skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is advice. It means "You've had your shot, you failed, now let someone else have a go."

Some people make it sound like raising investment is as trivial as buying a burger from Macdonald's.

I haven't been to America yet but it sounds hard to believe.
That would put Windows users at an advantage ;) https://emojipedia.org/pistol/
Nearsightedness seldom means you can see all nearby stuff. For me, even a notebook kept on my desk is too "far". I don't think living in a dense forest would change anything. I don't think growing nearsightedness is because we are "evolving" to our surroundings.
If you read the spoilers and have patience, it's not that hard to win... eventually.

What's hard is winning with various voluntary conducts[1], like atheist, pacifist, foodless, etc.

[1] - https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Conduct
That's a pretty common expression and probably doesn't indicate anything additional about OP's mindset. https://www.forbes.com/sites/richwinley/2015/08/21/friends-f...
Why the US Military Shouldn’t Give Amazon 10B Dollars
Why would you take $220K from friends and family without being profitable? It's one thing to want to scale your business, it's another to just try an idea that you're not even sure makes money.
I assume you’re referring to Intuit’s lobbying against proposals for automatic tax filing.

Keep in mind that this would generally only apply to people who are taking the standard deductions. The IRS may be able to pre-fill your returns with W-2 or investment related 1099 information. But if you’re a freelancer, or own rental properties, or donated to charity, or have a child in college etc., you’re going to want to itemize your deductions for maximum benefit.

There is no conceivable way for the IRS to pre-populate the relevant information for all of these cases. For example, many major charities still give donors hand signed receipts for donations of physical items. Rental properties can have multiple owners, and the IRS may not be able to discern if they are spouses etc.

If you actually have a simple tax situation, there are plenty of free filing options: https://freefilealliance.org/.

TurboTax isn’t cheap, but if you have a complex tax situation, the fact that their software takes you through every possible deduction can lead to real savings. YMMV, but this has been the case for me.
> What the hell do you think enabled us to finally get rid of the shackles around those disaffected groups in the first place?

Other countries have banned slavery, and have enfranchised women, the poor, and people of colour many years before the United States did.

Those countries were not founded on any such principles, nor have they ever claimed that they were. How could they possibly achieve such progressive feats of emancipation?

It's possible to imagine that perhaps, the founding principles weren't of much help in this endeavor. In fact, there's a strong case to be made that none of these achievements had anything to do with the constitution, or the bill of rights, or anything else that the founding fathers wrote about, but did not actually implement - and everything to do with the zeitgeist of the times.
I don't understand how I'm the cruel one. This person contributed to wasting 100K... How many lives could have been saved for that money if it had been donated to charity (for example)? I merely wrote a few lines of text on some website.
That is one of those "most villified drugs" from drug education in the mid-80's through the early 90's. Now, I haven't met very many people that have done PCP (as opposed to things like LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, for example)... but they've never described it like you do. It isn't hard to imagine that since the drug education deceptively describes LSD, MDMA, and cocaine, that they'd be deceptive on this one. I've always guessed these sorts of stories were outliers: They might have happened once, and it is good to know there is some slim chance of weird reactions, but definitely wouldn't be a common thing.
https://github.com/IntelVCL/Open3D/issues/321
You can get 37.5 ounces of Four Loko for $3 (1.5 cans), at 12% ABV you're getting 4.5 ounces of ethanol which is equivalent to 9 1.5 oz 80 proof shots. This will absolutely destroy you compared to a half gram preroll joint filled with shake.
While the Burning Man experience had been one of the unforgettable for me, I'd spent at least a day there forced to think about economics of it all. The ticket to BM cost big money for most people ($450 + $80 vehicle pass). For example, right now the tickets are priced at $1200 per person at the official website. This is a significant revenues for the organizers with 50,000 attendees. I couldn't wonder but thinking why cost is so high? There is virtually no services provided by the organizers except for portable potties (which BTW stinks all over and is perhaps the biggest factor in ruining the whole experience). Almost all of the labor and even lot of material is provided by largely unpaid volunteers. I understand there is grants made to many artists, but still I'm not sure if some organizers have probably created this whole scheme to make a living out of this. There is not much of an explanation on why tickets are so pricey while number of attendees have kept increasing every year while the costs should have almost remained more or less same because of lack of services.

