skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worry about a wife and kids when you WANT to worry about it. Living the life you want is the best way to meet a partner who supports that lifestyle.

Maybe one day you’ll decide it’s time for kids, and both you and your partner decide to head back to the EU for that. Or maybe you’ll raise kids in Thailand. Or maybe your partner will get an amazing opportunity somewhere else entirely and you can be a stay at home parent, making beats while the kids are at school.

It’s your life. Live it the way you want. Don’t worry too much.
Toilet paper. By far the biggest market out of those listed above, bulky and inconvenient to pick up at the shops while doing other things or to stock up on, catastrophic not to have. You'd need two/three levels of comfort, probably.
They just raised a round in September of 2018 at $1.3B so it will be interesting to see where the public market values the company.

2017 revenue: $79.6MM
2018 revenue (est): $117.8MM
2019 revenue (est): $164.9MM
2020 revenue (est): $214.3MM

Safe guess potentially 10x current year (2019) which would be $1.6B.

Considering that they need an IPO pop the shares would be priced about 20-25% lower, bringing them back to that $1.3B private round valuation.

Unless the bankers are very optimistic and it will trade higher in which case they would be looking to price at the $1.6-1.7B range and hope that it pops to $2B at open.
Can you see the irony in all four posts? (from OP to mine)
Crude technical means are often enough to get the brunt of it out of the way, just look at what happened to /r/incels which at its height had 42000 users, the place the ones that cared enough moved to has only 9155, the rest of them by and large have successfully been deplatformed.

I used to be very much on the side of 'free speech', but it's become increasingly clear to me that deplatforming and censoring, while indeed unpleasant, is effective and necessary.
For what it's worth, Chomsky has been saying "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." since the 90s.

https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
What about angry rap music that demands policemen are shot?
> Some farms have to pay to dispose of manure.

Pig farms for sure. Cow farms, if they're removing it, they're probably composting and selling it, or selling it to someone who will compost it.
Glad to hear it. This is the problem we're addressing. E-commerce subscriptions don't actually work.
That's really nice! One thought - it might be helpful to have some way to seed the system with what you at least think is "normal" consumption?

The one other thing that springs to mind is having some way to mark vacations or other disruptions to schedule? Also potentially a way to mark that you refilled some other way? Often when I'm on a trip, I'll bring home some coffee from a local roaster, so having a way to feed that into the system would be nice.
>I think we have enough empirical evidence that violent video games do not in fact raise violent people.

How so? One could easily make the claim they cause a small increase in violence but changes in our society (such as better ability to find criminals using DNA and video recording, more tolerance of displays of violence that harm no one, removal of lead from gasoline, etc.) have a larger effect in the opposite direction for most individuals. Science won't toss out such large sets of poorly collected data, but neither will it make definite judgments off of it.
It seems beto-safe to me. Of all the details in this story, this child death fiction no doubt required a strategic approach. It's the weirdest of the bunch and the sort of thing that an opponent would love.

In this case, it seems the best way to play it was to just cut to the chase. Summarize it as brutally as Trump could and just be the first to say it. Get it out there so that an opponent can't ride it's energy.
> The belief that shitty people will get what's coming to them through some external mechanism serves the useful function of allowing people to rationalize not engaging in settling scores and vigilante justice.

I'd say it's a wash. Plenty of people who believe in hell do monstrous things, and plenty of people without this delusion behave as model citizens. Religious people constantly plead that without their belief system everyone would engage in wanton immorality, but this is just the self-reinforcing aspect of the meme.
Which is why managers in B2B support organization often start moving toward profserv ... which then creates a downward spiral in the value the core product provides.
Right along the coast is great. For example, Venice is very nice. Los Angeles itself is mostly too hot.

If you think cool temperatures are more comfortable, then San Francisco is great.
They need to completely change the way water in California is billed. Right now rates keep going up as we get better at conservation, which disincentives conservation.

At the same time, in areas with a flat rate, people use way too much water. When Sacramento had a flat rate, you'd see people turn on their hose as they left for work and let it flood their lawn all day, running into the street, to keep their lush green lawns in 105F weather. As soon as they introduced water meters, the lawns went brown and the bills went up.

I think the billing needs to be a flat rate for everyone that is high enough to cover all water delivery costs, based on size of property, and then you get a credit if your usage is below median for similar families/farms/industries and you get an equal surcharge if you're above that. Then you'd be encouraged to use less water than your neighbors, but all the costs would even out since 1/2 the people by definition would pay extra, so they wouldn't have to raise the flat rate part so quickly, only slowly as the overall cost of the water system increases. It would put the consumer in much more control of their water costs.

