skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm confused - how is 'hurt people who own property' the same as 'help people who do not'?

Partly by helping reduce the systemic wealth transfer between property owners and non-property owners that is more colloquially known as "rent" and "asset price appreciation".

>Similarly, eliminating the solar deduction hurts folks with solar panels, not quite the same as helping oligarchs.

Things that make carbon based electricity generation more competitive and build in reliance upon the electric grid help the owners of those things. Do you not agree?
What does it mean to #Privacy ?
Does it mean they track more of our behaviour ?
Even as a former smoker, I never really thought too much about smoking sections until my wife was pregnant. Suddenly someone smoking in the wrong area was a threat to my unborn child and really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm all for personal freedom, but exercising this one around others is stomping on their freedom to breathe freely. I'm glad as a society we've moved on from this for the most part.
I have, I think, a different view: there is too much CS and not enough engineering in IT. The numerous CS grads have a bag of hammers as their toolset and so every engineering problem is a DS&A "nail." At least, here in the valley it seems that way. Outside of it there is at least in my experience much more of a nod toward software development as an engineering endeavor rather than as an exercise in pure CS.
It's interesting how manual everything is, at least near the beginning:

> At Apple, the company starts working on a new language by bringing in humans to read passages in a range of accents and dialects, which are then transcribed by hand so the computer has an exact representation of the spoken text to learn from, said Alex Acero, head of the speech team at Apple. Apple also captures a range of sounds in a variety of voices. From there, a language model is built that tries to predict words sequences.

Then Apple deploys “dictation mode,” its text-to-speech translator, in the new language, Acero said. When customers use dictation mode, Apple captures a small percentage of the audio recordings and makes them anonymous. The recordings, complete with background noise and mumbled words, are transcribed by humans, a process that helps cut the speech recognition error rate in half.
Reality Is Unrealistic
Those countries are conventionally considered part of Western Europe in countries such as the US, France and the UK
If you wish to make a brain from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
5 methods to become a better developer
Drivetribe’s Modern Take on CQRS with Apache Flink
> Time doesn't exist. It is simply an abstraction to measure the comparative rates of the movement of matter.

You can't claim time doesn't exist, then offer a definition of time, which requires time to exist.

Also, general relativity would like to have a word with you after class.
So we can showcase any product on the site? or is there any criteria?
I wonder about the error-check thing. If at least one paid employee had to enter a first-set of data that was 'absolutely correct' before being seen by multiple people online which then 'solidifies' the correct responses. I briefly read about this somewhere but still not sure. I mean it does obviously work in the sense of entering something blatantly not correct is flagged.
This looks very nice indeed and the pricing is not bad either.
Is it really that common for people in India to live so close to the edge without savings that they regularly need help?

I know my friends and I (in the US) all have buffers of at minimum a few months of expenses. I guess it's not inconceivable that someone might have an emergency that requires more, but that would end up being a rather substantial of money. In my friend circle, I've never heard of someone borrowing money.
On a tablet, as you said, there's no contest. The termux setup you suggest is superior.
Being left-handed the off-center keyboard is also a bit right-handed for me. I have no use for a number pad on the right of the keyboard either. I just prefer Chromebook keyboards now, i.e. chicklet, centered and with no funny keys for Windows things or weird Apple keys that should be the right mouse button.
Indeed, I think the headline is far too general. I came here hoping to find something from the perspective of systems theory or cybernetics.
Ask HN: What ways have you seen founders unconsciously sabotage their startup?
I am a software developer and have worked at multiple startups. I met many founders who dreamt of starting their own successful startup for years. They are used to that dream. After they create the startup, I think some unconsciously prefer to prevent it going to market, to be able to keep on dreaming about its success, as opposed to take the risk of potentially finding out it's a failure. And so they unconsciously sabotage their own startup.

I think we've all seen founders who, just before launch, suddenly announce there need to be lots more features before they can launch. Or that the whole product needs a visual re-design. Or even a complete change of programming language and thus a complete re-write. Anything to prevent the product getting into the hands of the users, and getting actual feedback.

What such sabotage attempts have you seen?
One of the further absurdities is that the tax applies to state schools but not private fee-paying schools.
There's a reason giving nontrivial loans to friends is taboo.

I've only had a few friends come to me for $500+ loans. All had already hit their family up for as much money as they could, maxed out their credit cards and overdraft, and were behind on their rent. Needless to say, I didn't think they would pay me back - or that my money would fix their financial troubles.
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I can't remember one time in my life that I've slammed down the smoothie glass and gone "boy am I satiated and satisfied!"
What about quantum effects? I thought at that scale it would be a qbit.
Devs bashing out crappy code is making banks insecure, report
Show HN is good for technical feedback, but often HN won't match up well with the target audience. An example where this comes up is when HN commenters complain about how they never read email newsletters so the sign up form / email required / create an account step is a "complete waste of time" (but email works!).

