skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, I'd like to talk about this, please contact me on my E-mail. I have the same challenge for myself for my home country.

I'll share some of my own observations:

It's a better idea to instead of fixing a problem with a top down vision such as Polio or water treatment(like Bill Gates), to enable people to think for themselves and fix their own problems.

The problem with a lack of food, services, unemployment etc, I see it as the lack of a market. If you can create a business of any kind, you will be helping with that. If you want to strike directly at a problem, I recommend that you become a politician instead. If you want to create a business, any business that employs people and doesn't do any kind of abuse will help greatly.

Many of the undeveloped places on my home country without good living conditions are due to a single reason... it is jobs!

For instance, if people like buying Angola soap, you can produce it, that will generate jobs because people will need to produce it, you will need to do accounting for your business etc. Your employees and partners will live around your area and also buy goods and services from it, with a healthy market, that will also bring taxes to governments/politicians that can also give something back to people.

You need to step up as an entrepreneur and look around with the people you know, the country you live in etc, how could you make something that either people in the internal market need, or that people abroad would buy. I'd favor international trade because that brings a lot of positive things to your country, not only money, but makes it more recognisable and make it easier for other businesspeople to create opportunities and invest on it.

About your last comment, a company that cleans the streets or a hospital that cures diseases from the poor can profit by charging money. You can't solve poverty in the long run by providing free services, you should instead strive to have a product people use(could be a cheap hospital, so more poor people could afford), so you create a market for it.

Undeveloped areas usually have many possible markets and a lack of $(or people with time and skills).
Yes, you need to prepare a slide deck.

1. VCs and their partners might review the deck before deciding to meet with you. They will refer to the deck internally after your meeting. You need some concise material to share beyond your verbal conversations.

2. A deck shows you are prepared and good at communication, both of which are important founder skills.

3. You’re asking them for money. A lot of money. Come prepared and make it easy for them.

Slide decks are easy to put together. Don’t try to cut corners here.
"Just be yourself."

"Hmm, Ok well, I hate and resent all of you, but I absolutely rely on the paycheck from this scammy, terrible company."

"Uh, nevermind, stop being yourself."
As we've seen already with the current set up where they are a small non-profit charity these places can get corrupted when there's enough money dangling in front of the right people.
The Body - Bill Bryson

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Rovelli, Carlo

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment - Robert Wright

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
You wrote the same thing two ways, like "F is not ma; KE is mv^2/2"
That's fine. It's your phone, so you decide if you want Google's software or not. You can pick if you want to enable selinux, inject WireGuard kernel modules or render all fonts upside down for what I care.

If you want to do that, you're going to have to run your own software though. If what you want isn't in line with what Google wants, you're going to have to make your own Android configuration or modify an existing one. There is no law saying you can't disable security features, but there's no law to prevent Google from implementing features you don't like either.

By the way, sideloaded apps have always been limited, as some permissions are only available to APKs signed with the same key as the OS.

If you want to run apps that can do everything they want, you're going to have to put in work to disable some of the security layers that have been stacked on top of Android over the years.
Some people are really inconsistent about this, insisting it's a single letter, despite it not having a place in the alphabet. Some do try to give it a place in the alphabet in place of the 'y', or before or after it but still insisting there's only 26 letters in the alphabet.

It's really a digraph, a phoneme made out of two characters. But it's an inconsistent digraph in that both characters are capitalised together, whereas with other digraphs, only the first is capitalised.

It's not entirely true that 'y' is only used in foreign words. It's used in import words that have been part of the Dutch language for a very long time now. 'Royaal' and 'symbool' are not spelled like that in any neighbouring language, so they've been thoroughly Dutchified over the centuries. They're not foreign anymore.
You’re not quite correct but not entirely wrong either. You can measure GDP by measuring production, or measuring consumption plus investment and exports. (Everything that is produced must be either consumed, saved, or exported.) Government spending is one type of consumption that’s included in the GDP calculation.

Obviously, however, a dollar of government spending will typically replace a dollar that would otherwise be consumed or invested.
I'm more of a hobbyist than a professional programmer, so take that for what you will:

I really like Applescript. I agree that it's harder to write, and especially harder to write well, because functional Applescript won't necessarily come out as english sentences, if you aren't careful to construct it the right way.

But the enhanced readability makes it worthwhile. I love that I can look at my own Applescript code and just read what it's doing in english.

I actually wish I could do more with Applescript than just Mac scripting. I've been thinking for a few years now that I ought to play around with Hypercard, but PowerPC emulators are a pain to get running. There's a modern clone called SuperCard, but it costs $200...

P.S. The "open dictionary" option built into the Script Editor is helpful for finding the right "incantation".
> I can go on and on. We need some actual ethics, and regulation as a fail-safe for cases where the former doesn't work.

Or become an EU resident and use their brilliant data-handling privacy laws
I'm hoping to tackle this list in 2020, I've been wanting to read Caro's LBJ series for a while now.

=====

Robert Caro - Lyndon B. Johnson series & The Power Broker

S.C Gwynne - Empire of the Summer Moon

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Black Swan & Antifragile

Graham Hancock - America Before

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Safi Bahcall - Loonshots
A High Level Introduction to Machine Learning
The attention economy is fundamentally cancerous. It is based on the premise that actually creating utility is more expensive than simply hijacking your mind with skinner box mechanics.
Mostly things that won't happen:

* Most taxis won't be driverless, in fact fewer than 10% will be. Those that are will be geographically and destination limited.

* Most cars on the streets in most countries will still have internal combustion engines, though many may be in hybrids.

* There won't be any operational fusion reactors feeding electricity into the grid.

* There will be at least 10 Op Eds or analyst notes every year saying what Apple has to do to stay relevant.

* Apple won't do any of them and will still utterly dominate profits in at least 3 industry segments at the end of the decade.

* Best estimates for the Singularity place it 25 years in the future.
I'm not much for planning my reading, but still unread in 2019 is Tara Westover's _Educated_

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated
Notable that the recommendations here skew to two diametrically opposed poles:

a) low/no meat/dairy, high fiber, beans, plants

b) high meat/dairy (and fiber), low carbs

This is not a single consistent universe.

My personal experience is my body is usually in a mode where it likes b) but sometimes transitions to wanting time in a).
Adam Savage already blew stuff up with spray sunscreen (for the same reason—propane as a propellant). The hard part is getting the stoichiometry right so it explodes instead of just burning.
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Correct.

Unless they're based on whatever chemical combination makes Febreeze work, in which case it does actually eliminate odor. There's a fascinating story behind the invention of Febreeze.
If you want to go deeper into Karabiner-Elements, perhaps check out goku [0] — it allows you to write Karabiner configuration in a much nicer configuration language.

[0] https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
The Dune movie isn't due until December 2020, but I figured I'd get started with Dune the book, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while. Maybe if I enjoy it I will get my hands on the rest of the Dune series.
Link to the thread?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff just published a blog post that appears to be a summary of the book, which you might find interesting.

https://nesslabs.com/how-to-read-a-book
Canada Visitor Visa Guide 2020: Basic Steps for a Successful Application
Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
That video introducing this project, oh my. Your delivery and what you're saying are just such a pleasure. Totally convinced me to take this for a spin.
Let's just say that Boeing pushed a 50 year old design to places to which it never was supposed to pushed to.

Full blown panic about Airbus' offerings had a lot to do with this faithful decision.

The first crash was a combination of greed, bad design decisions, rush to market and all that in combination with an FAA that was in Boeing's pocket.

The fact that they didn't immediately pulled the plane after the Lion Air crash and the second crash was nothing less than corporate mass murder for profit.
Showcases the why and what of machine learning - with nothing of the how.
The Android app for 100 Million Books is meant to abide by these principles...to the point I thought it made sense to call it an "anti-app"!

I see Calm's purpose seems to extend far beyond smartphone apps and consumer technology, but I was hoping more people would create "anti-apps" when I created mine, and it it seems like Calm is doing a better job than me of pushing for such things.

https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/android-app-err-anti-a...
Can someone tell me why Master and Margarita is a masterpiece? I’ve read it this year and it was a slow read, of basically (possibly) the author’s dreams or long mescaline trip.
My plan is to read about the french revolution and as such I was thinking about reading the books recommended by Five Books[1]:

1. Ancien Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville

2. Interpreting the French Revolution by François Furet

3. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

4. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer

5. New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s by Woloch Isser

Just ordered the first one!

[1]: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/french-revolution-lynn-hunt...
Bill Gates on Why We Sleep
I am in Europe and the GDPR is a joke. You are supposed to first complain to the company itself, give them a month to reply with a satisfactory response, and if not, then escalate to the country's privacy regulator which seems to do absolutely nothing according to my experience.

Can you imagine doing all these things every time your privacy is violated (every non-compliant cookie banner, tracker, newsletter, etc)? That would be a full-time job. It's almost like "justice" in the US, in theory you can win, in practice you have no chance unless you have billions to pay lawyers to fight decade-long legal battles on your behalf.
Consumption = Production. You can count either side and get the same total.
True that it's a simple idea. But the length of the book is worth it for the breadth it covers(economics, health, politics, etc), the implications of the idea would be otherwise hard to explore by self.
I already know about this extension and it's worth to buy. I'm using it when I love to read stories. Awesome.
Why would you use an air freshener if you're gonna smoke in it anyway?
Have been mugged at gun point in CA, didn't resist and gave them what they wanted. I no longer live in the the awful US, so I don't have to worry about these things anymore. Despite what the media say, Hong Kong is far safer!
Jason Fung explains his theory of type 2 diabetes / metabolic disorder, and how it is addressed by fasting, in detail in episode #59 of Peter Attia's "The Drive" podcast [1].

