skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heuristics to Generate Startup Ideas
I'm pretty sure it's based on the fast.ai course. Their current set-up tutorial is outdated and doesn't work though.

In the forums there is a pinned thread about a docker build that works nicely on https://render.com/

fork repo, replace ML model, change html content, link to render, done
https://course.fast.ai/deployment_render.html
Why is the wedding industry so hard to disrupt?
I tend to be a content oriented maker so as long as I have the content the project gets formed around it. I used to like to play with logo designs logominer.com was my website. You can still find my twitter account @logominer that shows screenshot of the website. Basically I was looking for away to present a break down of established logo designs such as DHL, Nike or Dropbox and other so I created an app portfolio. Recently I came across a book author that I made a contact with as I liked his books so much. After some email exchanges we came up with idea of promoting his books on a website that I would have to build https://hundredfoot.com. Later I got a few other authors onboard but the point is that go and look for the content to process and present in a different shape or form. Go after things you like and make a product around it. It will often end up being just a side project but you will enjoy the process not to mention learn new things. Good Luck
Mastering the Four Decisions in Microservices Architecture
Nice explanation
My nephew (12) did about the closest thing I've ever seen to the "paperclip to yacht" economic path. Some relative gave him $100 as a holiday gift a few years ago. He used it on some silly collectible monkey T-Shirts, and sold some of them to a classmate at a profit. The idea stuck, and he leveraged that to buy some shoes (not limited release, just relatively rare/desirable), and learned how to eBay them. Nowadays he has just under $10k US, and spends a lot of time chasing weird hypebeast-esque fashion drops for immediate resale.

I'd be judgemental and go all "kids these days" on him if only it wasn't so lucrative for him. Sure, it's not that much money relative to an adult's earnings over a couple of years, but he's 12. My sister (his mom) worries he won't learn to appreciate savings and frugality as he never had an allowance before doing this. Me, I think he'll do just fine.
While working through your experience with Rust, would you mind writing down (doesn't have to be more than a couple of words and maybe a code snippet) diagnostic errors that were hard to understand or that were misleading? That feedback is invaluable in making rustc friendlier.
Reminds me of Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' It's written in all 24 major/minor keys so your keyboard needs to be well tempered :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier
I am in UTC+7 timezone, but I am up at 2am every day. I essentially live my life in a UTC-1 timezone. If I applied, would my application be considered, or would your timezone policy automatically filter it out based on geographic location?
Apple as official policy once warned iOS developers not to talk shit about their arbitrary app rejections to the press so I'd say they've been pretty consistent trying to suppress negative opinions.

"If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...
Not sure, I suspect the answer is a resounding "no" or that they have Five Eyes countries doing it instead or some other arrangement going on. I wrote about all of this in the late '90s and early '00s when the PATRIOT Act was new and they wanted to create some database on everyone and I pointed out that the natural error rate of all databases was going to be a big problem for their efforts at locating terrorists because if the error rate is 5% and the number of terrorists in the population is .001% your system is going to be all false positives and thus useless. That article got me a lot of undue attention and I'm probably still on some blacklist 20 years later.

Look, we have to stop letting these assholes run us into digital serfdom. The 21st century is going to be an awful dystopia, like medieval castles (corporations) and knights (the elite) acting as lords over the masses standing knee deep in muck kind of awfulness if we don't wrest control of our government back to the people and get these tech corporations working for the good of humanity instead of deceiving us (Google/China).

What has changed and what most of you younger folks don't realize is how bad the mainstream media has become at doing its job. They're just "Pravda" now. They used to care about being journalists and the 4th Estate and now they have cozied up with big government and Karl Marx and they can't get over themselves long enough to do anything useful. It's shocking and it's a travesty.
While you can still edit, please use a different style for your quotes. Using code formatting makes them a pain to read. Just make them cursive with the star characters. Thanks! :)
gpu does a favor to this kind of rendering?
IMO most of 'those that don't know' don't care to know and never will care to know. It's simply not an area of interest to them.

E.g. here's a recent story about Duchess Meghan: See how Meghan Markle's baby bump has grown since her pregnancy announcement last October[1]

Did you know she was pregnant? Do you care when her due date is? I sure don't.

We all have a finite number of minutes each day. Some of us spend time reading about picosecond lasers, others spend time reading about pregnant Royals.

This is not a value judgment of any sort. Neither of these interests is "better" than the other. They're just different.

