skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Canon A-1 I got for about $40 bucks with a camera bag, a few lenses and some extra not-expire film. It's easy to shoot on, has an ok auto mode. Mostly it's easier for me to shoot on than with a phone and I can develop b/w and have a scanner at home. It's not all that hard all in to get good photos and have some physical photos.
This probably makes me sound like an old man, but probably the biggest thing keeping my interest in Python too low to really learn it was the syntax. I really like the c-like syntax of many languages, and Python’s use of significant whitespace instead of braces just seemed too foreign to me.

That said, even if it gives me the syntactic sugar I crave I don’t know how much I’d be willing to trust a little-used language that compiles to something more common, because I’d worry about how its maintenance goes.

If the software goes unmaintained, would the syntax of Python outgrow it and break it? Maybe new features wouldn’t be usable? So while that syntactic sugar is indeed tasty, I don’t think this is what I need to get going in Python.
"True Stories of Survivorship Bias"
Look at Steve Kaufmann as a counterexample - he's learned most of his languages after 40 (he was multilingual from a young age, but there is certainly a process that lets even older adults pick up languages quite straightforwardly)
Pray the Rosary daily. Talk about "ego death".

~JMJ
I think there's probably a few key conceptual ingredients at most, but it might be that the implementation is complicated. As an analogy: we know that mitochondria provide power to cells by oxidizing sugar and converting the energy to ADP/ATP, but how all of that actually gets carried out is very complex.
I really like Derek Sivers "Change Careers Like Tarzan" model https://sive.rs/tarzan

"I get emails from many people who want to make a big change in their career.

Each one wants to quit their current career, and boldly leap into their new venture or preferred lifestyle.

When they ask my advice, they think I’m going to say, “Yes! Quit! Go for it!”

But instead, they’re surprised at my suggestion:

Remember how Tarzan swings through the jungle? He doesn’t let go of the previous vine until the next vine is supporting his weight.

So my advice is: Change careers like Tarzan.

Don’t let go of the old one until the new one is supporting you.

And make sure you don’t lose momentum."
That’s hilarious, I was about to respond in some grumpy fashion about how it’s basically impossible for anyone to get any useful information or advice out of this article. I didn’t even notice this timeline.

Not even year into a career and the author already doesn’t like it.

I mean, it’s entirely possible that your first job just sucks. It’s entirely possible that your first company just sucks. I’d just look for a different job if it was me.

Dropping everything and becoming a particularly vague brand of entrepreneur isn’t going to work. A huge percentage of companies who have really serious complex business plans and even seed capital still fail. And here’s a junior-level person thinking they’re just going to start a successful business in a selection of vague categories (e.g. email marketing - I don’t know if the author has any clue how mature and complex this product segment really is. You can buy some fantastically complex email marketing software for like $20/month).

But I’m trying not to be grumpy. Good luck author. I’m guessing we’ll be seeing you in the cubicle in 6 months.
An eye pattern only deters ambush predators and the pattern could make them more vulnerable to other predators.
This isn’t advice, this is marketing. Dudes been in the workforce for a year and intended to spend half of this time travelling and has now quit.

I wish him all the best but this isn’t the way to do it if you really want to make it on your own.

I ran a company for nearly a decade straight out of uni and can tell you it’s horrendous to have no income and no fall back, I got through it with a lot of luck and making some some funding decisions that ultimately killed the business.

Start small, grow on the side, build something stable and then go full time - or raise a boat load of VC and hope for the best.
This reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin, having read about this practice, makes his own mask to protect himself from Hobbes' pouncing.

[1] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/23
This is almost comedic at the complete lack of self-awareness. Once it got the to happiness rating of e-commerce and starting a podcast, I half expected the next paragraph to be an MLM pitch.
I never really understood what people have against float. I think it works fine for most use cases and is not to difficult.

Now table layouts where quite a pain because they got very complex very fast. Flexbox and Grid are fine I guess, but I always found them a bit harder to understand than float and did not so much they offered that I needed.
What percentage of articles about mindfulness tell you that you’re going to recall terrible memories and have to work to overcome them? Do the human resource departments that advocate mindfulness tell employees about this?
Meditation and mindfulness practices reconnect you to your feelings. Fear (anxiety) and apathy (depression) are feelings. We disconnect from them through repression, suppression and escape. To move beyond any obstacle, you must first confront it. I wouldn't let the pain of feeling low vibration emotions discourage your meditation or mindfulness practice. When you confront and accept these painful feelings, there are greater, lighter emotions beyond.
I have an EOS-1 that I adore.
> However, this site lists tons weak retrospective studies with tiny sample sizes and minimal effect on outcomes as "Positive" in cheerful bold green while dismissing high-quality randomized control studies with large sample sizes as testing the wrong thing or testing at the wrong time ("Late") or whatever.

