skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m processing your comment because i think i agree. The problem is that ‘minimalist’ is a little squishy. It would be hard to argue that the Amish aren’t self-reliant. I’m just trying to figure out if they would be considered minimalist. They are low on consumerism, but they have sprawl. Relatively large farms with lots of animals and barns and equipment. Dunno.

In my own little vision for a self reliant future i see room for lots of stuff...buildings, equipment, many tools, small ag, etc. Definitely in line with your comment.
I would be pissed too if I were a professor and some undergrads insisted on speaking about mathematics to me in Japanese simply because they view it as a "lingua franca". The argument that "English is the lingua franca" is akin to "let's use Electron because web is the most cross-platform".
These tweets are about how it's a scam to lenders, not PE as an investment. The way PE works, even as he lays it out, is pretty easy to understand. Why lenders keep lending? Who knows.

Playing devil's advocate with PE is where it gets a little interesting because PE tends to go after firms that are close to dying. Are they actually causing these failures, or are they just the ones delivering the bad news? Do they deliver shareholders some value by selling off what they can for scrap?
If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. If you don’t believe in that, then spare us your participation, and don’t vote. But please don’t express your lack of belief in competence by intentionally voting an incompetent leader into our most important office.

This pandemic is a world-wide A/B test on the difference between competence and incompetence, and we here in NYC now have to suffer because of votes we did not cast. Indeed, in spite of millions of votes we cast, that simply did not count.

The callous, purposeless, senseless disease came to us first, the lack of coordinated federal response harms us the most, but the contagion marches exponentially along — indifferently laying waste to grand life projects, solid small businesses, and urban vibrancy — and soon, it will come for us all.
But Twitter is a terrible idea so anything better than it doesn’t resemble it at all.
You're locked in at that point
Is there a Japanese version fo the paper available?
Easily the most interesting thing I’ve read on HN in the past month, I don’t think I’ve ever given wind a second thought due to my local climate.

Absolutely fascinating.
shameless plug...we made something very similar... covidneeds.com ... just a bunch of volunteers ..we've put this up over a weekend trying to help... very basic.. sorry, if I shouldn't be posting about it here...
If you get an S0C7, your JCL is probably fine (else you wouldn't get far enough to get a data exception).

JCL is just another scripting language. I found it fun. I did all the JCL for my group's production jobs and commented the hell out of the esoteric issues to help Operations triage things. A small, well-planned effort prevented a crapload of, well, crap.
That's kind of my experience with research, but in physics. Already have three projects under my belt w/ no publishable results. All of them involved much more work than the other grad. students in my lab including building like three different instruments from scratch, but the other students have published. Their projects were much more "safe" than mine and their papers are pretty small, but at least they have papers.
My condolences. It must be difficult to deal with these day to day things in such a trying time.

I had been planning to cancel my own Netflix subscription for a while, when my father passed away. For some reason I felt compelled to do it on that day. I don't understand what drove me to, but I vividly remember how petty it felt along with all other practical responsibilities while I was grieving.

I recommend that you take your time and mourn before worrying about these matters. It may have been a form of keeping occupied in my case.
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends on area

Technologies: Python, Javascript, Vue, Django

Email: nihongotraveler@icloud.com

CV: https://torgian.github.io/resume/

I'm a self-taught remote developer currently living in Taiwan. I'm looking for part-time contract work, possibly full time depending on your needs.

I've been working with a German company for the past two years developing a variety of applications. Most of my time is spent writing front-end code, though I've also developed back-end APIs and have spent lots of time debugging the past several months.
What is the technological advantage of proving the ABC conjecture? Seems like any application for it would comparatively take much more time to develop than whatever time advantage can be gained through obsfucation.
Storage cost vs bitcoin profits. Ezpz
I find pause/play to be super unreliable. Triggers accidentally (even just a warm sweater sometimes is enough), and other times not at all.

Not really important, but standing around and tapping on my headphone to trying and failing to pause the podcast I'm listening to feels pretty idiotic.

Edit: Have them since early October
Their own search for Cobol on their own site returns "Your search did not match any answers we have" - are they serious?
Early uses of X-rays included treatments for tonsils, asthma
> So many failures could be logged so I didn’t waste my time doing non-working or poor yielding reactions

In a different but related world, clandestine chemists share failures more often than they do their successes, at least in the communities I was a part of a very long time ago.

I'd wager this is because our substrates, reagents and solvents are such a pain in the arse to get compared to an actual lab, that wasting any of them is a no-go if it can be avoided.

Related to that, but we reused solvents and recycled material a lot more than I did doing my B.Sci in Chemistry, for the same reasons!
A hundreds years?
seconded. This is the most in-depth well-made explanation of computing I've seen on the internet.
This is super interesting.

