skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know quite a few conventional entrepreneurs that I wouldn't consider smart in a general context, but are extremely well versed in what they do.

Experience will help you to develop an instinct, and once you understand why everything is the way it is, you need to focus on finding an edge/making a difference/having an impact.

This takes time, experimentation, and most of all the willingness and ability to fail, while you gain deeper and new insights.

Willingness comes from personal grit and belief, but ability usually comes from your network, venture capital, a rich family, or having a successful business in the first place...

Following Taleb's ideas, I'd say that, to find your edge, it would make more sense to try something new 52 weeks in a row, instead of spending 52 weeks on a single idea.

Assume you have the grit and ability to experiment, then you still need a heuristic to determine which ideas are worth pursuing, and that's where luck comes in. Markets do not behave rationally, so reasoning can only bring you so far.

"How to be successful" formulas could be compared to the "how to draw an owl" meme [0]: you need grit, the ability to experiment, and hope that this combination will eventually put you in the perfect context at a time where everything aligns, and where you take the decision to pursue the correct opportunity...

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/eccj2/how_to_draw_an...
Does the size of a press increase linearly with the amount of pressure it can generate?
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Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
You might well be right, but if the scheme lasts 20 years (and makes it easier to maintain old code during that period), I'd say it's a very good run by PL standards!
Hey,cool to see you here too! I'd love to have you build another template. I'll pay too.
One can make the same argument for doing arithmetic using Roman numerals.
I am really suprised that the cost of a Brownie camera is $1.25 (roughly $34 in today’s dollars), when contrast to todays ubiquitous equivalent which is the phone camera. Equivalent in the sense of enabling folks to take photos ad nauseum.
Lotteries also made millionaires and billionaires during the pandemic era, I don’t think I’ve seen any TA that legitimately provides returns at a better than random rate.
You can collapse a thread by clicking the - in a post's header.
How is the fire protection of bamboo compared to other woods?
To me your response reads like the perfect high school text book answer. But I'll take your response as if it came from someone who really knows his work, and assume that what you said is true. Let's not question this meme any further.

I didn't really mean to judge Einstein. When a story sounds "too good to be true" it most often tends to lean towards fiction. My 'judgement' was towards people who blindly believe everything about memes.

In reality, there really was no point and it does not really matter if this particular story is true or not. I just like to question things that people assume obvious.
"FM Synthesis" is a generic term that encompasses both phase modulation and frequency modulation.

And in John Chowning's original article, he bops back and forth between the two without mentioning it.

In practice, phase modulation is more useful and makes more sense. And yes, the DX-7 uses phase modulation throughout.

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With Frequency Modulation, you can have an operator feed back on itself. However... with such an arrangement it is entirely possible for it to get stuck at 0 Hz. Not very musical.

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And phase modulation makes a lot more sense. Watch as I demonstrate.

Student: "How does FM synthesis work?"

Teacher: "Well, do you know what happens if we have one oscillator modulating the frequency of another oscillator?"

Student: "You mean like vibrato?"

Teacher: "Yes, exactly. Now imagine a vibrato at the same frequency as the second oscillator."

Student: "That's doesn't even make sense."

Teacher: "Not to worry, the Bessel Functions still apply."

Student: "What's a Bessel Function. Can I calculate it?"

Teacher: "Not directly. It's kind of complicated."

Student: "Mutherfucker!"

Okay, now let's try phase modulation.

Student: "How does phase modulation work?"

Teacher: "Okay... Do you know how distortion works?"

Student: "I'm a guitar player. I'm intimately familiar with distortion."

Teacher: "Great! So distortion is a nonlinearity on the Y axis of a waveform."

Student: "Yep!"

Teacher: "Well, phase modulation is a nonlinearity on the X axis of a waveform. We stretch the waveform here [hand gesture], and compress the waveform over here [hand gesture]."

Student: "Hmm, warping the waveform along the X axis. That sounds kind of like PWM."

Teacher: "It's kind of similar, yeah."

Student: "Cool; thanks. I understand."
Hey, well you can always cancel before the trial is over. We won't charge your card. Hope that pushes play on your pause. :)
The design principles just don't make sense for license plates. It really isn't important that a license plate for California highlight the history of California. It's nice to be distinguishable from other states' plates, but that's quite easy to do, just make it a different color scheme.

