skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well worth the read, but it left me with so many questions.

How much is self-deception? The conclusion of the article makes me think he believes some of his own lies, as if he starting lying so much he doesn't remember what is reality.

The other characters in the story are equally fascinating. Did the retired general know Clark was a grifter, but was happy to collect a pay check sitting on the board? Can you succeed as a defence contractor without buying influence via board seats?

Did Clark purposely team up with unqualified people as a 'shared complicity'? This makes me think he didn't believe his own stories, as he didn't want people in his inner circle who could call out his lies.

When the female cyclist said she would believe Clark if he said the sky was green, what could Clark possibly have done to have so much control over a person? What percent of the population is vulnerable to being sucked into obvious lies?

MLM scams, politics of the Big Lie, investment scams, prophets, miracle cures, etc. The world seems full of these horrible people. How can we help our friends and family avoid being victims if these scammers have such strong powers of persuasion?
we all been using base 60 numeral system without knowing it, it's a clock
What makes you think bonds are stable? Vanguard's Total Bond Market Fund is down 8.03% in the past 3 months / 10.54% in the past year.

In regards to risk adjustment you can change your investments / asset allocation.

Target Date Funds do this automatically, otherwise you can manually move the investments. You'd only want to do this in retirement accounts or else you'll pay taxes on moving the money though.

If you mean buying actual bonds, that is a good method to mitigate risk, but most people can't do that in a retirement account.
Musk’s Ties to China Could Create Headaches for Twitter
Maybe with a different fermatting it will fit ;)
Cars are a hard but representative problem, with intrinsic advantages:

- Multiple data flows
- Limited available attention
- Need for "just works"
- Need for trivial override
- Funding available
- Strong demand for solution
I have a little experience here and the hatcheries tend to be family owned and when an incubator breaks they have to fix it rural America style, there's not enough volume to justify service techs
learning to morse
https://avidreaders.ru/book/matematiki-gerostraty-istorii.ht...

This is by S.P. Novikov, https://research.com/u/s-p-novikov , who knows Fomenko well.

It is of interest in itself, apart from what it says about Fomenko.
> See, a friend of mine suggested having some illustrations to go with the concepts to glue them in the mind of the reader.

You can tell that friend that it worked! They’re a great addition to the post.
TL;DR: Try a “pair programming” company.

“don’t mind focusing [but] really like getting distracted out of that … interaction … helping … and stuff”

This sounds annoying to at least 50% of your peers, and destructive to focus for almost everyone.

Engineering (as opposed to, say, “coding” that just transcribes requirements into code) usually requires building systems in one’s mind then factoring them into well-architected structure and describing that literately in code. This is not a social hang-out (“hey, wassup, can I help w anything?”) activity.

Certainly system conception and architecture can happen great at a whiteboard, but the steps after that tend to go better focused, alternating with iterative collaborative feedback syncs that don’t break concentration for anyone in the system-to-literate-artifact time consuming phase.

Think 3 to 4 hour cycles: 2 to 3 hrs uninterrupted focus, 30 mins break, 30 mins collab for ideation and review, back into focus. Shorten either the morning or afternoon focus cycle depending when you focus most productively, allocate the extra to lunch/learn/whatever. 2x3hrs+1hr lunch = 30 hr work, 5 hrs lunch, per week. Beyond that you probably don’t engineer productively and should enjoy non workplace environments to recharge / defrag.

Since focus time is the phase with most time, it means at any given moment most people need library quiet, and the reflective syncs should be elsewhere.

- Privacy by default with collab spaces allows focus and interaction, without interaction annoying or destructive to anyone. (It’s by-and-large only annoying to (a) profit-over-productivity accountants who think it’s expensive, (b) micro-managers who adore management by walking around, aka getting paid executive pay to chit chat everyone’s focus away, and (c) people who haven’t yet learned how to deep focus consistently.)

- Collab by default without (or with only limited) private focus space prevents this beyond whatever threshold of private space availability. That said, allowing people to pick their own work-start times helps distribute focus and collab usage. The less private space, the more flexible working hours and location must be.

Effectively zero people can translate systems to code while “human-interacting and helping people and such” the way you describe, advocating for that as default is literally counter productivity.

There’s a solution though: devs craving continuous interaction can seek out a company (correctly) believing in “XP” aka eXtreme Programming or paired programming. In this model, the default private spaces have two engineers who program symbiotically. Research suggests 1+1 = 2.5 or 3 or more. For some problems, 10x.

Not only co-thinkers thrive in XP. Standard deviations of engineers need fewer iterations till correctness, meaning, produce higher quality faster. It’s been shown this helps introverted thinkers too, even if they only pair with a rubber duck to explain their thinking aloud to!
What are the minimum order sizes like? Could I get two of something instead of 50, or would the per-piece price skyrocket?
Thanks. This seems to be a good summary of "bias for action" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-7w6BeWfQ
Button mushrooms, cremini mushrooms and Portobello mushrooms are all the exact same fungus, just cultivated at different ages/stages of maturity.
It depends.

