skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many investors care more about growth than capital efficiency. The investors in the last round of your startup typically have a 1x liquidation preference as well as protection against down rounds. For a company that's generating revenue this provides with protection in case things go wrong. They also have a portfolio. End result is that many investors are more risk tolerant than founders and will push for growth at all cost.

To be clear, here at Stream we have super supportive investors. But I've seen friends of mine struggling with their investors and the constant push for growth at all cost.
Reverse Engineering a Cheap BLE RGB LED Controller
RSF explains why Singapore's anti-fake news bill is terrible
As far as I'm aware, metals and fishing do not contribute to the Government Pension Fund of Norway, which is why I did not include them on the Norwegian side and similarly only looked at the top items on the Australian side (eg adding Refined Petrolium on the Autralian side would push the balance closer to 2 again).

Point is, while Australia isn't quite as well off as Norway, there are resources aplenty to pull off something similar on a somewhat smaller scale.
When fully minified, it's actually 47 bytes:
main{max-width:38rem;padding:2rem;margin:auto}

But I think the original is still well into the land of diminishing returns.
The Shrinking World of the Stamp Collector (2012)
If the doorbell camera was facing into the outside, then I am not sure what grounds the tenants have to complain. Hotels and apartments can and do monitor public areas.
Facebook Seeks to Leverage Its Own Failings to to Cement Its Monopoly Position
Exactly the point I was implicitly making. Trying to lump Costco's business model into what Alphabet has always been, but not so visibly to most users, and the goldmine Amazon stumbled upon, is more than a bit misleading.

On the other hand, it is a useful and probably necessary way to view Costco, as their renewal numbers possibly change over time.
'Industrial espionage was implicated in the capacitor plague, in connection with the theft of an electrolyte formula. A materials scientist working for Rubycon in Japan left the company, taking the secret water-based electrolyte formula for Rubycon's ZA and ZL series capacitors[citation needed], and began working for a Chinese company. The scientist then developed a copy of this electrolyte[citation needed]. Then, some staff members who defected from the Chinese company copied an incomplete version of the formula[citation needed] and began to market it to many of the aluminium electrolytic manufacturers in Taiwan, undercutting the prices of the Japanese manufacturers.[1][42] This incomplete electrolyte lacked important proprietary ingredients which were essential to the long-term stability of the capacitors[4][23] and was unstable when packaged in a finished aluminum capacitor. This faulty electrolyte allowed the unimpeded formation of hydroxide and produced hydrogen gas.[36]'

Huh, I did not know this was the reason behind it.
Show HN: A hand curated Twitter list of tech companies in Berlin
> There are people programming at 3 yrs that are experts and will run circles around you and your 38 years.

Yeah, there are; I've had the privilege of working with some of them. Probably they're even better now than they were then, though.
Custom Slack Status Messaging in 3 Minutes
Wish there was a mono version. Seems like the kinda font that would look great on a terminal.
Correct however Redox paves a way. The project is very modular, I can imagine someone coming along and using it as a starting platform and reusing parts of it.
I went from wanting sex every day in my mid 20s to wanting it only a few times a week in my 30s. I think it's normal. I'm more interested in having sex with more women than the same ones over and over again, though.
I agree that frank discussions between the healthcare team and patient/family would be ideal. Suppositions that the team knows best, intimidation from lack of knowledge, and unrealistic expectations can lead to unhappy outcomes for both parties. I'm sorry that your mom didn't receive the care that you and your sister felt she deserved. Messages like this will help others.
what about costs? How many requests will occur in the lambda side with sockets? It's an interesting concept.
I see you opted to use `redux-react-hook` on there. Any thoughts on the experience using Redux via hooks? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts in our discussion thread about creating a hooks API for React-Redux:

https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1179
I've been wondering why all these new fonts tend to have a strong focus on sans serif font (Fira has no serif variant, Source Serif Pro came later than the other Source fonts). Aren't there a lot of situations (namely, lengthy legal documents) where you'd prefer a serif font before you want a sans serif?
It undercuts vendors.

I could totally see a local government org being put through the ringer for every bit and bob of a website. If there is already an established font choice, that's one less widget they are being charged for.
"The px unit is the magic unit of CSS. It is not related to the current font and usually not related to physical centimeters or inches either. The px unit is defined to be small but visible, and such that a horizontal 1px wide line can be displayed with sharp edges (no anti-aliasing). What is sharp, small and visible depends on the device and the way it is used: do you hold it close to your eyes, like a mobile phone, at arms length, like a computer monitor, or somewhere in between, like an e-book reader? The px is thus not defined as a constant length, but as something that depends on the type of device and its typical use."

https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Putting Arial before Helvetica :(
You get a sense of death in various ways. Life-threatening illness. Experiencing the death of friends and family members (and not just experiencing, but processing your emotions and not running from the pain by choosing to simply ignore it as if it is not really there). Spending time with and caring for the sick and elderly.

