skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely some frames of that restoration that look like removal of shading to me.
I've visited Denmark before as an American :) It's a pretty nice place-- sure there are pretty generous payments to most members of society, but there is still some petty crime and different social classes and lack of major mobility.

I am not precisely sure if they have less working hours. I mean, anecdotally, I don't know any Danes who have 10 minute commutes working 4 days a week, 6 hours a day or something like that, and making $7,000 post tax per month. Like, that sounds mythical in America and in Denmark.

I would just equate Denmark's birthrate either to cultural differences (white birth rates are lower than arab, latino, african etc), or to the same pressures that American workers have-- the Danish pressures are just slightly less extreme.
Vscode works really well with pipenv— that’s how we use it at our startup. Though you might like the end to end support of something like pyCharm.
Yeah, it's not hard. The steps are pretty well documented. It's just not very practical. You need to do it every month and flash manually. You lose the OTA mechanism unless you also set up an update server and hack on the code to point to your update server. I don't know how well that stuff is documented. In any case, all this is extremely niche. You need a good HPC like system to have reasonable build times. Note that you are also building chromium in addition to the ROM. The parent's point was about user numbers, and I am pretty sure that that's minuscule outside of their paid users.
Interesting, thank you :) I'm still seeing divorce rates of 30-40% for first marriages, depending on generation.

Anecdotally, I know a lot of people who are either divorced in their 30s, or still unmarried in their 30s. Considering the difficulties a woman has conceiving beyond their mid 30s, I think the explanation is here in our faces.

My grandma had 5 kids and was married at 19.
For anyone who hasn't read the article, the parent is very misleading. The article presents at least half a dozen studies, interviews at least 20 people, and their list of credentials is exceptional.[0]

In this case at least, it's not the Times' research that is 'low quality'.

[0] I copied and pasted the credentialed people quoted in the article below; I only made it 80% of the way through and then realized it had become absurd:

Diana Zuckerman, president of the nonprofit National Center for Health Research in Washington

Dr. Eric Donnenfeld, who was Mr. Puglisi’s surgeon and a past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

global medical director for a large laser eye-surgery provider

Researchers at Ohio State University

one surgeon’s 2017 analysis of more recent data

Morris Waxler, a retired senior F.D.A. official ... [and] former chief of the diagnostic and surgical devices branch in the F.D.A.’s division of ophthalmic devices

Dr. Cynthia MacKay [ophthalmologist]

Dr. John Vukich, chair of the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery’s refractive clinical surgery committee

Dr. Malvina Eydelman, director of the division of ophthalmic and ear, nose and throat devices at the F.D.A.’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Dr. Anat Galor, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami.

Dr. Pedram Hamrah, director of research at the New England Eye Center at Tufts Medical Center
>I downloaded the Bird app, entered my driver’s license and credit card information, agreed to some basic terms (no riding on sidewalks, no riding two to a scooter, no speeding downhill) and scanned a code on the scooter’s handlebar.

Right after the bit about how he agreed to the terms, we see a photo of the author riding the scooter on the sidewalk.
"Start viewing willpower as a resource that can be depleted, and make sure you aren’t wasting it on trivial things."

The concept of ego depletion is not as certain as it once was.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
You still pay tax on the gain when you sell though (assuming there is any gain). Depending on how long you hold them there will be normal income tax or long-term gains tax
Yeesh!
John Gottman calls that a repair attempt.
I'm surprised that the Bates method alternatives haven't been mentioned yet. I picked up a book called "Better Vision Now" several years ago and started practicing what looked like the more practical exercises in the book, very infrequently, and all the while still abusing my eyes with excessive reading and computer work.

I went from needing a -2.25 prescription to a -1.00 when I went back to the optometrist a few years later, but I think the most important decision was to stop wearing eyewear altogether during the day, except for driving.
I find it extremely hard to believe he wasn't warned. I had PRK (in San Francisco) and had to sign my life away, was told over and over and over again about the dangers. Plus, 30 seconds on google and you get plenty of information.

I see these sort of operations as like buying safety gear. You don't skimp on price... or doctor quality. I went to several places first and got evaluated and then made an informed choice.

It took about 6 months for my eyes to totally recover due to the PRK, but oh wow, I'm so glad I did it.
> There are a small minority of people who can raise VC on just an idea because they're white, wealthy, and went to Stanford

Really? Does white people baiting have to become totally normalised? It’s not like East and South Asians aren’t over represented in VC land.
I just finished a job search 6 months ago and it came down to comp. The earlier-stage companies I talked to seemed much more fun, but my life has some problems that money solves, and comp was very important.

The base comp was lower at the early-stage companies, but not critically so. The problem is that ~half of an engineer's comp these days is equity, and startup equity offers were far, far, far lower. My best startup equity offer implied ~2M for a 100M exit. If it takes 5 years to pull that off, I'm better off not just at FAANG, but any number of established companies.

