skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(this was meant to be snarky. i'm just a developer with a calendar app that requests location data to humbly provide location place recommendations... no monetization, no sharing of this data, and it's essential to being able to fill out the "location" field accurately. this constant stream of negative attacks against apps not built by FAANG is destroying trust in independent apps, due to the actions of a few bad actors. ironically, this is just driving people back to a handful of monopolies who monetize user data in-house. the winner here is google (and, let's be honest, they are probably already doing something with the location data we're sending them to get the nearest place ids).)
Slack Passive Aggressive Office Simulator
Autonomous unmanned sailboat completes 2 month mission
TSLA is horribly run and managed. Another responder already mentioned the losses from TSLA itself, but I think the SolarCity bailout is proof enough.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2016/07/12/ba...
oh and btw, I didn't mean that as a burden to homeless people, but as a data point. It's worth knowing for everybody else, if you know how few they need, we can all give them a bit every day.
Best comnet ever.
In my area, local journalism had a sharp decline as soon as the
publisher began requiring Facebook authentication for comments on the
online stories. Previously there had been at least a dozen comments on
any major story and now there are always zero. Apparently throwaway
accounts can be most critical when the audience is your closest
neighbors, especially when a poster is associated with a local
business.

(Admittedly, there had been some abuse of the online comments and the
publisher did save money in the short term by dropping any moderator
effort from the payroll costs.)
The whole motor industry is quite crazy if anyone stops to think about it. Changing the fuels and technologies used still doesn't remove much of the irrational craziness that's inherent. Going further, building multilayered tunnels right throughout LA as a 'best solution' to excessive single occupancy vehicle use is also not all that rational.
That's essentially what she believes as well. The only intent she ascribes to Google is a desire to keep people on the site, which, of course, is that point of any recommendation engine.
That's because of bad keming
If I had one grain of wisdom I could impart to most geeks, it would be to impart the value of truly watching and listening.

That thing you're building? Find someone who's really good at the current way it's done.

Sit and watch them. Don't talk, just observe and understand.

After you've sat silently for awhile, then ask any questions you have.

Your product will be immeasurably better in at least one way.
Are you new around here? There’s a vocal set of diehard contrarians that insist LG was the true pioneer and Apple just has better marketing, the iPhone wasn’t a better product.

It’s the most successful consumer electronics product in history, but some still are in denial.
Are you suggesting that India and similarly deforested nations will decide they need paper so badly that they'll pay to ship it from USA? Rather than just cutting down the last trees they have, or (more likely) continuing to use plastic? They can't afford virtue-signaling frivolities like we can. If recycled cardboard packaging makes so much sense why are we shipping paper waste to China and anywhere else that will take it? Answer: landfills overseas aren't as embarrassing for "recycling" programs as landfills in the same county.

Personally I have nothing against paper/cardboard packaging. However, I note that people in USA have chosen plastic packaging for many applications. We can assume that the same reasons that motivate us, also motivate others. They also have other issues, like poverty. More regressive taxes on these populations will lead to more children dying of starvation.

As another comment noted, the way to actually fix the plastic pollution problem (distinct from the plastic cleanup problem that TFA targets) is to identify the watersheds that produce 95% of the plastic, and then help them set up modern garbage handling at price points that those people can actually afford to use. They are very poor, which is why they're polluting in the first place. Also many of these watersheds are islands with few suitable landfill locations. Instead of talking about silly things like laws that should be passed in other nations, let's talk about how much aid will be required to actually fix this problem.
Ask HN: Proven my startup idea but I am terrified of quitting my job
Most Q/A about quitting your job on HN that I've seen are about unproven ideas and usually the advice is NOT quit your job until there is some revenue and you can see the growth.

I am in a situation where I feel extremely confident about my idea, I have already gotten data that it works and the market opportunity is huge. I've made prototypes, code base is improving day by day and I feel 100% confident about the technical capabilities I need to pull it off. There is some revenue as well.

I work in a big Fortune Top 100 company with excellent benefits and its very hard to find time. By the time I come home, I am exhausted - both mentally and physically. Every day is the same and I just can't find time to properly focus on my startup. Weekends usually are full of random things (fixing things in house, car, or wedding to attend or family stuff) and even if I have 1 full day on the weekend, it is not enough. Months have passed by and I feel like I will never be able to grow my startup unless I quit and work full time on it.

Any advice would be appreciated, especially from founders who remember their late days before quitting a solid well paid job. That last moment where you pull the trigger and bail out to pursue your dreams.

