skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By this rate, looks like we need a "Fucked AI", in the style of "fuckedcompany.com". [1]

These people were eating VC hype money to build Hagbard's FUCKUP from the Illuminatus! Trilogy. [2]

Not sure who I feel more sorry for. The smart employees wasting years of their prime chasing some unattainable pipe dream, the VC's who got suckered into pouring their money into some vaporware precog technology, the author trying to disguise a shit river with meandering prose, or my upcoming pay cut when the AI winter sets in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

[2] First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic-Ultramicro-Programmer (FUCKUP). FUCKUP predicts trends by collecting and processing information about current developments in politics, economics, the weather, astrology, astronomy, the I-Ching, and technology.
Animals' popularity 'a disadvantage'
Ask HN: Who's your ideal candidate for writing your product's copy?
Let's suppose you're on the lookout for a copywriter for your product/ startup. What're the qualifications you want to see in your prefect hire?
What is an Entrepreneur?
I believe affiliate has a more restrictive meaning that just "everyone we have a business relationship with" but I'm not a lawyer.
No, not in this case. The original function is well defined and has no undefined behaviour (in the case I describe) as it would return before it reached "bad memory". The optimised version is what reaches further through memory (while vectorising).
> I think the only cure for depression is death. Too morbid?

Not at all. Twice in my life I've been on anti-depressants, and both times I hated them. One was when I was in middle school; more against my will. My parents wanted me to stop washing my hands (I had/still have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; washed my hands several times an hour some days). My dad just wanted a pill to fix me I think. The one therapist that suggested group/family therapy was the one we never went back to.

I tried against for a short time in University and it was worse. Sure initially you're smiling more (enough that other people noticed more than I did), but the side effects were harsh; more so when I was a kid. I'd want to sleep all the time and had zero energy. I couldn't masturbate. I started feeling numb; and I remembered that same feeling I had as a kid: If I felt like I needed to wash my hands to go work on something; on the meds (various SSRIs specifically), I would just stay in front of the TV instead of doing something constructive I enjoyed.

I recently lost a high school friend to suicide. He had been struggling for over a decade. It was hard to get him to hang out; was like pulling teeth. He'd been gone from my life for a long time. I'm sad I didn't get more chances to hang out with him. But I also know that he's at peace now.

The trouble today is that we like to treat all depression as a problem with the self. We use a combination of drugs and therapy that tries to help deal with negative thought patterns. But those approaches ignore the very true reality that life is hard! Life kinda sucks. I work in a cube all day making shit software. We walk by homeless people every day who are a product of bad circumstances and bad decisions, of which we could have easily been in other circumstances. So much of what we buy and consumes hurts people on the other side of the planet.

You mention how you think this article on Skydiving trivializes depression, but maybe not so much. This person did something and changed the external. When I was really depressed, I got a holiday work visa and took off for Australia. I lived there for a year, two and a half in New Zealand and then backpacked for 11 months. I tried to get some support to sustain myself, but I always seem to end up back in a cube. Yet during those times that I changed my external, I really felt like I was leaving that dark place I had been in most of my life.

The fact is, the only thing that made a meaningful impact on my depression was to find ways to change the external .. and that's really hard for people who are really depressed, because every step in that direction takes an incredible amount of energy. In a lot of ways I'm just lucky, because I somehow always am able to force myself to do what needs to be done (finish my degree, finish selling all my stuff and packing the rest, etc. etc.)

I don't know. I'm half and half on this. I see your point, but I also think there are serious problems with the way we try to approach mental illness in the world today.
In the USA, yes there is clear precedent saying that. But other places (e.g. UK) don't have this case, so it's not so clear. EU law has created [sui generis] "database right", which is is like copyright for a collection of facts.

OSM is not a place to explore the grey areas of international copyright law.
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Maybe people ages 45 through 75 are going through the period of life which we traditionally associate with both a lowering of physical activity and increasing difficulties in memory. Sure would be nice if they linked the study or seriously cared about critiquing it.

The real question should be whether both are also strongly associated with grey hair, number of grandchildren, and taste in film.
In the U.S., the major parties compete with each other. Over the decades, what they actually do varies a lot. As one party has success generally or on particular issues, the other party will adjust to attract voters.

Positions held by (relatively) successful third parties are quickly absorbed to some degree by one major party or both.

The net result is a weird mishmash of positions on either side of the aisle that no individual would actually choose. It also means disproportionate benefits for things that intensely benefit small portions of the population with mild downsides for the rest.

Despite all the concern, the national legislature has been fairly evenly divided over the last 25 years or so, giving control back and forth. This is even more true of the presidency. It's exceptional that a party will hold the presidency for more than two terms of office.

