skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the author of the article, but I did create Indie Hackers, I've talked to many hundreds of smaller indie founders, and I also went through YC where I met many hundreds of moonshot founders (and was one myself), so I have some perspective here as well.

My conclusion is that starting a small indie business is less risky than aspiring to be the next Zuck.

First, it's harder to fail, because there are fewer forces pushing you to make risky decisions. For example, you can start doing contract work, take on clients, and use them to support you while you build your indie business. Hell, you can keep working at your full-time job if you want to and build your business on the side. Those are bedrocks of income that can last you more or less indefinitely. Often, your employer ends up being your business' first customer. Additionally, you don't have an investors telling you to quit your job and use their capital to scale up your business' costs beyond the level that your revenue can support, which is one of the primary reasons that funded businesses go under.

Second, the business opportunities are simply more plentiful. The bigger you get, the fiercer competition gets. The more money you aim to make, the fewer paths there are to get there. If you want to find your first 10 customers, you can go out and talk to 50 or 100 or 200 people yourself. Every marketing channel is your oyster. None of your competitors feel threatened. The niches you can fill are endless. If you want to go from 1M to 10M customers, however, you need an exceptionally clever strategy, brilliant insights, a lot more resources, and a much higher degree of luck.

It's difficult to actually measure success rates without agreeing on the answer to this question: What counts as someone trying to start a business?

With small indie projects/companies, I'd wager there are a lot more people starting who aren't really serious and never take more than a couple of sincere steps. They might lower your perception of the success rate, especially compared to VC-funded companies if your denominator there only includes those who've actually raised a round. More people fail tryouts for the high school basketball teams than tryouts for the NBA. People filter themselves.

But I assure you that, if you're committed to the task, your chances of succeeding with an indie business are much, much higher than 0.1%.
They have no legal basis for the books being removed in the US, since they are in the public domain there. If they can't make German law stick, they have no recourse.
I think you can chill out a little. These are volunteers and this is speculative research. And these people are already wired and receiving gross electric shocks to different nerve clusters in their brain to regulate epilepsy, so I doubt that more nuanced stimulation like this, is much worse, and may lead to new breakthroughs, and may turn what is a handicap, into a special abilility for these people. They are pioneers.
Interesting. I've never been to a wake in a town or city - any funerals I have experienced have used an undertaker's parlour. I guess I was generalizing from personal experience but I reckon the author of the piece did a lot more generalising.
Nahh. I had a WP for 2 years, it was absolutely dreadful software that I kept hoping would improve but never did. Google did not need to do anything to kill it.
Even with an all out nuclear war, humanity would not go extinct. In fact, the United States as a government and people would survive just with severe economic and human losses.
TL;DR:

It wasn’t until after 1875 that partners started to become less and less related.
because of this Google Play and Play Services cannot be install on the device Google Casting depends on this.
I'm reminded of the quote "A language is a dialect with an army and navy"
> In short, my view that the GDPR is bad law doesn't come from a culture shock

I wasn't implying that. I'm saying that the poster I was initially replying to is getting culture shock; overwhelmed by the sudden need to care about their customer's privacy.

It's a regulation document, of course it's not going to be perfect, I don't know a single one that is. Overall as far as these go, I don't see major problems with it (other than yes, some of the terms in it are loosely defined, including what kind of data is covered under it; these will be things I expect will be learned over time).
I'm sure Microsoft could have worked out a deal with Google. For example there were some patents for filesystems that Microsoft was enforcing for a while on Android phones.
Property crimes, reports of rape increase in SF in 2017
Hmmm, not even anecdotal evidence.
That sounds rather implausible, too. I have some weak memories of - at least officially - training missions or something along that line but I can not even tell when this was in relation to other events.
Please watch my demo. It doesn’t just unmount the children when I start fetching. It keeps the previous screen in place (and fully interactive) while the new screen is loaded. If the new screen is ready fast enough, then it fully replaces the old screen without any intermediate state (empty or loading).

I know it’s a bit hard to believe because none of JS libraries I’m aware of can do this yet. But that’s what it does thanks to cooperative scheduling and a double buffering-like system we implemented. I totally understand that it doesn’t quite “click” from the first explanation because you really need to try it to get it.

But to explain it again: React doesn’t remove the child tree, it suspends the whole update from committing before the tree is ready. So there’s no “holes” or “spinners” if it loads fast enough.

Intuitively my last example with Img component may help. There’s no a way a leaf Img component could delay the whole page from rendering before. With suspense it is possible.
How does Ukraine ensure there will not be a war in asia? Ukraine is firmly the border between Russia and Europe. Due to the black sea, Ukraine means nothing for the border between Asia and Russia.
Similarly the Russian border already runs through the Caucuses. That border is already secured by that mountain range.

