skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the brain handles memory is pretty complex, but specific recall of random factoids is not something the brain is set up for. If you don't work with the information day after day in different scenarios and there's no strong sensory or emotional tie, you won't have immediate recall. You can instead try tricks like Ken Jennings' links-in-a-chain (https://www.businessinsider.com/ken-jennings-jeopardy-how-to...).

You should probably just keep notes and refer back to them.

> Do you have a methodology for extracting common themes/patterns across topics?

Your brain does this naturally if you get a lot of sleep and don't think about it.
Great idea. Selling educational materials might honestly be the best option for people in tech where our employers often own our code IP by default due to our contracts.
Plain Org v1.2 for iOS Released
Which existing rights in particular do you mean? The real-currency world is completely filled with KYC, suspicious transaction reporting and so on.
Yes, doing Amazon FBA as a side hustle.
> Coinbase isn't doing this to be evil or centralized or controlling, they're literally just following the law.

Nah, they're definitely in the business of regulatory capture. But they have to be. If they don't capture the regulators, someone else will.
Would have rather had the payday :)
Right, you should be furious at the people who created the site because they are absolutely at fault. But X is at fault for ludicrously bad security practices and Y exploited said bad security illegally are not mutually exclusive.

But to use your example, if you accidentally ship you credit card to me amongst a bunch of other papers, it would still be illegal for me to sell the information on the dark web. Likewise, if the reporter in question took the SSNs and sold them on the dark web that would presumably be prosecutable as well. Now if I just took the credit card and returned it to you, I don't think any reasonable person would consider that illegal (and I certainly hope that no prosecutor would try and bring a case for it). My only point is that we ultimately are making judgements about malicious intent.

To be clear I don't mean to imply this is just some misunderstanding either. Obviously the MO governor is just being a blowhard to try and deflect blame for a really bone-headed screw up. But I see a lot of discussions in security/hacker circles where people seemingly think that if security is bad enough, then whatever you do to exploit it cannot possibly be illegal. But I don't think that is true and people should keep it in mind.
If a scammer scams you out of a scam, do you come out ahead?
This wiki contains tons of good information about how to best handle the windfall:
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall

Make sure to read it.
I'm a mapper [1], and as such, I tended to seek out information that matches some edge of what I know, and when I find it, I'm then able to incorporate that knowledge, and check for inconsistencies with the other fact I know. I just keep reading, and browsing until I find the right puzzle piece, and then I understand.

I like instructions that specify how things work, so I can route around problems, and understand what the goals and mechanisms of a system I'm using. I can tolerate a wide variety of discrepancies in those instructions, and work around small changes in procedures that might not be documented.

If I'm being tested on general knowledge, and how things work, it is stuffiest to read and understand the materials provided.

Practical Example - Right now I'm trying to understand the fine grained details of how quantum computers work, I've watched a lot of boring youtube with words like Hamiltonian, Eigenstate, etc... none of which has clicked, but all float around like loose puzzle pieces... eventually I'll find the detail I need, and a connection will be made, I'll then go back and find other pieces until I understand the landscape at the detail I want to know.

If I'm being tested on random facts (dates, buzzwords, etc) then it's time to break out repetition and wrote learning. This is also the mode when learning a new skill, practice, practice, practice.

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If you're a packer, the opposite is true. You'll likely keep a lot of notes, and be good at memorizing facts.

I've worked with packers in the past, they like clear, precise, easy to follow instructions that very closely fit what they will see as they follow them. If the instructions don't match what they see, they will end up needing help, or get frustrated.

I'm not sure how packers best learn. I suspect it's repetition all the way.