All that being said, I do think there could be some national consensus about things with little more explicit horse-trading. I could see a carbon tax passing, for instance, if it were attached to a bill requiring a balanced budget. But no major party could propose something like that without angering its base.
Ask HN: Is there any web ui for Tox P2P messenger?
You don't need 100 iterations of binary search. Double-precision floating-point numbers only have 52 bits of precision.
A quick Google search turned this up. May be helpful: https://www.thoughtco.com/buddhist-meditation-and-the-dark-n...
Observation of Entangled States of a Fully Controlled 20-Qubit System
I disagree.

If I write a routine which walks an array one element at a time, in order, up to some max index N, and also stops early when it reaches some other condition (like an element equal to zero), then I am allowed to pass in memory which is only 3 elements long, and an N greater than 3, if I know that there is a zero in the first 3 elements. The function must not be optimized to read past the zero element, regardless of the N passed in, so removing the early exit would be an invalid optimization.

There's no undefined behavior in the above that justifies that optimization.
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In Canada, I've switched over to https://simpletax.ca. It's free, (supported by donations), and works well even for more complicated filings.
Executable compression
Those are hardly competitors.

Like comparing Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign.
Unfortunately Django does not use prepared statements. There are some big challenges to work around before support can be added. In any case I'd be very, very surprised if a significant portion of the 87 seconds using a single statement saved was saved also saved by using a prepared statement.
Well the first optimization would be to roll my own libc (not that hard at all :) ) where i would load api calls by ordinal and only those that i really need (ok, for the sake of compatibility, i would dig them from IAT table based on 16bit hash (folding fnv32) of API name + dll name). Same for all other libraries, everything compiled with agressive optimization (at least /O2). Next step would be to take compiler that is minimizing the bloat, tinyc (https://bellard.org/tcc/), compiling 32 bit binaries just to save some space. Maybe even go for .com to avoid PE header bloat. At the end compress everything with something like upx, but probably i would roll my own PE compressor. Instead of using functions, the macros would be used, absolutely no classes, #pragma pack(1) all structures (i never tryed what tinyc does :D). Also merging PE sections will save some bytes.

Size optimizing is fun and you can learn a lot but it is dying art, probably 99.9999% of todays developers dont understand what I have written in first part (today, you are learning the programming, but very indequately what the OS does, actually typical today programer understands the programing but is clueless what his code does on low level) ... but +1 for anyone that goes into that direction, my boss at my first job was saying that good software fits to one 1.44 floppy but this is today violated by HHLL. Well business wise no need for that unless you are making malware, but still cool.
Violating T&Cs is not the same as copyright infringement. What you linked to are terms for the API, the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service [0] would be the more relevant document. But again, violating Google's Terms is not the same as copyright infringement.

I don't know whether Bing Maps uses trap streets [1] or not.

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I will vote in the election in
November. In each race, I will have (if I’m lucky) a choice between a couple of people who will only get a tiny percentage of the vote, a person from the party who thinks Donald Trump should hold the presidency, and one other person who might possibly win instead of that one.

My choice is all but predetermined. The question of which ones suck up to Intuit basically doesn’t come into it.
> so you’re free to copy them side-by-side.

The OSM community will delete your contributions if you do this. And you risk being banned. Please don't bring copyright infringment into OSM
Knock whenever switching from beep-off to beep-on. The end of letters will be difficult to disambiguate but essentially unambiguous, because short pause + long pause (dot at end of letter) is distinct from medium pause + long pause (dash at end of letter), and they're both distinct from short pause (dot inside letter) and medium pause (dash inside letter).
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<a title="Xnumerik " href="https://xnumerik.com/en">Xnumerik </a>
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There is cause for concern when hearing seven short and one long blast, though. (General alarm; something has happened. Better head for the muster station to find out what...)
Digital nomads were not a thing 30 years ago when I was a young military wife.

However, I do digital nomad type work currently. It fits in nicely with the kinds of expectations I have for my life that are rooted in having been a military wife.

There are also times when I wish a regular job was a viable option for me because there are certainly downsides to what I do.
Most novels come with a back cover blurb that tells you what the book is about. And I don't know many people who read novels without first reading the cover.
Yes you can copy it into OSM from the original source. But not if it's gone through Google.
Is there a shop that specializes in clothes for people propense to getting kidnapped?
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So? OpenWorm is (barely) crowd-funded and trying to simulate the entire body not just the brain. Seems like a decent effort given their resources, but on a scale of Radioactive Boy Scout to Manhattan Project they’re a Farnsworth Fusor.

