skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanted: Buyers for a 1% stake in all my future income
I'm a software developer in the UK, got >$1M to my name, and am 29 and unmarried.

I'm looking for a mentor, and would like to reward the right mentor with a 1% stake in all my future income. If you mentor me well, you will earn lots. If I fail, you earn nothing. If you no longer want to be a mentor, you can pass it on to someone else.

In a real company, you get voting rights, and the ability to direct how it's run. When mentoring me, you get no say whatsoever - but it will be in both of our best interests to work together.

To pick the best mentor, I propose an auction. How much would you pay for this right?

(There is a reserve price, offers also accepted for a 0.1% stake or a 0.01% stake)
Actually, Trump was advised by Bolton to attack Iran after they shot down the unmanned drone a few weeks ago, and was heavily criticized by the press for not killing 100 people over a drone.
I searched a bit. This species is not endangered, it is spread over CA, just very very rare in SF. (Also there might be a subspecies, not really sure).

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

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Battus-philenor
GAN Objective Functions: GANs and Their Variations
> other than using 100% open source software what can we do?

Why is that option not on the table? That is the thing to do.
I don't see there's a reason to use vim locally as other editors are far advanced when vim isn't changing at all.
But there's a use on the server side because you only have vim or emacs there.
and support bees

And all other pollinating species as well, there's way more than just bees :) But good adivce about native plants: around here there's a bit of a hype in certain circles and people are all over what they call 'bee plants' but forget that non-native plants which happen to have pretty flowers usually do not provide anything but nectar for a couple of generalist species, so not all native ones, plus don't take part in the reproduction cycle because they aren't wanted food for the caterpillars.

To get native plants, which support the most biodiversity, essentially the best thing you can do in a lot of situations is: not too much. Leave your lawn grow, current herbs (if any) will develop and other will fly in as seeds. Then for instance mow once in spring and once at the end of the summer (hard to tell eaxctly, depends on what grows currently and soil type). Remove what you mow: otherwise the nutrients make it back into the soil so the fast-growing plants which thrive on nitrogen (grass, nettles) get a jumpstart while the slower growing ones (most flowering ones) don't get a chance and won't get enough space and light. Don't mow everything at once, you'd take away shelter and housing for may fauna. Likewise be sure to leave pathches uncut during winter in order to e.g. not get rid of the eggs of butterflies. After one or more years you should see transition into a native meadow i.e. also flowering herbs instead of just grass.
Perhaps that relates to the origin of the god. If it itself had been created in some similar way it would naturally consider such a process perfectly natural.
If it was really a drone attack, it shows that’s drones are unstoppable. There should be a huge market opportunity for anti drone equipment right now. Looks like, that soft solutions as https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/lv/solutions/aerospace-defense... do not really work. Maybe it’s time for commercial version of Israel’s Iron Dome. Or something from USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
Source? If that were the case, what should I even be mad at first? China doing the hacking or our "own people" (I'm not Australian but generally speaking) betraying us? What would be so outrageous is that it's the politicians themselves, not just some IT clerk with a shotty salary they managed to buy.
Have you ever been in a traffic jam in the desert? It isn’t the end of the world.
write said warning in nuclear waste?
This. The Pomodoro Technique has revolutionized my life. I set it for 30 minutes and tell myself "You just need to make a little progress on task X for 30 minutes... You can do it!"

What very often happens, however, is that since I have focused so well during that period, I actually end up completing the task, usually with a few minutes to spare. Feels a bit ridiculous, but, at least in my case (anecdotal, for sure), just giving my brain the 'peace' in knowing that it will only have to focus deeply for 30 minutes seems to help it immensely. Human beings are so strange.
Mutant Standard – an alternative emoji set standard
As far as I remember Ardour is GPL software, and on their website[0] I cannot find neither some kind of licensing price or any donation link. Is there some other commercial version of Ardour?

[0] https://ardour.org/
I guess the issue for those japanese companies was not that they don't want women, or think that women should only be moms. It's that she was indeed a mom that had to take care of their kids (I assume since you didn't mention any stay-at-home partner). In that situation she was not able to wageslave her life away for the company.
Ah okay, yeah I see what you mean. You are definitely right. RIP everyone with a pacemaker or another type of implant within more than 22km of that system. Implants are usually safe up to 5Gauss so that would be beyond 22km, I guess.

I looked it up BTW, and the maximum extent of the fringe field for a 1.5T MRI scanner drops to 1Gauss at about 4 meters from isocentre. Fun fact, the field strength of an MRI scanner refers to the strength at isocentre, whereas the maximum field strength generated by a 3T scanner is beyond 11 Tesla.
I've been using a Brother HL-L2350DW on Wirecutter's recommendation for the last year, and it was just fine.

