skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the sage advice is to find someone who's doing what you do, but is ahead of you on the roadmap (but not too far ahead, perhaps). How do you do that?

Be experienced enough to know enough people in your field.
Find a contact channel and ask someone you respect. If that fails, ask someone you've already known and respected for a long time. If you can't or won't do that, then you should go it alone. You don't need mentors to succeed.

I find that I know enough people after working for more than a decade that my mentors have become the people I already ask for advice, so making it official was a minor step.

To address your specific requests:

1. Knowing yourself well enough means knowing your blind spots. Anything you dismiss without question is a blind spot. Have mentors who cover them. I have robust conversations with all my mentors, and they always give me pause for thought.

2. Asking for time means you need to focus on what you're asking of them. Mentors are there to advise, not make the decisions for you, or finance your endeavour (unless they already do). Ask politely and they'll say yes.

3. Well-framed questions help, but I find that I won't know the questions to ask until I've experienced something unexpected. Also, sometimes I find some of the best conversations come out of asking open-ended questions. I think there's a time for both.

As to my situation: I've asked mentorship from people younger and older. I've asked friends and acquaintances; some I know well, some I don't. However, they are all willing to be honest. It's necessary that we disagree on some things.

My blind spots are things such as raising money vs. bootstrapping (bootstrapping all the way!); revenue from products and services vs. revenue through finance or advertising (I believe revenue should come from creating material value, not increasing it through financial vehicles); cryptocurrency as a business model (I find few projects are genuinely useful). If the opposite of my belief happens to be useful, then it helps to have someone who understands it.
Indeed.

Though, will 200 hours spent learning Haskell gain you, well, anything productive?

Surely a non-genius would require at least 1000.
A Location-Sharing Disaster Shows How Exposed You Really Are
While this article puts a lot of weight in the formal displays of submission, the denial of the English ambassador in following them and the irritation that caused, I cannot help thinking there could have been other reasons for the Chinese to be reserved.

Considering the track record of the East India Company in conquering Bengali piece-by-piece during the decades just before this mission, which the Chinese must have been aware of, I think it's totally understandable they were wary. Which must have been the subtext in them telling that no thanks, we do not want your products and really don't want to give you a permanent foothold on the Chinese soil.

The fact that the Brits kept on proceeding nevertheless, turning a large number of Chinese citizens into opium addicts while at it, kind of justifies this stance. Maybe the only mistake the Chinese made was not to start improving their military might at the earliest signs of warning, while they still had time.
The problem, the way I see it, is that a lot of the problems that are going to be coming to a head over the next decades aren't even really from malevolence. It's just ignorance, incompetence, and not really working together. Of course there are bad actors (e.g. the oil industry) who spread FUD and discord when it comes to the things they are interested in, but mostly it's humanity being too disorganized to really fix problems. Humanity being too short-sighted to see what the culmination of individual, otherwise innocuous, steps toward prolific data collection would mean.

Did you imagine in 2006 when you first joined Facebook that some day it would impact your immigration status? Likely not.

So going back to what you said yes there are lots of good people with good intentions, but along the way to creating our problems have been good people with good intentions.
Bitcoin’s Growing Energy Problem [pdf]
Also being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121721
In what way is this dishonest?

It's really just saying 'if you love this app, tell others - if you don't love it, tell us'. This is an honest request.
they are not even allowing existing customer to upgrade the subscription. I just received an email this morning that my 100gb are full and wanted to upgrade to the next tier.
But "poor people" isn't too general?

Tell us how you really feel.
Is going for the jugular like that really fair? It's clearly speculative, but backed up worth reasoned argument.

>That image may very well be completely off-base. There is good reason to think that the first potentially life-bearing worlds that are now being detected around other stars...

"may be", "Good reason to think". Not exactly ex-cathedra pronouncements from on high.
A ‘clever’ strategy would be if they required consent now, before the new rules kick in, and then later made it optional. Most users won’t go back and change the permissions anyway.
The aerodynamics of fighter jets are massively different from commercial airliners.

The Lauda incident was "survivable" in the sense that they had a 3-second window to realize that the reverse thruster was deployed and take action. Without having any indication of what was happening, and with no training on what to do. So as you understand the statement was made purely to try and defend the manufacturer and airliner. Blaming pilots is a very economical way out.

>Parts of wings missing, engines falling off etc. happen.

There's only a handful of recorded engine losses (as in "ripped off the plane") of which not all were survivable. Also losing the engine is much better than damaging the wingtip. It's much closer to the body.

