skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an amazing journey. You got a novel idea. You felt the fire under your belly to bring it to life. You executed that idea and really built the product that people like. So sales and marketing are hard. So what. You have learnt a lot more. The money was not wasted. It's part of a very valuable education and on-hand experience. The lessons learnt will benefit you time and time again.
Sorry, California, the Gig Economy Is Not the Same as Being a Freelancer
I think it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
I recently saw an interesting idea, put the game inside a lightweight container and give it a virtual GPU. The latency took a small but noticeable hit but you had verified code that you could verify that the game code hasn't been modified. Granted it wouldn't be perfect security since your threat model is someone with root access, but it makes the effort required to hack the game large though that it hopefully discourages some would be hackers
It is quite simple. Either you are helping the world, or you are hurting it. Either you do what's right, or you make excuses and continue in the course of wrongdoing. The choice is yours. And that is the existential problem we face--getting people to admit their own wrongdoing and culpability and to repent. I don't want to hear any fucking excuses from anyone about how they were just trying to make a buck or whatever. You don't have to do a damn thing, and sure as hell shouldn't, if it's fucking up the world! "Keeping up with the Joneses" is NOT a valid excuse; nor is "just following orders."
> CSGO's overwatch allows the community to self-moderate by replaying a player's gameplay. They literally record the player's input and rebuild what the player could see in the reviewer's client.

That's literally wrong, the gameplay you see in OW is not based on recorded inputs of the player's client. You are watching a demo recorded by the server, which does not match the PoV of the player precisely. The demos are also 32 tick, which makes it hard to tell if the aiming of the player is legit [1], unless they are very blatant about it. Due to interpolation and lag compensation the PoV that the player saw is not what you see in the server's demo. If you record the player's PoV using screen capture and compare it to the demo recorded by the server, there are subtle and sometimes relevant differences.

tl;dr OW is only there to catch obvious cheaters.

[1] Because the server runs at 64 tick, but the demo is only 32, the crosshair snaps every time a shot is taken. The aim of everyone looks way snappier and suspicious in a 32 tick demo compared to their PoV.
> standard C++ ABI.

All major OS have a standard, very stable C++ ABI. Some of them also guarantee a stable ABI for the library components.

Of course you cannot use a library built for, say, Windows on Linux but that's true for all languages.
Perhaps, getting drunk is a deliberate decision in general. People should face the consequences of such (and we already see it).
Are you going to build one for every design element in Tailwind?
I like being able to modify the properties and see the resulting classes.
I bought a diesel SUV about a year after buying our Model 3.

But yeah, I can't fathom spending big bucks on an ICE vehicle anymore. It just feels so dated and archaic.
We don’t even need those fancy things, just the angle of view. If someone come up behind without being seen they can still knife the player. Alternatively, the aiming would be slower if you are looking at the peripheral.
Great summary - thank you
>The chances that 100% of their cultural values/ideas are better is probably pretty slim. And most people are moving for economic reasons, not cultural ones (though the two are often tightly coupled).

The reason the new country is economically better is most likely due in some part to their culture, not just luck or geography.

This doesn't mean that 100% of their cultural values are better, of course. But you should, if immigrating, take a very careful look at their values, because there's likely some very important things that have caused that country to do so well and for your former country to not do so well.
I think it could be possible if you structured your FPS like an MMO: build the game out of "zones" with "rooms" in them, and then clients only get pushed events for the "zone" and the "room" they're in. (Unlike an MMO, the whole map and all relevant models would always stay loaded into memory, so there wouldn't be any latency in transitioning between rooms; there'd just be a moment where you'd be outside and not see anybody, before they popped in from your perspective and you popped in from their perspective. You could cover it up with a lens flare or something.)

Of course, people would then gyrate back and forth across zone/room thresholds as a way of protecting themselves, which seems obnoxious, but also seems like a very easy behavior for the server to detect and punish.
Definitely this.

It's hard to extrapolate from 10 posts by a few people who claim they weren't cheating all the way to "permanently banning Linux players".
I mostly agree, but U-Haul is also directly involved with transportation that can affect hundreds. But I strongly suspect they are just trying to lower their insurance premiums and costs of employees not at work/downtime due to health related illness
Sounds like there's an opportunity to have insurance companies pay for the product. This would directly align incentives and lead to overall cheaper care for the patients.
Theoretically I could see this being used as a marketing gimmick for the PCP office (we collect a profile of medications best for you based on a statistical evaluation of results from peer reviewed studies!), and that could help docs make the case that patients should see this clinic vs another one nearby. But anyone who has tried to use healthcare in America knows this isn't really one of the limiting considerations in how you choose a doctor or practice.
USPS also enjoys federal protection of its product that none of the others have:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1708

I'd wager that "porch pirates" don't go into mailboxes even though there's valuable stuff in them.
Neuroscientists discover new kind of signal in the human brain
I think the CoC was badly structured and agree that Monica isn't at fault, for context. I think that it was quite appropriate to fire some other moderators though, like the one for the Christianity SE who point blank refused to gender people correctly.

