skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good friend of mine who is a solo entrepreneur (...in a different city) said this was their experience too. They recommended finding a good coffee shop. They've been going to the same one for months and said that it slowly builds a culture of accountability and familiarity among the regulars.

Solves the socialization part, though not the lack of feedback and discussion.
I def prefer when contractors work in adobe, since then I can easily make tweaks to their work in the future.
I do contract design as well and for some things there really is no competitor. I haven't heard of anybody seriously competing with InDesign since Quark XPress became not-a-thing-anymore.
I never said "now".

And the post previous is right. Climate change is the big one. It affects the entire planet.

However the, for a better word, desocialization of the USA is also a big factor both inside the country, and outside of it due to people who associate with or are relatives of americans being affected, or resources that would be used to help improve situations in other countries being tied up with emergencies in-country that would otherwise be handled by funds that are now going to tax breaks.

Then there's also the situation in Yemen which the USA is indirectly responsible for. And there's the situation in Puerto Rico, which is nominally american, but i think if a people don't get to vote, they get to be counted as a different country.
I am normally a FOSS guy, but I have to give credits to Photoshop. I dabbled in retro hardware lately and I am using an iBook running on OS 9 with Photoshop 5.0. It's unbelievably powerful and most everything you want a competent image editor is there. I can still edit my modern pictures with what is provided in the program and it's really quick too. Oh, and what's more... You can run an even earlier of Photopshop, I think as high as 4.0 or something on classic-classic Macs, which have freaking Motorola 68k processors. I think the only feature I miss is editoable text layers. It's pretty darn amazing - if you don't have one, try running the thing on the emulator - Basilisk II.

No wonder the original authors boasted it as "High Performance Mac software." It's pretty freaking fantastic.
A headsup display (without a camera) makes tiny devices usable (unlike watch displays).

Google engineering was unwilling to remove such a useful feature... but Apple has withheld seemingly crucial features... so I still hope one day there'll be iGlasses.
Touche. You make a good point.

The fact is - no matter how it happens, that money sloshing around is good for the economy. I guess the worst thing they could do is to convert it to bank notes or gold bars and bury it somewhere.
Software eating society. Suddenly our entire criminal justice paradigm breaks down without corporeal law breakers. Makes the 'corporation as a person' question seem sophomoric
There is a whole category for Alexa CYOA games. Amazon even released a tool to author them [0].

[0]: https://github.com/alexa/interactive-adventure-game-tool
What's weirder still, is that fixing such a bug is unlikely to be very difficult --- I've had to port some Windows software to case-sensitive Linux, encountered the same problem, and fixed it by essentially making sure all the filenames it uses were consistent. No one seems to have had a go at doing this on the Photoshop binaries, or if someone has, certainly hasn't published anything about it.
Whether or not they can be beaten is one thing. The other thing is whether or not they'll fail to buy their competitor.
They are certainly noteworthy regardless - and seems in part - due to their awful behavior.

That said, both have a long documented history of abuse ranging from verbal to physical to sexual. If Twitter keeps to their new policy, both should lose their endorsement in 5.. 4.. 3..
I've done some ultra-fast optimizations of algorithms in C# before. Stack allocation and unmanaged pointers was essential for this. It seems that Span<T> is making this approach, in a sense, more accessible to more developers.

This makes my optimization skills less valuable as more developers will know how to do this ;)

However, this will greatly enhance awareness of C# as a language that can be used for reasonably high-performance code. Most people don't seem to understand how fast C# can be with good optimization techniques. This will help increase adoption of C# in the developer community.
It is true that it is a post office for us to receive and send mail. At this time we do not have a public facing office. This will change as we grow.
> What’s so innovative about these?

Not all improvements have to be innovative. The most mundane things can vastly improve the pleasure of using a language. Considering that array slicing originated in Fortran, Buffer is hardly innovative - yet, as you've pointed out, it has been a huge benefit for Java developers.
I don’t know. MSFT and Apple have been around for 35+ years and still going strong.

If well managed, large companies stick around for a long time.
Can’t see why FB and GOOG won’t be around for at least another 30 years.

Sure, there is SUN, and Sillicon Graphics as an example, but they were badly managed and put all their eggs into one expensive basket and got disrupted.

The only way large companies become truly irrevelant is through:

1) Bad management

2) Ground shifting / seismic shift on the ecosystem or tech. (Think Kodak).

FB has been very proactive in acquiring new trendy companies and in retrospect Instagram’s acquisition was a genius move. (I remember how much talk was at the time at the 1b price for a company with no revenue).
Google has been proactive by doing active research, and amazon by doing all kinds of things.

