skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Locals. Yeah yeah, white man good, others bad! My experience is that the native youths don't give a shit, meanwhile people who sounded/looked foreign cared more about cleaning up after themselves. And in Berlin I had to yell after 2 Germans who just stood up and left their disposable coffee cups on the street bench they were sitting on.

Caveat: we're probably both suffering from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias .
> maybe people need some religion in their lives

I'm going take 'religion' to simply mean 'something that gives them purpose and fulfillment' and agree.

Now that I'm reasonably comfortable (semi-retired, no debts) I've been focusing on "mindfulness" i.e. being fully present in the moment and enjoying the moment. Not looking at the past or longing for some particular future. I think this helps.
I often encounter this “wealth doesn’t make you happy” sentiment... and I find it to be ridiculous. Of course wealth doesn’t make you happy. Poverty however has a tendancy to wreak havoc on the mental health and well being of those who live under its oppression.
more tests with fewer draws. getting people to have blood tests is a lot of work, if you reduce the number of times you have to do it, the number of tests people get goes up.
Seems to me that XMPP already covers all these use cases of COI? Both XMPP and email use essentially the same addressing format but XMPP uses XML formatted messages whereas email uses HTML formatted messages (it's worth noting that XMPP used to support HTML messages).

So you could "send an email" in XMPP just by composing a message and sending it to what amounts to an email address (technically the bare JID). The XMPP client would just need to close the chat window after sending the message to make it seem like typical email experience.

XMPP also has the advantage that it was designed with the IM and multi-user chat use cases in mind (e.g. chat state notifications, message corrections, moderated/members-only chatrooms, etc.) but also can support email use cases.

I think it's easier just to set up your XMPP server to handle IMAP authentication.
I remember Microsoft having a chat service build on top of email 2 or 3 years ago, it was called "Send". Whatever happened to it..
In terms of accumulating wealth, this is spot on. A very wealthy man once told me his secret to getting wealthy. He said the key isn't how much money you're taking in, it's how much money you're keeping.

He also gave me a pain-free method of accumulating money that I've followed my whole life. His point was that no matter how much or how little you are earning, you can do with 10% less without it dramatically affecting your lifestyle. So every time any money comes into your hands, immediately take 10% of it and stash it somewhere where you'll keep your grubby paws off of it.
On reading, this sounds a lot to me like "trial by a jury of one's peers", only the response to the system being (choked for democratic consultations / having massive court backups and shortage of jurors) has unfortunately so far been mostly public apathy, and people being pushed into accepting plea deals / waiving their rights for a jury trial in many cases.

EDIT: I dont say this to be snarky. On the contrary, the idea of "law's being applied equally" being enforced by citizens exercising their powers democratically, vs. the whims of one judge, is really appealing, and explains a lot of why we supposedly have things like jury trials being a right for all.

It's just unfortunate that the reality is, we are trying to do this, but if you look at folks who are actually trying to highlight things like discrimination in the system or "hey, maybe we arent applying these laws equally"...well the response they get for doing that isn't always what one would hope for from an enlightened body of citizens.
Yep, backtracking works fine. If you only want the solution, then you don't need complex rules. But, you really want more than just the solution.

Check out http://sudokuwiki.com/sudoku.htm

This solver (and the whole site) is the best one I know of, and it will solve a puzzle by using rules in order of difficulty, to guarantee it tries the simple rules you know before resorting to backtracking.

The benefits of this are that you can grade the difficulty of a sudoku board. You can also solve a puzzle up to the "crux" and then work on only the hard moves manually. I like doing that so I can skip the hours of boring stuff and practice doing the more tricky inferences. Andrew's site is a window into how big of a rabbit hole Sudoku can be...
Not gonna post it here, but contact me rjbrown at gmail and I'll give you her email and her lawyer's email. Knock yourself out.
Kind of unrelated but I would like to have HN opinion: what is the actual point in working as a trader ? At the end of the day you just made more money or lost money. But you’re not contributing in anything for the world. I really don’t understand why people are happy to say they are trader when at the end it seems that the only do it for money.
In 40 years when I look back I don’t personally want to see that I worked for 20 years for a company just to make money, rather I would like to say for example: I built this product which helped some people
I think in this case the argument actually applies. There is no action on the user's part that signifies bad intent. Maybe if they downloaded too many of the files, but otherwise I wouldn't expect the accusation to stick.
As far as I know there was no fundamentalist terrorism in China due to the Uighurs. In the West we usually leave things alone that are not causing problems... Even if they have the potential to cause such problems. That's one of the reasons that one party authoritarian systems are wrong in that such systems are always worried about their stability and survival where more robust systems have no such worries. And that's why China will fail sooner or later because such systems come under control of strong men who then eliminate all of the survivability of institutions to consolidate power and then die and the system collapses or becomes dysfunctional.