The review of Fung's "The Obesity Code" on Red Pen Reviews [2] details some serious flaws in the scientific claims in the book related to calories, insulin, and fasting, and their relation to obesity and fat loss.

Relating to nutrition/health/longevity, they aren't books, but I've found the podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, and even tweets by Rhonda Patrick (FoundMyFitness), Peter Attia (The Drive), Stephan Guyenet, and Chris Masterjohn quite enlightening.

[1] https://peterattiamd.com/jasonfung/
[2] https://www.redpenreviews.org/reviews/the-obesity-code-unloc...
But saving money on clothes and hygiene is crazily short-sighted. Bad clean clothes are maybe a couple hundred dollars a year, generously. I sincerely doubt that outweighs having your co-workers dread interacting with you.
> Hence there is less overhead for managing stack frames.

Isn't the point of saying to Go has not TCO, that this overhead is not being get rid of? So in Go there should be no difference in performance because the stackframes get created even if not needed because Go can not recognize that it's not needed?

Or am I mixing things up?
I mean. No.

I understand the point of the article is “look how much I did with so little.” And it’s really good in terms of how much was done.

But the final deliverable isn’t at all convincing. Clickbait title.
Hey, loved it!

Just a nitpick: when trying to test it with a Medium article, I was already a few paragraphs down when I clicked on "Not interested" (for now) in the popup. This scrolled the page back to the top.
I was never a fan of ObjC to begin with, but I was never forced to use it and my disliked were really just ergonomic.
+1 for Faculty - very smart team
I've worked at companies with mission statements that could give this a run for it's money.
I love this philosophy. Ideals to strive for. It is self-evident to me that once we get past these salad days, this spasm of raw capitalism, "content", and absurd business models, internet tech will approach a new equilibrium where it is something that is in the background, always present, but never seen, like a utility.

Maybe 10 years, maybe 100, but the sooner the better: a world filled with pinging "push notifications" and advertisements is not one I would want to gift to future generations.
The opposite of calm tech could be called something like hustle tech, where the interfaces create user stress by opening cognitive loops. Nagging indicators, garden path personal information extraction, leveraging users time investment, Nir Eyal's "hooked model" designs, automated sales pipelining (or spam), dark patterns, etc.

Funny that some startups by middle class people thought "hustle," meant energetic teamwork like on a kids sports team, whereas if you had any street smarts at all, hustle means getting leverage over someone by pre-empting their ability to reason accurately, often by bullying, nagging, feigning offence, and exploiting their agreeableness by making them think they "owe," you.

Preying on human goodness like reciprocity, empathy, fairness, and agreeableness is basically what a hustler and hustle tech does.
My issues is it is that data 'elsewhere' bit that they want. Even when I pay they want to harvest my data. Most of the time it is to do the opposite of what the main article is talking about.
The core flaw is that GDP is a national calculation and so cannot be used for county analysis. You'd need to compute Gross County Product separately for every county, to avoid cancelling out one county's exports against a different county's imports.
Sounds like you’re diving head first into web development? Or taking it to the next level?

Careful not to burn yourself out, that is a long list of technical books, that have nothing to do with the books you’ve read and enjoyed in the past that are from other genres.
We're doing some interesting work in this field at Cervest (based in London). https://www.cervest.earth/
Many things hit an explosive atmosphere at around 4%.

Also, there is the concept of deflagration vs detonation, the latter being decidedly worse, but unlikely in this case due to the geometry.

There is a whole field of electrical engineering dedicated to defining potential for and avoiding of igniting explosive atmospheres in industrial plant.
A few weeks ago my girlfriend made me discover Instagram filters. Obviously they're not in "deep fake" territory but I was still massively impressed by the quality of the face recognition and tracking coupled with some rather advanced 3D reconstructions on top.

15 years ago that would've been science fiction, today it's a free gimmicky feature in an app running on commodity hardware. There are also apps that will smooth your skin or change the shape of your eyes in real time.

All these technologies are evolving at a ridiculously fast pace, I'm sure that a decade from now you'll be able to do a much more convincing fake in a fraction of the time. We're getting deeper and deeper into a post-truth world.
How we design system dashboards at TrueLayer
And according to a recent internet trend, apparently "OK" is passive-aggressive to. Go figure.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okay-ok-k-workplace-language_...
Others have mentioned the window positioning features, but the other thing I use Hammerspoon for is a dark mode toggle in my menu bar.

