skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they have to be mainstream enough for you to have actual value.

I run a CBD store and it's extremely hard for CBD companies to get banking without exorbitant fees. For example, it costs ~2.5% for normal companies to process a credit card payment through stripe. For us, it costs >7%. Many of my competitors and suppliers are turning to cryptocurrencies for the lower fees and guaranteed certainty of payment.

The impact of crypto is yet to be fully estimated but it seems as if there isn't any existing system crypto cannot replicate and there are many systems enabled by crypto that existing systems will fail to create.
It is not reasonable to trick your users into harassing someone who uses a platform for which there is no newer version because MS abandoned it.
A more honest technical note would own up for their choice to discontinue adding features.

I have long since deleted it, too many semi-competent users telling me that all you have to do is go to this site and click on this link ...
I think that boils down the problem nicely: if you're using a hash table or writing your own for a specialised use-case, you should pick a good hash function.

But if you're writing a general purpose hashtable implementation you have to deal with the fact that a lot of users won't use a good hash while some will, so you need to find a tradeoff between using their hash as-is and mixing it up to improve on the bad ones.

The latter need to come almost free, however, or you'll ruin performance for those who actually do their homework.
The obvious question to ask is where did you get these leads from? Did people genuinely volunteer to be contacted by random users of yours? Or are these leads harvested emails?

(Relatedly why cleanup monthly? Is that due to bounces? Spam complaints? Abuse reports?)
yeah but modern indies dev believe the exact contrary and replicate a style that has never existed.
When Netflix moved from the datacenter to the cloud, there were a whole bunch of really good people with skills we didn't need anymore -- sysadmins, DBAs, datacenter techs, etc.

Netflix went to them and said, "do you want to learn some new skills that apply to our new cloud based infra?" Some said no, and were given big severance checks and glowing recommendations. Others said yes, and were retrained.

And some were retrained but it didn't work out, it turned out they weren't interested in the new work, or just weren't needed, and so they too were given big severance checks and glowing recommendations, and went to look for new jobs using both their old and new skills.

It's nice that you're worried about them, but the best thing you can do for them is offer them the chance to learn new skills, either through new jobs or paying for them to learn new skills.
Web Player for Apple Music (using MusicKit JS)
That would be funny. If you think OOP is "bad" (I don't think it is..), let me introduce you to my friend AOP.

Taking one of the most absurd features (COME FROM [1][2]) from a programming language satire (Intercal [3]) and making that your composition mechanism is...special. And then complaining about Java OOP while quoting Alan Kay, as other posters mentioned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming#Cr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language
Selling equity to employees for their time is exactly like selling equity to investors for their money. Founders can only dilute their stake to a certain point before they’ll own too little to make fundraising worthwhile.

For a rough example, if the company gives 20% to early employees and 20% to investors, and want to raise $1MM A round at a $5MM valuation, they’d dilute down to 48% already. If they’d given 10% to early employees, they’d dilute down to 56%. That majority control could be significant. You can extrapolate lower numbers if a company needs significant cash and has to raise at a low valuation.

Hopefully the mechanics make sense and yes, there are companies that give too much away on paper and hurt the value of the equity long term because they didn’t have room to raise money or grant shares without giving up personal stakes.
I hope I’m not coming off brash but I am having difficulty wrapping my head around how someone with 10 years of dev experience can’t break minimum wage.
What kind of dev do you do? Have you looked into freelance work? Do you set salary expectations low from the get go?
Yes, the author specifically points out that there are really two separate steps here: a hash function, and scaling that result down to the number of bits needed at the current number of hash slots.

He's arguing that the fibonacci approach is both faster than modulo and at the same time is better when the input is bad.

He's certainly not arguing it replaces a good hash when you can provide one.

More pointing out that if writing a general hash table implementation you need to expect bad inputs, and since you need to scale the result down anyway you might as well improve on the input if you can do so very cheaply.
Leaves you with more calories to spend at the gym where we pay money to burn unwanted calories!
As the owner of a Vauxhall Zafira which has 2 recalls to fix an issue of catching fire, it is very important to make sure any manufacturer has swiftly and addresses the issues. Vauxhall dragged its feet in publicly recognising the issue which ultimately caused them a lot of negative press and a criminal investigation. I want a Tesla someday, but do pay attention to how they respond to such issues.
I've got perfect score even though I'm regularly unable to name simple colors correctly
They tested the difference between flight and train from city center to city center on German television (sorry clip is in German: https://youtu.be/KyYNqndtCSk).

The flight ended up being 3 minutes faster.

