jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Bootstrap, charge money from the beginning instead of trying to get funding for a promising idea that might (or might not) bring money in some point in the future.

How to do that is beyond the scope of this answer but there are plenty of blogs that talk about bootstrapping small businesses, like https://unicornfree.com/ and https://www.google.com/search?q=bootstrapping%20business%20b... and resources like videos from MicroConf http://vimeo.com/user12790628

While the terms you describe are bad and you probably shouldn't take them (bootstrap instead), don't wallow in self-pity because you think U.S. entrepreneurs have it so much better.

They don't.

The number of companies funded by VCs are tiny. It's almost like winning a lottery. Don't build on the assumption that you'll win a lottery as well. The motto of Y Combinator is "Make something people want". If you do that and charge for it, you won't need the funding.

Funding helps but given that you're not in a place where good funding is available, do what every other business in your country does and do without it.
Thus the creation of the Rpi compute unit to allow for cheaper hardware clusters.
Mormons claim Christianity and espouse some Christian principals (i.e. blood atonement for sins of the world), although many of their beliefs (i.e. God is an evolved man and through adherence to Mormon doctrine men can become Gods after death) put them well outside the realm of what is considered mainstream Christianity.

I'm not sure these additional beliefs necessarily disqualify them as "Christian" though as they do appear to have retained most of the fundamental basics.....

I suppose it depends on ones definition of Christian. No doubt plenty of "Christian" denominations consider that others aren't.

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"
-Nietzsche
There are two Kansas Cities, and they compete tooth and nail.

Kansas City, Kansas agreed to Google fiber (possibly to due its benefits possibly due to lack of competition) and put up with Google's requirements.

Kansas City, Missouri refused. Once the announcement was made it was a big ruckus and looked like a black eye for the city and they rushed to do anything they could to get in on it because every citizen was interested. The last thing they want is to be seen as falling behind the Kansas side and losing more jobs and businesses.
'Lossless' as used in the article refers to the audio compression scheme, not the integrity of the data link.
> Google answers all of my questions

Really? I might be very bad at Googling, because unless I look for something very specific, it takes me four or five searches to get something that's related to what I'm looking for. I have better luck with Wikipedia, where I start with something generic and then follow relevant links. These days I start all of my "interesting" searches on Wikipedia, and don't even bother with Google. It feels like little more than a computerized phone directory.
You still seem to assume that it wouldn’t actually be worth your time. My contention is that it might well be, unless your pay is astronomical. Imagine that the old model is discontinued and they only sell a different, newer, larger, much more expensive thing.
Yup. I just listened to this podcast yesterday it was quite good. Nice to hear about someone that made something good out of a bad situation.
I'd have to disagree. I don't have any insight into the church office building's internal network, but I do know that they already have massive lines going into the church office building and the surrounding Temple Square area. The church itself has no need for more fiber. Even if they did, they showed no desire to help UTOPIA along (they even have the capabilities of becoming a private leaser), so what makes you think they would want to pipe their traffic through a third party advertising agency?

Secondly, Salt Lake City proper, where I live and where this announcement is declaring the buildout initiative, is very much not-mormon. The number of people logging on to their site to stream videos is minuscule compared to the number of people in the surrounding suburban sprawl. Google Fiber isn't coming to Salt Lake Valley, it's coming to the City. This won't help them.
> Dart is Google's JavaScript. JavaScript was developed exclusively by Netscape and forced upon the web because of their dominance. Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way.

This is true only for very limited values of "everyone".
>The Calculus of Constructions is dependently typed, and it has a reasonably sized kernel, compared to HOL and ZFC:

However, Calculus of Constructions doesn't have inductive constructions, without which it's very hard to formalize interesting mathematics in it.

>Finally, do you know if this was a bug in the kernel, or if some other component (the compiler or caml virtual machine) can be blamed? It apparently was a problem with `vm_compute`, which I don't think I've ever used.

Actually, I am aware of another, much more serious problem with CoIC formalism which was found when Coq was tried to be used to formalize homotopy type theory. It was a bug in CoIC, not a software bug.
Neither of those even come close to the out-of-the-box performance you could see with FDB.
I think the problems you describe are with people (so therefore should be dealt with through community standards etc.), not the karma system. How would you improve it?
did he always use 10 of hearts? shouldn't he have used random numbers and suits? maybe someone really was thinking about 10 of hearts already
I personally would not want to be responsible for security for a web-based Access clone. Enormous attack surface area.

