skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your story seems similar to a number of other people I know or have met. Here are my thoughts (hope you find them useful/valuable in some way):

(1) Get your diet and sleep taken care of. Nothing fancy. Just find something in both areas (diet and sleep) that improves your energy levels and is easy to maintain.

(2) You are working long hours at your current job. Try taking short ~2-5 min. breaks every ~20-30 minutes and attempt a longer break (~10-15 mins.) about every two hours. Your breaks can be as simple as staring at your screen or at your desk and daydreaming. The point is to get your mind off the current task for just a little bit and then step back into your workflow. Ironically, I have found that taking those short ~2-5 min. breaks has often been diffcult because I feel like I can just keep going and my energy levels won't be affected. Rid yourself of that feeling if it comes up. The short breaks have given me a lot more energy daily, weekly, etc.

(3) Find someone to bounce ideas off of for whatever business you are working on. Doesn't need to be a co-founder or a mentor or whatever. Just find someone to talk with about the project you are excited about working on.

(4) Make finding your first customer a top priority. There will be a wealth of benefits (tangible and intangible) for you when you get that first sale; when someone gives you real money in exchange for something you built. If you've already made some sales, then plan and execute on furthering sales and getting more traction (self-evident). I can't stress enough, though, the importance of getting your first customer if you haven't already.

(5) Filter everything for what is relevant, so as to optimize time spent and energy expended. One of the best pieces of advice that was given to me came from my undergrad thesis advisor. I was 21, and up until that point in life typically read all or most of the books I ever started reading. It felt unnatural and awkward to not complete a book, because not doing so seemed like I would miss something important or that I was doing an intellectual disservice to the author.

Together with my advisor, I had selected ~35 books that would form the basis of my research. I still remember sitting excitedly in his office with the books stacked beside his desk, as I looked forward to diving into the research. He told me (paraphrasing), "Look, there is absolutely no need to read all of the material in any of these books. Flip through them to find the portions relevant to your project and disregard the rest."

That was a freeing moment for me, and one which eventually led to a heightened ability to nearly always sift for only what is relevant (regardless of domain, function, project, deliverable, task, etc.).
Key Takeaways: Zero, Zilch, Nada.

Fixed it for you.
Now if they can recover legal costs from Blackbird the circle will be complete.
Bill Bryson. Enough said.

"A Walk in the Woods" or "Notes from a Small Island" had me in stiches.
So who would pay for that? I can’t imagine there’s much demand for an app to remove image backgrounds?
I guess the data requirements act as a stand-in for our genetic evolution... Our brain models are good at learning the things we learn. Our computer models aren't yet.

/tautology
I don't expect being simple or they would had solved it in the last eight years, but exploring the idea further will not do much harm probably.

Stainless steel is waterproof and robust against shock and vibration so these points are solved yet.

The tolerance question is more problematic, steel can elevate their temperature to thousands of degrees without melting, but a mirror like that would suffer probably.

I ignore how darkening and clouding would affect in this case. Maybe the surface could be cleaned somehow?. Can we expect much embrittlement in metal?.

I suppose that would need to sacrifice at least one (or several) simpler robots just to put all the mirrors sync in place before to die. We would need need also a source of light, but spontaneous incandescence of a softer matherial should be easy to achieve.
It depends on what you mean by "object-oriented".

A Lisp with no formal OOP system still has objects: conses, strings, symbols. These are nicely abstracted: they are defined by operations which construct, access and otherwise manipulate them. These entities have an identity (which we can test with eq) and carry a type. They can move around freely in the program.

There is genericity without OOP: features like car working not only on a cons cell, but also on the nil object. Or length calculating the length of a vector, string or list.

All of this stands in contrast to a procedural paradigm in which there are just storage locations operated on by code, having whatever type the code believes them to have. (Algol 68, Fortran 66, C).
Depends on which way you look at. I wrote the article from the perspective of a founder, not an investor.
The math analogy is a bit stretched though. Following it, the only thing that matters is where you start. If you started in the hill leading up to the global maximum you'd be good. I have no statistics to back this up, but I would suspect reaching a global maximum is more expensive than reaching a local one. Truly world-changing ideas, therefore, don't lend themselves as well to the lean methodology.
Are we talking about robots or people?
If you don't need a real linux style OS there are tons such boards available already. From SiFive, Gap8, OpenISA, Pulp and so on.
Ask HN: Looking for mobile app devs/publishers to join a beta ads network
Hey there,

For the past few weeks I've been working on a privacy-focused, simple and clean mobile ads network.

I am looking for the first few app publishers for the alpha testing of the new ad banners and service and get the first round of feedback.

If interested - you can check the site out and register and I'll get back to you shortly.

