skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, as someone who doesn't need to work on a daily basis (made enough in my 20s), extended periods of unemployment can quite easily lead me down a similar path to the one that the article describes.

If you slip into a pattern of not waking up at a reasonable time, staying indoors and not exercising, not making attempts to socialise, etc, then it can be quite easy to throw your brain chemistry out of whack and spiral into what is essentially a form of depression.

A job (or a business, partner, family, serious enough hobby, etc) forces you to do all of that, it sets you up with a basic framework, whereas if you are completely free from constraint no-one is going to tell you to get out of bed at 8am, 9am, 10am.... 2pm...

Of course, if you're poor and unable to find work, then you have all of that _on top of_ the financial stresses.
Productivity theater is hard to kill
Wanted to be sure there wasn't some structural/legal position e.g. massive amounts of street furniture nationwide assuming 1c and 2c coins for function. If you ditched the dime and the quarter, I think that would be a real issue.

"voters won't be happy" is the reason? Fair, but stupid.
I’ve been thinking about a similar idea for years after studying how qwerty came to be.

FYI I once came across a very old “how to type manual” which said your fingers should rest on the top row. That explains a lot. And suggests why something like this makes a lot of sense — unfortunately manual memory is a PIA to change.
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Sit/stand desk.
There are many things that I and the doctors did to figure these spots out (and we're still in the process of locating a few last key spots). Oh, one thing though, I have a hard time giving this info out nowadays, as people often just take the info and run - And am not sure of your gender, but honestly, it's guys especially. Think it's an independence thing, need to feel like they did it all on their own, which I get actually. Yeah, I'm a guy and have this instinct too, but still doesn't change the fact that they take this info and then act like it didn't help at all...

... although, just read loceng's comment. He definitely has part of the path I found too, so this could be enough (diagnostic nerve blocks is a key). But if you're really serious about getting more info, than feel free to provide with a way to contact you. Thanks.
> NPR is very very far left.

Nonsense. Not even by US standards and absolutely not by global standards.

Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased (a slight to moderate liberal bias) based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/

For comparison:

Overall, we rate Ground News Least Biased based on publishing news stories from both sides of the political spectrum and appropriately labeling their bias. We also rate them mostly factual rather than High due to the use of poor sources that can publish false or misleading information; however, these news stories are typically reported by other credible media outlets meaning they most likely are factual.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/

So it's a toss up between the two; one with a mild left bias and high factual reporting Vs one with less bias but not so well researched.
Ask HN: Advice on early-stage Hard-Tech funding requirements
Hi there – I'm looking for advice and opinions from those who have raised early-stage funding previously for a hard tech startup.

For context, I’ve been working on humanoid robotics/ai for about 12 years now (I'm 30+ years as a software engineer) and finally after all these years, having made some break throughs in artificial muscles and subsequent innervation control, it’s time to start moving out of the R&D phase towards building a complete prototype.

I am trying to engage with early-stage investors – and while I’ve done that previously with software startups, hard tech is vastly different in terms of investment thesis and I’m still unsure as to what I should be presenting?

My questions are–

1 - What were the most important areas to cover in a hard tech deck (as opposed to a deck for a SaaS business for example)

2 - Did you have some key tech that you needed to demonstrate before closing the deal? If not, what was key to present and what was your strategy in doing it

3 - Did you address usage of funds by primarily defining milestones?

I’m really interested in the twists and turns of previous hard tech founders – more on the non-technical side of how you went from the idea stages through to team building and product validation etc.

I appreciate any insights people can share.
I had a college professor suggest this and I 100% agree. I think of it as loading the problem in your brain. Then sleep on it and you will make a lot more progress in the morning than if you had just spent the same total time in one sitting.
I believe Low code / No code platforms evolve to use LLMs to actually still abstract out all the code bits but become even way more powerful. It’s cool to use cursor with sonnet but it’s still requires a level of being comfortable with writing code, local builds etc.

No code platforms can easily abstract this out one more level. The constrained outputs of these platforms are still sufficiently high enough to build lots of varied use cases.
Ask HN: Friends who were laid off, what are you working on now?
No way to tell? Really?? It doesn't take a randomized controlled trial to know that there are more poor people who can't find work than rich chaps living on their savings or inheritance by choice.
RISC-V RVA23 and RVB23 v0.6 profiles released for Public Review
> I may get paid nothing, and not even care.