But because I‘m super paranoid about missing my flight I would never show up at an airport „just in time“. So I‘d definitely go by train for this route.
ICANN’s Role in Re(Regulation) of Content
The point about leadership capital is excellent and stands very true.
Related:
Awesome visual essay about using algorithms to generate (bad) cookie recipes
https://pudding.cool/2018/05/cookies/
Most of LibreOffice is pretty good, but Impress is awful. Last month I put together a presentation. I wanted three slides with a few bullet points and a handful of images, but I gave up on Impress after encountering multiple different show-stopping bugs.

The only good thing I can say about Impress is that every time it crashed, it successfully restored my editing state when I started it up again.

I don't think anyone cares about that beast enough to maintain it properly. It should just be scrapped and its resources directed towards Calc and Writer
> I don't like Disney but I think they have the right to protect Mickey Mouse so long as they are a viable entity/business.

I strongly disagree with that. Just like with patents, the regulative protection must end at some point so the cultural and technological heritage is shared among all descendants, and not just a few lucky. The protection duration is already too long, not too short.
The thing I find bemusing about works like this is that rarely is any effort made to even see how consistently, or even if, a hypothesis holds up in other nations. Instead it seems like the idea is to take the inequality in the US, find a negative issue in the US, and suggest a link. That's awful science. So for instance here are two relevant lists.

[1] List of nations by income equality.

[2] List of nations by suicide rate.

There are approximately 180 nations ranked in each. What immediately came to mind here is South America. They have absolutely raging inequality, but also negligible suicide rates.

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#11 income inequality Brazil #135 suicide rate

#12 income inequality Columbia #135 suicide rate (tied with Brazil)

#13 income inequality Panama #142 suicide rate

#16 income inequality Honduras #155 suicide rate

#17 income inequality Guatemala #174 suicide rate

That alone looks quite damning of any attempt to link income inequality to suicide. In fact South America in particular shows a very strong link between high income inequality and low suicide rates! For completeness, these are the top 5 nations in income inequality and their suicide rates:

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#1 income inequality South Africa #54 suicide rate

#2 income inequality Namibia #87 suicide rate

#3 income inequality Haiti #67 suicide rate

#4 income inequality Botswana #48 suicide rate

#5 income inequality Suriname #6 suicide rate

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One thing I would add on the suicide rates for the top is this [3]. That's a list of nations by AIDS/HIV prevalence. South Africa is #4. Namibia is #5. Haiti #24. Botswana is #3, Suriname #35. That's more than a slight confounding variable! Perhaps income inequality causes AIDS! Of course that's a tasteless joke, but the point is the absurdity of correlations.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...
The cause of the fire is important, I think. Logs state something that could suggest a battery issue, but without more information, it's hard to draw any conclusions.

Also, statistically speaking, it's hard to draw any conclusions. IMO this article preys on our biases, and people may draw the false conclusion that Tesla are inherently less safe, due to this single reported incident (regardless of the actual occurrence rate).
What’s new for devs in iOS 12?
Charles Dickens did disagree with this view: https://creativelawcenter.com/dickens-american-copyright/

But there are of course two sides to this story. Pirated editions back then as today increase the popularity of the artists, often more than their agency could do.

Unsurprisingly, even in the 19th century they came to a similar solution like our current music industry (minus the unsuccessful DRM part). You can't pirate live performances: "When he returned in 1867, he had mastered a way to generate alternative income streams based on his celebrity status. He performed readings of his work to packed houses and collected the receipts from the door."
Looking at the source code of nonfree Javascript is not recommended. You could be sued if you happen to write something similar and can't claim anymore that you invented it independently ("white-room").
Why not have Lego like Software?
Hi Folks,

Really enjoy the HN great community with so much knowledge and enthusiasm, been lurking for a long time just reading the stuff you folks share and discuss, i could go on and on :) but need to keep it short...

Consider I am simply asking a question and no implying anything, rather just wondering...

Would it be possible or rather better if we built software in a Lego like way, Particularly i was wondering about Linux and some other tools (audio players, etc, etc)

I understand that all the distros do things in their own way, but at the same time share a common Core (correct me if i am wrong) Kernel, then different groups build things around it.

Why not unify those groups and make them work on the Shared Components and Individual - ill try to explain...

Imagine Having a Single distro which once you install the Core on your Computer asks you Which group you belong?

-Musician
-Scientist
-Education
-Artist
- Developer
etc.

