skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your opinion doesn't matter to me per se, but arguments do. I'm interesting in learning how you came to conclude that videos are mentally damaging and what you mean by that exactly, because I don't really believe people can be mentally damaged by watching videos. At least not in any concrete, literal way that a psychologist would recognise. I've heard of PTSD being caused by things like being blown up in a war zone, but from just watching a video? Not familiar with that.

Now if by "mentally damaged" you are referring to someone coming to agree with someone else because they listened to their views and arguments then of course videos can influence people, but that's not mental damage. That's just normal evaluation of speech. We may not like the outcome but it's not damage.

I don't really understand the other questions you're asking me though. Like, what does majority/minority believer mean?
Yes, but this is the same argument people make about how you can’t attribute a given hurricane to Climate Change (although science has becoming more capable of those kinds of attributions in recent years).

Yes, climate fluctuates. Yes, there have plausibly been years of drought and fire in centuries past that would rival recent years. But absent the specific data you say is lacking, if you believe that climate science is generally correct, then more drought, more warming, more fire is the obvious trend. Not just California, but the entire world.

Regardless of whether similar events have happened in the past, there’s an obvious reason for the dramatic uptick between the 1970s and today: CO2 in the atmosphere, put there by humans.
He sounds like a philosopher more than a business person. But my bias is that that's a good thing.
A interesting thought on this is whether it is linked to the rise of rock music — people started to realize that “those wild rockers” were usually just very nice people, while the real villains always wore ties suits and went to the opera.

So I would say suspicion aboit the burgoise or the establishment played always a role. Or maybe they read about the opera loving Nazis and thought this is a interesting contrast.
If we treat ANY as universally quantified, for absolute correctness/up-to-dateness we must always send the request upstream, because we are not the authority on all that may exist. However, we can sacrifice a bit of correctness with some reasonable heuristics. If we execute an ANY query for a given domain, we can cache the fact that we did such a query, in addition to caching the records that come back. Then, for some time after that, we may treat those cached records as being everything that is known about that domain; if another ANY query comes in for that domain, we give those records to the client. Furthermore, in an independent cache entry, we can associate the list of record types with that domain: it informs us that for that domain, records of those types are known, or have been known. When we get an ANY query for that domain, if we have this list, we can walk the list of types and query upstream for the missing records that have expired from our cache, rather than forwarding the ANY request. Then we serve the client a mixture of cached and fresh records.
> repair damaged agricultural soil

I'm curious about what this entails or means.

Retaining walls? (re)Injecting soil life like worms and microbes and related nutrients? Tossing around compost for likewise?
I feel like that's the killer app for fridges, if only appliance makers weren't stuck in the stone age.

Camera in a fridge? Solves a problem no one has ever had (since the invention of doors).

Actual sensor fusion between shelf weight scales + image recognition + a "light touch" UX model to predict current stock? And reorder?

Could close the loop and automate the entire "essentials" grocery experience. And actually free up useful time for people.
For seed funding maybe it does not matter... but usually the options at that stage are funding or no funding. For every other funding it does matter.
We do a partial kick off of interchange fees as well, since we are partnered with a smaller bank this allows us to have a larger merchant fee.
> classical music isn't that much fun, compared to so many other options today

I think it's simpler than this; classical music is still pretty fun if you're into it.

People listen to music that they culturally relate to, and the experience of music is a way to express identity. Once, people lived in a time when the classics of classical music were being written and were a current thing. Listening to Chopin or Liszt was a way to express pride for your country, as well as to do what your friends were doing. Now that so much time has passed, classical music has just been crowded out by other music that expresses identity and culture. Classical music for most people is no longer a thing that your friends are doing, and it hasn't been for your parents, either.

My alternate theory about how classical music gained sinister connotations is that it's a cultural marker that expresses a cultural identity, but one that the audience members and their friends don't relate to. It's a convenient way to present the character as an outsider, and disregarding the societal implications for this, it's a convenient tactic for a writer who wants to paint a picture of a character as being sinister or untrustworthy. If you consider the alternatives, you'll see why classical music is an easy go-to in this situation; if you give the villain Coldplay as their theme music, it's going to risk making them feel more relatable.
Usually the answer to that is to get a competing term sheet. That way, the answer to "Are you really going to quibble over 1%?" is "No, I'm not, I'm going to go with the firm that gives me that 1% without quibbling."

This also underscores the importance of doing fundraising in parallel and lining up as many offers as you can in a short period of time. If you're negotiating 1:1 you've already lost; you can't actually get market price unless you can make a market.
Please don't respond to a comment that breaks the site guidelines by breaking them yourself! That just puts us deeper in the hole.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My intuition is that this is a fluke that will fail to replicate.

