skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the ideas are good to generate money, but bad for mankind and civilization. There's already too much vendor lock-in and ausence of communication between platforms.

We should aim for a single tool that would serve for all kinds of businesses. What's the difference between a CRM for salons and one for bookstores? Probably something that could be sold as a plugin, or -- if the underlying system is good enough -- implemented with a bit of custom code.

That's what Fieldbook and Airtable are trying to do, and I sincerely hope they succeed (although they're awful, the tool I'm building myself is much better).
Does insurance pay for that? :)
Ask HN: Will Bitcoin Create Our First Trillionaire?
Will bitcoin create our 1st Trillionaire?
Developer Testing in the IDE: Patterns, Beliefs, and Behavior
Drip? Is it this: https://d.rip/
What are some current examples of exponential AI advancement?
You could make it yourself with cheap parts and some good engineering wrt power failures etc. (don't make it electric only, real world ain't Star Trek). The electromechanical lock is the most expensive part, but everything else can be done with a *PI like board plus battery and an encrypted network connection. If you don't have a fixed IP or are behind a firewall/NAT you can automate a mail reader on the board to monitor an address for an encrypted message containing a code to unlock the door, shoot a few images using a webcam and mail them back to you, or do other things. Basically anything that can be done by closing a switch a meter away can be also done a half planet away through the Internet.
Hmm. I'm going to disagree with that! I think "candid, engineering-style blogposts" are and will continue to be great for an engineering audience, but I'm very skeptical that they will be great for a wide audience. For instance, I read and was fascinated by the YouTube kids post, but I do not know anyone outside of the tech industry that read it. And you're wrong to say he reported it way before, the NYT published this two days previous:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube-ki...

and Birdle's post itself links to reporting by New York Magazine from 2016. I don't dispute that his post goes into more detail, I just dispute that longer automatically equals better. Someone with domain knowledge reporting a story in great depth and a major publication reporting a simplified version for mass consumption is certainly not a new model.

I'd also strongly disagree that NYT is an ageing institution unable to adapt to this modern tech reality. John Herrman writes some of the most perceptive pieces about the state of tech out there:

https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-herrman

(and a minor quibble: I don't think the post linked here and the Youtube Kids post are in any way comparable. The engineering writeup is not news in any way, shape or form, it's just a guide to how NYT implemented something)
Time to short some futures ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ /s

In all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if a group of high-net-worth individuals go short (exactly how you described) in order to shake out all the inexperienced traders/investors in the space for a nice profit.

Also, could it not just be CME preparing the underlyings?
As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
Was Borodino really a victory for Napoleon? Wasn't it more of a draw? Sure, the Russians retreated afterwards, so it didn't stop Napoleon's drive on Moscow. Still...
A lot of things have been happening for a long time. That doesn't guarantee it should continue.
I always use .local:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
Sorry about that. We need to add more info. The code is available on github. The latest info we could get our hands on. 10k cap on property tax deduction in both house and senate bill and no state income tax deduction in either. No change to mortgage deduction as current mortgages are grandfathered in under both plans.
Learn something new every day. I like this.

I think my point though is still valid: that it's implicit ownership rules which are not clear ownership rules.
This has been standard practice for decades -- nothing new.

Moreover, it's standard practice in a lot of big industries. Particularly advertising, finance, automobiles, and others.
The oppsdaily.com mailing list has been nice to get somewhat random/niche ideas from. (I’m not affiliated)
> [...] even kids are sent to play covered in full sleeve clothing.

Which is good because if I remember correctly the human skin has quit a bit natural sun protection, but is only fully developed in the twenties.

If I got that mixed up with something else please correct me if I'm wrong.
You don't have to come up with ideas: that work has already been done for you. You only need to choose one.

To get an idea: gather the names of 50 software companies and perhaps 50 companies in other areas. Research all of them.

Somewhere in those 100 businesses, there is a domain that interests you, with a product that you can improve on or market differently.

There's your side project.
For me it is an investment in life, future and love - why should everything be about money. I really like the ring, it is beautiful. And she loves the ring!
Given the completely unregulated nature of these exchanges, that 1.4 billion USD could be legit, it could be wash trades, it could be inhouse bots doing crazy things to rig the market. , or it could just be a complete fabrication.
Hey,

I am currently also working remotely but without a team back in the company, struggled with depression and such for most of my life. What helped was a team sport, 3 times a week. Besides all the things the other posters say (sport in general, meditation, psychotherapy) bonding and having a human connection to other people is probably the most important one, IMHO.

I hope you are getting better, friend.