I don't know if it spied on me, though.
That must be one of the worst cases of confusing correlation with causation that I've ever seen.
I have a teenage engineering opz, I learned some new stuff in the tutorial.
Recommended read: Dopesick from Beth Macy. For a non-American, it reads like a horror script.
I think in your list of examples there are plenty of cases where nature, while not building the exact thing uses the same underlying principles.

There are a lot of seeds that are aerodynamic so that they get spread more widely for example. Even seeds that have controlled falls due to "autorotation"

But of course on planet earth at least it is hard for nature to use things requiring too high or low temperatures. Nature doesn't need the Haber process, but it does fixate nitrogen.
I think I know what you are talking about. Basically it depends on the situation. With clipless pedals, your feet are pretty much locked in place without having to think about it. With flat pedals, they are only really in contact with the pedal when you are pushing down.

If you are riding a bike leisurely at say 12 kph down the street, clipless pedals aren't going to be useful and might even get in your way. If you are riding in traffic at 30-40 kph, then they can literally be a life saver. Over 90 RPM it's hard to keep your feet on the pedals. So if you need a sudden burst of speed when in a low gear, then this will make sure your feet on on the pedals. Also if it's raining and you hit a pot hole, for instance, your feet will be on the pedals. This really helps in keeping control.

If you've never tried them before, I highly recommend it. I never once fell off my bike due to clipless pedals, although some people do. Even though some people fall off when they first start, I've never met anyone who preferred flat pedals after trying clipless for a while.

The one place I would not use clipless pedals is if I was doing a lot of off-road stuff. I know some people use them anyway, but if you need to put your foot down regularly, it's pretty difficult IMHO.
Ask HN: What PL features do you find most useful?
https://github.com/onchere/whack
Trying to consolidate a feature set for the alpha release.
Is “indistractable” a proper word?
Women's rights are on the way up in Iran? Perhaps, I can't recall any basis for it. Maybe this will happen in the long term, but that's almost an empty statement.

Now, condemning SA is perfectly justified. But 'look over there' isn't a helpful argument re: Iran. It sounds like the same hypocrisy the US government does, except the US government at least has some foreign policy justification for it (Iran being more powerful and more hostile to US), while commenters are just being contrarian.
I think you'd be surprised to learn most Chinese know about the Tiananmen Square protests. It's within living memory and the government has made statements about it which can be found in archives etc.

Most Chinese don't want to talk about it because it's considered a source of national shame. (Westerners often interpret that as them being afraid to talk, but that's not actually true.) They also believe the events are used for foreign propaganda which is not entirely untrue.
Steal This Book? There’s a Price
Nitpick: mild steel is awful for blades as is it is too soft and cannot be hardened. Most likely they are some sort of high-carbon steel.
I hope not. Many people in open-space offices with smart phones have attention span of a chipmunk. That makes it possible for remote workers to compete :-)
Rural. Garden by lots of farmland.
JavaScript 2019 testing trends survey (detailed results soon)
Isn’t setting your environment an act of discipline in itself?
Vim for Ruby and Rails in 2019 – Vim from Scratch
> Iran bans females from attending sports events and imposes mandatory hijab

But would that really be that terrible in the grad scheme of things? Would you not wear a mandatory hat and renounce on sport events if everything else was faily good? This only seems like massive oppression from our privileged western view.
In addition to sibling comment - does any vi(m) work with the (non) standard (for vi) ctrl-v/c out of the box? I understand setting the star/plus as default registry so that paste and yank read/fill the system clipboard. But using ctrl-V for paste is surely alien?

Nothing wrong with custom keybindings, obviously. But it sounds rather non-standard?
Then you need to pay better attention. Most of the criticism was directed at the way he waffled about the decision.

We don't know what actually happened in the brain of the president. On a good day he is lying, corrupt and lazy. On a bad day he has obvious cognitive deficiencies. So we can't know if he intended to follow through on the attack or if it was just a show. We don't know how certain he and his people are about Iran attacking the drone.
> The HP Spectre line runs Linux out of the box

And guess most of HP ProBook line. Asus sucks here, plus zero chances to get any support.
Best Practice Auditd Configuration
You may be overestimating how tended my garden is! Thanks.
A debugger inspired and somewhat popularized by the Handmade Hero screencast series. Primarily for C and C++. Some people say good things about it and happy that it is being developed. Since it is a paid tool with no demo, you might want first to see it in action before purchasing. A good introduction to the debugger is simply watching a few videos of it being discussed and used by Casey Muratori. Go to the screencast page [0], scroll down, and and the search field (which accepts regexes by the way) type 'remedy'. Click on everything. You might also watch a 2 hour long episode discussing debuggers in general [1] and why Visual Studio debugger is not ideal [2].