> I think the next phase is to move the needle in favor of early employees.

I would love to see this happen. I like my new gig but I'm not scratching the entrepreneurial itch like I could if I were employee # less than 50. My life can handle the chaos of something failing in 24 months; FAANG will always be there if it doesn't work out. But I'm not in a position to be a founder, and I can't roll the dice for 5 years for the chance at 1/100th of the payday of a founder. But maybe 1/10th the payday?...
I think depending on the city, sidewalk laws are different. I think in Denver I saw that you had to stay on the sidewalk, the road was off limits. Not sure though.
Same to you :) Business doesn't need to be a zero sum game. We can all help each other out if the stars align properly.

I remember back when the banks made loans to businesses, and the business owner was really only responsible for daily operations. It was the bank's money to lose. If the business didn't work out, it was the bank's loss, not really the CEO's.

Now the risk is all on the founder. It is a digital gold rush where the founder must provide their own shovel and pan, and if they don't find gold quickly enough, then they'll starve.

It doesn't need to be like this. You can walk away from the gold mine.
There’s no shame in being an English teacher. I’ll be honest, you’re probably providing more valuing teaching English than half the software engineers at most startups.
imo the best way is to look at what other's have built. Here's some of my favorite talks that go from 0 users to millions.

Dropbox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

Instagram - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNA2C1vC8FQ

Slack (bonus. not as applicable but good reminder of why initial architecture does matter) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9c9AZe-DY
Internet rants might sound smarter-than-thou, but I read the articles for myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17290745
Agenda 21
So, this poorly written article at least sparkled a good discussion here on HN.

I have an "Ask HN" for you here: it's the year 2018, I am 41, live in Bay Area, have myopia (~2 sx and ~3 dx), and have pondered doing surgery.

What's the absolute best option I have? Is it LASIK? Are there different types of LASIK? I spoke with two eye doctors in the past 5 years, and none of them managed to either convince me, or to clarify the various pros and cons of different approaches. (p.s. I really hate the US healthcare system).

Thanks for any help!
I'm saying that the currency of fact is evidence, not speculation and analysis. It's an interesting theory, but we need evidence to know whether or not it's true. That's what science and reason are about.
If you were smarter you'd have commuted in from the suburbs and banked the money for retirement.
I value my time somewhat so if something sounds the least bit dubious, I peruse the top comments first.
I use git, but almost never anything other than clone, pull, add, commit, and push.
I mean...so go do it ? That’s the point. You might be a better version of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, but if you’re not striking out on your own you will never get the rewards of the person who actually did do it. At this point all you’re saying is what the bitter/jealous little boy says “oh I could do that” while watching from the sidelines.
Chico is really beautiful and has cheap housing plus lots of live music.
> None of the surgeons he consulted ever warned him he could sustain permanent damage following Lasik, he added.

I had LASIK ~18 years ago, and was warned many times by everyone I discussed the procedure with that there were possible side effects, including the ones in the article. I also signed a bunch of stuff saying the same.

About 12 years ago I had a ‘touch up’ and same deal - warnings everywhere from everyone...
> Be a founder, even if you have no experience.

Easier said than done. Lots of people leave school without the faintest clue what they want to do. Getting a job somewhere gives people training and experience and maybe even credibility before they strike it out on their own.
Prof. Torbjörn Lager was my teacher in a few courses back in around 2005, I even had a beer or two with him. He is a very smart and funny guy - I can say with 100% certainty that he means it as a joke.
Woah, when did renting became the smart choice?
Considering generations in the past, and still in a lot of poor countries have raised multiple children in the smallest of spaces, I just don't believe there is a causative relation.

Much more plausible to me is the association to women's education, causing women to delay their first pregnancy and opt out of further children. Also there seems to be an association between general misery or fatality and birth rates.
Yup, am familiar with the Georgist argument, thanks for introducing it into the discussion since many others reading undoubtedly have not heard of it. I'm sympathetic to it, but I believe the real issue was alluded to in the middle of the article you linked to. As much as economics has physics envy, I have yet to find a physics-grounded explanation of mainstream economics' treatment and classification of capital and assets. Even a walk through as crude as energy transfers in kWh ranges would be a start, because for me, physics is our currently-known ground truth. Instead, we get tautological definitions of classifications, and I'm no longer convinced they're as obvious and simple as economists make them out to be, because we see all these interesting side effects within the market that Georgism arose to address, like an emergent impedance mismatch in code architectures.

This doesn't mean I want to toss out all economics, but some discerning skepticism about the descriptive (not to speak of predictive or prescriptive) modeling power of economics is in order, certainly at macro scales.

