skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan's colonialism in Manchukuo turned it into one of the largest industrialized economies in the world (and in many ways, more industrialized than Japan).

British colonialism & its continued degeneration under Nehru's acolytes made sure that India would never ever rise again. What a tragedy.

It's amusing that my countrymen consider the Indian state legitimate at all - it's only agenda seems to be the destruction of the classical Indian civilization, together with all its inheritence (language, tradition, 'religion' ...).
Dwight Shrute. "Don't be an idiot". /S
Bad title. It's not the rules of the internet, but big-tech monopolies and their walled gardens.

Bring it on!
OP probably meant to say that he uses pre-made Lidar maps to scout locations where he is likely to find lost human artifacts. He's not looking for underground deposits, but trying to find things like long lost outlines of house foundations in the woods. The availability of these maps has made it much easier to find these. Instead of wandering blindly through the woods, you can go straight to a GPS location. It's a big thing in the metal detecting community, and he is not likely to be a bot. Here are some of the maps to check out if you are in the US: https://apps.nationalmap.gov/3depdem/.
> And yet even the likes of Sony and Nintendo are working in major titles with Unity.

I don't think this is a reasonable remark.

The whole point is that the 1% penalty is added on top of whatever choices "the likes of Sony and Nintendo" make. If they have alternatives that ensure them a performance win just by chosing the right tool to work with Unity, they won't choose the wrong one.
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

Ignition breaks down the fallacy that huge innovations come from large professional teams. It demonstrates that getting the right mix of risk tolerance in your team is a large part of innovation. Too little risk tolerance and you never create anything amazing; too much and you can blow it all up (either literally or go bankrupt).

https://www.bookslegit.com/books/ignition-by-john-clark/revi...
I had to re-read the post, because I misunderstood the opening statement.

<<Generic advice is often useless without context.

I agree. Some of the advice we are imbued with is in 'not great' category. The more annoying thing is that it does not get better ( I got ridiculously bad generic advice looking back in my 20s, but I only had enough knowledge in my 30s to know how bad it was ).

<<I wish I'd had some training on how to care what other people think when I was in my teens.

Likewise.
I've bought thousands of books that I never read... so... yeah, that was a waste of money.

I presume you did better with your investment.
Amazon’s cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date
Awesome list, thank you for sharing! Curious, though - how do you structure your weeks so that you can consume 50 books a year? That would take me a while!
> always (well, usually maybe)

Yes this. There is an always an exception out there but it is never you, so it really pays to think "always".
Feeling Great The New Mood Therapy. Fantastic book for therapy. It has helped me significantly. Even though the situations, and dialogues described by the author might come as edgy sometimes but they are helpful nonetheless. I haven’t finished reading the book but I am looking forward to what else the book provides.

The concept of distortions is bang on.
> The bad advice which was handed out in 2001, was that CS as a career had peaked and all those jobs created during the dotcom boom would be outsourced, so there was no point in majoring in it anymore

Hah I got a similar advice. My father even got his friend who graduated with a CS degree to tell me not to get that degree which managed to convince me at the time. I still ended up as an engineer though :)
If you already know the product you are buying down to the model, Google isn't tailored for you. It's meant for people who have a vague idea and then pick what's at the top of the search results. This is why SEO has grown to be an entire profession.
Thank you for that. The fact is that a lot of conditions are on a spectrum, and only the individual can decide whether it's affecting their happiness enough to be A Problem. For example, social anxiety plus executive dysfunction seems to be a super common combination among the students at my local high school. But really, who doesn't have at least a little of both? By identifying their vague "issues" as a specific thing that affects more than just them, people might be able to find a community that can provide support and useful advice, or professional help and perhaps even medication. That's what taxonomy and terminology are for: to be descriptive, not prescriptive, and thereby to understand the world. I've seen it help in far more cases than I've seen it cause harm - though the latter does happen, and it's a thing professionals know to look out for.

Also, gotta say, as much as I hate TikToxic there are even worse places to look for mental health advice. :looks at some of the other threads:
Don’t get married depends on country.

Some countries won't even let you do hospital visits if you are not family.
* Dead Souls by Gogol

I read it to try to understand why Russia sees it self as a super power. It is an amazing book, it does not bring enlightenment but made me see the war propaganda in another light. There was a recent thread with Russsian literature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33032708 where the short stories by Gogol were recommended, I agree.
I have two mantras that I heard at some point early in life and they have immensely helped me over the years:

1.) "Just remember that it's a grand illusion." - Dennis DeYoung.

Human society is a made up thing job titles and heirarchies or castes, companies, governments, money, opinions, labels ("gay", "straight", "married", "healthy", "insane", "impossible")... the whole lot of it - all made up by humans. There is no difference between you, your boss, your CEO, the leader of your country. The truth is, we are all humans living on this earth, eating-feeling-surviving. The rest is something humans just made up.

