skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Families often have more than two people and sympathy for their feelings means sometimes folks get left out. If your family gets to avoid this pain , count an extra blessing this holiday .
See this case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is demntia free due to a genetic mutation

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
They do this with all criminal activities.
Just this morning I was pondering the same thing in Elixir.

I wonder if Elixir and Crystal compete for ruby developers to pick up
"Who could be right, the multiple designers who do this every day..."

Those designer might actually be very good one's but they might have different goals. Their design might be all about eye pleasing hoping that mos potential customers will glance at it, like it and buy it. Ergonomics might not be their concern at all.

There are other UX designers though, making GUI for pilots, nuclear station operators etc. etc. They have somewhat different goals. I feel that my brain digests what they do way better then the stuff coming from a first group

I come from a different background where I learned to value reaching the goal in most clear and shortest way
The article is short and worth a read, but to save you a click: 45.

However, the data is really not presented well and it's hard to cut through the clickbait aspect of this because the author conflates a few terms and it at least seems like this is about "entrepreneurs" rather than the HN-type definition of "startup". If you look at the Kellogg writeup link, the authors apparently looked at "technology" businesses and limited the set to the 0.1% "fastest-growing" (not sure how they determined that). The more interesting metric to me is in the Kellogg writeup as well: average age of tech IPO company founder is 47.

The takeaway for me is a bit different than the headline - Middle-aged founders are more likely to start sustainable, long-view companies than their younger counterparts. However I'd love to slice the data myself to see speed-to-exit vs. age plotted. I think that might tell a different story and better match VC models.
> Use cutting-edge tech to change colors for images that match your brand.

I'm not sure I'd call changing the colour parameter in an SVG "cutting edge tech" but oh well.

Overall looks good, might check out the license more fully before using it though.
'Cats' gets day-one patch in theaters
I love industrial design. Because it mostly exposes function and quality. Stuff made for home use, sure it is pretty but they can have that plastic for themselves ;)
I think Ruby developers are a lot more likely to switch to Crystal than Elixir. Elixir encourages a much more functional style than I think Ruby developers are used to.
Make vacuum pre-loaded spherical air bearings without special tools
Part of the technology is the capturing of photons, fewer of which bounce off dark skin than light skin, so it is in part the same generic problem as always: fewer photons, less data, worse images. Whether it's day vs. night, fast lens vs. slow, close vs. distant, fast moving vs slow (requiring fast shutter than lets in less light), or whatever causes it, fewer photons mean more problems.

And even if you get enough photons to, for example, recognize both black and white equally well in daylight, you might not at night or in a deep shadow indoors, or up close equally well but there will be some distance at which the advantage of more photons begins to matter, or some speed, or some combination of factors.

Any technological improvements will help, but there won't be any technological solution that will always work equally well with fewer photons as with more.
> More of someone depressed or someone who has been beaten down in life.

Who accurately recognizes that they are going to be killed before people that have a tendency to have things go their way.

Sounds like we should just rename the study then worry about how they define pessimism!
Thinking Scaffolds That Can Move Students Toward Deeper Levels of Understanding
Hey, fair enough, spreading invasive species is bad. But how exactly do you imagine something like that happening?

In general, folks are going to buy plants @ Lowe’s/ Home Depot or their local nurseries. It’s not that easy to gain access to plants that are not compatible with your native biome.

I don’t think the chances are very high of someone buying seeds from a foreign seed company, germinating them at home, and planting a large scale public project like this.
People seem to forget that Software Engineering is a social endeavor as much as it's an engineering endeavor. Successful engineers have to be able to sell their ideas to their peers and management as much as they need to be able to create software. This is why I always recommend that engineers read, "How To Win Friends And Influence People." Reading it and practicing what it says will do wonders for anyone's life and career.
The Unicorn Project,
The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey,
Permanent Record,
Turn the ship around,
The Checklist Manifesto,

These are good ones!
Are you only interested in blogs from people with and about technical skills, or is any focus tech related all good?
"google auth, facebook auth, github auth"

So you now have a handful of failure points. I also am against the idea of building my entire user base off of someone else's platform. It's just asking for trouble down the road.

"I find punching in a username + password extremely inconvenient, and this is why I never create new accounts from scratch."

Security is really never convenient. You need to have a good balance between the two. A password manager is pretty convenient, even my non-tech savvy parents can use one.

"So what I am hearing from you is "user authentication" is your greatest security challenge?"

No. I was making a comment about the recent Ring hacks and how if you are a startup and the exact situation happens, there isn't much you can do beyond telling users to use different passwords or forcing a password change.

Even if you have the most secure encryption in place and all the best security procedures, if your users pick terrible passwords (or another site gets hacked and they use the same password), they will get their accounts hacked.
As somebody who has (and continues to) partook in their fair share of "guerilla" gardening, and who has seen many parts of their local ecosystems decimated by invasive species, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. However, I do think perhaps if you're making such powerful statement, you shouldn't perhaps go into more detail, and maybe spout some wisdom as to how people can avoid introducing said invasive species, etc?

Also, on another note - would you mind detailing which potentially invasive species you see in the photos, and in which regions it may be considered as such? I didn't see anything I noticed as to be particularly for my region.
I only make configurable things that MUST be configured. I've long learned that my audience when it comes to handling software for better or worse has the average intelligence approaching that of my cat.

Not trying to insult here. Just general observation
That’s where my train of thought was going.

Less optimistic, more stress, lower life expectancy.
Nice way to backpedal btw. You layout a definition for monopoly based on a company’s ability to influence decisions of others. Then I point out trivially how companies influence the decisions of others via contracts every day and you retort that it doesn’t count if they aren’t trying to exert their power.

So companies that force buyers into contracts that influence decisions meet your definition of being monopolies but you say they don’t count as monopolies because they aren’t trying to exert their power. Kinda a useless definition.

Every customer company in low customer count businesses has the power to influence the decisions of the seller.

Jack of all trades, master of none. Try again.
No he has not. You are incorrect .
> It’s literally EVERY web browser that anyone uses.

And is a fine example of path dependence.

No one can write a browser in any other language not because C++ is necessarily better but because the activation energy to bootstrap to a useful browser is so large (for example, one must provide a smoking fast Javascript engine before one even considers the web page rendering pipeline).

It will be interesting to see how much of the Firefox codebase gets taken over by Rust as time passes.
Pretty great talk about Kafka at Tesla: https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-san-francisco-2019/0-6...
> Where I work, VanNoppen Marketing (https://www.vannoppen.co/), they let me code stuff on my free time and do whatever I want with it.

When you say "free time", do you mean "free time at work", or just in general?
Dimming sunlight will reduce plant growth. CO2 extraction is more expensive but less worrying than any deflection-based technology in terms of side effects IMO.

You could cover the desert with aluminum foil I guess. Might confuse the birds.
This behavior drives me nuts. I'll be like 3 minutes into reading and, bam, a modal popup blocks out what I was reading and I have to click it away. The ones that really make me angry are when I move towards the back button and show a popup (nope, I'm not gonna spend another millisecond here after that).

Or even worse, the ads that come in from the top and push everything down the page then leave a minute later.
Starliner makes a safe landing–now NASA faces some big decisions
Well. You guys sold me. I am not aware of Mr Santoro, but now I am very interested ! :)
You keep bringing up something I agree with, regarding the counterproductive effect of labor protection laws. I just don't see how that excuses the lawlessness of management's actions.

> Because you can't blame employers for the personal actions of employees.

I'm unsure what you're referring to, but that's untrue, thankfully. If managers direct their employees to perform illegal actions, they too can be held liable. Nothing so brazen here, but willfully turning a blind eye to, or rewarding middle managers applying severely distressing psychological pressure (meaningless assignments, etc) is something that they chose to do way past the warning signs. I also don't think the sanction is disproportionate, nobody goes to jail, and the fine is modest. But I wouldn't put the square quotes around accountability.
I thank bloggers for all the times I've had tech problems that I wouldn't have solved had it not been for them writing up their experiences.
It's really sad that this is still news to people. If anything will kill us in the next century, it'll be misinformed decisions based on people that can hold the best speeches and appeal to emotions the most.

To answer your question, acidburnNSA already linked something that I trust without clicking based on his other comments in this thread. Definitely check that out and compare the data to fearmongering you've been fed in the past by peers, the media, politics, everything (this is possibly the only topic where I think the media really failed to check the facts over and over again to get to where we are now). I've read other sources in the past that corroborate his comment about it being safe. As far as I read (iirc some sources were seen as self-referencing research and removed from Wikipedia, but never contradicted), it's equally or more safe than every other type of energy we have.
All I can hope for is a quick death then
Respect to you (from one Ozzie to another).
Boeing’s Crisis Spreads Beyond Max
On the other hand, some governments may find it extremely convenient to use 'accidentally' biased technology to harass and persecute members of disliked minorities.
The difference between bias and inaccuracy is extremely important, especially legally.
Hmm interesting. I always knew I had to press and hold with different pressure on songs in my library to pull up different menus but I didn't realize that this is what that was. Thanks
This comment isn't very useful or interesting.

How people use CI varies wildly by project, and only sometimes has a useful signal.

For example, this project uses appveyor (where the build is passing, but the badge is wrong), and travis-ci with 7 targets (where the build is passing on 5 targets, and failing on 2 due to errors from dub (d's package manager), which the author did not write).