If it however, does replicate, consistently, that opens up a bunch of questions. Just how does hip-hop make cheese sound better?
Yes, I can see it now. So, we have a bunch of millennials that have no idea how to manage a pantry because they only eat at their company cafeterias or dine at restaurants. Instead of thinking "gee I'm almost out of coffee I'll go buy some", they get a bunch of wifi scales. And then a better one with more features comes out, and the old ones get shipped to SE asia so a 5 year old can try to recover some recyclables from it. Then the company that makes it goes bankrupt and every scale becomes useless. And more electronic waste gets shipped to the 3rd world.
In recent versions of BIND ANY queries still work pretty well as a debugging tool when `minimal-any` is turned on, because you get the traditional full-fat response over TCP, and dig automatically uses TCP for ANY queries.

I implemented `minimal-any` in BIND to reduce problems caused by large responses in DDoS attacks. It helps in situations when RRL is not quite enough.
Measured by revenue generated per $ spent. What works depends on your specific situation.
I just finished replying to your earlier comment.
Pony actually exists, while this doesn't. Not sure what you are trying to say.
Wikipedia's credibility/realiable source rules in general are problematic to be honest. Not just for the secondary source thing mentioned, but because Wikipedia's standards for such are disconnected from how things work in the internet era. Their idea about a credible source seems to mostly be 'mainstream media publication with paid staff going by real names/with photos next to their names and a fancy layout'.

But many reliable sources now are not like that. The internet has made it so people don't need to go through middlemen to publish any more, and in a lot of cases (especially more niche ones), credible sites can be solo affairs by enthusiasts and professors without much in the way of obvious visual design or 'professionalism'.

If Wikipedia was a bit more up to date, they'd recognise that, and base credibility more on the reputation of the source rather than whether their author was paid to create it or if it comes to from CNN or the New York Times.

They'd also look at whether other sources recognise it as a source. If half the gaming or film world consider Bob's blog an accurate source, that probably means more than whether Bob is paid $30,000 a year by Empire to write about films.

Wiki's model would have been fine in the world of gatekeepers and centralised media, but kinda falls apart in a world where credibility is earned rather than given by random branding prestige.
V for vaporware?
I didn't say anything about the toilet. According to the dictionary "cow" can refer either specifically to females or to any cattle.
The Future of JQuery
Exactly - plan is to have a network participating banks.
Ask HN: Any open-source or non-profit software, which needs free UX help?
Is anyone here maintaining freeware or open-source software, which does its job but lacks a bit behind in terms of usability and looks?

I would be glad to change that. I'm transitioning to freelancing right now and would like to help projects like these for free to extend my portfolio. I could help you with user research, user experience design and user interface design. The implementation of the final design would be up to you but I would support you with a pain-free designer to developer handoff.

A few requirements from my side for working together:

- The software is already live and has a proven track record of being used.
- The software has a positive and useful purpose.
- If you are satisfied with the new design, you will actually find the time to implement it. (if the front-end is based on web technology, I could help you with that)

Bonus points for bizarre or strange software, which is facing an interesting usability problem at the moment.

My email is in my profile, my website as well. You can find more information about my way of working there. Looking forward to hear from anyone who needs help!
Does that distract from the main point of "You have to have an emergency fund"?.

Compared to the EU, one would have to fund a larger emergency fund to avoid surprises.
Thanks! I don't right now, but I post a lot of my stuff on https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/, or my twitter account: https://twitter.com/zckzck
Show HN: Compare all daycare inspection results in California
Thanks for your input. I tend to think of whataboutism in the political sphere. I suppose it goes beyond that.
> when "fast food" wasn't a chemical amalgamation that a soulless corporation was trying to pass off as food. Waffle House has cheap but honest food

I always assumed that Waffle House’s food is Sysco-sourced. If so, how is it not a chemical amalgamation from a soulless corporation?

The last time I visited a Waffle House, and I ordered fried eggs, I was curious what kind of oil the eggs were fried in (sunflower, rapeseed, whatever). The waitress then showed me some horrible aerosol can that looked totally synthetic and didn’t name any particular source for the oil.

Nowadays, when I travel the American South, I prefer to go to eateries for the local Mexicans and other Central American immigrants (they are there if you look for them); there most of the ingredients seem fresher, less processed.
It depends on the breed for sure, but as a rule of thumb when you're talking about the 40-55 latitude band, they're more comfortable/gain weight easier in the winter when it's cold outside than in the summer when it's hot outside.
True, but both sorts of activities seem in line with the values that SV seems to hold most dear.
We already have a "Cyber force", offensive operations legally fall under the overview of the D.o.D (Cyber Command & the NSA components (TAO)).
Try this thought experiment: play eight songs from different genres of music, flipping a coin 5 times for each song. Whichever song had the most heads must make you more likely to flip heads.

