skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps hubristic is an unfair description.

As far as I know Sacks was treating patients with L-DOPA on a hunch, based on the surface similarities if their symptoms with Parkinson's. Positive results for L-DOPA with Parkinson's had only been published the year previously.

Doctors like Sacks were happy to really explore with their patients. You can see from his books just how many things he tries to get through to them, and into their heads.

Nowadays it seems that psychiatry treats depression etc. like a solved problem, and continue to use tools and medications that work marginally better than placebo. Promising experimental therapies like ketamine and psilocybin have been stuck in the pipeline for decades.

I know Sacks is an exceptional doctor, and that there were downsides to this 'see what sticks' approach, but I highly recommend his books if you want to get depressed about the state of modern medicine.
Someone forgot to tell him that he can turn on scaling and set different virtual resolution.

macOS handles this very good, at work I'm using two 27" 4k displays side by side with virtual resolution set to 2560x1440 which gives me no problem with size of icons/apps and very good image quality at the same time.
If it makes you feel any better, [apples] is still predominantly about the fruit.

(I mean, ads still show the computer, but I'm assuming no one is doing brand-building ads online for the fruit.)
Is there anyone actually choosing MS Access for new projects in 2020?
> definitely don't say your tech lead is an idiot

I’m curious to know why you recommend this. The poster should perhaps not use those same words, but isn’t it worthwhile giving honest feedback?
Maybe try one or two of the other half dozen examples. And spend an extra second or two looking at how the images stretch to fill the screen, think about what it would take to make the image stretch the way it does.

BTW, “responsive image” referring to having the image respond to resize, with anything other than uniform stretch, is absolutely standard terminology in web development.
Or we would speak as our forefathers have, of stuffkenning and farbkenning and amberkenning. Unclefts and flytrains, not the other words in our wordheap.
My personal story: Last year I went from a Dell 24" (1920x1200) to a Benq 32" (2560x1440). I deliberate didn't choose a 4k because I knew that without at least 150% scaling, my poor 48 year old eyes wouldn't be able to read anything, so 4k seemed pointless. Additionally, I use a wide gamut of software, half of which is not hiDPI aware.

Overall, I'm really happy with my Benq 32" it strikes a nice balance between being a larger screen, but still readable at 100% scaling.
Doesn't that make a plane less engine-fault tolerant? Completely noob here, but I would feel better if I flew in a 4-engine plane than 2-engine. In a 4-engine plane, even if 2 engines faults (like, bird strike), the other 2 will still make the plain airbone.
A lot of the long term deficits came from tax cuts mainly for upper incomes. I don’t see why those couldn’t be reverted. The whole line “bashing the rich” doesn’t make sense to me. They had it really good over the last few decades compared to most other citizens.
> For a small business owner it's "am I better off selling it off and getting a regular job?"

There is a lot of ego in a decision like that. Easy economically, very very hard emotionally.
Why the glutamate? I find foods high to glutamate to make me want to eat more of them.
There are also quite a few all-you-can-eat-sushi buffet places in Turku, all with the same price of around 10€ during lunchhours.

A interesting part that was left out from the initial post is that we have these "lunch coupons" in Finland. AFAIK most employers provide these for their employees either as part of the total compensation or allow the employees to buy them tax free. The idea is basically that you get lunch for the coupon, the max valued coupon is currently worth 10,70€. Seeing how more or less all restaurants that serves lunch accepts these coupons I don't think it is possible to charge much more than the max valued coupon.
I regret not knowing about cross-platform development such as Flutter and ReactOS.

I also regret not buying a book explaining all the concepts in as simple a manner as possible. As a semi-amateur programmer, I feel like most of the documentation is meant to refresh the memories of people who have been developing apps for years; they're extremely beginner-hostile.
Here is the 3blue1brown video that is alluded to in the article: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE
5M residents left Wuhan before lockdown, mayor reveals
Sharing strings between multiple notification channels in Rails
I am actually not surprised. I shoot down a lot of ideas regularly (I am in a few startup groups).

> 50%+ people pursued ideas which were not their own itch to scratch.

I can think of few reasons -

1. They are jumping into unknown places because they already know about companies and software in the topics they are familiar with and think they can't compete on technical bases alone. The catch is they are woefully unaware of solutions in those unknown places. It's easy to get something rolling anyways.

2. They fight in terms of pricing model or other metrics than on product as a whole on easy to push services. As a solo founder and owner, you can afford to price it lower than a team of many working full time or adjust it to 2% unhappy users. You don't need millions in revenue.

> 30%+ didn't validate before building. 20%+ just asked their audience. Effectively, 50%+ just jumped into it without doing any significant and rigorous testing. Probably because the cost of entry and failure is too low?

This is not specific to SaaS , the effects are greater partially explained by your mentioned reason a lot. But software is more magic to people in terms of earning money than other hardened ventures so no surprise it's hard to validate and find market for. Interestingly, lot of techies ignore simple ideas or immediate problems because they think they could have written a small script to solve it instead of being dependent on an external company if they were an employee yet that didn't happen, so why not?. More people need sales training and peeking outside their echo chamber (only companies who need software are tech companies or devs and normal internet users.)

> 80% don't offer a forever free plan

Economic viability and people want to generally ditch products and switch around a lot.

> Most founders don't know their website visitor to trial conversion rates.

> Asking for a credit card before a free trial has almost no correlation with revenue growth.

Mentioned by others already. It's pretty hard to account for. If you post your thing in technical places only (many people who open SaaS are pretty biased in their social network), lot of people are eager to test the thing but they don't convert into long term paying customers. I have noticed many people being burnt this way.
Pretty easy to get cheaper deals too when you've been a customer for a few years.

I pay £5/m for unlimited data, 600mins, unlimited texts on Three. I know I've been super lucky with that deal in particular.
There's one of those in another corner of the mall, I should try one day. But are rodizios usually all-you-can-eat too?
Little DSL to make data processing sane with clojure.spec and spec-tools
As another declared 16:10 fan, I do suspect most of my hatred of 16:9 is really just needing more than 1080 vertical pixels for coding not an actual dislike of 16:9 aspect ratio.
It's a little flimsy to ascribe causality in the headline
Buffet style places are popular in singapore, but often cost around SGD100 per person.
'Instanceless'. Because the difference is that you outsource and forget any questions about the instance(s) of the service (and whatever supports it, like the os process, the kernel, the vm, the real machine, the datacenter).
Accountability in Sw Dev
Assets aren’t revenue though; I don’t think profit margin and ROA are comparable.
It's a 5% margin on the sales, not on the capital.

The least you can expect is that a business sale is much larger than the capital stopped at it. Otherwise it is in great trouble, even on high margin markets.
Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
A casual computer user is going to figure out they need to comment out a GRUB line?

Nope. That is an experience that will push them right back to OSX or Windows.
This is something quite- interesting. The disconnect from felt reality to actual reality.

Capital punishment and brutal punishments never did deter the truely desperat, who are usually squeezed by society and physics. And yet, they continu existing.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl...

Our brain creates a raging feeling, that demand pain to be treated out to percieved wrong doers.

That the wrongdoing might have been to set children in a world with no jobs, no future and no proper parenting, is ignored.

That it is applied without deterence or change of effect. Ignored.

Just a animal scratching a itch, no matter what.
Yes, that is the proposal. Rounding doesn’t correct errors though, it can make the error grow faster. Rounding just keeps you from dealing with sub-pennies.
Soft stretchable polymer battery may power flexible wearable skin sensors
My current PSU provides cabling to power 4 SATA devices off of a single 6 pin port (of which I don't think it uses all the pins). I don't think it'll eat a bunch of space at all.

Of course if eSATAp is any indicator I would not be surprised if no additional space was used, just a thicker cable.
Curves are just accelleration in a different direction. Tires would degrade just as quickly.
You're complaining about things like the clock not being visible - that sounds a lot like you just didn't try the scaling.
Perhaps we can reconsider recycling of paper products as a first step?

If you send a paper bag to the landfill it’s buried in the ground (sequester), a tree is cut down to make a new paper bag, and a new tree is planted to make new material for more bags. Thus carbon is continuously captured from the air and buried deep.

If you recycle a bag then the old tree dies of old age and decomposes releasing the captured carbon back into the air. The new tree repeats the cycle, with no net carbon capture.
My current understanding is that DECIMAL (a.k.a. NUMERIC) is the recommended type for monetary values in PostgreSQL.
>focuses on the ageism amongst startup founders.

Shallow, perhaps. But the article isn't even about ageism; it's about vanity in the tech world. And it says as much in the title.

The best part:

"Neumann would be Odin, striding around with his retinue. He does look rather like a Viking."

Neumann is 6'5, skinny and "nerdy". Is that what the stereotypical viking looks like nowadays? The idea that being above average height makes you some physical specimen is absurd.
I thought I remembered reading that a lot of the torture devices in those museums were never actually used, they were created for museums just like this many years ago.
Initiator Creator – My second attempt to create a community for side hustlers
SwiftUI isn’t UIKit-specific. Display Postscript hasn’t existed since the OS was called NeXT, 20+ years ago, and was never on any iDevice. Cocoa is an alias for AppKit + CoreData, and iOS uses CocoaTouch instead.
Basically the reason is you can't just kill a thread that shares memory with other threads. Go doesn't even have an ability to kill goroutines, so your only choices is manual context tracking and manual cancellation in every piece of code. But if you are in a an event loop, for example, you can just destroy any client at any point. Same with actors, if you are in an actor, you can just kill other actors.
I personally blame ICANN more than the corporations here.

No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD. They're TLDs, they're for giant collections of people, places and things.

But once ICANN says, "Hey, would you like to buy <.YOURCOMPANY>? It'd be a shame if someone else did.", most any company is going to say, "Goddammit, fine", and then once you've spent the money on it, you might as well start using it, with store.YOURCOMPANY and about.YOURCOMPANY and mail.YOURCOMPANY, and now the conventions of hierarchical domains and the very notion of URLs is meaningless.

I do blame all of us webdevs for getting cutesy with with making the TLD part of your company/domain name.
I’m most excited KDE/Plasma on the mobile. Once people get Linux working smoothly on the Pinephone, etc I think the Plasma interface could be a sane default that’s already available.
It's a problem but it's also an opportunity. Maybe I should only look at pitches from founders under 6ft, since I'll get a bargain playing off of people's dumb instincts.
This a completely useless academic discussion.. some people build stuf, some stuff bring money and other dont.
I don't normally comment on the presentation format instead of the content, but using this slideshow was extremely frustrating and really detracted from my ability to learn from it. It's really unusual to have scrollable elements inside slides, it's very very frustrating to also have scroll gestures on a trackpad inside those elements skip a bunch of slides. There's content that just is not accessible without doing a lot of work, and that's disappointing.

With all of that said, this is super useful and helps me understand postgres better than I already did.
For the same reason there's certain foods that I almost never allow myself to buy at the grocery store (like Pirate's Booty) -- I will eat it until it's gone and then feel bad.

I probably go to an all-you-can-eat buffet once every couple years, and that's enough. Interestingly I'm not including Indian buffets or hotel breakfast buffets in that count; those don't trigger the same "you must eat everything in sight" urges for whatever reason.
If they said "high cost of living" they would be a lot less wrong.