But I think Access is awesome for making and battle-testing prototypes that can eventually become actual CRUD apps. Great intermediate step somewhere in-between e-mailing spreadsheets and building a Rails app, for getting shit done at the office.
The article touches on this a bit. The US has stricter anti-smog restrictions on particulate and NOx emissions. The gap is in regulation is narrowing though, so some time in the near future (next 10-15 years) we should have parity in regulation, which will mean parity in market offerings. Until then, the initial purchase cost of a diesel powered car in the US will run higher than the gasoline powered equivalent. When you do the math, your driving needs and ownership schedule (how long you'll keep the car) must meet a specific set of parameters for the more expensive diesel to catch up on ROI.
> There are plenty of things I'd go to a doctor for even if they had 90% less medical training.

As mentioned below, PAs and NPs already do a lot of these tasks. However, the big value-add I see in MDs as opposed to seeing NPs or PAs with problems is that they have the depth and breadth of training to have first-hand experience with the exceptions to normal circumstances.

The standard medical mantra of "if you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras" works great for normal scenarios. If there actually is a zebra situation, though, I have far more faith in professionals with extensive clinical training at identifying those situations.

> Those two items are probably 80% of the reason anyone I know goes to a doctor.

Regarding prescriptions, this may be blind faith in regulatory institutions, but I assume that there is a reason that mostly-safe drugs require a prescription. If the criteria for prescription refills or simple procedures doesn't require the full breadth/depth of clinical training, though, then NPs and PAs already exist to fill that role.

> We could easily suck up the worlds surgeons because we pay so much more.

I'd argue that this is an explicit non-goal. We don't want to attract the most surgeons/doctors, we want the surgeons/doctors we have to be trained and practiced to an extremely high bar. You're definitely right that there are lots of scenarios which don't require this extremely high bar, and that's the reason why not all medical personnel are doctors. Nurses and physician assistants play a critical role in healthcare specifically because they can tackle those 80% of cases you mentioned, but the way around this isn't to dilute the training of medical doctors, it's to delegate the work that's better performed by others to those others.
This is not correct, I've seen it said here several times so I looked into it. Apple lobbied for some amendments to the act on the grounds of practicality but did not oppose it and said they thought it should become law.
Calling exec() in fact requires more privileges than holding a socket open.
Apparently there are several digraphs too. Convinced this was secretly just designed to make IOCCC contests more interesting.
But why would anyone do it? What is the incentive to invest the resources into building an application with a good UX? This is why businesses win: aligned incentives.
To make it more alarming, this news comes only a few months after reports of forced sterilization in migrant concentration camps[1].

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465793/ice-a-whistleblower...
I love Dhall and really don't understand why the industry hasn't standardised on it yet, seems like a no brainer.

I disagree with your point that it should supported by each language however, I think it's much better to use something simple like JSON as a "compilation" target since it's easy for machines to read and lets users pick the configuration backend.

Use a smart language like Dhall or bazel for managing configuration and use a mundane format like JSON for the machine, let the Dhall binary bridge the gap.
I don't know about ranking but: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... page 35 it is on the national risk register.

Here is the preparedness strategy (from 2015): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The GB network tends to have relatively short lines and has used a GIC resistant transformer design since the 1990s so would probably only lose 1% or so of its transformers in a Carrington event.

Three phase transformers with five limb cores are particularly vulnerable and have not been installed since 1997 on the GB grid.
the 10,000 hours it takes to become an expert

Speaking of myths... ;)
When I can actually download an MP3 from my browser and open it on my iPad I'll consider using it as an actual thing again.

Until then? It's not a computer. This is.
You'd lose the bet. Keyboard is $129, docking station is $199, pen is $49.
Well, it does lead to a stabler economy. Some people value that, instead of endless expansion and/or large crises.
"AnonGhost, a group -that is said- to be affiliated with the global hacking group Anonymous"
Oh god this is so familiar. Work from home, too, pays the bills just fine but I've lost any semblance of schedule. Barely need to go out anymore, just for groceries but my gf who goes out daily and loves to cook likes to do this part, only occasionally do I run to the store to get some things for her. So I barely get out.

Been meaning to go out on a daily basis but I think I have DSPD [0] and so I tend to wake up late, sleep really late (or early in the morning). It's terrible really, I feel like a bum or a teenage kid sleeping like this but it's like I'm programmed to act like a 3 year old in the morning, the self-discipline required to get out is insane while I've generally always had a bit of a spartan lifestyle haha. It boggles my mind how hard it is for me to get up. And I absolutely can't sleep at night consistently. Even if I wake up at 8AM, work out heavy for 2 hours, spend a day draining my brain concentrating for hours, meet people for hours and go around town doing groceries and am physically tired, I can't sleep. And then at 4-5AM it hits me like a train. Sometimes I'll power through, not sleeping because I know if I sleep at 4, I'll wake up at 12. So instead I'll try not to sleep and power through until the evening, and then yes I can finally sleep at night that day.

