skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those people, these drugs are fantastic! I should have conditioned my comment to exclude those people.

EDIT: I should add, if I got diabetes and had to take insulin, I would be pissed to the point that I'd make it my sole goal in life to find a way to live without having to take insulin.

To me, it is absolutely infuriating that I can be required to take a drug just to live. I fully understand this stuff works great for people - by all means use them! For me? I'd rather get sick and fail than live with it forever.

(Yes, I'm irrational, excessively autistically stubborn, and all the other negative things you're thinking about me. :)
The story is that they would be sold as kits. I agree with you that this makes the story strange, though.

While his plan involved extensive modification to the engine and resale, the easiest workaround is to have the customer order the engine and freight it to him for modification. It would be expensive, but I do not see how it would have been impossible. This kind of aircraft would have been expensive in any case.

It sounds like other issues may have been just as big of a factor here as Ford's lack of interest.
There’s new evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
Latest trailer for Good Omens gives us our first look at the Antichrist
Scan anything like size of ur...
> ... so far as we know.

This is easy to verify by asking the phone companies.

> Is this paranoid/conspiracy-theory-esque?

Yes. It's absolutely conspiracy theory nonsense.
I’d like to (or help someone else to) produce this for Standard Ebooks, but although Gutenberg has what looks like a nice transcription of the Maude translation,[1] there doesn’t seem to be any 1922/1923 scans available to proof it from[2] so it’s not happening at the moment…

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/standardebooks/kBnED...
Adjust it slightly perhaps: create a mechanism to help people fall asleep one minute faster on average and you buy the world XX years of waking time every day...
Stalkers and Debt Collectors Impersonate Cops to Telecoms to Get Location Data
I don't disagree with that; I disagreed with the assertion that they weren't magicing it out of nowhere, but I see that you do actually state that it is magiced out of nowhere.
Blockchains are already a decentralized ledger and it's a bit more than just a re-skin given eventual but not necessarily immediate consistency. Presumably the missing books, records and financials consisted of the more mundane sort that regular Lotus 1-2-3 could have helped these embezzlers, were they not embezzlers.
Oh yeah, I firmly believe in "your body, take what you want". Just that I want to take what I want, not what I get hooked on from pharmaceutical solutions.
Ignoring the whole privacy angle, I don't see how you could prevent paying most of the money out to scammers who submit fake logs.
Well in that context, red meat is obviously healthier if you know up front that the people in question are going to pile on dressing...

Context is everything.

I am mainly advocating that it depends on the kind of coders on the teams, how many teams, how sure you are about the up front design / boundaries between services (I have seen such boundaries drawn VERY wrong, so wrong that nothing else ever mattered), how sure you are about the spec, etc

Start with monolith and refactor smaller services gradually as the design solidifies...
> How the study was conducted:
A total of 1,500 persons were interviewed to explore Americans’ use of digital platforms and new media. From January 3rd through February 4th, 2019, telephone interviews were conducted with respondents age 12 and older who were selected via Random Digit Dial (RDD) sampling through both landline phones and mobile phones. The survey was offered in both Spanish and English. Data was weighted to national 12+ U.S. population estimates.

I wouldn’t put much faith in this estimate. While facebook’s is probably an overestimate of people actually engaged in their platform, this survey doesn’t seem very useful to me.
I'm confused about how that has anything to do with disproving my conjecture that whether whether providing your length is a tangible security leak or not is essentially a function of the size of your character pool, because if your password is short enough for n-1 to contain a significant percentage of possible combinations then it's probably already short enough to brute force anyway. You're just redefining what "secure" means.
Based on that chart, I should have invested in Gone Inc.
And we still have to pay for it
One real problem with cryptocurrencies: the information you need to determine that someone has the key to a blockchain address gives you the power to withdraw funds from that address. You can't just demand that a third party auditor have copies of all the keys.

(Yeah, dual-sig, split keys, etc. Theoretically possible, not done in practice much.)
Please don't cross into incivility here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the input! I heard good things about MM and would love to use them but I’m not exactly their target audience.

I’d prefer an EU based registrar, any suggestions there?

As soon as I have my domain back (or a new one) I’ll definitely pay some years in advance from now on.
Please don't break the site guidelines, even when someone else did it first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nah I’m an old college dropout
Ask HN: Any Good Template(s) for a Startup Board Membership Agreement?
Have been looking for some reliable templates to draft a Board Membership Agreement for an Advisor (non-Executive).

Found this one from Stanford (https://sehub.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/BoardMemberContract.pdf) and one from SEC (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1396054/000107878214000572/f10k123113_ex10z16.htm) but not sure if these are the best out there.