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Sorry, I have no sympathy for "victims" who have all the power, and bring their misery on themselves. The voters have the power over their government, so if they don't like their government, it's their own fault. In the short term, sure, voters can be fleeced, and have to wait for the next election to choose someone else, but this kind of stuff isn't happening within election cycles, it's long-term.

As for "being pushed further and further out", that again is the voter's own fault for not voting better. They don't need to move farther out, they need to build more densely, and they don't do it. This is largely an American problem because for some reason, Americans associate dense residential areas with "slums" and think that only suburbs with McMansions with gigantic and useless lawns can possibly be "nice".
Similarly, I thought I would be okay commuting by car for a bigger paycheck. A company matched my spoiled demands, and I got a nice fat paycheck.

But still sitting in traffic ~2 hours a day was completely non-monetizable for me, and at the time monetization potential was important to me and this was a total waste.

Now of course, people in the bay area were telling me "wow a 40 minute commute you are so lucky", as many do 1.5-3 hour commutes one way, or they work longer than 8 hours to avoid traffic - for the same salary they would get if they worked less than 8 hours/day for these companies.

But I don't compare myself to them, to the average, its a non-factor for my goals, and I do have luxury of not being subscribed to a commute and was able to quickly remedy the situation. At the expense of no longer working at that job at that high salary.
maybe there was ambiguity in my post but I’m saying that this adds an additional layer of trust outside the database which is the signed token

In this case you’re trusting JPMC, the database, their engineers, the cryptography, etc.

For this use case, there is a major issue. Since you have no access to the token yourself, it’s just marketing hype
Cigarette smoking is a long-known risk and thus has warning labels on every pack. Of course the RR is higher. Comparing that known large risk factor to make another seem smaller by comparison is at best disingenuous.
I would think it's to improve reliability of their deliveries. I see why you would be concerned, but retail stores have had security guards for my whole lifetime...
Better yet: humanity's mission should be to find Opportunity (and Spirit) and clean off the solar panels :)
People don't buy houses, they buy payments. Specifically, whatever their lender will give them. Any additional principal balance is more they have to qualify for and more money required for down payment.

If you're thinking "Wow, that's nuts that people would spend 100% of what a lender will qualify them for," then, I say to you "Welcome to America."
Not really.

If you build a web with a private, centrally controlled database, then you might be messing with the database behind the scenes.

A Blockchain makes that database transparent, and makes any secret funny business immediately apparent.
I'd like to think that what you said is true, but I think it's more likely that the reason Google Glass didn't take off is simply because it looks dorky. The general populace doesn't seem to care about privacy, as much as I wish otherwise.
Thanks for your perspective.

Btw there is a 'Customer Service' button. This was put specifically for the case where a question is not answered.

Does it not look like the logical next step for unanswered questions?
People uploading white noise to youtube have already faced copyright claims.
I wager you're getting down voted due to people who see themselves as "smart" taking taking offense at the implication that they are just as fallible as every other human on the planet.
>It's roughly analogous to saying you can tell the quality of a driver by the performance of the vehicle they are driving, or that the correctness of a computer's output is a pure function of processor speed irrespective of what software it's running.

Good simile.

>I struggle to understand how anyone could possibly believe [really smart people tend to be right].

You don't really struggle to understand that, do you? It's kinda shoved on us from an early age: "Respect your elders, they have more life experience.", "Do what the teacher says, they're the experts.", etc. It takes a fair amount of willpower to think "wow, no one else sees it this way, or at least if they do, they haven't come up with a solution".
Are we going to sit around here and pretend they were?
Marcus by Goldman Sachs is offering 2.25% on its High Yield savings accounts, if you can't get into wealthfront. I've been pretty satisfied with the offering.
Nope. JPMC doesn’t give you actual token access. This system doesn’t work like public crypto. It’s all behind the scenes.

As such, it’s mostly marketing hype and adds value only for JPMC, not the consumer
The problem of progression in small teams
Yeah right "startup culture". It's not like tech industry is systematically affected by this problem from smallest startup to largest Mega Corpo. It's not like if you're a software eng it's seen very normal to work 9 to 6 and occasional overtime plus weekend work. When I work in a startup at least I can talk to my manager as a friend and say "I'm under the weather today, won't make it to work"; whereas in Mega Corp big managers are unreachable aliens living in Saturn managing their assets and "this is company policy".
I have no trouble understanding the headline. I'm Australian. This is an Australian website. No surprises here.
Real Estate Brokers Despair Over Amazon's Abrupt NYC Reversal
I'm assuming it's downvotes for implied respect for anyone that could question the moon landing or consider QAnon theories.
I own TP and I like it overall. I just can't stop using Sequel Pro, it's just so damn snappy and easy to use. I need to give TP another try but it was really hard to break my habit of using Sequel Pro.
JPMC will have to track the redemptions on a blockchain ir database to prevent double spend. As mentioned above, this is an internal efficiency system for JPMC, it doesn’t provide any consumer benefits unless they pass on the reduced costs
Sure, I'll give a problem.