2.) "...all it takes, really [is] pressure and time." - Red (character in movie Shawshank Redemption).

This montra has never steered me wrong. Something I truly want to achieve may take months or many years, but if I stick to it, it eventually tends to come to fruition. Interestingly, the opposite is true, when I've given up on some opportunity or idea I thought was particularly worthwhile, but I ultimately gave up on and succumbed to the pressure of naysayers and my own weariness, I have seen others succeed on these same ideas/opportunities. It's not a garuntee, but a very strong trend I've observed over my 40+ years on earth.

As a child, I wanted to be a scientist (I've always been an inventor and explorer at heart) but was guided towards enlisting the military due to lack of money and honestly, I did not do well in grade school. After maturing, I've pressed on to course-correct and after 20 years I am finally a well respected research scientist in the field I'm passiknate about. It just took pressure and time (years of pushing through grad school rejections, arduously learning concepts that didn't come naturally to me, ignoring naysayers, etc.).

Sometimes, you won't break through, but I contend that the journey is still worthwhile. I have a HARD math problem that I've been picking a way at for over 10 years and I've made peace with the fact that I may never solve the riddle by the time I'm dead. However, with persistance I've made incremental progress - and I can see that I'm on a road that is being revealed in front of me inch by inch as I apply continuous pressure. Even if I don't know how long that road actually is - if I could live long enough, eventually I know I would solve the puzzle. This montra has helped me keep pushing ahead, despite not truly knowing when a break through will happen, and simply walking the path has led me to observe what feel is great natural beauty. The journey itself can be very rewarding.
I didn’t read a single book. I deployed to production nearly 2000 times instead.
The Acoustical Foundations of Music has been filling a role in my geek-out time rotation.

Caveat: I am not well-versed on acoustics or music and that might be why I am enjoying it.
GM pauses paid advertising on Twitter
It's not a big deal. People give up more than 1% in suboptimal compiler flags alone. People give up far more than that by using unoptimized or lightly optimized code. People give up more than that by being too lazy to use profile guided optimization. Or by using the system malloc. To say that a 1% loss in performance disqualifies something as a systems language is absurd.
Also Alzabo Soup, podcast discussing Gene Wolfe's books.
This is also parenting advice I use. When the kids say they are bored (because they want to drone away on the iPad), I say ‘it is good to be bored!’

Within a few minutes they always find new ways to not be bored:)
Does HubSpot have limitations or improvements?
Automatic Construction: Inexpensive concrete buildings
Reference books are the one thing it's a good idea to spend money on, because flipping back and forth through a digital copy is still a miserable experience
It will only limit growth in sectors where productivity is more or less fixed, like cafes and care homes. No problem about sectors where it can actually grow. It's not a "limit of growth". And labor shortage is a natural situation during actual economic growth: if you have too many people and not enough jobs, economy is in crisis. Now we have the opposite.
One experiment attached an artificial tail onto a chicken and the chicken shifted its stance and was able to walk similarly to how we expect dinosaurs walked.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3915051/
It’s not just you. They keep making changes that aren’t intuitive or wanted and never revert them. Gboard is pretty much the same. Things like guessing proper names even if I didn’t touch the shift bar and with the iPhone keyboard I absolutely hate that it changes words I’ve finished swiping even though I have autocorrect off. It spends more time trying to guess what I meant than the letters I manually type or glide type either way. Don’t even get me started on text selection on here. I miss good old Swype so much. I guess if you can’t beat them, then buy them out and shut them down. I keep swearing that I’m going to Velcro one of those small Bluetooth handheld keyboards on the back of my phone case.
It may be great for drivers.

You see, I am not an expert functional programmer. I already know that it won't work well, for the UI-based stuff that I do, and, in my experience, UI programming, and device control programming, share a lot of patterns. But that may also be, because I am not actually in a position to render much judgment on the matter.

But, like I said. I am not an expert on FC. I have liked using some of its contributions to my favorite language (Swift), but that doesn't really give me the authority to make any really big statements on the pattern (like, for instance, "FC is bad for drivers").

See how it feels, when people throw shade on something that you know well?
Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says
Not really.

IAS folk make on the order of a $1M/pa with all their kickbacks. They often even get to send their kids to study in the West for "free" through "scholarships" (as a quid-pro-quo for compromising national interest). The demand is quite high (see marriage portals).

