skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having an MVP doesn't bother me (or most people I can think of) as long as funding and a plan are in place (not based on lots of future promises). For example, I would never join a startup who has $50k in cash and promises for future money if X and Y are done. The reason is simple, I've seen the X and Y goals get moved on founders too often then everyone is screwed. Of course, it is different for founders/co-founders as it isn't rare to take $50k to prove something out then raise more money, but that isn't something most non-founders can accept as reasonable risk.

To be a bit more specific assuming you have actual cash in bank. Primarily the most important thing would be transparency about how much money there is, what the runway looks like and what's the plan to raise more. Transparency here would also have to inspire me that there is enough demand/support that the next round is possible and the product actually has some early traction even as just mockups.

Beyond transparency in all the aspects. Probably in order for me, I'd have to see a reasonably solid product idea, market and basic plan on how you plan to get from now to the next level and then the guesses how it goes from there on. I think most people in startups know anything beyond the first few months this early would be hard to predict, but knowing you have a plan is important. Along with this, understanding your experience and skills would be important.

After that it would boil down to a fair and real stock option offer on the table, not a 0.5% type situation, and some reasonable compensation.

I view finding people for early hires as not much different than wooing an investor, you need to convince those first few people you have a plan and can execute on it (with help of course) to get things moving forward.

Given where you are too, another option is forgo any employee hiring immediately and hire a consultant to create the MVP which can help you gain a little more traction and then start looking for employees as you get more funding.
Modern x64 is very difficult to beat and takes a lot more than just raw core count.

Are there any alternatives on the horizon?
Done. Basically startups headquartered[1] in the U.S. and having engineering office(s) in India.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_headquarters
I found this article that talks about what processor lines have the AMD PSP. https://freundschafter.com/cybersecurity-cpu-and-system-alte...

> After all this research we definitely found the latest AMD CPUs which do not include any PSP functionality. According to a table from CPU World we know now that these CPUs are those we searched for:

Desktop CPUs (Socket FM2):

AMD A4-6320
AMD A4-6320B
AMD A4-7300
AMD A4 PRO-7300B
AMD A6-6420B
AMD A6-6420K
AMD A8-6600K
AMD A10-6800B
AMD A10-6800K
AMD Athlon X2 370K
AMD Athlon X4 760K
AMD FX-670K
AMD Sempron X2 250

Notebook CPUs (Socket FP2, FS1):

AMD A4-5150M
AMD A6-5350M
AMD A6-5357M
AMD A8-5550M
AMD A8-5557M
AMD A10-5750M
AMD A10-5757M
> you can't fully boot without a microSD card yet

Not true! The Pi supports several different USB and network boot modes.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

This documentation doesn't cover the Pi 4, but USB/network boot is available there too, cf.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Some of the most extreme assertions about climate change are strongly disputable or outright wrong (for example, even the current high-end estimates wouldn't set records for Earth's temperature--merely the hottest in the Quaternary). It's not hard for many people to go from "this theory is partially wrong" to "there is no validity anywhere in the theory."
Terraform, VPC, and why you want a tfstate file per env (2016)
Reddit thread with detailed information on claim submittal [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/ch9tcj/cla...
Been using Chessable (chessable.com) for chess improvement and it really works wonders. The format is great for chess, especially for learning openings or for tactical situations where there is a clear best move.
That's a confusing question. The tragedy of the commons happens specifically when a resource is under- or un-priced.
- correct
- cheap
- fast

Pick two
Plant a tree, but not that one. USDA got it wrong with the Bradford Pear
Keep a water bottle at your desk. You might find yourself mindlessly drinking from it more than you'd expect, whereas if you had to go someplace to get water, you might be more inclined to ignore the thirst.
Welfare != socialism
Just load it via an archive?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190724090600/https://technode....

https://archive.is/I5bgm
This is why I chuckle when Europeans lament Americans and their air conditioning. In Texas, this is called “summer.” I am in Rome right now and it’s pretty hot, but luckily there is air conditioning in most places.

The bike-to-work crowd suggests that everywhere should use bikes instead of cars, however, what you experience in Belgium now — imagine that everyday in traditionally hot climate. It can be nice to bike to work in most California cities, but in the midst of a hot summer in hot and humid climates, it’s unnecessarily third-world to do that when we have cars with air conditioning.
Same in Germany - we have an intern from Tunesia, and he told us that it's quite usual for every home there to have an AC. He says he usually switches it on at 19°C.

Also, regarding the drought: If I remember correct, the soil hasn't yet recovered from the 2018 drought, at least here in Germany.
Not only does it exist, but it runs linux too:

https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Wi-Fi-Class-Memory-TS32GWSD...

You can run custom code on it: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=15.%20Transcend%20WiFiS...
Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
Still better than I-70 between Washington, PA and the turnpike though.
You should checkout the housing situation in Stockholm [1]. I'd say we have 20-25 years before outright nationalization of housing units there, with ever-increasing controls until that point. Unless something changes drastically, the socialists will demand it for themselves, and since they have a growing class of immigrants and renters, it's only a matter of time before it's politically convenient to steal from property owners for the 'greater good.'

1: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160517-this-is-one-ci...
Tons of reasons, really.

Unix was originally given away, but then it got wildly popular and Bell Labs regretted they couldn't capture much of the value it created. When Plan 9 came around, they were much, much stricter about it, and so it was much less accessible.

Unix was possibly the first widely-available operating system with its particular ethos - frustratingly simple and hackable. Plan 9 has much the same ethos, but wound up having to compete with Unix, which had a decades-long head-start.

Possibly the biggest problem Plan 9 has, though, is how well-designed it is. Unix was probably well-designed in its early days, but by the early 90s when Plan 9 came around, it'd been hacked up and contorted to all sorts of use-cases the designers never intended, like networking and graphical terminals. Plan 9 re-unified all these use-cases into a small set of elegant, orthogonal features... but it made anything outside those features even more awkward and difficult. For example, a web-browser doesn't make much sense in a Plan 9 world - you'd just run remote applications and have them display locally, rather than having a special local application that all remote applications must run inside. But it's hard to do anything in the modern world without a web-browser, so Plan 9 isn't a practical alternative for most people.
You should mention very clearly which Raspberry Pi board you're using. I'm not sure if CPU throttling can affect I/O but if yes then it might also matter if you use a good case or use active cooling or heatsink.

Also, which OS version did you use? What Linux kernel version?

I'm more interested in longevity tests and industrial grade microSD card performance.
Breeze? What is breeze? Air is humid and still until 1 or 2am (last June there was also a heat wave but the nights were nice at least). :-(
Demystifying Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
Aren't water wells permitted? In that case, you simply require a meter, ideally the cellular or zigbee sort. I'm sure there would be water bandits but it doesn't seem totally impossible.
> And it's also not a stretch to suggest that a government that defines separatism and religion as two of it's three defined evils is committing cultural genocide on a large (millions+) section of it's country that doesn't conform to the rest of it's society.

I’ve already addressed the million+ figure and cultural genocide point above. As far as the Three Evils, religion is not one of them. Religious extremism is (for example, Wahhabism and Salafism). Many religions are practiced openly in China today. There are 39,000 mosques in China, many of them paid for by the state. Separatism is considered an evil for obvious reasons. Namely, it undermines the stability of society which can lead to large scale consequences in a country of 1.4 billion that is barely four decades removed from third world status, like China.

> There is only so much time in the day, and today I'll spend most of mine scrutinizing the layout of virtual networking devices. In order to receive news and information about topics I am less knowledgeable about I unfortunately must entrust others with the credibility to perform this scrutiny on my behalf. The ones I entrust to do this may fail, but that doesn't mean that I'd necessarily do better than them.

This is all fine and understandable. But if that is the case, don’t you think it would be better not to perpetuate conjecture masquerading as facts which can’t withstand basic scrutiny?
How the state runs business in China
I'm not sure "we scraped ELI5"[1] is really such a substantive advancement of the state-of-the-art that it deserves such a large write up. The Stanford Question & Answer Dataset is much more carefully curated.[2]

ROGUE[3] and BLEU[4] are pretty meaningful metrics for translations and for fairly short answers that that really only be phrased one way. For example, "What is the biggest mammal?" should be answered "The Blue Whale." There is little room for ambiguity: the words "Blue" and "Whale" must appear, as must the bigram "Blue Whale" for the answer to be correct. For a large or complex answer, the situation is different. Metrics based on word overlap like ROGUE and BLEU must either incentive memorizing the answer given in the training set (overfitting) or the inappropriately penalize semantically equivalent answers. For example, for the question "why is the sky blue?" if the algorithm produces "The sky is blue because Raleigh scattering off of water droplets preferentially scatters blue light at right angles. This is also why sunsets are red." and the answer on file is "light with long wavelengths passes straight through moist air, while light with short wavelengths tends to be deflected." Both answers are correct - indeed they are basically the same answer - yet they share so few words, bigrams, and trigrams that they would have to marked "wrong."

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/

[2]: https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROUGE_(metric)

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEU
They look cooler and have actual buttons and knobs?
Novation Circuit is way more flexible/fun than TE/Volca, although 5x more expensive. I'd recommend people to start with that one, it can be easily plugged into a pro studio later, it's perfect for traveling/commuting and allows "happy accidents" for finding cool riffs to happen faster.
Left to my own, I'll drink between 32oz to 64oz per day. However, a few years ago, I did a several month stint of attempting 1 gallon a day (128oz, or 3.79 liters). It was actually challenging. What I did notice is my skin cleared up and my acne breakouts became nearly non-existent. I had to ensure I stopped drinking before around 4pm otherwise I would be up all night having to piss.
> Yeah fine, that's a debate to be had, it shouldn't be coloured by morality though.

Do you think? In the case of Syria, for example, we're talking about 500 thousand deaths, millions displaced, a country in ruins. It's a disaster of gigantic proportions. And we made so many wrong choices before and during the conflict (first and foremost those of invading two neighbouring countries seeding chaos and fanaticism, then of siding against the regime at all costs, arming the rebels and prolonging the war) that could have made an enormous difference. But no, we wonder if it was the climate- the most indirect of all our possible responsibilities.

Sometimes I feel we're some sort of street hooligans à la Clockwork Orange beating up homeless people in the streets, and then seriously wondering if it's the fault of capitalism.
When you add time constraints, budget constraints, human constraints, believe me, declining optimization effort is not an act of laziness

(and the one who answers you has spent thousands of hours optimizing assembly routines for 3D engines, optimizing SQL queries to get the max out of some server, optimizing network traffic to optimize parallel computations,...)
Coding remix site Glitch hits 2.5M apps
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...

It's mentioned in the FTC site.
> Famine is our future. In the USA, we are already locking up climate refugees, many children, in cages.

Funnily enough, I think this would actually be justified if climate change was going to cause imminent famine as you're suggesting. Given the choice between having the population of the US undergo a mild famine while to the south there's a famine beyond living memory (thanks to preventing climate-motivated migration) or having a famine beyond living memory here (thanks to the extra few hundred million mouths to feed), I know which one I would want the US government to choose. Helping refugees is a good thing, but the US government has an obligation to US citizens first and foremost. That's why we call it the United States government, and not the Mexican government, or Guatemalan government, or Honduran...

If you let too many people get into the lifeboat, you all drown.

I don't think that this is currently the case, though. Famine, when it comes, will affect the rest of the world far more than it will the US, Canada, and Russia. Food will become more expensive, but that will be due to exports rather than having more people than the land can feed - unlike almost every other country on the planet. Also barring further improvements in agriculture, of course.
A Brutal Disease Kills Monkeys. Flies Could Be Spreading It
I was definitely heavily hyperbolizing and assuming. I have no idea what their actual thought process or response was. I just think you probably have to be pretty arrogant to deny 30 billion from Google for your gimmick fad app, even if you really don't care about making money. It seems arrogant to think that that business could really grow beyond such a valuation. Why not take the 30 billion and spend it on a new company you want to make, or something? Is the Snap brand truly that powerful to them? Even if you're totally happy living modestly, you can do a lot with that money.

It might be hindsight bias on my part, though. The hype at the time was very high, and maybe it was actually rational for them to think they had serious longevity. But still, I'm not really seeking money, and I don't see how I could've turned down that offer.

For Zuckerberg, it made more sense to reject early offers, because he could see the mega-monopoly in the distance. I don't see how Snap could think they could make a monopoly out of their app. For one, the app's not really even a social network.

It was a good idea and good execution, but like so many startup founders, I think the success of the app may have gone to their heads. Users aren't buying into the Snap brand / ecosystem / network, they just like to send ephemeral photos and videos to their friends with minimal friction. This is not a new paradigm in itself; it's a feature. Like many startups, Snap is a cool new feature dressing itself up as a serious corporation, and features only remain new for so long.

One could say the same of Instagram, but the difference is they managed to get the social network stuff right, so they could sustain exponential growth. Maybe Snap could've done the same if they were more willing to branch off from their original feature earlier on in their company's existence. I'm not totally sure why Snap failed to evolve from a sexting app to a social network, but it was clearly their plan, and it flopped.
Because I've seen these organizations from the inside. The ripe profits going through drug and device companies, and the fact they can be profitable but not TOO profitable, mean they are full of huge executive structures of overpaid businessmen that stifle investment and certainly block any sort of political progress on American medical costs.

I didn't say it was infeasible. It's infeasible in the current investment and oligarchical environment: these companies would be stamped out or blocked from competition. There is lots of opportunities for medium-sized companies to thrive, but the governmental aspects would help to kick start it.

All medical treatment is a governmental partnership with private sector at a minimum, in all modern medical establishments. A fundamental change to how medical research and treatment is pursued would take regulatory changes as well as financial prompting by governments.

Just let me emphasize: the MBAs that live in American drug and device executives are slime. The bastards that pushed the opioid crisis on America are just the same, they just push different drugs.
> When it comes to porting V8, I've found out the hard way that there's more to it than a generic understanding of compilers.

How so?
Yes, although for that to work water needs to be priced differently from today.
Onward raises $1.5M to offer round-trip rides to older adults needing assistance
From a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827910.

Other threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Spaced%20Repetition%20comments...
There are mobile aircons, no drilling holes required.
Why not? Is the solution that everyone boils? We have technology to tame the hot interior of buildings. To many people, it’s like Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusions though — irrational religious opposition to a modern tech that solves a problem. Just suffering through the heat is becoming a martyr for no good reason.

It’s hot. Get air conditioning. Build some nuclear plants to make more clean electricity. Problem solved.
Depends on where exactly you live.

Much of the US cities have great tap water. Some places (Flint) get lead going on.

However, much of the water in the US by area is well water. Well water tastes gross, and has some dubious health effects if not filtered right. Bottled water seems reasonable for those people.

Just because bottled water is not useful for you, does not mean it's not useful for anyone.
If I recall the assumed cause was wind and the open structure of the tire. I don't know how much contact area and material was impacted the sound. Noise seems to come up anytime these tires are mentioned. The article posted doesn't delve into it. Just a light mention of noise being a factor discussed before.
We require state level (think of war) mobilization to properly combat all aspects of climate change. Streets in city centers should be lined with trees, research is required to find a suitable alternative to asphalt -- or perhaps a way to simply make our streets less black. I'd even support research into ways to artificially construct wind tunnels using tall buildings.
How will Rules issued by the International Seabed Authority, UN and Mining code be enforced?
There is also the Organelle from Critter And Guitari which runs PureData on arch Linux on the raspberry pi. It is also a synth/sampler (though sequencer-based instead of "tape") with a similar form factor to the OP-1.
I am so frustrated by this "debunking", because it defies logic and experience.

Let's say Facebook NEVER listens to you... I'm 100% on board with them and their honesty. It still doesn't matter.

If you let ANY third party app listen to you, and identify you, for example the latest Candy Crush game, then your information along with preferences are being uploaded to databases for re-targeting.

When I do a big campaign in Facebook, or any sophisticated marketer does, I don't ask Facebook for users who like Cats and are looking for brands of organic cat food. I PROVIDE them a pre-vetted list of people looking for cat food that I generated and the emails associated with those Facebook accounts.

Facebook has NO WAY to know how I came up with my list, and no possible way to find out. It could have been from listening to conversations while someone played Candy Crush, or it could have been from a form submitted on my website.

One of these days I'm just going to actually document myself doing this and publish it to a website so more people understand what is happening and how easy it is to use data from people's conversations.

TLDR: Any time you buy a list of potential customers from a market research company, that data could have been gathered with conversation tracking. It's not Facebook's fault, it's just the reality.
> You're asking a remote system to do a job for you, and if that job completes successfully, it's a "Success" in the HTTP world.

But a provided credit card number not existing is not success, it is unambiguously a failure.

HTTP is a transport but its response codes are clearly designed to map somehow to the "business logic" of the thing underneath it. We have to twist ourselves up in knots to map most of our business systems to the set of status codes that make sense for the default HTTP-fronted application (Fields' thesis stuff) but that's what we sign up for when we decide to expose our business services via HTTP. Other transports require different contortions.
Only if comrade Corbyn gets into power.
Yeah, that some kind of UX pardigm - don't hide the control. Disable it, and explain the user why he cannot use it at the moment.

On the other hand, though, I can now simply collapse huge branches without downvoting anyone, so thanks for the clarification! :)
Your comment inspired me to take a look. I compared the SSL certificate and the whois information to equifax.com. The settlement site uses a different company for the certificate. The settlement site uses Starfield Technologies vs DigiCert for equifax.com. The settlement site uses GoDaddy for their DNS vs UltraDNS for equifax.com. It's not impossible that a division in the company or a different law firm uses different SSL certificate provider and DNS provider, but it may point to some caution.

Edit: As another commenter pointed out, this site is linked to from the FTC site about the breach.
It seems like the argument is for "what is the minimum amount of water needed", but I wonder if it's still better to consciously drink more water? Could it be good for helping the body detoxify itself? I've heard drinking more water is a "beauty tip". Also drinking more water could satisfy the signals that you may interpret as hunger instead of thirst, which could promote weight loss, or maintaining a healthy weight. As the article points out there's a toxicity level of too much water, but I'd like to know what the optimal amount to drink is. Maybe that's where the 8x8 rule comes from?
America sent all its US citizens of Japanese descent to Manzanar at one time. Many died there. The CIA overthrew the democratically elected government in Chile on September 11, 1973 leading to the deaths of 11,000+ people. Iranian-Contra, Bay of Pigs, United Fruit Massacre, The School of the Americas ... I mean, America isn't at the same scale because it's 300 million people vs over a billion.