skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly finished reading Walter Issacson's Da Vinci and highly recommend it for anyone interested in his life story. It paints a beautiful picture and demystifies his life into a way we can easily see ourselves, if we only take enough time to carefully observe our surroundings, question dogmas, and stay endlessly curious about the subtle and little things in life.
Well, when in a goldrush you should sell pickaxes...
This is your opinion. The opinion of informed observers who are actually doing the work is the opposite - OEMs produce buggy, incomplete drivers and don't care to fix the bugs. In fact, given the choice, they don't want to allow anyone else to dig into their drivers because doing so can only lead to embarrassment. Plus exploits that are discovered are likely to be cross-platform exploits.

Any operating system that wishes stability therefore has to put barriers between themselves and the driver. And, preferably, should use drivers that they can audit themselves rather than trusting OEMs.

As an example of this outside of the open source world, the biggest reason why Windows used to have a reputation for BSODs is that they were dependent on third party drivers. Windows made it harder for third parties to take down their OS, shipped tools to audit drivers for bugs, and forced OEMs to clean up their act. (Which they didn't do voluntarily.)
There are arguable examples, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_sworn_virgins

However, even in the modern west, the existence of FTM transgender people people tends to be largely ignored by society. I think it is a concept that people are even less willing to accept than the idea of MTF transgender people, though I could only speculate why.
It's scales so perfectly we are deploying it across 3 datacenters, each with four 384 core machines with 3 terabytes of RAM. I can't speak highly enough about sqlite and the team behind it.
I work in chargebacks. That isn't true.
>>Restrooms within U.S. urban centers are hard to find, for patrons only

Like you said, find a restaurant, or a Dunking Donuts and buy something...or just sneak in. Look at the menu up as you're thinking and then run to the bathroom. At the places I usually is it I don't feel guilty, if I ate there yesterday I paid for today's bathroom use :)

Public bathrooms are a lot of trouble with cleaning, crime etc and usually are closed at nighttime in parks too. Tech can mitigate some of those concerns but still...
I especially love when these not-links can't be clicked (for God knows what reason) using a stylus, rendering them unusable unless I hook up a mouse.
You can't say, "Use this idealized theory of getting things done that isn't real" and then say "because I'm worried about this demonized theory of getting things don't that hasn't actually happened".
Delete the entire sidebar in dev tools. I know it's not a fool-proof solution, but for the occasional article you want to spend more time reading it is a quick way to remove all those distractions. I do it on sites like that just for my own sanity, because they are constantly finding ways to get around my ad blocker.
Any sort of consulting work is effectively a bespoke product - I don't see how you can get to the point where you can 'mass manufacture' professional services.
==I don't recall hearing it framed as an attempt to push investors into taking on more risk?==

Because that was never the goal. Investors are taking more risks because they have to in order to find return in a world where the interest rate was basically zero for 8 years.
After a long delay, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s bots are finally talking
This is easily solves by using an invisible form with hidden elements...
I say this more as "review again within 24 hrs but not right after class". You need to give yourself some time for your mind to process it and store it. I'd say at least 4 hrs, but preferably before 18.

The method I put forward (not my invention) is based on the idea that you lose information over time, but each time you recall it you lose it more slowly. So if you recall it a bunch of times then by the time you lose it you'll be dead (or don't need it).

As far as what I think you're talking about, I personally have noticed an inverse effect when studying RIGHT before bed. I attribute this to me being tired and thus not engaged. I think engagement is more important than dreaming about the subject (if you are engaged, you probably will dream about it). I do dream A LOT, but I don't typically dream about things I study. Typically.
we have been using this page locking technology for quite a while now and it works incredibly well. Having both read and write concurrency is super powerful and scales fantastically.
As i recall, most heroin overdoses happen when someone tries to get clean, slips, and ends up injecting a dose based on unknown purity and fails to account for their loss of tolerance.
Many of these rounds are replacements for what would otherwise be IPOs or other public financing rounds.

Flywire was founded in 2009 and in 2017 processed over $2B in payments. [1] Gusto was founded in 2011 with a rumored valuation of over a billion and $100M+ in revenues. Convene was founded in 2009 and was doing $18.6M in revenue in 2015 [2]. All of them have acquired other companies.

Before 2000 these would be public companies; hell, before 2000 there were public companies that were barely 2 years old and had virtually no revenue. The investors for these rounds are largely the same firms who would be playing in the public markets.

[1] https://www.flywire.com/pT/articles/how-two-boston-startups-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/companies/convene/
1. There are almost as many foreigners in Tokyo as there is in China.

