skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
27 degrees is still relatively cool. As somebody else said above:

> You can't beat the laws of thermodynamics. When the wet bulb temperature reaches the human body's natural 37 degrees Celsius, it'll be impossible for the body to expel heat via sweating (evaporative cooling). At that point no amount of adaptation will help, and humans need technology to stay alive.
I think he was actually wearing it yesterday when he wrote that message!
Businesses are run by people too, lots of policies are burdens to doing business with minimal public benefit.
>”funding consists of €12 million in equity and a new €25 million debt facility. Building an inventory of new tech products to rent is quite capital insensitive, after all.“

> “if Grover’s subscription model becomes compelling enough, it’s hoped that purchasing many tech products will become so unattractive as to create Netflix-level changes in consumption behaviour. Or, at least, that’s the aim. In my case, that would mean spending far less time recycling things like smartphones and music technology gear on eBay as I tread a well-trodden and perpetual upgrade path.“

Questions to consider:

1) This business requires upfront capex into depreciating hardware with the hope that users are sticky. And users would be sticky partially because they would succeed in changing general attitudes towards ownership. Does this seem plausible?

2) If this works, there is going to be a gold-rush style copycats (since TAM is big). How could they fend off copycats? ie another company giving iPhone X at $x/mo, where x is 50-cents lower than Grover.

3) Out of General curiousity, does an average person have this problem? (Of wanting consumer electronics on $x/mo, so they can upgrade?).

4) All leasing businesses have an end of life value problem — I always thought that consumer electronics has a big EOL problem (worse than cars, say) in that they don’t have a second-hand market. It’s either recyclers or landfill. In that scenario, isn’t consumer electronics the worst place to start a leasing business. (They mention laptops for businesses; that makes more sense, because first, it’s B2B (TCO and cash flow matters) and there is some secondary market). What am I missing?
i like it how they just want to process 1 length instructions (32bit). that's so much easier to build for debuggers/assemblers etc. i think it's a good move to allow for people to write custom OS onto it. As the more complicated aspects of generating machine code have gone, it's easier to write targeted compilers, assemblers and debuggers etc. i find this very interesting choice!
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You're making an argument of rational self interest, which doesn't at all speak to morality.

Imagine a company that maintains a culture of grooming executives through the ranks. After reviewing their data, they find that more women than men leave to start families. Are they then justified to hire only men, or more subtly divert resources to only groom male junior employees?

OK, so an Ivy League school wants to continue with policies with racist outcomes because it's better for the school. It's probably going to stay legal for quite some time, so they'll be free to continue. But they shouldn't receive a dime of government money, and will deserve the scorn they'll be viewed with in history.
What I leaned in addition to the sleep trick:

> Execution in bash is performed line by line and so the speed that bash can ingest data is limited by the speed of execution of the script.

So even without any clever detection logic, thinking of curl | bash as "downloading a script, then immediately executing it" is already wrong.

It's more "give this remote host a poor man's shell to my machine and hope that they will always execute the same sequence of commands on it".
Again with the Prop 13?

I'm about to give up, and let history repeat itself.

Yes--if an child inherits a house, they can inherit the property tax their parents paid, if they fill out the paperwork within 120 days-- I believe. Multiple children usually inherit the family home, with the eventual angry sale. The home goes back on the market, and full property taxes are paid.

Most kids aren't inheriting mansions. The're usually track houses in need of repairs. Most of the kids had blue collar parents, and never thought their bungalow would be worth a million dollars.

It's really getting old. If the younger set had any idea how politicians wasted that Prop 13 money; we wouldn't be blaming our current problems on Prop 13.

Blame your boss who who just has to live in the best neighborhood, with the best climate.

I guarantee if Prop 13 was repealed REITS, rich foreigners, and Zuckerburg types would swoop in and buy up most of the stock, and rent it back to employees.

Person who didn't see their dad crying at the dinner table, "But at least we would have more tax money?". Look at how your county spends your property taxes now; Not so good?
I description is very precise, but the tone implies a value judgement - is it intentional?
Except in practice individual slices all go bad at (roughly) the same time. If a block of cheese goes moldy you can just slice off the mold and keep going. Cheese goes bad outside-in, pre-sliced cheese has way more surface area.
ripping off one big corporate via a game named to a big banker. classic. they should give this man a medal!
It is reasonable to claim that without mutually assured destruction, the Cold War could have been a warm one.

CND et al never campaigned for the Soviets to disarm, for them it was always about clearing the way for a Soviet expansion westwards.
The ex-army man taking on the big data dark arts
Here's a naive conversion to Smalltalk (tested in Pharo) going up to N=30....

| rec results |

rec := [ :y :z | 108 - (815 - (1500 / z) / y) ].
results := { 4. 425/100. } asOrderedCollection.