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1 - https://wiki.c2.com/?MappersVsPackers
People who had more positive feelings about in-person meetings think that video meetings are a poor substitute. People who had more negative feelings about in-person meetings think that video meetings are a fine substitute (though usually still stop short of actually liking them). Introvert vs. extrovert or engineer vs. manager are too simplistic, but there are definitely different types of people when it comes to meetings. Maybe Michael Lopp (a.k.a. Rands) needs to learn that not everyone is like him and that's OK.
I don't know! I'm not a huge crypto fan at all, but say 5 years ago there was this belief among crypto bears that it would be a forgotten memory in 50 years, I just don't see that happening. Illegal monetary transactions are a huge use case for Crypto, and i'm not naive enough to think crime will be a distant memory in 50 years.

Now does that mean you should buy bitcoin cause your savings will 10, 100, 1000x? Not necessarily, it could be replaced, and also go sideways or down but I'd be surprised at this point if there's no crypto-economy in 50 years.
I'm a seed stage VC. Reposting my thoughts on this from twitter:

YC invests at $2m valuations, so Paul's take is very logical. This won't apply to startups raising seed rounds at 10x higher valuations.

At a 10x valuation, you (literally) need to show your startup is 10x more likely to win. Progress and pitching are part of that, but so are financial plans.

Some examples of what financial plans reveal:

- are the business model assumptions thoughtful or simplistic (e.g. ramp up team over time vs hire all on day one)? What ARE the key assumptions and levers?

- do you have buffer time set aside for a future fundraise?

- are you realistic about costs/salaries?

Addendum: basically if you're raising a seed round, you should expect that many investors will ask about financial models and projections. This is less about your predicted revenue in month 36, or whatever, and more about understanding how you think about the business for the next year or two.
Gambling. Unless you're rich, in which case you have license to use the word "speculation".
Yeah the real contrarian views have the most downvotes. You shouldn't be reading the most voted post.
Two other links related to ancient Rust:

* https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory -> the code from before the rust-lang/rust repo

* https://youtube.com/watch?v=79PSagCD_AY -> a talk I gave around the 1.0 release (that recording is lost, this is the only other time I gave the talk so it could be recorded) giving my personal perspective on the history.

Oh heck, one more fun one: https://github.com/brson/archaea
The are used for both.
See e.g. https://github.com/feynmanliang/bachbot. The companion site is no longer available, but here are some results on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bachbot

Here is another very good one: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

I'm a trained musician myself and interested in automatic music composition following the progress for the last thirty years, but only recent work (like the ones referenced) produce convincing results (besides Cope's work of course, but which required manual selection and editing).

You might also be interested in this survey paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01620
My wishlist is something that is essentially coffeescript for rust, basically rust without semicolons or the borrow checker. The ruby syntax is not specifically important, but generally desirable. Ideally it would transpile individual files directly to rust with a GC or RC boilerplate sprinkled into it, then run the full rust compiler.

Nim and Crystal are nice, but are not rust under the hood.

This would open rust up more to smaller brained devs like me who can't do full rust full time. I think it's generally underestimated how valuable this would be to establishing the rust utopia we all want to see.
"When you push it to the right, it moves left" sounds like atoms move right and the condition of being wall atoms moves to the left to contain the moved atoms, like it is a sort of pressure boundary.
Looks to me like Fred was judging the business while Paul was judging the people. I think that's all Paul meant by his recent tweet. You can use other metrics but most founders don't know what they're doing.
Intel XuCode Decrypted
Are there any code examples that people know of from when Rust had a more ML-like (in the vain of F# and OCaml) syntax, before Rust transitioned to curly braces?
Rogowski Coil
I know how it is, i only managed to leave my "real" job when my "side" things amounted to 22x salary the real job. Should have done it sooner, in retrospect.
This is something we've basically already witnessed with how society is operating right now.

The people inheriting the problems we started making 40 years ago before they were born even, still have very little say.
There were plenty of such languages, the only thing going for C was UNIX, just like the browser for JavaScript.
You hit on the 'specifics' of religion that I've always found funny in humantiy. Why does it matter to most people if it is 6 days or 15 billion years? How does that change anything in actuality?

