skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with the applications here, and I've never found them compelling. They amount to taking things we already understand perfectly well (chemical reactions, written in terms of differential equations or visualized in terms of graphs) and draping huge amounts of formalism around them. The "theorems" they then prove do not provide any new insight -- they're only called theorems because the excess formalism makes completely trivial things hard to see!

For example, the main theorem of one of Baez's very long papers is:

> There is a symmetric monoidal functor from the category Petri to the category Dynam.

When you plug in the hundred relevant definitions, you find that this is literally just the statement that you can specify a chemical reaction network in terms of differential equations, or pictorially in terms of graphs where the edges represent reactions, which is a standard thing taught in ordinary chemistry classes. The language of categories is not achieving anything here but obfuscation.

Category theory is only good when there's a very rich preexisting mathematical structure, so that introducing it simplifies things. That usually isn't true in science.
193 UN member states. How many have marriage equality? About 30. So, measured on that issue, the US is more liberal than approximately 85% of the countries in the world.
> It’s only liberal in America. In any other first world country, it’s right wing.

In 2019, that’s probably not true. For example, the New York Times is championing Medicare for All, while many European systems rely on multiple private insurers. The New York Times is generally hostile to school choice, especially government funding of religious schools, which is common in Europe. American politics, and the New York Times specifically, is substantially to the left of Europe on cultural and immigration issues. Bans on Islamic head coverings, for example, are widespread in Europe, enjoying 80%+ support in counties like France. But the New York Times has been very critical of such things. In another example, French views of the propriety of a country having an official language would be very right-wing to the New York Times editorial staff. The EU is more pro-competition and pro-markets than the New York Times. For example, private operation of the subway in many European cities like Stockholm. The New York Times views many issues, such as broadband, through a liberal social justice lens, which is simply missing in European politics.
After having read the obituary, I fail to see anything wrong with it. The blog post does not give any factual errors, and the alleged omissions about the lifetime achievements of the deceased are actually in the NYT article. The article is also well sourced and the editorial shows a solid research and writing process.

The blog post follows a dangerous trend, where people try to discredit the whole concept of journalism whenever they read something they don't like.
> they use Google by default

I currently use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine because Brave's Private mode uses it by default. I had heard of DDG before, but I assumed that Google was better. When I saw that it really works just as well, I decided to switch.
Yeah, who cares about crediting sources when there is "content" to be had...

I'm sure OP got permission to use these posts...
What will prevent a carbon tax from ending up like any other form of corporate tax, e.g. full of loopholes?
What sort of projects do you enjoy working on? If you can answer that for yourself, then you can usually find one that doesn't seem boring.
@nullc Stop dragging my brother into this drama. He did not commit tax fraud, and in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means.

He invented bitcoin. Media advertises him as a scammer, but I know from the bottom of my heart - he is not a fraud at all.

You need to take false positives into account. He bought the bitcoin.org domain from his credit card which will be proven in the court near soon.
Sure but that’s not quite relevant to the opportunity cost the OP was measuring against.
A key part of why Mozilla succeeded in somewhat resurrecting the web was that it was good, when compared with Internet Explorer.

Firefox is slow (especially on Linux) when compared with Chromium. The Firefox UI is more complex and not any more powerful; the excuse used to be that they supported more deeply-integrated extensions, but that's mostly dead now. With regard to "dominance over the web", Firefox is riddled with compliance bugs and misbehaviours, many of which go unaddressed for years, these bugs and incompatibilities have forced me to disable features for Firefox users, or find workarounds, over the years.

> Also, where is Brave’s innovation? I see none. Instead, I support Mozilla.

Where is Mozilla's innovation today? They maintain a broken, slightly-differentiated Netscape clone, and have an unmistakable chip on their shoulder; but there is no substantial benefit to using Mozilla, and there are some serious drawbacks that Mozilla could avoid if they cared. Brave is at least doing something interesting, with an innovative compensation model which has some hope to reduce reliance on surveillance-driven advertising, and they put a Tor client in the default distribution (even if the browser does not implement some of the anti-fingerprinting measures that Tor Browser does).

On top of this all, Brave is differentiating on what matters, rather than taking up the pointless task of maintaining similarly-licensed, lower quality implementations of various web standards. If Google gains power over the web with Chromium, in some vague way, then Mozilla's power move would be to base Firefox on Chromium (or at least fork Chromium). Rust is a spectacular thing they've done, but at the end of the day, any argument for using Mozilla should begin with a long list of positive characteristics of the product, and not with vague platitudes about implementation diversity.
Does Brave still fail fingerprinting tests in a comically bad fashion? Last time I looked at Brave, it appeared to be pretty bad for privacy fingerprinting-wise compared to Firefox and (surprisingly) Chrome.
Sure if your asking yourself "how much money should I ask for?" or "how much money can I make if I do x?".

