skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creepy as fuck

This is probably true. And there is indeed a lot of attracting-people-to-you advice which fails to respect people, much less their bodily autonomy. Certainly, calling a book which calls itself "Badass" doesn't strike me as particularly conducive to building healthy relationships. The cover also doesn't do it any favors.

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However, I think it is an error to equate creepiness with trying to better understand how sexual attraction works and how to be more successful at the social skills involved in sexual situations. Creepiness is fundamentally about a lack of respect for someone else's autonomy and interests. Trying to get better at social skills isn't creepy.

If someone is born into circumstances where society expects them to play the active role in sexual situations, and they want to have a healthy sex life, then they shouldn't feel shame for wanting to better understand how to play that role. It is certainly better for someone like that to work toward their goal of a fulfilling sexual/romantic relationship than for them to feel trapped and lonely. I think it would be a better world if there were lots of attraction learning resources which weren't full of misogynistic rubbish and successfully taught useful mental models and mindsets.
There is a lot more money than that involved. A marine acquaintance mentioned high six figures around 2004 or or so.
Marketing automation company Autopilot launches real-time collaboration tool
From my experience, it was pretty speedy even on some (relatively) large datasets. The decoupling of compute and storage makes it appealing compared to Redshift if you have bursty load on your cluster.
Greater liquidity, less traceability.
Data-driven demand for cloud skills
> aerobic exercise is likely to do more good from the perspective of powering the lymphatic system than weight lifting.

This is conjecture? I do hope its true though! A frequent debate I have with a friend is whether weight-lifting or running has better effects. He claims 1 hour of weight-lifting raises your metabolism by many multiples vs more aerobic exercise. Its always a bit hard to have these debates though since we are mostly armed with anecdotes and not facts.

I suspect the answer is always moderation - somewhere in between.
I don't see anything that gives you, JaimeThompson, the legal right to declare what others can and can't say.
That's primus and relay. Question was about Apollo
Most Americans aren't aware that FB owns WhatsApp, or that Google owns Waze
Thank you! I have always had a strange fascination with Sulla–as a man, a politician and a general. Appreciate the book and podcast references.
People learn by repetition. Youtube is great for that.
> > This is literally how democracy already works.

> Wrong.

What I meant by that is that most people have sharply divergent values from me. I'm used to ceding political control to people I fundamentally disagree with.
Sorry. Primus and prisma, not relay
I built their Hurdy Gurdy model. The construction techniques were impressive, the plans and assembly process were intuitive, and the experience itself never became frustrating or tiresome. I was surprised by all three. Highly recommend.

Side note: not a great ‘instrument’. It plays! But it’s really a toy compared to the real deal.
Ask HN: How should one respond if a sales call turns into an investment call?
You can call your software open source no matter what license you use. People may harrass you, but there is no legal restriction on the use of the term and OSI cannot sue you.
Another fine example of EU meddling ruining things.
MS doesn't really have a role that focuses on the things you're talking about (though I'd really hoped the big DevAdvocate push would include "advocating on behlaf of devs" but doesn't seem that way) and they pretty much implicitly don't care about rewarding or even thanking the people that go out of their way to try to address those things or bring attention to them.

I'll just say it hurts, personally hurts, to be in Azure, bring up feedback, passionately advcate for it for the users sake, be ignored, and watch as the product is shipped ("we have as schedule!"). In at least one instance, they went so far as to basically discourage public use of the feature until theyd redone it exactly the way I'd suggested 18 months earlier. So much of it was just a result of having no idea what users wanted, where cloud computing was headed in terms of containerization and automation, and fundamental open ignorance of how and why GCE/AWS had designed similar features.
This looks great, reminds me of a concourse.ci pipeline, but prettier.
This idea that people shouldn’t be shamed needs to die. People who harm people should be shamed. Parenting choices can be a way of harming people.
Isn't that to be expected? Not every cloud provider will have every feature that the others do, it seems likely that if they did a migration in the reverse direction (from Azure to AWS), they'd have had to have the same series of meetings.
I cannot recall any instances though for hot issues of public shares trading less on IPO than the private
Oh.. Right. Right now it wouldn't be good. My plan was to implement filesystem events but unfortunately the Electron scalable version of filesystem watching isn't actually supported anymore.

I think I might be able to re-implement by checking only the files that are open.

That said. I'm planing on implementing cloud support natively in Polar. Offline-first and always but we will have cloud sync.
If you really are worried the pbs kids videos app is great.

We have two under three so I understand the exhausting routine
No worries!! I worked at Sun/StorageTek as it was being folded into Oracle. It was a hideous, disgusting process that saw more politics and internal lies than I ever thought possible. Google and Salesforce got burned pretty hard by Oracle canceling new tape development and manufacturing :(
I know; I lived in one. A burner number does not imply getting a SIM. That is not how journos in sensitive countries get a number.
How is it possible to watch 8 hours of TV a day? I guess this includes watching TV while also doing other things?
Good question.

