skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've won, exactly once. It was the first time I got a knight into the quest (I can pretty regularly get barbarians and Valkyries near gehennom) and it turned into my first time to the wizard, my first invocation ritual, and ultimately my first ascention. I have since got the amulet once, but then had my brain eaten.
- intellij: As a developer and linux user I dont see the point of paying for an IDE rather than putting the effort in improving an open source one. Therefore, paying for an IDE/editor is fundamentally wrong for me.
Here's a solid debunking of that theory:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-m...

It's more likely that you are being targeted with "lookalike audience" advertising like this:

http://www.geofli.com/blog/target-your-users-strategically-w...
Thank you for your response. I do have some domain knowledge as it seemed to be a crude form of ECMO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxyg...) , but it made me dig deeper into the history of extracorporeal perfusion. I think you will enjoy the link below which has a lot of information about the video.

The scientist in the beginning of the film is the famous physiologist Haldane, which is why I originally believed the video. However your response led me to find out he was a Marxist! Now I was torn and had doubts.

Turns out that while the film was propaganda aimed toward Western Scientists, it was real and did work.

http://perfusiontheory.com/who-really-invented-the-heartlung...
RIP. He leaves ripples bouncing around and amongst countless peoples' minds, reverberating with the realization that there are no limits on what is possible.
MySQL for tabular data, CouchDB for documents.

Users control the backup routine. Our AWS packages make it seamless, however.
How does this compare with fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)?
I recommend that you go ahead and turn 40, especially if you've been 39 for the past year.

It's better than the alternative.
Larry's realized vision of community has inspired so much creativity that it's impossible to do justice to his impact on our world in a short comment.

Personally, I met my wife and many friends through his indirect action, and I've become much more creative and understanding of those around me in the process. There must be many more here with similar stories.
> the dissipation of angst

Could you explain what you mean? This seems important, but I don't understand the phrase at all.
You can read about him for free elsewhere.
I'm 46, father of 3,

Hard to give generic advice, everyone is different, but just the good ol basics of always making steps (often small ones, but sometimes big) towards the things you want from life, and always be ready to adapt to change, both good and bad.

Enjoy your kids, partner, and family.

40s don't really feel much different from any other age I've been. But good time to reconsider any unhealthy habits you have that you always delay doing something about. It's slowly getting more common that people I know of a similar age are getting things like cancer and other problems.

Tech is always full of opportunity, keep informed ( you are on HN, so you probably are ), keep learning, experiment. But always maintain strong fundamentals.
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If the alternative is to lie down and die, yes, it totally makes sense to grit it out.

If the alternative is to get a cushy job at Google... spending a lot more time failing to run a company is often a bad idea for all involved. I personally spent a decade of my career trying to run a business, and it turns out? I'm just not very good at running a business. Had I worked regular jobs during that time, while living on what I lived on? I'd have enough money to retire at this point.

You need to be mindful of your opportunity cost... sure, if you are management material, you can probably pull some of your experience running the failed company into your next job. If you are looking for an individual contributor job, though? Running a business that only did okay looks to future employers a lot like unemployment.
Couldn’t agree more. I have already made these exact 3 items my focus since last 2 years when I came across naval ravikant. (Credit where credit is due: he had distilled this pretty well I thought (if curious google his blog post “startup boy life formula”)

I find it’s quite hard to narrow the focus to activities that truly fall in these three buckets as anything could technically fit in one of these, generally speaking. I keep trying though and put myself back on the focus path when I find myself veering off.. any tips to stay focused are welcome.

On a side note I had reduced item 2 in your list to just “relationships”.
1. Evaluate what took you this far, and shed things that didn't directly benefit you or downright hindered you; whether relationships, eating habits, shell, editor, thought/behavior patterns or what have you.

2. Revisit yourself at ~18, but don't seek their approval. Find out what stunned them and do your best to describe it. If you're unhappy with the description, it's an opportunity to learn.

3. If you could sum up your Profession into a specialty that would take you into retirement, what does that look like? How does it feel?

4. "Don't sweat the petty things" is pretty solid advice at any age. Just another Cheerio under the sofa cushion of life.

5. What was old becomes new again. There are Generations of knowledge locked up in old papers, studies and magazines waiting for the "time to be right". That time is now.

6. Take some time to lay out a map to your passionate understanding of tech for your offspring to discover. Think "Treasure Map" not "Syllabus". (See point 5)
Pure handwave. Let's call an "exposure" a one-way trip plus half the hotel stay. So the author's laptop got (3+5) * 2 = 16 exposures.

Air passengers make about 3B trips per year. A laptop lasts about three years. I said "tens of millions", so if I'm right then we have at least 16 * 20M exposures on existing laptops. That would mean at least one passenger in 28 travels with a laptop and is as careless as the author was.

