skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably won't ever directly solve an important problem. Find a job with interesting problems you can work on. Work hard collect your paycheck.

If you want to start a company to solve a problem you are now sales person first. The tech is nearly irrelevant.
There is a large 'try it now' button above the fold.
broken font size, running off the edge of the page. pretty much everything outside of the first 40 characters of any line.
How so? The soldiers don't need to carry the "nice to have" items and if it get struck it's not such a big deal.
A Grindr harassment suit could change legal landscape for tech and free speech
I solved that by offering to reimburse them. So far I haven’t been asked for money.
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Ask HN: Business ideas for solo developers?
What are some business ideas that a single web developer can successfully develop on his own? Does one need a fundamentally different skill set to run a small business? What are some stressing cons to consider?

Do you have any recommendations, ideas, stories?

Thanks.
You can put an arbitrary metric on your space, but usually you wouldn't need metric dependent operations if you don't have a metric.
Sarah Mei on Twitter: “My fundamental issue with being on call is”
…unless you’re in Germany.
thanks for the input:

there is a demo button here on this page where you enable your website. You can even test the feature without signup.

https://websitevoice.com/convert-text-to-audio-free
Show HN: 1980s Microsoft Office for Mac Reference Binders
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisworth/comments/adfu1n/1980...

(I am the Reddit OP, second apologies for dodgy photo quality)

I thought it might interest some people that good condition copies of these are still floating around, for some reason :)
I have no clue if he is active or not, and I'm only going off his venting session, but I do believe him and doubt he would fib.
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Fair enough, but consider that a "dumb" AI running the world on incentives that don't match human and planet welfare is already our current condition - it's called The Economy. While the overall system isn't a perfect AI just yet, any specializable part is already operating at an intelligence far past the point of (most) individual human ability, and the tools to control this system (monetary policy, democratic systems) are increasingly being eroded (untraceable/uncontrollable money systems, pay-to-win democracy). There may be some human intelligence amongst the overall system but, even if we never make a Perfect AI to rule it all, the point at which we're not able to really change the incentive/value system is coming near - if it hasn't passed already.

(That probably has nothing to do with the actual AI Safety problems studied today in regards to pure AIs. But damned if this isn't an important-A-F cousin of the problem.)
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> In the UK it is actually illegal to smack your kid... so it's not like corporal punishment is still the norm now in the UK.

FTFY. That's 66 million people. Add Europe and USA and you have about a billion people who consider spanking a no-no. Since spanking is culturally accepted in most of the developing world, I'd say spanking is the norm rather than the exception on planet earth.

> There is also a large portion of parents who have rejected corporal punishment and opted for 'peaceful parenting' techniques from a moralistic perspective based on the non-aggression principle.

Myself included.

> Even if you don't agree on moral grounds

You may be responding to the wrong comment, since I didn't state a position in that comment.

> So, if you consider your role as a parent to include giving your child the best chance at life you need to seriously evaluate the body of evidence against using corporal punishment.

Again, you've probably responded to the wrong person. I've not supported corporal punishment anywhere in this discussion.
Isn't calling it G-Sync miss leading since it is clearly FreeSync support or Adaptive Sync support
"one man one kit" you own your gear and are responsible for maintaining it, knowing exactly where it is at any moment, and if it fails because you didn't take care of it, it's your fault. Plus, reduces cognitive load when you know your kit like the back of your hand, in stressful situations. It's your kit and you don't lend it to others, also. Otherwise you compromise your safety.
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We are a data-driven organization, founded with the main objective to provide detailed, technical information on which management and operations departments can base their KPI’s and management decisions.

We are hiring for:

Full-Stack Engineer: You will work on application from the ground up. Starting from the IoT client, which collects data and send the results to API's written in DRF. Processing engine data to find the latest state and deciding whether the engine is healthy or needs maintenance. Finally displaying graphs and reports.

Tech Stack: Django / DRF / PostgreSQL / Python / ML / Google Cloud / PHP / JS / jQuery

Funded startup + flexible working

See more here: https://www.aviso-diagnostics.com/en/vacancies
Ok, you’re right.

(I’m reminded how difficult it is to make full arguments over text.

Rather than flog a dead horse, I’ll just accept that I’m not able to make my point clearly enough.)
> What do you offer that more specific chatrooms -- i.e. ones for React or Go -- don't?

The slack channel I created is not for language or framework specific. It is a general channel for engineers who are building an MVP.
What is good pay?
I live in the Bay Area, and I thought I made “good” money. But I moved from Naahville several years ago, where it was good money.

