skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert in finance, so don't hold it against me if I'm wrong, but does "backed by" not rather mean that the bank can have your house if you can't make payments?

This in opposition to a credit card debt where they have no come-back. Other than the courts and collections agencies.

I was under the impression that this was the reason that consumptive loans generally are capped far far lower than mortgages. And have triple their interest rates.

While it is true that I can put my university on my credit card, it is very expensive and very rare. I would wager that the majority of these loans are for cars. Which, I agree can create wealth, but it would have been 'better practise' to buy a cheaper car, and switch when that anticipated wealth has been created.

Moreover, those cars explain only part of the loans. The rest is 'bigger tv' or the likes. And those do not even create wealth.
Thanks! There's a lot more I would want to include in a V2 - statistics like average contact response time, top phrases, and conversation analysis (did you like to double text? did you have conversations in bursts or consistently?).

That said, it's been cool sharing with friends and seeing the results they share with me. Seeing some interest dips/spikes in text frequency around the start of the pandemic depending on the person.
I don't know if this affects your argument, but are you sure you can trust the AQI meter's readings for anomalous levels?

We recently had a discussion on this topic: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138485
Amphetamine and metamphetamine (meth) are two different things.
Sure, and then I'll get a new job. Cuts both ways.
It's only partially supported by public money, as far as I can tell. Perhaps the industrial sponsors don't want it to be open access?

Luckily, the paper is accessible through SciHub it seems.

From the paper:

Funding: Financial support from The Dow Chemical Company and DuPont is acknowledged. T.E.C. and E.D.G. acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation under awards DMR-1609417 and DMR-1905550. K.P.B., A.L.Z., and E.D.G. also acknowledge support from the Center for Membrane Science, Engineering, and Technology (MAST) and the National Science Foundation under award IIP-1841474. M.K. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under award CBET-1946392. B.G. and B.K. are funded in part by the National Science Foundation under award CMMI-1906194. B.G. and B.K. also acknowledge computing support from XSEDE TG-CTS110007
If you think letting employers bend you over without good reason is the way to live your life then go for it.
What Will Future Homes Look Like? Filmed in the 1960's [video]
https://sive.rs/zipit
In eastern europe interviews are mostly experience-related.

Questions are mostly about technologies that hiring team needs, the more the better, and the deeper the better. I never had a problem getting the extra experience not found on previous workplace from my pet projects and blogs before moving to US.

Funnily, I've seen people who moved back from SF Bay Area, and struggled to find a job there, despite being very good at whiteboard and CS problems. Turned out eastern european companies don't care about CS problems really.
> Percentage ownership of resultant intellectual property.

Pfft. I've been through this, my ex-supervisor attempted to file a patent which included a bunch of figures and illustrations I drew single-handedly while writing up my PhD and which were lifted from my thesis without my consent.

My PhD was funded by a government research council.

My ex-supervisor was filing a patent on behalf of a private company he set up to run in parallel out of his university laboratory.

There are some people who just don't care about rules and figure they can just ask for forgiveness later. I'm still cross about this, over 20 years later.
The developer uses Github but I cannot see source code, only compiled binaries.
Yeah but you need an invite to participate
Cool app, love the design and presentation
These driver assistance is IMO especially useful onn such boring drives. I don't expect this tech to be legally cleared for busy city streets for a long time.
> these burners should be seized and replaced

Wood is far cheaper than alternatives, often even free (e.g., a neighbor cuts down a tree, you get rid of it for them). Financial assistance is onerous to obtain.

You're also assuming it's appropriate for some government beurocrat to make such a decision on the first place. "It's my woodstove, you can't have it."
Fantastic idea! As someone who was just starting to slowly learn their way around the Chrome API, your timing couldn't be better either.

Look forward to seeing what else gets implemented on your todo list.
Your first sentence stands well on its own. I suspect if you shadowed a short order cook for 2.5x 40 hour work weeks, you would be able to function as a short order cook yourself. The entire point of that job is to prepare food that takes a short time to deliver. This means lots of rote tasks which can be performed rapidly.
Amey Plc hit by ransomware attack
"On 16th December Amey became aware of a complex IT security incident during which a portion of our data was compromised. We have reported the incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the National Centre for Cyber Security, and the National Crime Agency." - Amey
Central heating?
Thats completely beside the point, renewable is more expensive than wood. Also, while renewables might be cheaper in the long run, initial costs are very high.

And power mix in central europe, which you feed into your heat pump, is largely coal. Photovoltaics in winter are only a very small part of the mix. Wind depends on the weather pattern, but around here cold weather usually brings calm. Winter is also dry season, so hydro is lacking as well. So your typical heat pump will be far from emission free.
Malleable Systems Collective: 2020 digest
Ironically this is reimplementing plan9/9fs and everything is a filesystem. If any, this is Unix++.

Also, say hello to FUSE, which tries to mimic that on the userland.
What used to be fiction now is just news.
This is easy to say but very difficult to actually do. Immigrants are typically more desperate and companies take advantage of that.
You didn't read the post, did you?

Please go and read the post. Especially the following section:
https://github.com/x74353/SaveAmphetamine#what-arguments-can...

The App is named Amphetamine and not Meth which imho is a big difference.
Don't get me wrong, most of the time they read the instructions and everything works great. No issue.

But the uncalled-for rejections happens enough that we can never feel confident. As I say, it's a major nuisance, but it isn't unworkable.
It's bizarre and terrifying that people somehow associate freedom with fascism. The idea that wanting rights makes someone "alt right" is absolutely insane.
Honey Hive Is Looking for Artists
From the article:

"An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks...."

"..Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says..."
While Herodotus may serve as a motivation for someone to make such a claim, the OP did not link to either Herodotus or to a reputable scholarly commentary on Herodotus. He linked to a pop-sci website with an obsession with fringe history – just look at some of the other wacky things on La Brujula Verde.
Scale does matter. There are a ton of things that people can and do do for a bit of cash under the table like give a haircut even though they don't have a license, rent out an apartment to a friend of a friend for a few weeks because you'll be traveling, etc. And those same things would probably be a problem if they were pursued as an ongoing business. Which, the general silliness of some occupational licensing aside, I don't really have a problem with.
Avoiding offense while choosing product names is already a well developed and ubiquitous task, and has been for a very long time. It's a reasonable thing to want to do. But I understand the point you're trying to make.
This is the problem when we jump on the bandwagon to try and ban all words that may be offensive to a single person.
Ask HN: Has anyone hired a freelance developer for a MVP?
If so, what was your experience? Which service did you use? Would you do it again? Any advice/learnings?
Do you know how this interacts with NAFTA 2.0? If a work can be used for profit in Canada and not in the US...
Nitrogen is an element, and a very common one at that. Explosives are a fringe use case.

Amphetamine on the other hand has only one very well defined use case.

I get the reference to another similar app (Caffeine) but this is a step too far, indeed portraying a dangerous drug in a positive light.
Presumably when the stove is not in use the amount of harful particles is very low. So a three times increase of a very small number is also very small.
The author is trying to maintain some anonymity. That would not be possible with specific details.
yes, I should have mentioned: I was using the X windows version of emacs (at the time, I thought that was a Really Cool Thing- now, I use text emacs in tmux). I think it has a much larger footprint.
as can be seen by the caste system created due to abandoning natural birth in favor of genetically engineered babies being made at scale in factories.
I worked at Apple decades ago before Next and the return of Steve. It was glorious, fun, respectful, creative and bubbling with energy. Of course, it was nothing like the juggernaut of today. It was an upstart democracy, messy and sublime; now it's China: authoritarian and no patience for dissent.
By this logic 1000s of Apps should be removed. Does Fruit Ninja glorify violence? It sounds like someone is trying to justify their job, can’t go after apps that impact Apple’s bottom line so chase apps like this.

Huge fan of Amphetamine(the app) but its Apple’s walled garden. This nonsense is a consequence.
Your username has its uses too.

Not bad for a night out although not really to my taste.
I want someone to train an AI with organizational psychology metrics, to better spot dysfunction and pathology.

Surely anyone looking at OP's team from afar could spot the dumpster fire, if only the data were available.
Note that this effect hasn't just occurred in America but other developed countries (e.g. London, Canada, Australia) all which had more secure work, local manufacturing, local union power/membership, etc and have experienced similar trends as the US.

In our local newspaper there have been many articles about wage stagnation and the decline of our manufacturing base as well - albeit we may be a few years behind America which isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
They only do this ruse for a while, then after controlling a good chunk of the business they “sell” their services officially to the restaurant, including commission. It’s not a charity.
For fucks sake apple. You build your products with questionable labor. Quit lecturing us.
Despite being widely attributed as a Chinese curse, there is no known equivalent expression in Chinese.

The nearest related Chinese expression translates as
"Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...

Not saying you claimed it was Chinese but FYI.
Thanks for catching this. That is spot on. These APIs in the `Symbol` backend [0] show this concept off really well I think.

The `Symbol` data structure knows how to, e.g. render its `Symbol#inspect` implementation [1]. To extract the underlying bytes associated with the `Symbol`, however, it needs an interpreter. But not a whole interpreter or any particular interpreter, just one that implements `Intern` [2].

All of these generics get monomorphized so there are no vtables or other indirection. Because it's unlikely you'll have more than one interpreter implementation in your program, there is no code bloat either.

[0]: https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/2d67d8537c1340f1...

[1]: https://artichoke.github.io/artichoke/spinoso_symbol/struct....

[2]: https://artichoke.github.io/artichoke/artichoke_core/intern/...
Agree, parent comment says a lot about the bubble some people live in.
What about GTA lol
I have worked in several highly secretive companies, including this one, and this is correct. Secrecy enables abuse.
I should note that I do not necessarily imply in my comment that it would be Bitcoin that would bend the world to its will. Bitcoin is just one member of a larger cluster of cryptocurrencies. There are certainly some cryptocurrencies for which it is not so obvious that governments will be able to enforce exactly the same laws as they enforce now.

That said, even with Bitcoin, I do think it shifted the world ever so slightly in a new direction of financial independence which just wasn't there before. There is something distinctly different about sending money to someone else in any part of the world just by typing their address, with no one being able to stop you. With traditional methods, governments could impose and have regularly interfered and imposed bureaucracy already on this sending step. With Bitcoin they do not do this because it isn't very practical.
Take it easy, it was named after an older similar app, Caffeine.

It’s a clever name because it rhymes and they’re both stimulants. That’s all.
> Cities like Los Angeles that require moving vast amounts of fresh water long distances to be viable are a recent phenomenon - appearing only in the last century or so.

That's not exactly true. The Hohokam started building canals in the Sonoran Desert maybe 1500 years ago (some of which form the basis for the modern water supply system of Phoenix!). Somewhat earlier than the Hohokam, the Romans were infamous for their aqueducts, the longest of which stretched over 250 miles. That's longer than the aqueducts that supply New York City or even Los Angeles!
You’re angry. I’ve felt this in a trademark lawsuit. You think the world should get behind you and change the corrupt system.

My advice is to immediately rebrand as gracefully and effectively as possible and use all that activist energy to effect the transition.

They kind of have a point which doesn’t make them right, but they hold all the cards and you will lose this one and regret the wasted bandwidth.
Honestly the real enemy (if people are genuinely offended I tend to side with them) is people being offended on behalf of other people.
“Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration if we don’t consider costs” sounds like a more honest title
Well-written argument for the app reviewers to get bent, especially the highlighted examples of other apps that show the rule is clearly applied inconsistently.

Apple's App Store moderation is embarrassing. They routinely fail to catch harmful junk—I've shut down a few top-grossing bogus antivirus apps for Mac, and the publisher of Untitled Goose Game routinely posts screenshots of clones that are trying to make money off confused users.

They've banned apps like Phone Story and a drone strike tracker for being "objectionable and crude," yet they don't apply any content moderation to the Book Store or to Music or TV (or to Safari for that matter). They've yet to provide a cogent justification for why they're inconsistent on this.
> My point was that the government has control of the internet, and thereby all activity on the internet.

Yes, if you're a big enough bully, you have control over many things. However, sometimes the control would imply too much destruction so even the bully chooses not to proceed. This is essentially what is happening right now.
A good friend and co-worker of mine went remote several months ago, and no, he does not get healthcare anymore. I am not aware of what his full healthcare situation is but I cannot imagine it's cheap.
The strawmanning here is from your side.

> Fully developing China simply was/is/will not be possible with so many people. Hence demographic decline, in China's case is a forgone necessity, and the massive disparity between the haves / haves nots is essential in managing the transition. The end of which will situate China to better deal with a variety of issues.

I feel the same sense of resignation, and defeatism in these words as when a man on road to Chinese officialdom regurgitated that official line to me.

1. 600M of non-salvageable rural poor is a direct result of Beijing elites with attitude exactly like yours treating rural people as human garbage needing to be disposed off, walled off, and forgotten of.

2. Even if Beijing elites gave as tiny bit of concern as just building technical institutes for rural youth, and didn't perpetrate a nationwide policy of discrimination against them, China could've rode the manufacturing train for at least one more decade at full speed, and could've been incomparably more well off, possibly ahead of US economically by today already.

The biggest curse of China as it is now is that elites in Beijing don't have to give a round fuck about developing the country further knowing that China's economy is destined to become world's biggest in their lifetimes, no matter the amount of abuse, and mismanagement. More than enough to buy a luxury apartment, and an annual supply of maotai for a few millions in politically engaged class.
I'd say this is true in a sense that you "stand on the shoulders of giants", you rely on a lot of technology and science that has been developed by others. But small non-diverse teams can accomplish important (but likely small) breakthroughs in their field. You don't necessarily need a large diverse team to do important science. My anecdote is my PhD work.
It's backed by a nation-state that has carrier groups?
I don’t understand the rationale to remove the app. Are they selling drugs through it or committing a crime with prior precedent in a court of law or under legislation passed by an elected committee?

If it’s just the name, how far does this go? Can I not name a band after a drug? Can I no longer write a book about drugs? What about a company? What if I’m a pharma company? Who is deciding these rules and how do we get rid of them?
It's not portraying anything in a positive light. The fact that this is the name of the app implies no value judgement.
According to the article, the person was documenting things. They even included a picture of a meeting invite. They also went to HR many times.

Only thing they didn't do was seek legal council, but that's probably a hard step to take when you're on a work visa - especially when Apple is your legal opponent.
Wait until Apple realizes that "Final Cut Pro" seems to promote irreversible self harm for profit.
Yet another format is CSF (Compressed Sparse Fiber): http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/node/1177

It's a generalized CSR/CSC (to ndim > 2) format that uses a tree data structure where each path from root to leaf encodes a nonzero element.
You're the one who brought up meth.

Amphetamine isn't meth.

Looks like it's you that has the meth obsession. Shouldn't you be ashamed with yourself for having used the word? What about all the people whose children's lives have been destroyed by meth? Shouldn't you delete your comment?

Also can you please link me to a study that shows a causal link between names of apps, and an increase in usage in that drug the app is named after?

And then one that shows an increase in usage in a different drug (because again, amphetamine is not meth)?

I'd really, really like to read that study.

Presumably you want to ban WINE too, because of all the people who know someone who was an alcoholic? Have you written to the WINE maintainers telling them how evil they are?
You pointing out semantics makes zero difference to how I feel about meth/amphetamines and how regardless of semantics these are insensitive product names.

When I hear “Amphetamine” I instantly think if they people I know who’s lives have been destroyed, but you feel I’m mistaken and you’ve got a good argument against my line of thinking.

Telling me how to think.
You have no actual idea how acquiring said licenses actually work. So stop pretending you do.
The app was just the final issue, in the document it starts with a manager ordering him to work slower and then another complaining about his slowness.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!
> Amphetamine on the other hand has only one very well defined use case.

Are you referring to the widespread use of it as an ADHD medication for children all throughout the nation?
The price of doing that with electric or oil or natural gas will cripple you. There's a reason thermostats are set to 60 or 65 degrees.

With wood you just chuck another stick in the furnace and let her rip.
You should have just said no sir I wont have any problem working overtime and my rate is 2.5x for overtime hrs, you wont have a problem paying for that you're a rich company.
What regulations does the UK have for wood burning stoves? Here in America we have pretty tight regulations on wood burning stoves for the particulate they can emit. Starting in 2020 new stoves can only emit 2.0g/hr of particulate, down from the 4.5g/hr that was the rule from 2015. Most stoves I’ve seen come in at 1.54g/hr, but I’ve seen a few down at 0.5g/hr. It’s not uncommon to see stoves with catalytic converters in them to fully burn off any particulate.

Obviously this isn’t as clean as natural gas, which emits close to no particulate, but it’s a long way from a coal fireplace. I wonder if such regulations would help, or would they not be sufficient?
The hard thing is an mvp is less about product management and more about wading through the chaos of feedback from early customers to find the product patterns to manage.

To that extent, finding someone who can build an mvp to be a flexible learning engine for finding product market fit in a particular industry is really important.

It's not good enough to build something once, but to be able to update it over and over again easily to maintain your speed of learning.
It's pretty well proven that even scientists don't change their minds when presented with new evidence. Instead, you have to wait for the existing people to literally die out. Then a new generation can have new ideas. Progress is a matter of time and attrition, like a glacier moving. It's not a matter of logic and openness and evidence and debate.

We need to wait for people who believe whatever Facebook/Fox shows them to die, they will never stop believing it as long as they draw breath.

https://news.mit.edu/2019/life-science-funding-researchers-d...
This is a singular thing of beauty, if only because the code is _extremely_ small. It is 3000+ lines long because it is heavily commented and makes for some pretty interesting reading (even if you don't know ARM assembly, it is easy to follow).

It's also a great first addition of the year to my LISP resources page at http://taoofmac.com/space/dev/lisp :)