Edit: I have about $100k of savings for that I can easily live on for a year or two.
Yes that’s been discredited repeatedly by Amazon executives. Stories pop up all of the time from Amazon where they talk about moving part of thier infrastructure to AWS - including the migration from Oracle to AWS native solutions.
I Was Sexually Assaulted by Another Marine. The Corps Didn’t Believe Me
OxyContin billionaire has patented a drug to wean addicts from opioids
Honestly, I'm not sure I'd mind delivery "a little more slowly". Lately, I've been ordering something on Amazon in the morning and it shows up on my doorstep that afternoon. This just creeps me out.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/archives

Listen to the archives, you can follow along with Rob as he stair steps up from job boards to a SaaS with an exit. Lots of great advice on creating a startup with kids, job, mortgage.

@DHH Startup School Talk (Inspiration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Aim for the stars, hit the moon.
By Techcrunch, from Silicon Valley.

Meanwhile, the world is a different place. In China Amazon is almost nothing, in rest of Asia they're still far from dominance and Europe is running scared of the hegemony of American IT companies.

Disclaimer: I buy mostly from AliExpress and BangGood.
All crypto standards bodies produce bad crypto.
You could at least use Google inside a Firefox container to minimize its tracking. In addition to blockers (sadly I use three at all times), there's not much you can do.
Obviously it's a joke. But I didn't get it. I thought this was making fun of Helvetica, but as was pointed out elsewhere, apparently its not. This is basically "poorly kerned Helvetica." Which was the part I missed.
It is, but I have easier time understanding what uM does over uBo.
> but without the undefined behaviour

This line of comments is rather silly, as it tries to compare implementations with a language specification described through international standards. Apples and oranges. Mozilla's rust implementation has no undefined behavior because it isn't even defined in any standard document nor are there many competing commercial teams developing rust implementations independently of each other. Complaining that C has undefined behavior but rust hasn't makes as much sense as complaining that C has undefined behavior but MS Visual C 2015 doesn't.
I regularly view videos on Polish politics and geopolitics. I am constantly suggested videos by fringe extreme right geopoliticians and conspiracy theorists ("it's all a Jewish conspiracy to destroy white race and Poles", "EU is USSR", "muslims will rape us", that kind of videos - Michałkiewicz, Braun, Kowalski and similar). I regularly click "don't like this suggestion, stop showing me it", and I'm still suggested it after a few days/weeks. It seems there's endless supply of these videos and they have hundreds of thousands of views.

It's like youtube wants me to become a right-wing nut. That despite me mostly watching mainstream news and liberal news-as-comedy shows.

My coworker is a right-wing estremist and he gets suggested the exact same videos, he doesn't see liberal or mainstream news in youtube suggestions, ever.
This is interesting but it seems like it is just a baseline. I didn't see how the amount of local news now compares to the amount in the past?
YMMV but I found Verdana to be a perfect font for my Kindle.

Granted, it's a Kindle Touch, I don't know if I would choose it again on one of the newer models (not that I would buy one, Amazon's locking up of those models makes a thriving homebrew scene impossible).
Right, I get that the target is "density of households above a threshold income"; I'm just saying I'd be surprised if there were more of those in Nashville (the city) than in the Chicago suburbs. There are 6.8 million people in the Chicago combined MSA excluding Chicago, which is almost exactly 10 times the entire population of Nashville.
Ask HN: Places to donate modern computer books to in NYC?
Hi there,

Programmer in Brooklyn here. Looking for places to donate some relatively still modern computer books. I know I could send stuff to the library, but was wondering if there were any non-profits, schools or even coding academies. Anywhere a student could make use of them.

The topics that are covered run from Java Spring Boot, Javascript Application Design and software skills book for Management and Code design.
Thanks for the link. That article only links to a single correlation study, and that study only shows what we know: if high income earners rent much of the given supply, rents for low income families increases, too. That doesn't help with the question of more housing lowering rent prices. My point was: If more housing gets built, what does high income earners prevent from moving to town and renting that, too?

The article makes a fundamental error with that car market analogy, BTW. Cars are consumables that get bought to be driven by the buyer. Houses in cities are investments that are built to be rented out. Completely different market dynamics. That the author makes a grave error like this while blogging about urban planning is a bit scary.

What I meant are real longitudinal studies that track rent price development and increasing supply over time, preferably in Europe, where the rent market works quite a bit differently than in the US. The vast majority of housing in Berlin is for rent.
These seem like problems that could be solved with applications of proper mass transit.
If you want to accidentally learn about history, I highly recommend Europa Universalis IV.
I have been doing business with people "elsewhere" in Europe. Never had any problem. You might be generalising a bit early. And if American English is a dealbreaker, or even considered a "plus", maybe your potential business partners pick up on this and could be irritated?