[1] https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/gallery/2019030570456/...
A fraud might be a little much and he's honest with his goals, but he's openly telling people to lie for the cause: "Watson advises readers to make up facts and figures when they need to, and to deliver them to reporters confidently" and "By Watson’s count, Sea Shepherd has sunk ten whaling vessels in port. By my count, he and his crew have attempted to scuttle two vessels and have successfully sunk two others"
Okay, I'm not saying Firefox is trying to protect the users in this case. Based on [0], they care about following the standard, and they implemented a patch once they saw they were not compliant. About 6 months ago, the bug came back. With a charitable outlook, it looks like a bug they don't give much priority to.

When it comes to the bigger topic of standards, they are meant to increase interoperability. However, there are many ways to interoperability, and they can serve different masters. Seeing how standards are just codified behaviours, they are similar to law, and it's quite clear that law is not always good. Civil disobedience is widely recognized as a valid way to influence laws.

In this light, I would say breaking standards can be a form of civil disobedience, if the standard doesn't serve the regular, disenfranchised person.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903966
Thanks for pointing out the ambiguous bits - I’ll clean it up in the next few days.

Yes it does solve the double spend - it let’s you mark (check box) a collection with a SPOT property (single point of truth) which restricts the number of edge region that collection is replicated across. Additionally the spot collection is replicated across two separate data centers (and separate availability zones in those data centers) to provide high availability. The developer doesn’t need to deal with the complexity of where and how this is done - they continue to access the collection like a regular one and the DB will redirect the queries (and do things like joins) between the regular and spot collection.

I’m writing a faq and will include your questions there.

Jepsen is in the plans - we hope to get a report out in the summer.
How would you phrase it so that it is both technically correct and easy for the general population to understand?
People will be up in arms about "elderly" and 30s being used in the title, it should just say relatable.

People in their 20s (including myself) have a hard time relating with those in their 30s or above and I would guess vice versa.
I've said it before and been downvoted, but it's true: HN has becoming a dumping ground for low-quality online rags--Vox, New York Times, etc.--similar to the feeling one gets when visiting /r/politics or /r/news. HN has become a source of eyeballs for these sites and I find it likely that people are being paid to post links here. Nowadays, most of the time stories have no relevance to tech whatsoever.
If you die early, how will your children remember you? (RecordMeNow app context)
Lots of rich people madly spending their wealth would be great for GDP. The luxury industries would prosper, and those who work in those industries would also accumulate wealth to spend madly. Those who truly have a vision for improving the world would still get to do that.

Or, maybe... if there were less of an advantage to accumulating wealth, we wouldn't destroy ourselves and the environment quite so madly while doing so. Great fortunes would not be generated, because what would the point be?

ISTM that a rich person who doesn't want her estate to be confiscated upon her death could just divide it among many heirs? If the progressive tax is not levied on the heir rather than the estate, then maybe it should be. Intentional division would destroy dynastic family wealth without wasting it on the frivolous spending of the state.
My experience is that developers are generally very well aware of all the issues mentioned in reviews and player feedback, but might not be prepared for how those are weighed against the good points.
Does any state require a Masters for elementary ed?

Generally only specialized teaching areas require a master's degree.

A Bachelors and a teacher training program w/ possible test is generally sufficient - and you can usually begin teaching with an interim/provisional certificate, and work on the certification as you go.

https://www.teacher.org/how-to-become/
https://www.alleducationschools.com/teacher-certification/
Use a VPN, use a private window, never log in.

I posted an example of how advertising could be done in a more sensible way, not a ridiculous claim that Google doesn't track everything they possibly can.
Atmospheric methane levels are surging
What you are doing here is writing 'civilization' where 'empire' is the more appropriate usage. Up to that transformation, we are in agreement.

I assume the author of the second chart that you mention is doing the same thing.

Frequency of use is not the most important issue, but Google estimates 75,400 hits for "Byzantine civilization" (plus 15,400 for "Byzantine civilisation"), and 4.3 million for "Byzantine empire".
Supposedly Apple Music has the largest catalog. But, catalog size doesn't matter if you can't find the song you want to hear.
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I tried to guess an album covers decade:
https://uncover-a-covers-decade.onrender.com/

You are doing the fast.ai course too, right? [edit: looking at your code, no, you did not :)]

I chose my challenge to maximize my learning through something challenging enough it might fail. It's only right 60-70% of the time.

What I learned:

- Binning in to decades might not be Ideal. Something from 79 and 80 is more similar than something from 71 and 79. I guess a better approach would have been smaller bins (3 or more per decade) and than rounding the result to the decade.

- Be careful how you gather your learning data. I pulled from the google image search with something like "album OR LP cover 20s/30s/40s..."; this has ~20% "best of the XXs" collections in them where the cover was designed in a much later decade. I should have searched for "1920 OR 1921 OR 1922...".
Yes - you hit the nail in the head - that is indeed how SPOT and regular collections work.

We think we provide the flexibility of both very strict acid behavior using spot collections Along with the strong eventual consistency model for everything else. Important to understand that as a developer you don’t need to deal with any of it - it’s handled for you once you have marked a collection as a spot.

This is not related to gun in any way. We love what gun does and it’s approach and they do some very clever things (including work on the end device). We sit as a back end database as a service in 25 global pops and process dB operations (and code expressed as functions or containers) at the closest location (by latency or geo physical location) to the user or device using an app or api rubbing against us.

we wrote our own operational CRDT engine And streams to solve this.
I don't have any association with the RecordMeNow app -- hadn't heard of it before this article -- but I thought both the article and app were interesting and brought up points that hadn't really crystallised for me before. For example, rather than having letters to open on special events which crops up in news stories from time to time, instead wanting more everyday mundane info -- along with being able to dip into it in a self-directed way. Seems like it makes sense upon reflection.
> I think progressive wealth transfer taxes are a perfectly good middle ground.

Wealth transfer is income, so progressive income tax without exempting wealth transfer from income tax would seem the most direct solution.
I'm guessing you typo'd CN as CH, as CH is Switerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:CH but if you mean CH (the post you were mention other agency supervision) could you share more?
> Ranting on facebook or twitter unfortunately solves nothing.

As opposed to ranting on HN?
The awful comments and attitude that fans of games leave also seems to correlate with the type of game. Violent, competitive games will have fans with a similar attitude toward the game. There's a great article where creators of 'cozy' games talk about their nice interaction with fans.

"The others on the panel also echoed that practical sentiment, and pointed out that developing kinder, cozier games had led to more positive fan interactions. The group jovially argued over who had the best group of fans. "We break their save files every update," said Saltsman, referring to Overland. "No one complains."" [0]

[0] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-05-how-to-des...
Big Companies vs. Startups
Ask HN: What happens to failed founders?
What happens, longer-term, to the founders that fail? There's many forms of failure, according to PG [1] it's simply a matter of "keep going, don't get demoralized", but from my limited perspective (I've never started a startup) it's more complicated than that, you can also literally run out of money (either personally, or as a company not getting more investment), or you can rationally decide to stop because the value proposition just isn't there in the market (noone needs it, or they need it but aren't willing to pay enough for it to sustain it). So, my conclusion is that startups sometimes fail for "good" reasons.

What happens to founders afterwards? Do they start another startup? Do they continue in a "job" (career)? Do they start from scratch or move immediately into a management position? Are investors willing to invest into failed founders? Are companies willing to hire them? Do they value experience (similarly to an MBA, or similarly to an employee, or not at all)? Maybe they get hired by VCs to either mentor other startups, or help decide if they're worth investing in?

The opportunity cost of starting a startup instead of continuing in your career can be significant (5+ years "lost"). I imagine Y Combinator and other accelerators/VCs have some relevant experience with their alumni to answer this question. Is there any data available, an article or similar?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
You bring up a great point. One absolutely can use us as a firebase alternative. We have a few customers using us with lambda and container services directly on their favorite cloud provider in just 2 locations for high availability of their apps.

The edge computing position is intentional in that we think the edge is a way to build globally distributed apps and apis. Our goal is to make as simple to build and run an app in 25 regions as it is to build an app against say firebase or dynamodb.
Yeah, that doesn't help the huge collection of papers I already have. And I often find that the web extensions previously broke, haven't tried it recently. Just being able to download the pdf and have it auto watch a folder/import it to me is an almost completely necessary feature.
In PA the 2016 presidential elections went Trump by roughly 1% of the pop (~50K votes). That is roughly the number of employees Amazon was floating during their HQ2 search. Some minor demographic shifts could easily account for a 50K swing. As another example, NC elected a democratic governor by 10K votes. These are slim margins that can drastically tip the balance of power in local and federal politics!
Bill did have a wealthy parent but didn't really leverage that in the early days. Anyway Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple from a garage, but I notice you ignored my mention of them for the purposes of your response. Elon Musk stated with pretty much nothing, and has talked about how he lived off a dollar a day when he founded Zip2.

If you go looking for people from wealthy backgrounds you'll find them, although you actually failed even at that, but they aren't the only kind. As another example Zuckerberg and Saverin founded TheFacebook.com with $2,000 scraped together while they were students. Google was also founded out of a garage.

Anyway, what's wrong with people with money using it productively to found successful companies, and employ people and provide valuable services? Surely that's a good thing? It seems to have worked well for China over the last 30 years, certainly compared to the previous 30.
I thought TPUs are mainly only for inferencing? You can also select GPU on Colab for free which uses a Tesla K80.
maybe too soon to claim victory - this is only the second, and we don't know about any side-effects, short-term or Long-term. This is genetic manipulation after all.
same difference. and for the record I don't exclude myself.
This reads more like a small collection of random code snippets than an actual book. I would expect a book to cover the reasons either why something works or why use one thing over another, but in this case it's mostly just here's a solution to this specific thing with no further explanation.

A good example of what I mean is the number rounding subheading, which solely consists of a single sentence:

> The use of ~~ operator for rounding numbers, in my opinion, it’s very weird, but it’s also an alternative than use Math.floor() function: [code sample]
Open government is under attack in Kentucky (again)
I often share somewhat technical articles with less-technical friends and family. And I appreciate useful comparisons or metaphors to explain concepts.

And I know a lot of people interested in welding that wouldn't know what a picosecond is, from a recent high-school grad to a woman who specs out building welds to some old-school manual welders.
It's mysterious that people think this (fixed width for anything other than a short code listing) is a rational formatting decision on HN. Does anyone use a wide enough screen to accommodate that "anger" line above?
The only device on which it is truly impractical to disable JS is my company-owned iPhone. It does not allow me to install apps from the App Store, so while I can flip the switch to disable it in Settings>Safari>Advanced>JavaScript, doing so is inconvenient since I cannot whitelist the few domains that I’m okay running JS on.

That’s a pretty special case, however. On any other device, uMatrix + NoScript works great.
Your nephew sounds like an incredibly cool young man. Good work to your whole family!!
Everyday AI: beyond spell check, how Google Docs corrects grammar
No I'm not ignoring anything, that's why we have laws which by and large are actually enforced. Competition can be tough and so it should be, but we do have boundaries and when companies and individuals cross them they should be pushed back to face the consequences. Microsoft has been successfully prosecuted many times, for example. Google and Facebook are being reigned in by the EU. That's the sign of a system that works.

I'm genuinely interested in what you see as alternatives though. I'd love to turn this in a constructive direction. How do you see these weaknesses or failures of capitalism being addressed and what alternative system do you favour? How do you see innovations like those of Bill gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, Page and Brin, etc being created and being successful, building new businesses without Capitalism?
> That would encourage people to consume wealth over 5 to 10 million during their lifetimes,

No, it would encourage people to conceal wealth transfers as consumptive spending. (Just like existing dedicated wealth transfer taxes—gift and estate taxes—do, but more strongly, and we've seen what people dedicated to transferring wealth, like Fred Trump, already do.)
SS is not the entirety of social welfare spending. It's not even the entirety of SS-related spending. There is, as I've just mentioned, SSDI.

Total social welfare spending at all levels of government has increased massively, at a rate that greatly exceeds what can be explained by population aging.

>>Heathcare has increased dramatically, then again 80 years ago their was simply fewer things to spend heathcare dollars on.

That doesn't change the fact that government is forcibly redistributing a greater portion of economic output toward healthcare spending.

>>That stacked bar chart is further designed to hide the recent reduction in one category ‘welfare’ as other categories increased.

Real welfare spending per capita has continued to increase. That graph is spending as a percentage of GDP, and GDP is increasing, so a steady ratio means increasing spending. Moreover, welfare spending is vastly greater now, as a percentage of GDP, than it was in 1950 or even 1970.

It seems like you're ignoring every piece of evidence suggesting a shift toward social democracy with expanding social welfare spending, to maintain a narrative of social welfare programs being cut.
How did you get a refund when their premium plan comes with the first 30 days free? I signed up for the premium plan too, without having paid anything for the first 30 days. https://www.spotify.com/in/premium/?checkout=false#PLANS
For a company like google or facebook where everything is done "in house" this could be feasible. They had to create a lot of tooling to accommodate theirs engineers.
But for a smaller company using tools like git, intellij, VScode, jenkins, etc and the tools for deploying your application doesn't the size and the complexity (number of files and their structure) eventually becomes a problem ?
What's the size of their repo ? And at which point it becomes too much for most software to handle ?
I think the above poster was referring to the advancements in treatment, since HIV is no longer a death sentence even without a full cure.
That link only works if you are in the UK.
This overplays things a bit, Intel vulnerabilities like L1TF and Meltdown are directly related to optimization choices they made that people like AMD did not.

Not all of these vulnerabilities are equally serious in nature.
In my experience, it's better to create a "request context" at the beginning of handling a request and pass it down explicitly to subsequent async calls that handle the request. I think that this approach is similar to Golang's "context" package, for example.

As other commenters note, using CLS (via async hooks or domains) is often too much magic and can possibly cause leaks or at least it results in program logic that's hard to reason about and hard to test.