I was also surprised that while folks are encouraged to give and take gifts and keep the whole thing free of cash, there is indeed commercial establishment to serve coffee. Why can't it be made free? A cup of coffee costs less than $1 to make (especially when you have volunteer labor). Even if a person drinks 5 cups a day, 5 times a week - it's still $25. For a ticket that costs $400+ isn't that doable that would allow to make the event truly cashless and keep the spirit of the event?
You're saying your fff investors are giving mixed signals and you're not sure what to make of them.

We're not your fff investors so we can't unmix those signals for you; our guesses are worse than yours.

So just do what you'll always have to do when you need to get alignment/resolve conflicting signals: get everyone into a room and don't let the meeting end until everyone agrees on the right way forward.
Neither Sun, nor Oracle ever had any issue with Java vendors that play by the rules and there are plenty of them.
You plan to live longer than anyone has before? Can I ask why you think that's attainable?
Other people with useful projects probably didn't have access to the people OP used. You are implying that OP manipulated people to give him money while knowing that he had a bad idea, if this were true why would he want to give money back and why post here? If he were a conman he wouldn't ask for advice on how to proceed.

Even if you had a great idea there's countless ways to lose 100k. If you don't hire the right people you just lost money; if you're a toxic manager or just don't know how to assign tasks to people the whole startup will burn for it.

If you hire 3 people with a 5k per month salary you burn 45k in 3 months, idk where you're from but 100k isn't a lot of money for a startup in the US.
I believe most of the money goes to the Bureau of Land Management, and all the equipment they have to rent for set up, security, and clean up (most at the behest of said Bureau).
The best COUB-mix №4 – CubeMIX channel
Have you tried https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Vulture ?
lol! Fake account
My theory is he is butthurt because he charges people for repairs, and Apple does such a good job (sometimes charging little or not charging anything) that it takes away business for him.

Yes some people get given huge quotes for repairs from Apple but the details matter. If you hear a horror story, ask whether there was AppleCare, ask whether the item was purchased from Apple either online at apple.com or at an Apple store, and ask whether there was accidental damage.

Little known thing I was told by a tech at an Apple store, that I doubt Rossmann would tell you: most Apple repairs have a per-model price cap for parts costs for repairs when repaired by Apple. Like around $400 max for a MBP, no matter how much hardware is being repaired at one time. This would not include repairs due to negligence, obviously (water, dropping, run over by a car, etc.) So third party shops can't compete... I guess Rossmann can't touch this kind of low price himself, as he would have to pay the full repair tech price for genuine Apple parts if he wants to use them, and this probably pisses him off no end. Labor charges do not have a cap, but Apple repair works quickly so these charges are low. And Apple treats you even better if you have AppleCare.

But, to get the best care from Apple, there are a few practices to follow:

1) Always buy direct from an Apple store -- this gives the techs there more leeway in their systems with what they can do for you, presumably because they have a full lifetime record of where exactly the hardware came from and what parts exactly it was made with (e.g. LG versus Samsung display, etc.), unlike when you buy from, say, Best Buy.

2) Avoid third party repairs, as afterward your device is basically tainted as far as Apple is concerned, and rightly so, because who knows WTF was done to it.

3) Buy AppleCare. You won't always use it, but the times you do, it often more than pays for itself and all the other AppleCare SKUs you paid for.

4) Get repairs done early. Apple stops repairing things after 5 years (even if you're willing to pay) in some states, and after 7 years in other states. Not sure if this difference is because of legal requirements, or proximity to Apple repair depots. In California, which has a repair depot, the limit is 7 years.