The author's code is not causing those CI failures, and if anything the failures reflect poorly on travis-ci and appveyor since both are on their end.
I feel like usually the pessimistic complaining posts like this in hackernews are much more negative. It feels like there's a lot of hesitancy in this one and it's much more accepting/positive because you're afraid of being pessimistic because of the article :P

(Mostly just being cheeky. It's not fair to judge people on the internet when you don't know them)
It’s not just the payment processors, it is also the federal government, who, via parallel construction, have the ability to lock you in a cage for years and effectively prevent you from ever leaving the country thereafter, should they ever desire to do so.
> Well, if it makes you feel any better, my website renders just fine on Lynx

It doesn't; I only use lynx when someone tricks apt-get into updating part of my graphics stack (xorg, video dirvers, window manager, etc) and researh is needed to figure out how to forcibly downgrade it, and then only because I can't use a proper browser without a working graphics stack.

> the general gist of what you're trying to say: HTML, Javascript, and CSS have become too complicated for anything but the most highly funded of web browsers to render correctly.

This is subtly but critically wrong; I am saying that it is necessary than web browsers do not render websites 'correctly'. The correct behaviour is to actively refuse to let websites specify hideous fonts, snoop on user viewing activity, or execute arbitrary malware on the local machine.

> Browsers with modern CSS support see [...] the serif font for body text.

My point exactly.
If a substance improves certain cognitive metrics in healthy adults, then it qualifies a nootropic, even if it has harmful side effects. Purported nootropics are often also marketed as, or alongside, purported life extension products. Maybe that creates some confusion about what nootropics are.
My primary concern with any for of nuclear reactors is that they make for very juicey targets.
This is a poor comparison because nobody is claiming homeless doesn’t exist. If you had said “as oil barons will claim oil isn’t the cause of the climate crisis” that would be better. It’s also better because like fossil fuel burning literally damages the environment, lack of affordable homes in an area is literally the cause of homelessness. But that is a useless point, of course more homes would fix the issue but to what end, are you going to build enough homes so everybody who wants to live in the Bay Area can? Obviously not, so there will still be homelessness. “Just build more houses!” Not being an actual answer is the point
It's like C++ versus an elegant language like k. k is obviously better, because of its constraints, not despite them.
What software?
And I totally agree... But I meant it in a "not a poison" sense, meaning it won't kill you. That's why I explicitly mentioned "LSD poisoning". I should have been more clear.

I have heard of HPPD and looked it up, but found nothing conclusive. I don't deny that it is real but we really don't know much about it. One problem is that we know that it happens to LSD users, but that's usually not the only drug they use, and due to its illegal nature, we are not even sure that's really LSD. There are LSD substitutes like NBOMe that have similar effects but are much more unsafe. To my knowledge, none of it happened in controlled studies.

I agree with the changes in personality that can be negative.

But an important part is that the study is about microdoses. Doses that are not enough to give you hallucinations. My personal theory is that the life-changing effects of LSD come from experiencing the hallucinations. These can be really intense, they are nothing like you ever felt before, and unlike dreams, they are memorable. And like any intense experience, they are bound to affect your life, for the better or for the worse. In fact, "flashbacks" have a lot in common with PTSD, so much that I think they really are PTSD, with the (usually bad) trip being the traumatic event.

But microdoses don't create these kinds of intense experiences. So combined with the fact it is essentially non-toxic for your body, I am not at all surprised that it passed all the safety tests. The really interesting part will be about effectiveness.
Nootropics are drugs that boost cognitive performance: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nootropic
Vandalism in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cardiac_cycle&typ...

Reversion one day later: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cardiac_cycle&typ...
Right, and you don't. Going to settings and toggling it is fairly obvious.
Microsoft started using a similar style a few years ago, although I don't know if it started it and UnDraw came afterwards, or vice-versa. Now it's everywhere. IMHO it looks very bland and boring.
No, it would help a lot. Let's say you shrink mistakes from 10% and 20% to 1% and 2%. That means the gap in misidentification likelihood has shrunk from 10% to 1%.
...oh, okay, so it looks like SiteSucker was freeware, and now it's not. Wonder when that happened.

Free downloads of the older versions here:
https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
Just tried is now for the first time, 8 hours since you commented and it instantly asked for my microphone and I instinctively blocked it.
I had a feeling that this was just an uninformed user, thank you for clarifying.
> It's a ball balanced on top of a hill, pushed there by the deaths of millions, and kept there by the vigilance of those who care.

I feel like the ball has started to roll downhill, and is rapidly gaining speed, but that the only folks who can stop it are too dug into their own partisanship to take a look around them and do something.

