skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want those toddlers to grow up with a deep enough appreciation for animals and the natural environment to invest real resources in conservation when they grow up -- even if it means conserving environments in places like Africa and South America that they will likely never see in person?

People only put effort into things they care about, and they only care about what they feel connected too. If we don't make wild animals real to a signification fraction of the voting population, we won't have wild animals for much longer.
Related: Here was a weekend project I did about a year ago:

http://retirement-calculator.net/

I use it for my own financial projections. I wanted something simple that didn't base post-retirement income on a percentage of pre-retirement income. I just wanted to input a dollar amount for post-retiremt income and have that adjusted for inflation.
It is certainly not "entirely cultural". We are still part of the animal kingdom. There is actual biology and evolution at play. Ignoring that is pseudoscience.
>and the state government is shockingly corrupt

Shocking to the blind and deaf maybe. If it's under the executive branch it's a dumping ground for political appointees. That's just how it works in MA. More law, more bureaucracy to enforce it, more dumping, more bad outcomes, more laws, more bureaucracy...

I've lived in three other states and none of them were as bad.
This is a great article, that I think can also be useful from manager/supervisor point of view.

I think 'mechanical' solutions can also help. I have been lucky that over the years when I felt like "slacking" instead of news or media, I would read technically relevant articles, or discussions.

Speaking of which, harray for HN! Billing R&D for this comment.
Fully agree, but we already have quite a few problems there, not sure if startupfication will make it much worse.

I see the positive side of keeping people there instead of having to try their luck abroad.

Actually I would like to see all district capitals enjoy startup fever, specially the inner country ones.
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Empowering your Android Layouts
That is the idea, but with only 8GB of internal storage, using Progressive Web Apps for things like Reddit would be best.
If, like me, you have the graph of the functions burned into your memory, then the anti-symmetry of sin makes it's geometric interpretation easy to remember.

Sin and Cos correspond to the rejection and projection of two unit vectors. When they rotate past each other, the projection still has the same direction, but the rejection changes sign, so it must correspond to the anti-symmetric sin, not the symmetric cos.
Pode explicar a tradução ou conexão para as palavras, vira e lita. Não significam "look" e "can"?

Não sou brasileiro.
I can't imagine the legal ramifications of this. How would a court or government agency deliver legal notices to such people, for example?
Do retirees have to pay property taxes?
I had tried to do the same. However given the CPU/GPU imbalance on AWS GPU instances I have resorted to building a fully "rendered" training set and doing all the transforms in spark.

See: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/13610
someone failed thinking 101
When I see people comment that they can only focus on code for a few hours, I feel like a freak. I can focus on any one thing for 16 hours per day, indefinitely. I don’t know why. I don’t use tricks. And it energizes me. I have very low social needs. I doubt I’m neurotypical. I doubt John Carmack is.
Lots of things are absent from the list. The list isn't what YC is willing to fund-- it's what YC wants to encourage people to start thinking about if they don't already have ideas for a not-so-bloated space.
The issue of longevity and aging seems to be one that is given significant attention by super rich people, who for obvious reasons would like a wonderful life of privilege to go on for as long as possible.
There's some evidence that when women start to out-earn their husbands they divorce at higher rates. Whether biological or social (and probably a bit of both), there is an expectation that men contribute more financially than women do, which explains a lot of why men work more after having children than women do. Plus, women obviously invest more in having children than men do.
> The average tax refund in the US is $3,050 per year.

> Avoid spending tax refunds to get to your retirement faster.

The advice should instead tell the user to plan the tax payments to avoid giving the government an interest free loan by overpaying taxes and getting it back as a refund much later. Of course, a particular sum should be invested regularly.
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Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but: Zoos may be an important public service for the environmental cause. Zoos create awareness, understanding, goodwill and support for habitat preservation and endangered species. When I moved to Chicago I was surprised to find cows at the Lincoln Park Zoo- but then I realized many city kids would have never seen a cow before. It's the same way with giraffes for anyone who does not live in East Africa. It's not great for an animal to be in captivity, but there is an argument to be made about what zoos do for the greater good.
This is gold! Thank you! :D
I think it will be some time before the big shipping players all decide to switch to self-driving trucks. We’re still a decade away from complete vehicular automation.

> The first part can be trivially automated and the second is just stupid. Truckers get paid per hour of work, less work == less money.

You could always pay them a salary and benefits, and hopefully UBI would exist at that point. Of course it’s unlikely for Uber to do that, because their strategy has been the exact opposite.
Doubtful, this seems to just be another soon to be orphaned Android variant (like Android One). Uninstalling Google Play Newsstand and most of the other Google Crapware should get you close, perhaps replace Google Play Services Framework with microG to save a few hundred megs of space?
I definitely have complaints about the existing business models of companies that do this, like opaque (or outright dishonest) TOS. But I agree that privacy legislation is far from the only obvious answer.