The most effective approach to actually getting customers is to build a reputation as a problem-solver within the specific, related niche communities and then offer the new tool as an alternative solution to problems. Most people posting HN front-page follow-up note how the wave of traffic doesn't typically convert well.
Probably no need to have someone seed it. You just show the same image to a thousand people, and if 900 of them answer it one way that's almost certainly the correct answer.
The number of illegal immigrants in the US is around 11 million.

Healthcare is one of the most expensive posts in any society. The US system is not built for single payer model which means many other areas will have to change too.

What normally happens when you make a public healthcare system and allow for private enterprise (which I am a fan of having) is that the primary burden (cancer, long term illness, major surgeries) are put in the hands of the public hospitals while the private ones deal more with things like cosmetic plastic surgery and other treatments which are lucrative.

Most public healthcare systems with a single payer model have to heavily prioritize how man can get treatment, for what, with what kind of technology etc.

It's not just a matter of switching from one kind of insurance model to another it's about turning hospitals into places who can't make money but have to adhere to a budget. It's a very very different kind of system that comes out of that and in a country like the US with that many illegal immigrant I am not sure it can work financially.
> Many emerging markets countries subsidize the cost of gasoline and diesel at the retail level so that their citizens can afford it.

Which is still a petroleum subsidy. They could just give the citizens the equivalent amount of cash and then it wouldn't be.
The short story has it that it was some Java-pushing dickheads from Sun Microsystems.
> But long term, this is a considerable health risk.

And yet, a bunch of old people live in the Chernobyl Exclusion zone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone#Popul...
This is awesome! Some of the partners they have selected are pretty intense for the starting a business stage. We use a boutique law firm (aka one dude and a desk) and we use a small CFO as a service consultancy here in Manhattan ($250/mth-ish) for the financial/book keeping. Justworks seems fine for HR stuff.
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
`rm bootstrap.css` look, a 100% reduction! And it led to a better website.

`gzip goodfile.css` and there's an improvement several times more effective than even the best minifier. And it keeps your source code legible in the browser and doesn't require a slow/buggy asset pipeline to test changes.

Yes, yes, I know minify+gzip can save like an additional 1% over what gzip alone does. To me, that's just not worth the cost to the developer.
I'd recommend doing a little research about the controversy around the "Linear no-threshold model" of radiation exposure. The answer isn't quite as clear as you might guess.
Add to the fact that many systems around the world are woefully unpatched, so the "silly stuff" still works against them. I've done a lot of work outside the U.S., especially in 3rd world countries, and it's astounding how outdated much of the IT infrastructure is. We're talking entire networks still running pirated Windows XP and Vista.
Both are for taking notes (therefore the name Jupyter notebook).

Jupyter may already be more featured than org-mode through the kernels it embeds. e.g: SageMath alone is gigantic.

Then, if you don't enjoy the web interface you can use it within emacs if so you prefer.

https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
That's higher DPI, not resolution.
The whole thing is bonkers. A more detailed briefing on exactly what the change is: http://www.solar-trade.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sta...

The UK does not have property tax per se, it has "business rates" which are collected by the local authority. State schools are considered to be "businesses" (WTF#1), while private schools which are nearly always structured as "charities" do not have to pay rates (WTF#2).

Business rates are calculated based on the value of the building + fixed equipment (plant). This change counts solar panels producing energy used predominantly on the premises as "plant" and imposes a requirement to pay tax based on their capital value. (WTF#3). This does not apply to sites generating primarily for export (WTF#4).

It's unnecessarily penalising schools who bought panels in the hope that they could use the future guaranteed subsidies as income. But that's about what you'd expect from a Conservative government.

(Definition of "plant": http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/540/pdfs/uksi_200005... )

(The whole thing brings up an unforseen disadvantage of trying to do renewables through a "distorted free market" rather than just direct state action: people taking advantage of the subsidies are called "gaming the system", when the entire point of the subsidy policy was to pay them to do exactly that. Also, UK local government and schools funding is a collection of fudges to outdated systems, but nobody wants to go near that mess.)
Personally, I'd wait a few days, and then try a repost at a different time of day. HN regulars are pretty much global, and different crowds are reading at different times. I find posting during quiet periods results in slightly more interaction. Also include a specific 'call to arms' such as 'if you could improve X how would you?'
don't forget to use a "no hunt" badge or this might happen: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/colormind

I mean, not complaining or anything but I did not expect a beta signup page to get hunted. Didn't find out until three weeks later when I tried to submit the product.

eg. one of these badges https://thenextweb.com/media/2015/02/02/want-get-product-hun...
Brain Activity Recorded as Much as 10 Minutes After Death
Well I don't see the benefit of installing my solar panels in Syria...

