skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a valid concern, if perhaps a fusion plant requires the outside be coated in platinum or something. It would have to be both expensive and difficult to manufacture/obtain. It is essentially where we are today with ITER, which is to say if ITER generated net power it would still be a hard pill to swallow if it costs $100B per power plant.

Fortunately, many of the significant costs the plague fission plants (like the legal expense of dealing with all the lawsuits, the cost of unlimited insurance, Etc.) would likely not apply to fusion plants.
I'm developing a few hobby projects with Qt and Rust. The Rust Qt Binding Generator I developed for that works so well for me that I've barely needed to improve it in months.

https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2018/10/30/building_qt_app...
What if cannot code to the level needed to get an MVP?
Agile QA Test Engineer
Yes, it's part of their strategy.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/12/11/china-beco...

https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/china/article/2166148/china...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-artificial-intelligence-stra...
Forget Netflix: Inside the Forums Where People Share Obscure Pirated Movies
Small batteries are uneconomical to recycle, and most don't contain dangerous metals or other chemicals. Lead-acid batteries used for starter motors in cars are big, heavy, and contain lead, which you would pay to divert from landfills, even if recycling them isn't profitable on its own.

Lithium batteries from cars and large storage systems will be worth recycling when they are numerous enough. It's
unclear if a phone battery will ever be worth recycling.
I just have this to say: the discussions here are painfully oriented around SaaS. Once you're doing stuff on-premise or making desktop applications (things requiring long lived release branches), the discussion is totally different.
At some point, cheaper Chinese tools became good enough. When I was a kid I remember my dad would curse cheap imported wrenches and tools. Now, he buys 75% of his stuff at Harbor Freight.

Sears ended up going down in quality while trying to keep their brand names and higher prices. Surprising it didn't work out.
Guess I disagree. They are a mental burden that I didn't ask for and don't want. My life, my rules.
I probably wouldn't use this as I would feel bad about it but as a UK listener I've listened to SO MANY adverts from American podcasts for products I can't buy.

I pay for stitcher premium and export the feed to an app that's actually useable.

I recently paid to support Thrilling Adventure Hour on patreon and find it pretty crappy they still have adverts on the paid feed.
I would have thought the same thing, but if you look at a lot of the early app developers, they did come from other platforms. It was easier for an OS X developer, but there were a lot of new people who complained about Objective-C but just got on with it. A lot of early tutorials are really geared to the bigger group of new developers.

On a side note, I really do believe the people behind Swift hate Objective-C and a lot of the old complaints are "solved" by Swift.
Of course some businesses should close. That's not an interesting question.

In the modern age, after Sears was destroy by vulture capitalism (https://prospect.org/article/it-was-vulture-capitalism-kille... ), its place is in the grave.

I think the interesting questions are:

- Amazon is the modern mail-order company. Why didn't Sears (re)discover that niche?

- Does this (finally) drive a stake through the heart of the idea that following the ideas of Ayn Rand is bad for business? If not, why not? https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/sears-ceo-eddie-lampert-sho...

- When do we change the law so that "loading up a company with debt and then paying yourself exorbitant fees and dividends and manipulating the share price at the expense of the company" is illegal? (Same prospect.org link)

- When do we change the law so that the company head who strips assets for his own profit isn't allowed by the bankruptcy court to keep control of the company? (same prospect.org link)
Try going on a couple blind dates.
And I totally despise ads on podcasts. I find them very invasive. When I'm listening, I often don't have hands free to fast-forward.

The problem with "premium" podcasts is that every publisher has their own premium, and some publishers don't seem to have a premium ad-free option at all.

What I'd prefer is an ad-free central podcast service or app that I could subscribe to for ad-free podcasts. I'd be happy to pay for that. Failing that, I'd jump on any podcast player that used this technology to skip ads automatically for me.
Resource list for ML for iOS – extensive Git repo
XSS account persistence with oauth
I wonder if this could work with Spotify free tier.
Notepad++ Yellow Vest Edition
I still don't understand what this means. It's like saying Firefox will be the default browser of Dell monitors. The HTC Vive is a display.

Unless they're referring to HTC's software suite (Viveport I think it's called), which very few people use because it's some of the worst software I've ever seen. For example, it somehow managed to jam the entire 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in my apartment while it was running. Not even sure how it's possible to do that by accident.
In the same vein, I've been yelling at the monitor over the "news":

> The Milky Way could crash into another galaxy way sooner than we thought
I have created non trivial projects in PHP and Ruby and have used a lot of other languages to do things before moving to Clojure... probably about 5 years programming before using my first lisp.

For me I find that s-expressions are the easiest thing to comprehend. Every other language is loaded with syntax and with lisp it's just mainly just (function args).

I wanted to test your argument and I have never looked at common lisp before, I just skimmed some source code from this project https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm and it's extremely easy for me to parse.

Comparing this to new variants of Javasscript that seem to come out biannually with some new syntax, I have no idea what's going on and have to look up references on syntax to begin to understand anything.

I guess at the end it's subjective, but lisps have ruined other languages for me.
* K&R Book

* Some course/book that includes gdb/compilers/modern style ect https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpIxOj-HnDsPZIJYO4U9f... which covers http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

* The SEI CERT C Coding Standard https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Cod... combined with C Traps and Pitfalls http://literateprogramming.com/ctraps.pdf

Really any C book you can find combined w/SEI CERT standard, there's even a functional C book from 1999 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/31ac/b7abaf3a1962b27be9faa2...
particularly, this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18856271
Honestly, that sounds amazing. I feel like just being around this many dogs would make me less stressed.
I'd love to see a source on that one, it's hard to believe otherwise.

edit: I reverse image searched one of the faces and found this, https://bgr.com/2018/12/18/nvidia-ai-fake-faces-look-100-per...

It's not generating them from whole cloth, but it's still very impressive.
The other question is: how stable is Bazel and how easy is it to extend and/or find open source extensions for it?
Think of the difference between Indian vegetarian food vs. tofurkey, imitation bacon, etc.

There are vegetarian cultures that have refined their cuisine over thousands of years to be nutritionally adequate and delicious. Western vegan food tends to just be imitations of non-vegan Western food and it's unfortunate.
Have you been in a WeWork office, though? IME all shared offices are incredibly noisy, I don't understand why anyone would want to rent there.
Jaw-dropping' AI technology takes centre stage at CES 2019
> Same with history: years are meaningless. What's interesting is how historical events follow from earlier events and lead to later events.

That's also how I learned what history I know. The trouble with that is not knowing how differently themed events are positioned relative to each other in time. For example, I don't know how events of political history linked to events of computer history.
I always skip them and I never buy the products. Like with web ads, Adblock here will just increase my quality of life with no cost the content creator.
> What can help? Ironically, traditional law and governance might help.

Why not PayPal, then?

Cowen is such a hopeless statist. Regulation and fine tuning by philosopher-kings is the answer to everything.
I remember listening to a podcast (can't remember the name) but the adverts were tailored to my location.

I think the MP3 gets generated based on location.
Similar to buying organic food, or ocean caught fish vs. farm raised.

Change the label, double the price. The temptation is very strong.

Similar amusement from the Capacitor Plague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
It's pretty nicely put together and commented, still trying to work through exactly how the interleave steps work though.
listening to an idea is entertainment

showing the idea is proof
What blogging platform do you use?
Hey everyone,
I have been meaning to start a blog and have been experimenting with different blogging platforms.

Wordpress requried me to have a database and maintain updates to the platform and it's plugins.

Medium is nice but I don't like to have the giant "M" in the corner and I am not interested in paying to get it customized.

Blogspot was nice but didn't feel right.

I will probably end up coding a personalized blog template but before doing so I decided to ask around.

So what blogging platform would you recommend/use? I am looking preferably for a free self hosted platform but all suggestions will be considered.
Thanks for the questions!

Quite honestly, we may not ever charge for this product. But some ideas are:

-Provide a custom Gaia Hub with encrypted storage that has higher limits than the default Blockstack hub.
-Charge for additional features (integrations, team publications, etc)
-Just charge a small amount for access and allow those who don't want to pay that the option to clone the open source repo and deploy it themselves

An export feature will be built into Graphite Publishing (much like the one that already exists in Graphite). But one of the core tenets of data ownership is you should not need to rely on the app to access your data. In that vein, there is still work to be done. But it is already possible to use the command line to export all your data without ever touching Graphite Publishing.

All content is in HTML format, so it should be usable in many different apps.
I'm not sure of your first point. The organizations i'm talking about are clearly agglomerations of teams anyway. Nobody has a flat 8000 person team structure i'm aware of :)

Also, the fraction is not the problem, it's certainly the same. But the absolute scale of the number matters at some point.

0.001 people a year of lost dev time is not likely to change what your company could accomplish.

200 is.

(I think you don't disagree, but i can't really tell, so if you do, let me know and happy to argue about it further :P)
OP here. Feel free to tinker with this!
The problem as I understand it is that while cattle are often raised in such places - grazing on open grass plains which could not support other crops - they are usually transferred to feedlots later in their life, where a significant portion of the nutrients used to support them come from corn, soy, etc, which do come from croplands.

So in our current system it does appear that cattle, even if they occupy some grassland space which could not be more efficiently used, do inevitably use resources which could be more efficiently used to feed humans directly.
It's a good example to those that claim companies should pay employees liberally. Unless you're in a niche that people are willing to pay a margin for or serve upscale customers who also don't mind paying margins (Costco, Whole Foods, Nordstroms, Apple, etc), then you're going to lose business to competitors offering lower prices.

In this situation, the only way to improve the well being of those whose labor isn't as valuable is to restrict their supply, either by educating them to give them other valuable skills or providing paid leaves so they can go on vacations and forcing employers to hire more people. All of this extra wealth for those at the bottom would, of course, have to come from the margins those at the top are earning.
Google Photos was able to determine that pictures of my niece as an infant, and pictures of my niece as a 5 year old, are pictures of the same person.
Can you elaborate a bit?
OOoohhh Fuck ...
Now tesla have to make another futuristic self driving car...
WTF man ... where we r going ???
Sure, by real faces I mean pitching your product to people directly. Not necessarily over the Internet but in person. This is a step that is often missed by a lot of tech people wannabe entrepreneurs (including myself). We think the Internet is a magic place where you can launch anything from your bedroom and reach millions of people if you use the right marketing strategy (ads on youtube, cold emails, viral strategy, gamification, etc). I call this the scaling phase. You can't scale nothing. If you have zero user and zero customer, what do you want to scale?

So step zero consist on acquiring your first customer/user. This is usually when having a non-tech co-founder or someone who's good at selling would make a huge difference. We always bypass this step of acquiring the first customers, it's only when you build something and ship it that you hit a wall. You will not rank in google at first, no one will ever mention your name and the only queries you'll get on your SaaS or whatever product you have will come from your own IP. That's what I'm talking about. You just launched, now what?

So you need to go out there and "manually" pitch your product to people. Introduce yourself, tell your story, prove people what you've built is what they want. You would usually fail capturing the needs at first because of a lack of interaction with your targeted users, you will build something that isn't exactly what they want. So you need to quickly adapt to that early feedback, which is why going out there and trying out your MVP or prototype very quickly is a key to success. This is what I mean by "people need to see real faces". You could pitch your product to your mom, friends, potential users, potential partners who could help you move to the next step, etc.

The best way to find out "how to found a company as a single founder" is to give it a shot. You'll basically collect all the answers to your question.
True, but at least the companies you mentioned did something new in their respective industries. What, exactly, has WeWork done that is innovative, aside from putting a trendy face on office rental?
What is attractive to you about it? Serious question, I’ve worked in their spaces before but we leased an entire floor and I wasn’t wowed or pissed at it. What makes you excited?
If you're on Ubuntu, you could switch to dash. It's installed by default, and /bin/sh symlinks to it.
This page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density) has a chart on energy density shows that gasoline contains roughyl 36 MegaJoules per Liter and 46 MJ per kg of energy density while a lithium-ion battery has less than 3 by both measures.
The annoying thing is that I like NPR podcasts, and donate to NPR. However, they don't have any premium option AFAIK.
Can confirm the PC software is terrible and should just never be installed.

I think this is actually about their freestanding arm based headsets as this is the only target Firefox Reality builds for (android probably).
Congratulations on driving a company into the ground! Have a golden parachute!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sears-bankruptcy-court-oks-25-m...
37 years ago today: the Commodore 64 debut at CES
Those who are first will later be last for the times are changing...

Is there anything people don't buy online these days?
If you're hiring #1s to build static web pages you're lightning money on fire.
Ad hominem. It's an opinion that some "policy" is "saving our asses". BItcoin isn't undergoing a 51% attack, currently. You don't know Satoshi's identity.

Private entities still practice consensus. Just because one can't inspect or participate in the consensus doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Big fan of your work. Will definitely check this out!
I’m suggesting they simply use different plant protein to do so.

Would you consider wheat protein to be the only kind that can scale? If so, why?
Many years ago I had to clock in and out of a job with a fingerprint scanner. I had the same issue because I played acoustic guitar a lot and had thick calluses on my fingers that would occasionally crack.
So It Begins – My First Blog Post
Being unable to solve some tough problems is entirely normal - there is only a handful of people gifted enough to go though a mathematics curriculum, getting 100% on all their assignments, working in isolation. I certainly didn't! Having been a TA in upper-level math courses, many/most of the students averaged 80% on homeworks which were certainly NOT made up of entirely tough problems - and they probably worked together quite a bit, and had teachers to ask for help if they want. So don't get frustrated if you get stuck regularly, just move on, then come back later in a couple of weeks when you're reviewing and try again. If you're still stuck, go to an online forum to ask for a hint, or you don't have to feel guilty about skipping some of the hardest problems entirely.

Two book suggestions:

Strichartz - The way of analysis. MUCH more user friendly than the standard analysis texts. The book is filled with long paragraphs if english sentences explaining what your are doing, and why you are doing it (if you can imagine a mathematics book committing that sin!).