IPS is one tier lower. Though, anyone who has studied the hallowed history of the former commission of Mumbai knows this is also not something to sneeze at.
Twitter owns TweetDeck now, so that wouldnt be the case today
Personally, my philosophy is that drugs should be viewed as tools. Now I don't recommend this to anyone else because there are a lot of negatives. Encouraging people to find their solutions in chemicals can be dangerous. For a non-trivial amount of people, though, I think a lot of their life's problems could be solved with responsible and moderate usage of certain drugs. But again-- I don't actually recommend this because most human beings are irresponsible with drugs.
As someone who got an ASD diagnosis later in life, this is absolutely spot on.
Disagreements between rational people stem from the differences in assumptions.

Try and look at things from other person's perspective to understand their motivation.
Introduction to ChoiceScript
Katamari Damacy is also available on PC at https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_RE...
Interesting reasons.

TLS has always been weak to a few classes of attacks (historically both MITM and replay attacks), but these developers are taking that weakness very seriously. Also, most HTTP requests are idempotent, which is going to be the use case of 99% of people.

The other two reasons they give are about abstractions that they defined for themselves. The idea of buffering 0-RTT requests is also kind of silly, and completely untenable if you want to avoid memory waste.
I'm not entirely sure this is entirely true anymore:

> The idea of putting on a headset and "experiencing" a "chat" is a downright Lovecraftian dystopia

For the record, I fully believe that to be accurate for headsets. But how about fully immersive, 270°-by-270° viewport VR helmets? I've just come back from a beach holiday, and the thing that struck me was how many children were using snorkeling helmets. Not snorkels and goggles, but full-on helmets with a builtin snorkel jutting out on top. If kids can find such devices comfortable for making their swimming and light diving experience easier, then from a form factor point of view, a VR device going the same route might not be an entirely impossible thing.

The tech sure isn't there yet. And from a latency point of view, may never[0] become a reality. But a device around one's head appears not to be unthinkable.

0: I don't know how many milliseconds of visual latency a human brain can tolerate before breaking the immersion and/or giving the user a headache, but I suspect it's in single digits. Getting to those kinds of refresh rates, the display bandwidth demands would be insane. Possibly beyond what's physically possible.
Not caring what others think doesn’t mean you can’t “fit in.” Of course it sure doesn’t sound like that’s what she meant, but it’s still solid advice, I think.

I do lots of things that basically boil down to “social lubricant.” I really don’t care what most other people think, but I still “play nice” when it’s low-cost and easy because makes everything easier. I won’t go out of my way or expend too much effort to please others though. I’ll make socially acceptable small-talk but I’m not going to bother with designer clothes and fancy cars to fit in.
This reminds me of a tale told by Lawrence Block:

There's an old story about a young man who cornered a world-famous violinist and begged to be allowed to play for him. If the master offered him encouragement, he would devote his life to music. But if his talent was not equal to his calling, he wanted to know ahead of time so he could avoid wasting his life. He played, and the great violinist shook his head. "You lack the fire," he said.

Decades later the two met again, and the would-be violinist, now a prosperous businessman, recalled their previous meeting. "You changed my entire life," he explained. "It was a bitter disappointment, giving up music, but I forced myself to accept your judgement. Thus, instead of becoming a fourth-rate musician, I've had a good life in the world of commerce. But tell me, how could you tell so readily that I lacked the fire?"

"Oh, I hardly listened when you played," the old master said. "That's what I tell everyone who plays for me -- that they lack the fire."

"But that's unforgivable!" the businessman cried. "How could you do that? You altered the entire course of my life. Perhaps I could have been another Kreisler, another Heifetz--"

The old man shook his head again. "You don't understand," he said. "If you had had the fire, you would have paid no attention to me."
Wait. Could you elaborate on this? What was his argument for that statement:

"He thought gTLDs were actively harming the Internet."

I might be missing something.
It’s fine for practically all existing applications. There’s no real reason why Apple should deprecate it instead of opening the source and letting pro apps that rely on OpenGL continue to use this wrapper. The community could implement newer API features, and then everyone just links and includes the version of OpenGL on Metal that they want.

Wrappers are used by the majority of apps anyway, for example WebGL. Apple doesn’t get to say: “We want your JavaScript apps to use our API instead, and we’ll make the development experience subpar if you’re using WebGL.” — they shouldn’t have that kind of power over C apps either.
This really takes me back, wow.

As an anecdote, this os and version was what Kevin Mitnick hacked at Netcom, leading to his eventual capture as detailed in “Takedown”.
This is just, like, normal economic liberalism? The think to keep in mind is that such liberals tend not to share your priors, and hold beliefs like ‘free trade is positive sum’ and ‘optionality is good.’
> Tangentially related but they have a history of drug misuse

There might be a tighter correlation than it seems. What makes drugs addictive is that they work on the dopamine pathways. ADD medications do this directly.

Drug abuse causes damaged memory and executive function because drug use downregulates and sometimes damages dopamine receptors.

