skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do Angel Investors or Seed funds care about?
I have always thought about this situation. Lets say you are running a company that is on track to do $5M in revenue in next 2-3 years (based on solid patterns being bootstrapped for a while). It could be scaled further with a little bit of extra cash injection AND new support structure like investors who are experienced. Does it make sense for such company to try and find investors at this point ? Do investors exist for such companies or the only option is small business loans ? If in 10 years, this company could hit $15 Million in revenue, is that too small for angels/seed fund investors ? I know it is not worth it for larger investors or VCs but wonder what the options are for such companies.
High-level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
New Ways to Do Screen Capture on Windows
Yeah, sure sounds like fun doing the entire bluetooth "oh, let me pair, wait it's not coming up in my list, maybe you need to unpair first..." etc. dance over and over instead of just swapping out a cable in a second.
What? Go?

gccgo: https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo

gopherjs: https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

tinygo: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo

gollvm (aka Gollum): https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/

llvm-go: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/README.TXT
I've often described my "signature" as "more of a one-time pad than a signature".

I honestly find it shocking that anything in the modern world still considers a signature as any form of authentication whatsoever. (Nobody actually compares the signatures, and yet somehow people see signing as meaningful.)
They want to be "good citizens" in the book-publishing ecosystem. They follow along with the publishers' schemes, to ensure that the channel for public access to the material remains open.

They don't want to risk the possibility that there might be knowledge out there that an ordinary person might be barred from accessing via the public library. And as long as the publishers are reasonable, even when charging a higher library price, that's cheaper than libraries setting up a different infrastructure.

The mission of most libraries is about access and public service, rather than raw price. The publishers can abuse that.
I can see what VW is trying to do here, and honestly out of the various rental cars I've driven over the past 6 months, my Golf R's Android Auto/Car Play integration has probably been one of the best. VW also has a history of people doing minor modifications of their cars electronics, both via the intended menus and for more complicated things, via the outstandingly named vagcom (VCDS)*

I think this is the direction more automakers should go. I drove a friends Tesla the other day, and it shares some the same features, allowing you to make fairly specific customizations of certain things through the built in menu.

*Some items which can be customized via the VCDS - DRL's, Windows Auto-Up/Auto-Down/etc, and a bunch of other things I can't remember anymore.
It depends on who is watching. For example, if I am watching Netflix I expect them to know what I watched. But, would I expect my TV (the visual device) to know what I watched and report back to the TV manufacturer? I can choose to not connect my TV to the Internet or use something like Pie Hole to stop that device from reporting. If the TV used the cell network how would I stop the TV from reporting?
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server

(joke)
Backblaze B2 + Cloudflare = free outbound transfer (bandwidth alliance).

Making objects in S3 publicly available and then complaining about their extortionate bandwidth charges is...silly.
If Your Water Heater Tank Is Corroded, Do This
I agree that you don't need a TV and I don't have one either. But other people keep buying them anyway, so it makes sense to include them in a statistical measure of average households.
Is using your political office to benefit your spouse's business a criminal offense in California? If not, it damned well should be. This is pretty blatant corruption.
> "premature optimization is the root of all evil"

The full quote is:

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

People forget that last bit.
We hope we can deliver!

> Can apps written in Dark scale to 10k LOC or will the browser UI get jittery?

We've had a number points where there editor became unresponsive and we had to rearchitect parts of it. We feel pretty confident about scaling the UI - not so much that it's perfect but that the problems are tractable.

> How many concurrent users can Dark apps handle?

Many more than our current users need, but not as many as we'd need for general release. One of the reasons we're in private beta is that we need to do a lot of work on scaling to make sure we can support new users without damaging the experience for current users.

> Do you integrate logging and metrics?

We have integrated observability, and we plan to have metrics but don't yet.
Would like a tool like this that finds ligatures too. I combine certain letters when writing.
Also generally good third party ROM availability! Still happily rocking a G5 after switching from a G4 for the USB-C connector.
Don't forget bloat. Back in the 3G days no one would wait for your 50MB website to load. But once 4G became commonplace, what's the harm in adding another 10MB of assets?

Basically, as an early adopter you were a 4G user visiting the 3G web. But now it's the 4G web.
Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”
Own a Tesla Model 3.

Over the air updates is vastly under estimated by many people. It is just as much of a revolution in the automobile industry as the electric drive train. As more cars move to electric and electrified drive trains the value of over the air updates that Tesla employs will become more evident.

it frees you from being forced to buy a new car to get new and or improved features. plus building a system like that allows Tesla to add new hardware to their cars with ease as the mindset is in place already.