Ideally, I'd have control over the location data my phone provides at the active-app, installed-app, and total-shutoff levels. I don't actually mind giving out location data, I just want to know and make a choice when it happens. Fortunately, iOS is rapidly headed that way, and Android has made some promising moves.

I do think there's a slightly scarier conversation to be had about the externalities of "selling privacy", though. The Facebook 'shadow profile' situation is the obvious demonstration, but far from the scariest possibility. The possibility of building up a near-comprehensive profile of someone from other people's location, image, and messaging data raises real questions about what it even means to talk about 'personal privacy' in any public setting.
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Mental Health Crisis in Grad Students
I'm sharing my takeaway after reading this. Access logs are fun to some people ;)
Yes, but usually receive a discount for being seniors. That’s why I said low cost of living. Tennessee is nice.
Yeah, teasers are about the best I'll do for the same reasons.

Most good reviewers don't go into plot too much or spoiler-y. The ethos at RogerEbert.com is to help people make informed decision. Same for those sites targeted to parents.

The trailers are all marketing, to hit people over the head over and over again. Not to mention commercial tie-ins that ruin things (looking at you Black Panther Lexus commercial during the Olympics). It's funny that advertising costs have actually increased for movies in this era of pretty much free buzz via social media platforms.
Think the author said he was spending 80% of his day not coding, and was spending too much time on reddit, facebook, twitter, etc. Though the article certainly would have benefited from a mention of the benefits of coming up for air (he mentioned email as an unproductive task, which I certainly wouldnt agree with)
Choosing Homeschool Curriculum-Consider Learning Style
Fuel efficiency decreases generally relative to the surface area of the front of the vehicle, where road damage increases with the mass of the vehicle. So a long, heavy vehicle like a truck is indeed harder on the road relative to their fuel efficiency.
How much thrust does this produce?
The RFS isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of the ideas we're interested in funding. It's a list of ideas we'd like even more founders to apply with. We get a lot of blockchain and crypto applications -- and if that's what you're working on, I recommend you apply with it.
'Is there a trend in the UK of nosy neighbors reporting unsupervised children to the authorities?'

I'm not sure it's so common but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens from time to time. I guess it depends what time of day and how far away from home they are?
Not op, but I think these are the equivalent of linq to objects. Linq also has the capability to treat lambdas as expression objects, so instead of executing them, you may further interpret them and turn them into something else. Like sql statements.
I feel like most of this comes from the childless. Most parents seem to understand, but people without kids expect you to transform into superwoman/man.
I don't use them enough to completely internalize them, so having a reference when I do need to use them is very helpful.
> It eschews docker, and Dockerfiles and their non-determinism, and builds the layers itself [...] But I suspect it's going to be painful doing things outside the mainstream supported stuff.

This should not matter at all. The OCI specification provides an interoperable image format that doesn't care who built the image or how. Docker still doesn't support the OCI yet[1], but tools exist to do conversions[2]. To shamelessly plug my own projects, you can use umoci[3] as a completely unprivileged user to construct images (without using containers if you don't want to) and the resulting images are still usable with Docker (once you convert them from OCI images). This is how we build the official openSUSE images, and it doesn't affect any user of the images that we chose not to use Docker or Dockerfiles to build them.

[1]: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/33355
[2]: https://github.com/projectatomic/skopeo
[3]: https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci
Put the "Show HN:" in the title, so it triggers the magic filter (see the posts in https://news.ycombinator.com/show )

I was confused by the gif in the landing page. I tries to use it but it changed magically. Perhaps you can add a fake moving mouse to make it clear that it is autorunning.

The examples are quite easy. I had to move only 2 or 3 pieces. Is that on porpoise?

Do you have some bot protection? It looks easy to automate or se brute force to solve it. Adding more margin to each tile may make it more difficult to solve by a computer.
They should release the name of the hoster. Not so much for internet points but to warn the customers. Who knows what information could have leaked from all those DBs, and I doubt that the hosted sent out a report on that incident.
I wonder if the Canadian model of 1.5 years of maternity leave is a must for humanity's survival in the long term. IMHO (without much research) i see many women who have no choice but to feed formula milk to their babies (at daycares) as they are not around to breastfeed. Now i read somewhere that without breastfeeding the baby enough the women's body generates lesser and lesser breastmilk. But, Doctors always recommend breastfeeding as it gives maximum immunity to the baby. In the absence of a proper/sufficient maternal leave (like the Canadian one), i wonder if the next generations of humans become less and less immune to diseases.
I just think it's the opposite. Those without constant distractions and expenses end up being more productive and richer.
I wonder how these locks work with C11 memory model.
So back when being a stay at home mom was the norm, it was hard, but now that working moms are the norm, being a stay at home mom is easy? I don't think that checks out.
This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the rationale for taxation.

