skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that a misrepresentation?

I mean, I'm not familiar with that story, just they linked [this tweet](https://twitter.com/corbett/status/994012399656042496) which says:

> My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire conversation. Christine, yes, no thanks.
The lack of centering is itching my ocd.
Definitely. A lot of people in these threads seem stuck when they aren't actually stuck. Not particularly surprising since that's all people all the time at least somewhere in their lives. But always worth reminding people that they have agency. Decent first stop if you are in patterns with your mate that make them out to be the enemy would be the book Crucial Conversations. A better first step would be therapy for yourself, followed by couples therapy. It's achievable to have a relationship where "I want X, how can we make this happen together?" is not a fraught conversation. Maybe the answer is an easy yes. Maybe the answer is that you need to bargain, offering something to get something. Maybe the answer is that your one friend is a jerk, but your other friend would be a welcome and hilarious guest. But nothing in that conversation should be scary if you put in a little bit of work on yourself and your relationship.
I think genetics also has a hand here. Rarely do I see people live up to this age and even walk properly.
I hope with you, but I doubt. There was nothing keeping new leaders from emerging before. Stallman never struck me as particularly jealous, just particular. We might just be witnessing the retirement of the only person with the single-mindedness and influence to keep the thing going.
It's an amazing format, but has a giant player needed. You're downloading a mathematica player.
Adam has the votes, but not the cash. Softbank has the cash, but not the votes. Arrangements can be made.

Ironically, that's a problem for Adam precisely because We is not Theranos. Holmes had the votes and the cash, which hadn't been spent yet since Theranos wasn't a real business, and she could (and did) just coast for years on what was already in the bank without any need to go to any investors or banks or third parties (who would of course have demanded her ouster as step 1). But since We is a real business with real users and a successful one, We can't just coast on its cash (even if it stopped expansion).
NASA has social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter, etc. Not sure what they're missing other than Elon Musk's promoting skills.
Oh my god thank you so much for doing this !

I think its better (for me as a user) if you don't boil things down to a score as different people expect different things when talking privacy. It would help if you could simply highlight the potential problematic clauses in different privacy statements along with some reason why it might be problematic.
They rent office space.
I would have liked to see a spin-off show about Nog's years at Starfleet Academy. There could have been so much comedic and dramatic potential as the first Ferengi in the Academy.

Aron and I had the same birthday so I would wish him happy birthday each year when he announced his birthday on Twitter. He would always reciprocate kindly. :) He mentioned that he had pushed for a continuation of Nog's storyline like my suggestion, but it never got traction..

DS9 is my favorite Star Trek because of the diverse cast of characters like Nog and the focus of the characters' stories in the larger story arcs.
Help me understand how this is a coherent argument. I could see making the argument that investors share some of the blame for what the CEO did. How could they have more of the blame?
Not exactly — we Russians are also doing our Russian meddling for the good of all people involved (especially back in Soviet times). Why anybody would do that for evil? /s
For an interview take-home I was asked to slice and dice a voter donation database to find analytics ranging from simple top lists to counts/lists of people who were most likely to donate again (following a given formula). Many of those potential recurring donors were people like this, who had given once and whose other (publicly available) political metrics indicated they were a strong match for donating again if matched.

I'm registered independent, but donated to my first political candidate (ever) recently, and experienced this same hounding, to the point that I ended up blocking/banning/giving fake info just to keep them off my notification screen every day.
I figure these people dont even bother filtering like the work I did above, as I had never once received solicitation for donation before. Now I'm bracing for the inevitable deluge of similar hounding from other candidates in coming years.

I dont give my real address, i use email labels for filtering and have leaf accounts in a forwarding network of emails specifically for crap like this.

I can only wonder how its going to work if the current political campaign "best practices" alienate a large slice of voters just because the current most-active slice is susceptible to that kind of manipulation.
That's a personal question that you can't really answer until you're at that point.

But I don't think that has much effect on the marriage itself. If that is how it ends, then the marriage truly did last "forever" in a way :)
In order of personal preference:

1) The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, by Randall Stross

2) The Founder's Dilemmas, by Noam Wasserman

3) The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz

4) Zero to One: Notes on Startups, by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

5) Venture Deals, by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (I haven't read, but heard good things about it)

ps: title is missing "ASK HN".
This is what USPS tried to solve with the ZIP+4 mechanism. ZIP codes, as is widely known, are almost always at least a semi-large grouping of streets (excluding custom-assigned ZIP codes for a building that gets a lot of mail and other non-standard codes).