Now that I’m in the Bay, I realize it’s very very hard to get ahead here. Friends in other places have homes, investment properties, stability. I just have my good pay, but it doesn’t ever seem to leave much over for serious savings for things I can afford here.

I just wonder how everyone else does it. Am I managing my money wrong? It’s possible I could be better.

What do other people make? What kind of money gets you ahead in the Bay Area?

I’m considering my future options, and if the Bay is a viable alternative. I made just as much and more before I moved to the Bay. And I moved here because of the energy, the ideas, the diverse and educated people who live here, along with the beauty. But I’m not sure that’s enough.

What is good pay these days?
Cross Laminated Timber is pretty fire resistant - chars on the outside protecting the inner wood

http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/crosslam-timber-f...
Ya I think that's a reasonable take. I think we don't really disagree :)
I mean that the theory splits into two parts: the part that tells you the fields given the charges, and the part that tells you the charges given the fields. For instance, it doesn't tell you what two charges with given initial velocities will do. (not even if you also give an initial electromagnetic field)
Performance Calendar » Measuring Wikipedia page load times
Ah, an article I can comment on. I was an Infantry officer for 6 years and did all the normal schooling and a deployment.

This is a pretty well done article. Here's some general ideas to keep in mind.

- Most dismounted missions are run from trucks or an established forward operating base, so you don't carry a huge rucksack most of the time because you can just go back to your base.

- Like the article states, even a day pack with body armor gets you up to 70lbs quickly.

- Ammo is really heavy, it being made of lead and all. 100rds of 7.62mm ammo weighs about 7lb. You want at least 800rds per M240B.

- Rucksack weights are sometimes inflated because it's a way to brag.

- The Marine infantry officer course requirement for 152lb load is excessive. At that weight, you can only do an admin movement on a road. All the anecdotes I found about combat loads that heavy were for an initial, short infil followed by a stationary mission.

I think the article nails the root cause towards heavier protective equipment. Public perception and the news cycle makes the death of American service member a bigger deal than in past conflicts.

It will be a long time before we get electronic mules in the Infantry. Adopting the mules adds a huge complexity budget to a simple movement. The Army decided some years ago to give every Company (~140 people) a Raven drone for recon. However, it's a huge deal if it gets lost (if the GPS guidance were to suddenly fail), so no one ever uses them to avoid the fallout associated with losing Army equipment.
It sounds like you never got to use the original SAW barrel. We got issued those stubby paratrooper barrels while in Iraq, which are nice for maneuverability, but it was at the cost of accuracy. The M249 was always a piece of junk when it came to reliability, which is why weapons guys are there with 240s.

So long as the tempo is kept up for flanking maneuvers, and everybody doesn't try to establish a fixing base of fire simultaneously, it sounds like a warrant officer had a really good idea in returning to something resembling the WWII pacific loadout (minus the flamethrowers).
How do you run 1060 with nouveau? My 1080 doesn't even boot to anything except black screen.
Spanking is culturally accepted in most of the developing world. Statistically speaking, the western nations where spanking has gone out of fashion don't add up to much.
Thanks, that Nokia 6.1 looks interesting. I note the mention of how the sides are designed to be gripped securely; my iPhone 8 always feels a bit slippery.

If I could find a suitable replacement for the Apple Watch (which I find very useful) then I'd be very tempted by this.
The startup scene in Switzerland is quite different from silicon valley. There are still a lot of "classic small company" startups that start with a business idea, try to become self-financed as soon as possible and then slowly build upon that. It's a very sustainable model, you add more people once you can pay them, and most people that fund a company like that are in it for the long term.

In contrast, the silicon valley idea of a startup is "get as much investor money as you can get, grow your team quickly, become a unicorn, sell your company and cash out, rinse and repeat".

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but especially for privacy focused products I prefer to get those from companies that finance themselves, and that don't have big VC investors which will want to see big ROI sooner or later. If the startup behind a free product I use is sold, then my user data is sold with the company. And usually financial interests stand above privacy considerations. (Obviously, otherwise the investors wouldn't invest.)

