skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a reMarkable and I'm really happy with it. I can't recommend it for everyone yet but if you like to tinker it's really really nice.

I wrote a small script that downloads the articles from news websites and puts them on the device using 'wkhtmltopdf -a5' and it has become my morning newspaper.

The software isn't perfect but it works well enough (and getting better all the time) and the fact that you can write your own makes it perfect for me.
Thats exactly what has happened.
Is Monty Python lost on this generation?
Someone (Chef) has already unethically forked it.
I've got some incredibly lazy sunday afternoon non expert thinking.

200 years ago, just about everything was custom, bespoke. A carpenter would look for a piece of wood that was best for solving the problem at hand, that bit of warp was perfect for making a barrel stave.

Work now, of all kinds, is more about minimum thresholds. classify objects or problems, and use standard approaches. Just about any piece of wood is fine, because we have power tools and standardized fasteners.

We've shifted from local optimization to identifying minimum requirements. A shift away from arbitrary wood blocks, to high-tolerance, highly consistent lego blocks.

Anyway, i think the flynn effect is mostly about reshaping the world to value a little bit more abstraction over local optimization, and we teach people how to operate in the consistent world rather than the bespoke world.

Anyway, our great grandparents weren't dumb. Their minds were focused around a time when everything was precious, scarce and unique. They had to focus on what makes X special, and how can i use that unusual feature the best way possible? Now, we have lots of stuff that's plentiful and consistent. How do we systemize around that?

I mean, to a very large extent, a keyboard is a keyboard. we can have passionate arguments about mechanical keys vs rubber dome, but there's like a handful options, and at the end of the day any of them will let you type and be reasonably productive. But our great grandparents, they likely considered what's special about every object they interacted with.

That's not to say i don't think about, say, dishes. But if i break a dish, i'll just go buy another one. Our great grandparents probably thought a lot more deeply, and worried more about everyday objects, just because they were so much more expensive. They needed that local optimization. For, like, everything.
Thank you.

I do wonder what a small business process and product would look like if it was (a) made closer to the source of bottles, ie not offshore, and (b) not a garment but something else useful.

The garment industry is highly unscalable and labor intensive so it's probably out of the question for a first world startup. But maybe some other household article, like sandals or furniture.
I understand your perspective because I've been there but you can always start taking responsibility for codependence now by taking a hard look at how you place blame (regardless of your gender).

In most cases, both parties will contribute to the problem but someone needs to lead themselves and their partner out of the complementary neurosis and you do that by taking responsibility for your contribution then setting boundaries and working compassionately with the other person/people.

I don't even think it's people generally who are victims. I don't like victim mentality because it robs "the victim" of agency.
This would have made so much of my work so much faster
So I have never had this situation as the founder but did from the investor side, although I wasn't the lead -- I have also been with a startup that cancelled the term sheet from an investor. Just remember, a term sheet isn't generally a legal binding document, other than to say these are the terms we agree to and now we will work towards a final closing documents etc. Many founders use a term sheet as a tool from one investor/group to shop others to see if they can get a more favorable term sheet. If they can they may go back to the original group and ask if they would like to join the new term sheet as a non-lead.

Anyway, unless you have some non-standard term sheet, I do not think you have to worry so much as long as you are honest and up front. If you approach this properly it won't hurt you or your company, it is business not personal. Many, maybe most, investors would take a better deal in 3 seconds flat if they got one before the final docs were signed and money wired, founders have to remember that and look out for their company and their team. I have seen investors back out after docs are signed but before money is transferred. Could a startup sue them, sure, will they succeed? Probably not and it will waste a shit ton of resources and some investors have counted on that.

Just my 2 cents, but don't try to back out of a term sheet unless you already have a new one in place from someone else on more favorable terms. But also remember, the terms aren't the only factor, the quality and capabilities of the investor should also be considered closely. I'd take a lower valuation from a better investor who I know is more bought in on the success of the company than getting a slightly better valuation with an investor that doesn't have much to offer outside of cash and isn't as bought in.
WeWork presents itself as tech startup and is often presented that way. They are really more a real estate business, but in this context their self perception is the only relevant view
Facebook Restricts Free Speech by Popular Demand
Their front page seems weirdly aggro towards two of their largest potential markets, eco-minded people and surfers.
> But since We is a real business with real users and a successful one, We can't just coast on its cash.

We have a very different definition of what does it mean to be a successful business.
Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
Background:

35+, married, no kid but may have one this/next year.

