skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a gun unethical for having a trigger that never 'refuses' to shoot? And on the other side of that argument, machines lower the risk of atrocities like the rape Nanjing to zero.
Solving Problems the Clojure Way
Ask HN: Should I part ways with my cofounder?
About one year ago, I decided to start a startup with my brother. We moved into a cheap city and flatshare with my brother and another friend. The other friend is working on his own startup on his own, no issue there.
My problem is that my brother has a very hard time motivating himself working and he is not very motivated about ML/AI/DL either. A few numbers: he works ~1h/day on bad days, and 3-4h/days on good days. And we barely talk about ML/AI, maybe once per week. (With the other guy, I talk about these topics constantly).

We discussed the issue, it looks like he has an issue with chronic fatigue (in his old work, he had a hard time keeping his focus on his work), so fatigue may be unrelated to work. At the same time, he plays videogames for much longer than that, so I suspect what he is doing impacts motivation.

I tried to find ways with him to motivate himself, but I see no improvement. We talked about scaling equity with time spend working. I am thinking about asking him to track time more precisely with an app such as rescue time, but I feel this is a stupid thing to ask to a co-founder and the core issue lies deeper.

I have no issue whatsoever working on my own on this project (I wrote the overwhelming majority of the code myself), but I feel bad for him if I push him aside, although it might be a good thing for him because it would force him to take responsibility of his situation.

Thoughts?
You can set caps lock as escape key in System Preferences since one of the last OS versions. For me this works even better than the original escape key position since it’s on the home row.
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reducing complexity starts with abstracting bound contexts, understanding relationships between them, identifying ubiquitous languages, understanding the autonomous bubble pattern, and then worrying about code.

I’d add DAL should be shelved for a repository pattern and business layer shelved for root aggregates and value objects.

It’s all in Eric Evans’ Domain Driven Design book that still carries enormous weight.
Whoa, I just got off of a call from PayPal as to why my account was banned.

Turns out, 15 years ago when I signed up, I was 15 (I am 30 now) and that is against their terms of service. So my account is permabanned and they said to make a new one with a different email.

I can understand they don't want people under 18 to sign up, but for fucks sakes, it was 15 years ago, this feels like a fairly stupid policy.

I would like to add that the customer service experience in this instance was pretty good - they had a queue system where you can leave your number and they call you back instead of keeping you on hold forever, and they representative was helpful and professional and told me straight up that I could make another account.
600 dollars for the ~10 sq meters a car takes up is still pretty cheap for Tokyo. There could be several stories of housing above that parking spot. How much is the average rent per square meter? Twenty dollars or so?
Apple is usually cool with this kind of stuff. Contact them.
Not if Professor Legasov can help it.
Oh wow! This wasn't the one I was talking about, but very cool nonetheless. It's similar, but with keyboards. I hate posting this without evidence, but I think there was also something having to do with watching a plant or a pane of glass vibrate to know what is being said inside a room. The keyboard noise and the vibrations may also be unrelated. If I can find these articles, I'll come back and post them here.
> The overnight trains here (Scotland) have lockable cabins and lockers for those that choose to use the reclining seats. Not that crime is a problem anyway.

I've had these long distance trains a couple of times and ICE of Deutsche Bahn (I went through Germany with ICE) did not have such coupes or lockers.

> It certainly explains why plane is actually faster where you are.

It was an example of a vacation in Serbia. Train is great here in The Netherlands. People moan they're not on time, but if you look at the density of the infrastructure its a prestige.

> Travelling by plane with a small child seems equally irritating.

True, but the thing is, that travel by train (as I described) is very long. Either way all you gotta do is keep them (relatively) silent. Either via asleep or by keeping them occupied.

Regardless now that I have a child, I have a lot more sympathy for other parents with their child. And dogs remain the most disgusting, for me.
Epistemology is the study of knowledge. If science isn't a form of knowledge, what is?
The irony is that Smalltalk already offered many FP patterns.

In the end multi-paradim languages will win.

What many FP advocates fail to acknowledge is that all FP languages that got some kind of mainstream adoption, might be FP first, but they are actually multi-paradigm.
So, there are actually companies looking at generating renewable energy WHILE making biochar, one of them that comes to mind is in Australia - although their website seems to be gone here is an article that still exists https://biochar-international.org/pacificpyrolysis/

Basically they were (are?) for 12~ years were powering up to a [200kw generator proccessing up to 300kg](from my previous notes about them) of material an hour of dry biomass. Stuff like collected lawn clipping and branches. You could also use waste like paper sludge, sugar cane refuse, waste water sludge (feces and toilet paper), wood waste from milling, used grain from breweries and distilleries, organic waste from industrial sources etc.

