skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great dismantling of America's national parks is under way
Same story in Canada. I'm in a big city and the scooters aren't really useful outside of the city center, both because of how the scooters do "zones" but also because hills, bike lanes, and sidewalks are very hit-or-miss in terms of quality and safety.

They're a fun novelty, but not a solution to public transit.
And Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.....
I did not say that it was possible to live using Bitcoin in Iran. Read my comment again.
>And another thing: Only geniuses (or cranks) head straight for the grandest and most fundamental problems. You should multiply the importance of the problem by the probability that you’ll solve it and maximize that product.

A note here: when it comes to discovery, motivation is vastly more important than competence and every disciplined effort will lead to greater understanding or a serendipitous result of some kind.

On the other hand, nobody can know the probability that he'll solve a problem.

Yet important problems can be reliably identified. What I'm trying to point out is that there's nothing wrong with going after the big ones.

>But I’m hopeful this log-jam will be temporary, and that new opportunities are opening up for aspiring scientists.

To put this in context he has also stated he thinks that civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving this century. Another reason for tackling big problems IMO.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185583.Our_Final_Hour
Not really. The article is not stating the opposite.
Seems this is actually vaporware. No screenshots, no actual demo/application and signing up with emails leaves a "you'll receive an email soon" but no email arrives. Ebook requires email to download, and ebook ends up saying same stuff as on website already.
> "Daniel, who spoke on the condition that only his first name be published for fear of being outed as old.."

Daniel, I am no genius but if you are reading this, WashingtonPost story with your details hardly makes you anonymous.

- Daniel

- in his late 30s, but he’s 48 years old

- returned from a 10-day trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast

- journeyed to a yoga retreat and juice cleanse in Bali

- ending a five-year marriage

- shedding 10 pounds of subcutaneous fat several years back
Please tell me a few of these objective reasons why someone who puts "country music" on their resume as an interest isn't sending a good signal.

As a resume screener you should calibrate your recruiting process to be empirical. What you're describing doesn't sound empirical at all.
Retro computing is a hobby. People generally like their hobbies. Like, why do people like old cars? There are better cars out there but some people are attracted to them.

Amiga was a computer that was way ahead of its time with its hardware AND software and provided so much fun until it was deemed obsolete - and it was a long time. Nothing like that existed for a long long time. But all of it doesn't matter - it is like the classic car analogy, it is just a hobby of some people, to reminisce on their childhood etc.

>challenge to make it do something it couldn't do

This is another hobby altogether. You can do it with retro computers, or with modern computers and artificial limitations (think of the demoscene and their 4k or 64k competitions) and actually this mindset does not even require a computer. Making things do things they are not supposed to do is just a fun time for some people, a creative outlet.
I know, I just find it completely nuts.
The day I have to dye my beard or get plastic surgery to stay relevant in tech is the day I'll happily retire.
Odysseus sounds like an ego tripping founder who refuses a generous buyout that would grant his employees comfortable exits after years of loyal service.
Right. One recent example for an independent research in math is Yitang Zhang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang) who, after completing PhD at Purdue University, worked off jobs (accountant, etc.) for 8 years, while doing his research.
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Insurance companies use your driving record to determine premiums. Trucking companies use driving records to determine who they are going to hire/fire.
My father built a picture frame display out of a Raspberry Pi and and old LCD monitor. It shows collections of photos in random order (that is, photos are grouped into directories and it pics a directory at random and displays those in sequence, then pics the next directory at random). He says he often gets the sense that some photo sets seem to show up more frequently than others. Helped him program the Pi, and I'm confident it really is random. Our brains are optimized to detect patterns, we'll pick out patterns where there aren't any. It doesn't feel random but it is.

Also, true randomness isn't optimal for the picture frame display or the iPod. True randomness does annoying things sometimes like pick the same thing twice in a row even though there are hundreds to choose from. Apple had the right idea here.
Maybe on average across many fields and job positions? But I definitely don't believe this as a universalism. The "catalog chic", gym culture and dieting trend in SV is fairly new. 20 years ago it was graybeard chic. Alan Cox was an icon. Pictures of the Google team from the 2000s are a bunch of poorly kempt nerds. And into today lots of engineering teams don't give a shit about looks and look squarely for competence. Honestly if I see an engineering team of sexy well groomed people it raises at least a bit of skepticism that these people, in addition to driving a culture of being good looking and we'll groomed, might also care about technical excellence. That's not to say that I discriminate. But whole eng teams self selecting to be sexy (and I have company profile links I could post here but I won't) raises questions about where the core emphasis is when hiring.
What about marriage? If a man makes more money and he is married is HE talking more? Isn't that income split (or in reality spent by the women)? I have never understood why data on married men is treated as if the men are single and it's their money alone.
It is standard in bigger corporate M&As, but a tiny startup isn't going to have the leverage to pull it off.
Hell, there's NOT increasing inequality by sane definitions - meaning if you count government taxes and transfers. Yes, pre-tax, no-transfer income inequality has increased, but by definition increasing taxes and transfers won't fix that. And once you include ss/welfare/snap/eitc/etc as well as taxes, income inequality today has barely changed over the past century.