Some American companies I can send an email and get a response in 10 minutes. Others I have to send 3-4-10 and never get a response unless the account manager is called on his personal cell phone.
Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, has passed away
Why do you think people lock their home and car doors?
IPO and buyback is also a way.
Wifi is a layer2 standard. Always felt like security should be handled by upper layers. Layer2 secures one data-link segment at a time,layer3 secures a network connection at a time. There is a missing .5 protocol(.5== inter-layer,e.g.: arp,ndp,mpls and dhcp) that could use layer2 parameters to establish layer3 security.

Or maybe all that is needed is a feature-stuffed version of dhcp that would configure a default gateway and a secure l3 tunnel to that default gateway as well as on-demand tunnel establishment parameters for intra-vlan endpoints. This would secure wired and non-wifi wireless IP networks as well.
Not the GP, but by axis they mean XYZ euler angles. In 3D animation software you typically have a set of curve graphs that show transformations vs time, that allow the animator to tweak timing, ease in/out of keyframes etc. If your object has its rotations animated as a quaternion you effectively lose this functionality, because the individual XYZW components of the 4D rotation don't correspond to anything intuitive in 3D space. So typically you want to keep your rotations in euler angles except in the special cases when you run into gimbal lock etc.
> a place that can't sustain themselves naturally

Many places where this technique is used were once more lush but humans degraded the environment, often through overgrazing. So, the degraded landscape of today may not be the "natural" state.

Take China's efforts to restore the Loess Plateau, probably the largest restoration effort ever undertaken.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau

I've not heard of concerns you raised about the impact on deltas. I'm not a scholar but I've done some research on the issue. Can you point me to any papers that address your concerns?
Tagmatic – automated content tagging using machine learning
Sometimes you don't need or want something ASAP. If you're buying a birthday gift you don't need it a week before the birthday.
They could get their money back by (gasp) getting their share of the company profits. Which is actually how it usually works outside of SV-like investments.
To echo your point with pure anecdata:

In my space, the best managed company (and one of the most successful exits) was Swedish [0]. Down-to-earth, honest, transparent management with none of the typical American earnings call tip-toeing. Thinking and strategy were always crystal clear and simply articulated. Metrics were clearly stated and tracked. No BS.

[0] http://www.arcam.com
I don't even bother to read 5 star reviews anymore (on any site, not just Amazon). I skip straight to the 1 & 2 star reviews to see if they mention anything of real consequence or are just people complaining about a bad customer service experience. If there are no immediate red flags, I'll look at the 3 & 4 star reviews for a more balanced assessment of the product.
Skim the preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184 , especially section 7.

The article is not fit for publication in a mathematical journal, it is cosplaying as math.

To cite:

> The following simple proposition may be well known, but since no reference is known to the author, a proof is included for completeness.

>Proposition 7.1. N(µ, σ1) is more variable than N(µ, σ2) if and only if σ1 > σ2.

>Proof: [lots of lines]

In a real mathematical paper, this claim would not be glorified into a numbered proposition, and it would not merit a proof; this amount of mathematical work is the distance between one line and the next. I would not even expect students to provide a proof for such utter trivialities in a homework assignment.

Author should have submitted to PNAS instead, or written a blogpost.
dang and I thought the whole point of youtube was to end up in its weird corners. So many memories of me whistling to the cheerful tunes of the Arctic Monkeys, 4 hours later I'm googling "anxiety" to the background music from Boards of Canada.

And whenever I fall asleep to the stimulating and thought provoking ideas of Yuval Noah Harari, I wake up several films later and likely half way through a 4 hour documentary of the 4 horsemen & NWO.

But I guess the remedy is to use Google even more, deactivate my adblock and embrace the milking experience as intended. So that they can build a more accurate picture serving me "better" content. :)
Musk appoints new tesla president
Now it's ok for them to not only record your voice in your home but to get into it. The home is the last privacy frontier.

What is an option today becomes mandatory tomorrow. It might not be much of an option once every market place does this and you can't practically use brick and mortar stores to buy what you need.
https://old.reddit.com/r/keming/
XSS using quirky implementations of ACME http-01
Available libraries, developer talent pool, and support of Python is much greater.

And personally I much prefer the syntax of Python and developing in it.
An additional problem with that is that Amazon will not guarantee that the replacement will be a genuine product.
> Mozilla's rust implementation has no undefined behavior because it isn't even defined in any standard document nor are there many competing commercial teams developing rust implementations independently of each other.

This is not true. “No UB in safe Rust” is a guiding principle of the language design.

(And there is a second implementation of everything but the borrow checker.)

MS Visual C absolutely has UB.
Needs a blockchain & co update
Local papers in cities like NYC and Baltimore are also shuttering, so this is more about local journalism than it is about small towns.
There's always a reason for expanding government bureaucracies. Some worthy problem, which the government plausibly could solve if it had just a little bit more power to intervene.