3 to: 30 do: [ :i |
results add: (rec value: (results at: i - 1) value: (results at: i - 2)).
].

results doWithIndex: [ :each :i |
Transcript show: i; tab; tab; show: each asFloat; cr.
].

Output:

1	4.0
2	4.25
3	4.470588235294118
4	4.644736842105263
5	4.770538243626063
6	4.855700712589074
7	4.910847499082793
8	4.945537404123916
9	4.966962581762701
10	4.980045701355631
11	4.987979448478392
12	4.992770288062068
13	4.995655891506634
14	4.997391268381344
15	4.998433943944817
16	4.999060071970894
17	4.999435937146839
18	4.999661524103767
19	4.9997969007134175
20	4.999878135477931
21	4.9999268795046
22	4.999956127061158
23	4.9999736760057125
24	4.999984205520272
25	4.999990523282228
26	4.99999431395856
27	4.999996588371256
28	4.9999979530213565
29	4.999998771812312
30	4.999999263087206
I see your point, but here's the thing; moms _already_ have virtually-mandatory parental leave.

Giving birth ranges from "extremely exhausting" to "life-alteringly horrendous" (sometimes life-threateningly). Breastfeeding, something widely recognized as extremely beneficial to the infant, is incredibly demanding, and they will do it 10+ times a day when they're newborns. If nothing else, we're mammals - our infants really aren't ready to be dumped in to daycare when they're 2 weeks old.

As it stands, we do not have a way to take the burdens I named above and split them between fathers and mothers equally. In light of that, women will _always_ have to deal with employers worried about whether they'll have a kid. Making paternity leave equal levels the playing field.

Instead of making it "mandatory" you can make it "use it or lose it" and that might do the trick, unless you work for a horrible company (though many people do...). Nobody seems to mind mandated vacation days where I live. In fact, it's the only way to make sure vacation is actually taken (see also: BS "unlimited vacation")
There are lots of versions of the "works in practice, but does it work in theory?" anecdote. Most times I've heard it, the "does it work in theory" guy is either french or american and the topic of conversation is some element of the post-WWII Marshal Plan.

Anyway... This is a policy area that (in my estimation) just doesn't lend well to philosophical theorizing. This (more contentiously, but also IMO) which means we need to watch out for the French and the Americans.
They will want to solve the theory part of the problem in a theoretically ound way, without inelegant hacks or "this seems to work" solutions.

Just to state the obvious, the problem is: "How do we improve maternity benefits and (maybe) increase fertility, without undermining women in the workplace."

Theoretically) the problem is almost impossible to solve. In practice, there are all sorts of things that help or hurt, some of them surprising.

For example, it seems to be the case that "shift work" (anywhere from fast food to paediatrics) is way better for mothers. In a shift job, if you aren't in your seat, someone else is. Work doesn't pile into your backlog, waiting for you to come back. This means jobs are better defined, and can therefore be more easily parceled out.

Ironically, shift work turns out to be more flexible in ways that matter to working mothers. It doesn't lend to flextime and work from home, but it does lend to job sharing, flexible loading and such.

The trend is in the opposite direction though. A lot more modern jobs (especially good ones at technology companies) tend to be built around individuals. You might have 3 "sr developers" on a single team, but they generally can't step into eachothers' shoes flexibly. Each one plays a unique role.

It's almost impossible to reconcile such tidbits of specific, practical knowleedge with a wider abstract theory of labour, contracts, freedom and such. But, it is possible to make more maternity (and paternity) friendly policies by understanding them.
It's confusing for me and i speak English as first language.
What product designers can learn from game theory
Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? (2016)
Thanks! Openmaptiles looks like it might be exactly what I'm looking for at work. Enjoy the conference. I didn't know it existed but hopefully I can get my company to send me next year.
No, that’s what you get when a young, productive adult joins a community and enculturates to it. It’s why universities are happy to “adopt” new human beings into their communities: they can charge you for your net-negative production years at the university (undergrad), turning them into net-zero years; and then they will begin getting net-positive returns from you (either through TAing during graduate studies; or researching for your Ph.D and then having your IP confiscated and profited off of; or just going into industry and then making large alumni donations.)

Your community will only get net-negative returns when a human is raised through their teenage years in your community, and then leaves, gets enculturated by some other community, and never comes back. This usually breeds resentment—think lower-class urban youth who go on to university and enculturate to the upper-middle-class culture there. If they come back to visit their old family and friends, they will see them as “acting as if they’re too good for us.”