(Which is to say “I ought to volunteer”).
So two wrongs do make a right?
Eh not really. The OSM community hasn't really settled on what OSM.org is supposed to do. It's very definitely made for regular end users in mind. So you can use it for that.
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"Lobbying is a way for the rich"

Let's say you want to build a road (to nowhere really) in Mississippi. Your company builds roads and you are pretty damn sure you will win the contract if it happens. You want Senator Cindy Hyde Smith to ear mark some federal cash for the project (s). How much would it cost? Answer: not much. She only has 200k of cash on hand. If you donate $50K you got a new best friend. If you give her 2k, you will probably land a dinner.

https://www.scribd.com/document/370443725/Cindy-Hyde-Smith-2...
because opioid high wears off and then it really sucks
>>Did you experience this, and how did you push through it?

Apologies for chiming in, but the simple answer is that "you" can't. That is, if you believe that there is a "you" that can push past this barrier, then you will fail. It's an impossible task. Where you go after that realization is up to "you." ;)
Would he be able to read if it wasn't English but a proper written language like where you write exactly what you hear, sound to letter?
Interestingly, it seems Stephen Hawking used a similar input method, so maybe there's something particularly efficient about it that we don't realize http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html
Two quick knocks can mean a dash. Also, isthereaproblemwithnospaceswhentryingtosaveyourlife?
If a person has lost all capability such that they cannot even blink or move their eyes, I’m not sure what else they could do to communicate. Breathing?

I don’t think the idea is worthless, just not worth as much as what others may think.
NYTimes to preserve millions of pages the way they were originally published
1) Highly prefer someone who has at least a basic knowledge/understanding of the topic.

2) Years experience

3) Sample works

4) References

5) Pricing. Learned a while ago that a good copywriter doesn't come cheap. You definitely get what you pay for, and paying a little extra will provide a return on investment in most cases.
"unpalatable for the privacy-aware"
The piece is just overwrought at the sentence level, as in the example below. I think it's partially inspired by trying to sound like an old-style important newspaper columnist, and partially David Foster Wallace. DFWs long sentences are very readable though, because they are conversational, so you can understand them perfectly if you read them as though hearing them aloud.
Israel attacks Iran
That's an excellent point. It's funny how Microsoft has a reputation for making poor copies of things, but that hasn't really been the case for 20 years. They're often the ones to innovate now. Sadly, they don't seem to be able to get the traction with their innovations that they once did with their copies.
Gnome Maps can respond to user pan/zoom much faster. G-Maps is hooked in to MapBox's commercial-scale map tile service, which in turn delegates the bulk work to servers run by cloudfront.net. Run tcpdump to see this.
> Google cannot put this information under their license with a ‘no extraction’ rule because they don’t own that information.

So what prevents someone from extracting all of Google Maps' data to OSM?
> And you know what? It works! Every year I write a check to pay our marriage penalty and fume about how it.

FWIW, the marriage penalty almost completely disappears in the 2018 tax reforms. There is still a higher rate for very high earning couples than for very high earning singles, and some deductions are not doubled for couples, but most of the tax brackets now line up as exactly double the single bracket (up to the 32% bracket). This markedly closer than prior years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2017/12/17/the-new...
Gnome Maps is a lot faster than the website.
I got to see a very good friend of mine a few months ago from my hometown; someone I grew up with. He got really into Skydiving when we were in University. He kept trying to get me to jump. Guy spent a lot of time and money in the summer doing jumps and getting his various certificates. He got to the point where he was qualified to pack his own chute.

He had one bad landing and shattered his leg. Apparently paramedics have no sympathy for people who injury themselves jumping out of a plane. He did jump for a few years after recovering from that. His roommate screwed up a landing and punctured his lung when he slammed into a stop sign (ironic, right?).

My friend stopped jumping. He has two kids now, and he said that was part of it. He was worried a bit about getting pulled into that culture for the rest of his life, but he knew older sky divers who didn't party all the time and do insane amounts of cocaine (I hung out with some of his sky diving buddies and dear god, do they love their cocaine).

But he had a few other friends die in jumps, and he started contemplating who he was and why he dived. He's now a band director at a community college. Now that he has his own program, his kids, his wife, he just realized it wasn't for him any more.
> Completely overhaul is probably not possible

Not complete, just a minor improvement that benefits your country is enough to put a quick stop to it, see Iran in the 50s for a good example of this.
I'm pretty sure he meant to write 60 days (1440 hours).
That's an opportunity to start using the metric system!
I don't think you understand why military benefits are the way they are.

And I am not up for writing an opus on it in comments here. Suffice it to say that raising your right hand and swearing to give your life for your country is a little different from your standard job.
Agreed. And it's not just latency that puts the average guy at a disadvantage. It's also access to the market and access to data which are hard to obtain.