For instance, they don't touch upon dilution and vesting.

It feels like something that YC should open source.
Yet another example of HN bubble thinking that the “normal high tech comp” is anywhere close to $200K a year.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...
Also - if anyone does want to work with us on our design and codebase for the month of March in SF (in person), happy to chat. Email me at snigdha@thejuggernaut.com.
Enterprises want options. How else are they going to disable solitaire and make work as miserable as possible?
There is a lot of value in a marketplace for discovery and consistent interface. Let us not echo the sentiment of the infamous poster suggesting dropbox would fail because "who wouldn't just spin up an ftp server backed by source control".

From the stance of democratizing the internet, for better or worse, I don't think we can sit here and deny the formative role Facebook played in getting people shut out from the net involved with it.
What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms?

Frankly after that one time when my driver turned in reverse to face the wrong way I don't think there are any in practice and the system had been gamed a long time ago.
They should make that one first, because unlike the documentary I'd actually pay to see it.
Common people? So, only the aristocrats get secure comms? Also, how would you enforce that? Secure encryption tech is literally just math, math that's already been invented, math that exists on EVERY personal laptop, server, and smartphone made in the last 10 years, math that is downloadable from thousands of websites, is in textbooks, can be derived from things I learned in college, comes packaged with millions of applications, etc...
If we're expected to trust the party spying on us to reveal exactly the extent to which they spy on us via their proprietary, closed-source spying data viewer tool, then we deserve exactly whatever the fuck it is we end up getting.
Actually you're right (what shall I say, for some mysterious reason I didn't think about it) => I'll first do a comparison with whatever I find and then if it does sound better I'll try to achieve the same results on my own (I'm obsessed with owning originals). Thx :)
As someone who has had a ton of sleep issues over the years this seems like the best advice here, although I would not increase past 8 hours and a regular 7 hours is likely to be fine for most people. Sleep apnea and circadian issues are common and worth considering, but there is a lot of individual variation in sleep so ultimately what feels best to you is likely what is best for you (other than that <6 hours of sleep is not a good idea). Sleeping much longer than usual may trigger circadian issues so it is worth being careful.

In my experience it takes years for circadian changes to stabilize, at least once they are sufficiently disrupted (I have Non-24 and have been able to stop shifting my sleep for over a year at a time but eventually it comes back). At the same time, it seems to me that catching up on sleep is only really possible to a limited extent and only for a couple of days after sleep deprevation no matter how long the deprevation. Getting sufficient sleep for a while after sleep deprevation does seem to help reduce the effects of future deprevation, but I don't think getting extra sleep really helps. Keeping a stable circadian rhythm with suffient sleep is most important.

I suspect that if not something like apnea that 10-12 hour sleep might be due to how sleep is maintained. There is a sleep or awake switch in the brain and also a "maintain the current state" network. To make the shift to awake cleanly, the "maintain current state" system is likely stronger in the morning (on a circadian rhythm, not just "after you wake up") but if you manage to be sleeping at the time it kicks in more strongly it may keep you asleep for hours even without any particular need to be asleep. This isn't necessarily what is actually happening but I think it fits the evidence.

I don't think longer sleep is always worse than the alternative, however I suspect if it feels necessary then it is a sign of a more serious sleep issue and if it doesn't feel necessary then aiming for a regular circadian rhythm with sufficient sleep is a better option.
Notch Inhibition Induces Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration and Recovery of Hearing after Acoustic Trauma

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...

Stick to FLAC and keep your fingers crossed for cochlear regeneration tech ;)
TI will tell you, “It’s a feature.” Play around with the cube root of negative real fractions ( with even and odd denominators) and integers (starting with -1) and see what you find.
Could you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
...always thought my neighbors worked at those places. silly me.
> at MtGox they 'lost' wel over a million BTC.

The initial report was 850 000 lost BTC which later was brought down to 650 000. Scroll to the end of https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140320-btc-announce.pdf
agreed, but Amazon can change all this by acquiring Kohls or Target for example.
Ever seen someone hold up a piece of technology and say "this is the future?" What did they mean?

Did they mean that they were holding in their hand, somehow, the actual future? That their hand was in tomorrow? No, they did not. What they meant was that the item they were holding would become commonplace in the future.

Think of a technology that became widespread from small beginnings. Let's use electricity as our example. There was a time when electricity was only available to the consumer in some large cities. One could have then said that electricity was the future. When people said that, did they mean that electricity had someone traveled back in time? No, they did not. What they meant was that in the future, electricity would be more commonplace, more widespread. In that situation, in some places - place with freely available electricity - the future had already arrived. In some places - places without freely available electricity - the future had not yet arrived. The future was unevenly distributed.