A private database is not public to the customers. Customers have to trust that the database isn't being changed behind the scenes.

A Blockchain makes it transparent to all parties in the network, so you don't have to trust that nothing wierd is going on where you wont be able to see it.
"you need to be thinking about implications"
Thinking about it, won't put food on your table.

These are not necessarily similar to "exploit" codes, but more like a box of innocuous tricks often needed for good purposes. Gather enough of those throw enough compute, then you go from something that a human can perceive as obviously false, to something human-like.

There are plenty of people out there, with the competence to replicate those results, yet only a few big companies reap most the rewards, monopolize user data and interactions, and open-source for free results which could have been monetized by a company to provide useful services to users.

Seriously, how can one expect that most of those Phd who didn't get recruited don't use AI for nefarious uses?
Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list
I can see the value but it's largely a question of resources. There are some strong collectives that are working in this space, not sure we have the time to run that as a side job. Plus, PJ is narrowly-focused on this troll, which is why we said from the beginning, it would last as long as the lawsuit was active. In the meantime, we're focusing our community engagement efforts on Project Galileo and Athenian Project.
The interesting bit:
"Legal Compliance for Filecoin Storage Miners"
https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/65

"In order to comply the with law, a miner who agreed to store the bad data must not serve it, and delete the data from its hard drive as soon as possible."
> "amplify the pain significantly"

Wow, this is violence! With such extremisms being legit, one must not be surprised, if extremism rises on all fronts!

Who likes business (wo)men?
Yep. Definitely. This is exactly what Saudis do to US every time they can, like that 100B defense contract that made current White House into Saudis' faithful servants afraid to even mention Khashoggi or Yemen.
That's why I used not two times. I meant that it IS special, sorry for confusion, I'm not a native speaker.
Except it isn’t 0. It’s far from 0! LIC’s growth is really impressive without Amazon.
You said "acccording to classical mathematics", which is not constructive so I assumed you were working in ZFC or some similar set theory.

Also if we want to be precise I'd like to hear your definition of "finite definition", the only definition of "definability" I'm familiar with is relative to a model of a theory and if ZFC has models at all then it has countable pointwise definable models, but I guess that won't satisfy your idea of "finite definition"
Strongly agree with you.

Some of the most successful people I know spent a few years in 'coast mode' jobs. Where they received large salaries to maintain spreadsheets of other workers and fake work meetings. These roles offered them ample downtime to study, plan, research, network and invest in personal growth projects without having to sacrifice much leisure time.

Granted the article has some fundamental tips, the author seems to be biased in one of these situations.
The answer is yes to all 3! There are cameras and smart boards at the highest level, but chess players are still required to write down their moves. Archaic for sure, but tradition is strong with these old games.
You don't have a review mandate before merge?
What's the benefit (to you) of MySql over Postgres? I've moved completely over to PG, and am happy as a clam.
It’s always the intolerant minority that controls the action. The majority thatbisnok either way will not be heard, because they are ok either way.
This! I gave a talk about how difficult it will be for RISC-V to enter the server space: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/my-talk-from-the-risc-...

For full disclosure, I work for Red Hat and am keeping an eye on RISC-V for servers, and I hope it does succeed but there's a mountain to climb and lots of ways to screw up.
Ask HN: What is the coolest product name you ever heard?
Is there any product name that you heard and just thought "WOW"? If so, what is it?

Note: If you pull a shameless plug to mention your own product, please mark it as such. And "Cillit Bang" doesn't count, that's next level shit.
Here is to hoping this pushes Betterment to offer the same. FDIC and 2%+.
>I wonder why, though?

One reply to my comment suggested that women in CS kept increasing, just not as exponentially as for boys. IF that's true (I don't know the data AT ALL), then the precise question is what kept them from coming in at higher rates like boys did. The best reason I can come up with is Nintendo->PlayStation/Xbox->Steam, but I have no proof.

>I don't see how that's "busy work"

Maybe it wasn't. But here's my idea: CS was respectable before it was respected. And my thought is maybe women "snuck in" during that interim period. And then all the men looking for status came in and drowned them out.
No. We're going to build museums - and cities - around the rovers, and the cities will be named after the rovers.
The wheel is trivial and obviously anyone could come up with the idea. The reason wheels weren't used universally from the dawn of time is that axels had to be invented first. In order to invent a cart that can support enough weight to be more useful than a donkey, you first need to invent metallurgy.
Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall
Forged Takedown Notice from New Jersey AG
Salesforce down
Anyone else having problems? First time I can think of a salesforce outage in the 3 years I've been using it.
Trump is going to win reelection in 2020 isn't he?
Youtube relies on Copyright holders to flag offending videos, which is in its own way a flawed system, whereas this legislation, to the best of my knowledge, would hold Youtube accountable for any infringement rather than the uploader themselves.
I get uncomfortable with this line of thought. I would much rather let the market produce alternatives products when companies do things customers object to.