Yahoo and Twitter are classically badly managed companies and while yahoo got sold to irrevelance, I think Twitter is the next one to be truly disrupted.
The same calculus that lets me deploy thousands of servers with terraform and puppet without a mistake. Sure there are problems, but you fix them once (in dev hopefully) and never have to worry about them again. Humans otoh have the potential to make the same mistakes over and over.
What gave you a reason to believe npm was well-architected?
Late to the party here and I doubt you'll ever see this.

But I haven't seen anything that worried me. Besides those NDAs are legally binding promises, I take those seriously.
Those who have used Usenet to get binaries will be familiar with these, which work on the same principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
So...

A while back I was playing around on shodan looking for open webcams and found a few where you 'could log in and see people working'. Or, mostly, watch people who probably should be doing something productive not actually working.

My favorite was a town square in Bulgaria, wonder if that one's still open...
Companies like General Electric have been able to survive many decades.

I would say that given the scale of companies like Amazon in particular, the null hypothesis is more that these companies will exist forever.
Another option is that some of us really look forward to real-life sentry gun turrets; we actually want this future.
This is incredibly dumb. Why is this on the front page?
This is a real thing. And she has told me that the most common thing she works with is people thinking they are alone. And they are! Because the specific challenges founders face are unique to them and that compounds the feeling of "no one understands." But that doesn't mean community and counsel can't help immensely.

If you feel this way please get in touch with Sherry or listen to her podcasts and read the content. It can change your perspective and help embolden you.
But only if it's high enough for the rotors to generate lift as it falls, there must be a death zone between 5m and 100m.
I mostly agree, but now they're building cities. How will we compete with companies that encompass our entire lives, digital and physical?

Today we are stuck with Google search, tomorrow we will be trapped in off-white Google apartments in Google city, and DuckDuckGo will still only be a search engine.
I never heard of cheap scanners bundling full Photoshop. Surely you mean Photoshop LE or Elements.
I thought talking to someone or just some encouragement might help. I called the number but it just took me to a busy signal!
You say there's no consistency, but you've just stated the consistent rule.

Twitter gives the status to people who have good connections to Twitter.

Given we all agree on this being the actual state of things, getting mad at them for giving this status to white nationalists makes complete sense. Twitter is boosting these people with this verification process that serves to boost their friends.

If we think that the blue checkmark makes you belong to the country club, who you let in is a signifier of Twitter's beliefs.
There must be considerable unscertainty in calculating the human error rate after eight months of interplanetary travel.
I don't understand how RISC-V will lead to open platforms. Vendors of RISC-V SoC's will most likely include their own Intel ME type bullshit.
Fractal Lichtenberg Figure Wood Burning with Electricity
This is terrifying!! AHH!!!!
When I worked from home full time for a few years I found the gym to be a great place for social interaction. I would work at home in the morning, then gym, and work in a coffee shop in the afternoon. If you keep a schedule you’ll see the same people and eventually have some people to randomly chat with.
I have an accountability thing with a few close people in my life.

I commit to them that I'll do X items this week, and we catch up on them each few days. It helps me with keeping promises to myself and others, since I picked up bad habits during my depression's worst states.

It doesn't help with loneliness, but at least you have a person to talk to about what you're doing.

If you're working only on your startup, I'd recommend not burning too much time on it, and using the other time on other activities with other people.
I know that was true for Windows 8 approved PCs, but didn't they remove that requirement for Windows 10?
If part of your reasoning is it follows the pattern of computers getting smaller (as in The Innovator's Dilemma), in a way, this kinda sorta has happened, in the form of Chromebooks that use smartphone hardware, firmware and software.

Of course, it doesn't imclude the crucial "dock" part (except in the sense you can plug in a fullsize keyboard and monitor as you can for a laptop).

Not sure of the situation recently, but at one time they were topping amazon lists.
>[...]misinformation on influenced the election.

Misinformation from our own government has been influncing the deaths of millions from Vietnam, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the War on Terror. It also played a role in establishing NSA domestic surveillance, among a host of other problems. The plutocracy spends billions on information warfare across elections. I've yet to see an article headline mainstream media complaining of plutocrats and Wall St bankers like Gary Cohn in charge of US tax policy. This same corporate media has deep and proven links with the CIA. Also, the DNC used deception and subvertion against their constituents' candidate in favor of their own. Then you even have institutionalized crony influences like Al Franken giving his super delegate to Clinton when Bernie had over 60% of his constituents' votes. And Russian social media influence and ads has also been linked to extreme left propaganda such as anti-fa.

Protecting democracy is important, but we can't just only do it when it is convenient.

I'm inspired by Greenwald's articles, along this same line of thinking.[1]

1 - https://static.theintercept.com/amp/the-deep-state-goes-to-w...
>But a storm pitching powerful winds and waves more than 6 meters (20 feet)

Isn't that normal? The Atlantic off south east Canada 5m (15 feet) waves are a normal everyday thing. The coast off Argentina seems like it would be similar in climate.
> Adobe (accidentally?) released CS2 for free to everyone

My theory is that Adobe lost the ability to generate licenses -- those product activating serial numbers -- for old versions of software, so they just made it all free.

How could they lose the ability to create licenses? I can think of many scenarios: The one server that ran the legacy license code crashed, and they had no backups. Or they lost the database of who had which product and serial number, so there was no way to verify anything when someone needed to reactivite an old product or move their license to a different system. Or there was a new bug or incompatibility in their license generator, perhaps due to a server upgrade, but the source code for the licensing software was lost so there was no way to rebuild it.

By the way, they released a lot of products for free, not just Photoshop (see userbinator's link above), and most of them still run just fine on Windows up to Windows 7. The Mac serial numbers are much less useful since they were all for PowerPC versions if I recall correctly, so they won't work on any recent Mac.
This comment may be appreciated or not, but, I find (for myself) that taking Thanksgiving dinners and birthday cakes and pies and (often disasterous) dinners to "old folks homes" to be good for me.

I get to meet some people outside of my realm. That also appreciate me. That want to talk. Not about engineering stuff.

Just show up with a pie and a smile - and ... you realize that: 1) everything isn't so bad, 2) we're all going to be here (perspective), and 3) they know more about life than you do.

Give it a try. I've been doing it for 20 years. After my girlfriend at the time ended up a paraplegic from an accident, she ended up in rehab at one of these places. Other than her brain, she got better and left. I keep going back. YMMV.

EDIT: My point is-- you aren't the only lonely person out there. Sometimes you have to take the first step to make a friend. Even outside of your realm of experience.
a frontal assault on any of these will prove futile...ask Snap, ask Jet.com (who wisely got acquired before Amazon could be bothered to vaporize then)

they're still rising...but even if they stopped rising, they have amassed the financial resources of nations, and they have the credit to borrow much more. Apple in particular is basically a G8 nation...their cash pile may literally span centuries and they may actually need to hedge against the expiration of the governments whose currency they hold. unlike oil, we will not "run out" of data...these companies will eventually dwarf anything from the industrial age

if you want to "beat" them, (what does that even mean?) do what Elon Musk is doing and create new markets and industries
Get yourself into a mastermind group with 2-5 others in a similar situation - solo founders, bootstrappers, etc. You can start with just 1 other person then add more.

Have a regular 1 hour video call every week or two. Everyone gives updates, support, and keeps each other accountable on goals.

Keep a Slack/Skype channel open in between to say hi, help each other, share wins, etc. Bonus points for meeting locally, but online is fine.

Why? Masterminds are the biggest thing I did going from wantreprenur to actually shipping & earning from products. They're also one of the best things you can do to beat entrepreneurial loneliness. Every week you meet other people who share your struggles and are invested in your success.

Here's a good resource for running one: https://taylorpearson.me/mastermind/

If you find at least 1 other person willing to do this (a few candidates on this thread already, or make a FB / LinkedIn post) I'll happily join the first one to facilitate & show how. Email in profile.

P.S. A coworking space + online communities like founder cafe, product people, complice, wip.chat (h/t other posters) can also be super helpful.
Try suggesting this idea at Indie Hackers (indiehackers.com), I think there are more founders there interested in starting something like this
'xyzzy' was also what enabled cheat-mode in Road Rash[1]. Ah.. good 'ol days..

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Rash
Strangely on point ancedata:

My father worked as a drain cleaning specialist for many decades without a plumbing certificate. When he started his business drain cleaning was not regulated under the local plumbing trade. He knew vastly more about how to locate sewerage pipes, clean difficult lines (tight corners), which trees/shrubs were likely to be causing problems through invasive roots or causing movement of the pipes than any of the certified plumbers. He had knowledge of the types of pipes that a house within a suburb was likely to have (terra cotta, cast iron, PVC etc) and the right way to deal with blockages in each type.

He did work for many plumbers who knew they didn't have the right equipment or knowledge required for some of the larger jobs (sewerage lines vs sinks for example). Many plumbers were not interested in drain cleaning as it often involved dealing with unpleasant waste, jobs were typically only an hour or two in length while construction plumbing or gas fitting was cleaner work with more billable time. He also coordinated with the local water authority when a blockage was suspected to be in the sewer main.

My father would not do any pipe repair or fittings replacement. As he was not a licensed plumber he was not even permitted to change a tap washer.

The Plumbers Association eventually lobbied to have drain cleaning included under their certification. This came in when my father was about 50 years old. He did not want to do an apprenticeship to become a licensed plumber. An apprenticeship would have taken quite a few years at low pay to learn plumbing construction, gas fitting and a bunch of other stuff that he was not interested in doing.

