skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite small business examples is a friend that quit working for an insurance agency and bought one of his own (typical car & property insurance agency) for 1x sales. In service segments like insurance or accounting, it's often easy to find businesses to buy at 1x sales. The former owner was retiring and ready to be done with it.

Simple small business concept. He instantly replaced his former income, bought himself a job. The purchase paid for itself in a few years. Since the purchase he has organically - with very little advertising effort, mostly through good customer attention - increased the size of the business 4x or so. The year by year growth goals are very modest, and over time the persistent gains obviously add up (snowball down the hill). The same effort he would have been putting in for his former employer, will make him a multi-millionaire instead, with quite modest risk.

He doesn't regard himself as an entrepreneur, he thinks of being an entrepreneur as those that take very outsized risk (the media propaganda version everyone gets fed). He's wrong though, he's an excellent example of an entrepreneur. The best entrepreneurs are usually those that understand the task is to eliminate the risk in the equation, not to actually take or pursue risk. Risk is what threatens the business, eliminating the risk is what ensures prosperity (or at least gives you the best shot at it). In my observation, small business operators are often frequently quite good at spotting and quickly eliminating risk in their businesses, they're very close to the metal so to speak, very exposed to the nerves of the operation.
I assume that all US TLAs have (or could have) access to all data that my ISP logs (or could log). That's just how it is. Given government ~monopoly on force.

And that's why I use VPN services. But the same is true for VPN services, regarding US and/or other TLAs. So I use nested VPN chains, to make it harder to get complete data.

And when it really matters, I add Tor to the mix. Even if it's heavily infiltrated by US TLAs, there's at least the chance that it's also heavily infiltrated by TLAs of US adversaries. So, Dog willing, maybe they cancel each other out, at least somewhat.
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There are plenty of Unix systems out there, such as AIX (and arguably FreeBSD, though it's not certified), that are derived from and could be called UNIX. These systems are still maintained today and generally have the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". And there's definitely some sense in that, and I wish more software projects followed that philosophy.

If you take C code from K&R C, it'll likely still compile with current C compilers. Likewise, I'm sure most C projects from the 80s still compile with current compilers, perhaps with minor changes.

FreeBSD often chooses to improve existing tools instead of replacing them, so it would look more familiar to an old Unix expert than Linux, and there's some solid logic to that.

I think it's a little sad that we have these big disruptive changes like Python 2 -> 3, when Python 2 still works fine and can still be improved without breaking backwards compatibility. Honestly, I think it makes sense to have disruptive changes like that be treated as a new language instead of completely dropping support. I like how the Rest project is approaching it with building compatibility for older versions of the language into current compilers, so you can get the best of backwards compat and modern changes.
7 day account. Not gonna say it's a troll but I'm suspicious.
The federal government has the power to classify information because it owns it. The primary purpose of a state is to preserve itself. The ability to control access to secrets is critical to this. It's a bit like asking "What gives the government the right to execute the laws?" Because that's what it's meant to do.
Or a guy with a gun to his head. The cartels have kidnapped engineers, enslaved them, and then murdered them.[1]

[1]https://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
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> In addition, my ISP does not provide DoH/DNSCrypt/DNSSec. None. Just 'vanilla' DNS. Furthermore, they also don't provide an unaltered DNS service: they block some websites from resolving, the list isn't made available, and is decided via extrajudicial means. You cannot opt-out, and all ISPs in the country adhere to this. They're not forced by law to do so. I'm also not in a normally thought of as a repressive country: it's a member state of the European Union, after all.

Would Cloudflare/Google?
The real KDE isn't dead:

[1] http://trinitydesktop.org/

For a distro built around that

[2] https://www.q4os.org/

And if you absolutely can't live without the look, or just wanting to make fun of people looking over your shoulder:

[3] https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/

The funny thing about that stuff is it works better with multimonitor setups than every other environment which followed later. By that i mean laptops in docking stations with one or two external displays, not necessarily the same size and resolution, and hotplugging.

But how do i dare to speak of that when the herd moved on and bleats bitrotten!,deprecated!,unsafe!,unsupported!,obsolete!

/me mumbles something about stoned sheeps which obviously had too much of the wrong weeds...
This was when I was 22, just out of college at my first job, so did not realised at the time that you can say no to requests like these. Now a days I follow a short Friday routine, get in early (7am) and leave by 1 or 2pm as after that most people tend not to work and I would rather be home.
what about the facial feedback hypothesis?

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

Basically, the act of physically smiling may influence the emotion (usually it's the other way around)
> Your ISP, and nobody else, can deliver the lowest latency and quickest path DNS resolution

Ha! Tell that to Verizon, 'cause I'm pretty sure they're not aware of it.
Good thing they can't drive.
Which is to say, /var/ is writable when they do it.

This business of /var/ not being writable early enough is probably to do with the wonderful complexities of modern Linux, and is just not a problem that OpenBSD has.
Works for me. But maybe OpenBSD 6.2 isn't "current" enough for you?

