they can get away with, and users will be hammered with them until they give up and comply; eventually your calculator has access to your contacts, data, usage history and network. The only thing stopping this is the review process. Most app publishers do not have their incentives aligned in the users' direction.
At least from Google "search results". But reading HN comments regarding those it looks like we would be better off with Google leaving EU, too..
Randy Powell's 2010 talk mentioned in the article, on "Vortex Based Mathematics" - the secret of the universe, free energy, cure for all diseases etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyLKY9MyUjA

If that wasn't enough for you (doubtful!), here's 3 more Powell talks on the subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUSJxzYw3OU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-S39FDJtac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVN0vFAMfr4

and one by the inventor mentioned in the TEDx talk, Marko Rodin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic0gogjsPXU

Sadly, it appears not to be a clever hoax but an actual Thing.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vortex-based_math

"Essentially, the idea revolves around a circle with nine points equidistant from one another. Number the points, and then draw lines connecting each vertex n to its double modulo 9. ...You get a vortex! Sort of. ...Rodin claims that it is the "Mathematical Finger Print of God", which is of course a perfectly reasonable assertion for a mathematical paper to make."
Just received bounties for some Windows pre-auth RCE bugs
All this talk about anaconda etc is a little overblown. Just grab the release ZIP here and run the launcher. It drops you in the editor/debugger workspace with full functionality. https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor/releases/tag/0.2 It doesn't appear to modify your system in any way.

I understand that other modes of using CadQuery require 'conda, but the basic built-in editor experience is self contained. Or am I misunderstanding something?
As a "general" recommendation I think "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster (1909) is an especially interesting read today. Extremely prescient and a fun, short book.

For someone more ambitious I might recommend "The Anatomy of Melancholy," by Richard Burton (17th c.). At least the preface (around 100 pages) and maybe a smattering of the book proper. It's hard to explain - better to look it up.

For something more recent and immediately relevant, I think "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis was quite eye opening about the history of racism in law enforcement and the production of the modern prison system.
Now it works...

I will not question this.
> It's not really hypocrisy so much as the fact that in order to maintain electoral dominance, the parties need to adopt to society. They (the parties) can then do the mental gymnastics to rationalize on their platforms how big war and surveillance is small government, or how censorship is liberal, afterwards.

This is a handwaving claim about "motivation" ("in order to maintain electoral dominance"), when the only thing for which there is much evidence for is the change of thinking. Do you find it so unbelievable that a bunch of people might, en masse, change their minds about gay marriage? Do you find it so unbelievable that a bunch of people might change their minds about wholewheat bread? Jogging? Mixed-race marriage? What is the reason why you (cynically) assume that the change is motivated simply by electoral politics?

> I could illustrate this with details, but it's much easier to just use an example. Abraham Lincoln was a republican, and every single confederate state was democrat. The transition from democrats becoming republicans and vice versa is something [ ... ]

Instead of taking the easy way out and focusing merely on a label swap, I would suggest you check the way political positions did and did not change during "party swapping" periods. It's not much of a transition if everyone's actual opinions remain substantively the same, but they just swap labels.
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
This makes me wish that I still had one of the classic old laptops around just to see what they keyboard felt like. I have a ThinkPad X1 Extreme and a new M1 Macbook Pro and I like both keyboards - but I wonder if that is just because they were such an improvement over the 2016-2019-era MBPs that I've forgotten how good laptop keyboards used to be.

That said, I am sure I've also forgotten just how thick and heavy/bulky those laptops used to be to allow for that level of key travel and upgradability/extensibility.
One of the best documents about software development I've ever encountered was the JSF Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards by Lockheed Martin [1] - turns out that if you are writing code for multi-million-dollar, nuclear-first-strike-capable weapon platforms, "fail fast, ship updates often" doesn't quite cut it.

[1] https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
Ask HN: How to Take Better Breaks?
Hi HN,
Often I have observed that a relatively common approach that people undertake to complete their objectives is momentum work. So this would be something like sitting on a project and working on it continuously for next 2-3 days
till we reach at some point of accomplishment.
Although, what I have realized that the approach of taking breaks in between and then coming back to the objectives usually ends up in leading to more objectives accomplished.

An eg. would be if I have to run 3 miles(or Kms) and I do it at one go without stopping I would end up in fatigue at the end
though it might be feel better and less cumbersome when I am walking.
On the other hand if I run the same distance taking certain breaks in middle I might end up covering more than distance planned
and not with so much fatigue.