Career wise, I'm not completely satisfactory with what I have now (Data analyst). Salary is OK but I prefer more technical work as talking to other people over and over is not my expertise and takes too much of my energy away. Plus the hours is demanding, usually 50 hours per week.

So here is the situation that keeps me from relaxation: I need to learn new skills to transfer to more technical positions, but I'm not sure which one so I kind of spent a lot of time learning skills superficially and never go deep enough to make an impact (on reality or on CV). This brings a lot of anxiety and I simply cannot enjoy a good session of games or watch some movies. Every time I try to play a game or watch a movie, the thought of "you should learn skills instead of wasting time" comes up and fucks up everything.

In summary, being anxious so that I do not have patience on my study or relaxation. I don't even play games anymore, just watch longplays.

I'm wondering how do you guys deal with these emotions?
Past experience says WeWork will end up bankrupt.

"This time it's different"
I think this is a side affect of no longer having long term careers with a single company. It's harder to build solid relationships when you move every couple of years and change companies. You just don't get to know people as well.
> Later, he becomes so enthralled by his vision that he excuses—and is excused for—all the wreckage around him. Sound familiar? Is Mark Zuckerberg—the brilliant young man who dreamed of connecting the world and instead made everyone isolated and angry—very different? Is Sergey Brin or Larry Page?

Hahaha! Oh my, what utter crap. Zuckerberg, when did he ever show a true conviction to some higher ethical standards? Where is the positive ingenuity in anything Zuckerberg created? Is there even one thing that man did, that has not turned out to be an abomination? Tell me, what that man did, that _positively_ influenced anything besides human greed and his own wallet. That comparison is the most laughable that I heard in a loong time.

Up to that point, I already had a feeling about the tone of the article, but this then finally shows, that the author does not even know what they are writing about. The article is rubbish.

If there is wreckage around Stallman, then it is caused by him expressing himself in ways, which people tend to misunderstand, although he argues quite mathematically, maybe it is especially, because he does so. He does not care about gender stuff. He cares about what is getting done. Today's socialization is _unfortunately_ in a way, that not _many_ women get into computer science. When he then states something about more men contributing code to some project, he is making a mathematical statement about numbers, not about a gender issue. Why are people unable to understand that? Here is a typical example of people not being able to understand him and his way of making a logical argument: https://youtu.be/eG4HrOpzQXY

I very much doubt, that Stallman is in general against women in tech or anything similar claimed in the article and have never seen him saying anything like that.
Seriously, what kind of crap about "female professors keeping plants, because Stallman does not like plants". Go to any office, where women work and check for plants. It is called socialization. We don't have to like it, but saying, that it does not exist, is certainly not going to help solving the issue.

Then we have the usual stupid writing going on about how the OS might be called "Linux", but Stallman wants it to be called "GNU/Linux". As if he was the only one person in the world wanting that. Download Linux and from the repositories and run your computer with that!
What is wrong with these people? Can't they acknowledge _years_ of work in his youth and later on, basically life, this man put into creating something, that now they rely on every single day of their comparatively unproductive lives? Can we stop being uninformed and call the OS the name of the kernel? Can we prevent uninformed authors from writing more articles about tech, so that technically correct terms can finally win over wrong usage and being uninformed and work done is finally given appropriate credit?

The ungratefulness some people show towards Stallman is just so unbelievable.

Well, should not have expected a fair account from magazines like Wired in the first place.
Because they decided to invest and never demanded oversight or questioned his voting power with each new term sheet they handed to him?

The point of the board is in part to keep the CEO in check. They had many opportunities to do so well before weeks before the now shelved IPO roadshow.
I'm not sure if any other employee in any other company could get away with something like that. Sounds like a clear conflict of interest to me. Same goes for some of Elon's and Tesla's business transactions, so. Sounds like an overall bad idea to me, just how SoftBank accepted any of it is beyond my imagination.

I'm all for letting founders cash out to a certain degree before an IPO, but 700M and the lease agreements? Bot sure if that was a good deal for investors.
Yes, FSF basically forked into its own not so free software movement, especially after some FSF people publicly joined the attack on Stallman. Old movement is dead, split, new movements are not going to be the same.
Answering Q1: MySQL over Postgres. Postgres has 2 critical things going against it
- The query optimizer is a mess
- It's implementation of secondary indexes is not cache friendly, so it can be slow
Just like how the fastest function is the function that is never executed, the most environmentally friendly discretionary purchase is the product never bought.
I would add to this that making lists like this is akin to reading an encyclopedic textbook front to back; theres no continuity or hydrating component that clarifies the deeper meanings implied. In fact, these lists are the scientific equivalent of motivational quotes people print on posters and then never look at again.