I tried my first bake yesterday, and it... did not go well. Second try is currently forming. Fingers crossed.
Too many people haven't lived through hard times. They think that rules exist and they know what the rules are. The other day I was describing to a friend who has a company that will need funding in about 6 months, in a conversation where I was imploring him to cut his burn rate, about how things can go.

In 2001, VCs actually pulled back investments from startups. People think that once cash is in the bank it's theirs.
Fun fact: the third-party dump formatting package we had in the 80s could show line by line what assembly code corresponded to each line of COBOL. I actually diagnosed a CAPEX optimizer bug that way once.
> but how do researchers even figure out how to make these reactions happen?

Disclaimer: I'm terrible at organic chemistry.

As with software engineering, you develop a general sense (I didn't) of what might work and what probably won't. You aren't coming at it blind and reinventing the wheel every time. You learn to recognize patterns in chemical structures and reason about how they will interact under various conditions based on that. You do electron pushing in your head without giving it much thought, similar to a programmer reasoning about object lifetimes or dataflow in an application.

As to -100 C or +5 atm, that's the easy part. You alter environmental conditions when what you're working with is too reactive, or not reactive enough, or you have some other general problem. It's roughly analogous to determining the minimum amount of RAM the machine hosting your production database requires.
“Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they’re just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs”
― Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot
Yes, but good luck interpreting the output if you aren't an accomplished synthetic organic chemist.
There is. Some of it is quite powerful, too, but it has some (quite serious) limits: process chemists definitely aren't in danger of losing their jobs just yet!
I rely on the intelligence of my own mind to do exactly that, beeing able to observe yourself while you do things can be a invaluable skill (and it is in fact the foundation of all artistic skill)
If you look back in history, strange conspiracy theories and hysteria always grips the weak minded when things go wrong.
Is SQL injection still a bad thing if the user is restricted to
Replacing Eclipse with InteliJ was and still is a bin pain in the ....

Go over to any Android developer channel and see the discussion threads every time a new "stable" release comes out. Always with regressions, you need a gaming rig for any kind of usable development workflow, and C and C++ tooling get always the last bullet on support features.

Speaking of C and C++, it took almost two years, until InteliJ decided to create CLion, for Android Studio to provide any kind of support going forward to those NDK users left abandoned on Eclipse CDT with outdated Android plugins. Had InteliJ not released CLion, to this day Google would most likely not provided anything to NDK users.

So no, not everyone of us is happy with Android Studio.

If anything it made me appreciate Eclipse even more, given that it doesn't make my fans spin all the time, I can keep using my existing hardware for Java development, doesn't need ten finger shortcuts, has an incremental compiler, shows errors and Javadoc without having to do additional configurations.
I agree with your last sentence, but...

You don't have to be dumb to be inexperienced. An awful lot of startup founders are young and were propagandized endlessly about being entrepreneurs, etc. Downside risk is an alien concept to many of them. Many of them do not actually know how to cut expenses because they've never known a time when the now-no-longer current fluffy, cushy environment wasn't standard.
Amish are definitely not minimalist. The array of tools Amish carpenters have and are skilled with is very impressive.
Wolfman is most certainly Wolfman Jack, the 50s/60s DJ and cultural icon, immortalised in George Lucas' American Graffiti.

His whole name is mentioned in the fourth verse, and he did start his broadcasts by howling.
Wow, if they don’t have folks who can lead this redesign development project (SDLC? Ever seen a highly critical emergency project where the SDLC was not the first thing sacrificed in support of expediency?) 2nd is QA & testing. Their dates never change as slipping development dates are a given.
This thing sounds like something begging to come off the rails before it even starts (Governor begging for COBOL coders) while having degree requirements for that kind of legacy experience?
What’s the definition of a legacy system? Anything in production!
Bitcoin: The Definitive Guide (2020)
I hope cruising only recovers with big reforms including:

* Cruise firms pay their taxes and aren't allowed to use flags of convenience

* They're required to look after and pay their staff properly

* They're required to dramatically improve their fuel usage and efficiency

* They're required to protect the environment, in particular their mooring and waste disposal practices

* They're required to improve their onboard sanitation so that the spread of noroviruses, bacterial infections and other transmission is much better filtered and controlled.
Surprisingly these cheapo Anker Noise Cancelling headphones do support multi-point.

https://www.soundcore.com/products/variant/life-q20/A3025011

I was considering several different pairs including the Bose and picked up these as I couldn't stomach the cost of the more expensive headphones. At 60$ they are great, the noise cancelling is good enough. The battery life is amazing. I can sit down at my desk and use them all day while connected to my laptop and phone. If either device reports a "Call" coming in it gets priority and I hear the ring. 10/10 Experience for the price.
By design, bitcoin favors the miners with the most efficient equipment and naturally adjusts to advances in these technologies.