Cheers
Very nice tool. Added to PH: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/taxulator
Valid points. Thank you. Was just stupid 'why not' late night thoughts.
A lot of people would be out of a job if we collectively realized that we don't even need them, so that's not really an argument.
Yes, she did - we are together since ten years - so i did not really had a doubt :)
I had to read your post 3 times and I still don't understand the source of your disagreement. You wrote that exposure will "make them more effective people" and the the author's wording was "a necessary skill for jobs of the future." Are those two things materially different? or in conflict AT ALL?

You called the latter "patently ridiculous" but then made a very similar argument. I don't get it.

Splitting hairs?
Fascinating commentary.

The paradox is that the more you attempt to tie practical/tactical things like Lean, Kanban, meditation, diet, excercise, etc to a broader perspective, the more likely the average person will actively resist/ignore both.
It is, but that doesn't make it nice to put unreasonable conditions in a contract. If I put a clause in a contract saying I'm allowed to kill you if I get annoyed with you, while promising that I definitely won't kill you and I'm just trying to cover my bases, I don't think that would go over too well.
Totally different. The article you're referencing is trying to connect two dating markets (SF and NYC) where both sides are ostensibly interested.

Models at parties are actors, pretending to be real people.
^^ I also just heard this for the first time today, and it made my entire day. That dude needs a Grammy!
A certain base is required for customers to exist. It's most beneficial to pay a tiny amount towards this vs. having no customers.
When attendance is so important to leadership theyre willing to do anything to insist their holiday parties are somehow different than any other corporations awkward, two drink ticket catered navel gazing event.

'non mandatory employee engagement' is generally how HR describes these sterile lifeless get-togethers. This inevitably gets translated into "i strongly encourage my team to attend" by management, which in turn results in every H1B employee showing up in cringing terror of being fired while every salaried non-exempt engineer and programmer brace for the inevitable "so, i didnt see you at the party last week!" from their manager.

Save the time and effort. split the budget for this dumpster fire masquerading as a social event, and add it to my raise.
Ask your doctor, really. When I got diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency (inside on the computer all the time, I'm quite pale) a few years ago the prescription I got was for pills that had 50,000 IUs each and I was to take one twice a week. I recently got a new doctor and was getting bloodwork done and she saw the mention of the deficiency and she asked if I wanted that tested for... she said she usually doesn't bother because everyone in my state (West Virginia) is deficient, she just recommends people take 1000 IUs a day or so. Personally I take 10,000 IUs about every other day. At least assuming the stuff I ordered off Amazon is at all legitimate (vitamins and such things are such a super sketchy market, companies get busted selling sawdust pills all the time).

One thing that I was not expecting, when I was on that prescription at first I noticed a marked improvement in my hearing (which I had not noticed being degraded at all previously...). I thought I was imagining it but upon doing some research it turns out that hearing loss is one of the possible complications of vitamin D deficiency.
Without being too facetious, do you have anything to contribute as to why you might think dropping meat, fish, and eggs from your diet would be detrimental?

The benefits of eliminating meat include reduced markers of inflammation within the body. Reduction of cholesterol. Changes in gut microbiome which as the emerging science is describing may have a more important impact on mood and cognition than we previously thought. Lengthening of telomeres. Oh and how about making the single most impactful change an individual can make to reduce climate change.

From my understanding of the subject the only real downside from eliminating meat or reducing it substantially is the reduction in essential B vitamins provided. This is widely recognized by those who promote a plant-based diet and the solution is to simply supplement with a super B vitamin supplement.

So what are you smoking?
haha, I thought the same when I first read the blurb.
Where can one get these seeds?
Is your current work challenging? You said repeatedly that it is easy and enjoyable but, if you aren't being challenged enough, work can begin to feel pointless even if the work itself is enjoyable.

In my experience, overcoming regular (but not constant) challenges with cultivated skill(s) creates motivation to continue.

Good luck.
I'm very skeptical that we should be pushing masses of kids to learn to program, to the detriment of other subjects already being squeezed for classroom time. I love programming but I just don't see why everyone should be required to learn what is IMO a very fun but pretty niche skill.

However, I do think there are a lot of adjacent skills that can be learned through the practice of programming which all kids should be taught (whether through learning to write code or repairing cars or through other pedagogic methods):

- How to break down a complex process into a bunch of simpler steps

- How to recognize abstract patterns and what variables might differ in various situations

- How to use tangible evidence and your understanding of how a system works to 'debug' some phenomenon

- How to "evaluate code in your head" - think through the implications of how a change to a system might work

Programming is a specific skill useful in a bunch of situations, but not universally practical.

Critical thinking is a universally useful skill adaptable to a wide number of situations. A citizen body better versed in critical thinking would (I propose) make our society function better.
Maybe difficult was too strong of a word. There are plenty of barriers to obtaining both guns and ammunition, far more than in the US.
Arbitration, just like plea deals, are an obviously terrible idea that is legal almost entirely because it reduces the cost of having trials. Less trials is cheaper, which everyone running things likes.

