skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to see you are receptive to this change. I didn't notice it earlier but then when I see on the right hand corner of the website I was astonished it's there.
I recommend https://handmadehero.org/ and associated community https://handmade.network/
And yet somehow opioids are still legal.

They've had a Opoid conference in Boston the past few years.

http://opioidconference.org

This seems to be an attempt by the states to reign in egregiously bad behavior by these businesses/ doctors that are supposed to be federally regulated (which frankly seemed to be lacking). Opioids things seem addictive enough to warrant some review on if there aren't other pain-killers that can replace them completely perhaps excepting in a few exceptional circumstances.
You don't need to buy Pro as you can simply run it unactivated for years. I've done that without incident.
Basically the Apple philosophy.

On the plus side, it really drives up re-sale values and part-out values when you don't have the manufacturer undercutting you.

Source: I parted out my old Macbook and ended up with a pretty good downpayment on my next done. Got new mid-2015 Macbook Air new by parting my mid-2011 and ~CAD$300 by selling the promo "free" Beats headphones.
The good news is you can get almost anything on the Internet. I've found so many weird parts from shady eBay sellers that worked perfectly in the end.

Other times I've had to order a similar part off of Mouser and hack it to make it fit, with varying levels of success.
Virtually nobody in the US gains any sort of fluency from high school instruction in any foreign language unless they supplement the class with their own study. We could discuss why, but that remains true either way.

If there's anything I've learned from studying the studying of foreign languages, it's that sufficient interest and passion to pursue a language in your free time is by far the most significant indicator of success.
It's not orbiting Earth, it's orbiting the sun. I think it's fair to say that it would be the most ambitious space mission we've ever taken to try and retrieve it, at least when not adjusting for our increased technical sophistication since the appolo era...
I love listening to this. It's all the beauties of a great business. There's a problem, a loyal group and someone willing to solve and love the problem at the same time.

It's sad to see that the Roadster community was left behind so quickly. For better or for worse, Tesla plays cars like the startup game. Pivot, deploy, traction?, repeat. As terrible as that sounds, I do hope Tesla is here to stay. Even in its current form, the world is better with Tesla than without.
There is so much to be said about mature technology.

I still carry and pen and paper everywhere I go smart phone be damned.
At least for random electronic widgets, there's some manufacturer in China selling that exact part or an aftermarket one on Ebay/AliExpress.

Backlight burnout on your LCD TV? No problem.

You can buy brand new NES controllers today. (!).
If an individual's data was worth $500+ annually like that, Intuit would be realizing substantially more revenue from Mint.com.
This is the key: Tesla's goal is increasing new-car production. Diverting intermediate assemblies into spare parts inventories directly competes with that goal. If Tesla had spare manufacturing capacity this wouldn't be as pressing. As they bring more online it would presumably ease, though with lag while the backlog of demand is drained.
I have always wondered how many big syndicates and governments actually push their malware via the msn homepage.
(Given that 99% of sysadmins will at some point be forced via msn, on the malware-portal that is Internet Explorer, to install a proper browser).

I really think, even if this isn't happening at scale, that this would be a great way to pwn even some of the biggest firms.
Were you using "old" hardware in '98? I installed Redhat around then and it wasn't very painful. I don't recall bumping into any issues.

In '98 I grabbed a TNT video card the first week it came out and it gave me no trouble. (No idea about Voodoo though.) I also had a CD burner and a DVD drive, but I don't remember if I could boot directly off of CD in '98 or I needed a floppy disk. I think in '98 you could boot off of a CD directly. Oh and by 2001 I had fiber internet, which isn't that far out.

Anyways, your story sounds like how it was in '94 and earlier. I'd dial in to the local edu to get online. The internet was painfully slow. I'd run out of ram so I created a bootup floppy to boot directly into the game bypassing Win 3.11. When Windows 95 and Doom came out it was such a game changer. Though, I still have a fondness for old 80s Mac classic games like Crystal Quest and Return to Dark Castle.
A somewhat ironic form of regular regulatory capture, in that it should have already been captive...
I don't run a business, but my understanding is that a good rule of thumb for the cost of an employee is about double their salary when you start to factor in benefits, insurance, office space, equipment, quality of life things (snacks/coffee, etc), recruiting, etc. So an artist making 75k could cost 150k when all is said and done.

(if youre american and youve ever had to pay for insurance out of pocket you probably know how expensive it is. When I lefta previous job it was 400/mo to continue my insurance, and some of my friends with families have to pay thousands)
What are owners supposed to do? Are there any indications these cars fail so rarely?
There's no free lunch in orbit. If it dips into the atmosphere enough for control surfaces to bite then it has to boost back up again to avoid orbital decay. Either way it can't possibly carry enough fuel to do much of that.
I feel you need to rethink your goal. it's like you're trying to finding missing chapters from an undefined book.