> Thus, in addition to reward, addicted individuals can experience severe disruptions in learning (memory, conditioning, habituation), executive function (impulse inhibition, decision making, delayed gratification), cognitive awareness (interoception) and even emotional (mood and stress reactivity) functions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948245/
Wow, talk about double-speak.
Videos in general are really difficult to learn from, in my experience. I started learning infosec when bandwidth was scarce snd you'd avoid clicking video heavy links if for no other reason than the risk your computer would hang.

You can watch a video, paired with written material, but in my experience the best way to learn is assigned readings and/or exercises, then circling back to discuss them with a subject matter expert if you truly don't understand how to perform the attack or math problem or whatever.

I don't have a Tik Tok, but I've used enough social media to say I don't think I'd want my kids getting their mental health information from there.

Now, if an existing institution uses Tik Tok or Facebook or Myspace or whatever to share their content, that's one thing, but the combination of "new network" with "new content creator" where neither side seems to care about the health of society as a whole... creates problems IMO.

(Then again, the same assholes who used to wander around Scott Township every Halloween handing out fifty cent pieces to children still haven't threat modeled basic things like "if your plan for a cyberpunk future was to run away in a submarine like the president from 24, you didn't social engineer the science center well enough, they'll tell you it doesn't work anymore")

Anyways, thanks for the link OP -- enjoy spooky season!!
After doing an internship at Daimler in autonomous vehicles, I planned to achieve my long-term plan to go work for the US auto industry in 1993.

A Ford engineer who had interviewed me implored me to go do anything else (at a Ford reception for college applicants). “Look, you’re going to get an offer from all 3 of us (US automakers) and you should go do something else for 5 years and if you still want to work in SVT or Motorsport (the two divisions I wanted), apply directly to them.”

If I had that guy’s name and address, I’d send him a Christmas card every year as tech was way better than working on glovebox handles and seat belt buckles.
A world where your cash is held in British pounds? Why do you accept forex fluctuations but not security fluctuations?
Do you think he is right or wrong about gTLDs?
Look up the fundamental attribution error
I heard they're mostly bots. Oh, they're not now?

Enjoy your cult. I'm sure it's warm and safe.
I just want actionable information is all. If I have to wait a couple days, fine. Giving me vague information I can't do anything with is useless.
What other CS books did you find amusing?
<< Don’t take advice from strangers on the internet :)

This really should be the fist rule of the internet.:D
Something I didn't learn until recently is that coal was only formed because at the time Bacteria hadn't yet evolved the ability to break down that plant matter.
What are we not allowed to speak like in California? I don't see the connection between what the other person asked and your response.
I thought Google was a search engine. Why doesn’t it search as much as it misleads and distracts?
When the master is ready the student appears, works as well.
I’m sure not everyone came here to hear tech book recommendations, but I will add another vote for Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. It’s one of the best tech reference books I’ve ever read. It manages to explain SO much while requiring so little prior knowledge from readers.

Another book that is relatively new that I loved was Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen. I worked in productionizing ML systems for 3 years and this book equips you with exactly what you need to do so. It does a great job of explaining the whole ML modeling pipeline and some of the commonly overlooked nuances that can cause your models to fail spectacularly in production. I will be referencing this book for years to come.
Man and I thought legislating USB-C was going too far. Is Europe trying to destroy American companies because they have no ‘tech giants’ of their own? I’m surprised the US government is just going to let this happen.
Another question about the syntax: Why are the curly braces also part of the syntax for operators? They are delimiters for the operands but also play some part in the definition of operators? Is this solving some problem or did the author just like curlies?
The point is more that it doesn't matter in the way the person wanting to be remembered would want it to be, or in the way the person wanting to be forgotten fears it to be.
he bragged that he didn't care about making a profit in one of those public Q&A rountables this year. a lot of weird statements about a company that he seems to hate despite using it to pump his fortune
Sure. Obviously the US does stuff. But that’s very limited compared to what happens (and people want to happen) at the federal level US.
Ulam picked a strange place to stop zooming out. After all, E=mc^2 will be forgotten, too. Even now it is "forgotten" in the sense of not being understood by most of humanity. There is no static human achievement (scientific, artistic, or political) that survives into Deep Time. Consider that our most durable artifacts are the religious ones - some humans truly believe them to be otherworldly and precious beyond measure. Yet even those artifacts eventually get lost in the couch cushions and forgotten. Science text books will fair worse, in the long run.
One of the comments addresses this too:

> A hot plate typically draws 1000 to 1400 watts.

> A Tour de France cyclist typically generates 300 to 350 watts. Joe Average on a bicycle will go over 150 watts only in short bursts.

> (And remember: muscles generate heat, too - and they're only 18-25% efficient. So the power peddler will be heating up, but won't have the cyclist's breeze cooling their body down... )

> -- lurch, Jun 07 2015
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