2. Most of us left because of the really really bad pollution. You can’t have kids breathing that.

3. I was based in Beijing, not Shanghai.
Show HN: Tzconv – Time converter with timezone fuzzy search
@lewis500 is your code for the live visuals publicly available?
The road to bipedalism wasn’t straight and narrow
Bitcoin Investor Sues AT&T After Losing $23M in SIM Swap Hack
> It is filled to the brim with backwards compatibility hacks that make the code more complex than it strictly needs to be

They finally ended sqlite4 as an architectural misadventure, but perhaps they should try again with the current codebase/features but all of the backwards cruft jettisoned.
Launch HN: The Buttermilk  Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
Hey HN,

I’m Mitra Raman, the founder/CEO of The Buttermilk Company (https:///www.thebuttermilkco.com). We help you make authentic, fresh Indian food in 5 minutes by just adding water to our products.

As an Indian-American in my 20s, I grew up eating my mom’s homemade Indian food everyday. When I moved away from home to attend Carnegie Mellon University, I was homesick for the first time and realized how hard it was to find anything that resembled my mom’s food. I either had to make it myself (finding the Indian grocery store + following my mom’s recipe took way too much time) or would settle for whatever generic dishes at the local Indian restaurant. The options were expensive, time-consuming, or tasted horrible.

Two years into my job as an Software Engineer at Amazon, I asked my mom to help me make her rasam. She gave me all the ingredients in a ziploc bag and told me to just add hot water! I asked my friends about how they coped with homesickness and realized that most parents were also figuring out their own ways of getting their kids’ favorites foods to them when they moved. That’s how the idea for Buttermilk started!

We crowdsource our recipes from real people (keeping our product truly authentic) and develop them into products that are super easy for our customers to make. If you’ve ever asked your mom to send a family recipe to you, you know how hard it is to get this right! Our team spends hours in the kitchen tweaking each recipe so we can prep and cook it just enough that the customer can complete the cooking with water. We have to be careful to not over-prep such that the taste and nutritional value erode over time.

We use fresh and non-GMO ingredients, make everything from scratch (seriously, even the garam masala), and deliver our perishable products in sustainable packaging. Our production is extremely detail-oriented and time-consuming because we are recreating recipes for one family into large-scale batches that need to maintain the quality of its original recipe. To improve efficiency, we have built software to track food production, predict incoming volume, and help our production and fulfillment teams communicate. We’re also exploring new shelf-life extension technologies (such as HPP) so our products can last a lot longer. Currently, they must be refrigerated for 5-7 days or frozen for up to 3 months -- if you don’t eat them before then, that is!

In terms of market size: there are over 4 million Indian immigrants in the U.S. This demographic, like all other ethnic groups, is poorly served by the existing food options when it comes to their cuisines. And of course there is the population of everyone who just likes Indian food and can’t find or make it! Though we are starting with Indian cuisine, we definitely don't plan to stop there. The market for ethnic foods in the U.S. is at least $5B. But in good startup style, we've started with the specific problem we ourselves had.

We’re super eager to hear your feedback, ideas, and experiences in this space or as it relates to our type of product.
Not just 19th century:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattles-5-million...

less privacy as a design choice seems to be very deliberate
Live in the van hacking is on the rise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4kJrhjzaY
>> Throughout ages, across continents and cultures, gender fluidity and the concept of a third gender consistently reappears: the hijras in India; the Meti in Nepal; the Fa’afafine in Samoa; the ‘two-spirit’ people in North America. They are not the exception, we are.

Really? This is four cultures. Are there not many, many more where gender is generally seen as fixed and binary?
Better to call this “asset inflation”, not to be confused with good old fashioned consumer inflation.

Given that we’re talking about high-risk, high-return investments of foreign money I don’t see why asset inflation is a particularly important factor - such investments will always be appealing. This money is being used to create good jobs and expand the real economy.

Inflation of existing assets, not startups, is far more problematic for QE, e.g. housing, stock market, where there’s no value being created.
PyPI will no longer accept passwords that have been published in data breaches
They have a graph in the article that showed foreign ownership (not necessary as investment) that showed it at around 3% for NZ over all, with between 5-10% in popular places (Queenstown and Auckland)
Ask HN: What are the most promising alternatives to Deep Learning?
Peeoogle...ads based on your instant urine analysis.
At the end of the day Influx is going to be cerchunking along like the square wheel garbage collection is with occasional wild memory and latency gyrations. Couple with that a log structured tree for more "fun".

C doesn't guarantee you wont do things like that, but Timescale is built in such a way as to minimize most of this kind of extreme waste in patrols with full postgres user experience.
Working at any of the big tech companies gives you zero experience in growing a small company.

Startups don't care about Salesforce or Arabic translations before they are many years old and have thousands of employees.
why can't he use the free cloudflare?

A static website cached by cloudflare seems very vanilla.

