skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A research paper called "Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology," which is backed up by experimental studies, can serve as a great introduction to develop a learning strategy [0].

The summary is that doing practice tests (e.g. creating flashcards in a question-and-answer format, or regularly doing practice problems) is highly effective, along with studying over a longer period of time instead of cramming. Switching between learning subjects ("interleaved practice") is also effective, along with creating explanations in your own words about a text, together with asking yourself questions about the text. In contrast, highlighting the text and rereading as a way to learn is relatively ineffective.

[0] Full text [PDF]: https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi...
Instagram was able to scale due to FB. Of course it reduced the competition, but at the same time the other platforms that were not acquired just withered away (Kik? Snapchat apparently has 4B revenue, and ~20M USD net profit, which is basically 0 compared to IG).

And it's also telling that no other giant felt to enter this space (Google after G+ just started to focus on B2B cloud/workspaces, and their B2C is limited to Youtube (Premium) and Android (Pixel and AndroidOne)).

Basically the only real competition is TikTok, which is made possible by high resolution/definition smartphone cameras and displays, and a ~10 second attention span. (Which is still more than the doomscrolling on IG/FB.) But since their revenue share model is very hostile/unfair to creators, in its current form it'll eventually hit a ceiling. (Or not, predictions are just predictions.)

> ARM

SoftBank found a buyer for ARM, but authorities stepped in. Is this good or bad?

On one hand it would have created a lot of added value for Nvida, so it would have been a mergers success story. But on the other hand Nvidia would have extorted the market (allegedly!) so it would have created (yet another) success story for the "capitalism bad" ongoing highly acclaimed ideology series.

> Apple

People seem to love Apple (people buy their expensive gadgets, like there's no tomorrow), and their acquisitions (like the well known laser drilled holes, and CNC machined bodies for their laptops [0]) allowed them to deliver those high quality gadgets with enormous profits.

Likely their acquihires are providing them a lot of added value ... and people seem to agree that Apple is good. So maybe acquihire is good too?

[0] https://blog.bolt.io/manufacture-like-apple/
This articles frames the Artemis program as an us vs. then contest with Space X. They cannot, and never could, compete with Space X. However, NASA and the U.S. government will certainly benefit a lot if Starship is successful. I’m sure most everyone, except maybe some higher ups, are rooting for Space X just the same as many civilians are.
> As a non Christian this always baffles me.

I don't understand how this is in any way baffling. There were plenty of humans around for people to observe when the bible was being written, and some of them probably lived to be quite old.
> This comment comes off as either disingenuous or needlessly contrarian, and in the process tries to make points that fall somewhere between completely wrong and miopic.

Bluntly, your response is the one coming off as needlessly argumentative, and the parent comment made plenty of sense to me. I don't think it's disingenuous to clearly explain the difference between the Same-Origin Policy and CORS, and to emphasize that CORS relaxes the Same-Origin Policy.
I haven't tried that. I have ran the same Go-Gtk program on Linux and Mac, but recompiled on both systems.
I don't think file number / lines of code is a good measure, you can have perfectly readable code in a single file that is 1000s loc. There are plenty single header file libraries that are larger and are very useful. Perfect example is the stb libraries: https://github.com/nothings/stb
very widely used in the C / C++ community.
A reminder not to take legal advice from HN.
I believe you're shooting the messenger.

Tyrannical, greedy, and well-resourced psychopaths have been using technology to lead us into an Orwellian hell-hole.

Without them, all of this tech is a fantastic opportunity to empower and connect our world.

And that will happen - they've overstepped their mark and most people who matter know this already.
Perhaps the issue is that consumers lack the choice to pay? We're seeing a proliferation of online services that charge money. I only wish that the standard when I pay for a service is to have an ad-free experience.
Three things help greatly.

(a) big picture. Read about the past centuries, millennia. In a lifetime that only lasts an hour, appreciate how much, how little is within our power. Democracy is an outlier. Individual freedom is an outlier. But total dystopia is also an outlier (and not to be expected).

(b) appreciate that the balance of bad and good that we see is not a zero-sum-game, we aren't presented a ratio. We are presented with negative and positive narratives independently. Some of the negative narratives we see today are over-rated, and many of the lesser seen positive ones remain very valid.

(c) almost nothing is a tipping point. The systems of our world are full of feedback loops, and often extreme outcomes are averted by (super-)exponential costs that ultimately change our behavior. There are dynamics that humans can't run away from, and they will (probably) not be the spontaneous destruction of earth, but rather a gradual forced change of behavior.
The whole Blue Zones thing is pretty funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

Only Loma Linda seems like it might not be the result of fraud — and that’s only because it’s a haven for a kooky religion.