However NSA shoveling all unfiltered data to Israel is in general an insane policy not in line with general liberalism.
Absolutely right. I should put "triangulation" in scare quotes because it's totally ineffective and dishonest as well.
They don't have to consent. That's the whole point of tariffs. They can be imposed unilaterally (As we have recently seen with the US - China shoving contest. Which, of course, had nothing to do with the environment, or carbon emissions, and everything to do with political optics.)
I actually am pro no speed limits because I think global warming is my hysterics than true threat to humanity.

If you read my post again you'll see I was noting that the aim of the bill is to reduce green house gasses and it seems to be common knowledge that cars are less efficient at higher speeds.
Good to know it is improving, as I was disappointed with pgAdmin4 for some time.
Someone I know makes money at this level and the thing he worries about is that he doesn't have much control over it and if his marriage ends while he's still working, he's going to be on the hook for maintaining that lifestyle whether he wants to or not.

It's not what you make, it's how you make it, and whether it's ever really yours.
There's nothing inherent to capitalism that requires individuals to constantly be attempting to maximize wealth. And there are ways for a society to discourage such behavior, such as a very high tax rate on income over a certain amount (perhaps 90% on income over $1 million). That would change behavior after a certain point, without throwing out all of the optimizing benefits of capitalism in general.

Yes, the right wing will cry "socialism!", but that's simply not true. Capitalism is still the mechanism that decides winners and losers—there's just less incentive to "win" above a certain amount. At worst (if one considers capitalism as the end goal rather than the means to drive production), it's a hybrid of some sort.
Q3 2019 still seems way too optimistic to me.
I tried some Gimlet podcasts but didn't find any of consistent quality. For me "consistent quality" means I'm willing to binge-listen every episode and in order.
I’ve thought about this...especially among the very wealthy. Why continue to be a high pressure CEO when you basically never have to work again?

My hypothesis is that most very high paying roles are incentive-based, and incentives can be addicting: meet a goal, get a million dollar dopamine hit. I don’t think these people hate their jobs as much as they might say they do.
This is a fair nit, but still: it's self-evident that modern advertising high-jacks natural competition and amplifies it in order to drive an unnatural level of spending (else companies could just skip advertising and see no change in revenue).

tl;dr Not a root cause, but a powerful multiplier.
Quite a few people run systems with a Raspberry Pi, a high-quality I2S DAC+amp, and a set of (normal, non-internet-connected, firmware-free) speakers. There's a tiny industry of producing hardware and software for this situation.

"Usability" means very different things to different people (after all, the reason Sonos asks for location access is to improve usability), but maybe look at https://volumio.org/, http://www.runeaudio.com/, http://moodeaudio.org/.

Or just install MPD and Pianobar for that old school experience.
I know a boy that created a paper-mache "bomb" for his art class. He was questioned without his parents present, first by the principal and then by the local police. His life will never be the same.
I work for a large consumer facing mail provider. Imap is easily 60% of our cost because it's a very inefficient protocol. Also, we can't put ads in 3rd party imap clients. So we make zero revenue from them.
COI will exacerbate the problem. I wonder how we will solve this problem.
The BOM isn't likely the driving factor in the price, but rather the small number (relatively speaking) of units they'll sell. They have to amortize the cost of all the design and engineering over however many units they end up selling which is probably going to dominate the costs. Not just the labor for the finished product but every blind alley they've gone down, every failed prototype board etc. Then they have to mark the whole thing up (i.e. profit margin) to make it all worthwhile and allow them to do version 2. Version 2 or 3 is probably when they can start thinking about driving down costs.
One thing I will give credit where due is that when I had to renew my license last time I had to retake the computer tests. That's more than the place I moved here from.
I agree with your point, but not necessarily the execution. We deserve a better religion, one that skips the hand-wavey-guy-in-the-sky implausibility but can still serve as a mental shortcut for whatever society agrees morality is ~currently~.
The company was not a fraud from the beginning. Tim Draper invested before a product was "ready" or FDA approved.

Let's not forget that the FDA gave Theranos a CLIA waiver to sell this thing outside of laboratories.

The CEO lied but the regulators failed massively here as well.
This is an awesome product.

Have you ever seen anyone with nightstand or coffee table where they hollowed out a section for the remote to go in.