That, or they desire authoritarianism. I've frankly been surprised at the number of people I've talked to in the past few years who seem to like the idea of a strongman leader. I always assumed everyone but the most extreme wings of the right and left believed in liberty and democracy, but I now see that was I mistaken.
You can choose to forgive someone because you realize that who they are is simply a product of their genetics and upbringing, without choosing to spend time interacting with them. What good reason could there be for involving someone in your life if all they have given or are likely to give you is abuse?
Wouldn't this make containers way more difficult?
Yeah, but I think just calling nuclear energy thorium or quantum energy or whatever is too shallow. The nuclear element of nMRI is kind of peripheral, but I don't think anyone will let you do that with mass-to-energy conversion power plants.

With airplanes, everyone knows they're really safe. Everyone says they're safer than cars. People are still afraid of airplanes but they're reassured. It'd be nice if nuclear fission could get to this level in the public zeitgeist.
Singapore has a better system. They force you to save, but it's your money. You can use it to buy a home.

So you don't start getting it back when you're old. It can serve you much earlier.

I think the rate of home ownership there is over 90%.
There are no simple logic errors. Your explanation is a joke based on the world view good companies exist in a vacuum and are incapable of influencing other companies.

Look into an industry like smelting for ore. There usually aren’t monopolies but the few that exist are so far apart that the switching costs to a competitor are really painful. This gives them the ability to influence decisions.

Here’s another one. A mine needs nash and the only reasonable price is when buying it from a supplier only 300 miles away with a direct rail connection vs trucking from 800 miles away. Buying from the 800 mile supplier causes shipping costs so large the mine might lose profitability.

This does not make the nash supplier a monopoly despite its incredibly strong negotiating position that it can use to get the mine to agree to long-term volume lock-ins, exclusivity agreements, etc.

Again, by your definition, tons of businesses would be considered monopolies that no economist would because it makes the meaning useless.
Personally I feel that creativity is something like saturating a solution with ideas until you get that one seed crystal and then everything just comes together. If it wasn't already full of thoughts and ideas already, that seed would simply dissolve.
I suppose so, but I am not keeping my conversations secret from the nice folks at OWS, I am keeping them secret from the federal government who likes to lock people up on bogus trumped-up charges for criticizing them or their allies in public; see weev or Roger Ver or Assange for examples.

The DoJ threat model is much more likely and much more dangerous than a rogue insider at the app dev shop pushing an update.
Siraj Raval's Apology
This is not intuitive. Why can't I just press on the middle of the word?!
$20K/month = $11.5 million in a total market index fund.

I guess that could give you a benchmark - figure out how to create over $10 million in value for other people.
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
Even with all that aircraft-impact resistant, highly reinforced containment, crazy off-grid redundant safety systems, and paramilitary guard force a few hundred strong? Honestly I can see how they might be intriguing at first, but after quick consideration I think most attackers would quickly find something easier to hit.
It really depends on a variety of things. If people are spread out geographically, if they travel for one, they don't for the other. If people are relatively local, often one holiday is with one side of the family while the other holiday is the other.

After a generation of couples having 2-3 kids and those kids growing up to have 1-2 kids, it makes sense that "extended" families aren't all that extended any more.

One of my grandmothers was the oldest of 7, while both my parents were oldest of two, and I'm the oldest of two. Add in our physical distances and it's easy through honest poor scheduling (vs malice) for a grandparent, sibling, etc to be 100% on their own for a holiday.
Edison blah blah blah.

Shakespeare blah blah blah.

Steve Jobs blah blah.

Somehow we have to reduce this genius to a simple algorithm!
If you're reading this and thinking about trying microdosing, let me summarize for you - unless you have chronic depression or anxiety, this isn't really worth it. You'll have a harder time actually focusing and getting work done.

If you do have chronic depression / anxiety though, and it's affecting your life in a persistently detrimental way, it might be a really effective Aspirin against it (i.e. it's not going to Cure it, but it will relieve it). LSD does this by interrupting Rumination, the shitty thoughts in the very back of your mind that loop during depression / anxiety.

Breaking this cycle lets you have some relief, and might help you get your head above water enough that you can start to address some of the Bigger Problems, without some of the pretty significant drawbacks of SSRIs (as well as working nearly instantly, as opposed to having a month+ ramp-up)
Or just highlight the word and a spelling correction will be suggested, or just use the backspace when you make the mistake instead of continuing to type.
I found this a while back and used it for my svg animations on https://lifeboxhq.com!

Check it out for an example of the types of images you can grab.
View Source, and you can find the direct link...

https:// i.pximg.net /img-original/img/2019/12/20/00/00/03/78375860_p0.png

(Deliberately made unclickable, because you will get a 403 unless you send the correct Referer.)