What to do about all this? I think a start was expressed by Iain A Banks in his The Culture storytelling universe, where he said "Money is a sign of poverty." My take on that is all capitalists should be striving to achieve a world where money is a historical artifact, because money is only used as a tool to advance science sufficiently to unlock post-scarcity material and cognitive abundance. In other words, capitalists should be working to progressively put themselves out of a job as capitalists, driving down the cost of every material good to the point it is cheaper to subsume it as a general utility everyone pays for than to leave it outside the Cosean boundary.

In practical, actionable terms today, I suspect this means forming inter-generational and intra-generational cooperatives as a defensive measure by the under-capitalized against predations (sometimes not even conscious or intentional) by the well-capitalized. That's a tough problem to solve.
Is it possible to make life work there as an English teacher in Japan if you find a way to shut the business down reasonably gracefully?
The continuous effort required to force blurring pretty much negates the calming effect, I think.
I've been using vscode for Python development on Windows so that sounds great.

I've been researching my question too and have decided on using pyenv to separate my system Python from the other version I'm gonna install, and doing a manual git clone/.bashrc edit to get pyenv setup.
FromSoftware Announces ‘Déraciné’ for PlayStation VR – Variety
Haaaaah, I see what you did there.

Wink wink.
Either them or someone with a _very_ dry sense of humour, yeah.
>Agreed. SV is different from the rest of the markets, and it is the main reason why it attracts so many engineers from all over the country (hell, from the world).

In my case, SV is so different that it actually made me want to leave. Personally, I can't recommend SV to anyone if monetary wealth isn't the only goal.
I don't quite understand. On the one hand you're saying that early employees should "demand market comp" and on the other you're saying that equity basically doesn't matter (and if you feel this way, it doesn't really make any sense to be joining a startup anyway). Are you conflating "compensation" with "salary"?

"Market comp" for a good engineer with several years of experience in the Bay Area is something like 250k - 350k at a Google or Facebook (with some variation in both directions here). It's not realistic, nor consistent with the market, for an early-stage startup to pay people this much in cash.

Early-stage companies should offer sufficient equity such that their employees should in expectation earn at least the same as they would at a public company. If their expected earnings are less than this, then more equity is absolutely a good solution.
I say "white, wealthy and went to Stanford" because that is the reality of it. The "Hi, I'm going to raise money on nothing but an idea because trust me" strategy does not generally work if you are Indian, Chinese, or any other minority ethnicity, unless you previously had an exit (in which case you know just how hard actually building a business is, and my comment doesn't apply to you). It largely also does not work even if you are white, if you happen to lack the cultural capital that comes with growing up wealthy and going to Stanford. I know a number of East and South Asian founders (I'm one of them) who have taken VC (I'm not one of them), and they all got to that point the old-fashioned way: they built a product and sold it, themselves, before any VCs invested. These are all folks who have plenty of credentials, including working at major successful Silicon Valley companies (Sun, Google, Microsoft) or graduating from Stanford.

(Exception: if you are Chinese and your investor is Chinese and you have a personal connection to that investor you can sometimes raise money on "Hi I have an idea and trust me." This is a recent development and comes from the massive amount of Chinese capital floating around these days, and is sometimes not actually the best move for your startup.)
Was going to say I agreed with the sentiment. I didn't know about `struct` or `pack`, but Elixir (& Erlang) have a similar "special form" binary structures.

Though reading both `pack` and `struct` the formats are about as obtuse as a regex. And the lack of individual bit support in `struct` is limiting.

Come to think of it, like other comments already, this could be a handy CLI streaming tool. Dealing with adjusting binary output on the CLI turns out to be a pain...
Bad news travels around the world before good news even has its shoes on... Except for Lasik. Anyone who's had a friend who had the surgery knows what I'm talking about. They can't stop expressing about how awesome it is, and why haven't you gotten it done yet! I'm honestly surprised there's less than a million operations a year with all the evangelical patients out there. Personally, I'll wait a few more years until the lasers are so good and automated they install them at your local pharmacy next to the blood pressure machines.
FWIW, the thing that was confusing here didn't really have anything to do with async/await: it was all thanks to +=... which was hilariously also the source of a major issue recently found in Java 9/10. I am honestly starting to become a bit terrified of += :(.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238015
Ask HN: Is karma real?
What are your thoughts on the concept of karma, do you think it is real or do you think it's supposed occurences are but bye products of universal randomity. I will like to know what your thoughts are or better still what your mental justification is for doing "good" every day.?

I asked this cause I am starting to feel that perhaps there are no real rules anyway, and that justfull actions, and upright deeds weigh and slow you down. I mean the bad guys seem to be on a roll.
Solution: create a surplus of homes. That will detach price from income. Nothing else will work. (Note: we did this with food and it successfully kept prices low)
Read lots of code, you get better at reading code.

