skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's literally the same chemical; you didn't use those adjectives when you described it earlier.

I would talk the same way about treating ADHD with Desoxyn prescribed by a doctor versus buying a pile of methamphetamine online to self-medicate with.

> Readily fixed for < $20: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D1NNGM6/

If you're going to make bad choices, volumetric dosing is one of the less bad choices.

> That's not a ketamine problem; it's a prohibition problem.

It's a regulation problem. The supplement market is full of bunk or outright fake products. It took the FDA to reel actual medicine in.
Oh I do appreciate it - I've read Martin Kleppmann's book cover to cover and then watched all of the speeches Kyle Kingsbury has given in the past three years or so. I love this area, my absolute favourite is deterministic testing of FoundationDB [0].

It's because I appreciate this work that I felt the blog post didn't do it justice. And I know Jepsen hardly ever passes (ZooKeeper, I believe, did). And I don't take FaunaDB's hard work for granted.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
Happens all the time with cats!
Seems like a lie to me. That forum he posts in seems to be a den of criminals.

You don't sell crowbars to a bunch of thieves and be surprised when they use it for burglary.
Mods should tag this as being from 2017.
I think it's going to happen sooner that we'd expect, with the OpenPilot Revolution board being considered for a port: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Boards-Summa...
May I ask what is pushing you to want to create a competitor?

I bet it is because you strongly disagree with their stance on free speech (they ban creators based on all type of nonsense backed with the typical "Hate speech" excuse).
This is actually a very difficult problem, as you will now depends on Stripe, and behind that Visa and Mastercard. Those companies will happily ban you if you support any creator that isn't Politically correct based on the consensus at that time.

I'm myself considering jumping into that space, but the financial world is held together by a couple of Titans, and it is unfortunately extremely difficult to go against the general "mobbing" that happens on the usual platforms.
If I were to withhold 3% of everyone’s total to cover credit card fees plus $0.10 per every transaction because the bank fees range from 1%-3% per card and it’s difficult to sort them, would it be legally acceptable? Any insights?
New way to turn carbon dioxide into coal could ‘rewind the emissions clock’
A decent droplet is capable of doing a lot of things, the one-click install seems to be per droplet. I'm not so sure how multiple on-clicks apps work in one droplet, or can it work at all (how to avoid conflicts of automation of multiple robots?)
Id like to see memory consumption charts for this. It seems you miss this on all your posts. Not a criticism (and thank you for what you have done), its just something I (and others) would like to see, and if you are running the tests its just another metric to log :D

Also, any update on your previous article? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094233
Can you find work in a tangential field like software or systems support / troubleshooting ? It's not as sexy or well-paid as software engineering, but working tickets gives you clearly defined work accomplishments that can show off your troubleshooting skills. And I learned that talking to customers isn't actually the worst thing - you basically learn a script and stick to it. You will still burn out after a year or so, but it's an easier resume pivot to dev work than other non-industry gigs.
> If they don't do the work to get FDA approval, even with the bullshit de minimis change, the alternative isn't a patent-free generic — it's nothing, for any price.

No, the alternative is some old generic drug, which is just as effective as the new one. But the manufacturer bribes doctors to prescribe the new one, which has no generic equivalents.

> So what is the problem with androgel's patent? How does it make your life worse?

Because for years there was no commercial alternative. It was only by chance that I found a compounding pharmacy that sold an old-school version.

> Like, at-cost? I think you'd see drug manufacturing die out under that proposed policy.

That's how it works for generics. And there are lots of generics.
Not sure they can do much, trade war is raging and all. They're a tiny soldier and generals decide what happens.

(Especially since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act )
While it may feel this way, the science strongly indicates this is not the case. The study in the linked article is one proof point. Many others are summarized in Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep”.
Although as many people wrote he shouldn't have done this without first contacting Google, I agree that Android allows the developers too much without asking user permission. Google had many years to fix this issue, but it doesn't take it seriously.
They basically describe the core principle behind dropout, boosting etc.
Most professional musicians aren't comparing wedding gigs to high paying programming jobs. They're comparing wedding gigs to other gigs, and there weddings seem to be the best paying gigs around.
There might be survivorship bias at play. Those against Google current practices are more likely to have quit already or not work for Google in the first place.
I would suggest to read Jason Schreier's book: "blood sweat and pixels" - it opened my eyes about the process of building AAA games - which sometimes is soo chaotic that is hard to believe they could build anything.
Yeah, the question was about getting paid to develop open source software.