Mental models as I've always seen them are icebergs, unique to every person, closer in semantics (shape) for people who were trained similarly (via academia or apprenticeship), and wildly different for those who came to a model in a discipline from a completely different direction.

Used in lists like the one linked, we only see the tip of the iceberg, the written anchor that can be used by someone else who has a similar model. Otherwise we might as well hand this to a teacher in k-12 education and have them be as well off as rote-memorizing formula in place of learning what a subject is actually all about.

Mental models IMO should be formulated holistically, derived from examples, allowed to be explored so the value of the wisdom becomes apparent to the learner over multiple visitations. In this way we transfer and evolve the key insights across a large number of contexts rather than hand someone a page of ideas. The most common response to being handed a page like that is to say "cool, thanks", save it to the HDD, and never look at it more than once.
I find a comment like this to be underrated; it’s like a meta-analysis.
> Python 3 isn't exactly Perl 6 here.

For what it’s worth, Perl 6 can load Perl 5 libraries: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5
> This is the norm for the vast majority of private companies.

But they're trying to become a public company - that's the point.
Sure, that's easy: Your napkin math ignores the fact that the homeless already have significant costs, like shelters, ER visits, law enforcement, and the like.

The findings thus far from housing-first policies appear to indicate that subsidizing housing for chronically homeless reduces these costs dramatically; likely because some of them stem simply from being homeless, and others (like PTSD therapy) are easier to coordinate access to when you're not on the streets.

It's like the criticisms of Medicare for All that claim "oh, we'd have to raise taxes by $X" while ignoring the fact that the current system isn't free.

(Also, my reading of the Utah program is that the housing is substantially lower than the $4k/month you cite. Outside of NYC/SF sort of places, a studio apartment can be had for well under $800.)
It’s the same thing, you’re just replacing a human for the content. And the result is the same, this constant grasping, never a moment’s rest.
I will join the chorus of great work. I love it. It may even make some people more privacy conscious ( very few people read those -- usually the ones who wrote it ).
That's not the case. For private companies where the founder has the majority share, sure. But what's unusual with WeWork is how the founder has control despite not having a majority share.

As others mention, there are historical reasons why WeWork got this. But things like WeWork and Uber are going to be the new historical reasons why founders don't get that as much.
There's a similar plot in the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" (from an earlier season when it was still UK only).
She got lucky. My own wife experienced this, but it involved a half hour of rms nerdsplaining about how people were all sheep.

Basically, you dudes might find this all befuddling, but women who have encountered rms are not surprised.
interesting:
https://www.mongodb.com/jepsen

A lot of MongoDB users who wouldn't be considered a "joke" https://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb

Rather than listen to unqualified nonsense, they run tests. And gather facts to guide technology decisions.
and yes, I work for MongoDB - just before anyone starts whining about disclosure
You're welcome
So the bank robber type who gets caught after the perfect crime for picking up a penny from the floor or for having one last job too many?
> I'm ashamed to admit I was put off at first by the heavy Chicago accent,

As someone with a thick NYC accent it's gratifying to see someone else with a rough appearance and thick accent dish out some knowledge. I only watched the video for a few min and already I see tattoos and hear cursing. Most people would probably write this man off as unintelligent and of low class. I myself have had to mask my accent in some situations as I've been told it makes me sound "common". (fuck you) And although I don't have any tattoos, I know plenty of people who look down on them. I worked for a guy who forced employees with visible arm tattoos to wear long sleeve shirts. It's amazing how many so-called progressive people still espouse classist bigitroy.
"Another user pointed out that Chef isn’t the only company to profit from working with ICE. Microsoft has raked in $4.6 million, IBM has received $1.6 million, and CISCO has received about $500,000 through their work with ICE."

Those numbers seem very low. Is this just for one year or one contract?
MoviePass was an amazing product from the customer POV. Not a viable business though.
"blind to", maybe?

The thing is that people who fall for scams (and make no mistake, all of us can fall for a scam if presented with the right one) honestly don't think they're scams. They're being lied to.

The fault for this lies entirely on the shoulders of the criminal.
Fundamentally, it depends on the license. When this came up under Bush 43, the appeal was "the military is not allowed to use this!" and RMS and many others pointed out terms like this. This one is from the GPL v3 specifically:

> All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program.

Other licenses have similar clauses and a short list of requirements which must be met. Since the relevant groups, agencies, etc were (and presumably are) meeting the requirements, there's no grounds to revoke the license.

iirc, the Open Source Initiative stated that any claims/requirements limiting who could use the software or where they could use it would not meet the definition of "open source."
This article claims sea level rise has accelerated in the past 5 years but this is not what NASA data shows: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

We see a near constant rate of rise since 1993, with maybe even a slight slowdown since 2016.

