skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Freelancers/consultants, what is your first-client-meeting checklist?
Aside from red tape (negotiating a rate, legal forms, etc.), what things do you make sure to ensure to make sure project planning goes smoothly and requirements have been clearly expressed/understood?
The idiom is "speak for yourself"

(sorry if I offend)
Please, forgive me if I come across as harsh or insulting. I cannot imagine what you went through and I wish you never had to.

Some time ago I talked to my neighbor (76 y/o woman), while my wife was pregnant, she happily told me that she had 6 kids and 2 miscarriages. Like it was a very normal thing. I asked and she said it was just part of it, the fetuses were probably not healthy to begin with. She seemed of the opinion that it was just part of life and it didn't seem to affect her. I didn't ask further but I do notice myself that once you start taking about miscarriages or, in our case, difficulties getting pregnant, many people went through the same experiences. And certain experiences seem commonplace. On me that has a consoling effect.

Do you think it would have helped if you would have known about the possibility in advance? Or had friends go through the same and society in general being much more open about these things? My mother in law told me about her miscarriage only when our son was 2. I think it would have (hypothetically) helped us be more open and accepting if we would have known in advance.

Thank you for being so open about this on the jungle that is the internet. It takes a lot of courage to come back and read replies.
What if we gained the technological ability to colonize other planets and make them habitable, it would mean nearly infinite resources and people could still have children, would that not make it worthwhile living forever?
How it that useful for subsequent learning? The output is random words that doesn't even forms phrases or sentences and has no relation with the image.
I found it to take much less discipline actually. I find an unstructured and curiosity-driven approach to learning math to be much more enjoyable and effective than the typical school approach. You are right about the solitude issue, although I’m unsure about whether this approach to learning is an intrinsically lonely pursuit or if there’s a possible society where it’s not.

I know I’m just speaking from my own experience and what works for me doesn’t necessarily work for everybody. But my claim isn't that everyone should do as I did, my claim is that you're wrong that a self-taught ML researcher would necessarily only be able to make superficial contributions because they are bad at math.
Like the new "Windows Terminal" project - EXCELLENT marketing strategies in recent years.

I still don't trust them, but credit where credit is due.
Malthus Says I Told You So
The Future Crew demo before Second Reality was actually called Unreal [0], hence that track name Unreal II.

The Unreal video game soundtrack was also from demoscene musicians. The one I remember most was "Mechanism Eight" [1] from Unreal Tournament, written by Andrew Sega, aka Necros in the demoscene. He's also got a couple of great non-demoscene solo albums as The Alpha Conspiracy, worth looking up on Spotify.

[0] https://youtu.be/InrGJ7C9B3s

[1] https://youtu.be/qR9kvbXt4tk
Who your parents are can make your journey easier or harder, but it's always ultimately up to you to do the work.

What would have happened to tech if a young Steve Jobs had said to himself "My father was a Syrian immigrant and my mother was pushed to give me up for adoption else be rejected by her family, so my life isn't likely to be a success."?
If you don't want to go to washingtonpost (which I don't as I feel their GDPR process is not worth it) and was wondering who the article was about the singer was David Olney, age 71.

on edit: Guardian link https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/20/david-olney-ac...
The (Short) Story of MINI
There is something to be said for breaking through local energy barriers to access new spaces, that's not with the intention of chasing particular milestones, but it is driven by some objective function.
Not from #coders, but I remember the days of #trax...
In general, I'd agree with that assessment, but the debt-based metaphor also reaches its limits in a couple of cases.

One of which is that it is often really hard to quantify, but that does not seem to stop many non-technical manager types from trying to treat it like financial debt nontheless.

Another one is that unlike financial debt, which should be controlled by various organization-internal mechanisms, tech debt is often not something management is conscious about (at least when it is "created"). I've seen far too many examples of horrible code that can simply be explained with lazyness or incompetence, but I'm pretty sure management never called for a hard to use, unnecessarily complicated API.

Also, if the tech debt is caused by management, it is usually an implicit byproduct of unrealistic time constraints, and I'm pretty sure in those cases they would often choose find another solution too if they were conscious about how bad the problem they're creating really is.

Edit: Either that, or their incentives are way off because they don't have to deal with the consequences. Which is also the real cause why financial debt is usually strictly controlled.
I’m not sure our genetics encodes all the physics of being a person. A human brain is so complex we’re not even close to simulating it on silicon
These kinds of sites really could use a "Top 100" or "Most Popular" feature for when you just want to see what's on tap and don't necessarily have a specific book in mind.

Amazing resource, though. After recording a short story I wrote, I have even more respect for people who volunteer their time to librivox. I had to do a surprising amount of editing and re-takes just reading my tiny story. Could barely get through a paragraph without some sort of error, even if it was just a weirdly timed breath.
"We're clever enough as individuals, but not enough as a collective, especially a collective of seven billion people. We can't get everybody to act in the interests of everybody, and we can't get our present selves to act in the interests of future people. Put the two together—billions of people, and a century from now—and you get the stampede toward the edge."
Kudos on showing your kids real-world examples of how bad stuff is done and the consequences of it, but on the other hand by reading your list it seems like there’s so much danger out there it would be a miracle if any kid manages to survive.

Counterpoint: grew up with full unrestricted access to the internet - parents were both trusting me not to do bad things and also clueless about technology. Saw things most parents would consider the end of the world (aka pornography), somehow it didn’t kill me or seemed to affect me in any way and I still ended up fine.
Condolences to his family and friends, but for an entertainer, I can think of no better thing that you remember last in the world, and that is to be entertaining people and to be in the middle of your craft when the reaper taps you on the shoulder.

Somehow, me collapsing on my keyboard mid code doesn't seem all that great way to go. I will have to get another passion that I am mid stream in and enjoying life to the max before I have to cross the river Styx...
Not at all, thanks! I stumble on these every time I inadvertently translate things directly from my native language. Ill be more careful thanks.

Corrected, by the way.
Look at Venice. They try very hard to keep short-term visitors out because all the locals hate them.

Also, look at New Zealand closing off what used to be public parks to limit the pollution and environmental damage caused by tourists.
This is stupid. of course you can die, that’s no excuse for giving up on human values.
Or we could spend a lot of money on technology which is actually serving the public good
Dump them and use an alternative? Not sure why you’d give them more money after they basically stole from you the first time.
That happened years ago in Italy as well: Mango was his name
Being an employee of a rich person is not "rubbing up against money". The point is that you need rich people to see you as either a peer, or as someone they can nuture and mentor.
Imagine how much we could have progressed if we just focused on progress rather than acquiring power through intimidation in some artificial zero sum game.
I think this was already interesting to see with the host of different payment services which seem to be very resilient locally. Nubank in Brazil, Monso in the UK, Africa has a host of local companies, Revolut in Europe and so on.

There is lot more nuance and regional difference than people thought and I think a lot of companies with questionable business models that bet on world domination will have some problems in the future.
How does this deal with things like open source licenses which explicitly state there’s no warranty, expressed or implied?
I'd wager that a considerable portion upvotes for the title and comments alone.
> One person living forever is not really be a big deal. But everyone?

I think any society that is capable of letting humans live forever — on the scales being discussed — would probably be virtualizing sentiences instead of relying on wasteful fleshy bodies.

Living via a human body would be a novelty experience, a vacation, a limiting of capabilities and senses.

Essentially, I think your point would be mostly mute by the time we develop true immortality.
> Polish studio

ZA/UM is absed in Estonia.
If Alitalia means thay you also live in Italy, maybe Libraccio? I don't know how selling to them works, but I often get (random) hard-to-find books at a decent price there.
Barnes and Nobles
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Sure, but then you need to install also python environment for Ansible,on a machine where only Apache or nginx are needed
I remember an accountant for a company that built and tuned organs talking about their search for field service guy. He said it's a difficult position to fill. A candidate needs perfect pitch. Familiarity with religious sects and church music because the organ needs tuning according to the music played and cultural expectations of the parish[1]. They need to be able to navigate church politics. And be willing to travel to the middle of nowhere on a regular basis. And mechanically adept.

[1] He said some music is designed to be played on a rich earthy sounding organ and others on one that more pure and ethereal. Tune the organ the wrong way and they'll horrified what you did.
I talked to a doctor at Stanford and he mentioned to me one reason why the main Stanford Health and Stanford Children's Health have separate patient portals (not unified) that you have to create separate logins for is because of the huge amount Epic wanted to charge to merge them. (They both run separate Epic instances as far as I can tell)
Uh he sold all his shares below $30. It’s at $35 now.
Did Nim compile times improve? I wrote a production project in it which was about 50k loc and I spent most time waiting for compilation.
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Not necessarily. Nuclear weapons have thus far arguably been the single greatest global stabilizer of all time.
> As their opening example of problems they cite a podcast which they claim committed plagiarism because the host rehashed her own series of articles on a topic. Is copying from yourself plagiarism?

The Crime Junkie host, Ashley Flowers, was alleged to have plagiarized the work of Cathy Frye, a journalist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
if you're in the US, see if there's a UU congregation in your area; it might be just what you're looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Imre Lakatos
You can try with ffmpeg to upscale video and improve quality. On GitHub there are some tools that do a pretty decent work upscaling up to 4K
The paradox of stagnant real wages yet rising ‘living standards’ in the UK
I can definitely understand that. I wouldn't post such ignorant armchair speculation on a physics forum. But on HN? Why not?

Meta-physics is inscrutable (unless something leaves the realm of meta-physics). What's the harm in speculating about it? Like the simulation hypothesis, for example.

I understand it touches on real things here, like dark energy, but it's just dumb fun to try to conceive of if anything could lie beyond the universe and what it could possibly be if there is anything. It's likely forever unfalsifiable, but in some sense that's what makes it a fair subject for laymen. If it were testable, then you have to leave it to the professionals.

I know I have zero understanding of physics. I don't have any attachment to this or any other speculation. I'm not a crank or something. But it's impossible to not wonder about the nature of reality and the formation of the universe, you know? The fact that it's unknowable within our lifetimes, and probably forever, is the driving factor.

I like seeing how real physicists answer this question, too, in interviews and podcasts. They always hedge it with "of course this is wild speculation", like everyone should. I see I didn't really hedge my initial post, which was a mistake. This was a random thought triggered by that other post, not something I actually believe whatsoever.
Ah yes, all that military innovation that's been improving the education system over the years....
There are a few which are really great. Basically my shortcut is Chris Mungall involved then it is logically and biologically ;) sound.

While we at SIB are more towards the RDF/SPARQL part of the spectrum (https://edu.sib.swiss/course/view.php?id=440). We do use OWL and obofoundry projects like Uberon and GO. For UniProt I took a lot of pain to make sure it is really compatible. We did the same for Rhea and ChEBI. This has paid of handsomely in new query capabilities.
My partner and I were lucky enough that her pregnancy turned out fine in the end, but we had several scares during pregnancy (bleeding, visit to the ER, ultrasound that needed to be repeated because something needed was not seen...) so I can at least imagine what you have been through, at least to the extent a man who hasn't been through an actual miscarriage can. We also waited to tell our parents, and only told other people and celebrated very late in the pregnancy, due to fears of miscarriage.

Best of luck and best wishes to you. I hope it works this time. If it does, I'm sure everything will feel worth it.
1. Everyone can have one kid and we will merely double the amount of humans. This is because it takes 2 persons to produce one kid. And the infinite series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8.... sums up to 1.
Could it be based on a sale, thus products obtained for free have no warranty? There’s also the argument that with open source code you had the chance to verify it in advance and notice any flaws, thus by obtaining the software despite that you’re acknowledging the flaws are “features” of the software.
It seems like the author is misusing the term “network effects” (superlinear value growth with more users) and confounding it with “your network” aka “who you know.”
No states legally recognized same-sex marriage before 1996. Same-sex marriage was a relatively new controversy at the time, but one major reason for that was because Republicans were able to use the issue to motivate their base by trying to preemptively curtail it. Furthermore, DOMA was passed with a broad enough majority that any veto would have been overridden anyway. Picking a fight on DOMA would have only further motivated efforts at the time to prohibit same-sex marriage with an amendment to the US Constitution.

The 1993 ruling in Baehr v. Lewin simply remanded the case to a different count; it did not "find bans on GLB marriage unconstitutional". In fact, by the time the final ruling happened (as Baehr v. Miike), the Hawaii constitution had been amended anyway.
I would love to see this for kakoune.
ICD11 is at least going the semantic way ;) e.g. http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1435254666
We crawl the fare information ourself from the airlines'websites.
If only the military complex benefiting from war were forced to pay profits to veterans.
Name one town that has put the hotels & motels right smack in the middle of the residential areas, intermingled with homes.
Repeat of WWI, to be honest, with all these technologies clashing together for the first time. There weren't a lot of "ethical considerations" to using chemical weapons when the alternative was losing thousands in another doomed charge out of the trenches. Same with WWII, where the US would rather open Pandora's box of the Nuclear Age than risk a ground invasion of mainland Japan.
Hotels are much easier to regulate than if every person becomes a fake entrepreneur by renting out their apartment.

Plus zoning rules help to keep an area livable. That's why people usually live in quiet areas and then walk over to the cafes down the road.

In Germany, you are required to bring plastic bags so that you can take home your dog's poop. Many tourists don't know that, so ever since a neighbor started offering his spare room on Airbnb, our neighborhood became covered in dogsh. As a result, everyone now treats the AirBnb tourists with contempt, which I guess is also not nice for them.

And why do you assume that AirBnb will not go to the top 1%?

For entering the short-term-rental market you first and foremost need enough money to buy a nice city center apartment in addition to your actual home. That sounds like Chinese investment bubble to me, not like the struggling middle class.
Can someone explain this:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=8.8.8.8

?
I do not see this as a bad thing. I would rather live happily ever after than take life-ending risks.

That said, I disagree with the premise. Any true form of immortality would virtualize us. As individuals we would be able to take risks as never before. Paragliding through dangerous canyons? Why not? Worst case scenario your fleshy avatar dies, and you wait a few weeks in a virtual utopia as a new one is printed.

