skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that because parents with autism have children later in life than those without? I mean, what exactly is the link? FTA: "So what's going on? That isn't clear. Older parents' genes can undergo changes caused by aging and by the environment"
Ask HN: What do you do with cash savings in your business bank account?
We're a small business, not really a start-up anymore, but we've been accumulating cash over the years by paying ourselves way less dividends than yearly profit. Its reached $500k and it is starting to be a concern that we're not leveraging this amount. We are happy to have cash available in case of a bad year, it would keep us going 2-3 years in case of no income at all, but we wonder that the bank is not the place to have it, especially in U.S. banks with 0.5% interest.

We would be happy to put a large chunk of this somewhere where we couldn't access it immediately (say, within 30 days) as we all agreed to keep enough personal cash available from dividends in case of emergencies. We don't really have much outgoing to worry about.

Given the low business tax rate it is much better to keep it with the LLC, than distribute as dividends, is that correct?

We are all happy with our modest incomes as we don't work very much and we have a great work/life balance. So investing in more business, that would make us work more hours, isn't really our interest.

What do other small LLCs do?
What about when one of your parents die, and the other has to live alone for the rest of his/her live? Could you cry over the sadness of the one left behind?
It seems reasonable to doubt a person's self-diagnosis of a condition that is difficult for a trained doctor to diagnose.

Moreover, surely it's not "whether they are selfish" that's at issue but why?!

Still further, if someone has a diagnosis of having different brain states that affect social interactions that doesn't mean one must accept deleterious interactions -- generally people don't accept violence because it's caused by psychopathy, for example.

One cant decide for oneself that one is a well functioning member of society, the other members of society decide that.

So, yes, the commenter is free to determine their actions as selfish (diagnosis or no); just as you are free to determine me to have been uncaring, or whatever, based on this comment. What is hoped is that others will make accommodations for us because of our difficulty in being less-selfish in our actions, or less-abrupt, or whatever.
SpaceX delivers largest commercial satellite in kick off of Falcon 9 marathon
A while ago a Low-Tech Magazine article discussing compressed air as energy storage got a lot of traction here[0][1]. One of the more promising approaches it included was combining the compressed air energy storage with heating and cooling solutions. This integrated approach should result in much higher energy efficiencies, since problems with one technology basically become solutions for another. Evaporative cooling could be yet another low-tech tool in the toolbox here.

Aside: that LTM article made me think of a complaint of a friend of mine on that the solar panels on his house are almost never at optimal efficiency due to temperature. At which point I asked him if active cooling of solar panels using heat transport + a heat buffer underneath the house + re-using said heat in winter might be a win-win solution for that - he thought it was a good idea but also too ambitious a project for him to undertake.

Shared all HN links with the author, hope he joins in on the discussion here.

[0] "Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage", http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-o...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17143163
Before robots that build themselves let’s start by building robots the smart way
There absolutely are government jobs that are super-cool, Navy SEAL for example. It’s not the inherent government-ness that makes these other jobs un-cool, it’s something else
I believe other commenters exist. I don’t believe any of the comments any of us are making are useful. We are all here because commenting feels productive, even though it totally isn’t.
I'd agree that, depending on usage model, this isn't a major issue, in that if you symmetrically encrypt a password, you still need to store the key somewhere to do the decryption.

That said it is possible to improve the security of this kind of model, although there is a trade-off in availability. What can be done is that the decryption key (or a passphrase controlling access to it) is stored offline and manually input at application launch.

The downside is that if the application restarts it needs human intervention to be operational. the upside is that you reduce (but not eliminate) the risks of the credentials being compromised from that system.
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Did you NOT enjoy programming before graduating and interview prepping?

Then I suggest you look at interviewing for positions tangential to 'software engineer'. Look for entry-level positions in software quality assurance (QA), systems engineer, etc. Read the job descriptions and see if anything appeals to you. Often these jobs will pay less than a position as a software engineer, but they don't require programming but will value your CS degree.
It's not about what it claims, but about what it implies.

That Postman was an "unlikely influence", being secular, whereas C.S Lewis is mentioned as an obvious (since Christian) influence.

But, as the parent observes, C.S Lewis was also an unlikely influence to evangelicals, being an anglican.
This is absolutely fascinating, thanks for sharing.
First of all, I agree with you that self-diagnosis is dangerous. However, I'm from a rich country with a great healthcare system (The Netherlands). Others with ASD might not be as fortunate as I am.

> I've met a few people who have self-diagnosed themselves as autistic. It's kind of become a catch-all for people with eccentricities and/or offensive tendencies. In the cases I've seen, the people are either just unsocialized having spent most of their lives alone at a computer, or simply very selfish and can't be bothered to make an effort towards not saying things which might offend sensitive people.