The answer is, sell support.
Although that post should have a heavy disclaimer to talk to a lawyer; I wouldn't risk my savings/a business based on a blog post.
Or perhaps even a developer making a very very bad choice with sample test copy that they didn't ever intend to go out to anyone (which then did due to a bug).
But if it "feels that way", doesnt that have something to say as well?
I have been toying with the idea that travel is the ultimate expression of selfishness and narcissism. I have a place that's very dear to me that is similarly being eroded by a crush of visitors. They are loud, cause crazy traffic, carve into the natural rock, fall down cliffs and require medical help, etc.

20 years ago, you might have had 3-4 people on a given weekday sunset visiting to see the view. Now, that number is probably approaching 100. On weekends it's a throng of people, almost like standing room only.

It's a beautiful place, and it's inarguable that anyone should be able to see and enjoy it. But really, are most of those people there to see the beauty of the place? Would they be there if not for the opportunity to post it on social media? It's not like this is a hidden spot whose location was revealed by social media. It's a well known natural area. It just didn't get this crowded until it became hip to take photos of yourself in some beautiful place.

And then I realize, this is what people who live in areas with real tourism must feel like, except magnified to nightmarish proportions. Travel contributes greatly to carbon emissions, destroys environments, puts stress on local wildlife and people... just so that someone can have an ~experience~ for themselves.

The thing is, I think most people have a great deal of "interesting-ness" right near home. They just compete globally on Instagram, which requires a plane ride.

I don't hold this opinion, I'm just trying it on for size -- I've traveled to a lot of very beautiful places and had cool experiences, so it'd be hugely hypocritical. But yes, I really dislike the Instagram effect.
I've edited my response once again. Yes it could definitely work with crypto :) at the cost that your audience will be smaller. At least you are less dependent on good working financial partners/banks/visa etc. for this setup.
Living in Italy I get the feeling that people are overwhelmingly in favor of DST; I know I am.

I think the big screw up from EU was that after the poll (to which pretty much only Germans answered) they just said they would remove DST altogether instead of recognizing that different geographical regions have different needs.

They just wanted a no-cost change to say "see? we listen to people"; but pretty much everyone in southern Europe heard "see? Germans decide for everyone!", and nationalists party marched on it.

From the article it looks like they backtracked on it and they'll allow countries to choose to keep changing time twice a year; I sure hope so.
I'm not sure how you "disrupt that" other than not hiring musicians.

I haven't been to a lot of weddings, but non of the weddings I've been to the past few years had a band. So maybe that's already happening.
But you don't interact with your bank through apps on a PC. You interact with your bank through a web browser. And if you're like most people, that's the only secure application you have installed. Android and iOS devices focus much more on bespoke applications over general browsers. The OS security models are also very different.
Is it much different than youtubers showing how to break into locks (ex. lockpickinglawyer)?
Yes they have. Their biggest effort to date is SELinux: https://github.com/SELinuxProject

If you run Linux, you likely have NSA OSS on your machine.

You can find their public GitHub profile at: https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency
Man.. your jaw would drop seeing mine...
It feels that way but only temporarily. When I keep repeating it not sleeping, my weekend is spent only sleeping and my weekday performance begins to drop, eventually I need to sleep in even on week days.

Only way I've managed to recover is to take an entire month off, sleep as much as I want for the first week (or two) and slowly try to shift back into an 8 hour cycle.
Not doing politics is not a mental disorder it's being noble.
Finally someone is looking into this, it has been long overdue!
To push back some, how do you see your statement as different from post-modernist ("subjectivism is all that matters") or anti-intellectualist ("I don't care what science has to say") arguments in other subjects?
Maybe, thanks. I'll look into it.
a "foreign" company in a western society isn't much protected neither. this is an illusion of the native local companies on what jurisdiction to trust and the dominant media structure.
I am a big proponent of "freedom to tinker", but I simultaneously believe that iOS' walled garden is the best thing about Apple's mobile devices. All not-so-savy PC and Android users I know have trouble with misleading apps and devices that slow down to a crawl because so many apps are running in the background. It's frustrating because they absolutely have nothing to gain by said freedom.
here is probably most comprehensive list I can think of:

http://icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/whitepapers/ICAN Reply - December 31%2C 2018.pdf

(mind the spaces in the url)
In the absence of any actual evidence? Generally we take self-reported feelings as not especially strong evidence.

Maybe all it says is they grew up thinking that "weekend sleeping helped catch-up" and now they only remember the confirming evidence and discard the disconfirming evidence to support their confirmation bias?
Other threads on what has turned out to be a perennial topic:

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980191

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061380

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736573

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091936

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183464

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718224
...but weekend stress related headache is very real
I think the research behind this news is quite weak: only 9 days and not that many participants (18 men and 18 women).
I think I indulged in hyperbole but the wiki links on systemic corruption in Greece are still pretty scary. Almost 50% of companies investigated by tax authorities in Greece were found to have falsified returns in 2005. It has a large cash economy,a higher than normal avoidance of VAT (an EU wide sales tax designed to replace a lot of other fees and chargs in an open market) and historically low tax compliance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece
Let’s get a bunch of instagramers together and solve those freaking millennium prize problems once and for all.
> The short version is that you are often better off running multiple instances of a JVM application with a heap <32GB when you have the choice between scaling up and scaling out.

