skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any info on what this is?
Entrepreneurs wanted; Kick starting the distributed economy
As the title suggests, I'm using the fact that ycombinator is a VC network and I expect there to be plenty of enterpreneurs here.

I wrote a paper that explains the ideas and what we really need in this industry to more distributed systems forward. The paper gives a high-level overview of a system that facilitates generic distributed services by acting like a common-usage server to store the data the user wants and essentially having an always-on design so your users apps don't have to be always on.

You can find the paper as published on the publishing site yours.org;
https://www.yours.org/content/entrepreneurs-wanted--kick-starting-the-distributed-economy-f4d6c84e2f6c

I got a user complain about some architectural thoughts being behind a pay-wall. Please realize that the architectural design is just a hint, just ideas for how to implement it. Any architect can take the free text and design that. I have no wish to earn money from this idea!

What I want is to see this or a similar idea become reality. I can help anyone that is interested in starting an organisation implementing this and rolling this out.

Would love to hear more from you guys/girls.

ps. as mentioned, a user complained based on a misunderstanding. I hope its Ok to post a clarification and a better introduction for YCombinator and entrepreneurs connected to them, if I'm missing some rules about how to behave please let me know. I have no experience here.

Thanks!
I don't use any other social media. So I post everything that pops into my mind, news that I read elsewhere, things that go in my life, and often stuff that's much more personal than I would have ever posted anywhere else. The discussion is much the same as what I suppose people have on Facebook, Instagram or whatever... though it's orders of magnitude more civil and reasonable.

Roughly half the group has also abandoned all other social media, while the other half occasionally act as a Facebook diode by posting worthy or important things they might come across.

As the group now lives in several different countries on different continents, having a mechanism that helps us work around time zone constraints which isn't an unmanageable tangle of email chains is hugely beneficial. It's remarkable how making things easier to keep track of wound up facilitating a lot more discussion.

Also as it's just us we have no constraints concerning thread life cycles. So when something occurs that relates to our discussion in some ancient thread it's not a problem to revive it. So we've got threads that run over the course of five years.
As an alternative, you could do this:

found_item = next((item for item in list if search_condition), default_item)
Yeah, sometimes I'm envious of construction workers, with sculpted bodies (as long as they don't indulge in food and alcohol), enjoying the sun or the cold (I like cold, weird I know), and having easier sleep without things from work cluttering your head.

But as I said, it's only sometimes.
As was said in the video, ordinary paper disintegrates and metal straws can be dangerous. Waxed paper straws could work, though.
The current ones are too cheap, people will throw them away because washing is too hard.
Andrew Clark: React Suspense [video]
At most festivals in Switzerland, you have a single kind of reusable plastic cup, for which you pay a deposit of a few Euro. You can then hand it back at any venue part of the festival and get the deposit back. Of course it requires some dishwashing facilities, but it seems to work very well, everyone is used to it, and it avoids massive heaps of garbage.
I believe very strongly in equality of opportunity, and the liberal tendency to zone everything to prevent development and keep out the poors is a glaring example of hipocrisy. I don’t know if charter schools are the answer, but certainly letting the family choose where to stick their education dollars could alleviate the vast difference in K12 education that keeps the “9.9%” in continuous power.
Do any of you know if tramp does still freeze if remote prompt´s ´text´ has special characters? this is a bug that used to bother me last year.
Peluqueria y Maquillaje Flamenca para Peinados 2018
Recently it was found that prolonged use of cleaning products is as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.

Ahh, well - you gotta put something on the old tombstone someday right?
Have You Ever Seen Someone Be Killed?
It seems to me that Martinez-Fuerte was wrongly decided. The court treated it as a dilemma between stopping all traffic passing a particular point with no suspicion at all, and requiring a warrant from a judge based on probable cause. There was already legal precedent for a middle ground at that time: the Terry stop, requiring only reasonable suspicion based on evidence as determined by the officer and subject to later review by a judge.

More generally, I don't think government agents should ever be able to detain and question people in public places without reasonable individualized suspicion based on evidence. To whatever extent the law fails to prohibit such actions, it should be changed.
I love to exercise - but I really like being able to keep that separate from other aspects of my life.

I've worked manual labor jobs. They suck, and they damage your body. If you think sitting all day long is bad for your health, imagine what even just pushing a broom thousands of times a day is doing to say, your rotator cuff.

Pack a healthy lunch, keep your hours reasonable, get up from your desk and walk around every couple hours, exercise in your free time, and your office job won't kill you.