Also, why S3? this seems very easy to do with Linode or anything else similarly cheap or cheaper ($20 gets you a KVM VPS with 2 Gb nowadays)

Unless you have to regenerate constantly, all it needs is nginx, to serve the pages to Cloudflare edges when thry drop out of the cache
This is patently false[0]. (This is the largest population I could find)

The reason it looks this way is because Western culture has systemic oppositional sexism and views female gender roles as performative and artificial (the way our culture expects women to always be wearing makeup being one of many examples), subsequently trans women are far more salacious of a topic to the general public, whereas trans men are erased because our culture sees them as trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps from a position of inferiority to a position of power. (That must be it right?!?)

If you’re interested I’d highly recommend the book “Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano.

[0]http://gids.nhs.uk/number-referrals
Wikipedia (and my personal experience) disagrees:
"Pay toilets are especially common in Continental Europe."

"In the United States, pay toilets became much less common from the 1970s, when they came under attack from feminists as well as from the plumbing industry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet

Rest stops along freeways in the U.S. are almost always free. Gas stations and restaurants and convenience stores will sometimes have a sign that restrooms are "For customers only" but there is almost never a charge specifically to use the restroom. In Europe, driving through the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and France, almost all restrooms where you didn't pay to enter the area required a separate fee. I remember specifically being surprised at the fee required to enter the restroom at a McDonald's in Europe.
That is not a very good argument, akin to " 'Salads are healthy' is something Hitler would say". And? Since when someone despicable uttering something invalidates what was said by contamination, taken so out of context?
Internet Census (2012 Paper) – Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices
Theoretically that might be the goal. In my experience data melts away like butter on btrfs.
Right. It’s a moot comparison.

They all have healthcare when they need it and have no health-related bankruptcies or anxiety over such. Having a part-time job isn’t crippling to their health and safety. Their transportation systems are cutting edge as well.

If you combine only the tangible cost benefits of healthcare and transportation availability, that should account for approximately the difference in disposable income.
An Unprecedented Look at a Young Woman’s Face Transplant
T-Mobile is completely overhauling how its customer service works
I don't believe the Yubikey is the problem as much as the U2F spec. Public key crypto solves this nicely, because one can carry all the public keys and only a single private key. When I think of backup keys, I think multiple keys, not duplicate keys. Having a duplicate of the U2F key is a bigger problem for security than those outlined here. Being unable to duplicate the Yubikey is a feature, not a bug.
"Google has 88k employees today, almost 20 years of existence, and an average tenure of about two years. I would estimate that people who have worked at Google and learned valuable lessons, and able to secure director-level roles in start-ups to be in the thousands; many have gone to Facebook (25k employees, 14 years, similar retention). There are hundreds of people who similarly left Facebook for Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Booking, Coinbase, etc. I personally know at least a dozen who made that move before their new employer raised more money, and can name three friends who went from Google to Facebook and to a third now-10B$ company, moving to pre-IPO company each time."

So basically, you're counting almost anyone who worked at a big company or a successful startup in the last 20 years, even though virtually none of these people have any experience founding or building a company.
Timsort: Python's Fastest sorting algorithm for real world problems
To describe it as a "beauty" means it is beautiful by definition. The point is that it undergoes a transformation in your head upon some deeper meaning being revealed.
Eh, there's plenty of videos on living inside storage units: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=living%20in%20s...
Crown League launches as first blockchain-based fantasy football offering
> but SQLite is definitely well-engineered.

Considering it was written for the U.S. Navy to run software on guided missile destroyers, that makes sense.
Most affordable housing today was once the luxury housing of the past. Since WWII we went from 1 billion people to over 7 and no one could plan for that. The housing crisis is a population crisis.
I think that pitch significantly misaligns with the goals of most VCs. If you promised them "how about we partner up to earn billions of dollars?" you would probably find many more people willing to invest.
Is the xlib here as framework really the right backend? I have not much skill in this area so I can't say. In web development when someone claims he's written the shortest version of A and imports library B then usually the actually important code is written in B and he simply used A to configure the library to give the corresponding outputs he desires. Like "I wrote the shortest calculator ever: import Windows.Calculator; new Windows.Calculator();"
Yeah, I use beamer for (text + math + plot)-only content but as soon as any video or animation is needed, gotta switch to ppt or keynote
Isn't this affected that its difficult to get true random by computers? Its more pseudo random and therefore the chance is not real chance but predictable.
Well, the obvious solution is to design our Kernel's on Kubernetes.
Quite a few societies have some concept of a third gender, and sometimes more than that. Most Western examples are 19th century or later (at least post-classical; the ancient Greeks had a couple), but there are multiple far older examples in other parts of the world.
Many Americans have no idea Puerto Rico is part of the United States or that we bombed the island when an independence movement broke out; I'm not really sure you can attribute that to their iron grip on the media. Or educated people are baffled as to why North Korea would distrust them. Honestly, you could make a lot of these criticisms of any place.
Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Deep Learning
Question, is the point of HIG-compliance to make everything look exactly the same on a platform? Or is it to nail down some abstract sense of what makes UI intuitive to use?