The resentment is usually for a good reason: once you’ve enculturated away from your home culture, you don’t tend to care much about it any more! So, unlike people who retain their home culture in another community, you won’t do things like sending money home to family, or coming back to help build or lead the community, once you have acquired the resources to do so.
That room picture looks so homely and 90's!
Your link will not work for all Systemd users, might want to mention that.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6224#issuecomment-...
SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure
I keep hearing about this e-residency, but what can you actually do with it? What is it useful for?
The structure of the Milky Way
Current RISC-V chips are still proprietary, it's only the ISA that is free.

As for firmware, that's already pretty open with ARM.

You can boot a Tegra X1 (Google Pixel C, Nintendo Switch) without any blobs with coreboot. (You still want one tiny blob — DDR4 training stuff — if you want your RAM not to be super slow.)

Allwinner and Rockchip platforms also tend to not have blobs, at least not user visible/modifiable ones.

You can even boot a Raspberry Pi without blobs https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware (but without usb/ethernet/etc.)
Most rape trials fail to secure a conviction though, and that's when it's actually reported, majority of cases are not.

>The threat of serious legal reprisal deters criminals of all sorts

And yet we have plenty of crime..
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New Fully Regulated Cryptocurrency Exchange Launches
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this?
The headlined article actually explicitly tells us that it is in fact nowhere near as good as an average human.
Tangentially related: "The start of a relay race" picture was not taken at an indoor swimming pool, but the open-air Dawn Fraser Baths, which are really just a fenced-off section off the Parramatta River. This is Australia's oldest public swimming pool and it's still open today, essentially unchanged from what it was in the 1880s.

https://www.sydney.com/destinations/sydney/inner-sydney/balm...
Do you have a source for him monetizing his channel much later? The way he describes it in this video[1], he says he made a series for HBO (around 2010), then a couple films, then shifted his focus to youtube. It sounds like he considered it at that time his main income source. The youtube partner program launched in 2007. Even if he wasn't monetized right away, the idea of monetization in the future was likely a motivation. In this video[2] he describes his dream as making money making videos.

The video you linked was uploaded in 2016, certainly long after he started monetizing his videos. The title doesn't seem to be aimed at sharing information with future generations. The title is vague and non-descriptive. It's in all caps and clickbaity. The title is nearly the same as this over video of his[3] which is about a completely different event. Many of his other videos have vague clickbaity titles and thumbnails, sometimes the titles are misleading.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Y-ahQFQDA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_z48aJD5o

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJoDRUybisw
I remember being taught that the symbol was a chicken foot. (implying "too chicken" to fight)

If it helps any, imagine the middle part to be a Corvair B-36 Peacemaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

A history of the logo ought to note that numerous variations were made, some with the B-36, and many more with the B-52.
> the banking situation in the US is just amazingly bad

At one time I used to get paid from a US employer's Bank of America account. I also had an account in the same bank, but transferring the money between our accounts in the same bank took 3 days. I presume due to some split between business/personal banking, but still absolutely ridiculous. We switched to sending the payments to my European account through SWIFT, and those payments happened same-day.
Sure, you don't get your own secure boot, but the point is, it's not "omg apple lockdown no third party OS possible at all"
From what I can gather, this is only in the test stage and has not yet been fabricated yet. They are testing this using FPGA
No, if you set f <- 42 between the moment where you define f as a function and the moment where you call it then it doesn't work anymore:

> f(5)
Error in f(5) : could not find function "f"
A lottery is such an obvious solution that we can only conclude that the people who developed the Harvard admission process are irredeemable racists.
Funny how you substituted culture for the word application in the OP. Is it your belief that college applications are the sum total of Asian culture?
Not really. There was never a single kingdom which encompassed the whole of India as it geographically exists. Never in history.
Also, Amazon did not succeed in China; is second in India - is throwing $$ for last many years to be number one but victory is nowhere in sight.

Amazon is utlimately collection of good, mediocre and bad PMs, Devs, Designers.
How is BTC any better than USD or EUR for laundering money?
It's a private university. Why shouldn't you be able to buy your way in?
It's a chicken foot. The match is a very good fit, and logically it fits with one meaning of the word "chicken" -- that is, to not be brave.
English is my second language and I did not want to sound rude. I meant 'the guy that is supposed to be the biological father and he is not but he doesn't know'. In Spanish, we have a very rude word for these men: 'Los cornudos'. I love the conciseness in languages but I don't like to sound rude in HN. Sorry! ;-)
Survivorship bias in swimsuits is not something I have thought of before, glad someone is doing something about it and I really mean that. I am sure that cycling kit also falls prey to the same lycra problems, this you can see if you look at the gear that a very well seasoned cycle tourist wears compared to a cyclist that has only recently started to get all the gear.