I am thinking about how a similar approach would like when completing our daily projects and planning them on a bigger picture.
Any opinions or discussion would be helpful in general.

Thanks
Hey, I'm a software test engineer in Factory Talk. Let me see if I can act on your feedback, can we chat? You can find my email address in my profile. Cheers
Spending $100 million on content from marginalized groups. Over what time frame? With no time frame it’s a meaningless statement.
Flatland, referenced in this paper, is a wonderful and thought-provoking little story.

EDIT: I removed the link because I was worried about the server I linked to. But you can find the PDF of flatland if you just google "flatland pdf"
The Olympics are the same. You (and the world around you) changed.
There are a lot of legs to your hypothetical here. In particular assuming that Tesla's approach ultimately succeeds is a big leap.

If Tesla's approach ultimately turns into a dead end (and that is the outcome of the overwhelming majority of very ambitious tech projects) then all the time and resources spent on Tesla's approach could be seen in hindsight to have been diverted away from potentially fruitful projects and are actually making mainstream FSD happen later than they otherwise would.

FSD being civilization's next moonshot doesn't mean Tesla should necessarily get a free pass to test beta FSD tech out on public roads without scrutiny.
Ask HN: Why did they build pyramids? ( why?)
Why did the ancient Egyptians choose to build pyramids, of all things? (really, why?)
Recently, and for the foreseeable future, interest rates are/will be so far below inflation that they truly do not matter. A mattress might be just as good as a bank for the next decade or so.
Absolutely none of this was a problem before the Trump sanctions took effect (which we can now call the "Biden sanctions," as he has done nothing to revert them.) There were occasional shortages of things like MLCC capacitors, some of them severe, but nothing as far-reaching as what we've been seeing.

It is fairly clear that we'd still be in trouble absent the "easy to win" trade war against China, though. COVID alone would have been enough to upset the proverbial apple cart.
You're essentially saying school vouchers, and then the government doesn't choose the curriculum at private schools.

In a public school there isn't anyone else there to choose the curriculum. Everyone there is a government employee.
The application of censorship itself, not what is being censored, is the main symptom of the declining cultural health. The mentality that there are so universally wrong and right things that the right ones must be forced upon any mind, no matter the context, and the wrong ones must be extinguished no matter the context.
Beans and nuts are real fiber bombs and easy to include in your diet. Also broccoli and full grain bread are good options.
Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden
You may or may not have noticed that you can be heard without a megaphone. The purpose of a megaphone is not just "to be heard", but to increase your audibility in specific situations. Just as "freedom of speech" does not include the "right to cry "Fire!" in a crowded theater", it isn't terribly obvious that it includes the right to be heard in situations where you can only be heard with a megaphone.
"This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero, 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die."
— Captain Price's speech in the intro to Endgame.

https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/John_Price/Quotes
The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street and Get on with Your Life by Bill Schultheis. Short concise, actionable advice.
Well that's not true either. Yes it's true that it is aerodynamically stable, and could fly without MCAS just fine.

But it isn't just an issue of retraining. To prevent inadvertent stalls, FAA regulations require increasing control stick force feedback - a requirement which the Boeing 737 Max did not meet without MCAS.
Maybe not for all but,

Bhagavad Gita: As it is.

Do not read the explanation which are biased to god and religion.

But you can definitely read the stanzas. The idea that we are actor whose duty is to act is a powerful concept, especially when you are feeling low.

The book also has some egoistic stuff like "I am god, obey me." But once you filter some of these, you see bigger picture.
I think we're actually heading into a ditch there. As if you can heal a depression by just changing serotonin levels or improving the gut health. I would say most often there are good reasons the brain put one into "stop what you're doing right now" mode aka depression. Year long experiences, maybe even the most defining years as children.
But I would argue that it might help us move away from SSRIs and stuff. Soften the disease so that it becomes bearable and healable by therapie.
I think Animal's farm is better and a lot closer to our current system
Messiah by Boris Starling
I know this might be asking too much, but: fix political corruption
And then there is the new “cancel culture” that does not target the speech itself, but the reputation of the author. By using horrific accusations and smears, the author’s reputation is destroyed, so that people don’t want to hear the speech anymore, based on the lies they heard about the author.
No, the version which played on ladder was much weaker than the later version which played against pros and was at BlizzCon -- the later version was at professional level of play.
Thanks for the response. I see it is not standard CSS, and that Firefox has a different property name to set this.