Even if you did get paid, it doesn't take away from what you're doing.
Show HN: Invoicing Automation from HubSpot to QuickBooks
I've been working on a more robust invoicing integration from HubSpot to QuickBooks. It's in BETA now -- if you use HubSpot and QuickBooks and are looking for a more robust way to send invoices, please go check it out!
Install a good ad/tracker blocker like UBlock Origin on your computers and install a DNS content blocker on your phone like DNS66/Rethink DNS (get them from F-Droid if they've been removed from the Play Store).

I have no regrets on robbing the corporate media and user hostile advertising companies of their revenues, while keeping my browsing experience clean and thwarting most trackers.

I go a step further and run GrapheneOS instead of normal Android, so not even Google themselves can track me. Google Play Services is running in a sandbox that makes it behave.

What were dealing with today is much worse than the old banner ads, these things track your every move online and even track the GPS on your phone.
There's interior applicability to knowledge: it feeds thought and the inductive reasoning process. If you have never been exposed to TV, being exposed to TV changes how you think.

There's exterior applicability to knowledge: feed a man a fish vs teach a man to fish.

I see both as "utility" although I suppose achieving nirvana is seen as utility in other people's domains. It's subjective.
I tried to learn dvorak, and colemak, and both ended up requiring too much investment to be worth it. This is very tempting, even though I promised myself I'd stop messing with keyboard layouts
At least in those cases, you have a clear reason to expect to have a hard time. If you never did anything wrong to anyone and worked hard your whole life, being unemployed through no fault of your own is jarring and upsets a lot of deeply held assumptions about your relationship with society.
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> However, they're comparing against no gut bacteria at all, a condition never found in nature.

Maybe not in nature, but I wonder if it's a similar situation to human mothers who have recently taken a heavy course of antibiotics.

IIUC, that can somewhat nuke one's gut flora.
Unemployment is a specific term in economics which refers only to workers who don't have a job and are actively looking for a job. People like your friend aren't unemployed they just don't have a job.
How is it not? The original question was asking for a "a Pro [...] Iran website". If the website of the Iranian government doesn't count as "pro Iran", I don't know what does.
I think the model of staying at a single employer for your whole career then getting a pension is a better model than our current layoff and job hopping every 2-years just to keep up with inflation. Special knowledge of the product is lost, and it takes a lot of time to get up to speed on a new product. Then again, most modern products are throw away garbage that barely lasts two years anyway.
Is there any evidence at all that they have tons of benefits? I thought there was research that said they were mostly myths.

Decades ago I learned dvorak and used it exclusively for about a year. I honestly felt no benefits. If anything it made things more of a pain in the ass because many common commands (e.g. Ctrl-C Ctrl-V) are where they are because of their locations on a qwerty keyboard. You can re-map shortcuts but I still find myself using devices that aren't my own often enough that I find it annoying.

I remember one funny instance where I had to remote desktop into a shared server, and I remapped to dvorak and forgot to change it back, and then when someone else remoted in they thought their keyboard was possessed.
Feds killed 2014 plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling
What are the benefits, beyond retraining all my shortcut muscle memory?
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> Cameroonian dialect are written using the GACL who is similar to the IPA.

What exactly is the GACL? Trying to find information on it returns this HN comment as the top result, and a bunch of language-unrelated results after that.
But this only matters if SpaceX had any chance of a reversed decision from that court, which to my eyes they simply didn't. X is not going less deep in the hole by posting a bunch of confidential court orders.
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Thanks, I will try it, probably.

I asked people primarily not because I want good news sites for myself. For my news reading method polarized, manipulative and biased sources are sometimes more informative. But I am interested to know what people read and who they believe.

Although, having a high quality source maybe useful to me. Also interesting to see novel approaches and experiments, like the bias measurement the ground.news seems to have.
I partially answered this on the other post. Some people think Qualia is emergent purely from computation. Some people (like me) think there's a different and very specific and very unique thing going on inside brains that is responsible for Qualia, and I think to understand it scientifically it's going to be a "Wave Theory".

I'm not even pushing the panpsychism view that "Everything has Consciousness, because all atoms have EM fields" at all, but when you get right down to it, EM fields are more "real" than a computation is. A computation is purely theoretical. We can build computer logic circuits out of water pipes or dominoes. So it's just obvious to me Qualia is not built on computations.

