skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there are indeed many people who call for expropriation now.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/civey-umfrage-fuer-den-ta...
I wonder if you could use sound rather than RF? Have a grid of microphones pointed at the sky and horizon.
> But it only lets some of the system shrink; for something like a mains charger, you still need the isolation magnetics, so your overall size is still constrained.

1. You can isolate with caps... if you trust their manufacturer. http://www.helixsemiconductors.com/uploads/cms_uploads/2018/...

2. Well if things go this way, one can go for "virtual isolation" with beefy mosfets, and pray that the gate fail before the junction melts to pieces. This is actually what apple recently patented.

Nice to meet an actual engineer here. What is your field of work?
That's fine for you Europeans under GDPR. (Sure, there's careouts for weird exceptions.)

That doesn't do diddly for us US citizens living in the US. Our data policy is "we will sell your data, too bad so sad".
In the late 90's and early 2000's Amazon was one of the few online retailers I actually trusted to buy things from. It sounds crazy now but the concept of ordering online was not nearly as consistent and as safe as it is now.
Plastic is largely a byproduct from oil/gas processing... as long as we're using as much oil/gas as we do, plastic usage (even disposable) is already additional use out of the system. If it weren't composite plastic, it would be landfill sludge anyway.

Now, reducing the consumption of oil/gas could reduce plastic as a byproduct and increase costs in which case the market would self-correct.
"X can be implemented as a Turing machine" means the same thing as "there exists an algorithm to do X".

Turing machines are just a formalization of the concept of algorithms/computer programs.

So problems that can't be implemented as a Turing machine are not "learning algorithms", or any kind of algorithm.
Almost nobody is a wild exaggeration. Most EU business travellers I know use it very often.
One of the people in TFA gets up at 2-3am on Tu/W/Th... O_O
If you’re not inherently driven by an interest in computers, I would not recommend a job in this field. You will never be able to compete with people who do this as a passion and the constant need to learn (forever) will quickly burn you out.
Well the wikipedia synopsis is pretty kind in that regard.
In a way, I miss the serendipity of browsing bookstores. There was a time when it was a circa monthly ritual to go into Harvard Square on a weekend (I think stores were mostly open on Sunday by then) and make my way through all the new and used bookstores as well as run other errands. But, really, although I still like going into a good bookstore now and then, having this vast collection of (however imperfectly) reviewed books that can be in my hands within a few days--or immediately via digital--is pretty magical.
hell yea, in this era where knowledge workers are more valuable than pretty much anything else, it completely makes sense to do whatever it takes to appeal to them, and of course utilizing propaganda is just good business. Propaganda, it works on the stupid and smart alike, does not discriminate.
Some advice after spending a couple years navigating from nothing to a team of 10:

0. Pick an area in which you have domain expertise. If you're building something you actually want to use yourself, that's even better. As a solo founder, it's even more important that you have a strong intuition for your users and for your problem space.

1. Make something people want, get people to use it, and talk to them. This comes first, and almost everything else can and should be ignored until you've done this. This is the best way to attract good people. This is also the best way to attract funding. This should be your north star. If you're struggling to find people and/or funding, goto #1.

2. You have advantages, too: as a solo founder, you should be able to move faster than anyone else - even companies with cofounders or entire teams - in the early stages. When you talk to people and they make suggestions, you can and should literally immediately make them, deploy them, and tell them that you did so. This may feel strange once it starts to feel like you're a glorified CS rep, but this is actually the iteration loop that you want to be in. You can do this faster than anyone else because you have zero communication overhead and zero friction between the point at which feedback is received and the point at which improvements are shipped. When you find yourself in this state, bask in it for as long as possible.

3. Give your early people a lot of equity and make sure they feel like they own the company too.

The good thing is that it's been more straightforward than I expected (though certainly not easier than I expected).
The visualization is beautifully instructive, too -- the essence of the algorithm explained in about a second.
Yep. My bed faces an east window so during winter I can tell before opening my eyes in the morning what it's like outside. On days like today when it's 55F, I wake up naturally before my alarm with no desire to keep sleeping, my breathing feels amazing, I have no muscle soreness, and I just get right out of bed. When it's cold and the sun isn't out, I feel like I'm trying to get over a bad cold. Artificial lamps help quite a bit though.
Curious how you implemented this. I bought a Phillips “sunrise alarm clock” about a year ago, but the light was weak and I didn’t feel a difference at all. Did you hack together something yourself?
Transit Flows Along the Boston-Washington Corridor
Just FYI this is an Ayn Rand book, so if you've already explored that I'll save you the click.
You mentioned attracting co-founders so just adding one important piece of advice: don't be stingy about equity with your co-founders. Even if you were the one who came up with "the idea," or worked on it alone for a few months.

