skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always with using existing solutions, it will probably be a very quick shortcut to get you mostly there. Now, the ability to go from "there" to where you want to be (customizing the app to fit your exact needs) is probably going to be where the headaches lies.

You say you are not technical, so I guess it would go something as this:
You buy an app from something like flippa etc. Possibly for a low price as well since you don't care about revenue.
You hire someone to modify it for you so that it fits your need. Now if you just want to put it to your brand, that would be relatively easy. But say you have some custom features in mind, like sharing documents or whatever is your USP. Your programmer, who did not assess the app in the first place, might find it's actually crappy and or complicated code and is going to spend weeks on very simple things. Same for fixing bugs.

So ultimately I would say:
If you don't need to customise to test your platform at all, why do you need your own app for the mvp in the first place? Just use whatsapp group as a way to test your "diet support group startup".
If you do need to customize it, then I would first find a programmer, and then discuss with him whether to do it from scratch or to buy some codebase, that your programmer is going to review.
That said, I'm pretty sure group chat apps is a very common training app for programmers and they would be plenty of tutorials / bootstrap code to help him, without loosing control and understanding of the code.
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I have an excel sheet with the following:

Project Name - Project Description - Learning Potential - Earning Potential

The one with a 'Y' in both the last columns are I prefer to work on. They are very rare though!
That's certainly an opinion. I figure you'd have no trouble integrating into the local culture and customs of the tribes of Papua New Guinea, then?
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I buy them not refrigerated, and put them in the fridge at home because where I live "room temperature" can easily go as high as over 40C.

South Sardinia, Italy.
What about the carbon offset?
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The point is to get rich people elected. Xenophobia is one means to this end, and deportation is one manifestation. I don’t think I’ve met an undocumented resident I wouldn’t fight for; I’d much rather deport citizens who conspire to lower wages, like Eric Schmidt. That’s goddamn unamerican.
The interviewee in the news report you've mentioned was probably cherry-picking. She said that "the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of illness dropped from more than 18,000 in 1993 to just 459 in 2010", but that 459 figure is most likely an outlier. According to Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016: Salmonellosis (https://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/documents/AER_for_...), there were 8K to 10K confirmed Salmonella cases per year in the UK from 2012 to 2016.

On the other hand, according to Galiş et al. (2013), "Control of Salmonella Contamination of Shell Eggs—Preharvest and Postharvest Methods: A Review" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1541-4337.1...), vaccination of chickens against Salmonella is _banned_ in Ireland. Yet, the country has the second lowest incidence rate of Salmonellosis (5.6-7.1 cases per 10K population over the five-year period 2012-2016, second only to Portugal) among all countries in the EU. In contrast, the incidence rates in the UK over the same period were significantly higher (12-15 cases per 10K).

Why are the Irish figures so low? Perhaps the Irish eat fewer eggs than the others. Perhaps most Salmonella infections are due not to eggs, but to other contaminated foods or poor kitchen hygiene. While vaccination of chickens against Salmonella is effective against egg-based Salmonella infection alone, without a detailed breakdown of numbers, we cannot tell what's its impact on the overall incidence rate.
Well, at least they have their looks to fall back on.
> he has apologised for questioning sandy hook and talked about it many times ... can people not make mistakes?

Of course people make mistakes, and as adults, they should know that there are consequences to making mistakes. A stock trader that bets on the wrong stock has to deal with the consequences of losing money. A murderer who shows remorse must still serve their sentence.

Similarly, a conspiracy theory peddler who popularizes false accusations needs to own up to the harm they caused. Alex Jones has harmed a lot of people in very serious ways.

"I'm sorry" is not enough.
The spokesperson said that they did not work for ERO. The reporting says that ERO agents used the software. There's no contradiction there.
>should get to decide who can use their product

Semantically it's not a question of "who can use their product" it's a question of in what fashion are users permitted to use their product, what behaviors are/n't allowed on that platform. Facebook didn't institute or enforce a "no Louis Farrakhans" policy. They set boundaries on what kind of behavior is or isn't acceptable for continued membership and participation on their platform, e.g. no anti-semitism.