And even that is only if we choose to continue to confine ourselves to human qualia. Being virtualized would enable us to experience the universe in whole new ways - who would want to constrict themselves to mere human experiences ever again?

I think this short story explains these concept really well. Don’t worry about the cliche romance backstory - it was written in 1989: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
In New Zealand they are closing off certain forests to stop the spread of a fungus. Our government is considering charging for entry to enter national parks to reduce visitors, but there is a lot of local opposition to this.
It is a combination of licensing. Snomed-CT is there in part via ULMS. But these days there is an official Snomed and Loinc via FHIR maintained by their hosting organizations.
Yeah it's possible that fearful people have intentionally made us lonely and isolated so they can feel safer.
but if you didn't board that flight, the flight would still happen, and the efficiency just dropped since it carried one less passenger.

Unless you can convince a large amount of passengers to not travel at all (and i meant not travel, rather than switch to a different mode of transport), there is no reducing carbon emissions.
Is this still a feature and if so how do I access it?
How is that so many American libertarians fail to get the concept that you pay taxes because you benefit directly in terms of infrastructure and public services? And why do you often focus much more on social welfare "mooching", which is a miniscule amount compared to the amounts paid into corporate and military-industrial welfare?

I'm left wondering: if it ends at insulin, where does solidarity begin for you?
Quadratic Sync Problem
It's been designed already; the 34 mil is to pay for a review. If that's successful there'll be much more money available to build it and do some tests.
Another thing I noticed is that the screenshot app seems to be able to extract content title from the app and uses that as the file name if you save the screenshot to Files.
> “where ethical considerations are completely removed from battle”

I’m surprised you say that. Having tired, squishy humans in a hot, cramped box fearing for their life is not exactly a guarantee of “ethical considerations”.

Remotely controlled weaponry removes said humans from the immediate danger. It’s a lot easier to apply ethical considerations, when you can be certain a moment of hesitation won’t cause your death.

Fully autonomous weaponry moves the ethical decision making even further up the chain. Where cold heads can do all the thinking beforehand.

Now, don’t get me wrong: There is a lot of ills with remotely controlled/autonomous weaponry. Chiefly among them that it removes certain costs from the political calculus. Politicians fear the spectacle of their troops dying. This fear moderates their decision making. Removing this cost will make the world a worse place. But i would hardly call this an “ethical consideration”.
So no running MUMPS code on Google Cloud then?
Please note, this was posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101188
In the same situation, I received the double order. Driver said it's not his problem and take it up with Uber. From reading online stories, if you try denying the second order after it's started you will still be charged twice.
Meh. No doubt there are snobs in the field, but in my experience most of the grit and innovation tends to come from solid engineers without a language/compiler focus, let alone the phd.
Remedies are only applicable to "Any buyer of consumer goods injured by a breach of the implied warranty".

I suppose software might count as a consumer good when sold in tangible form (e.g. a boxed copy of TurboTax), but you're not a 'buyer' when you get software for free. And IANAL but a software licence (what you pay for when you 'buy' software online) doesn't seem like a consumer good. And even if the licence were a consumer good, the licence probably won't malfunction.
To what end, fistfucker3000? How do you convince people to spend unlimited amounts of money other than by convincing them that their very survival depends on it? And the threat needs to be acute, too: this is what they're trying to do with climate change now, but nobody really gives a shit about something that may or may not happen 50 years from now.
After our recent month-long rent in US the host tried to bill us for some minor (and likely preexisting, anyways, who actually even tries to notice things like cooking pot wear on check in?) wear and tear in total for $1000 or so. Was a bit shocking since we are using the service for years and are far from destructive tenants. Airbnb sided with us and cancelled their request. What else to tell?
Apparently Airbnb does not like to lose its own money, but also does not allow to extract unjustified value like that.
Gonna be honest - once we have backups, I'm totally intending to go into seriously risky behaviors. So this is 100% the opposite of how I intend to live my life.
Did the users accept having their data moved?
There is a variant of FreeBSD with terrific graphics support, and although limited to just one hardware vendor, there’s no doubting its popularity: it’s in every PlayStation 4.

There’s FreeBSD in almost every data centre. But it’s at a level most application developers just never see. Many infrastructure elements - from storage heads, to core routers, to enterprise application and security appliances - have chosen FreeBSD as the high quality, reliable, consistent, and liberally licensed base for their control plane software.

The point being, this is where FreeBSD has the greatest influence and adoption: as a platform, not the product, and not at all obvious even to those that thereby rely upon it.

That being said, yes it works great as the instance OS in EC2 and as a die-hard acolyte since 2.1-RELEASE you’ll pry my production application jails from my cold dead hands