I learned programming by myself reading from the internet and some books that were not very good (actually simply bad but the most popular in my country), then I went to college and read specific books and got to learn from some of the teachers that actually programmed for a living and realized that I had holes the size of the mariana trench in my knowledge.
> Is it also the Guinness record holder for worlds shortest book?.

I'm also a non-theist, but I think there's something to be gained by reading the apologetics, in part to understand the motivations and perspectives of theists, but failing that, to sharpen one's own rational thinking skills. There's also a lot of history of the philosophical traditions to appreciate.
Related, but why do pre-installed root certificates include certificates issued by governments like, say, Venezuela (Autoridad de Certificacion Raiz del Estado Venezolano)?

Who decides who is a trustworthy issuer?, and why can’t we, users, modify these lists? (At least on iOS)
Why don't we use liposomes for all drugs ?
I get that, I’m mostly taking umbrage with the lawnmower example.
> a more logic term

Logical according to whom? Why is base 10 more logical than any of the other bases? I'd argue it's not, it's simply that it's what we're used to so we think it's more logical.
jonathandata1 is a routine bs-er, and submitting items of his here is often going to be an exercise in determining if it's true or not, the magnitude of effort for which might not be worth it.
Just a personal anecdote to provide some context of how hot it really is.

I'm from the south of India and now live in Europe. My body tolerates heat
quite well compared to my European friends. I remember tolerating 38-40C indoor temperatures and sleeping through it with heavy sweating. But air temperature of 42C is where I draw the line. It is almost biologically impossible to survive this.

So this story isn't just about record high temperatures, it's about record high temperatures that coincide with biological limits. If air temperature reaches 44C, it's impossible to survive this without artificial cooling and I predict a state of emergency will be declared every summer starting 2030.

There's one additional factor. The hottest months in the equator are June to August. This happens to coincide with the monsoon season in India. So I remember dreading May but looking forward to the monsoon in June. If climate change messes with the monsoon season, the Indian subcontinent is f'ed.
https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-comparison
Very good ideas but as far as India goes, adoption might have to consider monsoon, winter-snow in some, which again might require more tweaks based on more tests.

Another aspect is how real-estate and building construction works in India, across rural and urban regions.Some of the regions have strong clouts of companies that control building/development in urban spaces, while supplies and other aspects in rural region.

Can see the realties changing and newer construction projects taking in newer & greener designs, in both urban and rural regions, but its got a long way to go!
> But wouldn't it make more sense to first rewrite Clojure itself in some small/minimal scheme-y subset of Clojure

How about Scheme?: https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

Note that this project is unmaintained and the last updates are ~10 years old.
Most governments don't have their citizens manually install root certificates... not saying that they don't have access to existing root certificates...
Learning to draw form and volume. My inability to do so frustrates me a lot. I'm hoping someday to be able to visualize pictures and structures in my mind.
Might be the manuscript he’s using. There seems to have been a trend during that era to crop out names, dates, & locations in books. I’ve spotted it in at least “Dracula,” “Frankenstein,” and “Les Miserables,” off the top of my head. Here’s some speculation as to the reason:

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/9518
Pianist here. I see where you're coming from, but I definitely do also rely on the different shapes of keys to know where I am without looking. I've been learning to play the button end of an accordion and personally I find the uniformity makes it harder. But maybe that's just what I'm used to.

As an aside, I find c major a horrible key to play in, again I think the uniformity makes it harder and less ergonomic, but the same thing makes it easier to teach to beginners hence why everyone starts there.
I don't think there's any confusion here that human activities are impacting the climate, even in the political strata. So policy wise, carbon emissions targets are...whatever they are.

But if talk of an "accelerated coal phase out" were to come up, it will face some pushback and phasing-out pace will only be in line with development and growth targets. I wouldn't be surprised if politicians point to emissions by developed nations over the years and term India as a victim of it.

Consumers would happily switch to EVs that are priced right. That shift may occur fairly quickly. The grid going hybrid is a work in progress. Coal is now showing how "elastic" it can be to meet demand spikes like these, so it may stick around longer.
Check out Mark Felton playing with Oasis

https://youtu.be/CZxexZ8v-QI
So, I can unlock it using software and no-one else can? I just don't see how this is a secure lock...
Unless you have good pitch perception in which case transpose buttons mess you up.
> Verifying the identity of billions of people is too much work for a single organization. We'll delegate that to crypto exchanges instead. If they take care of KYC and offer a custodial GLO wallet for humans they've verified, we send the weekly GLO to these. The exchange is allowed to take a fee for this service, creating a new revenue stream.