Of course, that's trading justice for money, which most people would agree is a terrible idea. Of course, that isn't reflected in the actual state of the law.
no need for more hiring diversity, just keep calling them out. diversity hiring is one way some of these creeps mollify their conscious and excuse themselves for keeping these activities. plus if you can find other people whom you don't agree with you can redirect the guilt.

the simplest method is to make known our displeasure and just call them out. it can be stopped. the culture of men will be men and women will be quiet will end in SV but only by going after the problem directly, not indirectly through hiring practices
This has been happening at tech companies for decades. Not only are there models at the parties, but there's entertainment, food, drinks, etc.

It's a good time, enjoy yourself and don't take it too seriously. This really isn't the end of the World.
You can't easily pull a scam like that using credit cards. Wire transfers could be potentially easier as we know the union transfers are hard to revert (but there's work being done there as well).

Essentially, if you interact with banks and have too many chargebacks or complaints, you'll be dropped. Or your fees will get massive. And that's if you find a payment processor who's happy with you taking money for cryptocurrencies in the first place.
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Is it really that much traffic compared to your typical consumer-facing start up? There can't be that many people buying BTC compared to the number of people that say, Stripe or Whatsapp handled in their early days...
I’m commenting more on the article than the practice. It’s clear that someone wrote this with a splashy headline and juicy intro to make it seem like some new phenomenon that perfectly dove tails with current events about sexual harassment or lack of company diversity.
We have atmosphere models that show carbon emissions are warming the planet.

Should we continue to just gawk at those models too? Or do something about it?

It's 2017, not an episode of Mad Men.
You're not a programmer, right?

Cloud solves everything guys!!! Yes buy more Cloud now that's 10% down in the exchanges lol...
I'm not even sure what is the same and what is different, and there isn't anywhere that I found that explains it easily (if it can even be explained easily).

I think the difference might just be in the rendering engine. So Safari uses "safari", and WkWebView uses straight WebKit? But even that isn't true since there are things that WkWebViews support that WebKit doesn't...

But there are many differences between them. The WebRTC stuff above as one, but also things like appcache manifest stuff didn't work in WkWebView in iOS 9 (even though it worked in Safari). And that violation was especially egregious because it could be enabled by calling a single private Objective-C method like this

[_wkWebView.configuration.preferences _setOfflineApplicationCacheIsEnabled:YES];

However apple would then deny your app in the app store if you did that...

So I genuinely don't know what to think.

Oh, and SFSafariViewController won't even save you, as that doesn't support WebRTC either...
I’m assuming you mean “social safety net”, not Social Security?

And are you just referring to the individual mandate change? Or are other big parts of the safety net changing from this bill?

(And yes, I understand the long-term policy and political implications, but I’m asking about specific immediate changes in this bill)
....net...gross
IDK.

My logical brain says "it's not 1950 anymore; the PR blow-black has the potential to be truly brutal."

My emotional brain says "This is horridly objectifying and super awkward."
Explore those Python tricks you didn't know existed [podcast / audio
Maybe we could just use taxes? Courts should be a public service just like roads and schools and firefighters.

Courts don't cost that much in the grand scheme of things, so even if we had to expand them by a factor of 2 to handle all the arbitration cases, that would be entirely doable.

I would be interesting to know just how much volume arbitrators see, and how many of those might be expected to turn into court cases in the absence of binding arbitration clauses.
A person or group of people that I've met personally and don't change often is much different than letting a random low-paid employee/contractor into your house.
My first thought too. Maybe they're planning on canning the service anyway.

Weird that your comment is literally right at the bottom.
If anyone wants to try collaborating on crosswords in real-time, try

https://squares.io/

You can upload .puz files or let it download from NYT with your subscription, then share the link with friends.

(Web only for now, sorry.)
Lol scaling is not a solved problem. Garbage collection is a solved problem. Scaling is always a challenge.
This is a pretty well-known anecdote: men in drive-on-right countries tend to get more skin cancers in their left sides than their right sides.

This is believed to be due to sun exposure of the left side while driving.

See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117975/
Does not matter whether it is electric or photonic (and many systems are in between). Scalable error correction (i.e. the error approaches zero in the limit of a large system) is possible only with digital systems, whether classical or quantum.

There are things we can do to suppress errors and make a slightly bigger analog computer (classical or quantum) but there is no way to make an analog system scalable (i.e. not just lower errors to some floor, rather completely eliminate errors).

The book cited in my previous comment explains the details in a fairly understandable fashion, but it takes up a whole chapter. The gist of it is, you need some minimal "logic distance" between your data "levels" in order to be able to distinguish them and correct deviations. This requires digitization.