That seems high to me--like, it's not too common to check your laptop (unless you were flying from an Arab country last year...). On the other hand, that ignores opportunities before the laptop's first retail sale. Those seem more attractive to me--more time to work, less diverse hardware, etc.--and almost every laptop sold is exposed that way.

So my comment above was probably too flip. His experiment still seems pointless to me, though.
Non-mobile link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/apr/25/nintendo-inter...
Yeah, I find that a lot of the changes made for the sake of “streamlining” just made the game more boring.
I told people ten years ago that they were doing this sort of thing and got blown off. Now I've had some of the same people come to me and tell me to get off Facebook in patronizing tones that reminded me of my grade school teachers and irritated that I didn't warn them. I don't know if I've ever been so infuriated at someone face-to-face in my whole life.
I feel your pain...but a little less so, since I only spent my own money. My advice is simple: if you believe 100% in what you’re doing, keep doing it! If not, quit ASAP.
My two cents: building a business is hard and 9 months is not enough time... If you believe in the general concept and think it could succeed, then you need to leverage The experience you already have and continue trying until the funds run out or you reach the end of the runway.
>>I'm interpreting law as I was taught. And if you're going to question my ethics and morality over my interpretation of the law and sentence

The fact that you seem to get your ethics and morality from the law says a lot. I don't, I personally find large segments of the law to be highly immoral and unethical.

>Would his sentence have been more lenient had the value of discs estimated to be $100,000 instead of $700,000? Nope. Would his sentence have been more lenient had he not spent effort to infringe on copyright and attempt to make fakes that are harder to discern? Maybe.

Ok that may be a factual statement, that has nothing to do with the fact it should not have been a criminal matter in the first place, but a civil matter where only monetary damages would be punishment

I believe prison should be reserved for people that are a physical danger to other, not as punishment for harming a corporations profits

>He didn't even spend the minimal effort to inquire with Microsoft if they would help him in pushing more recycled computers with Windows

They would for $25 per computer, That is MS double dipping method for recyclers to force them to purchase a new license for a computer that was already licensed by the OEM at the time of manufacturer

>If that doesn't show criminal intent, I don't know what does.

Again you are talking about the law, I am talking about ethics, surely you to not believe all thing that are illegal are unethical and that all thing that are legal are ethical? If you do believe that I return to my original statement in that you have a completely screwed set of ethics and morality
If you're 40 you should switch from asking for advice, over to giving advice.
I don't know where you got the idea that we didn't have sales - we did.
You're right that there are distributional impacts, but I don't think your summary of the position of economists was very thorough.

If anyone wants to learn more about why economists almost universally, on both the right and the left, oppose barriers to trade, I'd recommend two things:

1) Learn how to calculate the deadweight loss due to trade barriers. There are a dozen good videos on YouTube explaining this. It's an elegant proof, but may take a few times through to really get:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhD--UeRiOI

The distributional effects are generally acknowledged in any class discussing this, often including seques into trade assistance programs and how those work. In general though, focusing on local job losses tends to skew our intuitions, which are naturally bad at realizing the sheer magnitude of potential benefits. One way to grasp that is (2)...

2) Read a few of the countless studies on the cost per job saved of protectionist measures. Usually we ask consumers to spend hundreds of thousands more, sometimes millions more, for each job earning $30-60k per year.

Here's a table listing some of them:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/01/24/sure-pro...

Textiles, tires, there are a bunch of great studies that transparently lay out their methodologies, written by people who have taken more than just a couple econ classes.

Again, completely agree that there are distributional impacts within a country (although it's important to note that, taken globally, trade generally reduces inequality, transferring capital to poorer countries). But of the distributional impacts within a country, if you just taxed the category of good half of the savings to consumers, you would generally be able to pay everyone in the affected industry a lifetime severance equal to their salary (often double it), and still raise the purchasing power of everyone in the country. That would make literally everyone better off while hurting no one, if we just had the stomach for it.
Thanks for that. However, those studies only show that a certain gene is more prevalent in alcoholics, not that people with that gene "do not have the same liberty with regard to alcohol as others do" nor that "their agency is impaired when confronted with decisions about alcohol".

Also, I still don't see any studies showing this for any of the other drugs that have actually been made illegal, which would be more to the point.
The people with families seemed settled with their lot (which isn't to say they were without regrets), while the ones without families were sort of still searching for something. To me it just underscored the importance of focusing on the family if you have one.
Would this provide additional benefits over Ceph, which does no-single-point-of-failure networked block storage and is already a production-ready system?