Believing Qualia is made of computations is more of a naieve "Universe is Love" type position than believing that Qualia is built of something REAL like EM fields. Calculations are not even real. For example the number 0100101110110 in a computer is purely a "label" for something real. Numbers in computers are just labels. EM waves are the actual thing, and actually real. The Map is not the Territory. Computers are Maps. Qualia is a Territory.
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Multi-tenant stuff is very interesting to me.

Do you provide any per-tenant resource limits or prioritization (storage, memory, network [rates plus total], CPU)? Anything to limit the impact of noisy neighbors?

Do you provide per-tenant accounting (for billing) capabilities?
FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads
The best place to hide your money now is the USA. It's very effective.

Unless you're a US citizen, of course.
> SQL has views.

This, and it doesn't have to be SQL, a number of other databases have similar concepts.

If you have a separate schema with views (in SQL terms), and the rest is either entirely walled off or available on a "you have been warned" basis, then this is simply an API with a clear contract, just a flexible one (not entirely unlike a GraphQL endpoint) and available over a less common (for APIs) protocol.

It can be risky for the API provider, though, unless it's a proper multi-tenant database. Given that those are less common, and, I guess, potentially harder to manage, it's probably why database access APIs are rare.
Disagree. It's when the mimicry fails and the executor is forced to think about why and then draws a new conclusion - that right there is learning and is what eventually leads to mastery.
Nonsense? Show me 3 stories from NPR in the last month (among hundreds they've reported in that time frame) with a right-wing flavor. You know, things like articles against abortion, critical of Kamala, supporting mass-deportation of illegal immigrants, etc.
I understand just fine but you're not making any sense. Microwaves powerful enough to cause brain damage would also cause visible skin damage. Some radiation may pass through the skin but some will be absorbed in it. What you're suggesting isn't physiologically possible.
If you are looking at only speed as a benefit, it’s debatable. For ergonomics, absolutely. Look at the hands of someone typing QWERTY, they’re almost bent in half longways for certain key combinations. DVORAK on the other hand allows your hands to stay flat and relaxed.

I will never return to QWERTY.
Agreed loceng, diagnostic nerve blocks is a key:)
I can't find any of these, are they Play Date games?
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The Map is not the Territory. In all your posts you seem to believe a map of data equals consciousness/qualia experience of said data. Computer 0s and 1s make Maps. Qualia is an actual Territory. There is nothing you can do with maps that equals a territory.
> I’m honestly fascinated that people think gig work, firing, layoffs and 30-year mortgages are recent phenomena.

These things are not a recent phenomena but lack of union jobs is recentish - last 30 years.

It was unionization that gave any sense of stability, which made the 30 year mortgage, 401k and, healthcare-from-employer sustainable. Gig work and constant hiring/firing was only left for small employment. Not at large City-sized employers.

Now without unionization, the 30-year mortgage, 401k and healthcare from employer model is obsolete.
Yes, in our population samples people who have income from a job report feeling like they have more money than people who have no income from being long-term unemployed. But due the cross-sectional design of our study it's impossible to determine causality
You seem unfamiliar with the vast bulk of history of the "Four Lions" region (now called the United Kingdom).

Just one snippet:

The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

As a peer comment points out there were many civil and uncivil wars.
FWIW, the only languages supported appear to be Amharic (modern Ethiopian), Ge'ez (classic Ethiopian, basically only used in church liturgy today), and one rather obscure language (Nufi/Fefe, ~140k speakers) spoken in a small part of Cameroon. This is indeed a pretty long way from being a pan-African solution.
Agentic AI: Decisive, operational AI arrives in business
Yes please post it.
I mean you can do these yourselves. These guys wrote in branf*ck.. it's fascinating to see the system evolve replicators. Perhaps the gliders in CAs are little replicators trying to escape.
> A 401k is your money and goes with you if you leave, it's the older pension model that has issues with people jumping around.

I mean, IRA limits should match 401k limits instead of keeping 23k limit only for employer-sponsored accounts.

There is zero reason an independent person should have to rely on fickle corporations for that limit.
Wow, if you can't trust extortionists, who can you trust?
Noone else can use your computer.
>a browser that replaces content on web pages.

Mozilla went hardcore political and Chrome copycat long after his time. There was no such controversy there under Eich, and even now as Brave's CEO he isn't doing anything to 'influence public opinion'. Browser CEOs aren't newspaper editors or activists, Mitchell Baker excepted.
FWIW, the shortcut issue can be avoided with something like QMK, which supports fancy layers and modifiers, and it places all of that in your keyboard itself