On the more general topic of survivorship bias and historical artifacts, think of how much stuff was made of wicker for almost all of it to bio-degrade. If a society can weave wicker then that is all the home furnishings sorted, no fancy tools needed. Yet, nothing is left for the historical record. Previous civilisations could have had the comfiest chairs known to man yet the archaeologists could come along and, sitting in plastic chairs, assume the 'group of savages' never made it as far as the Stone Age.
What I have written was:

> And then there is the issue that even Swing/JavaFX/SWT are better supported that whatever .NET Core UI framework one can think of.

Try to use GUI designers and commercial component libraries for Swing/JavaFX/SWT and then try to use GUI designers XNA/FNA, Qt and Gtk+ while using only C# code.

I am speaking about production quality GUI tooling with commercial support, not a legacy framework abandoned by Microsoft due to their internal politics, or some bindings written over a couple of weekends that still rely mostly on C++.
Anecdotal: in last three generations of my family we had three confirmed incidents of this. It's only what we know.
Including my own first marriage (I divorced, though it wasn't a secret, since the marriage de facto already did not exist by that time)

Not 30% but not 1-2 also..
this is correct. power corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely. simple fact. it's actually one of the most basic aspects of security. This is why you need to split up responsibilities, and in some cases even obfuscate an end-goal to someone in the middle. That helps them not to see opportunities to corrupt. you can be very ethical, and say you wouldn't go for those millions. but probarbly in that case, ou already have millions (perhaps gathered similarly) or no opportunity ever present itself to you in such fashion because your employers take good care to prevent that.

simple example:
what if you are the person to take, process and finalize orders at a company? You can take all their money. If you split these into 3 separate tasks, none of them can do anything. (because social factors will have more chance to keep the 3 in normal working order, where only 1 is easily to corrupt without 2 other holding them steady.)

It's unbeleivable such large coorporations still have these kind of issues. over complicated structures in my opinion, where people stop seeing the forest through the trees so to speak, and lose sight of these important matters.
What signals do you expect will be in place in the world five years before the creation of human-level general AI?

Dog-level general AIs barking around?
One of the points is that settlements systems are private permissioned blockchains, which don't take advantage of one of the main innovations of the public blockchains, i.e. decentralised trust. Interestingly I noticed that the recent Bank of England Real Time Gross Settlement Proof of Concept report[0] didn't even use the term "blockchain", preferring instead to use the term "distributed ledger technology" - I wonder if they are concerned about negative connotations the term "blockchain" might be starting to have.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/payments/r...
Ask HN: How can I being a developer help my girlfriend sell art online?
I have a girlfriend who I believe is a good artist. However, she doesn't know where and how to begin selling art online. Is there any way I could help her? Maybe I could build a small online shop? Or something? Thanks a lot.
That doesn't sound especially left on this issue. Welfare and safety nets are normally accepted as a good thing in the centre and on the left, in varying degree.

In practice if you're young, junior or working for a jerk (or a high hours constant death march startup) the choice becomes work through and let partner do it alone, or get fired. For the rest it is a case of how confident you are in your tenure, seniority and perhaps number of years in the workplace how you will react to your employer hinting strongly to just take a couple of days.

What's needed is strong enough legislation such that anyone who wants to support their partner can, and the few who have to work can do also. I'd much prefer for it become an accepted norm, and for those who don't to be the unusual case. It has benefits for both the parents and the child.

Your last point immediately begs the question what about all the rest? Why on earth are they paying for straight middle class kid's education, healthcare, child allowance etc. Why on earth are they paying for pensions of those no longer working? That way lies the abolition of all social safety nets and ultimately pay yourself or sink. I don't want to live there thank you. :)
I'd add nanotechnology -- a "grey goo" scenario.
>”But here’s where it fails”

The answer in the article is: “Products that aren’t daily, but still hugely valuable” — like a Payroll system, LinkedIn etc. (there are many!). And...yes, these businesses should not have DAU/MAU as their goal.

Andrew is quite brilliant, and recently joined A16Z as a partner — but this specific essay is quite ordinary, and lacks insight. His prior piece, which is a compendium of essays written by others on “Marketplaces” is quite good.
Previous discussion, about 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15684225
Kids have nothing to do with the honesty of your partner.
The only solution I see is to launch a JIT translator (cough QEMU cough) whenever an illegal instruction exception pops, and hope for the best. Certainly not the best choice not to support RVC when everybody else does.
my thinking is basically: I'm not trying to sell, they're trying to buy - I don't need a quick cash infusion so not selling is my default, but if they want to convince me to sell they should be willing to pay a premium on top of market rate.
I remember Spike Lee was on Late Show and he wore a necklace with a big, very obvious Mercedes logo, but he thought it was the peace symbol. Stephen Colbert teased him about it, but ol' Spike didn't take it well at all.
"Los cornudos" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold
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