Even a free-speech shithole like 4chan has a distinct moderation policy for each individual board. There have to be rules for a social/discussion platform to serve an intended purpose, otherwise the platform becomes repurposed by its users or ceases to have any purpose to anyone. If Facebook can't dictate its policies they can't dictate what shape the platform takes.

But the fact that it has dictated its own form is why it's Facebook. That is to say, perhaps Facebook couldn't be the platform on which people wanted to post anti-semitic content, if it didn't actively purge such content from its platform. If Facebook can't dictate what kinds of content are healthy for their platform then there could very well not be a Facebook at all.
I still install antivirus software, but given the feedback from you guys - I'm not sure it's still worth it.

What can I say, I moonlighted as a computer technician during W95-Win7 years and old habits die hard.
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Note: the title is not the conclusion or the content of the article. The article attempts to be less dismissive to some of the direct claims of the author of a book a comment on which the article is, and the title maybe corresponds to the content of the book which is "provocative" (but it can be the intervention of an editor too). And according to the article the book's logic is something like "because we don't have starting conditions we can't have formulas which would allow an exact derivation of how life evolves, therefore it's beyond physics."

But that doesn't mean that the evolution didn't happen exactly following the physical laws, only that you can't have "nice" formulas. But, realistically, nobody should expect "nice formulas." Not everything that happens can be reduced to a nice formula. The motion of two bodies due to the gravitation they have can be reduced to a nice formula since Newton. But the motion of three bodies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem

"Unlike two-body problems, no closed-form solution exists for all sets of initial conditions, and numerical methods are generally required."

Is it "beyond physics"? No. It's just "there's no nice formula." And if it's so hard only with three bodies, and considering the immense scale at which molecular events happen (atoms and molecules having their own laws of interaction which are simpler for two but again immensely more complex for more), of course not too much simplicity to predict everything together should be expected.

The article author also disagrees with the "beyond physics" formulation.

"New" physics in the language of the physicists means specifically "the new particles which don't fit to our existing theory." And "the scale of the known interactions is too big for nice formulas" doesn't lead to that. So the claims of "new physics" in the article are simply "non sequitur." No new particles are needed.
No government does. There are power vacuums and blind spots everywhere. That's why you taking a bit of power in your hands works.
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The power consumption (280W) for the weight (70kg) seems rather low. What sort of power consumption did similar era computers, that took up a room, have?
Basically: Yes we are (humans who have feelings) because it's unthinkable that a civilized race would do such things (to their own kind). Just to remind you and others who may have forgotten this: Deportation was one of the favorite tools of Adolf Hitler.

Noteworthy:
"The findings of Palantir’s involvement, first reported by The Intercept, is in contrast to the Silicon Valley firm’s previous claims."

Disgusting:
"[Palantir is] a company that “played a key role in family separation.”"

And of course "The firm was founded by Thiel, the PayPal co-creator-turned-investor who is one of President Trump’s most vocal supporters in Silicon Valley". So if you don't like Trump, you'll have a problem with this company.
I know there is a lot US-citizens who like Trump, I don't know why and I can't explain it. The rest of the world looks at the US with a mixture of fear and hate nowadays because of this orange Ape you elected as president.

He give's a shit about human rights or anything that is good for humanity (stopping climate change, using renewable energy, multilateral contracts in good faith, accepting sovereignty of states) and he is a horrible person (a sexist, a liar,...). So anyone who is connected to him or supports him is very likely an a$$hole, too.
I'm continuously surprised how we're not in full-on panic mode because of climate change.
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Yes it is. If we don't solve this somehow in the next decades I think we'll be very sorry for that.
Here we go again :)
Ask HN: How are you dealing with meetings and meeting creep?
I know that a lot of us are frustrated with the quality of meetings - some analysis show that this is true for 53% of workforce. I'm researching what problems people run into and how they address them, as I'm thinking about a new product we could launch.

