jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Google "failures" can have millions of happy users... if google ejected 10m users, and you can gain say 1/10th of those, 1m, and even 10% paying $5/month that's $500k/month of gross income. Depending on your needs, a well designed system to support 1m users or so could be done under $50-100k/month, leaving $400k/month for staff and profit.

While it may not make sense at Google Scale, it can absolutely make sense for a small business spinoff.
That is true, I haven't had the same success with the ratio when using different types of rice and pots. I achieve the desired texture that the people I cook for prefer :)

Yes, I add the oil, salt and pepper before cooking.
Title is slightly misleading. The app is incoming in spring 2020 [1]. Also it requires merchants to opt-in on it, probably for a fee. So adoption is not exactly slam dunk.

Also, I live in Finland and work in ecommerce, never heard of this before.

[1] https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/34819/finnish-fintech-e...
Never heard of it. Wikipedia says

> for profit

And

> Its editorial position is strongly antifeminist and frequently accuses feminists of being misandrist.

somewhat different to things like the white ribbon campaign that it tried to hijack. There's plenty of charities and organisations working to stop domestic abuse of men. This looks like something that would fit well with breitbart.
Only if you care about that level of specificity of the results; and given that non-technical people love pasting code snippets into slack without the code fences, I'm guessing this change isn't even wanted by non-technical people, and only made detail-oriented folks upset
Resnet50 with transfer learning
You're likely on the hook for the losses having shared your creds. May obviously vary from FI to FI.
Nitpicky point: The USSR was larger geographically and in population than the United States.

If you combine the “Communist block” in 1955, it was significantly larger than the “free world.”

Of course, the “Communist block” quickly turned on itself. But still.

The US has taken on larger powers before, but we had the advantage of strong social institutions.

Our own social institutions have been decaying, but when I think of China’s strengths, “strong institutions” doesn’t come to mind.
Better than nothing is the whole point. N95 masks are not a substitute for avoiding exposure in the first place, but nobody’s saying N95 masks are ineffective because of that fact.

The recommendation here is assuming you have access to something better. If you have no access to something better, a homemade mask is better than no mask at all, until you can get something better. As others have pointed out here, it’s rather odd to suggest we should scoff at this imperfect solution, when there are no perfect solutions short of 100% full and complete quarantine, which is completely unrealistic.
Just what we need, potentially another banking collapse. The timing couldn't be worse.

Are there any good forecasts of this looming recession? Will this be worse than the Great Depression? How long will it take things to snap back?
I agree with the statement the most (also a Chicagoan). Chicago isn't a tech hub, and people need to stop saying it is. Why is it that our flagship university (UIUC) sends more people to Silicon Valley/Seattle than Chicago, which is only 2 hours away? They need to focus on bringing in some more mature tech companies (engineering teams, for one), and that can help potentially bring some more startups here.
Lending Club is a rounding error compared to the big banks.

And is a marketplace, not a direct lender like the companies mentioned.
MS has a couple of good reasons for a fresh start:

#1 Spartan gets rid of all the legacy back-compatibility code that was holding them back.

#2 They added very interesting features that I haven't seen in other browsers (i.e colaboration)
A Journeyman is the absolute beginner, normally this is an intern (can be contract, or salaried but normally always paid and temp to perm if things work out) or someone you take under your wing to teach them the ropes even though they have no experience in what your teaching them.

Junior developers have normally put in some time with their language of choice and can do some simple tasks but are not yet at that state to where they can do fully functional production grade applications from scratch without some assistance.
Being an idealist and entrepreneur who wants to be successful are not mutually exclusive at all.
Nice hack, doesn't work in IE8 but presumably IE8 users get the full-size PNG with transparency.
Isn’t undermining someone’s ability to use copyrighted material with the intent of causing a video takedown in the first place going to be a lot easier to achieve, and have the same outcome that you want?

It isn’t realistic to think the officers could be prosecuted for DMCA violations, nor is it even that clear cut - they aren’t posting the videos that are being taking down. It takes two parties here to result in the copyright violation.

This is definitely not a good look for law enforcement to fight against public videos this way, even if it’s a clever hack. It is potentially violating the law, and it runs against the very reasons they have body cams. But enforcement won’t be easy and requires proving intent, which makes it even harder. So much simpler to just take away this particular avenue for avoiding public records.
What do you mean by the "real QuickSort"? The professor who taught me Haskell at UT used to work on Burroughs LISP machines and wasn't too concerned with caches, memory, or the like. Again, Haskell can be viewed as a language for computation. From this perspective, the one-liner is pure beauty.
I think this might be the start of the shift from apps back to the web. Why clutter your phone with notifications, saved data and background processes when the website offers more features with less overhead?
At this point, doesn't every every comment that supports, in even the slightest way, government positions, become suspect? Including your comments of course.

Conspiracy theorists have suddenly gained vast new powers.
According to their COO as of the end of August this year they're still not profitable http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2010/08/24/tt_twitter_...
They may be able to lock your account, but I don't think they can keep the money. I suspect they will mail you a check for the $700. In the meantime, I see from their website they are located in San Jose. Find their mailing address and send them a certified letter.
I understand your point, but all governments are started by traitors and many rulers try to close the door behind them.
since .com/.net/.org are controlled by US companies, is the next step (for blogs/sites such as these) to move to .ru? or some other company not controlled by US companies?
Ah, yes, the classic "Deep down inside, everybody really thinks just like me" essay.

I do not think everybody in America thinks just like an "architecture critic". In fact I suspect most people in America, if introduced to an "architecture critic" would say "And what's that?"

If people were really upset about this, it wouldn't be happening. Alas, deep down inside, "everybody" pretty much likes what's happening.
It's a truism in life that most people offering simplistic advice don't have long and deep personal experience of the malady they're advising on. None of us can guess about your experience personally, but that's the broad trend across large groups.

A lot of anti-suicide advice can seem like a sick joke, little more than empty virtue signaling. Want to really help? Offer a friendly ear and a sense that you really care about the person in question, and stand behind that over a period of time.

Being depressed is generally not a temporary problem. Many of us have suffered it for decades. It may wax and wane, but it's often not something that just goes away. In my opinion, it's something that many of us simply have to learn to live with, as with so many other chronic diseases.
I felt like the idea got a bit of a bad rap because of the pun in the title inadvertently created a lot of media publicity of the sort "Surfer dude discovers simple answer to everything"

The E8 structure does make for a compelling idea, while I'm not aware of any particular evidence that makes it logically any better than existing ideas. It certainly is aesthetically pleasing.

I only which my math skills were up to calculating the properties and values of particles based on the idea so I could better understand what people should be looking for to prove/disprove it.
And run it in a VM in https://bellard.org/qemu
The fat scare is far from over. Not everyone spends time on Hacker News or controversial diet channels on youtube.

Moreover, nutrition is a lot more complex than "fad in, fad out". The subcutaneous fat of an animal can hold some pretty toxic stuff -- that's kind of its purpose. It wasn't a scare, people were just missing nuance and still more research needs to be done.
I still wish netobjects fusion could of adapted to the html5 future. It handled templates and generating a wide variety of content very well. Easy to use.

I've seen this newer pinegrow editor which looks like the closest replacement for it I've seen: https://pinegrow.com/

I still use notepad ++, sometimes sublime text for easier multi-line template updates sitewide, and various templates like bootstrap, bulma, etc

If I was going to get into these others I've seen people mention on HN like hugo / jeckly and such, I would probably lean towards using wordpress with one of the two static html generator plugins I've found, that way there are many more template and layout options.

(you can use WP to design and crank out pages, shoot out static html and then delete all the wp files... though on sites I zip up the wordpress php files and leave the DB in case I decide to go back and add more posts / pages )

heck bluegriffon or similar can crank out html.. unless I was trying to do some kind of programmatic api connect thing, I just don't see the appeal of these other static generators - but it may just be I've used to more visual things and others are more used to command line kind of things - so long as text hits the web I guess it doesn't matter that much.

now if someone was able to make a connector where these static generators could use the themes from the wordpress.org directory - that would have me looking more closely at them.
I am the sole developer on a news site that is generated by Hugo. I find Hugo to be extremely flexible. But I am considering switching to Nuxt so I can ingest pages from an API instead of just md files in the repo. Still, you can’t go wrong starting with Hugo. It’s extremely versatile.

https://github.com/spotlightpa/poor-richard
Agreed. This absolutely needs multiple citations.
YC is not actually a non profit charity, FYI.
Which company is that? I will send them my resume right now.
The npm page shows 1.4.1 as latest. Maybe your json file is forcing a specific version.
In case you missed it, there is an exchange in the comments section between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Greg Egan.
Yup reselling the software without any significant changes is the main thing I want to avoid.
Hi, I'm one of the maintainers of Cortex

>> how does your system work in the IRIS or other examples you have? It looks like it hides under the hood a few things compared to this implementation - type of the model (tensorflow) and the logic that fetches it from S3, right?