One thing that's definitely accelerating is the hype around climate change.
I think it's OK for men to ask her out, unless those men have so much power over her that she might feel compelled to say yes for fear of negative consequences.
> "product"

They're a glorified landlord, not a product.
It doesn't appear this company will go public anytime soon, if ever. I give it 90 days before it collapses.
I actually use grep, although I whipped up a simple GUI front end for it.
Yes?

(Having a misanthropic moment here.)
Could you elaborate on this? What exactly LED bulb are you using, what is your exact current routine? 5 mins in the morning? The professional ones are very expensive, could you share your solution?
1. Depends. If you have a lot of update queries, MySQL wins [https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/]. MySQL also has better replication and sharding support at the moment.

2. PostgreSQL and MYSQL also sport JSON... JSON functions can be a little tricky. Still, they work.

3. Depends on the structure of your XML. Might even possible to use RegEx to achieve this objective. XML to JSON is easier though. That can be saved in JSON fields in a DB.

4. You can build a custom file based on anything. The only catch, the SQLite client will only read a valid SQLite file. As such, you have to know what you're doing.

[Edit] Formating
> I wonder why though?

Might be another aspect to gather more information for the ongoing research into the variability hypothesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
He may wind up dragged behind the horse into the sunset, though.
Google has 3 share classes as well and the founders control more than 50% of the voting power.
> Paying 200-300/month for 100TB of data transfer

FWIW most providers can easily beat that. OVH in Canada offers good quality unmetered Gbit at below 100/mo with the hardware included.
My house. My bicycle. My banjo.
> Preferred shares existed before Facebook, and it may not the be norm, but there's a reason we no longer see the hostile takeovers from the 80's.

That has nothing to do with preferred shares. Most of public companies adopted poison pills aka shareholder right protection plans which work along the lines of this:

1. If someone acquires a certain percentage of company shares without board of directors agreeing to it, then the company automatically issues a very large number (2x to 3x) of shares and allows shareholders of record of a certain past date before the hostile party launched the acquisition to obtain newly issued shares at a discount.

2. Board members have staggered terms so the acquiring party cannot replace more than a small percentage of board members thereby preventing the one's ability to flood the board one's supporters

It used to be that preferred shares were a special class of equity that paid higher dividends. The funny part is that tech companies tend not to pay any dividends what so ever and now with the special classes of shares that have nearly no voting rights ( compared to the 'preferred shares' that are controlled by the insiders ) the same companies make a virtual mockery out of the concept of a "public company". Facebook is not a public company in any sense other than the name -- it is Mark's personal piggybank that he shares with a few insiders with the crums off the table being given to the people whom he used to call "stupid".
I dont know whether what i heard refers to this specific incident, but i remember hearing about RMS asking someone out on a date, and after a rejection, he threatened to kill himself if she won’t go out with him [0].

And that’s not mentioning his infamous mattress in the office and how he propositioned to many of the female visitors to lay down on it topless [1] (i realize that i am citing reddit comments, but the OP seems pretty credible). This would be a problematic behavior for virtually anyone, but moreso for a public figure at a prestigious university.

0. https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d59r46/comment...
Taking the Train from Thessaloniki to Sofia
The third sentence doesn't follow.

The wife doesn't have to like his friends, just respect him enough to allow him scope to choose who he associates with: That's surely the majority situation?
The point of the thread is that Apple describes all of the circumstances under which phones they sell directly are supposed to be unlocked immediately. The poster’s situation met that criteria, and the phone was still locked.
I don't OCR, I buy the books in electronic form. I convert them to both text and PDF files. I grep to find the book(s) that have what I'm looking for, and search individual books using the PDF reader.
IKEA is investing $2.8B in renewable energy infrastructure
If so, I misread it. But going back I still can't see that interpretation.

> The lofty goal of the startup was to "cure loneliness" but I never told the users that.

And then he talks about building features for users to take their conversations offline. I mean maybe it was all for himself, but it seems like the goal was to get users to build long-lasting relationships.

Which is commendable, and I commend him for it. It sounds like an awesome project.
>Because to me it sounds like a statement about human motivation patterns

Lol. I think you need to look up what the study of economics is.
From the customer's POV, selling dollar bills for fifty cents each is also a high-quality product.
Change requests, options to
* make blinking nodes
* invert tree

Then we’ll have a Christmas tree generator :)