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Ask HN: What Are Todays Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
In 2012 PG wrote an essay about Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html)

Many of the items have been tackled (though admitedly perhaps not that successful yet). What would a new list look like today?
Can you explain why you mention USB? It's Lightning to HDMI...
So run tracking as described here is about tracking every "variable" which comes into play when training your model?
string vs. String is not a style debate
What makes you say this bill is doing more than call for a minimalist response to tax return fraud (giving people “identity protection ID number” to use with ID theft cases and a single phone number to call about tax related identity theft) and make updates correcting obvious flaws in the tax code (aka keeping the lights on)? The provisions in this law will not make it less likely that someone will file a tax return with your stolen info, and not make it easier to get it made right if that does happen.

At least the 9/11 first responders bill was about allocating resources to do something, but the main reason it doesn’t serve your point is the fact it stood for 18 years as an example of our government’s incompetence and inability to do basic, non controversial things.
https://spaceflight.com/schedule-pricing/#pricing seemed like a great deal till I saw "Pricing in thousands (USD)"
This seems similar to (and maybe inspired by) efforts in Pakistan [1] and India [2] from the last few years. It would be interesting to read follow-ups to those efforts.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/pakistan-s-billion-tr...

[2] https://www.upworthy.com/how-india-managed-to-plant-66-milli...
The Aesthetics of Programming Tools: Jack Rusher
You can see liveish images of the surface of the sun at multiple wavelengths here https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/.
We can just let our machines carry our legacy after humanity is gone.
Chicken is in many ways my favourite scheme. It is pragmatic and has what I think is the most welcoming community I have ever encountered. Coming from ruby and python to scheme, I was always surprised how fast things were. In python I was always trying to avoid going outside the C things in the stdlib, but in scheme I have gotten a fast experience while also being able to hack on the code base (I am at best a bad C programmer).
Right; debt holders get paid out before shareholders...which is only fair. Debt covers things like rent and employee wages--owners of the company should get paid out last.
Putting together margins on their hardware and software products just can’t be right.
> I'm not sure how to differentiate between made up a fake friend and made up a friend

Audience. A fake imaginary friend is a prop. The child sees imaginary friends are desirable and performs as if they have one. If there is no audience, there is no imaginary friend.

A bona fide imaginary friend, on the other hand, should be more likely to be addressed when the child thinks they’re alone.
Richer US households fueling a hot job sector: ‘wealth work’
I think it's been changed after you posted this comment. It now shows that 15^2 is 225.
I don't remember the details, but someone asked a member of a rich European family how they had managed to preserve their wealth over centuries. The answer was "one third art, one third gold, one third land". Any of those can fail due to seizure, political instability, etc, but most of the time at least one will maintain value and remain under your control.
And? Tons of apps on MacOS aren’t in the AppStore.
A similar, but according to pictures somewhat smaller, experience is available in St. Louis at the City Museum.

When you're a grownup it is fun.

When you're a kid it is awe-inspiring.

https://i.imgur.com/wvzYQxH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/DMAqdF1.jpg
One possible motive for large numbers of people to colonize Mars: escaping the control of Earth governments.

It’s like seasteading except that when you get up to something the governments really don’t like the cost of intervening is extraordinarily high.

On Mars we can build our society of genetically engineered supermen that engage in plural marriage, ritual funerary cannabilism, and telekinesis.
Apple, Google, Facebook join forces in cloud data sharing project
I mean, I think it's fairly obvious that we will never be able to colonize Mars perfectly. It would require constantly sending massive amount of supplies from Earth to Mars.

The atmosphere is too thin, and the planet itself is too small to maintain a real atmosphere. Even if we terraformed it using science fiction technology, most of the atmosphere would escape into space so it would require constantly producing this atmosphere, requiring a lot of off-planet resources, which is fundamentally impossible.

In addition, the lack of strong magnetic fields and Van Allen belts means that cosmic rays would kill everything eventually.
In Python things are a bit different because declarations and assignments are ambiguous.
Trump re-election campaign raises $460k from selling plastic straws
I used to think this was a tiny minority, too. But a key takeway from https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-n... was this statistic: "26% of Internet users are now blocking ads." Its a minority, but its not tiny.
Clickhouse-local: The power of ClickHouse SQL in a single command
help me wrap my head around that. If you’re in -40 in a low pressure atmosphere, it doesn’t cool you down faster because there’s less mass for your heat to transfer to?

Does that mean things don’t cool down in a vacuum? Is there a weird curve where by at some point having less cold gas arounds you means you’ll cool down faster instead of slower?
What's mysterious is what it was. Now that we know that it seems like there's several non-controversial paths for how it could have got where we found it.
Project Zero isn't Facebook.
FWIW, I called the same function 'gather' in some of my code. You're producing lists of results for each member, and gathering them all together in order.