That's exactly right. Cortex has three runtimes:

The Predictor runtime, which is used in this post, can run arbitrary Python. There is an optional key in `cortex.yaml` for Predictors called `model`, which is an S3 path to an exported model (or directory). If provided, Cortex will download the file/directory at that path and make it available as an argument in the `init(model_path, metadata)` function in your Predictor implementation (see here for the Predictor docs: https://www.cortex.dev/deployments/predictor)

The TensorFlow and ONNX runtimes behave a little differently (and similar to each other): `model` is a required field in the API config, and Cortex handles downloading the model and running inference against it. You may define a `request_handler`, which can contain pre- and post-request handling (here are the TensorFlow docs: https://www.cortex.dev/deployments/tensorflow, and here are the ONNX docs: https://www.cortex.dev/deployments/onnx)

>> Let's imagine we would want to make a DVC repo (just to store model versions to start) out of one of your examples instead of the DVC get started, how would we do that with the current implementation (through metadata + custom init)?

Yes, that is also exactly right - you'll have to use the Predictor runtime since that allows you to define how to download your model. You would specify metadata and leave out the `model` config field, similar to as done in this post. In `init(model_path, metadata)`, you would use the metadata to download and load the model
have you tried DataGrip? I went from SSMS to DataGrip for most of my database work. SSMS is still better for management of the SQL Server instance, but for database work, DataGrip is a lot nicer than SSMS (and SSMS is a lot nicer than a LOT of other tools for other RDBMSs)
Quite a few people asking about my experience porting my number to Twilio.

A few years ago I was frustrated about paying CA$100/month for my phone plan in Canada for unlimited talk/text and a few gigs of data a month. I realized I only needed the data.

I wrote an app that directs phone calls straight to voicemail and then emails the missed calls and voicemail transcription and mp3s. SMS messages are sent to email and email replies get sent back as SMS. I made this a product at https://ringer.io.

I also picked up two CA$15/month data only SIMs (3GB each) from Fido.

So now I could only receive voicemail and I would use Google Hangouts Dialer to make traditional phone calls, which was very rare. I have to admit it was awesome not having the ability to receive a phone call.

I used WhatsApp day-to-day for texting and video calls.

Eventually the need to receive calls kicked up a notch so I switched my number over to https://openphone.co for US$10/month. They are on Twilio as well so it was a painless port (ie: one API call).

The OpenPhone app is "good enough" for me. If I had to talk a lot using traditional phone calls I would pay for a dedicated talk/text plan.

But I'm happy paying CA$30/month for 6GB of data and US$10/month for the phone/text line.
Void Linux is a nice alternative which defaults to runit. I feel like I'll probably end up in the same spot though, switching to BSD.
You don't do business in China without supporting the government, and them supporting you, period.

Plenty of Chinese people call the communist party "The organization" because as far as they are concerned, its the only power structure that exists in China.
> I haven't seen any comments here that support outright tricking unsuspecting customers into accidentally buying a cheap knockoff when they were looking for a higher-quality original.

Except copying someone else's design and presenting it as your own is literally that infraction? Asymmetrical capitalization and the cost of the legal system means that capitalized companies are much more capable of design theft.

And of course, this ignores whole industries that exist by getting others to lie for them and then simply speak misleadingly (e.g., chiropractors).

> A common misconception creatives tend to have about business is that it's 100% about crafting a unique and/or valuable product or service. It's not. There are innovations and competitive advantages one can have in distribution, sales, branding, pricing, and many other areas.

A common misconception that business people have is that there is anything to optimize without a product or service around which to optimize. There isn't. When said business types lose the forest for the trees and see money as more valuable than the goods and services it is supposed to proxy for, we end up with the current situation and people in this thread arguing that somehow design theft is okay because it was executed efficiently.

> Some products are naturally defensible (e.g. the network effects of a social network) and some are protected by copyright and other laws (e.g. writing, photos, and logos, but not clothing or, in this case, shoe design), but the vast majority are wide open to competition, and it's your job as a business owner to either figure it out or avoid those industries.

What are you actually saying with this paragraph? Thar Allbirds should take Amazon to court over copyright infringement? Or design patents?

It's too bad you feel that we're not allowed as consumers to dislike or even consider the business practices of where our products come from. That would be a useful and informative thing to consider, especially in a world where some capitalist institutions are responsible for a significant fraction of the ongoing process of very literally threatening the survival of the human race.

But no. Efficient theft is moral because it costs the consumer less.

> You aren't automatically entitled to overall business success just because you were the first to do X or you worked the hardest on it. Doesn't matter if it's wool shoes, v-neck shirts, autotune in your music, customer support chat widgets, a mobile operating system, or like buttons in your social app.

Hard work is meaningless, only capitalization matters. Got it. This system is great.

> Just because you're a designer who likes designing and works hard at it doesn't make design a defensible business strategy in your industry.

Is this addressed to me? I'm not "a designer."
A hard crash would be preferable to the failure states encountered, mostly because it leads to quicker resolution.

For example, when the camera stops working, the first time I tried opening & closing the app numerous times. (Didn't fix the problem). Then I eventually restarted. It probably took me 10 minutes to figure it out. An immediate crash & reboot would take less time.

If their OKR's state to reduce number of hard crashes, congratulations, they did. Doesn't mean they delivered on product quality, however.
I have this bug where until reboot, some albums from Apple Music would destroy media playback. Changing volume would be delayed by about five seconds, the device would become hot in my pocket culminating in a respring in three minutes.
Would the Disney version be considered inferior quality to this new research?
> The most robust way would be the embedded approach of two static flash partitions (update each one alternately), a separate partition for config, and another for mutable state. Alas that's more development work than I want to do for personal projects.

Just to let you know, this is the approach that balenaOS takes. Applications are containerized and deployed using Docker. The OS uses read-only system partitions to store the engine, kernel, firmware, etc, and has an A/B partition layout for resiliency and atomic updates. Applications are downloaded and stored on a separate data partition, and mutable configs are stored on another. The partition layout and a lot of how the OS functions is also well documented and public. [0]

Additionally, the first ten devices are free and fully featured, and the same people that help create the product, including (but not limited to) engineers, monitor the forums to help users. I'm one of those engineers. :)

[0]: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/more/masterclasses/host-os-...
I'm so glad you made this! I'm also very upset that this didn't exist 10 years ago when I really needed it. Well done!
Do any of the modern Thinkpads offer user-replaceable parts? Any time I see Thinkpads recommend on HN, it's for older, 2nd hand laptops.

Also, do any of such Thinkpads approach the lightness, thinness and aesthetic of this laptop? Last time I looked at new Thinkpads, I seem to recall they were pretty chunky, with only the Ideapads being thin, light and nice to look at (it was a while ago, so I might have that wrong tho)
The problem is very much technological - traditional stock market is based on opacity and exclusivity. Blockchain is based on permissionlessness and transparency.

Internet didn’t succeed because it allowed illegal stuff to be published. It succeeded because anyone could begin publishing, and if it was illegal then it was their responsibility.

With blockchain it’s similar - you can create financial instruments without gatekeepers. It is your responsibility to uphold the laws.

Such approach leads to far greater innovation. Just look at what UniSwap is doing - they are pioneering a system to exchange low volume tokens without an order book. This is something that stock exchanges tried to solve for many years and failed.
Or flash loans - a concept that is virtually impossible to do on the traditional markets, and makes the whole financial system way more resilient in the end.
I thought virtualization doesn't work with M1? Like docker and such... did something change?
I was watching CNBC the other day and they were doing a roundtable thing like the sports channels do. Each host was shitting on bitcoin about how terrible it is, and how millennials are stupid for liking it, and it'll go to zero one day, etc. You know the drill.

Then the main host asks who has a position in Bitcoin. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the investors that was just shitting on Bitcoin 5 seconds earlier admitted that they all have substantial stakes in it.

The first guy tried to come up with a technical justification for why he is doing it.

The next guy blamed his wife for wanting to get into it because all her friends were supposedly talking about it, so they bought 10 bitcoin back when it was $9k a share.

The third guy simple said "It keeps going up, so I keep putting money in it. As soon as it stops going up I will stop putting money in it".

The other 3 people after it basically just said "yeah, exactly what the third guy said."

I personally get nervous with Bitcoin. It isn't stable which makes it far from a currency. You can't have a currency that goes up and down 10% throughout the day. Transferring $100 could be $90 or $110 over the course of a few hours. That's significant and cannot be ignored. I understand the idealistic portion of it too and how it gets us closer to a perfect money system, but truthfully the only reason we continue to talk about Bitcoin is that it continues to go up. I don't have very much faith in Bitcoin. But I'll admit I have some and I have been riding it up. It makes no sense to me. I am just along for the ride.
> why would they suddenly all jump in at $150?

Don't try to apply logic to this, it's meme trading, it's not meant to be rational.
it is called gravitational wave. The GGP strangely didn't mention it. The gravitational wave is a strange creature as it is a disturbance of space-time, thus question of its speed, distance by time, becomes a bit murky - like what distance? what time? - depending on how you answer the questions (and don't forget, talking about astronomical scales we start to face astronomical factors like noticeable spacetime expansion) - you get corresponding result.

>>"fall if you are dropped" is just being continuously emitted by the Earth, including before the object was dropped.

it is gravitational field of Earth. If Earth were to move with acceleration (as any movement without acceleration is as good as not moving at all by suitable choice of coordinates) the object would start to fall toward previous "retarded" location of the Earth, until the gravitational wave caused by the accelerated move of Earth "updates" the gravitational field at the position of the object.

>The question becomes what if the object moves - how long does it take to notice the new location of the gravity.

a moving object gets instantaneous value of gravitational field at its new position (while this value may be already "obsolete" like in the above mentioned accelerated movement of Earth)