skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up the startup playbook if you haven't: https://playbook.samaltman.com/

You should probably decide early on whether it's a lifestyle business (steady $40k per month) or a VC backed business ($100M+ valuation). VCs won't back lifestyle businesses, but they can be life-changing. On the other hand, lifestyle businesses are actually harder, but in different ways, e.g. you can get disrupted by Google or a VC backed company 20 years later.

Don't spend too much focus on incorporating and lawyers and all that. It's probably worth paying well enough to trust someone to handle it. Some of my biggest regrets are spending days handling my own accounting and logo design. Even a mediocre lawyer probably knows better than you.

Try your hand at applying for accelerators. The good ones are easy to apply to and the process forces you to analyze your company.

You should also get a cofounder if you don't already have one. This could be a spouse or early employee. The standard is 4 year vested equity.
Sent iVPN an email a few weeks back if they'd check all my requirements:

- Wireguard in Switzerland

- IPv6 /64 subnet

- No bandwidth penalty

Now they can only fill the last point, if they ever get all three they'll get a lifelong customer out of me.

What I now have is Mullvad for IPv4 for their Swiss servers and good bandwidth, AzireVPN for their /64 IPv6 subnet. Both are running on my router, but I'd be happy to have only one provider.
Same when using Nintendo 3DS cameras.
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People aren't in denial people are by and large aware of the issues an average person experiences when using Linux and the resources or lack thereof available to reverse engineer an entire universe of unfriendly hardware vendors work to enable joe blow to take his $399 walmart special and install linux on it.

If people want linux on the desktop to offer a more polished experience the only way about it is for everyone to put their money where their mouth is.

If "Linux" were a company we would be justified in demanding a fully finished product before buying but free software is a resource that already benefits billions even if they only interact with it via android, or web services.

"As the author points out, regression failures are a big problem. The sheer bloat of Linux has made it unmaintainable. And who wants that job? Big chunks of important code are abandonware."

This seems to be unsupported supposition that we are supposed to take as received wisdom.
There is no reason that the authorative DNS Server couldn't use DNS over TLS/HTTPS as well.
I think it is easy to dismiss until you've had a proper go at it

The experience for me was really engaging, and it gives you a kind of energy to keep going.

If you struggle to code outside of work, I think twitch streaming can give you the power to keep going at it without feeling burned out. Without streaming I find it is super easy to switch off and turn on some youtube video or play a game.
Yeah, I get these are small proportions. I'm definitely not recommending "organic" produce/meat. I meant that whatever we try to do at this point seems to be "let's use a little bit of this carcinogen which is spreading everywhere in tiny amounts so we don't have to use more of a different toxic substance". It feels depressing that these are our choices.
I'm using https://www.tilaa.com/en which is based in the Netherlands.
This article is from 2004. OCaml is still a wonderful language with some major issues in real-world use the last time I tried it. The ones I remember best are: it's hard to build a good CLI interface like the kind argparse in Python makes easy, and the toolchain setup is black magic that either works or is catastrophically broken. I'd love to use ReasonML in the web but the toolchain issues make it so hard to recommend.
One step at a time. Having physical control over data definitely is an improvement. Not everyone believes conspiracy theories about spy microchips in mainboards.
Is China good now?
Bing Maps already has “bird’s eye” mode and has always had it as the name of the aerial imagery. Although theirs’ is totally a bird’s eye, you can see buildings from an angle instead of from the top.
There are multiple kinds of popularity. Why wouldn't they go the desirability through exclusivity route?
Hetzner and OVH do cloud offerings, though they are more experienced in real hardware and shared hosting than actual cloud. The prices are competitive with AWS IMO.
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I've always thought the "HTML in JS" was in fact a strawman argument set up to deviate the attention from the fact that it is indeed a different syntax for function calls (and class instantiation). And it is actually that the thing that I dislike about JSX. I think it's a bad syntax for function calls/class instantiation.

I do like hyperscript better than JSX... precisely because it's not a syntax for function calls. Because it's just a function.
That is one of the things I meant by “proper”, meaning an efficient layout and alignment.
Outside of the government sector it seems like these laws are to make sure that the data is within legal jurisdiction, and has nothing to do with privacy.
Yes it was actually called “Bird’s Eye” view several years back.
How is keto a top diet in America? Vast majority of people in America get majority of their calories from carbs.
By all accounts, S-Lang and SecDB were massive successes and major instruments in Goldman’s competitive advantage in the industry.

On another note, what about Facebook and Reason ML, and Mozilla and Rust? Or C#, etc etc. There have been dozens of successful languages that originated from companies.
> I also predict that meat substitutes, if made cheaper than meat, will be deemed inferior in quality

I'm not sure if they'll be universally cheaper than meat. There's a lot of diversity in meat substitutes in the Netherlands, and you already see quite a price difference between the "high-end" meat substitutes, and the basic store brand soy burgers. We seem to be going in the direction where there are "inferior" meat substitutes, and high quality ones that are considered better than at least cheap meats.
As someone who doesn't eat meat or dairy I've heard the argument that the environmental impact would be less than a vegan that lives in a city.

The argument being that a hunter is killing an animal that lived naturally is less of an environmental impact than getting food packaged and sent across the country, etc.

I'm not sure I agree, but it's the most plausible argument I've seen for not being Vegan.
The other way to look at this is that consciousness emerges from a certain kind of structure and processes independent of the matter it is represented on.

Consciousness would emerge in our brains from the neural structure and activity, but it would also emerge when computed in a computer simulation or (as a thought experiment) calculations on paper or xkcd-esque pebbles in sand.

That would make the computer, calculations on paper and pebbles in the sand as conscious as a human.

Which, admittedly sounds just as crazy as the idea of consciousness being tied to all matter.
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Scaleway and Hetzner come to mind, although I have no idea how good they are.
I use Wireguard for a VPN I run at work and am very happy with it. But for a use like Netflix it doesn't really make a difference compared to any other VPN technology.
Forced labour and slavery have little in common, for one you do not own the children of your employee.

> What is a government except as an entity to ensure people's natural rights are not infringed.

People cannot eat freedom nor warm up in the cold with rights. A government intended purpose is the continuation and stability of a country/culture/society. This does not mean that anything is fine if it is for survival nor that citizens are expendable.
Were all hunter-gatherer diets protein and fat based? https://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/paleo-diet-h...
Large-scale directed network inference with multivariate transfer entropy
Some servers do that. It's not standardised, not integrated with any other systems, and usually inherently subject to a race condition that renders it low security.
From a European point of view, the growing use of GoFundMe campaigns to pay for health care bills in the US feels like a wild capitalist dystopia. Your Facebook friends decide if you'll live or die.
This is fine as far as it goes, but some psychotic people really are dangerous. A percentage become murderous and violent, and criticising the admittedly poor state of psychiatric understanding doesn't make them less likely to harm themselves or others.

Of course the problem is related to wider social issues about permissive violence. If one person murders another because of their delusions, it's a crime and a medical failure. If an entire country declares war on another for similar reasons we assume we're in the realm of politics and history, not mass mental illness.

We're far too harsh on individuals and far too lenient on mass systems of thought and belief that have horrific outcomes.
Bah, simply give to the user the freedom to switch from light to dark themes to be comfortable in every situation. Have you ever tried light themes on the bridge of a ship at night?
It's a pretty simple equation, and you feel the business end of it when you question a medical doctor regarding something as simple as an antibiotics prescription.

Fields are designed to protect the degreed professional. The words are crafted as weapons forged in the defense of each thesis.

Everything you confront is the product of some long-dead intellectual chess match conducted in an ivory tower, and from that moment forward concepts are, by turns, weaponized.

This principle extends to all fields, economics, sociology, psychology, biology, chemistry, physics, math. Don't believe me? Try on the "divide by zero" argument for size.

It's just notation, to communicate expressions, that relay ideas.

If you were to have nothing, and hypothetically cut nothing into a number of parts, you'd still have nothing. If you have something, and divide it into zero parts, then that too, is nothing.

But people have a professional stake in fighting such compromises. Having won an argument in the past means their reputation rests on defending that stance until they finally die and get out of the way.

It's pretty easy to let an expression that communicates division with zero exist. But because we have an academic norm standing in the way, the conversation of whether or not we should serves better to reveal the brainwashed drones, parroting their instructors until death.
Article contains no information that suggests JPM is fueling a modern financial crisis, it only discusses past events.
I was thinking the same thing. Hiccup is a much better way to represent jsx than jsx.
Of course. Decades of highest taxes on the planet make you uncompetitive and weak. Now we can only be "frightened" instead of us frightening the others.
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They also donate to FLOSS on a semi-regular basis.
Yes, they are equally indefensible and horrible. Luckily both of them no longer happen in the west since quite a few decades.
Actually the influence of the Pascal family and that of the C family are about equally significant, if you go by the chart from the "Go Programming Language" book (available in the free preview, page xiii https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-P...). Most significant is probably the module system, which, in good Turbo Pascal tradition, allows Go to run loops around other C-family languages (looking at you Rust ;) ), and of course the declaration syntax ("i int" instead of "int i").

Since I first came across Go I've been thinking that a Go-based Delphi clone would be really amazing. Maybe someone could breathe some new life into the Lazarus IDE by adding support for Go? Hmmm, actually there already is something: https://github.com/ying32/govcl - probably worth keeping an eye on...
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As someone who owns a 2-in-1 (Lenovo Yoga 900 series), it works almost perfectly out-of-the-box.

Screen rotation, pen support, virtual keyboard, they're all there and get the job done. The only thing that doesn't happen out of the box is that my keyboard remains activated when I switch to tablet mode.

I'm having way more issues with proper scaling on my 4K screen than I do with the 2-in-1 support.
Do you recycle emails like Fastmail once people stop paying?
With reindeers it is probably highly dependent on region. For example in Lapland of Finland there are way too many reindeers than the environment can support, so they are largely kept in pens during winter and fed protein feed, hay, collected lichen, dried feafy branches etc.

Plus Finland produces about 2 million kilos of reindeer meat per year, so it is really miniscule part of the diet.
I love the honesty on your website. I feel like I'm being treated as an adult. Signed up.

Please don't change, even if you get much bigger.
Perhaps? It's not really mainstream technology, and it's like two years from actual rollout.
Your pricing, while fairly transparent, is too complicated for most people to figure out what they would be paying.

Even I'm put off by being charged based on the number of emails I receive - why should I pay extra if I get a lot of spam that should be caught by the spam filter?

You have up to 6 different types of fees you're going to charge and no easy way for me to figure out what my numbers would end up looking like (Your $7.72 amount means nothing to me since I have no easy way to compare your estimates vs my usage).
China Leaving the Rest of the World and Set to Rule the Electric Vehicle Market
I don't think that's necessarily true. The quality of writing hasn't change, but the formatting has been perfected. The short burst of dopamine we get from completing 10-30 minute videos, articles and the like are much more achievable, and therefore we naturally spend time consuming that, even though in hindsight it often doesn't make us as happy as reading a book does.
The typical car is diesel and the typical power plant is coal. A lot of typical cases is the worst case scenario or close to it when it come to the environment, because they prioritize the cost aspect over everything else.

Here is a nice policy theory for you. Lets imagine that with magic we could removed all the cost associated with slaughterhouse for the farmer. We could change the whole meat production in Sweden to operate exclusively on land not suitable for any other food production, and that without changing meat prices. The difference between the economics for a highland cattle farm and a cattle farm using feed from farms is by my understanding significant less than the cut that the slaughterhouse take.

It might not be very applicable to the US since large part of Sweden is forests, but it is not hard to find areas in the US which are not suitable for farming. From a land efficiency perspective, I suspect a lot could be done which isn't currently done because of the economics involved.
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How’s it an excuse?

Hey, Afghanis and Sudanese people out there, want to fix your country? Just quit being poor. Pay money that you don’t have. It’s what the two largest, most powerful, wealthiest countries in the world do, so why can’t you? No excuse not to pay them the same as a Silicon Valley startup getting funding that dwarfs your GDP.

Aside from throwing people out on the streets and cutting wages for the middle class in order to support some yuppie JavaScript coders from another country, it’s not economically possible to just poof money into existence to pay ridiculous wages. I mean yeah, America does it and that works for some people here. Most people despise that.
THis.

Solve your problem then write code. Problems solved by writing code almost always ends up with crappy / messy code / difficult to maintain code.

The coding should be the easy bit, it's just implementing your solution in a language you know. It's basically just typying.
Thanks. I still have issues though.

We don't know how representative those picture were.
The 1950s pictures have survived over a half century, they were taken at a time when photography was harder work than today. I could go fishing, photograph my meagre catch, and put it on instagram for the world to see easily.

Plus these seem to be tourist photos? Maybe its a symptom of (inexperienced) amateurs going to Florida Keys spending big bucks for the experience, whereas in the 50s it was actual fishermen going out to catch big fish, and the very best would take photos of their catch.

Again I'm not denying the phenomenon, just how much we can actually rely on it to tell us something useful. You can't from this array of photos definitively state that populations of x,y and z have dropped i%.
>And then you have to rewrite your script in a faster language, like C++ or Rust. I've observed speedups on the order of 20x this way.

My assumption of possible speedups (from past experience) is roughly.

Python -5x-> Perl -2x-> C#/F# -5x-> C++ -2x-> Rust

Rust is usually a lot faster than C++, because in my data wrangling I often need a lot of string operations that are much easier to do with zero-allocation in Rust than in C++. While you can write the same in C++ it becomes very hard to manage without the borrow checker.

I don't like Perl, so I basically never use that, and I find it's easier to write something that works in Rust than in C++. So usually I'll pick F# or Rust, depending on how fast it needs to be and how easy it needs to be to write it. F# is super nice for writing and Ionide code completion is just miles ahead of Rust code completion at this point. Being forgetful I barely need to look anything up in F#, but in Rust I always need to look at the docs. This will probably improve in the future (I hope). If Rust code completion becomes amazing I think I won't even start in Python anymore. (Pandas is the only thing that pulls me back into Python usually).
I see the same difficulties with some games, for instance those that do not lend themselves to a simple score board.

When I join a stream of someone playing a strategy game which also has a tactical layer, you are usually equally clueless as to what is going on. Certainly at the strategic layer but also as to what a good outcome of a tactical encounter is.

I'm not sure how technology can fix this. On the other hand, other spectators can usually pretty easily do this in chat.
Summer 2017 we were overwhelmed by snails and worm of various species.
Summer 2018 was long, hot, and dry. We hardly saw any. But of course they are there. Occasionally, the cats drag in an earthworm.
Last winter, mice moved into the house in numbers. We heard them occasionally saw them, cats were constantly on edge, and the mice somehow managed to thrive on catfood.
This winter, not a rodent in sight.
And this winter so far has been clement. come summer, I expect we'll see snails and worms and mice up to normal - though probably not excessive levels.

Not claiming there are no longer term downward trends. There may well be. I'm not qualified to judge. But often wonder why the huge year-to-year variability of small, fast-breeding species is so rarely touched upon in this kind of article. Small critters can bounce back in force within very short intervals, given anything resembling decent conditions.
On the contrary. For example, each python thread you create results in the creation of a POSIX thread in the interpreter, when you're running CPython on Linux.

The GIL just means that only one of those threads will be executing pure-Python code at any time. But they're still normal threads.
Microsoft Euro branch is still subject to US law. The US can still seize your data.
I think you missed the point of the comment. If human beings drive ourselves extinct, life will eventually rebound just as it has from other, even larger mass extinctions.
"Slavery" is both a narrow term and a broad term. In the narrow term, it applies property ownership laws to people.

You want to use it in the broadest of senses, including for purposes which the ILO Forced Labour Convention of 1930 excludes, listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfree_labour .

You are of course free to do that, but I believe 1) it downplays the horribleness of, for example, chattel slavery in the US by equating it, among other things, being obligated to jury duty, and 2) you haven't said what isn't slavery.

Most of use are wage slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

> The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass initially declared "now I am my own master", upon taking a paying job.[31] However, later in life he concluded to the contrary, saying "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other". ...

> [Marx:] The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly. The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master's interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence.
The reality of the situation is that most of the company's sales comes from the Chinese market, which is the reason why there are so many negative reviews. You need ownership of the game to post a Steam review. This situation could be alleviated if other people buy the game because it has English translations.

The reason for anger I've heard from Chinese gamers is that they turned this issue political whereas in the past games didn't involve politics and they're pissed that their apolitical space has been invaded. As well, streaming the game has gotten Chinese game-streamers in trouble or having to take down their streams/videos.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1006510/Devotion/
you can read the Chinese comments yourselves, they're well-written in English
Should a former terrorist be allowed into witness protection?
This might really catch-up. From what I've read (could be obviously wrong, as many reports we get from the "wild" east) that for people in China it is important to be able to show their position in the society - that's one of the reason of housing bubble; having a flat/home is a marker of being someone with rather high position.

This, in turn, is partly caused by the imbalance between man and woman in China strongly in favor of man (so woman can be more choosy - times has changed and it seems a baby girl is no longer a burden).

Plus, the market is huge and probably Chinese government will make sure that Tesla or whatever foreign Nio's competitor will be in a much weaker position.

Social network restricted only to Nio's owner strangely resembles Facebook in the early days - a social network for students from top universities - being able to join was also a marker of "high social status".
> I am not sure I am impressed

My PhD defence committee was impressed, so that was good enough for me.

In Ruby almost no code is refentially transparent so just simple PE is not enough. You need to speculate in some complex ways and writing that to be practical is not easy.
If you’re asking for a cloud provider that is compliant with data protection laws, Azure is at the moment your best bet. I believe they have some deal with T-Mobile so that the legal entity that does the exploitation of the data centers is a European company, and the data is out of reach from any US subpoena or similar.

If you’re looking for something more simple, as others mentioned, OVH and Hetzner are OK, although competing on price mostly. If you’re looking for a bit more quality, I can recommend Leaseweb.
I've never understood this argument. Demand goes up when the price goes down and at $0 or even negative wages demand by employers is infinite. There is no guarantee that a job pays enough to get by.