This isn't Metafilter.

It is Hacker News, though. Expecting people hanging around Hacker News to be familiar with some of the Hacker canon and culture isn't unrealistic.
Like others have said, balancing play-ability is hard. Another problem is users may perceive the AI cheats which hurts fun.

But I'd say another hard thing is that every game needs a different approach to AI. Some need path finding, which is well documented. Others need resource balancing which is less so. The newer and rarer the game mechanic, the more novel the AI.

I would say Machine Learning is not useful except in a handful of games and if yours is not in that category, you risk spending a lot of time for little pay off. And even if in those categories, ML will be working to win not to maximize fun so they could end up being too good or to cheaty looking.
No vested interest in this whatsoever - just wanted to let you know that it's cool you picked this up on HN, followed it up internally and responded publicly to clarify the situation.

That kind of transparency really helps build confidence in Microsoft Store as a platform. It's important to show that the team is accessible (and, frankly, human). It also helps to correct misleading narratives (e.g. "MS Store doesn't Electron apps").
They may not explode but contacting a 400V bus that can dump ~1200 amps produces a similar effect on the human body.
extensions. also it was faster a while back, now it's about the same.
The visualization is cool, thanks!

Here's another neural network example from scratch in 13 lines of Python:

https://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/27/python-network-part2/
Because if you're gonna multiply the 1 minute gained by the world population, you should divide the extra good/services produced amongst the world population too. It comes out to.. goods/services worth 1 minute of extra productivity per person. All the stores in the world being open 1 extra minute feels like 1 extra minute of shopping time for each customer, not 14 thousand years.
That is because you are rational and thinking about the problem rationally.

Have you met the types that compare EVs with 250+ mile range to the batteries in their electric weed eater? And act like an electric car will never work, because it could just konk out on you without warning? These aren't real things that happen.

Range problems (extra time taken, lack of chargers in certain parts of the country, etc) is a very different and also perfectly rational concern.

It doesn't help that people often conflate the two.
Wow. I'm quite interested in how many people at HN seem to have experience with SSRIs.

I'd be interested if people drawn to tech were for whatever reason more likely to be on them - or if there is some other casual relationship that works in the opposite direction.
There is no "servant economy" and these people are not servants. They're performing services that happen to not be well-paid, because virtually anyone can do them. You need virtually no education or skill. The "gig economy" didn't change that.
Thanks! You’re the second person to recommend INWX, already have it open in a tab to read up on them!
In the country with the highest value per user to advertisers, yes i'd say this is a huge deal.
Are you suggesting that we should write all of our mathematical expressions using prose, and stop using symbols for operators?

That would be the original approach historically (before the past 500 years), e.g. for the quadratic formula, Brahmagupta (628 CE):

> To the absolute number multiplied by four times the square, add the square of the middle term; the square root of the same, less the middle term, being divided by twice the square is the value.

Go ahead and do what you like, but I doubt you’ll find many publishers who will accept your paper in the 21st century.

I know which one imposes more cognitive load for me. But disclaimer: I spent a lot of time from age 5–20 working with mathematical notation.
For EU, I've heard many good things about OVH, but I have never used them. Also quite a few folks here on HN have said good things about OVH in EU.
This is BS... the money cannot be "gone"... what do they mean by that? There is a public ledger. We would know and can trace where this money went to. Do they mean the wallet was not on the laptop instead?
The chart shows Instacart receiving the most VC to date. Now there's a company with a business model completely ass-backwards (in-store isle walking), a terrible customer experience (regularly out of items you order since there's no backend integration) and disappointment all around (swapping out products for vaguely related 5x pricier ones, or arriving with about half of what you needed to make your dinner).

When that company rightfully craters, the blast zone is going to be spectacular.
It's C++/CX.

For an example of OS code that uses C++/WinRT, check out the native UI controls library, WinUI: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml
This comment breaks the Show HN guidelines badly: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. It also breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

When someone is sharing their work, being a jerk is exactly the wrong approach here. Please don't do it again.

Rather, if you know more, share some of what you know in a way that's going to help them learn, rather than humiliate. As a side bonus, you won't be acidifying this community either, which is fragile and needs all of us to protect it.
We basically do that every year, and the results don't look so promising...

"Exploiting the discrete nature of DST transitions and a 2007 policy change, I estimate the impact of DST on fatal automobile crashes. My results imply that from 2002–2011 the transition into DST caused over 30 deaths at a social cost of $275 million annually."