Not if you're reflecting on how you spent the last 10 years.
I still take overnight trains sometimes and finish complete books, not thick ones though, and write more often in my diary.

Have you ever taken one of the few trains that run on Green Route[1] stretch? That region is pure nature, pure bliss. I have also trekked and camped in the area back in the day when it was allowed.

Unfortunately those trains are too crowded now, and it's nosier, people interact with each other a lot less now - on mobiles or listening to music or watching something on the laptop or phone. Speed remains almost the same. Crowd killed it for me, I could live with the slow speeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Route
Why do you think intelligent systems is even feasible? Why do you assume it will be developed? And how is this any different than today's social networks? Either it already exists, or there is a significant AI portion that is completely unsubstantiated at this point.
In the US, all banks (as well as other financial institutions) are legally required to file such reports (SARs) with FinCEN.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/1020.320#
Well, Nix is a much wider ecosystem than "just" NixOS - the package manager has many other applications, too (for example I gave a talk about Nixery this year).

From that perspective I don't find it so surprising that there's a conference about it :)

> You don't need to be deeply involved in the project to benefit from a conference

Agree! Many conferences these days will have tracks focused on "beginners", too (NixCon did this year).
It sound like a tough sell to me if the vehicle can be retrofitted to capture 90% of the CO2 it emits.

To be fair, once it is captured, I am guessing (e.g. no data) that using it as fuel would release CO2 as well, so we would be somewhere below these 90%.

Still, the new vehicle won't appear out of thin air, and the electricity it uses won't either (hopefully it is nuclear or renewable).

Either way, I don't see why such a tech gets rejected outright. I hate gas cars as much as everybody and can't wait to see them replaced by good public transit systems, LMV and yes electric cars.

In the meantime, we have an enormous pool of gas car in circulation, anything that can help reduce their environmental impact is a win in my book.
They want independence from the US, but they won't survive in open waters without the US warships. Otherwise, if this island has any value at all, it'll attract Mexican cartels or Russian mafia or whatever else is floating in the international waters these days.
Would you mind saying how old you are? I'm 37 and wondering if that's too late to try my first the bootstrapping a side business path. I imagine I'll make mistakes along the way as a first timer.
You live twenty to thirty miles from the train station? That's a miserable commute.
> It works well as it is

Search is horribly broken, sorting is broken, ratings are broken, products are broken up into categories that don't make sense and searching and sorting between categories is broken.
My criticism of Amazon's values are (1) they are (generally) not values and (2) they can be used to justify essentially any action. We tried to be mindful of that with Oxide's values which are very much values (and not management bromides or all-hands claptrap) and we are explicit about the fact that (as values) they can come into tension: we explicitly ask applicants to describe a time when two of our values have come into tension for them and how they've resolved it.[1] (The answers have honestly been incredible: many are deeply thoughtful, insightful and inspiring!)

So you may believe that we missed the mark, but Oxide's values are in contrast to Amazon's -- aligned only in the belief that a company's values should be articulated clearly and referred to frequently.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/u/5/d/1Xtofg-fMQfZoq8Y3oSAK...
> The quality of the speakers is mostly terrible. They choose a grand sounding topic then the talk turns out to be incredibly shallow and pointless.

Yea, I'd like to speak at a conference some day, maybe when I'm more experienced and feel like I have something worthy to contribute. That's not looking likely - I'm turning 40 soon and still don't feel like I've mastered any aspect of computer science and/or developed any new insight into software development to the degree I could get up at a large conference and act like an authority on anything.

And then I go to conferences where I'm forced to sit through presentations that the speaker obviously threw together on the plane (while half-drunk) the day before. Terrible and shallow and pointless, indeed.
It's not that sometimes coincidentally they don't ever get things right; it's rather that quite often their biases shine through when their job is to present a more or less unbiased take on newsworthy events --with exceptions for organs who by their nature are biased like "The Daily Republican" or "The Democrat-Constitution", etc.

In essence journalists with bias are TV with laugh tracks. But instead of laughing for us, they make our minds up for us.
I’ve rarely enjoyed conversations or networking at conferences I’ve attended. It probably is a good use of the time, but man is it dreadful. I think a lot of people must enjoy the opportunity to talk to others who work in the same part of our field. I’d just rather talk about pretty much anything else.

Whatever value I’ve gotten from them has always been in the talks, so for me a conference needs to have interesting speakers.
Same to you! I hope everyone here had a nice holiday season!
I think there's two approaches to this and they probably often overlap.