Meanwhile, to get decent natural borders around Kazakhstan you need to either see that expanse as a natural border, or take over the entirety of Khazakstan.

Further east than that, and Russia's borders again seem to follow natural obstacles.
It doesn’t matter. If the concern is that Bezos will flip the echo to be a political surveillance device, there is an immediate fix. Yes, the existing cache of data may still be around, but that wasn’t the concern posed by the original poster.

Well it’s my concern, and I suspect others have it too. I’m not trying to weigh in on the side of “Bezos is evil” by any means, I’m just adding a dimension that seemed to be neglected.
TL;DR: "The San Francisco Police Department on Thursday published its year-end crime statistics, which show the number of property crimes reported in the city increased 14.69 percent from 2016 to 2017. However, the numbers rose at an even sharper clip — 24.95 percent — when looking at just thefts from vehicles. There were 25,067 such crimes in 2016, but that number climbed to a record 31,322 last year."
You think Russia is bad? Whatabout America [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I am not actually suggesting to do it, but you could blow up all outsiders.
That opening gave me a pause too.

Doesn't Pandas target only structured (tabular) in-core datasets? (Unless you use something like Blaze / Dask / Ray on top.)

Does anyone really work with Pandas on "100's of terabytes of biological data"?
I can root my phone and monitor outgoing traffic. If I unplug my smart speaker it’s a brick with zero functionality. I have a range of options with my phone, I have binary options with an Echo or similar device.
This is the sentiment that our Russian friends have. When the USA decided to quit the ABM treaty in 2002 the old doctrine of 'MAD' was no more and the arms race was fully back on, with the USA doing most of the spending and all the sabre-rattling.

I am amazed at how this story has not been covered by the mainstream media in the UK (and presumably the USA). This Russian capability upgrade has rendered the already useless UK nuclear deterrent into a very expensive joke, however, the penny has not dropped and we are in denial about it.

My 'friends' in the doughnut (GCHQ) do know that Trident is useless, the problem being undersea drones. From my casual chats I know this has been a problem for a few years now and that some changes are having to be made, Ascencion Island being the quiet little place where things happen. Such as last year when a test firing resulted in a missile heading towards Florida (which nobody really cared about).

Since there is only one UK nuclear armed submarine at sea at a given time it is imaginable that this crusty white elephant can be stalked by a deeper diving and faster nuclear tipped and nuclear armed drone across the oceans and back to its base in Faslane at all times. Therefore the anonymity of the oceans is no more, the 'deterrent' therefore is in Emperor's New Clothes territory, but we can pretend and we can ignore what Moscow has to say.

Trident never made any sense to the UK, there is no money left for the conventional fleet, operations such as the Falklands really are not possible any more. Crazy politicians from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair and Theresa May have been the decision makers, wasting money on war preparations that go against the ethos of the UN and the rule of law. Meanwhile, in Russia they have actually clued up politicians in Putin and his chums that play far better chess than what our 'ruling elite' are capable of.

Neither the UK or the USA have been repeatedly invaded as has happened in Russian history. Our weapon systems are primarily offensive, the Russians may have plenty of hypersonic nuclear missiles pointed at the dreaded imperialists (!) but there is no evidence that the goals in the Cold War era or even now were to obliterate and invade the USA or Western Europe.

More money, human potential and precious materials wasted on war preparations is not a good thing, however, by investing in their military-industrial-complex the Russian government has restored a multi-lateral world. It was not so fun in 2001-2003 when Bush and Blair were able to commit their war crimes with it being a 'unilateral world', so progress has been made towards a safer world by having these deadly new weapons pointed at us and able to destroy life on earth so quickly.
The webgl examples don't seem to be working :(
Creating Criminals: The Misguided Crackdown on HIV/AIDS
Why does the EU still have the same gross and absurd copyright terms and laws the US does? It fights US companies like Google on privacy and information security grounds, but seems to follow lockstep with the US on completely irrational copyright policy like "75 years after the author dies, only then can anyone else reproduce this work".

The US has it because its government is coopted by big media like Disney, MPAA, and RIAA and the average American is too ignorant / doesn't care at all about the death and stifling of culture that 100+ year copyright terms bring about. Europeans seem to have more democratic governments that are more willing to represent the interests of their citizens, so why is it just as bad over there?
(a) Ah yes, the conversation-stopping killer of thousands upon thousands of Hacker News threads. Can I get a published study on whether this is a good cultural norm for a discussion forum?
Why People Hide Behind Angry, Anonymous Letters They Send To Their Neighbors
> Why do they get jurisdiction instead of Austria?

They don't get jurisdiction instead of Austria; the court rules it had jurisdiction to hear the claim brought before it, not that Austrian courts would lack such jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction is very often not exclusive.
I think that's arguable. I'm also an original backer, and I've spent at least 50+ hours playing Star Citizen in some form or another.

Sure, it's not the complete experience, and there's no real single player story yet, and the vision has evolved and changed and the scope has gotten somewhat ridiculous..

But so far everything I've seen has convinced me that it's ok to keep waiting, and I'm excited to see what it eventually/hopefully becomes.

In the meantime, I've got plenty of other things to keep me busy.. :-)
Designing for Understandability: The Raft Consensus Algorithm
As a user (IANAP), I think avoiding I/O contributes significantly.

The design paradigm of k is to memory map the data and then "forget about the filesystem"; transform data in memory, instead of reading and writing "files".

The slowest part of working in k, for me, is the process of reading files into memory. And I run kernel and filesystem entirely in RAM (mfs and tmpfs); no disk is involved.

If there are other software authors who also adopted this paradigm of avoiding I/O, I would like to know of them.
The Coker Hill Haunting 2: The Events
I share your frustration, but with Financial Times links: tantalizing headlines, regularly linked here, but with an ABSOLUTE paywall, i.e.: NO free articles at all ever.
Yep, this is exactly why we use ReasonML instead of Elm. I want to be able to write inpure code when I need it.
You're not using nearly enough imagination. Start with lawnmower man.
Unfortunately, I cannot agree here more with you. I had also a "pleasure" working with such Rick. He was our team leader. At the beginning of our collaboration, things were looking quite ok. However, on the surface, he had serious problems with self-management, managing people and controlling. Later, he would preferably work alone in the office, strongly believing that he is surrounded by "idiots". Often he was not respecting others work, neither the requirements nor deadlines posed by higher management, as he "knew better". Without any doubts, he had a great knowledge, was a very skilled and intelligent guy, but, unfortunately, was becoming unbearable to work with. Putting such person in a management position was definitely a good idea, but, as far as I know, at that time he had the needed expertise to set up the crucial processes in the company.

In the last months of our collaboration, majority of the projects he was leading were failing - he was not managing with the deadlines neither wanted to delegate tasks. That time, he would also arrive to the office on monday and would leave home on friday evening or saturday, having just a quick chat with his family in the evening. Without proper sleep, always tired and with huge amounts of stress, he was getting into the loop. He always just needed this extra few hours, almost being there. As a small team, we were strongly pushing him to take holidays, to grab some rest. We were also pushing for us taking more responsibility in the projects - we had quite having quite some personal discussions, but without any success (in the end, we are all just humans and even when you're being managed by a "bad" guy, when you see him completely burning out and losing mind, at least you try your best just to help; knowing that there's his wife with two little daughters waiting for the dad coming from work doesn't make this situation easier).

In the end, he just "left" the company (not to face being fired) to a new one, leaving so too our team (we were just re-assigned to other teams) and to build a new one in a new place.

Our Rick since the beginning had mental issues, which most of colleagues were not aware. At first sight, he was a very intelligent, charismatic and nice guy. However, the ones who had more contact or worked with him could agree that he exhibited behaviours as in typical Asperger syndrome, behaving also quite often schizophrenic. It's a pity that topic of mental health is quite often neglected, as a proper therapy and an early diagnosis, I guess, could help here, him, his family and his future.
The language is one factor of many used to determine if you're doing business in Germany. Otherwise you have loopholes where German language websites advertising in German, to Germans, accepting Euros, and shipping to German addresses, is somehow not considered to be "doing business" in Germany simply because their offices and servers happen to be hosted in the US.

Not completely nuts, but definitely an overreach.
This reminds me of Stephen J Gould's explanation for why men have nipples: In utero the male and female fetus initially develop the same features, and only after the nipples have been formed do males and females start to look different. Nipples aren't useful for men, but men have them because they are useful for women.
Extinct, hardly. In fact it's difficult to conceive of an event that could make humans, the most adaptable species in the history of Earth fully extinct - it would have to be an incredibly violent event that wipes out pretty much all non-microbial life on the planet. Most things we worry about, like runaway climate change, do not have this capability.

However, enough stress can cause civilization to collapse, as it's rather more fragile. Little things we take for granted like infrastructure, a highly specialized economy, and law and order can fall apart in the event of a nuclear war.
It’s almost like they are asking for government regulation.
Wow. If a lot of people concurred, MSM would be back in business BIG TIME!
Can you go to https://magcius.github.io/model-viewer/embed.html#sunshine_w... and look for the console output? I've heard reports of GitHub throttling me...
"The real reason we stopped marrying cousins is:..."

Perhaps in the majority groups in the West. Certain communities in the UK still widely practice cousin marriage and suffer hugely in genetic abnormalities. They are not constrained by transport, it is a cultural thing that has not yet been updated.
It is still right to say it's highly anachronistic to call modern people Celts. Not to mention most countries of the former Roman empire have been home to Celts.
They appear to be using WebGL 2, which works in Firefox and Chrome but not Safari or Edge.
One chef's social experiment: Charge minorities $12, white people $30
I respect your skepticism, and the attempt to reserve judgement in the face of uncertain, conflicting, and politically charged information.
Not sure who downvoted the parent comment. Vouching for this, because: It seems the examples are using WebGL2, which (according to https://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl2 ) is only on by default in Chrome & Firefox (and can be enabled in Safari).

So, if you're not seeing the examples, and you are _not_ using Chrome or Firefox, then you should try opening the site on that.

P.S. I really do not want to start a discussion on features not being in some browsers or others.
Somewhat ironic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
Another example:

If you're in a country where child pornography is legal, should all other countries just accept it?

If you're in a country where doxxing is legal, should the victims not be able to do anything against it?
Yes, in Brazil we don't even have the possibility of recounts, so reassuring! :)
Hamsterdance.com was a masterpiece of early Internet adoption. Try to get anything that viral.

Ethereum is a weak attempt at money laundering.
What is it that distinguishes a web site from an international web site?

Do you feel that laws on web site content passed in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Vietnam should apply to web sites created or operated by you or posts made by you on line? Would you expect yourself and other global posters and journalists to be bound, for example, by Thailand’s Lese Majeste laws on criticism or comment related to their king?
It's probably not GitHub, it's probably because of https://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl2
I can't remember the name but there was an online sock company for girls where all the socks were deliberately different ("odd") (left and right). They were all different but fashionable matched in a kid friendly way. Another way to achieve removing sock finding and sorting process :)
could you clarify what you mean by an open-loop system, and why it must be compared with a closed-loop one?
> Why don’t you contribute something to the conversation instead?

It seems that you might be unaware that the user 'dang' is a moderator.
In a way it is. Look at what some actors/musicians and athletes get paid, it depends on what people want to buy the most/what entertains them the most. The fact that society doesn't pay more for sculpture, writing (unless you get really famous) or whatever speaks to our preferences. Or speaks to what has already been established as profitable.
The content for that RSS feed has to come from somewhere though. RSS is cool, but it doesn't seem sustainable by itself.
Would it be okay for Google to remove Amazon from their search engine given that nothing stops people from trying Amazon.com on their browser?
Wow, I didn't realize that I can click and drag in the examples. That's pretty cool!
> If the car or the self driving system has a problem. The car will pull over and another Waymo self driving call will arrive to allow you to complete your journey.

So if a (perhaps malicious) environmental configuration consistently causes Waymo cars to fail, you’ll just collect an ever-increasing number of them at that point?
Hi Silhouette,

I'm not claiming anyone more cautious than me doesn't understand how European law works. That's just silly.

I also don't know what qualifications I have that you don't. What qualifications do you have?

The sorts of business I am consulting to are sales and marketing agencies based in the US. As an SME I work with their in-house council to help them understand what the business is doing. I also help define process designed to make compliance obvious and transparent surrounding areas of my expertise.

I have no idea how much compliance is costing them. I don't know if they look at it this way.

Your last "question" consists of some more straw man and a little too much hand-waving: By all means, feel free to point to any contradiction with a specific recital and I can try to address it. If you have another source who claims to be an expert, I can also try to explain why I may have a different opinion than them.
> If your website breaks moral decency laws in Saudi Arabia, and a court there orders you to close your website, would you comply?

Strawman, because we aren't talking about closing a website, but just blocking access from one country.

Regarding your example: Yes, I would comply and block access from Saudi Arabia to my website.
I'm pretty sure they mean operations on the block storage layer (EBS) as reported by AWS CloudWatch monitoring.

It's a standard measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
tl;dr Project gutenberg is a USA entity, and in the USA copyright ends x years after publication. In Germany (and UK and many other EU countries) it's x years after authors death. A Troll Law Firm sued under German copyright and seems to have won the first round.

So this is Brexit for me. We in the UK think we are going to "take back control", but the nature of globalisation just means more and more situations like this. and there are only three ways it goes

- race to the top
best regulations are adopted globally. Everyone but the best is a rule taker

- race to the bottom
just awful

- confusoploy
bad - where you go to gutenberg to get shakespeare's othello and have to sign 19'waivers saying you are not in a dozen jurisdictions that claim copyright still
exists

Personally I think confusoploy is our likely destiny. sadly
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
It doesn't matter what it is or does. As soon as anyone fires off a nuclear missile/device civilization ends. Some tiny remnant of people will start over, in a mostly destroyed planet. Some day their descendants will wonder what kind of complete idiot(s) would start a nuclear war.
This is adorable. I wish other sites like YouTube, GitHub, Wikipedia etc would also refuse to remove something or block something in particular for particular country.