That's the problem though, there is no good evidence against HCQ prophylaxis. All the good data is from studies where HCQ was administered in patients where the disease already progressed. That's a completely different situation.

Also, if the HCQ itself doesn't really do anything but act as an ionophore for zinc, then testing without supplemental zinc isn't "the right thing" either.

> If you want to show that HCQ works, show a single randomized control study with a large sample size that shows it does anything.

Of course, but the dominant narrative is "HCQ has already been proven not to work, everyone who disagrees is a conspiracy theorist". Good luck with getting that trial approved, good luck with keeping your career intact for even speaking out about it. The well has been thoroughly poisoned.

Personally, I hope there can at least be trial with zinc plus some other ionophore that Donald Trump happens to not have talked about yet.
they don't have a choice unless they are prepared to make all drivers employees, which they aren't.
Why is it ironic? Specifically, I don't make any claims whatsoever, nor do I say that there is anything special about it. To me, its a categorization of experiences which tend to happen when you sit down and do some vipassana meditation. Nothing special about that, it's even reproducable for the most part. Like self-exploration.
Saving is what you do with money you don’t spend. I guess you could burn it :)
All 50 seafood samples tested in study contained traces of plastic
This article is a bit older but still relevant[0]. I do more or less this, most of the stack is proven tech I know then I might swap out a few components with something newer or more shiny, evaluate and may or may not take that new thing into the next project.

[0] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I concur. It’s so stressful when the clock starts ticking: suddenly you are racing against time, which may cause a certain kind of desperation, which makes you make poor choices.

Most of the things the poster is doing, like figuring out “what type of business do I want to start?”, are absolutely things you must find out before you quit your job.

I would even go further and say that one should already validate the business idea before quitting. Once you figure out what you want, you can perhaps start slowly scaling down work (I know working 4 days a week is very common in .nl) and use the extra day to validate the business.

All in all, I’d say that following the advice mentioned in the article is not good for starting entrepreneurs.
Part of me knows shooting with film is ridiculous in 2020.

It's expensive, you don't get immediate feedback, old film cameras can often have light leaks, etc... But there is something magical about holding and shooting a film camera. You physically load the film. You can hear the film advance as you shoot. You take out the completed canister. When you get your developed film back you can see and hold the film that physically changed due to light coming in through the camera. In a world where everything is digital creating a physical image with light is kind of amazing.

I still mainly shoot digital. There are too many advantages to not shoot digital in my opinion. However, if you're a fan of photography I recommend giving film a chance. The experience is really special.
I'm not sure what to add. I definitely agree that CRDT is viable for collaborative editing, I'm just saying people need to be aware of the issues.

Regarding position and undo, these are problems that can also be solved just fine using OT techniques, and are (imho) simpler when there is a central authority that can order all revisions into a globally consistent sequence.

I think it's inevitable that people are going to misunderstand arguments, given the complexity of the underlying space and the paucity of good learning resources. So thanks for your writeup, it adds to the discussion.
From my research, the main thing you shouldn’t pour down the drain is spent fixer.

Classic developers contain chemicals like metol and hydroquinone, often in combination, as active agents. The remaining chemicals in developer are things like sodium bicarbonate, borax, and sodium hydroxide. If you are concerned, switch to Kodak Xtol which does not use metol or hydroquinone.

Stop bath is just acetic acid and a pH indicator. You can use water as a stop bath if you like, you just run the risk of changing the pH of your fixer.

As for fixer, it’s not fixer that is the problem per se—it’s the silver that the fixer removes from your film or paper. The silver will mess up the sewage treatment plant. You can remove the silver by dropping some steel wool into the fixer, it will undergo a redox reaction and you’ll end up with rust and metallic silver.

The only thing I am actually scared to work with is selenium toner. You should definitely NOT pour selenium toner down the drain.
> Do you think think the demand would be higher? In parallel, while many people are working from home, the businesses are closed, which I would think eat up much more electricity.

At the level of the generation there won't be much change, but the distribution / "last mile" substations have never been planned for the duty cycle and load they have seen over the last months.
I believe I read this in the book Grandfather by Tom Brown [1] (could have been somewhere else). The author was taught by an Apache elder about survival, etc.

Part of that was learning how to track and hunt.

The first time he killed a deer, he was required to sneak up on the deer and kill it with a knife. That way he would know the gravity of what he was doing.

He wrote that he cried for a good while afterwards.

I think that is a perspective more people should take with eating meat. To know you are taking the life of a living, breathing thing to sustain your own life.

I think it used to be a much more common view, but it's hard to view a chicken nugget or a hamburger as an animal that lost its life to continue yours.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434013.Grandfather
Given the generic names for a lot of things in tech, it's at least mildly useful that Google knows I'm probably not searching for info on snakes or fruit.
Didn't say Raspberry products aren't viable. I have shipped over 50k units with Raspberry Pi across three products. But the margins are terrible and many times a loss when you factor in user acquisition costs.

RPI0W is now double the price at $10. You still need to add power (lipo and/or charger), enclosure.

With Raspberry Pi stuff
1.) There is nearly 0 (max I have seen is $2 off) price break at volume.
2.) You have essentially one vendor (that uses distributors)
3.) When a new version launches, the older version inventory gets very constrained.
4.) You can't customize the PCB
5.) You can't get any support from Broadcom

I mean a lot IoT problems/solutions seems all about tiny things running on coin-cell batteries for years.

I guess the point is that there is a huge difference between hobbyist and commercial viability. It is a significant gap in terms of engineering effort and target BOM costs between the two. Have seen countless products fail because people with no commercial hardware experience tried to launch a product with hobbyist tools and components.

But, again, as a hobbyist it is fine. If you are considering commercializing your hobby project one day, then I would think about it differently. At least consider Rockchip. You can get a Raspi clone for less money and can work with them to customize if needed. If it runs on batteries in a small form factor, would reconsider using linux.
Robinhood's has only two things going for it.

1. It has a massive userbase that most likely doesn't have exposure to the larger financial world

2. They have a large enough user base, where they can route orders through dark pools and HFTs. It's good for the user because contracts have a narrower spread and they can give the user the price they saw when they sold it (vs Schwab, which gives you direct access to the market so you need to set limits)

3kinda. Their App is quite good compared to Schwab.

I'm not sure if either 1 or 2 makes them worth 12 billion, but they did get me free trades on Schwab which was nice.

EDIT. Removed misleading example
>Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02337
The investors are preying on their users who think that they are investing. I'm not 100% familiar but doesn't this app allow you to re-invest your paper gains without actually having anything material? [0]

We're all told to invest, so it's only natural for millennials/GenZ/etc to want to do that. Everything costs money, so if you can "make more money out of the money you already have", then that's quite appealing. As if creating money out of money makes any mathematical sense.

I think in the end, all these "investment" apps are really just shuffling money from users. How else can you "make" money without taking money from someone else?

Maybe someone who's used RH could chime in.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-y...
Dyalog APL (Morten Kromberg, Google Tech Talk, 2015)
The Case of the Top Secret iPod
I wish we had a non subjective way to quantify sleep quality.
Interesting what words the manifesto doesn't mention: correctness, security, safety, bugs.
WBSO and MIT come to mind. WBSO only works well if you already have some source of income, though, which can be from a part time job.
So he's spent a month of his six-month runway, and what he's accomplished so far is writing a journal and rating a bunch of fields of business on how much he might theoretically enjoy starting a company in one of them.

Starting a business is about getting things done. Thinking about what things you might possibly want to get done in the future, or making charts about things that you aren't getting done is a pleasant way to avoid getting things done, but it doesn't really get you any closer to your goal.
It's a doomed project. There are no mobile PowerPC parts on the market anymore; they're trying to make do with a QorIQ networking part, which has an inappropriate power budget for a laptop. (The specifications are a little hazy on the matter, but by my reading of the datasheet, it idles around 7W and draws closer to 20W at full power.)
> when masks were not recommended by most public health experts

Maybe they now know better? But let’s approach this as neutral as we can, because health experts haven’t and still don’t agree globally.

But did countries that recommended and used mask early fare better than those who didn’t? It would seem so, as Korea, Vietnam, Japan and others did better than even us in Scandinavia who closed down and got through spring/summer better than most (excluding Sweden who did terrible). Maybe the early mask adopters did other great things, and maybe masks had no impact, but if you’re cautious, it would seem the neutral conclusion based simply on data is that masks are probably a good idea.

Even if it turns out that masks do in fact do nothing, then what’s the damage from having used them? More trash and some money spent on it (if you’re like us and the government uses money to enforce low prices for everyone and free masks for the poor). Isn’t that acceptable?

I personally feel the same way about global warming. Even if it should turn out not to be man made, are we really going to be worse off by having gotten off fossil fuels?
I don't have an opinion on the core of the issue but this paragraph leaved me perplex:

>Most CRDTs assign a unique ID to every character that was ever created in the document. In order to ensure that documents can always converge, the CRDT model preserves this metadata even when characters are deleted.