And please substantiate on the "Part of wings missing all time" statement, like it's a casual thing that happens all the time.
Do you have any cases where a large part of the wing was ripped off? Near the end? Because I'm not aware of a single one. Wing damage happens, but aerodynamically significant wing damage is rare and lethal.
Easeltext and subgroup features look useful. But you require new users to create an account to play with them. Your reasoning related to search engine crawling vs privacy is the first time I have seen this context. I'll register an account and let you know my assessment.
Life on this planet doesn't seem all that constrained. There is life in the deepest spots in the ocean and in the highest reaches of the atmosphere and everywhere in between.
Sounds like it will be a fine addition to Adobe’s collection.
To be the advocate of the devil: Facebook might claim that presenting targeted ads to users is their core business - if they stop doing that they will have no source of income.

From what I understand GDPR it allows data processing if this is needed to do the business, as it is in case of Facebook, so if someone refuses to agree for that, such person cannot use FB.
>It seems to me the greatest challenge to thinking about potential life outside this planet is being mentally bound to the constraints of life on this planet.

I always felt the same way about astronomers linking liquid water with life but then again where do you start if you don't use the only known instances of life in the universe as a template? Maybe it happens that there's a viable evolutionary path for sentient Nitrogen clouds but how would we know that?

Furthermore it doesn't sound too absurd that the very complex chemical constructs necessary for life would have a greater chance to stabilize in less extreme environments with a smaller temperature amplitude. Especially if you're looking for complex life and not merely microbes (which tend to be a lot more resilient).
The link does not seem to work.
This seems to be the original blog post: http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2017/04/finderskeeper...
Ask HN: How do you teach kids the basic finance skills?
I have been wondering about this for a while. I grew up without any kind of financial education. To be honest, in my 20s, when I moved out of my parents' house, I didn't even know what exactly is necessary to pay the bills. So, what resources would you suggest to teach kids basic finance skills? I'm thinking about things like paying taxes/bills, a little bit about investing, how to not get screwed by student loans, and similar.
Yet electric scooters existed before these services started, and there was no major uptake of their ownership comparable to their current rented use, as far as I know. Which implies that alternative is not real.
Software architecture isn't like that. Nobody has a list of all the software running in every datacenter -- not in any large corporation anywhere in the world, and an API isn't going to change that.

And, you can't quit all application servers at the same time. These are distributed, self-healing, and highly-redundant -- meaning that there are thousands of copies of each service, and the system will bring up new copies to replace the ones you kill, without loosing service (though you could, potentially, affect quality of service).

Even the control mechanisms that allow all this magic to happen are run on the same platform, meaning that you can't affect the managers in this way either.

The sort of things you can do are: affect billing and reporting, find sensitive company data, and, potentially, execute code remotely (though that will probably be in a container, and not have access to much else).

Grabbing source code is problematic. There is more than one repo -- in an org this size there are probably millions. The code is huge, so downloading it will take forever, and then you'd have to read it. Finally, it's written in dozens of programming languages, some, like Golang, are unreadable to anyone but experts.
It's more like putting berries into the blender and running it to see how often a berry hits you in the eye. They found that coplanar planets and coplanar debris statistically won't produce this specific type of (high inclination) orbit.
And of course there's X-Windows: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035419

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

X-Windows will never die, they'll just keep trying to fix it! (Just like the cute little baby in Eraserhead.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-kI4Qzj9U
I've put a bunch of the videos mentioned here into a Highlight list: https://highlight.app/stajbakhsh/doug-engelbart

Feel free to add more to it.
This is one of those teachable moments;
The administration of this experiment may have affected the results. After the first 4 months there was no change, and after 12 it was slightly worse for those who were made to exercise. Maybe the disruptive nature of the experiment ended up affecting the subjects' mood. Maybe those who were just asked questions found the light interaction pleasurable, staving off deterioration just slightly.
The results are weak at best and completely biased at worse.
same in US..
Is this advice tried-and-tested? Because it sounds a lot of work. I would suggest that putting all of your energy into 1 implementation (at first) would probably work better.
It was inside a context about poor people working for big co for low wages. But yeah, better stop this thread here.
It was well portrayed in the Where to Invade Next documentary, if anyone is interested.
The authors criticisms of the kerning in Chicago fail to realize one of its other amazing achievements.

The original Mac had no color or gray scale; only one bit per pixel. Disabled items in menus were indicated by a dithered gray, a simple on-off alternating pattern.

