skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around that time I used something called the BrainWave Generator https://www.bwgen.com/ along with files for astral projection/OOBE to try and train myself to lucid dream (did not work for me). Lots of trippy sensations listening to that stuff, though!
if you have money, it's a lame excuse.

food deserts are real.

not having enough free time to exercise is real.
This is true. It’s also true that “your body” is just a social construct. The rabbit hole of “property is just an idea” doesn’t end well for humans who seek agency.
I still remember when all we cared about were the technical contributions that people made. Now it seems like the ideologists from one extreme side of the political spectrum have infiltrated the technical communities and are destroying them in the same way as they are this country.

Stop with the culture wars identity politics shit: it's what's tearing this country apart.

Of all the days in the year to have to write a comment like this on...!
In the 60s, most Southern states were no-issue when it comes to concealed carry, and most of the rest were may-issue.

Even before the recent ruling, there were 8 states that were may-issue; the rest were shall-issue or no permit required.
A year or two ago I think.. I have once created customised tiny code linux bootable usb to add Qemu and all dependencies as well as bootable OpenStep CD image (https://peterwong.net/blog/creating-an-openstep-boot-cd-2/) to install OpenStep on Acer Aspire 5610 without actually burning a CD. I have succeeded but of course without audio or network though. It probably is only a viable or the easiest way to install on unsupported machines.
If carbadtraingood was upfront about wanting the change as political activism, I wouldn't have responded to him. I don't think it will ever be an effective way at combating racism, but at least such a position is honest, upfront and respectful to others in the conversation. I have a lot more respect for people who admit they want to ban 'blacklist/whitelist' to effect social change than I do for the people who pretend they want the words stricken for for wholly apolitical reasons; that's simply cowardly and insulting.
Personal attacks like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It only makes everything worse.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Grift is Good.

Americas new motto
Just the other day I was on about making a training data set of hypnosis videos from youtube to feed into an ML model that learns the basic hypnotic triggers from the corpus of videos, and then generate ones of its own - sort of like GPT does with text or DALL-E does with images and video, but these would essentially enable me write a botnet agent that has evolved the capability to hypotize humans, and a way to feed text based suggestions into it via a normal botnet C&C protocol. However I got a new job I really like, so it has taken all the spare cycles I would have had for it, but if anyone else is interested in literally taking over the world shoot me a DM.
It's also that in many places things have been built to enormous widths (with huge parking lots) but low heights. I hated living in Mountain View as walks were cumbersome. On the other hand I loved moving down to Santa Monica later where things tended to be much closer together, making walkability a real thing (which was in fact easier/more convenient than driving, at least in the downtown cores).
It is for some people and that's probably a reasonable predictor of how well they'll do. Have you met people who excel at something who don't care about excelling? I can't think of one.
These are all interesting and well informed comments but am I wrong in thinking they seem to be unrelated to the Felt product?

Felt seems to be primarily a visual map annotation tool ala building visualizations. I doubt the data part would need to be that complex and custom. It could be a generic 'view' layer providing just the top layer and leave the data sources wide open and flexible but for the current offering it makes sense it's building off a 'library' of sources.

Although every B2B product will have customers who demand startups be their personal software consultants. That doesn't always translate into a repeatable product.
Most likely they scraped the content from a reputable source.
It was not easily understood or developed.

My approach to many of these things is a direct result of me doing it very badly at some point and having to deal with the consequences of it.
Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs
Happy to be in the 6.8% group. Started on the carnivore diet about 7 years ago. I had been a vegan for years before that, but my health deteriorated badly because of this. I also exercise and fast regularly. I have never been in better health, and this is confirmed with blood work every 6 months.
> more lessons to be learned on the way down :)

Voyager deliberately misled its customers by claiming their assets were FDIC insured. The only lesson to be learned here is that fraud is alive and well.

People were genuinely duped, and I hope there is some consequence to Voyager leadership.
Anybody can be misinformed. There is one remedy. It would take a much longer post for me to correct everything, so I had to sample highlights.
A grocery cart or two can transport a lot of weight. (not a cart from the store but a bring your own one. Some fold up for easy storage!)
Yes and no, people get stuck in economic traps of paying for things they didn't really need, and those can eliminate all free time. Also, there really is a large group of americans that still work multiple jobs and can't afford healthcare, thats a thing. Some of those are physical jobs, but many are not.
Are you implying that more active screening would cause more good than harm, and that the scientific evidence that shows otherwise is mistaken? What makes you think the evidence is wrong?

