skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The absolute best advice on side projects (and full startups) I know of is that classic quote attributed to Reid Hoffman:

"If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late"

These days I even apply it to my blog entries.

No one else cares about those details you are obsessing over.

What matters is that your product lets people do something that they couldn't do before - or in the case of blog entries that it teaches them something they didn't know already.
If internal groups at Amazon want to find this guy, I doubt they will need OPs comment to put them on the trail.
What did you do in that year off?

I'm feeling like I'm pretty close to a burn out and I'm not sure how to deal with it.
You're assuming some data hasn't been delicately fudged in order to anonymize the source. Maybe he worked there between August 2016 and September 2017. Maybe is a Navy, not AF veteran. Maybe he isn't a he at all. Who knows?
On Thanksgiving Eve, Facebook Acknowledges Details of Times Investigation
> and why each ring has three wires woven through it (and I still don’t understand exactly how these work).

The rings are made from hard-magnetic ferrite. Basically permanent magnets. To write these, a positive or negative current pulse is applied to a write line. This will induce a voltage in the read line. The magnitude of the induced voltage depends on whether the write pulse coincides with the remanent field (the polarity of the ring). This allows you to store one bit. Note how reading and writing are the same thing, except that when reading you always use e.g. a positive current and then re-write the bit immediately after. So writing = single cycle operation. Reading = destructive and hence two cycles.

This is inefficient though, because for each bit you need two wires. Genius idea: Let's split the write line up into two write lines, each carrying half the write current. Lay out cores in a matrix and you can address individual cores, because only the core where both wires cross will reach the field strength necessary to be re/de-magnetized. The third wire is the read line, which is looped through all cores. This works because only a single bit is read at a time.
Can we assume the main motivation for google is to be able to track mobile users better? Particullary as more users are using various blocking methods and the legal environment regarding 3rd party trackers I questionable.

"With QUIC, however, the identifier for a connection is not the traditional concept of a "socket" (the source/destination port/address protocol combination), but a 64-bit identifier assigned to the connection."
Big companies seem to have industries as their unit of operation. If this is generally true, top leaders have very limited detailed input/output into a specific product itself. Many resources can not be taken into the process of a product evolution. Put it simple, top leaders of a big company usually have quite different direct goals instead of a product. A product's evolution depends on the options and resources a product team can have in a time frame. The rest of a big company is meaningless. The bigger the overlap of top leaders have with the product team, the better chance the product can evolve with the market demand. Jobs comes to my mind.
I had the same issue, and I believe it's tied to UI/UX.

Signal, at least on Android, looks like a stock SMS text app. That turns "normal" people off because it looks and feels different from a "messaging" app like Slack/Messenger/Whatsapp etc where doing stuff like group chats, attaching video/audio/images is easy. When people see a standard SMS text interface, they feel it's for one-to-one communication only with limited multimedia capabilities (remember MMS?).
Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring it down more
> The emotional bonding and physical closeness, Hutton says, were missing. So were the exchanges known as "dialogic reading," where caregivers point out specific words or prompt children to "show me the cat?" in a picture. "That's a whole other layer," of building reading Hutton says.

While I absolutely agree that the emotional bond is one of the biggest parts of the experience I don’t think it has to be limited to reading. For example, my daughter will sometimes sit on the couch next to me and watch YouTube or play mobile games and tell me about what she’s watching or playing. I’ll also ask her what she’s doing and try to add some context or have her show me what she’s interested in. She also shows me stuff she thinks is hilarious and we can laugh about it together. We do read together before bedtime, but I think overall just the fact that she gets those small moments of connection even while her head is in her screen makes a difference.
I'm three years in.
A sibling comment linked this[1] Wikipedia entry which claims:

Ferret - 1500BCE, although yeah I've heard there's been an explosion in popularity.

But you're right, Mink 19th century; and Fancy rat and lab rat 19th century.

Domesticated hedgehog 1980s!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals
First, that article also lists someone forced to abandon their vehicle.

And, for more detail: https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_Firestorm_1991 - "Over half of the fatalities were in automobiles that were burned up on the winding roads."
How does QUIC compare to HTTP/2 over SCTP?
> There's not even a handful of cities that would be nice to get around or live in without a car.
> As an semi-extremist urbanite

Don't call yourself an extremist. There's plenty of people that live without a car in big cities (outside of the US).
This train of thought only made me ask myself if the piece itself is real at all. The wonders of internet
> Corporations are like people - they don't change. You can put on different mask every day, but underneath its the same flesh and bones (or decision makers in this case).

Yes, Satya Nadella is the CEO of the company, but Azure and Windows are in completely separate organizations, with completely separate senior leadership. The goals of the two organizations are also vastly different, with one is focused on consumer products (Windows) while the other is focused on developer and enterpirse services (Azure). Because of this, the decisions made by one SLT is not at all indicative of another SLT's decisions.

