skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not special but I did have quite a lot of fun pretending to be osama bin laden (and richard stallman)
> Believer that Crypto is the biggest thing to happen in the history of mankind.

Well, there's apparently a reason why this guy is your average Silicon-Valley millionaire and Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire.
Get into data science/AI/ML. It’s similar enough that you’ll be able to make sense of it, but new enough that you’ll still be interested.
How do you tell true enlightenment from an opinion that one has achieved enlightenment?
Great you are draining the Colorado River and absolutely fucking the entire country.

You know where thos leafy greens grow better? Everywhere
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What really irritates me about shoplifting is that the honest among us subsidize the criminals. Inevitably, retailers and grocers raise prices due to increased theft, encouraging more theft, in a vicious spiral (I don't have proof of this; rather, it's an intuition). Also reminds me of drug use in sports.
> For the study, researchers enrolled 11 adult men and women who had excess weight.

It's amazing how low our standard for news is when it comes to things like weight loss.
> The aircraft type rating is exactly difference training. You don't start from scratch just because a type certificate differs between two airplanes. The whole point is to require that difference training, and for it to be specifically laid out.

You're talking about training for completely different planes. Type training is commonly multiple weeks long. What I'm suggesting is something intermediate for two variants of a plane that are much more alike than that ("subtype training"), so that it's hours or days rather than weeks because there aren't as many differences to cover between two 737 variants than between a 737 and a 787.

> Whereas without that, what did Boeing do? They gave pilots an iPad for difference training, and kept them in the dark about the differences between 737 NG and 737 MAX.

Right, exactly. So they have the tiers too far apart. There is too big a jump between "here's an iPad" and tens of hours of training over multiple weeks, so there's a need for something in between for smaller variations.
I attended Isaacson's Aspen panel on CRISPR this June. He said his next book is on biotechnology. He wrote the definitive biography of Steve Jobs and some major scientists.
The 'read' api is incredibly simple.

https://github.com/DaltonWebDev/console.chat/blob/master/api...
Thank you, that is very helpful. I wish Apple included some sort of message conveying that information in their permission pop-up.
Please don't take my short response to think that I did not value your comment. It was obviously well thought out.

> I was lucky enough to find computers in my late teens

25 years ago?

You still don't get it... 25 years ago, how many people could afford to "find computers" in their late teens?

"Coming from money" doesn't mean you are institutionally wealthy. It means that you have access to opportunities others don't and failure isn't even visible to you. When you have no idea of the consequences of failure, you are able to take risks. For me, I have personally (unfortunately) been involved with some bad people but were it not for my inability to understand what failure is, I would never have recovered and there would be a pretty unfortunate cycle starting with me.

You have not dissuaded me from that perspective at all. Indeed, all you have said is "I was successful and didn't want to be a slave like the others in my family". But you never saw failure. You never wanted a safety net. Perhaps you used one and you didn't even know it.

So what in your life would have made you afraid to take risks?
A Prince’s $500B Desert Dream: Flying Cars, Robot Dinosaurs, Giant AI Moons
I know I'd be at 250lbs if I still drank soda. I used to pound 3-6 mountain dew bottles a day at the computer (that's 12-20oz per bottle). I stopped and water is delicious and satisfying now. I drink small amounts impulsively now, it's like a fixation. Water is the most delicious healthy thing I consume and thank god for that.
That last one! Woah!
Your great-aunt sounds great.

My parents had a small business for a time back before the internet and all that. It failed.

I knew a lot of small business people growing up. I was surrounded by people who worked from home, etc.

Most small businesses are not incorporated. If they have to be incorporated to be part of your study, it's practically a dog whistle that "We're actually only studying businesses created by rich people."
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This is the conclusion I also reached, I'm also eating whatever I want but not whenever I want, instead when there is a hunger. I'm just couple of months in, but still consistently loosing about kg in ten days easily.
Is there a public metric of active users defined as people who actually post things, rather than idly scrolling and hitting the like or share button here or there?
‘Please, Save My Life.’ Bomb Specialist Defuses Explosives Strapped to Children
I think mindfulness is a useful tool. From there one needs a framework from which to operate on what it provides. Psychology for example. Though personally I like rationality as a pop-culture-esque pairing better. https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
It's common in science to research an "obvious" thing, because sometimes it leads to nonobvious results. The Michelson-Morley experiment is probably the most famous example.