A model S bought five years ago enjoys most if not all the updates a newly purchased model S has today. that is not something any other maker can claim and I doubt that any even want to go there because not only does it free the consumer from having purchase a whole new car for exciting features but obligates the maker to providing updates to an existing car.
What the Ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence
It still doesn't make sense to me. My 4G is fast, faster than home internet often. The reason I don't use it at home is it the cost of data, not speed. Unless 5g lowers the data cost, I don't see any benefit.
Thanks. I'll try to contact you through your website.
Last patch set I remember seeing was v9 submitted to the mailing list in March. There was some feedback regarding the new zinc crypto interface and replacement crypto implementations. Jason indicated he would address them for the next patch submission which I don't believe has been made yet.
I'm pointing out that ensuring software integrity is a kind of toy or game in a world where the hardware is already "powned" by someone else. People aren't computing cryptographic checksums over the linux kernel by hand.

The phrase "security theatre" is probably overused, but from my POV it would seem to apply here.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

--Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), Men in Black
That's a very good point. There's a comment on Reddit [1] that outlines how this distinction is one way of seeing how Rust and Go embody two ways of understanding "C", I think you both make two excellent points, I'll keep both in mind.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d50u9g/why_go_...
Just speculation but it's possible they take advantage of the temporal aspect of writing to improve the training. Google recently used this technique to improve handwriting recognition: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/rnn-based-handwriting-reco...
Incrementalist low risk solutions have their place, but they are not the whole story. If you found a fire in the kitchen of your home you wouldn't just make a mental note to purchase a new fire extinguisher.

Incrementalism works great in periods of relative stability. In other contexts it can be dangerous and inhibit necessary action.
I think for your average person, nice DVD masters are still perfectly acceptable content
Better than nothing though
Disney movies are as old now as the stories that they're directly lifted from were when the movies were made. The brothers Grimm have never seen a penny from the movies, yet we're still paying for Snow White.
Gcc-go lags behind, but is official and kept complete. Llvm-go is unofficial.
I'm recalling the disaster that was the Parse framework. What makes this any different?
It does makes sense to complains about the price difference when you don't need 1,600+ MB/s speed for what you want to put on it.

He want 128 GB for his MP3, it doesn't make sense he can't get it when USB stick of that size are that cheap.
Usually when having any kind of public function you are covered by an ethics framework that expects you to come forward whenever you are involved in taking any decision that can look like a conflict of interest. Even if it is not a crime it should still be reason for dismissal. If nothing is done it incentivizes any person in a position with power of decision to try to benefit from it by simply hiding behind the feeble and unprovable claim that "it's totally unrelated".
Go.

Still Go.
Nearly 90 percent of Peruvians surveyed want members to step down. How do we know this is actually representative?
Wow. Congrats on your work so far and I hope it all pans out as you hope!

I would be tickled silly if the place that really makes a name for privacy and genetics research in Canada ends up being NFLD.

All the best!
I'm a hobby Rust user and I love the language, but I definitely feel the heavy hand of the borrow checker a lot of the times. It's the only language where coding can something seemingly simple can push me to the limit of my abilities and understanding.

However, I usually pick Rust for performance-critical code with quite a bit of concurrency, so the problems involved are inherently tricky. I'm gaining more and more intuition about ownership and rustc-friendly software design, and so I hope I'll be able to better understand if my struggle is due more to limitations of the compiler and Rust's semantics or the limitations of my skills.

For comparison, I've written ~6000 SLOC of Rust in my lifetime, so I do have some experience but I'm definitely not an expert.
I really enjoy the LockpickingLawyer's videos, but I'd imagine that the threat model of the average Amazon (or Walmart/Home Depot/etc.) buyer is such that any basic lock is enough deterrence for 95%+ of scenarios. It could just be that their evaluation criteria don't match his.
Kotlin Coil: Another Image Loading Library for Android
The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]
In today's "team based" politics, politicians have figured out that perceived conflicts of interest no longer matter to their chances for reelection.

Her opponent can run ads that say "She proposed laws that made her husband's company richer" and it would probably barely affect her outcomes, as long as she has the D next to her name.

Amusing side note, she is my parent's representative, and I'm sure they would not care one bit about this as long as she's a Democrat.
Since in Erlang you should fail fast and noisily I think this Achilles heel is perhaps considered a strength.
I like what I do today, but I can tell you there are a few other things that I considered pursuing over the years, and fall into the bucket of other things I could see myself doing.

1. Private Detective

2. Strength & Conditioning Coach

3. Explorer / Adventurer

4. Firefighter
I see folks saying that it is good for consumers because Amazon products are better quality that the other sellers who tend to be unreliable. However, we are missing the long-term impact of this -
(a) It will slowly kill competition, at which point Amazon products no longer have to be better quality.
(b) It kills innovation because anyone who wants to sell stuff online knows Amazon is going to copy the product soon enough.

Why is this not an antitrust case? Amazon has the monopoly on online retail I assume, so isn't ranking it's own products higher an antitrust violation?
So this "non-engineer" learned a new programming language, understands Heroku and Flask, and created a REST API integration for Slack?

Can anyone let me know what an engineer is again?
Just a quick re-contextualization. I wouldn't say

> "It basically says that the returned value (Term) must not outlive the input values (env and args)."

It doesn't say that it must not, it says that it doesn't. Because lifetime information can only be inferred about callees and not callers, the lifetime annotation tells the compiler what it needs to know about the caller's environment. It tells the compiler "the lifetimes of these two things are tied together in my caller". The compiler can then use that information when the borrow checker is doing its magic.

I've got an article written in my head about how to think about lifetimes in terms of visibility up and down the call stack.
This honestly just grows the demand for permanent access to media.
Not only that, but quarter-to-quarter investors and activist hedge funds often bully companies (tech or otherwise) to issue dividends and/or conduct buybacks instead of investing for the long-run. Google and Amazon are rare cash-cows able to support earnings growth and continue to invest for the long term, and even they get pressure to spend differently.
Their 4G beats a lot of other countries 5G. But yes theoretically 5G is a lot better and generally should be faster. It’s also got other capabilities like support for higher density (devices per sq km)
Who eats the Floridian strawberries?
I really like my Nokia 8 (and its headphone jack). Much cheaper than most devices on that list, but easily up there with them in terms of every day perceived performance.
I still remember how involved pbiggar thesis on compiling scripting languages such as php was

https://paulbiggar.com/research/
Who is this for exactly?

I don't see how the target can be entirely non-technical people, since this still assumes some knowledge around databases/functions/REST/HTTP/Schemas/etc.

Technical people have very little reason to use this, since this platform is a walled garden of proprietary tooling, and there's only so much you can achieve with abstractions and fancy ORM. You won't be able to break out of the mould when the time comes, so why waste your time in the first place? Do it right the first time and maintain your flexibility and freedom later on.

I believe the only remaining target audience here is technically-inclined people that want to build a cheap prototype quickly, just to test ideas. This is a playground basically.
Sorry I meant "down"!
I write everything down. Purchase decision, budget planning, daily goals, or even meeting agenda.

It is so simple that it's hard to believe how much impact it has.

I believe it takes away all the mental energy you have to put to process things in your mind. And somehow it gives some sort of value and priority to your plan when you write it down. It quickly becomes a discipline and works against procrastination.

One of those things that you always hear it, yet you can't believe it until you try it.
Then you obviously haven't seen the Seinfeld reunion episode of Curbed... They do a Seinfeld episode within the episode. One of the story lines is George creates an iPhone app. It was the most I've laughed at a TV show in years.

Larry David + Jerry Seinfeld is the definition of comedic synergy.
I read the Twitter post but did not understand what is happening. Can someone please explain.
I think on most cars the infotainment systems runs on a separate computer that is connected to the drive computer via a bus. With a bit of commonsense design it should be fairly simple to have a car thats still useable without the infotainment computer.
>get a fraction of what 4G can provide

Providers love to boast about max speeds, but the reality is every device under a base station shares the total capacity, more devices means competition and slower speeds.
> It's written to be read from one end to the other.

But you wrote:

> Finding content in it that wasn't a chapter title included going to a glossary with a ton of page numbers, and flipping back and forth constantly (see comment about sticky pages) to see if page N was the one I was looking for.

So either you read it from one end to the other or you used it as reference material (which "(looking) to see if page N was the one I was looking for." strongly indicates).

Frankly, I am not interested in trying to convince you of anything. There are substantial evidences that paper and e-books have different strengths and all you are saying is that the strength I wrote about are wrong because you don't feel like it and your 1200 page monster should be the only point of data to refute what you don't want to agree with.

All the while asking for sources I gave in one of the first post, which tells me you take only what you want from the conversation.

Not interested.
I've always considered "#G" to be just a marketing term, and therefore largely meaningless.
That's an apples-to-oranges comparison because your iterator interface here isn't generic like Rust's. It isn't reusable.

Your iterator has to be specific to a set of types — "v.Item" in your example is always of some specific type. Using an untyped interface{} would be worse than any alternative because every single use would have to use type switches and casting; you lose out of compile-type type safety.

Because of this, even if you have a local iteration system, it isn't composable beyond your package and its types. Given this (simpler) interface:

type Iterator interface {
Next() (Foo, error)
}

...then I can write a map function:

func Map(it Iterator, mapper func(Foo) Foo)) Iterator

...but I cannot write a generic one that works with anything other than Foo. And if I need this:

func MapFooToBar(it Iterator, mapper func(Foo) Bar)) Iterator

...then I have to write it just for that purpose.

