skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact is that the big tech companies are feeding at a trough of money that seems to be infinitely deep, but only a million or so people worldwide have the skills to build and implement Internet services at the billion-user scale. Until the money trough runs dry or the skills pool deepens, employees will still have the tech companies by the balls.
Economic freedom rank is a bit confusing. Comparing Canada to US the tax burden is listed at 65 for the US and 76 for Canada. Comparing income taxes, capital gains, local/provincial/state the US is much lower.
Thanks for that. The point I'm trying to make is that they create the framework for this stuff in seemingly obvious and necessary laws and regulations. Then, when it's needed, "Well look-a here! Good thing we forced that other unrelated thing. That's a nice personal locator you've got there."

Meaning: Thanks to e911, a seemingly perfectly acceptable requirement, we now carry around devices that can be used to locate us. Warrant or not. Because "Let's require everyone to carry around a transponder" doesn't work whereas "We are just trying to protect you!" does.
>> Maybe your parents were too laissez-faire and too lenient in how they treated your missteps

This isn't quite what I mean. I don't think they should have been stricter, or more authoritarian or punitive (although they were those things at times). Nor do I think this is usually all people mean when they talk about "helicopter parents". Rather, I wish they had been more available to help me when I had problems that were beyond my own interpersonal abilities to solve, or that involved other adults and authority figures that did not have my best interests at heart.

When my stepson had problems in school, I went to the school, talked to the teachers, negotiated on his behalf, nagged him to finish his homework, and even helped him do it. My parents weren't always available that way; they were busy, and I think they kind wrongly assumed that other adults would be sane, fair, and reasonable.

In public school, college admissions, even early jobs that one holds as a minor, there are all sorts of situations that are really difficult to handle as teenager, and I think it's often a good thing when parents help with that kind of stuff. This might sound overbearing or entitled on the part of the parents, but I think it can and should be done, in moderation, with a humble and respectful attitude. Lot's of the authority figures in my life at that age truly did not give a fuck about what happened to me, beyond their own trifling convenience. I needed someone on my side, and that's what I'm talking about.
Example for braking: A car ahead of me in a lane to the right of me moves a bit left for the moment in order to give more space for a bicycle. My car brakes. I could get rear-ended.

Example for lane following: I veer left a bit to avoid a bit of scrap wood with nails sticking out. The car counters this, steering me back toward the debris.
I take a lot of inspiration from Native Americans on this topic. Eating is a part of existing for any organism and without life, there is no energy to transfer. This applies to plants and animals.

Appreciation for the life that was given for my nourishment is important to me and I really take it seriously. I make an effort to not waste any meat I buy and I've definitely shifted to eating less than I used to.
You just brought back a childhood memory of my mother weeding the garden. I didn’t understand why _these_ plants were bad but _those_ plants were good.
Follow your inner voice. Sounds like it’s telling you to look seriously at grad school. Most people I find will tell you to not do it, but I say go for it. Don’t worry about the social risk; it’s just because you’re outside of the academic sphere right now.
Very interesting read on the intersection between Tech/Politics/Money.

Personally I think it's bad idea to inject this type of (essentially) spam email marketing into politics to drive fundraising, but the alternative of Super PAC isn't very attractive either.
I had in mind birdshot CIWS mounted on top of a truck that could tear ass around the airport. Even if you could only place one or two in a fixed location, putting them next to tempting targets for invading drones looking to taunt the airport, such as the control tower, would probably work pretty well. Consider that the invading drone will only succeed in shutting down the airport if somebody notices it; somebody trying to commit economic sabotage will be making the presence of their drone known. If the invading drone goes unnoticed, then it will fail to accomplish it's mission.

As for drones flying too high, that is a problem but one that could be addressed (not solved) by using interceptor drones to spook or bait the invading drone into flying lower. On a non-ballistic sidenote, you could also have race quads configured to rapidly triangulate the origin control signal and collect video evidence of the signal origin. Not fool-proof by any means, but I wager that would be enough to catch all but the most clever/dedicated attackers.

This all seems a bit silly, but if you throw enough money at it I think you can make it work. The question is how much economic harm can a drone do by shutting down an international airport and how much money are you willing to spend to prevent this. My main point here is that the situation isn't nearly as hopeless as a bunch of soldiers taking potshots at the drones with their rifles (that's pretty much guaranteed to be not work and is exceptionally dangerous.)
Fair point.

Not sure Uniqlo should count though, lots of similar brands in fashion have massive global operation (H&M etc.).
I think any night is usually a good night, they don't really ever fill up. Sometimes if there's an early show at the patio some of the crowd might stop by there but I don't think I've ever had to wait for a seat. The ice cream is good as well.
The estrogen in beef is actual, mammalian estrogen. Which would you expect your body to interact most within digestion? Of course it’s going to be the stuff that’s closest to it.