Go watch videos on making char cloth, it's a similar process. With char cloth you basically take a can that's mostly air tight, poke a hole in the top, place natural fibers inside like some scrap denim, replace the lid and heat the contents. The gas that gets cooked off is actually flammable and can be a fuel.

The process they were using required a rather large machine and ended up not only producing biochar but output more energy than went into the system by being much more controlled and capturing the gasses.

I suspect you could also manufacture a system that instead just uses concentrated solar power to process material, instead of needing to get up to 1000C though you'd only need to get around 450C (based on past studies for optimal temperature for producing biochar with optimal soil drainage properties), you could pull the gas off of that and pipe it some distance away to another facility doing the same a more traditional way, using the gas as the fuel source for it.
This is the strongest (only?) counterargument I've seen. I don't believe it will happen soon though. Politicians only do something when doing something is less controversial than doing nothing and that's pretty far off.
Non-developers need to change the state of machines on occasion, yes. You're saying there's something about using dotfiles and vim plugins which are inherently less safe than using other open source and proprietary software? Why? (If it's the plug-ins you're worried about there's nothing to stop you forking a version you're happy with; copying to your own corporate repo etc).
It is for anyone who has been an outsider in a social setting. This article describes methods to identify certain character traits and isolating them. This is pretty clear cut for anyone who actually has relevant experience.
Measles Outbreak Plagues Europe's Young Adults
One of my undergraduate roommates was stationed at Nellis AFB for an extended time. He and his wife learned to count cards and played in the same manner as the MIT team.

They took only their winnings and used it to buy entertainment in the casinos where they gambled, which went a long way with the military discounts.

I want to say their original X was $500 or so, and it funded several years of local entertainment.
>''And if baboons can do it,'' he said, ''why not us? The bad news is that you might have to first knock out all the most aggressive males to get there.''

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This is one experience. I have some exchanges with paypal and their answers were perfectly accurate and personalized. After many transactions, I have no reason to complain for now.
About the case of the OP, I once had 2000€ credited on my bank account for no reason. I knew it was an error and did not touch it. Several days after, the amount was silently debited. No message from the bank. This is not specific to Paypal.
Well, you did format it so that it's not clickable...
> I am often mystified when people say C is "hard"

Here are some examples of why people say C is hard:

https://pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug-story-alignment-on...

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1520

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/06/26/nonnull.html
just fyi in your list, Braintree is a paypal service
On the other hand, very few languages are capable to rival C++, Java, C# in terms of tooling and available libraries.
> It is still floating point, which means you still need to really watch what you are doing, but it's very high precision.

The key difference between a decimal type (in any language) (regardless whether it's fixed-point or floating-point) is that it's not BINARY floating point. Yes, you need to watch what you are doing (shouldn't you always?)... but you can limit analysis to the appropriate precision, without worrying about binary conversion artifacts like 0.3 isn't 0.3.

> In general though, if your application allows for it, you should store money using integers representing cents.

What you're describing is a poor man's fixed point. Much better to just use a fixed point decimal type so you don't need to remember to apply the scale factor everywhere.

In any case, you can't get around the need to determine a ceiling in your necessary precision.
> [...] Medium, for example, because the company owns all the content you publish there.

Is this true? I am absolutely shocked if so.

I would assume Medium might get a license to display your content, but do you actually transfer your ownership to them by posting? If so, that's dastardly wicked.
This reminds me - I remember hearing that the whole reason trailer parks exist is because in some places the laws for vehicle financing were vastly different than home financing. As a result, banks had an incentive to lend to vehicle buyers with income/credit ratings they could not approve home loans for.

Someone figured out they could open up an entirely new market by slapping wheels on tiny homes and calling them vehicles, even if no one would ever intend to move them anywhere.

The whole thing is predatory, but it's an interesting case study in perverse incentives.
agree and disagree here - you can have someone who is very competent and sees what needs to be done but has trouble communicating the plan
Declining to tell someone something is not the same as lying to them. And declining to tell the customer "I am HIV positive" is not the same as declining to tell them impersonal information.

You may or may not be aware but there are companies that actively instruct their international call center personnel to tell customers "My name is Sally and I live in Fort Worth Texas, right near you" when none of that is true.
This is just the obvious result of everyone wanting to cluster around a city center, and slowly expanding outward. With the new advances in technology we have today, we should start innovating new models of work for those who do not need to be in physical proximity (i.e mass remote work for those whose jobs lend to that). Most people who live close to the city (say a radius of 20-30 miles) do so only out of work obligations.
meh - this is a temporary issue that'll be resolved with time and manufacturing scale. I'm glad to have the tech a few years earlier.
Using Color to Shape UX
More important would be cheaper nuclear reactors.
If you factor in all the cost involved nuclear energy doesn't make sense.
Yeah, its a horrible mess, and I think that is a big part of why Tesla's choice was the right one for them, at least at the time.