Typical NT denial that mild ASD is more rampant in society than they'd like to admit.

> It also seems like there's such a strong pressure now for people to fit in with the masses

That pressure was much stronger in the past where you were either Christian or dead. You either functioned (worked), or you were a beggar on the street. Psychology? Diagnosis? Autism? Unheard of. ASD umbrella is new in DSM-V. The amount of undiagnosed people who now get diagnosed is increasing in this century. My simple explanation for that is: "we understand autism better nowadays" and "mild autism is part of the ASD spectrum".

> it's a disorder and we assign professionals to treat it.

ASD cannot be treated. You can learn to cope with it, live with it, but you cannot make it go away (ie. treat a disease).

> shrug

shrug indeed. "Move along, move along"
I'm not sure about the actual intent of the grand-parent, but I think it was referring to insight that a larger audience can understand.

I have a CS degree, and I don't know what is "Hadamard", "Bell state", etc. Also your link doesn't load on Firefox Mobile Android, so it didn't help :-)

Proposing a Python library about Quantum Computing is an attempt at explaining mechanisms to a larger audience (surely it is not an easy task)

Edit : the link finally loaded on another tab while writing the comment, but you have to pay for a license of Wolf.A. to run it, I guess. That can't be arguably considered "accessible" knowledge.
"Mike did receive one new assignment: Every week, he had to create a report for senior management in London by Monday morning based on information that wouldn’t come in until Friday night. He was given this task a day after he chatted with Pizzimbono about how busy his weekends were, between kids’ hockey games and other family obligations. “I thought he was being friendly,” Mike said."

This is genius in an evil way. These people are clearly talented and experienced at this game to play this kind of attack.
Hacking an expo what's the worst that could happen?
Only in countries with software patents.
> All his other stunts, from the boring company to Thai submarines need to take a hiatus until he gets Tesla out of this trouble

That's making the assumption that Musk's direct involvement in operational affair is a positive contribution to improving matters, which is increasingly becoming less probably given his erratic nature.

He's needed as a mascot for the Believers, but apart from that, he should probably reduce his overnight stays in the factory.
In a similar vein there's Carmack interactions with Jobs online now. Worth a read.
Why Every App Developer Needs to Buy Paid App Reviews?
Can we all just get along and agree that at least none of them are Javascript?
You are likely taking more than the appropriate 0.3mg dose and too late in the evening, if it's giving you a hangover.
The problem is that emotions affect rationality - what is rationality even? You feel confident that your thoughts or actions are rational, but that too is an emotion.

To invoke Godwin's Law, the nazis were rational in their policy of exterminating certain people, they listed the traits and stereotypes and decided that the best course of action was to isolate and exterminate them. The US is rational in their policy to label terrorists as 'enemy combatants' and not respect the Geneva conventions when it comes to those.

Yes, underneath those is a certain type of hatred, the emotion, but for all I know that emotion is applied or assumed after the fact - that is, "surely they have to really hate someone do to that", instead of having to admit that it was a rational decision. I don't know which is worse, treating someone badly out of emotion or out of rationality.
Driver who livestreamed passengers without consent suspended from Uber and Lyft
I've had Lariam once or twice as Malarone used to be really expensive in the UK (10$ vs 150$ ish) and I don't think I had any of the famous side effects. It can be hard to tell when you're in a radically different country, very hot, with strange food and drinking a lot...
EU GDPR compatibility would be a cool thing - I am sure that people have been asking for that "long time enough" ago.

Also now that this software has left prototype status for long enough time - why are you still using ruby?

Ruby is much too slow and bloated for production - there are only a few companies out there that missed the right time to jump from the ruby-prototype-bloat and have enough money to burn to just stick with it, but for a project like gitlab this is a huge problem. Judging from the roadmap there seem to be many bored developers with no good ideas about what to do next, so maybe unbloating could be a good direction?

There must be at least one person in that team with a feeling for architectural brilliance?
Anyone have a link that reports on this "Angel's Glow" before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?

I find nothing.

Are we sure they didn't make it up that "Angel's Glow" ever existed?

I can't find any reference, everything seems to loop.

Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.

The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as 'fact' a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.

[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia "fake", nothing before 2000.

Shiloh National Military Park agrees - https://www.facebook.com/ShilohNMP/posts/567566540000003:0

It's a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what's interesting, make up a legend to "solve", love it.

And it's interest how people blindly believe it, even though it's so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.
Funny. Ten years later, and I recognized it was an older article I’d read before within a sentence or two. That said, without re-reading it, I have no recollection of its conclusion.
Funny how literature suddenly needs to be "rigorous, objective, scientific" when it criticizes communism, even though it's a first hand account written by a political prisoner.