Screening is a very complicated topic and being overly aggressive with screening can really hurt patients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNzQ_sLGIuA

Or do you simply not support using scientific evidence and/or harm reduction to guide medical policy? What do you propose should be used instead in that case?
The solution for low-income groups we want to protect (like retirees in their primary home) is generally to defer the tax until their home is sold. And ideally it would reduce their cost of living for other reasons, since land value near them would be deflated and properties would be improved so there's more workers in the area, there's less reliance on other regressive taxes like sales tax, etc.
This analysis assumes there is no harm from false positives in screening tests. This is obviously false even if the only side effects are cost and stress induced by say a false cancer diagnosis.
> Except it's not an insult

It is if it's said as one. Benign terms can become slurs when used in the right context with a particular tone.
Being vegan or not is mostly irrelevant to diabetes. Research has shown that the most effective way to put type-2 diabetes into remission is with carbohydrate restriction. That can be done with or without eating animal products.

https://www.virtahealth.com/research
I hate all of these machines, their UI pattern seems to be to pester you about things that are easy to fix, and to only ask after destructive actions (like collect your money then have a warning popup they can't fulfill a request).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
Get used to throwing out food that you shouldn't eat.
I’m amazed at how well carnivore works for me. I started a few days ago. Before that I’d been throwing up 5+ times a day, every day, for months. My doctor shrugged and had no idea what to do. Even Zofran didn’t help.
I cited wikipedia as that's where I learned that the "bystander effect" was a PR campaign invented by the NYPD in 1964, an interesting fact I thought to share. It states this in the first paragraph, then cites the study I chose to quote in both the next paragraph, as well as again later in the entry. I didn't cherry pick it, it's the main thrust of the page, and the largest study of its kind. In 219 observed disputes across 3 countries, the only times no bystander intervened were when couples were arguing amongst themselves, or when a thief was the one being beaten up.
Interesting, what is a “cell concept”?
When I lived in a more car-centric city in the US, I used to get honked at while walking. It was a thing in this city to honk and/or yell at pedestrians. I’m not sure what the thinking behind that sort of behavior is.
Ideating is a muscle. When you intentionally spend time everyday writing down ideas, playing with old ideas, and looking at how others drew inspiration for their ideas, you become stronger at the skill. "Creative" people were not hindered by the fact that their early ideas were stupid, pointless and derivative. They kept at it.
> I came to the conclusion that russian debt isn't as worthless as I thought.

the reason russian bonds is considered worthless is due to politics, not due to the lack of or capability to pay from the russian gov't.

Politics can change on a dime, but a company's financials isn't gonna improve suddenly without warning tbh.
>If smart people are working on these problems, I would expect them to be hard.

This isn't a logical statement. Who says smart people can't work on easy problems? Is there some rule that says smart people HAVE to work on smart problems? FAANGs definitely has a bunch of mundane problems to work on, and they have an over abundance of smart people to work on those problems.

>I suspect an argument about difficulty will go nowhere until we have a proper way of measuring such things.

Not everything has to be done through scientific measurement. If I punch someone in the face I don't need some scientific measurement to tell me he will be in pain? No. Anecdotal experience is enough here, and such "measurements" only serve to make things too pedantic.

The same applies to web development compared with other fields of software development. I think it's actually quite obvious. If you disagree, which you're free to do, then I would ask, do you have the relevant anecdotal experience? Have you worked on something outside of javascript or web development?

If not then I would say your experience and thoughts are biased. Among most people who have experience in software development outside of web, it's obvious them. If I'm wrong and you do have extensive experience outside of web then I'm actually interested in what you have to say because it's like hearing someone say that being punched in the face is not painful at all.
Incase anyone's wondering why, it's because Turkey's money printer is stuck on the brrr setting.
They actually made IEMs once. Beyond the technology being hard to manufacture, Stax's products are mainly just inaccessible because they have the traditional Japanese business approach of being run by 800 year olds who are actively offended by the idea that anyone they don't know might want one of their products.
My understanding is the price variability in dentistry is much less then for various other medical procedures. I have been told it because much of dental work is non inssured but I am just relying what I have heard.
Esri have a serious moat. Their projection engine in particular is nigh on unapproachable in its capabilities. (Oracle tried for several years to build a competitor; they finally gave up and licensed Esri's PE).

Esri also have a vast array of products for many niche industries.

This product is cool, and I'm sure Felt have given careful consideration to how they plan to strategically differentiate from both Esri and open source solutions.
Some bootstrapped examples.

Lemlist is doing $10m, only 3.5 years after launch.

https://blog.lempire.com/from-0-to-150m-valuation-in-3-5-yea...

Plausible got to $1M in 4 years.

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas

Hey (email) did $5m in first year of launching service.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21293156/hey-email-servic...