When your company is actually worth something down the road, you will both be wealthy enough, however, in the early stage, when your company is worth close to zero, one of the highest risks is the founder relationship/compatibility. When all partners have equal ownership, there is a much lower chance of having passive-aggressive power struggles, and grudges.

A toxic, deteriorating co-founder relationship will almost surely kill your company too early, whereas being generous early will be something your co-founders will never forget and it will pay back multifold overall.
Quoting Matt Levine from that link:

> That first innovation seems a little questionable. Like, there is an established competitive business of office rental in which real-estate companies own office buildings and rent them to companies; I am not sure why there would be a ton of room to compete with that business by interposing yourself as an expensive middleman. Why would a tenant want to pay a profit margin both to WeWork and to its underlying landlord, when it could just rent from the underlying landlord and pay only one profit margin? There is some room for a value-added middleman — and WeWork can add value not only by providing beer but also by splitting office rental into smaller space and time chunks than a big commercial landlord — but, still, it does not seem easy.

> But the second innovation is great. For one thing, it is great for the obvious reason: If you can get into a traditional mature highly competitive business, call yourself a tech startup, and get a multibillion-dollar valuation based on potential rather than cash flow, then you have achieved a profound arbitrage and really ought to be rewarded for it. But it also helps solve the first problem: WeWork’s tenants don’t have to pay two profit margins, because WeWork’s investors give it tons of money which it can then spend on giving tenants free rent. In a loose sense, WeWork’s business model is getting SoftBank to buy beer for software workers. Which is fine!
Andy and Jack knew each other well. Where do you think Andy's strategy came from? It's the same thing as Jack's Vitality Curve, only without firing the bottom 10%.
Sears would never have been able to compete with Amazon on prices because Sears needed to fund operations for a large number of retail stores and Amazon did not.
Given the authoritarianism of the current Prime Minister, as well as her history as Home Secretary, I'm not sure an accusation of conspiratorial power grab would be particularly controversial.
So besides Android, what other profitable product have they had? Rumors are that YouTube is still break even.
> More specifically, the screenshot showed a location in a particular neighborhood—just a couple of blocks from where the target was.

What gets me is that the writing on wall appears to be that this data did not come from an app on the phone but from the phone company themselves, data collection that is required by the government.

"A couple of blocks from where the target was" implies to me that it was locating the nearest tower. Lat/Long coordinates of the phone within 300 meters is required by the FCC to be received by the telephone companies for Phase II of Enhanced 911. They might be snapping the lat/long to the tower, and then calling that de-identified enough to sell.

If a bounty hunter can get your snapped lat/long on demand because of E911 requirements, you better believe a TLA can as well--and probably unsnapped.
This was very funny. Thanks
No evidence of seasonal variation in mild forms of depression
There are actually four kinds of business; tourism, food service, railroads, and sales. (And hospitals/manufacturing and air travel)

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhk8ysJSwI
This is interesting (along with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854170).

I have a Math BS, but I really wish I'd learned the material more comprehensively (I learned enough to get through problem sets and exams, but I don't feel that I really 'got it'). Paying for another degree is silly at this stage in life, but I'd happily pay a tutor to help me understand the material that 20-yr old me didn't grok the first time.
The link to the article on slide 26:

Suggestions For Giving Talks
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Robert Geroch (Enrico Fermi Institute)

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703019
I've been curious if there are any creative financial or work/education balance strategies for a tech professional going back to school, that might not be obvious?

Networking with professors? Working at the university? Or finding an employer that subsidizes grad school? Haven't seen too much on my radar in this area but have heard there are unconventional ways to offset the cost or level up by leveraging my network & career.

(For context - I'm in my late 30's, ~17 years in tech though my degree is from a trade art school, and in an engineering management role these days in Los Angeles. I've been seriously considering grad school either for CS or MBA.)
The IAEA opinion that I've seen is limited to "Iran has complied with the terms of the deal", not "the public has enough information to evaluate that the deal was effective at stopping nuclear weapons", or even "the deal is effective at stopping nuclear weapons development". The latter two (especially the middle one) being outside of the scope of what they discuss.

It's possible I missed something, I would be surprised though since the IAEA is pretty tight lipped. To quote an IAEA statement [0] made a week before the US withdrew from the deal

> In line with standard IAEA practice, the IAEA evaluates all safeguards-relevant information available to it. However, it is not the practice of the IAEA to publicly discuss issues related to any such information.

[0] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/statement-on-i...
How does make solve the problem of only building what has changed in the current PR? It seems like this would only work if you have a single CI server and all of your artifacts live in the filesystem on that server, no? Solving that seems sufficiently difficult that saying "make solves the problem" seems disingenuous, but maybe it's easier than it appears to me?
The original comment wrote off the report as "some unsourced numbers in a press release" - I aimed to show it was more than that. Impossible has quite the academic rigor.

