skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a little bit of a difference between the social structure of governance in a place you have to live and an opt-in corporate structure for people who can choose where they want to work.
It's helpful to the extent it demonstrates just how much our energy infrastructure needs to change.
Agreed. This kind of unadulterated competition is a race to the bottom for their employees. Nevermind that it's almost certainly counter-productive and that they'll just be pushing a bunch of already burned-out employees who'll inevitably be making tired mistakes and developing outright resentment for their paymasters.
They're considering changing the law in my state along these lines -- to allow bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs. I'm ambivalent about it, personally.

However, in the story that abstractbarista tells, that bicyclist didn't even treat the stop sign as a yield.
I think it's a bell curve and most of us are ambiverts:

An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd. In simpler words, an ambivert is a person whose behaviour changes according to the situation they are in. In face of authority or in presence of strangers, the person may be introverted. However, in the presence of family or close friends, the person may be highly energetic or extraverted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#...
For the enterprise app:

1) Ensure your ACV is greater than $3000

2) Scale out an outbound prospecting inside sales channel

3) Scale paid ads on top of outbound prospecting

4) Create a promotion strategy/mix for your growing email list

5) Scale content on top of paid ads

6) Ensure $1 into the customer acquisition machine spits out $3.

7) Explore channel partners, affiliates, replacing yourself with a professional management team, or raising growth capital on very founder friendly terms, etc. if you'd like

I help B2B SaaS founders scale to $1M ARR and beyond with outbound prospecting inside sales funnels. If you'd like to learn more, happy to discuss harry [at] convopanda.com
> Don't be so quick to assume folks living rural/suburban lifestyles are living any less sustainably.

I wasn't thinking only of carbon footprint, but also of things like electricity and water hookups. The cost to provide basic utilities in rural areas has to be a lot higher per capita than in the city.
Meanwhile, I'd like to point out a little phenomenon.

Facebook: We're banning "fake news".

HN: Oh, this was so needed. They're not the government, so this is fantastic!

Facebook: We're banning "hate speech".

HN: Bravo, so brave of them. About time! A brighter future. Wonder if AI can automate this.

Facebook: This is a great idea. Governments, please make this mandatory.

HN: Wait, what!? Don't trust Zuck!

And now, here we are. Please stop the uncharitable "why do you think the 1st amendment applies to facebook" responses. We never did. Free speech is more than just some concept that only applies to governments.

When the general public ceases to respect and defend freedom of speech for each other, they will soon find the government coming for it.
So there’s a time limit on censorship and free speech?
What a click-baity, biased headline.
Growing up I was always taught logos on clothing is just free advertising for companies. I try to avoid wearing things with logos and remove stickers and decals and stuff from things I buy.

I also grew up hanging out with a bunch skaters. A few of my friends got good enough companies actually sponsored them and paid them to wear their clothes or use their boards. It sort of opened my eyes to the idea of fashion itself just being marketing.

If I do wear or use something with some kind of logo, I like to make sure it's from a company or product, whose business practices I support and don't mind advertising for rather than just because I like something they make.
When you spin it like that, that sounds like a good thing. Though more efficient cars AND increasingly fewer people on the roads may have helped carbon emissions.
Don't forget about https://dweb.me/
YUP exactly!
More or less, ive already gone there. Anyone in range that signs on can read from the library.
Why don't you match their pay rise?

Or give them projects they're more keen to work on?
"The vast majority of those living outside of major cities are those growing food or working in key resource industries like lumber and mining."

This isn't remotely true. The overwhelming bulk of people living outside of major cities simply live outside of major cities. In the United States some 4 million people own or work on farms. 60 million people live in rural locations. I highly doubt the other 56 million are in forestry and mining.

Some people live in rural places for no particular reason than that's where they like to live. I live in a rural location, and I certainly don't gnash and gnaw about how everyone is going to starve unless I have a black-soot belching F350. I can actually imagine a world where I can live sustainably as well.
> "I am involved in two bootstrapped startups"

You're way smarter than me if you can juggle two companies. Grow by focusing on just one?
I thought it was well-known he was based on Doc Brown, and transitively, Albert Einstein.
Don't forget the 4 independent motors!

I predict the term "quad" will have a completely different meaning for off-road enthusiasts in 2040.
This sounds super fun!
You're not in Toronto, are you?
More importantly, they have a separate use case that needs a set of features that aren't well covered by the current set of tools.

Maybe it isn't even more features, but rather a completely different tool. This could be a market opportunity.
>In their eagerness to celebrate her, however, many nonscientists on social media overstated

The NYT is playing coy as if the press isn't the number 1 offender of hyperfocus on a single detail in an effort to advance their pet causes at the cost of distorting the topic they're ostensibly covering.
Do you have a goal/direction in mind for the end state of the company? (Acquisition, IPO, Lifestyle business etc)

It's totally fine if you don't but I would work on figuring that out with the team, so that incentives are aligned, before making a decision on fundraising.

Also, I've noticed that there's alternative sources of funding for bootstrappers, that seem to be less demanding in terms of equity/growth/returns that might be more appealing.

As in, if you want to hold on to more equity or grow at your own pace.

A great article that was posted on HN: https://medium.com/swlh/alternative-funding-calculus-a-quant...
Previous discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19642554
> Hip hop is huge on Spotify, where it struggled for radio play and sales before because commercial radio is so conservative.

What? See how many rap albums are in this list [1].

1: https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/2000/top-album-sale...
5% is pretty low to basically nothing. I agree.
> Do retail investors get to subscribe to the IPO shares before the listing date?

Generally no, especially if it's in high demand. My broker allows retail investors to place bids if they have over $250k in their account and agree, as a condition of having access to future IPOs, not to sell within 30 days. However there's still no guarantee of having your order filled.

The prices I quoted were from the first day of trading, not the IPO.
What is the nature of those emissions? Mostly from agriculture and food distribution?
I don't consider myself from "the humanities", but the lack of applied rationality skills in the general population is dangerously severe. (Look at how populism spread by convincing people via the cheapest of rhetorical appeals to ego and arrogance.)
What a disappointing thread. You two should try harder to understand what the other is saying, rather than just digging your heels in and pretending your words are the only ones in the conversation that matter.

The opportunity for a great discussion was there, because both of you have relevant experience and have thought carefully about the situation. Oh well. Instead you just spent paragraph after paragraph trying to set the boundaries of the discussion in a way that excludes the other.
I agree that in a device without exposed metal and with a two-pronged plug it doesn't matter. And those devices extremely common at least in Europe.

It's mostly problematic if you make assumptions around knowing which pin in neutral that turn out to be wrong: for example on a lamp socket you could put the exposed part on Neutral, making it safe to touch. That becomes dangerous if you switch Neutral and Life. If you assume you don't know which is neutral you obviously wouldn't design it that way and protect any metal surface with some isolator (plastic) or ground it.
The only things on your list that they should be prohibited by law from showing is kiddie porn, rape, and targeted bullying. People should be able to police themselves from the rest as they see fit, but there's nothing wrong with posting it online.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627885.
If VCs are reaching out to you, that's a sign you're doing something right- and as long as you can literally afford to keep doing it yourselves, keep doing it yourselves.

VC's won't corrupt your work, VC's are there to fill in blind spots, gaps, hiring, board, things you probably aren't good at because that's not your focus right now.

You can find incredible VC's who will take your company places you could never have imagined- but right now, if you can afford it- why bother.

Taking on advisors is a great tool though as well as VC's, the equity cost is like percents of a percent for all of them and you get X hrs/month of resources. If you're building tools that require specific regulation requirements, etc.. then you add a regulator as an adviser.
I know that an anecdote is not data, but the only time I've been in an accident with a car, it was because the car ran a stop sign, causing me to slam into the side of it.

And yes, I was seriously hurt.
Yeah Soundcloud has been tough, a lot of things aren't available via the API so I'm trying to scrape their site. I'm hoping to improve Soundcloud support soon.

That's a good idea, I'll investigate some sort of embedding strategy that would support that!
Qualcomm has no obligation to GPL their kernel drivers. Nor does nvidia, or any other KLM maker. This has never demanded that kernel drivers be open sourced. That's why it's impossible to make a runnable AOSP image for many devices.

Vendors still make generally minor changes to the kernel, but these are not unique or special or some competitive edge. They've just nuisance necessities.
Really excited to see what comes out of the upcoming Dweb retreat the Archive is sponsoring.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - Ronald Wright
I wouldn't be so sure about them not having the "what-to-wear" ontology. I worked with them a few years ago and they had a pretty long and comprehensive list of these categorical webs. It's a core area of focus for them.

Just a heads up.
Interesting take on it. For me Slack always felt like something for people who, well, are kinda bored.. just like it was made to slack around – you get the idea.

I always found emails more productive for exactly that reason – you don't get so many pointless jokes and people have to set priorities whom to write what thing.

And if you really wanna have human interaction, just go there, make a 5 minute coffee break with them, have a little chat and be on your way. Or well, call, write them on the messenger of your choice, something like that.
Cant lower the CEO's paycheck 8)
(mostly serious sarcasm)
It would be helpful to know a bit more about your situation; if I were on your board, here are the starting questions I would have to help you figure out what you want to do.

* Are you definitely dominant in your niche? If so, how long can you remain so while 'just' reinvesting profits? How big is the niche?

* Presuming you are and can definitely stay the dominant one, are there target areas next to your niche you'd like to go after and can't because of capital?

* Would additional capital let you add revenue through new features / adjacent product enhancement?

If the answer to any of these is that more capital would be helpful, either to make more money, stabilize the business, or grow the value, then you need to figure out how you want to take that money on.

Generally there are three ways businesses get additional capital: equity finance, debt finance and trade partners.

My guess from your question and how you explain your business is that if you sit down and take a cold hard look at where your business is at, then you will conclude you have some real risks, and money will help mitigate those risks.

This is a tough mental game to play as a startup founder, you have to stop thinking product vision for a little bit, and switch it around, and be like "I'm X product manager at Y company / just VC funded / my enemy from junior high who is rich, and I want to fuck us up and drive us out of business. How do I do that?"

Once the business is real, and has real ongoing value, then part of your job is mitigating those risks. Usually the right way to do that is to grow the business into a dominant market position so that you're not vulnerable, and that's (part) of the thinking behind taking money -- so that you can grow rapidly, and get through that risk period where anyone might notice you've got something good here and come take it away from you.

So, how do you figure out debt/equity/trade? Short answer is that trade is almost always preferable if you can get it -- details depend on your product and industry. Between debt and equity, it varies, all the time, and will vary at the stage your company is at.

In brief, though, at its best, you'll bring on real partners with VC money, people who will guide you, kick your ass, help you, and end up with a significant portion of your company in exchange. (At it's worst, it's much, much worse than that). If you bring on strategic investment from the in-house VC teams at your customers, that has a different flavor. If you get big enough to have an interesting stable return rate for Private Equity, that's again a different flavor, with different expectations about your team -- it doesn't sound like you're their yet, BTW. :)

Debt comes in two flavors, recourse and non-recourse, essentially are you going to give them your house if you fuck up -- and they're priced differently, and it's harder to acquire non-recourse financing.

Enjoy where you're at! It's nice to have something working. And, finally, remember you cannot undo an equity round - they lost longer than many marriages - so tread carefully.
Maddox took this approach back in '04.

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Like what stores?
Governments have tremendous purchasing power that they can use to push for better technology. Why write empty laws like this when they can instead hand down a directive that all BC government fleet purchases starting in 2020 be zero emission.
It was never a secret to begin with.
Mobile is definitely on the roadmap!
Are there countermeasures to this? What if I upload a stranger's DNA with my identity? Or my DNA with a stranger's identity?
Agreed, however am in Los Angeles. Would recommend remote but this type of thing might be better in person. Perhaps each city can create their own. Even in LA there'd probably need to be a group in each part of town, like west, downtown, and/or Pasadena.
Have my girlfriend's father out for the weekend from Nanaimo. Just last night he was telling us about Kitimat where he grew up. They drilled tunnels through mountains to create enourmous hydro generating stations. Pretty interesting stuff. I'd be curious to hear more about the environmental impacts of that project—but yes lots of hydroelectric power up there—and potential for more if I understand correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitimat#Kemano_hydroelectric_p...
Yep, the complexity of deploying docker and k8s versus uploading an WAR or EAR file into a JEE application server.

One of the nice things of being in Java and .NET lands since day one, and C++ since its kindergarten years, is to see all the cool kids coming up with "totally new stuff". watch them re-learn what we already did, and eventually collect some improvements and those stacks adopt what was actually new since the last reboot.

In the long run the turtle still seems a better option.
> To learn Japanese you need to learn to speak it first.

Well, to be fair, that's true for any language. Learning English by reading does not work: ask any Korean (or Japanese) who went through public English education in the 80s or before.
Having worked full-time remote for more than two years so far (and part-time remote before that) I agree with the conclusion that remote workers are no less productive than on-site employees, but that the trade off can be frustration and feeling disconnected.

I would actually say I am more productive at home (no commute, fewer in-person distractions, comfort of having my own kitchen and making coffee my way).

When I go into the office for occasional on-site meetings, I definitely feel more invigorated and energized from being around people and collaborating on a shared vision, at the expense of being able to focus deeply and get concentration-heavy work done.

I think it's about striking the right balance, and having a company that strives to enable the remote teams (especially important if you are a hybrid on-site/remote company)

I'm overall happy with the mix/ratio, and I think what helps is that we're always striving to improve wherever possible.

edit: typo
Oh gosh well thank you for pointing that out
Doesn't that simply highlight how unfit for that purpose it is (along with things like Social Security numbers in the US)?
From Employee to Bootstrapper How I Prepared My Finances Before Bootstrapping
That's roughly what they do at my company. Many people in the company have some form of Computer Science certificate/degree, so shouldn't be that hard to make them develop...but you hit the Peter Principle much faster in this line of work. The CTO loves the hanging on by the seat of your pants optics. "Look at him go. He doesn't have any idea what he's doing, but he's getting it done. That's what we want." The rock stars puff up and grouse about the recent QA to senior DEV promotion, then ridicule them, then you find out the rock star has been working until past one every morning since part of their responsibility as a lead is to make sure the QA-cum-Senior Engineer's work is code complete. Then they leave. And yes, then a great developer is hired...but they never tell us where they're going...
I'd love to give everyone around me huge pay rises each year and only work on really fun new projects but unfortunately the boss doesn't agree. :)
Yeah, but at least unions don't take your entire paycheck up front before giving you your cut.
That strikes me as dismissing "progress" as a mere blip in human history. The reason the average person was more willing to spend money on music is because we improved matters having to do with copyright and licensing. Good copyright and patent law serves a useful purpose in encouraging people to create or innovate in a system that would otherwise discourage doing so.
Why is Objective-C the second most dreaded language?
True, but it nonetheless encourages manufacturers to invest in zero emissions vehicles. Switching to clean energy can't happen overnight, and the real solution is population control, but it's still a signal in the right direction.

Having said that, I have no strong opinion on whether humanity is smart enough limit its own growth enough to avoid decimating all the other species and the natural balance, though if I had to guess I'd say "no". We seem to be kind of like locusts that way.
That is why libraries exist.
I think it's fairly reasonable that anybody who runs a recommendation service is held responsible for the content they recommend. YouTube isn't just a video hosting platform, it's a homepage providing recommendations, a service that automatically queues up a new video after the one you're currently watching, and an advertising network that directly funds the creation of the videos they host. YouTube is already putting their thumb on the scale - the least they can do is be responsible about what they recommend.

It's been pretty clear over the last couple years that our democracy really is so fragile that it can't survive one of the dominant media companies of the day actively promoting extremist and hateful content.
Maybe look closely at the landing on the Hudson river. A good sci-fi plotline for getting out of hairy situations is heroic manual flying that is only made possible due to the automated systems.
It's very low and, from my own experience, significantly higher than average.

My experiences are almost entirely UK based, outside big name or hip companies.
Thank you!

I've been meaning to look into MusicBrainz, I definitely intend to do some integration with them.
I will go further. None of the most popular top tools are promoting the best mode of whatever they are doing. And most of it has to do with realtime and notifications being abused in the interest of profit by centralized corporations that want to lock people into their platform and get them to "engage" with it.

Slack for work - not the best for actually writing useful messages, more like <blah><return> <blah><return> and working people see ping ping ping, go back in and respond, and on it goes.

Twitter for news - not the best for actually having productive discussions, more like <shout><announce><snipe><war> and most people see ping ping ping, and go back in and like/retweet to their 5 followers.

Facebook for social - not the best for actually getting together (i.e. social life), more like <post cat video><post wedding photo><post political meme><post outrage> and lonely people sit at home and see ping ping ping, and go back in and respond, and on it goes.

By now many of you know that I have spent the last 7 years working on a solution. The problem is that in order to build anything people will want to use, you need to spend at least half a million dollars on a realtime platform that can do stuff. If you want to see the problems and solutions, check out the videos on these pages:

https://qbix.com

https://qbix.com/platform

https://qbix.com/blog (latest post)
I don't really think so. A turnkey "host your own video site" would pretty much qualify a competitor -- I'm far more loyal to the people I watch on YouTube/Twitch than the platforms themselves. If they moved to their own site it wouldn't matter too much to me assuming I still had a way to get it on my TV.
You can't haul electricity into the wilderness.
Tesla doesn’t advertise. What are you referring to?
Just adding on to this, some math:

The US emits about 11 gigatonnes of CO2 per year. At $150/ton, sequestering it all would cost 1.65 trillion dollars or about 8.25% of GDP.

That's about what we spend on social security and the military combined.

So, it's a lot. But it's possible to imagine doing it.

I kinda wish there was a company with a bunch of sequestration equipment out somewhere that people could just give money to in order to suck out more CO2 from the air. Why doesn't this exist yet?