How is this study different from that?
Note that the laws of thermodynamics only specify the minimum number of calories you must consume (i.e., to not lose weight, or to not die).

There is no real maximum to the amount of calories your body can waste (as heat or by excretion). Nor is there any law saying that we're all equally efficient (or even close).
We have not (yet). Our plan initially is to focus on launching a live product in the market getting users/traction then exploring a fintech charter once we reach scale.
yeah, sorry about that.
The bacterial growth behavior changes by the sound that gets absorbed by the cheese .

I think there have been studies that exposing plants to sound can also alter their behavior.
The front page doesn’t do a great job of describing such details. It is a language for systems programming and compiled to fast C. The main idea is that it is supposed to compile to correct C.

I’ve no idea if it has a “native” network library. I doubt it has many other libraries but one can call C functions so one can use any library if one wants.
Warsaw isn't especially pleasant as Polish cities go.
It's so simple it's kind of stupid. Don't have the camera face the inside of the fridge, point it out and watch the I/O instead.

My email is in my bio, happy to show you what was initially built out and lessons learned! Could be useful for you.
Yes, compost, no-till, etc. You can't put the worms & microbes there, but if you build it they will come. Soil with a higher organic matter content & microbe population absorbs & retains moisture better than "dead" soil with low organic matter & no microbes, and plants can develop deeper roots which lets you water long, deep, & infrequently which reduces evaporation & runoff.
So how are you able to collect enough transaction fees to cover the referenced rewards?

Does that debit card transaction fee limit only apply to banks with assets over $10B?
I've never understood the value of FSAs for people who don't have predictable, ongoing medical expenses.

HSAs seem a little less problematic, but they still don't seem like a wonderful thing outside of certain circumstances.
> 0xAAAAAAA5 instead of 0xAAAAAAAA or 0xA5A5A5A5?

0xAAAAAAAA isn't odd. Every time you multiply with 0xAAAAAAAA, you lose the top-most bit of your state (alternatively: the bottom-most bit will ALWAYS be zero. So you lost a bit). If you start with 32-bits of entropy, multiplying with 0xAAAAAAAA results with 31-bits of entropy.

> 0xA5A5A5A5

That's where statistical tests need to come into the picture, to differentiate. I've written GPGPU programs to brute-force search for constants based on a few metrics.

In these brute-force searches, even a simple number like 0xAAAAAAA5 works out decently. Its suboptimal in my experience, but its surprisingly "not bad". My only point is that you shouldn't limit your search to prime numbers. Any odd number works pretty decently as a multiplication constant.
Critical thinking?
Our most vocal and happy customers are regular people who live in the suburbs of Seattle. I've asked a lot of them and most aren't super into gadgets.
Food waste is a real problem. If perishables are repurchased automatically, that reduces the amount you need to buy at once, which in turn reduces the amount that can go bad. This problem extends far beyond the Bay Area.
I wonder if there's a market for personal med in identifying standard-of-care treatments that are either wrong generally or suboptimal specifically. There are a large number of therapies that remain in use only because nobody has taken the time to assess their efficacy (and safety) for anyone other than the majority of patients.

I work at a big pharma, and it's clear to me that every drug works well for some and not for others. Identifying the subgroups of patients that benefit most from which therapy would be a godsend, and for those with fast-progressing or lethal ailments, this could mean life-or-death. The same holds for avoiding therapies that are toxic for some subgroups, which can create more woes than the original disease did itself.

A concrete example. Hodgkins Lymphoma is often treated with a cocktail course of chemotherapies, often including bleomycin -- an antiquated poison that severely attacks lung tissue but has been found in recent years to accomplish little therapeutically. However, bleomycin is still a standard-of-treatment. Why? I believe it's because no authority has taken the time to rigorously re-assess it quantitatively and then petition the standards bodies to officially remove it as a standard approved course of care. As such, it's only the top cancer centers that are sufficiently attuned to recent outcome data to know they should avoid it. Everyone else remains vulnerable to this outdated risk, like treating the ill with mercury or leeches.

This has special meaning to me since my mother died from Hodgkins treatment with bleomycin. It destroyed her lungs and killed her will to continue any therapy against the slow growing cancer than overtook her perhaps years too soon. Only after the damage was done did we (and the oncologist) discover that bleomycin is no longer recommended since recent evidence has shown that it adds no appreciable efficacy. Yet it remains a standard of care for the disease.

Medicine is as often based on history as it is on cutting-edge science. The simple re-evaluation of existing treatments that don't work well for many, thereby breaking the chain of oft-bad medicine could save many lives and improve the outcomes of many more.
The product looks awesome.

Can you add the processing type for all coffees? It looks like the exists, it's just only shown for some. I really like naturally processed beans!