I would expect the vast majority of people moving to lower expenditures to be paying far more in rent than taxes, and saving far more (in absolute terms) post move in rent than taxes.
Software is not really an industry though, it’s just sometimes grouped that way because it’s relatively new. The thing that makes margins low in general is commoditization and the relatively high COGS of physical materials and manufacturing costs. In pure software plays COGS is generally extremely low so there is no cost floor (hence freemium), but also the product can be literally any conceivable logic or data processing which means it can only be commoditized along more specific market lines.

Consider for example the forces driving Uber/Lyft margins vs Google/Facebook margins.
I don’t get it, then any db can be classic serverless if they run in the same computer as the app?
Hi everyone, thank you for all the comments.

We've decided to live together but only for a few months now...

We don't have any separate working environment so our living room would be the only place we spend our time, both working and not working.

Judging by your feedback I'd say that would be a risky move to say the least... as we wouldn't have anywhere else to go and unwind.

I think this is sorted now, thanks again!
Hoops
Anecdotally, there is a link. SALT caps were the last straw for many high-income former New Yorkers.

If you travel a lot for work and pleasure, it isn’t difficult to fall below the residency thresholds. You’re still paying tax for the time spent in e.g. New York or California. But the other income can be shifted to a lower-tax jurisdiction.

I’m staying in New York. But there is a limit at which the tradeoff is worth it.
If I recall correctly Walmart operates with low single digit margins for most goods. They make up for it with favorable vendor terms; I read that a can of green beans sold by WM will turn over 6 times before they have to pay the vendor for the first can.
Relevant: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-millenn...

> When tax rates are not explicit, millennials say they'd prefer larger government offering more services (54 percent) to smaller government offering fewer services (43 percent). However when larger government offering more services is described as requiring high taxes, support flips and 57 percent of millennials opt for smaller government with fewer services and low taxes, while 41 percent prefer large government.
The largest expense if probably seating and serving you, not the food.
Why is defining a functon called toilet UB? (it is not even B, in my opinion)
Please make an active effort to support your local library and it’s funding. Consider running for a trustee or other governance position to further this endeavor.
ProCD, Inc. vs. Zeidenberg
Good talk on the challenges of modifying gravity:
https://youtu.be/iu7LDGhSi1A?t=1159
> If you have a very small percent of your population pay an ever increasing share of the tax burden, it’s quite easy for them to avoid it (move to Florida).

This is why I like the idea of a federal property tax and a federal VAT. Sure, these taxes are not exactly progressive but couple high taxes with generous rebates (my own proposed name-pending housing allowance to soften the super high annual seven percent of property value federal property tax) in addition to the already well known freedom dividend (USD 1000 per month universal basic income) by one of the Presidential candidates. Taxation at the state or local level can't work. If we enshrine interstate commerce, we cannot allow capital/wealth to pit communities against one another. Look at Kansas City, Missouri. It is ridiculous that it has to keep offering lower taxes for businesses to not move across state line to Kansas (because Kansas City, Kansas keeps offering lower taxes). State and local governments are NOT sovereign and we must take away taxation from them for their own good.

Canada apparently has a carbon tax that gives people money back so as long as your carbon footprint isn't too much, you don't pay a lot in additional taxes.
I did, the clock was too small or my eyes aren't really good
You do realize it's serious issue in the region when the world's superpower that is known with coups in the region is threatening you your neighbor with force? For people living there, including the politicians, it's not just another news. Sounds more than reasonable excuse to cancel the meeting.
People who do these stats should see where the investment is for people who left.

1. Are they moving to Florida to take advantage of a tax shelter alone or have they also sold off any NY/California real estate. That is, people move for strategic reasons even if they believe in California/NY

2. Young people vs Retirement - retiring to Florida is not a new thing.

3. Wouldn’t you want old people to move away from high cost cities so young can move in?
Thanks, and it's nice to hear that about Python! I don't know why I am surprised, as the more forward thinking folks at (even such a place as) my work are having a Python api built for the stuff they look after presently (their bit does structural analysis). That should make design generation/variation/optimization a lot more fun.

