skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the article doesn't calculate SPY total return.

Dividends-reinvested SPY is very different over long periods of time, I get ~3.46 (versus their 3.01) for the from-2012 calculation, which is a substantial improvement (and over only 8 years!).
I would totally pay for this at 23&me prices
I'm really sorry for this off-topic reply, but... is that a useful article from Goop of all places? ...What? Huh.
The signal is that they are more likely to be able to argue for a raise with less competition?
From a sufficient informational distance, that boba shop looks like "just another coffee shop". The line between new and better can be a little blurry.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me once Democrats realize that they are literally trying to legally require Facebook rebuild the API that resulted in the Cambridge Analytica scandal they have railed against for years this bill will get dropped for dumb political reasons.

Opening up these services like this seems to be one of several prerequisites to preventing great harms, but doing so would be in conflict with a number of expedient political issues the parties have dug in on around platform censorship, data privacy, etc.
Lego competes on quality. It’s definitely possible. I wouldn’t ever consider buying any of the Lego knockoffs.
Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, & does it even make sense to try?
Time to uninstall Discord desktop and use the web version.
Non paywall version here https://outline.com/d8JvhH
the Attention Economy is a cancer on mankind.
Same happens with popular apps. You will almost certainly face blatant rip-offs.
There were similar concerns about the design of Wekan, back when it was called LibreBoard.

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/92

Wekan redesigned the UI to be distinct from Trello, which eliminated the complaints.

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/94

Planka looks great so far. Having a design that stands out would take it even further.
Any investment made into sporting gear (cycling, running) and services (personal trainer, Strava) has improved my life in a measureable way. Weight is down, depression mostly gone, physical fitness is up. And the fitness part is precisely measureable via FTP and VO2 figures. Got to do stuff with the gear, of course, but that feels awesome, too
Exactly. I worked at a ruby shop a while ago and the rubocop lints makes you write code and test less readable than they can be.
How does this legislation define 'communications platform' in a way that doesn't risk capturing online games?

I have no idea what it would mean to force Fortnite to be interoperable with other platforms...
You are replying to OP who wrote the article. I might have missed it but I don’t think they described any ongoing legal action against this particular copycat.
Sooooo planet Earth is actually flat? :)
Sorry I misinterpreted. How interesting with mining zinc and silver -- is that possibly related to the solar panels you'll add? I never met anyone who mines zinc and silver

LiFePO4 -- that's lithium iron phosphate batteries, then, zinc and silver makes me confused. One can use zinc and silver instead?

30 kw sounds nice -- I think my oven uses about 3 kw, and I guess then that 30 kw is more than enough for your whole house :-) which I suppose is the idea, obviously.

What do your neighbors think about your plans to mine zink and silver?

Or maybe your nearest neighbors are far away? (Or maybe you'll drill & blast far away from where you and any neighbors live?)
Ask HN: How should I implement sentiment analysis with no money?
I'm making a product and hosting on a very cheap server I can afford. One feature uses the sentiment of user input.

So far, I'm doing it with an old, bulky neural network running as a process on the same web server. It works okay, but I think that will scale very poorly.

So I'm considering other options. I can use a small, fast naive sentiment classifier (like TextBlob), but it has really bad accuracy. Alternatively, I can use free credits on the Google Cloud sentiment API until I get a customer and can afford to set my own fast, accurate analysis server up. But I don't know if I will have enough cloud credits to get me to that point, without getting squeezed.

So I'm not sure what to do. Do you have any ideas?
> iMessage is end-to-end encrypted

That's what Apple says. I don't think it's ever been independently audited at all; and of course to say source code is not available for the public.
AdGuard is what I’d recommend; it supports the default uBlock Origin lists such as EasyList, Fanboy’s lists, etc.

I’ve tried other blockers before (including paid ones) and I found that most come with their own lists (typically derived from the aforementioned ones) and those are not always kept up to date.
I think I tried LyX at least 5 times during grad school, but I couldn't quite get into it.

LyX's preview rendered simple math expressions alright, but it couldn't really render the custom math expressions (which required LaTeX math packages) that I needed for my dissertation. I eventually just settled on full LaTeX -- there's a slight learning curve, but ironically LaTeX felt easier to use and slightly more predictable than LyX because I didn't have to work around a bunch of limitations around displaying the final output (through ERTs).

Also, aesthetics mattered to me. The LyX rendering was an approximation of the final output (WYSIWYM), whereas the LaTeX generated PDF was actually the final output. The latter actually looked beautiful and I'd rather be able to see the actual final product than a WYSIWYM approximation of it (LyX does produce a PDF but it always felt like there was an additional abstraction layer separating the writing and the output, whereas LaTeX was more straightforward).

This mattered to me because I was writing long mathematical arguments with complicated expressions, which I had to inspect for correctness. I was also using TikZ a lot for diagrams and working with TikZ via ERTs wasn't ideal.

No knock on LyX -- it does serve a certain niche. But I also want to say to those who struggle with LyX, it may be worth the investment to write LaTeX directly.
We're talking about a real virus here, not a theoretical experiment in math. Currently, most of europe is having an exponential growth of new cases, so even if 100% of current cases show up on day one, we'll have more new cases tomorrow, and any way to speed up the process will save lives.
Is any of this relevant to anyone outside the US? Or can they copy your product as much as they want?
Overall, the hybrid was 98.9 percent accurate — even beating humans, who answered the same questions correctly only about 92.6 percent of the time.

While this is an important result it's important to understant why humans don't do great on CLEVR. In my experience maximum human performance is much better, but we get bored with the task really quickly and it's hard to sustain concentration on it.

(Of course this makes the AI useful in some circumstances. But it isn't always the same as reasoning better than humans)
I took a 20% salary cut. All other benefits remained the same. It's not a formal policy at my company, but I was able to negotiate a reduced schedule during my annual salary review.

I don't know that I did anything clever in the negotiation, I just raised it with my manager and we brought it to HR. Everyone was positive about the idea but unsure of how it would work in the broader scheme, including if other people would see my schedule and want to get on the 32-hour week train too. (I hope so, but I avoided saying that.)

When I say all benefits remained the same, I mean all of them. It's probably an oversight, but I continue to accrue vacation days at a rate of 20/yr - except for me, that's 5 work weeks, not 4. I've avoided pointing that out.
Electronics are full of fire retardants like these.
That's the least of your problems. To fire up an assembly line for even the most trivial of products you are going to be looking at initial expenses in the range of $1M, if you are lucky. Even if it's China, in which case you will also have to know how to navigate the industry there.
"I downloaded 10,000 electronic music tracks that were licensed with the Creative Commons License."

I'm honestly surprised there is this much music with this license. To download 10k means there's an even larger pool of music available. I know the royalty free music is becoming more wide spread for all of those youtubers, but I would not have thought it to be this big.
I guess it was only a matter of time before people started cheating the idiotic whiteboarding (and virtual whiteboarding) interviews.

Ethics aside, I expect techniques like this will make your code suspiciously familiar after a while...
There are always tonnes of terrible things going on in the world, throughout human history. Hell, my grandfather was an Auschwitz survivor, and his entire immediate family was murdered by Nazis.

I think Trump is a terrible, terrible President, causing a tonne of damage to America, but he’s not exactly Hitler, more of a poor man’s Putin. I’m all for having political conversations, even reasonably frequent ones, but barring a legitimate Hitler situation, I don’t want it to be the ONLY thing I talk about. There’s a lot more to life. Some members of my friends/family can talk about nothing else anymore, it’s nonstop outrage, and they completely ignore all social queues from people who want to change the subject. These people suck to be around. The article sums it up well:

> it doesn’t take too much imagination to guess that constant foam-flecked political outrage makes one quite tedious
So this is Open Source but there are "premium features". How does that work license-wise?
Growth Hackers
You totally missed the point. It’s not that Miami designed some great alternative to get to Miami Beach and I am mad they didn’t use heavy rail. There is no good way to get around without a personal vehicle. Going from the airport to Miami Beach is the most common trip for visitors and they haven’t even done basic planning for it. It’s completely a local issue.

In fact, even if you want to talk about heavy rail, it’s been a local or at least state issue. The voters of the state passed a referendum for a bullet train nearly two decades ago and then the state government went to great lengths to avoid building it anyway. The Obama Administration even offered federal funds for it since it was the project that could be completed most quickly. But the state refused. And yes California is proceeding with a high speed train despite the anti-train hit pieces from the LA Times.

Sure rent is lower but the incomes are so much lower and the minimum wage is so low that the average worker is worse off.

There has not been a Democratic governor in Florida since the 1990s and we have had a member of the Bush family and one of the biggest Medicare fraudsters in history since so I would say it’s been a relatively red state other than occasionally swinging blue in the presidential race.

Thanks for telling me I shouldn’t diss people who live in Florida. I live in Florida so I don’t really need the advice. After several decades here I am well versed in the many issues here including finding any neighborhood larger than two blocks that is walkable. Or finding a public park since the land was all sold to private developers. That’s not how urban planning works in functioning cities like San Francisco.

Maybe you should take your own advice and not diss people in California since you don’t live there.
Why is this downvoted?

Being politically incorrect to web developers?
This does not align with my experience at all.
jimmy,

believe it or not, this isn't my first rodeo.
Does this have something to do with the patents/copyright Lego holds? How hard can it be to bake a piece of plastic into shape?
Or, make a small improvement to the existing toy themselves or (I imagine quite convincingly) claim they're copying from an earlier, expired patent.

It seems expensive and unlikely to prevail in any case.
Agreed. However, it would be a good reason to hedge expectations accordingly. Everyone has a bias. Much of the current political acrimony could be avoided if both speakers and listeners acknowledged this.

Instead we have appeals to 'truthiness' and 'fact-check' that defy the basic premises of human nature.
I wonder what fraction of modern disease, and what conditions, are due to prolonged low-level exposure to random slightly toxic chemicals. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that relatively recently diagnosed conditions like autism are the result of some random seemingly innocuous product like shampoo detergent or sunscreen or something.
“Within 24h of launch a majority of miners are already on strike” Consequences?
It appears form your edisonlf.com site that your skill set is predominantly around trademarks and copyrights, and not patents. Maybe focus your advice on those topics, and not so much patents? For fighting direct copycats, those (and maybe design patents) are your best bets anyway, as you apparently have successfully discovered.
This is not a very informative comment.
> Every now and then I've been ranting here that there's a missing task management product for software teams: one that would embrace that tasks form DAGs, not flat two-level trees

MS Project and many other task tools recognize that, considering all of start-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-finish, and finish-to-start dependencies (all of which can be simultaneous as well as happen-first dependencies), tasks can form directed graphs (not restricted to acyclic).

And many of those tools also have GANTT charts built in.
Japan to Release Radioactive Fukushima Water into Ocean
Yes. You can register your ip in the US from outside the US.
Dark Fluid
I work in this space and the questions outlined in you and your parent's comment are absolutely spot-on.

The worst part is, these things tend to grow organically where the original ancestor of everything is engineer #3 of the 5-person startup who decided to write a cronjob to dump the prod db every night to feather files on a samba share. Then one cron job becomes three. Then ten. Then you're using S3. Then there's dependencies. Then you're using Luigi/Airflow. Then you're using Spark. Then you're constantly messing with partitioning and performance. Then you're using Hadoop and YARN and configuring queues and capacity scaling. At this point the "infra" team is 10 people and there's 20 data scientists. Then you triple in size a couple dozen times and now it's time to figure out how to retroactively slap security controls on top of everything.

That turned into a bit of a rant. Honestly I love this space but I agree, as hard as the software bits are, the hard part is the entire picture as a whole.
What is cloud computing and how Amazon is changing it?
Climate change is making people forget what a forest is. A forest is not a large collection of trees. It is an ecosystem. I know that not all climate-change related programs make this mistake, but overall, the rush to do good things to combat climate change is coming at the expense of people forgetting that if we fail to prevent extinctions today due to natural habitat loss, then no amount of reduced climate change due to non-native species reforestation projects in the future will ever bring them back.

The greatest threat facing the natural world is not climate change, it is habitat loss.
Seeing how there’s a lot of investment/maths inclined nerds on this thread I will (selfishly..) point out the one key point nobody seems to have picked up on yet: she talks about the importance of diversification.

Imho that it is the key differentiator between a well performing and atrocious angel portfolio.

The math is pretty well explained in this piece by Abe Othman of AngelList here: https://angel.co/blog/venture-returns - but the TLDR is: at earliest stage of venture your mean is infinite so making more bets (aka diversifying your portfolio) actually increases the average return. That’s probably why most angel investors do poorly - not enough cash/time/interest (or been told to “focus your portfolio”)

We (here comes the selfish part) apply this to B2B SaaS here: TinySeed.com/thesis

Fundamentally - the problem with replicating the angel investment success that the author has is - not many individual investors were early enough in Facebook to have funds to deploy at a scale where the math starts to work in your favor.
Eh? Details?
What do you want me to say? I can't tell you how much it cost because it varies by product, but to get most physical products of the ground in China costs less than $5k.
It does help my point immensely.

> The cars are very similar but obviously not the same in the sense that Verstappens car will be tweaked to his preferences, and Albons to his within the relevant regulations.

There's the difference. Red Bull have built a car they believe is the fastest they can build. Verstappen is able to extract the most from that. If Albon doesn't "prefer it", then that's his failing, a failing that Verstappen demonstrably does not have.

> On top of that Verstappen being the lead driver means that alot of engineering effort is geared towards giving him specifically the car he needs, with his teammate having to adapt within that framework.

Why is he the lead driver? Because he's a generational talent.
Ask HN: Why does Twitter unfollow people without their consent?
Does anyone know why Twitter does this? It seems like it would hurt engagement, but maybe I'm missing something here…

(By "unfollow", I mean you follow some account and then later, without asking, Twitter "unfollows" that account. So you have to go back in manually and click the Follow button again to get their tweets to show up in your timeline.)
There are plenty of clones. MegaBlocks has been the most visible for a long time. I believe Lego owns the exact dimensions and ratios of their bricks.

I recently got into NanoBlocks, which are about 1/4 the scale and different dimensions. Ease of storage and display due to tiny size is a big differentiator
It’s a public health menace that has also been implicated with childhood maladies. There’s some weak links to autism and allergies. Of course most people will dismiss this as conspiracy theory, but eventually the science will catch up.
> There shouldn't be any cycles in properly broken out plan, because the flow of time creates a causal directness

Real dependencies can be not-before rather than strictly-after, which admits cycles without any problems with the flow of time.
Some interesting alternative viewpoints I've seen:

Matter continuously destroys spacetime at its location, sucking in the fabric of the universe.

The Universe isn't expanding; matter is shrinking. Light isn't redshifted on the way to us, it's just that our sensors are getting smaller relative to the unmodified wavelength of light.
Tobacco companies knew smoking contributed to a rise in lung cancer and hid that from the public. If there is something like that being hidden about social media, then they should be held accountable for it. However, I doubt that's the case as we're all here discussing it. We already know it's bad to consume news in excess.
This is both a pitiful amount of money for finding flaws in three different pieces of software but at the same time the biggest thing Discord did wrong was not practicing defense in depth through disabling contextIsolation.

Although it makes sense, I'm almost surprised Discord paid out given that biggest reason the RCE exists was due to the Electron top-level navigation bug allowing XSS despite Discord's existing mitigations in the first place.
What is the difference between Adidas and Bose headphones?
They should put a big WARNING: THIS TRASH ROTS YOUR BRAIN on the front of every issue, like cigarette boxes.
What on earth are you on about? How are you going to prepare a meal with fresh ingredients with that list?
Accredited Investor: Basically $200k annual income or $1m net worth

Qualified Client: $2m net worth

Qualified Purchaser: $5m in “investments” not including the fund invested into

</venture compliance nerdery>
For aerospace applications where bandwidth is severely limited, a hundred megabyte NN is a lot.
Is there anything similar for machine learning models?
... and incentivize people to smuggle their gold out of the country.

International trade is far too large these days to stop gold-smuggling.

Look at the great job we're doing with drug smuggling. Most cocaine enters the US hidden in shipping containers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802269
It is very different when it is between ICs and when it is someone who is more of a manager doing the same with the ICs.

I like this quote by Jason Cox,

- Great leaders are optimistic – They are hopeful, confident, and positive.
I have a penalty on https://garyshood.com/rsclient/ which used to be the number one term for "autoclicker" several years running.

I think it was due to comment spam since I didn't moderate the comments and since then the invisible penalty has never gone away. I've given up on trying. people just have to search "garys autoclicker" if they want to find it now, or have it bookmarked. "autoclicker" is pushed all the way back to page 4 for my site now. on bing I am page 2 behind basically autoclicker dot org and every other variation of the TLD
I work as a quant (developing pricing models for power and gas trading shop) - I use LyX to write documentations for my models. And yes, I did use it to write my PhD thesis and several papers.
Employment allows people to afford things. Also when you live in a place with $8/hour minimum wage you quickly realize that nothing is affordable for most of the service industry workers. $320 per week before taxes with no stock options or healthcare and you think the basic affordability is better in Florida than California? What are they going to buy things with?

Florida is great if you made money elsewhere and want to come spend it in a low tax state where people move to retire to the suburbs and die. If you’re actually working then you realize there is no major industry outside of things like tourism which leads to a lot of low paying dead end jobs.
Plants don't use most of the sunlight that hits them, and too much will cause heat stress making them less efficient.

The right tarp or net that lets through the most useful wavelengths seems to help more than hurt.

A lot of places are starting to install solar over farm installations on a small scale. Yields are tending up while also generating electricity to run the operation
I'd be curious to know how much of an outcome a full-stack engineer at Facebook must have had in order to angel invest 400k a year and still have that be a fraction of their portfolio.
Pretty difficult.

That would be like saying "How hard can it be to type a program into a computer?". Statistical process control, polymer science, release agent chemistry, die metallurgy / thermal / fluid / mechanical design, etc are large and deep fields.

There's probably a better video, but here's the official one about how Lego are made.

https://youtu.be/C3oiy9eekzk
I was provided some samples at a STEM Eduation Expo and the lego knockoffs (mostly from China) are surprisingly good now.

These days there is no need for a school to buy official lego (non-smart blocks).
Will humans ever learn the law of unintended consequences?
Chrome's Webpage-to-App feature is best experience for me. I wish Firefox had similar feature.