skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handwriting may be a good way to reinforce what you've already learned. But it can also act as a crutch which disengages your brain before you've processed new information more deeply.

I have a coworker who hand writes nearly all technical information spoken in meetings and 1 on 1 conversations, and yet remains incredibly ineffective at recall.

The problem is she lacks a mental model of the topic, so she has no structure around which to organize incoming facts. Being unable to assess the relative importance of a new fact, she dutifully transcribes everything she hears -- but never becomes able to summarize or reason about it. This also means that she's unable to correct herself when she's mistranscribed something, such as substituting Gigabytes with Gigahertz. Little of what she writes is worth retaining.

If you're unclear about what's being discussed, it can be so much more effective to put the pencil down and ask a few questions.
Some journals encourage the submissions of comments to published papers. After all, a little controversy attracts traffic and gives both the critique and the critiqued paper more visibility.

But not all authors like being critiqued. This is even worse when competing interests are involved, e.g. patents, or an author is employed at a research-active company that sponsored that paper.

This is particularly bad when a paper is accompanied by press releases that dramatically oversell the findings. Unfortunately many researchers seem to read press releases and confuse their content with the actual science reported in the paper.

In that case it must be possible to critique a paper and set things right, if only to have a citable record for the next time a reviewer tries to shoot down a paper or grant based on a skewed understanding of prior research.
Because you have to push the air through the box with fans. If you can make the ceiling area a kill zone for viruses, ordinary convection effects will push all the air through it regularly.
This never worked for me. The physical process of writing is just so slow and awkward that it distracts me and inhibits learning. Yes, I tried using higher quality pens and different writing techniques. Nothing really helped. So forget writing by hand, for me it's worse than useless. YMMV.
Even if, by magic, you manage to get all the world on exactly the same income per family/person at one point in time, that equality will only last a moment. Add any amount of time with some random changes in society, environment, sunspots, whatever, and some parts of the world will decrease, some increase in income. One island might be the new hot vacation spot, the other might be unreachable due to storms for a month, or have a volcanic eruption. People might get bored and vote for some crazy asshat leader in some country. Whatever happens, the income distribution will, with time, spread out from the initial condition of equality, basic statistic says that it'll roughly look like a gaussian distribution getting wider over time (It won't be strictly gaussian, and look less so after a while, since there are boundary conditions and secondary effects like development aid going to the poorer).

We are not uniform, the environment is not uniform, resource distribution is not uniform, and even if you tried to make it so, it won't stick. Any non-isotropic planet will produce inequality.

For the example of the US being unique or special, that might not be permanent. And the usual explanations might not always hold. But in any kind of world we can imagine, there will always be some luckier and unluckier parts, resulting in inequality.

Now you can try to improve the standard of living all over the world (and of course people do that). But as long as e.g. the USA is still interested in improving their own standard of living, there will be a game of catchup that might be unwinnable. The only solution I see would be to cause e.g. the US to cease improving its standard of living. However, I'd consider that immoral and inhuman. Everyone, even the top half of the distribution, have the right to strive for something better.
I can't agree more. It's the only way to stand up to the fakery and artificiality of algorithms. I try to make my software 'internet friendly'.
The companies were advertising on Twitter, despite the relatively weak performance.

They considered it worth the spend prior to activist pressure.

If Twitter's ad performance was best in class, they would be less likely to fold.

We seem to be in agreement about how this works?
While no automated tool can accurately catch all malware, I'm building Packj [1] to provide objective security insights into software artifacts. Auditing hundreds of direct/transitive dependencies manually is impractical, but Packj can quickly point out spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, mismatch of GitHub code vs packaged code (provenance), etc.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Discussed at the time:

“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683003 - Dec 2014 (182 comments)
I envy all the people who don’t find writing by hand intolerably excruciating.
I find it fascinating that no one dares even to mention IQ, either here or in the original article.
> Those things are simply illegal over here.

Let me guess, your Skype/Teams icon still changes color when you stop moving your mouse for sufficiently long time, and you are technically prevented from changing this setting...
>>The vast majority of Windows games work perfectly fine on Linux nowadays.

Sorry man, this is false, most games have anti-cheat that simply won't work with linux out of the box, you may get titles a year later (early depending on sales performance) and the ones you get rarely work perfectly out of the box.

The only place the "vast majority" statement may hold is if you count the endless amounts of simplistic/indie games, and do not consider the highly rated, highest selling titles.

