skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“These devices..”

Except HomePod. Alexa and Google Home harvest data; HomePod does not. The purpose of HomePod is to sell HomePod, other Apple devices and subscriptions to Apple Music. The purpose of Alexa and Google Home is to learn about you in order to sell or exploit that information.

It’s a critical difference. People complain about how Siri isn’t as good as XYZ, yet simultaneously complain about the privacy implications of the “good” assistants.
No. Once the deal closes they can do whatever they like.
Great question, and I'm eager to hear the results. We're going to try creating a private subreddit to test the idea of forums for "long form discussions". I used vBulletin back around the early 00s, and I loved it, but I've found a number of people don't "get" forums. Discourse is something else I'd like to try.

I'm curious why people don't like forums for discussions.
I'm sorry, I'm in the PNW. I think I just got caught in my own damn bubble.
Configuring Minimal RBAC Permissions for Helm and Tiller
That's right, but we've plenty of "plumbing" software for the Linux ecosystem whithout funding companies behind, and they get regular contributions.

The same should happen with the init system. Of course, it's different when the software pretends not just to be an init system but also a replacement for tons of other daemons like cron, inetd, networking, etc, making it a huge piece of software. But maybe that's the problem in the first place.
Can we get [2016] in the title?

“Published on February 29th, 2016”
I see way too many good open source projects relying on donations, and they are not doing well. Nothing wrong with making money, or rather, it's an essential part of life (for better or worse).
Most "other" languages don't have Lisp-like macros, so I'm not sure what you are talking about here.

I don't think Lisp is much more difficult to like, on the contrary, out of all the languages I know well (C, C++, Python, Java, Common Lisp) not only do I find CL _by far_ the easiest to write but also that it puts me in a state of flow (= unparalleled mental clarity, focus and productivity) which doesn't easily happen with the others.

Credentials: I spent close to 10 years writing C++ at Google.

I certainly think that Lisp is very different to most popular programming languages today and that difference is immediately obvious. This makes it very easy for people who do not like leaving their comfort zone to dismiss Lisp simply because it "feels" too strange to what they're already familiar with.
Exactly. I call this the "no duh" advice. It's like saying "Are you an alcoholic? Stop drinking then!" or "Obese? Just eat less!"
"Comorbidity" - but which causes which? Depression can absolutely lead to fatigue. But if you were healthy, and suddenly you have absolutely no energy, and your brain is fuzzy, and you're sleeping 14 hours a day and still don't have any energy the other 10 hours, well, that's depressing.
Sure. I'm in the military and get 5 hours of unit PT per week. I work out for an hour each lunch for 5 more hours. I'm lucky in that we have gyms at work. For the last 4-7 hours I train an hour a day, when possible, in Brazillian Ju Jitsu and Muay Thai. Unless you're quite fit I wouldn't recommend 14+ hours per week. I've been in the Army for a decade and my resting heart rate sits at about 40 BPM. Athlete levels of training takes years of buildup and is likely to be harmful to someone coming from a sedentary lifestyle.

I'm a very active person in all aspects of my life. I don't sit still, I can't even sit still long enough to watch a tv show. Even my workaholic Commanding Officer tells me I need to slow down. The biggest challenge is sleep. For 3 hours of training you really need to make sure you get 8 hours.

How old are your children? Once they reach a certain age you can incorporate them into an active lifestyle. For example, once they're 3-4+ you can take them out for a scooter while you walk. If they're younger you can put them in a pram and walk. Regular walking is a really underrated exercise for people battling a sedentary lifestyle. When I'm injured I increase my walking to offset lack of exercise. I'm a single father and the way I incorporate my children into a busy life is to make it part of their life. Cooking healthy dinners take a lot of time, so I have my kids in my kitchen learning about cooking so I multitask cooking and quality time.

Finally I should mention I'm quite introverted. I have plenty of friends but I don't choose to socialise often. I also don't have a commute worth mentioning due to living next to base. I know a lot of others have 2 hours per day of commuting and this could be the difference between how I find time to train.
> Is there evidence of a well-defined physiological mechanism rather than merely being a symptom cluster that might be purely psychological?

Is there evidence of a well-defined psychological mechanism rather than merely a symptom cluster common to autoimmune diseases and various other immune system disorders?

There seems to be a lot more evidence supporting CFS as an autoimmunity than any other avenue for explanation. It appears to be comorbid with numerous kinds of poor immune function, and often occurs after viral infections, frequently Epstein-Barr (so much so that one of its possible incarnations was even called "Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome"). And like most autoimmune diseases, it favors diagnosis in women.