Keep believing that propaganda.
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Docker and SQL Server on Linux
Snapchat to end Snapcash payment system amid fierce competition
New platform for automated ICO investments live on the Ethereum mainnet
Nokia and telcos had a java app store before iPhone even started, so no he didn't invent those.
I find it insane that someone would use an actual lint rule to enforce a best practice about few function parameters (loosely defended by this thin complexity argument).

Functions of appropriate complexity routinely have more than 3 arguments, even in standard library functions.

Why not just use common sense and code review? If a certain function actually needs 10 arguments for customization (for example, this is common in plotting libraries), so be it. If during code review the writer can give a reasonable account of why the complexity is useful, then just move on.

I cannot see any way to defend putting this is a linting rule.
Hey Nathan, I'm very curious about what you mean by "I also don't think they have a very good company culture".

I've been at GitLab since early 2015 (employee #10), and the culture is one of the major reasons why I joined, and stayed. :)

Would you mind elaborating?

For anyone else reading along, our Handbook (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/) covers our culture (and every other aspect of working here) very well.
From one extreme to another isn't quite a good solution IMO. I'd much rather quit and work on something I really care about than pretend I care about my job and put in the bare minimum of work possible. But Ive never been comfortable just punching a clock and taking a pay cheque, being a mindless cog at a big company. So to each his own...
It's hard to tell what it 'observes', it just says HUGE in all caps and then talks about things that aren't in the article.
How to turn an old phone into a remote trigger device
Remind HN: Chrome starts warning for non-HTTPS sites this week
Chrome 68 comes out this week. It will mark all non-HTTPS sites as 'Not Secure'.

You can get free DV HTTPS certs from Cloudflare, Heroku, or Let's Encrypt.

If you want an EV cert, I run CertSimple and we make the verification process a lot faster and less painless by checking your details upfront.
Today I learned that Rust the language, if not the current implementation, could conceivably treat (some) intrinsics as safe.
Not working for this administration. I just quit a DHS contract a few months ago because I didn’t want to have anything to do with what they were doing.
From the actual report: “The average particle size of TiO2 in both skin and lymph nodes was 180 nm with a standard deviation of 23 nm and a standard error of 7 nm.”
Here’s what happened to the cryptocurrencies that celebrities vouched for
Truth, Disrupted |False news spreads online but it can be contained. Here’s how
Watching him flop around the floor, saying "I can't do this, I'm too drunk!" and puke in a toilet while telling that was unenjoyable to watch, for me.

Duncan is so much better on his own podcast or on Joe Rogan Experience talking about things than this. He normally speaks with a lot more enthusiasm and energy, and that's more entertaining.
GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past and Future
What the Indian head wobble really says
Yeah this is very much discouraging you from living in a low cost of living area. After all, compensation should be about the value of the work you're doing. Not the value of the money to you. If we experience high deflation, should my salary go down?!
I had a bunch of friends recommend Calm to me. I started using this morning - here's to paying it forward: https://www.calm.com/
Where my father works (furniture warehouse) they did this somewhat, albeit in a more fair fashion (no salary decrease). Employees were asked to volunteer taking off a couple days a week rather than laying off staff
Very nice. I was recently look for something similar, but with support for markers (eg. add marker "explosion" to video XY at 2:14). Do you plan to implement such feature?
"This story is such bullshit" to "I didn't actually read it" in the space of 2 comments.
Those aren't cool companies, those are just paid a lot.

Cool is working on something that you, personally, find important -- and making progress.

The biggest barrier to that in government is being allowed to make progress, partially because the existing processes have a large inertia, and partially because the cost of failure is so high.
Looks great and helps lay out certain things in a concise manner.

Seeing some visual bugs with headings. https://devhints.io/xpath for example, currently has misaligned sub headers for most of the sections.
I am saying that brain is not a bucket full of chemicals that need to have right balance.
OpenGL still has lots of steam in it and 4.6 was recently released, so it isn't going away anytime soon.

Even on mobile devices, Vulkan is hardly being embraced by Android developers, because it requires Android 7 or later, while being an optional API, which implies a tiny portion of their customer base.

So very few devices support it, to the point Google doesn't think it is worthwhile to display on Android dashboards.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/

http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/vulkansupport.php#android_devices

AMD is also busy trying to cater CAD vendors to adopt Vulkan, with initiatives like V-EZ.

https://gpuopen.com/v-ez-brings-easy-mode-vulkan/

However, if you want to be an engine developer, probably it would be better to have Vulkan knowledge than the APIs that everyone else already knows.

Some guys at Khronos sessions (check their YouTube) stated they would favor candidates in interviews in such cases.