Thus, Chicago had to be designed to be legible even when every other pixel was removed. It really was a 12pt masterpiece.
Three space stories on the front page today. Makes me happy
This Python code does a full search and finds the unique solution instantly:

p = 711
q = 711000000
for a in range(1, 1 + p // 4):
if q % a == 0:
for b in range(a, 1 + (p - a) // 3):
if q % (a * b) == 0:
for c in range(b, 1 + (p - a - b) // 2):
d = p - a - b - c
if a * b * c * d == q:
print (a, b, c, d)

Does Prolog do the same pruning? Alternatively, it could be dumber (omit some of the pruning that my code does) or smarter (start by factoring 711000000 or something).
Ask HN: Are Facebook apps no longer be reviewed?
My app has been pending for review now for almost 3 weeks. We have been waiting to officially launch our SaaS service because Facebook integration is part of the offering. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is there anyway to know when we might get reviewed?
I think onedrive it's ok for what it offers, but also can't wait to see what new stuff will bring google one
> Assuming that birds are a group of therapod dinosaurs, as many scientists now describe them...

And mammals are synapsids, apparently[1], though that's not so much of an attention-grabber.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid#Relationships
I second this. With Comcast (business). No complaints coming up on the first year. Caveat: I don't need blinding speed to push code back and forth. Verizon DSL was fine, actually, when I used that.
Why use the word RECURSIVE at all? The engine should recognize the "recursiveness" of the CTE automatically, at the compile stage. Some other DB engines have had this for years.
> my tech lead and I could have in-person 1-on-1s

Do you think it matters that they were in-person? The fact that you called them 1-on-1s implies dedicated chunks of time for direct communication. Would they not have worked just as well over VoIP? Did you have to schedule time for 1-on-1s in the office, or was it more spontaneous?

FWIW, I'm visually impaired, and I spent most of my career so far on a distributed team where the same was true of my boss and most of my coworkers. So maybe there's some aspect of in-person communication that we're just used to doing without. Edit: Then again, remote work _is_ on the rise in the wider software industry.
I do like that the Japanese culture seems more apt to actually stop and smell the roses.
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Augmented Reality Services – In Real Estate, Medical, Education
"Equally dangerous"? If so, that'd be a highly unlikely coincidence. Both sides advocate a bunch of really stupid ideas that'd be likely to kill a large number of people, but those stupid ideas are radically different in both likelihood and mass death potential.
Disregarding the matter of life and whatnot, it was interesting to read a piece on what the climate and behaviour of a planet like this would be. Not something I've seen in science fiction yet.
Ya, we've gone forward with a privacy first approach, which we knew would undermine convenience to some extent!
They end up paying more to recovery people than they're earning from people renting the things and after a few recoveries, more than the scooters are worth.
Service Recovery Paradox – How Slack Turned Failure into Value and You Can Too
The canonical essay:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...
Article is behind a pay-wall.
The article explains in length what Eyeball Planets are but gives little arguments why life should be more abundant there compared to other planets apart from a vague number argument.
I was in the same situation. Their all-in-one modem/router is the most insufferable piece of equipment I've ever had to work with. Trying to do any kind of video chat using it was a nightmare with constant freezing and buffering issues even when standing right next to it.

Bought my own Surfboard and TP-Link router and installed DDWRT and have been free of most issues since then except one. I randomly lost internet connection once and tried everything that I could to get it back up and running. Finally got a technician out and he showed me that sometimes you have to keep the power on the surfboard and only unplug/replug the coaxial cable to the wall and then it will start working again. I had never seen an issue like that before in my life and I'm still trying to figure out why that fixed it.
We don't disagree on much of that. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, people will act in poor faith, etc. Although, yes, I've always believed that anything that I say, anywhere, can and will be used against me.

What I do think is unlikely/hyperbolic is the global "soft genocide" and organized "culling" that he describes in the post.

I'm not much for Utopians or Dystopians, they're always trying to sell me something.
Gray area I'm sure, in this case, the electrical company wouldn't know.

Is it legal in the US to use regular cars for taxi purposes? Operating a taxi without a taxi license? Operating a hotel without a hotel license? It's companies like these, and uber, and airb&b, etc that skirt around the laws.
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Yes, you are right. Thanks for the correction.
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It's not about how far out they are, but how fast they are going relative to Earth. When you're trying to get to something in space, you need to roughly match both positions and velocities between you and your target.
Coccidiosis in Poultry
From the company that brought you ColdFusion...
OPA!!!
I recommend my book, "ReModel: Create mental models to improve your life and lead simply and effectively" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F2RS1G6, which gives you an exercise to write out your mental models so you can both learn from experience about models and how they work, and identify the main models you use in your life. There's a free excerpt here: http://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ReModel_b...
I want to be patriotic, but damn it, this guy is full of shit. Close that company down until they at least have the intention of competing with SpaceX.
Gross, this basically means there's an invisible meta-return policy.