That doesn't change the direct consequence of the intervention, that there's now yet another area where the government sits there telling everyone what to do. If we believe that government ought to be limited, at some point we have to balance against that.
kill it with fire.
If they specifically lie about how the location data is shared, yep.
Only problem with Sweden is that eerie feeling of something being too perfect and those moments, where you scratch the surface and find there is something evil hiding in there just below it.

Sweden is a weird country. It is so controlled and everything is so straight, that it almost feels like there are no real humans. I couldn't imagine living there, if I was one of those people, who don't conform to the worldview as defined and constructed by the establishment.
I don’t know the origin story, but that doesn’t discredit anything. Lots of Amazon teams predate AWS, and so does some of their technology. You wouldn’t make a new service and then drop absolutely everything across a huge company to force migration to it. Teams at Amazon have a lot of flexibility in how they build.
Is it possible that the folks who contribute are just inherently more passionate / have more experience (already participating outside of work) than those who don't contribute?

Not to say I think the article's premise is necessarily "wrong" just wondering if folks who contribute just are more likely to have some aspects that benefit their employer.
It's quite bizarre, the way YouTube works. I will watch a video that covers something like climate change and immediately I am bombarded in my recommendations with left leaning news clips and stories, the same goes for when I watch a video that could be considered conservative, right away I am suggested videos like "Professor puts liberal sjw student in her place - compilation."
The healthcare issues in the US can be a little overblown. People in good careers get good healthcare insurance provided by the company. You often have to pay a copay to ensure you don't abuse the medical system, but seeing someone for a scraped elbow vs. brain surgery are basically the same nominal fee for the best health insurance. And you get to see the doctors you choose, when you want, often very quickly.

If you can't afford healthcare at all, they will bill you but you don't have to pay and they can't turn you away from a hospital emergency room. So basically government mandated free healthcare provided by private companies.

The problem is the lower and middle class, if you don't have insurance but do have something to lose, or if you have minimal insurance and a large medical issue, you can lose all your assets paying for healthcare.

What you said that's really interesting to me is that the high tax rate is paid in full by your company and not counted in your salary. Is that true all over Europe, like France for instance? I am always amazed by the really low salaries but if every bit of it is what you actually keep, it's not so bad. I didn't know it worked that way.
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> why do we consider the first instants of the universe maximally ordered

Much higher ordering is straightforward and is essentially just statmech:

1. Run the expansion history of the universe backwards: there are fewer degrees of freedom as the universe collapses into the big bang.

2. Run the expansion history of the universe forwards: vacuum is very high entropy (you can swap a bit of vacuum from here with a bit of vacuum from there and not tell the difference), and there is much more of it at late epochs. Assuming no-hair, black holes are also very high entropy, and there are more of them at later epochs.

Maximal ordering makes some assumptions about quantum gravity with respect to (1):

> A near homogeneous sea of per-subatomic particles

... would expand in such a way that the universe would remain (nearly) perfectly smooth at all epochs.

We can start with the idea that there is an inherent uncertainty to the energy of empty-of-particles space. At later epochs, this uncertainty is small; but in the very early universe it is large. With slow expansion, the uncertainties average out over short distances. However, during cosmic inflation, the uncertainties are stretched and only average out on much larger length scales. The "new" vacuum produced as inflation continues has prorgressively less energy uncertainty, but are "within" the streched uncertainties from earlier. By the time inflation ends, random regions of all sizes contain subregions of overdense and underdense vacuum energy.

Cosmic inflation precedes the hot big bang: it is the chaotic arrangement of vacuum energy at different densities that decays into matter (in the most general sense of matter) proportional to the vacuum energy density. More matter arises in the overdense regions than in the underdense regions. As expansion progresses, gravitation takes over: light finds it easier to leave underdense regions than overdense regions, and that (the gravitational redshift, and the spectrum being highly similar to blackbody radiation) means underdense regions look slightly hotter than average regions, and overdense regions look slightly colder. Gravitation also works on the rest of matter too, not just light: matter flows from underdense regions to denser regions; matter flows to overdense regions from sparser regions. Finally, overly-overdense regions will heat up and emit light and kick hot particles out. The balances between the vacuum energy fluctuations before the hot big bang and the gravitation-vs-radiation flow of matter afterwards are encoded in the cosmic microwave background.

> less ordered than the universe of galaxies and stars and hydrogen atoms with cold areas in between

The mostly-empty areas in between have much higher entropy, and those areas are even bigger (and emptier) at later times. The galaxies and stars and hydrogen atoms are not more numerous at later times: matter dilutes away with expansion.
Does it surprise you that The NY Times took something out of context and provided factually false info?