That's why there's no "iterator library" for Go, like there is with Rust.
To use your closing example, that sort of fatalistic passivity is how you end up on the train in the first place. It's better to fight for your freedom than to meekly accept it and everything else being taken away from you.
This is one of the most important post i’ve seen on HN so far.

it teaches you that you don’t need all the fancy stuffs, but you may need some of them. That you don’t have to shoot for the unicorn project, that you don’t have to build an A+ people team, etc.

It’s intelligent and gives all the interesting details to not give any kind of false impression.
Bernie's plan is massive economic command and control from Washington. DC couldn't execute on Obama's stimulus spending and we know state-directed economies have been an environmental catastrophe (see: Soviet Union). A simple, aggressive carbon tax that captured the true externality of carbon emissions is the way to go-- bring economic incentives into alignment with climate goals.
More Evidence Ties Social Media to Mental Health Problems
> My apple phones have consistently been good for 3-4 years, making the yearly outlay similar.

That depends a lot. The sum total of every smartphone I've owned since 2012 (4 phones, ~$1100 Canadian before tax) is comparable to the cost of a single current generation iPhone.
OBD-II isn't actually a real standard. The OEMs all tack on additional stuff to it, so none of the implementations are fully compatible with each other. Ford and Mazda, for instance, use a medium-speed CAN bus that other OEMs don't, so most OBD-II readers can't access anything on that bus. Also, the whole point of OBD was supposed to be standardizing diagnostic messages so anyone could read the trouble codes. However, all the OEMs have lots of proprietary codes that aren't in the standard. The whole thing is a mess.

Finally, OBD-II isn't a standard bus anyway. It's an interface to the end user or technician. The various modules on the car are interconnected with a variety of buses: CAN (high-speed or low-speed or medium-speed), LIN, MOST, etc.
It also doesn't make sense from a security perspective, as it eliminates having an external firewall.
Apple employees are using their product, downloading lots of data, not paying for any of it, and the OP doesn't like it or can afford it.
The post mentions using Google speech-to-text for transcription which seems to be even cheaper?

I'm not sure where you got the $4/hr price, but indeed kudos to OP for building a business around reselling cloud services for profit.
Coming Soon to the United Nations: Chinese Leadership and Authoritarian Values
A city street in Beatty is faster than a 8-lane highway in LA
Those are devices I simply will not purchase, for obvious reasons.
> A really great new idea should empower millions of people completely unlike us to build software.

Do you mean, like, some sort of "silver bullet"?
Infrastructures.org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Administration
There are people who create consumer products, and there are people who create the products that power those products. It's no different to when id Software sold licences of their engines to other game developers. Perhaps you can turn your infrastructure into a business of its own.
I had intended to look into Cloudflare before but didn't get a chance. Looks like it's a good time now!
It's both. Two wrongs don't make a right. Why are you supporting the Chinese in this or justifying their attack on Australian sovereignty?
Agreed - and if anyone is interested in this specific sort of work ("meta-textual" analysis of things like marginalia and the material characteristics of a piece of writing) there is a wonderful resource in Rare Book School at the University of Virginia: https://rarebookschool.org. They offer summer classes and a fellowship program, and it isn't just about old books - when I was there I met people working on digital texts, and even things like the preservation and archiving of VHS tapes and other old analog formats.

Nick Wilding's discovery of a forged Galileo manuscript is another fun example of this type of research: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-bo...
what is the generally recommended service?
She only won 95k out of 162k while spending an outrageous (if trends from 14 & 16 hold) amount against a poorly funded republican opponent, that’s quite embarrassing and open to another D from what I can see.
Yes, I know what it's called. I have implemented generics in compilers. I still don't miss them in most go code, in practice.
The Price of DC Real Estate Is Not the Problem with This Viral Craigslist Post
Is there a source for this? I never heard that before, though I know Renoise started out as a fork of NoiseTrekker so to speak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renoise

> I started coding 2 years ago with this project, so I'm more musician than coder I started making music with protracker

https://web.archive.org/web/20020803155023/http://noerror.sc...
That's insane, though. In reality, these things can coexist just fine, but even if they couldn't... why wouldn't you want to have a business model with lower overhead?
Action is a great curative for despair. If people aren't listening to polite explanations and exhortations then maybe it's time to try other approaches instead of just feeling helpless and passively documenting it.
> manufacturers view suppliers as commodity producers of components they find boring like brakes, steering systems, sensors, transmissions, safety systems, fuel pumps, etc

Does a car manufacturer really find these things boring? Half are like the blood and oxygen of a car, and also includes some territory for unique selling points.