Agreed - there's plenty of room to interpret the specific numbers.
It works even if they don't, you just need a more intense algorithm to do similarity matching across all offsets.
No one knows if they are in compliance or not yet. For instance https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fresh-gdpr-complaints-take-... outlines a complaint that all of real time bidding that is compliant with the IAB compliance framework is not compliant with GDPR.

Major publications, for instance Der Spiegel, which are trying to be compliant by following that standard (and they had to do major work to do so) may find they are out of compliance http://www.spiegel.de/extra/what-we-do-with-your-data-a-1211...

Similar complaints have been brought against publishers that used googles compliance framework.
I wouldn’t say it isn’t anyone’s goal. For one, John Bolton, NatSec Advisor, openly advocates it. And it’s not like the US hasn’t done it before.
Probably BrainFuck would be easier, congrats.
fwiw nytimes is much easier to read with my adblocker on than washingtonpost or wsj.
This lost me when it lumped the Wonder Years in with other sitcoms.

Yes light hearted, but it wasn't lol comedy, and it didn't have a laughter track.

Or is my memory completely failing me?
I would say that Rebol did this very well with their builtin VIEW DSL. You can effortlessly build a very complex desktop app in this manner. If you scroll down a little bit you can see a lot of simple GUI apps like paint that require nearly zero boiler plate.

http://re-bol.com/rebol.html
Casey Neistat has two kids and gets up at 4am to exercise before taking care of them. This video goes over his time management technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Cvl3_CH2A
250 more hospitals joined plan to make their own drugs, upend generic pharma biz
I kinda want to know what's going through the minds of the engineers pictured. If we could just remove all the marketing BS on that page and just have a 1 pager typed up by them I think we'd have a much better understanding of what this product actually is.
Fighting Persia goes back quite a way before 70 years ago...
Yes, copyright is a good analogy: I don't get to legally torrent non-American works just because they're foreign. And if I did breach the copyright laws of a country with which the US has no extradition treaty, I absolutely could be persecuted if I travel to that country.
your criticism is warranted, but remember that defense also contributed positively to the US economy through the 20th century until 1970 or so (stanford rose to prominence because of defense, for example). just as with the wider economy, greed then took over and wars became tools to fuel personal wealth, not the greater good.

the military works fine as a jobs and training program (for defensive readiness), but we don't need more, and more expensive, weapons. we can already destroy the world a thousand times over.
As someone who didn't own a TV, thus any consoles: the Switch was out before I learned the Wii U wasn't just an accessory for the Wii.
Any chance you would be willing to describe your setup in greater detail? I'd really like to know more.
As a guy who spent many a Christmas season pouring over the full color catalog dreaming of what I wanted for Christmas and making a 'plan'.

Pouring over pages. Marking. Making a detailed list. Deciding what gifts would give me the most 'bang-for-the-buck' in play time vs impressing my limited friend base.

This is a monumentally sad moment in retail history. Many lessons to be learning from their mistakes.

Sad.
Cool, thanks for the reply.
To be more clear, when I click on Hacker News items I have come to expect them to be of a somewhat more thoughtful nature; a la "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Its my personal opinion that this item is more like a 'Dear Diary' entry and of significantly less intellectual value than say "Genomics Code Exceeds ExaOps on Summit Supercomputer", which is one of your own excellent submissions. The "world I live in" is one where I enjoy Hacker News items like your submission and do not enjoy this one.

I understand the "whole point" as put forth by the original writer who made up his own definition of sonder, but just because I paint a picture of a griffin doesn't mean it exists in reality. And similarly the definition of the word 'sonder' as he gives it also does not exist in reality. The problem I have with this thought experiment is that the internet is perpetuating the myth that this word has a valid historical etymology with widely accepted usage where in fact it sprang fully formed from an artist's mind.
When you have Google’s track record you can get away with things We can’t.
If that's the direction you want to approach the situation from, then consider that by allowing the byproducts to be commercialized you are in effect subsidizing the oil and gas, and thereby encouraging their continued use.

You should also consider the unique harm plastic waste in particular does to wildlife.
Mysql.com is down
Criminal investigations have to stand up to court scrutiny. Fugitive recoveries do not. I expect there’s a lot more misconduct where this came from.
I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation
Damn, looks like they've gone full paywall.
>He does too, just doesn't realize it

He didn't say what time he went to bed or how many hours of sleep he got
I'm creating an open source todo list + calendar webapp (https://getartemis.app, source at https://github.com/satvikpendem/artemis) made by just me, and I can tell you how I approached solo development.

I sell first before coding anything.

The video you see on the front page does not exist in code, it is simply a prototype designed with Figma (https://figma.com) and animated with Principle (https://principleformac.com). I created the landing page and video, added a Mailchimp form, and I posted on Twitter, Reddit, and here on Hacker News, the communities in which it made sense. For me, it's a productivity / task management tool, so I would post on reddit.com/r/getdisciplined or reddit.com/r/productivity.

