skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Project seen. A typeface concerned with privacy
Depends on the ratio of one-time customers to regular customers.

I go to a coffee shop maybe once a year - perhaps I'm running late and didn't have time to make coffee at home, or I'm out with friends and they spontaneously suggest getting coffee.

Needless to say, I've never had a reusable mug with me in such circumstances! So customers with behaviour like mine are going to be getting a new mug every time, or not patronising coffee shops.

If one in every 70 customers is someone like me, switching to a 70-use-to-break-even cup would be a net loss for the environment even if you get 100% reuse among regular coffee shop patrons.
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It's ironic that you're calling non-disposable items garbage.

Genuine question, because everyone's life is different, is it really that big a deal?

I bring shopping bags with me when I go grocery shopping. They're more comfortable to carry than the disposable plastic ones. Often they just lie in the boot of the car where they don't take up much space. The backpack I bring to work is big enough to fit the handful of things I might buy on the way home.

I have a resuable coffee cup and water bottle on my desk at work, and I much prefer them to the disposable versions. Occasionally I buy a bottle of water or a coffee in a disposable cup, but whatever, I've still massively reduced the waste I produce from these things. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Reading the comments . It seems almost half the power requirement is needed to power the amps for the audio . So if ur not using it u won't reach that power use
This reminds of one of the more memorable question/advice from Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One. "What's the one thing you can do 10x better than your competitors?". IIRC, the chapter was titled "The last mover advantage".
> That's a pretty standard figure of speech.

You're implying a consensus that the downvotes readily disprove.
It doesn't put me off, but makes me more cautious. I need to put more effort and focus on what makes my product different to the competition.

That clarity can really help push your product forward in a crowded market. I also feel that doing 1 thing and doing it well or better at launch can really help.
> 4 hours of counting, and it lasts until 1 AM often

I'm curious, what makes it so long ? Is it your voting system, or something else ?

In France, each time I went counting, it was always less than two hours.

> > They are the same people you see picking up trash or doing other menial work for the community.

I'm part of both groups of people ;).
In the short term they do, but if the benefits are based on VC, they just cannot last forever.
Paywall, is there any way around it?
That's bollocks.
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"Ceci n'est pas un UI."

Shouldn't it be "Ceci n'est pas une UI."? Since interface is a feminine word in French, the article in front of UI need to be feminine too.
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This needs some support to query by tags to turn into something awesomer.
There’s always a first to cut job in every business.
I was 15 in 1980 and I'm therefore old enough to remember the existential dread of nuclear destruction that was present during the Cold War - I'm in the UK, which would have been one of the hardest hit countries in any conflict.

What do I remember about that time? That most people completely ignored it - we escaped the effects of a global nuclear war through luck and sensible judgement by a large number of people on both sides who generally chose not to do something.

Unfortunately, choosing to do something is much harder (exhibit A: the UK's Brexit debacle) - so I'm genuinely worried about the potential for us to actually decide on what to do even if we all agree that something should be done.
Awesome work, I will introduce this to my kid. With the built-in database/kv-store and excellent UX, I can't think of a better platform to get started with web development.
s/some grunge bands/many of the most well known grunge bands/

Let's not downplay it either.
> I don't dress up a lot so I can mostly just order jeans and such online.

When I was at a brick-and-mortar clothing store, I picked a plain gray shirt that fit me well and asked the staff how I could get 10 of these. They looked at me like I was an alien speaking Turkish. Amazon said "sure thing pal". So that's that.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763413 .
This is literally their job in some cases. Once they have a sufficiently large following they start putting out ads and getting sponsorships. Presumably it's a form of artistic expression, although I cannot claim to truly understand the appeal of their content.

There are certainly cases where I could see it becoming a real problem, especially for younger people. However, nothing stops you from using the platform for something great! Be the change you want to see in the world.
Spelling: Glühwein.

There is a catch though. Those mugs either stay near the stand they were sold from, or are taken as souvenirs. This works just fine.

With buying coffee on the go, people would take their mug along with them to wherever they are going, and you would have to hand it back the next time you visited that particular coffee shop or one of the same franchise. The risk of the mug getting damaged is much higher, and it is not nearly as convenient to carry a dirty mug around as it is to dispose of a used paper cup.

A lot would have to chance for such a system to work. Customer mentalities being one aspect.
The good Friday experiment was done in a church . There is a nice follow up by Dr Rick doblin about that .