Try to be around problems that requires a high degree of math skills to solve. let the problems drive you.

intuition is usually built by spending hundreds of hours thinking, eating, and drinking the problems you're truly interested in to
arrive to a solution.

If you spend enough time doing this, you'll know exactly what areas you need to inquire about as your understanding to the problem becomes clearer and gaps start to narrow down.

If you don't know what you need to learn you probably
haven't spent enough time on the problem or just read the solution which made you feel this way, not realizing that the solution was done by a person that could have spent 100x the time you spent on it and built the intuition you're asking about.
Sure, IPFS doesn't offer anonymity at the protocol layer, but one can always operate a service anonymously (socially, not technically) by hosting it at a suspicious Russian/Romanian provider. BitTorrent taught us, once the materials spread, it wouldn't matter anymore.
I think the core issue is that people don't have a good grasp on the amount of money it takes to develop games, and the paltry amount of money that niche titles rake in. Take computer wargames and flight sims, for example.

Hardcore wargames (e.g. Combat mission, Graviteam tactics, Grigsby's War in the *, etc.) are a very niche market. Even popular ones make a fraction of the sales that more popular titles bring in. Thus, it's not uncommon for the developers of these games to be 2-3 man shops, or even one-person companies.

The consequence is that these games either have to cut down on quality or jack up prices. Why do modules in DCS often cost $60-$70 for just one plane? Because the small numbers of sales means that they will need to have a higher revenue per sale to break even. Why do so many wargames use 2d counters and hex grids? Because 3d art is expensive, and they need to keep costs low.

Some people bring up color palette, and that this dev just doesn't have a good eye for art. Maybe that's the case, but the fundamental market principles still apply. He could spend money to hire an artist or spend time improving his art skills, but resources do not permit it.
> Bare metal is almost entirely unnecessary in 2019, because you can configure Linux to only occupy one core for all of its processes and threads.

Configuring the Linux kernel just to meet the requirements for bare-metal applications might work for some use-cases but not for security and safety-critical applications.

For instance, the IoT industry still suffers from typical security issues in the drivers and firmware due to these Linux/Busybox vulnerabilities in the system. There are alternatives that use safer languages or formal verification that are more secure than configuring Linux for IoT or bare metal development, like TockOS [0] (using Rust) or seL4 microkernel (a formally verified microkernel).

So, is bare metal almost entirely unnecessary in 2019? Security wise, I'd much rather use safer languages like Rust for bare metal in 2019, than to use Linux/Busybox for this use-case.

[0] - https://www.tockos.org/
Having just wrapped up a stint at a >$1B company, I was floored by the incredible amount of waste of human effort on the part of management, which never really visibly impacted the bottom or the stock price.

I agree that the skill sets change as companies add zeroes to their value, but I couldn’t help but wonder if there’s a way to determine the optimal size of a company from a productivity standpoint.

Sure, it would likely be super subjective and not necessarily repeatable, but I noticed how much worse we were as a software team shipping a product under the guidance of our corporate overlords compared to our days as a startup.

In our case after the acquisition, our product features were essentially cut in into two halves and sold as separate bundles, so customers all of a sudden had to pay twice as much for the same product. Then they laid off the bespoke support team from our startup days and handed that responsibility to people who didn’t know our product.

Our customers were once so happy that we existed, and our new overlords trampled over that goodwill in an instant to boost their stock price.

It’s really hard to believe that big companies truly have a positive and productive role in our system after that experience.
So far, two of you said you were customers. The question would be, "Are you both a critic and representative of most of his buyers?"

For instance, he mentioned their games were popular with folks who were blind or couldn't see well. They'd focus on non-visual aspects more than visual. There's another crowd that likes the visual style of the game. Then, there might be some that don't like it but like it's other aspects. What the spread is on this would have a major impact on whether investing in better graphics would increase sales. They'd lose a bunch of money for nothing if the first, two categories were majority of buyers.
It's not the same data? Mint doesn't know where you made each purchase and for how much.
Tesla threw together of a couple of thousand prototype-ish cars based on an already-uncommon sports car. Apple makes zillions of devices and supports them for years. What's the connection here?
Exactly. This landmark ruling is the wrong way, it shows that pharmaceutical companies can enable the manslaughter of hundreds of thousands of people and pay relatively little in fines. Certainly less than the usually well-informed stock market was expecting.

The pharma CEOs are gonna use this landmark to help them navigate to a bigger private yacht and faster private jet.
Most of the parts on your car are just GM parts. Auto manufacturers don't design a new pump/bearing/condenser/etc... for every make and model of their vehicles, they take one off of the shelf. When it breaks you can find a replacement because there are dozens or hundreds of cars that used the exact same part and supplying one supplies them all. Even when the manufacturer stops making that part (because the last car they used it in is 15+ years old) there's a healthy market of people making knockoffs just for people like you. I gave plenty of money to companies like Dorman to keep my old 90s truck alive.