I think the other concepts are quite interesting as well. But it’s not fair to say bitcoin is design to destroy the environment as it can also drive people to design ever more efficient ways to produce energy.
Yes, you use the app to upgrade the firmware.
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No, it's not myopic.

Startups lose money, which means they are usually raising capital for runway, and can conserve as well.

Moreover, many startups don't have working capital requirements, retail rents, inventory etc..

Finally, a lot of products are digital and some booming.

So it's fair to say many startups have an advantage.
Unless working in a Halon-protected, 50-degree, raised floor environment confers immunity. It's only fair.
As far as I know millet can be eaten as a whole grain cooked with water or milk over an open flame. This would be akin to eating kernels of wheat without grinding them to flour and baking them with other ingredients.

So you could just eat wheat but IDK how digestible that is. Perhaps someone here does?Cream of Wheat and Malt'O'Meal are the closest I've had.
There all sorts of companies PE invests in, few are dying. Typically it’s companies where your firm can add value. They can be

1) Poorly run, just needing better management.
2) Poorly capitalized, just needing access to more capital to prosper.
3) Businesses that can be franchises, like restaurants.
4) regional businesses that can be combined (rolled up) into a more valuable national business.
5) National businesses that can be expanded internationally.
6) Liquidations, where the operating business is no longer viable but there are assets (real estate, buildings, patents) valuable enough to turn a profit on the purchase.
7) Inefficiently run with hidden assets. Companies that might own their real estate for example, but don’t reflect that in their price. You buy the company and sell the real estate to fund part of the purchase.

PE firms are no different than any VC, hedge fund or investment partnership. They usually have their own investors and get paid a yearly percentage for managing the investments, and a share of the profits.

Some of their investments will fail, some will succeed. If they make good profits for their investors they’ll get rich and do it as long as they want. If they lose money or struggle, they’ll lose their investors and have to close shop.
Sounds like a front for some (US or foreign) alphabet soup agency.
I recently switched my phone to route all internet traffic through Tor and the DDG browser on Android, but the hCaptcha challenges are even more exasperating than the ReCaptchas, and I've found my bounce rate close to 100%.

Is the abundance of hCaptcha challenges for those of us browisng CF-fronted properties in such a manner going to change any time soon?
They are an official content partner of Reuters. They pay to publish some of the same stories at exactly the same time and are therefore the original source.
I have existing contact with some people in a few of the organizations which has come following the game over the last few years on a personal level. I’ve travelled to some events, have conversations with some players but mostly coaches, analysts and production team members, and have been around the scene on a hardcore fan basis for a long time. Last season I created a fantasy league app and some advance stats collection. This season I didn’t feel like doing the fantasy app again because there were good enough options out there but got some requests for stats/rankings from some of the people I know. So I started that then pivoted it into a platform instead of creating a bunch of spreadsheets (even though I still end up doing that for them sometimes)
This is great! What I miss though is some search or filtering of flour type. I only use spelt and rye.
One advantage of a legacy system is that you can create your own great test data just by making appropriate extracts of your existing legacy data.

Where I worked, original test data was sparse and incomplete, and it avoided edge conditions. I, on the other hand, loved breaking stuff.
Absolutely. Self reliance is also a kind of luxury, that I wouldn't necessarily call better than minimalism only that the two are in contention.

Those 2x4s saved the literal day for us as the time away would've cost us a day's work ;)
They can just lie about experience can they not?
The only thing of interest is ideas are perhaps moving into real world action.

5G burning and trains running into ships today might be people in the streets over government inaction tomorrow.
Why does other people working on what they want to work on bother you? Do you think they owe you something?
I've owned a number of Bose products and have found every one to be void of disappointment. Great company.
> I have noticed that people pushing minimalism...or at least the idea of "throw it away and buy it if you ever end up needing it" is a luxury that I think many people take for granted.

I am inclined to disagree here and will say you're not making the full calculation.