There is a societal benefit to efficient means of transportation. You, along with most other people, are reaping the benefits of truckers using roads to deliver cargo.
Thanks for this; I really appreciate the detail here. There seems to be a lack of these kinds of explanations around.

One piece did give me a bit of surprise:

You might also need to implement the inference code as well to get the speed you need

I've never had the super-low-latency requirements you have, but as you point out this seems amazingly error-prone. I'd love to hear anything else you can share about the cost-benefit analysis you do before deciding to go this route, and if there's any tools or languages you've had a better time with than others for this.
There's something like 5k lines of code for the Hive dialect. How much of that is auto-generated? Is there any way to take advantage of the similarities between Hive and Impala to reduce the work needed?
> Some people just seem to treat it as a bigger like button.

But isn't that exactly what it is? The line between retweet and like is pretty blurry with the algorithmic timeline. I often see tweets that were merely liked by someone I follow.
> That biology can be called 'the study of complex things' does not imply that all complex things fall under biology.

Doesn't it? How could it not? Can you give me another example from common parlance of the form "X is the study of Y" where many Y do not fall under X?
I have found the link from the article very interesting.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/diggi...

It is basically using ramjet technology (such as in the Lockheed D-21), but it's kind of the inlet shape which moves through air enriched with combustible at hyper-sonic speed, on impact the projectile just vaporizes.

edit: the gif animation at the top of the article is very misleading
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If you're working on a water startup, and you'd like to apply to YC, you should still do it. You can apply to YC with any type of company -- it doesn't have to line up with an RFS. Our blog post for water startups is still out there -- it's just not a current RFS. As I mentioned in a comment above, this isn't an exhaustive list of the ideas we'd like to fund.
The problem is that x is not a known amount. We have inflation and rising health insurance costs, as well as other unknowns like that. So while 25x is a great thing to say, I am sitting here with > 25x and I'm not shuffling off to early retirement yet as much as I want to because it's imprudent. If had 100x then there's probably enough slop in the calculation to get a positive experimental outcome (in this case retiring early and not running out of money).

It's fucking ridiculous how much money we "need" for retirement in the US in order to live even modestly because everything is designed to fleece us.
Really?

Reservations is what EVERYBODY calls it. I've made thousands of reservations in my life. I had no clue what a "reserve bookings" is. You can figure it out from context... but why go out of our way to make things so difficult to understand.
hmm, Im not an expert but isn't your logic based on constant supply/demand? Once self driving trucks become mainstream could it be that truckers will do fewer long trips but more shorter trips which doesn't necessarily lower their income?
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If you want a fun story of making terrible long term choices based on faulty rate of return numbers, look no farther than MLB player Bobby Banilla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bonilla).

The Mets wanted to get rid of Bobby in the year 2000 but owed him $5.9M. Mets owner Fred Wilpon thought it a good idea if he asked Bobby to defer payments on that $5.9m for 11 years. Fred would invest that $5.9M today and make out in the black. Fred would just turn around and get a 10% return from his buddy Bernie Madoff and have over $16M in 11 years.

Lets just say that story doesn't have a happy ending. Bobby Banilla will get paid $29.8M dollars over 25 years for a season he never played. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bobby-bonilla-retire...
Term Sheet Problems Part 1 – Money Talks
I have a Frigidaire unit that's on its 10th year and works almost as new as far as I can tell.

For every vocal person with a broken unit, there are multiple people with working ones. These planned obsolescence debates are mostly pointless without actual data (case in point: arguing about WD vs Seagate before BackBlaze started publishing their data)
Sure, then it will depend on what you want to use it for. Different definitions may be best for different projects.
According to the much better article at https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/judge-rul..., it was a WA state judge who ruled based on WA's "Homestead Act".
From the article...

>I still screw off during the day. I am not a code grinding automaton. I read Facebook, chat with others, Tweet, shop on Amazon, get coffee, read forums, write blog posts like this one and I'm totally fine with that.
Also need to consider that taking a 4-5 year career gap to raise children to school going age just isn't an option for a lot of professions.
> She told me customers come in and browse, find something they like, and compare prices online when she’s standing right there.

This is pretty unethical.
How do they deliver them to tents under the bridge? We need to stop pretending the homeless don’t exist.
New Bain Study: Amazon as Trustworthy as Banks
Truckers generally get paid per mile, not per hour. They are also heavily regulated as to the number of hours they can drive (why you see so many husband/wife driving teams).