https://caniuse.com/?search=-webkit-font-smoothing
If your spaghetti code has a good test coverage -> no problemo.
Of course not, that wasn't my point. I've watched a ton of TEDx talks, this was my conclusion after that experience. It's a sentiment pretty openly shared by many, too.
Not directly, you still have to contact nodes to get there. Through traffic analysis we can determine the path, or simply the feds can expand their number of nodes. Feds already own a good chunk of the network. Bandwidth and servers are expensive after all. Or even easier make phishing sites that grab your IP through any number of browser technologies. Torbrowser won't be around for long when Firefox becomes another chromium skin.
It's always terrified me how one experience or one anecdote can completely change a persons view on a topic and make them blind to the overwhelming evidence they've previously experienced and accepted (and ignore future evidence)

A single rude salesperson and they won't step foot in the entire chain, a bad cop or doctor and the whole police force or medical establishment is corrupt. Listen to a politician giving a speech and people become lifelong supporters even when their policies change radically.

There is something deeply embedded in the human mind that makes us very susceptible to some stories - against all evidence, if it fits our preconceived perception or coincides with something in our memory.
It seems some people say they have read it even when they haven't. (Citation needed.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y83UkvHpYk
While I share your frustration with TEDx, it's important to note that the article is criticizing TED itself as being useless. It's not like TED has been a success, weighed down by the its association with TEDx. TED itself, according to the article, has been a disappointing failure.
The turning point for me was when I met someone at a tech conference who introduced himself as a TED talk speaker. I'm not sure I was able to walk away fast enough.
Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation

Product-led growth for deep tech category creation sounds like a new thing, but there's almost a century of quantitative social science on pretty much that. The book is a super easy & enjoyable distillation of it.

~10 years after reading, still inspires a lot of my first-principles thinking for how we approach basic product, marketing, partnering, etc
Err, aren't the pulled episodes about his use of the N word, not about challenged science?
penalize the flakes, give steady performers a boost?

after some point, no flakes on the platform.
Nobody would let it happen if they knew what was going on. And generally the types of people who get up to it don't go broadcasting it around.

Two particular examples stick in my mind. One was a serial desk dropper who would get snippets of information from everyone individually, then package it up as their own to report to a boss.

The second was an IT consultant, working for a major consulting firm, who would lean on junior team members for docs and slides, then just outright steal them to use in reports. The thinking being that junior team members don't get to read reports for management.
A 12GB Download? The mind boggles - just what do they include, HD tutorial videos?
Go isn’t run through an optimising runtime either. Plenty of compiled languages aren’t. However Python code is still transpiled to stack based byte code that runs on a virtual machine.

If you want to get pedantic then that byte code is interpreted but frankly where do you draw the line, are retro console emulators interpreters since they translate instructions from on architecture to another in much the same way? Technically yes but we don’t like to describe them in that way.

This is why I keep saying term “interpreted language” used to mean something quite specific in the 80s and 90s but these days it’s pretty much just slang for “JIT”.
So he is more of a 'big picture guy'?
I never read this book. I bought it at some point in mid-2020 and it was too real, i had to put it down because it was making me angry.
I bring it up because nobody else ever does.

If they did not understand the EAD, all of it, it was their job to get clarification.

P.S. At least you read it. That's nice to see, and rare.
For those looking into contracting/freelance:

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Most of these companies in this list are most likely to hire freelance developers/marketers/writers.

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My ex-business partner inherited $2 million, then burned through all of it on various startup ideas, and when he was almost bankrupt, he dealt with the stress by smoking more and more marijuana. He also promoted himself as a visionary, someone who could put into words how the future would answer the bright hopes of humanity. As part of his effort to sell himself as a visionary, he got himself invited to give a talk to the local TEDx chapter. You can see him here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znQZ1RUckg

He gave that talk during 2015, the same year that Bill Gates gave the talk about the possibility of a global pandemic. As the article above suggests, Ted Talks were at their peak in 2015, but also TEDx was ruining the brand.

If anyone is curious about my ex-business partner, I talk about him, and my time working with him, in the introduction of How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
Mini-Habit by Stephen Guise.

"A mini habit is basically a much smaller version of a new habit you want to form. 100 push-ups daily is minified into one push-up daily. Writing 3,000 words daily becomes writing 50 words daily. Thinking positively all the time becomes thinking two positive thoughts per day. Living an entrepreneurial lifestyle becomes thinking of two ideas per day (among other entrepreneurial things). The foundation of the Mini Habits system is in “stupid small” steps."

I did a summary here : https://www.chestergrant.com/26-highlights-from-mini-habits-...
It’s not even close!