Adding four digits on the end for a "standardized address" means that a specific block and, often, a subset of numbers on that block, can be identified. For example, ZIP code 90210 covers the bulk of Beverly Hills, California but 90210-5317 narrows it down to just the odd numbers of the 200 block of South Beverly Drive or, according to the USPS database, a maximum possibility of 23 delivery addresses (because not all of the numbers in that block block are assigned).
When you use those cheap overseas web developers, double-down on Testing
Nobody expects the Inquisition.
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.
> America had declared its independence years before his betrayal,

That's not enough to make it a "country" in practice any more than joining a startup makes someone a company man. America isn't some mythic entity that sprung out of the head of Zeus with devoted followers.

> Sure he joined the revolution, but not everyone who joined the American Revolution was aligned with its goals.

Given the disparity and ignorance between the population about independence, it's very likely the philosophical derivations were innumerable but aligned somewhere along "for it", "against it", "indifferent while it still suits me". This is basically the plot for The Patriot - ie it would follow that if the Americans had won a battle and executed wounded British soldiers, then conscripted/shot his sons, the protagonist's motivations would be the same for the opposing side he ended up on.
There is a huge pipeline problem.

The only articles I've read claiming there isn't one have all been click bait pieces written by journos, not scientists or educators, and contain no data. Just wild ass speculation about the underlying causes of the pipeline problem.

Which, yeah. The pipeline problem has lots of causes. But saying "we don't have a pipeline problem because there are reasons women don't major in CS" makes no sebse. It's like saying the roof doesn't have a leaking problem because the real problem is that the gutters are clogged. I mean, sure, that's true, and we need to fix that to fix the roof. But the roof is still leaking...

The only real argument I've heard that isn't prime facie flawed in this way is the argument that you don't really need college educated computer scientists to fill your SWE roles. That may be true for some roles and some companies, but lots of positions (e.g. all the ones I hire for) do require a strong education in CS and math. PhDs in STEM fields that go on to good boot camps or masters programs in CS can be good fits, but those are even more rare.

And, again, even that argument has no data to back it in the articles I've read. It's just not prime facia illogical.
>All of this still leaves us with our original question: Are absences fundamental in perception?

If my memory doesn’t cheat on me, this question is long answered. Expectations are fundamental in our perception. We (and advanced animals) ignore/stay calm at expected and react to unexpected. I read a book of Vladimir Levi (russian poppsy author, iirc) where he described an experiment with a sleeping cat. It was disturbed by knocks at regular intervals, but then fell asleep according to neural activity, since no threat was posed. After some time knocking suddenly stopped and the cat woke immediately. Even in a sleep its brain expected the sound and when expectations failed, it ringed an alarm.

It is really hard to justify this sort of philosophy which cannot even do its homework.
Maybe, might also be the first casualty
Hello!

http://www.privacyparrot.com/

Made a similar project many moons ago and is still kicking along. Thanks all on HN for the feedback.
My suspicion is that people who think they are gluten intolerant have been eating too much of products with grains. Reduce the grains and the resulting glucose in their system will reduce sufficiently to eliminate the inflammation issues they were having.
Recently I became interested in DiY audio gear and I spent a lot of spare time on Rod Elliott's ESP audio pages.
One project is https://sound-au.com/project07.htm, a discrete op amp project. It's been awhile since uni days so I bought a bunch of pnp and npn bjt transistors from digikey and spent a few days at my bench tinkering with the circuit. different gains, miller caps to set stability and bandwidth, how input and output impedance affect gains, etc. Very satisfying seeing your little mess of transistors come to life and amplify a signal as designed.

One thing it taught me was how the different sub circuits come together to make a power or operational amplifier. Long tail pair aka differential amplifier, current mirrors, current sources, Vbe multiplier, class A stages, Class AB stages, etc. Another great article which builds on it is https://sound-au.com/amp_design.htm. This is where you get to see how these building blocks come together. This basic topology is present in most amps be they little op amp chips or big beefy audio power amps: input -> diff amp -> class A gain -> class AB buffer -> output.