$ cat hello.c
main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}
$ cc hello.c
hello.c:1:1: warning: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int]
main()
^
hello.c:3:2: warning: implicitly declaring library function 'printf' with type
'int (const char *, ...)' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
printf("hello, world\n");
^
hello.c:3:2: note: include the header <stdio.h> or explicitly provide a declaration for 'printf'
2 warnings generated.
$ ./a.out
hello, world
$ uname -a
OpenBSD foo.example.com 6.2 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64

I think this illustrates my point. OpenBSD did what was necessary to keep the vintage 1978 hello.c program working on a recent system. If only Guido and his colleagues did the same.
I'd been wondering if this was from 7 Up, before I saw this comment. And now just seeing that 63 Up aired in June 2019. Wow!
I find it interesting that Google and CloudFlare are now the scapegoats. I mean, it's not like DoH isn't configurable and we don't have a choice.
Incidents like the recent Checkm8 hack illustrate the dangerous of a monoculture. The designers need to really up their game. Something like, on first boot the device scrambles the microcode in the CPU. Then on each further boot encrypts memory access per process. That way each device would be unique and no individual hack could infect the entire population.
More like this is going to change a lot of sites to include a "Best viewed in firefox" message.
So why not just use patch, minor, major? Then we don’t even need the indirection.

Some fixes will require breaking changes. Fixes can be part of the message with the issue #, etc.
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We have a term, "employed", for people who work and earn a living wage.

We have another term, "unemployed", for people who have no work.

We need a third term, "underemployed", to describe people in between those two situations, who have some work (so they're not "unemployed") but nonetheless do not earn a living wage (so counting them as "employed" is disingenuous).
Pakistan/India probably is the greater threat and whatever ensues after that.
There are academic researchers have written about this topic:

Amy Benjamin: The Many Faces of Secrecy
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3038640

"Political secrecy in the United States has never been more studied – and less understood – than it is today. This irony is due in large part to the slippery nature of the phenomenon: Secrecy presents in different guises depending on the area of governmental activity under consideration. In the classified world of the U.S. national security state, secrecy results from affirmative governmental acts designed to enforce a sharp distinction between official and public knowledge...."
Needs a (2011) tag
I question the amount that such ethics courses actually help. Business majors have had ethics courses for as long as I can imagine, and yet you don't have to go far on HN (even in this very thread) before you see people saying business majors are unethical.

The bigger problem, IMO, is that many tech companies have started handing out kool-aid that data collection and analytics is ethical. They justify it by saying that it helps people avoid spam, or get better advertisements, or whatever, and then the engineers think they are being ethical and beneficial to society by building these systems.
Here's a twitter thread worth reading, from the former VP of the Firefox group: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871238922776576

It's easy to make proposals that incrementally increase user security while simultaneously increasing one's own ability to consolidate and exploit user data. Technical appeal needs to be evaluated with a simultaneous critical eye to social impact (QUIC is a perfect example -- it outcompetes TCP on an equivalent link, and falls apart over variable-latency or highly unreliable connections, like those that exist in developing nations -- but of course, Google doesn't care about those audiences).
You must be new here. This same attitude permeates all of tech, especially SV, where folks constantly tout their non-accomplishments publicly. Every idiot is giving advice because every idiot is looking for some.

And there are a whole lotta idiots in SV smelling their own farts.
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> Citation for 5.56 vs .223?

> Curious where you're getting your information?

The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute

https://saami.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Unsafe-Arms-and...

page 8:

In Firearms Chambered For: 223 Remington

Do Not Use These Cartridges:

5.56mm Military

---

Also literally first entry in FAQ on SAAMI site: https://saami.org/faqs/#ammunition-firearm-chambered

Can I use 5.56x45mm, 5.56 or 5.56 NATO ammunition in a firearm chambered for 223 Remington (223 Rem)?

NO!

It is not safe to shoot “5.56” “5.56 NATO” or “5.56x45mm” (“5.56”) ammunition in a firearm with barrel marked as being chambered in 223 Remington for a number of reasons. The main reason being that a barrel marked as chambered in 223 Remington will have a shorter throat into the rifling than a “5.56” barrel which may cause increased pressure when the “5.56” ammunition is fired in it. This can result in serious injury or death to the user and/or bystanders, as well as damage to the firearm.

However, it is safe to use SAAMI-compliant 223 Remington ammunition in firearms with a barrel marked as chambered in “5.56.”

If you are unclear about which ammunition is appropriate to safely use in your firearm, consult the firearm owner’s manual or contact the firearm manufacturer for further guidance.

> So while it's not a good idea to fire 5.56 out of a cheap .223 rifle, it's not a death wish to do so out of a .223 engineered to accept the additional pressure.