One thing is very important for license plates. They need to be easy to read. That's all. Big letters and numbers, no weird fonts. The current California plates are pretty well done, much better than these designs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
Impressive range of movement!
Yeah, you can click the minus sign. It's in brackets like so:

[-]
This scene from Cranes are Flying?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/oqqgcl/this_amazi...
I completely missed that, thanks so much! Maybe this should be the default?
I asked a common sense question once in some Julian Assange thread… flagged. For some people some subjects take on an irrational religious experience. Anything that is not a forceful agreement must be destroyed.
When you're a contrarian but you get covered in FT (and worse still on hackernews), you stop being the contrarian. You become mainstream. Jokes aside, before you read his book Safe Haven, read the Dao of Capital.
Maybe I’m just bad at their site but I can’t see any name other than Elizabeth, I can’t see their professional credentials nor does it seem likely that a couple of hours work looking into something that at best produces a tiny effect is sufficient to establish a good meta-review of the relevant literature. For example there’s no real attempt to gauge the quality of the papers cited. Reading the report makes me suspect the author is less than convinced.

From passing familiarity and a bit of a browse around LessWrong is a great place for pretentious airs, florid prose and lengthy posts but none of that makes things inherently more accurate. And for this kind of reporting accuracy of the result is pretty important.
i think feynman's stance on "important problems" was a lot better: http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/pr...
“Technology is propulsion.” Chinese characters written on the wall of factory workshop.
Is there a particular reason why all these images were uncensored in the original broadcast?
I don't know why, but it took me years to internalize this... lol...
It sounds like you're describing Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG).

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
A few comparisons:

> forearm with hand [weighs] only 1 kg

That is slightly below a human forearm with a hand.

> This artificial muscles robotic arm is operated by water and consumes 200W at peak

The ideal consumption necessary to raise this 7 kg dumbbell by 1 meter in 1 second is 7 watts.

Human muscle is about 20% efficient, so it probably consumes about 35 watts. Almost a tenth the power.

A human arm can also achieve about double the maximum output of that robotic arm: for instance this crank[0] offers 400 W max, with a more typical 50 W sustained output.

> achieve human immortallity [sic] by transplanting the brain into the machine

That feels like a stretch, given the complex needs of a brain (not just in glucose fed through veins, but also immunity protection and so much more). Brain transplant into an organic body seems easier, and even that does not address the fact that brain cells themselves age.

[0]: https://www.electricpedals.com/hand-crank-generator
An interesting theory by /u/Q_Fandango on Reddit:

Hi- I also used to be an on-set armourer’s assistant in Canada. We assembled and counted every blank and checked each firearm between shots, and never let anyone handle the firearms unless it was for the scene.

The reason you have blanks in the gun (why they are necessary) is because it just looks better than digital composite, and lower budget films can usually afford blanks more than they can the cost of post-production effects. There’s even some artistry in creating the blanks: flash powers can have different colour effects and you can control the amount of muzzle flash by how much powder you pack into the blank.

We don’t know the details of this situation yet, but a “point at lens” shot with a blank is common and likely the culprit. When we did it, we made sure that there was a sheet of lexan between the camera and sound blankets covering things. What I currently think (with absolutely no proof, mind you… pure speculation) is that it may have been a shotgun that had some blockage in the barrels and half-blanks, because it hit two people and caused enough injury to be fatal/almost fatal.

When you train actors to use these firearms, you do have to remind them that it’s still dangerous- and even a blank will kill someone at point-blank range. That’s why I always cringe when I see a gun held up to another actor’s head… someone who is unfamiliar with firearms but lost in the scene won’t have the best trigger discipline.
Mastodon was hard to "sell" to my peers when I tried to explain how it works. Recently I changed my approach by not explaining all the great technical features related to federation, and instead focused on the fact that it is ad-free, do not use an algorithm (feed is chronological) and is community run. Mastodon is what Twitter once was, before it got ruined by ads and algorithms.

A friend who is an artist was frustrated with the experience on Instagram, and finally signed up on an art-related community in the fediverse, and found it to be a breath of fresh air, with more meaningfull interactions, not just likes.
>> someone with a bit of a spectrum disorder.

> I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see someone suggesting this, since it seems extremely obvious to me that this is part of the case.

The whole thread has currently 1471 points and 681 comments. I seem the be the 4th person realising, that the whole discussion is about "communication advices given by someone fighting the spectrum disorder". I don't know wat to say.
This is not about what being smart is.

It's about a very twisted perception of what is important.

PG seems to equate success with innovation. As if living life raising a family and having meaningful relationships is just a frivolous pass time of the lazy.

I can't with these randian heros....
The way I do it is to follow the hashtags I'm interested in, see the people that post under it regularly and decide if they're interesting enough to follow. This has a chicken and egg downside, as these people won't appear at all if nobody on your instance follows them, which is unfortunate. :(

To circumvent that you can use mastodon social's tag page, but it's less user friendly. See here an example: https://mastodon.social/tags/activitypub
Stage 3 Cirrhosis Moonshots?
Hello, my father has stage 3 cirrhosis from drinking heavily. He isn't throwing up bile or an insomniac yet but he's got a severely damaged liver, has had visible liver spots for 18+ months now, and has lost quite a bit of weight over the last 18 months as well.

Seems like he has about a year or so before he's living on borrowed time.

Are there any startups/clinical trials/moonshot solutions anyone is aware of?

While I did not have, by any definition of the word, a great relationship with my family, they are all I have. I will pay any amount of money to get him even a 1% increased chance of survival.

Any recommendations for anything that could remotely be helpful are much appreciated.

Sincerely,
The most secure medium currently is still the web, much more than any mobile app store, and it's an unmoderated & decentralised platform.

You should not buy their excuses about so-called security, it always has been about control.
> Technical trading made millionairs and billionairs during the pandemic era.

Because the market went up. Can you prove it was because of TA?
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It does seem in our world where there is such relative fear of the other that a bit of structure would help a lot. Not sure if this is it, but I think it’s thinking along the same lines.

I think about this a lot in that how many relationships we have are based around the circumstances of mutual location - the internet being one, sometimes - but people really have trouble addressing needs of community and there aren’t many structures in place to really assist that.
What I don't see is how much hardware is needed to drive that arm.
listen, listen, listen. The biggest step I took towards being able to interface my ideas with others was to first listen to their ideas, problems, needs, whatever it is they wanted to talk about. You have to make what's important to them important to you before you can do it the other way around - and it's for a bunch of reasons. in attempting to empathize with them you'll have ideas about what they could be doing better to communicate to you (and not make the same mistakes when you're the one talking). You'll build trust in yourself by genuinely caring about their business, and you'll learn what's important to them, which is really the thing you're eventually going to try to plug your ideas into.

The magic sauce that makes this work, though, is being genuine. Do the emotional work to really give a damn about the other people around you; which is a lot harder than I think people give credit for, but monumentally more beneficial.
Wood is mostly cellulose (which is all carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen). There's some calcium and potassium, but not that much. You are correct that it's not entirely renewable.
As you said, in most cases. Mechanical (no electronics) vending machines are only possible with coins and even with electronics, sorting/recognising coins is far easier than notes. A basic coin also takes more effort to forge (well enough to pass at a gas station) than a basic note, although notes seeming everywhere else but the US have obvious safety features that completely beat coins.

They're also much easier to handle when you need many different ones, like when you're trying to assemble an exact amount. I can just look into my wallet and pick out the coins I need, whereas with notes, I'd have to spread them out like an awkward floppy hand of cards and especially if they weren't distinct enough scanning through and finding the right ones sounds plain annoying.
You can get an equivalent of enabling folks to take (only) photos ad nauseum at $34 also today.
I think I possess this skill (at least partially), and the trick of "knowing what to ask" is to train yourself heuristics that guide you towards questions that reveal outstandingly large amounts of new information. Of course you have limited information, so those determinations about how much information a question's answer would yield are plagued by that. Hence the heuristics.

This is not easy to learn, and great understanding ability is a prerequisite.
PHP == “The COBOL of the web”
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Another admin here, and yes I agree.

But one major aspect of fediverse, that people rarely talk about when promoting it, is the spam.

To summarize my impressions over the last 5 years I'd say there is no way to run a big open instance without funding. The best way for small single actor instances to survive is to be invite only or approve each member account.

And even then I'd suggest using Geo blocking to fence off your instance from certain parts of the world.

My personal wish is to see the fediverse made up of smaller, localized instances that federate across borders. So for example a Finnish instance that only accepts finnish users, but it federates with every other instance.

And ontop of that more ActivityPub relays to facilitate federation.
The wasp with a top hat is classic. Such a bizarre niche interest could only be dead serious to participants.
Related: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-.... It's cool to see people waking up and getting organized.
This is absolutely the best mitigation for SQL injection.

It can also speed up your queries as it allows better caching of the query plan.

It always annoys me when SAST products on detecting injection advise using better input validation. No! Use parameterised queries and be done with it.
a - Put more precisely, I worry because this is Nida-funded

b - thanks. It's too late to edit, so...

http://www.ukcia.org/research/gettman.html

edit redux: still 404-ing. rats.
You'd probably spend half your time mucking around with how to manufacture lumber. That might be fun on its own, just expect projects to take twice as long.
All of Hamming's books are Great. Most are available from Dover Publications for cheap. In particular; checkout his

* Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics.

* The Art of Probability.
Check out Graveyard Keeper, while a mildly more morbid vibe, the gameplay loop, graphics and general feel are quite similar.

Definitely worth a try, but I had to mod it a little bit to make the energy mechanics a bit more forgiving and to speed up the gameplay a bit - YMMV.
Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea (2014)
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That is a well defined function. And indeed implements isEven. Because unsigned int has defined overflow semantics.

Essentially, it will eventually overflow and hit the correct base-case for 0.
Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
Sometimes the best way to persuade someone regarding an idea is to actually implement the idea without their knowledge and then present it to them for review.

We are talking about software, right? Only cost and liability around this is usually your time. I've only been scolded for writing a program a few times in my career.
Freelancer's path to building $10K MRR SaaS
I suppose the trade-off is cost vs efficiency - eg. loss in your “chain”
Land use at least is much more efficient when harvests are every 4-5 years instead of every 40-80 years with spruce or fir. Birch can be felled at around 55 years.

Normal wood is kiln dried similarly to bamboo, and glued panels are done in a similar fashion.

Plywood is in a way more processed than bamboo.
There is, sort of. The Cinematographers' Mailing List, in constant operation since 1996, is an old-school listserv. Its members range from non-cinematographers, to beginners, to (many) academy-award winners. It is easily the largest single body of living knowledge in the world of cinematography and filmmaking. Join and ask... I promise you there are 100 people who know the granular, minute details of how this shot was accomplished, and chances are good that several members know people who worked on the movie. https://cinematography.net

As a small bit of trivia for those who wonder - it has been diligently maintained as a listserv, and a very simple website, because it is actively used by filmmaking crews in active production, which frequently takes place in god-forsaken corners of the earth with extremely limited connectivity. If it's 2am in the desert in Morocco, and you need help on alternate solutions for the the gimbal rig that just crapped out... you need a low-bandwidth way to tap into the collective wisdom. And that sort of active community happens regularly.
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I just looked this up since I have bamboo floors I'm considering refinishing, and this resource[0] seems reputable and indicates that it's very doable but you should wear PPE to protect yourself.

[0] https://www.flooringstores.com/blog/refinish-bamboo-flooring...
For me, I think it's about your speed of thinking. If you ask a probing stupid question and get a "yes". If you are quick to reassemble your very low level of understanding into a (wrong) model, you can ask question about this model. "So that means that x goes into y to do z?" which makes you indeed look stupid but it also triggers the person explaining into "ok, this is a full out idiot, I need to go slow and explain in extreme detail". But then I interrupt when it goes to slow with a new pieced-together temporary model from some fact they let out and ask a new maybe less stupid question that makes the explainer go "ok, maybe they understand a bit more" and goes faster/skips details. And then it's like that back and forth until I understand it all and my questions goes into the territory of "yeah, that bit I don't understand either..." which leads us to go on a joint adventure into even greater understanding. A fellowship of the stupid.
...because you don't get it (sorry !;)). If you click on the minus right to the time, you can fold all the comments from a thread.
Hey HN
I wrote a post about a SaaS company called the agent nest.
The founder started as Freelancer, then formed an agency and eventually founded a SaaS company.
I think this is a legit way to create wealth especially for freelancers and content creators.
I don't post on HN as often, so not aware of the social norms here. Happy to be corrected if such posts aren't appreciated.
Let me know what you folks think
Really? Can you share a link? I would be interested in looking at these further.
Yeah that's how it is now. The federation sort of blends into the background so disregarding that part I feel like I'm using a big message board in the early 2000s.

But actually worse, because at least those message boards had better defined topics. I can follow some hashtags that I enjoy but in the web gui it's very limited. I've been thinking about writing my own software to help me follow tags alone. Just to participate in relevant discussion.

Otherwise you're just watching people rant in the public feed and if you're lucky you might catch the occasional interesting post.

But I persist because I truly believe in the fediverse concept.
They are reverting it back
https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
skrape{it} is a Kotlin-based HTML/XML testing and web scraping library that can be used seamlessly in Spring-Boot, Ktor, Android or other Kotlin-JVM projects. The ability to analyze and extract HTML including client-side rendered DOM trees and all other XML-related markup specifications such as SVG, UML, RSS,... makes it unique. It places particular emphasis on ease of use and a high level of readability by providing an intuitive DSL. First and foremost skrape{it} aims to be a testing tool (not tied to a particular test runner), but it can also be used to scrape websites in a convenient fashion.