I like the idea of being able to pop it out and take it withe me, but 99% of the time I would want it in the exact same place so I would love if it could lie flush and be a part of nightstand.
I’m always surprised when people complain about it. It does everything it should for me, syncs with my other devices and automatically downloads the new episode over night and tells me about it in the morning. What are you missing?
You should take a look at std::from_chars IIRC it can completely destroy other parsers within the stdlib because it's not intended to take locale into consideration.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/from_chars
Personally it's satisfying when customers thank you for your product. If you're looking to make a difference only by thinking, then you need to study the industry you are in and its purpose in society. Is high frequency trading really about the allocation of resources in the economy ? Who wins, who loses, and why ?
I used to dig ditches on weekends as a way of relaxing. It's not bad when you get to do it on your own time. But yeah, I'd probably not appreciate doing it for eight hours a day five days a week.

I'd still do it for a million a year though.
> maybe people need some religion in their lives to give direction and meaning

I can't just accept dogma because I'm miserable. I can't just say 2+2=5 even if it would make me feel better. Religion isn't something you can just pick up like pilates. If life is inherently without meaning or direction, I'd rather go with that and be true to myself than refract the universe through some doctrine I understand to be false.

Self-knowledge, mindfulness, wisdom, spirituality, reflectiveness - I can make my peace with these. But I think it is bordering on unfair to proffer a deity as a solution to depression and anxiety.
We already entered it. Serial was the tipping point - a crime podcast with NPR quality production, got hugely popular, people who didn't even like podcasts where talking about it. Also, Gimlet media's production quality is very high.
This is when I used to carry an android phone. I used to worry about that. Then I had to manually move apps to the SD card. Then I had to manage a gallery on my phone and my SD card. Then I had to wait for the memory card to load the apps if I ever restarted my phone. After a point, after I passed 64gb, I didn’t care. I simply wanted something I didn’t have to manage. So I preferred a phone with internal storage. If iPhone started coming with a memory card, I still wouldn’t bother adding one. It just seems like a hassle.

And they are prone to corruption. Never happened to me but I’ve read plenty of horror stories. Why subject myself to another data loss vector?

With the new 256gb capacity phones, it’s never a hassle when it comes to space anymore.
I agree. I think that generally when people are using the term "happy", they really mean "lack of misery".

I think a better term in the context of this discussion is "satisfaction" over "happiness".
Let's say you've got three kids and you're living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Your mortgage and maintenance for a 3 bedroom apartment at $3.5MM are going to be ~15000 a month or 180K a year. Three private school tuitions are 150K. Living in NYC you're paying NYC, NYS and Federal income taxes for probably the highest tax rate in the country. So basically it's easy to be paycheck to paycheck on 500K in NYC.
Works by Italian Designer Alessandro Mendini
I don't think allowing scripting of the DOM was a great idea personally. The goal of the original web was layout and structure of information and the links between them.

Javascript bulldozes over both the DOM and URL's.

The nice thing about web assembly from what I've read, is that it doesn't allow access to the DOM. It basically creates its own sandbox that is then included on the page.

You can INCLUDE interactivity in the page, but, you can't overwrite the page itself.

Because of this it kind of encourages a progressive web design style. You will design the html/xml first then you will wrap the interactivity within.

This will encourage a separation of concerns between highly interactive, more complicated code, and layout and structuring of documents.

There will be some issues to be overcome and I doubt it will be as ideallyic as I imagine, but I think overall it would be a more sane web being able to select 'disable javascript' without any worries.

Just my 2 cents.
Putting kids through school, paying for parent's mortgage, vacation properties, country club dues.
Once again, this stuff won't stop until it becomes impossible for apps to tell whether private data is enabled or not. And the way to do that is with a data-spoofing layer controlled by the user below the API.
Video looks like the interface is choppy. Debug build or something else?
I can't speak for chiropractic as that's out of scope for the FDA and I have no knowledge of the regulatory process there.

Homeopathy and supplements are classified as food, not medicine. Therefore, they're not required to seek FDA approval. (They still have to meet food safety standards, of course.)

If they could do anything meaningful, they'd be required to reclassify as medicine and undergo approval.

So you get this fun situation where anything useful is locked up and can only make very specific claims about what it can cure. The things that can't cure anything can make weasel-worded claims about anything.
The median annual earnings of palo altans is about $400k/year. That's probably workable for cheaper areas like south palo alto where a house built in the 80s will run you $2.5 mil. Move closer to downtown and you could easily double or triple your necessary annual take.
Get a job and learn. MS/MBA is fine if that is what you want personally, but they are not necessary IMO.

If you like the idea of startups, go join one, but don't try to start one first thing out. There are exceptions of course, but in general I think you'll be more successful if you have at least a few years of work experience to learn patterns that work, that don't work etc. Plus unless you have an amazing idea, come from a solid school and/or have connections already getting up and going will be that much harder. If you go work at a startup, gain some experience, contacts etc you'll be more successful when you do your own startup.
Yep. It is the Swedish government procurement process and lack of IT knowledge among the decision makers.
I'm sure you can find some consistently bad quality content out there.
How do you keep track of what chapter/paragraph you fell asleep at when you wake up?
The best VCs optimize for the founder + the business thriving together as the ideal package unit.

