skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! no.

The answer is Gollum. He's the only character who undergoes character development. It's a tragedy, where early he is confronted with choice and he is blind to the mistake he makes due to his personal weakness, and suffers the consequences and realizes, but too late, the error of his ways. Compare him (favorably) to King Lear, or Hamlet, or Oedipus, etc.

The other characters are essentially finger puppets, they have "a nature", a personality, but they don't change, it's just "and then this happens (but I don't actually change) and then this happens (and I don't actually change) and this happened (don't worry, I'm still the same old me you are comfortable with)". These are sidekicks, these are comic book characters.

The richer human qualities of character development are what we can identify with as we look back at our lives and recognize our own growth, our own change, and the importance of setting aside our weaknesses in favor of larger themes of living up to our better selves.

What makes Lord of the Rings weak as literature is that it wasn't written centered around its most interesting character, Gollum.
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You should stop oversellling things. Spec is not a type system.
But then you have no car to get your kid to school (etc).
If you weren't dependent on the vehicle to be able to travel, sure. Or as a backup home if you get evicted.
Lol silly White Worlder, this is a Black Project what you are unaware is that Elon is using Nuclear Tunnel Boring Machines (NTBM) no wonder they keep you blind and living under the veil
Scraping Yahoo Finance Data Using Python
I like that their CI system tries to make the information you'd like to know about the builds
as easy to access as possible. This is much nicer than 3 or 4 clicks away that
you might get out of the box.
What they don’t mention is the tunnel from Las Vegas to Dreamland, soon JANET flights will be a thing of the past
> General Eisenhower witnessed this happening.

I know he warned about it in his last speech, but do you have a source or more specifics on how he witnessed it?
Go back and look at archives of old newspapers. Seems like any time I read an old newspaper article, say from the 60s, I spot more grammatical mistakes than say a given Buzzfeed or Daily Mail article.
Most Americans can't manage daily necessities (groceries, childcare, doctor's visits, etc.) without a car.

Then maybe you ask why they don't have a cheaper car.

Generally, a cheaper car costs far more to maintain. The total annual cost of ownership of a 2-year-old Camry is far lower than a 10-year-old Camry. But to get that lower cost, you have to temporarily convert more of your money into that car asset.

End result: your cash is stuck in your car, and DoorDash/Uber/whatever lets you liquidate it without selling your car.
Astronomers discover class of strange objects near our galaxy’s black hole
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Ah whoops!
"why are people choosing to do this if it pays $0/hr?"

The article explains this: "the DoorDash pay model appears aimed at having workers deliver food effectively for free in hopes of collecting tips."
I was surprised to learn recently - and it may just be one of the rideshare companies in one country, or it may be more widespread - that the driver may not be told the final destination until they have accepted and started the ride.

So you might keep doing loops back to the airport (or a good restaurant precinct) because most of the jobs are OK; but it’s only when I hop in the car for a $10 ride to the next suburb that you discover you’ll lose money on this ride.
Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
Unrelated to the main topic, but I watched this video when I was in college and it was one of the factors that inspired me to pursue programming seriously.
I've been saying for some time that it is best if these types of dollars can be put to use in a more transparent sense, typically with blockchain or other technologies that open things up so they are more transparent. $7T is a lot, of course it isn't as if they own it, it's more what they are arranging for.
https://mintdice.com/blog/institutional-money-to-drive-a-sec...
Any of these types of mechanisms can help drive things forward.
‘Entitled locals' hiking New Zealand's kauri trees into extinction
>There's just too many drivers I think.

interesting, I'm desperate for more drivers.

I run a side business that delivers cookies, drivers do just under 30 deliveries a day (about 3-4 every hour) and make minimum wage plus 100% of tips are split at the end of pay period.
it ends up being about $3/delivery in tips, which is an extra $9/hr for a total of $21/hr (minimum wage is $12). A driver could theoretically make over $50k/yr if they worked 6 days a week, but most choose not to (4-5 days a week).

I've put a lot of work into the software to make it as efficient as possible so driver can get more orders and tips.

My business: https://cravecookie.com/
I noticed that the query
"foo" AND "bar"
does not give the same result as
"foo" + "bar".

So what's going on, is "AND" just treated as another keyword now? Lame.
I'm not sure if it was so much the flavor profile as it was being used to thin out the product using an inexpensive thinning agent. THC concentrate is very viscous, and needs to be cut with something to be viable for cartridge use.