Interesting to learn that there isn't much difference between a little TL071 and my Rod Elliott P3A.
Only for a very shitty definition of poverty. This form of exploitation stands in the way of the quality of life growth that should follow industrialization and automation—the “decline” you see is artificially stunted and primarily concentrated in already rich nations.
looks like it's the same as singapore then. i don't think singapore even has buildings with less than 25 units :-)
WeWork is a useful product. Office real estate is broken for startups. Landlords make us take 5-10 year leases when startup planning horizons are almost never longer than 18 months. WeWork earning 30-40% margins by allowing us to take shorter terms that better fit our needs. Should be a good business.
I agree the effect is not entirely the same but it's definitely not completely different.
Uh, it’s certainly not appropriate to ask someone you’ve just met at a technical conference to go on a date with you.
how powerful is this LED?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870908/
seems to suggest you need several watts..
"snouf and colleagues reported that only 34% of an 850 nm continuous light source at 100 mW could penetrate 0.784 mm of human skin. Approximately 89% of 820 nm light will penetrate 0.4 mm of epidermis (Kolari, 1985) and about 13.5% traverses 2 mm of skin (Henderson and Morries, 2015a). Our laboratory research shows considerably less penetration by low level NIR. We found energy from a 50 mW 810 nm LED did not penetrate 2 mm of human or sheep skin (Henderson and Morries, 2015a). Similarly, no energy could be detected penetrating either human skin or sheep skin from a 200 mW LED (650 + 880 nm). Using higher energy devices, we found 9% of the energy from the 10 W combined 810/980 nm continuous wave infrared laser passed through 2 mm of skin (human or sheep)."
Can anyone pls tell me if there are any other tools out there to increase performance of pandas?
I wish a company going public could only release one class of shares. One vote per share.
Political activism in KDE
This is basically what a brain is, right?
Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that long running transactions were the only cause, but I believe I remember.

I just need to go back and read the conversation on the pg-general list, it was very good in that it did discuss that some of the issues mentioned by Uber were real. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/579795DF.10502%40comma... and perhaps some other blogs from around the time this was being discussed.
Is there a Galera-equivalent system available of Postgres? I.e., multi-master replication.

I know of BDR, but that doesn't seem to be publicly available for recent versions of Pg?
The issue is if the global economy downturns fewer people want to rent short term, WeWork is still committed to paying the long term lease costs.
Once you shake the sugar habit, you will feel so much better that you will have no desire to return to it.
Kind of gross for a guy in his 40s to be asking out a 19-year-old freshman at the university he's a professor at, isn't it? And in the first minute of their first conversation, and with no interest in her other than that.

Also I'd say she wasn't complaining, or trying to condemn him. The facts kind of speak for themselves though--this is not a guy who makes women feel welcome.
Does that justify the snide remarks? We should show more tolerance, there might not be a tool in existence that does not have its disadvantages along with its advantages. Healthy discussion around facts is beneficial, dismissing people for being passionate is not.
Certainly now tech is finally free to be inclusive. I look forward to the wonderful surge of commits from people who didn’t feel welcome enough to send in their code.

Has Freeer Software Foundation been started yet?
Do their products leach microplastics into the environment when washed?
For bonus points, mirror the traffic off to a zeek to get even more than the ubiquiti DPI
The United States had its own government, the Continental Congress, and declared its independence in 1776. It was very much a country, albeit an embattled one.

The population wasn't ignorant about the implications of going to war with the world's largest empire. Many of them were veterans of the French-Indian war.
"The GFD continues to trend in popular culture and the media, and more people are restricting gluten from their diet. The medical community must seek to provide an evidence-based approach delineating both the benefits and potential harms of a GFD. Although convincing evidence is available to support the benefits of a GFD for certain patient populations without a gluten-related disease (especially patients with IBS and NCGS), the data are conflicting and not definitive. It appears that most individuals who participate in a GFD do not have a physiologic requirement for the diet and likely do not derive substantial benefit. Existing evidence for potential harms of a GFD include possible nutritional deficiencies, financial costs, and negative psychosocial implications. As with other dietary interventions, a GFD is a rapidly evolving topic, and additional insight is needed to guide a complete discussion between patients considering a GFD and their health care providers."
This was actually one of the ideas to evolve the project! Another one is making an app that protects your digital privacy from these threats, kinda like an antivirus but for privacy threats instead of viruses (https://useguard.com/blog/future/) Would love to hear feedback on what should this project become next :)
For those interested in stories about stuff like this:
Malagash by Joey Comeau.

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough. Devastated doesn’t fix anything. Sunday has a plan.

She’s started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She’s recording every single “I love you” right alongside every “Could we turn the heat up in here?” It’s all important.

Because Sunday is writing a computer virus. A computer virus that will live secretly on the hard drives of millions of people all over the world. A computer virus that will think her father’s thoughts and say her father’s words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesn’t have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever.
If you declare your company has a billion shares and I buy 1 for $1 then you have a valuation of... one BILLION dollars.

If I later buy 1 share for $2 then your valuation has doubled. That is basically SoftBank’s business model.
No offense, but you’ve clearly never talked to a conservative to ask them why they support policies good for business. It has nothing to do with being afraid of rich people.
Aron was quite active on Twitter. I never realized he was born with one kidney and had two transplants.