The FUD being spread around soy is ridiculous.

Other nutrients that tend to be harder to find in plants than animals also tend to be more poorly absorbed than their animal counterparts. B12, iron, d, zinc, etc.
I agree. The Like button turned everything into a performance done for points. They are extremely unlikely to remove it as it drives engagement which drives their entire business model.

Arguably Karma points on HN have similar drawbacks, but somehow they mostly work better than Likes. Combination of downvotes + not showing a list of voters helps.
I think that D&D is interesting in terms of the contrast with computer roleplaying games.

In a way it does a good job of showing both the current strengths and weaknesses of computers. Managing the rules and stats by hand can be fun, but I have seen many recorded sessions where it is obviously a burden that a computer would be perfectly suited for.

On the other hand, aspects of D&D like face-to-face interaction and language-based free creativity are things the computer can't handle well. Although video chat is a thing. Computers can't understand language at this point so they can't manage everything for you. Of course DMing is the most fun for many people so they wouldn't want a computer to DM.

I wonder if there would be a way to translate the freedom that you get as a DM or player in terms of world creation, scenario management, and freedom of action, to an interactive video-game type experience. Maybe in VR?
darkpuma already expressed the general idea but yeah--- if one piece of food has a bacterial/fungal presence, then having anti-microbial properties for the flavor-divider is a not that big of a plus.
The idea that there's an "honor system" always surprises me. Where is it stated that the cost of the content is watching the ads? That's not how ads work: nearly universally, what I'm told is "HEY, come get this great free content!" But when I reach for the content it's snatched away and the "but first a word from our sponsors" diatribe begins.

You can't have it both ways, either the content is free and I can consume it on my terms, or inform me of what's expected for this exchange and I'll make a decision about whether I want to pay the cost or not.
A cd command that learns – easily navigate directories from the command line
Not contradictory, but working to different ends.

"You shouldn't worry about this because phytoestrogens aren't present"

"You shouldn't worry about this because phytoestrogens are beneficial"

Both can be true at once, and support the end argument, it's just not particularly helpful or harmful if both are true at the same time.
That's true, but the longer I use the internet the more cynical I get. If something exists that can somehow notify or alert people, it will be be abused.
I’ve heard 4e described as “D&D Tactics”
And so we have "Diamonds and Rust" :)

original Joan Baez version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

Judas Priest version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OHJP1BSVgM
Step 1: Sign the Nature boycott.

Step 2: Get boycott popular. Less people submitted to Nature.

Step 3: Submit to Nature. Accepted due to less competition.
I've often wondered, is there a way to get a reputable CS degree that leverages a couple of decades of work experience to make the process shorter? The article says so in the general case, but what about specifically for CS?
That's a cache, though, when the use case at hand is random access.

I mean, if I'm willing to do some prep work I can surely do even better than sticky notes (like, heh, "google for all the monsters ahead of time and line them all up in browser tabs").
Southern Indian vegetarian cuisine is outstanding in this regard.
One thing I really liked in the old MacOS was that the Desktop wasn't really a location for files, it was just a place where you could move them to keep them handy to work on, and then use the "put away" command to send them back to wherever they came from. (They really needed some session management for different kinds of tasks, though.
>MAY be linked to cancer (emphasis mine)

Yeah but processed meat IS linked to cancer.

https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/multimedia/multimedia_pub/mul...

And last I checked, most Americans have a problem with high cholesterol, not low cholesterol. Americans eat too much meat.
My friends and I play D&D because we have no real other option. We used to play Minecraft and other collaborative building games as a group, but then one in our group went fully blind. There is a complete lack of good multiplayer computer games for entirely blind players (admittedly that is quite a challenge), but D&D requires only imagination, which all of us still have. Highly recommend if you have friends with vision disabilities.
#7 or bird shot would not even scratch the paint if falling under gravity. It is approximately 0.1 gram. If you ever see what it looks like in real life, it is tiny and soft. The only reason it does damage is because the charge gets it going at a fair speed (which is loses very quickly).
Unfortunately, they still look too dorky to wear in public. All the tech gadgetry in the world won’t make a successful product if they don’t solve the fashion problem first.
Everything in We was made of glass, even the buildings, so everyone could see everyone else at all times. It was sort of like one giant coworking space.
It's the aesthetic ("program", "procedure", "begin" and "<>") and the association with proprietary software (Borland) that make Pascal feel "uncool".