Iirc terpenes are used in higher quality products.
Same here. I like to say "Don't tell anybody".
Reddit has been a cesspool for a long time. When their CEO started editing posts, I left and stopped posting. I only read very specific subs, and anything out of those I dont take for a grain of salt. Def an echo chamber where anyone else's opinion gets down voted into oblivion. You're right, its not a healthy place.
Microsoft wants to capture all of the carbon dioxide it’s ever emitted
Even the most clueless and innumerate person is going to notice when they've been working and getting paid for a month, haven't paid any bills yet or bought anything but food and gas, and still have $0.
I accept that it's not a great study, but Gwern's refutation seems focused on mental illness/autistic disorders, and doesn't include the other conditions mentioned in the Mensa study - i.e., "environmental allergies, asthma and autoimmune disorders", which is more common in my observations of myself and others. (Notably, these conditions do not necessarily lead to reduced lifespan, particularly with modern medical interventions to extend lifespan, but they nonetheless affect enjoyment of life and limit people's abilities in various ways).

Also, Gwern's refutation doesn't cite a conclusive study that either links IQ/intelligence to genetic coding, or positively correlates IQ/intelligence with physiological health.

Another Scientific American article references several different studies that link brain/body impairments with enhanced cognition [1].

And we can easily see that several people generally accepted as being among the most intelligent in history – e.g., Hawking, Einstein, Tesla and Nietzsche – experienced debilitating physiological illness for much of their lives.

I'm well aware that none of this is conclusive; it's a hugely complex topic, with a lot of different evidence pointing in different directions, and the evidence one will embrace will likely be influenced more by their pre-established position than anything cited in this discussion.

For what it's worth, I had previously accepted the genetic-deterministic view of intelligence and general life outcomes, but can no longer do so after researching the topic deeply over many years. I do accept heritability has a strong influence, but I don't accept that it's limited to genetics, or that the effects are immutable.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/transcending...
I dunno. Having an intuition for why 12x6=72, etc all the way on up through integrals, Taylor series, and the rest of K-12 math just seems a lot more intellectually stimulating, and therefore useful to the development of the mind to me.

I never understood the kids who "just wanted to know how to get the answer." Like, any monkey can follow a protocol. Why does it work? That's the brain muscle worth growing.

Mathematics is a foundation for systematic logical thinking. Rote memorization comes in so that you don't need to work through the why once you have mastered the why of that problem; to enable thinking about more complex relationships. But if you didn't really get the simpler relationship, maybe it's not time to move on...

Disclaimer: I have zero personal experience with Common Core outside the kind of anecdotes I come across like in this thread
What is the SpaceX constellation enabling that others aren't? Hint: theirs is not for consumers.
Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings
I’ve always wondered what was going on when the driver didn’t match the person listed in the app. Doesn’t seem like there would be any benefit? (For me it’s often a male driver who is displayed as female in the app)
And this is why working under this scenario, the vehicle is a money losing asset (where every dollar you earned driving costs a dollar in vehicle depreciation, even with a tax deduction, it's still a money losing asset).

The deliverer has to be able to earn $1.15 (at least) per dollar depreciated from the vehicle for the work to be "worth it".
Looks interesting, I drop link here for future reference. https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...
Facebook Foes Sue to Force Zuckerberg to Sell Majority Stake
Starlink is not for consumers, so you cannot get it anyways. It's for enterprise at this point.
Why would that encourage any higher intelligence aliens to do the same?
6 days a week is a lot.
The Pax app let's you set dosage controls so that you can always get a consistent hit each time. The new Era Pro even remembers the dosage based on which pod you're using, which is super useful for me since I have a sativa pod set to one dose and an indica pod set to two. The app also supports fine-grained temperature control in addition to surfacing information related to the pod like lab testing results.
Yes, it depends on the circumstances, of course. But I've seen myself make different (maybe perhaps smarter?) choices as well and so to have both a successful career and be with my family.

Yes, I could've taken a contract in a different city and earn a bit more. I used to take longer periods of time off to work on my own personal projects.

But nowadays, instead of working many late nights for 8 months, so I can take 4 months off to work on my personal projects, I usually work 10-11 months, but less hours per week. So I'm home earlier every day and I'm not exhausted every night.

I ask recruiters and colleagues 1-2 months before the end of the project (sometimes I take a few weeks off between projects) and plan for the next project early - so I have more choices and am less under pressure. And in the past years I've been able to work only in local projects that don't require travel outside my city.

Instead of learning niche-y tech because it looks cool on my resume (e.g. Svelte, Elixir / Phoenix or Clojure) I use my time to learn Python or React instead. Why? Because it increases my general market value as a freelancer better. My employed colleagues with no spouse and kids will use their free evenings to program in Golang to create a game that has not launched after a year. They're doing it just for fun. Me? Should I have a some spare time for side projects, I will try to learn something like Python with Flask or Django to create a side-project that will hopefully launch within a few weeks and perhaps I can even make some money off of it a few months down the road. "Worst case" I learnt Python and have a portfolio project to show off.
> archaic writing systems with something more modern

The Latin alphabet is an archaic system that barely worked for Latin and doesn't work at all for English. There's a reason English dictionaries have to include IPA.