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/app.20140100
I think Walmart is doing a great job with their online presence of late and I've seen articles about local delivery experiments they were performing. There was an article on HN some time back about Walmart basically paying their employees to deliver packages on their way home from work. It got a lot of negative feedback, but it's clear they're willing to experiment and try new ideas. They've also introduced some really great free shipping policies which compete well with Prime, but don't require a subscription fee.
It's C++/CX, which uses some of the same syntax but targets WinRT instead of .NET.
Merchants of Hype
India has a very vibrant media industry. I might say that Indian media is perhaps the most liberal and open media, in the world. For example, there are more than five, 24x7 TV news channels in Tamil language alone. Most of the news that I see in English langauge outside of India, is mostly feel good or negative. But both do not represent the reality.

Having said that, if you do anything for money, it is quite easy to become corrupt. Take google for example, they used to say things such as "don't be evil" etc. But, since they are a for profit business, it is just pure talk.

The point is, knowledge and health cannot be and should not be offered for the exchange of money. if you truly believe in your mission, keep the good work and request people to donate. If your work is really good, you will never have trouble with your expenses.
For one, it's not surprising; generally people prefer to help underdogs, not take advantage of them.

For two, it doesn't make people angry, it just confuses the issue.
Amazon already allows you to drop items for them at a UPS store. They pay for the shipping. And UPS will handle packaging the item -- but you have to pay for that.

If Amazon would pay for packaging too, the whole problem would be solved.
They did buy a large retail food operation (Whole foods) which now has amazon lockers and sells all matter of kindles etc.
False. See cryptographic signing. A keyholder can sign a message with a private key, proving they possess the key, without exposing the key itself.
Note: personal opinion bellow

It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing. The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving.

Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition. We don't see any news about their user base decreasing and news channels don't seem to dislike them. Facebook is doing a good job making sure their biggest three platforms are seem as independent from one another, keeping Instagram and WhatsApp almost free from controversy.

Personally I see no loss for them here. Besides, they will promptly acquire any new players that look promising, or shamelessly copy them as they did with Snapchat.
Do Pimples Pay? Acne, Human Capital, and the Labor Market
Really? I already argued why.

one hour of time collectively is not equivalent to one minute * 60 people's time individually.

in something like packet processing maybe so. but it doesn't generalize to waiting to get your luggage checked. it's horribly inefficient to staff for peak load. that cost will be borne by all the people that come in during the average times, for no reason.

when i go to starbucks, fuck it i shouldn't have to wait in line at all. think about the 30-60s line wait (ie, waiting just to place your order) times 300 people that might come through starbucks in an hour during peak. shouldn't starbucks just hire 2 more people and have 4 more machines so that all the time spent waiting by the customer isn't wasted????
I worry that without the voting public waking up to the reality of how deep in the hole we already are we won't solve climate change at all. No near-future technology has the ability to reduce emissions by the amount we need to, besides widespread deployment of nuclear power which is also not politically viable. At some point people will, either willingly or by force (such as widespread natural disaster and famine), realize that things have to change.
I'm not sure losing that age group has much to do with Facebook's scandals.

This is purely anecdotal, but with my daughter and her social group, Facebook stopped being a service of interest to them quite a while back. Not because of data issues, but because (to use my daughter's words) "Facebook is for businesses and old people".
Yeah, you just summed it up pretty well. In reality, my gas car varies from ~34 mpg to ~26 MPG depending upon its driving profile. That is ~30% variance. Everything that I have seen of the Model 3 indicates similar variance on your "25 miles left" scenario. The causes are different (eg, the Model 3 will not be affected by city driving to the same degree as a typical gas car), but the quantity of variation is very similar.

Of course, in reality my gas car stops reporting a miles remaining # when it gets to ~20 miles, for these reasons as well. It turns out that my experience with gas cars is that its based on a non-complicated model that may be way off in accuracy with some warning. :) Interestingly, it also declines in nonlinear and unexpected ways sometimes, though I haven't correlated it to weather.
You can effectively disable telemetry in Android by getting Blokada from F-droid
Have you considered that multiple dispatch is obscure because it requires jumping through such hoops to implement in most mainstream languages, rather than because of its lack of utility?
The Firefox Quantum update didn't work on my work machine; I had the choice of either using the LTS version or switch to Chrome, and I ended up switching to Chrome.
It's hard to have a lot of sympathy here.

1) Namecheap sends out renewal notices, if he wasn't getting them it's likely he didn't keep is email with them up to date.

2) Auto-Renew
"Why yes, the wallet we found was empty. Totally empty."