Most religious texts can just be accepted as "good human practices summed up in 4 pages".... but instead they have to be made into movements, and groups who believe 'my team is right and yours is wrong'.

My view is that - just as there are many tongues, religion of the same Creator is presented differently to resonate with those localities.

Why isn't civilization really moving past the stories to simply focus on the main points that are being relayed?

I believe dogmatic believers miss the forest for the trees; the non-believers use the trees to disregard the forest.
I am 100% for deconsumerizing, but would like a more positive basis. The gulf is massive. I'd like to see a humanity that is more open, more exploratory: more able to seek understanding, can try things, can experiment. The natural universe & world gave us endless ways to develop ourselves as individuals & as societies, but the consumer world is opaque, a far off machination, producting products that defy understanding, that are resistant to so called "tampering".

This is an anti-human, anti-intellectual, anti-empowering degredation, an active obsteuction of the best of human spirit.

Companies and consumers are ok, but there can & must be great shifts to wards makeling the partnership more equal, to make companys & their means & their products more transparent, more diyable & learnable. Society is forgetting some of it's essential self, it's place in the universe, & losing it's inherent dignity as the corporation thieves more and more of our species joint mastery & competency, as understanding effervesces up and up to fewer and fewer ever more hyperindustrailist megacorps. We are losing important basis for self respect.

Awe is impossible when truth is so deeply occluded. We should have more awe in what we are, in what we have built, and the social crisis of the world are often a byproduct of this inability to see ourselves that consumerism has veiled upon us.
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Does Thomas actually have $100M of assets in a single wallet? Or is it spread out over, say, ten wallets?

I’m interested to know whether the con artists could have realistically nabbed $100M, or if there was effectively never any chance of that due to other precautions. I would hope it’s the latter, but crypto’s strangeness stopped surprising me.

Fabulous comment, by the way. Easily one of the top ten in the last month. Thank you for the breakdown.
The distinction is pedantic because you are making it so.

Whereas in fact it is anything but pedantic.

"The whole assumption that ethics have a price tag attached is faulty"

For everyone.

> But we’re past the point that readers are having a nice time reading this.

You seem to be in a habit of projecting your own feelings onto everybody else.

> If you’d like to continue, I’m happy to do so, but we need to restrict ourselves to a high caliber of debate, if only for HN’s sake.

Suit yourself.
Ask HN: What would make you happy?
If you could describe your ideal future, what would it be?

Based on your ideal, how do you feel about your current path?
Making better timelapses with Lightroom and JavaScript
I feel like the difference is that companies are generally intended to be a concerted effort of one or more individuals, as opposed to an actual roll of the dice.

Like without getting into nits, you can actually directly effect the direction and value of a company, but you can't affect the roll of dice or the output of a random number generators.

Risk in and of itself doesn't imply the entire thing is gambling; that said, investing by itself would be way closer to gambling in that context, imo
Cool! Thanks for the link!
Me too.... Fractal?
Even just having a lot of cash on you is enough for American police to legally steal it from you, roadside.
foodstores have good dumpsters
The author of the original article exported their personal key, and is now using it for everyone on their Vue website.

Presuming that only a logged in uses sees it is the problem. Everybody and their dog sees it, and can impersonate the person whose key it was.
The pleasure of a manual gearbox is being able to select the response of the car on the road to your foot on the accelerator and clutch. I don't care if that is implemented by gears and cogs or adjusting computer control of an electric motor - it's being able to shift torque down a couple of gears as I approach a bend and to modulate the power via the clutch as I come out that matters.
I just got super lucky. I launched it on Kickstarter and did a post on /r/arduino the day of the launch that just kind of blew up over there, and that got me to my 10k funding goal on the first day. Then someone stole the video and crossposted on LinkedIn, and that REALLY blew up. The post got like 1M views or something. They didn't share a link to the Kickstarter or anything, so I was getting a lot of traffic but it looked like it was all showing up as direct/search traffic, because people had to go to google and actively seek out the book. Halfway through the campaign I brought on an ad agency that just does Kickstarter campaigns, and I had a pretty good experience with them as well. The campaign ended at just under $250k.