But then that next day I generally still wake up at 12. Even if I ease into it and change my sleeping schedule by 1 hour every two days, at some point it gets reset. Anyway the point of all this is that I tend to wake up shortly after noon and I just don't want to go out for an hour at that point, all I want to do is get some work done before I need to clean up, help prepare dinner, spend time with my gf etc. After sleeping in so late, the last thing I want to do is spend the first hour walking around outside. So I postpone going outside to the evening and I never really do, especially if it's dark and cold like now. In that way it's exactly like you said, a self-imposed prison in the name of work and saving time. And then a little later it's 12PM and I've still got hours ahead of me, but there's no way I'm going outside at 3AM. (I used to as a teenager, but now as an adult I'd just feel like a freak and my gf would get super worried and want to have 'a talk' if I started doing that haha. Also I'd be bored out of my mind if it's dark and deserted. Also, no Vitamin D at night!) Writing all of this down is confronting haha, looks like my life is a mess.

Still trying to find some balance to all of this. I've been meaning to just get a regular job again, but I'm genuinely afraid I couldn't do the 9-5 schedule, as I basically went straight into freelance work out of college and both college and freelance work allowed weird schedules. The hope is that the pressure to conform to this model for fear of getting fired etc forces me to keep to the schedule.

Would love any more ideas or experiences if you want to share :)

0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
IANAL, but you should talk to a lawyer experienced in startups/equity/contracts ASAP. Don't tell your partner that you've talked to a lawyer (mentioning lawyers is a great way to make a conversation go south) - unless your lawyer advises otherwise.

You should probably go sort this out and you probably shouldn't apply to YC. I guess you learned a lesson the hard way? (that is, it's really important to have a cofounder you totally trust; I might be totally off here but I would guess you didn't have that close of a relationship with your cofounder).
As tbrownaw points out elsewhere they apparently do have an explanation and maybe even the ability to predict the behavior.

Essentially this isn't _that_ far away from more common things like paramagnetism and diamagnetism where electron orbitals align with an applied magnetic field and the properties of the material change, except in those cases it's their magnetic properties that change. In this case they're saying the speed at which waves/quasiparticles are transmitted through the material changes.

I'm not fond of the title but it's an interesting idea.
The Urbit demo video is really cool:
https://vimeo.com/75312418
First, you've changed the terminology. Bjarne said "real-world problems", not just "real problems". Second, ensuring everyone has access to food is not a "moral concern", but an actual, real-world problem. As in, the "world" has not been able to solve it or accomplish it.

I have no doubt MS has "real problems", but they are primarily "Morgan Stanley problems" of the type I described in my first post.

Third, I made no claims or comparisons to "AmaGooBookSoft". From what I can tell, they aren't too much into solving most of the problems I described, although Google and perhaps some others have made good progress towards expanding access to knowledge and educational materials.

Fourth, I didn't "dismiss someone's reasons"; only confronted them directly, which is pretty much the opposite of 'dismiss'.
Thanks for the link, sadly it appears that the later version of the WRT54G still aren't supported. :(
one anecdote:
I've bought into 3 different groupon deals. Yes they were things I probably wouldn't of done on my own, and after trying them..I realized why I wouldn't of done them on my own and really had little interest in them other than thinking of doing it because it was a good deal. Sort of expensive way to learn what I don't care for.
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Thanks for this. It really helps me to make a decision. All the best
Yes, because I didn't mean you will hear profit (which makes no sense) but you will read the word 'profit' a lot.

Quotes are necessary here, apologies if they scared you.
serious/pervasive thing in the same way as the Oreo slur

I don't know that "Oreo" is a pervasive slur. I've certainly never heard it IRL.
This is the exact reason I use it. DD-WRT was my last ditch chance before buying a new router. It now handles everything like a champ and I get built in DDNS, QoS, etc for free.
> The "cornucopian" belief is that the effect of innovation is greater than the effect of finite resources.

This doesn't really make sense, of course. A finite resource remains finite whatever we do. Evidently, as said some Saudi oil minister, "Stone Age didn't end by lack of stones"n however we face now a very different situation : the end of cheap petrol is near, but we still have no better or even just roughly equivalent alternative.

As some remarked, until now we always went from one main energy source to a better one (animal and human power to coal, coal to oil). We have no better energy source in view.

Sure, we could be optimistic, or pessimistic, however we know for sure that humans already met decadency by environmental destruction and resource exhaustion several times, therefore I don't think that we should just sweep it away with a "Malthus was wrong!".
Thank you troels. I agree that it's important to bring something valuable to the table and my technical expertise is limited (but improving). Can you give some examples of things you would look for?

Without knowing your answer, I would point to my long-term relationship with the customer, domain expertise, industry connections and some relatively successful business exits under my belt.