Your experiences are upheld by the literature that I've seen (eg [0]). I don't think anyone intends to reinforce the current state of the world by studying it closely, quite the contrary.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2846047
Everyone should click as many ads as possible. Fuck over the datasets.
The ads I get are now stupid and hilarious. I broke their algorithms and I cost every crappy advertiser money.
If people still buy the goods then you're willing to absorb the inconvenience.
Maybe determine how much money the families need to have in order to spawn entrepreneurs? I suspect that number isn’t $100M, but more like $10M. Then, change the tax policy to create 10 families with $10M instead of 1 family with $100M.
Docker has supported namespaces for a while now so that even if the user in the container is root it could be a subordinate id on the host with no administrative authority. What is new though?
One important application is solving differential equations on a grid. Not sure if it is covered here, though.
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes
> [title repeats 3 times]

> rid the world of the misconception
that a pixel is a little geometric square.

> The little
square model is simply incorrect. It harms.

> I show why it is wrong in general.

Why the bluster?

He makes a decent case for this point in the domain of graphics processing; what he calls "correct image (sprite) computing".

But the narrow focus on computer graphics undermines these broad generalizations. There are many other domains that can be represented in pixel-based data models. Climate, terrain, population and land cover mapping are just a few domains where the use of a pixel as a "little geometric square" is a perfectly viable approach.

Ultimately, if the message is "think about how your data model maps to reality" - I agree. But why the hyperbole? Why shit on an entire model because it doesn't fit for your very specific use case?
Chrome isn't faster anymore in my experience. FF has made great advances in performance.
When do you think you'll reach your goals, and how will you be feeling a year after you reach them?
I'm curious: what's replacing social networking during people's commutes?

> occasionally twitter

Can't believe I'm saying this, but it's looking like Twitter might outlive Facebook as a relevant platform.
In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything
Ask HN: Modern medical/elderly alert services?
Is anyone working on a new and improved medical alert system for older folks in the US? What's out there now seems expensive for what the services are. And the services feel a little used car salesman-like.

I live in a rural area and so relying on a mobile phone is not necessarily the best option AND landlines are common here.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks!
Easiest progress: $200 tax credit for every tree or plant you plant on your property and keep for x number of years. Bonus money if its from one of the species with the best carbon offsetting potential. Even more bonus money if it produces food for your family. Lets end the ugly lawns and get some actual use out of the suburban landscape.

This is an especially great tax for America because while costs of enforcement would be high in many countries. Americans are unusually honest.
Ad blockers block specific things - NoScript blocks all JS. It’s really not an acceptable alternative.
> Think of how many would-be founders read this and see it as an excuse not to start.

None. None of the founders I know were influenced by the endless stream of people telling them they couldn't possibly succeed. The people who aren't founders justify it with an endless stream of excuses.
>Boeing obviously screwed this up, but we gave them the incentive to screw it up, and that's on us too.

No WE didn't. THEY wanted to cut costs and it appears to me THEY cut corners to achieve it. This is like saying the professor made me cheat by making the exam artificially complicated and learning would have cost to much time.
Even if this is true, each of us has a moral obligation to believe the very opposite re: ourselves.
Which again, had absolutely nothing to do with the FAA or anything safety related. Conflating the two is misleading at best. My point stands.
awesome work. trust me getting control over eating will be one of the most liberating feelings in the world. and your discipline will spill over into other aspects of life--it becomes quite empowering.
One strategy to balance food intake is to only eat when it taste good.
Fixed it in my fork: https://github.com/MrStonedOne/console.chat

Swearword filtering removed.
I would be interested as a potiential buyer. Please send me an email at waterloodevs@gmail(dot)com
Who are they trailing? I thought European countries regularly were ranked as the best education systems in the world. The US for higher education as well.
> Unless you're super skilled working at a company that is massive and will never run out of funds then there's practically a 0% chance you'll have a guaranteed steady job for 40 years.

If you aren't grotesquely incompetent and can avoid serious misconduct, it's fairly attainable in the public sector (specifically, civil service), especially if you avoid getting downsized in the first few years, since then even if you are in a position impacted by downsizing, seniority protects you.

And even to the extent it's not guaranteed security, if you are downsized many civil service systems have priority reinatatement rights.
> I will take this as an example. I was developing in 80386 machines. When smartphones appeared and people said that "this is different because you have limited resources compared with a desktop machine", I just thought "it is new for you, not for me". I said nothing because they are right. It was new to them. I was happy to share an environment with people excited with "a new challenge".

Is performance the only or even primary challenge from smartphones though? It brings the internet, multiple cameras, GPS, an accelerometer, a touchscreen, and a compass all into one pocket sized device. We've had so many cool things come out of smartphones people didn't expect. I mean in 1994, was there anything like the iPhone Secure enclave, or the applications we have for photogrammetry today?
That just gave me an idea of circular swimming pool.
Why is JavaScript even allowed in ads? Why can’t they be limited to images, text, and/or looping HTML5 videos?