Based on that it installs the UI + Tools for that domain, Where also if needed be Switching from a Domain to Another Domain just removes all the packages and then asks again what you wish to add

Just like Plugins for IDEs

Wouldnt it make the Software more Robust and also everyone gets to work and build his own vision + make the shared core much more reliable, I have been thinking about this and wondering about it, also been reading and searching but havent found the answer i was looking for really, I might have also skipped a few details on what i was going for, but i guess you who are versed in this topic would Elaborate more on it and give your comments.

Looking forward to the answers :) (if the title is wrong suggest a change, be glad to update to attract more thoughts and discussion, Reading suggestions welcome, Books, podcasts anything...)

Thanks
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Missing from top:

These Days there is a new project for an already existing project on the same topic which is in a Way fragmenting the Market more and more - Yes Different features etc etc. but why not work on a common problem - Extend the functionality and allow the user to chose the things he needs - You buy a lego set and you can mix and match with a set from 10 years ago

Is it because everyone wants to lead a project, opinions differ on the solution approach or something else
I hate it when they take over my browsers back button. Pressing back until you hit HN again is a pain when you watched the whole thing.

Credits on the actual content though. Nice achievement.
If you don't mind me asking - why Azure specifically?
And that reasonable line looks like a mouse face 140 years after introduction. Rent seeking knows no reason and boundaries.
Ford F-150 vs. a Plane. Really?
The Hundred Dollar Test
Flixbus takes around seven hours, traffic jams on that heavily-travelled route notwithstanding.
Another example: Hanover -> Munich is ten hours by bus last I checked and 4.5 hrs by train. Bus is only usable for the price-conscious, i.e., no business travellers.
.... this is generally thought to be bad UX
Or just install vim :-)
Startup Mindset in an Agency? The Struggle Is Real
People seem to treat gyms are like carbon credits; you can do the wrong thing most of the time and then pay to offset it later.
The article is predicated on the suitability of the tool to be adopted, in the first paragraph, so he omission seems fine.

Obviously there are cases where the tool being pushed isn’t right, but that’s a completely different albeit important discussion.
The same advice was given to, and taken by Margaret Thatcher
It'd be interesting seeing comparisons there given that the issue here was that none of the widespread implementations he surveyed, including a Google one, even tries to address this, and several of them use methods that are both worse and slower.

Seems like it's something that has gotten little attention.
You can only win your life by making a blog post
As far as I can tell your linked study says that "possibly, long weekend sleep may compensate for short weekday sleep" in terms of mortality but says nothing about qualify of life.

You can catchup/reset but the days you don't sleep enough you'll do worse.
Things have changed a lot the last years, because of companies like Flixbus and now Flixtrain, which finally offer a real _price_ competition to the train. Now you can get from Stuttgart to Berlin for 10 Euros on Flixtrain, if you book early. I expect the same for Munich to Berlin, when Flixtrain starts to service this route next year: https://www.flixtrain.com/
> Today was the first time I ever complained about getting downvoted

Well that's (easily) verifiable as false, and the behavior is contrary to the guidelines regardless of any "trigger".
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences
I'd love to, but I need a Mojave-compatible machine prior to it's release so we can get our Xamarin application updated before-hand. Might be best to go with the 2015 option anyway, thanks!
I agree with you 100% why would you be 5 hours from an emergency landing?! That's crazy! I would rather sit on a plane for a few more hours, should anything happen you can land some place in a reasonable amount of time.
I'd love to see someone fusing water at sea level.
I agree, I was in talks to move from Amsterdam to NY, including a substantial (think 50%+) pay increase, and realized that after paying 2-3x for housing, 5-10x for healthcare, and substantially higher cost for education of the kids, quality of living would actually go down, even though net income would double.

Numbers for comparison:
- full year tuition at a Dutch university is ~2000 euro (and they are all considered about equally good, something that is difficult to explain to people used to the US/UK system)
- annual payment for healthcare is about ~1300 euro
- living in a good apartment in a nice part of amsterdam will cost you between 1200-1800 euro/month (600sq.ft, 2 beds, yes our buildings are smaller)
I landed in delhi yesterday I could not see anything on the land until the flight descended very low for landing. There was an eerie orangish glow blocking thesun. It lookeed like a doomsday scenario.
Last time I drove (well I was a passenger) on the 'no speed limit' Autobahn I think we averaged ~70 km/h for the whole trip, and spendt the last 90 minutes of our trip never getting above 30. I'll take the train every time.

Honestly driving on a long straight crowded highway is just as dull no matter what the speed limit.
I learned borland turbo pascal by Siemens (thanks to my bigger sister). First projects where in the company of my dad, optimizing their business tasks.
The article argues otherwise and backs it up with a plausible story from history, with two other stories (Switzerland and China) added above in the comments.