The steam deck surely is helping, can't argue against that, as is SteamOS in general, but we are far far away from parity between the operating systems.
I posted this because it's mentioned in https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/11/23/bigshot-ch... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719763)
I think his disdain towards academia isn't really anti-intellectualism (he's not ignorant of compiler theory knowledge, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to write a compiler from scratch in the first place! And his interest in programming languages seems to span decades, from what I remember from one of his streams). I think he's critical of the fact that the primary focus of academia and industry in computer science have diverged so much over the years, such that most academic CS works haven't really helped developers in building better programs and tools. Thinking about the countless hours compiler academics have spent on all sorts of esoteric parser theory in the past, while all the production compilers today are using recursive decent for pragmatic reasons... maybe this kinda makes sense.
Is it possible to run a paid Mastodon instance? It would make sense, hardware resource bills (and work time of moderators) need to be paid.
Also a good point: what purpose they are being sold for. Magnets for crafting purposes are clearly very useful. I've got a drawer full of various sizes of such magnets myself (because every maker on Thingiverse seems determined to discover a unique new size of tiny magnet). But crafting tools are often dangerous and aren't intended as toys to be left in the open. Crafters with kids are already well aware that leaving crafting supplies near children will always end in disaster.
Russia relaunches Soviet-era Moskvich car brand using a former Renault plant
I suppose that's fair. I guess I'm lamenting the missed opportunity for an interesting philosophical discussion, and perhaps wishing the author had presented his (otherwise very interesting!) thoughts through a more nuanced lens. I don't think he would even need to change the title.

I still enjoyed the article, and would upvote it again if I could.
Yeah, startup bros typically plan on exploiting the fuck out of a few naive coders to get rich quick. That's why all the real startups have programmers as central figures, they can actually produce and stopped themselves from getting scammed.

If you're reading this and thinking about working for an early startup, don't. Best case, you make some douchey boss a few million dollars and worst case you lose years of your life making vaporware. Find a real job with stability.
Plugins for desktop apps would be safer if the plugin is run with WASM.
Post-quantum safe VPN tunnels available on all Mullvad WireGuard servers
Captured traffic is now safe from future quantum computers. They are using classic McEliece ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEliece_cryptosystem ) which is many decades old. One of the finalists for the PQC NIST competition - and may still be standardized, key sizes are too large they said.

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/blob/master/talpid...

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/blob/master/talpid...
Yep, $8.49 USD in the US.
Try to convince her to move. Cancel her workload and deadlines and tell her you’ll keep paying her regardless of her output. That’s the compassionate thing to do. Anything else is tantamount to trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
Bolt action magnets actually exist https://www.grainger.com/category/material-handling/lifting-...

And semi auto magnets would be electromagnets I assume.
But the actual 3D Rubik's Cube is also a really poor representation, because at all times you can only see at most half of the cube. I guess the point of making a 2D representation is to correct that problem. I can much more easily superimpose the missing connections you have mentioned in my mind's eye onto this 2D representation than I can remember the 3D layout of the half of the cube I can't see. Not everyone's brain works that way, but mine does.
It needs to be explicitly used. As far as I'm aware it doesn't slot in behind an existing API and magically make things better.
Datasets Have Worldviews
Here is some background about silencing mastodon.social, and what it means: https://www.patreon.com/posts/silencing-social-74474015

I don't think it's about pushing an agenda. Each instance can only set the rules for their own community. Dozens of art-related instances have popped up like mushrooms overnight, so there is a good chance people will find one where they agree with the rules of the house. And it's easy to move to another instance later.
Coins study suggests ‘fake emperor’ was real, say scientists
I have an atomic note like ``Paxos`` and when I re-read or add to it, I usually refactor it to resemble my improved understanding.

This is a colossal waste of time if you do it by hand, but it is something that really helps me, and is enabled by taking notes on a keyboard + Obsidian.
I like how you say on your site that you recently joined Mastodon, while your RSS feed works just fine and I see posts from 2006. ;)
> I was thinking a (very small) auxiliary chip, dedicated to the task.

Extra cost (both in design and manufacture), new potential point of failure (both for manufacture and in the field), when the CPU failing was already a single point of failure for the machine. It's not that a full-blown CPU is required, it's that you already have a full-blown CPU that can do the job, simplifying the design. Well, you might see dedicated fan control hardware for server motherboards and other more industrial focused applications, but they often need to coordinate pumps/fans for an entire building - reliability in this context is more about redundancy, and alerting maintainence to the need for repairs, or perhaps switching to a new primary datacenter if the failure is big enough - not in attempting the impossible of ensuring 100% reliability for any individual component.

> CPU death spirals

Have you actually seen one of these that noticably bogs down the fan-driving firmware/drivers and causing issues? I haven't. I've had fan failures. I've had plenty of hardware controlled fans go full apeshit 100% power to the point of being not merely a nuisance, but a problem (audio, vibration, wear+tear, ...). I've heard of building cooling failures. But I don't think I've seen so much as a blog post about the CPU getting so starved that it can't spin up the CPU fans.