It's all about creating a minimum viable product, as you might well be aware, but what you may not know is that an MVP need not have code. Indeed, it could be a video as I did, and I think for software, a video works best as people can actually see what it looks and feels like, without you necessarily creating the product architecture (full frontend and backend plus devops etc). Now I have over 150 subscribers in only a month due to rapid creation of this type of MVP, and based on this feedback, I changed my designs, and only now I am beginning to really create the heart of the product.

Using non-code MVPs is the best way in my opinion to sell quickly before building.
And then there's the bit about future psychopaths practicing their craft as children by torturing animals. That wasn't intended in my initial reply though.
What the hell is REST, Anyway?
I'm sure being the richest man in the world helps too.
in English:

The phone just rang at the CCC.

"Sir, I am calling from Microsoft and we have detected an issue with your windows installation."

JACKPOT.

I was connected to someone who spoke German. How convenient.

The nice lady helped me to set up the RDP access in the Windows 7 VM.

She then led me through a lengthy process. The system was infected, you could clearly see that at the terminal output (only really colored in red).

"There is a service fee to clean the system."

"I have my credit card data stored in a file, wait a minute."

The lady then copied the file directly to her own computer. Then it became quiet in the line. Perhaps the ransomware coupled to the file was responsible for this, which otherwise serves as a test payload for customer systems.

Of course, the variant only encrypts five files and then stops. So if you set it that way. Much cursing and the conversation was abruptly interrupted from her side.

Maybe I call back, pretend to be a Microsoft employee and offer to disinfect the computer?

source (in German): https://twitter.com/grauhut/status/1082650738927591425
In addition to what others have said:

ski passes - had a job in Colorado where you got up to 4 passes for the same day once per season

flex time - for jobs where you are billing hourly, as long as you get 80 hours in a 2 week period and manager buy-in, they are happy. Other variations are doing 9 hr days, getting every other Friday off (9/80) or every Friday off (4/10).

employee discounts with partners (typically if supplier to a larger company) - this can be substantial on cars and appliances

old computer and test equipment - when old equipment is being retired, it is sometimes given out to employees. I've gotten a very nice soldering iron & Agilent power supply this way.

cell phone & internet - if you work from home some or all of the time, your company might pay for your cell phone and internet service.

sports tickets - the company may have season tickets to pro or college games available for occasional use by employees.
We is an SV generated dream workspace built... to change a human being into this.
No. If every person was legally immune, save for their own country, then each country could simply refuse to persecute citizens that violate treaties. Under your proposed scheme, treaties wouldn't be worth the paper they're written on.
This post is very well written! I like the colloquialism, exhaustive list of experiments (both successes and failures, to better educate others), future work and call to action, and a pervasive lack of fluff. In particular, this reads like many contemporary scientific papers, but is much clearer (I can understand everything with one pass - whoa!), albeit absent tabled data and extreme technical details. I wish more scientists wrote like this.
The Turducken of software.
It is "amazingly simple to get started" but also amazingly difficult to go much deeper. Some of this, imo, is because the preferred introduction to Red/Rebol is commonly the view (GUI) subsystem. Gradual documentation or other structured paths to the deeper end of Red/Rebol appears to be non-existent.

I've seen Red compared to Lisp, Smalltalk, and Forth and other concise languages.

But Smalltalk syntax can famously be fully represented on a postcard. (https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/all-pharo-synta...) Lisp syntax is even more simple and orthogonal. (Lisp BNF http://cuiwww.unige.ch/isi/bnf/LISP/BNFlisp.html) I didn't find a good, common BNF for Forth in a quick web search but the stack is exposed and complete, standardized implementations are historically common; I did one myself once upon a time.

What about Red/Rebol? Where is the BNF?

Anyway, the road to Red/Rebol deep mastery is heavily shrouded at present. All that said, the Red project is amazing and pretty much unique in ambition and I, for one, am certainly hoping it makes it through to a solid 1.0. At that point, I hope, strong effort will allow the language to be fully grokked by, at least, the folks who are comfortable with the likes of Lisp and Haskell.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and support the 2019 roadmap.
We tried this on a project with not great results, chief among them being the project maintainer always classifying a problem or defect as "Not a bug" even when it provably is.
A company's cash-flow in practice, which is a bit different from what it looks like in the books.
Pavlina is a good author, but I don't believe most of what he says - the whole spiel about how he finished college in a year while starting a video game company or whatever and how he slept 4 hrs a day while doing this. This makes me questions anything else he says.

There is another, far-less famous, far-more sane blogger like him, but I can't find his page and don't remember his name. Maybe someone here can help me out.
It should be illegal to sell people's data without a wet ink signature. That's really the end of the story.