There are more ways.

I've only been in a life-threatening situation once in my life, but I've experienced the others a number of times.

My point was that our culture seems to discourage absorbing loss (within oneself) and transforming it from pain into maturity, resilience, increased desire to help others, increased motivation to maintain communities, etc. Instead, there seems to be a pressure to make death (and loss) something ephemeral, such that the loss never really occurs.
I want something like this for math. Write an equation, or a definition and see a bunch of different 'versions' of that snippet and where they are being used.

This would help so much with understanding concepts and merging fields. It is way too common for different fields to independently "discover" some concept and be completely ignorant of all the work that has been done on that concept by some other field.
In my experience, automated color palette generation tools look cool, but don't work that well. Most applications or websites need far more colours than people think, even if those colours are used sparingly. This example chapter from the Refactoring UI book called "Building Your Color Palette"[0] was quite helpful, even though I didn't buy the book.

[0] https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...
>> I created the article! Trust me when I say I'm not cataloging this discussion or actively manipulating it.

I don't see any version of "alanwong" on the article. We have a political piece written by a journal/website/news source that is apparently owned by a Chinese company and authored by a woman named "Viola Zhou". Now we have someone calling themselves "alanwong" claiming to have created the article but whose name appears nowhere on said article. This looks like team effort to me, a badly executed one.

(Alanwong claims to be the editor, not author, but I don't see the editor listed on the website)
Having seen a number of HNers personal websites, they could absolutely stand to benefit from a simple article like this. Many of them are more interested in talking about how minimal their static site generator is, rather than whether the content on said site is readable or even mobile friendly.
> One of the obvious solutions for this is to charge hosting fees, something like users paying $2 per video upload or so.

That sounds like solving shoplifting by making customers pay an entrance fee. The majority of youtube uploaders are not the same 50 celebrities that rule the trending page and make thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars per upload.

I'm amazed that people who's uploads regularly stay below 10 do upload at all, I'd be even more amazed if they started to pay serious money just to upload their daily morning chat. Personally, I tend to care more for what happens beyond the carefully selected trending page. The trending page summons my inner Kaczynski, the rest calms him down. I'd hate to see those people stop.
It's just a repeater chip[set]. For something that competes with USB it's a pretty bad price. You can get pretty powerful CPUs for half that or less.
Totally agree. Investors are the worst at pushing this. And they do it with a lot of psychological tactics. We’ve been really fortunate to have great lead investors who are available to us and support us too. I think it’s very rare.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvX1CQ9ic

Interesting in the conversation with these two langs. Looking into Elixir for a new web app.
How to get developers to do things your way
Petroleum is likely to become a stranded resource given the move to replace fossil fuel with electricity in transportation.

Better to pump now for cash because prices will crash later.

If carbon is needed for industrial processes, mining coal will always be cheaper than offshore oil.
What if the progression ends up being:

1. Publicly-funded font(s) created

2. Use on govt websites grows

3. Publicly-funded CDN used for said govt site assets

4. Other, non-govt sites use said font(s)

5. Govt becomes asset host for web basics across thousands of non-govt sites

This may be another step in CDN lifecycle of startup --> megacorp --> commoditization --> govt service.
Just imagine how many more microservices they'll be able to deploy now!
Agreed. I replaced the home button in a couple of my wife's iPhones and it's a pain to replace. It's one of the first things that goes into the phone when they assemble it, which means you have to take nearly everything else out to get to it. Haven't had a problem with the solid state home button.
> More realistically, if the 20% improve their game in one area the 80% are just going to one up them.

How are the 80% going to one up them? One thing about dating apps for straight people is that you don't know what your competitors are doing. If the 20% up their game, most of the 80% won't know how. Also, remember that there is a 20% for women as well. I know that standards for men are crazy high on dating apps, but I also know some of the 20% women. They usually don't end up with the 80% men, and they often end up with men who are AWFUL (not just in terms of looks). 20% men can date 20% women.

> Someone lacking in confidence and small talk type skills isn't likely to naturally get better

I agree that small talk takes some work (just like becoming funny), but confidence is truly something you fake until you make. If you act confident, people will think you're confident. Then you pick up on people thinking you're confident, and that makes you feel even more confident. If you don't act confident, people won't think you're confident, and that will be one more thing holding you back from being confident.

I'm am not naturally confident. I've had my fair share of self esteem issues and have doubted myself on many other fronts. Fake it till you make it is terrible advice for a lot of things, and you also shouldn't always fake confidence (sometimes it's good to let it all out), but if you start faking it (especially with people you don't already know), you will make it.
Possibly with the exception of business. The property management company my girlfriend runs fields literally thousands of checks a month and sends hundreds a week.

This is the norm in the United States when actual money is involved.
There's a paper describing the approach in detail <https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01158>, but Aroma itself is not open source yet.
Agreed, but OP isn't serving minified content.

I brought up rem vs em because the difference is subtle and if you're byte shaving it's "free" bytes.
Oooooh. Good point. Currently, I have header (which has the post title, and date) nested in article, nested in main. Nesting the header inside the article makes sense to me, but you're (and other people on the internet/s.o., as I am now seeing) suggesting that header should be outside main.

I agree, and making those changes would mean I can switch from main to body in my css. The main complaint I have is then article and main seems redundant. What are your suggestions? Semantic HTML5 is hard :(
Fantastic font. I've long seen Helvetica (literally meaning "Swiss" with one added letter) used in official US forms, communication and the like. If this becomes the "US brand" and replaces Helvetica as a national font, it's a really great choice.
After seeing Gwern's website[0], I immediately knew what design I wanted for my personal site [1]. Tufte's CSS package is much heavier than these three rules, but it achieves the same result: Content designed to maximize readability by removing distracting elements and respecting known typography rules.

Because I write with an overly-large number of asides, I fell in love with the Tufte-styled side/margin notes. The resulting text is much easier to read, since I'm not littering the paragraphs with em-dashes and lengthy parentheticals.

I hope more people rebel against the Medium-looking websites with massive images and huge blocknotes in 30px fonts that may or may not just be a line from the next paragraph or an important point to keep in mind when reading the next paragraph.

#longformrebellion #endthelisticle

[0] https://www.gwern.net/About

[1] https://lawler.io
Does it mean that if I buy it and an female lightning to male usb adapter I'd get a good DAC for US$10?

Would be a bargain.
If only the Forest Service sites could use their templates
Insecure much?

If you read this article (by one of those companies "east of New York"), then 1,000,000,000 people will be watching the final season of Game of Thrones. [0]

So yeah, the world does does give a damn... hundreds of millions of them.

[0] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6895775/Game-Throne...
Is it legal for the federal government to specify a font license other than “This is released into the public domain”? They automatically give up all copyright upon publication, which ought to exhaust any licensing terms.
I understand the struggles and problems this article lists, particularly the "re-use or duplicate" quandary, but then I'm not sure how "CSS in JS" solves all of them. Seems to me like the question becomes, do I re-use this React component, or duplicate it?

Am I wrong?
> And this is how you end up with the HomerMobile.....

Ha Ha! I admit that I had to look up HomerMobile.

So let me clarify, Good design starts with empathy for every user. But good product design also means that you look at functionality and manufacturability, and make intelligent trade-offs in a thoughtful manner.

It is inevitable that some users will be put in the category of "Not our target user today", and some in "Not our target user, ever." But those decisions need to be deliberate, not haphazard, and not driven by stubbornness and hubris.

Giving Apple the benefit of the doubt that they follow this process, then they have put me in the "we don't care about him" category. I suspect, though, that at Apple, pretty renderings win over usability arguments.
I was looking forward to seeing someone else share this opinion. So the google behavior is driving some users away, im wondering why others are sticking with it?
I propose that in the course of professional contact we should strive to avoid use of google as a verb.
Yes i know its not slick to say, "Perform a search - using the search engine." instead of, "Google it.";
but it starves a mentality, i think it would disconnect the G-word from the perceived face of the internet, The whole point is a monopoly eventually gets out of hand and starts screwing its users, to its own benefit, due to largesse of the users. If google is to improve itself, We the users have to force it to by ignoring it and going elsewhere, This i think starts by RE-Realizing, as a herd, that there is choice other than the Alaughabet search engine [aka google].
The USDS (US Digital Service) was born in the fire of the healthcare.gov fiasco, and several industry veterans from Google stepped in to fix the infrastructure issues they saw within the US Government. Currently, @Matt_Cutts is leading the org. I can only think that your comment brings a smile to his face.
My understanding is that (b) only defines punishment for where federal jurisdiction uniquely applies, and does not limit the jurisdiction to specific locations. Particularly federal murder is applied to the murder of federal officials everywhere.

https://www.wklaw.com/10-ways-murder-becomes-a-federal-crime...
Item 5 of this list states that the federal crime of bank robbery can be promoted to federal murder under the same section I listed. This would suggest to me that this killing could also be federal murder.
Cool! For my personal taste a little bit too much padding for my Galaxy S9 though. 1.25rem or 1.5rem would be sufficient and gives another 1-2 characters per line. But that's mostly personal taste.
Or they could've been more transparent, everyone knows batteries dont last as long after 1-2 years, but they decided to gimp them down (and effectively slowing them down, even if you dont like that term, it is what it is). Their batteries are sub-par in capacity compared to most manufacturers (They hadnt even passed 2000 mAh until the 6 plus/6s plus, and their non-plus models have never passed 2000 mAh, only the X's have more than 2000)
Stick around for part 2. We haven't gotten to the good stuff yet :)
That is awesome one of the biggest pains I have with elasticsearch is how they so rapidly update major version number as like an excuse for breaking compatibility. IMO most important feature of a database is stability, this is something we get by maintaining compatibility with previous releases.
Wouldn't that just incentivize tenants to plant cameras on properties and claim that the landlord put it there? I agree with Ken that this isn't a simple problem to solve.
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>I tunnel my traffic over a VPN to avoid my ISP building a profile on me.

What do you believe this profile is made of? I don't mean this sarcastically. Facebook or Equifax's profile of you must be very complete and contextual.

But, your ISP has:

- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via SSL & certificate names)

- The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via DNS)

- The IPs you visited.

- The ports of those IPs.

- Any unencrypted traffic, which as noted, is pretty rare these days.

Do you believe that with this information your ISP can build a very meaningful profile? It seems to me that the profile which Amazon, Facebook, and a Bank, (VPN or not) can build is far more damaging. (and, I admit that just because you can't prevent the worse profiling, it doesn't mean you shouldn't mitigate what you can.)

I promise, I don't mean any of this in a negative way. I'm somewhat in your boat -- I tried to do a lot for privacy via blocking and other mitigations, but I often wonder: do Amazon and Gmail effectively defeat my efforts?
I love that you are considering how egotistical you are at 13. You seem like a really emotionally intelligent person which will serve you, by the way, so well in the software industry. Make sure to never neglect learning about who you are as a person emotionally; its an investment that will take you much further than just technical skills.
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Thank you! Before making this I visited a bunch of personal sites / blogs that had been posted here, and surprisingly very few of them were similar in this regard. I may post about the websites that gave me inspiration in the future. (You may like https://legiblenews.com)
The semantics are only suggestions, not hard and fast rules.

If you aren't adding top nav sections or site-wide footers, your current approach is fine.

If you do want to experiment with those, you'll find the (correctly-constrained!) body content looks funny with copyright footers floating in space somewhere to the left or right of the main text.
> You can't have prisons run by for-profit companies

IIRC only ~10% of prisoners are held in privately run prisons. It's kind of a red herring.

The bigger (and much harder to solve issue) is that all prisons, public or private, work with a slew of private companies in order to run (think food, phones, etc.) who have big incentives to keep the prison population high. And they can easily prey on prisoners, who are generally much poorer than the general population, because of America's concept of "justice".

But these huge costs of, say, video calls, are borne by the families of the incarcerated, who, like the prisoners that they're supporting, skew poor. As you pointed out, it's a vicious cycle.
Why 'Green' Germany Remains Addicted to Coal
Nope, literal truth. Lovely lady, but some decisions...
What do you mean? 16*38=608
I am really impressed with 18F and how the federal government has really stepped up their game on the digital/open source front.

It does make me wonder though if the usage rights of these projects should be restricted to use by US taxpayers though since that is who is ultimately paying for this work.
Quick summary: the inclusion of conservative figure Kay Coles James provoked a major controversy due to her record of suggesting transgender women should be held to the standards/expectations of men, and downplaying the urgency of climate change.

I dunno what to feel about this, really. This idea almost looked DOA since an ethics panel with a strong mandate would ideally include a wide variety of perspectives, including hotly controversial ones. Yet at the same time, you know Google would never stock it with a white nationalist, so I'm not sure it's that much better stocking it with someone who denies the validity of transgender people.
Does egg quality matter? Chickens that eat bugs versus chickens that eat dead chickens ground up with meal?
Any thoughts on the environmental impact on floss vs using and disposing these brushes once a week?

I use dental floss regularly, but I have been thinking that it's sure odd that I throw away little pieces of (what I think is) plastic everyday without thinking twice about it.
Unfortunately, no more IR blasters since S5!