My family for example gets hit with a huge surcharge because we added two people to our family since they started tracking, so we aren't "conserving" anymore. We're conserving more than before, we just have double the people!
Bottomless is awesome! I've been part of the service for a while now - and only stopped using it recently because my neighborhood coffee roaster (who I'm trying my best to support!) isn't on the service: https://lovelicton.com/pilrim_coffee_comes_to_oaktree.html.

I don't necessarily have ideas about how to improve or expand your service - however since you are in Seattle and utilize Open Source software, I encourage you to hack on some of those projects with the community at our next OpenSource hackathon in Licton Springs. https://lovelicton.com/images/events/2019/hackathon.jpg (our next one is April 29th).

Thanks for starting an awesome Seattle company!

~Timothy
Have you thought about offering Matcha and Mate?
I have been ordering "Mate Powder" (I call it that way) to prepare Mate at home and cakes as well.

Taste really good and would love to use your service if you include them :)
A company that will get hurt if 1 person quits, does not deserve to be around.
Also threat is "I will kill your children" (no I will not kill anyone's children!)

The phrase "I will quit" is 100% within my legal rights and 100% NOT your legal right to stop me :)
Now, if we have a contract that "I need to serve the contract or else $1000 penalty", I stil have the RIGHT to quit, and take me to court to get your $1000. If I cannot quit.. well.. that's slavery.
Eggs are often consumed with a heaping order of carbohydrates.

Are we talking eggs here? Or Egg McMuffins with side orders of hash browns, drizzled with ketchup?
To me it seems to be operating like a slide hammer that connects via magnetic force instead of mechanically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_hammer
That's to be a video of Beto arguing that walls should be torn down. I'm asking about this claim that he wants to dissolve borders.
Very good point. I am actually visiting Tallinn later this year to try to meet with people in the entrepeneurship scene and learn more about the city.

While you're right that talent and capital are important, it's also true that no place on the planet has more capital and software talent than SV. So you're never going to beat SV measuring only those metrics. The challenge of an entrepeneur who wants to found a startup outside of the Bay area is to pick a location that is beneficial in other ways while not sacrificing too much in terms of capital and talent. I'm not too sure about the local capital in Tallinn (not that you necessarily need to raise money locally) but I do know it has a pretty strong developer community by european standards, maybe in the top 5 in europe. And it also excels in terms of government support for entrepreneurship and, afaik, local cybersecurity talent. So it's not just a cheap place, it's a cheap place that also has basically every other thing that makes founding a software business attractive with the possible exception of capital.
OK! We've un-duped it.
If you continue to break the site guidelines like this we are going to have to ban you again.

Plenty of other users are able to express views similar to yours without crossing into incivility or posting flamebait. Please be like them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can't disagree more. Legislation exists only because of ethics. To discuss legislation without ethics is to talk about nothing at all.

If you want to write a full ethics-agnostic law system, I think you'll find it won't actually help solve the problems of a society that exists in the real world.

Edit: For example, try to explain why "killing" is illegal in most countries, when some people believe that humans are just electro-chemical computers inside a meat-and-water-sack. Is a human really different than an ant, at the end of the day? If only we had a system to guide our laws that would help us function as a society... Maybe with some shared guidelines about why things are done... we could call it "ethics" perhaps.
>people who draft laws are very, very smart

I think, I am smart when it comes to web and software, but I know little about electricity or cooking or 1000 other things. The people, you call smart, proposed to place stop-signs in the web - which sounds good and familiar to general public, but stupid to people who knows how web works. It is not enough to be smart.
Whites Contribute More to Air Pollution – Minorities Bear the Burden
> They got large because they built things people wanted.

True, to an extent. They could become even bigger because city governments were openly willing to give them billions in tax breaks.

Small businesses don't get benefits like this from the government. Nobody should.
It’s quite simple, really: since you’re not a slave owner, i don’t belong to you, so the “threat” to quit can’t possibly be legally qualified as a threat (you never had the right to assume that I will continue to work for you beyond my notice period). It’s a contract negotiation, not a threat, so not extortion. The same way that “we will cut off the internet access if you don’t pay the internet bill” is not extortion from comcast, it’s just a statement of fact.
By weight maybe, but by relative composition, 80% of the calories in broccoli come from carbs.
When I call my insurance or bank, I get a pleasant voice interface.