The beauty in all this is that 1000s of people keep trying... But only a select few, less than 1/100 of 1 percent of market participants succeed in making reasonable profits
That’s a self-defeating assertion. If legal campaign donations were so high return, more companies would make them, driving up the price. You’re presupposing the existence of this enormous arbitrage opportunity that nobody is talking advantage of, because...?

Shit, I can swing “tens of thousands.” Can you tell me how to get “millions” in pork? Shouldn’t YC companies just blow the $120,000 they get in campaign contributions?
damn it, wsj caught on that no-script caused their content to be un-paywalled...
There is a real downside to this not spoken about. If/when you get hooked into an adrenaline based lifestyle and for some reason have to leave the lifestyle behind (financial, family, injuries) it can be extremely devastating to not do what was in essence keeping you alive. Still worth it but the crash can be worse than the cure, unless you figure out how to persevere gracefully.
I do of course, and said so in my comment (I referred to them as Americans who naturalized from Chinese and Taiwanese nationalities). I was just pointing out that they were all Chinese speakers and were born in China or Taiwan. Conducting business in Chinese is not a problem for them.
Well it's for profit software vs hobby just for the love of it. Different goals.
If this were true, I wonder how many people would have taken the first step toward curing their depression a few seconds before ending their own life.
I learned and was fluent with Mathematica early and learned python later. I still run to Mathematica for doing symbolic analysis because there is basically no impedement between my ideas and the keyboard when I am solving that type of problem. I've moved all my numerical analysis to the scipy system since it is a more natural language for those types of problems.
What if I dont want the content Im most interested in. It'd probably give me the computer scoentost version of tabloid, but I prefer making myself read things that I don't fully grasp.
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Alternative currencies are the future
I highly recommend the guided meditation that goes along with that book, Waking Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboD7JrT0NE

It has helped me attain the deepest level of meditative state, where I am almost aware of my consciousness as a separate process from the constant sensory input. Becoming an observer, empty-head.

On another level, I've found it very settling in times of emotional turmoil.

I did have a near panic attack from the book when he makes somewhat of a case that both hemispheres of our brains might be independently conscious, with one permanently silenced as control of the body is held by the active one that controls our body. A prisoner in someone else's body, literally, with no way to interact with the world. It is pure physiological horror. But alas I cannot do anything about (other than try to talk to that other entity and see if it can trigger some sort of response?) so no use getting worked up? The world is full of day-to-day cruelty and it's not my fault.
For me, its key feature was that I found it more actionable than other sources that I'd found online. I prefer it to 'Mindfulness in Plain English'. However, to be fair, I haven't read the entire text, so I don't think that I can make a fair comparison.

Edit: The author of the book is Culadasa (Dr. John Yates, PhD), whose profile mentions that he was a neuroscience professor at one point in his life. I haven't verified this.

His profile: http://culadasa.com/about/
"[In 2015,] 7% of the 62,763 emergency calls [in Milwaukee] came from the same 100 people"
Why is the fire department launching paramedic initiatives?
I have a similar problem and have never been able to figure it out: random people look like people I know. Nearly every day I see someone who I'm sure is someone else. What I have to do is stare at them very pointedly, and if they look away I know it's not someone I'm acquainted with. It feels to me very similar to the way the author describes her condition, only it's sort of opposite in a way.
There is a pretty good breakdown of a bunch of different options for visualizing sets here: http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/SetViz

Venn/Euler diagrams don't work all that well past 3 sets, not all areas will be shown if using circles - so unless some of the sets are disjoint it will be a misleading diagram (like in the music example). However, I think it works well for 3 set diagams, I have an interactive example on last.fm data here https://www.benfrederickson.com/distance-metrics/ in the context of explaining some simple distance metrics.
China's veer towards a more conservative, centralised political atmosphere as it has become the world's 2nd largest economy over the past decade has certainly wiped out much of the recent progress in gay rights within its borders.

However, speaking of things getting worse for LGBT people world-wide, one trend dominates all others. Nothing else even comes close to the effect the growth of Islam. Both its intensification in previously moderate countries, such as Egypt, and its spread into left-leaning, mainstream politics in western Europe have been nothing short of catastrophic for LGBT communities.

Unfortunately, both economic and political pressures can make it hard to criticize bad ideas, including on this site. The idea that homosexuality should result in social media restrictions, or in being thrown off a roof is a bad idea and should not be defended for either economic or political reasons.
How do different entities determine your current tax rate for correct withholding? Say your interest payments from the bank — does the bank consult the tax authority to determine the correct rate? Similarly, how does it work if you have two employers?

Second, in a graduated income tax system, this would result in decreasing take-home pay over the course of the year. Does that not cause some confusion/strife? Seems like plenty of people struggle to budget beyond paycheck-to-paycheck as it is (in the US).