The whole life-extension thing is funny. I wonder if people realize what the world is going to be like 70+ years from now and how miserable it’s going to be for anyone over 100 who’s not rich? I think about my 95 year old grandma stuck inside the past 2 years because of COVID. I honestly think if I was that age I would have rather died in 2019 than be alive today.
When you sell your car, and someone is paying more than usual. Should you keep looking for someone who might pay ten times that amount?

That person is there, maybe not today, maybe not within 10km. By wait a few years, or drive a few thousand KM or both.

Does that make the first, already above-average offer 'pennies'?

Off course not.
There were a joke website arguing for its preservation, but as usual, Google can't find it for me.
If you don’t play ball in certain parts of the world, you end up in a river. The price tag is just different.

Yours would likely be family or close relatives.

I think you’d take money to do something untoward if that was the alternative. Almost everybody would. And there’s nothing wrong with admitting that.
How do I follow along?
Of course but people just like to puppet nonsense and are ignorant of our own history.

This for instance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_b...

Or what about the vice president shooting one of the founding fathers dead over what was basically a twitter war for that time? Lol yea we are more extreme and divided now. Give me a break.
whenever i get into this sort of mood I try to focus on one small thing I can make better

sometimes that's a small open source tool, maybe that's remembering to help a neighbor out, or going out to a public trail and picking up trash, something positive that I can do immediately and that takes my focus off the negative stuff

there's a lot of good in the world, but the little black mirror can obscure it
For those who aren't immediately getting the quote:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski#Industrial_...
I had thought I remembered seeing something about how rust actually started in Graydon's apartment pre-2010. But then, later on, everything I saw said it was started at Mozilla, and I thought maybe I misremembered. But I was right!
Carter didn't own nearly as many people.
There was a thread on HN a few days ago [1] that discussed a similar idea. The prevailing notion seems to be that the far larger number of independent banks in the US makes coordinating on this sort of system far more challenging. In my experience, countries with a lower number of banks (<20 or so?) tend to be farther ahead on systems that require first-party cooperation.

However, I wouldn't say there "isn't any movement" in the US. To clarify, what I noted above obviously doesn't preclude or justify the absence of a comparable system that supports at least a subset of US banks. Zelle may one day gain wider adoption in this fashion, and third-party approaches (such as Venmo) already handle most private transactions somewhat reasonably despite relying on ACH transfers for funding rather than first-party bank support.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183
No. This was neither ETH, nor the Ethereum blockchain. Nor does this imply more issues indeed exist today.
I do not expect to make any major expensive lifestyle changes as a result of having more money (and to the extent to which I have already been being paid better recently due to working on Orchid, I have only barely done so and usually only quite temporarily), which I realize disappoints some people who had wanted me to post a concrete picture of something expensive I purchase to help motivate others to reach for bug bounties ;P.

(FWIW, I maybe should at some point buy a car--as I currently waste money on renting one; pre-pandemic I was using a combination of ZipCar and Lyft, but both services suck now--but I can't imagine myself buying a pointlessly extravagant car; and, sadly, now is a bad time to buy a car anyway... which I think is related to the ZipCar issue: I imagine they might have sold their fleet? Maybe ZipCar will return in force when prices rebalance.)
Eh, so was agriculture. You can't really go back though, we all have to run the red queen's race.
That depends on how much time/energy/money/health/resources an adult has. Generally if Ike can spare some resource towards the collective effort into making the world a better place to live, the adult thing would be to contribute some resource. If one cannot, then focus on oneself until one is stable enough to begin contributing back. Part of the difficulty behind this is that it’s easy to become cynical and dismissive because its easier to say the world can’t be saved/isn’t worth saving than actually saving the world.
I built something similar a couple of years back using Anka. I got the help of lawyers to help with some details but there were definitely cases where Apple’s non explicit stance (until recently) makes you stop and think. https://www.filip.dev/posts/veertu-interview/
My understanding (not an expert - just saw the articles in 2016-2017) is that it might have been pre-existing but no one was looking because human-human transmission was overwhelmingly dominant.

But I had he date wrong - apparently it was first observed in 2012, but only became a significant vector in 2016 (presumably as humans stopped being such accessible hosts).
My 'goalposts moved' detector just twitched.
5% yoy risk-free is optimistic, realistically he can count on 50-60k. Close to fuck-you money but, for a lot of people, not there yet.
I was lucky to grow up near a field with many prairie dogs. It was very clear to me as a kid they were talking in whatever capacity they have. Kinda felt like it could have been a scene out of a Star Wars movie at times. They also clearly didn’t like us humans mucking about for surely great reasons.

That field has since been “cleared” of several endangered species via purportedly “safe” means for housing development.
Environmental impact is not even on the same axis as longevity.

If everyone lived like the average American today, the maximum sustainable population is about 70 million humans (give or take a factor of about 2), even if they’re all mortal.

