skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTC website says different:

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.
We use Wire. In some respects it's more useful than Signal, because it works on mobile, desktop and web. I think the desktop clients are Electron based, so I use the mobile and the web apps. You don't necessarily need a phone number, it can also use an e-mail address, so it works just fine on the desktop. It also has voice chat and conference. Oh and a good part of it is open source, although it's uses a centralized server.
The authors have chosen to make it as limited as they have on purpose, as I understand it.

I disagree with them, but here we are.

I've been slightly tempted at times to make something with markdown but never gotten enthusiastic enough to put the time. Plus, markdown is technically a bit too powerful, so I'd want to cut it back down, and before you know it I'm inflicting the 3,124th custom markdown on the world. Really I just would like bold, italic, monospace, identifier linking as you say, and numbered and bulleted lists not in the unformatted text wrapper.
1. Get a job. You'll find that on the job experience can do more for you than an MS or MBA. After a few years of job experience and you still feel you want those degrees then do it.

2. Take a break. Go travel somewhere and get your mind right. Don't be in such a hurry to jump to the next major thing. You seem fairly young so you do have time.

Consider higher level degrees only if you done one or two.
You should put the docs for AuthProvider on AuthProvider, not on Auth or AuthDefault.
I've wondered about this too. It's rare now, but sometimes I just want to drive to work in silence and it's always surprising to me how nice it can be. I'd be curious to see a study about the affects of time spent "zoned out". I wonder if it may turn out to be an important opportunity for our brains to subconsciously process things or work on ideas. I'd imagine our ancestors spent a significant portion of their lives in that state, whereas today we spend almost no time that way.
I was under the assumption that this is still in effect:

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.
Practicing regularly to increase self-knowledge, thinking spiritually, reflecting on your relation to the world – do you not consider that a religion? Organized Christianity is just one flavor.
> What makes you happy today might feel miserable tomorrow.

Not to get too philosophical, but I honestly don't think that things make people happy or unhappy. Happiness appears to be a choice. I say this based on my observation that I've known people who've lived in objectively awful circumstance, but were genuinely happy -- and I've known people who've lived in ideal circumstances, but were miserable.
> This is not, at all, what biology would predict.

Why isn't it? Afaik in biology, healthy populations tend to be stable populations.

Populations that shrink or grow too fast are often a sign for something going very wrong, usually having to do with sustainability.

That's why I think people in rich nations having fewer children is a feature and not a bug. It's the result of increasing living standards because when you have very low child-mortality rates you don't need to "try" several times to get one into adult age, just like the availability of contraception allows for more reliable family planning.

The same applies to having a social security net: Without that, you have to depend on your offspring to take care of you when you get too old to work/sick.

In a situation like that, more off-spring is always better, as long as you get them through childhood into productive adulthood. Each child is a future potential care-taker and each one of them could end up being a big earner. In that context, a whole lot of people treat getting children like playing the lottery.
Looks like I was mistaken. Thanks for the correction.
The religion of social justice based on marxist identity politics is alive and well.
> He had received an offer at a start-up, and he would have loved to take it, but it paid half as much, and he felt locked into a lifestyle that made this pay cut impossible. “My wife laughed when I told her about it,” he said.

It sounds like part of the problem is his family (or at least with his wife)...
You could also simply read excellent literature. That’s a more effective strategy to unpack and comprehend the human experience, with the added benefit of not incorporating tall tales of dubious veracity.
Triangulation is often (and was for Clinton) an effective near term political strategy (it's quite useful as an electoral strategy for a single election, in many cases), but it's a strategy which wins battles by setting your opponent up to win the long term policy war.
Oh my God... That user interface is trash. It's so laggy!
The Curious Case of Serverless on Kubernetes
"Goldman is actually indifferent to humanity's wellbeing in their pursuit"

Is that not precisely what evil is?
> we don't believe in anything in this country.

I haven't seen any indication that this is true.
There certainly is terrorism from the Uyghurs. Whether you want to call it "Islamic fundamentalist" or "separatist" terrorism doesn't really matter. The terrorists themselves call it "Islamic", which has ended up tainting the Hui by association in the minds of the Chinese. But you'll note that all the Western coverage of repressive practices complains about how steps are being taken specifically against the Uyghurs, who are the group making trouble. The government seems perfectly capable of distinguishing unassimilated Uyghurs from assimilated Hui, much more so than the general run of Chinese.

The Chinese government doesn't really go for publicizing terrorist attacks. We could learn from them, in that regard.
> The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades.