One of the biggest costs that most people have in their life is paying for a place to live (be it rent or buying and maybe paying back for that). If you have fewer things this allows you to have a smaller space to live in. The reduced costs from that will more than make up for the occasional "I have to buy something that I might still have if I hadn't gotten rid of it a few years ago".
Why in the name of Satan is something like this written on Twitter? I stopped after the first 10. Twitter is not a platform for long form articles, or even relatively short form, honestly. I cannot understand why people write things like this on a platform not designed for it. I mean, when they're writing, I bet they think things like, "man, I wish there was a better way to write all my words at once and publish it for everyone"
Not to forget the amazing smell of freshly baked bread!
The schadenfreude isn’t necessarily directed towards individuals who choose to work at a startup and have the misfortune of being laid off. I believe it was meant towards an overly aggressive/ borderline reckless leadership mentality that has founders raise tens/hundreds of millions in capital, pump a majority into explosive, unfettered growth objectives, without having to exercise much of the fiscal conservatism that many other industries try to operate by. Working for a startup is inherently risky, but more so when founders are too aggressive and do not leave themselves options to retain employees during an unexpected crisis. If a positive outcome of this event is more conservative spending strategies by founders, that’s great. However, based on past patterns, that may be unlikely. And as an employee choosing to work in that world, YOU have to accept those possible realities.
It looks like a glide app , is that correct ?
Author here, thank you for the comment, you're right in the latest code I replaced it with clojure.data.csv but for the article I kept it that way to show that you don't need dependencies for such little utilities, split, map and zipmap and we're done.
I find that alarming you need to get new headphones so often. I've used my boses while commuting for over a year now with no trouble luckily, but this doesn't sound good.

My office headphones have always been Beyerdynamics. I've owned a pair of dt880s and now dt1770 pros and used them almost daily. The 880 I bought in 2003 and 1770 in 2016. Both work with no trouble and deliver perfect sound. I expect them to last for a few more decades...
Agreed, not buying what the article is selling, which is trying to connect a modern fad, its namesake art period, and political discussions on capitalism and socialism and society at large.
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I love that AC is real time, that has been one of the bigger draws for me since the original.

Few games have events around real life holidays (in real time), and give you a sense of jumping on to see what today has in store.

If AC is a game you try to rush through, then it may not be the game for you. But if you go in understanding and accepting it for what it is, you’ll enjoy it more.
I just like fresh bread without all the work ;). With a good bread machine, you only have to mix the ingredients (or purchase a nice mix) and the machine does the work for you. Ours never failed baking a good bread (except for the one time where I forgot to add yeast ;)).

We rarely buy bread at the store anymore.
Just out of curiosity, what does web lack that you need for your app ?
Yes. My bread never lasted long enough to reach the room temp.
Self reliance is probably more of an ideal than minimalism.

It didn't take much for man to realize he could do more by trusting another than figuring out how to do everything on his own.
But isn't buying millet just as un-minimalist as buying bread or wheat?
DC Subdomain Hacked
Show HN: Vuln Cost – immersive VS Code extension to surface vulnerabilities
Oral surgeon.
I discovered yesterday that loaf pan is mostly sold out in Target, Walmart. Guess people really have more time to do bakery due to the WFH.
Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire
> I assume there are formulas to determine how substrates and reagents will react with each other?

Well there are things we've experimentally tested, and things we haven't. Most reactions fall into the latter, and we can only make educated guesses about them.

If we could analytically solve the Schrödinger equation (we can't), we could accurately predict outcomes under perfect reaction conditions.

> are there many reactions in organic chemistry that are completely unknown?

Yes, the vast majority. But bear in mind that we can make educated guesses based on patterns, so we're not completely clueless.
Allan Sherman, the Weird Al Yankovic of his day, turned the tune from "Fascination" into "Automation" in 1963, a song about his RCA 503 sexually harrassing him:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsDFYUD5KUA&t=20s
Lenders only lend if they believe it’s going to be profitable. The vast majority of their loans are successful, and they charge enough interest to cover the losers and still make a reasonable return.

And predatory looting is mostly mythical. No one is going to give you large loans and allow you to loot the assets and walk away. The loans have lots of restrictions to prevent that.

What happens is that many PE firms like to use loans to leverage up their investments to increase returns. If you buy a company, fix it up and sell it for double in 7 years that’s a 100% return but only 10% a year. Borrow half the money at 7%, and now you only net a 75% return on the purchase price, but a 150% return on your investment, or 14% a year.

Try to borrow 80% and you can boost your returns nearly to 20% a year. Like a mortgage there is a natural tension between what lenders will lend you. They want to lend as much as possible, without assuming too much risk of default.

Sometimes the natural greed of the PE firm and the lender go to far, and you get a failed deal and a default.
I know the others, but what does ecology have to do with it?
I think this poster is generally making the argument for stocking yourself with multipurpose tools and discarding single task or infrequent task items. As a contrived example, a funnel is a tool which will come in handy in many situations. But an old baby toy will likely only come in handy when a nephew is over once per year. Heck a funnel is even a decent baby toy.
It's a good idea for a tool, but it could use a dough temperature and automatic schedule adjustment based on a modified temp.
I looked this up after reading about the Roman charioteers.

The racing team factions evolved into political and religious sects.
Deep, but subtle link between the psychology of minimalism and libertarianism.