We're in an awkward time right now, where many servers have more than 32GB of RAM, but not that much more. Once it becomes routine for servers to have 1TB of memory, this will no longer be much of an issue.
You are confusing the Parliament and the Council.
hmm, watching your copter crash during Pythons garbage-collection cycle might be an issue....

Python != realtime, flight-control == hard real-time
It really sucks that an agency funded by your tax dollars is out to get you.
Start with a legal team. Seriously.

That said, I feel like this is a bit of a weird post for HN. You are asking the hardest questions of “How do I build a successful competitor to an already successful competitor?” - isn’t that the essence of founding a company?

Like i don’t want to discourage thoughtful discussions on this site and I’m not saying any rules are being broken, but it feels a bit disingenuous to be asking these questions in the sense that people that have real answers to this are probably charging REAL fees, if not already doing the whole thing themselves.
I get it but for developers, it's just a nightmare, I would like a root feature on my phone by default since I own that phone.

It does not have to be a simple access, it could be to type manually 10 command lines in a prompt on the phone to get rid of the people who don't know what they are doing but it really needs to be there.

> devices that slow down to a crawl because so many apps are running in the background

Most of those are not even installed by the user but by the manufacturer or Google and the users are unable to get rid of them.
No amount of sleep will make you feel well if your entire life is economically and, therefore, emotionally stressed because your country does not care about you. Provide affordable health care, affordable quality day care, living wages, and housing security, and people will sleep like babies all the time. America will be the richer.
> "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!"

"Who is this?"

"Hello Uncle Steve!"

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Uncle Steve asks, sounding as if he is still asleep.

"Of course I do, and so do you! It's 04:25 on Saturday... everywhere." I add a dramatic emphasis to the last word.

"But do you know what 04:25 on Saturday signifies in Melbourne?"

"Breakfast time?"

I can actually hear him rubbing his eyes.

"We don't centre our waking/sleeping cycle on solar noon, fool nephew," Uncle Steve explains. "We centre the school day on solar noon. In countries above and below certain latitudes, where seasonal variation in the amount of daylight is significant, it's important for there to be the maximum amount of light when children are going to school in the morning, and coming home from school in the afternoon. Here in Melbourne, solar noon is about 10:30 Standard Time, so the average school day is timetabled from 07:00 to 14:00, and a typical working day runs from about 07:00 to 15:00. That means that on a working day, I get up at 05:00, at the earliest."

"Ooogh. Sorry. That's about two hours later than I reckoned," I tell him.

"I know," he replies.

"I didn't know you did that in Australia," I say. "That deliberate misalignment of the diurnal routine. Does every country do it?"

"No. Equatorial countries don't, because they get plenty of light all year round. Temperate countries do, though. The technical term for it is 'daylight saving'."

I blink.

"And 05:00 is when I get up on a working day," Uncle Steve continues. "On Saturdays, I like to lie in. Until solar noon, if possible. That's more than five hours from now."

I'm beaten. "I guess I have no idea what 04:25 on Saturday signifies. It used to be pretty universal, but now where I live it signifies a time to go out and get drunk..."

"And where I live," Uncle Steve says, "it signifies a hangover."

"The same time of day on the same day of the week means many different things to different people all over the world," I say. "Too many to remember them all."

"Yeah," Uncle Steve grumbles. "It would be neat if there was a lookup table for that kind of thing."

https://qntm.org/abolish
no. it's not. it's by Google. then joined by Duo. then rushed to get a w3c stamp in the last second with almost no time for review or comments.
>> Changing your whole app's structure just so that you collect things to log in a central place (as you propose), would be the real violation of concerns.

Maybe it depends on what kind of language/platform you use but if each component is able to dispatch events on itself instead of logging, then that does not require changing the whole app's structure.

The only concern of the top level application logic would be monitoring/reporting so logging fits naturally under that label.
Funny how the whole thing with traveling evolved over time.
10 years ago, traveling was that hype thing that everyone needed to do a lot to be more "open and inclusive" and "discover the world".

As another comment said before, travel nowadays tends to become that super selfish adventure where the only things that matter is to come back with the best selfies and brag on social networks about how cool it all was. It is not like that for everyone of course, but I have the feeling for a lot of people traveling means going to somewhere famous to get a stupid Instagram shot, with zero concerns for other people or the environment.

