skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic, but I think some version of this idea appears in Jonathan Franzen's `The Corrections` - it's the startup that makes Brian's millions and allows him to fund The Generator?
Break Out Another Thousand.
California Governor Limits Gatherings to 3 Families, 2 Hours or Less, No Singing
Only if the sphere has uniform density. The Earth very much does not have uniform density.
Because noise cancelling only works on constant noise. So if you use it at sleep time, load sudden noises will seem more alarming.
I strongly disagree that using such methods to calculate a minimum variance optimization is a reasonable benchmark for portfolio performance. The issue is limited historic data is a very poor fit for future risks.

Looking at gold over the last say 2,000 years years shows a very bumpy ride with large long term negative returns. Stock data doesn’t have anything close to that kind of history, but looking at various historic stock markets again shows a lot more variety than simply reviewing a winner like the US stock market.

Essentially, with bad enough assumptions or data any calculation is meaningless.
Ask HN: How are products that sell email info like SalesIntel,ZoomInfo legal?
GDPR and CCPA protect personal information from being sold or abused yet sales "intelligence" tools rake in millions. These companies don't just sell email but also phone numbers and sometimes address for sales prospecting. As someone who works in sales, I would hate it if these tools went away.

But GDPR and CCPA ban this practice as far as I know. So, how are these tools still legal ?

I am not being critical only curious :)
what would be cool would be some sort of agent that could live on a server and process toots and take a guess as to whether or not you should or shouldn't post this toot on this server. Manually overridable, of course.
What happens when someone forfeits it? Who’s gonna pick up the maintenance bill?
> The best measure for the quality of the codebase is whether at a glance you can understand what's going on.

This is _so_ relative to the background of the people doing the glancing. These days [1, 2, 3, 4].map(x => x + 12).filter(x => x % 2 == 0) is obvious at first glance. Twenty years ago most people would have begged you to rewrite it with for loops.

Right now I am in a hell of trying to figure out if the Scala codebase I'm working on is terrible or if I am just not fluent enough yet with FP and cats and related libraries. There are some points of style I'm confident are poor choices, but when it comes to other aspects that seem horribly convoluted to me... I'm still not sure if the code is written for somebody with more experience in the style, or if it's a poorly executed example of the style.
There is a world of difference between “phone snaps of pages in library lighting” and a proper digitization of an antique book.
> Also, people that are better-educated tend to lean liberal

better educated, or indoctrinated?
> Who's going to say this looks like Ruby now?

Challenge accepted. Here's how far I've got so far:

$l=[nil,nil,nil,nil]
TracePoint.trace(:call) do |tp|
$l << tp.self
$l.shift
end

class Lol < BasicObject
def initialize(f)
@f = f
end
def method_missing(m, *a)
# puts $l[0].inspect
$l[0].send(m, @f, *a)
end
end

class BasicObject
def ►(&blk)
::Lol.new(self).instance_exec(&blk)
end
end

module FooBar
def self.foo(a)
if a < 0
a.► { bar -1 }
else
a.► { bar 1 }
end
end

def self.bar(a, b)
(a*b).► { puts }
end
end

FooBar.foo(4)
I am also curious how many hours this individual put into the investing. I put about two or three hours a year into my investments in VTSAX and VTIAX -- just rebalancing. I would expect given the nature of angel investing that this person put in a good deal more work.

Let's say the per company deal size is $100k, and the excess risk adjusted returns are 2%. That means the deal would be worth about $2k extra to you, annually. (I'm counting your baseline investing effort as epsilon, so the deal gets no credit for returns matching my mutual funds.) Suppose your daily rate is $2k/day. You'd want to spend no more than a work day on this deal, per year, over the life of the investment.

If the amounts are smaller, or the excess risk adjusted returns are lower, then you'd want to spend less time per deal. This calculus also only applies if you have enough money to roll the dice enough times for the risk to even out. If you only have a million to invest, you'd only be able to do ten deals this size. Perhaps your hourly rate is lower, so you haven't accumulated as much of a warchest. In that kind of situation, you might be willing to work more for the same absolute amount of excess returns, but your risk would also be higher. So your risk-adjusted excess returns might shrink to a negative value.

Of course, you can tweak all the variables as suits you, and also there's the possibility that you are person who just enjoys angel investing, the feeling of importance that comes with hob-nobbing with the who's-who, etc. If that's so, then you could view the work as the price of entry, to the extent that it underperforms ordinary investments.
This, and the one by Vsauce [1] are the 2 best videos explain spacetime on Youtube I have seen.

[1] https://youtu.be/Xc4xYacTu-E
I like to call that "violently agreeing". "You all seem to be having a violent agreement" usually defuses the situation with some humour ... the first time anyway.
> Which server is it? I have no idea, it is not shown in my profile.

It's in your username and the domain, eg.:

@username@fosstodon.org, so the server is fosstodon.org.

What's your username and that should tell you.
Here's an example:

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/child-car-seats/maxicosi-jad...

A newborn can lie flat in it while being driven around.

I'm finding your questions a little bit aggressive, so I'm going to bow out now.
I do not trust CNN, CNBC, NY Post, Fox, Drudge, 538, MSNBC, Facebook, Twitter, South China Morning Post, Russia Today, FT, The Economist, etc. Every single one of them is lying to you about something. Most of them are under the direct or indirect control of the governments that run the countries they are headquartered in, and nearly all of them are incentivized to resort to limbic hijack to keep the ad revenue flowing in.
How do you think pacemakers and AirPods are even comparable?
I stopped religiously reading news after I stumbled upon Aaron Swartz's blog post on the topic [0] way back when!

I'd say I have been insulated from the depressiveness of it all ever since but also that I've lost the ability to meaningfully participate or contribute to socio/economical/political discussions that seem to dominate any gathering of modest size [1].

[0] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

[1] This quote particularly hits home: The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. --Bretolt Brecht (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541442-the-worst-illiterate...)
You can at least make sure your brightest and most innovative engineers don't run away into other countries, because they pay 5x as much. That would definitely would be a start towards getting great products.

However unfortunately there is a far more realistic chance that most of that money will get lost in management spheres which have never seen a single line of code.
I was living with a host family when I first saw American TV.

I just couldn't tell when the actual show is on. The shows, the news, the ads, and whatever else there was, they all had the same "air". The same kind of music, the same kind of cadence, the same kind of tone, the same kind of fake laugh.

TV is pretty shit everywhere; but I can't understand it in US.

Confusingly, some of the greatest TV shows are US shows. But I have to watch them on Netflix/DVD, because the actual TV breaks apart the show into tiny pieces that take away the enjoyment entirely.

I consider myself lucky that I never get sucked into the habit of watching TV.
iMessage is end-to-end encrypted. It is unlikely that Apple collects any personal data from it -- at most, they might be collecting some aggregate data, like the frequency with which various features are used.
Show HN: Open-source portfolio and blog template built on Gatsby / Tailwind
I remember having things exactly the same at my school in the early 90s
Is it an alien cat?
>But the interoperability API would be created by private entities,

That's true. I was wrong.

However, the interoperability specs will be developed by NIST as specified in Section 6(c):

"(c) Technical standards.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall develop and publish model technical standards by which to make interoperable popular classes of communications or information services, including—

(1) online messaging;

(2) multimedia sharing; and

(3) social networking."

Those standards certainly can't be copyrighted, and as such, it's still not really an issue.
Never fail another technical interview. Here’s how
Virtual interviews have completely changed the way technical interviews can be approached. With just a few simple steps you can have all the answers at your finger tips.

For example, my interviewing language of choice is JavaScript. So I went to GitHub searched for leetcode filtered by JavaScript and compiled the top 8 repos into one master list of solutions. https://github.com/AlexJuarez/solutions

The next steps are to compile implementations in JavaScript of all the algorithms and data structures that one might need to know. I already had written one https://github.com/AlexJuarez/learn-js/tree/master/data-structures.

The last step is to feed all this information into your programmatic ai app of choice mines, kite.app, and from there magic. Well that is if you’re in a supported ide, but still control-f for all text becomes a game changer for quickly locating relevant code.

If I can do it, you can too. And why not?
Wikipedia has an article on exploding houses in Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_...

(There is also an article on exploding houses in Ireland, but for entirely different reasons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_h...
The vast majority of youtube consumers don't use services like youtube-dl. Youtube absolutely could make it a lot harder for youtube-dl to work, but currently (I am assuming) the lost ad revenue doesn't add up to enough for it to be worth it.
No, not so! A number of countries consider worldwide income. Generally it must have been taxed somewhere, and in a place with a tax treaty with your primary residence, or it will get taxed as foreign income.

It gets even more complicated with capital gains or losses, and different rules for how losses can be moved between financial years.
> Don't write any line of code before getting payment.
Are you suggesting you ask for pre-payments on your landing page/forms? Is that a thing?
No condition and no medical diagnosis. For the past few years I've been afflicted by periods of existential crisis and L-DOPA short circuits this. Much better mood, focus and most importantly — drive (which is what helps most with the EC). Feels almost as good as how I felt when in my teens¹.

As others have mentioned I simply buy them off of Amazon.

¹completed my 37th trip around the sun yesterday, the 17th.
another new project in this space is sqwok.im, small beta test community atm but growing
The wires in walls provide some of the noise. Your body, when you hold the oscilloscope probes, work as an antenna for them.

The real remedy is using a differential input that cancels out identical noises induced in both wires of a pair.
The difference with America is they tax you if you're a citizen, regardless of whether you are abiding (tax resident) there.
I've never personally used them, but there were many products like it back in the day. Specifically a quick search brought up this from the 90's: https://www.amazon.ca/First-Octons-48-pcs-Building/dp/B00000...
I thought of ZAKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaks
Let's for a minute live in this world where mandating masks, social distancing, and business closures is not allowed because it's authoritarian and violates people's freedom. So what happens when the hypothetical COVID-2 comes around in a few years, which is 20x deadlier than this pandemic and kills people uniformly across age groups. What do we do?

Do we just have to die, because heaven forbid we infringe on people's rights to go out to restaurants and buy their khakis? We can't make people wear masks, and we can't make them stay home? So everyone just gets the disease and a big proportion of the world just dies. This is what people want??

Honestly, I think we are lucky this one didn't turn out to be as deadly as it could have been. COVID should be a wake-up call, and it should cause us to come up with an actual pandemic plan--so that when a more deadly one comes, we can shut up and save lives rather than argue about whether someone has a constitutional right to get their nails done without wearing a mask.
From my experience, they tend to ignore those forever, and then they use the fact that the bugs haven't been touched in a long time as an excuse to close them as WontFix.
You can simplify some of your wording here. Direction-less (your "spatial") velocity is simply speed.
I was a youtube premium subscriber. They kept banning political youtubers, which is out of line with my values, so I quit being a subscriber.

I absolutely agree with the paying for no ads model, as I really, really like that model. The premium subscription was totally worth it, and the app with ads can be truly unbearable in comparison (but not so unbearable that I'm going to start paying them again).
> medical professionals

operate in an environment where they don’t fully understand the systems they’re working with (human biology still has many unknowns), and many mistakes are irreversible.

If you look at the worst performing IT departments, they suffer from the same problems: they don’t fully understand how their systems work, and they lack easy ways to reverse changes.
There's a balance to be had. You probably shouldn't be waiting for CNN's push notifications with bated breath, but I find that weekly is a good enough cadence to follow along with what's happening without getting too stressed out.

I also try not to read sensationalist news that is unlikely to move the needle on how I feel about something (e.g. the 9000th variation on "Trump said X")
I think maybe I was projecting a bit of what I feel would benefit me as an amateur. I do think that an entry level DAW could make the case for a paid artist subscription through SoundCloud.
A lot of existing digital money is more akin to a widely-redeemable voucher issued by a private company than it is to physical cash. You're free to use it in ways that are sanctioned by that issuing company, but if you want to do something like spend it with a competitor, you might run into road-blocks.

In places like the US, this feels like an academic difference, but that's because non-bank digital payments haven't really consolidated yet.

In Kenya, where one mobile phone company (Safaricom) has a 98.8% market share of digital payments, the situation is very different- effectively on private company has a monopoly on money. They can and do use this monopoly power to their advantage.

A CBDC attempts to shift money back to being a public good like physical cash, by guaranteeing interoperability between issuers, rather than everyone paying with casino chips.
Seem alike rooting out actually toxic substances, like leaded gasoline, is so important. Kudos to the experimenter here for the clever experimental design (cat collars that absorb chemicals for later study).
The Great Coca-Cola Trial. Coca Cola name from: coca leaves and kola nuts (2019)
Only some of them are on a daily schedule so actual pill count/day is low. Niacin (vitamin B3) for example leads to diabetes and liver damage when taken upwards of 4g/day. So I take 0.5 mg (nearly a tenth of the therapeutic dose, that too on alternate days, to reduce the potential for side effects even further). High dose vitamin B6 (>20mg/day, I take 3mg once every 5 days for 30x reduction compared to therapeutic dose) can lead to lung cancer in men. So the b-complex pill¹ is taken once every 5 days. Vitamin D overdose can lead to hypercalcemia so that's taken once a week (60000 IU) and some months I stay off it entirely as fat-soluble vitamins like vit. D tend to build up in the system. There are similar rules for other supplements as well.

¹The B-vitamins (1 to 12) + zinc + calcium are a single pill called "Recobex-Z". These are generally called "b-complex", it's a combination drug.

Essentially the daily pill count is 2 in the morning + 1 in the afternoon + 2 at night, so 5 pills/day. I also do supplement fasting days with no pills taken on that day.
taylorism, but with artificial intelligence! $13 million series A
Citizens, but not the property owners, which is what is being discussed here.
Who said you would get permission to renovate? It's historic and made from stone. You can't add windows or insulation, it needs constant ventilation to prevent mould (no water barrier in the construction).

Basically it's only pleasant in the summer or if you're being raided by a neighbouring state.
Now I know why my girlfriend's cat was such a little prick, swiping me in the face and drawing blood. She had an automatic feeder.
In my neighbourhood, there are a lot of older people wandering about without masks.

Nearly all young / teen people are wearing masks and even when hanging around the park, or are at the very least keeping a distance when outside. A lot of people keep distance by going to the far edge of the sidewalk or even walking in the grass when passing each other on the street. The youngest kids are pretty much entirely wearing masks everywhere outdoors, except at very local spots, like the common areas of an apartment building where 2 or 3 kids might be playing together not wearing them. But by and large, young people are taking it seriously at least for now.

Unsurprisingly almost the only time I see young people not taking precautions, they are with their parents who are also not taking precautions.

I actually find it rather surprising that the people who are apparently in the highest risk group, at least around my area, are also visibly the least likely to be taking care to avoid catching it. They aren't even trying to keep distance. It's like they feel like they're specifically immune. Literally the older they are, the less likely they are to mask up in public walkways, etc.

I should note that I live in a Covid-19 hotspot, and we're in "modified Level 2 restrictions" conditions right now because of it.
You drive it out in an armored car!
We didn't invent interlocking plastic discs, but we did improve them and have a patent pending for that improvement. You're right that it is copyright for the helicopter. There is also a trademark infringement claim for "building flakes" vs. Brain Flakes®
How does one avoid this?
I need some new furniture in the next year or so.
If you consider your body has extent in time, then when you move between two points in space, your body is a long worm connecting those two points. So your size in some way is related to the distance you travel in your life. But even without time, a person's size isn't really well defined anyway. Is a person wider if he stretches his arms out sideways?
How to Estimate Max TPS from TPM
>This is for the initial filing, and it won’t cover the cost of dealing with the rejections that almost every patent application receives. It’s also a serious underestimate—10k is more typical for the initial filing.

That's not right. That's $6,000 all in. Maybe software patents are more expensive.

>Almost every single provisional application I’ve seen filed without a lawyer’s input has been close to worthless. This is a false economy.

That's a bad sample then. A lay person can definitely file a good provisional patent application. They just need to describe the invention inside and out.
For $150 you're buying the right to say "patent pending".
I'm not sure how that hypothesis works out with things like black holes and gravitational lenses, friction, and a lot of other established physics. Somehow I figure people that believe in the expansion hypothesis will have some kind of workaround for those.
Am I reading this right that they now have 15 volumes out of the 16 total volumes? Have they looked around in Denmark to see if the last ones is there also?
Honestly, I use vim too, and I have learnt the "language" of vim i.e. the grammar and consider myself an advanced beginner.

I have doubts whether the efficiency gains are that useful in every day life. There will some days where I make some pretty widespread refactoring changes over files or the yanking/register stuff can be quite useful, but in general, every day programming, I don't see the efficiency gains.

I have another theory for why people like Vim so much.

Using vim makes you feel like the old-school, crazy powerful, very smart programmers shown in Hollywood. It makes you realize the dream that the little child had when he saw programmers on TV. ( at least for me ) and honestly, its more fun to be doing that so I do it. :)

Maybe I am not that good at vim. But at my level, i don't see great efficiency gains. I simply see more fun gains, and that's good enough for me.
The number I think I'd like is something like 1/3rd or greater of a market. However that has the semantics issue of defining a market.

Instead I'd like to see the targets be an ANY OF (logical or):

A) Userbase of 25% or greater of the target demographic.

B) 33% or greater of the userbase files a request with (E.G. the FCC) for this service to be recognized as large enough to be under the requirements.

C) Any company making a 'sales revenue' (or other income side) of 500x the minimum wage, or 50x the 'net profit' (income after expences) could also be compelled by a regulatory body (court, FCC, FTC, whatever) without any other evidence.
It's true these are estimates. But they don't seem unrealistic to me.

Take KiwiCo - I'd never heard of it. They raised $11.5M, and 2018 were profitable, debt free and making over $100M/year revenue[1]. That's high growth and profits (a great mix), so assuming she got in during that early round, a 30x return seems very achievable.

[1] https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio-chafkin/kiwico-is-the-...
Sorry, no. But it would be a good question for one of the reddit philosophy forums. There probably are comparative religion classes/books that discuss Eastern religion/philosophy from a western perspective.

I would expect Vietnamese socially tied to different eras like Catholic, French colony and Marxist to have very different views. What they share in common must be pretty fascinating.
Cover the furniture, it's in the article
I use Firefox. But, I'd be willing to install a version of Chrome if it came without all of the Google garbage pre-installed. I was hoping that maybe Chromium could fill this role.
Oh my. It reminds me that about 2001, I purchased a medium quality Serta bed from Mancini's Sleepworld (in CA) that arrived in a sealed plastic bag. The mattress stunk with a chemical odor (assuming it was FR's) for 2 months. IIRC I returned it because it wasn't going away. The factory workers likely applied far too much FR. A different mattress solved the problem.

Also, btw, yellowing plastic: that's often bromine FR compounds leeching out of the plastic. Dilute bleach w/ a surfactant is a good cleaner for that.