For “I like a mix of both” I would like to see what that mix is. From 1/5 days office/home all the way to 4/5 office/home mix :P

Also reason why for either side would be interesting (no separation between office/home, want to be away from kids, no commute, etc)
> Then on top of that giving people independent, client-based, advanced AI powered tools en masse, and making sure they know how to use them and why, for accurate elected censorship on their own devices of things they personally find detrimental to their mental health.

Naming this "elected censorship" is a bad idea.

Choosing not to listen to something isn't censorship because censorship is without consent -- the recipient wants the information and someone is denying it to them. Voluntary filtering is something else entirely.
For European, I would recommend Basic Economics from Thomas Sowell.

To have a total opposite mindset of the socialist we have here was mind blowing for me.
> For the life of me, I do not know why those two basic aviation design considerations, bedrocks of a mind-set that has served the industry so well until now, were not part of the original MCAS design.

Because that would force retraining? “Sometimes the MCAS system will disagree, if that happens it will disengage and you are no longer flying a 737, good luck!”
The best two books for engineers are

1) “How to win friends and influence people”

2) “Never split the difference”

The first one will teach you how to work with people. The second will teach you how to negotiate salaries, raises, and promotions among other things.

I don’t recommend many technical books because engineers can find all of that on the internet and are much more at risk of being bad at people stuff.
The Bible - as an original source of all types of stories and narratives you’ll find in 99% of all fiction books and movies.

New Testament — as an original source of most of moral principles and ideas modern european civilization is based upon (also fundamental stories and narratives).
Why??? Why not just pay a living wage to American citizens?
You're missing a giant factor here which is the possibility that the military might ally itself with an existing civilian faction in such a way that only half the country saw the coup as a power grab.

For example, let's say that the military made a deal with <insert the most extreme sub-faction of your least favorite party here>. Then they'd have people to install into the newly vacated positions of civilian economic administration, and in that, they'd have a way to motivate that faction to join them and support their legitimacy.
Well yeah, TED hasn't been relevant in a long time. The way I see it, it failed years ago. It turns out, even seemingly smart people have a lot of sensational garbage to say.
It also didn't mention that you had 5 seconds after the release of the electronic trim switch to flip the CUTOUT before MCAS poured back on the trim, but as I recall that took more digging to find out afterward.

This was also not pointed out in any type of pilot accessible documentation either; nor did it apparently make it's way to the FAA; as I recall them mentioning it was supposed to at max apply .6 degrees trim at once, but was later changed to ramp up to 2.5 degrees trim repeatedly, without an updated safety analysis.

Paperwork update failure:

https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/mcas-...

Electric stab trim switch reset of MCAS activation timer was mentioned in the final report.

https://www.faa.gov/foia/electronic_reading_room/boeing_read...
There are two different kinds of fibers: soluble and insoluble. The insoluble one is the most important for your gut and the one in the article. This fiber you will only find in vegetables and fruits, in particular in sturdy ones such as beans, nuts and full grains.
Better would be to fund content to an equivalent number of listens.
It also depends on what is offered in its place.

We don't debate this enough, because it's invisible to most people.

Free speech in the broadest is exactly about curation, implied approval (proof by authority doesn't work philosophically, but absolutely does work rhetorically and politically), and access to airtime and audiences.

All of those can be bought with money.

To make an obvious point - if you can use money to impose your choices wrt curation etc, speech is no longer free.

This is a completely different meaning to "Talk about this and the government will imprison and/or murder you."

The latter hardly happens to anyone now. The former is absolutely foundational to the media.

There is no "marketplace of ideas" because those with money and political power can always enforce their narratives on those without - and they can do it cleanly, deniably, and effectively without needing to murder or jail dissenters.

They can even do it from behind various front organisations and curated movements, pretending to be scrappy freedom fighters railing against an oppressive mainstream.

Speech isn't free in any genuine sense while that remains true.
Maybe this blog entry is another good starting point: https://ciechanow.ski/tesseract/ and references therein (at the end).

It has been discussed on HN a while ago.
That's why I pointed to "mass housing at the cost of construction." $120k is the realm of minimums for SFH. For a bare necessities 432 Park Avenue[0], we should be able to do 3,000 residences within 85 stories of 800 sqft. apartments, at 50k per, amortized over 30 years and even cheaper after they're used. The Soviet Union couldn't give their people a lot but they could at least make some housing. 432 Park Ave's current prices are due to luxury amenities, Manhattan land, and inadequate housing supply.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue