skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been drinking coffee everyday for practically 7 years. I've stopped it at times but most recently i stopped to deal with some stomach acid issues. Quitting definitely helped with that but an unintentional side effect was my libido. Pardon the bedroom talk, but the number of erections i randomly got each day was increased by a drastic number.

When i started drinking coffee again after quitting for like 3 weeks, i instantly felt anxiety when i drank it again and a decrease in libido.

I'm honestly considering quitting for good and potentially switching to tea
This is basically the world as imagined in Wall-E, just minus the spaceship and a few extra steps.
Why does this general pattern exist across such wide swathes of society?
This sounds at best correlation not causation (and the correlation is pretty weak too). I didn't see any causal effect.

My instinct tells me that walkability is a consequence of the actual cause, which is probably higher property values in denser cities, meaning better schools, or something to that effect.
Wouldn't this only be true if money can't be created? Although you may not be able to get access to a certain person's wealth you can make your own wealth by say starting a business or working hard at your job (assuming that the markets are actually working properly)
For Google, that's entry level (L3). L4 (between fresh graduate and senior) makes $250k TC.

L4 is ~2 years out of school.
But airbus has had that design philosophy since inception. The joke is a Boeing will tell you it thinks an engine has failed and ask if you want to shutdown, an airbus will tell you it thinks an engine has failed and will shutdown the engine for you. Which approach is correct? Depends on the situation but pilots will debate this everyday like emacs and vi

I think MCAS represents a change for Boeing where it will start doing things without asking.
It’s true. And with the newer multicore Pi’s, you could probably get similar results just by pinning a thread to one core and dedicating that core to managing your IO. There are a million ways to solve any problem.

Perhaps the single biggest advantage of the DMA solution for something like pi-scope is that it means people who want to use the pi as a scope need only download a piece of software: no soldering or flashing of MCUs required. The initial setup is more beginner-friendly, with the drawback that contributing might be more intimidating because the software is doing more complex work.
2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
I have a cellphone in my pocket just like almost everyone else in the US. Our ticketing and notification systems are scheduled based so on call people do not have to pas around anything. If the schedule says you’re on call then you will get “paged” if an incident with a high priority comes into our queue.
> In nearly every case it’s for the same reason we regulate taxis, which is that we tried not regulating it and were unhappy with the outcomes.

Ironically, here in Phoenix, they used to regulate taxis but now they don't since those rules were too much for Uber/Lyft to legally comply with.

They didn't regulate supply like the other cities but the cabs would have to get a sticker from Weights & Measures once a year that ensured they complied with things like proper insurance, the meter operated correctly, prices were clearly marked on the outside, &etc... Also had on the road spot checks by Weights & Measures and passengers had a phone number to call if there was some sketchiness going on with their rides.

Once the Weights & Measures started hunting the Uber/Lyft "illegal livery service vehicles" the laws changed so now there's no longer anyone ensuring the cabs uphold even a minimum standard -- though, honestly, 99.9% of the iffy cabs were squeezed out of the market since they simply can't compete with SV billionaires trying to put them out of business.

These days the cabs you see running around the Phoenix area are mostly just hauling people to/from doctors appointments through insurance company accounts.
Absolutely not. If they don't spend it, they're almost certainly going to invest it, and most of the time (broadly speaking) they will get some amount of positive return on it. That's quite a long way from it "not existing".

I'm not arguing that there's anything wrong with incentivizing investment this way, or that there are not risks to such investments, but I do think it's worth pointing out that effectively this is a case of "being paid for being rich", and the richer one is the more one gets paid.
For salary sure, but it is 345 total comp and the stock is pretty much as good as cash considering it'll vest monthly and you can set it up to immediately autosell converting it to cash.
There are many ways to prevent starvation without heavily subsidizing animal agriculture.
But HN is updated minute-by-minute. It's up to date. The guy moaning in on the Apple listserv said he hasn't touched his Windows app since 2000.
The NYT is such garbage these days. Some speculators lost money to other speculators. That's how speculation works. Nobody is being 'preyed' upon. This article is unbelievably disingenuous.
> I believe it's more effective in modern society to influence people through disinformation campaigns and popular culture, particularly though social media, than attempt to control them like puppets by secretly dosing them with LSD and barbiturates.

I agree. What's interesting about LSD though is that it can provide extremely useful insight into the underlying nature of beliefs, or how an individual came to believe certain things, or why they feel a certain way. Knowing more of these details seems like it would be extremely useful in the development of propaganda campaigns.
If you want me to look up the actual numbers, I can, but are you really suggesting that there isn't a single immigrant company owner in the US?
This article, as well as many others about the industry, have pointed out that the collapse was not due to so-called "ride sharing" companies. I think one analysis said that was less than 50% of what caused the crash. This article, and others, state that the crash would have happened regardless. One of the pieces of evidence is the massive runup of medallion values. It was a classic bubble that was not supported by fundamentals.
As a Brit watching this video, i had to stop and google a couple of Americanisms:

"unpolarized cord" - good god, you mean you can plug most American appliances in either way round, and so random parts of them will be live? This is the worst country on earth!

"toaster strudels" - correction, this is the greatest country on earth.
It is a good argument. It sounds reasonable. But having 'reasonable rules' is a vague statement. It is something akin to me saying in a corporate meeting 'it is all about balance'.It is and it conveniently can be applied to anything.

For the record, I personally dislike German approach despite understanding its genesis.

I can't really speak for aerospace rules, but I am not certain they say that much about speech.

edit. I just remembered. Internet has all manner of rather dangerous information out there. Materials may be highly difficult to procure, but knowledge is still at your fingertips.
Sorry for being vague.

With our bylaws and RRO, the order endorsements are considered is critical, and arbitrary. Lots of hurt feelings.

Now we suspend the rules, consider all endorsements en masse (voice vote, tabulated if needed), which stack ranks the order, then resume RRO. Resulting in the endorsements with the greatest support being considered first.

FWIW, I proposed this change based on my workplace voting experiments. Such as using approval voting for triage to expedite determining priority. I'm very excited to read crazygringo's links above, gleen other useful ideas.

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Wow, what a sad state of affairs. Being a geeky band kid myself and drum major growing up, what can ex-marching band kids around the nation do to stop the scourge of this power-tripping athletic coach?! Just as at my high school, it looks like the football team itself hasn't won a championship in years. When the team sucks go ahead and blame the band, because you're not busy building a winning team. Go figure!
It sounds like you are just airing your general grievances about Gtk2 and Qt4. The fact is, you claimed X11 with Gtk/Qt wasn't "sane", because sane platforms like win32 "will still remain around even if it wont get updates as doing otherwise". Gtk2 and Qt4 are still around and up-to-date packages are available for all major distros.

And your last paragraph sounds like you don't really know what you want. Do you want old applications to run exactly as is (which is solved by bundled dependencies), or do you want their developers to update them forever for decades and decades (which is solved by abandoning old toolkits)?

Finally, none of this even touches the fact that your "sane" win32 platform has incompatibilities too and there are many, many old win32 apps that doesn't run in modern versions of Windows.
Very neat design, but there are highly advanced toasters nowadays. There just doesn‘t seem a market for them in the West (yet?).

Bloomberg recently covered high-end Japanese toasters:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/this-japa...
Because I'm already familiar with the Guinea worm, I understood the headline perfectly.

I don't think it's fair to criticize a publication for failing to provide 100% of context in a headline.
This whole thing fails to account for the fact that on every subsequent round of funding, your percent ownership goes down. Even if the company is doing well, at the next round of funding, you'll pretty much be reset to the original value if you're lucky. If you're very lucky your options might be worth more.

VCs have gotten too good at extracting value from a company. In this day and age, I consider startup options to be worth $0.

If I'm looking at a startup, it's because I am either super excited about their idea, or super excited about having a lot more responsibility/learning opportunities than at an established company.

Those are the factors I'm valuing in my head vs. the actual dollar opportunity cost.
Isn't it kind of a tautology that rich people own more of society? I mean they're rich, by definition they own more than most people. If they didn't they wouldn't be rich. And why can't poor people invest? Unless they are being banned from investing because they are poor shouldn't we be working to make the poor wealthier so they can invest instead of dragging down the rich?
I started using macOS in 2007 and I've learned the hard way it's not a good idea to update to a major version right away. These days I usually wait about a year before installing a new major version. I barely installed Mojave the other day.
"SF urban experience" charge now I've heard it all
Yeah whenever I cut it out for 2+ days I notice less twitchy neuroticism, more relaxed. Skin feels less dry. Teeth get whiter within a week. Sleep after 2+ days off is higher quality and more consistent.

I just love getting that morning cortado to "get in the zone". It really is hard to stop, not in a chemical sense but in a habitual/ritualistic sense.
I didn't know this existed! Thank you!
This is the cited paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0663-9?utm_source...
Eroi is a red herring. The question should be energy returned on manual labor.
To quote the study, the walkscore.com data is "the earning records from all American citizens born between 1980 and 1982 whose parents filed taxes." Your use of the number 382 seems to be rhetorical implying that the sample isn't large enough. Moreover, your use of "buy/beg" verges on a predicative sort of ad hominem. Your criticism are totally valid, but you missed the most egregious flaw: "[O]ur analyses treat walkability and access to public transportation as interchangeable."
> That couch business wasted both your time AND the sales rep's time. Who does it help to not post prices?