Disclaimer: MSFT Employee working in Azure.
Cloudflare is also already testing draft QUIC support.
Wait, is there a chickenpox vaccination now? Sure wasn't 20-something years ago when I had it, on my birthday, ugh.
AUR package is fixed; feel free to give it another shot. :)
> "Re-written the code base 4 times (Laravel, Vanilla JS, React, then back to Vanilla JS)."

The path of least resistance is to research all available options, pick one, and see the project through, not to jump back and forth. It's a side project, but still, this isn't going to make it any easier.

That aside, the side project looks like it could see a good degree of success. I wouldn't use it because it seems like it's way too simple a feature to outsource, but then again, many companies also pay for simple customer / customer-service instant messaging services.
What if there is somebody else that matches the made up details?
do you have any idea what caused it ?
In hindsight its amazing how stupid and unaware people are as young new parents (myself included). Now, at my riper age, that sort of help is like an automatic reflex.
Three SSH GUI Tools for Linux
Doesn't IPsec suffer from legacy cruft and outdated implementations?
Population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
The original article is located here:

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-coup...

It is an interesting read, though honestly, I think it's fiction.
Here's the money shot:

https://l0dl1j3lc42iebd82042pgl2-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

If they can really make that happen cheaply (green shaded areas, meaning efficient collection of power from near IR photons) this is revolutionary.

Current silicon based tech (blue shaded) is useless for light energies below red.
Change "playing video games" to "playing football/soccer/basketball".

It's just a different competitive activity.
Here's the crappy thing. We should pay you more to teach middle school math if you're a remarkably better teacher than the rest.

In high school some of my favourite teachers were there mostly as a semi-retirement job. My favourite was a retired Intel architect who taught grade 10 electrical engineering.

I would have been spoiled rotten if we were able to consistently attract those kinds of teachers.
A role that requires say 15 years of experience but no collage degree still needs to pay well. Education is often substituted for experience, but the X years of X years or a masters have real value.
After reading the original article linked within the slate re-reporting bullshit:

It’s a sad indictment of Tom and Kate, not capitalism. They both make decent money — significantly more than their parents. They both have graduate level education.

I get that humans do not make perfect decisions and there are systems controls that are needed to counteract predatory behavior. But this particular story is Tom and Kate’s failure alone. The slate title is the same “we are all victims” bullshit that seems particularly present in the media these days.
I am in a similar situation, and settled on start-up life. AI here is strong, and there are a fair number interesting companies built around it. Get into one, and you’ll have a lot of freedom to guide the tech environment. Compensation is still limited, but a decent exit can at least reduce the bleed. It’s suboptimal, but I do appreciate how teachable my coworkers are.
... per carbon nanotube, of which there are trillions, each tuned to a different wavelength.
There is also angular dart. https://webdev.dartlang.org/angular
Cracking the Cambrian
I've found that setting a very hard deadline, ideally with some money on the line, is the best way to guarantee something gets done. It seems like this should be the authors next step. To get my last video out, I sent a friend $200 through Square Cash and said "Only send this back to me if I have X published by X hour on X date". It worked!

I definitely feel resistance in the last stages of side projects, but I don't necessarily buy Pressfields reasons for why it's there. Still valuable to know it will be there ahead of time though, regardless of what its origins are.
Yes. See the Prevention section at https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2018/infectious-dise...
How to Create a Mining Pool?
> China has historically valued orderliness, collective well-being, and personal sacrifice. This sucks from a Western perspective, but it also means that a great many of the problems the West faces will never manifest in China.

Like what?
Do you realize how big a square meter is?
I just got John J. Mearsheimer's new book (hot off the presses!) called “The Great Delusion”. He argues that from a strictly Western political perspective there are only three forces which control the interplay of great powers: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Realism.

He says that Nationalism and Realism always trump Liberalism. (From his perspective both neo-liberals and neo-cons are Liberal in that to the public at least they espouse bringing freedom and democracy to the peoples of the world even if it is at the business end of a gun.)

He drives home his point that nationalism has "won" by pointing out that most states are now nation-states whereas 200 years ago that most certainly was not the case. (Not all nations have their own state.) National identity is complicated but it explains all sorts of conflicts in the last 100 years.

It is political irony, as you say, that the forces the Brits used to topple their enemies also toppled them. But I think we must realise that the nationalism was there before the Brits decided to use it for their Machiavellian purposes. It is Afghan nationalism that has made Afghanistan the graveyard of empires. It was Irish nationalism (dressed up as Republicanism) that finally broke the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and as a consequence has made Brexit orders of magnitude more intractable.