There’s a bunch others.
That being said they have some really bad ideas too.
It's a balancing act between individual rights and ability of the society to govern itself without disintegrating (at which point nobody would have any rights).

But, yes, states are just as artificial as US as a whole. Municipalities feel like they're the lowest level organization that is actually somewhat organic and interconnected.
I think there is a stroke of brilliance in this.

I don’t know about asking a coding question in-person, but I think it would work well for “take home” interview questions.

If you’re really interested in a company, but they insist you do a take-home problem, perhaps you could insist that they do a take-home of your design, as a fair trade. This would actually be a great way to see what the coding practices are like at the company, assuming they don’t take the request as an insult.
Stick with this and then look for a masters degree in CS after. Or transfer to a more rigorous CS school.
Discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282480
And https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-prime...

If the interviewee gets stuck just have them write a program and spit out the values averaged over many runs. This is what convinces a lot of people about the Monty Hall problem too
Its a perfect name
Can't encourage co-sleeping enough. Avoiding it is one of those official recommendations that I think does more harm than good.
But if we really take the analogy to heart, not much has changed fundamentally with finance since 2008. There are now more regulations, which is the exact same thing that will happen to crypto after all of this has settled. Maybe it zooms past traditional finance in a couple decades...but it needs to survive the next few years first.
I assume you're referring to how AWS got started?
I like them because now nobody can stop me from making silly complicated orders. Except, of course, the person who decides to not actually fulfill half of it.
My resting heartrate sitting at my screen is 47, and my max heartrate during Tabata workouts hits 190+. Rest to peak and peak to rest recovery is about 5 minutes.

I do six 30~40 minute plyometric/metabolic workouts per week and have had one steak in the past 4 years, and gave up bacon around 2012. I eat three low-carb squares a day, all home made, nothing from a box or pre-made. When I drink I binge, I'll have a bottle of wine in one sitting but only twice a month.

The only advantage I have over most people is I work from home so my workouts fit nicely into my schedule. If I had to work 8-5 with a commute I would find it difficult to fit the workouts in since I live far from the nearest city. Fortunately, I also have a Wegmans grocery store 5 miles away that has nice produce, and I like to cook, so eating well is easy.

I count myself lucky.
Say what you will about how Uber is being executed but as a user of their products and their competition I am very happy with them. Not only is the quality if their UI great and customer service top-notch (rarely have issues, when I do I get instant refunds, can't say that for doordash/grubhub ans certainly not Taxis's). Taxi drivers and restaurants go out of their way to make sure only people with specific appearance, background and conformity to stereotypes received good service (if any at all), Uber basically killed that bullshit! To me it is similar to how walmart killed mom&pop shops, right... the very nice and welcoming mom&pop? Not a chance! Even before walmart Sears allowing ordering things from their catalog was revolutionary in that minorities and immigrants could just... you know buy shit like toasters like everyone else! What a marvelous idea? Haha. I can say the same about Airbnb and hotels as well.

Let me give you an example: I took a taxii from the airport to my home, the guy took the route I knew was very long and with only 20% of the trip I was being charged like $100 and asked him to immediately stop at the next parking lot he sees. Took my luggage out and called Uber that completed the rest of the trip for $50. Not my first time dealing with scammy taxi drivers either. It was a nightmare calling a taxi before uber, it will take them at leasr 45min to get a guy and good luck getting them to wait on you and coordinate your pickup.

My point is, it may be operated badly but it provides a ton of value and has the advantage od being first to market. I have always wanted to try Lyft for example but I never had to, never been in a situation where I needed them (except for scooter rentals in santa monica once -- didn't work at all). I avoided Uber eats on purpose but the rest were so crappy I switched, much more costly but I have a lot less problems now and they even added grocery delivery now. They are quite possibly one of the most valuable companies at he level of Walmart, whether or not they can realize that value globally and get the timing right I have no idea, but I am rooting for them.
I'm sure they're well aware. The SaaS community decided that it's better to use it as a carrot to sign up for the app. Even repl.it doesn't let you play around without signing up anymore. https://replit.com/talk/ask/Is-it-now-required-sign-up-to-cr... And they could use that as an excuse to do cool stuff with WebAssembly.
They may be very different roles in practice, however IME the better managers (of coders) are also coders. You probably don’t want someone being your boss who can’t do your job if need be. It’s a skill necessary but not sufficient, as they might say in academia.
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and personal attacks. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> obese people tend to consume animal fats at a higher rate than non-obese people

Tell that to the french. Also, this hasn't been true in the US for a few decades at least. Soybean oil is in pretty much everything now. If you go get a pizza, every single ingredient in that pizza has a healthy dose of either soybean oil or seed oil, from the cheese to the crust.
Esri is mostly an entrenched monopoly. This just recently became parity with them,but if you're looking for gis development 75% are esri tech stacks.
California has mandatory easy cancellation. You can change your address to there and usually get it - or pay with PayPal or iTunes.
The feasibility of functional programming in commercial settings.
> If you think abortion is murder, why would you leave it to the states? You would be pushing for a federal ban on abortion

> The “leave it to states” argument is inconsistent with the moral argument against “baby killing,”

This is the nirvana fallacy. If you think something is evil enough to ban, ideally you'd ban it everywhere, but if you can't do that for some reason, it's better to ban it in some places and allow it in others than it is to give up and allow it everywhere.