At one time, I had the thought that folks who disliked JavaScript might want to write their own grammar DSL in another language, which could generate compatible JSON to be consumed by the core Tree-sitter compiler library. Now, I think this flexibility is pretty unnecessary.

I've also thought that some applications might want to inspect the grammar JSON at runtime in order to do some kind of meta-programming. I haven't really thought that through though.

In either case, versioning would probably be a good idea. The actual parser is already versioned so that we can error out if you try to use a parser with an incompatible version of the runtime. We could just add that same version number into the grammar.
What? No, SMS is not a reauth factor in Signal, and the number doesn’t have to be physically proximate to you: you just have to receive a text message on it once.
You can print the ePub to PDF and load it into Polar. Not perfect for now but it works. It's what I do.

We're going to re-write the viewer backend at some point and once that's done I think ePub will be straight forward.
Who doesn't like a strategic investment from a customer? I was pitching to a client and he offered that his company would like to explore investing rather. Now he wanted to know the details of the company and I told him some figures of the company. Have I jeopardised my chances of even turning him into a customer?
It's on the roadmap for the flashcards and annotations. Probably not reading for the short term as reading PDFs on Android doesn't sound super fun.
Would you please not use HN for ideological warfare? It leads to just the kind of dumbed-down, fired-up discussion that we're trying to avoid here, and your comments in this thread are clearly practicing the genre.

Instead, please follow the site guidelines, which include: "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 2) Central government bails out bad loans by selling a portion of their $3T in foreign reserves, including $1T of US government debt. Chinese creditors, investors and citizens are made whole. Foreign bond prices fall and interest rates rise, causing recession and financial crisis in the US.

That is unlikely to be the result. The US national debt is over $21T now. $1T is <5%. Dumping that much on the market at once would certainly affect interest rates, but not at a catastrophe-inducing level, and all of the normal tools used to control interest rates remain available.

By comparison, the US deficit this year is ~$0.8T, i.e. the US itself is dumping nearly that amount into the market. The Quantitative Easing program after the housing crisis was $3.5T over a few years.

It's also unlikely that they would dump the entire amount at once, because causing a sudden short-term rise in interest rates is not to their advantage (they would take a bath on bond prices). But if they divested something like $100B/year, the effect on the market would be minimized.
Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit
Yeah, I totally get setting up another account for sensitive things.
Oh.. That might be a bug. They are supposed to be compressed! I'll check into that!
Pure speculation on my part. I'm just putting the pieces together in a way that makes sense to me, so take it with a grain of salt.

However, my conclusion is based on how the reporting on this is being done, and the fact that we already know that the NSA has backdoored the entire telecom industry, or close to it.

When every statement says "we do not allow governments direct access to servers"...well, what's the logical conclusion? Indirect access, via hardware backdoors, that were leaked and are now widely known to exist. To me, it does feel like there's a wave of 'Blame China' right now, and that maybe Bloomberg is being disingenuous with its reporting on this, if there's even a story to report.

There was an article on HN last week on how Bloomberg pays more to journalists who write stories that "move markets". Seems to be a lot of market moving articles recently. Excuse me while I go back to my corner with my tinfoil hat.
But to be fair on the comparison of debt, the $14b debt was to the city of 700k people not to the metro area of 3.7m.
Just like you can export your data from any cloud database provider and move it anywhere you like.

That migration might be painful if you have a lot of data, but so is an RDBMS migration. You might need to change your code to support the new vendor's query language, but the same is true when moving to a new RDBMS, since there are usually implementation specific extensions that you'll need to port.
LAL – a Scheme like dialect of Lisp that compiles to Lua
Yes. Still a few small bugs like this here and there. working on ironing those out.
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Maybe they've always been right. My wife is from a a developing country, and the incredible depth of the older generations who grew up without a drop of modern media is striking. Of course it is a complex situation since they had many other factors in their upbringing, but it is telling -- especially because their ability to patiently listen to and truly see the other person seems at least intuitively related to the lack of modern media consumption, which simply gave them so much more practice socializing, and placed so much more value on it. It was where life was at.
PalmOS, the touchpad was ahead of its time...
I'm building Polar as a 30 year document repository. Meaning I want you guys to have confidence that Polar will exist in 30 years. That's why it's OSS.
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I'm fairly certain it's true.

But that knowledge comes from 17+ years of firsthand experience (aka "anecdata") and reading (where I may not be able to cite my source anymore because I read it eons ago for personal reasons, not to try to win an internet debate). So I qualified it in hopes of keeping people off my back about citations etc.

