skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a daily nicotine gum user for years, and I'd say I'm addicted. I've tried to quit several times. I'll kick it for a couple of months, and then I'll have a stressful week and I'll buy a box. Then I'm back on it for a couple of weeks until the box runs out. And sometimes I just go buy another box.

For me, it's not addictive in the sense of "I experience withdrawal symptoms", but I have very strongly conditioned habits with specific triggers. Nicotine spikes my dopamine, and also improves my concentration and memory when I'm using it. Which makes me like it, and also chemically encourages situational cravings.

As an example, I chewed it when I was driving to work every day for a while - and now I think about it almost every time I drive anywhere. It's not really an "I need a piece right this second" kind of feeling for me, but more like a "Man, some nicotine would be awesome right now" kind of feeling.

One aspect of the addiction that I think many nicotine users would agree with - it's not an instant process. I knew I was developing the habit long before it was a full-blown addiction. I kept telling myself I wasn't going to get addicted, that I was stronger. Turns out maybe not so much.
I would argue that suicide is itself extremely selfish.

Remember this point, when a person commits suicide they most deeply hurt the people that love them the most. Is that right? Is that fair? They don't hurt the people that don't care about them, they hurt the ones that love them. It's such a cruel, unjust thing to do.

Everyone dies eventually. Having a loved one kill themselves vs any other reason, you can never really get over it. It's just a punishment to the ones that love you that continues on. So we are left with two reasonable options. First that you do it out of spite and anger to intentionally hurt people that love you. Don't need to talk about that, that's just wrong. Second, you think no one loves you.

So that last case, if really no one does love you, it's still not noble. It is the ultimate quitting, the ultimate admission of defeat. And it is irreversible. You feel this way now, at this moment, but you give up the chance to feel another way ever, for any redemption.

A wise person once told me that arrogance/selfishness and depression were two sides of the same coin; an unnatural focus on self. Life is not worth living? Fine. Die to yourself. Stop thinking about yourself. Your life sucks, its going to suck, fine. Start thinking about other people. You are walking dead already, but you still have a brain and some abilities. Do something for someone else.

Another extremely wise teacher, who tried to convince people to love each other, said this: "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me." meaning before you could be like him and live for others first you need to die to yourself. And then he said that those people would find true life.

Edit: I'm not just saying this and telling suicidal people to suck it up. I've been through this personally from all these angles. I'm sharing what I have experienced and what worked for me.
More obvious third party integrations, and explained workflows and presets for common tasks non techy people doing business on the web have to deal with.
Or make your own :) It's time-consuming but quite therapeutic
> churche/synagogue/mosque

Why are people getting medical support from a religious organisation? Why aren't they getting evidence-based treatment from healthcare professionals?
H1B doesn't suppress wages. There is no evidence of that. In fact, the global brain drain to the US has given us a clear competitive advantage and allowed us to create new industries and massive companies. Immigration is a good thing economically and technologically. Refugees will contribute to the long term growth of the economy by being consumers and producers over their life and allow for economic growth. Look at countries that don't allow immigration, and have shrinking populations, how are their economies doing.
Add men's tennis to that list. As we speak it's being dominated by three players who are over 30 (Djokovic 31, Nadal 32, Federer 37!!!). We are not saying they are still competitive but rather they are absolutely crushing everybody else including the youngin's. Even more phenomenal is that all three of them are candidates for THE GREATEST male athlete who has ever graced tennis fields.

This was simply unimaginable even a couple years back when for decades ATP tennis had been considered a 20-something year olds' game.
>you learn more about sports from reading than watching

I'm not sure that's true, game tapes - if strategically cut together - can be very effective in teaching strategy and individual techniques for sports. Video games can also be very effective in this regard. This works because it activates mirror neurons when you imagine you're doing the thing you're watching.
Monte Carlo simulation doesn't generate all classical probability distributions though. Attempting to do that would be nuts. Monte Carlo simulation only samples from a single, fixed distribution (or maybe a small number of distribution).

I'm not super convinced by the argument based on number of parameters either, but your analogy doesn't refute it at all.
Flight computers are niche software, while Facebook is meant to be accessible to everyone. If you look at similar products, such as operating systems or browsers, you’ll find many engineers actually do use what they what they work on.
Probably a minority opinion here but I've been strangely happy with MS OneDrive. No official Linux client though and limitations on max file size, but it's been solidly reliable for the past few years for me.
This is almost like the exact opposite of the reality of eastern and western culture. Healthcare for example is full of free clinics where people get free care. I worked at one.

Also, the differences in religious institutions in east and west is also vast. Food, shelter, and healtchare are provided for free by thousands of churches in the United States, I'm not familiar with anything similar in the East and I've spent many years there.
Access it, yes, but you can't update it. Dat and ZeroNet both let you maintain a single hash with dynamic contents.