Many religions use psychedelics so it's generally not something outside of it
(There's a typo on HN's title, the last "e" is missing in neurogenesis)
For a startup, people use your product because they have a problem to solve. It does not matter how bad your UI/UX is, how drastically bad your flows are, if you are offering a solution no one else is, you will have users. It just needs to work.

It's funny because I came to the same conclusion years ago, but had not written it until yesterday in a different context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770812

Great minds think alike :)
These use cases are all great for speech recognition, which is decades ahead of brain interfaces and less invasive (and just as quiet if you want by sub-vocalizing into a throat mike). Again, not particularly interesting to most of us but very interesting to people with various disabilities.
Exactly. It took me under 30 seconds of scanning through the page to understand most of the API. No fancy badges, abstract graphics or buzzwords, just a direct demonstration of the value. This is how product pages should be.
As a European I really don't get take-out cups, in most Western Europe there are two options: either you have the 3 minutes it takes to sip on a cappuccino or hot tea, or you drink an espresso standing (both in a ceramic cup). If you see someone walking around with a pint of hot beverage, it's a safe bet they are American.

I heard some American friend that it's part of American culture to control climate: drinks must be piping hot in winter and full of ice cubes in summer. Everyone has to look like they are in a hurry and everything has to be BIG. Combine these things and to-go insulated cups become a cultural phenomenon.

Then again it's funny that in Western Europe alcoholic drinks to go are totally a thing and people love drinking beer on a lawn when it's nice outside. Again, cultural differences...

EDIT: I was thinking mostly about Italy, France, Spain, Benelux, but Austria has a pretty solid café culture too.
Kudos for quickly adding an anti-csrf token to logout, but I agree with the grandparent that hosting arbitrary user content on the same TLD as the management interface is still problematic security-wise.

See github.com vs github.io[1], amazon.com vs. elasticbeanstalk.com, azure.com vs azurewebsites.net, etc... Every major company I know of that hosts arbitrary user content dedicates a TLD to it that's not shared by the management APIs.

[1] https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu...
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Just to clarify, you're unable to Accept the Ts&Cs and unable to use basic functionality until you do?
The Dutch weather forecast has an 'expert' forecast that includes confidence bands, see:

https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/weer/waarschuwingen-en-verw...

The page is not very popular though
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Funnily enough, we just hit a similar issue.

I'm part of an environmental group at my workplace, and one of our recent pilots was to get rid of single-use paper cups. It was crazy: despite ample clean ceramic cups being available --and indeed stacked on top of the coffee machine!-- many people defaulted to paper cups, sometimes to the tune of having 5-10 used paper cups on their desk at the end of a day.

Anyway, one of the issues that the pilot uncovered was that no-one was loading or unloading the dishwasher: it transpired that everyone thought it was someone else's job. This led to piles of dirty cups and a shortage of clean cups, despite each kitchen area having a dedicated commercial-grade dishwasher.

The long-term solution is education - so that people understand that we must all take responsibility for the cleaning together, and to train people how to use the dishwashers. The short-term solution is for each kitchen area to have a couple of colleagues who keep an eye on things.

I'm one of them for my floor, and I unexpectedly find it strangely therapeutic to do the dish-washing :)
Not Scotland, but I've travelled a lot in Wales, and most, if not all, of the cottages we have rented have had these notices.
Sometime its just a single feature that makes a difference. There are tons of news aggregators out there but I decided to build my own anyways, because it updates the website automatically without that I have to scroll. After I build it I realized that I use it as a "second-screen website" where the news just runs over the site like a ticker. I don't have a lot of visitors, but the ones that come stay for a long time, that is great!
http://www.uptopnews.com/
Very often these personal efforts are simply virtue signalling or a way for people to feel better about themselves. Doesn't mean that you should be wasteful with your resources or actively damage your environment but please, don't pretend to be saving the earth by drinking less milk.

Where a difference can be made:

- politics - if you are in politics yourself, or you can lobby and exercise some pressure to dictate policy, that can go a long way

- industry leaders can actually make a difference but don't have the incentives for it

- research and innovation - if you're an engineer this is probably where you can make the biggest difference even if you're unlikely to be one of the few people who have a breakthrough - renewable energy, alternative materials, new ways of food production and so on - you can put in work to improve the technology behind any of these to the point where they make more economic sense
You should be protected by the HIPAA legislation.
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I had a very enlightening talk with a sales manager at the first company I worked for. We were pioneering some augmented reality applications and really had a few worlds first. As an engineer, I had thought that guaranteed us a market.

That guy explained to me that quite the opposite, that forced us to "create" the market. A thing that is like exploring a jungle with a machete, whereas marketing an existing product is like driving on a toll road. To my surprise, he explained he preferred to have competitors: you know where the market is at, the typical pricing, there are events for your field, you know the essential features, you can compete on prices and plans, users are talking about the products, know how they can use it.

We, often, met clients who had no idea what our products could achieve for them, how to use them, how to integrate it into your processes. I have learned that there is nothing more dangerous than depending on your clients having imagination for a sale. You need to spoonfeed applications.
> The median salary for a software engineer in the US is $100K

I don't think this is a fair comparison because it includes people with 10 years experience, and people with a 4-year computer science education. It would be better to look at the median income of developers with no more than 5 years experience and no more than 1 year engineering education.

Also the problem with increasing the minimum salary in the ISA is that it gives Lambda an incentive to reject applicants who are less likely to achieve that minimum. Personally I think Lambda should increase their $30k cap in order to align incentives for maximising the graduates income.
Just as an extra datapoint, when it comes to ocean racing, one of the biggest complaints about mesoscale weather data is that it does not have a confidence score. The weather forecast says that the north pacific high is going to shift 200 miles west, which changes your fastest course from San Diego to Hawaii from a west then southerly route, to a south then westerly route (the high pressure system sits directly in between)... if the confidence on this forecast is 95% then you know to commit to the southerly route, but if it is only 51% confidence and typically the high is 500 miles more east than this then you might make a different decision and monitor the situation as it develops.

Anyways, if anyone at the NWS is reading this, we do actually pay close attention to this stuff and a confidence score of some sort would make boat weather routing software a whole heck of a lot more accurate.
Great advice!

Thanks for sharing, it will help me in a current idea I have.
Which is incredibly easily to get around with a bouncer and shell company in eastern europe or pretty much anywhere. We're not talking state-actor anonymous, but anonymous enough.
Virtualize https://passthroughpo.st/hackintosh-kvm-guide-high-sierra-us...
Having been through the startup journey for the past 4 years, this advice is solid especially around the passion.

Having passion for your idea is quite understated. Passion is what pulls you through the tough times and helps truly unlock the magic in your solution. It's because you care about solving the problem that gives you the competitive advantage.

In my early days, I only spent about 3-6 months on an idea trying to validate it, hitting a roadblock and feeling deflated. With my current product, the idea has been worked on, thought about, validated and iterated for close to 6 months. Long time in the startup world but it's important for me to truly understand what the market is looking for before diving straight into sales. This turned out to be quite important as potential enterprise customers to make sure our solution resonates.

We're now looking to land demos and hopefully close some early sales and then look to raise seed funding once things have been derisked.
I've been looking for the same thing. An Apple Photo clone would be perfect, as I like this product very much, but I would like to have control over my photos.
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Omni has just released a beta web app, which you will have to pay a decent amount for (it's a subscription service).

https://test.omnifocus.com
Average people are already generally pretty ignorant... Removing even basic general knowledge from society, is not going to do anything good.

We tend to underestimate that because we (engineers / people on HN) mostly happen to have a good education and interest in general knowledge.
You obviously don't have a right to view it, that's correct.

But publishers, studios, whatever you want to call them, don't get tired to tell us that users are not willing to pay for the content etc., but that's simply not true.

Most often it's about the hurdles to access the content. Be it scattering over half a dozen platforms, restricted access to specific markets or whatever.

They are the ones creating the problems that people find (more or less legal) solutions for.
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Author here: Last weekend I participated in the Ludum Dare Game Jam (#44, Theme was "Life is your currency") and did a game from scratch in 48 hours:

TIME ZONE

How to play?

Arrow Keys Left/Right: Move left/right
Arrow Keys: Up: Jump
X: Shoot

Instructions:
Try to reach the exit before your life counter reaches zero. You can earn valuable time by collecting Life Capsules. When you destroy an enemy they will drop Life Capsules. But be careful: Each shoot costs you time.

Play at itch.io:
https://joemanaco.itch.io/timezone

Source code:
https://github.com/JochenHeizmann/timezone-ld44 (will add Readme/Build Instructions later on when I got some more hours of Sleep)

Soundtrack:
https://soundcloud.com/jochenheizmann/timezone-ludum-dare-44

Ludum Dare Game Page:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/timezone

I did everything from scratch (Code, GFX, Audio, Level Design). I've used Monkey (which transpiles to Javascript) to code it, Photoshop for the pixels (Artwise I was inspired by Downwell, which I tried to mimic, but I suck at art) and Logic and Renoise for the Music and Sound FX.
I'm not talking about private hosting of containers, I'm talking about an alternative to today's public registry of container images that is 100% verifiable so that when something like this happens it is possible to be certain that no one has tampered with any of the container images.
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Separately from our monstrously large Senate ballot papers, which are ultimately scanned and computer-counted at the central counting centre, our much smaller House of Representatives ballot papers still use preferential/instant-runoff voting.

The nature of preferential/IRV systems requires that ballot papers be counted centrally for the entire district, as distribution of preferences needs to take into account all ballots from all polling places. However, we still conduct a preliminary count in each polling place which is used among other things for media purposes. The full, definitive count is a lengthy process which can take weeks, and is conducted centrally - also including postal ballots and absentee ballots from other parts of the country.

The same staff who are responsible for counting ballots at the end of the day are also responsible for setting up the polling place and issuing ballots throughout the day, which requires some procedural training especially for officers responsible for issuing absentee ballots and things like that. At the polling places I've worked at, we've usually had 1000-2000 voters come through on election day, and would have 5-10 staff working there. Counting and polling place packup usually takes us 3-4 hours.

(Also if you think the ballot paper image you linked was big - I refer you to https://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/5560654939, which shows 311 candidates running for the New South Wales Legislative Council in 2011.)
The custard probably mostly acts as a resistive load and mechanical support. Actual radiation happens in the wires.
The web interface to our local cloud at university became downright unusable for a week before we found that the problem was that a server on the cloud used for teaching was getting ddos'ed.

Apparently some student set up a mmorpg server and then made some enemies...
The site guidelines say: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Being the title of a published research paper doesn't immunize against those things, unfortunately, and based on the comments posted here, that title was arguably both.

We know from long experience why it's helpful to make such a change: if we don't, people will keep complaining about and bickering about the title. Editing is the only way to soothe title fever. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

This thread still comes up if I google the paper's original title, and is the #1 result if I google "software project heroes".

p.s. Welcome to HN!
Lots of fun and great sound, too
As ever, surely the true answer here is "it depends". Prickly personalities are going to do better in solo enterprises (less arguing), whilst people with a tendency to procrastinate might find a team dynamic encouraging.

I think I personally would thrive more in a partnership or team, but then I've been running a limited company with a mate for over a decade as a side business, and it's hard for us to agree on anything. He's not a bad guy, he just has different goals to me.

And when I reflect on that, I realise many of my goals are about being able to be my own boss. As such, my next venture will likely be solo.

Definitely not for everybody, though!
I used to use fireftp on firefox before it was broken by some change or other firefox brought in that crippled loads of extensions.

I now open up waterfox on those occasions when I need to use fireftp.

I'll definitely give this a try out if it can do the job instead
We know there is life in the universe (on our planet), there is empirical proof of that.

So the question now is whether there is also life on other planets. If you don't think there is life on other planets then you must think our planet is somehow special / extraordinary among all others. However, given the cosmological principle, then the more planets there is, the harder it must be to justify that our planet is special. The fact that there is an unthinkably huge number of planets in the universe seems to make that extremely unlikely.

The GP dismisses statistical arguments in favor of empirical evidence, but much of what we accept about physics or the universe is the result of statistical processes. Since our universe is stochastic, strictly speaking we never really know anything for certain, we just deem something is accepted as true when it reaches an arbitrary statistical threshold.

Also, just because you don't sense something directly it doesn't mean that you can't infer that it exists based on statistical arguments alone.
For example, when estimating the number of species on Earth, there is no evidence that there are more species than the ones we already discovered, but we infer there are because we are discovering new species all the time, which means it's extremely unlikely we have discovered them all already.

The cosmological principle itself is a statistical argument more than anything... there is no proof that Earth isn't at the center of the (entire) universe, but almost nobody thinks that nowadays.

Note that in this thread we are only discussing whether there is life somewhere else in the universe, not whether there's alien life on earth right now, which obviously is harder to justify.
good series btw!
> people who cannot afford to take a day off

Elections aren't on Sunday there? In France all elections are Sunday so that as many people as possible can go vote.
You could use Lucene directly in a couple of languages:

Python Port: https://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/index.html

.NET Port: https://lucenenet.apache.org/
The thing with tracks made "in a morning" (and that's exactly what low-effort means) is that most of the time it's a variation of something that worked well once in the past, and you can sell more of the same. There's little innovation in this type of art.
I don't care about multiple storefronts. What I do care is games artificially being sold on one of them because the studio was paid to do that.
will have to change my phone code.
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I am not saying its morally correct or not, I am just saying that the copyright holders help fuel piracy themselves by imposing these restrictions.
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