And the recent "increasing wealth inequality" papers have based on the dubious assumption that "wealth = capital gains income / risk-free instantaneous rate of return", [0] which means that wealth goes up as interest rates go down if income holds steady.

0: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/01/wealth-and-taxes-...
That is probably the one part of the article they really should've made more prominent. Yet they didn't. They hammered it home that videogames and young men not getting married and having 12 kids is the problem.

Maybe culturally getting married is incredibly more time consuming and difficult than it used to be? I mean I'm reading George Orwell's Burmese days and the main character was trying to propose (and the girl wanted him to) within 2 weeks of knowing eachother! Granted it's a book, but that doesn't sound outside the realms of normalcy, especially in Burma during the 1920's where there were like 1/1000 ratio of white person to native.
I agree with Esther Perel's thinking[1] that the next century is going to involve a broadening on what society deems a positive life is for straight, cis men. In the same way that we consider it acceptable for women to express themselves or live differently than the gender roles of the past, I think we'll start to do the same for men. I already see this with my millennial or genZ peers.

It's not uncommon to read comments on Hacker News or twitter from men feeling that they seen as less valid for doing less traditional activities[2][3] (eg: caring for children, prioritizing their careers less, being less traditionally forward, etc.) and I think society is going to need to change to acknowledge this better for both men and women.

[1] https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/blog/details/1594/est...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21775631

[3] https://twitter.com/SpaceCptZemo/status/1215034934319964160

EDIT: Am I allowed to interpret downvotes as "nah i dont want it that way the world is Malthusian"? Nothing would make me happier.
For the cost of that integration, the bank could also just implement 2FA correctly. U2F, TOTP, even proprietary crap like Symantec VIP are all inherently resistant to SIM swaps because they keep a secret key on the actual device; PSTN routing doesn't matter.
Could that mean that if you upload your code to AWS they can steal your software design? I think yes.
MIT Releases Results of Fact-Finding on Engagements with Jeffrey Epstein
Wikipedia says Brighton is 82.79 km2. So this is about 70x larger.
Thank you. Athleticism and social skills are forms of intelligence.
Have you ever used one? I get what you're saying, but as an example: my girlfriend and I have on multiple occasions, in multiple cities, used scooters to explore local geographic regions that would otherwise not have been possible in the same time constraint. We would ride across town, then get off and walk around for a bit until we decided to hop back on and ride way across town to another place and do the same thing. So it is possible to still get the exercise etc, with the benefit of being able to cover more turf than possible strictly through walking. Of course you could do the same thing with a bike, but it's more cumbersome and less agile imo.
> The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even.

It seems I misread this.
Notice they said "x%", not "100%". It's not like they're taking all the extra money. Rich people will still have more, and still be able to get richer, but a higher percentage of that is going to help the disadvantage (which the technology rich people developed often hurt).
But I think the point being made is that eating the free-lunch makes you "weak" (weakens your resolve) on your journey towards your Ithaca -- illustrating exactly the point being made about being a "lotus-eater".
There's an early episode of Silicon Valley where they go through something similar.
Alas, some seem to be more interested in making sure everyone knows who's in charge and who's a peon in their little fiefdom.
About France's tax system being deceptive, I would highlight that France makes it even more deceptive by having different regimes for different categories:

for instance, nurses or lawyers in France feel that the state levies from them a disproportionate amount of the super-gross (about 70%), and that these categories
(I took 2, but in fact this is true for all "independents" in France) pay more than
the rest of the population... which is not true, it is simply that the fraction of income that is levied as taxes is more obvious to those categories.

A regular employee does not even see most of these levies on their pay stub (it's called the "charges patronales", i.e. employers' contribution, but it really is a portion of wages that is socialized: this is money that belongs to the employee as wages, it's not something that belongs to the employer that pays it for the privilege of employing a person), and in reality what nurses/lawyers/independent perceive as outrageous taxation is just them paying "self-employment" taxes (as it's called in the US).

These taxes are there for good reason, but they are indeed masked from mere mortals.
It would do a world of good for these things to appear (by law) on pay slips, for it would make people realize that the many public services that seem to be free are in fact very much not free at all. Indeed these public services (which are pretty good in France, IMHO) cost an arm and a leg, yet the system is rigged to make them appear free. If that's not deception, I don't know what is :)
If this is strictly a patient's choice; then health insurance providers, especially the government (medicare, medicaid) or future government programs should also have a similar choice of requiring pre-consent for DNRs and to some extent bypass quality of life considerations (amputations for diabetes complications) for costs.

It's also arguable that state regulated or state run health insurance should require some degree of self insurance for people making these detrimental choices.
Started-up with principles. Got big. Reverted to the beancounter corporate mean. Now charging what the market will bear. Opportunity now open for new startup with principles. Rinse and repeat.
> Even if they don't sell, the process would have shown light on potential liabilities and issues they hadn't even been thinking about.

If I recall correctly, some VC's make their companies put together quarterly reports of similar nature to a normal publicly traded company. It sounds like it would have similar value.

Doing so requires significant thought and focus, and provides a structure and cadence to the business.
Facebook leaked page administrators in the editing history
Paypal has the right to, not the government.
>east coast and in Cali, and California

(or maybe a semicolon. I'm never sure)
I am arguing for GDPR. Corporations and local entities will exploit workarounds if privacy policy is a patchwork across jurisdictions (imagining all servers in the country moving to Arkansas because their privacy laws are non-existent or absent). National standards and federal enforcement are the only way to guarantee consistency.
I used escalator specifically because a lot of people don't realize it originated as a trademarked term for the Otis Elevator Company's moving staircase. Kleenex is still well known as a brand name for tissues, even if it is used generically.
I've seen a lot more misinformation spreading about the scope of the wildfires than I have about any arson narrative.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51020564
This is applied to managers in general:

- Good managers are shit umbrellas

- Bad managers are shit funnels
I know some of it makes it to the paper too, like bankruptcies or divorces if you don't know where they currently live, but I know some of that stuff is under a paywall or got to pay to make copies at the court house but probably depends on the area.

I was looking at one site about red light camera tickets since there's been debates over them, some states even outlawed them. But looking at one of the examples, some county didn't even have a secure website to put in license and credit card info. Chrome even put a warning next to the address bar. Not sure why they are allowed to process credit cards since a private website would have to be compliance with PCI. But I guess some areas are more technical than others.
Urbanization of america, that's the trend. Stick figures make it all so simple and palatable :-/
Based on my experience, the headline is right. The money I spent was dwarfed by the extra money I made afterwards. It is just my own experience, but I think it is a cool hack: look the part to get more money.

To give more details, after having studied skin care a bit with the help of google scholar and reddit, I came to the conclusion that wrinkles are multifactorial and due to:
- facial fat depletion : https://www.patelplasticsurgery.com/uploads/5/2/8/8/52880409...
- change in the collagen structure, with less elasticity, likely purely due to sun damage
- gravity pulling the damaged tissue down

For facial fat depletion, there is fat transfer. For the effect of gravity, there is facelifts. Both work wonder.

For changes in the skin structure however, I have tried non fractional CO2 resurfacing, which is said to be much more effective than fraxel. But it did not give drastic results unlike the 2 others.

The article talks about RF microneedling. I wonder if someone here on HN tried, and could comment about the procedure.

I'm thinking about doing that myself next time I travel. Other alternatives are "vampire microneedling", where basically PRP is put on the skin then microneedling is done in the hope that some growth factors will seep though.

The reddit skincare community is wonderful - lots of crazy smart people digging article and testing on themselves, a genuine hacker spirit. I tried one of their suggestions that seemed crazy at the time: acetylsalycilic acid to reduce skin oilyness. It was so simple, so cheap, yet so efficient!

Now I am going to test a skin routine to fix my skin texture: niacin serum in the morning, then sunscreen, and retinol at night, then moisturizer.

It's fun to consider the body has a computer than you can upgrad with surgeries or hack with chemicals applied on the skin!
It's helpful/inspiring to see you don't have to be the greatest programmer to create successful video games.

Just skimming the code a bit reminded me I probably spend way too much time on elegant interfaces, clean implementations, and good naming, in my own games.
It means, I'll be happy to look at the code, contribute, even build without going through the hoops on every platform...

It means the thing is lightweight and fast. And also - unlikely to crash or eat my drive because of sloppy UB.
Unnoticed by whom?
No better time to dump the business on the market and run
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system#History

"When rats were tested in Skinner boxes where they could stimulate the reward system by pressing a lever, the rats pressed for hours."

I guess the author's definition of lotus-eaters is similar to the rat experiment mentioned above. There is something about the satisficing and infantilizing nature of tech companies that seems engineered to keep employees complacent about work that's just okay but maybe not challenging or rewarding.

The story is a good analogy but the tone of the article is weird and condescending.
I think myopically selecting the easiest to dismiss part of what you're replying to, a part that was a deliberately simple example of where provers can and have failed, is not arguing in good faith. The rest of the argument stands even in a hypothetical world where provers are prefect.
Laws are written and wars are waged to protect money.
In my opinion, the problem with Facebook isn't really the PR. Yes, Facebook's PR is broken as the article describes, but the real problem started years ago, back when it was a "well-oiled machine".

The problem is that there is a huge distance between what Facebook PR says and what Facebook does. The constant apologies for misbehaviors that never are never corrected, the apparently deliberate misinterpretations of much of the criticism leveled at Facebook, the continual discovery of new misbehaviors that should have been stopped, and so forth.

That Facebook has now taken an official public stance of being antagonistic, dismissive, and condescending is bad, but it's just bad icing on an already bad cake.
Same here, I've never heard of anything in Table VII.

EDIT: Table VIII shows that these networks were all created by academics. No wonder we haven't heard of them.
I’d also argue that, on average, the negative impact of an opioid-related death is greater than that of a smoking-related death. The latter tends to manifest as chronic health issues that extend into old age. Terrible, yes, but these people have at least had relatively full lives with the opportunity to have children and be productive for most it. It’s more akin to obesity than a drug overdose.

Opioid-related deaths tend to involve the rapid destruction of lives, often of young people full of potential, culminating in sudden death due to overdose. Their friends and family then have to live with that horror for the rest of their lives. In terms of lost potential and the psychological trauma inflicted, there’s no comparison. It’s understandable that people consider opioids to be a worse problem than smoking.
Risky, yes, but the US mattress market has an annual revenue of ~$15 billion, so wholesale is definitely the area where they can expand a lot.
There are confirmed cases of arson all the time. This has been a problem for decades.

The difference is that the bush has dried out more than usual, it's been much hotter than usual, and budget cuts have meant that the bush hasn't been managed well (no controlled burns, etc).
I don't know how the laws are structured but there is a legitimate need for information to flow both ways between automotive insurance providers and State DMVs.

In many States, like GA, Insurers must report vehicle coverage changes to the State. If you get pulled over, Police Officers do not need to ask for insurance cards and can cite you for lapsed coverage.

At the same time, insurers want to know for liability purposes all drivers list at policy residences and when a driver's license is suspended.

Perhaps that information should be free with stipulations on how it can be used.
such good PM/managers/leaders are very rare. Instead it is usually this way https://cheezburger.com/4626943488/corporate-ladder , just with even more levels in real life and resulting amplification of the signal.
Does Insomnia do server mock'ing, API documentation, or monitoring?

It doesn't seem to do all the things I am using Postman for.
Another anecdotal point is I know men that do have families or partners but the woman is the primary or only breadwinner. Sometimes they are active stay at home dads, sometimes they are coasting/given up or in school or working on a startup but in all cases they are financially supported by a woman.
Just want to shout out to the Casper Glow Lights, those things are awesome. Interesting to see a mattress company expand into other cool products.
Unless you’re in England, where people can drop out or change their price on a house sale or purchase at any time, even after months of legal red tape.
The season where it is safe to do controlled burns has been shrinking due to climate change. So no, this is not true. Don't spread FUD.
The beginning of this article really plays out like the author is just against Zuckerberg simply talking to people with conservative viewpoints.

Being willing (and encouraging) others to listen to other viewpoints should not be considered a PR issue.
They should make a Wankel electric motor just to shut people up.
Ah, I see. However, I understood OP's primary reason for preferring Sci-Hub to be the one that he iterated in their first paragraph: "Nevertheless, I prefer this platform because I disagree with the publishing model of most publishers...."

That seemed to agree with the bulk of the article, even if they also liked the UX better. The article doesn't say it isn't better, it just says that the UX isn't the primary reason most researchers are using it. That seems to jive with OP.
Danger comes from energy density and ability to release that energy quickly. Fat doesn't explode. Neither does gasoline, though I wouldn't be comfortable carrying 11ml of gasoline in my pocket. Existing batteries sometimes do explode and cause injury. The problem would be far worse if they had 7x more energy in them.
I admit that I haven't read much on the subject, but it feels to me that, at least in American society, it has long been considered more acceptable for men to have various social arrangements than for women. My impression is that it's considered far more acceptable for a man to be working and unmarried well past the average marriage age than for a woman. Compare the words "bachelor" and "spinster."
There are about 9 million stay at home moms. That does seem small to me.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/24/stay-at-hom...