Since then I've continued to take pre-orders and have just been doing facebook ads. I expect that when people start getting their books, that will help drive a lot more traffic, and then I hopefully won't have to be so reliant upon facebook ads.
The rise of railroads gave rise to the first org chart (2017)
> But total dystopia is also an outlier (and not to be expected).

Depends on which groups of people and time periods you're talking about. Many groups of people have suffered through total dystopias throughout history.
That's on yet another level. But the parallels are eerie. I wonder how common this is.
>Can't see why a condo inherently should appreciate less than a house?

People shop for monthly payment and not for the sticker price. On a condo the payment includes the HOA fee so for the same monthly payment you can get a more expensive house than a condo. As the property grows older and becomes more expensive to maintain, the HOA fees raise to reflect this and that reflects on the appreciation speed too.
Preordered one of these since it looks great
> In the particular case, they should not hire directly from the very industry they regulate. Ensuring that the regulators have expertise will be a problem, but at least no conflict of interest

That feels like trading a problem for an even bigger problem. Everyone has greed but not everyone has competence. The world is in desperate need of more competence. Greed isn't necessarily a problem as long as it's regulated e.g., most people want nice stuff but don't burglarize their neighbors.

We all have conflicts of interest.
Does SPARK allow exposing C API/ABI, i.e. could you use SPARKNaCl as drop-in replacement for TweetNaCl in C programs?
> Curious if anyone here has either built a side project or started something with the explicit goal of making $50k+?

No, but in general:

"The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous."

- Charlie Munger

What he means by this is that a lot of dumb things are caused by the desire to get rich fast. On average, slow but steady strategies outperform quick but risky strategies. See also the nice book The Dhandho Investor which talkes about placing "heads I win, tails I don’t lose much" bets. And yes, investment advice applies here because the question is about where to invest time (and possibly other resources too).
Half of the population is a different sex. It seems like understanding gender might be somewhat important in studying ancient societies.
Note; dude has $123M in aave wrapped ethereum that he almost granted a scammer access to.

Scammers ripping off scammers.

Why would you waste time with open source aircrafts. Aircrafts are a regulated thing. Nobody wants to fly in your science project. Put some of that 123 million into starting an actual company. DAOs are bullshit.
Yes, and if people are able to live forever I don't think that would be a change for the better. The 'haves' would at some point become aware that the 'have nots' have the potential to threaten them if they manage to live just as long, and I'm pretty sure I know how that would end.
Ask HN: Upcoming interview with Engineering manager and Engineering Director
I am from South Asia and in an interview process with a German e-commerce company. The role I am interviewing for is Senior Frontend Engineer. I have already given my technical interview and this should be the last interview (according to the recruiter).

The interviewers would consist of the recruiter, Engineering Manager, and Engineering Director and then I would get the chance to meet the team I would work with. I am not sure what kind of questions to expect from them or to ask from the team. I want to ACE this interview that's why I want to get some tips from people here.

Please feel free to share any kind of guidance/suggestion/interview experiences here. Thanks a lot.
old indeed, much older

[proceeds to mention someone from 1883]

The obvious "old" example would be Diogenes from ~400 BC. But there are older still outside of the Western tradition.
Meanwhile I wish someone would come over to take one of my sandwiches. It turns out that human contact in covid’s era is hard to come by.