Conversely one can conceive a green tech and policy future which is compatible with having trillions of ageless humans living comfortably in what are currently deserts while the rest of the world is maintained as a nature reserve.
Wolves Will Regain Federal Protection in Much of the U.S.
Tucson archaeologist: Found artifacts linked to 16th century
Agree.

In the last few years I've tried to shift from seeking happiness to seeking meaningfulness as the first order pursuit.

Happiness is like a red herring for meaning, or it's a side effect of a meaningful activity. Or it's something you seek when you experience a dearth of meaning.. not sure. But it's certainly just one or a narrow set of experiences that make up being human.
Plenty of open source packages probe for extensions when built for either X86_64 or ARM, then call fallback code if the extension isn't there.

Things like OpenJDK, pixman, nss, ffmpeg.
The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt is all I ever needed. I've built hundreds of wheels, I don't feel I need this tool. I guess if you're being really anal about it it's of value. I've used a spoke tensioner once ever, just a stand and a good feel for tension is fine. I've ridden over 60000km on my wheels, no problems.
Make a simple game. Games are fun and keeping it simple allows you to focus on learning. I made a multiplayer, last player standing trivia game to try out LiveView and it was great.
I have been really obsessed with this one.

Somehow I failed to learn things when I was taught in "official ways", yet I managed to learn the language by being brutally forced into practice and environment that pushed me to make it happen. I moved countries when I was 12, they put me in school straight away without knowing how to speak (although I have been studying for a few weeks, at least the basic grammar).

The language group has been similar to my native tongue, however the alphabet was different (as I was used to cyrilic). Nonetheless, as a kid - I already saw some patterns and similar rules.

I managed not to fail my class as well as spoke and wrote really well after 2.5 years. After 5 years I was better than most of the native tongue speakers in terms of grammar and on par with their vocabulary. Obviously using the language every day and being pressed to do so contributed.

Years later I started learning German in high-school... was so bad it and never managed to even get to the basic level after 4 years. I moved to Berlin again years later but because English was already quite prevalent, it never pressed me to learn German and I never did.

Somehow the most effective learning curve was just doing the thing, making a lot of mistakes and I never took textbooks into account even when doing so.

The methodology was just deliberate practice and tacit knowledge in the end.
And I just saw the price. Holy.
They go hand in hand. In most professions you need to be about 40 to be competent. When you're young this doesn't seem likely because you don't see many competent middle aged people: that's because they're up in management actually running things. Unfortunately we start aging mentally around the same age, and at 60 we're not really capable of creative work anymore.

So we live 80 year lives, but with only about quarter of that really giving all we're capable of, and a fair share is being dedicated to raising children. Living an extra 20 years isn't a perk - it literally doubles our most productive years. Living an extra 40 years with most forms of dementia fixed? That's almost unimaginably more productive, and unimaginably richer. Both on an individual level (working+learning more = earning more), but as a society.

You mentioned "when it's more worth living". Not sure what context you're coming from, but life is a lot more worth living in its second half, simply because you know more about how to live it, and have the means to do it. The only problem is you're getting old and senile.

Edit: please don't downvote somebody asking questions.
Why the West’s Diplomacy with Russia Keeps Failing
How? I look through my discord search settings and it’s pretty straightforward. I search for something a friend posted some months back and found it pretty easy. The only difficult part is knowing which server it’s on.
You may also find this interesting, about the composer David Cope, the programs he created, and the way they were received:

https://psmag.com/social-justice/triumph-of-the-cyborg-compo...
Is this really true? Any ex-Apple employees here, what is your experience?
They’re still referred to as guilds in the APIs, but their friendly name is now servers.
Hmm Thread Reader gives me this (two short paragraphs and videos that are hidden, probably due to my Firefox containers.)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492712401262710784.html

Looks like the meat of this is just 4 photos, 2 videos, 3 tweets. Unless you want to dig through the rest of the conversation, in which case you could click through to the Twitter thread linked originally.
I take notes, as energetically as my interest allows. While I do read them subsequently, I do not really make too much use of them. For me, the act of taking notes strongly helps my mind connect to the information in ways that make me know it better, sooner.

I went through a bad patch as the nineties ended and I thought that computer note taking might be a good idea. It produced pretty good notes (I type well) but was much less conducive to learning. In fact, I felt it was distracting and counter-productive.

Handwritten notes. Definitely my first line of offense against ignorance.

After that, teaching it. If I can find an opportunity to make a presentation. That's great. I will always confirm understanding and level up when I explain what I know in a semi-formal way. Explaining to colleagues and friends is good. I didn't do study groups in college but found analogous social activities very helpful since.