As one paper puts it as clearly as possible: "The continuing debate as to whether myalgic encephalomyelitis
or postviral syndrome is predominandy organic
or psychological is unhelpful." And that was in 1990; we're even more clear that it has its roots in biology now. The medical community is at a consensus that there's an organic cause, they just don't have enough data collated or a good enough understanding of the immune system and its interaction with the disease process to know what it is. And that's not surprising - rheumatology in the context of autoimmunity is one of the youngest branches of medicine and our understanding of autoimmunity is very much in its infancy. Lupus was known about for centuries, but only conclusively proven to be an autoimmune disease in 1948-49.

Frankly, at this point, with all of the collected evidence, over 9000 different scientific papers and three world-recognized medical agencies (the CDC, the NIH and the Institute of Medicine) in agreement that it's biological, suggesting it's all in the hundreds of thousands of sufferer's heads is pretty insulting. Maybe go educate yourself on the topic before lobbing such accusations?
"goto start" doesn't make it a new story, it's just a repeat, or re-telling of the story (possibly with variations, a la groundhog day)

I also disagree with the contention that all "stories" have to fit the patterns, unless you narrow the definition of story to fit the patterns.
I mean, helping people is my broad goal. And generally the story with most businesses is that you’re helping somebody.
Now, that is the real question.

One thing that I'd like to think helps me is being genuinely happy for others' success.

This is the easiest to do for your close friends and family, but as you get to fringe friends, acquaintances, and former colleagues, the seeds of jealousy start to sprout.
Not just "a lot." Over 90% of contributions come from developers who are hired by companies to contribute to the Linux kernel: https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel. Intel and Redhat each contribute more than all the individual contributors put together.
To exacerbate the issue. The bank employees can point out that house prices are going up. If person stops paying, they can claw back property and make profit. This makes sense in a bull market.

That is until there's a recession and all house prices tank with banks selling at same time. But those previous employees? Made redundant in downturn.

Who's fault is it for causing these losses?
This may be true of Twitch but not GitHub. GitHub uses https://github.com/libgit2/rugged to bridge between Ruby and Git. As far as I'm aware, they still use Ruby to pull the diffs etc out of Git etc.

https://githubengineering.com/how-we-made-diff-pages-3x-fast... indicates they were still doing this as late as 2016.
Oh boy, am I going to have a field day ribbing my Fedora-sporting friends about their IBM PCs ...
Timeless wisdom, imo.
> What are some techniques that folks use

For me it is Stoicism such as reading Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus.
Thanks for clarifying. While I kinda expected SAP to have some software patents, I didn't know that software patents or 'computer implemented inventions' were still a thing in Europe.
Not if it sits in the garage that whole time.. wait
Whatever information the IRS has on me is far from accurate.

I have never been able to file my taxes electronically because I cannot pass their electronic verification process.

They have to verify birth date, which they think is something else other than my actual birth date.

I have spent hours and hours being shuffled around between different governmental offices, explaining my case, and it got to a point where you have to give up. Have you ever seen the movie Brazil? You might know what I'm talking about.

Imagine having to be reduced to calling around your city, trying to find the nearest fax machine because some governmental office will only take faxes so that you can continue your quest towards the distant sanity...
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GrubHub owned online delivery in Chicagoland five years before Uber was even founded, and still does a better job than UberEats.

I believe it also owns Seamless, and a couple of other services like Eat24.
I guess any publicly traded company is by definition at risk of being bought (or merged in this case) without notice or even much public speculation -- but this one feels particularly surprising as I'd been assuming much of Red Hat's value for its customers was its corporate-friendly support arrangements combined with its apparent independence from the traditionally-perceived excessively-corporate heavyweights.

The arguably customer-hostile licensing changes at Red Hat over the last few years are possibly an indicator of a shift in company culture.

On the other side, I've actually felt positively towards IBM since the 1990's when they started to commit heavily to a lot of free software efforts.
Still the price stock hasn't gone uploads.disquscdn.com but this must be because we need to wait for tomorow opening.
Are there any of thèses bots on github ? Why don't they work, are the market already fully saturated with those bots ?
I had to take a day off work to get my drivers license, and I was just transferring one from out of state. The lines were around the building before it opened.

Now imagine doing that when you work an hourly service job instead of a salaried engineering job.
Would you have a particular title to recommand for a start?
As I couldn't find any HackerNews PWA which allowed me to save items for reading them later, I decided to create my own.
I'm aware that it has some flaws (Comments & Ask HN items are not working right now), but I'll add more features if people are interested.

Tech stack: React.js, styled-components, redux, redux-offline and HN Firebase API
I'm just starting to learn about this field as well, so thanks for posting!
This video seems like it's a pretty good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrqYy369NQ

Another specific question that comes to my mind -- does anyone have anything to say on languages? VHDL vs Verilog? Others? Which is best for beginners?
It is, but it's also the init system of some Ubuntu versions still supported, so you can be running upstart on a modern, supported distribution.
Indeed. I hold a similar dual position and it is very easy to rationalise. Government controls the police and military, and so has the capability to threaten me in a way that pretty much nothing else does. I want the process of controlling the government to be transparent, difficult and controlled - hence voters should be identified on voting. I want the government's power to be controlled - hence I don't want them to have a database where they can quickly and easily match bits of my data up.

There tension between those two positions is of little practical importance. I'm not worried that they can link my name and address, I'm worried about a sudden outbreak of majority-vs-miniority where someone I really don't like gets in to power and links, I dunno, tax records-name-address, racial-history-name-address , travel-history-bank-account-photo or somesuch. I don't think it is practically feasible to target someone off the information in a voter role.

The real issue to me is that there isn't much organisation against governments laying the groundwork, and in practice opposing an ID card doesn't mean anything. In Australia we basically have all the infrastructure for a national ID card except the formalisation of a little piece of plastic.
You can be genuinely happy for others’ success while at the same time feeling extremely stressed that a competitor’s version of Foo is doing better than yours, etc. In fact, others’ successes can often be real, genuine, not-ego-or-jealousy-related-at-all indicators that whatever you’re focusing on is not good enough and there is not room in the market for what you’re making, which is both critical to know about and respond to, and also super stressful.

IMO anyway, being genuinely happy for others’ successes is totally orthogonal to the topic of this thread. Being mean-spirited about others’ successes would possibly be some other, different type of stressor for a different type of discussion.
Presumably due to what GP says in the next sentence:

> And most people's experience with IBM services isn't positive.
We used to be a huge SoftLayer customer. Then they got bought by IBM and service/pricing/network/everything got worse. Then we left.

IBM sucks.
Yes but my question would be, not everyone will buy at market opening T+1, but more some hours after ? Is This still impossible because of bots ? Tomorow empiricism will answer me.
I Am That: Nisargadatta Maharaj
I had 8 or so months of post viral illness/chronic Fatigue, although I seem to be nearly better. Your post struck me with a few points.

* I was a very active individual to the point that people would wonder where I found my energy. You mention being quite active. My readings on the illness seem to indicate that highly active people are at more risk of developing a post viral illness/chronic Fatigue.

* Avoiding over exertion - at around the 5 month mark of my recovery I realised that if I paced myself I was largely symptom free. Keeping myself quite and having a relaxed pace would mean I wouldn't be stacked with exhaustion.

Sorry to hear your condition didn't improve much. Did you get / do you get sore thighs and shoulder muscles? My exhaustion was always paired with those two muscle groups being quite sore.
One story about a dead cockroach or rat feces making into a meal will let market forces take care of it. The story doesn’t even have to be true.

On the other hand, it's a virtual restaurant. So all you have to do is pay some kid on Fivrr five bucks for a new logo with a different name, and you're back in business!
> The average running speed of humans is around the same limit - 11 to 15 mph (17 to 25 kph).

The physical fitness requirements for the US Army assigns maximum score to a 6.5 minute mile (over two miles) and that's for 17 year old males. For late 20s women, the minimum qualifying time is about a 10 minute mile.

The world record for the fastest mile run is 3:43.13 for men and 4:12.56 for women. Literally no woman in history has managed to maintain a 15mph speed for an entire mile. Even men only hit that point in the 1950s. Going for a 10k run, the world record is a touch over 14mph for men and somewhat less than 13mph for women. 15mph isn't "average running speed"; it is "world-record speeds."

11-15mph might be reasonable (but definitely on the higher end) for average sprinting speed (we're talking <100m). For running speed, 8-9mph is more reasonable for expectations of fit young males (you need about 8.5mph to qualify for the Boston Marathon if you're a young man, just 7.3mph if you're female).
> the consensus is that this is a physiological disease with an unknown mechanism

Can you point me towards a statement of that consensus?

> I don't know where you get the idea that the null hypothesis for the cause of any set of symptoms not explained by known biomarkers needs to be "psychosomatic disorder".

I didn't say that, and in particular never used the words you put in quotes and attributed to me. However, I'm pretty comfortable with what I did say: absent evidence to the contrary, a collection of self-reported subjective symptoms with no apparent physiological counterparts is significantly more likely to have a psychological origin. Can you say more about why it doesn't make sense to you? Or point me towards the evidence specific to CFS/ME that makes you think it doesn't fit that description?
Definitely. Not commenting on the timeliness I just believe that is the policy around here for articles from the past? I don’t actually know.
Most of these loans are one step further, where the collateral on the loan isn't the house, it's enough cash in the bank to pay off the loan in its entirety.