The entirety of the C code in my checkout of the Linux kernel is made out of
567464661 characters (counted with wc on all .c and .h files). Assuming a naive
algorithm that assigns a 128bit UUID to every single one of these characters,
you have a little over 8GB of RAM for the IDs. Of course you also have to
consider the deleted characters (and storing the characters themselves, duh).

That's assuming that you want to keep track of the entire source code forever
however, surely in practice you can be massively more efficient by "freezing"
the changes past a certain reasonable delay.

So yeah, that does seem pretty memory-intensive, but in the age of Electron-based code
editors and docker containers that doesn't seem all that absurd to me tbh. My
Signal desktop client currently uses up almost 300MB of RAM to display plain
text, I find that a lot less reasonable quite frankly.
I used ClarisWorks for school too. It struck me as well made, even though at the time I was uninterested in programming. My friends had Windows, and Microsoft Word struck me as a bloated mess. I suppose my impression was from the speed, orderliness of the menus, and cleanliness of the graphic design.

Also remember when it was replaced by AppleWorks. I didn't like it as much as ClarisWorks, but I still liked it more than Word. The problem with the world is that it just has no taste.
How to become an entrepreneur (from someone who has actually done it):

- Get income from other people via job
- Learn
- Come up with idea
- Test market in 2 weeks for < $100
- Rinse and repeat until market test gives positive results you can't ignore
- Quit job
- Release version 1 in 2 weeks
- Have income by 4 week mark
- If no income by 4 week mark, u fucked up, get a job
Thanks! And nope, there's no frameworks or libraries in use, other than some helper modules I wrote for past projects and used in this. The code is mostly just organized as each tool being its own class, having a few common methods such as mouseDown, mouseMove, drawCursor and so on, with the main class passing off events from the user to whichever tool is selected. I forked this code off of a previous project, so parts of it are still a little messy due to me enjoying adding new features more than I enjoy refactoring code, but I tried to make it pretty modular from the beginning so it's easy to build on.

At the moment, there's no automated testing, I have a Patreon set up where a decent number of people are helping me beta test new features, but for the time being, I just do my best to avoid adding any regressions, and try to fix them quickly if they do show up.
I'd guess possibly time? Insects have had a lot more generations filled with more frequent predation attempts and they've been doing it for longer. There is a lot more variation across insects than across mammals.
I'm in the process of getting a few of them officially up. I had lost contact with the cameraman after COVID, but we're in touch again!
Oh, you are totally right, it is spoiled potential. But they've been doing this for so long it is impossible for them to change. Hence the very long and slow slide to the bottom. I'd see the Maffia change their tune before IBM ever will, way too much institutional inertia.

I know some of the IBM story from very close and it takes a certain attitude to even want to work there.
Some people don't "get it" unless you at least try to appear rude. It's possible to waste a lot of time by not properly telling people off.
If I'm comparing options, I try to pick what's most popular. Community support, being able to find things on Stackoverflow, etc. is better than the small technical wins right now. And it will likely have a longer shelf life.

For situations where there is not a clear popular or technical standout, I timebox the research time. After x (days|hours) I need to have a decision spec'd out. That way if I spin my wheels too long, then at some point I hit a deadline and my time is up!
You'll probably want to validate the R in your ROI ratings with the people who will be using your product as quickly as possible instead of making educated guesses. There have been many times where my expectations of return were completely wrong.
Robinhood – Investing for Everyone
Oracle and DB2 charge extra for "huge" cores.

https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing...

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-...
I've worked on a very similar product in the past and can affirm that there is definitely enterprise interest for a good solution to event replay for orgs that are already doing event sourcing...I'm curious if offering out of the box replay will actually lower the bar and drive more orgs to pursue event sourcing? The CLI search functionality is really cool and useful as well.
Well, they're quitting a salaried position to try and take on freelance or small agency type work.

Aside from that - this really reads more of like a "journal" entry than an advice piece.
Mmm, nope. But open an issue and I'll help you out.
I have been told that the same thing happened to Goenka himself: he and his peers all got personalised advice, and so his particular body scanning method was what worked for him, while his peers were given other techniques. So the dogma of the Goenka method is based on the assumption that you have the same kind of character as Goenka himself.
Let me resolve the ambiguity. The article is about a female researcher who studies sharks, not a researcher who studies female sharks.

The ambiguity could have been resolved as I have above -- or it could have been prevented by following the annoying practice of using "woman" as an adjective. Thanks for not doing that, Scientific American.
> solar

I can't seem to find it right now, but someone in another post noted that peak power demand in California is several hours later than peak solar production, so supposing you have storage, it doesn't really matter what the source of the energy is.

> grid battery storage

I'm really curious if this is more or less expensive than adding production capacity.
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I just put 'pass' at the end of each block... Emacs could actually do proper auto-indenting then.