skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how are the chances of an exit with a company of that scale?

How big is the market for "niche" companies being acquired for USD 50m, if it was bootstrapped? It seems that there are a lot of acquisitions or acquihires in that range if you are VC funded and are working on innovative tech that makes sense for bigger companies to acquire. But if you are focusing on revenue/profits, and lets say you get to $6-$10m usd in revenue, who are gonna buy you? And an IPO doesn't seem factible since you are not big enough. And if you are outside USA its even a harder sell.
I guess it could happen that a lot of transactions of "niche" companies exists in that price range but they are not publicized by journalism because they lack relevance, and that would give you a biased perspective of lower sales of companies, but I wouldn't be that sure of that hypothesis.
So, what do you think about the odds of exits strategies for a $30-50m bootstrapped startup?
> Are you suggesting artisans weren't a thing?

Historically, anyone who made something by hand was an artisan, so the hammer maker and the sword maker. I suppose you could consider that art, but when I say I art I'm talking music, paining, sculpture, etc. Things that only have aesthetic use, not functional use.

And I don't believe there are any examples of people making aesthetic works as their only source of income before recent times, other than through patronage.

I've only studied art history briefly though, someone who has studied it more could probably chime in here.
There are no easy ways to get 3rd party apps onto a device. You can't import your own repo easily like you can with apt/yum/etc. Google/Apple/Amazon stores are bastardizations of the idea of a package repository.

Because of this, these companies have a monopoly on types of content. They literally control big parts of the medium for the general public.

Honestly, I think it's unfair to pull these apps. You might disagree with the ideas behind them, but individuals should have the choice and options if that is the route and those are the choices they want to make with their own lives. So long as they don't openly advocate violence, ideas should be free.

At what point do these type of restrictions affect peoples' freedom of religion?
If ads are the biggest problem you face in the world, you have had a pretty easy life. I wish people had half as much passion as they do against ads, against more impactful things like hunger, disease and war.

Also, ads really don't bother me that much. Perhaps, I can afford to pay for everything I consume without ads, but some people don't have the means to. I am glad that ads allow some people to access content freely or provide them cheaper goods. There are actually times ads have helped me find a product I enjoy, I assume for most normal people this is true also.

What I find more annoying than ads, is all the self-righteous complaining about ads.
Seems like a matter of consistency more than anything. Google has already decided to make an app store that excludes things like overt racism. Seems like if you're going to exclude racism you should also exclude homophobia. Whether we should tolerate both these people is an interesting question, but not the issue in this case.
Author here: I don't remember exactly when I did my investigation but I left the Xbox team in early 2009, so it would have been some time before that.

The 2011 date from Wikipedia is for when hardware development began. Investigations into what hardware would be used would obviously predate that so there's no contradiction.

Anyway, I'll have to digest that FMA emulation article and see what sort of performance their algorithm achieves. A branchless and vector-math compatible implementation would be important for performance.
The parent was likely using "CPU" to just mean "processing power", not being prescriptive toward whether that processing is done on a CPU or a GPU.

I assume your downvoting is because people (uncharitably) believed you were being an annoying pedant instead of asking a genuine question.
Not if it's voluntary and desired by the person undergoing conversion. Otherwise there is no hope for pedophiles wishing to rid themselves of their attraction to children.

It's one thing if it's a parent forcing their child to undergo conversion therapy. But I don't see anything wrong with an adult who has an unwanted sexual attraction trying conversion therapy.
Isn't `conversion therapy` what the opponent is calling it? If the app doesn't violate TOS, i'd rather it stay. People can choose not to download it (at least as I see it). Another group might have as issue with, say, astrology. I wouldn't think taking down astrology apps would be a solution either.
It wasn't all through patronage though. I just finished listening to a biography of Leonardo da Vinci, and he was taught in a workshop, essentially as an apprentice. They would do independent commissions for people - portraits, statues etc. It's true that the great artists would get patronage once they were great, but it seemed that there were a bunch of these workshops with apprentices that copied the master's paintings, worked on commissions with them etc. Just thinking about it now as I write, and the Patronage is like the "made-it" moment where an artist gets rich, but I bet there were a multitude of apprentices that toiled away in workshops just making money for food.
I'm seeing that as well. For a while I was under the impression that "conversion therapy" was meant to refer to outdated and disproved forms of therapy like electric shocks that were now considered inhumane. But this app just seems like some religious reading to convince you not to be gay.
As much as I hate sifting through the mountain of music that should probably have not been released, I couldn't agree more. It's relatively inexpensive to setup a home studio that yields excellent results. You still need technical skills, of course. But, assuming you have them, a computer, a DAW, and a basic audio interface can go a long way.
After playing a bit more with it, I do like the instantaneous Output and Format sections. If you added an actual Lorem Ipsum generator to the Text Source section, it would be pretty useful with those settings.

As far as toys go, I'm having good fun with the Whitman option. It sure gets dark when you least expect it.
AWS Lambda: Node.js 6.10 will be EOL in 40 days
third time a Node.js runtime is deprecated on AWS Lambda (0.10, 4.3, 6.10)
Each time you have to upgrade your functions 1 by 1, this is really painful :(
Psychiatry today strikes me as being in a similar place as Infectious Disease before germ theory. We can describe symptoms, we can group them together, and we can come up with cures that sometimes work but without knowing if we are talking about a virus or a bacteria we can't really understand what's going on.
You looked up a while ago then. More like 900-1600 euros and going up. At least if you want to live inside the Ring.
Living Hope's open letter to Tim Cook is worthy of reading:

https://livehope.org/2019/01/31/open_letter_apple/

They clearly state they are not a conversion therapy app, but rather a source of content and support for people who feel that their ways are against their own religion.

I do not support "converting" anyone in any way, but I am very against groups trying to silence people because of their beliefs.
>I feel like we need much tougher police that actually prevents and prosecutes all types of crime, including rampant petty theft, car break-ins, muggings, shootings (which are common), harassment by deranged drug-addicts all over the streets, etc. etc.

Pushing the police to be 'tougher' while the community is critical of their every move isn't going to happen. It also takes about 7 years until an SFPD officer makes the salary of an entry level Software Engineer in San Francisco. You get what you pay for.
I've taken the Coast Starlight about 4-6 times between SF (well, Emeryville) and Portland/Seattle. Most were pretty much on time, except for one time when the train hit a person/car on its trip up from LA. It arrived around 5 hours late at the station and ended up being something like 10 hours late by the time we disembarked.

It can be frustrating to experience long delays if you have a tight schedule, but otherwise I think it makes the most sense to just relax and enjoy the view.

I'll be taking the California Zephyr (Chicago to Emeryville; said to be one of the most picturesque routes) this May, which I'm quite looking forward to. It will be my first time riding that line, and my first time in a sleeper.
I think you're missing my point. I have nothing against using a DSL for declaratively defining an intended state of a system. It's just that this should be a proper programming language that allows to declare and use arrays, variables, and general logic.

Meanwhile, YAML is not a good DSL framework, it's not even a programming language, it's a markup language. Any logic defined in it will be inherently bolted on and likely based on text templating and full of stringly-typed confusion. A classic CM tool that does get this right is Chef, where normal Ruby code is used to build the declarative intended state. You can extremely easily implement any logic you want to create an intended state (even retrieve it from other components) and then emit a desired, declarative resource state (and --why-run will then show what steps will be taken to converge tit). You can do these things right, just don't try to turn a markup language into a turing-complete DSL.

You compare this to templating HTML - but nobody would ever seriously consider declaring such templating logic within HTML itself with some sort of Jinja2 templating engine duct-taped to the side. Instead, we use whatever is in control of serving HTML to render the final markup, with the bulk of the logic implemented in a normal programming language, while a templating engine takes care of rendering variables and loops.

Comparing Ansible's YAML and Kubernetes' YAML is also wrong. A better comparison would be comparing Ansible to Helm, since they both take the templated-YAML approach. Kubernetes by itself doesn't even let you just use YAML files as intent and idempotently apply them (some objects can be created from YAML using apply, but then not updated, and instead have to be recreated, and that's the logic that's pushed onto external tools like Helm, Kubecfg, ...).

And even instead of using a real DSL that's built into a particular tool, there's the second approach that I currently follow and recommend: use whatever programming language you're comfortable with to emit a desired state in whatever interchange format your management tools needs, and let those tools handle the domain-specific task of converging the state.
Ever tried to replace a screw? Finding the exact threading, length, etc?
And illegal, and dangerous.

Train hopping is for those who need it. Give it respect and don't treat it like a sport or touristy thing.

Story time... More than a score of years ago I was a young man traveling south from Seattle with a group of other kids. And old hand (I'll call him Jim) took us under his wing and showed us a bit of the ropes, how to ride the rails. The train folks are pretty old school. Level-headed, and not unkind.

At one point we stopped on a siding. Before long an older man in overalls and a cap came down, walking the line. He could have walked out of a 100-year old photo. We kids were spooked and hid in the back of the car, but Jim just sat calmly in the open cargo door, in plain sight, and waited for the train man to reach us. When he saw us he was very calm and quiet, he greeted Jim and they had a very mellow and civil little conversation. Before he left to check the rest of the train, he picked up a rusted old loose train spike from the ground and showed us how to use it to spike open the cargo door so it wouldn't be able to slide shut and trap us or injure us.

At a yard near Tacoma we tried to jump on a slow-moving train and the bulls stopped us. They were pretty kind considering, and they said that if we had been boarding a stopped train they wouldn't have bothered us, but a few weeks earlier a guy had tried to hop a moving train and tripped and fell and lost both of his legs, and that's why they stopped us that night, they said. Jim had a warrant out for some BS so they took him in. The next morning we tried to go see him but none of us knew his last name so the (very friendly and sympathetic) officer at the station's front desk couldn't tell us anything about him. We had to leave and I never saw him again. (Way before cell phones were common. Feels like 1800's now.)

I remember getting rained on while riding on some tanker cars. They have these niches in the bulkheads at each end that are just large enough for one or two people to curl up in. We took turns in there with the rest of us huddled around to try to block the rain. It might sound crazy but it was a lot of fun.

But I can't recommend it as an adventure. Visit the Grand Canyon, or volunteer in a remote place, or something if you want adventure. Train hopping is for those who need it. The old school respect and kindness that passed between the train folks and a group a homeless kids trying to travel hundreds of miles with no money was one of those secular sacred things that deserves respect. Trains are awesome.
I have the same pattern but added a 6 character hexadecimal postfix based on a hash.

facebook-com-a2bdc0@domain.com

This makes it less trivial to guess the other domains. (although you could bruteforce the entire range)
Not if the person wants to be converted (been there done that). So you burning books (or software) only hurts thousands of people like me, and makes you intolerant of diversity.
Are there de jure whites-only resort communities in the US?

To answer your questions:

> Whats wrong with running ads for condos in a whites-only resort community?

- profiting from racists

- ghetto creation

- perpetuating harmful discrimination

- assisting in the longevity of a community which exacerbates the prior 3 issues

> If their internal numbers show that this community has a really high chance of conversion, why should they target something else on a finite ad budget?

They shouldn't. But also it shouldn't be available to them, by law.

> Can't a company decide who it wants to sell to?

In the general case, yes, but since the civil rights movement, you cannot refuse goods or services to someone based on race. That includes housing. I was under the impression this was widely known.
For most of human history, MONEY wasn't a thing. And yet we still have cave paintings as well as clear evidence that tribepeople and pre-agricultaral societies made music, art, poetry and more.

Consider that this time could have been spent building shelter, or hunting for food. We make art because we enjoy it
Ask HN: Does the current smartphone paradigm natrually lead to centralization?
Given that a smartphone uses apps, and these apps are distributed via app stores, and further these apps run in the cloud (i.e., costly data centers that tend to be ran by companies with money and resources).

Are all of these components interdependent? Basically, do smartphones lead to centralization of technology/resources (not smartphones in and of themselves, but given their current implementation)
IFixIt, same place you saw the Fairphone teardown.

Ebay is the best place to sell parts, yes. Prepare for some shrinkage as it's easy to scam new Ebay sellers.
>...households that would have formerly expected to buy, however, are increasingly finding themselves priced out of the market, substantially by investors who then place the property on the rental market...

This is exactly the core of the problem: without aggressive intervention, it is always more profitable to buy a property and rent it than to live in it. Potential owner occupiers will eventually always be out bid by investors in an uncontrolled market.

There were abundant measures to prevent this installed during the 20th century. They have been eliminated over the last decades and without them the market will naturally come to look like it did before the 20th century.
> UncensoredDNS is the name of a DNS service which consists of two uncensored DNS servers. The servers are available for use by anyone, free of charge.

According to the article, "free of charge" is suspicious.

> This node is hosted at AS9167 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Denmark belongs to the Nine Eyes.

Given this information, why uncensoreddns? Are there better alternatives?
Conversion Therapy seems a lot like violence to me...

Although I do agree with you on locked down app stores being a bad idea.

Edit: also conversion therapy isn't really what this thing was anyway it seems.
The panicked, reckless nonsense of "active shooter drills" is eventually going to get someone actually killed.

(Compare: the DEA agent who shot himself while talking to a classroom about gun safety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNa5n2I_DUw

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/safety-first/
)
> This isn't true, or at least there isn't consensus around that idea all of the time

I'm not saying it's true, nor that "most" people were saying it, just that enough loud voices were doing it.

My point was not that (often uninformed) people have been feeding enough BS about the economy for so long that "obvious" is untrustworthy.
I did SF to NY back in my 20s after working at summer camp. Not in one go, but over about four weeks with stops in Last Vegas, San Diego, New Orleans and Miami.

It was a great experience and I met some great people. Never had a sleeper, and that just made it easier to mingle with my fellow travellers.

I remember playing hours of chess with some old dude in the smoking carriage, and the shitty cans of margaritas at happy hour served from the train bar.

Unlike jumping on the plane, the train journeys were an integral part of the travelling experience, rather than just a method of getting from one city to another.
Mostly ifixit “repair” guides and eBay.

Usually you just need a special screwdriver ($2-3 or so from eBay from Asia).

Ship everything in anti-static bags and reused Amazon packaging.
You shouldn't be downvoted. This is literally the reason they linked.
Stripping dependency bloat in VictoriaMetrics Docker image
I took the Amtrak from Albany to Boston regularly for a while. Once, we had a hazmat train in front of us come uncoupled, and were sitting on the track for three hours. Another time, we were delayed because the tracks right past Albany were somehow on fire. I was an hour late to the station one time, and still had to wait two hours once I arrived because the train was somehow later than I was.

Amtrak. Not even once.
Although I can appreciate self deprecating humor, it seems that you are simply using my comment to make fun of people who have already dealt with tremendous adversity. Does it make you feel better about yourself to tell stories and jokes about grandmasters who didn't have enough to eat?

You're punching down. Don't do that. If you're in doubt, please refer to HN guidelines:

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better.

I do not remember a time that newspapers and magazines had no ads, despite being paid. If anything many of them were almost half ads, half content.

I was reading magazines since the 90s though, i do not know if things were better before.
The problems only arise if your actual official title at your employer is "Emulation Ninja", because that means that if the lender verifies your employment (common practice) then the job title doesn't match, and suddenly the lender gets nervous...

In normal cases it's fine
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Coming from the US the last thing I want is a US style post office, I love my 7/11 post pick up spot (though my current one is now a shoppers I assume US folks won't recognize that)...

Dedicated post offices are incredibly silly, embed them into stores, and offering to reimburse clerks for the time they spend actually dealing with mail is wonderful. It means that instead of having one location in little old New Westminster we've got 6, downtown vancouver (just the penisula up to chinatown-ish) has 14 post offices in 2.3 sq. miles... that's way better than some gigantic greek revival building in the middle of town that absolutely everyone has to spend 30 minutes on a bus to get to.
I don't have a "cause". Are you trying to argue that Twitter, Facebook, and Google are apolitical?

> Try running a website in China critical of government policy and see where that gets you

Someone has it worse, so we shouldn't try to be better? ISIS throws gay people off of rooftops. Does that make jailing them in the US okay, because it's not as bad?

> The world wasn't created to serve you personally. If you have visions of running the next Stormfront, don't act shocked if Cloudflare and your web host stop playing ball sometime down the line.

Allowing domain registrars and hosting providers to arbitrarily take down websites based on political viewpoints is a horrific overreach. Don't act shocked when tomorrow it will be your opinion that's deemed "incorrect" and you're booted off the web for your perfectly legal libertarian blog
The math on this confuses me. If they have 125,000 customers and are worth $20,000,000,000... investors are valuing each individual customer as being worth $160,000.

There's gotta be a typo in there somewhere, right?
Doubtful. The SEC tried to pad its complaint in its reply. That's not an indication of strength.
On iPhone this is true, but it's easy as heck on Android. You can just download an APK from the Web and install it, or you can install a secondary repository like APKPure if you want a centralized source. Having done both several times, I'd say it is generally harder to install an app that isn't in your distro's standard repo on Linux than it is to install an app outside the Play Store on Android.
> Conversion Therapy seems a lot like violence to me...

It doesn't to me. Who is right?
I’ll quote Jerry Seinfeld here: “I can’t watch a man sing a song.”

Jerry and I share sentiments on this.
>Otherwise there is no hope for pedophiles wishing to rid themselves of their attraction to children

I'm not sure this is a helpful comparison to draw.
I agree with both you and the parent comment :)

Yes, I don't even always need to look at the screen when I am typing fast. However, when I do, molasses UIs make me sad.

As an interesting aside, I notice that my brain tends to make interesting typos when I am typing without looking at the words that I type and get into a flow state when I am not thinking about the spelling of words, especially at high WPM.

By "interesting" I mean "I would have never consciously chose to spell that word like that" interesting. It shows that typing is happening on a different level than spelling; it's a more direct pipeline than writing with a pen where one has to think about shapes of letters. It sort of happens as an independent process, where <send a word to keyboard> happens without active thinking, and can have interesting "optimizations" along the way. I am looking at the monitor to make sure that these "optimizations" do not, in fact, occur.

To give an example of this, here's a snippet of what I type with my eyes closed:

"I'm a rocket ship on my way to mars, on a collision course. I'm a sattelite, I'm out of contrrol. "

So, I need to occasionally look at the screen to catch "contrrol" errors. And it's annoying to do so when the letters lag behind key presses :)
I think you misunderstand the now expanded definition of conversion therapy. In this instance we're not talking about electric shock or anything like that. Conversion therapy here just means "read these scriptures and testimonials and then you'll be straight".
I thought it might, but didn't remember. That's reassuring! It was worrisome to see it left out.