skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not affiliated with YC, but I do make B2B software. Could you potentially give partial ownership or indefinite free use of the service to the first customer and have them put you on payroll? Getting VC investment in B2B will likely be challenging. Most B2B ideas don't scale to billion dollar companies. The market isn't the world so much as some niche that caps out around XX million dollars. That's hugely successful under most circumstances, but can be perceived as a failure for a VC firm.

I work in a space where VCs are investing 10 to 30 million in new companies, but have inside information from existing older firms that pretty much ensures any company in the space will have a max valuation around 100 million; if all the stars align. As such, these new companies are destined to fail simply because the money they received to build their product isn't proportional to market capacity for the product.

That said, I also have no idea what the idea or market is, so I could be way off base.
ChatTorrent
It's not a question of one ideology rather than another. They're all equally bad when it comes to generic internet discussion, and especially flamewar. Such discussions have all been had a million times, they're all predictable and therefore tedious and therefore off topic here. HN is for curiosity. There's zero curiosity in "taxation is theft" (or "property is theft") flamewars. Ditto for "state aggression" here, which is a generic ideological tangent even from a subthread that was already one in its own right.

If you want to understand further, I've written a lot about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
So your comment is vaild. Having strict and not-strict validation would be a nice compromise though (:
Although these things look great and give us a dopamine rush....

If it was done a little better 'not known' would be white.

It would look like crap, but the info would be far more accessible.

Looks VS if you actually want the data which everyone viewing doesn't.

(Better for data would also be 2d not 2.5, the more dimensions you add the hard data is to process, but that doesn't sell presentations to managers I guess)
Why would someone post old news like this?
This also very much reads like something from Singapore.
I had the exact same experience when I tried over a year ago. The package was eventually closed IIRC, but a recent news letter claimed to have fixed it.
It's by the exact same logic that scientists still publish papers through Elsevier. We, all of us, enable these monopolists.
Because sometimes people don't follow the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
You don't think asbestos solved real problems?
Nothing is ruined. The thing discussed here is belief that without ruining kids they will not be competitive. This seems a false belief; how can ruining childhood life help them? So nothing is ruined. Do it better. Not so hard.
I’ve been looking at Gerbil lately, which seems to add some creature comforts, has some opinionated views, and is built atop Gambit:

https://cons.io/
If there was any actual causal connection between the fear and safety sure. Instead it was irrational from both directions of not caring in the past about things like stupidly dangerous 50s toys to freaking out about kids playing in backyards unsupervised.

Ironically safety of children seems to be the complete opposite of the direction of the 'increased safety boosts risk taking'. When children have a higher rate of mortality they tolerate risks more but when there is a lower one they become more paranoid. I suspect the reason why is that most people have a terrible innate sense of statistics and probability - as shown by the success of gambling institutions like Las Vegas and the lotto.
But you are apportioning blame. You are calling HN a bunch of unbalanced, immature children with a thin skin and no sense of humor.

I'm describing it from my point of view - I'm not so egocentric to see my perspective as universally true. Hence why I attempted to see it from their perspective.

But, if you've such a thick skin, why obsess over downvotes?

I didn't bring it up, someone else did and I offered an explanation.
Please don't cross into getting personal or taking HN threads further into flamewar. Both of those are the opposite direction to where we want threads to go here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How did we get to this point?
As mentioned, this lets microsoft single you out as an individual that is using Tor, among other signals. That makes you quite identifiable.
I'm going a different route with interviews and wonder if anyone has input... I'm a senior backend dev with 10+ years of experience. Breadth of projects, masters in CS, open source work, team lead, top contributor, great references, etc. But I cant pass a coding interview, because I kinda freeze up during algorithm whiteboarding questions. I get requests for interviews daily and have been considering starting with a cover letter that basically says I'm not good at coding interviews, but love to talk tech (and see other positives above). Could I do a homework assignment or anything else to show my worth?

Has anyone had any luck with an approach like this?
If it's that important and complex, have an accompanying README that lists line numbers and comments.
Yup this seems to be it.
Nope, seems I am in the wrong here. Looks like Danish for example has both "Luft" (air) and "Loft" (the room), which come from the same word.
200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
How to Create a Group (1996)
Ira Glass is the creator and host of a long running radio show called This American Life on National Public Radio. The show runs weekly and tells stories of Americana and other things. I suspect part of what makes the show famous is that it coined not just a particular kind of show, but a particular kind of sound, editing and production, that, I’d say set the standard for modern audio programs.

Several of the shows producers (and Ira’s mentees) have gone on to create other famous shows:

- Sarah Koenig created Serial, one of the first truly mainstream podcasts (1M listeners in its first week) for telling, in the first season, the story of a murder of Haymen Lee and investigating whether the man convicted, Adnan Syed, was likely innocent.

- Alex Blumberg created Planet Money, a short radio show that explores economics and explains it by looking at what’s happening, culturally, around the world. Later, Blumberg founded Gimlet, a podcast company that recently sold to Spotify for $100M, ostensibly to create content with that, now famous, NPR _sound_. Some of the bigger/more famous work from Gimlet is Startup (now also a TV show in the US), Homecoming (now also a show on Amazon Prime Video), Reply All, and Conviction.

Anyway, Ira Glass has hosted This American Life since the beginning, and Blumberg recently interviewed him for a show Gimlet produces called Without Fail. If you’re looking to understand his impact in this space, I think that’s a wonderful place to start.

*edited to correct where the Homecoming TV show airs.
It's sad when I found out FreeBSD lacks many of the long options I thought was quite obvious.

mkdir --parents

doesn't work in FreeBSD.
Been arguing this forever. Jobs was actually correct. He just pivoted because he figured out that an App Store could make him billions and control end-to-end the economy and the device, which is always what he's wanted.

Web apps are the way to go. Not mobile apps in a store.
Don't ask "will you mentor me?" just ask a specific question and you've got a mentor
You moved because something happened twice in a county with a population over 1 million?

I'm just trying to process the irony of this entire discussion. American kids are over-protected because the media has created a culture of fear that terrible things are constantly happening to kids. Now you're going to flip that hysteria around and apply it to the parents.
You can't change who has final say in measured steps though; it is not a half-and-half proposition. It might be theoretically possible, but the complexity of such a system isn't at all stable and pressure can build quite quickly. It looks like China has been taking very mild measured steps towards change and it has resulted in the streets being clogged with protestors in ~20 years.

Ultimately the people who control the army get to say what the rules are.
Why Nurses Are Prone to Athlete's Foot
Once acquired, athlete's foot can become a chronic condition, especially for nurses. The foot fungus grows in the warm, moist environment of feet encased in nursing shoes. All nurses will attest that the extreme amount of time spent walking during a nursing shift leads to "warm feet". This heat builds up in nursing shoes and has little outlet for venting. Nurses who wear pantyhose instead of socks experience more heat buildup and moisture in shoes as the synthetic hosiery material does not wick moisture that is generated during prolonged walking away from the foot.

The replacement of the traditional nursing uniform dress with the more comfortable uniform scrubs has led to a decrease in nurses who wear pantyhose. Socks have now become a staple nursing uniform accessory. However, socks made of synthetic materials pose the same problem as the previously used pantyhose. To ensure maximum wicking of foot moisture, socks should be constructed of 100% cotton or of specially engineered moisture wicking materials.

Because of the large amount of moisture generated during a typical nursing shift, nurses need to ensure that their nursing shoes "air out" for at least 24 hours and are completely dry before putting them on again. A disinfectant spray to the inside of uniform shoes after each use is recommended to kill bacteria in between wearing. Having two pair of nursing shoes and alternating their usage is a good way of letting nursing footwear completely dry.

https://thedietsquare.com/healthy-feet-makes-life-so-much-more-comfortable/
Zoncolan and SPARTA both use abstract interpretation at their core, but as far as the code/implementation goes they are mostly unrelated. Zoncolan is built on top of the Hack type checker (https://hacklang.org/), which means that it's largely written in OCaml.
Config variables in code gets version controlled and release-managed alongside code and takes the same CI/CD route to production as rest of your code does. Your code asserts, compilers and test cases can help you catch errors in config data. All of this happens without any special file format or parser concerns.

If you need runtime reconfiguration in production, then it requires a runtime config management system tailored for operations folks with proper authn/authz, audit logs etc. This is a product by itself.
The connection between your running program and the runtime configurator has to be intentional, secure etc.

IMO, config variables should have following bindings:
1. config variable in code.
2. program start env variable.
3. program start command argument flag.
4. runtime configuration.

All available configuration options are declared in the code. But not all configuration options should be accessible from #2 to #4. And the override preference order may not be same for all types of configuration variables.

Btw, this isn't related to Java or any particular programming language. I've seen this done in large C++ projects 20 years ago.
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And then some tools use a sub command instead of just being the obvious '-v' but 'version'.
Thanks, and to respond to another sibling comment: this may be rare in statistical terms, but it is more than real enough to motivate a very clear pattern of behaviour among parents (not allowing kids to roam freely, etc)

I speak from experience having had people (including family) be shocked at how free our kids are here in Japan versus the experience in North America. Whether the media are making things worse (probably) is besides the point: you can get arrested for this as a parent. That's completely absurd and would not even be understood (let alone accepted) in many other countries, including Japan.
As I remember it, it was a Danish, not French, woman. I don’t think they had the baby for that long, the embassy intervened pretty quickly.
My impression (limited it might be) is that a lot of drug companies went to India to manufacture their own drugs. As you mention, India already had some experience through their domestic generic drug industry.

China built out their own outsourcing outfits somewhat on their own and then US manufacturing shifted to them after.
Sounds like every IRC channel ever. The topic is some open source project or programming language, but eventually it just becomes a clique of regulars who stopped caring about the topic a long time ago, and now just tell people who want to discuss it to go read the manual.
Hooverville residents were mostly not mentally ill or drug addicts. They probably dug pit latrines.
The posix decision is quite dumb. You can't possibly read scripts well with bunch of single letter options. Codes are supposed to be readable.
Yup. For whatever Amazon's other faults may be, they will do stuff like assign actual human salespeople to your account, who have the time to listen to you and the authority to do things. You can create problem tickets for their services, which go to skilled engineers somewhere that have the time and authority to run down and address any weirdness you encounter with their services. Plus they keep even their old services online for a sort-of ridiculous amount of time to keep up with slow-moving corporate update processes.
Do you ever have the limitation that arrays must be of a single type come up as an issue?
This is the male version of "being basic."

I cannot, for the life of me, see organizing and playing a twenty one kazoo salute for a dog I loved. Dear God, Ilse made him change his clothes. The article is so bloodless.
I have a master's degree in CS... I'll have you know having that degree does NOT tell you more than a whiteboard interview
You're turning this into a political discussion for the sake of discussing politics and pushing your opinion. Nobody is downplaying authoritarian rule, merely pointing out how unaware people are about other people living in different countries. You could take the exact same comment, change Wikipedia and China to something else, and I could make the same argument that I've made before; that until you actually live in a country, and talk to the people, you'll never be fully aware of how things are. Wether it be government imposed restrictions (which, let's be honest, all of us are subject to), or cultural differences, if you only use the media to build your view of a country, you'll almost always be wrong.
Wasn't there something where people were saying Uber or Lyft was increasing rates according to how little battery remained on your phone? Clearly what is needed is a new app to get a ride when your phone is about to die.
Well-designed landfills are probably better than loading plastic into confetti cannons, but calling anything in a man-engineered landfill "undisturbed in the earth" is a stretch.

Plastics sitting in our landfills are, at human timescales, sitting relatively undisturbed on the outer skin of this world, where they are probably a teensy bit less "sequestered" than they were several thousand feet into the crust.

At anything approaching geologic time, some fraction of these feats of engineering will be graciously buried by layer upon layer of new sediments; others will be sundered by the same forces that flatten mountain-ranges and carve canyons, their contents re-circulated through nature's supply chains.
That's fair enough but shouldn't you have the same hesitancy about say, solar panel production or coal mining or oil production or wind farm installation and maintenance? All of these can be just as deadly and potentially more polluting.
The problem is with parsers, how they are implemented or used. YAML actually has a way to specify type of the data, alternatively the application supposed to suggest desired type. What's this take is showing is what types are assumed when they are not specified.
I don’t see either Hebrew or Italian as constructed languages. Hebrew, as other posters has pointed out, has been a liturgical language (akin to Latin or Coptic) for a long time, and is a direct derivative of a natural language. Italian is also a natural language, derived from the Florentine dialect of the Tuscan language.

I see a constructed language as something created when someone sits down and deliberately makes a language, as did Zamenhof did when he sat down and made the Esperanto language. This has been a number of times; a partial list is at https://ial.fandom.com/wiki/Linguas

Natural languages occur when two or more people together realize they need to communicate, but do not have a common language to do it with. Nicaraguan Sign Language is a notable example of a language just appearing out of the blue in the last 50 years. Idioglossia languages also frequently pop up, seemingly out of the blue. Pidgin languages (where two or more groups of people who speak different languages need to speak to each other) also pop up pretty quickly when communication needs to be done (and if children are exposed to a pidgin language, it then transforms and becomes a creole language because children will fill out all the “gaps” in the language to make it a full bodied language).
I know you were being sarcastic but you might be accidentally right. Have you seen the level of fear mongering in politics and a lack of regard for the future from the eras when they existed? I think the nuclear bomb drills may have really ruined them - that or the leaded gasoline.The 'I turned out just fine insistence' is often seen from people who support beating the pattern of abuse in beating their children.

I'm not trying to be a snide jackass here - I suspect it had real deleterious effects but they were normalized and went uncommented upon. The Black Death appeared to have some similar precedent as western culture became utterly desensitized to skeletons and 'the end is nigh' beliefs became a sizeable reoccurring minority to majority. I believe Rome had similar beliefs as some saw the writing on the wall of their decline. I'm not an expert but I wouldn't be surprised it died out in the dark ages as people were in the actual 'post apocalypse' and doing things like former Roman seamen founding Venice.
And it's a fad that will live and die quickly.
Click unfortunately doesn't pass the smell test of a non-awkward implementation of 'sudo'. It gets some partial credit because an implementation is possible but only because you can subclass the click.Command object and change the parsing behavior arbitrarily.

So many of these parsing libraries seem to forget that any positional parameter can stop options parsing not just '--' and that that parameter might appear arbitrarily deep in subcommands.

This is not only needed for commands like sudo and ssh but BSD style CLIs as well which all OSX users are probably intimately familiar and annoyed with.
I thought "what a bold title, if someone's figured it out we can just close HN" and upon reading, hey it's not far off.

The following is a wonderful point I have hardly ever heard said directly:

"The main value in software is not the code produced, but the knowledge accumulated by the people who produced it."
Tech roles comes in many forms. For example, I have worked a fair bit with graphics programming and VFX, where extensive knowledge of photography would be very useful.

I can imagine tech jobs where most of the hobbies you've listed could be considered relevant. Dance? Biometric sensor tech. Guns? Video games. And so on...
In context of that paragraph, that should be read as “Full democracy, of course, has always been out of the question [for Xi]”.

What the author is willing to accept is irrelevant - the question is what is China willing to accept.
I've been meaning to try out Notion. It looks neat, but do you still end up just having essentially a document full of links to your various assets/creative/notes in progress? Or do you actually embed your documents from other services, or use boards or Notion's views, etc so it's not just a long list of links?
We (rsync.net) are happy to ship you a bare SATA drive with any or all of your account on it. It's a standard part of our offering and we do it all the time[1].

No funny business - just our actual cost for the drive + our actual fedex costs + $150.

So that's one option.

The second thing that comes to mind is that, as you already know, any tool that runs over SSH/SFTP will connect to your rsync.net account. So, in a pinch, you could just use our drive mapper (or filezilla or WinSCP or sshfs on Mac or whatever) and let the client poke along at WAN speeds for a day or three.

Finally, I disagree with some of the comments that suggest this is overkill or unnecessary - I think it's a decent line of thought - but why not just add a line item to your clients' bill for "local DR service" and just dump the rsync.net account back to yourself on any old drive that you control and if there is indeed a catastrophe you just drive it over there ?

Happy to discuss this further over email, etc.

[1] Almost always for DR drills - thank goodness ...
To get the 501 "karma" you need to downvote and control HN posts.
8-bits at a time

It's a detail that doesn't always come up in these threads but it's worth remembering how belligerently 8-bit a 6502 is. Not only are there next to no general-purpose registers but they're 8 bit and there are no pretend-two-registers-are-one-16-bit-register instructions at all. You can't put an address in a register. Compared to even other popular 8 bit CPUs of the time, that's a bit metal.
I've never heard of anything outside of a few edge cases doing anything like that here. It's definitely not the norm for upper-middle class kids.
In 2013 I made a video about how FPGAs could be used to mine Litecoin and other scrypt coins. It was very low effort and I forgot I had uploaded it.

Not only did it get 30,000 views in a month, the stream of emails from interested people was constant. Probably over 200 emails from people who wanted to buy a machine from me as if I had created one (I hadn't).

Really interesting stuff. If you truly do make something revolutionary, the demand finds you.
The double speak in your last paragraph undercut your post. :(

Be bold and make a claim. Nothing wrong with that. Even if you are wrong, you will be so with skin in the game, so come out knowing. With couched claims, you can always duck behind being right, but not understood. And never know.
Every small town in the south has a "downtown". Often it's the old area of town built up around the railroad tracks.
Somewhat clickbait:

process is imperfect and clearly doesn't work the same way every time the companies run the tests, he said — though the errors aren't hugely significant.
That's kind of the point George carlin said it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

The whole educational establishment is to create an ignorant slave class.
In theory yes, but I can't imagine what the claim would be; "They won't let me make a business out of selling apps on their platform" ?

It feels like monopoly would be easier to prove: "There is no other competitor to provide an app on these devices and people depend on them for critical tasks". In a way, this mimics the breakup of Ma Bell. AT&T controlled all the phone service, and they also created all the hardware that ran all the phone service. Rather than divest their ownership of the hardware, AT&T proposed to break itself up, so "local operating companies" would own the last mile, supposedly creating competition.

Google could do the same thing by allowing device manufacturers (or whomever) to install their own Play Store, and users of devices could choose what Play Store to use.