Because there isn't a price to show.

The missing detail I left out in the original comment is that the sale rep also said "We have hundreds of fabric and color options available, and we can accomodate any configuration."

Sure, I guess they could post prices for the models sitting on the floor, but that price would only be for that exact configuration. The point is, the sale person wants to spend 1-2 hours working with the customer to determine their fabric preferences, then color preferences, then configuration / shape of the couch. The store does not cater to people who want the ability to walk in, point to something and say "I want that, how much?" - those people are not their customers.

> For B2B, sure, you can't give an exact quote until you figure out the custom logic

In the couch example, it's the same, exact "custom logic" is instead fabric, color, configuration, pull out vs. no pull out, ottoman vs no ottoman, etc.

(For the record, I hate non-transparent pricing as much as anyone. Heap is an example that has been on my mind lately since we're looking at analytics solutions at our company: https://heap.io/pricing - it's impossible to infer the "contact us" pricing, since the only other plan they have is "Free" -- we're on their "Startup" plan for $499/mo, and I have no idea if we're being ripped off, or if that's what everyone else is paying too...)
Agreed, I didn't want to convey that it's not verbose, either :-)
> progressive income tax

European countries have this.
Could you classify anything higher as mathematics?

In that sense, theoretical computer science would be a sort of "applied" mathematics
I think the cost will decline rapidly while the quality (in general and in how closely it resembles real meat) will increase. Even if people prefer to eat animal flesh the economics will drive mass consumption to faux-meat, IMO.

> there is also still the general problem with all processed foods being less healthy than naturally grown foods...

Yer preachin' to the choir: I'll never eat these franken-burgers for love nor money.
The Bhagavad Gita is a bit like Moby Dick in that it is abstract enough that everyone projects their own interpretation onto it, filtered through their own experiences. However, because it is a religious text, people have been fighting over the meaning for millenia, often to justify or motivate one political stance or another, no doubt because motivating the protagonist to political action of physical battle is itself the most concrete reading of the Bhagavad Gita's meaning.

But the Gita is just one highly contested chapter of the larger, arguably more interesting epic, the Mahabharata, which is the story of war and conflict spanning generations of an extended clan of warriors.

The Mahabharata is a treasure trove of the complex sociology of ancient South Asia, and quite unlike the Gita, it's content is largely non-judgemental and mostly secular.

In some traditional families, they actually prefer not to keep a copy of Mahabharata in the home per the superstition that it will engender conflict in the family, instead preferring "thou shalt" texts like the Bhagavad Gita, or Ramayana.
Who cares what the precise political ideology is? It's the same human characteristic.
NP?
Though I agree with the general analysis, one important point anyone joining a startup should consider is exercise windows. Obviously if the company is worthless this doesn't matter, and if it's a rocketship you'd probably want to stay around anyway, but if it's somewhere in the middle and you're stuck with a three month exercise window it's a really hard decision to leave.
You don't need to. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but... The classic toaster sensed the temperature of the toast, and stopped when it was done. My family had one of these, and it was quite predictable. We never had to change the setting, and it handled a variety of kinds of bread.

Today's toasters, at least the cheaper ones, seem to be based solely on time, and so it's unknowable how a particular kind of bread will behave. You have to watch it and be prepared to stop it early.

Bagels were a problem if the hole lined up with the sensor. I don't think store-bought bagels were a thing in our area until long after the toaster was made.
Firebird (https://www.firebirdsql.org) can essentially work that way. It comes with two versions of the client library. One of them runs the database engine in-process (embedded mode), similar to SQLite. Later you can switch over to a separate server process, like with PostgreSQL. Though both those two set the bar pretty high, Firebird is a solid RDBMS that’s been around for a long time, with a well-balanced feature set (including strict data typing).
PCA has speed and interpretability on its side but also the ability to easily add new points (UMAP has a quick fix to do so but its a hack) and go back and forth between the original space and the compressed space making it usable on a wide range of use cases.
You don't have to explicitly mark things as strong as it's the default. Having to manually break references cycles with weak pointers does make the migration not as simple as just changing the compiler flags, but I've never heard of it being all that difficult. Apple managed to migrate Xcode in a single version.
Can you explain "on every subsequent round of funding, your percent ownership goes down" ? Maybe a naive question. But if you are given say 50% of a company, how can your percentage of ownership decrease if someone funds it ? What's the mechanism for this ?
I’ve always read that binary systems seem to be the norm and stars like our Sun the exception. Is it possible stars like our Sun form from binary protostars that form too close together and collide to form a single star? Or do we have plentiful examples of single protostars?
Comment of the day right here!
I visited Hamamatsu Co in a professional setting in 2004 and was very impressed. Their attention to detail was second to none and what we needed at the time.