Could you imagine if cable companies could control your Smart TV when showing ads and collect data about your viewing habits?

A minority of us have been saying this for years, WHEN will the tech industry cry loud enough for change?
Sorry to hear that. I was hoping for you that the new therapy you were receiving gave your pancreas time to heal too.
The answer to every Apple problem is a dongle
maybe some benchmark of old CPUs doesn't take into account the crappy named exploits recently found
I've followed social media since BBS days. Every site has a finite lifespan. Every unstoppable juggernaut disappeared seemingly overnight. Even as user counts grew, so did discontent and a desire for a new paradigm & host.

Facebook is no different. It's showing the same patterns in the same timeframe. The format is obsolete, the banter toxified, a critical mass looking for a way out but for a new destination.
For me it's personal. Facebook's newsfeed stole a lot of my time through it's psychological tricks and I can't help but dislike it for that.
I don't think people can really understand how risk-averse poverty can make a person.

When you don't have a safety net or you've always had to struggle to get by it's very hard to take chances with money. Of course, there are exceptions but given poor vs rich, I would bet that entrepreneurs are more likely to appear in the population that never had to struggle to get by.
uMatrix is wonderful. I can’t imagine browsing without it. The parent comments are talking about iOS, though, where there is unfortunately much less choice. Even “Firefox” on iOS isn’t really Firefox and can’t run normal extensions.
I forgot to mention that I do have dessert daily usually a home made cookie or cake which is less sweet than the store bought sweets.
Actually we do.

Several European countries have as many or more entrepreneurs than the US. It's just that in Europe it's small self-owned/family businesses, not Facebooks and Theranoses.

"In 2016, about 5.6 million small business employers and 24.8 million non-employers were counted in the United States"

compared to:

"There were estimated to be approximately 24.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union in 2017, with the vast majority of these enterprises micro-sized firms which only employed fewer than nine people. A further 1.42 million enterprises were small firms with between 10 and 49 employees and 231 thousand were medium-sized firms that had 50 to 249 employers."
The paper that is cited, https://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf divides entrepreneurs into two groups, those with incorporated businesses and those with unincorporated businesses. Then says those with unincorporated businesses don't count. And then draws conclusions about entrepreneurs based on only the incorporated ones.
It is possible to limit a containers resources, cpu, memory, network

https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constrain...

Docker can really grind if it starts hitting swap. I have not added resource constraints but I've been planning on doing it.
Are you talking about physical size? If so you forgot two of the actual largest countries (Russia, Canada). Brazil and Australia are also bigger than India.
I used to do competitive swimming but it was training that allowed you to switch off and can't beat it. Alas public swimming pool's are a chaos of noise and actions and whilst some have swim lanes, your kinda relieving gridlock and just causes more stress than I can expel.
I am concerned about how your post and other answers to it read like pro-ana slogans.
It's common in science to research an "obvious" thing, because sometimes it leads to nonobvious results.

Yes, I'm aware.

I don't think anyone intends to reinforce the current state of the world by studying it closely, quite the contrary.

And yet you and other people here are all too happy to dismiss small businesses as not really entrepreneurs in part because of how this article chose to define a word for which there is no generally agreed upon definition.

Entrepreneurship Definitions

Economists have never had a consistent definition of "entrepreneur" or "entrepreneurship"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/entrepreneur.asp

So, I don't count because I'm poor. I will never count because it's circular reasoning that will help to continue to exclude me (and others like me).

I'm getting downright aggravated at this point. This article seems to be doing a very handy job of gatekeeping and reinforcing the current status quo.
There's lots about what they attempt to optimize for, and approximately zero about "how it works".
> I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed.

Wait, what ? Could you expand on that ?
Agreed. I would go so far as to vote for a representative who wanted to pass a law restricting what is legal advertisement.

I believe undisclosed ads should be illegal, I would ban music in ads, I would ban color in ads, I would ban sexuality in advertisement, I would ban appeals to emotions in ads.

If a product truly makes the life of the purchaser better, then no gimmicks are needed to sell it.
I wouldn't say it's "pie in the sky" when the technology already exists and has been demonstrated. It's a really simple system.

In a sense, you're right that any technology currently in use is better than a technology that isn't, but if every discussion ended there, we'd have no new technology.

My question was assuming someone is choosing between lithium ion and gravity storage. My understanding is that lithium mining is pretty awful for humans and the environment, the batteries can explode easily, and their lifespan is limited.