With something like those early model Teslas there is a lot of custom one-off parts that are near impossible to find. The problem is a lot harder.
That would be a lot of savings. :-) The actual savings rate is less than 10% (https://www.statista.com/statistics/246268/personal-savings-...).
I used to be a huge fan of the FitBit. I've got multiple FitBits from multiple product lines (meaning I have more than 1 of the same device for multiple devices) and I have all the accessories that went with them (Aria scale, watches, etc.). Every single one of them has been replaced either under warranty or purchased specifically to replace another device that failed within the first six months of the 1-year warranty. The customer support has been pretty fair about replacing them and even replaced one that we admitted accidentally went through the washer because we had emailed about the same issue while it was in warranty still.

But... I'm over the regular hassle of everything just suddenly not working at all. On some of them it's the strap which is less of a deal. On others it's the display. On other things it's the motion sensing. On another it's the pairing and bluetooth. Everything is just such a headache that, cumulatively, I couldn't do it anymore. The fact that they also don't sync to anything except their own portal unless you pay for a third-party app to connect to it is another nail in the coffin.

Haven't so far and don't ever plan to go back to the FitBit world. Once this latest scale and tracker die, I'm out.
But not on windows. Apple's prioritisation of compiler targets makes me sad.
The argument is that in order to be able to deal with the higher short-term variability inherent with renewables you have higher up front capital costs.
I prefer my Hamilton Khaki. Never needs a new battery, and looks nice and clean. About the same price as an Apple watch for almost none of the functionality, but I really like the idea of a mechanism keeping almost perfect time, just powered by the movements of my arm.
Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $572M for role in Oklahoma opioid crisis
Good point, which I wholeheartedly agree of. I personally take documentaries as leads to certain things which I may or may not want to explore more deeply later.

Unfortunately director has to keep the audience entertained, which is much more important for production than actual factuality.
Depends on the part and who the supplier is. Some parts are more easily ramped up in production.

Are parts buyers struggling for some parts, or all parts equally? If it's the latter, Tesla is either really good, or really nasty.

If you're getting stamped steel body panels from a manufacturer that can't ramp up its supply, you're with the wrong manufacturer.
Only a small subset of people are going to lie about their dog being a service dog. Letting them in with the legitimate service dogs is probably a reasonable way to avoid hurting people with legitimate need.
Ask HN: Best tool to write book to publish on Amazon/apple/eBook and print/POD
So i am writing a technical book. And i want to get it out to the most places i can. I would like to publish it online as an ebook and print using a Print on demand service.

I have been going through so many posts on HN and other places, but i can't get a easy answer.

The problem i am seeing is, if i use one tool. It will create a good ebook, but wont be good for a POD service, or amazon.

Can anyone recommend a single app for OSX that I can use that will output the final book for EPUB/PDF/MOBI and then can also be used for a Print on demand service.
Or if no single tool, maybe a easy process from a single point of writing/editing?

I was playing around with the OSX iBooks Author app which i like, but i am not sure how good that will be with a service to POD and amazon.
I've taught this stuff before and I find it best to start with boolean logic and combinatorial circuits, then sequential ones, but don't just jump into building a CPU right away; instead, after discussing clocked/sequential logic and registers/memory ("storage loops"), I discuss a counter, then connect the output of the counter to the address inputs of a memory to create a machine that just reads memory. Adding an "accumulator" and adder turns that into a rudimentary adding machine, and I note that such a machine was already able to save --- or eliminate, depending on your viewpoint (although I rarely will go on an ethical tangent) --- countless hours of human labour at the beginning of the last century. I then slowly evolve the adding machine into something closer to a CPU by making it capable of other operations than adding (and this is also a good time to show the elegance of two's complement), gradually turning the numbers stored in memory into not just data to be added, but operation codes, and eventually, with the addition of control flow and indirection instructions, memory addresses too.

This "bottom-up" approach tends to bore some students, but in my experience also leads to far deeper understanding than more superficial ones that skip over a lot of the intermediate steps. It helps to keep the interest by showing these machines actually working, either with actual logic chips and a breadboard, or a simulator; and of course give the students hands-on experience if possible.
I never believed in hypnosis, what changed was my understanding of what people actually claimed hypnosis could do, and this change was the only constant thing about hypnosis. My father (an engineer) was down-to-earth enough to explain me math, physics, chemistry, ...