What I want to say is: it's not only important that electricity is generated but also where it is needed.
As transport is a problem it is certainly viable to install them in not optimal conditions such as UK or northern Europe.
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This is a really bad idea from a tax and legal perspective. As a CPA, I don't deal with silicon valley startups. However, I do deal with people who want to start small businesses fairly frequently as well as their needs for legal advice (which varies). For most of America, a Delaware C-Corp is a horrible idea for any person starting a business.

Paying Delaware state fees (which are likely not necessary) at best are just another administrative and cost burden to a new startup and at worse, are just another function you have to hire out to an advisor, which will then cost you even more money.

Fun story, I had a client starting a new business (whom I had partially advised) take a few extra steps we had not discussed. One being going down to a bank to open a checking account. The client was attempting to do step 5 before step 2 (proverbially speaking) The client did not have an EIN yet and the bank of course, could not open the business a checking account without an EIN.

The BANK applied for the client's EIN at the branch and effectively advised the client on entity structure by choosing their entity type for them during the EIN selection process. I'm sure the bank has some sort of BS policy where they can disclaim liability in that they made the client chose the entity type. I can tell you with 100% certainty, this client did not have any idea what the entity type was.

And to top it all off, after the bank account was setup. The bank provided no documents letting the client know what entity choice "the client" (ha!) had chosen.

Business is complex, I understand people are hesitant to pay (what seem to be) exorbitant fees to start a business. However, I've found that (nearly) 100% of the time when you start a business and ask the wrong questions you will always get the wrong answer, which is always more expensive to fix at a later date (if its possibly without severe tax or legal issues).
I've been wanting to tie this up with Casper automation in order to get coverage on dynamically generated content. The hard part is just ensuring the content path is adequate. We do something similar with PhantomCSS already, but it's definitely a tighter scope.
I think SpaceX has done a good job countering this perspective so far.
Their press releases and web casts consistently reinforce that the landing is merely a secondary objective and an experiment which they will learn a great deal from whether it blows up or not.
Thanks for sharing.

I've taken up 24 hour fasts once a week, and have seen a ton of benefits. From increased mental clarity, to weight loss, and body overall feels better.

I kicked it off because I'm big into taoism and it supports my practices.

You could try intermittently adding cold showers to support your weight loss. (The benefits of cold showers I've seen are a ton, and I'm not totally sold on that it is consistently good for everyone.)

Or you could attempt ketosis style diets on the days you are fasting. That would be as simple as when you are intermittently fasting, to eat fats only, instead of protein or grains.

Good luck!
Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are your biggest challenges?
I am curious what challenges you are facing in your job or in your team?

From what I can gather

- some struggle with technical issues (like not having a deep enough understanding of a technology or an architecture)

- others struggle with the lack of theoretical background (when optimizing for performance, or deciding which algorithm to go for, etc)

- others are facing mental roadblocks / self-identity challenges ("why should they listen to me, when there are ten CS grads with years of experience in the team?")

- and I'm sure there are more

So, from your experience, what's been the most frustrating or challenging thing so far, as a self-taught dev?
I can envision it as a demo computer for on-the-road VR projects. But not as a "gaming machine", no.
Bitcoin Unlimited fork reaches majority support for first time
The US system is more complex than that. There are plenty of illegal immigrants who get treated in the healthcare system today. As long as you have money you can get treated. In a public healthcare system you have to be identified as legal citizen in order to get access to the system. The system are going to have quotas of how many people are allowed to get treated with what etc. How do you think the general taxpayer is going to react to that?

It's as simple as you try to make it sound like.
If you installed a coal CHP plant in a school, you would get a rates exemption for it: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/combined-heat-and-power-incentiv...

(even more crazy were the subsidies for renewable heat in Northern Ireland, which ended up bringing down the Stormont government: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38307628 )
I am not a physicist, but I'm seeing a similarity between time crystals and the vacuum, as the vacuum results in quantum fluctuation - which is also a form of activity at zero-point energy. This point of view means that the vacuum could be contrived to be a time crystal. I'm clearly drawing an incorrect conclusion, but why?
"I thought I would, of course, have a hippie friend, a nerd friend, a gothic friend, whatever, but over the years I learnt that the people I like talking to and the people whose company and conversations I enjoyed were almost exclusively a subset of the people I went to university (and later, graduate school) with."