> The right to be free from slavery is probably the most extreme example of a fundamental right not explicit in the Constitution being read into it, but it isn’t the only one.

There's no implicit right to own slaves, since it would contradict the implicit right to not be a slave. Similarly, there's no right to kill, since it would contradict the right to not be killed.
webhooks + state + websockets + micro events in a node.js FaaS is an interesting idea even if it is an antipattern of sorts.

I can see myself using it as a side car to a mission critical event sourcing setup. For bug reports, graceful batch restarting of user websockets when my real-time app goes down for maintenance. auxiliary things you may not want managed internally at key times.
The wireheads of the world thank you!
I'm not sure how to respond to this. I don't have or do any of these things and I'm not the person who would need to hear this. I do agree with your thoughts, I just still feel bad for the people who have done this, and I know about from reading about it.
Well first off, the Senate is only part of Congress and the other half has more proportional representation. But more to the point, I was responding mostly to the remark about direct democracy. But it seems some people don't mean direct democracy when they say direct democracy. The voting for congresspeople in the House of Representatives is not direct democracy, that's representative democracy (isn't the name a clue?)
You've never been more bearish than when the highest number of developers and builders are working on crypto?
I have been out of that world for 30 years. The terminology has stabilized since, and the software has got overwhelmingly more sophisticated, and also (I hear) comically buggy. Comically if you are not obliged to rely on it. Maybe tragically, otherwise, with no expectation of improvement.

Some of us remember Rubylith with conflicted fondness.
Study shows monitoring employees associated with more dishonest behavior
I can sympathize with this, and I personally love React. It's very easy for components to start diverging from "the" state (some global state) by holding their own internal state (useState).

I encounter this in situations like: I want to open a drawer when an input is focused; the global state doesn't need to know about every input with a drawer, so useState on the component is useful. Already I've diverged from a global state. And I want something else to happen when the drawer opens (maybe an async network fetch, loading indicator, error messaging if the network fetch fails...), so I add useEffect, and now I'm adding side effects into the mix, and it becomes very difficult to reason about how the component got into its current configuration at any given time.

At work I have these components that I imagine will start small, that tie into some global state, but end up needing to keep their own internal state that grows and grows, and I have useEffects all over the place watching for other results of side effects... it's a gigantic mess. I don't know what the solution is. UIs are hard
Exactly. Environment design can alter behaviors. If there’s a grocery store near me but no sidewalks, I have to cross a huge intersection, and there’s sketchy spaces — that’s not a good pedestrian experience at all.
I wouldn't trust my computer to be the pre-commit judge if my code is good or not. It looks nothing like the target environment and has plenty of modifications. I'll trust CI to do that check for me.
See also- Snap: a Microkernel Approach to Host Networking: https://research.google/pubs/pub48630/
Interesting article. I agree with other commenters that change in medical science over time probably necessitates changes in the industry, but I don't think this precludes making the work of medical professionals less onerous and expensive. Prior authorizations in particular seem like a uniquely wasteful and American phenomenon, whereby time (and thus money) is burned just so doctors and insurance can try to get on the same page. That cost, we can be sure, is then passed along to patients, on both the service and insurance ends. But more interesting to me, the broad picture in this article is of a world in which insurers have steadily clawed away more and more diagnostic and prescriptive responsibilities away from doctors, because the economic logic of a world with private health insurance allows them to do so, to the detriment of doctors' lives (as the article describes) but more saliently (for an American non-doctor like me) to that of all Americans trying to receive healthcare via insurance. I think it's pretty hard to dispute this phenomenon is real and harmful. The question, which this article doesn't really address, is what to do about it?
I think we have enough tools. I am literally drowning in tools. God press stop.
Silicon Valley is the Silicon Valley of Europe, and also several other continents.
Meanwhile 3AC was a feeder fund for Anchor.

Before the collapse I speculated the risk premium on these loan products existed to cash out whales with substandard crypto. Clearly I was wrong; the situation was much worse: everything fed into ponzis.