After that, doing it. If it's a practical topic, putting the lessons into practice asap is very helpful. Like, I'm sure, many of you, I am a programmer. If I start using a new tool, technique or idea, I will soon have solid understanding.

Of course, I also keep going. If I do not keep seeking progress in a topic domain, then any knowledge I have will fade.
The industrial policy of the United States is "maybe Elon Musk will do it".
In order to understand things I need to use what I learn. So I try it out and if it's useful I drill it until I remember a few ways to apply it.
> The job of a software engineer

That's why I specified 'coder'. Software engineering is a spectrum, at the lowest level it's just coding. At the top level it transitions to being all about the people. For the folks who are coding, their life is about taking already defined stories and turning them into reality. If the story isn't super clear, they may interface with the team lead or the PO, but when things are working right they just go heads-down and work. This is pretty close to an ideal candidate for remote work.
Mysteries of Stephen Hawking's doodle-filled blackboard may finally be solved
Carter no doubt has marketing behind the name and stellar executive teams at his various associated programs.

But as far as I can tell, he's the only recent ex-President who's kept up a similar pace of work and results since: everyone else finishes and retires.

His book was a decent read too. In a "some things are just right and good" way. https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Before-Daylight-Memories-Boyhood...
I'll play Devil's Advocate: "advanced" nations went through the same suffering and exploitation on their way to being advanced as newly-industrialized nations are going through now. Much of the modern discontent with society and technology is simply due to greater awareness and better education, rather than actual change in the nature of society or how technology is used.

I don't necessarily disagree that Big Tech is driving dystopian changes in the nature of governance, but I don't think a rose-tinted view of the past is very helpful. Spying, disinformation, and corruption in the controllers of communication technologies has been a thing since the telegraph, if not earlier.
"Lock with no keys" isn't particularly uncommon. They exist in the real world as one-way devices.
The service is still very gamer centric, Discord Nitro for instance gives you a game subscription. I really hope they’re not trying to become Slack, that will be the death of them.
Thanks, Ted.
Documentary link (27 minutes long): https://youtu.be/hL3eqiHk4nM
Did anyone else notice a response tweet from Simon Leviev (the Tinder Swindler which was on Netflix)?

> have you read my business plan ?

https://twitter.com/3rd_layer/status/1492682875208146947?s=2...
This is not like dropping a wallet in a public place. This is literally the equivalent of sending your wallet to my house amongst other things that I actually requested. When you visit a website you are essentially trusting the website and giving it permission to download arbitrary data (in the form of HTML, CSS, and Javascript) to your machine. Now imagine if that website gave you more data than you intended to the point where it made you liable as an owner of something you neither intended to have nor wanted.

In terms of delivering something malicious to someone under no presumption of its deliverance, it's analogous to the extreme case of someone shipping a whole bunch of cocaine in a package with a book that you ordered. If we want to get closer to the actual problem, it's like you finding a paper shipped with your book and seeing a whole bunch of social securities numbers on it that may have included your own! Now if you have reasonable indication that this list was being sent out to everyone who ordered books from a specific place, of course you'd want to inform the people sending books to stop doing this so you could feel safe about your personal information.

Now imagine instead of protecting the information which has been going out to random people, the company decided to get angry and attempt to prosecute you for pointing out their negligence. It's absolute idiocracy.

As one of the Missouri residents who had their social security number exposed in this way I'd be furious at those who were delivering it.
This is something I've thought about a lot; I ended up compiling tips on learning from a variety of different sources into a master document that I go back to every once in a while to see if there's any new things I can implement [0].

I only integrate one or two practices at a time, and I stopped short of implementing SRS or a Zettelkasten because I began to realize I was spending too much time on productivity to actually get anything done. I'll probably return to them later - I think SRS especially gets a bad rap from people who like to think about things conceptually as "just being rote memorization", but IMO the human brain is not a computer for Platonic objects. It thrives on hard data and real-world examples, and "memorizing" components or instances of a particular concept so they're at hand for effortless retrieval just makes connecting them to existing ideas easier (which is arguably all understanding things is).

[0] https://pastebin.com/sk6iNDpp
after 15 years of sitting in front of a computer, im so glad to be working outside. and owning my own business.
How to Commit Murder Inside a Locked Room
Many years ago, I was poor enough to live this way for a while. It's not as bad as you might imagine, as long as you live some place with good dumpsters and know how to find them. Really, the worst thing about it was that if your resources are sufficiently scarce and unpredictable that you're motivated to learn how to live this way, then you most likely have a bunch of other unpleasant problems, like food and shelter insecurity, and you are probably suffering a lot of stress and anxiety because of it.

Also, hunter-gatherer societies are societies; they offer mutual aid and support and close relationships. Our society works differently, and if you're stressed enough to learn dumpster diving, then there's a good chance that you need more social support and close relationships than you have readily available.