I've seen various approaches (checklists, apps for meeting management, books, coaching), but I'd love to hear what do you think about your companies meeting culture and what are you doing to improve meetings. It's OK if you come clean and say you simply hate meetings and want them to burn in eternal flame.

I've prepared a short (8 question + demographics) survey [1], but feel free to add comments directly in this thread. If you're interested in results add a comment, and I'll send you the results.

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Same as other consultancies and software companies. They get hired by other companies for ridiculously high daily wages and sell their platform for recurring fees. E.g. in a recruiting event they demonstrated how they setup their data analytics platform for a chemical plant to optimize production. Most of the work is transforming and structuring the data.
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Well this is terrifying.
Transactional obsession does create high performance capitalist units though. Bill Gates, Jobs, and Zuck were all offered financial rewards for high grades by their parents.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see this is sponsored by "Discovery Institute".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute

So no surprise it's a confused article.
This is interesting, but I don't believe it's all that surprising. Medieval Europe was very well connected. Alfred himself went to Rome when he was a child and had an extensive cultural exchange with mainland Europe. It is also well known, as the article points out, that interactions with Asia was much more widespread than what is perhaps understood by most people today (who still sees it as a dark age).

This can also be seen by the fact that Christian communities existed, not only in India, but also in China as early as the 7th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Earliest...
Not being nationalist or getting rid of all nations borders does not exclusively lead to you being forced to integrate into New Guinean Culture.

Just because we don't do this nationalized small-minded shit we do right now, doesn't automatically mean we get rid of all roots, cultures, ideas, fears, wishes etc. of each "nation", "culture", whatever.
That generous free tier probably costs more to run than all the paying customers combined, depending on how generous we're talking and the proportion of free to paying. There was likely also no revenue for a significant time, but still salaries to pay, and other costs to be borne.

If you really think the profit margin is 99.96% for that tier two customer, it should be pretty easy to create a competing business to provide the trivial service and charge a lot less. Like $0.02 and have a 50% profit margin :-) But I think you're underestimating how much it costs to run a business, even if compute costs are cheap.
People brought up continuing education requirement, but since you keep asking about doing the stuff they do for work, outside work: lawyers and doctors generally don't, unless they're volunteering or giving out free advice (risky). But that's not necessarily because they don't want to, it's because those are service skills of limited utility outside regular work context.

Consider instead a car mechanic, or a carpenter. It wouldn't be surprising to find a mechanic doing some old car restoration work after hours, or a carpenter making their own trinkets or furniture. Unlike the skills of doctors and lawyers, those skills can be easily applied in personal life.

Software development is a funny trade, with continuing education requirements of medicine and law (though self-imposed, not regulated), but with work type more similar to carpentry or car repair. That is, unless you're working with some very unique hardware or very unique datasets, you can do the same type of work at home that you do at work (and quite likely of better quality, as you're likely to have better working conditions at home).
We don't arrest criminals because they're bad people. We do so because the behavior they're engaging in is harmful to society. Society has decided that undocumented immigration is harmful to it, it's as simple as that.

You could try to argue that undocumented migration is not harmful - but you'll have to do a whole lot better than "some immigrants I met are nice". Eric Schmidt is probably a pretty nice guy in person too, but that doesn't mean we should tolerate him fixing prices.
Nailed it. Fundamentally, this is the first thing that needs to be said about the subject.
As Feynman said, nature cannot be fooled. A rise of 3 degrees between say 19 C to 22 C may not feel that bad for us humans, but a rise of 3 degrees between -2 C to 1 C passes through the point where water changes from solid to liquid...
The way to travel to the US will be to never physically bring personal data with you. They can't search what's not there.
> Software as a Service is impossible to pirate

There are SaaS business models with local/native desktop software, e.g. Adobe CC.

iOS AppStore-monetized software can run locally and be licensed as a subscription. Apple encourages local computation and continues to add both hardware and software for on-device processing.