Your web page points to different hashes over time through IPNS, which is additional work for a user, and relies on IPNS instead of being part of IPFS directly.
Is Your Education Limiting Your Career Options? Lifelong Learning Can Help
Yes, that is correct. At almost 20,000 km, the dry prominence of Everest is by definition the maximum possible on Earth. You only get to claim Kea more prominent if you use a different standard to measure it!
Wel, AI guided and long loitering capabilities, more or less evolutionary from current designs - butb Russia is ahead in many respects.
We tend to forget that Russia focusses their education on applied engineering to a higher degree than in the USA = more engineers per capitac and their level is quite high on average
Also, the barber says you need a haircut.
Not everyone attends hackathons. You just see those kids more because of the reasons you listed: they’re a lot more visible.
This line of chips from Broadcomm can only support 1GB of Ram, a hard limit for what type of applications one can put on it. Meanwhile, other SBCs have mainline kernel support now and boast 2GB or even 4GB of Ram.
In the example given, the author says that the odds of a given page having a typo is less than 3/20. Sure, but if we don't want a range, but an exact number? That sounds like a more interesting challenge to me.

Formal statement:

- You have observed N events, with 0 occurrences of X

- Someone wants to make a bet with you about the likelihood of X happening

- Once you've quoted a number, your counter-party then has the option of making an even bet about whether the actual likelihood is greater than or less than your prediction

Eg: If you predict 3/N using a 95% confidence interval, then 95% of the time, the actual likelihood will be less than 3/N. Your counterparty will then win the bet 95% of the time, simply by predicting it to be lower.

Your ideal strategy would be to quote a likelihood which is over/under 50% of the time, not 95%.

Ie, you want to pick E such that 50% of the time, it matches the observation you've made (no occurrences), and 50% of the time it does not.

E^N = 0.5

N log E = log 0.5

log E == log 0.5 / N

E = 0.5^(1/N)

For the example given, that comes out to 0.966. Ie, there's a 96.6% chance of no typos in a given page. Across 20 pages, this comes out to 0.966^20 => 50% chance of no typos. If your goal is to quote the single best estimate which can hold up well in a betting market, I believe this would be the ideal strategy
Thanks for sharing that. This was an absolutely fascinating read. I am assuming there are many contemporary projects that replicated this workflow with modern FPGA, right? Anything on GitHub? I have a TinyFPGA sitting here, I could try stuff on that.
> no attraction from women for men in the bottom 10%.

That's what misogyny tells men.
.. or the Australians.
Really? Data?
Slate is not an editor so much as a framework for building editors. Which is to say yes, it would be a good basis for an editor for mathematical formulas, but you would have to create the schema yourself (MathML seems like a good starting point). Defining transformations so you could use the LaTeX syntax as short-cuts seems like it would not be too arduous – although obviously a complete implementation would be a vast undertaking.
Oh no doubt! They are good, and fun to watch. But in Gretzky’s best season, he scored 212 points. The closest anyone has gotten recently has been Ovechkin at 112. The game has changed, you couldn’t get a Gretzky again.
Instagram is Facebook owned now.
Mate, seems you have your data recovery issues licked. Perhaps now is the time to spend some time on the structural integrity of your windmills :-)
The point is that any violent person unable to be portrayed as "the right" is quickly dropped by the news. The shooting was on the way to being the big news story of the month... and then suddenly dropped out of the news entirely. This creates a bias in the news: all the memorable violent people are on the right because the non-right ones are dropped from news coverage.

Basically, the news wants an attacker who looks like their stereotype of an NRA member and/or Trump supporter. Anybody else is not deemed newsworthy.
Research into Perennial grains has made some exciting progress recently as well. Blue Salish and Kernza are the ones I've heard about.
Ask HN: How to give away lots of free samples
I run a CBD company specializing in prerolls and cbd flower.

My basic sales model is:

1. Give away a free sample.

2. Ask person to post on social media after the receive it (and if they like it).

3. Get orders

This has worked really really well for me but I'm having trouble scaling it up. I want to be able to give away 100s of samples a day but I literally cannot get infront of enough eyeballs to give product away.

How would you scale up your free sample game?
Things I'm trying:

- Product sponsoring events

- Social media giveaways

Anyone have any ideas?
It seems the NY Times have been going pretty hard after FB, recently. Does anyone know why this might be?
I think golem.network actually has some tangible product right now.
I mean, you can often find a high paying, interesting job building missiles as well, but I’m sure many would turn that down. The same can be true for Facebook, which has generally had a history of not being the most ethical place to work for. It’s only recently that it’s started to have a negative effect if it’s on your resume, though.
Is this what listening to men looks like?