Is this another way of saying they're being offered high salaries and taking them?
Cocktail Similarity, Measured by Symmetric and Jacquard Metrics
You're right for typical studs, joints, posts, etc.

However, I was thinking that for a highrise timber building, you might need way larger column cross sections than what we're used to seeing (24"x24" - 36"x36" or larger). The typical wood frame construction method of using a ton of load bearing sheathed stud walls scattered throughout doesn't work with these taller types of buildings. You start to see post and beam/panel type framing, which means higher compressive loads, which means larger member sizes.The spruce/pine/fir trees slated for harvesting softwood lumber here in Canada don't seem to reach that size. Hence, you probably need engineered wood products. As a bonus, you also get better and more consistent mechanical properties.
I don't have a Fitbit, but I do carry an iPhone which includes a pedometer in the "Health" app. It's notion of stride length is interesting. I exported my daily step count and distance walked, and divided that later by the former to get the stride length.

I plotted this data.

step counts: https://i.stack.imgur.com/x0TPU.png

distance: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sufma.png

Both quite reasonable looking.

Inferred stride length: https://i.stack.imgur.com/giz7V.png

Note that it breaks down into 5 distinct regions, with very sharp boundaries between them. Within each region the stride length has a fairly level average but a lot of variation around that. When you cross a region boundary, same patter but the average shifts down (sometimes dramatically, such as the shift in early 2016).

I have no explanation for any of these shifts except that last one and maybe the small one around Oct 2016. The last one, in the middle of 2018, corresponds to my changing phones from in iPhone 6 plus to an iPhone x. That small one before that matches up with when we switched to full time work at home

The earlier shifts were all on the iPhone 6 plus, and as far as I can tell do not correlate with iOS updates, or with anything in my life that might change my stride size such as seasonal changes (I probably take smaller strides in winter) or getting new shoes.

I asked about this on apple.stackexchange.com, but it got no answers or comments, a down vote, and was automatically deleted as a dead question.
How to Write More Reliable Code – Egor Bredikhin – Meeting C++ 2018
no worries - 40c is still not 'much' by most standards.
Congress could enact foreign export controls for technologies that have repressive dual uses. The PLA will find ways around it. The same holds true for shareholder advocacy, management initiatives, etc. Restricting the sale of technology is enormously difficult, perhaps impossible. Repression in China will not be resolved externally. It's going to require change from within.
Eh, it basically derives it, though in matrix form.
I disagree about it being God-less per-se. I think people will come back around to a conception of God, not as an anthropomorphized magic sky wizard full of wrath and dogma, but as a philosophical concept that seems to underpin all of reality. And when that happens, they will look back at the religions of the past and find that they, in their own words, often spoke the same wisdom that will then be commonplace. We merely misunderstood it because we lacked the context see what what was really meant. Because the thing about context is that it is necessary for communication, and you don't get it for free.
You're leaving out the compound interest that could be earned through stocks/bonds.
And yet, when I look around me I see a bunch of older colleagues, some of them older than 65, who rode the same wave from smallish to a pretty big company. Like me, they could afford to not work anymore, but they keep on working anyway.

They have exactly was the article describes as essential features for job happiness: respect from people they respect, working on something that make the world a (little) bit better for others, and lots of trust and autonomy within the company.

I don't really care about heavy claims like moral weight or dignity of purpose. But what I do know is that it provides immense amount of satisfaction that I wouldn't want to do without.
Steamosaic
Norway gained a lot of wealth from extracting and selling the oil.

All parties in the transaction (producer, middle men, end users) "should" be carbon taxed to some degree.

It's not obvious to me why you'd only want to carbon tax the consumer.

Similarly, in public debate there's a lot of finger pointing at oil companies. The public can be somewhat less vocal about wanting to carbon tax the demand side of the trade, of which they play a large role.
There are online communities and websites based on this idea. They call it
FIRE, Financial Independence, Retire Early.
Also see this classic from a fundraiser where he reads a "children's book" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHwmVlP_DE
The problem with smtp and imap is it doesn't work over proxies, which a lot of places still use.
DIY Fun Summer Projects for Kids
I agree, we might be leaving the golden age rather than entering it. The article mentions Spotify exclusive shows and we have already seen several other paywalled shows from companies like Audible and Stitcher. Meanwhile a number of podcasters are taking control of their own shows, not joining a podcast network or content company, and moving the show to platforms like Patreon. That is great for the content creators themselves, but it hurts discoverability and just isn't great for the podcast listener. The days of all the best shows being available to everyone for free are over. The days of most podcasts just being people having fun and sharing their passions with the world are over. We are entering the world were podcasting is big business.
There seems to be whole slew of reflexes.