One can easily foresee a future where a self-driving truck has a driver in it who is only driving 'regulated' hours for a small portion of a trip (say during high traffic, highway entry/exit, etc). The driver could spend the rest of his time sleeping, reading, or coding - he'd basically be a passenger.

If a truck can haul for 20-30 hours without stopping for overnights, that dramatically changes the economies of fast freight.
In the United States trucks are already taxed at higher rates because of their weights. That's why we have weight stations scattered throughout our highways though automation and technology have reduced their need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weigh_station
"Vira-Lata" literally translates to "Can-Turner". But the meaning is of a stray-dog.
Doesn't this mean executing an arbitrary code on another person's computer? You could send a javascript object over network rather than some json data and then glue it with the code on the client side too (this is what google does/did with the search suggestions at some point).
They get someone to serve them papers in person if needed. Otherwise they ask for an address (friends house or PO box). This isn't unusual.
https://unbury.me

I believe I first saw this as a Show HN a few years ago. Enter in each of your debts (balance, minimum payment, interest rate) and select your method of repayment and the extra you can put into it (if any).
This person is homeless, so in exactly the same way as if you let the government force the sale of and confiscation of the proceeds from the truck?
Thanks, forwarded your comment to a few colleagues who might have a use for it!
For private repos, I'd say gitlab is an order of magnitude (or two) better than bitbucket. Or, it clearly was 2 years ago, and while I haven't kept up with bitbucket, gitlab has improved by leaps and bounds in those two years.

The killer features for me are nested subgroups (which bitbucket may have, but github does not) and a really awesome CI system with a generous free tier (2000 minutes/month). For R packages, we have it setup very similar to github + travis (devtools::check() every push), and for deployable bits we have it build containers and run integration tests on them. Super impressed with all we get for free there.
> It's affordable, but couples in western countries don't really want more children (just under 2 is the average)

I was looking at how many contraceptions and items my friends bought for their newborn ranging from things related to feeding/sleeping/playing. And that's not including the highest expenses, namely shelter/transportation/food. I thought to myself, my goodness how did we ever raise children in previous millennia? Anecdotally it feels like it's becoming more and more expensive to have children. I'm fairly well-off myself, and I would probably be fine with just one child, if any.
Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37/hr Was Not Correct
I'd definitely believe that every part of query execution is in the hot path, as this paper describes. But most code in any reasonable DB system isn't part of query execution.
+1. If you still want to receive some basic notifications on incoming messages, FaceSlim app is very nice :)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.indywidualni.fblite/
I used to work for Loudcloud, an early dot-com hosting company. We used very expensive EMC Symmetrix storage for our DB tier. (Search the web for EMC Symmetrix 3830 if you want an idea what these beasts looked like.)

The Symmetrix had an EPO (Emergency Power Off) which was a red button mounted in a recessed area on the back of the cabinet, and was protected by a plastic lid. To perform an EPO, you had to lift the lid and hold the button down for 30 seconds or so.

One of our DC ops employees was moving a heavy server into a cage and accidentally bumped the corner of the server into the plastic lid. The plastic lid was forced inward and got jammed depressing the EPO button. Moments later the entire Symmetrix powered off.

Later that day, as the word got around, another DC ops employee in a different datacenter looked at the Symmetrix and curiosity got the better of him. He didn't see how it was possible for the plastic lid to get jammed. So he punched the lid with his hand. Moments later that Symmetrix went down too. :-(

We reported this design issue to EMC. A while later, a few of us were on a factory tour at EMC. They pointed out to us the "Loudcloud Stopper" work-around. It was a rubber stopper mounted next to the EPO button that prevented the plastic lid from being pressed inward.
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It seems to me that justice is in the most peril when the prosecutor is absolutely certain that the perp is guilty, but doesn't have any good evidence (which is not an unusual occurrence). So now he is faced with two possiblities, let the guy go and watch him kill/rob/rape again, or make up some bullshit that sounds good to a jury and that his public defender won't question too harshly. Something that sounds scientific even though it was never actually proven effective. Hair analysis, signature analysis, ballistic fingerprinting, eyewitness testimony, etc... There are people on death row that were convicted solely on circumstantial and unreliable evidence, and not a lot of it. Of course all this is a lot easier to accomplish if you can use the jury's inherent biases in your favor. Like you're trying to convict a 6"4' black man with tattoos all over his body and permanent sneer. Doesn't really matter if he's guilty or not, the jury is going to want to lock him up regardless.
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this is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed
Patreon works for many kinds of creators, but I think the space could still use innovation.