'map' as a function name isn't great either, since we have the same name for a data structure. What it has in its favor is being short and traditional.
I honestly think that both of those are weak reasons.
The first is a problem for other generations; on our own time scale we should focus on the problems that affect us on our own time scale. The second is just not compelling; space exploration is hardly the only endeavor that produces spinoff technology, and it's far from certain that it's the best or most productive way to do so.

There has only ever been one goal that has actually driven us to push our horizons further out into space, and I think it's the only one that really makes sense: We do it for the challenge and for the adventure.

As John F. Kennedy so famously put it, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills."
I don’t actually care. The cardmembers are never liable for fraud.

I don’t use my debit card for online purchases at all however. If someone steals that and uses it, I’m out of pocket until the bank resolves it, which can take days.

With credit cards, and Amex especially, they’ll simply reverse the fraudulent transactions and overnight you a new card.

Someone skimmed my Amex when I was on a vacation in Japan, charged about ¥700k on it. One call to them, they froze the transactions and in roughly 16 hours I collected a new card in the hotel lobby.
> You can't turn off autoplay

I'm pretty sure you can turn it off for all devices from desktop Netflix's settings.

I somehow don't have autoplay enabled when I watch any series.
The big headlines about vulnerabilities in iMessage being misunderstood by laypeople?
Insults only detract from understanding. I'll be more specific. The experience of existing is the first layer of reality. Through this experience sensations are correlated and models built. These models, such as the ideas of "consciousness", "flasifiability", and "philosophy", are only that - models and constructs - and not base level reality. The only way to understand the base level is to turn inward and observe the experiencing itself. This for example is an aspect of the practice of Zen. Is Zen vacuous because it's not empirical or philosophical?
I don't particularly like linking this site[0] anymore (very tinfoil-hatty community), but there is a ton of great info here. Changes on the solar wind graph are a great indicator that we're in the stream. Also the enlil spiral gif is pretty AND informative.

[0] https://spaceweathernews.com/
Where in your comment did you say anything about that?

And personal attacks are against HN guidelines.
I don't know, I'd assume a big chunk of that is also related to the most profitable demographic for fiction TV shows being working- and middle-class men between 18-35. Give them some aspirational characters that reflect what they want out of life and you'll hook them for years.
Indeed: https://www.blackhat.com/us-19/briefings/schedule/#look-no-h...
Well, if we want to make Software Engineers real, credentialed Engineers, then perhaps this is how...
Huawei Nova 5i Pro Launched with Quad Rear Cameras, Kirin 810 SoC
The point is that a launch cost of $100k is totally manageable by a startup, which is very different than a decade ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_programming_language

https://christine.website/blog/h-language-2019-06-30

http://www.nongnu.org/l-lang/

Those are just the first three, but they seem like they're all
taken.
Well the details sure, but the general concept ? I have no idea of the basic reproduction number / R0 of any common virus, but I remember the idea of it. Although now that I think of it it's probably a terrible exemple since if people remembered that concept they wouldn't question herd immunity of vaccines.

I guess I'm just a bit weirded out.
Honestly, I agree with the author. We'll set up a few bases, it'll take decades, and by the time we come close to having the technology to make Mars somewhat inhabitable we'll have discovered a more hospitable planet and have the spaceship tech to get there.
Okay fair enough.. :)
Where did you get that average income tax rate figure from? It seems high. But regardless, because of the U.S.'s income disparity, I don't think looking at an average here is a meaningful comparison.
> A common sentiment is that Bertrand Russell is too biased in his presentation, but his survey was a popular classic for many years.

Since he explicitly comments on his subjects and is quite clear when he's doing so, and lays out up front which sorts of things he'll be focusing on for the whole enterprise, that complaint's never made much sense to me. I'm sure there's some further bias, but that's going to necessarily be true of any shortish treatment of such a broad field.

> - Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

I'd for sure recommend Russell over this. Durant's scope both in philosophers covered, and the portions of their philosophy he focuses on (chiefly ethics, IIRC), is much smaller, and his coverage less insightful and fluent. Russell's is the better single-volume intro to the field of the two, Durant's being so bland and shallow by comparison to make the choice an easy one. Russell's not really any harder to read, either, though the medieval section's kind of a slog (Durant solves that problem by basically skipping all of it).
Project Zero, as evident from their bug tracker¹, is a Chrome security effort. It looks at everything in the browsing stack — Chrome, libraries, plugins, OS, processors, proxies — presumably because security can be broken anywhere in the chain.

¹ https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1
If you think about all the things that were likely considered improbably or impossible in 1800, I think it is clear that the possibilities of life in 2219 are not to be assumed from present conditions.
simply awesome congrats !!
Umm, appoint someone or a trusted few as git admins and only allow them to merge commits?

(responding to the article contents quoted in above comment)
I can get behind that, but really we ought to colonize Antarctica first (as in, with a self-sustaining colony). It's a much easier target and still presents significant challenges.
It's worth noting that Odyssey takes more creative liberties with historical data than the other AC games since there's less information on Ancient Greece (notably this is explicitly pointed out in-game).
PRISM wasnt a vulnerability, Google (et al) was basically forced to build a system to automatically handle FISA warrants data requests. For example, a single warrant signed in a secret court would request all data for a person of interest plus one or more hops of every person they communicated with which got funnelled through the PRISM system to multiple tech companies in the US simultaneously which then got fed back into XKeyScore for agents to go through the data and do graph analysis.

Which is still really bad but not the same as these software vulnerabilities.
Did you pass?
Google data collection as disclosed in their privacy policies 1999-2019
Other than higher gravity, what does Mars have that the moon doesn't? Both would need highly artificial habitats, with either a steady supply chain or a closed ecosystem, to support human life.
> Europe's industrialization as well as other Western countries heavily depended on the exploitation of third world countries in Asia and Africa, especially after WW2.

Serveral landlocked European countries industrialized just fine without a single square foot of colonies, certainly no worse than first generation colonial powers.
Only problem is that the only entities that will be able to colonize Mars as well as project power will be those same Earth governments.
That is an interesting suggestion. Something tells me if I could get him to start talking about the internals of an AS/400, he'd never stop. I hope.

I will look into U3A and similar options locally, thanks for the idea!
This is probably the thirtieth time I've seen this debunking over the last several years. The first was not long after the original Foxconn suicides news cycle. This is widely available enough information that if somebody references the Foxconn suicides and doesn't know the figures you mention by now, they have no interest in understanding the reality of the situation.

I say this as someone who's considerably more negative about Apple than the median here. I just think you're wasting your breath assuming intellectual honesty from people repeating a canard years after it's been debunked (Note that I'm excluding people aware of the statistic who are interpreting Foxconn's suicides as still notable for whatever reason)
> IITians..

Why target only IITians, even non-IITians migrate in large numbers. Also, they are not 100% to blame for this, if you foster a good environment nobody will leave. Everyone is to be blamed.
My relationship with my readers is our most valuable asset, and I don't want it mediated by companies who compete with me for ad dollars. It's the same reason I publish content on our own domain and not Medium or Facebook or LinkedIn.
> This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major companies, which we identify. We successfully extracted privacy policies for 3,856 sites, 17% of the total. The policies were written such that one might need a two-year college education to understand them. Our content analysis of the sample's domains indicated 44.97% of them expose or suggest a specific gender/sexual identity or interest likely to be linked to the user. We identify three core implications of the quantitative results: 1) the unique/elevated risks of porn data leakage versus other types of data, 2) the particular risks/impact for vulnerable populations, and 3) the complications of providing consent for porn site users and the need for affirmative consent in these online sexual interactions.
I think that property of a vacuum is already used in a day-to-day object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask
That is correct, things don't cool down easily in a vacuum. Overheating is a problem on space vehicles. Thermal drinking bottles use a vacuum layer to keep heat in.
Probably not. I think that most of those bounties can only be redeemed when you sign an NDA.
Not really a list of web components. It's more a collection of various Javscript libraries.
Arithmetic on Algebraic Data Types
Challenge ? For the individual and its patrons, sure.

The country or company ? Its lured by the competition and wanting to be the one winning the prize.

But as a society ? When the inevitable "why fund space travel / fundamental physics / ..." question is asked ? Side gains is where it's at.
You lose/gain heat through conduction and radiation. Eliminating/reducing the atmosphere or making it out of something less conductive or lower specific heat reduces the speed at which the vibrating molecules of your body transfer kinetic energy to or gain energy from the molecules of the surrounding environment.

The vast majority of heating/cooling that people experience in their day to day lives is done through conduction from the earth's atmosphere so in most situations you'd lose heat more slowly on Mars even if it is colder. It's kind of like the difference between being in cold air and cold water.
You're right: of the four 5X phones owned by close friends or family, only 1 bootlooped (and one was stolen). It would be great to have continued support for the remaining phones, but planned obsolescence is too strong.

The Nexus 5X supposedly has a maintainer with LineageOS, but maybe they're busy or no longer own the phone.
"Lorem Homines" is Google's take.
Goalposts are truly moving over time. Perhaps devices similar to current gen iPhones and Android phones aren't considered smart phones in 20 years.
> I'm sure if the next Xbox had the ability to run Windows 10 it would sell like crazy.

Or even better if it was a true OS, like Windows 7.
I really wish the mainstream media could pick up more on this, and instead of framing all these breaches and news as Identity Theft, reframe them to the credit companies offloading burden of risk onto consumers. Most people don't even have the context of what is really going on with this. we all should really assume that our SSN & PII is splattered across hundreds if not thousands of databases all in a various state of protection, and not be held liable for the lazy credit companies who's business is based on not making it hard to get instant credit for all those emotional purchases...
> security theater

There's a reason it's called "Theatrical Security Administration".

I don't know why we still put up with this garbage. It seems we're the only ones in the world who do security like this.

I understand the need for basic security at the airport, but IMO that should be limited to identification (checking for wanted persons) and bringing on dangerous things that could cause problems in flight (compressed air, flammable substances, etc). Everything else should be between the airline and the government, since bad actors are unlikely to try to sneak things through regular airport security.
> There are lots of procedures where consumers have time to shop around.

I'd estimate this is 1% of healthcare spending.
Is this update preventing publishers from identifying if a reader is accessing its site using Incognito mode, or is it preventing publishers from identifying who the reader is and whether they've reached their article limit? If the former, why is knowing whether an unidentifiable reader is accessing a website via Incognito mode a privacy issue? If the latter, why wouldn't publishers just block all access to their site that is reached via Incognito mode?
This could just as well be said about opiates. Human's are not very good at regulating ourselves, when we encounter artificial signals that would have meant success in an earlier time. Not to mention minors, who do not yet have the physical capacity to regulate themselves. Not to say I support this regulation, but there is something to be said for protecting us from our primal selves.
This is a really well-written, thorough article. Here's another way to think about it:

Before we try to colonize Mars, we should try colonizing Canada. It's warmer than Mars! It has air and water, so it should be easy! And yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada#/media/Fi...
You lose out on convection and your heat loss has to be almost entirely through black body radiation instead. Astronauts have to work harder to stay cool than to stay warm, especially if the sun is shining on them.
I’m not judging the people that like finding exploits for a living, I’m judging google employing them while the rest of googles business model is directly opposed to user security.
Sadly what I know of humanity tells me that we won't do that without ruining it to drill for resources like oil, so I say let's leave at least one place untouched back here on earth until we have a backup plan somewhere.
The assessment doesn't need to be based on a potentially counterfeit ID the subject brings, in my hypothetical scheme. It's probably be better to do out-of-band verification with the private/public provider of the ID (State or DMV, for example)

edit: if the value of identity were to be elevated, then the physical security at these locations would be increased to the level of banks or cash-handling facilities to increase the cost of failed attempts at impersonation (to the level similar to attempted cash heists). Infact, the local phone shops should be barred/disincentivized from doing auth badly themselves and should outsource this function, just like they do with creditworthiness.
Thank you for the very useful links.
These sound like smartphones. The fact they're not as advanced as higher end phones doesn't mean they're not smartphones. They seem to have all the features that the first generation of smartphones had.
Vacuums make very good insulators, that's how a thermos works. Any cool gas is cooling you down but the denser it is the faster you cool down.
Some people believe that creating imaginary friends is a deliberate process, and can be done by anyone who comes across the idea:

"You’ll create a tulpa by imagining a person in your head, and treating them as a person. The exact mechanism is unknown, but as you give a tulpa attention, and believe it can be a sentient person, it will grow into one, and act independently of you."
https://www.tulpa.info/what-is-a-tulpa/
What is less far fetched but also unlikely to happen is global warming will be fixed.
The Government Can Make You Legally “Dead,” Even When You’re Much Alive
Isn't the power reduction due to radioactive decay of the fuel? Not that the radiators become less effective over time.
Changing defaults: tweak app settings to improve your life (4 min)
Except that the vast majority of Toastmasters clubs would be of little benefit to someone who is learning English. A club would have to be managed in a very particular way to be of any benefit. Those particular clubs tend to advertise as such. It doesn’t make business sense for Toastmasters International to go after this crowd. It makes even less business sense for TI to do it in such a sketchy way.
Besides, it's a reasonable thing to say in specific contexts. Never understood why it is used to ridicule.
We're in the age of "evergreen" browsers, where almost everyone is on a browser that auto updates. New features can be useable in maybe 2 years now, depending on your audience.
I imagine this would add a lot overhead when the git admins are not well-versed in all subprojects of the monorepo.