skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
check this post out:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182426

Long short of my existential crisis when I pondered the exact same. Late 40's and a newborn is super super hard.

I realize it really comes down to state of your life, your partner and your extended family. You absolutely need support. Not even to question that. If no support then a fulltime nanny to help. I'm a fulltime dad, quit my fulltime when my now 1.5yr was born. Not really by choice but a necessity as we have no local support, especially with the pandemic. I will need go back to work. My wife works fulltime so I get up at 6a and goto bed at 1a daily.

If you're happy with where you are and where you're headed i.e. retire AND you're absolutely in stride with your partner. Then you should, else I wouldn't.

I never knew family. Grew up abused and alone so never had a family feeling.

A child is a love hate relationship that has no recourse. the infamous commercial where a sick dad opens the door to his child and asks for a sick day? Yea, it can't happen. no matter what your mood is or what your current beef is with your significant other and boy..you don't know what a fight is until there is a child. you better learn to get over it quickly.

Lastly, you absolutely will LOSE your previous life. There isn't a part of it you can retain. It's gone....period. You will need to forge a new life.

Fun romcom to watch that can give you an absolute realistic even though fictional movie is:

Life as we know it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055292/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

PS> I'm going to blog about this because its actually bullsh*t that there isn't answers to some basic questions about parenting. Most of what you read, reads like a marketing fluff for a blender.

An article I ran into recently worth reading:

https://www.scarymommy.com/okay-not-to-love-every-second-lif...

PPS> Join a dad's group and seek the same. It's a shame men don't have the balls to ask for advice and help...unlike you.
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Can I ask how this fits with the YC thinking that startups should have unicorn potential?
Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don't know why
Is it weird that I feel satisfied whenever I hear or read something that sounds like something I would say?
The AASM should focus on the 4 hour workday instead.
That's fair, but you must accept that the level of control is variable, and you have no say in what it is. It's in the ongoing hands of Apple, not you the purchaser of the product. You're accepting a situation in which, theoretically, you could wake up tomorrow with none of your apps available, including those you've paid for, including those you depend upon, possibly for income. I'm not saying necessarily that such a situation should be impossible, but I think many consumers don't recognise it.
It doesn't seem to do that for me, it instead just uses these two endpoints instead of the "report" endpoint to send the same data.

https://medium.com/_/api/activity

https://medium.com/_/batch

These aren't blocked on the default uBlock Origin setup it seems, and the batch endpoint seems like a possibly bad idea to block.

After blocking them, the behavior of filling up local storage can be seen.
It's gotten so I use my Netflix subscription as a catalog more than a streaming service. If I find I really like something I pirate a higher-quality version of it.
Sacramento judge offers Chinese researcher ‘huge break’ allows release from jail
Challenges and Solutions in Semantic Search
If you have a health condition then you can be trapped, because a new insurer won’t cover existing conditions.
I suspect this was a bit of a throwaway comment, but ...

“EU ruling means speed limiters will be mandatory in the UK [and EU] by 2022“

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/mandatory-spe...
That's not necessarily useful. Trying to understand the brain starting from the neuron level is arbitrary and certain to be an extremely difficult problem, because of the incredible scale of the brain.

However, computation doesn't happen solely at the inter-neuron communication level, but also inside each neuron itself.

Finally, trying all of this in mammals and even humans, instead of trying to first do it on something like a nematode or even simpler organism is such an obvious way of putting the cart before the horse that I can't take it seriously.

There is 0 chance that this approach will have any kind of success in understanding memory and thought. I am extremely hopeful they will do some extremely good work in helping give people with various spinal chord injuries some amount of control over their limbs, including the ability to sense, which would be a tremendous life improvement and would make the whole thing worth it. But it's much, much easier to reach half the speed of light with chemical rockets than it is to understand software by studying individual transistors in a running processor.
One of the things I do is run a small B2B publishing company. We turn over a modest six figure dollar amount each year with a tiny tiny team. We are recognised as one of the leaders in our niche.

The thing that matters to us is whether we create great content, not whether someone stopped reading at 54% of the way through a particular article. Our audience appreciates that our content is authentic, informed and honest. And I don’t mean “authentic” like social media types mean when they say things like “always strive to be authentic!” When you start telling editorial staff to write differently because the stats say something about one particular article you are in a race to the bottom. Medium is an awful platform that rewards badly written click bait targeting stupid people. It’s a blight on the face of the web.
Who is to say that attacks might come from outside? Nations might mandate a backdoor from the Neuralink developers directly. Malevolent ones will surely want a literal kill switch feature, or copy the technology with their own. Imagine the horrifying power of a nation state that can kill any citizen at any time in any place with a keystroke. With that everpresent threat, you might not even need to be served propaganda to fall in line with the whims of the government.
The issue is that new competitors have to go against... Apple and Google. Given what happened to Epic (retaliation on Unreal Engine after #FreeFortnite), you can be sure that any competitor which would get a little bit of traction would be hammered into the ground by some Apple/Google money-powered shenanigans.
A link's position in a Google search is basically a worthless measure anymore. Every Google user ends up microtargeted such that the ordering of results or even which results are displayed is rarely consistent.
> The instant you let a porn shop open next to your school there are going to be issues that most would prefer to have prevented in the first place.

I think it's less that "there are going to be issues" and more that people fear that there will be issues, and vote to remove what they think of as a threat.

The instant you let someone plant azaleas instead of tulips there are going to be issues that most would prefer to have prevented in the first place.
That example is too simplistic, it's called legacy systems and not legacy software. If you upgrade your tool-chain you include git.

Really no one is interested in upgrading 'just' git, make a package out of it (new compiler, new CI, new testing, new version controll..fuzz etc) call the project "sustainable nextgen tool-chain...short SuNeTuCha" and sell it to the management like that.
The problem is that the difference between those two devices boils down ENTIRELY to the addition of DRM. The only thing stopping a game console from being a general purpose computer are the platform creators preventing you from running the code of your choice on hardware you own.

This distinction is purely arbitrary, user-hostile, and monopolistic, and so it is not worth respecting.
Maybe a naive question but why doesn't Apple take 30% commission on my Robinhood trades. And how is that exchange of money for stock, digital currency different from apps like Fortnite
Yeah let's download desktop apps!
They all have permission to upload your entire documents folder to the internet.
I agree cookies have proven to be a largely pro-user feature over time but do you remember the backlash from techies and reporters alike when browsers first started implementing cookies back in the 90s?
Must have been cloud data.
mobile phones were telephones with a battery, not something directly wired to your brain and thought processes.
As long as folks can buy vbucks and skins from alternate stores seems fine. Why should I have to pay Fortnite for skins when anyone could make them?
“ The rich/poor divide will be cognitive.”

It has already largely been cognitive for decades because of standardized testing and assortative mating.
He won't.
>$1750 for that?! Security researchers need to organize!

https://hackerone.com/slack?type=team

It says right on the tin what the payout is going to be. If you don't like the terms of the program, don't participate. It's not really that difficult a concept.
I got my mom an iPhone for this reason. Then she kept locking herself out of it by typing in the wrong password. She lives in an Android dominated country so asking for help around her had varied results, including having her phone wiped and icloud account replaced a few times. In the end I got her an Android phone of the same model as the people around her. When I saw her next I noticed her phone had adware on it. I didn't know adware was a thing on phones.
You have absolutely nailed it. The cruft medium provides and calls insight is only valuable to people who want to work out how trick their audience into reading further in articles where they deliver no value.
Also, consoles are sold at a loss. Would be happier with Apple if they too sell at a loss.

Another point - Kindles are also content consumption (and sold at a loss or were) but they still allow me to load any book that I have.
The fact is (this is fact, not ideology) VCs tend to :
-discriminate positively White and Asian men because they are White and Asian man independently of their merit
-discriminate negatively all other people because they are women, black people... independently of their merit

In France Oussama Ammar (the local Paul Graham) clearly advice to female entrepreneur, and to Black and Arab entrepreneur to preferably choose a business or strategy where they can bootstrap cause raising fund will be harder to them. Recently there have been many post about black entrepreneurs and VCs. And there is an interesting HBR article [1] showing some biais in investing in woman startup in Sweden (country known for its gender equality)

These racist and sexist bias and discrimination has two consequences :
- Lack of fairness as merit is clearly not the only thing taken into consideration ; with positive unfair impact for White men, and negative unfair impact for women, Black people...
- "Bad" investment by the VC, that could have much better by investing based on "merit" and not (unconsciously) on skin color or gender. This has negative impact on the VC companies... and more generally on the economy.

So finding ways to judge startup more on merit, being able to lower the bias is also a business decision that make sense and that will have positive impact on the VC performance and the economy. Getting more diversity in the VC firm just do it (and if VC are biased against black and woman startuper, we can imagine such bias used to be true for hiring people)

[1] https://hbr.org/2017/05/we-recorded-vcs-conversations-and-an...
In practice, it doesn't matter. Your share would be so tiny that voting with your wallet is equivalent. After all, people usually renew their phones every few years.
> I can tell you that the AppStore is a pain

In what sense is the App Store pain?
This reads like a cyberpunk novel. Except its all real
If the choice is between a webapp and a native app the webapp is going to give users more control and a choice of the platform they want to view it on.

I may be in a minority but I still want to run on desktop linux with an ad blocker or vimium.

Webapps give me that. Native apps don’t.
Launch HN: Vitamin P for Positivity
Hi HN! My name is Will. I'm currently enrolled in Startup School and have been talking to my wife/partner a lot lately about how all of this negative and depressing news that keeps coming out day after day, really sticks to me and makes me feel down and sad. That said, I definitely don't want to ignore it. We're on this planet together and we are all affected by so many of the negative things going on, one way or another. We have to help each other where we can, and we're going to get through all of this somehow.

But it's important (at least for me), that I try to make some space for some of the positive things that are happening, and also generate some positive thoughts -- otherwise I get really depressed and feel despair about where we or a lot of us might be headed. So I made Vitamin P. It's a once-a-week email with a few links to positive stories in the news! Some other sites already do this, but I wasn't seeing exactly what I was looking for, so I've made this first and foremost for myself. I figure even if I'm the only one that ever looks at it, hopefully it will help me at least to feel just a little bit more positive amidst everything going on.

If you'd like to get a preview of the kind of content, you can see it on your social network of choice [1][2][3][4]. Everything is syndicated, so no need to check all of them.

Anyhow, so that's it - Vitamin P for Positivity - if you have any feedback, please let me know!

Cheers and hope you all have a great weekend. ️

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Footnotes:

[1] - Facebook: https://facebook.com/vitaminpsupply

[2] - Instagram: https://instagram.com/vitaminpsupply

[3] - reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/vitaminpsupply

[4] - Twitter: https://twitter.com/vitaminpsupply
I've created an extension to block links to domains you dislike, I've got mine set up to block Medium links.

https://github.com/fnune/nay
This paper is really worth a read, if only because it shows how much smart contracts is a brand new territory, mostly unexplored, full of opportunities (and therefore dangers).

If you're a blockchain naysayer [1], I'd invite you to go read this paper to measure how deep, rich and complex the world of smart contracts is, and at the very least get a feeling that you may simply not know how uninformed your negative opinion is.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
There were a couple similar services already I think in a similar vein, like DailyLit and DripRead..

But nice implementation, nonetheless...
submitted, yes, but as time goes on it signals more and more the poor quality of those articles. Anecdotally it feels mediums articles are up-voted less now then they were in the beginning, if anyone has stats on it I would be happy to see if that's true.
Musk said that they feel confident to achieve the implant of the link in under an hour and without general anesthesia. Is their any difference between anesthesia and general anesthesia when working on the brain?
no environmental disaster at all with POS or other systems different than POW
> or set a precedent that's going to screw every payment provider in America and open a flood gate for fraudulent payments.
...
> but surely it's going to set all sorts of nasty precedents?

Just going to comment on this part.

Supreme court decisions has a long history of making very narrow decisions, and in that question there is a clear out that they could use. The precedent can be that apple can refuse epic if it is in order to prevent fraudulent payments, but not in order to enforce a 30% tax in an online market place. That would narrow the decision down and allow payment providers to operate like they do now, but not apple. It would also not force wallmart to stock "mom & pop" random ketchup brand, because it would not be a online market and the purpose would not be to enforce a 30% tax.

Courts have a lot of room to narrow decisions down based on intent, on circumstances, and even the outcome on the specific market as a whole.
> since Electron brings XSS to the desktop, it is a hackers paradise.

Just curious - what makes XSS on the desktop different from other kinds of RCE vulnerability?
Blog slate linked to isn't live any more; here's a direct link to the larger map via archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150304212105/http://blog.poorm...
I don't think it's useful for everyone but the military and people who grok log files.

Knowing that 6am is early is good, imagine how confused you'd be if you travel overseas but the timezone is always the same, you'd have to re-learn what time the morning is etc and constantly try adapt if to your situation.

The current local systems we use have function we take for granted..

I just have a UTC clock on all my devices (along side my local time) and I find that's the most useful. Local time is what I use primarily, UTC for international calls.
"Complaining about the airplaines after you bought a house near an airport."

Someone in my grandparent's neighborhood brought that suit and the airport had to pay to install soundproof windows in everyone's houses.
Seneca lived in different times. By the time you get "proper education" and then secure yourself financially you are quite old in today's world. So better enjoy the process treating it as the thing rather than the means.

Longer lifespan helps but not that much. Biologically we just tend to peak pretty early.

One thing I may disagree with PG is that if you enjoyed doing something while doing it, then I think the time wasn't wasted, even if later in life you think you may have spent that time better. Otherwise logical conclusion is that you should live with a mind of a very old man.
He said they banned the zoom client, not the zoom service.
There is a different metric too: level of shame vs level of fame when you screw up / achieve something.

- distributed systems? Fame on achievement: not much, shame on failure: not much.

- ML/AI? Fame: crazy amount, shame: not much

- Crypto? Fame: not much, shame: you better change industry :-D

/s
This is a little bit of a false equivalency imo. You can walk away from a TV. This is literally inside your brain. Imagine if a bad actor got the reigns, or if a nation had a back door installed for their version for direct access to their citizens. Literal mind control that you can't escape from at all. No one is at the TV for 24 hours a day. Imagine if a kill switch were possible, ushering the era of death by keystroke hundreds of miles away. You can't kill someone with a TV, or a radio, or a newspaper.
Probably not with dialysis given dialysis works on semi permeable membranes. More likely a magnet.
I'm making a moral argument, not a legal one. Legally Apple can do whatever they want and I give Epic's lawsuit a very low chance of doing anything at all.
I don’t think it matters so much to be super precise on the positioning. The spike detection is pretty robust and then the real heavy lifting is in analyzing the patterns of spikes across the set of 1,000+ locations. And that is automatically calibrated as part of the process of getting it to work at all (that is, getting the predictions to match the reality).
First of all, the said competitor is not the only game in town. There are other alternatives- such as feature phones or open-source mobile OSes.
If your are requesting an app for such OSes, then you have to find an economic incentive for its development.
But there are other alternatives.

Secondly, if you are requesting that one side in the current court (Apple) is forced legally to take a different economic incentive, then why would they remain as privacy-oriented? Times will change. Without the freedom to choose incentives, a company’s structure will change. There are risks to taking Apple’s privacy-oriented approach for granted.
> They all have permission to upload your entire documents folder to the internet

They do not need to, and unlike "webapps" there isn't a remote server that can change the code that you are running at any moment.
“Knowing your customer” is not equivalent to performing surveillance on your customers. People knew their customer for centuries before we could tell that a random unwitting user spent 1.6 minutes on the page and exactly where they put their mouse cursor while they were on it.
Seconded. I notice a lot of comments scoffing at this and talking about group disintegration - have now been part of the same “group chat” / squad for 6-7 years and it was inchoate but there even before then. We do everything described in the essay. Reading it was eerie.
It's not mandatory, it's just incredibly common. There's also an untoggleable permission to allow viewing network access by other apps.
> I often find myself hunting for an archive link to read some article because I'm past my free article limit. It's absurd that I have to sign up for Medium to read some random blogger's article.

Once upon a time I would have done the same (or written a script), but I’m past the point of putting in extra effort to read “some random blogger’s article”.

If a random blogger/writer/whatever wants me or anyone else for that matter to read what they wrote, posting it on Medium is absurd. If it’s good enough to stick your name on it, and it’s important enough for you to write it, own the work you put into it, put it somewhere that people can read it without jumping through hoops or dealing with Medium’s BS. It’s a crappy site.

All Medium needed to do was take words that look like this: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

And turn it into this: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

And you know, RSS feeds and maybe some image hosting, or custom domains and some other premium shit. Like these guys did:

https://www.blogger.com/

https://wordpress.com/

https://www.typepad.com/

Every one of these old-time blog platforms are still around, all of them offer/offered different things, all of them take some words you spit out and throw a fancy template around them and if none of that satisfies you, there’s as many static site generators and “blog engines” as there is porn, and like porn, you can always produce and personalize your own.
Was that a surprise to you? And did you only notice after the period where you can return the phone for your money back, no questions asked?
I'd totally pay like, maybe $100 for a smartphone that only allowed Apple approved apps. Maybe $150 if it came bedazzled.
You do realize that replacing "ethereum" with "the stock market" or "the USD" in your sentence pretty much yields another truism, right?
Which is perfectly normal between businesses; pay $90MM to get rid of a $440MM lease contract. Heck, as a consumer, if I want to get rid of my car lease I need to pay a hefty penalty as well.
I'll grant that hour-granularity time zones are pragmatically useful. But why make the difference from "noon = solar noon" any worse than it needs to be?
A car breaking down in the middle of the street sounded worse than horses at some point
That's too simplistic; you can't pin the blame on a singular effect like that nor choose to disregard other factors to conveniently support some conclusion.

It is incidentally clear that low density zoning requirements are not the singular driving factor for sprawl simply because the sprawl occurs even in places without those rules (e.g. houston).

Furthermore, effects like these have complex feedback loops. Zoning laws are entirely politically motivated - so the public's support is critical. You can be sure that public support would be affected if it became clear they led to crippling congestion that would not be solved by more road infrastructure; and conversely sprawl-encouraging zoning laws also encourage sprawl-enabling transport investments. Other factors to consider are parking availability (and rules concerning that), and probably more.

The correlation between these effects means that you should be careful blaming just one factor, and certainly cannot conclude anything meaningful if you intentionally and artificially exclude related factors from your analysis.