As to which type of job is more "fun" - a construction foreman once told me that he always sees these guys who try working construction to get away from their office job, who try to find meaning/enlightenment through manual labor - a sentiment you hear here a lot - and they always go back to their office job. Always.

But the guys who manage to escape the jobsite for the office - they never, ever come back.
The biggest problem in trying to stand up against it is US v. Martinez-Fuerte, effectively making these stops legal at the federal/constitution level.

The only way to fight it would be a heavily organized protest; enough people that they couldn't arrest everyone/would fill the jails.
I did some changes based on your observations. I hope you like it
>, plainbudget as a CLI tool has worked just as well for me for many years. It does take a bit of manual text wrangling in its current form

I looked over your site's examples and the conceptual primitives you have designed ("value groups", "cashflows", "expenses") do not seem to be powerful enough to manage "budgeting". Yes, you're deliberately trying to make it "simple" but text entries without date timestamps metadata for each transaction and without accounts/categories/buckets/tags will impede disciplined budgeting. Your (lack of) metadata primitives is too simple.

Based on your example, each "value group" doesn't seem much more than an isolated group of arithmetic operations which is similar to punching in some calculations on a desktop calculator[1]. E.g. one enters a few calculations which shows up on a paper tape, presses "C" to clear and punches another group of calculations, and presses "C" to clear, etc. Your text system has obvious advantage of "text labels" over the desktop calculator but it doesn't have enough metadata primitives (e.g. timestamps & tags) to produce budget forecasts, goal planning, savings schedules (e.g. college fund, vacation fund, retirement, contingency reserves for house repairs and car repairs, etc).

https://www.google.com/search?q=adding+machine&source=lnms&t...
I don't want to derail anything, but does anyone sense the irony of that little addendum at the end of the article. The one that refers to Trump being such a clear danger to rule of law that Slate felt the need to increase reporting on rights violations, and it being at the end of an article that mainly deals with BS that went through Obama administration without audit or inquiry.
I dream about a rule that says that, when someone organises a meeting they have to do 10 well-form pushups per attendant. Bullshit meetings gone + exercise up = Win-win.
Quite a few previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Drowning%20Doesn%E2%80%99t%20L...
Knet is pretty analogous to pytorch/torch in terms of terseness. I’d expect about the same length them and a quite larger script with tensorflow (based on my very limited experience with it)
It's good to compare this with views on the other side: https://gultsch.de/objection.html
As someone who has spent close to 40 hours in VRChat so far (not to mention how many tweaking avatars in Blender and Unity), I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Of all the VR experiences out there nothing beats the ability to just make whatever skin you want for yourself and go around roleplaying in virtual worlds with other people. Or show off your creativity with shaders. You can be a walking shadertoy of your own design and awe people with raytraced fractals or whatever you wish. And it's free! It honestly feels like an early internet forum.
It enables you to keep the markup structure, style, and behavior hidden and separate from other code on the page so that different parts do not clash.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...
A sales person from the company contacted me a while ago to offer services, Jessica De La Garza <Jessica.DeLaGarza@rackspace.com> and talked about their services. They have always been about their "Fanatical Support"
And yet it's more than 90.1% of the population posesses...

These analyses tend to overlook the age dimension. It is entirely normal that a 65-year-old about to retire would have accumulated more assets than a 22-year-old who has just graduated with student debts. So is the proportion of the population holding the wealth also the proportion of the population who has been working and saving for 30-40 years already? If so there is nothing to see here, move along...
Event on Advanced ChatOps at YellowAnt
I saw Kenny get killed a few times.
Lest someone misread this and think that Emacs hasn't had an update in 2 years: That says "major release". The previous release was the 25.3 minor release in September 2017.
EC press release : http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-3927_en.htm
A very underrated solution. In my experience, I was a personal trainer for a year or so, people percieve exercise as a workout and in a very binary form. They can either get their whole workout in, or nothing. By reframing it as physical activity and accumulating that activity over the course of the day you can stay relatively fit.
sadly, because nearly everyone involved in this system is making excellent money-- everyone except the consumer.
> I think in some countries if you don't want to get your money back you leave the bottles and cans near the garbage bin or other places and a kid or a poor person will return it and make some money.

Indeed. Personally I do this because it's not worth it for me to recycle it on my own, but I still care about the environment and my fellow man.

But what I'm pointing out is that it's an economically irrational decision on my part, and if someone doesn't give a shit about the environment to the point of not bothering with recycling unless it's costing them money not to do it, they probably don't care that much about their fellow man either.