x86 clients are adding SGX (hardware secure enclaves) which provide stronger mechanisms for endpoint license enforcement. This can support multiple business models, including subscriptions.
Did you read the comment I was responding to? It sad "the idea of nationality is silly". Your response to me is a non-sequitur.
As a computer nerd who is confident about identifying shady websites or email attachments, I do not use any anti-virus software. All of my important files are backed up, and I know how to reinstall an OS. I'm sure I can probably be tricked eventually, but if I am, my over-confidence will result in me ignoring any security warnings from anti-virus software, so it won't help.
Double blow to dark web marketplaces
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It doesn't. Migration will never stop.

It's funny how people like to believe what you hypothesize without anyone having some solid proof.

That is just proof how good the populism of Trump and the likes is creeping into your minds and stops your ability to think rationally.
Lossless conversion from JPEG to JPEG XL and back is a killer feature!
Is this a joke? Half the damn comments on this site are entirely unsubstantiated bullshit and you’re enforcing the rule on THIS comment which doesn’t even make a claim to be substantiated?

If you’re claiming it is without substance you’re simply erasing sex, which is OBVIOUSLY A SUBSTANTIVE CONCEPT.
Aggressively pursue a solution or an approach to a problem with a nearly psychotic focus. Be determined and relentless. If your solution and/or approach is original people will tell you how wrong you are all long the way and even after you have completed the work and proven the original goals. Be persistent and don't let the stupidity get you down. This is more emotionally challenging than it sounds.

If your work does everything it claims its value will speak for itself. People will refer to you as an expert once its clear they want the solutions you offer but cannot easily produce the fruits of your work without you.
Your number is definitely wrong, even by your own calculation. Why don’t you update your posts above, which just peddle some ridiculous stereotype of Africa?

Your reasoning also leaves out that a lot of health care never goes through government coffers, both in African nations but also, for example, in the US.
In the UK there was a massive scare about Salmonella in eggs in the 80's, which resulted in many people believing it was unsafe to eat raw eggs.

In reality the risk was tiny, and is now non-existent: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-41568998

The situation in the US may be different, though.
Monopolies may be divided into four kinds.

I. Where the monopolist lies not the exclusive power of production but only certain exclusive facilities as a producer, and can increase, with imdimimished or even increased facility, the amount of his produce....

II. A second kind of monopoly is in the opposite extreme. It exists where price is checked neither by the hopes nor by the fears of the producer, where no competition is dreaded, and no increased supply can be effected. The owners of some vinyards have such a monopoly....

III. A third and more frequent kind of monopoly lies between these two extremes, and is neither so strict as the last, nor so comparatively open as the first. This comprises those cases in which the monopolist is the only producer, but, by the application of additional labow and abstinence, can indefinitely increase his production. The book trade affords an illustration....

IV. The fourth and last class of monopolies exists where production must be assisted by natural agents, limited in number, and varying in power, and repaying with less and less relative assistance every increase in the amount of the labour and abstinence bestowed on them.

-- Nassau William Senior, An Outline Of The Science Of Political Economy, (1836, 1872) pp. 103-106.

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Arguably, FB are a monopoly of all four types.
Ask HN: How should online communities incentivize human interaction
I'm interested in how we can design online communities to better reinforce and facilitate the human experience which digital connectedness often makes us miss out on.

An obvious answer is to encourage more real world, face to face interaction. But there's many questions still on how best to do this.

I wonder specifically, what are the aspects of physical meetups that we enjoy and that keep us coming back.

How can we use technology to remove some of the work in facilitating these, and make us less lonely.

I reckon the HN community will have some interesting personal opinions and experiences on in-person and digital communities. Please chime in with your thoughts!
Yeah, definitely see that (mainly from a Donegal speaker), but I think it's more an indeterminate number. "How're ye getting on" is pretty common in verbal and informal written forms, directly to one person.
Can't really get Bolt in EU where EVs actually make a lot of sense.