P.S. Just thought of something; a search of public code repos for tax related software might be a good place to look.

P.P.S. The tax software industry is ripe for disruption. I've used many of the popular commercial programs and they are horrendous!
Yep, just went down. Beefing it up now. Thanks!

Edit: Should be good now.
@raelshark your site cannot take the load.
2008 was a non-event in those terms. I'm not much of a stock buff but if you're going to be in for the long haul you should evaluate the stock market over the long haul.
> Why draw that conclusion?

Because the history of tech and business is "stagnation kills"? I cannot envision a mindset where "we exist because we can't be excised from decades-old businesses" is a desirable place for Java and the JVM to be. If Oracle thinks they can grow the JVM off of stagnant customers who can't afford to move, they're nuts. If they think forward-looking customers are going to settle when competitors are getting better, faster around them, they're also nuts.

I want healthy competition, and so yeah, my jimmies are rustled when they're making bad decisions because even if I exit the JVM ecosystem for my own purposes, one of the major players being too afraid of their own customers to fix a central rot of their product is bad for us all.
For me it's still residential real estate. We own 6 homes, 5 of which are rented out. A property manager manages 4 of them and my parents live in the 5th at reduced rate (very responsible, no issues).

I rarely hear from the property manager, he just runs large expenses by me, tells me when tenants are leaving and always has another lined up, recommends when we should replace carpet/appliances/paint, etc. My largest time commitment is during tax time since I still do our taxes.

For more detail see my post on 2014's passive income: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8118022 The only significant change is that our property in San Diego has appreciated significantly over the last few years. When I wrote the comment above I hadn't looked at the current appreciation, but I was way off. One of our properties has approximately double in value from what we paid for it and the other two have increased by at least 60%. Rents haven't increased near as much, but we've added around $50/yr to the rent. The vacancy rate in San Diego is ultra low, so the market supports it.

Note: Some people say property managers aren't worth it, but the good ones are. We've had to fire a couple, but the one we have in San Diego now is stellar. We've never had a property vacant for more than a week or so. If I'm busy, it may take me a month to find a replacement tenant. That month of lost rental income more than cover property management fees, not to mention the headaches it saves me.
YMMV but those are all terrible companies to work for.

Consider this they collectively employ ~ 100,000 people and have produced basically zero innovation in the last 3 years.

PS: Though they also have fairly wide side doors so many of their current employes have not gone thorough their screening process.
You can try Evil Mode. => http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
Thonny is very cool and also a proof a Tkinter GUI doesn't have to be ugly and can actually be beautiful. I hope it's going to be developed actively and becomes smarter and smarter (but not bloated).
The only one that I have built (for Linux on arm64) is mDNSresponder. It is a required component for CarPlay. I don't know if other Apple open source code runs on Linux (for real, not for tinkering).
Matrix does have a feature called Bridges which would allow you to talk to someone on WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, etc. through your Matrix client. However, I suspect that they have some reliability issues.

https://matrix.org/bridges/
> Tell the sender.

I've tried. Most people are using tools to construct the emails, and some have absolutely no idea that there are text and html components. None. Nada. Zip. They are completely ignorant of these issues.

In part that's because the tools they use deliberately and explicitly hide the details from them.

The same is true of browsers and email clients. The URL bar is disappearing from browsers, and when was the last time you tried an in-line reply to an email using GMail? It's hard. Really hard. The providers of interfaces are working to hide these details from you.

So "Tell the sender" is, in my direct personal experience, pretty pointless. I still try, though:

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it's hopeless. -- Chester W. Nimitz"
Lists can't be Show HNs, so I've taken that out of the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Generally speaking, they don't make great regular submissions either, since HN is already itself a list, and a pointer to a pointer to a pointer is too much indirection.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Terrorism intel is the least of my concerns with your proposal.

IMHO, privacy is a key part of negotiation, creativity, and planning. Lack of privacy would make it difficult for them do their jobs well or (more likely) drive them to use unofficial, private channels.

Sometimes a deal or a new idea needs a "safe space" to grow.

I assume you are a programmer (this is HN). Do you think operations at your company would improve if everyone's screen was constantly broadcast to management? Personally, I'd prefer to be judged on my job performance, rather than having some non-engineer decide if I'm doing a good job based on their impression of what's on my screen.

The legislative record and public statements of our congressmen are almost always enough to evaluate their competence.
Yes we are :)
The first days were fun. Then the french government pushed the project. Challenging, crazy, but exhausting. 25 days without coming back home!
Then the lockdown did the job, and the project was not so urgent, so the ANSM (french equivalent of US FDA) was not so in a hurry. And now it seems to take ages for us between two administrative steps, but it is still fast for ANSM. Development of a ventilator take normally a few years!