And I've had fans not working hard enough - but I'd rather flip a setting in software than open up a case and go hunting for the right jumper, typically. Less disruptive - and the machine is typically usable enough I can still download/install missing software, and google appropriate documentation, which is frequently a lot more difficult to do with the case open.

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I guess my main point here is that reliable hardware must already assume the potential for cooling failures, and that extra hardware or engineering for a minor improvement to a "purely theoretical" failure mode doesn't sound like it'd pay for itself.

100% have hardware temperature throttles and cutoffs though. Those cut in for a lot of very real failure modes, that I've only heard of actually happening, but personally experienced. Those will pay for themselves.
Still use Last.fm. Great service and a nice API to boot if you're wanting to make anything music-y. Integrates nicely into Spotify for playback statistics.

Shame it's pretty much on life-support now and any new features seem to behind a paywall.
Meh I’m still salty about gas cans. Spilled way more fuel with the new ones than I ever did with the old.
> [...] she's never gotten any viruses after I hosed the Win Defender off her laptop.

How would you (or she!) know that?
As someone who is aware of jai but not at all following the development, do the terms of the closed beta the OP is in permit code to be shown?

I guess "yes", it seems so pointless otherwise.

Would be very interesting to see e.g. "here is how this (gnarly) C++ turned into beatiful jai", zoomed-in to actual code level.
I agree… focussing on her output when she’s enduring a war situation is just heartless. Consider it sick leave. She’s incapacitated by circumstance, behave accordingly.
> Can we talk about how you managed this?

I have an odd memory for username/comment pairings (and other oddities like ten year old URLs, but don't ask me what I had for dinner last night), and find the "government sucks, cops rock" scenario frequently puzzling.
Yeah an email provider is basically Oauth with extra steps for ALL your accounts.
You can do spaced repetition with handwriting, so you are assuming you conclusion that SRS with typing is more efficient.

Do you believe that Anki cards is more efficient for learning a song, than, say, spaced repetition of playing or singing the song?
We might be envisioning very different types of websites then. Some random dude's blog - no you don't need to enter your email address.

Buying something online or subscribing to a service? The company does need a way to contact you... which is going to be email.

Email addresses are more-or-less globally unique, which makes them very handy for identifying an individual customer. Verifying the email address is an extra step that can provide the business with more confidence when dealing with a new potential customer. Certain types of fraud vanish or are greatly impeded with email verification, such as carding attacks. Customer support tasks can be performed more reliably and with identity confidence of who they are dealing with, stopping account impersonation attacks and more.

With all that said, sites that choose not to verify email addresses put a greater burden onto the customer for support needs. Password resets, order tracking, cancelling subscriptions etc. all become more difficult if the email address entered by the customer had a type-o for example, or belongs to someone else.

That doesn't mean all sites should verify email addresses - but it does mean railing against any site that does is misguided.
And the noise genre is even more easily classed as "music" than other outliers, like musique concrète. Are ambient recordings music? Some would say yes!

It is surely an interesting conversation to find where each person's limit for "music" (or art!) resides.
Presumably the artists are smart folks and can switch instances if they feel the rules are too limiting [1]. mastodon.art's policies are too restrictive for my tastes, and so...I don't use them, and wouldn't encourage others to use them, either, unless they really liked them.

But, I don't see why we have to assume this is the instance admins having an "agenda" and trying to "pressure other instances to limit users' freedom". Maybe they just want to run their instance their way -- the ultimate freedom!

[1]: I think I may have stumbled across the mastodon instance that you use. I can see why you might feel strongly about mastodon.art's policies.
I was probably biased in assuming it. It definitely possible we are wrong!
I've always found that it's the act of actually "processing" the information that helps with my retention and understanding.

Most of my notes (especially in college) are short sentences / random words with arrow to other rows (with most of my notes being incomprehensible to even myself after some time).
There are multiple ways to represent an optional value, for example:

1) an empty list/array
2) throw an exception if the return value is missing.
3) -1

Optional can be used as a better alternative in all these cases. It's not just null.
Considering I'm not talking about you personally, nor do I know what things you personally have, that sort of dismissal is pretty pointless.

> Still the devices I currently own are the best devices I ever had.

"Own" - that's the key word here where the contention is. If the entity you bought this thing from still retains control over your thing, that's a rental.

> And the services I subscribe to are incredible services that never even existed before.

Considering you're not naming said "incredible services", it's irrelevant to dispute.

> Free markets are not always providing perfect solutions, but I am absolutely sure government intervention could only worsen the situation, never improve it.

Absolutely sure? That sounds extremely over-simplistic to reduce every possible legislation and governance down to "always sure government intervention worsens the situation".