For product development, I am a bit fan of middleware where each API is just a tick box away, though.
Just a note, not all people are wired the same - some people are very good at working long hours and 7 days a week. I've done it at times, and my brother has done it to an extreme before.
SoftBanks move into new services continues with plan for Japan Payment Service
Before air conditioning became accessible, large window fans (like the Homart Cooler - which I own) were very popular in the middle of the country with hot days and cool night (e.g. St Louis).

Not as good as placing one in the attic, but a really effective alternative that can be carried from property to property.
They may have had a standing ovation without the all-nighter we'll never know as we live in the universe where the all-nighter happened
Ask HN: Why is Stripe so rigid with the countries it supports?
I don't understand why Stripe limits its user base - they only support 25 countries, and they're "working on" adding others - is there any reason for that? What work needs to be done to "support" a country? Their competitor paddle.com doesn't care which country one is in - they just ask for the company number and IBAN. Moreover, they impose additional unnecessary limitations. For example, any EU citizen can found a company in e.g. the UK. Such a company can have a connected bank account in any other country. Stripe requires that a British company have a British bank account. This seem unnecessary, but I must assume a big and successful company like Stripe has very good reasons for doing things this way. Could someone shed some light on this?

Also, could someone recommend a different payment system? I cannot use Stripe and Paddle is difficult to work with technically.
OP isn't asserting that what we now consider to be humanism was founded by Luther/Calvin. They're making a (slightly irrelevant) claim that the meaning of the term "humanism" has changed from some sort of Christian humanism to the secular humanism we have today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053
The actual question here is that whether we want, as the global community, them to get where these people and the like want to go. Otherwise it should not be surprising that the more agressive an entreprise is the more it can penetrate various economical areas.
These ideas are very cool, but I don't believe they will see succeed in the mainstream marketplace without price signals.

I also don't trust government bureaucrats to figure this all out, either.

A carbon tax basically would just reward good ideas in the market, and punish the bad ones.

However, almost no one supports it. You get some big figures like Musk and the economist, Mankiw; but both the left and the right of mainstream politics don't want it. The right doesn't want new taxes nor to particularly combat global warming; the left is ideologically opposed to market-based solutions and instead supports big government/power-grab solutions--specifically cap and trade.

TL;DR consider supporting a carbon tax if you like these ideas and want to combat global warming
Show HN: New E-book: “Intro to Bluetooth Low Energy”
Exactly what I was thinking. Surprised to see no mention of FLIF in the article. It's nothing new to do better than PNG and JPEG.

It's HEVC-based, so it might be able to outperform FLIF for in-browser decoding speed.
This was my thought, as well. I've never in my life heard of this purported Goldman and cool association.
Memory: you forget the bad parts
"What is the proposal here?"

You're commenting without reading the article?
South Korea’s Next New Move on Reorganizing Crypto Regulations
A lot of the reason why I personally find >60 wpm difficult is similar to the UI feedback studies that come up on HN from time to time. If I avert my gaze and let my typing become a secondary act it's not as bad, but there are some UI situations where the keypress and UI display can be more than 6-12 characters behind so watching it gives me the feeling that I gave miskeyed something or the software froze. It's part of the reason why I prefer key chord driven autocomplete compared to in place autocomplete from the way it can be visually distracting while trying to keep up.
We already have FLIF.

My understanding is that it's biggest problem is decode speed.
Tesla confirmed something but from that statement it is impossible to determine they confirmed that they are looking cash back from past contracts. It can be read that Tesla confirmed they are looking for price reduction of current contracts some of which may have been established in 2016 but the terms of which have not completed. If suppliers have failed to fully deliver as required under the contracts such as meeting quality or timeline terms it would not be unusual for Tesla to go back to the suppliers to ask for a refund.
Those companies are so big that they are just like the government, except they have only one indicator of success which is financial.
I’m sorry your experience with the federal government was so bad. The article was more focused on government at the local and state level.
> And the answer is: the classical world emerges by a process of decoherence, which is to say, by the creation of large (O(10^23)) networks of entanglements which (it can be shown mathematically) have behavior that is indistinguishable from classical systems.

This is the motivation for decoherence and for the Everettian view where the psi function is "the only real thing" and everything else is derived. It is often talked about as if actually accomplished. But it was not; the behaviour of quantum systems, even with decoherence, was not yet shown to be indistinguishable from the classical systems. Neither the fact that measurements have one outcome, nor Born's rules for probability were derived from this decoherence idea yet. One thing that follows from decoherence hypothesis is decay of coherence elements in density matrices, but this is not enough to get explanation for single outcomes or for Born's rules.
"Isn't the fact that core types don't have a fixed representation a bigger mistake ? "

No. There were problems when 64-bit CPUs came along, but they have been pretty much ironed out, and don't nearly compare to the pervasive bugs that Walter mentions in his article.