You’re probably right though. But if you ever find yourself near Lake St Louis, MO, feel free to raid our fridge.
I feel incredibly dumb for not getting the details of how it happened.
This is what came to mind for me too. I basically never really know what I'm doing. Always doing something slightly beyond my current skill set. Learning speculatively has never worked well for me.
Ask for a raise?
I agree that the majority of cryptocurrencies are vaporware at best and deliberate scams at worst, but to claim that "All cryptocurrencies and 'DeFi projects' are ponzi scams including Orchid" is outright wrong.
Rockefeller Foundation: Reset the Table – Transforming the U.S. Food System [pdf]
I think the comment also said that this person’s views aren’t taken seriously in the aging research community. So the combination of their ideas and a desire to profit from them raises flags.
> painstaking attention to detail.

Eh, not really. It's an art piece for sure, but as much dada as simulationist. As Berg said, it was designed as "a wretched excess." I think Jake's CNA game is less the gearhead obsession in so many of the WW2 simulations and more like the attitude described at https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/940888/

“Well, Troy,” I went on, “I want to be the guy who suddenly, at age 42, does spend hours doing this kind of thing, if only to feel what it’s like to take back a little piece of the soul I’ve sold to the company I slave for, to the obligatory evenings with people I’m not sure I even like, to daily errands, the lines at the DMV, to tax forms, to tedious family visits. This game is a slap in the face to all thinking creatures who live in such dire fear of the sands sifting through the hourglass. Playing a monster war game on this scale is ridiculous, a waste of energy, a waste of time, and so I want to do it. Let spite rule the day, Troy. Let’s learn and play A World at War!”
You can't do anything. You can get banned for a single upvote in a wrong thread or comment, so just accept the fact and make a new account
Fair enough - but then how are we to decide which of these "personal engineering projects" to fund? If there is some knowledge or other benefit, how come it can't be fit into the framework of a grant proposal?
Yes, he has $100M+ in Aave Eth in one wallet. You can see this on etherscan
The lack of agility shows up when I buy something with your credit card number. It gets delivered, and then the bank reverses the transaction because they later learn that I'm not you.

Now I get a bank-subsidized thing and you're not missing any money. It creates a drag on the whole economy, because instead of doing productive work to get the thing, it's often easier to play games with the system.

The fact that credit cards use a symmetric key to authorize spend is a glaring flaw. The technology to fix it (asymmetric key cryptography) has been around for decades. But instead of fixing it, the credit card companies just keep writing off the instances of fraud.
Strum the spokes and listen. That's a very easy way to get your spokes within a very small margin of error tensioned accurately.
Tell HN: Wyze cam forcing upgrade to keep storing recordings locally
I just received an annoying popup forcing an "upgrade" to "Cam Plus Lite" by 15th Feb, else my cams "will capture snapshots instead of 12-second videos".

This is sleazy stuff Wyze, and I will be throwing away your hardware very soon as a result (and making sure to tell all of my friends and colleagues to stay away from your products).
My dream version is this exact form factor but capable of running games similar to pico-8 games. Something that has an MMU and can load binaries from external sources but does not necessarily run a full OS.
That's a horrible take on a legit person and project.
There is over $160M in his address.
https://etherscan.io/address/0xb1e9d641249a2033c37cf1c241a01...

He could have approved a malicious contract to drain the lot.
I don't trust them. Just last week, GoFundMe rugged a bunch of funds sent for a legitimate political protest. They can snap their fingers and freeze your funds and hold it indefinitely, without a warrant.

I admit that the Approval UX for wallets and tokens needs to be improved. Unlimited spend approvals should always be flagged in the UX. And approvals should be atomic (single transaction only, with a clearly listed cap, by default). There are some EIP proposals addressing this, but they will be a ways off from standardization.
The Metroliner is a defunct express train between New York City and Washington DC. The Ever Given is a giant container ship that got stuck in the
Suez Canal and held up world trade last year. I'm not sure what was meant to be said, but maybe the SLS is for people and Starship is for cargo? The SLS will work for a few decades and Starship will screw up supply lines for months?
At the moment, USDC is the only stable coin I’m comfortable holding. Are there are any other stable coins that are like backed by hard assets?