I believe he was working on a film that hasn't been completed yet. And he and Cirroc Lofton (DS9 "Jake Sisko") had a podcast The 7th Rule (as in Ferengi rules of acquisition).
It's also losing money because the CEO is converting it to personal wealth.
I think it's pretty obvious that US propaganda and censorship machine pushed into tech at full force in the last couple of years, with all the manufacturing consent at all levels. When they forced codes of conduct, inquisition was already kind of expected.
A sufficiently non-specific question asked by a greenhorn 22yo does not
warrant the rigor you imply. Any answer except "you'll figure it out over
time" is handwaving.
HN has a lot of smart people. People don't like being fact checked, especially when they believe they discovered something significant until experts show it was a basic misunderstanding.
"Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program."

Is the above comment in the glibc manual something to be upset about? I don't understand why.
The old (ran on XP) SMART Board software just had a "hyperlink" that said "expand page" that just added a bit onto the end of the page.

Seems like a rather easy (I think) way of doing it.
What commits did Stallman make after gcc and emacs? He was a pontificating creep and mothing more for decades. The software world will be better off with people in charge who don't endorse politically absolutist creeds or are so socially maladjusted that they make every woman in a ten feet radius uncomfortable. We don't need people who think defending child abusers or pedophilia is appropriate in this community.The only scandal about this is that he wasn't ousted fifteen years ago.
What part, in your opinion, isn’t covered by the first amendment?
Ask HN: What are some purchases that increased the quality of your life?
Why not? It's a bit direct and perhaps odd and unexpected, but also polite, possibly flattering, and a very decent way of taking a chance on getting to know someone who you will likely not meet again unless you take action, better. If the response to the rejection of that offer is polite and professional, then how is this inappropriate?
No, UBI is paying for people who already work and receive nothing. We’re not “paying either way”.
Stoic, Mental Health Tracker
I don’t think this tracks. I mean, the American Government is also part of the human race. Because we object to one part of the human race should we refuse to deal with any of it?

Humans have to make moral choices about where they personally draw the line and where they draw the boundary. Around the organisation that falsely imprisons Americans and runs concentration camps seems like a starting point.
> Decent first stop if you are in patterns with your mate that make them out to be the enemy would be the book Crucial Conversations.

It is not necessarily a case of the husband considering his wife the enemy. It may well be that the husband is content enough with his marriage and parenthood that he simply accepts the wife’s dislike of having his friends over and other obstacles to socializing. Rather, the group that suffers from this circumstance is his former friends.

If you remain single, a noticeable part of the gradual loss of old friends in adulthood – as mentioned by others in this discussion – is your longtime friends getting married and then no longer being unable to maintain the friendship from their end. Obviously you cannot dictate to your friend and your friend’s spouse, and the onus is on you to look elsewhere for other sources of a social life, but it is natural to mourn the loss of a longtime friendship.
Huh... I read the CSAIL email thread, and it seems like RMS was discussing distinctions between forcible acts, statutory acts, and coercion by a third party (e.g. Epstein being, in essence, a human-trafficking pimp...).

RMS seemed to be arguing for clear description instead of jumping to "everything is child rape".

I don't know exactly where RMS is coming from, but, knowing victims of forcible and child sexual assault, I think it's still worth maintaining descriptive, moral, and legal distinctions...
Their legal team is vicious about taking down any open-source implementation of the W3W encoding algorithm. This is sad because it could be legitimately useful in a small handful of circumstances, but only if it were free and open to all.

We released WhatFreeWords last week and it was taken down after 4 days.

It is back up now at https://whatfreewords.org/ but who knows for how long.

You can read their DMCA notice to our previous hosting at https://whatfreewords.org/download/dmca-20190917.pdf
In fact, you realize that the only joy in life is converting others to sugarlessness.
Abstracting Light Switches: How to Solve Real Problems
Short term rentals are an inferior good. An economic downturn could lead to more business for them
I was thinking more about something at the same level as TCP/IP.
It's really hard to see where their killer position is.

If the focus is getting a lot of people into an office for a long time, then it will eventually be cheaper for those people to rent their own.

If focus is on short term individuals, then they can just switch to whichever competitor comes along with a newer office and a more enticing introductory rate.

Maybe main advantage is that they're flexible. If you need 20 people sitting together in a random city, for 6 months, starting end of the month - well they can do this, but so can all manner of other managed office providers.

Other 'unicorns' such as Uber and Lyft can compete based upon which app you open first, how many drivers they can put near you - We has to compete by making great big office buildings appear.