That’s what made me wonder..if we were to redesign human anatomy, what changes would we have to make?

Eating and breathing through the same passageway seems to be an unfortunate and fatal bad design.

Ditto with reproduction. The digestive system is pretty neat as is the neurological and brain circuitry(as much as we understand it)

I just don’t get when we eat and breathe through the same tube..and give birth so close to where we poop. Seems like bad design.
I like to read too, but its nice to have something to put on while you clean up around the house.

>Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines. If I want to find the podcast where they talked about an interesting thing that I want to revisit, and it's not in the episode description, it's basically lost forever.

this is an issue, but I think it is solved by maintaining an active subreddit or discussion forum to discuss the episodes as they are released.
Nike Shares Slide After Zion Williamson's Sneaker Malfunction
You cannot claim "cultural differences" as a legit reason to permit human rights abuses. You either believe human rights are inalienable or you don't. Even the ancient Romans, who codified slavery into law in their Republican era (and came up with the legal concept of private ownership, interestingly), described slavery as an "unnatural state" so this isn't a Christian argument either.
I think you're missing the key point about "in half", which implies that every fold results in a doubling of thickness, and that every successive fold bends all existing layers.
There was an article on HN recently, that the most fire-catching part of most California buildings is their shingle roof, regardless of inner construction.
I read the grandson was originally scolded and blackballed by his grandfather. Including surprise visits by Theranos lawyers at his grandfathers. Only after his claims were corroborated by others the family reversed course.

Power and connections, get the right people to buy in and you can do almost anything.

>In the past year and a half, the grandson and grandfather have rarely spoken or seen one another, communicating mainly through lawyers, says Tyler Shultz.

>Mr. Shultz says lawyers from the law firm founded by David Boies, one of the country’s best-known litigators and who later became a Theranos director, surprised him during a visit to his grandfather’s house.

They unsuccessfully pressured the younger Mr. Shultz to say he had talked to the reporter and to reveal who the Journal’s other sources might be. He says he also was followed by private investigators hired by Theranos.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-th...
> For her to be able to convince a lot of people - companies, investors, CEOs and perhaps a multitude of bright people to do what seems to conclude as a big fraud is still mind boggling to say the least.

It's not that mind-boggling honestly. We're overloaded with information and have too little pertinent information (and information-gathering time) to make informed decisions. The most dangerous people in society right now are people who believe in their own bullshit. Their absolute sincerity is enough to dupe people and part them from either their money or their influence.
I disagree. I am not religious, but I don't see life as fundamentally empty at all. Our mortality isn't relevant to that.
I bet its mostly taxes and real estate.

City + State + Federal taxes are around 50%.
So $600k. Private School per kid is $50k. Assume two kids so about $100k.

Okay, now a 4 bedroom apartment in NYC is like $25k/month (on Zillow, eyeballing it), or about $300k/year.

You're down to $100k-$200k for food, vacations, clothes, cars etc.
Good question. I am asking this myself as I will finish University soon.
Maybe someone has an opinion on it
Salting Your Spark for Scale
Regarding execution optimization, you can just see how Rentech (Renaissance Technologies) does it:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160035027

BTW- not sure why they wanted to patent this, since that just makes it all public information.
iHeartMedia is a junk stock and will probably delisted from NYSE soon. Stuff Media will be gutted and lost in the ensuing chaos in the coming years as iHeart desperately attempts again to restructure their debt. Both them and Cumulus Media serve as yet another sad tale of what happens when PEGs descend on in for the rape and pillage.
Author here!

After publishing the crew at Nuclio in Israel mentioned out-of-band that their offering is worth a deeper look -- “most advanced options, ~58K LOC, already v1.0, Enterprise users, magnitudes faster and more functional than the other options on the list.” [1]

I'm super curious to hear if anyone on HN is actually using Knative or any of these other open source serverless options in anger yet? Lambda and serverless users really seem to live in a totally separate world from those in kubernetes land.

[1] https://nuclio.io/docs/latest/setup/k8s/getting-started-k8s/
As yes, wood has some pretty impressive properties if you normalise by density. But that also means you need bulk to match other materials.
My take was that the author's life only revolved around working, trying to maintain a set income level, and therefore did not have time to explore more interesting ventures.
Re clear code, to my mind it comes out pretty much the same regardless of serialization† format: best approach is to have protocol be written down in some real language (e.g. flatbufs schema or annotated rust structs or whatever), and codegen for target languages.