You can get a loan with no credit score if you have the assets.
> But you definitely do not need to be a doctor, or even have PhDs on staff to make companies or products that are material relevant to people's wellbeing or fitness.

Again, research labs are not hiring people to build products. They are not even hiring people to do advanced development in most cases (and when they do, those supporting engineer roles typically don't require phds). They are hiring people to do heavy-R research.

> We're talking about the value of Phd's to high tech companies, so it's relevant.

No, we are talking about whether these companies should hire phds into their already existing research labs. Not even generally, but specifically (e.g., Intel Labs and Amazon).

The decision that these labs should do heavy-R research was already made for us by VPs or C-level folks. These labs already exist, their mandate is already spelled out, and now the question is "why won't they hire me to execute on that mandate?"

If parent disagrees with that mandate, why would he be interested in getting a job in one of these labs?

The question of whether these places should have heavy-R research labs in the first place is entirely orthogonal to this thread. Why? Because parent already stated he wants to work within these existing research organizations.

It sounds like you think typical industrial research labs are bad investments. That's fine. I disagree. More importantly, presumably, the parent commenter disagrees. After all, if he did agree with you, why the hell would he want to work in an R&D lab?

If parent agreed with you, why the hell would he be pining for a job in one of these labs? He wouldn't. He would just apply to YC.

So, again, litigating whether or not these heavy-R research labs should exist in the first place is an important topic but is not relevant to this thread, which is about the question: "why don't research orgs that have a corporate mandate to do heavy-R research hire non-phds?".

Extremely off-topic, as I've stated multiple times now, but maybe it will help: YC has HARC and (indirectly) OpenAI. Those are much more analogous to corporate research labs than YC investments. Are they wastes of money? Good question; but one thing is certain: if you think so, then you probably don't want a job at one :-)
1. Those interleaved discussions are what makes it a worthwhile hangout for experienced users.

2. Conversely, they also mean that maybe you'll help someone else out while you're waiting.

3. It's easier to diagnose a problem in an informal back-and-forth than in the writing-for-posterity style that SO and fora encourage.
This is a great bit of insight that most don't get. I'll be making a total cost of ownership site soon to show how all of these details affect true cost of a car.
Manafort got dinged because he didn't report the foreign income to the IRS at all. They didn't much care where it came from either.
OK, technically, it's "Flicker Vertigo":

> Flicker vertigo, sometimes called the Bucha effect, is "an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light."[1] It is a disorientation-, vertigo-, and nausea-inducing effect of a strobe light flashing at 1 Hz to 20 Hz, approximately the frequency of human brainwaves.[2][3] The effects are similar to seizures caused by epilepsy (in particular photosensitive epilepsy), but are not restricted to people with histories of epilepsy.

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

Happy now?

Don't put crap in your page which can trigger neurological events, even if it isn't technically epilepsy!
Yes, I agree with you. However, I couldn't find any HN PWA with this feature.
We call that “market segmentation”
They should have taken over docker. Instead, they went old fashioned. Fine. But this probably doesn’t scare competition away (MS, AWS, Google).
Another Data Brick in the Wall
Nowhere does this say what Zot6 actually is or why this matter. Lots of buzzwords... what actually is "hyper-drive"? Star Wars stuff? Dat protocol? I know about ActivityPub already, but what the heck is actually going on here?
I wish everyone were interested in making others feel welcome, as opposed to sick.
I wrote that the opposite way I intended it to be. I agree with what you said.
How will the Chinese drill in Alaskan waters?
Well, no problem there?

However -- I do fail to see the point on why you would put up cash as collateral for a loan. Just to retain liquidity?

I get why you would want to put up securities to get a loan, that is a no brainer.
You should start by learning VHDL or Verilog and the best environment to do that in is simulation, not FPGAs. FPGAs are hard and annoying to debug, so you'll be spending a lot of your time writing test benches that run in simulation anyway.

A nice free one for Verilog is Icarus Verilog. The FPGA vendors have toolchains that include simulation, so you could also download Xilinx or Altera's free tools and start there.
Yeah, we moved out of SoftLayer soon after that acquisition, as well. They just weren't as interested in the kind of (small) money we spend and it showed.
Don't many cities already have govt cameras with no anonymous-ization? Traffic cameras feed into CalTrans in California.

For cameras in public places, the video shouldn't be used for profit. But should the police have access to the raw footage? Amber alerts? Terrorism?
Except IBM is really infamous for using and abusing theirs. Check the Sun story recited in https://www.wired.com/2012/11/the-patent-system-works-fine-b...

> "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"
A singular problem, however the larger problem with comparing yourself to other people unnecessarily isn't just about phones.