Maybe that like everything else, traveling became too easy which started a race to the bottom for attention and pushing people to do more and more stupid and selfish things to be seen.
Answering questions? Probably not the best course of action for a recently awaken AI, but you could check for some really freaking stuff like looking for self-replication to remote locations, direct or indirect attempts to make more resources available for itself (human avatars are still fancy?).

A real consciousness could be just almost anything, by example it could be just a bunch of pattern detection engines stacked in sufficiently capable layers, running on top of enough TPUs.

Then the AI could ask questions, answer them, plan, replicate itself, describe itself, create, make poetry, learn to code, learn languages, etc. Then it could show some kind of iniative to achieve some goal or ten thousands goals per second, maybe some of those goals were actually chosen by itself (how would you be able to distinguish just a few inserted into half a million goals correlatable with pre-defined guidelines?).

Then is up to you to decide if it is a conscious entity or just an almost infinitely capable automaton. Maybe both are actually the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton
I've found that humor in comments on HN is usually not well received. Not sure why, just an observation.
The idea was actually to save power by extending the part of the day that had sunlight.
https://archive.fo/0ruX4
That's parallel in time, but serial in "space". That might be the source of the confusion here.
Plenty of the boards supported by Armbian are on Mainline kernels: https://www.armbian.com/download/
And I suppose it's very convenient you happen to know the right direction...
Stripe Connect [1] handles almost everything for you. A single engineer could definitely build something with this, maybe in a few weeks or months.

[1] https://stripe.com/connect
I think it's a solved problem -- "'We have already reached a resolution with Chinese customs, and we are working closely with them to resume clearance procedures on these vehicles,' a Tesla spokesperson said in a statement."

From: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tesla/china-agrees-...
Very true, my mind immediately wandered to thinking about Random Forests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest
Why? If your real world adversaries can reverse binaries, why would you shackle a Red team from doing so?
No. Thermal vision is LWIR, far down the spectrum.
I would love to see the code.
The seem to do a good amount of OSS work, and from looking at their github page, they have pretty active development on some projects going on.
Because I'm chinese , and my English not very well!
EU does not officially recognize Northern Cyprus.
Yeah

> Unlike security pros who disclose bugs in return for credit or monetary reward, Maza-In said he didn't contact Google.

This guy does not have my sympathy
> 10 years ago, traveling was that hype thing that everyone needed to do a lot to be more "open and inclusive" ... travel nowadays tends to become that super selfish adventure where the only things that matter is to come back with the best selfies

Traveling is still extremely important to personal development. The current development does not negate the importance of the first. It's like saying reading books is no longer important because everyone today just reads facebook posts.
> does not involve ... ‘opening another colour band’

That's not so obvious to me. If this chemical were uniformly spread across the retina, then I'd agree. But if it's sufficiently clumpy, or ideally attached to every second green-sensitive cone, then it absolutely would give (N+1)-colour vision (N=3 in humans). On first glance I can't figure out what the paper has to say about this distribution... and even if it were uniform in their mice, perhaps the next step would be to make it non-uniform somehow.

The earlier way to do something similar was by genetically altering some cells, [1]. If you inject a virus (carrying the modification) at a low concentration, then you do get just half the cells. Then the brain learns (in a few weeks) which cells are now giving what information, and you get more colours. [1] did this in monkeys, IIRC they are N=2 and the virus added the gene for one of the human receptors. I don't think it was safe enough for humans.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-th...
A little bit late to the party, but this article about a prematurely released game seems like a good addition to this thread, as an example how the releases are rushed by executives:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/03/05/left-alive-suffe...
I'm sure I read once that they literally have a slightly different weight/volume (can't recall which) on average (even after you factor in body size). Also don't assume that means anything in regards to intelligence.

Would love to know if that is actually true, if anyone out there really knows this stuff?
I would not have a problem with the iOS app stores policies if they permitted me to install another app store like F-Droid. They don't, so they are the exactly what we do not want as they will incrurage others to do that same as they are the ones people are looking up to at the Moment (because of profits).

If google wants to crack down on apps in the play store that's fine. But do not lock down the phone so I can't install what I want.
and to be quite honest, its just fun to me to reverse a program
Having been through the same, I'm of the opposite opinion. We're just computers made of meat. Some of us weren't optimized to function in society. Any help that works, chemical or not, is welcome.
> just so that someone can have an ~experience~

What is life if not an accumulation of experience?
Simply builing to 5 floors with dense infill would be higher density than any US city west of New Jersey.

And is approximately the scale of central Paris.
The pharmaceutical industry inflates costs of drug development.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/upshot/calculating-the-re...
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