jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My perspective on makerspaces and the maker movement is that it's something stemming from people who didn't really spend time in the blue collar world where jerry rigging, fixing, creating physical devices, etc are normative behavior.

It seems to be located in particular cultural class segments - monied, urban, technologist, etc. And, unfortunately, it's become a marketing Thing, e.g., Make Magazine.

While I am a member of a makerspace, I suspect I'd be just as happy if it was oriented exclusively towards social F/OSS coding to the exclusion of the other aspects (but there's nothing like that in Seattle, and I don't have the energy or social capital to found one).
Getting to 400k+ is straightforward. Grind leetcode and apply to FAANG.
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I don’t think I’d want software I’m trusting with my life running on a 2 weekly update cadence...
You make some good points, however every company should find a way to be sustainable and pay their fair share of taxes to society. If that's really not possible, then perhaps that business should go bankrupt. Breaking monopolies and monopoly-like structures will create many opportunities for SMEs / SMBs to flourish.

> All these billionaires aren't really making that much money

I'm sorry, I can't tell if what you are saying is sarcastic, naive or perhaps you work as an Amazon Ambassador (throwaway account, 3 mo. old?).

What's the alternative? Don't tax corporations, allow them to form monopolies and starve SMBs? Don't tax billionaires, allow them to hoard power and give them a free pass on everything? Trust that somehow power cannot corrupt them?
We abolished "titles of nobility" but forgot to address the government privileges, such as patent "royalties" and land-titles, which yield the payments that monopolists like to rent-seek.
Sent you a little. Hope it helps. Best of luck with everything.
I'm sorry for your problems, but could you please clarify a few questions for me because there are a lot of problems with what I'm reading:

1) You claim to be 22 years old, but your dad hasn't had a relationship with your mom in 25 years... what does that even mean?

2) You're 22 years old and you accumulated $150k already? What sort of work did you do, and for how long?

3) You claim to be penniless, but you spend you money on Uber all the time because you can't drive in the snow? Can you expand on this? Don't you think that Uber is an expensive choice for someone in your situation?

4) Your credit rating is already "bamboozled" and you're $6k in debt? But didn't you just have $150k 8 months ago? When did your credit rating start taking a hit?

5) Could you expand on the treatments that your mom underwent over the last 4 months that cost $150k?
It is a desktop app, so yes.
It would be sexier to synthesize the cyber truck unveiling over the local planning board, but then again Buffett didn't shy away from investing in garbage pickup
Its very difficult to control for all factors when comparing breast-fed to bottle-fed babies. In 2014, a study [0] was published at Ohio State that compared babies over a long period. When looking at only sibling-pairs (babies in the same family where one was breastfed and one was bottle-fed), the differences in outcome disappeared.

Quote from the link:

"As expected, the analyses of the samples of adults and their children across families suggested that breast-feeding resulted in better outcomes than bottle-feeding in a number of measures: BMI, hyperactivity, math skills, reading recognition, vocabulary word identification, digit recollection, scholastic competence and obesity.

When the sample was restricted to siblings who were differently fed within the same families, however, scores reflecting breast-feeding’s positive effects on 10 of the 11 indicators of child health and well-being were closer to zero and not statistically significant – meaning any differences could have occurred by chance alone.

The outlying outcome in this study was asthma; in all samples, children who were breast-fed were at higher risk for asthma, which could relate to data generated by self-reports instead of actual diagnoses."

[0]: https://news.osu.edu/breast-feeding-benefits-appear-to-be-ov...
"The closure of anyone over friendship is likely all people."

Except Ted. Nobody likes Ted, and he has no friends. Yes, you, Ted. You know who you are.

Joking aside, an aggregate measure of proximal association and affiliation is useful, but it is also likely fundamentally incomplete and incoherent over even a small subset of modes of affiliation (e.g. coders, windsurfers, rock climbers, pianists, frisbee players, race drivers, book collectors, DJs, etc).

That said, a heuristic that generally improves the real probability of alignment, enjoyment and engagement is definitely possible. The most entertaining part of this is that, with Aggregability being an NP-Hard problem, there will probably always be room for improvement in this problem category. So game on.
Yup. There are no bad reasons to not pursue a relationship, because anything that avoids heartache and misery is implicitly a good reason.
Good tool to use. I like it
> I don't have a college degree, and I'm glad I don't as that would have been waisted time

Ouch, talk about a bad time to make a typo ("waisted")
"Try to worry less about people thinking of you as "the quiet guy". They probably don't think as much about you as you believe they do. They mostly think about how they appear to others, just more moderately than you (hopefully)."