It wouldn't get you the locking you want (multiple attempts to boot the VM end in mutual exclusion at the block storage layer), I believe, but I think that's probably better done with an etcd or something if you want that.
I realize there are other ways to read about him. I've received the email, posts, messages. I don't like that there is a paywall for an obituary. For an article like "Top 10 most popular puppies" I understand the paywall, who doesn't want to look at puppies? But the death of a person that has affected so many people's lives, like mine, why is there a paywall?
I did know and it was exactly why I warned that customer that a uiwebview wouldn't work and that they needed a button. what I didn't know (because I was not privy to their conversations with their other app provider) was that that button could only open a uiwebview.
It's hard to imagine that legal drugs could cause more "aggressive and violent behavior" than the US government's War On Drugs, which has really been a war on its own population.

Millions of people thrown in jail for years or decades, millions of lives destroyed. It's hard to measure, but at least 100,000 dead Americans, plus countless people in Colombia and other countries where the war has been fought even more violently.
None of those are actually alleged in the complaint. Price gouging is only rarely a crime and in most definitions involves taking advantage of things like natural disasters. Charging what the market will bear isn’t the same thing at all. And more to the point, isn’t what this complaint is about.

Conspiring to fix prices is indefensible under any economic theory. If three companies who have 96% of the market agree not to compete with each other and inflate prices, that’s bad. Your grandmother and a sophisticated Econ PhD would agree.

“Charge the same as their competitors happen to charge” also isn’t price fixing. That would be parallel pricing and is entirely legal. Price fixing is as described above, conspiring together in restraint of trade. And it’s really hard to prove without a whistleblower or some very clear (repeated) pricing moves that are statistically highly improbable to have been the result of coincidence.

As for why the other 4% of the market doesn’t step up and grab the market share, some industries just don’t work like that. It costs $10 billion or more to build a chip fab and doesn’t happen overnight. It could be that the 4% player is at capacity and is selling out by slightly underpricing, but doesn’t have enough production to affect the market.

There are certainly rapacious attorneys out there. But Samsung here is a victim? Micron? If the charges are specious, they’ll sort it out in short order and the legal fees to do so won’t even cause them to break a sweat. I’ll save my pity for those who deserve it.
Google groups still follows the deprecated AJAX crawling scheme:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/re...

Edit: note that URL redirects back to the JS-only version if you have JS enabled
Yes, and they made me stand up when they told the story.
Connectionism didn't falter because people couldn't figure it out, it faltered because people figured out they needed 1000x more powerful computers, which took a few decades to build.
Without looking at the code, it looks like its using a steering algorithm[0] to move a series of 'boids'(each individual stroke) along the path you define. A boid is controlled by a number of forces, as in the physics sense. By varying starting conditions for each boid, you get the dispersion that is seen on all figures but straight lines.

If you take a look at the options(hamburger menu in the top left) you'll see a bunch of options. For example, 'maxForce' is the maximum magnitude of force that can be exerted on a boid for a period of time; this is noticeable if you draw two large 'C's, one with maxForce at min and one at max. I'd recommend cranking up 'boidSize' if you want to get a clearer idea of what's an individual boid is doing.

Steering behaviors are used in a lot in games. For example, A* will give you a great path that looks terribly robotic. Using a steering behavior, perhaps 'seek' towards each path node then 'arrive' at the end of the path, you get significantly more organic movement.

[0] https://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/gdc99/
>Could I teach it - and it understand - functional programming?

Probably yes you could. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians branched out of Africa around then. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/22/asia/indigenous-australia...
Not much different if users learn to always tap to generate the preview out of habit.
I'd be really interested to see this again but utilizing the surprisingly popular algorithm (Bayesian truth serum)
Perhaps interesting: Shannon's original information theory article is titled 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication', and when later released in book form was renamed 'The Mathematical Theory of Communication', due to the generality of information theory.
I am working in this area and would love to pick your brain. (My brother and I run a clinic in SC, which I've made the software for) We've made some cool stuff and are close to releasing it to the general public. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out.
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Quality journalism costs money.

Someone had to be paid to write the obit, someone was paid to edit it, someone was paid to put it online, the servers cost money, so does the power, so does the connectivity and other infrastructure to put it online - none of this is free - heck, 30 years ago, you would have needed to buy a paper to read it.

Do I like the rates the NYT charges? no, I'd be happy to pay 5 dollars a month so I can access the top 5 newspapers of record though.
Why would human transferable intelligence have anything to do with symbolics or language?
Computer languages are already far more effective at problem solving than human languages, hardly even thinks of that as AI.
Maybe. I'll look.
Meaning of terms is mutable and mootable :-)
He’s not blaming the inputs. He’s simply saying that some inputs can produce incorrect outputs. He’s not saying the incorrect outputs are the _fault_ of the inputs. He goes on to explain where the blame actually lies, in floating point precision.
Has anyone programmed an AI to win Nethack? It seems like an obvious thing to try.

