skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll share my story.

Solo technical founder. Hired my first sales employee long after I established a product-market fit, got a few paying customers and $300K in annual revenue. I gave him a co-founder title, but we were never equal. It was one of the best decision that I have made. The company would not have been able to survive if 2 of us were equal - we would have gone out of business. Instead, 1 year after I pushed him out we had a moderately successful exit (8 figure).

I think that having a solo founder is beneficial AS LONG AS that one person is great. Otherwise you, as a VC, kind of bet that at least 1 of them will be great and it will all work out.
> Detects Camera Lens up to 45 feet

This is interesting. Is that red filter-looking thing part of the mechanism for detecting lenses?
Researchers report breakthrough in ice-repelling materials
All true but again, I don't trust VAG as a company so I'm not inclined to purchase any of their products. I personally know too many people burned by their various catastrophes with their DSG gearboxes and diesel engines that I'd simply be too scared to hand over my money.
Several issues with this idea:

1) On the open ocean, what is there to even avoid? In the harbor, you often don't have a choice; the harbor master is going to _require_ you to pick up a harbor pilot who is rated and certified for the harbor you'll be in and they must be in command of the ships steering and propulsion in order for your ship to even enter their waters.

2) Only 20% of the global merchant fleet is dedicated to shipping. The two other major types of ships, tugs and passenger ships make up most of the rest and neither of these are exactly suited to this technology.

3) Over 50% of the ships in use right now are more than 15 years old. Yea, a new one is _only_ $200 million, but that washes over the real economic picture of ship ownership and maintenance and the likely market for this product.

4) Most ships are not giant Maersk style super-container ships, so staffing reductions aren't likely to be a huge win here, if at all. Ships already run with the _minimum_ crew necessary, usually determined by already established maritime laws and agreements.

5) Microphones and pictures are nice, but ships have actual radar; why not just use that and skip all the fancy "sensor fusion" and off-brand retrofitting?
What about GCP? I've always heard that Google is way better at networking, at least internally (having their own cables, basically own internet), is that true for their public cloud?
Maybe you just need to know better people.
You're not wrong about the incentives, but I think you miss a few things in practice:

1) If everyone else in the market is priced to move, and you aren't doing it, there is always going to be new housing stock that undercuts you.
2) A seller has to maintain insurance and the property, and typically maintains utilities (a house without water/electricity doesn't show as well). They sometimes have to pay a mortgage. And often people who are selling a house are also buying a house, and intend to use the proceeds from the sale to finance the down payment on their next house. Most people cannot treat the extra money from waiting on a better offer as 100% profit.
3) The primary purpose of an appraisal is to ensure that the underlying asset is sufficient collateral for the loan. If you manage to sell a house for significantly over the appraise value... guess what, the loan falls through.
Dropbox sponsors most of the developers of http://mypy-lang.org/ , an optional static typing system for Python.

I've found it to be hugely useful in safely working in a large Python codebase :)

(NB: I work at Dropbox)
Somebody suggesting nobody would want to do construction is probably more indicative of a person who has never had the privilege of ever building anything in their life, rather than any statement of reality. However, absolutely awful examples aside - I do think he is correct that there are plenty of jobs that indeed nobody would want to do. Toilets don't clean themselves, and won't reliably be doing so anytime in the foreseeable future. There's no fulfillment mopping up piss from somebody who thought it'd be fun to urinate all over something, just because it's not theirs.

Of course you're right that we'd see pay go up for these jobs as a result, but I think the thing that many don't consider is how relatively little money there is to go around. This is masked by scale. We see billions and think of just enormous amounts of money, yet that's of course less than $3 per American. That of course means the even more unimaginable trillion dollars is merely $3000 per American. We have so many people that it can be difficult to really intuitively grasp.

So one of the most important numbers here is the GDP per capita. The GDP being the total market value of absolutely everything produced within a nation over a set period of time. This is what makes GDP per capita so interesting. It tells us how much money each and every person would receive if the market value of absolutely every single good or service was split completely equally. And in the US it's shockingly less than $60,000.

With an absolutely huge motivation to overproduce everything imaginable, and a countless array of artificial demand being created and sated, our GDP is still less than $60k. That's not a particularly huge amount of money! And while we could debate to what degree, I think nobody would disagree that an UBI would depress overall production. So we're not even going to be getting to that $60k point, and probably not even particularly close to it.