I know a lot of nonbinary people — many use neopronouns but they are all reasonable people. I don't know anyone who wouldn't also be ok with they/them.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/in-the-news/27-...

GNC is not the same as trans, but the high numbers do suggest a much greater number of people are happier outside strict gender roles. It wouldn't be too much of an extension to say that this may apply to the pronouns they are happiest with as well.
> "Japan: Shared culture and language, stagnant economy."

Somehow ignoring that Japan had a gigantic economic boom in the '70s through the '80s to become the world's 2nd largest economy. Setting aside that relating shared language to economic strength is nonsense anyway, Japan does not bolster your thesis.
Calories are not unhealthy. You just need to match your average intake with what you burn.

2k calories isn't even that much if you are a big, active man. And even if you aren't, as long as you don't eat that every meal, that's fine.

There is no reason to ban large servings, but what could be done is to make smaller, cheaper options mandatory, especially for products that can't be taken home easily (ex: ice cream).
According to the article, this is NOT smoking but nicotine itself.

As written/described in the article, this would cover nicotine patches and gum to which your criticisms do not apply.
X is obviously 10. P is π misspelled so XP ≈ 31.4.
This sounds like it could be a useful feature of some other healthcare product, ie not a standalone product.

Maybe try selling the tech asset, you might be able to more than recoup your investment :)
MercuryOS
Let's Code a Multiplayer Voxel Game in C++ – The Engine
I commend your effort. Humanity likely would've progressed more from the application of this data than it would with you working on leveraging autonomous blockchains (not that that's a bad gig either).

I think the general takeaway is:

1. have an idea
2. make some mockups with plain HTML/CSS
3. run it past your target market to see if they'll pay for it
4. if so, build it

This works even better if your target market is willing to fund the development costs.

I still feel like there's an idea somewhere in here – maybe with medicine, or maybe with supplements, nutrition, etc. You could position yourself as a knowledge base and use the data as a marketing funnel for related products. Examine.com has an interesting business model along these lines. (If I was about to start an anti-anxiety medication, I'd sure as hell pay to know which one worked best.)
In europe it is illegal to ask this kind of questions in an interview and you don't have to answer. Even if you lie they cannot fire you. If they do you can sue them.

https://www.diepresse.com/3805136/verbotene-fragen-im-vorste...
My two cents:

1) Batteries become much more efficient, by 2030 we will recharge mobile phones once a week.

2) Health-monitoring wearables will be widespread, driving life expectancy up by 10 years largely due to early condition detection and reduced medical response time time.

3) Adoption of centralized crypto currencies by governments and financial instituions will grow significantly.

4) With GDPR being enforced, countries around the globe either align with it (Ex: Brazil's LGPD) or try to resist (Ex: USA lobbying). Even so, eventually all major democracies will approve user-centered privacy legislation.

5) Technology aided social clustering (ex: social networks, messaging apps groups) will continue to potentialize confirmation bias whitin these groups, affecting public opinion, disseminating fake news, causing turbulence in election years.

6) Meat consumption (per capita) decreases, due to pricing pressures and growing environmental concerns. Alternative/Innovative protein sources gain traction (ex: cricket flour, lab-grown beef, improved vegetarian hamburgers).
It's been shown in studies, such as https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hvac-systems-spre...
Results of Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet
Sounds a lot better than a bucket of rocks. Does anyone in the US use these?
Maybe they're making fun of you for overthinking it.
If we start allowing corporations to dictate what their employees do in their own time, where does it stop?

Safety issues are one thing (and should be a matter of legal regulation, not individual corporate policy) but performance issues are another, and I've already seen them conflated in this thread. Should my employer have the right to impose a curfew on me so that I'm not tired the next day at work? Should they have the right to attach a tracker to me to make sure I'm not cheating?

We are already flirting with corporate-employment-as-citizenship and crazy dystopian things have become status quo, e.g. beyond-the-pale noncompetes for leaf-level wage-slave class employees, and all "inventions"/IP developed by employees in their own time belonging to their employers regardless of relevance to their employer's business or support they received from their employer in developing them, and so on.

If an employee is performing poorly, fire them. That's where this should start, and where it should end. People are already selling their time to their employers, and they shouldn't have to sell their souls too.
I don't consider everything in the car feeling "high" to be a positive. If anything, the high beltline in modern cars is a huge drawback. And it has nothing to do with driver focus.

The rear deck and door sills on our model 3 are ridiculously high but the view out the front is amazing, like a Porsche or better. Super low dash, low fenders, you're looking on the road RIGHT in front of you. Not 20 feet down the road past a long high hood.