My guess is it's easier to write an efficient flatbuffers (or similar) serializer+deserializer than an efficient json serializer+deserializer. And the top-end of performance definitely higher.

So if you're already reaching the point of needing to write your own json deserializers...

(† Unless you're talking about some hand-written bespoke binary format, but that would almost certainly be crazy.)
I'm about your age, and this is very relatable. My last job hunt took about six months. Among the other high points, I passed the on-site day at Google, passed the hiring committee, and then had an executive reach out to quash my hire.

I did end up finding something I'm enjoying.

Anyway, just wanted to send you some support. Keep your head up and keep going. You really only need one offer.
ARM Goes to War in the Datacenter with “Ares” Designs
Do we even need to ask this question?
There is practically no podcast market in Japan yet and with an average commute of 80 minutes it seems like it's ripe for someone to make something happen.
It's not specifically "the Uighurs" (that's like saying 'there was no fundamentalist terrorism in the US due to "the Muslims"').

It's much more about the region (Xinjiang) and particular fundamentalists groups present there. This happens to demographically correlate with the Turkic people in China's Northwest.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/the-islamic-state-pledg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Xinjiang
A single person could absolutely retire on 2.5M. That's $100k a year using the 4% rule.
if you can control your urges: make the $1.2Mil, live as you're making $150K and do it for x years. After that find a job you love.
You sound like everyone who talks about how Linux "just works" if only they choose exactly the right hardware and distribution combination.
I love farm tech but found the endless greenhouses I saw in NL and neighboring countries kind of depressing.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/righ...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/righ...

The fact that we're putting acres and acres of farmland indoors leaves no room for wildlife of any kind -- including animals like birds that can happily exist alongside outdoor farms -- or migratory animals like deer, wolves, etc.
The guy who wrote this makes software for a satellite company. He implemented the entire FFI library because he wanted to use Smalltalk instead of C in that situation.
Facebook was originally Facemash, a hotornot clone.
OK, fine, I don't mind you negating my claim as long as you agree it also negates minikites's!
I hope no one minds a quick plug... sourcehut has a build service with a comparible UX to Travis CI, but more powerful in some respects. https://sourcehut.org Get in touch if you want some tips on moving from Travis to builds.sr.ht.

I wish I could hire some of the recently unemployed, but I just don't have the budget. If you want me to circulate your resumes in Philly, feel free to email them to me. Best of luck.
That was Pol Pot’s theory. He was warned away from his utopian, revolutionary “Year Zero” program by Chinese communists who understood that a level of pragmatism and gradualism was necessary. He scoffed at this advice and a quarter of his countrymen died.

It’s fair to say that when communism was merely awful rather than utterly catastrophic, it was merely because at those specific times and places, it was still pursued with at least a nod to pragmatic concerns. It’s no coincidence that the best form of communism—Deng’s “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”—was the most explicitly pragmatic variation of communism.
"According to Census data, the median household income in Palo Alto is $137,000 a year, while the US average is $57,600"

from: https://www.cnet.com/news/silicon-valley-middle-class-earns-...
Things have meaning right now during your existence. I honestly don't see how the impermanence of your existence impacts that.
Ask HN: How Is My Company Blocking Clojars.org and Maven.org Downloads?
I am perplexed as to how my company is picking off my traffic and rejecting it.

What I know:
- My company uses a proxy to "inject"(not sure a better term) their own SSL certs into my traffic so they can decrypt https traffic. This is evidenced by the Chrome cert button that shows the issuer name, in some cases it is (my.company.com) So there is that.
- We are also on a company vpn.

How the issue arises:
- When I try to pip install a new dependency my company issues their cert, which makes the download fail.
- Additionally, when I try to connect to maven.org and clojars.org, the cert issue also arises.
- At this point I know I can manually download and build dependencies, but I'm just curious at this point.

The confusing:
- I have a company phone, with personal hotspot, and a personal vpn installed(not a company vpn)
- If I connect my laptop to my hotspot, and turn on my personal VPN, my laptop shows the sites that were originally being intercepted, as not being intercepted. For instance clojure.org use to show(my.company.com) as the cert issuer. Now it shows Amazon. Cool, so I'm not being blocked anymore.
- However, I go back to the terminal to install the dependencies with leiningen, and it says "Cannot transfer artifacts from clojars.org and maven.org": my.company.com
- I have confirmed that the VPNed certs to both of those urls are no longer intercepted with my hotspot.
- So, somehow my company is still able to mess with the downloads.

Any ideas why?