So in some sense it's a regressive tax (although short term), but I'd be for a policy where drinks cost a bit more to make it economically worthwhile for more people who aren't going to do it because they're nice, but for profit.
Much to see inside their ship, the Falkor (Google Street View)

https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.80253,-12...

https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.802447,-1...

https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.802618,-1...
Me too, but we're not the target demographic. In any case I think Matrix is the best bet for open communities right now - it has full slack integration anyway.
> Is the fact that photons are (in a sense) "bigger" than atoms responsible for the fact that we can have shiny surfaces?

Yes, if you simplify things a bit, this is true. "size of the photons" is in this case their wavelength. Wavelength of visible light (~500 nm) is very much larger than the size of silver atoms in a mirror (~100 pm). This is why you can have a mirror even with surfaces that are not atomically flat.
The first 30 seconds start a little boring. You just repeat what many people already know about bitcoin... But then it gets really interesting.

I wish you had started the video a little bit stronger.

Anyway, I just subscribed to your channel! Nicely done!
Neat that you can differentiate through functions passed using keyword arguments. Also the unicode letters except for delta shows up as black bars in my android which is kind of annoying.
There isn't a windows compile available yet 8(
-- yes, i don't have a choice at work.
See shadow dom section in here: https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/ which specified most of docs are maintained in here: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/

And as for what it is, you know how a given web page has global css/query selector scope? Shadow dom is like a membrane in there, where styles and other things don't go in (unless you explicitly poke a hole). It's like a whole new document that you can nest inside an existing document. It's encapsulation inside browsers
The point was about the poor, middle class should be able to afford the recycling costs.

From all the products that were listed the only ones I think could affect poor people would be the car tires, if the prices for this tires would increase, but plastic straws or sticks for baloons costing more won't affect the poor that much.
They usually don't arrest people who refuse to cooperate. There are a large number of videos if you search "checkpoint refusal" on youtube.
Big business massively lobbied against the GDPR. One big reason it ended up so strict is because the final negotiations happened to coincide with the Snowden revelations, giving cover for politicians to resist the lobbying.
Many years ago my daughter had the same procedure twice in a the same year in the same hospital and the price approved by the healthcare was much higher for the firt time, when our deductible was not yet met. I can think of ways the "deductible left" may be used to maximize profit for both the hospital and the healthcare
FYI: The article isn't about aviation
> Your text system has obvious advantage of "text labels" over the desktop calculator but it doesn't have enough metadata primitives (e.g. timestamps & tags) to produce budget forecasts, goal planning, savings schedule (e.g. college fund, vacation fund, retirement, contingency reserves for house repairs and car repairs, etc).

Yes, it has none of these features. Intentionally. Perhaps due to sheer stubbornness, I have used a collection of manually edited text files for most of these. It just came to a point where having a script to run calculations automatically became essential.

And lately, I've found myself using the script for quick calculations. I wrote the web version as a way to avoid having to create a new text file just for that. But there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.

I actually want to explore creating a plugin API.
As another comment here pointed out;

90.1% possess about 30% of the wealth.

9% possess another 30% of the wealth.

The remaining 0.9% possess the rest.

Is the 9% to blame for inequality?
Show HN: SugarTeX – readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX
Yes, the article seems to take liberties from the two studies it quotes.

But I also am skeptical of the underlying studies. So many factors in mortality rate I'm having a hard time believing they were able to control for all of those (weight, age, diet, exercise, family history, etc) and isolate "positive thinking."
It's an imperfect but useful proxy. It isn't valid as a single number that defines your health, but it correlates very well with obesity. Waist size is probably a more useful metric because of what we've learned about the health implications of visceral fat.

The number of people with a BMI over 30 who aren't obese is extremely small and they're very easy to spot. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lee Haney won Mr Olympia with BMIs of around 30. Dorian Yates and Ronnie Coleman had off-season BMIs of over 40, but they were the most muscular men in recorded history.

IMO, "BMI is meaningless" is the new "I'm just big boned". The select group of people who really are lean at >30 BMI know that they're a healthy weight, while a much larger group of people are simply using the imperfection of BMI as a means to delude themselves. I'm happy to be corrected, but I haven't heard of a single incident of someone being incorrectly categorised as obese and advised to lose weight by a medical professional simply because of their BMI.
SugarTeX is a more readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX. Designed to be used instead of $formula$ insertions to Markdown.

I use Markdown with Python code blocks for document programming via [Pandoctools](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/pandoctools) (like R-Markdown).

Both Python and Markdown are very readable languages. Unfortunately LaTeX is not like this. So I wrote SugaTeX extension+transpiler that is highly readable. In order to achieve this it heavily uses Unicode so that SugarTeX install instructions even have recommended monospace font fallback chains.