I was having a large diversity of "friends" before university and I do now have only a narrow subset of people I went through the university that I'm still getting along with, but I think I'm looking at it very differently than you. I haven't had much of a choice before but to deal in an as much graceful manner I could with all that zoo before, and that become like a second nature to me. They called me a friend. It was an easy thing to do for me as well -- to confuse friendship with what I had. I don't think many of us realize how energy draining is the low-choice period of our younger lives. The change that happens in time in this regard is just a natural process.
I wouldn't start with this cookbook, which seems to be a laundry list of all the extremely hairy things you can do with Org. Think of it as an outliner with simple tables and spreadsheets: starting a line with "*"s makes it an outline heading, and "| something | like | this |" is a row in a table. That's how I've used it for years, despite being aware that it can do all sorts of other semi-related stuff. Don't venture down the rabbit hole of complexity unless you want to.
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Because ads are evil. They are bedrock of all worldwide bullshit and scam. They make seller don’t care about reputation, competitors and eventually product quality. They transfer products completion into ads competition. They make all products more expensive because of this “advertising tax”.
They turn off customer’s head to make a zombie who buys best advertised product instead of one with the best quality. They are good only for advertising companies and scammers.
Well, obviously, if the regions are evacuated generously, then indeed the health impact by radiation should be close to zero. Do you have any data on how large the health impact would have been without an evacuation? Of course, it is a very difficult to have precise impact numbers of radiation when we are speaking about effects talking place on the scale of decades, but we unfortunately have enough experience that the accepted safety levels are based on reasonable research.
>If you assume just neurons and synapses, you're on the petaflop scale.

Where are you getting this? Did you account for the fact that the average cortical neuron fires 0.16 times per second? [1] Put in terms of gigaherz, that is -- haha just kidding about gigaherz, that is 0.16 herz per neuron. Times 100 billion neurons. "Combined with the observation that 90% of neurons rarely fire" so you actually might not need to touch all 100 billion of them in a cycle.

100 billion * 0.16 gets you literally 16 gigahertz. This is four cores running at 4 gigaherz. Memory can be heavily compressed if necessary, without slipping out of the realtime budget.

People don't seem to get that these are ANALOG SIGNALS. These neurons aren't etched in silicon. Simulating that is like simulating a mechanical watch or something - with 100 billion pieces. Your guess is ridiculously too-high.

Do you know how long it takes for a signal to cross from one half of the brain to the other? 100 m/s is widely reported progation speed limit, and the average brain length is 167 mm[2] . That means you get 167 mm / 10000 mm = 1.67 milliseconds. That's long enough to cross a server room approximately 25,000 times.

(I divided 20meters by C, getting 66 ns - the time at speed of light to cross a 20 meter room, and this value goes into 1.67 ms 25,032 times.)

All of my numbers here are super-conservative, above-all the fact that I said only 1,000 server rooms were able to do this today. It's considerably higher.

We're ahead of the computational budget required, not behind it. I simply disagree with your calculation.

The rest of this paragraph is sarcastic: When mentioning that there's a non-zero chance that neurons use quantum mechanical effects (the way our etched silicon does, since gates are so small now that this has to be accounted for), you forget to also mention that there's a non-zero chance that souls are connected to brains using an as-yet unidentified organ and therefore nothing in the brain can be simulated given any amount of computational power. I mean, the chances of that aren't zero, right?

[1] "Based on the energy budget of the brain, it appears that the average cortical neuron fires around 0.16 times per second" - http://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/

[2] https://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/brain-facts.sh...
Yes, the theoretic / scientific part does not percolate enough into the engineering practice. Thus the practice is starving without a good conceptual view, while CS may be lacking in engineering department and thus practicality.
Here is an article explaining.[1] It's a "random site on the Internet", so feel free to not believe anything they say, but I think they provide fairly good references to source material.

There was also a documentary film a while ago, I'll see if I can find it. It mentions this apartment complex in Taiwan that was contaminated, and the health of the residents turned out to be better than average, not worse.

Ahh, found it[2]. Seem like fairly reputable sources.

[1] http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/nuclear.html

[2]
http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/low-dose-Cob...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13180312
I tend to agree, but had a lot of trouble understanding the article (I studied different branch of physics). I think this is the key:

"The recipe was incredibly complex, but just three ingredients were essential: a force repeatedly disturbing the particles, a way to make the atoms interact with each other and an element of random disorder... More than that, the researchers found that even if they started to flip the system in an imperfect way, such as by slightly changing the frequency of the kicks, the oscillation remained the same."
BigData and ML Example and Library Weekly Roundup – Mar. 9, 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284879 - previous discussion with insight regarding creation of this guide.