Overwhelmingly the greatest outcomes are produced by companies with founders at the helm for long periods of time. The best VCs in the industry know this well, with few exceptions. If you're dealing with VCs that routinely like to replace or marginalize founders, you're dealing with either a subpar firm or one of the couple old bureaucratic dinosaur firms that occasionally are prone to 'IBM thinking.'

Examples: Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Netflix, Salesforce, Qualcomm, HP, Dell, nVidia, Sony, Intel, Oracle, Airbnb, Twitter. Even IBM, at its most successful it was run by the Watsons.
I love falling asleep to Jo Rogan Podcasts.

Also - to his credit, what I like about Joe Rogan, is that he brings on smart people and just is inquisitive and asks questions, and never over speaks them, treats them with respect and asks questions from a point of curiosity...
> I exist in a capitalist economy.

If you live in the modern developed world, you probably live in a mixed market economy that has incorporated many structures advocated by socialist critics of capitalism (in many places some straight out the Communist Manifesto), rather than an actually capitalist system.

And it's quite likely that, for those outside of the bourgeoisie—and even much of the petit bourgeoisie, as much as many critics of capitalism see them as class enemies—your ability to have a meaningful life outside of doing what is necessary to maintain your condition in the economic system is a direct result of the ways in which you do not live in a capitalist society.
And? What makes "chat" is synchrony and to a certain extent UI, not transport protocol.
100% agree. We recently purchased a car. In our case the "expensive" aspect is that we bought new... a new Subaru Outback. We could certainly afford a brand new Escalade, but those types of behaviors would lock me into my current employer or something that pays similarly and that idea isn't something I'm fond of.

And this dude bought that shit despite hating his professional life. Hard to feel bad for him.
I don't know why you were downvoted, this is right on the money. There's a reason we've all heard the phrase "crisis of meaning."
Ugh. It's not "bias", it's simply new science. Or perhaps "new-ish", since most of this has been known for decades.
I agree with your point, but I'm not quite so pessimistic.

Yes we're pretty dumb. I'm continually amazed at how stupid I am, and even other 'clever' people. The way I see it, we're only just barely sentient.

As you say, we've only just managed to get beyond the savannah. Behavioural modernity and the advanced cultures and technologies we have developed arose in insignificantly recent evolutionary time. Therefore we can't have much more than roughly the minimum necessary intellectual capacity to develop a technological civilization on a planet like ours. If we had less, we wouldn't have achieved what we have. If we had much more, well, we'd have developed it sooner and clearly we didn't.

It's possible there were some environmental factors that held back our technological development despite our intellectual capacity, but it's hard to see what those could have been. Our planet seems pretty abundant in resources and environments for us to colonise. It's also possible that once a species develops the required intellectual capacity for technology, it takes long enough to develop the basics to build on that we evolved significantly grater than the minimum intelligence by the time we actually developed a technological society.
I think that only applies to other credit cards, but not debit cards or cash:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...

>Discounts to Customers
A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.
Diversionary tactics is the only thing it is.
Native advertising... After Craig Newmark effectively killed newspapers’s No. 1 source of revenue, they had to turn to other means of generating ad sales.
Kafka Summit 2019: 3 Big Things
I’d argue there’s a failure of the code to some extent to need such extsenibility with documentation. I’ve often found when I need more info outside of Godocs that simply clicking through and diving into the source provided me with all the answers I needed to know.
> In a state with legal medical marijuana

umm.. not familiar with this case, but:

from a federal position there is no such thing as legal marijuana, and from a constitutional position federal law trumps state law -

which is not to say i disagree about the sheer human folly of regulating the existence of plants via legislation.
I like Podcasts mostly because they're something to do with my head while my hands are occupied. I agree that for content that someone may actually care about, the format is a bit of a pain (though not as bad if, like Reply All (for example) you publish transcripts as well.
I’ve agreed with this more and more as I get older. It wouldn’t surprise me if this correlation was pretty much universal.

It reminds me of using cheat codes in old video games. When you play normally, you’re chasing an objective that can take you a substantial amount of hours to achieve. But once you activate god mode and unlimited resources, the interest/enjoyment lasts about 15 minutes, and then the game feels pointless to play.

Without a higher purpose, then what is there? Personally, I don’t think I could ever be persuaded by or force myself to subscribe to to any religion. The highest goal I’ve given myself is to create a great family and teach my future children as best I can. I find it easier to ignore the question of “But why?” a little easier with this goal in mind than others.