[SugarTeX repo](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex) with description.

Example of input to output conversion is at the end of [this PDF](https://github.com/kiwi0fruit/sugartex/blob/master/sugartex....).
It means pay more attention to reliability than pop infrastructure and internet companies (who can offset poor reliability with human attention or intentionally deprioritize it to sell more support contacts) tend to put into these things. Specifically, exhaustive concurrency testing of lock-free algorithm interleavings via ptrace driven scheduling, model-based testing in combination with fault injection, ALICE-style file correctness testing, and for the various distributed modules that sit on top, network simulation combined with lineage driven fault injection. This is all very much a work in progress, and I'd love to work with more people on it!
Hunting the data suckers
Ask HN: Advice for starting a company with a friend
I have been working part-time in a SaaS for 6 months, with a big chunk of the MVP coded and no customers yet.

I want to invite a friend to join me as a partner. He has the selling skills that I am missing, experience running a company and he is also a very capable engineer. We know each other for 10 years, we have done projects and traveled together, and I think we match in terms of skills and personality.

However, as I have seen multiple times in this forum (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17169080) sometimes the startup pressure breaks people apart and there is no way to know if this will happen to you beforehand.

It would be useful to have clear and fair "way out" mechanism for both ways in case this partnership doesn't work as planned.

I would like to know your advice and experience partnering with friends. Thanks.

Note: Throwaway account
You need to have some experience, and the whole thing probably took a considerable amount of time, but basically it's not rocket science. It's a specific set of technical skills rather than stuff that's conceptually hard. Starting with a standard ARM dev kit like STM32F4 would give you most of the skills.

The soldering is quite fiddly, though!
Disposable cutlery does not need to disappear, we need to have them properly recycled. You could pay an extra 1Euro at a fast food, and get it back when you return the plastic like with beer bottles.

Or as you suggest use wood or paper based ones.
That's a lot to take in; thanks for all the links!
We have these in Amsterdam too. I'll buy a beer with one of these, then by the time I'm ready to leave the lines are so long that I think "fuck it" and throw it in my bike saddlebag thinking I'll bring it back next year. It's not worth it to stand 15 minutes in a line to get 2 EUR back.

But of course I forget about it and just buy a new one at the same festival next year, and each festival will only accept their own branded cups.

So now I have a pile of these things sitting in my shed, there really needs to be some ISO standard for these plastic pints and it be made illegal to not accept ones from other festivals. I now have like 20 EUR worth of otherwise worthless plastic crap I can't exchange or sell except once a year at specific locations.
The Bible and other nonsense myths used to guide the masses in the past show we don’t need to abide economics to build a rule set for society

We could do with a little less fetishizing “economics are physics and the rules of the universe” nonsense

The contemporary economy is basically held hostage by a handful of emotional babies and economists measuring within their curated playground

How that establishes economic activity they observe as facts of objective reality, I dunno?

So who even knows what’s “real” trade and not “gun at head, build us chat bots or work retail cause daddy says so” servitude
> those who control capital and policy versus those who just have money

Controlling policy is one thing.

Who "just has money" and doesn't control capital? Anyone who has money actually has some sort of capital or an equivalently powerful financial instrument be it stocks, loans to other companies, government bonds, a house, etc.
Sure. Here's a screenshot of a sample I mocked up (with fake numbers and fake categories)
https://imgur.com/a/tJUcJE3

I keep my eyes primarily on the monthly Running Balance line, and specifically, the Year End Target (the rightmost item on that line). Those are the KPIs (key performance indicators) that I monitor.

The calculations are fairly simple. The running balance Total Income - Total Expenses + PrevRunningBal. (PrevRunningBal is 0 and excluded from the formula in the first month).

Once-off Expenses is a category that's expanded out in the bottom so I have a better sense of where I spend chunks of unbudgeted money. It's summed up in the Expense item "Once off Expenses".

I also have a monthly buffer as a safety factor, in case I overspend.

As you can see I don't track expenses at the receipt level (too tedious), just on the gross level (and only if it's above a certain amount -- I don't sweat a $2 pack of gum).

For me this is a good balance between a too-loosy-goosey budget that is useless and a too-detailed-budget that is tedious to keep up.

This is enough to keep me on track for the entire year, and I usually end up with quite a bit of spare change at year end.
> If you remember to write all of your Clojure code like this

The whole problem with Clojure, you have to remember how to write anything instead being restricted to a subset of a safe idiom.