While Awk, like C, Is Unix™. Timeless, classic, already there, and cool. This is absolutely just subjective crap, but this is how most of us unix-heads feel :)
I have no idea what your story is trying to say.
Having been to a legal marijuana shop and having had several pothead friends growing up I can confirm that marijuana users have all kinds of appreciation for culinary aspects of their drug. That's obviously different with pharma drugs, but for plants I think there's a comparison.
The entire point of this thread is that even small doses of alcohol -- doses well within what we consider to be moderate drinking -- have fairly extreme negative effects on memory. This is a problem even for the 80% of drinkers who do not develop alcohol addiction.

As we start to actually study the effects of alcohol, it really looks like it is a hard drug with no net positive effects at anything over a minuscule dose.
They still look absolutely ridiculous. The way they hover above the nose just looks silly.

It feels like these types of glasses suffer from an effect similar to the uncanny valley. They either need to look EXACTLY like a normal pair of sunglasses, or embrace what they are and make them look very different from sunglasses. Looking sort of like sunglasses, but not being quite right, I think has the inverse effect of getting them to "blend in".

Aesthetics aside, I think the reduction in size and weight is impressive.
Ask HN: Where can one find the ECMAScript 4 reference implementation?
Online one can find links to the reference implementation of ECMAScript 4 (which was eventually abandoned for Harmony). However, all these links seem to have bitrotted and, because of an interstitial form, the archive of the download doesn't include the tarball ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070712063844/http://www.ecmascript-lang.org/download.php ).
Does anyone happen to know a way to access this source code for research purposes?
It's only verbose if you use C. GTK is very nice with Rust, C++, D, Vala, Python, JS, Haskell, etc.
That sounds like a good time! I've actually had some of the most fun role-playing experiences playing with new players who don't really have a preconceived on what the typical limits of role-playing should be.

For example, we've got one player who decided to try and buy drugs in-game at one of the seedier cities we were stopping at. Fast-forward many sessions later, and she's now a kingpin of sorts with an owl-delivery service and contacts of varying trustworthiness all over the place. It does help to have a very creative DM who likes creating random effects (inhaling ground up flail snail shell turned out to be particularly silly) and teammates who don't get bent out of shape over "less than optimal" play or whatever.
Georgia Tech's Online Masters of Computer Science. 100% online and same degree you get from the on campus program which happens to be a top 10 in the nation. There is no research track unfortunately which means it is a terminal masters program.
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OMG, we're actually having an edition war on HN! D&D really has broken through!

Pathfinder beat 4e to market in a technical sense, but it absolutely exists because WotC announced it was moving away from 3.5e and the OGL with a new edition. Paizo never intended to release it to compete directly with 3.5, and it would have been insane to do so.
When you want to go to it?
Alcohol is really easy to brew and relatively easy to distill. Now, making good alcohol is another story.

But for that matter, growing good weed is another story and properly dry-curing it is too (it's not as simple as dehydrating the crap out of it to get good pot for smoking).
https://www.robertefuller.com/diary/filming-a-peregrine-falc...
Step 4: ???

Step 5: Profit!!
Misread that as "star tropics" and got excited.
Yeah but what you gained from that experience is beyond measure. I assume you're bi or tri-lingual now?
I think that I wrote that comment a bit late at night and was thinking about evolutionary psychology, so I'll offer an apology to the evolutionary biologists in the audience. Sorry. :/

The majority of evolutionary biology is good hard science. The knowledge we gain from studying historical trajectories through genome-space has immense real-world value. As a concrete example, inspecting historical speciation events allows us to tighten the bounds we have on various constants in the dynamics that govern genetic change when implemented using Earth-pattern biochemistry (CGAT DNA etc), and that knowledge in turn helps us reduce bias and disentangle causes from correlations when we're trying to nail down genetic causes of disease.

There is a segment of evolutionary biology which is... not such good science. This is where you get attempts to explain specific high-level features of biology or human behavior using equally specific features in historical environments. Things like "Women are better at seeing colors because it was their job to look for fruit when we were hunter-gatherers." Works in this domain, if they pretend to have an underlying theory at all, will offer something vague and nonspecific that reveals no bigger picture or more general principle, or will offer an underlying theory that totally fails to generalize. Falsifiable hypotheses or useful predictions can be few and far between. You can't use it to reduce error in any experiment nor to improve the efficiency of any tool or product. It is, in short, bullshit.

I put my comment above closer to the bullshit end of the spectrum basically because I took some inappropriate shortcuts, I think because I was trying to not be bored or boring. Most of the issue was that I anthropomorphized evolution to assign intent and by attempted to present a "why" that implies that any alternatives were considered or chosen between. That kind of thinking, in the context of evolutionary biology, is playing with fire. I'll hand an explanation of that off to an essay that I think can explain it better than I possibly could: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLRogvJLPPg6Mrvg4/an-alien-g...
So does 10 mg zolpidem tartrate. As in, totally prevents memory formation. Gotta be careful with that stuff.