[0]: https://handmadehero.org/watch
[1]: https://youtu.be/GfGNPo9Z6mA
[2]: https://youtu.be/vohsUKjg9tU?t=33

It is still early days for the debugger, so it has bugs and might crash. Another downside is that it is closed source which might be difficult to reconcile with today's culture of open source. It is really unfortunate because author said it is developed completely from scratch using very few third party libraries. Because of that it would be interesting to take a look at the source and perhaps hack on it. But people are buying it anyway.

I urge everyone who might be interested to support the development of remedy, because I want the project to succeed.
What is the problem with that?

Besides for most people to be able to watch Netflix, some people will need to make Netflix. If there aren't enough people to make Netflix, something else will be made but at the end of the day there is no way nobody will do anything - if nothing else, people will be bored and actively want to do something.
True.

But most Americans don't fuck with DPRK even if for some reason they decide to travel there. The core of the problem is they underestimate how "totalitarian" China is.
To be fair, for Turing completeness, "looping constructs" are not actually necessary. None of the "foundational" computational models (Turing machines, lambda calculus, Post tag systems, Magic the Gathering, ...) has any kind of "looping construct".

It may not even be enough: the most basic looping construct (i.e. a bounded for-loop) is primitive recursive, but not Turing complete. You couldn't implement the Ackermann function without more sophisticated tools.
What you said is entirely meaningless. Someone is always making a lot of money. Any situation results in winners and losers.
Do you have any further reading?
Did you know when De Gaulle came to power they killed more Frenchmen than the Nazis? Also supposedly enemies of the state.

I just ask because I wouldn't consider France an oppressive regime. Sometimes we lack the same perspective when it comes to China. The Chinese Communist Party is not looking for another cultural revolution, they learnt their lesson from that part of their history.
what's a proper word?
There is a commercialized version of iron-dome, baring the noninteresting name drone-dome [0]

And there are multitude of other players in this field* [1]

* examples are from Israel because I already know the names so the search is faster, surely there are multiple global providers of similar systems

[0] https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/air-missile-defense/c-uas-co...

[1] https://convexum.com
> but it is completely non obvious how putting the issue tracking db in a single git repo would materially help any of this

I think it could actually prevent bureaucracy from destroying the value. They can have whatever reporting, enforced flows, business states, etc that live in the repo. You get all of that info locally - so you can create a minimal, lean interface for only the small part of it that matters to you. One of the problems I had with JIRA where I used it was that it grew into a monster, even though I only needed maybe 3 functions out of it. It could be simplified from my side, but... the API was not exposed because corporate rules and the number of requests that would require to enable, made it useless to try.
The dangers of AI's arms race
Trump was heavily criticized because he claimed that he stopped an attack he had authorized, when he learned people would die.

His reason for stopping the attack was either transparent BS, or he was sleeping through the initial briefing when he authorized the attack in the first place, because there is absolutely no way that they realized only after the attack was in motion, that people would die.

The more likely reason he stopped the attack was he watched criticism of a possible attack on Fox News, right after he had authorized it, since there was a segment around that time where Fox News hosts were discussing how it would negatively impact his polling to start a war against Iran.
They do say they're GPL, and let you download the source, but they also say that 1) building from source is hard 2) they won't keep build instructions up to date 3) they won't answer questions about the build process. https://ardour.org/building_linux.html With that attitude I'm not sure why not just buy commercial.
The simplest definition of a Turing Machine is a tuple:

-a set of states

-symbol set

-initial state

-set of accepting states

-a transition function

(plus blank symbol, and an alphabet, but not so important here)

Evaluation (computation) is faithfully applying the transition function on the states. Effectively just a set of rules you need to follow. This definition doesn't include a "crank" that you have to turn to make it run. I think copying and pasting could be justified as "evaluating".

\mu-Recursive functions (so allowing primitive recursion) are the types of functions Turing machines can compute, but that is not the definition of a Turing machine.
SVG can contain javascript, so yeah.

E.g. http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/clipdrag12.svg
I think I read somewhere that revolution actually boosted girl literacy and girl attendance to school and high school because most of Iran outside big cities was very conservative and did not trust secular school...

I think there were and there is huge difference between some area in Tehran and different places in the countryside
Well Iran is anti west (especially anti U.S) and S.A is happy to cooperate with the West as long as it can keep it's current regime. So in western eyes Iran is dangerous and S.A is mostly an ally. This isn't necessarily supposed to be "fair", if Iran doesn't like the current state of affairs it can abandon it's expansionist aspirations and nuclear weapons, stop with the "Death to America" mindset and all sanctions would be removed. But the regime doesn't want to give it up.
Crowfunding here is a problem, because the animal is rare, beautiful and desired by collectors, and anybody less well-intentioned than this man could collect the funds and then breed the butterflies with the only purpose of sell it preserved on internet later.