I can't find the manual online, but I'm sure that in my previous, not quite cheap, Tikka T3 Super Varmint manual it was written the same. It's only truly safe only when manufacturer says so (like it was with now discontinued Ruger Precision 223/5.56, if I recall correctly)
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Cries in Webseal.
IBM's business model is totally antiquated and exhausting for modern processes. We have had a nightmare trying to get IBM MDM's solution to finally admit they were not actually cloud-ready after saying repeatedly that they were. No TLS support for DB2 out of the box for K8 support, documentation sucks. But contact us for pricing. IBM sucks.
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the United States of America President of the United States?
The risk is too high for them to fuck up, IMHO.

If someone found nefarious stuff after throughly logging and monitoring these devices, and their findings were made public, I think this would be too huge for a company which differentiates itself via their privacy stance
If ISPs are against it I am for it. I’ve worked in the SP market for 15 of the last 20 years.
You still need money to obtain equipment. IDK if stealing it is practical, but it might be.
Get company and insider transaction data on the go
Disappointing ruling. This will encourage other universities to discriminate in the admission process however they see fit as long as they claim to use 'diversity' as a measure.
> Do you think the kids in poor immigrant neighborhoods are in worse positions than poor kids in eastern Kentucky?

Your line of reasoning did a dodge there, swapping out between geographic demographics and racial demographics.

I don't think all kids in poor immigrant neighborhoods are in worse positions than poor kids in Eastern Kentucky. I do think that all the white-looking kids in eastern Kentucky, regardless of other factors stacked against them, will never be denied a job, loan, or rental opportunity based on the color of their skin. I can't say the same for the kids from any of those regions who don't look white.
Everything warrants skepticism until proven otherwise. Especially things that are being given out for free. Google might be operating on the up and up, but Google is just a large collection of people and some of them will be ethically lacking. And Google's employees have a large incentive to not see any issues with collecting all the personal information that exists.
The problem is that they deal themselves into the equation too much.

You can turn off bluetooth, but if you turn it on to talk to your headphones or car, you get opted-in to ibeacon location services.

You can turn off wifi, but if you turn it on to talk to your home router, yeah, more location services opt-in.

If you follow links in email or safari, with deep links apps on your phone that have registered can intercept them. there's no opt-out of this added functionality.

You text a link to someone, you also load a preview in imessage and therefore contact the site.

It's like normal functionality have all these built-in compromises you can't turn off.

Now with the UWB stuff, there isn't even an off switch.

I think their standard way of dealing with things is that they just shut up and don't advertise this stuff.
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So two wrongs make a right?

I think America largely fails its poor, black and marginalized communities, and that a ton more can and should be done, but that doesn't mean affirmative action is the right (both effectively and morally) solution, or that it's not systemacially unfair to other groups.
We are all confident idiots and this is why the ego was created in evolution.

Ego is needed to make you think you are better than others at something, eventhough initially you may not be. Without ego, people would be Marvin The Paranoid Android but depressed because we didn't have the capabilities or opportunities to compete with all the smarter people around or in history. People that are laser focused and don't listen to any naysayers, those people can become successful more than people that don't even attempt to due to humbling competition.

The reason why childhood is so nice is that you can dream and imagine on becoming anything. Reality bites that in the behind, but the ones that can overcome and pursue, prevail over the ones that do not go beyond their limit. The trick is to be rooted in the real adult world, but break the rules and don't listen to others when you have a desire to push in an area with a beginners or child mind. Just do it says your ego.

The internet is a humbling experience for the ego. Competition was only your local tribe before the internet, now it is worldwide. This is both humbling and also allows humans an insight that has never before been able to be realized, you can see how you need to compete with the entire world. It is inspiring all the time and seemingly insurmountable at times, but jump start that ego and you to can be competing. Everyone can be good at something, time and focus, as well as competition can push you.

Without ego humanity may not have made it this far.

When you convince yourself you can do it, by making iterative gains to fuel more motivation, it must turn to discipline and professionalism, and that means blocks of time all the time on your focused goal or project in both the open (creative / brainstorming / ideas / play) and closed (prototypes / ship time) mode. The overnight successes are always in a multi-year focused strategy.

Check out the market, but don't be too focused on chasing what others are doing, focus on your area that meets your goals. Use that ego motivation and stay away from getting too beat down because others are far ahead.

"Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer" -- Stephen King

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and got to work" -- Stephen King

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney
I think there should be a "prepper" kit with a durable laptop loaded with wikipedia, spreadsheet, CAD program, videos on survival, repair, whatever else. Maybe thingiverse local copies, a 3d printer and a couple square feet of solar panels and batteries to power it all. Keep it all inside a metal case for a faraday cage.
> Flexport’s mission is to make global trade easy for everyone.

Can you expand a little on this? Maybe give an example of what kind of person finds value in your product? I gather you do something related to freight, but beyond that I can’t tell.
Hmmm. Make money selling blades?

No, I got a better idea - give away the guillotine, make money selling the blades.

Or perhaps a subscription model for the blades?

Probably the best option is decapitation as a service.
Some quick links:

- Repository: https://github.com/hankchizljaw/modern-css-reset#readme

- NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/modern-css-reset

- Article on DEV: https://dev.to/hankchizljaw/a-modern-css-reset-6p3
They're not secured, that's the whole point.
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