Upvoted for this. I can't tell you how many life opportunities I've missed or wasted because I'd assumed other people thought a certain way about me, only to find out later they weren't thinking about me at all. While feeling 'ignored' may feel bad, I've come to realize that 99% of the time it's unintentional, and people just focus on themselves. That's it. Unless I give them reason to want to include me in something, such as, by being a good friend, interesting conversation starter, bringer of fun food, whatever the relationship calls for, they'll have no real reason to consider me as opposed to the other 105 things they're juggling in their mind.

Until I got older and started doing my own thing and realizing how much I was forgetting other people - unintentionally - did I realize how unintentional other people were being.

Generally, people aren't thinking anything about you, so quit thinking they're out to get you, hurt you, ignore, you, etc. Not necessarily advice for the OP, just a life lesson learned way too late in life!.
"I don't have much respect for authority in the first place."

Really? Let me ask you a few questions, then. When was the American Revolution? What are the electrically charged parts of an atom? How does central banking work? How do red blood cells bind to oxygen?

If you will only accept as fact information that you have personally verified, you will know a very small collection of facts. The sensible thing to do in many cases is to appeal to authority: the collective opinion of experts in a field.

Heck, even in one's own area of specialty, one can't know everything. I can't personally evaluate every possible programming language or database in the world before choosing something; I take a clue from common opinion and narrow my search from there.

Really, this is one of the things that makes civilization possible.
Agreed on all. They need to do better work. We 've been much more satisfied with our previous currency processor. Right now, with the facebook credits option in the same page as other alternatives, 40% of our users prefer to pay through facebook credits. When we first set it up, their documentation contained errors and omissions. They also need to work on a plug-and-play iframe option, like other payment processors do. Those issues aside, the payment flow is very smooth and frictionless on the user's side.

Their developer support is horrible. We receive a daily digest with 2 tab separated reports in a zip file, and that's all. Up until recently we weren't even notified that we are getting paid. Once, we tried to contact them about their billing information, and they gave us the wrong answer (which resulted in us paying a penalty to the tax office). I am tending to think they are also understaffed in that department.

We will succumb to facebook's exclusivity request because our app is tied on the canvas, however we are not feeling we are getting our money's worth out of the 30% cut.
It easier, just drop egg/deb/rpm/msi into your pythonpath.
> make it more clear it's about SE

Your first clue is it's an interview for a software engineering job.
You're assuming that the new employees won't have heard about it. Word gets around, dude.

I wouldn't work for such a company unless the alternative were starvation.
sounds awful.
Let's forget the rants against airlines for a while: The big difference in touch screen technology is about resistive (old-fashioned, "soft" screens) vs capacitive screens (cf. iphone etc.). The last time most airlines installed their systems was when resistive technology was still state of the art, so I assume that most of what you get in the recent airliners still reflects that date.

Have we forgotten that decent touchscreens are still pretty new? Ferchrissakes, the first iphone came out in 2007…
While it's correct that you can do a Schedule C on your personal return, being incorporated makes your position a lot stronger.
It's "Windows Only" logic: exclusivity through ubiquity. Why bother catering for the niche marget when you can score big with iOS?
How effective will this be against Intel's "RealSense 3D cameras"? Is it, as I've already assumed, just a matter of time before that technology can be fooled too?
Does this also work with matrix type of operations? For example solving a linear system?
1.2 terabytes per second. Where do these people get the resources?
I found this to be a good overview of the Ph.D. system from a CS perspective. I'm doing grad school in a slightly different field, but a lot of the advice was applicable.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
The person shared their knowledge in the best way they know. It might inspire some to go and take a look and figure even better ways to do the task.
I use the term “AI” but couch it in the context that we are probably ten to a hundred years away from general artificial intelligence. I have a lower bar on my definition of general artificial intelligence as something that can be narrow but has a world view model for its activities and the environment and this model changes with experience, the AGI can explain what it is doing in its narrow field of expertise, and can creatively develop new techniques for solving problems in its narrow domain of expertise.

I have been paid to work in the field of AI since 1982 so I have experienced AI winters. I almost hope we have another to act sort-of like simulated annealing to get us out of the highly effective local minimum of deep learning. I have been paid to work with deep learning for about the last five years (except I retired six months ago) and I love it, a big fan, but it won’t get us to where I want to be. Perhaps hybrid symbolic AI and deep learning? I don’t know.
I think it'd be more accurate to say that most people haven't yet found something to be obsessively interested in.

Although the child prodigy is a popular image, I don't actually know anyone who's ended up doing the same thing all their life since they were young. People bounce around a lot before they hit something that clicks. Sometimes it's at 15, sometimes it's at 50.

Even people who have obsessive interests today first went through their boring phases, too.
Couldn't they just change the TOS to say something like you can't use apps to evade law enforcement, which they might do under pressure from the police unions?
It's a long term survivability project. Living on one planet is inherently dangerous. And long-term - terminal. You're one step away from some relativistic rock hitting out planet and sterilizing it.
Here in the UK we have a Direct Debit Guarantee [1] which makes scams like that very difficult.