Money is power. Ideally your money comes from your users.
When crop yields decline, food will become scarce. I think the consequences of food scarcity will be social unrest and political chaos. People will turn against each other much before they turn against the environment.
Requiring some manual steps for certificate renewal is actually standard practice many places. The renewal process offers a chance to recognize when you have sites or services that are no longer needed and should be shut down, whether it's to save money, reduce potential security risks, etc. --That's not to say that it needs to be completely manual, it could be as simple as an email being sent to a group and someone approving the renewal. Everything after that could be automated.
How Dashboards Are Changing Human Behavior in DevOps
Blub Paradox (2014)
Apologies, looks like your widget domain is being blocked by my work and was preventing the demo button from doing anything.
.Net core is not bad, but ATM I feel like there are a lot of breaking changes and small revolutions in the platform and specially in all official and third-party modules, not to mention lack of features and official support for some basic components.

ASP.NET Core is much worse in this regard.

Right now .NET Core feels like it's a gigantic beta testing experience. The motto "move fast and break things" is being taken very literally, which wouldn't be bad if we weren't talking about a platform used to develop infrastructure.

Perhaps .NET Core in general and ASP.NET Core in particular wil be an important platform 2 or 3 years from now, but right now I feel it takes too much courage and too little good sense to base a relevant project in .NET Core.
iPhone 7 is a 2 1/2 year old phone and Apple still want to charge a premium price for it!
Someone has a long time ago:

https://github.com/johnmastro/trident-mode.el

It works like a charm.
Server Timing
currently it’s free and there will be some paid features in the future, the site is preparing for that.
>Little kid logic

My favourite is when you ask a crying child where they hurt them selves, and they point to the table they just walked into.

Edit:
Or have a paddy because they can't join the banana they've just cut in half, back together again.
> when I named one of my lamps 'halogen', Alexa would always ask back "did you mean halogen?" with the exact same pronunciation I had used.

Maybe due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping ?
For people who feel a little lost I highly recommend reading the book "The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter" by Meg Jay.
Thanks!

I don't find the numbers confusing either. It's just my mind couldn't accept that you could fit everything in your life in 10 areas x 10 categories structure (well, 9x9 really, since 0s are for metadata). So thanks for clarifying (and this definitely needs to go on the page, IMO).

If I may ask here, how do you handle things that cut across two or more of your existing systems? Do you duplicate things? Or use references with target collection name, e.g. "Work Computer 12.34 Some shared stuff"?

I'll drop you an e-mail too.
Labour might be priced in CNY, but most of the expensive bits in the BOM are from non-Chinese firms like Qualcomm, Samsung, and others and would be in USD denominated contracts most likely.
Hat's off to you and your career path! Very cool.
Sentiment analysis example using FastText
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref
I grew up in a tropical country and went to a Primary school which had massive number of Angsana tress directly outside the open windows. Everyday we would be bombarded by the sounds of multiple Cicadas chirping away. They were very loud and it would go on for pretty much the whole day. And sound itself would be very distracting. The whole school was affected by these sounds, but I don’t recall any of my class/school mates getting impacted by the sounds (except for perhaps a constant bloody distraction that got me disciplined for not paying attention in class)
Sounds like org-mode.
monotone? hahaha you should try the default text to speech from the operating system to see what is monotone
Depends what you mean by 'runaway climate change'. It takes some time for climate to stabilize, even if we stopped all carbon emission now it would take a few decades for the planet to reach equilibrium. We've certainly reached the point where significant impacts are going to be felt but not necessarily to the point where, say, the Earth loses all polar ice and remains hot for tens of thousands of years.

> I was saying 10 years ago they by 2024-2028 we would see runaway climate changes.

> 10, 5, and 3 years ago they thought I was crazy, last year they have all expressed concerns that I might have underestimated the speed of change.

It's important to recognise that neither you nor I have the expertise to truly assess this. The climate models are the best we have but there are various uncertainties. I'm also concerned that they may turn out to be too conservative but it will take many years to find out.

The most optimistic scenario is that the models break in our favour, serious action is taken, technology bails us out somewhat and investment in low-carbon energy and sustainable farming provides employment. The worst case scenario is that crop yields and fisheries collapse well before the end of the century.
Summary of the tweets of Steven Sinofsky(1):

1- Pricing not only says who can afford your product but also establishes a brand, determines channel, & more.

2- The first key to having low priced offerings is that you have to have a set of partners who are willing to compete on thin margins in order to bring the product to market.

3- When people say Apple needs a cheaper phone there are many questions to answer beyond the get over yourself luxury brand issue.

4- What is distribution constraint? What partner absorbs some cost to leave margin? What is the branding?

5-Easy question — would a cheap phone be sold and supported in Apple stores side by side? How would the rest of the customers feel about more crowds and tougher appointments competing with people who paid half as much? Sell one phone against another—how?