There's a long history of using bots (they weren't really smart enough to be called AI, but they did "learn") to play games like this.

Long before Nethack there was Rogue. And then, 37 years ago, there was Rog-O-Matic. As Wiki describes it:

Rog-O-Matic is a bot developed in 1981 to play and win the computer game Rogue ...

Described as a "belligerent expert system", Rog-O-Matic performs well when tested against expert Rogue players, even winning the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic
fzf is a tool with a much larger feature set. fuzzy is just a humble library that you can add to your code.
I think that argument ignores that neural nets can learn the models that Pearl believes are important. And it's quite plausible that human reasoning works in similar way.

Pearl's career is all about causal networks, so he's slightly biased when it comes to survey like this.
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Not yet... the good news is that iPXE supports the SMSC USB NIC on the Pi. I don't know if iPXE will work out of the box, but I certainly intend on porting the iPXE NIC driver as a standalone (and GPL-licensed, of course) SNP implementation so you can use it with UEFI's own PXE implementation or anything else (like, shudder, it's shitty network tools...).

The biggest possible barrier to that today, which is still unknown, is the quality of the USB host controller. NICs use bulk, but there's no guarantee that the host controller driver is good enough. Time will tell, I suppose...
On agile vs. waterfall fitness for business and software dev
Thanks. I'm 35, and have encountered the exact same thing among the various social circles I'm in.
> Sellers of 'banned' substances -- drug dealers this segment should be the only one prosecuted and jailed

Banning substances is a large part of the problem.

In banning specific drugs all we've accomplished is to make the market that still exists dangerous to consumers, by making regulation impossible.

The recent uptick in Fentanyl overdoses is an example, those probably would not have happened if the Fentanyl were coming from a pharmacy in packaging designed for end use, made by a pharmaceutical company, rather than mystery powder from a blackmarket channel.

It happens in very predictable cycles: every so often suppliers flood the market with higher potency or incorrectly "cut" Fentanyl analogs, which can't be used safely, and people who otherwise would have survived instead overdose and die.

Opiates are still dangerous when used incorrectly (and sometimes even when used correctly), but those additional overdoses are largely caused by lack of regulation in the market, because of the ban.

We probably wouldn't even be talking about Fentanyl if it weren't for the ban on Heroin itself. Fentanyl is just easier to illegally manufacture since large poppy fields aren't required, and the potency is extremely high so smuggling large amounts is easier.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring engineers
One of the most important things I learned while being in a somewhat similar position as you a little while ago, is to stop concentrating on sales at this juncture, and concentrate on the product instead.

As a solo-cofounder, your focus will keep shifting from sales to engineering, and it's very very hard to do both. I recommend stopping all new sales, align your entire company on stabilizing the product, and your existing customers will become your sales team.

As others have said, it would be helpful to take a break with your team, craft a new product-focussed strategy, and make deadlines for delivery.

Lastly, remember that you've actually achieved a lot (getting paid pilots is hard as a startup). Even if you do quit (I recommend giving it some more time though), I think you have learned what NOT to do in your next venture. Good luck!
it’s because from internet you immediately and constantly get bombarded with millions and millions of news every single day about what happened in far away places
That phrase applies basically everywhere else except math. It's only possible to prove a negative in mathematics because it's a fully logical system.

On a side note Fermat's Last Theorem isn't a good counterexample because it hasn't been proven yet either.
Build another one. :)
Thanks for the link! It was interesting. I could never really figure out if it was real. Seems pretty advanced for the time. I definitely didn't know about ECMO.
At 9-23 years old, it's not a very "Modern" approach anymore.
Thoughtful of them to time the release with a full moon.
An advantage of the upload your mind scenario is you could live on in VR rather than cluttering the planet with old bodies.
Hank, I'm the one who's been handling OpenEMR's cloud deployment packages -- I've been working on a range of targets from a single-instance low-resource non-HIPAA (education or international) target (OpenEMR Express), to a HIPAA-eligible solution that meets encryption and auditing requirements (OpenEMR Standard), and at the lavish end, I built an enterprise-grade deployment (OpenEMR Full Stack) that leverages AWS Availability Zones to keep the whole application running even if Amazon loses a data center.

I'd love for you to take a look at what we've got going on -- the day might come when we're a good fit for somebody's clinic.
That is a natural death for a spider. Maybe you mean it's not a death from senescence?
No, sorry, it's not really my field. However, my impression is that the results in Nielsen and Chuang haven't been superceded or anything, it's just that there's just more built on top of them. In other words, I think you're fine reading that cover-to-cover and worrying about further reading afterwards.
Recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives