skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is this question on life - to be or to wanna be.
it's time to stop any of the wanna be, and enjoy who you are.

mental fit may be harder to keep than physical. YMMV. simplify your life, throw away anything that's not real (tv,news,fb,whatever-your-everyday-itch-for-no-reason is).

As of health, the saying goes "if something hurts when u're 30 and nothing hurts when u're 40, then stuff is real baaaad."

and, have fun.
A well built and maintained wooden house should last over 300 years.
There are such even in North America.

It requires massive timber though. And to get that on a larger scale, you need good long term forest management policies. Plan for something else than paper or chipboard or glulam.

So, not a technical problem, but a political one.
I have never heard a single good case of Apple services in Japan or HK.

Most of those amazing services story are from US, few from EU.
Bullshit. For most startups, the recipe will look something like:

Write a set of scripts to pull user-related lines out of your database(s), write another script to sanitize the output, write another script to delete the lines from script #1 and act as the big red delete button.

This is giving large corporations more power? Seriously?
Donating it to charity wasn’t on offer. It’s not like OP stole the money.

Heck, I raised some of my seed capital from a venture fund that is mostly backed by an international charity, and apparently that charity thinks that a little bit of venture capitalism is a good use of their money. I actually get an annual letter from their LPs about the charitable work we are supporting, and share it with my employees.

Not everything people try works out, and the world appears to overall be a better place for the trying.
I think the problem is that you associate discipline with punishment when in actuality you are rewarding your future self. You need to start thinking of the person you will be in one day, and in one week, but nothing further ahead. For people with ADHD, they grow bored when results are not achieved at the desired time. Instead, you must eliminate the expectation of finishing and learn to enjoy the process of improving yourself.
In other news : You can't prove a negative.
Doesn't each major device come with a serial number, and from that they can determine which parts were used with it?

Some of this stuff is pretty bad. They could of fixed some issues with a few more pennies into putting in better capacitors, but they don't do it for future manufacturing runs? A lot of the issues seem to have a theme of power management issues for the most part.
I think the word "arbitrary" isn't quite right.

> Your clothes, your food, your house, your job, everything is the result of path-dependent evolution that didn't have to end up how it did.

For example, we have a lot of wheat in our diet because wheat was convenient to grow in certain climates, and the countries that grew it ended up colonizing half the world (I'm not a food historian, but for argument's sake this is probably correct enough).

So there is a reason why we eat a lot of wheat; there is a reason why our clothes are cut the way they are; there is a reason why our cities look the way they do. Whether we know it or not, there is a good reason for almost everything. It may be the result of path-dependent evolution, but it isn't arbitrary.

I think Burning Man errs far too much on the side of "everything about society is made up, and you can make it different". There are lots of rules about how the tapestry is woven that aren't made up. If you want to change the world you have to be aware that many (most?) things happen for a good reason. It's not just all imaginary.
You've never grown weed, have you? It's called weed for a reason.
Alphabet: Founders' Letter
If you have access to an oracle that protects you from making these kind of mistakes, I encourage you to start a venture fund. Or start an international charity. Or ask your oracle what the best thing to do is and then do that. The answer is probably not harshing on people asking for advice.
Along the lines of build something you need, think about your life and the way in which it could be better. Do some research on your ideas, if a product exists then you’ve found a way to improve your life. If it doesn’t exist, you have an idea. Either way, you win.
I am sorry for you that you have this kind of voice in your head, so strong that it actually speaks with your mouth. It's an angry, judgemental voice that demands success and holds contempt for failure. How could you possibly attain any level of success in any endeavor with such a voice running, commenting, hurting you? I (we) are only subject to it in this thread, but you subject yourself to it every day.

Try something new. Try having as much compassion for those that try and fail as you apparently do admiration for those that try and succeed. The difference between these two groups is far less than you think. Your current voice antagonizes both groups, that relatively tiny group, the ones that tried at all.
What happened, Gmail?
If we want to avert a bad scenario, we need to both drastically reduce CO2 emissions and find a way to sequester the CO2 currently in the air (either through technological means, or through something like making big tracts of land into forests). Just sequestering is unlikely to be enough, unless it is extremely efficient.
> 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.

That’s all anyone is asking for. This is exactly how taxes work in most of the modern world: you’re sent a prefilled form which is already completely filled for the majority of people, and you only need to confirm if it’s correct or edit if not.

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

Which is headed by Intuit and designed in a way to purposely make the options as difficult to understand and use as possible so that people buy Intuit products. Google to read any number of articles which go into this in detail.
Indeed!

However, we do not know how long biochar lasts when used as a soil amendment [eg. 1]. Also, it's only useful in this way when loaded and applied to poor soil in the tropics [2].

For long term storage of CO2, it might be better to just bury the main products of pyrolysis (biochar and pyrolysis oil) where hard coal and the oil once used to be - deep in the earth. Burying both products should also make it cheaper (from a carbon mitigation point of view), since it's hard to make useful products from the pyrolysis oil. The biochar also doesn't need to be as clean as when used for soil. One can even pyrolyse old tires (and possibly plastic).

The problem is, of course, that there are no long-term studies about the stability of biochar (and the bio-oil) in deep layers.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcbb.12266
[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa67bd/m...
TOS aren't necessarily enforceable legally[0], setting aside jurisdictional issues. If you have an account, sure facebook may use such to disable/delete it, but there are many ways to get data from facebook without having an account.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/terms-of-abuse
The point is to joke about random MBAs that leads companies they know almost nothing about.
Given the context, “cute story” is 100% patronizing / belittling. You need to employ some serious mental gymnastics to believe it’s being used in any other sense.
For the average person (i.e. threat model is criminals not states) I think this would be less secure due to the difficulty of patching
Those would be the literal meanings of the words, yes.

In practice, the fundamental difference is probably more about a person's radius of empathy (progressives tend to apply their empathy to a larger group of people), and then lots of vaguely related things flow from that, e.g. different outlooks on power (conservatives prefer a strong man - obviously only assuming he's from their own "tribe" - and therefore strongly tend towards authoritarianism) and economics (empathy with more people tends to make one prefer more equal distributions of wealth and income).

The terms progressive and conservative simply arose at a time when the world was largely shaped the way conservatives like. Since then, the world has changed more towards the progressive vision, so today conservatives do want to change creating things.
It's also written in an obsolete, obscure programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS .
no, that is not his point; do you have a learning disability? his point is that people need to stop jerking off to the dumb shit bezos, musk, etc think is a good idea. maybe it is, maybe it isn't. but let's discuss it like adults rather than worship it like the mindless fucking idiots that still believe in jesus.
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Researchers discovered the control console of a ski lift in Austria open online
music from the middleages is a pretty hardcore way to start.

I grew up on tallis, byrd et al, with a huge amount of baroque (Purcel), but it wouldn't be my place to start.

Bach, Beethoven, holst, bernstein, Vaughan Williams are much better places to start
Hopefully accurate? It's not supposed to be accurate! It's fuzzy search!
no need to speculate, the financials are publicly reported: https://annualreport2016.burningman.org/financial-report/

edit: here is a breakdown of expenses from 2016: https://burningman.org/expenses/expenses-2016/
Seat belts aren't there to protect you from yourself: They are there to make a possibly deadly activity less deadly. And in some drug classes (like heroin), this is what legalisation does.

We already have experience with heroin and other opiods because of the medical uses. With legalisation, we can make sure the strength is correct. We can get rid of some impurities. We can make meth in a proper science lab instead of blowing up a neighborhood house. We can be sure of clean needles, clean products, and things like that.

If someone starts to come into clinics often, we can suggest treatment early on. We can educate people on signs of addiction and a slew of other things.

It won't stop a subset of problems, just makes them a little better.
There are ideas I "disagree with", for example whether superhero movies are good. And then there is "disagreement" euphemism for "being actively harmful" and for "being unethical" and so one. Because people don't want to talk too badly, or sound impolite, so they hide behind euphemism.

I can say that we disagree about scrum and we disagree about slavery, and the word "disagreement" does not work the same in both cases.

There is also difference between listening to Fischer on chess and listening to someone like him on how things should be managed or organized. In the latter case his morality and opinions we "disagree with" matter much more.

> most accomplished men and women are also among its most flawed.

That is because their flaws were their competitive advantage. They did became presidents and powerful, because they were willing to be unethical and cruel. Those who were not willing to act in immoral way were less likely to rise to power and success.

That is why it makes sense to point it out. Because otherwise your morality boils down to "but it makes you rich/powerful/successful then it is ok". And meanwhile you ignore opinions of competitors who were not willing to go there. Because apparently opinions of people who are less willing to do anything to get their way matter less.
You can and should show meaningful numbers while searching. And you should probably do some of your 24 months and numbers before you quit your day job and ask for money.

“We talked to 15 friendly CIOs at mid sized banks, and they all said that pen theft was a top three problem for them in 2018, they plan to budget up to $30k to solve it in 2019. We are pretty sure we can build RFID pen tracking systems for under $100 per pen, but we haven’t figured out how to price it for our market. I do know two bank branch managers who are willing to run beta tests.”

I mean, that’s still a dumb idea, but you can get started putting numbers around something without running down the whole 24 month clock. And usually most of the risk is in the product market fit, not in your tech team’s ability to create pen trackers.

Edit to add: now, if you integrate blockchain into your pen trackers, and have an ICO for pencoin, then this is totally fundable. Mid sized retail banks are definitely looking for a way to spend money on blockchain.
Telling people they shouldn't do obvious bad thing is pointless because those with good ethics wouldn't have done it regardless and the others won't care about your comments.

Your consequentialist view is valid but you can not demonstrate without a shadow of a doubt that it's the best and most useful perspective. If you think your way of thinking is so much more superior then start your own startup, be successful, donate to charity and then write a blog post proving us all wrong.

The reason I'm investing time into this discussion is because I believe your way of thinking is toxic and very dangerous because you actually believe you're more virtuous for the beliefs that you hold. The most atrocious events in history have been done in the name of good, please remember that or you risk increasing mind share in toxic and evil ideologies.
Not a Linux wizard but as a long time user, I remembered this 2012 news from Canonical: http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and...

Perhaps the author meant there was no 'universal' Linux implementation, however it's been available for a while in certain distros.
'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip
OpenMRS-based systems are widely used in the developing world in hospitals, not sure what the barriers are to first-world adoption.
My Linux laptop is fully encrypted and I’ve signed and enrolled my own secure boot keys. Just following best practices and now wondering where this leaves me vulnerable. I think it should prevent tampering with the bootloader but not sure about hdd/net Firmware etc.
does genocide perpetrated in colonial possessions count?
The biggest advantages of using ROM chips were their speed and ease of access. You could just address any data in the ROM space, without caching or transferring anything to RAM, essentially expanding the avaliable memory. Today you are forced to keep the memory hierarchy because the different memory types have different speeds/latencies, so using cartridges would make little sense in any modern system.
Will Elon Musk Be the Next CEO to Face a Margin Call Death-Spiral?
Don’t stress as much about investor capital as about your own time. Investors probably like what you are doing and they probably have (more or less) plenty of capital or they wouldn’t have given to you. They mostly won’t want their money back pro-rated if there is an option for your team to keep trying hard.

You have finite time on this earth. If this startup is no longer the right thing to be spending your time on, if you don’t think this or anything like it will work, then it is reasonable to quit and do something else. But I would second other people’s suggestion that you take a week or two to recover from what seems like burnout and seriously consider what the right next thing to do is and whether this corporate vehicle and these investors are part of the answer.
No it's not. The modern increase in the average height is caused by the accessibility of protein.
I can't see individual pixels on my 1080p screen 18" away although 4k screens certainly look sharper. Also the term retina has been used on ranges of dpi even on the same category of device.

Because retina is a brand meaning nicer display anything else is purely marketing kool aid having nothing to do with reality.
If they didn't solder the SSD you could buy their smallest one and then drop in a huge SSD at 1/4 the price apple would charge for the upgraded storage. Apple systems are very expensive for the base model but where they REALLY tax you is anything with upgraded specs.
Looking at the downvotes and wonder -
For how many of those down-voters their grandparents came from Africa like mine...
> don't actually teach anything, just demand stuff!

That is not all that bad pedagogy assuming you have reasonable demands that escalate over time. It is to extreme if you never explain anything, but if your teaching style consist primary of forcing students to learn by themselves and explaining only minimum necessary, then I strongly approve.

Giving students everything directly is more incompetent, because it imo results in weaker learning. The goal is not to show how hard-working teacher is, the goal is to produce as many as much capable as possible graduates.
It's impossible for all projects to succeed, and it's also impossible to know which ones will succeed from the 1000 pitched every week. The winning solution from Capitalism is "let's fund them all", and after a year or two you'll have: 1 wild success, 99 good to barely-profitable companies, and 900 failures.

And no, you can't tell beforehand which one will be the wild
success.
I mean honestly, when it is not against the rules it is just good meta-gaming. At least when playing on this level. And the game was still very interesting!
Malta Continues to Attract the Big Guns of Crypto
You might also want to look at Pony. https://www.ponylang.org
This spider appears to have 10 legs.
For longest time BRC never released salaries of their ranking staff despite of pressure. In their yearly breakdown it can be clearly be seen that "payroll" and "management" is the overwhelmingly biggest component. It should also be noted that revenues have continued to increase massively year or year while cost of the services listed have remained more or less minor bleep on the balance sheet. For an organization with $35M in revenue in just a week and that everyone expects to be open and transparent, there is not much to be said.
That is not the point.
I saw some people get bitten by it myself. Actually, all the leadership principles break down completely in day to day life at the company. They're broad enough that you can basically use them to justify anything you want, and the company is structured with the same military style pyramid as every other big company, so it's not like there's any recourse available to you if you see people above you engaging in counterproductive shenanigans.