The best thing about the internet is that it is so easy for another product to spring up to serve a new need or compete with ensconced businesses.

Regulations increase cost of business and dissuades other companies from competing.
Thanks.

>(More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699718)

>BTW, there's a wonderful book called “Exercises in Programming Style” (a review here: https://henrikwarne.com/2018/03/13/exercises-in-programming-...) that illustrates many different solutions to that problem (though as it happens it does not include Knuth's WEB program or McIllroy's Unix pipeline).

I'm the same person who referred to my post with two solutions (in Python and shell) in that thread, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699656

in reply to which, Henrik Warne talked about the book you mention above.
Do I really need to explain anecdotes vs data?

Income is a strongly inherited trait. Look at this absurdly linear plot in section 2:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01...

The only deviations from pure correlation are that the extremely poor and rich are EVEN MORE likely to be extremely poor or rich.
You should provide links or references to your projects. It would help make a stronger cause since college degrees tend to be arguably higher signal than just a HS diploma
Your work is really enjoyable, interesting, and unique.
:)
Please keep it up.
I think there are two kinds of entrepreneurs. One is those trying to replace their current job with a hobby they are passionate about and makes them roughly the same amount of money as their current job. Two is those that want to replace their current job with a new one that is 100x more monetarily lucrative than their current one. Your blog caters more to type one entrepreneurs whereas the TechCrunch glorified stories cater to type two entrepreneurs.
> the customers are the businesses with money deposited at the bank.

Once again, this is a blockchain controlled by BANKS. Customer's of the bank do not participate in this. What are you not understanding?

> It's unfortunate you took it as snark and not advice

More needless petty snark. I'm done with this conversation.
Shopify passes $1B revenue mark with the highest growth rate of any SaaS company
Always relevant:

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Maybe I worded myself poorly. I meant 'really smart people' not in absolute IQ terms, but more in 'hey this dude believes some things about a subject he has knowledge of and from what I can tell he is well regarded among peers and seems smart'-terms.
JetBrains pricing is actually a great case study in price segmentation for enterprise software.

First, they charge different prices for an "individual" licenses vs. an "organizational" licenses. Why? Because businesses have larger checkbooks.

PyCharm: there's a free Community version and a paid Professional version. Python is the most common beginner teaching language, so give the basic stuff away for free. Once you get into "pro" stuff -- sci stuff, web dev, DB stuff -- that's when there's a budget and so people are willing to pay.

WebStorm: Javascript is a mess of an ecosystem and there's tons of free tools out there so no point in JetBrains giving away a free version. However, once you value your productivity and want something that Just Works out of the box with reasonable defaults, that's when a webstorm license becomes something you pay for. Besides, every startup does some form of web dev these days, so larger market.

IntelliJ: Java used to be the go-to language for learning object-oriented coding, so like python, offer a free community edition. Once you dive into Spring stuff, well, you're going there because you have a boss and the boss has budget.
From your link.

Storage miners can absolutely decline retrieval requests, at any time, for any reason.

Storage miners have to be able to access the data themselves for the purposes of the PoSt, but since the PoSt is a zero knowledge proof, none of that data ever leaves the miner. The PoSt simply proves to everyone else that they actually have the data, without revealing the data (thats how we keep it compact).

I found this interesting too. Could a miner save on bandwidth costs by just hoarding a bunch of data, but never serving it up? I guess that they must have a solution for that, but is the solution decentralized?
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No, Lebron just demands the coach be fired, management take on horrible contracts for Lebron's buddies, and all organizational decisions be run by him. Truly, Lebron's lack of ego is staggering.
Is it cleaner? What does this mean?

λy.λx.xy

Is it:

{lambda {y} {lambda {x} {x y}}}

or is it

{lambda {y} {{lambda {x} x} y}}

We need to know the relative precedence of the "<function> <arg>" phrase versus the "λ <arg> . <body>" phrase.

(I honestly do not know, even though I had studied Lambda Calculus.)

If mathematics, that sphere of pure precision of thought, robes itself in ambiguity, isn't that a bit ironic?

Of course, "precedence" is a mathematical concept. We establish it, thereby asserting a kind of axiom that governs the syntax we are using, and then everything is precise, as it should be. The only problem is that these distracting concepts are from a different field; they don't speak to the semantics of Lambda Calculus. Why do I have to think about "precedence", when I want to think about Lambda Calculus? Mathematics should be not only precise, but it should separate concerns.

We can condense the syntax without introducing ambiguity, e.g.:

(λy.(λx.(xy))
(λy.((λx.x)y)
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