No company is perfect. You can look back into the past and find a long line of products that needed improvement. You can even look at current products and see that there are things that need improvement. That's just how things work.
I've been playing for almost 30 years, and I think I've ascended about 40-50 times total. My latest 3.6 install, I've ascended 11 times so far, as Wizard, Monk, Knight, Archeologist, and Samurai. Pretty sure I ascended in the high 20s on previous install w/ 3.4, and I know I have ascended at least once with every character in 3.4 (Tourist was easier than I thought it would be). Can't remember my install before that.

I concur with others. Elbereth was useless w/o a wand of fire in 3.6.0. Taught me to learn new survival habits, like staying much closer to my pet and making sure I can always go from burdened to unburdened by dropping only a sack.

Ascending is mostly luck and discipline, and the discipline comes from practice and focus. I find playing nethack calming, and it's a good way to measure how well I'm able to stay in the moment. If I die stupid, it's usually because I'm not all there.

If I'm doing something new, and I am uncertain about what my odds are, I'll read the source code.

I've only modified the source in 3.6.0 to create a general random number generator using a more robust (and more consistent) algorithm than is likely used in most libc variants. My interest there was mainly in perfect cross-platform state reproducability given the same key sequence.
Honestly, I will never buy another Apple product again.

I hope my iPhone lasts for many years, because I don't like Android... :(
And having sold the "owners" of their products on the idea that owning Apple makes them "special".
There are two aspects: technical and legal.

Technical: companies got the data in a way that system was designed. No abuse there.

Legal: companies didn't adhere to TOS and used data in a way that were not supposed to. This is why is it called abuse.
It's a complex case.

L.R. is probably especially disappointed by the luxury price. But apart from that, I'm sure all other manufacturers are as bad as Apple to deal with failures. Actually, I'd bet a dollar that most of them don't give a crap.. (the nvidia gpu problem affected everybody, and they all refused to repair most machines). Their machine are either covered a bit, and a replaced quickly or people just fall off warranty and will by another packardbell~ machine on deal at the mall.

We'd have to see how the pro lines are handled (I never had a pro hp and dell machine so I cant say, but it's possible they're quicker to repair it.[1]

On the other hand, Apple has the magic touch... and it's not all fluff, it's only partly fluff, and still above the magic threshold, that's why people still root for them.

The vertical integration is felt when you use it, it's so much leaner than most windows machines. They give you a little piece of tech art, and not some plastic gizmo. They catter to a lot of details other manufacturers don't. Kinda like mercedes vs tesla. Lots of people complained about bits of comfort that are surely not important, but this is the extra mile that people are paying for.

I knew a guy who was anti apple (walled garden, proprietary etc), he touched an ipad and grunted, asked him why he was angry, "it's so much better than everything else" he said sadly. I was playing with motorola flagship android 3 tablet that was released quite some time after the ipad IIRC, yet everything lagged even for basic camera usage.. Users notice that quickly.

[1] also, having dismantled a few printers, I've seen how pro lines have way more thoughtful design. It's paradoxically a much cheaper product to make, because it needs fewer parts and are so easy to fix.
People with ADHD, how do you build lasting habits?
While I've always been able to succeed at the things that interest me or naturally motivate me, I've begun to realize that starting new habits –while difficult for nearly everyone– is extremely difficult for me. ADHD seems to make it much harder to obtain the behavioral building blocks of new habits (repetitive behaviors, scheduling, rigor). I know that discipline means doing things I don't feel like doing, and I genuinely want to be disciplined, but it feels like I am climbing with Teflon gloves. Medication does help me stay focused on momentary tasks that I already have some motivation to accomplish (on the scale of hours) but does little to help me build that motivation. (Also, I can't be medicated daily in my career.) What could help?
As far as I can tell, HyperTools are a bunch of convenience functions for doing something along the lines of the following dummy R code

df %>% dim_reduction_function() %>%
ggplot() + geom_*()

So in a sense, I think you should be looking for a dimensionality reduction library, rather than a plotting library.
I've mixed feelings. At first I lost some respect for him when he said he cheated but then I realized he conceded that he cheated and that is also respectful.
I think if would be a bit of fun to see a revival of cartridges. Though just jam a 250bg ssd in it and bang! big games and no restrictions.