It gives very strong protection to the payer including the ability to cancel a DD just by contacting your bank and claim a refund for incorrect payment from your bank as long as you have a convincing reason.

[1] https://gocardless.com/direct-debit/guarantee/
People generally aren’t niave, especially the HN crowd. If there’s a sink (basic income) then there’s certainly a source (YOURE THE SOURCE).
Do you have a citation for current simulations?

The +9m to +31m isn't from simulations. It's from ice core sample and sediment analysis.
>Easements by necessity are granted generally when no other access is possible; they're not for convenience.

The only reason this seems unusual is because a rich person is affected this time.
Yup, precisely right. They marketed the business as a tech company, hoping that future investors would overlook years of unprofitability to get in on the next rapidly-growing tech company.

Oh don't worry about those losses, we're the next Amazon. Except bigger than Amazon, because we're not just a company, but a "state of consciousness." btw did I tell you our CEO is going to become the world's first trillionaire? It's all amazing news and I hope you join our family
> You don't need a graphic calculator for high school.

Well, you need one if the instructor makes it a requirement, which my kid's high school does. They're actually tested on linear regression, but they don't know how to compute sum of least squares: they know how to type a list into their calculator and run the least squares function. It's on the exam, and if they don't have the TI graphing calculator with that exact function programmed into it, they fail the test.
What's driving drug and substance abuse and suicide in the United States? Why is our mental health so poor? I think there's root causes to these questions and I think they point to our extreme income inequalities.
At the same time, don't be so obsessed about form you don't let yourself make any progress. Overload is a key part of "progressive overload" - if you're doing that, your form won't be 100% picture perfect all the time. Learn to know the difference between a rep that's a little off and a rep that's dangerously off, and accept that some ugly (but safe enough) reps are part of the process.
Emacs has recently been seeing a lot of growth from vim users who are migrating to emacs "distros" (like spacemacs and doom) that are pre-configured with emacs' vim-emulation.

I found this video[0] a pretty interesting perspective from a die-hard vim user who switched.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
Startupschool lectures are really what you're looking for [0]. Paul Graham's essays are worth the time too [1]: He's written many classics in a well structured persuasive style. Sam Altman's Startup Playbook [2] is super nice as is Marc Andreseen's Startup Guide [3]. Some VCs like A16Z [4] and FirstRound Capital [5] post great content. Stripe [6], Indiehackers [7], and Patrick McKenzie [8] are other sources that are quite not as focused on startups but worth a look nonetheless.

Twitter is a gold mine where you'd find relevant content, but you'd have to literally mine it out.

I'd say though you could drain yourself going through all of this, but the fact remains that every company is different and what works for someone might not work for you. Also, there's lot of contradictory advice you need to sift through, a lot of obvious advice you need to internalize, a lot of advice you should simply ignore, and a lot of counter-intuitive advice you need to accept [9].

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[0] https://startupschool.org/library

[1] http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

[2] https://playbook.samaltman.com/

[3] https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part1.html

[4] https://a16z.com/content/

[5] https://firstround.com/review/

[6] https://stripe.com/en-us/atlas/guides

[7] https://www.indiehackers.com/learn

[8] https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

[9] https://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-first-time-founders/
Hi. In original post I wrote I had ringing for a weekend. It was in fact a week. I used it 1-3 times a day. Mostly while getting to sleep or walking, I could lower the volume more and more until I slept.

The ringing was totally gone in between the tones but as you know it's really a short span.

You say you're used it twice and it failed, I don't think you can conclude that. You can read section 2.5 in the paper. Here it mentions treatment of 4-6 hours a day not split into sections shorter than an hour and over ~12 weeks.

If you fall asleep with some earphone in maybe that also counts the time?

Then it's easier to get such a high number therapy. E.g. one walk session a day for 1 hour. And then 3 hours at night until you wake up groggily and take of the earpieces and continue sleeping.
I kinda wish there was a NASA equivalent for nuclear that would be given 10s of billions of dollars per year to R&D safer, next gen nuclear power plants. The organization could build/run those plants around the world in order to provide less developed countries with power while preventing proliferation.
how can you sped $200k to find a kid ?
Even if you're not, my email address is getting spammed with password reset attempts for Battle.net, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, one of my banks, Twitter, etc.

Granted, all had different passwords, but people are taking full advantage of this information being made public.

Personally I'm not as worried about Gnosis or 4channers doing anything particularly malicious with the data -- that's not their goal. Their goal is to publish it so other people do malicious things with the data, with all the resulting animosity being directed to Gawker.
I'd say a lot of the things that have become known since then, like Regin or the ANT exploit catalog, have only intensified that image.
It is ironic how Pebble looks a lot more like an Apple product than the AppleWatch itself.