So my father had to then be "supervised" by a licensed plumber. Luckily "supervised" was interpreted quite loosely for a long time.

My fathers rates for drain cleaning were substantially less per hour than a licensed plumber charged. By capturing drain cleaning under the plumbing certification - prices for drain cleaning did go up for most people.

From my perspective my father was not an "uncertified person taking advantage of the poor". An organised group (the Plumbers Association) instead lobbied to capture exclusive access to work via regulation. None of my father's associates who held plumbing licences thought it was a good change - so they helped him through "supervision" to keep working.

Generally, I see certification and regulation as a good thing. I am skeptical, however, of organised groups lobbying to increase their power/exclusive access etc through more regulation. Any such regulatory capture should be backed by solid risk analysis.

As you pointed out, the risk in drain cleaning includes damaged pipework. This could be mitigated by professional insurance, which my father carried - it does not require regulation and licensing.
There's no easy way to turn a set of 10-layer Neural Network weights into faster optimized assembly language.

You can optimize the Neural Network so that maybe it runs faster (using NN specific hardware like maybe TensorCores or whatever), but I don't think anyone has any way to "generalize" a Neural Network into faster code.
C# 7.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference. It assumes you already know how to program.
Well, good for you.

Meanwhile, countless other people get bilked, scammed, and exploited, and laws are written to try to protect them. Some of them are good laws, and some of them aren't.

I realize these laws create a terrible hardship for you, but they apply to everyone and that's just the way things are until we live in a society where you can carry a card certifying you as a person so competent that you may be exempted from your choice of laws.
Kubernetes on Bloomberg Businessweek
Thanks for taking the time to type this up. Having just written a class similar to Span in C++ I was curious as to how this would be accomplished in C#.
Well said. Now just waiting for the obligatory idiotic 'whataboutism' accusation.
So all those people sitting there because they're lonely and want to be around other people ... But they never talk to one another. Weird.
Sorry about that! Had some issues w/ the now.sh deploy I was using. I've moved it to Heroku–the "Join Us" button should point to the right place on the home page, or you can go to https://helloremote-invite.herokuapp.com/ directly.
Regretfully, I've interviewed with a lot of young folks with attitudes similar to this. It's bad for the industry.
I get up at 5am every day to go to Starbucks at 6am every day. The "stillness buzz" of my apartment bugs me. I go to Starbucks and ignore everyone - but I still feel part of the mix.

I could, you know, go to the office, but everone interrupts me there. It's not lonely, but unproductive.

The trick is to be productive, but to feel like a human in the mix. For me, Starbucks does that.
If someone nailed discussion search, I'd have no use for Google for 90% of my searching. As it is, most of my searches are a series of:

site:<reddit/ycombinator/stackoverflow/tripadvisor/random niche forum.com> "something someone interested in the same question/topic would say"

.. all in an attempt to filter over-commercialized bullshit. There's an opportunity here for a startup to capture an audience hungry for real information and leverage them into becoming the next hub for over-commercialized bullshit.
Not related to this article but, I had the pleasure of visiting the muesum at Hartlepool that was responsible for repairing the the HMS Warrior. Unfortunately for I, I had not yet been brought into the world but the museum there at Hartlepool is exceptional.

The expertise of the men involved in the restoration of the Warrior (and the HMS Trincomalee which is still birthed at Hartlepool currently) was fascinating to me growing up. There's nothing of interest in Hartlepool with the exception of the towns ship building legacy. The restoration of those two ships are one of the few bright points in an otherwise awful 4 decades of austerity for my old home town.

"[HMS Trincomalee]... is the oldest warship afloat anywhere in Europe, berthed at Jackson Dock, within The National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool."

I seem to recall the intent was to originally have the HMS Warrior made sea worthy but during the repair work it was deemed too risky or expensive? This was done shortly before it was sent back to Portsmouth back in 87. I believe the intent is to sail the HMS Trincomalee down to Portsmouth in the future too. That'd be a sight to behold.

http://hms-trincomalee.co.uk/
When was the last time you went to church?
I liked Aldus Photostyler back in the day (mid 90s) for it's nice features for cloning between different images etc. But then Adobe bought Aldus and buried it.
Constraint Satisfaction and Scheduling Using Heuristic Repair (1990) [pdf]
Concatenate TensorFlow Tensors Along a Given Dimension
Or ... maybe not lonely. But want to feel a lively "buzz" that isn't from music or putting on movies in the background.

Maybe weird. But I don't like sitting in my quiet apartment alone working. (I'm not particularly lonely - I just like the energy better when I'm "out")
No, but then again I wasn't a journalist.
That's a great idea. I could probably start that up pretty easily because I know there's a need.