Edit: Just saw that I can filter by process. Thank you for building this feature.
...and why doesn't Mozart or Led Zeppelin? Are there cheeses that prefer Led Zep? I have to stop now, this got too ridiculous.

I also tend to think it's a fluke. :)
Although it comes at the expense of better performance, not having shared memory between actors in Erlang was a deliberate decision, as it offers a few advantages over the shared model:

* More robust failure recovery, as actors can be restarted truly independently in case of faults

* Better distribution out of the box as actors on different machines can't share memory anyway

On the other hand, Pony does promise to catch certain types of errors at compile time, but this is hardly foolproof, as long running programs will still encounter hardware and runtime errors. But since these classes of errors are less common, one can choose to live with them.

Ultimately, one must learn to compromise one way or another. For now, I'm happy I can extend Elixir via Rust.
How large of a sample population did they use in their blind tasting, I can't find the original publication source, but I imagine a whole cheese wheel could be cut into quite a lot of little chunks.
I usually buy 2-5 lbs, but I know some people who go through 20-40lbs regularly.
Long article, but main points that I got:

- That fat creation is influenced more by how fast sugar enters the system (and the insulin response that follows) than caloric content.

- Simple carbs (white bread, pasta) are quickly broken down into sugar

- The rate at which sugar enters system (glycemic index) triggers a proportional insulin spike

- Excess of insulin hormone is what triggers storage of fat

- Counting calories without also considering more influential factors like glycemic index of foods plays a major role in failing of weight-loss initiatives.

- Exercise is healthy, but diet plays a larger factor in body weight: ~75% for most people.
"Mississippi, Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood has sued the company for its handling of students’ data. For years, the two sides have warred repeatedly, with Google at one point suggesting that the Democratic attorney general had wrongly targeted the company with the aid of its foes in the movie industry."

It's actually true: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141217/06353329462/attor...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/12142629419/leake...

State AGs are politically driven scumbags through and through.
> Founders who quibble over selling 18% or 20% of their company in a round have lost sight of what actually matters.

I think the more salient point being made here is that too many founders try to over-optimize the quantitative aspects of the round. If you find yourself trying to negotiate for a 2% difference in dilution, you should probably see if there are other qualitative terms you can get instead. Use whatever negotiating leverage you have to adjust board structure/voting, founder re-vesting, and a million other less-flashy terms.

And in the scenarios, such as SAFEs, where the only real terms are $$$-related, just decide on a starting number you're comfortable with and don't stress about optimization.

VC's will often ask early on, "what are you raising at?" and just because they agree to that number, doesn't mean "oh darn, I should have asked for higher and let them negotiate me down."

As Michael Seibel said at one of our YC dinners, "during fundraising, don't try to make ninja moves because most of you are not fundraising ninjas." While yes I understand that 2% dilution every round over the lifetime of the company adds up, the advice for 98% of founders is that you will hurt your company (and therefore financial outcome) more than you will help if you try to make minor negotiations on price/dilution/valuation.
The "kid" part is what gets me. I mean if you bust your ass and make a fortune then do what you want. Edge out those who weren't as successful. Strongest survive, etc.

But fuck the little assholes who just inherit that success by virtue of luck. If you didn't earn it you don't deserve it.
I lived in the country for the first 20 years of my life.

Insect populations varied wildly year by year. Like hugely wildly. One year it would be tons, swallowing bugs as you'd cycle, the next you'd hardly notice them.

Little anecdotes like yours are honestly not meaningful as you don't realise just how variable these things are naturally.
Comparing the compilation speed of a non-optimizing compiler against optimizing compilers is very dishonest.
It’s not all about light and dark but really about contrasts in your colors. Excuse the link but the accompanying imagery is required to describe what I’m talking about; picking pretty colors is mostly about understanding and picking contrasts.

https://medium.com/@dannyyaroslavski/a-how-to-on-picking-pre...
perhaps you're projecting and just smell what you want to smell?
Halstead Complexity Measures
Ways to increase your blog traffic flow
Yeah, I'm aware he's a consultant of some kind but from what I can tell it shouldn't be too hard to navigate the process on your own. A lot of what he focuses on are capital gains/taxes which I don't really care about too much.

Thanks for those links, super helpful, didn't know so many countries offered startup-specific visas. In that google doc spreadsheet it's missing some important investor visas (the startup visa for Estonia looks cool but since the investor visa has such low capital requirements, without digging deeper, it still looks like a better deal). And do you know the name of the program you are referencing with Wroclaw? Does Poland have some special program where you can sponsor Ukrainians' work visas there?

Just curious, what about Lisbon is so attractive to you? I know Spanish and can read most basic Portuguese but still was mostly ruling out Portugal due to what I perceived as too-small tech and entrepreneurial communities. Spain and Portugal seem like great places to work on an MVP with a couple other cofounders but I had kind of ruled them out for a place to really launch.