Zipcar did this to me, basically: I bought monthly damage coverage, then ended up scraping the bottom of the car and needing to actually use the damage coverage (for a relatively small amount). My account was closed without explanation or recourse shortly afterwards.
My understanding is that something very much like this is what is theorized to have kicked off a more recent 'explosion', that of angiosperms.

Essentially there was some chromosome doubling which set the stage for the huge diversity and abundance of flowering plants which quickly dominated the planet. In the Wikipedia article on angiosperms it states, "The evolution of seed plants and later angiosperms appears to be the result of two distinct rounds of whole genome duplication events."

I'm sure something like this is one of the more plausible triggers for the Cambrian.
"When the technician pushed the tiny twin tubes into the device, there was a loud pop and blood splattered everywhere. One of the nanotainers had just exploded."

So definitely in the machine.
Unfortunately, direct and sometimes violent action is the only language fascists seem to understand.
Just because you don’t know other examples doesn’t mean it only exists for Time Machine. Many other things are interested in changes to the file system, for instance programs that sync a folder to a cloud service, Finder which wants to show a live view of a folder or alternative backup applications.

If there was no use for this outside of Apples own apps they wouldn’t have given it a public api.
One on Ones
Banned from X for too many returns:

Costco

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/too-many-returns-banned-cost...

Best Buy

https://www.techlicious.com/blog/best-buy-return-policy/

Target

https://adoption.com/forums/thread/115618/banned-from-target...

Amazon in 2016

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Amazon-Bans-Woman-For-...

A CABAL!!!

https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/sh...
Here's a Wayback Machine link that should work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180522110718/https://www.wsj.c...
> Makes me think of the intro movie to the game Syndicate Wars: the world looks shiny and beautiful, until an agent hacks your chip, and you see that you're walking a dystopian world:

Our existing dominant forms of escapism, video games & TV, have accomplished this fairly well already.
Here are some reasons:

Pro:

- Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way, at least in the neighbourhood of the Sun

- Red dwarfs exist for a long time (longer than ten billion years) which gives life a long time to spring into existence (or start via panspermia) and evolve

- Planets in the habitable zone of a red dwarf are tidally locked ("eyeball planets") due to their small distance to the star

So there is very likely to be a huge number of these types of planets with stable conditions over a long period of time.

Con:

Flares by the red dwarfs (which are not so rare) could destroy life on these planets
You're not thinking creatively enough. Bitcoin trading, prostitution, that kinda thing. It's only a matter of time before highly VC-funded companies become more of a presence in Europe.
Bixi bike rental system exists for many years now. The only city as far as I know that is not profitable is Montreal, ironically the city of bixi headquarters and where it started from. The same system, under other names, exists in other major cities around the world.

They have even more expenses and infra to support. They need to install and dismantle docking stations every season, which requires cranes and trucks in 100s of locations. They have staff that drives around and picks up bikes for repairs. They have stuff driving around and re-distributing bikes when they end up in one location (eg metro after rush hour). All of the staff gets salary, of course. Many trucks and specialized trailers had to be purchased. Lots of capital needed to run something like this.

And for scooters all they had to buy was the scooters and build an app.
Google:

Lose your Amazon.com account for doing returns twitter

Click on top link
I think the point is that when you move to an interstellar scale, the "extremes" on Earth are actually a very, very narrow band of possible environments. Even just within our solar system the differences in temperature alone are many orders of magnitude beyond those found on Earth. That's ignoring the differences in gravity, pressure, chemical makeup, etc.

Disregarding the possibility of life elsewhere that couldn't possible survive on Earth discounts most of the planets we know about.
I learned to write X-Windows UI code ages ago, and the boilerplate required to do simple things is what got to me
Partner up with someone who has experience in the field, else you won't get far.

It's hard to start up a business in a field you do not understand.
My ex-wife is a survivor of childhood ALL and her early childhood was the antithesis of that described by the study. She was the 4th of 4 kids each having been born about 18 months apart. So she was exposed to the germs of 3 young siblings. Her parents were also very socially active, so she was also frequently exposed to the germs of the young children of those in her parents social circles.

Please take this study with a grain of salt and don't beat yourself up based upon it.
Ah "child tax" which is not a tax but a means tested benefit.

Sounds like your one of those people who earn enough several times the UK median wage to have some child benefit removed.

Ranting about people who put equity at risk and receive capital gains seems strange for such a high earner such as you why haven't you done salary a sacrifice into a pension.
It isn’t that life should be more abundant, simply that Eyeball planets are easier to find. Because they have the capacity to have life (contain a Goldilocks region), that’s where we are most likely to find life first (given current technology). It is a numbers argument, but so is finding alien life in general.
NASA Astronaut Left Camera SD Card at Home
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