And part of my recommendations are not needing new laws, but maintaining product truth-in-advertising in the face of remote access. And frankly, if I put in remote control, sold the machine, and then remotely destroyed it, I'd be brought in for felony hacking charges.

But really, the level of discourse of "guvernment baaaadddd" is damned distressing, and unfortunately a result of Reagan's very successful campaign to say that, defund public facing gov orgs, and then point at lack of performance for underfunded orgs, thus doing another round of underfunding.
Sounds to me like the note taking isn't her issue.
Another loss of freedom for US citizens, permitting corporations to retain yet another freedom that has been taken away from real human beings.

> the subject products do not
include magnet products sold and/or
distributed solely to school educators,
researchers, professionals, and/or
commercial or industrial users
exclusively for educational, research,
professional, commercial, and/or
industrial purposes.

They're specifically targeting artisan jewelers:

> Another
example of a subject magnet product is
jewelry with separable magnets, such as
jewelry-making sets

One more step towards prison-style "knives are contraband".

However, this is specifically for magnets that fit inside the CPSC's "small parts cylinder" (defined in medieval units as 2.25 "inches" long by 1.25 "inches" wide, which is 57 mm × 32 mm in modern units), which is designed to approximate what a toddler can swallow, so large strong magnets (over 32 mm diameter or 57 mm long) are not affected. You can saw large strong magnets into small strong magnets. Nickel-plating them afterwards to reduce the risk of chipping is a big pain, but not always necessary.

All this in response the death of one toddler in the US and one 8-year-old in Poland, plus 56 other hospital admissions over a three-year period.
Why is your toddler in my house?
One horrible example was back in the MS-DOS days. FORMAT wanted you to tell it when you had inserted the floppy. So it said "Hit any key to continue". And it really meant "hit any key". Control-C? Continue. Escape? Continue. Cntrl-alt-delete? Continue. There literally was no way out except to power off the machine. (Well, if it was a floppy, you could remove the floppy.)

Not accepting the normal ways of stopping execution, when it's a destructive operation, and not explicitly warning the user that you're going to proceed even on the normal "stop" keystrokes... that's a really bad combination.
>even when it is obvious that the person is faking it (eg. social etiquette), people seem to be accepting of it in general.

I have found in my career to hold off judgment of "fake sincerity" for two reasons:

A. If the person cares enough to fake it, that's at least a step in the right direction.

B. Over the course of time if the other person continues to radiate "fake sincerity" and no other negative traits, I just assume that I'm too cynical and my judgement of real vs fake sincerity is flawed. apply feedback and adjust as necessary.
> not even China was able to ban a decentralised chain

This may be due to the difficulty of enforcement, but I don’t get the sense they’ve tried. (We ultimately won’t know until their next balance of payments scare, when capital flight becomes an existential concern to the state.)

(Sorry for the live edits!)

> not bullish on incumbents innovating faster than these permissionless protocols

I’m not either. But the good ideas are being ported over quickly enough to cap crypto’s TAM. There is a model in which crypto is the financial system’s alpha environment. The curiosity is the value seems to accrue to the workers, i.e. when central banks and other players want to implement an idea from permissionless protocols, they aren’t contracting with the companies. They’re hiring folks away. (This is also true in many areas of asset management.)
Got it. Are there any beginner guides yet on how to write an emacs (language) package while making use of it?
I had one course in engineering school (ethics I think), that had us take shorthand notes in class, then re-write into long-form in a separate notebook to be submitted at the end of the semester. It was super effective at driving home the lessons since the act of translating short-form to long-form required (re)comprehension of the material.
> Poverty is

And the situation of the people fighting starvation, how do you call it? Indigence?

What would be this "poverty" you are talking about, which would be different from indigence - and surely it is not the pauperty of personal choice, which existed well before Newcomen, well before the Medici, even before the Sumers had barns according to some?

'Poverty' means "improductivity". But it is most commonly used for "indigence". Beggars are indigent, but not paupers, to your scheme?

There is a documentary - I think, "Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey" - in which «hoard[ers]... not sharing» are seen: monkey resemblant hominids: it implied that the discovery of scarcity was very ancient.
Wow, big list! I bookmarked it.

Ever considered to publish this list as an easily searchable and exportable OPML file?
I don't know about just a delay. A short summary, a delay and cancel button combined with Wise's transfer money animation that gave you time to act would be a nice UX in my mind.
> input for a large community is extremely valuable

it’s also an extreme time suck. Having everyone opine on their pet feature would just take away from the focused work the people at Thekla are doing.

Honestly, I don’t even see why Jon should make things open source (apart from it being a major incentive for people to adopt it). The performance improvements they are offering compared to other languages 100% warrant charging for it.
US National Cislunar Science and Technology Strategy [pdf]