Write lots of code, you get better at writing code.

Programming involves both, so I think they're both needed, and you're right to call out that practicing to read code is not as often done.

One thing I'll add is make sure to tackle progressively harder problems, both in reading and writing of code.

Another one is to cover the spectrum. Go for hard in the small problems, like hard algorithms, tight inner loops, etc to large systems of interconnected components.

And make sure you learn concepts like fundamental paradigms and styles. This should also be done in the small up to the large.
How Hideo Kojima Became a Legendary Video-Game Designer (2012)
That pretty much strengthens the position of the article, assuming living surface need increases proportionally with head count. Then adding people to your family will quickly become unsustainable because your income is fixed but costs increase far quicker.
Of course they don’t. They just need complacent accomplices, such as Mr. Brady.
So the argument from the bank here involves 1) customers defaulting on loans and 2) disputes + chargebacks

Question, I might default on my purchase of diapers for my baby. Someone might also fraudulently purchase diapers for their baby using my credit card.

Should these purchases be banned by cc companies as well?
I know it as Corneal molding.
Does it matter if it’s fruit juice sugar? Fruit juice sugar is already bad for kids let alone fruit juice with added sugar which is basically most fruit juices you buy. It’s really hard to find 100% fruit juice.
Let's get more balanced view on Bates' method... https://www.quora.com/Does-Bates-Method-work
I honestly don't see a thing different between your story, and someone who maxed out their card to bet on roulette.
> If a founder can't afford employees at market rate, they shouldn't be hiring yet.

That's a little bit too strict, and as such is not a position founders are likely to accept. Sometimes they need employees before they can pay market rate, and market rate is pretty steep for a senior engineer in the Bay, for example, and most other areas startups are heavily recruiting.

It's reasonable to offer generous equity for early employees willing to take the risk. What does need to stop is the toxic culture of giving out 0.01% even to earliest employees (engineer number less than 10, often less the 5) with the cynical fake-stardust pitch that "this will be worth tens of millions since we're definitely exiting at $1bn+".

As you mentioned, this culture of deceit has become commonplace and it's poisoning the well of future employees. You can witness its corrosive effect throughout this comment thread.

Give out substantial equity to those early engineers who take risk. Give them a realistic estimate of the risk they're taking, and the value they can get. If they take it, it's their prerogative.
I'd say we're both right: the article is based around a flawed study that hilariously contradicts the title and is full of circumstantial evidence. You are right that they cite plenty of other studies and quote qualified people. But I'd claim that the faults I cite instantly disqualify it from being a quality objective piece, and that there are likely better places to get a well argued viewpoint.
From what I understand about suicide, no little crossways cut on those veins will ever kill you. You have to go up the arm and deep. Humans aren't that fragile really.
I work on an app that has several million active users per month, and I have to admit it's quite the rush sometimes. I never expected to experience that sensation in software development. It definitely made me appreciate all the software that's out there in public view.
I have two of those OpenMoko USB IDs that I use for commercial products - they're open source of course
It's okay - you aren't one of the people who would be helped by this article. But some people would be.
As a creator of http://karmabot.chat – I can confirm, it is real ;)

Philosophically, there is no justification for the existence of balance of good and evil. Humans tend to believe in such thing, that makes it somewhat real, but not in the material sense.

AFAIK, there is generally a chaos: in life, in the universe. It can be carefully observed, rationalised and handled with great deal of care and toughness. It is hard but not impossible to bring more order in one's way of living. Karma rule is a by-product of such process.

Possibly good read: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life/
Obviously it depends on the circumstance, but not every disagreement is about "winning" the debate. Sometimes the win is in building or saving the relationship.
Text Normalization using Memory Augmented Neural Networks
In SF the suburbs are called Silicon Valley and are also expensive.
> Easier said than done. Lots of people leave school without the faintest clue what they want to do.

The rest of the startup game - building a product, pivoting correctly, building a team, overcoming oowerful rivals - is such a huge challenge, that gaining entry level experience before finishing school is perhaps the most straightforward piece of the puzzle.
Is there any way to see any of this without WebGL? Do you perhaps have some screenshots?
There is an alternative to Lasik. It is a new generation of PRK. the difference is you dont get a flap in the surgery and instead they burn and take away a layer from the eye.

The type of surgery I had done was TransPRK.

The benefits are less halos, extreme acuity and perfect dark sight.

I have no halos, no dryness and see better in the dark than before.

The healing process takes a bit longer than Lasik. You need to wear a contact lens for two weeks to protect the new layer growing over your eye. During this time your eyesight fluctuates and there is some nausea associated. This was thoroughly explained to me and I had no problems since every day it got better.

On some days I can count leaves on far away trees. Read license plates on cars way ahead of me. I would do it again even if it cost triple.