So if you need citations for some reason, you will need to find them on your own. You might start with googling info about the benefits of walking and sources on how the lymphatic system works.
It's our own file format for storing compressed HTML and associated resources in one bundle.
I like Matt Might’s article on least resistance weight training: http://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/

A quick summary: No gym, lifting is at home 3 days per week of 30 minutes each day. First form a habit, any kind of exercise will do. Sounds like you’re there. Once lifting, keep it compact and accessible, start with just a bench and adjustable dumbbells. He also only does a few minutes at a time, not a half hour block. Eat some protein.
You know what makes you not stand out? WhatsApp.
Sounds about right; your description matches what I've heard from other people and it's one of the reasons why, last time I was contacted by a recruiter for an Azure team I said no. The products are unfocused and it really feels like there's simultaneously a lack of vision and a feeling of undeserved excellence. (One of my coworkers came to us from Microsoft, and he mentioned that the Ibiza team thinks that they made a good product...)

The inability for the various services to actually work together is befuddling too. We had a meeting the other day to sketch out some stuff about our environment and, being way more familiar with AWS and GCP, I started by sketching out a network only to have it pointed out to me that app services aren't even in private virtual networks in the year of our lord 2018. And I thought AWS was dysfunctional!

Maybe if they actually wanted product vision I'd listen to a job there, but that seems at odds with what Azure is: "we have a cloud too, don't you want more Windows in yours?". OTOH, I want a cloud offering that works like AWS and GCP because that's minimally surprising.
It was also cheaper for us than Redshift, of course your mileage may vary.
I think avoiding bad romantic partners and substance abuse still rank above too much Instagram.
Oh. Thanks. I think the current app is an installer BUT there is a Windows version that doesn't require a setup and is just a flat .exe.

I think we could publish one if this is frequently requested.
Basically it’s the “you’re just an employee” risk of startups.

A non employee investing 100k in your company is clearly contributing more than a full time employee being paid in RSUs, so when the company gets liquidated (eg statistics happens) they will get paid back, whereas your employees don’t.

Alternatively, the company might sell enough preferred stock to VCs to give them majority voting rights, and they can then devalue the common stock and sell the company with none of the proceeds going to common stock.

Or your company never goes public, but common stock comes with rules against selling it on private markets, so it can functionally be treated as being worth $0. Or of course (because you can’t sell it) the company can impact clawbacks without you even doing anything wrong.

Of course I’m not saying that all startups do that, just that that can happen (and I believe all of the above have happened).

That’s part of why I will never work at a startup, though not necessarily by choice: many HN people have claimed told me on many occasions that it is unreasonable for me to expect to get fair compensation from a startup. Shrug.

Anyway, for other people who are willing to take the risk of a $0 return from a company selling at a profit, I would strongly recommend having a lawyer look at your contract to verify none of the more egregious failings listed above can happen, and remember that stock compensation is worthless if you cannot sell it.
Microfacets is just one example (which is what PBR approximations today ubiquitously use BTW). The very idea of a B*DF function for light is a rough approximation, and can never capture a variety of quantum effects. You can simply never recover the first-principles quantum dynamics of a macro-scale matter + light.

Approximations and models need to be made, that's how it works. Yes, you can make it better and better as the hardware improves. And calling it "physically based" sounds fine to me. What doesn't sound fine is to claim that any PBR-related work in the graphics literature today starts from "first principles". First-principles or "ab initio" in physics is a very specific technical word reserved for calculations which really start from first principles (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_initio_quantum_chemistry_me... for an example) that doesn't get thrown around cheaply.
That's a variation of "if all you know is hammers, then everything looks like a nail". That's certainly an aspect of it, but I'm not convinced it's the entire story. It would be interesting to see studies on how prior careers/specialities affects one's decisions in new specialities.
For what it's worth, the wikipedia talk page for FFTW has response to DJB's page from someone identifying themselves as an author of FFTW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFFTW#Bernstein_%22contr...
> I'm used to ceding political control to people I fundamentally disagree with.

Have any instances of "ceding political control" involved violations of your bodily autonomy or food security? If not, then the "sharply divergent values" are relatively minor compared to historical conflicts among peoples.
The irony of the rebuttal against YouTube posted with a YouTu.be URL as cite.
Also kids have tendency to just click randomly anywhere and figure out all the buttons in no time, so you can't really rely on GUI to stop them. Mine actually learned letters by searching the youtube for his favorite cartoon characters. At first he bugged me to do it for him, but very quickly he figured out what I'm doing and that he can look at the title of the current video and enter the same letters into the search to get more videos - but since he had no idea what those letters mean he'd often get some totally unrelated and non-kids results... toddlers are just unstoppable, resistance is futile :)
"Clean" is definitely not a word I'd use to describe this finding:

“Although the N. fowleri was not detected in the Surf Resort, Lazy River, or the Royal Flush, the presence of fecal indicator organisms, high turbidity, low free chlorine levels, and other amoeba that occur along with N. fowleri indicate conditions favorable for N. fowleri growth”

They're being charitable in their interpretation of the CDC's findings, to say the least.

https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/cdc-finds-brain-eating-am...
As with everything there is nuance here, there is an equally valid argument in tandem to "Vidya bad" etc. which is the parents were watching a lot more TV (more channels arriving) and not interracting with their kids as much, hence less social skills for the kids to digest.
That's a nice-sounding claim but "truth" isn't a coherent agenda. There are many things that are true, and a finite life; which true things are worth paying attention to?

Five hundred star-bellies Sneetches and five hundred plain-bellied Sneetches died in combat yesterday; reading just the obituaries of the heroic star-bellied Sneetches and how they gave their lives for peace is truth-based, but it's a very different agenda from the equally-truth-based approach of reading the obituaries of the martyred plain-bellied Sneetches and how they sacrificed everything for their people's freedom.
Okay, so how about a Prolog interpreter written in Lisp?
Because their are massive anti-incentives to write that software as you won't make you any money and it puts yourself at legal risk for writing software which is designed to skirt copyright laws.
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A rating agency came out with the report and negative outlook on China's debt. Bloomberg only reported it here.
The foxes purchasing the henhouse isn't them championing chickens...
>We've gone from a damaged company worth 48b in January to a 120b valuation in a few months.

I remember some here were ragging on Softbank for overpaying in their Uber investment just a few months ago. Amazing how a few months can change things.

> Presumably the Saudi and Japanese softbank investors are hoping to extract an ipo profit.

I don't think they bought in for a quick profit. These guys buy in for info and influence. But nearly a 200% appreciation ( if the valuation holds and if they IPO ) in a year has to be tempting.
They can change their name as much as they like. No one's fooled.
Agree.
For a few years, almost anyone could create a filing system for whatever they were interested in or depended on. An online version would be dope.
(I see I called HyperTalk "HyperText". Oops...)
Well, too bad, this means that as a customer, I'll probably have to pay for something I go out of my way to get rid of if I ever buy a new Android phone.

I hope there will be some way to get a refund like when not accepting Windows licenses on computers.
Thanks for posting! I'm the author. I think I mistitled that post--sounds like just any generic productivity article when I read it here on HN. Maybe "Very, Very Pedantic Opinion on Optimal iPhone Setup."
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Hey folks, I started a new job in product management and I am looking for the greatest resources online. Any recommendation for books, YouTube videos, blogs etc thanks!
I've read this on hackernews a few times and have experienced some objectionable "kids" content on YouTube myself. Plus, there's a ton of mindless stuff like opening toys or kinder eggs.

I wonder if there's some kind of startup here. A service that whitelists YouTube content and curates the list. There could be an app you sign into before you hand it off to the child, it permits only whitelisted YouTube videos to be played. Possibly the videos are separated into tiers - educational, entertainment, prosocial. Then, you come up with a mix that you want to expose your child to for auto play - e.g. 40, 20, 40. Content could also be flagged for themes that are potentially undesirable - death, sex, religion, etc.

Pay 15-20 dollars an hour for people to watch and annotate videos. Get the same video to go through the process two or three times to catch potential errors. Your evaluators can easily watch content at 2x speed and not miss much. How much does processing an hour's worth of YouTube video cost? 60 dollars?

Invest a hundred grand, whitelist a thousand hours of YouTube content (assuming you reject half), build a simple mobile app to play your whitelisted YouTube videos, sign people up for 5 dollars a month and you can use the proceeds to keep growing your whitelist.
One of my personal heroes, being self-taught and having been a pioneer in amorphous semiconductor research as well as clean energy technologies.
Well, the debt didn't just magically pile up in the last two years - it's just reaching alarming levels in tough times for the country (deleveraging, trade war, worsening international relations).
> open up `.js` files and have them Just Work

Nod. A single big grammar just wasn't what I'd thoughtlessly expected. When I did something similar, there was a gaggle of small grammars slicing up javascript aspects and history, then variously composed into assorted language grammar variants. But part of the motivation for that was sharing grammar fragments across languages, and "parse exactly language version X" in support of parser validation and compiler use. So a bit different use cases.
Gates and the company never went through with it, it was just a conversation...and I'm sure it would be a conversation that any company in that predicament would have had.
Yep! Video games were ruining the youth when I was the youth being ruined. Meanwhile, I totally owe my career to the $300 my parents gave me for my birthday so that I could buy computer parts capable of running Age of Empires II.

But as a brand new parent, this YouTube stuff seems both tempting (as a distraction) and awful.