If so I can see why many men don't talk about their issues....
The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic (2015)
If you’re wondering where does the formula (1-p)^n come from, it’s a number often used in gambling (if I throw a die 7 times, what are the chances of getting at least a 3). The probability of an event having probability p happening after n trials is 1-(1-p)^n, and he’s using the inverse of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
> Both are essentially a kind of accessibility tech, and when it comes to accessibility questions, the chief concern isn't necessarily whether everyone uses it.

It's still a question of whether a significant amount of people use it within the affected group. If you need to enlarge or increase contrast, there are standard accessibility tools for that which don't rely on HTML at all.
Backblaze is very good. Cheap and easily integrated. They've got B2 as well as a $5/mo backup service.
Vue 3.0 Updates
Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest
Republic specifically does this; it's their whole marketing gimmick. You pay a low amount for a modest data cap, but the phone seamlessly prioritizes WiFi networks when available.

I've been using them for years and it works fine.
Thanks for mentioning POPFile. That's my baby.
Right now I’m talking about property damage, not safety. I would absolutely say that a homeowner who knowingly takes the risk to buy a house with shoddy wiring should bear the risk of that choice (as opposed to the state).
How Sweetgreen Got to $1B
Onedrive is great for exactly one use case: the MS walled garden. Integration w/Windows explorer; everything else sucks. Web client is absolute garbage, android app is junk, and don't even get me started w/linux. Very difficult to mount as fuse.
I think that's a huge unknown assumption that if there were no gun, the victim would simply not commit suicide. There might be some dissuasion, but we have no way to gauge it - and pegging it at everyone in that group would be saved if only we took away guns seems like an assumption at one extreme end.
> It's understandable to not mention this

I feel like the very first word, "Estimating" made what you're talking about pretty clear. It's extremely common for estimates to make simplifying assumptions that don't necessarily hold if you care about accuracy or specific situations. He also called the rule of three "quick and dirty".

> If you were to randomly read 20 pages in a book and find no typos, 15% probability makes more sense.

OTOH, if typos are actually uniformly distributed, then reading the first 20 is better than a random 20 unless you take care to pick random pages without repeats.
Is this a good method to use while trying out a lot of ideas? Usually when I am optimizing code, most of the ideas don't work out and performance remains roughly the same (or so I think - I don't really know and want a better workflow here).

But if you do this test repeatedly, even if the code had identical performance, you'll get a false positive 5% of the time. And depending on the spread of the timings you might not get a clear XXXYYY win even when it is indeed a minor improvement.
My feedback:

- It's left aligned, which makes it harder to use on an ultrawide, with the content in the first 1/3 of the page. Having a max-width on the main container and center aligning it would be great

- Emails are GPG signed! Even if the usefulness is small, it's a awesome feature

- Pricing seems good, but I would charge more. 3$, 8$, 15$, if following the pricing scheme you have. I know I'd be happy to pay for 15$/m for a useful service. You could also make it "pay however much you want", so it's flexible if people want to pay 5$ or 50$, and it calculate with the tiers (if over X$, use plan Y)

- It feels very responsive. Great job on having the site being very light so far

- Maybe having something like Turbolinks could be pretty cool. SPA are great because they feel instant, and with a few lines of optional JavaScript you could provide an experience which is SPA-like since the server-side rendering is so quick

- The UI looks clean and minimalistic, which is great. Featureful isn't a bad thing either if done right. I think you're on the right path though

Overall, this seems like a great project. I haven't tried the builds system yet, but I definitely will. Keep up the great work Drew!
Thanks for the heads up! I really like what you're doing - not only is it great for the general public, it's a game changer for people with difficulties hearing.
My point is that there can be "effective competition" even if there are zero competitors at the moment; what matters is whether someone could come online and compete away the excessive profits

The whole point of the network effect, is that there can be more than zero competitors who even have a superior product, and it really doesn't matter.
I built a pi into an arcade cabinet and switch it off via a power switch only bevause I felt it would be easier to just replace cards now and then than to make some soft-shutdown signal from the switch or similar. After thousands of cycles I still have no issues with it. Could it be that when only running emulators the system just doesn’t write much and without writing the there isn’t much corruption?
From your link, the lower elevation of a dry prominence of Everest would be the lowest contour that encircles Everest. That won't be nearly as deep as Challenger Deep but a quick google search does not find the correct dry prominence for me.
Exceptions to the general rule that fires mostly affect those who live in the woods. Does not affect my assertion that living away from the woods dramatically decreases your risk/worry of being involved in or affected by forest fires.
There will always be a need to employee low IQ individuals, developmentally disabled, etc. Would you prefer those types not have a viable option for employment?
They don't force -sign the bitstream. iCE40 is also afaik reversed.
Well, I used a Yagi optimizer at one point. With that system, the antenna was parameterized. I specified certain fixed values, like overall boom length and nominal element diameter, and total number of elements. The element lengths and spacings were free for optimization. Fitness function was a scoring of front-to-back ratio, front-to-side ratio, and max allowable SWR over a frequency range of interest, with a goal of maximum forward gain. The optimizer tuned the free variables.