At least Europe has started to standardize on a reasonable variant of CCS (type 2?) and Tesla is starting to just put these on the car with an adapter for the other types (including Tesla's own proprietary one). That makes a lot of sense to me and that standard seems pretty good.

I still don't know why the US hasn't done the same thing. Instead the CCS adapters here are huge and clunky, and there are no adapters for Teslas at all. The stations here get an occasional Bolt charging at well below the capability of the charger and that is about it.
This is fighting cultural imperialism, not "gatekeeping."

I also question the intentions of the complainers.
These kinds of complaints are usually made by people with little technical skills and barely any contributions to the project. They fabricate controversy in order to gain social media clout, then leverage that for consulting gigs.
> good luck buying Lamborghini

Was not aware that I was supposed to buy that. But with that Lamborghini out of the way your description is qiite spot on. The irony is that the elected party is supposed to be the middle class' darling. That other parties have ignored the middle class has been one of their favorite narratives.
My guess is the author meant “owns” in the informal sense of “can broadly do whatever they want with it,” not in the formal sense of “possesses an exclusive license to it.” You retain the license to content you post to Medium, while granting them specific non-exclusive usage rights.

That said, if Medium represents the only copy of your work, it should be considered at-risk. They are not obligated to retain or make it available in perpetuity. I agree with the author that this is not a desirable situation, and that you should have full control over the source of truth for your intellectual property.
You started out saying that a good cable always works, effectively staking a position that you just need to get rid of bad cables.

Now you're saying that we need to throw out working devices so that we can ensure we only need good cables.
Several comments are about emotions and becoming non-subject to them. Any anecdotes from non-emotional people on how meditation affected them?
And then we end up paying $60 for a phone charger cable that will never be used for any of these things. (100W of power, 5K video, USB devices, analog audio, Ethernet)

The whole thing is a mess but both solutions are equality ridiculous if you ask me.
Chess Champion Magnus Carlson I’m Getting Inspiration from Alpha
It’s a start, it should cover Facebook and Google.
Kick them in the ass?
how do they get doctors to prescribe the patented versions if they aren't better?
Until we can find a safe and permanent way to store spent fuel (or otherwise render harmless fission products with long half-lives), nuclear power is always going to fail the "Facebook mom test". And, in my opinion, rightly so.
Ok, play devil's advocate, but someone could be laundering money through his account. The laws and penalties are extremely severe and being naive is no defense.
If a job description "formalizes social skills" I expect very distressing interviews in which HR idiots are going to judge my personality and my values and an oppressive environment in which, for instance, managers are going to draw a line between disagreeing and having a bad attitude.
26-Year-Old Fights Against Age Discrimination at Work Through This YouTube Video
>Thank goodness we figured out how to press olives into oil, because eating them raw is not a pleasant option.

We eat olives raw (and cured etc) for several millennia in my side of the woods, and its a totally pleasant option -- and traditional part of Italian, Greek, etc cuisines...

Black olives are totally not a "California invention" either, and they're totally fine (except perhaps just those sold in California).

Not to mention that "bitter" (within reason) is also a taste in the palette of tastes, not something to run away from.

Maybe Americans (like British) should refrain from opining about cuisine?
Seems like a pretty classic case of second system syndrome to me.
Personally, I use https://www.ecosia.org/(who would probably be a great company to try and partner with) as my web browser since they donate most of their profits to tree planting operations, and I give some money every month to Eden Project, who have been planting trees for a very long time and seem to have a good reputation.

If you're interested in helping out with their efforts it might be worth reaching out to trillion tree campaign. Their website really needs some work, but they've already done a lot of good work with some really big organizations. No need to re-do work when there is something already out there that you could potentially help expand on.
Replacing fossil fuels with nuclear helps prevent further CO2 emission but doesn’t mitigate past emissions.

What’s already been released is enough to have already changed the climate and will continue warming the planet as long as it’s in the atmosphere.

Planting trees helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere that we’ve already released.

We should be both planting trees (to reverse past emissions) and changing our energy sources (to minimize future emissions).
Yea but it's pretty much all we/we'll have
MongoDB vs. Solr as a Search Engine
Great, so now we have more trees in a country that I will likely not visit. Meanwhile the people in my own country are suffering from the local pollution caused by planes and corresponding infrastructure. The noise a plane makes. The gigantic space that the airport needs. The local wildlife that suffers.
They do that if you paid for the premium warranty options, it's not included by default -- it's typically depot service for everything by default.
Wow, I didn't know that PayPal bought them a few years ago. Still, I hear lots of folks like Venmo.
https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors
a) "The tool" does afford the ability to scroll around and change zoom levels; that probably required some "design" to do that.