You may have a great idea and you want to do it because you believe its a great thing to accomplish.

Or you may think you want to maximize your net income, and do whatever it takes to do that.

I think the latter is better if that is what you want to do but only if that is what you want to do.
> "Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.

The US does the same. Indeed, the US takes down stuff globally, often by pwning a site's primary DNS servers.

But of course, they claim that they are only taking down "illegal" sites. But there's rarely (if ever) any sort of due process.

Edit: This is a well known fact. The FBI even brags about it, from time to time. But if any y'all want to claim that it's not, or is somehow distinguishable, please do share.

Edit: For example, the FBI took down a news site, which was arguably protected by the Constitution:

https://www.deepdotweb.com/

... and you can see it through early 2019 here:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://deepdotweb.com
These days KiCad does a good job, especially if you're just starting out.

Some CERN developers started working on it a few years ago and it's been much improved since then.
> I quite like that actually, where else would I find about some shows or things to do.

How about in a free magazine which advertises all such events? Or a website that does similar? Also listings of "What's On" in more general media.
I found the information on their helping the poor and needy, and helping educate over 100,000 people who otherwise wouldn’t have had that scholastic opportunity, worthy of report.
> This includes your in-house PR team and most elected officials, including the ones you voted for.

Important exception: leakers. (Keep in mind you wrote "mistrust" and not "skepticism.")
IBM: +5+predicciones+para+2020
For the first year, you get one million requests per month for free. After that, it’s $0.20 per million requests. There’s also a component based on time & memory usage, but it appears to be small, too.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
Is citing your sources in the plans "going forward"?
Label the string as a functor and think about lifting the array into the string functor and doing string manipulation to change it to a dict, then lift it back into a dict type.

String manipulations of a lifted type in "string space" can be faster and more efficient then actually manipulating it in "type space"
Great approach imo. Once you get flipped over to the new source of truth you have to make sure the business prioritizes decommissioning the old DB, though. I've seen certain departments (looking at you, BI) treat the old database as a permanent backwards compatibility layer.
Going to keep a running log of resources I find here:

* https://www.indiehackers.com
>Learn The Secret (The Law of Attraction)

Get by by donating plasma, presumably fail in the end.

You're not really selling me on this approach. I'm a bit anti "The Secret" by the way.
You've already gotten a lot of good replies, but I was in your exact position and I want to share another perspective of what worked specifically for me.

First and foremost, stop worrying about making a "real application". Don't concern yourself with making this something that people will actually use, or something that could potentially make money, or the next Facebook. Just stop. You're never going to actually build anything if you keep second guessing whether or not it's a good thing to build. Instead, just acknowledge that your goal is to build something and to learn from it and have fun building it. If it turns out that your app becomes "real", then that is a huge bonus! But focusing on that as a priority is just going to be a blocker for you.

Second, if you are in a position where you are trying to "learn" new skills, then I would actually advise against starting with trying to build your Spotify/MapBox idea. Instead, pick an already existing something that either a) you already know a lot about or b) is a common app that people build (like a blog site or a reddit/HN clone). I know that sounds frustrating and not ideal, but I went through the same ordeal and it helped a lot. The reason for this is that there are tons of good tutorials for building something like a blog or social network site with all kinds of tech stacks, so that will help. The other reason is because you already have a feature roadmap laid out for you, and this will help get past the analysis paralysis.

For example, you can build an HN clone and just start off small by building the front page which links to other news sites. Then you add a login system. Then add comments. Then add points and ranking. Each step is small enough to actually be feasible, but probably tough enough that it will teach you new aspects (such as teaching you how to do logins correctly, or how to store comments effectively in a database, etc). And at each step, you still have the opportunity to add your own improvements as you see fit, so even though you are essentially building an HN clone, you can still add your own flair to it and explore your own personal interests.

I did the above, and I found that it was immensely helpful in actually getting past the analysis paralysis stage that it sounds like you are stuck at. After I built a simple news aggregator clone, I found that the process had taught me enough to then actually build one of my own personal ideas, and because I now had the foundational knowledge from building the earlier 'simpler' app, it was much easier to get a jump start on my own app.
This directly contradicts the generic advice of lean startup pundits that it’s a waste of time and resources to be prepared for a sudden influx of customers. The same tired old advice is always trotted out: that you should sell first and build later and do things that don’t scale.

Thank you!
Open source projects like Arduino and the Pyboard have schematics available. If you want to learn about about why those components are there read the datasheets for the major ICs, the board designer will usually be following the manufacturers recommendations.