When PagerDuty calls my carphone (or worse, my motorcycle helmet communicator), I get an inhuman civil defense robot from 1980 that only accepts touch-tone inputs.
So, in all of these examples, the author basically makes a set of all possible solution into a tree (where moving from ancestor to child is that tree correlates to making a possible decision) and then recursively traverses this tree to find the best option?
Looks like we'll have plenty of fuel for another bad fire season.
Oh look a penny..
Given sites like https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobby_contribs.php that document the campaign contributions of lobbyists, I'm going to want a reference to the legal definition of lobbying that excludes campaign contributions.
A car dealership is a middleman. A auto manufacturer is a platform. The car dealership sits between you and the manufacturer, making it easier for you to buy the car, but taking a cut. But you don't need the dealership in order to use your car. Spotify makes it easier for you to find music, but once you've found music, you don't need Spotify anymore (not a perfect analogy since you need to pay to purchase the music from a real store if you're ditching Spotify, but close enough). The auto manufacturer actually builds the car, supplies the replacement parts and manuals for repair, provides software updates for the car's computerized systems, manages any kind of in-car network GPS systems, etc. This is Apple. They develop the whole OS, including all the frameworks that developers actually use to build their apps (and the developer tools too, for that matter), they keep it updated, adding new features and fixing bugs. Apple provides ongoing value to both the user and the developer over the entire lifetime of the app.
Mender isn't a "rescue" program, it's a solid tool for firmware distributors to be able to update devices and avoid this problem. Article is marketing material, but good advice.
I wonder if that would trigger NATO's article 5 again. Just like when Afghanistan attacked the United St... wait, they didn't.
No pesky compliance issues eating into your precious timing margins...
I found the creator's HN account, looks like he planned on making one at some point: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Technologicart

Maybe he'll see this post and finish the video :)
Won't people just use another forum. It might disrupt things briefly but doesn't seem like a solution to anything much except for those running the chans escaping the heat, and politicians who will say "look that hate forum is gone, problem solved; vote me!".
The "something else" was mostly to get more experience in leadership. The president with the shortest jump from House to VP then President, for example, Gerald Ford, had been the minority leader for five terms.

It's not just a factoid. It shows that more experience has been generally required.
Perhaps it's just because I've been trying in vain to make similar points but I don't understand why you've been down voted here. It seems the only acceptable response is that Boeing deliberately killed people by trying to subvert the certification requirements and/or failing to inform pilots of a new system.
That's interesting. I've been working remotely from the farm (dairy when I started; switched to cash cropping later) for nearly 20 years now and I'm not sure I have seen much societal change with respect to remote work in that time. What are you noticing that suggests that a lot more are going to make the change soon?
The solution to this is remote work. The main benefits of being in the valley are access to investors/capital. This advantage mostly only applies to executives. So have your executives in SV and have everyone else be wherever they want to be that is cheaper and nicer for them.
For what its worth, "2% Cash Back" sounds better to me than the ambiguous "2x Points".
I agree with the parent post's assessment, but only using personal experience and relativity (i.e. even a minority of pro-white-nationalism followers may be many multiples the percentage of white nationalist followers for other public figures).
An obvious factor to look at among the subjects would be body fat level.

Maybe many of those who consumed more eggs or cholesterol simply just ate more.

If the study simply tracked calories, maybe calories would be found to be correlated with CVD risk.

Problem with that, you can't really track what some people eat for 30 years.
"whenever something is morally allowed for an individual, the moral system must ensure that the individual actually can do it"

More like "whenever one of an inherently-coupled pair of actions is morally allowed, the other of those actions is morally allowed". A moral system which allows one and not the other is self-contradictory.

In this case, a moral system which permits the right to sell a life but denies the right to buy a life self-contradicts; unless you believe that it's moral to trick someone into committing an immoral act (I do not), any attempt to exercise the right to sell one's own life would be inherently immoral because of the impossibility of doing so without causing someone else to perform an immoral act. The only way for the sale of one's own life to be moral is for the corresponding purchase to also be moral.

"we end up with a moral dilemma"

Only if you insist that buying is wrong while also insisting that selling is not wrong. When both are right or both are wrong, then there is no such self-contradiction.
Interesting concept for seeding the system. We used to have something like that and dropped it because it wasn't too accurate.

We do have a setting for turning off automatic re-ordering to handle vacations or unexpected bounties of coffee.
> You can instantly issue new virtual cards when ever you would like to.

Is this like privacy.com? Right now I'm using that because I can get 2% cash back while still using my debit card, and for the card controls in case some service tries to charge me for something I don't want.

I'm using Simple bank because I love the UX, but when I'm using it in conjunction with Privacy, I lose some of the benefits like the auto naming and categorization of transactions.
I hate subscription services and smart home solutions, but you've hit on an actual solution to an actual problem. I have a subscription with Peace Coffee right now that I have to manually manage. I only subscribed because it saves a good bit of cash. I'm sitting on an extra 5lbs of coffee because I'm not good at that kind of thing. This resolves that.