If somebody finds a way to error-correct analog representations they will have a way to solve NP-complete problems for instance. The Nobel price will be the least of their recognitions.
Ask HN: What’s your desk setup like?
I wonder how everyone arranges their work and home office desks for productivity. What’s your monitor setup, what keyboard/mouse do you prefer? Any tech accessories that help you get organized or get work done?
https://liberapay.com
$0.35 fee on a $1 donation is a lot of friction.

The $0.35 / donation fee doesn't make sense to me. It sounds like a credit card transaction fee. But Patreon charges my CC once a month. So why not charge me the $0.35 once a month? Why once per donation?

The 2.9% part seems fine to me. So does shifting the costs to the donators. But why charge me per donation instead of per credit card transaction?

Edit this article has a nice analysis: https://www.pretty-terrible.com/funny-money-patreon-style/
The cloud enables easier scaling, it's not a silver bullet. No matter what, scaling plans have a region where they break down, so it doesn't imply they aren't designed for good scaling.
During normal times? Uptime is maybe 95-99% as they're down for maintenance for a few hours every few days, usually during off hours.

During major price swings? About 10% uptime at best. They're almost always down when the price jumps or drops.
While most of this fits roughly with my own observations, the following caught my attention:

> only a quarter of test cases is responsible for three quarters of all test failures

This rate is totally off my personal experience.

25% of test cases lead to 75% of test failures?

I'm used to have < 5% of the tests leading to > 95% of the test failures. That is, only few of the tests are really important in hindsight. The only problem is that nobody know which ones are the 5%, so better be safe than sorry.
> There are workloads where you can't beat Intel. Pure number crunching for example, where you can utilize AVX-512.

That's also debatable. I've read HPC papers that show opterons outperforming xeons on heavy fp workloads due to the higher throughput and larger cache. Baseless claims regarding "real world performance" are only good for marketeers.
Actually, they're also real people. They're merely pretending to be someone they are not.
I never took the time to investigate how accurate this site is, but it seems quite nice since it has uv index, time to skin redness and time to sunburn:

http://sunburnmap.com
> If you want more women at the event

This has nothing to do with equality. They aren't hiring these models as equals, but for the misogynistic dynamic (while removing the organic nature of opposite-sex interaction)
It is generally assumed that SC and SC2 are not actually just Rock Paper Scissors. That is, you're not obliged to guess your opponent's strategy and counter in the dark but can instead "scout" and figure out what they're doing and overall this can beat a "blind" strategy like cannon rush that doesn't respond to what the opponent's strategy is.

For example the "All ravens, all the time" Terran player Ketrok just responded to the surge in popularity of Cannon Rushes by making a tiny tweak to his opening worker movement. The revised opening spots the Cannon Rush in time to adequately defend and thus of course win.
For those who don't know, François Chollet is the author of Keras, a leading deep learning framework for Python.

Here is Chollet's original essay (it's a worthwhile read):
https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...
All Amazon Flex delivery drivers are independent contractors. It's not much different from driving for Uber. My last Amazon package was delivered by a 21 year old in a t-shirt and jeans driving an old Nissan sedan.

https://flex.amazon.com/

And they hire independent delivery companies (who themselves can hire contractors to work for them) as well.

https://logistics.amazon.com/
Have you ever worked in any job anywhere?

The popularity of their site is I assume proportional to Bitcoin price.

The number of users must have exploded, with no warning.
Well... if you read up to that point you would also have read "is the key to the future for both children and adults alike" - and you've only addressed the kids bit. I think the silly craze has died down a bit in the UK, but a few years ago we were subjected to such excitement as the news highlighting activities like c level execs doing coding classes in their lunchbreaks - 10 o'clock news?! This may have been about the same time as the BBC microbit was produced - I've heard nothing of that recently either. Easiest way to confirm it was a silly craze is to watch peak daft hysteria disappear into the distance.
Someone mentioned Red in a comment here. Coincidentally, it's a descendant of Rebol, which was designed by Carl Sassenrath, architect of the AmigaOS.
Giving someone a key to your house is quite different from signing a contract with a binding arbitration clause. The former is an indication that you trust the key holder or the safeguards that are in place. The latter is signing away a legal right, which should carry much more weight.
labor costs go up because labor supply goes down.
To say that blockchains are only useful for unlawful activities is completely ridiculous and shows your negligible insight on the topic.
A lot of things have been standard practices in various industries for decades. That doesn't mean they should be, and today's world gives everyone a new voice to challenge these kind of things.
> A front door airlock came to mind

Some of the better houses in the north have a mudroom between the outer door and the inner door. Helps a whole lot in winter and during the rainy muddy times.

Agree it would probably work well with this type of thing for deliveries.
Bitcoin prices are hockey-sticking on a hockey stick