-edit, on second thought, i don't really want to be paying > $150 bucks for the game and the storage medium.
Yes, I believe the in vogue "radical candour" is roughly the same thing.

It's great if everyone understands and commits to it. You must be able to make your case (and possibly acquiesce) without suffering political damage.

Of course if you keep backing the wrong horse ....
Should You Go Back to School for Data Science?
Or, you know, maybe we could just emit less CO2 to start with.

To be clear, I'm all for research about carbon sequestration, but it should not be an excuse to keep polluting irresponsibly. On the long term, we simply can't get away with compensating all our big negative impacts with big positive ones - how about introducing some moderation in our lifestyles instead?
It isn't a problem if one doesn't commit crimes nor greatly harms another (Sure, someone can fall over and accidentally harm someone else, but that is hardly a crime). The main crime most drug users commit is... buying and using drugs. If someone commits some crime while on drugs... prosecute them for the crime.
Looks like Burning Man pays about $2M to BLM for the event out of their revenues of $12M. So it's like 20% of revenue, not "most" of the revenue. Also, much of the cleaning, setup etc is done by volunteers if I understand correctly.

In 2016, BRC paid BLM $2,199,959 to cover the costs of staffing the weeklong arts and lifestyle festival, which also has a set-up, breakdown, and cleanup schedule lasting more than two months. When all stages of the 2016 event were complete, including post-event inspection, the BLM had spent $2,166,127.41 on the event, leaving BRC with a refund of $33,831.59.

https://www.blm.gov/press-release/final-cost-recovery-2016-b...
I'm a consequentialist so the intention doesn't change anything for me.

All I'm saying is that this is really bad and OP should accept that they will have to suffer through the consequences.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-ncaa-carroll-201...

And a more opinionated take here:
https://www.bruinsnation.com/2010/7/14/1568922/pete-carroll-...

This is not to mention the various times Carroll’s Seahawks have forfeited draft picks for violating off season practice rules.
That's a bit misleading. Spiders may grow more than one ring during a good year and less than one during a bad year. But overall, it should average out.
Did you disagree on some vague feeling or some past history (one bitten twice shy) or have some substantive points?
And Marx merely philosophised on the merits of communism, an idea which resulted in the death of hundreds of millions of people.

Money wasn't exactly lost, it wasn't dumped in a garbaged bin and literally set on fire, people were compensated for their work, that money was used to buy goods and services so the money was merely recicled back into the general economy, the investors more than likely can tolerate the risk they took and can take the hit while others won ( the people hired by OP )

Do you dedicate your life to being ultra efficient to make huge sums of money in order to save those countless lives that OP failed to save? If not then you're a hypocrite. How many lives are being lost by us wasting time commenting in this thread? 1 hour of wasted time by us could've been worth atleast 50$ which could've spared someone more than a week of suffering from starving, are you willing to take responsability for that?
I hope you find the right answer.

Selfishly I want a start up to develop cheaper goods for offices, like desk lamps... why are those so expensive?
If you use it often AND you think OP used it sincerely, I think you may be unintentionally offending tons of people on HN without realizing.