For different applications the various scoring measurements would be adjusted differently. (Sometimes you care greatly about minimizing back and side lobes, other times not so much, for instance.)
iPhone X is reportedly vulnerable to hacks
Space pollution.
I would be willing to put money on a Salesforce acquisition within the next two years.
> In western societies, no job should pay less than a living wage...

Pay is determined chiefly by supply and demand in the labor market. Jobs that are more fun pay less because the supply of workers is higher. Fairness is literally not part of this equation.

> On the other side of the ledger, you have immigrants with medical degrees, who are driving cabs for minimum wage.

Medical licenses are controlled by the government, not the free market.

> [The free market] is subject to all the same tribal impulses and inequalities that have persisted in humans throughout history.

... and also the Civil Rights Act of 1964. All snark aside, why should we pay a high school paperboy a living wage? What does a living wage even mean - the ability to live in a single bedroom apartment? That runs ~3K/month in SF which is roughly commensurate to $50/hour.
The same thing happens in Sweden where an artist named Dan Park has been sentenced to 3 months in prison [1, Swedish] for breaking the 'hets mot folkgrupp' (incitement against a specific group) law. This is not the first time he was sentenced to prison for his work, in 2014 he got 6 months for another piece. The mentioned law is controversial in that it criminalises speech or other forms of expression which is subjectively deemed to be offensive against groups without specifying what it takes to actually violate the law which makes it open to wide interpretation. Dan Park is critical of the Swedish migration policies and uses controversial imagery to attract attention to what he considers to be important issues. This used to be possible without running the risk of imprisonment until an amendment to the law was passed in 1982 [3].

This is the law text used [2]:

"Den som i uttalande eller i annat meddelande som sprids hotar eller uttrycker missaktning för folkgrupp eller annan sådan grupp av personer med anspelning på ras, hudfärg, nationellt eller etniskt ursprung, trosbekännelse eller sexuell läggning, döms för hets mot folkgrupp till fängelse i högst två år eller om brottet är ringa, till böter.

Är brottet grovt döms till fängelse i lägst sex månader och högst fyra år. Vid bedömande av om brottet är grovt skall särskilt beaktas om meddelandet haft ett särskilt hotfullt eller kränkande innehåll och spritts till ett stort antal personer på ett sätt som varit ägnat att väcka betydande uppmärksamhet."

This translates to:

"Anyone who in speech or any other form of expression threatens or expresses contempt for a group of persons identified by race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, creed or sexual orientation is sentenced for incitement against a group to prison for up to two years or if the crime is of a lesser degree, to a fine.

For serious crimes the sentence is imprisonment for at least six months and no more than four years. In assessing whether the offence is serious, particular attention should be paid to whether the message had a particularly threatening or infringing content and was spread to a large number of persons in a manner that was designed attract significant attention."

[1] https://nyheteridag.se/dan-park-efter-fangelsedomen-vansinne...

[2] https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S1

[3] https://lagen.nu/prop/1981/82:58#B2
> the gist of it being that quantum computing is some form of analog computing

It absolutely is - at least, in the only practical, real-today, working instantiation of it which is in the form of quantum annealing.
I regret that my point may not have come across. I don't actually believe in pejoratively labeling any good-faith argument, and I would not actually use a label like "Jacobin whinging" in earnest. My point is: labeling something is not the same as refuting it.
I never even considered this option, a whole new world awaits me
Just because you work on something interesting does not absolve you of the moral responsibility you have to yourself. And just because your project doesn’t seem like it will be used in one way today doesn’t mean it won’t be used to censor people the next.
>Especially in Europe, where most countries are comparable to the size of individual states in the US

I understand what you are saying, but having travelled around the US, mostly for business but some for pleasure, there are remarkable and under-appreciated differences among the states. I would go so far as to say that my state, Washington, and its neighboring Canadian province of British Columbia, have more in common culturally, socially, and economically than say, Washington state and Florida. Within Germany itself, which is approximately the size of Oregon, I found that there are also significant religious, cultural, and linguistic differences even still today. So I'm not sure that we can easily discard the differences that come from borders or geography, even within a small area.

Silly case in point - it's been a few years, but you go to Frankfurt and ask for an alt beer, you get served. You ask for an alt beer in Munich, you get funny looks.