Apple made a product that aligns with its long term strategies but delivers very poorly the most fundamental and essential functionality. The AppleWatch has short battery life, its screen is not always on, is not waterproof, its interface is not intuitive... And what we get in return? You can send your heartbeat through bluetooth and has lots of cool straps.

It reminds me the feature-bloated products that Microsoft used to make. They'd do everything but fail at the essential.

One thing Jobs was famous for was trimming the superfluous in order to get the essential well done. It is clear that the AppleWatch could get a lot from Jobs.
Well that seems very much up for debate by the powers that are the U.S. Government... if you're not an American you're a potential terrorist; if however, you are an American, you're a potential terrorist too. So they're just gonna record everything and if you float, you're a witch and they'll burn you at the stake and if you drown then you were innocent and... sucks to be you; Oh wait, that was something else...
Ah, I see. Thanks! Too bad it didn't land for 37.0 but glad to see it fixed for the future
No, if it was that old my professors would have been using it.
As jwz would say:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Portuguese Wikipedia: 2 donations, $ 30,00

Because it's hard for Brazilians to donate via PayPal or credit card.

Always remember that donations schemes are not one-size-fits-all.
Remedy: Always withdraw money from ATM and pay for everything with cash.
I think very often the most crucial information is not given when teaching people complex topics:

- Why is this important? What problem does it really solve?

- Why this solution and not another one?

- What do I really need and use this for in practise?

To realize it is not that complex at all you have to be able to sort it into a box first. Many teachers may take a big effort to break the complexity down into small pieces, but if you don't know where the whole thing fits this can break the whole teaching effort.

I will never forget when I realized my (really bad) maths teacher managed to not tell us the perfectly good and understandable reason why integrals are a cool thing that solve real problems for a year of needing to deal with them. She really broke down the steps etc, but totally forgot to tell us what the thing was actually for, and why the stuff we already learned couldn't be used to solve certain problems.
Well, I think there are quite a few popular chess channels that people watch without actually thinking it's going to improve their chess level. (It's actually typical of watching sports). Eg. Botez sisters (who aren't even particularly strong players, objectively), Eric Hansen, pretty much all the "banter blitz" series etc.

"I wouldn't be surprised if most viewers have no actual interest in chess"

Now I admit that this would surprise me. I might expect that of some viewers, but not the majority. Not sure if there's any way of actually verifying this though
The US government has access to everyone's data, including (but not limited to) Apple, Microsoft and Amazon's data. This is not really a surprise.
>It's not lying, come on.

Yes it is.
It's a rather simple algorithm to implement.
Having had to deal with a few people who were in your position, here are a few points to consider.
- Realize that you being cocky at the beginning likely didn't help you with the way your coworkers are treating you.
- NEVER pretend that you know or that you understood something unless you really do. Its okay to not understand something, everyone knows that if you do not admit it, you'll never learn and therefore are a lost cause. This is the major problem I have seen with people in your situation.
- Do not get caught in details, focus on understanding the big picture and get the basics right. Always put things in perspective.
- Volunteer to do grunt work, will make you gain experience and put things in perspective.
- When something isn't clear, do not assume it works in a way thats practical to what you are doing and go on, go ask instead. Otherwise you doing grunt work will lose everyone's time.
- When you don't understand something, explain what you understand or how you see thing and why, let your perception be corrected.
- Do not get yourself too tired by studying outside of work. Some study is fine but you need rest to learn and perform.
Ah, you're right. Thanks! Here's a story that describes the problem (and an unsuccessful ice bath attempt):

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/oneyear/alternative/1404...
I coincidentally spoke with a Tesla engineer and explained what had happened. "What you need to do is put the car in something like a big meat locker," he suggested. "Cool it way down first."
This page says that the driver verifier uses the SLAM verification engine - I am not sure whether/how that is related to Z3:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slam/
i actually assumed this link was already submitted so I used the YC bookmarklet to +1 and read comments but since it didn't exist it got submitted. sorry bout that
How is the registered tier any different from a gmail account?
I like some country music, but don't listen to a lot of it.

I listen to stuff that might be mistaken for it, though! The Avett Brothers, Nickel Creek, Trampled by Turtles.

Folk music, but people who think badly of country music usually don't like banjos, either, and can't make the distinction in genre.
"But as soon as some guys work out how to operate despite it"

How would they do that?
The goal is just 5 * 365 = 1825 things. I'd wager that most of us over the age of 30 have/had at least that many things we could get rid of before our first experience in purging.
I have a 250GB SSD + 1TB HDD thanks to the optibay. I couldn't be happier.
You're saying one can't lose weight on low-calorie diets that are primarily composed of carbs?

In that case, we should send a single rice grain to all starving persons to serve as their only nutrition.

I imagine you have a more nuanced point, but the statement you quoted is clearly true taken for what it actually is saying.