I'd totally sign up today, but why only a dark roast option? Add light roast and I'm 100% in.
It seems (perhaps too) obvious to me, that if sleep didn't perform some vital function in maintaining the body and/or brain, then evolution would have eliminated it due to the disadvantage of being vulnerable and inactive for a large part of the day.
You need to dream bigger. Palantir looking to go public at 45X revenues.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/palantirs-2018-revenue-said...
Yes — and I have actually designed a product that used an RPi Compute Module, checking their lifetime promises first.
Does Apple Music has to go thru app review process, is forbiden from private api use and overall started with 30% handicap?
The article itself has Beto at Beyond HOPE in 1997.
What free stuff are you referring to?
It will be a great day when human drivers are banned. Humans can't handle driving, and they cause 40,000 deaths per year in the US alone. Computers will be able to do this far better.

Sure!...if we all actually owned our machines and the government wasn't using the mechanisms through large corporations to spy on us and control us. The thing is, many people in the government and large corporations are going to try and do just that, because it is in their short term interest to do so.

Assuming we have driverless cars in the future that really are extremely reliable and safe, then I don't see what argument you can possibly make to allow human drivers, other than "I like driving".

"I like driving," should be enough. Maybe there should be certain regions where you can still do it, but busy city highways would be restricted. In any case, it's not so much driverless cars that are the problem, so much as cars that are controlled by powerful organizations with interests that aren't the individual and individual autonomy and freedom of movement being taken away in a practical sense.

The actual harm caused by the present state of things really isn't very much, if anything (can it be quantified?)

This is how tyranny generally goes. At first, the Soviets were bright eyed and idealistic about the project of building a new society. Heck, even Germany in the late 1930's was like this, with progressives in the USA singing the praises of the "progressive" policies and energy of the new regime.

By contrast, driverless cars (at least the hypothetical ones assumed above) would fix a big problem, and would have very few downsides I can see.

No disagreement, again. The question is, will this eventually be implemented in a way where everyone is going to report in to Big Brother and ask permission to take a trip?
No powerful authoritarian countries except for former authoritarian european colonial powers and their former slave colonies?

You act like "just the commonwealth, the EU and nordic" is anything good. The history of the british empire ( aka the commonwealth ) is as horrible as any in human history. Not anything humanity should be aspiring to. And the ICC represents western european domination of the world. That's something I as an american abhor and reject.

The US should be prosecuting our own war criminals. Unfortunately, we haven't been doing a good job of it. But lets not pretend the ICC or the EU is any better. How many EU war criminals have the EU or ICC prosecuted? None.

Most of humanity ( 70% I think ) has rejected the ICC. The world has spoken regardless of what europeans think or want.
> ... in electronics, companies will guarantee 10-15 year lifetimes.

That's true only on parts that are already in high demand, and this doesn't strike me as a high demand chip (at least not initially).

And even then, you're not guaranteed any kind of availability on the part. (Maxim comes to mind). Or it's only available with a 6 month lead time and minimum part quantities on the order, etc.

So this seems to be a problem of this particular space, and blaming Google for acting normal in this space seems silly.
That's only a very small percentage of the population that actually graduated from those schools.
https://moinakg.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/vectorizing-xxhash-...
No. Just no. I'm not even going to try to argue with such ignorance. Responding only to register that there are humans in the world who still have a sense of decency. There are some things where you can't just respond with a knee-jerk "censorship bad because muh libertarianism". Grow up.
Bernie doesn't really have a short term need to put his platform on a website. His platform is clearly visible in his political activities, the bills he presents, and a multi-decade history. Candidates who lack that, like Beto, should be putting up a policy platform.
What about the UN? Or climate accords voluntarily signed up to? What about countries like North Korea, or Venezuela?

Whereas I cant think of any examples of "Powerful authoritarian countries taking over international organizations and holding democracies accountable".
Low refined carb definitely, but most of the diet patterns with a long track record of health (e.g. think blue zones) contain plenty of complex carbs. Sweet potatoes, whole grains, and vegetables all feature prominently.

IMO what's "safest" right now is to follow empirical observation and cleave to a pattern that is successful, rather than trying to break down the important parts and construct your own diet from those pieces.
> Susan Roberts, a nutritionist at Tufts University in Boston, has found that labels on American packaged foods miss their true calorie counts by an average of 18%. American government regulations allow such labels to understate calories by up to 20% (to ensure that consumers are not short-changed in terms of how much nutrition they receive). The information on some processed frozen foods misstates their calorific content by as much as 70%.

I've found the problem is that they'll also vastly underestimate the size of a serving or a product. Things will be much larger than the nutritional information would suggest. A food scale is a must.
If I am not mistaken 0xAAAAAAAA5 is 45812984485 = 5 * 28297 * 323801. At least that is what

factor $(echo -e "ibase=16\nAAAAAAAA5" | bc -l)

claims.
Automated Tackling of Disinformation [pdf]
This seems very similar to a lot of "paintless" dent repair for automobiles - basically figuring out a way to apply force from the inside to gently smooth out small dents (often with the help of looking at gridlines in the reflection).