And prototypically, marijuana. Back in the day, I'd always see movies stoned. That way, if I liked them, I could see them again freshly. And if I didn't liked them, I could forget about them more easily.
Lots of conflicting advice here. There are a lot of factors that would or could cause you to do one thing versus another: how much capital reserves do you have, have you tested a market yet, what is the market, what are you looking for in a cofounder, how long will the product take to develop if it isn’t developed already, etc etc.

Here’s my (short) story. I’m a single founder in mid development, and this is a side hustle. I expect to deliver by the end of this quarter, working in my spare time. The product is solving a problem that I have. I am footing everything, and am not even entertaining the idea of bringing anyone else (cofounder or otherwise) on board until the product is complete and works the way that I want it to. Then once it’s marketed and gets traction, then and only then would I look for help.

But that’s just me and that’s the point: do what’s best for you.
So one reason companies like to vertically integrate with companies that supply the goods/services they use in their products is to open up economies of scale and decrease costs. Ie instead of getting protein from an animal that has to be raised on plants they’re getting protein straight from the plant source. It’s always going to be a cheaper to go closer to the source, “if you can make it work” - in a sane universe without subsidies.
And don't forget ViaGrafix.com
Affordability has gotten worse since the government started giving loans. The non-wealthy students still have to pay their tuition.

I think you might mean accessibility. Government loans do expand access, but so does the private income sharing model. There are market-based ways to serve the poor education, and arguably where it does it’s more affordable, and incentivized to lift them out of poverty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_2entulkw
What is "terminal masters program"? Does it mean I won't be able to have a research track in the future even if I wanted?
From what I understand, the phytoestrogens take the place of real mammalian estrogen, but our bodies don't process it like real estrogen, so its actually good for men who want less estrogen. It acts almost like an estrogen blocker.

Whereas drinking cow's milk, for example, is high in estrogen because its from it comes from a large female after giving birth.
Living-as-a-service may actually be a valuable proposition in a root-less world. If this proves successful , and it spurs competition, soon we 'll end up with competing private cities.
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Many intelligent comments in this thread; let me point out the underacknowledged.

You are limited by who you are. By your appearance, mannerisms, speech patterns. Your clothing, body language, grooming and hygiene. Your ingrained habits of action, speech and thought. Your age - foolish excitable youth or cramped, ossified old age. Your network and resume. Some of this can be improved, some can't.

It all sets an upper bound on your potential, but you could fall far short of this due to bad luck or bad execution. Almost nobody will be honest with you about any of this. Which means savvy observers may see your limits very quickly, but will not tell you.

Trust is a huge factor, and again, people will not be up front about this. A solo startup has a huge legitimacy gap if selling to big companies. You could just vanish, go on vacation, get sick, steal the company's data, sue the company claiming to be a de facto employee.

So acquire signals of legitimacy aggressively. Sell anything to a big corporation or government agency, no matter how small and out of your specialty, and you have a bragging point. Join industry associations. Get an advisory board with the right resumes. (All this assumes b2b).

If you are not likeable, you will have great difficulty selling. That includes pitching to investors, attracting co-founders, employees and beta testers.

Every time you have contact with a salesman - that includes missionaries, military recruiters, etc. - note down what they did that worked and didn't work. The common denominator I've seen in the good salesman is 1) being likeable and 2) understanding my particular situation.

If you see any way to get objective feedback on you, not the company - do it. For instance, bring a savvy observer on a sales call. He can be an investor, a salesman from one of your suppliers, or a paid advisor. I personally stumbled into that situation and benefited from it.

Maybe I'm overstating this because plenty of seemingly dislikeable people started successful companies.
Mine's even uglier: Since disk storage grows much faster than my use of it, the last thing I do as I move to a new computer is to copy its entire hard disk to ~/archive/MachineName. (I do delete swap files since they're large on the newer images.) I (almost) never lose anything, but it's a bear to find things, and do I really need all those Windows files? On the other hand, I can easily recreate the entire working environment, OS, apps, and all this way, and that's saved my butt now a couple of times.

Fortunately, Win10 makes it easy to delete Recycle Bin and Downloads after N days, so at least some things are self-cleaning...
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In Canary Wharf, being a well off part of London, the speed of walking was traditionally quite quick, however there has been a prolonged yet steady slow down. It could easily be a spurious factor but it feels like it goes hand in hand with the trend towards hiring more pliant, less imaginative people!
By "may", I meant "is" according to your definition. I am just skeptical of the standard process medical researchers use to determine this stuff (NHST), so used the term "may" as I would regarding anything else.