But whatever, the stock shares I kept when I left keep going up, so I'm all right
I started with Logo at age 8. Mum taught me the basics and then gave me a book to read. Self taught from then on and haven't looked back.
Vim dropped MS-DOS support in 2016:

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/48e330aff911be1c798c88a973...
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What is the full range of values? I find it easiest to think in terms of an angle of one of the corners, so 0-90 in degrees. Note that the graph only covers half of that range, somewhat arbitrarily.

The important realisation that the ratio of cutting corners that is maximised at 45° is not shown by the graph, which is a shame.

You don't have to use trig to show that, but I think it helps.

Edit: as a side point, as I was thinking about this, I realised that you've discovered the maximum relative error of an L1 norm vs an L2 norm, which is fun
That is possible, and there just was an article in a major paper reporting that the numbers of people using that option has increased substantially (German article): http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/deutschland-60-000-...

60,000 students without "Abitur", the traditional path, if you have job experience of "several years" (don't know what that means) you can still study.
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The reference you provide says 556 years. It is actually lasts far longer the deeper you put the biochar in the soil since we do know that breakdown requires oxygen and/or UV light. In some soils the average age of the carbon is 5000 years.

The best way to implement this is by slash-and-char of the tropical forests. I have done the calculations and using less than 30% of te tropical forests we can pull out all the CO2 being addded from human activity. It would also create a viable industry in some of the most poor regions in the world.
The original flavor of “chargebacks” is the “defective” or “return” allowance charged to vendors of retail chains.

It still boggles my mind that in most major US retail chains, if you return a high value item, e.g. a TV or appliance, you can get a refund without the store clerk checking the merchandise.

It’s an unfortunate reality that in the US, consumers have been conditioned to expect lengthy return periods, and then still game the return system with various tricks. Need a tent for a camping trip? Great, use it for camping season, and return it within the 60 day return window for a full refund, no questions asked!

In my personal experience, when my company receives shipping containers with returned “defective” products, anywhere from 25-50% of the returns are working just fine.

In contrast, in Canada, Mexico, or many European countries, return periods rarely extend beyond 30 days.

With online sales, the same issues seem to have cropped up in a different form. Amazon can’t be bothered to actually verify whether returned merchandise is actually defective, or if the returned box actually has an item in it. If you ask to see the merchandise that triggered a chargeback, be prepared to shell out for freight, and wait weeks for your shipment to arrive. When it does arrive, and you find out that the merchandise is perfectly functional, or the customer kept the merchandise and sent back an empty box, good luck trying to find an Amazon rep who can adjust your account balance in a timely manner.

The return system on Amazon for consumers seems designed to encourage bad behavior. If you’re returning an item, and select your reason for return as “I didn’t like it”, you’ll be charged the cost of return shipping. If you claim that the listing was “inaccurate” or that there was a vague “quality problem”, Amazon will immediately let you download a prepaid shipping label. Better yet, you can test the different options for yourself, since Amazon doesn’t prevent users who selected one reason and have seen the return shipping cost from selecting another that has no return shipping cost.

All this is to say, I deeply empathize with the original comment and the child comment. If you’re selling low-volume, high-value goods, a bad string of chargebacks can easily threaten your business. If I’m selling 100 $50 dollar items a month on Amazon, and I suddenly get 3 chargebacks, that money is immediately deducted from my balance. To contest the chargebacks, you’ll have to go through the whole rigmarole I described before. Stripe’s underwriters are doing what makes financial sense for them, but that’s small consolation to the entrepreneur.

It’s awfully easy to say that any business with more than 1% chargebacks is doing something wrong, but if you’re a low volume seller trying to grow your business organically, a bad month or two (“variance”) can seriously crimp your cash flow and the threaten the survival of your business.
Plants are pretty good at capturing carbon, why would anyone want something more expensive and difficult?
Here's the specification:

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...

NB: NoScript rewrites Google Groups URLs automatically for you.
... And Google isn't a vendor here.

The API was made the same, but with Google's own implementation. Several juries and courts have heard the case and said that an API isn't copyrightable. CAFC dismissed the juries' findings without reasoning. It's been punted back to a new jury and court for a final hearing.