I do believe though in the somewhat debilitating conditions that exacerbate for a person who is already tired, like seeing repetitive long period highway lights, or road markings ... and of course innate primordial fears and reflexes...
Yep, for all it’s business know-how HN just doesn’t understand this one. He’s making games for people that value story and world building above all else. He’s making a relative pittance doing so — seemingly much less than a full time gig at a faang company.

He’s presumably happy, his customers are presumably happy, yet we insist on giving him obvious advice about a 25 year old venture. It’s honestly hilarious to see the immense amount of time collectively wasted armchairing over it!
The only thing Mint's lacking is the geolocation of the individual merchants - something they can garner in a lot of cases from the merchant name. The grocery store I frequent includes a store number in the transaction name, for example. (Mint definitely has the "how much" bit - they've got each transaction individually, including the amount.)

On the flip side, Mint has all the rest of the credit card data for the person (across potentially many different cards and card networks), savings and checking accounts, brokerage accounts, mortgages, car loans, student loans, and tax returns if you use TurboTax.

I think that balances out the equation pretty handily - that amount of linked, collated data should easily be worth more than a single CC can garner.
OK well just to be clear its not my first distro. I have been using Linux off and on for more than like 23 years. Slackware was my first distro. I have used CentOS and played with Red Hat and Fedora and Mint some.

I do use Debian (sometimes) and Ubuntu on my VPSs and on my Virtual Box in Windows.

I was just asking because its easy to get out of touch.
R.W. Hamming. Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
I'm mainly surprised that we have reusable space planes at all. You'd think that would get more attention.
Individual parts are not readily available from either manufacturer.
Yes, orbital mechanics are very non-intuitive.

Thinking "you're in space so can go anywhere" makes as much sense as thinking it's easy to go from Canada to the top of the Everest just because they're both on land.
No.

Edit: if you think worker-organizing to establish vehicles for collective bargaining is domestic terrorism, then: yes.
I was going to mention that the one that has broken earth's orbit is the wrong vehicle and is not a first generation Tesla Roadster, but then I realised the repair woes are likely to be even worse for second generation Roadster owners. They're not likely to be produced in significantly more volume, and they're made totally in house, not based on a Lotus platform like the last one.
I've heard Tesla advertising themselves as a simpler car, by comparing the number of moving parts between a Tesla and an ICE car. That should've made part shortages less likely.
I love how you use 3 acronyms to describe the first acronym. It's acronyms all the way down!
A neat little hack with some cards can make it effectively almost across-the-board.

Some rewards cards let you select "online shopping" as your high rewards category. You can extend that to in-store shopping at Walmart by enrolling that card in Walmart Pay and then paying in-store via that.

For a lot of people, "online shopping" and Walmart together will cover 95+% of their credit card use.
Precisely nobody is in the business of mass-producing commodity breathable air. It isn't a market. There are neither buyers nor sellers. If there was someone stupid enough to try and create a commodity market in air, it would signal to any producer "get out, you are crazy".

If we lived in a utopia where electricity was produced without any human intervention whatsoever then a $0 price would be fine. Producing electricity does require human action. Maintaining solar farms requires human action. Maintaining wind farms requires human intervention. Acquiring fuel requires human action. These are not charities; free is going to turn out to be quite expensive.
In case any cat people are looking for a museum dedicated to cat art, there's an excellent one in Amsterdam.

https://www.kattenkabinet.nl/

Their broad permanent collection includes some extremely rare artworks about cats.
I like that feature but, for some reason, I always have issues answering the call on my watch. It doesn't happen every time but it happens often enough that looking at new routers and cell carriers. From what I can tell, no one else I know that has an Apple Watch has this problem. They're always Dick Tracy'ing everywhere and I'm always staring at my wrist saying "Hello... hello... hello..." like some crazy person. I wish that feature worked more for me. It might even be a minority of the time but it's just far more memorable for me when it doesn't work because it's always when I need it to work the most (when my hands are full and I need to answer with my nose, for example). It'll get there at some point for me, I hope. It's very convenient.
Write your own simple 3d fluid or rigid body simulation, and a 3d renderer to display the simulation. (It could be a video game...) Doing that would take you on a tour of all kinds of math and force you to learn it well enough to implement it, linear algebra, geometry, calculus, physics, etc.

For me, math intuition takes practice and a lot of visuals, graphing and diagrams. Some people get it through proofs and equations, but I feel like the way math is taught in school doesn’t usually do a great job of developing intuitions. Coding it up forces me to learn it, and playing with it and tweaking a lot along the way helps develop the intuition.
The ISS problem is arguably harder. It doesn't need to survive reentry but you also can't take the whole thing apart, clean it, and put it back together again in a nice climate-controlled machine shop. You have to do it in cramped zero-gravity and keep most of the systems online while you're doing it.
...and neither of them are fond of anyone but themselves doing the repairs.

Some references, for the disbelievers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674591

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233898

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255160