> Phonetical alphabet

You say so while typing in an alphabet that doesn't have enough characters to describe all the phonemes of the language you're using, and which is used phonetically in name only.

> standardized spelling, etc

I don't know what gives you the impression that "some countries" don't have standardized spelling.

> Few people nowadays have the time and willingness to learn thousand of characters and their stroke orders.

You're literally talking about the writing system of the word's most widely used language. Obviously a plurality of people do have the patience to do so. In practice it requires roughly the same amount of memorization as English. The only difference is being that most of HN probably learned English early in life and have internalized things like "Peak Vs. Pique Vs. Peek".
You can play the daily New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle online[0]. It's free to play up till you get more than a certain number of points, then you require a subscription.

I made a little clone of the game to get around these restrictions[1].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

[1] http://www.swilliams.io/fun/hex/
>while permitting Apple to continue insisting their phones are just too secure to help hack.

How? If the FBI can get into someone's iPhone with their magic box and you can read about it in the news, how can Apple convince people that the iPhone is "too secure"?
That is my question, too. After Doordash said they were giving 100% of the tips to the drivers, I started tipping high at the order thinking that the drivers were getting X for the delivery and then 100% of what I tipped. Based on this sample it appears I have been hoodwinked by Doordash and it irritates me.

If I tip only cash, does my order sit and sit and sit?
This is what your econ professor would call "comparing stocks and flows" and it's a pretty common theme in critiques of university endowments.

$4.3 billion could pay four-year in-state cost of attendance for 36,000 undergraduates. Enrollment is 31,000. Only one graduating class would make it through before the institution shut down.

The UC system endowment's return last year was 8.2% [0], or $344 million. Its budget was $3 billion. In other words, its wealth can only sustainably fund 10% of its operations, in a good year.

[0] https://www.ucop.edu/investment-office/_files/report/annual-...
Their own certificate is RSA based, not ECC. That seems also ironic.
Your first customers will be sold to in person. Let them tell you when something is too expensive (then discount to make the sale). If they aren't commenting on your pricing, you are charging too little.

Also reconsider your pricing model. Charging per user per month will place a limit on how many people use the service, limiting what you can learn. Get them focusing on the value you're adding more than optimizing price. What you learn from them will be hugely valuable.
That worries me the same way the consolidation of email services does, even though I don't find CloudFlare themselves as scary as I find some of the email providers. We've seen monocultures before. They can be really unhealthy for the ecosystem.
Yes, rail transit is far more cost-effective than private automobiles when it comes to getting people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
It's going to be interesting to see how much of the net is unavailable when they inevitably have a major outage.
Out of the millions of (completely true) things the media could tell you each day, who decides which 20 or so we have time for? Whose interest is being served by that choice?

This isn't just newspapers and TV; there is a similar kind of choice being made on every social media platform, and it's seldom the people themselves making it.
Dude, look at Ghidra. The reverse engineering world has massively changed in the last year.

Radare is great and I use it as well, but Ghidra brings a whole lot of new capability and its straight up free.
Six Paths to Discovering a Blue Ocean Idea
From what I've read, the primary goal was to cut it without thinning it very much, in order to pass the "bubble test". Consumers would test viscosity by observing how quickly the airbubble in the cartridge moved. Vitamin E acetate is thick enough to deceive people into thinking the cartridge wasn't cut.
Yes, sadly. I'm well aware of our capacity for bullshit and cargo-culting
It was until my $1k car repair.
When we were kids, we used to ski on local hills many times, never going to a resort.
As opposed to the amount of the internet hosted by Amazon?

Like, I understand the argument, I’m just not sure why we get angsty about one type of market dominance and not another.
Third time I'm saying this, but starlink is not for consumers. It's not a "cheaper" alternative to your current ISP. None of your comment is based on any of the information put out by SpaceX.
The Valar and Maiar are explicitly not a pantheon, just as the House of Stewards are explicitly not kings. The Gift of Men is terribly obvious in that light: they get to strut and fret their hour upon the stage, then go directly to join Ea Illúvatar. The Valar cannot hold them, they go to join the heavenly chorus. The message is not as direct as in his friend C.S. Lewis’ tales, but it’s there.
Fuck this whole website. You absolute children lol
Survey for Remote Workers
What you describe includes English, however, due to its heritage of being a conglomerate of several different languages. That's why English spellings bees are a thing -- the spelling and pronunciations don't always match up. We'd need to switch to something like Korean, where deviations between spelling and pronunciation can be counted on one, maybe two hands.
Ask HN: How marketplaces ensure recurring customers?
Once service provider and service seeker gets matched and execute their first job through the marketplace platform, they could connect directly from the next time onwards, avoiding the commission and middleman.