So you're incentivizing exchanges to create fake accounts?
Your notion of verification seems rather backward.

Every user of GLO should be able to verify that no-one, not even the GLO creators or someone running a scammy exchange, is able to receive more than 1 GLO per day. Asking users to trust your organization or to trust arbitrary exchanges is completely misplaced.
Honestly, yes.

Code is a liability, not an asset. Over time it decreases in value, it is forgotten, misunderstood, and everything will change around it. Many times I've been happy to replace a custom system with an off the shelf one, just to reduce the amount of code I have to worry about.

Even if you keep working on it, requirements change, the code becomes a tangled mess and requires refactoring, tests need to be more complicated, you have to support more operating systems, etc.

At best it does what it needs to do well enough to pay for itself, and then some. Until it needs more work! You don't realize it's crap until it goes wrong and you look under the hood usually either.
During some low-impact exploratory work on my local machine recently, I launched a Jupyter Lab notebook that connected to a SQLite db that was in a directory MS One Drive had claimed. The sync processes had nuked the db within five minutes. I was able to recreate the db easily, from csv files. Important lesson learned!
Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks
> When they announced their results in 1983, it was with the explicit aim of promoting international arms control.

That’s 25+ years after the initial research. “But secret studies supported by the U.S. military suggested that a war's effects on the atmosphere could be quite serious.” I am not saying politics never showed up, but it’s clear the initial research was of a more practical nature as was the 1958 paper.

As to the paper you’re referring to:

“As a side effect, the studies helped to improve scientific understanding of how aerosols could affect climate.” So it was actually an improvement on existing models.

Though science marches on and the debate continued, my understanding is that people found how the early models underestimated a specific issue they investigated and got more concerned. Others would discover areas the model was overestimating impact and investigate that, but overall the models got generally more accurate over time.
It is true that the experiment exercises the OS, but that's only part of the point. The other part is that it uses a simple, blocking, thread-per-request model with Java 1.0 networking APIs. So this is "achieving 5M persistent connections with (essentially) 26-year-old code that's fully debuggable and observable by the platform." This stresses both the OS and the Java runtime.

So while you could achieve 5M in other ways, those ways would not only be more complex, but also not really observable/debuggable by Java platform tools.
You're right, “coherent” would be more appropriate here
I agree to your general point, but

"instead of spending all day chasing after animals to eat."

Actual working hours in small hunter gatherer tribes like the Lakota were more likely around 3-4 hours.

Medieval peasants had to work all day long.

But both experienced starving in winter and spring, in a bad year.
Those are called bioactivators.

The other ones are piperine from white pepper and MSM which promotes nutrient digestibility.
Learning more about how Hinduism explains the beginnings of the Universe and planetary systems. How it's linked with yoga and synchronization of chakras
David Tolnay's Crates.io Profile
> yes, other countries should pay attention.

India is paying attention but India also knows that Russia has been good partner in the past, lot of Indian military has Russian equipment. You dont want to piss off your military partner.
Here is my thought process, but take it lightly as I have not been part of front-end teams for quite a long time. It is more about how your code modules are organized, for what purpose, and how it will be managed.

I would say go bang-bang with all the classes for Marketing/Landing Pages and websites that will change regularly both in code and final designs.

Now, for a user logged in WebApp where many engineers (front + back) will work but want to leverage TailwindCSS without having to write everything from scratch, leverage its capabilities, but start writing your classes -- use TailwindCSS as a utility.

TailwindCSS makes it easy to get in new members to the team, and even new developers, just like Bootstrap does. It gives you the advantage of using it as your tamed tooling, complete with sharable design tokens between designers, the front-end, and the back-end.
Now Google knows exactly who and where you are.
> I relate to the general sentiment, mind you, but Rust is brainlessly easy to install.

True, my issue is with releasing libraries that need Rust.

It forces the users of the library to install Rust, adding friction, and possibly deal with issues/errors that they are not used to.

Especially on heterogeneous systems: library developed on Linux, user is on Mac/Windows.

One example is my day job where the CI platform is controlled by another department and you can't create your own custom Dockerfile(s), because "security".

On the developers' side Rust is completely fine, in fact IMO Python is much more problematic, despite being an order of magnitude more popular.
(Pedantry) That's actually a chromatic harmonica, which is a somewhat different instrument from the diatonic harmonica / blues harp aspaviento is talking about. Chromatic harmonicas have a little lever that mechanically does some of the difficult tongue / breath stuff.
I am struggling with french for the longest time. Any recommendations on how to effectively learn new languages?
Imagine you have 100 Jekyll templates that all contain a few dozen instances of <div style="display: flex; ..."> don't you feel you're wasting some bandwidth by not creating a .flex { display: flex; } class to handle that common case? This is all Tailwind is doing.
Right; in my case I would instead be awake but very tired, and I'd lie down and go to sleep without losing consciousness. The first time it happened I assumed it was a unique one-time experience, but it happened again several times.