At least it seems plausible that the current way of "incentivizing investment" is not working, and we might even be better off completely without it.
Unfortunately I've seen people much more eager to adopt a bad idea that is easier in the short term than a good idea that involves hard or boring work - like "should we refactoring and build on our existing code or throw it out and start again?", where people vote for throwing it out because "I don't even understand this code!"
Ohropax are the best. I discovered them in Vienna. Thanks to the internet, you can now get them anywhere :)
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Lookup "apollo moon takeoff" on youtube.

Watch it a couple of times, I strongly encourage this.
If it is necessary with defensive patents for a new company to enter the market with an obviously not - in a quite literal sense - copied product, then it probably is something comparable to a racket.

If it is also the case that patent holders purposely withold the very trade secrets that is the bargaining chips that gets you a patent according to the spirit of the law, then if it isn't a racket, it's still immoral and needs to stop being allowed.

So many patents these days are completely devoid of the secrets they are supposed to both protect, and publish. Little is thus gained for the public good, and much is lost.

It strikes me as odd that patents has such a strong support in the US, as generally there seems to be the case that the government isn't wanted where it's not absolutely needed, and I find it hard to see how one could argue that patents are so integral to society that they should fall in that category according to the metrics that seems to be used for other commonly government controlled areas.
My experience working with EEG headsets is that you can create a few cool demos where you show people how you can control this or that very restricted interface, but only after you spend ages calibrating the system for you specifically and for that demo specifically, and make sure the power supply is very steady and there is no strong wifi or bluetooth around. And even then it'll be too frustrating to work with for you to want to use it for anything except showing it off as a demo.

This section:
"Then he strapped the bracelet on my arm. I had worse luck — the thumb on the computerized hand reflected the motions of my thumb, but the index and pinkie finger didn’t — they remained stiff. Berenzweig had me recalibrate the system by angling my wrist slightly, but to no avail."
and this:
“It acts like an antenna,” he said, “so it’s susceptible to interference.”

Sounds a lot like my experience. If you can't make a system people can just pick up an use right away, I predict it will just be too much hassle for anyone to want to use. And throwing buzzwords like ML at the problem doesn't seem to change that.
Better speed control for case fans
Sorry, I'm not "arm aber sexy", therfore I'm from Munich where we are "reich und sexy" oder "reich und hässlich" but never "arm", the greatest city of Germany.

:)
There are, I dunno, maybe 1,000,000 words in the English language. With a book cipher, almost all books will produce gibberish words not on the list. If you find one for which almost all words are magically on that list of 1,000,000 words, you win.

I get the appeal of the notion that some second grader could stumble on the winning book and claim the prize, but this article is like halfway between cryptographic fantasy and reality. Google suggests there are only 130,000,000 books in existence, which would be more than easy enough to brute force if we had access to all of them. Furthermore, there is a clear success criterion. The limiting factor is that not all books have been digitized, but if the book is relatively well known, it should be.

I'm surprised someone at Google hasn't just put this whole thing to bed by now.
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=14...

Germany and the United States put (tarriffs) pressure on Switzerland and the turn of the century, forcing them to protect their patents in Switzerland. They unhappily obliged after years of talks and trade issues - in 1907.

PS: specifically chemical patents
I've noticed that I have much more energy throughout the day when I get up as soon as my body wakes up. If I decide to sleep in because it's too early, I will usually have less energy.

I have to assume getting up at the end of a REM cycle is far better than starting another you cannot finish.
Memory Supplements:4 Best Supplements That Trigger a Stimulating Action on Brain
There's a problem that's increasingly relevant here on HN. It's commentors who only read the headline and leave a comment that is irrelevant and inadequate more often than not. I do wish we as a community would respond more to this.

To respond to this particular comment, which hardly deserves a response: this isn't a study, none one of the listed assertions are made. This is a short, free-form article that presents an interpretation or examination of some aspects of our intellect.
Same thing happened in the Netherlands. During a six-year period where they didn't recognize international patents, the country was able to rapidly catch up in industrialization. The technology company Philips owes its success to being able to copy British lightbulb designs during that period as well.
Electrek has a longer video in their article: https://electrek.co/2018/06/16/tesla-model-s-battery-fire-in...
The fire looks like some high pressure gas burning to me, with the flames violently exiting to the left. If you watch the longer video, this is mostly over by the time the firefighters arrive.

This could point to the fire being not in the battery, but the AC unit, which is in the front of the vehicle. Modern AC units contain flammable chemicals and when operating would be pressurized.
I think if you have a kid later on you'd worry less about growing old and more about making sure your kid grows old.
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Better, the "Pet rock"