You could go further and point out that by nationalism is meant National Identity. So it is social identity in one of its many powerful guises that has shaped the last 200 years. The other being religious identity of course: (internecine – Roman Catholicism versus Protestantism and Shia versus Sunni; interfaith – Christianity versus Islam).

This suggests that the rules-based international order is not going to contain China because China has a national identity going back millennia. The key geopolitical question of this generation (the years to 2049) is whether the US and China come into direct conflict because of China's rise. I'm a rational optimist so I say "no" but I wouldn't put money on it. :/
what well known photo is it copying?
Not true if you check the spectral absorbance chart they show...
How the Rise of Amazon Has Destroyed Retail Chains, in One Chart (2017)
To its credit, YC is trying to do that: https://www.startupschool.org/

I have no intention of starting a startup, but I watched some of the videos, and they seem like valuable new information.
I think scientists and inventors often do themselves no favors by making claims like "90% efficient". That's the theoretical maximum. Now if they hit 80%, we'll all say they failed despite it being an incredible achievement.

They should claim "75% or more", and then hit 80% and blow our minds. The Scotty Factor[0] should be liberally applied when possible[0].

[0]http://wiki.c2.com/?ScottyFactor
Quantum adiabatic and quantum circuit algorithms are equivalent
Does Flutter (and related tooling) offer anything to push small code changes out to devices without doing a full version update to the app stores (similar to what can be done with React Native)?
Given that often, cars park outside most of the day, could they charge enough , enabling cars with much smaller batteries(for going to work for ex.) sold meaningfully cheaper - without needing creation of a charger network, which is a huge barrier?
Is that a BIOS setting? I will definitely look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.
Corporations are, but their employees and officers aren’t. For example, the US government could compel Lavabit (the company) to hand over signing keys; but they couldn’t compel the employees/founders of Lavabit to keep working there, nor charge them with anything for quitting. It’s not illegal to choose to dissolve a company in protest of a US government directive.
I know a pm that earned his JD and is a member of the bar, he was making less than that.

In a number of industries, having your mba and being a manager doesn't put you over $80k. Masters even in relevant subjects don't necessarily put your salary that high in industries including teaching, shipping and logistics, warehousing, factory production.
That's 2009. The Shinkansen goes to Hokkaido now, via underwater tunnel.[1]

Japan has a plan to run a superconducting maglev train between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. It's a huge job. The "Japanese Alps" are in the way. Most of the route would have to be in tunnels cut through hard rock.

It's not just talk. The first section is already running. At 500km/hr. There are working trainsets running on 42km of track, mostly in tunnels. Stations are under construction. Tunneling continues. Construction started in 2014. Completion in 2027, to Nagoya. Osaka 10 years later.

Many Asian cities now have large new monorail systems. Daegu, 30 stations. Mumbai, 17 stations. Chongqing, 64 stations. Many smaller systems, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido_Shinkansen
And then they evaluate people on their Michelin-star-worthy work, which leads to the phenomenon of "promo-driven development" - people building new complex systems (that immediately turn into legacy code) because they don't get rewarded for doing something simple and maintainable. And then you need more Michelin-star-worthy chefs to keep things running because no sandwich artist will be able to figure it out.
The technology was originally developed in the Apollo project for the lunar landing simulator and even spawned an optics company called Televue. The scale of Apollo was mind boggling.

Astronauts inside a lander mockup and the scenery projected on screens.
>This is for a real simple fix

How would you know? The result is "simple error", but the cause could be deep down in their backend.
> Do other UK communities have a concept of "honour killings"?

Honour killings are far rarer - only about a dozen a year are reported in the UK. Most "honour" attacks are violent but not deadly. But both Hindu and Sikh communities at least have had issues with both "honour" violence and specifically "honour killings". E.g. here's a case of a Sikh man being convicted for a "honour killing" [1].

> Any support for this? For example in Pakistan are "honour" attacks equally prevalent across all religious beliefs?

I did not suggest they were equally prevalent, but that location/culture is a stronger predictor that religion.

This plays out both in what you yourself have pointed to, namely that countries like Pakistan have substantially larger problems with it than many other predominantly muslim countries, but even within Pakistan you'll find large regional differences, and the same in India where honour violence has been on the rise in recent years but is predominantly correlated to caste, not religion, though it certainly is a problem among both Hindus and Sikhs too. South Asia as a whole have had a significant problem with it, but with large regional variation. E.g in Pakistan it is a problem of tribal culture that remains far stronger in rural areas.

As an indicator that this is about culture rather than religion, here is a case of a Pakistani Christian carrying out a "honour killing" [2]. While the article also point out that Christian "honour" killings are extremely rare in Pakistan, it goes on to say:

> "Unfortunately, I do hear about cases of where Christian daughters are beaten for marrying individuals not approved by the family," Stark wrote. "Again, I have not heard of a Christian family performing an honor killing because their daughter had married someone that was not approved by the family. That is really rare."

But remember that Christian parts of Europe too have had problems with "honour" based violence. Until 1981, "honour" was a mitigating circumstance to murder in the Italian penal code, for example.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-12431942
[2] https://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistani-man-beats-siste...
Rure-Python: Python API for RUst's REgex Engine
Actually in China you don’t need a credit check to get an apartment, you only need to pay 3 or 6 months in advance instead (I nean, you pay in 3-6 month chunks).

Likewise, there was no credit extended for things like power, you were expected to pre-charge your power instead.

Being a good and obedient communist isn’t a very good predictor of anything but itself.
In the US or in China?

Grandparent is specifically talking about the US, where Apple has successfully fought against orders.
No, in the end it's pretty much all about the money. And not just funding, but about making money. I mean imagine that you did finish your side project and did ship it, now what? Does it become sustainable the moment you ship it, does it pay your bills, does it maintain itself, pay for its own infrastructure? Of course not. You still need to make money just to keep it and yourself alive, and quite a bit of money.
To elaborate on your point a little further, because I think a lot of people truly don't understand this: having no credit is worse than having bad credit, so the argument that being conservative with your finances is all you need is blatantly wrong and tone-deaf. My first apartment cost me $500/mo. The deposit to turn on power was $100, $300, and $500 for good, bad, and no credit respectively. I had no credit, because I didn't think I was making enough money to take on a credit card payment. Thus, I ended up paying more than $1500 to move into a $500/mo apartment.

I made the fiscally responsible choice to not take on debt I could not afford, but I was punished more than if I had indebted myself. I got a credit card shortly after, and naturally spent years trying to keep up with the payments that I couldn't afford at the time. Anyone that cannot see the clear trap being laid here is doing so willfully.
> rure is the Python binding Rust's regex library, which guarantees linear time searching using finite automata.

This is the most feature-complete linear-time regex lib for Python as far as I can tell.
Not unless you want to get through firewalls seamlessly. UDP "state" tracking is a thing, and if my firewall sees a UDP packet destined for it without knowing the remote IP address it's going to drop it.
Wow, that's a long time. Maybe they could get around it by storing everything on a blockchain instead?
I agree mostly with this, but I would emphasize that your first release must be usable. I've seen a few promising products get released too early by people pushing to "ship early, ship often," etc, only to crash and burn because they quickly developed a reputation for being buggy pieces of crap. Once you have a slate of bad reviews on an app store, it's difficult to fix.
It compares in the way that there's not a single SCTP web server implementation compared to QUIC.

People here say that we should use HTTP/2 over SCTP, no protocol will be adopted if there's no good implementations of it.
Or maybe one needs to drink more kool-aid?
Your tinfoil hat is on a bit tight.

Apple has a vested interest in being honest and transparent about this specifically because nobody would trust them if it was discovered that they'd been secretly cooperating with everything in private while denying it in public. A revelation like that would literally ruin them as a company, and that's generally not the end goal for most companies.
I am always fascinated by how people that don't waste their time with the latest data visualization trends can come up with slides so ugly according to latest trends yet so effective at exposing information.
My father was a machinist, and I saw in high school that there was no future in that in the US and went into software, which at the time was a hot field. But it was clear to me once the Internet made outsourcing these kinds of tasks trivial that coding would become commoditized. (I actually also thought that basic software construction would be largely automated by now lol.) It occurred to me a while ago that "programming" in the traditional sense is more or less the "blue-collar job" of the 21st century. And these jobs will follow the route of the blue-collar jobs of the 20th century in the US.
I don't see any reason to assume that. As the article explains, portable network connections have been a goal in network research for many years.

Also, Google benefits from a faster and more secure Internet and its employees have the freedom to pursue that in a wide variety of ways. They aren't all mustache-twirling villains.

But I do think the security and privacy implications should be explored. What could an attacker do with a persistent connection?
I’m considering a Mac mini. For portability, “just” remote into it with an iOS hdmi wireless adapter. Even that still feels like I’m being fleeced by Apple, but you do get better hardware for the buck.
Any technology that surpasses 50% efficiency will never double its efficiency again.

We are already very close to 50% with 40-46% efficient solar cells. The installation cost, scaffolding cost, maintenance and the cell price start to dominate. Solar panel tilt can improve efficiency up to 30 percent (flat panel versus sun following 2-axis panel).
That was malware that infected a target product in the customer environment. No government coercion or backdoors. Kaspersky’s own report documents this thoroughly. Not even close to the same.