Emulation is rarely ever done, it'd be a high effort project with a lot of nuance to specify external hardware and the hardware is cheap anyway. A rough flow for an embedded project would be to start with a development board from the MCU manufacturer to get a head start on firmware, move on to a custom dev board of your actual product but with more easily accessible pins and test points, and then iterate on the final formfactor board.

For a hobbyist start with an arduino and a pyboard connected to a breadboard. Once you're happy with the firmware and circuit design then start with the open source schematic and modify it to add your new components and lay it out on your custom board.
The car is an extension of your home, and driving to work (or to run some errand) is sometimes the only moment you have for yourself, alone, where you can listen your favorite music in high volume and "thinking loudly". If you are married with kids and work at home these moments are necessary.

I wish I had a cottage in the woods to have these "alone" moments with more quality, but didn't get there yet.
> While tailors have figured out a formula for men’s suits, bra tailoring is a younger technology with a smaller market and far fewer competitors. [...] But bras, coming after the Industrial Revolution, had no such history of custom tailoring.

Even companies trying to custom-make suits without multiple individual fittings are apparently still very much wandering in the wilderness, so it's not surprising (though of course disappointing) that an effort which started futher behind didn't succeed. Maybe this also relates to Boeing and SpaceX's parachute challenges https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850831 : it seems fabric remains hard.
Exactly. The other force at work is rising religious-nationalism which makes it increasingly difficult for the press to speak ill of powerful people.
Which is not true. The NYT article covers basically everything the blogger writes about.
I think you're almost certainly correct. The "giveaway" to someone from a Mormon background was the inclusion of "Monson led the committees that codified the doctrines taught in every Mormon meetinghouse across the Earth." in the article. This sentence probably sounds completely banal and uninteresting to outsiders, but the "correlation" process, as it is called, it largely hated by both the most fundamental believers AND the most rabid apostates. The believers hate it because it's watered down all the crazy (and frankly much more interesting) parts of Mormon doctrine, Ex-mormons hate it because it whitewashes away many uncomfortable historical truths. The institution is invested in it, however, as a way to try to stamp out the legacy of polygamy.

Like you say, the point of this article is that there's a lot of "there" there, but it takes more digging to find that NYT was willing to invest.
https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/adshero_1.png

That is a image from:

https://brave.com/brave-ads-waitlist/

Notice the page is about the Grammys and the ad is about the Grammys. This is important.

So Brave strips the ads from my site and inserts their own as (even more annoying system notifications). And they are relevant to the page so now my visitors might think I was the dick that triggered a notification that must be dismissed.

And If I want a cut I have to sign up for some rando cryptocurrency company, the bastions of ethics and security.

Please Brave. Use a unique user agent string so I can just block people using your browser. And I don't care if people block ads, I do too. But when you get desperate and start showing ads for dildos on my site discussing cross-cut table-saw blades I'm not going to be a happy camper.
Study: The human lifespan is written into our DNA
Slight tangent..

a better rough approximation of pi than 22/7 is 355/113
For quite a few, it is a _main_ goal for the speakers to either draw attention to their company's product or to provide an air of thought leadership on behalf of their company.
Verbosity: use Groovy with CompileStatic.
the fifth generation computers didn't "run prolog", they were completely new forms of concurrent constraint logic/dataflow hybrid architectures using Prolog-like Horn clause notation for user end programming, which the US Navy implemented successfully around the same time but you don't hear about as much
They help, until they don't. Or they don't until they do! XD
Idea for a simple Flask/Vue App: Multiplayer Anagram

I used to enjoy playing this years ago on a flash based gaming website but thats been taken down and I can't seem to find a simple html based one that lets you play with others online.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb5-A-FLC98
Predates Python by a couple years. It’s from “At Last The 1948 Show” from the 60s.
I'm native speaker of a language (Finnish) without any gender-specific pronouns. For me it's very hard to add gender pronouns correctly when I'm speaking. Either I have to slow down to think the gender, or I pick he or she randomly.

"he" and "she" are the only gender-specific pronouns in the English language, so not using them just removes one anomaly. Many languages use gender-specific pronouns for almost everything. It's irritating to learn Germany because you must know what gender television is.

I don't think gender neutral language will help with inclusiveness at all. There is no evidence supporting it. Its' probably just signalling and political issue that take time from inclusive actions that really matter. I go with the flow because politics is part of language development, but I'm not going to take it too seriously.
> "this book is too unfriendly to people that don't program because it has lots of code and expects people to be able to read code"

That would be a perfectly valid response to the claim that the book "is very clear and friendly for non-coders". I don't understand why you are chafed.
If you are not employed, go get a job.
Unfortunately, this is just saying the US is more liberal than most 3rd world countries which is not very flattering.
New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster
how can i watch this?