OTOH, in my track car (BMW M Coupe) I can actually see out the rear and sides.
Does anyone know exactly WTF happened after XP to make the disk space requirements balloon so much, so fast? I know they started including more drivers, but, I mean, so does Linux and you can go pretty nuts with driver modules there and still not move the needle much on disk space requirements. Certainly not to the tune of gigabytes. New features definitely don't seem to justify the increase. Even supporting both 32 and 64 bit, that still doesn't come close to justifying it. Combine Win2k and Win98, double that for no real reason, double it again for 32 and 64 bit, and you still don't touch Win7.
Anything that keeps them upright longer will help for sure. A huge problem with the elderly is they end up in a chair or reclined in a bed for 99.9% of their waking hours slowly getting weaker and weaker.
> they only spent $40k on some very valuable firsthand experience.

This. It is very hard to get real world experience. $40k is cheap compared to a bootcamp that won't teach him even 1/10th of this life experience.

Btw, actual figure is not $40k, but one should consider it close to $100k+ if you factor in that he used up his "make my parents support shelter, food, living expenses, car". Depending on the cultural background, they wont be doing this many more times. If you consider how much he lost on the (bay area) salary he otherwise would have earned, add another $100k
Oh man this is depressing. I have a few ideas that I'd like to get funded and make a business out of, but I have no idea how useful they would be to the average consumer and how I would go about raising funds (doesn't help that my current job has a pretty strict NDA which pretty much covers all software).

At least you gave it a go; even if it didn't work out, you don't have to wonder "what if?" for your entire life, and I think it's pretty cool that you built something you were passionate about; at the very least, stuff like this is pretty good resume fuel, right?
Having worked in an org where nearly everyone smoked, they usually were outside smoking and "Discussing problems and solutions" Every hour on the hour at least. Being at my desk getting work done, and then having to hear about how behind everyone else was or how swamped they are. Or "Mike your leaving?" "Yeah, My cases are all green" They scoff, but if you smoke two hours off the day, they easily did I kept track, you should stay late to complete your work in a timely manner.
I don't know what you are talking about. E-bikes that go 45km/h already exist and they are already street legal. They are treated like mopeds. You just need a license like every other vehicle on the street.

>I sold it and bought a regular bike because I realized that I got zero exercise from it.

I don't know why you are asking for more powerful bikes and then complain about getting less exercise. You can turn on eco mode on most e-bikes and get partial assist.
MicroCenter in Houston is always busy. Frys is a ghost town. Frys could be fine. They've just given up, I guess.
I don't entirely follow your question, but please feel free to send me an email if you want to catch up on this.
It seems that stuff randomly appears/disappears between the horizon and some line that substitutes for the real horizon.
>Contract GDP in every nation until carbon emissions are below target?

well in rich nations yes but of course it'll absolutely never ever ever happen. people holding out hope for renewables are deluding themselves. i's just not happening. i don't know what the value of "remaining hopeful" is.
Twitter is always worse right after big events happen
Yep, same here. I've always just used whichever OTC pain killer was most convenient and have never noticed a difference between them. They all seem mildly effective at reducing discomfort. I have taken Ibuprofen for headaches many times and it seems just as helpful as anything else.
This seems pretty crazy, can I get a source on this?
This is probably the root of the problems in US medicine: there is no effective feedback. The ACA (Obamacare) did a little work on this with Medicare payments to hospitals, but that is an exception in the system.

What could we do to make this the basis of the system? Without driving doctors away from patients who have bad prognocices?
10 years ago, I wanted to learn Ruby on Rails, so I bought my first MacBook Pro. Just grabbed it off the shelf at the store.

I got my first software development job, and everything was great. I thought it was odd that the other guys didn't know much about Macs (and didn't really seem to care), so when they'd upgrade the OS I'd have to fix everything for them, or they'd have issues with gems etc.

I started buying every MacBook as they were relased. Installing beta software, upgrading the RAM and HD just because I could. Spending countless hours reading reviews, posting on forums...

The other guys just wrote code. Eventually I got tired of keeping up with the crap (or maybe I just got older) and now I crank out code on my far-from-the-latest MacBook, running Mojave. shrug

It was fun stuff, but I could have spent that time (and money) more productively.
I see no information on this 10 post thread that they are "banning Linux players". I just see a few people saying they weren't cheating who got banned.

A little Occam's razor here implies it's just a few people who got caught cheating and won't admit it.
Novelists, Poets, and Artists Imagine Life in the Age of Surveillance
Bio-fuels are a disaster for the environment due to land-use requirements because this isn't a very efficient method of getting and storing energy. With biofuels, not only do we need to grow corn to feed the population and livestock but now we need to grow corn so we can burn it in ICEs. We marginally reduce carbon emissions but kill the environment.
There is a deep yearning in humans for a good story. However, taking these stories at face value is a recipe for certain failure.

In a certain harsh sense, if you're gullible enough to believe in those stories you're probably not ready to start your own business.
Consider looking into QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) instead which has more impressive standards support than Duktape.

Figma has a series of blog posts on sandboxing Javascript in the browser for their plugins API:

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...

https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

tl;dr they use QuickJS via WebAssembly at the moment.
I'm a fan of Gwynne Dyer youtubes, I think he does an excellent job of articulating the most plausible doomer case, particularly w/r/t to india.

However that's not scientific research published in peer reviewed journals and then aggregated into UN reports. That's just some professor telling plausible stories in a confident tone of voice.

Specifically the big distinction you will notice between the former and the latter is the latter always depends on "feedback loops" which are un-researched speculation that things will get exponentially worse faster than expected in some way. Now, I don't deny the basic premise of what feedback loops are and how they can work, but if you don't have any research or science to back it then talking about "feedback loops" is functionally just a fancier phrase for "depressive negative spiraling".

Its not that its not plausible, its that its a story, not science.
their faq, under Battery Life, says

> The battery life of the Light Phone II is approximately 1-3 days of 'light' regular usage.

That's roughly equivalent to my iphone. I love the idea of an e-ink display, but it's not clear to me that this saved enough, on its own. Maybe the lack of entertainment/social/goof-off apps will reduce your use so much that you frequently hit maximum theoretical battery life? Is that the justification?
I have a suspicion that the people who impulsively reach for cheats overlap a lot with those who impulsively reach for in-game purchases.
Another idea that could make this a viable business: while in general consumers won't pay for this sort of thing, there are certain problems that the medical establishment just does a horrible job treating, where I think people would gladly pay up. Migraines, for example.

I personally suffer from some sort of headache disorder (symptoms are a mix between migraines and cluster headaches, I've had different diagnoses). I went to a neurologist every 3 months for 2 years, at $200 per 30 minute visit, and usually less than 10 of those minutes were spent with the doctor. Every time he made some seat of the pants guess as to what to do next (adjust the dosage I was receiving, or change medications). In the end, I never found anything better than taking a bunch of ibuprofen at the first sign of a headache, and that was something I figured out on my own.

I wouldn't pay a dime to see a comparison of generic and name brand NyQuil, but if a trustworthy source offered me a personalized report on what medications I should be looking at based on my headache symptoms, and had studies to back it up, I'd gladly pay $100+.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (Jan 2020)
Since the other thread by another poster didn’t make it.
NIH grants are extremely hard to write and get funded if outside of an educational institution. I have tried both in and out of school; inside it was relatively easy, outside near impossible. YMMV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
> Fry’s has adamantly denied the rumors, saying the shelves are empty because it has shifted to a consignment model, meaning that suppliers get paid for goods only after a store has sold them.

Sounds like Fry's asked themselves, "Why are Amazon's inventory carrying costs so low?" or "How come we can't do like FBA?" Their suppliers clearly are not onboard.

When I went to Fry's in Austin a couple of weeks ago I saw very close to no inventory in many of the product categories I looked at. I'm not sure I'll go back. While I'm sad to see Fry's go, I understand that it's partly due to my fondness for Amazon.
You're fighting FUD with FUD.

> In 2019 Electrify America has averaged a new site a day. Non-Tesla EVs can now use that charging network to get pretty much anywhere a Tesla EV can get using their proprietary supercharging network.

This is laughably wrong and misleading. In fact, most of the implications in your comment are. (eg, that Tesla only has more range because they're playing russian roulette with battery packs).
>Many times someone from a certain religion might cost an employer more than someone who doesn't need religious prayer breaks. But legally employers can't act on that.

They can't act on that, specifically because we have a law that prevents them from doing so. Religion is a "protected class" in employment, along with a few other things (race, gender, etc.).

Smoking is not a protected class, so employers are free to discriminate all they want. Do you really want to spend your time writing to Congress to have them pass a law making smoking a protected class?

>having kids, etc)

I'm not sure, but I think having kids is already a protected class. If it isn't, it probably wouldn't be that hard to get that law passed. Getting it passed for smokers would not be so easy. Personally, if Democrats took this up as a major campaign issue, instead of focusing on more important things, I probably wouldn't vote for them any more.
We need a search engine focused on organizing the world's information and making it accessible and useful, instead of advertising.
You mean a piecewise definition of a function? I don't think this is unidiomatic or discouraged in Haskell at all.
The Billionaire’s Typewriter (A Critique of Medium.com) (2015)
I have never seen it removed from a server. It is an option that some website operators may disable. However most sites enable it, or the httpd they use has it enabled by default.