Not something most people are switching all the time, but if you're writing CSS for a

prefers-color-scheme: dark

media query, then being able to pop back and forth on demand is handy.
That's a great list. What made you interested in the subject?
Check out Hyper Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
The article has been updated to reflect that they had more content not more subscribers.

> “Polo pitched his service to potential clients by pointing out that it offered more content than competing legal services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Amazon Prime.”

Total revenue was less than a couple million dollars.
I'm lazy, so for both the first and second stage I narrowed down the selection to 2 to 3 people and then tried them all.
Smokers tend to not notice the smell of smoke since they are constantly around it/smell of it themselves.
Bad rhetoric like this is why rural people hate coastal elites. Monopoly pricing power and financial engineering for capture of economy profit does not equal value created. Video games and food are not equally important.

And why would you need to cater to the economic needs of the least needy part of the economy?
The Lost Art of Paste-Up
Bare Metal from a Hardware Perspective: Embedded Frameworks and Build Systems
This is dumb, the environmental impact is the same as any other electrical appliance but we don't ask "What is the environmental impact of life support?" because it doesn't matter.

The problem and solution have been clear for over a decade we all know it, we need clean renewable electricity.

edit:
I guess if you are releasing 12 articles a day they can't all be insightful.
>EU is also not an ISO code, but has been reserved, and is also a TLD as .eu.

`eu` is also exceptionally reserved in the ISO database, which is enough for ICANN.

The ISO states in their FAQ:

"You can use EU for the name European Union. Please note that this is not an official ISO 3166-1 country code. The European Union is not a country but rather an organization. As such it is not eligible to be formally included in ISO 3166-1. Recognizing, however, that many users of ISO 3166-1 have a practical need to encode that name the ISO 3166/MA reserved the two-letter combination EU for the purpose of identifying the European Union within the framework of ISO 3166-1."
How a university dropout built a toy empire
Best read for me - most powerful and readable imo. I’m sure there is a better academic/true-to-source read. I’ve read about 4 different translations and Hammond always stick with me - possibly because I read it first.

Thank you - in the future I will clarify.
Sure - Debord just didn't mean to only explain things - he wanted to revolutionize them.
Vaporized fuel + air explosions is essentially what occurs in the cylinders of a gasoline engine of an automobile; there's nothing mysterious about this.
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Freedom from the known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Negative Rates Are Stark Reminder That a High Cost of Capital Is Not the Problem
I've wonderd about buying "eco power", it's not like electrons have markings on them that say "I came from a generator attached to a wind turbine!". It's just that the wind turbines put some Megawatts into the pool and their buyers took the same amount of Megawatts.
The 737 MAX does not have "inherent instability."

The position of the engines causes the plane to pitch up more significantly when power is added. This is not necessarily bad, but it's different enough from the 737 NG that it would have required retraining pilots. MCAS was designed to remove the need for retraining, by using software to make the MAX act like the NG.

If everyone would have simply accepted that pilots needed to be retrained for the 737 MAX, MCAS wouldn't have been developed and those planes wouldn't have crashed.
You hit the nail on the head. This is the actual, real, definition of "free" (as in "free to use"). Every instance of that term should be surrounded by red blinking scare quotes.
Show HN: Side Project. What's the best way to promote iOS application?
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann, it covers two different approaches to the environmental problems we face. Whether we can use technology to extract ourselves from these problems or restraint and a simpler life.

After that I'll probably read Walden again.
Do Rich Dad Poor Dad Principles Still Apply? Here's How They Fall Short
Or it is being underestimated. It is probably wise with power grabs, whether corporate/oligarchy or authoritarian, to overestimate rather than underestimate.

Overestimating preserves ground gained, rights and freedoms and is an offensive. Underestimating cedes that and is a defensive position. Power grabs and authoritarianism cannot just be defense, while they are on offensive offense, you have to go on offense to get them on defense.

Underestimate overt and subtle power grabs with greater goals in mind and end up like this scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/aBvwOdi8UJA?t=35
Brianna Wu? Alex from Target?
Each of the books in the three body trilogy started a bit slow for me, but the payoff was worth it. Opens up into a pageturner about 1/3 of the way in.
This is an important point that is worth including in this manifesto: calm technology must be paid for. It absolutely cannot be supported by advertising. Advertising is antithetical in every way to this philosophy and way of life.

As a corollary, I would add that there is an inequality problem here: those with means will more easily be able to afford "calm technology" that isn't ad supported. Those without will have to suffer through the ads. I don't have the answer to this problem -- just noting that we cannot seriously endorse the idea of calm tech unless it is ubiquitously calm, and that requires a different business model.
I'm pretty sure there is a ~2002 "Nanotech index report" out there which looks a lot like this. Oh looksie; I am right:

http://www.nanotech-now.com/CMP-reports/NOR_White_Paper-July...