It seems like people with this viewpoint pay lip service to the latter goal, which allows for trends like Material Design so long as they fit with the guidelines, while really wanting the former, which to me looks like nothing more than tilting at windmills.

I'd post screenshots of our current CMS work, where we have a design staff working earnestly to make everything super-intuitive, but HN doesn't do image management so this discussion will be sadly deprived of examples.
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If they own a house, they are paying taxes, so they do have significant skin in the game. They pay property taxes despite not using the local schools or most other city services.

As far as not allowing housing as a speculative financial investment, there are some significant unintended consequences there.
I'm sure there is a way to tell TikZ about that.

In Inkscape you would just shift-click all words and click the baseline icon in the align-and-distribute panel.

The thing with preparing figures is that you want to iterate rapidly on small changes. That works so much better without a mental context switch between code and result and without having to wait for the compilation to finish (significant if the figure is embedded in a large document).

If you had to prepare hundreds of very similar diagrams that all need to look great, then I could understand the point of using TikZ for such a job.

Typesetting document text is different because LaTeX does a great job by default.
Oh, people can abuse anything. Maybe they want their CSS all in-line at the top of the dynamic HTML. So they run the preprocessor during page generation on the server.

Use a separate CSS via link tag? Oh no, I heard that was slow. Set expires cache header for 1 day? Oh no, that makes testing hard for me and what if the CSS changes?

Web developers sometimes use the dumbest reasons to avoid doing good things.
Who is dressing up as a monk?
It's better to have buggy, incomplete drivers than no drivers at all.
It's actually pretty easy to calculate. Labor costs can account for up to 70% of total business costs so, out of $100, roughly $70mm is spent on salaries. The "one-third rule" for landlords to determine eligibility for rent means you can spend up to roughly 33% of your income on rent. So 33% out of $70mm is $23 million. You can say that 23% of every VC dollar goes towards landlords.
No you’re not Dumb.

One of the big harmful failures of mainstream education lies in its framing learning as being successful at said education. Learning as memorizing information which can be tested and measured to meet the needs of the institution. The fact that students need to be forced and threatened in order to go through the process, and that this process kills interest and intrinsic motivation don’t seem to alarm the institutions about their approach, and are accepted as a fact of life.

Similarly, academia seems to try to prepare people for ... academia.

The best advice I’ve heard about college is to focus on creating connections and lasting relationships so you end up having a lot of connections in the industry of your choice. This can be tremendously helpful in highly collaborative professions like filmmaking or software.

As for learning, I invite you to see it as a process of becoming and adapting, not as a process of memorization. Adapting to school and academia (grades, tests, reciting back information) is helpful to the institution but not necessarily for you.

Often the real learning happens on the job, in an apprenticeship context, where you adapt to the job itself. Some career paths, like medicine and law, require unusual amounts of memorization but people who are not this type of learners get weeded out early in the process.

Lastly, I recommend Sir Ken Robibson’s Ted talk on schools and creativity. An eye opener.
>the ones with business models that can both be executed on and monetized profitably to > $100MM revenue/yr can probably be counted on two hands (e.g. GitHub, Plenty Of Fish, Braintree, GoPro).

If you or even a small handful of people own 100% of a company, you don't need $100MM ARR to get rich beyond need.

You won't become Bezos but bootstrapped companies don't need to become unicorns to make everyone there be filthy rich. There are tons of people who bootstrapped companies and are very well-off from it.
Why is it that when the price drops, consumers would want to buy more and producers would necessarily want to produce less?

If I was a company director and the price of the commodity that I produced dropped by a lot, I would work harder to produce more of the commodity to offset the lower profit margins; that way I could earn the same bonus at the end of the year in order to make the payment for the mortgage on my yacht.

Also in the case of cryptocurrencies, it doesn't seem to work the way the graph suggests; when the price goes up, people buy more.
No, but fast enough, more secure, more flexible, easier to understand design tends to equate better design.
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The site you work on is blank if Javascript is turned off. I do not see anything in particular on the home page that should require Javascript to render.
On this topic, David Blaine's TED talk about holding his breath for 17 minutes is probably the most interesting TED talk there is.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_...
He’s talking about asset inflation, not consumer inflation.
If it were more involved to write a WM, then I'd say that would be an opportunity for a library to fill the gap ...
China is 3000 years years old and still considered an emerging market. Why do you think that is?
But pain is subjective by definition. What does "imaginary pain" mean? The answer can only include some notion of "cause."