6- Anyone that thinks Apple is unaware of the challenge and has not sketched out ideas, tested them, and thought about them immensely is crazy.

7- What does all this mean? Apple may or may not have a “pricing” or “price point” or “structural” / secular challenge. For sure just releasing a cheap phone doesn’t make all better.

All takes place in context of lots of cheap/bad competitive phones.

(1): https://mobile.twitter.com/stevesi/status/108117488690147328...
I use a system where I've a max of 7 sub directories per directory. In that way I can quickly navigate to the directory or file I'm looking for.

It is based on the theory that one can process up to 7 items quickly. (Currently, I've no reference to this).

This implies that when a directory becomes too 'crowded', I add sub directories for further categorization. E.g. a directory containing an archive consultancy projects is split based on year of project. The current year is split up by proposal, ongoing, and archive.

For each project directory, I use standard sub-directories: Analysis, Input, Data, Report, Visuals, PM (Project Management)
The difference between Input and Data is qualative and quantative data from the client.

Probably room for improvement, but it works quite good. For now a 80/20 trade off not to invest in a better system.
Yes it is. You can use job market pricing to work out demand surplus to make yourself feel confident you’re investing in something worthwhile .

Email in profile if you want to know more.
The trouble comes when the others working on your code are crazy enough that that strange code often is useless, so you have to spend the time trying to work out whether it's tear-out-worthy.
If it worked real time, that would make for quick accumulation of training data. But I don't think a human can manually solve the queries fast enough.
Emacs/Org-mode have had this feature for years. You can narrow-to-subtree, or even subtree-to-indirect-buffer, presenting a subtree as its own buffer, like having files within files.
One of the very few tools I really miss on OSX.
Need this on OSX

Its somehow begun to suck by making too many assumptions
I remember, during a thunderstorm, being utterly convinced that a war was being fought outside. I was terrified ...
I'll say LG's V10 and V20 phones had notches before notches. I still use my V20 myself, and it's interesting to see it how LG went about it. It's huge as a notch, and that allows them a bit more customization in it: it's pretty much an extra widget area, and has a separate backlight from the main screen allowing it to be always on.

And then after that they go with the standard notch everyone else has, and you lose the extra features. Still I do prefer my V40 which has a standard notch as the extra screen space is nice every time I switch back and forth between these phones. The V40 is even slightly smaller than the V20, but with the huge edge to edge screen, doesn't feel like it.
Typo: "We use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to constantly improve our voice algorithms to make your website text-to-speech is as realistic as possible."
Yea, I read the indiehackers thread and understand you currently focus mostly on the technical side.

I assume you'll have the business side well thought out too. My feedback would be to be as transparent as possible, once adding commercial services, and turn that into a true USP.
If convenience is more important than privacy, then by all means, use WhatsApp! It backs up your data unencrypted to the Google cloud. Or use Telegram. It backs up your conversations to Telegram servers, where Telegram can read them. Convenient, yes.

Threema values convenience, but only if it's not in violation of your privacy.

As an example of this, the Threema Safe backups are anonymous. We don't know which backup file belongs to which user. This has some usability downsides, but the obvious huge upside that we don't know which backup file belongs to which user.

Another example: Your avatar is not stored on any server. Instead it's sent along with your messages if it changes. This has the usability downside that people won't immediately see your changed avatar if you don't exchange any messages. However, it has the advantage that we don't know how all our users look like (in case they use a picture of themselves as avatar).

As a service provider, user data becomes a liability. The less you have, the better :) In German, there's a word called "Datensparsamkeit" (data frugality) that describes this concept well.
Are paper bills and receipts, the next plastic straws?
A language with a GC does not seem appropriate for a "full-stack" language with which one would write operating systems, drivers, or game engines. I don't know why any language without full manual memory management would ever posit itself as being appropriate for these domains. It's naive at best.
> Some electrons were converted into photons of different frequencies mostly in the human visual spectrum, and some electrons were converted into other frequences in the spectrum that can be converted into a meaning by a human.

If someone live-streams a keynote and a Q/A session as a part of an event, then the person speaking is obviously participating.

Please note, that I have no problems with remote participation of events. It just happens that our favourite south-east asian police state requires a permit for such events. Our opinions on whether that law is a good one or not has nothing to do with the medium chosen for the event.
Everything computer-related is best right now. (Web design, UX, "social media person".) However, if for some reason you want to change that, I have found that writing and composing music are also well suited for the same type of mind. (You need imagination, constrained by rules. We're good with rules and, as far as I can tell, we're not bad at creativity either.)