We were building brand new optical sensors for robots and they had lots of experience in the area. They walked through our specs and needs and found the right part and helped us integrated. It was white glove service all the way.

That definitely comes at a cost. When you are prototyping, that cost is expected. If you cross into the millions of units, I can understand how their approach and offering doesn't scale well.

Hard to match the other Asian mfgs when numbers are huge.
They might of updated there TOS but nothing has changed, you can still sideload everything just as normal, all that is different is a message at the top saying illicit mods and privacy are against TOS.

I too bought the quest when custom songs became a thing, but found i didn't really like beat saber and perfered BoxVR instead, I don't mind the songs in BoxVR, I only wanted custom songs in Beat Saber because the original songs are cancer but most customs don't flow that well.
Friendly reminder that, like all known religions, Hinduism fails to fit evidence & loses substantially on Occam's razor. It was most likely a means to preserve social order as society scaled up beyond small tribes. As someone who has deeply studied many of the Hindu religious scriptures when I used to believed in them, I'd say that one should look elsewhere for meaning and guidance and not take books like the Bhagavad Gita seriously at all.
That was LA.
The DB frontend is very useful for metadata, short descriptions, and finding duplicates.

I run a headless version of Calibre in the cloud, so I can read in the browser and do other stuff.
This is great! I dropped out of school after my sophomore year, and got an ACM membership and spent a lot of time reading papers from the digital library there.

This is a wonderful resources for me, to see where the blanks in my knowledge of the field are.
>For every warning statement on animal CO2 use, I can find a seemingly well done study on positive CO2 capture by regenerative farms (i.e. traditional farms before feed lots).

It looks like you are actively looking for data that makes you feel good about your habits and suspending critical thinking. The amount of evidence for the negative impact of the animal industry on the environment is staggering.
TBH the exercise windows should disappear. The 10y lifetime of VC funds is plenty enough incentive to push for a liquidity event eventually.
In general, the fluidity of movement is a key to a healthy economy.

For example, post 2007/2008 one of the things that slowed the economic recovery was the fact that too many people owned homes. When you own your home you can't just pick up and move (to where the jobs are/growth is). Eventually, some people abandoned their homes. Necessary. Unfortunately, those holes left a mark behind them as well.

There is no opportunity without fluid movement.
That is a bunch of Buttons, Textfields, Dropdowns and Listviews? How hard can that be in Cocoa?

In their blog post they said they worked for three years on the Mac version ... maybe the company is just one person not having much time or coding experience. Maybe I am underestimating the problem, but in my time they would have just hired a student or the nephew of their neighbor to hack something together useful.
My point was that at some point the money needs to leave the investment cycle in order to mean anything at which point it will be subject to taxes on whatever is purchased. The only way to avoid ever paying the tax is to never spend your money and at that point it may as well not exist for the rich person. The rich person will have more money left over than the poor person but they still spend more in sales taxes or whatever the equivalent is for what they purchase.

I guess I just don't see the problem with rich people having more left over after paying the sales tax than poor people do.
Lecture: Scott Aaronson, the Quest for Quantum Computational Supremacy
That isn't why it's called Value Added Tax.

It's called that because the effect of the way the tax is implemented is to tax the _addition_ of value to the product by those being taxed on its way to a consumer.

Suppose I buy a vacuum cleaner from a big store nearby for $100 plus $25 VAT. I don't need to care about this, but presumably the big store bought it from a vacuum cleaner manufacturing company. Maybe they want $50. Two things could happen, the manufacturer could charge $62.50 (adding VAT) which the big store then needs to claim back because they only bought it to then sell it to me - or more likely - the two firms exchange details and both create paperwork showing that the vacuum cleaner cost $50 and no VAT was charged. We can see that either way only $12.50 of the VAT is attributable to the big store, the rest is in some sense someone else's fault, either the manufacturer or their suppliers in turn.
It seems like some intermingled flavors of market manipulation and cartel-like monopoly mixed with a pump-&-dump scam.
Stock dilution I assume
If the business is doing well enough, they have the leverage raise on terms that are protective of employees’ equity. At least in the current environment.
I am not the OP but I would say that UMAP is a clear superset of t-SNE being able to do the same thing but faster and with a better conservation of large scale distances.