skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to start an online bidding business
Selecting the niche will decide on what type of Auction website you want to build.

https://appkodes.wixsite.com/blog/single-post/how-to-start-an-online-bidding-business
The best way to prevent an asteroid from hitting the earth is not to blow it up but to deflect it using a solar powered gravity tractor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor

https://b612foundation.org
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I fully agree. There is a place for both. Even though I use TikZ every once in a while, if I need to draw some graphs really quickly, nothing beats a GUI program like OmniGraffle. Or if you need to touch up a photo, you could spend a lot of time tinkering with Imagemagick, but it's much easier to just fire up Lightroom or Pixelmator.

Even for editing, I sometimes prefer GUIs. E.g. X11/Cocoa emacs can render LaTeX equations inline in AUCTeX or org-mode. This is sometimes very convenient for quickly verifying whether equations are correct during writing. Similarly, with org-mode, you can show R or gnuplot graphs inline.

On the other hand, when you are automating a build, doing some custom data extraction, configuring a server, etc. nothing beats the command-line.

A skilled person knows what to use when.
People regularly recommend other solutions over MathJax due to performance, and at least on complex pages there's a noticeable delay for it finish processing everything on the page. Is it worth it to do a native implementation because of that? maybe not, but there are issues with it.
As a side note, I know that I am old (and grumpy) but was it really necessary for the actual engineers to pose for the leading article picture?

I mean if it was a journalist's or editor's choice to mis-illustrate the invention creating a picture with models I would be fine with it, but the actual engineers/inventors posing for it?
Henley Index: Japan tops 2019 list of world's most powerful passports
I really want to like ProtonMail. I do like them, in fact.

Unfortunately, their business email offering only has one advantage: the encryption. Every other feature that's important for running a business (IMAP, shared inboxes, automatic forwarding capability, etc.) is severely lacking. My company just switched because we simply couldn't deliver quality customer support inside the confines of Proton's system. After switching, I realized how much I was missing from "normal" email systems. A polished business email offering really does make a major difference.

That being said, I really like their stance on privacy and their determination to make secure email a default, so I'm considering moving my personal email to them (ironically from the same company we just switched the business to).

I hope they can use some of this €2m to address shortcomings in their email platform so we can eventually switch back.
So, essentially, they invented a silencer/muffler?

Certainly interesting, but the applications of that would be somewhat niche.

To be specific, there are not that many scenarios where a solid wall won't do, but a honeycomb-like barrier is OK. Aesthetics are important, but musicians in a studio couldn't care less about how stuff looks as long as it works (and so do your musicians' neighbors).

One good application, as others have mentioned, is putting that thing around a fan, to minimize noise (a solid barrier defeats the purpose of a fan). I wonder what else would be a killer feature application of this kind of structure.
The way I do it in vim is to have one terminal window with vim open, and one terminal with a couple of tabs for git, compiling, and flashing for embedded stuff or server for web stuff.

The important part in vim is for me to start it by opening ALL the files in my project directory and then just have two side by side windows. I never muck around with the file viewer or creating new windows. So other than the commands you expect from general text editing, searching, and swapping buffers (fuzzy search plus ctags makes this comparable to the ide's I've seen) the only vim commands I use are... Focus window right, focus window left, and save.

I used to waste time mucking about as you say until I saw Casey Muratori coding for handmade hero in emacs with pretty much the same setup. He takes it a step further by not even having separate buffers, he just seems to put all his code in one big file.
> The bear does not lament its catch, the whale does not wonder at the inner life of a fish it accidentally swallows. The uniquely human conceit that we engage in is the one we are both engaging in right now. The exercise of putting oneself in another's shoes.

How do you know that certain animals do not do that. It is not like we can read their brains.

Here are a few I know of:

1- Several bird species maintain life-long bonds with their partners.

2- Some bird species have funerals for deceased birds.

3- Several animals (like Dolphins) can recognize themselves in the mirror.

4- My dog recognize when I'm angry.

You see the pattern. Humans are just more capable of sophisticated patterns than animals we compare to.

How about other creatures? I mean, if you want to claim supremacy, what would be your definition of supremacy? Number of humans? Mass?

> "It has been estimated by E. O. Wilson that the total number of individual ants alive in the world at any one time is between one and ten quadrillion (short scale). According to this estimate, the total biomass of all the ants in the world is approximately equal to the total biomass of the entire human race."

Ants beats us on the number scale but we are equal on the biomass front.
I'd much prefer optimizing MathJax over writing new C++ code in Chromium.
If you never want to rise above the role of software dev followed by probably losing your job at 50 something when you're deemed "too old" then sure, it doesn't matter
YC in SF gonna be like Joakim Noah in NYC :-D
> Attack our norms and institutions... both sides deserve it, just in different proportions.

Okay true, different proportions. It's roughly 1000 to 1 that Trump is messing with institutional norms over liberals.
The stories in your links cite Portland police, among other sources, without mentioning the link between several prominent police officers who were present at those protests, and the right-wing groups opposing them. I mean, we're talking about a cop literally telling someone, "we have an arrest warrant for you, but here's how you can avoid arrest ...".

With that in mind, anything that Portland police says about antifa in those protests is basically untrustworthy by default.
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I'm defining rich in this context as the US, as that was the developed nation we were talking about.

You will note that despite the US being richer than most developed nations, it has poorer benefits like you highlighted [1], compared to those other developed nations. So I fail to see how that is circular, if the richer country has less of those things.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730947/Americans-p...

Edit:
To answer your 2 additional paragraphs:

"Richer countries tend to (or should?)"
There is a correlation (tend to), but there are exceptions as you have identified, so to avoid getting bogged down in arguments like this, I added the parenthetical. I then added a question mark because I am aware its attempting to impose ethics on something amoral.

I will attempt to hedge my statements even more in the future.
It appears that that's exactly how they made it.

What you end up with, though, is a pretty specific muffler.

Making a wall out of these blocks will take a while, and it'll only block a narrow range of frequencies, somewhat.

But hey, it's better than plywood because you can, like, stick your hand through it! And it's hi-tech!
This issue is as much a market failure as it is a regulatory failure.

Here in the UK, the insurance industry collectively funds Thatcham Research, an independent body that assesses the safety, security and repairability of new cars. Thatcham's assessments are hugely important to motor manufacturers, because they directly influence the cost of insurance; a good rating from Thatcham means a low insurance group rating, which is an important selling point. It's a fantastic example of what happens when everyone's interests are aligned.

Thatcham also assess aftermarket security equipment; most insurers offer discounts on premiums where Thatcham-approved equipment is fitted. It is worth noting that neither of the products mentioned in this article are Thatcham approved.

https://www.thatcham.org/what-we-do/security/
> Just because I'm "out of touch" with ordinary, less privileged workers doesn't equate to my experience and observations in the sector as being invalidated, yeah?

It means your experience doesn't scale to broader society, but you were making a point about broader society. If the ordinary secretary or the shift worker or the policeman don't get their "work from home days" there's essentially no difference in your example to what's going on in the US.

> That might be true for you but is it true for developers in the overall society?

Working from home on occasion certainly isn't unusual.

> Let's take this to an extreme example: A coworker missed over two months, last year, for 'x' medical reasons. What would've surely driven him to the poor house in the states was paid through those taxes you later commented on and there was no threat to his job because of it.

"Surely" you have no idea about the US system. Paid sick days is something your insurance may or may not cover. You get the choice of whether you want to pay for that or not. States laws also may protect workers from getting fired during longer illness.

> What does that have to do with anything related to kids...

Nothing, just rubbing it in. If you're successful in Finland (or some other little Euro country), you're going to be far less wealthy than in the US. You'll be paying for everyone else to live. If that makes you happy, go for it. Pat yourself on the back.
Governments are corrupt and so the law enforcement so I think the only hope is that army will look into how big pharma shapes the national policy and makes sure the broken system keeps going on.
Iconic Chrysler Building will sell at a loss
We seem to have a collective child fetish.

(I hear the words of St.George Carlin.)
Hello, I'm commenting on an unrelated thread but would you still go by your statement here- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113715 and claim that Bucklesript is better than Scala.js? How much scala.js have you written?
"Wikipedia, probably the biggest website that displays formulas, still renders them to SVG images."

Not exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Na...
The good development environments now-adays allow you to do everything from the keyboard and not click on anything. PyCharm being a good example.
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oh those poor flailing and flailing liberal coastal cities!

maybe Republicans can teach them something, by, for example, the coastal city of......Knoxville, TN.

:-D
But it is a worthless parlor trick. Hell, I could “create” pieces of art like that in Photoshop in a few hours if I really wanted to. How is that in any way anything beyond the bare minimum for creativity or artistry? Why is using a GAN to do that any more artistic? This kind of artwork is the literal definition of “derivative”.

But hey, people are free to waste their money if they like.
Even users on Firefox only get to see the SVG images per default.
Junk or not, if someone's daily caloric intake is in the sky, they can overeat themselves on the most non-junkiest of foods. Let's say a lot of vegtable seeds, superhealthy all organic bread, some premium right out of the cow diary stuff, and some fruits, just to get more sugar.
without for profit companies, all that taxpayer funded research would be sitting on a shelf, never becoming medicines to treat patients. In the last 2 years I think every drug that got approved by FDA was developed by a for profit company.

Drugs don't emerge fully formed from academia, just waiting for pharma to patent them and jack up the price. Pharma spends more on r&d than academia
And if I'm not mistaken, Fano resonances only work in a controlled environment like headphones (noise cancelling).

My comment wasn't a comment to the test in the article, but the expectations of the article - that any sound can be blocked, the writer is implying that this can be built into anything "a quieter world", which is not true for low frequencies which can't cancel itself out (without a very controlled environment like two subs of the same size in a cabinet, or an MRI machine) simply because it passes through objects and don't bounce.

I've seen noise cancellation concepts for the real world before, where a unit is placed on a window to cancel out outside noise by matching the vibrations of the sound.

In practice however, the sound waves are not predictable without a controlled environment, so it's just vaporware/concept [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6sBuwzLhk
This is really cool, but if I may make a suggestion: Not everyone actually wants to run the bootloader, and technical hiring managers certainly won't.

Include a video taken with a screen recording tool, from your host workstation, showing the thing booting in a 640x480 QEMU window. Or something similar.
> Does regulation actually improves software security in practice?

Yes, it can. DO-178B is a widely used security standard in military equipment. It's difficult and expensive to obtain, and caters to fighter jets, not cell phones, but there is precedent for true technical security improvements through government programs.
Pages with lots of MathJax formulas take a lot of time to load.
I use GNU Parallel for pulling stock data from various sources, massaging it, creating flatfiles of the data, creating models of the data, etc.

I also use it as a rudimentary queue system for stacking up the next jobs (while scripts stack up the next jobs, but..).

It had a bit of a learning curve because the docs are really technical and not geared towards new users enough, but reading and re-reading and trying some examples helped cement.

Here are a few ways I use it:

echo "Number of RAR archives: "$(ls .rar | wc -l)

ls .rar | parallel -j0 1_1_rarFilesExtraction

ls -d stocks_all/Intraday/*.txt | parallel -j${ccj}% 1_2_stockFileProcessing {}

I'd like to scale this to work with multiple machines (as Parallel can do) but I get really tempted to just write my own parallel processor just to rely on my own code.
New framework to load bots to botnets
> Oh, come on. If you're a developer you can have a "work from home" day in the US as well. Plus, you can earn far more and you pay less in taxes.

What about the ones that are not developers?
It stinks, I agree. What economic/social arrangement has done a better job in drug innovation?
I'm not sure how you could use it for that. Well, you could put a couple of those things over your ears, but earmuffs already exist. More likely it would be useful for building better mufflers onto noisy equipment. A muffler on musical instruments? I could imagine it fitted to a trumpet perhaps.
SSPL withdrawn from open source certification
If your hypothesis was correct I think we'd expect to see a coldening of e.g. hunter and prey. In reality, I think most hunters tend to disproportionately be animal and nature lovers. And as you go back in time (and in present as well) there are often rituals of respect involved in the slaughter of prey. Such things would be rather pointless if you had completely desensitized yourself to the nature of animals.

But there's some nuance in here. For instance I'd completely agree that factory farming is inhumane, but I think that's in large part because those that operate such institutions have become so far detached from what it is that they do. If your business is butchering chickens, you should be at least occasionally involved in butchering chickens.

There's some irony though. If there was a chicken and rice shop, as you can find all across the developing world, with chickens running about outside - the same ones ending up on your plate, people would be incensed. Similarly imagine somebody in a not entirely rural area was raising their own goats and/or chickens for slaughter. Again, there would be outrage. People inadvertently drive invisible inhumane conditions by expressing outrage at visible humane conditions that they find distasteful.
Yes, when running over many iterations
Believe it or not, an American parent can take a vacation day as well. The difference is, you're not forced to have vacation days and suffer lower pay for it.

In any event, why have only five days? If five days is good, why aren't two weeks even better? How could five days be enough to care for your family? Why not a whole month, that's even better than two weeks! I'll tell you why: Because it's not a free lunch. These laws are made so that politicians can sell them to clueless voters, not because they make sense.
"this whole thing is about CLI/TUI vs. GUI, not terminal vs. IDE. "

Good point.

But can you recommend a vim setup with plugins? It has been a while since I tried it, and it was not to my liking, but I was more GUI adopted at that time.
They would if it meant failing the yearly checkup, and thus making the car illegal to drive.
Mentor Influence on Junior’s Mind
(2017), please.

Update: previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861886
> I think they also play a big role in exploiting Indians by paying peanuts

Exploiting is pretty loaded word, we are not talking about sweatshops. These IT companies provide jobs to many people directly and indirectly. The good people who are paid peanuts then move to greener pastures.
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It seems to me that "programming" there means glorified devops and the primary goal is a headcount of young compliant workers to show off to investors.

Probably activity is valued higher than progress.

They are certainly not looking for Knuth, who would likely fail the interview.
I've started kicking the tires on DigitalOcean's Kubernetes offering. Surprisingly, it's the one I feel most comfortable with. They've made getting the cluster up and running then getting out of your way a thing and I appreciate it. It's Kubernetes without the weird cloud intracacies that make them well clouds. It's in limited preview but, if I'm kicking tires on it it can't be too far from GA. Also, in talking with some of the team members I appreciate their approach and challenges.

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
It's in Chinese, the thing doesn't move with arrows nor mouse, and it uses a copyrighted soundtrack from Star Wars.
This is an excellent start once you get over the mage conceit:

http://unixmages.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ufbm.pdf
I don’t consider self checkouts to be automation.

All they don’t is turn the touch screen around to face the customer, and dumbed it down a bit.

There’s nothing automated about having to perform the entire task yourself.

My favourite pet peeve with the ones at my local supermarket is that they’re called “assisted checkouts”. Assisted? Yeah, by me.
The important question is... why is it ethical for a foundation to deliver a product at $300k/yr where the cost are borne by other people? [1] In my world that price would never be paid, since about €100k/yr would max out the qaly. They would still have their medicine albeit at a perhaps $1 billion profit / return on risk. I'll bet my ethical balls here that none of the small contributors to a CF foundation expect a billion dollar windfall to come out if there contribution, regardless the merits that billion goes to afterwards.

[1] Some economic reductionism here: if you know the cash flow, you can project the value and the other way around. So if someone offers you 3 billion and you know the effect of the medicine and the number of patients, you can infer the price of the medicine. This to establish the (moral) link between the selling of the IP and the price.
Thanks for mentioning synycthing...I'll check it out. Right now I have a series of rsync scripts as cron jobs that keep my stuff in sync on multiple machines.
I am using the Johnny Decimal system for my organization. It took me some time to get all my stuff in this structure but now it is very intuitive to me and I always know where everything is.
Drug companies increasingly fund r&d with their balance sheet, not with internal r&d. So the money they pay for new drugs is not reflected in the profit and loss statement.

There are maybe 15 pharma companies that commercialize a large portion of the drugs developed in the world. The vast vast majority of drug companies never make a penny in profit. They sell their products or companies to bigger, commercial companies

So the profits in the industry all accrue to a few big players, and the losses largely accrue to companies you've never heard of

Something like 65% of FDA approved drugs are developed by small companies that will never generate revenue. Bigger companies buy these drugs and plug them into their established sales forces

Virtually (probably literally in the last few years) no drugs emerge fully formed from academia. For profit companies bear the brunt of the r&d costs. 30% of public r&d goes to academic "overhead" and much goes to research that will never come close to informing drug r&d. The NIH spends $30-35B a year, the top 15 pharma companies spend $75B in r&d
I am not sure to understand the mechanism.

If I get this right, kids will be borrowing some ID from their parents and connect under their name.

The fun part might be when (if) they will find that the user already exists ...
> it never actually validated the certificate,

While I agree with everything above, it can be humbling to consider the huge amount of people already in control of that car (at the car company, software partner, hosting partner, phone maker) but extending that trust to the local network amounts to an inexcusable security problem.

It is interesting that having legitimate control over a certificate makes this a desired feature rather than a huge security problem. The real world may not be all that black and white.
Well I guess I don't understand what point you're trying to make.

Is it just the following? "High GDP per capita is positively correlated with other metrics of development, so it is an interesting exercise to attempt to understand why this applies more strongly in some societies than in others". If so, I agree with you that it's an interesting historical and sociological question.

I guess what I have a negative reaction to is people living in modern parliamentary democracies like the UK or France, people who are used to a system where elected officials tend to accurately represent their constituent's wills and are able to make those wills reality, scratching their heads failing to understand why the US doesn't "just" pass some reforms to make life better. From my perspective this is like asking why Syrians don't just decide to stop having a war. (I am sure if you polled Syrians, 99.9% of them would say they wish the war weren't happening!)

The US political and institutional system is so extremely deadlocked and broken that there is no person alive -- not even Trump or any Senator or any other powerful person you care to name, who would be able to institute mandatory sick leave for workers, free childcare, or any other plausible solution to the problem stated in this headline, no matter how much they wanted to. So it gets a bit tiring to constantly hear moralizing about these issues from people who don't realize that no path to fixing them exists.