skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something ugly soonish at least. My take is that social media reinforces and amplifys our inherent tribal tendencies. What you are seeing are nation states collapse into tribes, skipping city statehood entirely.

I don’t think so called open social media will help. It still probably amplifys tribalism in the same way if not degree as twitter does.

Your peers are not members of an enemy tribe they are Americans or whatever nationality. We need to remember that it is natural that our opinions aren’t entirely homogeneous.
that benchmark is terrible (see the github for details). for k-nucleotides, the test that showed the biggest delta (c# vs java), i was able to improve the java perf by 35%. but the test harness is so poorly done that i didn't bother running it against the other impls. the reality is that good java developers just don't care about this sort of thing (which may say something unfortunate about me) and the benchmark is bad

https://github.com/nqzero/k-nucleotide
Maybe they’re using GPS as a generic term, can access to military-level precision be bought for the non-US satellite positioning systems?
I've always been curious about the shipping process. I have met or know 7 people who work/worked at the shipping hub in my city. I always ask them how the packages are handled. Every one of them said that they (and all of their coworkers) handle all packages on a scale ranging from rough to purposefully damaging. One guy told me how he targets boxes marked Fragile for extra abuse when he's exhausted/angry/having a bad day.

I predict that a package being treated delicately throughout the entirety of it's route would be the outlier. Every package is at some point flung across a room/truck. The only question is if it is going to hit another box or a much harder surface.

this is all anecdotal, but seems to fit with the stat that roughly 10% of all packages in the United States are damaged during shipping.[0]

[0]: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/adriana-dunn/one-in-10-ecomme... -- couldn't find a direct link to the case study.
In 2008 and 2012 FB got praised for being the platform that Obama used to win the elections - I remember multiple articles about it (and someone from the Obama campaign later admitted that they did the same thing that got the CA scandal started). In that period of time there were also multiple newspapers writing that "privacy is dead, and it's a good thing". There was not a lot of discussion about privacy when they bought whatsapp and instagram too, IIRC.

Frankly newspapers really changed idea only after Trump won the elections.

I find somewhat fun that some of the recent news about facebook being evil actually talk a lot about that period (ex: the recent news about the "friendly fraud" class action) and some are the consequences of the (naive, as we a lot of us were at the time - me included!) choices facebook made back them (wanting to be a platform, without really understanding what it meant) before pivoting to the current model (which is AFAIK far more similar to google's).
That's just black coal. There is still open pit mining of lignite, which is even worse.
And then after 6 months of effort, the coach moves to a different role or leaves, and suddenly the whole deal deflates like a balloon.
> In certain areas at peak generation times, sure

These numbers are the average share for the whole year 2018 for all of Germany.

> But overall these technologies are simply not viable as a complete replacement to fossil fuels

That's not a goal. A communicated goal is to increase the share of renewable electricity to around 85% by 2050.
Come on. Fuel taxes have a higher cost on poor people, that's why people are doing riots in France. This is about social justice. You can very well have extreme measures that are also socially fair.

The example the parent is taking is very good: having 10 years guarantee on all products is pro consumer (it might increases prices a bit, but I believe people will actually save money in the long run).
Amazing and scary. I'd heard of all those stories, but not those particular accounts. I felt horror at how insanely stupid things get in the US, empathy for people caught up in the crazy, and very glad to be in Australia - which (although we have our share of stupid, notably the incompetence of recent political leadership) has nothing at all to compare to any of that stuff. Those people in the story who stick to their guns and tough it out seem incredibly brave. Leaving the country immediately seems a no-brainer. "His extraordinary, petrifying ride has taught him a lot about the modern world." - well, the whole world isn't like that; almost all of it isn't. Only the US has a plague of school shootings, let alone school shooting deniers. It's very sad that people are being threatened and abused for the crime of having their children murdered.
A lightweight frame is extremely strong under the loads for which it is designed (weight on the seat and bars transferred down through the wheels), but often exceedingly weak in other types of stress (E.g. an impact to the side of a tube). Especially carbon fiber.
Digital Shipbuilding – The Ford Class
Better quantum chips
Simply by increasing population, traffic, and pollution it would make the country worse off.

You don’t need studies and citations to figure this out, you need to hold in your head a model of reality. You need above average people, who give more than they take, in order to drive the quality of the country upward.
> After more than 125 years of using two-dimensional paper drawings, the shipyard has set its sights on a “drawingless” future, where work instructions are packaged and delivered electronically.

> The migration is already bearing fruit. To date, 14 work packages on Kennedy have been completed using “visual work instructions” provided on hand-held tablets.