If you want to express sincere compliment, there are many many words that are way better. "cute" is both literally and figuratively offensive. Which adult would like to be called "cute" (unless it's two sexually attracted people talking about each other) even if it was in a positive manner?
One of the main reasons for python is that a huge part of the ecosystem depends on C extensions written against the reference python implementation C Api. Getting this to work with good performance with a JIT is very difficult. Pypy is just now getting to the point where most C extensions work with reasonable performance. Therefore for many python users there hasn't been much advantage from a JIT.
Ruby on WebAssembly
So yeah, the best way to preserve the environment is to blow up mountains. What could go wrong?
> 1. It's been medically shown that some drugs cause aggressive and violent behavior. Why should we allow an increase in that kind of behavior if it could be largely prevented as it is now?

The #1 drug responsible for violent behavior is alcohol. It's legal. In fact, the answers to your other two questions can also be explained away with "alcohol already applies here and it's legal".

Assuming you have equal access to both, it's far easier to be a functioning opiate addict than it is to be a functioning alcoholic. I have been both an alcoholic and an opiate addict, fortunately I am not a current user of any drugs.
let's all go back to nokia 3310 2018 :)
so it seems, looking at their gallery, and I'd rather just write the lines calling pca, or whatever.
I was drawn to roguelikes because of their preference complexity and systemic approach compared to rest of industry's obsession with GFX. On the other hand, I'm turned off by the fantasy setting, narrow corridors and spoiler-based gameplay. I respect them and their legacy, but Nethack and DCSS don't work for me.

For anyone else that feels the same, Cataclysm DDA is a great choice. It features open dynamic world with no hard-coded goals, lots of survival mechanics, vehicle and base building, different ways to advance (skills, equipment, mutations, implants) and countless ways to approach any situation.

The game can also be very atmospheric - my @ once got sick so I parked my RV out of danger's way, spent the day reading books, listening to rain hitting the rooftop and planing my next move. It's an experience unlike any other game.
Jim Keller joins Intel
> they had this theory of gradual convergence between a west dominated by big corporations and the Soviet Union

That sounds like only something a resentful Westener could say, in feeling entitled to a society exactly as they wish it, dismiss the one they have as "practically similar to tyranny".

I think its fair to measure tyrannical states in units of genocide of their own citizens. By this measure, the western democratic capitalism stands at 0% tyranny.
Yep, I only ever tried for 15-runes
No, but for the right people in the right place at the right time raising seed capital is about as difficult as applying for a job. It’s just that you have to invent and pitch the job.

In that context you could think of the post as “I got this job by saying I was going to help the company do X. Six months in I’m pretty sure that’s not going to work. I think I should just quit, but some of my coworkers think I should keep trying, or consider doing X’, since there are a lot of things at the company which could be better. What should I do?”
The author seems to think the world would be a happy place if parents did not object to bureaucrats killing their children to prove that the state apparatus has absolute dominion over subjects of the Queen.

Oh England! It is sad to see how far you have fallen.
I remember reading this article waiting for my haircut this morning.

Here was my biggest takeaway:

> More realistically, he said, Oman could store at least a billion tons of CO2 annually. (Current yearly worldwide emissions are close to 40 billion tons.)

So we're looking at 2.5% sequestration of what we're currently adding, from the largest deposits in the world. Best case, realistically.

The whole thing sounds like a total non-starter.
I don't understand why people care. Either you like the painting or not. Why does it matter who painted it?

I can understand why someone who bought it because it was made by someone famous would be angry. But a museum? The article quotes somebody:

"It’s a catastrophe. I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s intolerable and I hope we find those responsible."

People came to museum to see art, and they saw art. What this guy wants is people visiting museum not because there is art in it, but because it was made by famous person. Is that really the reason why have the museum?
I missed that entirely. 3rd Ed destroyed my interest in upgrading; I'd been playing since 1st Edition, too.
OpenEMR 5.0.1 is truly a game changing release for OpenEMR users. The features like Image viewer, Docker integration are really cool and handy. Also looking forward for more exciting features like cTAKES integration.
If my comments can help to disincentivize just one future failed wannabe entrepreneur from raising money for their useless project then it was all worth it.
Large part of the article explains why full disk encryption is not a sufficient protection against an attacker with physical access.