b) Is it "arrogant" to think that I understand my own goals and preferences better than a mapping app? Yikes.
This happens to me as well. In time those keycaps become loose and start falling out. And it's way to easy to snap them off when replacing.
Says more about the quality of no-name usb wotsits
What I think is strange is you tracking your customers like this.
First game i ever played, i wouldn't get off the computer till i finished it, good times.
>It's not a "crusade" in any sense

it's cultural imperialism.
PayPal has convinced everyone they shouldn't count as a bank in the US. I have zero idea how they managed this, but the cynic in me would lobbying?
XR is Extinction Rebellion, a group non-violently protesting the lack of action on climate change by governments and corporations. They've been growing pretty rapidly, though I'm not sure how far up their alley planting trees would be.
That's supposed to be the promise / fix of SMR: plop down a fully self-contained reactor of a few tens~hundreds MWe in a shaft, plug it to the grid and leave it there for a few decades, when it's out of fuel swap it out and go recycle it in a dedicated facility.

Though of course aside from not quite existing yet and probably needing a smart grid to coordinate properly these will take full-bore hits from NIMBY.
I have a MBP 13" 2015 with 16 GB RAM and a MBP 15" 2015 with 16 GB RAM. The 13" was actually bought in begin of 2017.
I was actually thinking this would be about Rick Dangerous renamed for copyright reasons.

I'd love to play slightly modernized Rick Dangerous with some new episodes.

Maybe I'll need to check out the Spelunky thing. :-)
Friction very early on + family member.

Cut your losses before stuff gets more complicated, consider teaming up with the other guy.
What about the last 30 years of IT history gives you cause to think that?
I find these rants about social media patronizing, people are aware, they just don't care. It's not whistle blowing, it's self congratulatory yipping at this point. If you want to make a better solution that happens to be decentralized and works with just as little effort, then do it if you actually care rant over
The people in casinos are usually senior citizens carrying their oxygen tanks between slot machines.
High rents and debts are a massive drain on the economy. Less disposable income means less to spend on consumer goods and services, which hits real businesses hard, and leads to fewer jobs. The fictitious growth in the FIRE sector is not going to mask the growing death spiral in the rest of the economy forever.
He forgot to mention the important roll of a long paper trail for cleanly wiping out assholes.
There are enormous swathes of land that used to be forested that no longer are because we cut or burned trees either to use the lumber or to clear the land for agriculture.

Sure, in tens of thousands of years, trees would likely eventually repopulate that land; but that’s an extremely gradual process, as most trees’ seeds don’t disperse very far, and it takes years for each new tree to mature enough to produce seeds to extend the forest’s reach.

Whereas if we seed those areas directly, we could have forests again within decades.
Crispr Helps Scientists Cure HIV in Living Animals for First Time
He is a business man selling stuff to a gullible public. Because the nature of the stuff is so amorphous you can easily distort and invent it as needed.

Note that the price of the book has got nothing whatever to do with it. You are probably referring to my first book recommendation which some enterprising soul is trying to sell for a huge markup (i.e. $300 because it is not easily available) but i just provided the link for reference. You can get it cheap if you search. Or you can read other cheaper equivalent books, one of which i had also provided as my second recommendation.

Now you asked me to define "authentic" sources in your other post. For TCM/Qigong you would start with publications from mainland China preferably by doctors/professors from a Medical College/University/Hospital who study both modern and TCM medicine. You would then try to get at the root texts for the subject. With these sources in hand, you can now start your study. So here goes;

1) The root text for TCM is "Huangdi Neijing" aka "The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine". Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing for your research.

2) TCM textbooks have been published from many doctors/institutes in China, two of which (related to Qigong) i had already listed earlier. Here is another recommendation - https://www.amazon.com/Illustration-channels-points-acupunct... Also check the website "www.china-guide.com" for authentic books on TCM/Qigong.

Finally here is a paper named "The Man who Invented Qigong" which explains the origin of the word and its current methodology - https://www.qigonginstitute.org/docs/The%20Man%20Who%20Inven...
If the reactors are much safer by design and default, then they'll also need fewer regulations/patched-up protections later on = cheaper to build and maintain.
Where is the great firewall of China on the list of villains? Surely that is doing more harm than Mozilla.
Yeah fun visit except in Florida summer. That stone is amazing stuff.
You were talking about how many combinations there were of cables, which is always solvable by choosing the good cables. There is no cable type for defective devices, so that does not change anything.

What the rPI did would be akin to a micro-USB device using data pins for power. Such device would be defective, and not "another type" of micro-USB.
and 25 lines max so it fits on xterm :)
You've plucked an olive from a tree and eaten it? Try it sometime and you'll see...

The olives eaten in Italian and Greek cuisines are all processed using one of the methods described in the article to remove the extremely bitter compound oleuropein.