It never happened, as far as I can remember, before I developed CFS. It never happened when I was not taking modafinil or armodafinil.
Extremely useful. I use it to write small to medium scripts, replacing Bash. For example, I wrote a small client that interacts with Pocket API. [1] Aside from interop with shell commands (I use Fish for that), most things seem pleasant so far.

[1] https://github.com/hiepph/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/_pock...
Insert-only: Sorry bad wording. "Focus on inserting events (which boils down to only inserting into tables, never updating existing rows)"

A database can of course never know that it is "events" you are inserting.

--

Aggregates/materialized views:

(Contrived example warning)

Say that you have a User entity in your system. The
Name of the user is only set through two events, UserChangedName or CustomerServiceChangedUserData.

The "aggregate" is simply the calculation of the user's name (and other data) from such events. Declaring this should be done using some variant of functional programming; SQL views, reactive programming, etc

At least in the DB we use, we can declare a SQL view that fits the bill and does such a transform. So User is a view on the events that affects it. But it can not be materialized if it is too complex (materialized = updated when the insert of events happens, so that one does not need to query all the events every time one reads User).

One can do it using triggers, but that is an imperative instead of declarative programming style with all the problems and lack of guarantees.

--

Operation allowed etc:

Say that there is a limit of 5 name changes. However a TooManyNameChangesReviewedByCustomerSupport can be inserted and then you get 5 more.

So user wants to change name. You need to read NameChange events and TooManyNameChangesReviewedByCustomerSupport events, compute whether a change is allowed or not, and only save the event if it is allowed to happen (at which point it becomes the event -- this DB is the source of the event).

What you need now is a transaction that allows you to avoid race conditions. Otherwise a parallel thread could be doing the same thing at the same tim, and you end up jumping from 4 to 6 name changes, when 5 should be the limit.

SQL DBs focus on providing transactional guarantees for UPDATEs, but not so much on guarantees for "only INSERT this row if these other rows in another table are NOT present/has a count less than --" ..

So you end up having to update an aggregate manually in the SQL transaction to avoid races => this is what should be built into the SQL server. (It would just be syntax candy in a sense, saving one from writing code to update the aggregate explicitly, but pretty important syntax candy as it changes the mindset of the developer in an important way)
Is convolution in DL not implemented with the FFT as the underlying workhorse?
> allowing you to delete an open file and providing no means to prevent it

What exactly do you mean by “providing no means to prevent it”?
Looking to go beyond the basics in Docker and Kubernetes, and intending to start learning Next.js.
That depends on what is your motivation to learn French?
Oh wow, I would love to hear what made you change your mind. I can understand the progression from a believer to an agnostic or an atheist, but am fascinated by the evolution in the opposite direction.
The exploitation is on and off camera.

How many audition tapes did they go through in order to choose those 5 girls? 50? 100? Someone sat there and watched dozens of half-nude 11 year old girls twerking on camera. This is disturbing to me. If it isn’t to you then i don’t know what to say.
Thanks for the excellent resource. A big part of this problem is self inflicted.

We used to have thick mud walled houses which stayed cool during scorching heat. People who could afford would go with stone constructions. Things such as sun and wind direction were also considered while constructing the houses. All that knowledge is discarded in favour of high rising concrete jungles.

But all that is replaced with concrete based constructions with almost no insulations. This makes inside even more uncomfortable than outside once the wall have absorbed heat. Commercial construction is even worse with lots of glass.
OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring engineers to work on mobile customer engagement
When it comes to 'gentile', the etymology of the word isn't important to you because you don't want people to use it. When it comes to AD, the etymology becomes important because you don't want people to use it. And I think I'm picking up a bit that the context and intent matter unless the context is innocent and the intent is mild, in which case there is some linguistic argument about why there is unintended problems with language.

I put it to you that this is making up reasons to be offended as the conversation goes along. There is no difference between calling people gentiles or non-Jews, except possible one shows that your in-group is more important than the orthodox Jewish in-group (or whoever it is who uses the word gentile). You aren't drawing meaningful reasons out to support this position. The two terms have the same intent, same implications and same meaning.
Is this a real fear, or hyperbole?

If it is real, I can endlessly supply you with project ideas. You know, how about solving hunger or climate change, if you are too bored ..
I can’t figure out why headlines still scream about the NUMBER of points the Dow (or other index) has plunged, when the percentage drop is more relevant. A plunge of 900 pts when the Dow is at 32K is not as bad as the same plunge when Dow is at 10K.

Oh wait, I just realized why they do this — something called clickbait.