If that's the case, the marketplace model is not a sustainable business. Because theoretically, the customer volume will get reduced.

or, Am I wrong?
Good point. Why would a business voluntarily pay more than they have to?
KMT = economy party, they talk about "eventual reunification" in public statements to appease PRC so that cross-strait relations can remain good, which they think is crucial for the economy (since PRC is Taiwan's biggest trading partner). Pretty much nobody actually cares about reunification in and of itself, and KMT's current stance is that it won't happen until PRC becomes a democracy.

DPP = in addition to defying PRC's bullying about Taiwan government's statements regarding independence, DPP believes it is crucial to expand trade with other countries to reduce economic reliance on PRC.

So I would say there isn't really a huge generational divide regarding actually supporting re-unification, but certainly younger generation may not be as concerned about the potential economic ramifications of defying PRC.
> If it's not good for the restaurants they'll just stop using it.

it's not that it's not good, but that they noticed the delivery funnel is growing (and foot-traffic funnel correspondingly shrinking). This means if they don't participate, they risk losing this revenue stream to their competitors (who do participate).

This is what happens when your business becomes a commodity to another business. You have to make sure your business has a value proposition that prevents it from becoming a commodity (or make sure you are very efficient at production and scale up to take advantage of your product becoming a commodity).

Edit: i suspect things like massive, efficient industrial kitchens producing delivered food may become the new norm.
The black box is one reason I always set my tip amount to $0 on the app and simply tip in cash when my food arrives.
Why can't we be concerned about both?
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Increased revenue doesn't mean increased profit.

https://www.afr.com/technology/why-restaurants-hate-uber-eat...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-22/uber-eats-criticised-...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
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Solving the Shower Problem, Among Other Things
Geotech is a bitch. Soils aren't homogenous and vary a lot in both composition and characteristics. There are multiple types of TBMs that are designed to operate under very specific conditions, for example a soft rock/soil TBM excavates through different mechanisms than a hard rock TBM. One of the big problems in any excavation is you have no idea what's actually down there until you start working in it. The underlying material can differ a lot over very short distances. You can very easily be minding your own business driving the TBM and run into a transition that will straight up mess you up. Combine that with all the previous mentioned stuff and you get a lot of cost overruns and time overruns. But yea, subsurface is a bitch.
This is whataboutism. How do you know the parent isn't opposed to Amazon as well? Regardless, the topic here is Cloudflare, not Amazon.
So everything that orbits an electron orbits that electron, but nothing else?
As I understand it, you can't clone the secure enclave chip because it doesn't expose the key or its code externally.

The only way would be to physically decap the chip which would most probably destroy it.
yup, it is. but if a driver needs the money... we don't ask or expect it.
How would the government identify what is legitimate?
Public doesn't visit HN, why should we bias HN? What's next?
I was suggesting 6% not 12%. You can live off $60K as a single person even in higher cost cities pretty easily. Taxes aren’t actually that high even in CA at that level.
'PigeonBot' brings aircraft closer to feathered-flight
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

New organizations commonly write stores about completely alien subjects while simultaneously needing to appear as authoritative sources.

The Verge is a perfect example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2Scfj4FZk
"the true price is hidden until after you're already completed the meal, and too late to refuse the tip"

This is only true for the first time you buy a meal in the US. After that first experience, you know the tipping etiquette. So, at the time you peruse the menu, you can factor in the tip you expect to leave at the end of the meal.

However, where the real price is hidden is in establishments which add a surcharge labelled 'SF Health' or similar to the bill. This is sneaky because:

i) Unlike sales tax, the SF health mandate is not a consumption tax. It's just a regulation that specifies the minimum an employer must contribute to employees' healthcare costs. It's just like any other business cost, like cooking oil or lightbulbs.

ii) some businesses declare the amount they will charge on the menu, but usually in small writing (the most egregious example I've seen is yellow text on a white background, on a sign near other random promotional signs at the cash register)

- some businesses don't tell you about it at all. I bought some burgers (which were yummy) and paid by card. I had no opportunity to see the itemised bill on the POS machine, but paid anyway because the total was in the range I expected. Only when I received the email receipt moments later did I discover the extra charge.
Ask HN: How do you make up for Vitamin D deficiency?
Recently I took a test and found out that Vitamin D is insufficient in my body. Though I am not seriously deficient of Vitamin D, I am still concerned about the effects it will have on my body.

I will be discussing this with my physician soon. However, I will still like to know if anyone here has tackled it and in what manner. Do you spend additional time under the Sun or do you take supplements?
The pictures are jokes since it's proprietary to the company, but the names and descriptions are real. There were some spy shots of the gantry being used to set up 'proof-rock' awhile back:

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-the-boring-company-tunne...