And this amount of money needs to be used to provide a livable stipend to each and every person, and then also account for 100% of the market driven economic success for each and every individual. I'm sure you can see the problem. Exactly how much money is our janitor supposed to be earning? And where does this money come from? You have to keep in mind that when we talk about this < $60k GDP/capita this isn't "money" but rather real money that represents a share of access to a finite set of resources. In other words you can't just go above this number and call it debt - the resources that such "money" (as it would become at that point) would represent literally do not exist. It'd be like in a world of 100 with a total of 5 cars telling each and every person that they can have a car. It just doesn't work.
TLDR: We are increasing prices 20%.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Anti-Spy-Hidden-Camera-Lens-Bug-Det...

Probably way crappier, but for what these electronics entail the one sold by the website in the post is vastly overpriced. It's a very simple radio, a battery, some LEDs, and an optical filter of some kind. Likely just a red gel. Plus, how great of a bug detector do most people really need? The main features are all there and it's probably workable in most cases.

Disclaimer, I don't own this. It could be a mega-turd, don't buy it on my account.
Exactly. It’s a matter of incentives. Without laws with teeth (IE, both consequences and enforcement), this will never change.
Monday night after dinner I only drink water until bed. Tuesday I only drink water and black coffee until dinner time. I do this twice a week. Fasting is flexible. You can do it whatever times or days you like. I prefer to fast beginning at night because I sleep through the first part and I've never been a big breakfast person. I pretty much never eat breakfast. Always been a big dinner person so it works well for me.
What we may need is the next step: a standardized way of changing passwords that would allow us to rotate them in bulk directly from the password manager.
10th anniversary of Flight 1549
I hope someone somewhere is compiling this kind of material for the Foundation time capsule.
Or move to FastMail.
That's absolutely true. However, most systems that think they need scale-out are either worrying about a problem they don't have yet, suffering performance problems due to poor database design, or have not fully explored logical (dynamic or hash-based) sharding as a solution to their problems.

A huge proportion of modern software businesses can run on single-writer RDBMS instances, properly engineered, at a fraction of the operational and implementation cost of a scale-out solution. That applies to hosted and self-managed solutions equally, in my experience.
So glad to see plant-based diets becoming mainstream and more people every day recognizing the urgent need to halt consuming animal products. Their production is a leading cause of climate change and it's no surprise to me the abhorrent treatment of non-human animals comes back to haunt us.
Those are dated. And to be of any use today, should come as a slack/discord bot: /quote :)
> Trump could capitulate on the wall and he wouldn't lose a single voter in his "MAGA" base. He's basically a personality cult.

I disagree.

Trump is already on dangerous ground with his directing the recent bump stock ruling. Publicly failing on something as big as this in the public eye would be catastrophic to his campaign.
It'll probably never happen because pickups have such a big profit margin, they wouldn't want to sell a lower end one when people are buying the bigger ones. Also, you have to pay extra taxes to import trucks, so you either have to build them in the US or raise the price.
Not really - SSPL says SaaS needs to make their whole stack SSPL (which is not open source). You can't even use Linux, as it's GPLv2 (section 13 of SSPL is so poorly written it doesn't even use "Standard Interface" and "System Libraries" terms defined earlier and copied verbatim from the GPL).
For what it's worth, that project is abandoned, but development continues in this fork:

https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install
I didn't say that you don't need CI. I use CI regularly, and I think it's best for CI to be for testing, and to minimize the build artifacts except those used for test results.

A lot of developers have this preference for client side code. Since the early days heroku has been building the client side bundles for rails.
how can I read the article?
True, but then you have e.g. The National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloid style outlets. How would you criminalise deceptive fake news about Russia, Elections, Trump or Clinton, versus fake news about Elvis, Aliens, Hitler and Hamsters? Remember that the tabloids publish these false stories intentionally with the deliberate intent to try and convince the reader they are real. The authors know that Elvis is not alive and working in Burger King, but they say it anyway...

It's basically going to prove impossible to find a definition of 'fake news' that everyone is happy with. It can't just be 'Anything that some political group does not approve of' for instance, and it must be neither too broad (including all sorts of innocent publications, like tabloids mentioned earlier, foreign or historical propaganda, advertising that criticises its competitors, etc.) making it impossible to enforce, or narrow (fail to include certain categories of fakery) thus allowing loopholes and failing to accomplish anything.

But ... I think there are pretty good laws in place at the moment to deal with slander, libel, defamation and generally saying (or publishing) untrue things about people (or companies, entire groups of people defined by some shared attribute, locations, etc.) in a way that harms them (materially, or emotionally, maybe just potentially), and they actually deal with the situation where the intent is humour or parody. Too much of the time people have this knee-jerk reaction to X, something happening on the Internet, where they decide that the Internet-relatedness of this X makes it special (despite it being simply the age old problem of Y, but on the Internet) and demand a new crime of 'X' be created with incredibly harsh penalties like life in prison or death or billion dollar fines. But in general, it would suffice to continue to prosecute people for Y, just making sure that the Y-on-the-Internet cases also get looked at and prosecuted equally. I have no real problem with adding 'but on the Internet' as a qualifier to exiting crimes, in the same way as 'with a firearm' or 'while intoxicated' get tacked on as modifiers, increasing prison time and fines as appropriate, but this is almost never put forward as a suggestion.

So maybe we just need 'Libel, but on the Internet' to be prosecuted more often? Meh...
> But everyone shitting on Texans for owning trucks is crazy

I didnt see anyone do that. I saw someone on a website complain about the price of gas to fill their truck, and someone else ask them if they considered driving something other than a truck.

(honestly, "do you NEED the truck?" is a very good question. I drive a Yaris to construction sites. Wouldn't work for every job, but everyone else in my position drives a truck. It's an important question to consider.)
While both the Library of Congress and American Airline logos are iconic, they look fairly outdated and aren't as flexible.

Look at the new Library of Congress logo [1], and think if that could've been done with the older one.

[1] https://www.pentagram.com/work/library-of-congress#23433
Perhaps it's connected to the observation that one in five USA households have "zero or negative" net worth. Imagine the sacrifices they make for their future, and their children's future, so they can feel big on city roads and haul around nine cubic yards of air.

'You do you', I guess.
What We Learned from the First Year of the Local Reporting Network
I also live in the South and most people in my Suburb have zero use for a truck, but will gladly spend $90 to fill up their gas guzzler.

Why? Because it is a symbol of masculinity in the South and many men would never ever drive a car. Their grandfather had a truck, father had a truck, and they were given a truck as their first vehicle. It would have made sense for the grandparent on the farm, but if you sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day and live in a suburban neighborhood...you probably don't need a truck.

With that being said, there are folks down here that still need trucks for work and recreational activities like hunting and towing a boat.
Okay so the car frame itself lasts 400-500k before being replaced? I'm assuming there are multiple stints of heavy powertrain maintenance during that lifetime. Similarly, if your car's battery gets degraded after 200k miles (or whatever), you just get a new one, much like you might replace the transmission.
This might be the point of disagreement... Let's agree to assume that many disasters, natural and social, have befallen humanity over its existence, and that some of them are going to increase in frequency proportional with the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. Can we also agree that humanity has gotten dramatically better at mitigating the negative impacts of various disasters, and especially over the time frame of people who are currently alive?

If we're good on both of those, then I think the disagreement is whether we'll continue to dramatically improve or not. In other words, if we can drive the total negative cost (premature deaths, property damage, civil unrest, etc.) of certain disasters towards 0 by improving our response/mitigation capability, then it won't really matter if they come at an increased rate, the additional impact is a rounding error. If you agree with this, or see how one could agree with it, then maybe you can see why it's frustrating to hear people freaking out about climate change being an existential threat (it can be, given Venus, but that planet had no humans opposing it) which will doom our planet unless and only unless global CO2 is reduced (at some cost, perhaps partly of our species' ability to improve our mitigations fast enough).
It is closest if you count the unchanged words, but Section 13 makes its nature completely different. For starters, it's not even compatible with GPL, so you can't use any GPL applications as a part of your stack (as you have to publish "Service Source Code" under SSPL).
That's because connections (sessions, really, but in practice most things map those 1:1) are the primitives on which Postgres and most other RDBMSes divide their units of transactional consistency--one of their key guarantees. Connections are expensive to create and maintain largely (but not entirely) because of those properties.
The Rite of Spring is pretty abrasive in everyone's opinion.
These are economic arguments. I was speaking solely to the law.
Hope you are able to do that. I guess at your point it's getting a few more clients via different scrappy ways (cold outreach, etc), and keep using their feedback/behavior to improve the product.
The LEDs on the front flash a certain wavelength of red light in an attention-grabbing manner and the filter blocks a lot of other light sources so the flashing red glint is easier to spot. It's pretty ingeniously simple. Of course it'll detect lots of other curved, reflective objects--the user has to verify it's a camera through manual inspection.
Ask HN: Web Workers to Run User Code in Browser
So I built Data Janitor (https://www.csvjson.com/datajanitor) a tool to allow users to clean and transform tabular data in the browser running their own JavaScript function. I use Web Workers to isolate the code for security and performance purposes (the user can press Stop to halt the worker).

With regards to security, is this a good idea? What can I do to further bullet proof this concept. I really want the code to run on the user's computer - not server-side. For efficiency and privacy reasons.

Worker JavaScript is here: https://github.com/martindrapeau/csvjson-app/blob/master/js/src/sandbox.js
It is called here: https://github.com/martindrapeau/csvjson-app/blob/master/js/src/datajanitor-code.js#L100
Wikipedia's article "Ogallala Aquifer" says that its volume has reduced 9% since the 1940s, 3% in the period 2001-2008 alone (32% of 9%). At this rate of depletion, the aquifer has 240 years left, and once depleted, it would require 6000 years to recharge. Assuming that drawing on the aquifer is feasible only at a volume much greater than 1% of capacity, its useful life would be significantly less than 240 years.
Capitulating would be a bad precedent.
Has there ever been a case where a corporation when to a design firm, and the designers came back with "Your branding is already excellent, and we think your best bet is to not touch it"?

(Call it the Miracle on 34th Street response.)
> Fewer colors also generally make a design easier to replicate freehand, and you want amateurs to be able to easily convey your logo.

You don't _ever_ want people to be re-producing your logo (and especially free-handing it!). That is why they pretty much all have a "brand" page to pull assets from: https://brandfolder.com/slack/logos.
Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
Not sure why you're getting down voted...
By the time I got the mail I honestly couldn't even remember it. I would have had to go back to Chicago to fight it in court, and the fine would have doubled again if I didn't pay, so I basically bit the bullet after trying to argue with them to cut me slack on the late fee (they didn't).
Right, and it felt like 8 inches of blah, blah, some analysts might care about this history, before they got to the news of raising prices.

Also agree about questioning why Google isn't pricing to create network effects.
Middle out
It's funny how in spy movies a sniper or observer has a big ol lens pointed at a target.

Govt buildings have lens detectors.

And I'd hope high value targets teams do too
> It's pretty ingeniously simple

I'll say! That's really cool. Thanks for explaining how it works.
“ Instead of the FICA contributions going to social security, they go into an index fund that you can track and that grows.”

That works fine until a) you pick the wrong index fund (and most people don’t know anything about finance) or b) the US hits a japan level stagnation and you can’t retire at all.

The point of Social security is to be a safety net (that’s also why as a rich person you get less benefits from it).
Emacs doesn't do anything in C other than running lisp, emacs really is just a lisp implementation with GUI and text editing focus. libemacs would be just like lua or cpython.
End of Memes or McLuhan 101
Well, say your company is going to buy another company. You know about it, and buy shares of tbe other company ahead of the public anouncement.

You are essentially stealing from your own company, since your purchase of shares will drive up price and result in your employer paying more than they otherwise would have.

Though for the record, I think insider trading should be legal, or at least should be a civil instead of a criminal matter.

The purpose of financial markets is decentralized price discovery and preventing the trading of certain types of non-public information is totally counterproductive in that regard.
I believe pickup trucks make up <20% of total car sales, but there are fewer models to choose from compared to sedans or crossovers, so the most popular pickup models get a disproportionate amount of sales.
Huh, so someone broke behavior and decided users were wrong rather than fixing it? :-/

I get maintaining API can be hard[1], but system service devs need to recognize that it’s much more important to maintain shipped API than ideological purity, certainly you can improve the API, but unless an API is actually broken in some way that can’t be automatically worked around it needs to be maintained [2].

Aside from anything else, making installation of updates break user’s systems discouraged installing updates. Including critical security ones. (An example of the terrible security impact of functionally user hostile updates can be found in windows 10)

[1] I’ve worked on frameworks with strict ABI compatibility requirements which easily dwarfs the problems of maintains API, and have had to do exciting things to make sure such things continue to work. Another example was back in the early days of .net MS added support for a not quite standardized decimal format. It was used and stored in many projects and applications, but the final spec changed slightly. MS knew it couldn’t break existing data (which is what the effect of adopting the final standard would do), and they were trying to standardize .net so I assume that prevented any kind of defacto standard behaviour. In the end someone at IBM (I think) worked out a way to distinguish the two formats just from the structure of the data. So when people say Maintaining api compat is too hard it annoys me a lot.

[2] Linux kernel devs recognize this as well.
This guy will need to have a chat with a plasma physicist, one of these days, if he wants to get to the bottom of this.

When he does, he will then need to keep it to himself, because there's no quicker route to ostracism, in astronomy, than to start talking about electromagnetics.
> prescribing a pill on a twelve-hour schedule when, for many patients, it works for only eight is a recipe for withdrawal, addiction, and abuse.

This article is well worth reading for anyone wishing to
be informed about the background before discussing
which parties might ultimately be responsible for abuse.
That's the in-page <h1>-title, the HN title is taken from the page's <title>-title, which is different.

<title>Ford: We're going to make F-Series all-electric</title>

<h1>'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says</h1>
Sure, but that doesn’t contradict one word of my post. I suspect you’re trying to make the argument I preemptively rebutted with my “law of averages” reference.