PADDs, finally
Leading in the Moment to Build a Legacy
Does that included replacing all end of life vehicles with electrical alternatives? If that's the case, this seems difficult to achieve without a war-time-like mobilization to build electric vehicles and charging infrastructure (which actually sounds like a pretty good plan, though politically tough)
The artist Walead Beshty used the hazards of the shipping system to create art. He would ship glass boxes through Fedex and the damaged result would become art.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/walead-beshty-fedex-large-kraf...
Well you can have instant coffee, or an air-press, or ... addicts get a bigger hit when they establish a religious experience through ritualising their consumption. One of the difficult things about giving up cigarettes is giving up the paraphernalia, the sense of occasion, the ritualised actions that start the happy hormones as Pavlov's bell initiates salivation. Your hands themselves are almost separately addicted to the actions, unwrapping a packet, sliding out a cigarette, tamping the tobacco, wheeling the flint on the lighter; each action a stepping up of the anticipation of drug-satiation.

Now, with coffee one can do the same: the steam and coffee-incense rise like the smoke from a thurible; beans clink, machines whirr, chrome shines in the bright halogen light of the kitchen. All subtle sensory inputs hailing the ever-closer hit of caffeine.
There was a Soviet PC for high schools, semi-clone of PDP-11 which had 2 cpus clocked at 6 and 8 MHz respectively. It was called UKNC. Look it up, it is an interesting device.
Ask HN: What are the best resources on dirty work for bootstrapping a startup?
==Overview==
I am looking for resources that cover the business admin logistics (dirty work) on how to found a business and generate revenue while keeping open the opportunity to get VC funded later.

==Background==
Right now I am not in a position to seek any fundraising. My short-term goal is to generate revenue and net profits sometime in the next 12-18 months with a web app & mobile app. My long-term goal is to quit my day job and pursue this thing full time, so I'd like to keep the option open to get funded later. That means doing things now that are amenable to VCs later on. I've asked a couple of questions on getting started with the slant of "Bootstrap-> ??? -> $$$ -> Funded-> $$$". Most notably this question on best startup bank accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794459

I think the Y Combinator Startup Library is phenomenal ( https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/ ). However, I think there are some gaps in the start up library if you are bootstrapping. The consensus seems to be is that founders should focus 100% on making the best product possible, but that is not a position I am in unfortunately. I also need to do the business admin. Of course I want to make a great product. For now I want to find a loyal customer base, set up the backend to collect some subscription payments, and then go from there.

==Examples==
Below are a few examples of things I am considering doing that I'd like to find some more resources on:
* Found a Delaware LLC that can be converted to a Delaware Corporation later on.
* Set up an LLC Operating Agreement that takes into account the nature of the business & allows for easy conversion to Delaware Corporation.
* Set up the company headquarters in a "Tax Opportunity Zone."
* Open a bank account (after setting up the company HQ... I don't think you can use LLC address).
* Get a credit card for the company.
* Unknown unknowns (I am sure I am missing things that I do not know that I should do).
async/await is available in java via kilim (i'm a maintainer) and quasar (though that project is on hold while the author works on project loom)

https://github.com/kilim/kilim
Spam got us here.

In the fear that we would see one spam message, we gave up all our liberties to Google et al, so they can choose how they want to mediate our online interactions.

To people thinking this is blowing spam fear out of protections, go ahead and post on reddit, craigslist, or even 4chan(!) without giving your connection and browser information to google via captcha. On craigslist you can't even consume the content without answering captchas.

Today you can't participate in any online forum without giving up your phone number indirectly via a google or facebook account. This creates an environment where only the insane will jump in at every opportunity, while the moderates will just ignore the discussion and not be heard.

Glad we have our hacker-news privilege and the masses still haven't found us out to make it an attractive target for spammers, and consequently, to captcha censorship.
I use Rider for a pre dotnet core large project and it's much faster than VS. It's like having VS with Resharper, but without the performance hit that Resharper brings.
You know these people, so do you have any insight as to why they did this?

Is it envy? “Screw this guy getting his fancy TV that I don’t have.” If not, what?

It seems needlessly cruel. I assume these are good people?
Mutant Year Zero Soundtrack Philosophy – Interview with Composer Robert Lundgren
> Japanese automakers are notorious for discontinuing model-specific parts after a few years (e.g. look at the Jalopnik blurb about the guy restoring a CRX).

They stopped making CR-X in 1991. It is not "few years". 3 years ago I retired a 1994 Rover 600 series, which is basically a Honda Accord -- sans few body panels, trim and lights. It was still possible to get the spares for the Honda version, but not the Rover specific ones (got a headlights cracked). Otherwise a solid car after 21 years... Currently happy with Honda Insight.
If a bicycle in a box can be damaged in transit, one wonders about the quality of its construction.
that's pretty ingenious!
To toss in a counter-point: I do commits as I go and occasionally go back and make changes so it's a coherent sequence. For the most part, once you are fluent with Git[1], I've found it to be a productivity improvement, and code reviews have been both faster and more useful.

If you're doing two semantically different things, put it in two different commits. If it's one, put it in one (merge commits work too). That's just good change-hygiene, for the same reasons you try to isolate behavior in code, rather than mashing it all together into a single func just because you happened to be doing it all around the same time.

tl;dr we don't name our funcs "june_27_through_29", don't name your commits like that.

[1]: a huge investment, so I totally get why this isn't an early-coder practice, and it's rather painful. but IMO worthwhile, usually I see people spending far more time fighting it than it would take to learn it.
If how understand it right it is pretty much what I had in mind (assuming that you can always create new branches on old commits).

In the last week I have been quite charmed by many of Fossil ideas, I will for sure try this feature too.
> The elites used to pay people to stand around and practically wipe their arses, that quickly diffused as more markets developed, and there were other, better things to do.

That trend is very cyclical and depends on the state of the inequality in the economy, not on automation. Marx observed that the number of servants in England increased dramatically during the height of the industrial revolution:

> The extraordinary productiveness of modern industry… allows of the unproductive employment of a larger and larger part of the working-class, and the consequent reproduction, on a constantly extending scale, of the ancient domestic slaves under the name of a servant class, including men-servants, women-servants, lackets, etc. [footnote: Between 1861 and 1870 the number of male servants nearly doubled itself. It increased to 267,671. In the year 1847 there were 2,694 gamekeepers (for the landlords' preserves), in 1869 there were 4,921.]

Capital volume I, chapter 15.

The same thing has been going on in the last 25 years: elderly caretakers, nannies, personal shoppers, personal assistants, virtual assistants, personal chefs, personal trainers, food delivery persons, package delivery persons (especially Amazon contractors), Lyft/Uber drivers, dog walkers, pet sitters, pet groomers, etc.
If historical lessons continue to apply, what will likely happen is a few more significant iterations of shakeout as the community coalesces around something closer to consensus. It's important to remember that the vast majority of developers in any ecosystem are simply trying to use a tool to do a job; they are far less likely to commit a significant amount to the ecosystem and that's okay. Wikipedia is very similar in this regards.

Perhaps the best comparison is the evolution of the Linux distribution ecosystem. Maybe React is Ubuntu? The story is still being written.
Hang on, are you absolutely sure that renewables are less damaging than nuclear? The footprint for nuclear is tiny, it might be competitive.

Fukashima was a level 7 nuclear distaster, so that is as bad as it gets. The actual damage done is objectivly not that bad compared to a lot of things we have accepted in the past with only increased safety regulation (like dam failures). 2 lvl 7 accidents in 35 years; and design standards generally go up in civilised countries. The footprint of nuclear is so tiny that might be competitive with renewables, accounting for the fact that the reacion to nuclear disasters is paranoid but the response to environmental damage by renewables is basically to ignore it. Renewables need materials, which are mined, and need to be installed, which creates hazards, and use land/airspace, which is costly. I believe some highly questionable rare earths are used too where the environmental impacts are not usually accounted for because it happens in China.

Purely in non-human terms, the land clearing for a solar plant is definitely worse than a nuclear disaster, because a level 7 nuclear disaster is net-positive for biodiversity ("suggest biodiversity around the massive radioactivity release has increased" [0]). Ie, humans are worse than a nuclear disaster if they happen to want space for their own use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
Now TV damages is gonna start going up once they find out
At some point, I began skimming and then stopped reading entirely. That was the point where they began talking about women in tech and #metoo.

My first-hand experience suggests things are improving. It's slower than I would like, of course.

What you see is that bloody revolution is most likely when an oppressive situation eases up on the oppressed. Voices previously not heard want everything fixed and post haste.

So it's entirely possible that things are about to go sideways. But I don't think that's inevitable.

"You still have a choice." - Minority Report
I’ve read gravity hydro storage is one of most effective per unit cost but that has significant constraints and potential environmental impacts. But in a region with a lot of waterways hydro is an awesome tool to provide renewable on-demand energy and store excess
Machine learning engineers (i.e. people with graduate degrees, preferably PhDs) typically outearn both, though when you factor in the work experience that software engineers have accumulated during the time the machine learning people were pursuing the PhD, it's pretty comparable. It's unclear how long this will last now that everyone is pursuing grad degrees in ML/AI.

Data scientists who do ML don't have the same prestige (and pay) as those who have that ML stamp from universities.
Just for what it's worth, my experience is the opposite; I've found Google less of a meat grinder and less soul crushing than startups. But I think it's possible that a lot depends on where - both in the country and in the org chart - you're located.
+1 on your point about marketing. I also deeply undervalued how much goes into a great/thoughtful marketing plan, all the way from choosing the broad messaging and distribution channels through the “tiny” details like nailing the copy on your landing page (this may seem easy or straightforward, but it took us a while to truly understand what worked).

At TechLoaf, we experimented with a lot of different, elaborate, shiny landing pages that expounded on how amazing our newsletter was, etc...

And after falling flat on our face for months, we realized that an incredibly simple, borderline-mysterious landing page converted users far more effectively.

About 30% of all visitors to our site end up subscribing, which is drastically higher than what we saw earlier iterations do.

(For the curious, this is the landing page: https://techloaf.io)
they would have won more if they played it more when it was only limited to single view mode instead of playing off the entire map where it was able to complete surround and micro a bunch of stalkers and defeat immortals. Also, they should have gotten sos to play against alphastar instead of mana
Redirecting frustration over 20th-century working conditions, now doubt.
Less of them around? Lexus is Toyota.
Mercurial and Git started
around the same time. Linus was concerned that Mercurial was similar enough to BitKeeper that BitMover might threaten anyone who worked on it or at least anyone who had used BitKeeper.
And they would have won none at all if deepmind had worked on the problem for one more year before showcasing it, even with this limitation. I don’t think it really matters.
My daily driver (Ford) is 30 years old, my toy car (Dodge) is 47 years old. I've owned the Ford for 28 years, the Dodge for 30 some.

I like older cars. I suppose I got it from my dad, who'd buy them new and keep them for 30-40 years.
> You can get clothes from anywhere. You can get cars from anywhere. You can get produce from almost anywhere...

But not everyone in any country can "get X from anywhere" is part of my point.
We are in process moving a product line from China to Canada as result of the 25% tariff. Fact is, the product was migrating to North America anyway as prices from China increased, and product innovation has not kept pace. It difficult to fully state how the lack of foreign competition, protection, and subsidy has created inefficiencies and other problems across large sections of Chinese goods. Youtube bloggers ADVChina and serpentza are good places to start in understanding the scope of difficulty.

I have one former Chinese partner in China, now far too successful to care anymore, who described it to me this way... You have farmers and one generation down from farmers managing the largest and arguably most complex political-economic situation in the world. The expertise is simply not there at the highest provincial and central levels, where its desperately needed. The political will isn't there to rebalance.

The meltdown won't just be the supply chain. China's military will impact the nature and breadth of the decline.
I think that explanation is a little clearer, however the repos and the article don’t make this clear and the fact that podman also builds images makes it less crisp.

> Some of the commands between the two projects overlap significantly but in some cases have slightly different behaviors. The following table illustrates the commands with some overlap between the projects.

And this makes no sense at all if you’re purposely designing a tool.
And chemical weapons dumps after WWII
The nuclear reactors were actually not 'perfectly modern'.

> government was great at missing even the most conservative goals on basically anything

The share of electricity from renewable energy has surpassed any goals so far.
“I just started writing some Rust”
You're right, that's an other option. But can you say that it is really private if the city sets the price, and the routes?

And wouldn't it be better to have the same thing but public (so that benefits are used to actually improve the service, and not pay dividends)?
And describe them in the shortest possible way.
> because at least 80% of bugs are not detectable with TypeScript.

I give up. You're repeatedly using this figure in this thread in a misleading way to make it sound like what you're saying is more legitimate that just an opinion.

The abstract of the study you cite explicitly mentions this is a conservative estimate of effectiveness and ignores bugs detected in private:

> Evaluating static type systems against public bugs, which have survived testing and review, is conservative: it understates their effectiveness at detecting bugs during private development, not to mention their other benefits such as facilitating code search/completion and serving as documentation. Despite this uneven playing field, our central finding is that both static type systems find an important percentage of public bugs: both Flow 0.30 and TypeScript 2.0 successfully detect 15%!
Then let’s start building vertically.

It is a social choice to limit housing like this.
>These numbers are the average share for the whole year 2018 for all of Germany.

But the source of energy consumed doesn't matter if greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. This chart tells the whole story [0]. German renewables really started kicking off around 2009, and yet emissions haven't budged since then. They actually ticked up for a few years in the mid 2010s. It's pretty clear that simply installing excess capacity is not the way forward when that infrastructure sits wasted 95% of the time.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
> It's irrelevant, anyway, since rich people don't have any more votes than poor people.

no, but they do have more money, which, thanks to citizens united equals more speech (money equals free speech)

so, iow, they don’t need to vote, just use thier resources to conveniently/trick/extol others to vote the way they want... nice little workaround they found...
I work as a postman. People don't really send letters any more, so a large and increasing percentage is packages. Many (most?) of my coworkers hate their jobs, and their lives, and are deliberately rough with packages, especially if they look expensive.
No. Really successful people aren't those who merely turned money into more money. (I also said No to reading the article)

Chesterton says it a lot better than I could: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11505/11505-h/11505-h.htm#THE...