Even if 50% of rare butterflies killed and sold would be better for the species than having no butterflies at all, it poses some legal conflicts and dangers for the wild population, would be trading of a rare species. With big butterflies cames a big responsability
I have a 30 minute egg timer I use for this, and it's pretty decent. Mainly serves as a reminder to get up and walk about.
Mainlanders believe that progress requires unity and sometimes it's okay that progress or unity costs lives.
Most businesses/startups can take 3-5 years to see a profit. A lot of their losses is due to poor execution, but the product is literally a 'cash crop'... Once they have systems in place and better management, it'll just keep growing. 10 years from now I'd expect to see a huge windfall as an aggregate.
thats pretty cool, extra respect for the guy in the vid still rocking a pebble time steel. heres another lockpicking vid/article that shows you how to make an autopick from an electric toothbrush

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/hacked-electric-toothbrush-d...
By your logic no one should ever question the financial motivations of anyone, ever. It seems completely reasonable to me to question who stands to gain the most from something like this.
I think the title should be edited. There is no section that combines Elm with React, it's mostly used for comparison.
Hundreds of them. A 20x60cm nest inside the window case. After bitten for about 10 times and trying every household spray I could fit in the opening of the case with zero results I called professional exterminators. For a hefty price they nuked the room (no idea what kind of poison they used but 4 days afterwards and it still stinks) and killed them all. My most hated thing in insect kingdom rubbing shoulders with mosquitos.
I also use Bitwig (And Tracktion's Waveform 10) They both work on Linux and are great.

Bitwig works on a subscription program for updates. You want the latest you buy a subscription and it lasts for a year. After the subscription is over you get to use whatever version you are on for life, but no updates.
Who said anything about forcing people to comply? I am talking about the constitutionality of certain laws that that make it illegal to comply with an individual's last wishes (when those wishes would not impinge of the freedom of others)

The point is that an act that is explicitly authorized in a will should not qualify as abuse of a corpse, not that no laws should apply to the disposal of a corpse.

If your will stipulates that your body be used to commit a criminal act, the should be prevented by the normal application of the law. Laws should not impact an individual's right for self determination of the disposal of a their body without a clear set of harms that are being ameliorated (such as in other exceptions to the prohition of prior restraint)

I am a bit surprised with the pushback here. Death rituals are incredibly personal and tied up with cultural and religious mores. It seems that freedom of religion and freedom of speech should protect such a personal and significant choice.
TLDR; To figure out property of chemical composition of one specific form there is a method called DFT which is expensive. There are 10^6 combinations for this molecule composition from elements. So they train ridge-regression model to predict it instead of DFT and find some interesting compositions.

I wonder if it is possible to find much more general molecules that might have interesting properties through ML.

Original paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.135...
A wildlife pond would be my first option (if there is not a suitable one yet next).
You are right! I updated the title.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy protection
Re-engineer the plants to run on Victorian technology and have regular massive emp pulses to cover the facility? Let's face it, out of any industry this one has a tonne of cash to throw at solutions.
My parents were born in Yemen in hebrew "Teimani"
What’s Behind the World’s Biggest Climate Victory? Capitalism
Again, the idea of self discipline right now is stinky for the reasons I mentioned above.

Self discipline is more about going against what your monkey brain wants to do. It's not about just any action. If you don't want to get out of bed and you do it anyways, then a book writer might call that "self discipline" and write an article about it. On the other hand, maybe you have been laying in bed so long that you need to get up to avoid bed sores. In that case, getting out of bed isn't self-discipline.

So, I guess you would have to assume that "setting your environment" is something you don't feel like doing. Like I said, if that's the case then there is likely something off further upstream. Like maybe your schedule says you should get out of bed but really you should stay in bed because an idiot (you) didn't pencil in enough sleep in the free template.
I think this would be the single most important differentiator for wealth creation. The world would be divided between creators and consumers. The consumers are increasingly trained for only consuming with a singular goal of generating wealth for the creators.
Netflix for News: It's time we pivot to consumers
This is quite a well established phenomenon, which highlights that a lot of gender gaps in developed countries really just comes down to choices that people make knowingly and freely.

> Paradoxically, the sex differences in the magnitude of relative academic strengths and pursuit of STEM degrees rose with increases in national gender equality

> A mediation analysis suggested that life-quality pressures in less gender-equal countries promote girls’ and women’s engagement with STEM subjects

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761774171...

Japan might not be a great example, but the Nordic countries are.
Just skimming the post, it seems to be highly convergent with what is used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)[1], or more generally of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

The article doesn't seem to point to such a connection, but people interested with the topic might like to have a look at these well documented methodologies. Analyzes and critics of these methods and their claimed results are also widely available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...