Pressley - Elementary Differential Geometry. The appeal of this book is that it teaches only the more concrete classical formulation of the theory, so you don't have to confront tensors and n-dimensional abstractions at first, and also that it provides outlined solutions to every problem in the text!
One of the major problems I have with podcast ads, is the terrible timing of ad breaks. Certain networks have a tendency to ignore the pacing of their show's content, and break into the middle of a dark and serious moment to advertise some idiotic comedy show. It's tasteless and super distracting.

The other issue is that a handful of the shows I listen to that are patreon supported, are starting to introduce insane amounts of ads. One of the shows I listen to, always opens with 5-7 mins of ad reads, and then continues to have smaller, 3-4 min ad breaks throughout the show. It's frankly too much.

I've done my due diligence and left low reviews on these shows, but that really doesn't matter. I'm all for adblockers due to the seemingly brazen injection of more and more advertising in a space that used to use advertising in moderation.
I don’t see why shipped software is mutually exclusive from monorepos. You can always check out new subdirectories of repos and treat them as a form of branching where eventually directories are merged together in a separate commit.
MVP or fake page with credit card info or email information that says you're sold out.

If you can convert random users to paying customers then you're on to something. Otherwise your project is most likely going to flounder. Some people may think it's dishonest but without verifying you're going to spend weeks to months working on something that will never be used.
Solo founder here. I've experienced several group size startups in the past 10+ years, and ultimately arrived to the conclusion that solo founder is the best option if you're cut out for it. As a solo founder you need to be a jack of all trades, master of none. Constantly experimenting, learning, and open to criticism.

I've been apart of large co-founder group (4+) which I don't recommend at all. Once our company went above 50-60 people the co-founder relationship just imploded and after 100+ employees, none of the co-founder were apart of the company and it eventually shut down by the investors who took over.

I've also had a co-founder where we tried but eventually had separation of idea and roadmap but the toll of the pressure was too much. You not only have to care deeply about the project but also the other co-founder and if one side is more into "glory" of a startup founder, then you're in a failing relationship.

As an eventual solo founder, I realized the size and ambitions of the "startup" are extremely important. Small ideas are ok but might not be exciting enough and big projects are nearly impossible to pull off. Figuring out how to recruit contractors and split the work load to achieve MVP is the trick.

Important tools and mindset you need to master:
1- Jobs to be done (JTBD)
2- Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
3- Sales pitch (not just a pitch deck or executive summary)
4- UX and technical skills (aka: jack of all trades)
5- People management (not just project/product management)
6- Open to criticism (nobody wants to tell you your baby is ugly, you have to assure them they can be honest with you and you'd want to hear the brutally honest feedback)
7- Go to market strategy (value props and business model)
8- Network effects
9- Time management
10- Business, legal, accounting, payroll and taxes
What would "from whole cloth" even mean for this?
I learned a different version of this, especially relevant to those in the Bay Area.

During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold, sell shovels!
I was really hoping this was Lazarus Form Recovery making a comeback, but this is still nice!
The revenue stream won't remain intact. This lowers the effectiveness of ads in the long run, reducing the price of ads and reducing the revenue for content producers.

There's no way to spin this around: this reduces revenue for the creator of the free content you're consuming (and for all other creators).

Everyone loses, except for the app maker, that makes money (if they are selling the app) by sucking it out of the content creators.
I've noticed this competency in google photos as well. Though surely it is using the photos of her in between those ages to extrapolate(?)
I'm neither but I have been vegetarian for extended periods of time. When I've lapsed out of vegetarianism it's been because it's easier for me to throw together a satisfying meal with meat. If I take about twice as long I can make an equally satisfying vegetarian meal. When I try going vegetarian again I'll be sure to get better at throwing together meals first.
> If iOS had required Lisp instead of Objective-C, then Lisp would have been popular right now.

Probably. I wonder if we wouldn't have ended up with more Xamarins instead.
(Solo founder, one-man shop, 12+ years in, Mentor)

There's a lot of great advice already so I'll just add: Create a bi-weekly, private email newsletter. Your biggest fear should be getting too heads down and building the wrong product or somehow losing the plot.

Create a newsletter for friends, family, developer peers, teachers, and anyone else you can think of.

Every two weeks you should outline what you accomplished in the last two weeks, what you're working on in the next two weeks and the plan for the next six weeks. The simple act of broadcasting the newsletter will help keep you accountable and focused. Good luck!
Free preschool isn't incredibly widespread, but I wouldn't be surprised if increasing daycare costs are causing more people to drop out of the workforce to care for their kids. It's certainly complex.
Anything pitched as 'tech' that doesn't look or smell like 'tech' is basically the founders' way of saying
'we need a lot of money because we lose millions each year and are nowhere close to making a profit.'