Besides being a weird shape, what are the drawbacks of storing energy in concrete blocks?
I haven't tabulated it but if it's not those two it's usually a game or (more likely) sms, and a lot of news sites.

As an aside, I honestly have little interest in snooping (it's boring) but on very crowded trains you can't always avoid it.
Sounds like an iPaaS is exactly what they need and since hes not a dev he may even embrace it?

What’s your iPaaS product?
But it does have a wealth of useful data! It has the social graphs of a lot of people, it has a somewhat meaningful list of things they are interested in, and it has a bunch of photos of them. Those things tell stories all of their own, regardless of how shit facebook is.
Note for UK people: this is 5.35714 stone, or 5 stone and 2.27 kg.
The fact that some can win in entrepreneurship playing the game in hard mode, doesn't negate that most winners still play in easy mode (coming from money).

It just means that it's not impossible to win in entrepreneurship starting poor. But then again nobody said it is: the article says it's just much harder and thus less common.

Here's what TFA says:

"University of California, Berkeley economists Ross Levine and Rona Rubenstein analyzed the shared traits of entrepreneurs in a 2013 paper, and found that most were white, male, and highly educated. “If one does not have money in the form of a family with money, the chances of becoming an entrepreneur drop quite a bit,” Levine tells Quartz. New research out this week from the National Bureau of Economic Research (paywall) looked at risk-taking in the stock market and found that environmental factors (not genetic) most influenced behavior, pointing to the fact that risk tolerance is conditioned over time (dispelling the myth of an elusive “entrepreneurship gene“)."

It says nothing about there NOT being people who've made it in startups coming from a poor background. It merely says those are way less compared to males, that are highly educated and with family money.
I often think about this. If my parents (solid middle class) hadn‘t paid for my studies and if they wouldn’t have had the means to support me for the time after that, when I started a company which took about two years to sustain itself (and me), I would probably still crunch out code somewhere as a low level dev.

Thanks mom and dad!
> but go pick up any modern AAA video game and you can tell there is also so much more depth than we used to have. No?

No. There is a lot more texture memory and some good shader programming, but we knew how to render as good or better graphics 25 years ago - we didn't know how to do it anywhere fast enough. For your example most of that gain is in hardware and art budgets.
> Phoenix makes as much sense as Los Angeles

This is true, but in the exact opposite sense you intend it.
Then I'm sorry for my part in it. Let's stop here.
....all education? Basic literacy & numeracy? Teaching children how to count and their ABCs? How do you think civilization would function, then? I think that Caplan is arguing against college and further on
Just want to back this up, entrepreneurship has been falling since the 1970s in the USA, it is actually pretty scary to see the graphs and data around this, some good studies below showing some of these trends (EIG has some great data on that + the ramifications for the American workforce):

https://eig.org/dynamism (great report)

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/the_entrepreneurship_...
"Acorn" not being relevant? :D
I started many businesses as a kid. One was when I lived in Germany for a time. I ordered American candy from a friend back in the states, and would sell it at school to the other American kids who missed it.

I'd pay for the candy by sending my friend gummi bears, which were not available at the time in the US.

I probably could have made decent money at it if I wasn't so lazy.
My understanding is that the alert services run on cellular networks anyway.

It sounds like you'd need something that either connects either to wifi or the landline. It would also have to be small enough to be carried by the elderly person all the time, as well as have great battery life.

Does that sound right?

For some elderly people, voice-activated home assistants throughout the house might be a good option. There are no concerns about connectivity, batteries, or remembering to carry them around.
Last time I looked that appeared to be the case. Lithium is extracted[1] from primary sources. The rub then is that supply is limited by low historical demand and can be fixed by tapping other sources. The supply demand curve is thus just steep in the short term.

Cobalt is mostly a by-product of copper mining. Being a by-product means it's highly supply constrained. So the supply demand curve is very steep over the short, medium and long term.

[1] Leached from salt deposits or extracted from saline water sources.
Politics aside, I don't really FB is an effective medium to communicate anymore. I posted something on Facebook recently after a long while, there is like 1-2 follow-ups I got, it feels obsolete to me.
Given that pretty much every large manufacturer makes things beyond televisions, and displays aren’t going out of fashion...
> in a 2013 paper, and found that most were white, male, and highly educated.

> Research (paywall) looked at risk-taking in the stock market and found that environmental factors (not genetic) most influenced behavior

how does one reach the conclusion of the title from these 2 very distinct data points? It's nonsense. Plus there is a very wrong causation argument being made for the first one. This is worse than clickbait
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That's some cool enginerding discovered by gindrenigne. AvE, bigclivedotcom and EEVblog would be proud!