I guess my fear was that all Python jobs (that I'll find) are going to be "machine learning" -- but really that would just mean data munging to feed Tensor Flow (or similar lib) and post process. Total snooze fest unless "post process" means something more like design generation/variation/optimization - and we are back to the api.
I’ve started going more, but mostly to Brazilian steakhouses. You will stop eating steak exactly when you are satiated. I actually lose weight if I go a few days in a row.
I think the issue is that ROIC is harder to assess and harder to understand than a simple profit margin calculation. For reference, in it's heyday Windows-and-Office Microsoft had a 42% ROIC.
"Engine braking" isn't just letting the engine spin down at 0 throttle. Propper engine braking, aka "Jake brake", is letting the engine spin at 100% throttle but zero fuel input (and some valve trickery). This lets air in to be compressed, releasing it before the down stroke of the piston. No car does that. It is a separate installed system on trucks. It can be almost as powerful as the engine. In a car, it could handle all but emergency braking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_b...

When you hear a truck making popping noises like a machine gun, that's the Jake brake in action.
No, there’s still some form of IPC going on then. SQLite is an embedded database - everything happens in the memory space of the same application. Of course you can still throw a web front-end in front of your application but there’s still no extra hop to the database, per se.
Europe is planning to introduce a new version of GDPR addressing this.

If your company sells to females, you should have at least 50% women in your company's leadership. And you need to keep records for at least 10 years to prove that at no point ever did your company's female to male ratio go below 50%.

Also, if a woman visits your site, you should have explanatory popups which explain this new benefit. You know, just in case they somehow didn't know about it because they just landed on Earth after their trip to Mars.

You also cannot add to your prices just for compliance, and if you do, the prices should be increased for males also.

Lastly, if you ask people whether they are male or female before they enter your site, you may be fined up to $10 million Euros.

And if you are a woman who resides in Europe and don't like this law, you cannot choose to opt out, but you are welcome to renunciate your country's citizenship.
Unnecessarily hostile comment. Sweden remained neutral through the war and did not partake in the fighting, as far as I know.

They didn't allow troop movements into Norway, but did allow troops to move through from Norway, into Finland. They allowed off-duty German soldiers to travel between Norway and Germany, and sold iron ore to Germany.

They also shared intelligence with the Allied forces, helped train Danish and Norwegian troops to liberate Denmark, allowed Allied forces use of its airbases, took in a lot of Jewish refugees from Norway and Denmark, The Swedish Red Cross sent buses to evacuate concentration camp inmates, and RAoul Wallenberg used his diplomatc status to save tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary as well.
A set of pads typically lasts about as long as a set of tires (at the very least they're within a factor of two of each other). Compare relative volumes of materials. Brake dust is always going to be a much smaller source of particulate matter in the air than tire dust.

FWIW if the fumes/particulate from burning them are any indication tires are probably way nastier than brakes.
Choose your adventure:

- people using their phones during the movie

- people talking during the movie

- $15-20 for popcorn and soda

- droll hollywood plots

- seats too far in the back (unless you can book seats, and did so early enough)

- driving 20-40 minutes to a nice theater and parking

- can't bring in alcohol (unless your local theather allows it)
- no pausing/rewinding

- dwindling sales means higher ticket and concessions
prices, which makes less people go, and repeat

Yeah it's really a shocker that people want to watch movies at home. My home setup is really nice, and, well, it's my home.

However our local theater is $10/ticket. So we've caught some showings for new films like Uncut Gems, or stuff like Studio Ghibli Fest that I actually wanted to see on the big screen.

Also at home I can watch old, cheesy Jackie Chan films from my collection with friends with some beers and laugh our heads off.
Hmm, so did Qualcomm miss out on a huge sales opportunity by bowing out? Or did they luck out not having to compete against vertical integration?
Having seen the effect of China and India getting a pass in the UN Climate summits -- because of where they were 30 years ago, no one should get a pass. Otherwise it'll be a source of much future regret.
See https://2019.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/