skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are still many business owners out there that don't have time to build their own website with squarespace or wix or maintain it.

Sell them on you building and maintain their website while they do what they do best, run their business. You can handle the design, setup, adding content, updating content adding new content, handling updates and monitoring uptime.

Expand to offer custom web applications (rails/laravel) most businesses can use something custom for their business/data, a simple stripe ecomm setup, surveys, CRM, allow customers to customize and/or price services/products, email/sms alerts for customers, appointment reminders, there are lots of things you could do with businesses and custom web apps.

Talk to them about their business, what are their pain points, how can you solve them with technology, website, forms, web app. Three is still lots of opportunity out there.
OpenBSD became concerned about sudo's codebase some time ago, and replaced it with the conceptually much simpler doas, which achives about 95% of what sudo does in real world usage.

https://man.openbsd.org/doas
For those who don’t know what the “dee” referred to in the poem is, it’s a river in northeast Scotland near Aberdeen. [1]

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire
Can it auto-fill passwords on mobile apps?
> The fact that society has a much more negative view of transwomen confounds the entire thing.

I think a lot of this is simply a combination of of not crediting gender identity (such that transmen are viewed as women, and transwomen as men) and viewing both as gender non-conforming and presumptively homosexual, combined with asymmetric views on homosexuality and gender non-conformity between men and women (which embed misogyny, since men are the superior gender, it is less acceptable for them to fall to conform, while women who are non-conforming are, while violating a norm, adopting features of the superior gender, which is less contemptible.)
I feel like you're missing the most interesting point of this story - how many other policies are decided based upon nonexistent or erroneous data that nobody bothered to verify? You assume it's an anomaly, but what if this were the norm?
Looks like this is really all old news. The thief might not even be alive anymore.

Should be "Someone was ... ". Probably moved on to Gutenberg Bibles or something. Which are harder to fake, but people are correspondingly less likely to check.
Shouldn't companies be penalized for exposing its users' private data?
Not worldwide, no. In the US mainly and perhaps a few others, but that's about it.
> We wake up students too early

Based on what you just said, if we moved school to 10am, you would just stay up until 4am playing StarCraft.

I don't think school is too early. I think you just stayed up too late.
I appreciate the kind sentiment. Interviewing and hiring the right candidate for a job is a near-infinitely complex problem. I mentioned in an earlier post that 5 hours to assess an employee's performance will have lots of false positives / false negatives. Is this the best way to interview? Probably not. If this style of interview can be a good predictor in a large sample size then maybe it's justifiable. I'm assuming the FAANG companies are doing it with lots of statistics backing it up.
HTML5 (2014) and Firefox 1.5 (2005) were not contemporaneous.
It's not, and many other countries do. However, there are still big concerns about the overall economic payback of reprocessing, and also concerns about nuclear proliferation:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/01/why-doesnt-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
250 hours is a lot of time!
For any value of “compiler.”
The solid nuclear fuel business is structured like the multi-color printer cartridge business: once a specific uranium isotope is depleted, you have to throw the whole thing away. FWIW, there are several projects, including one funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, trying to solve the issue, but are running into significant political pushback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
Maybe are loopholes if someone wants to go find lawyers and pay enough legal fees. Thankfully we haven't had to deal with this issue as our students have been pretty satisfied.
Senator Ted Kennedy is credited with creating the nickname "Star Wars" to mock the project:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090227050446/https://www.smdc.a...

The nickname does indeed refer to the movies, which were released a few years earlier.
what about top-secret patents? (aka: inventions too good to be shared)
A fun question I have been pondering recently: what is the smallest positive integer that has not yet been written or uttered by a human being?
Culture has always adapted around technology and products available.

Think about food. Pretty much every world cuisine is rooted in a bunch of non-optional requirements imposed by local climate, soil, etc.

Even language has shifted to adapt to writing systems over time.
If you haven’t come across his writings already, you might be interested in the insights from somebody named Mark Suster— he has experience has done a lot of thinking out loud about this kind of stuff

Check out his thinking about “elephants” vs “deer” vs “rabbits”: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/most-startups-should-be-deer...
Oh man, I forgot about this one. Such a classic.
Is Ansible still hip or has it gone the way of MongoDB?
A relatively routine roof replacement required because it is now expected to serve more than one purpose (simultaneous weather
- proofed shelter and PV surface area) could be justified, especially if the entire neighborhood utilizes its existing local grid because the entire street of individually owned Powerwalls is one large shared, connected, metered (people with high energy needs could still run welders and power tools that pull from other Powerwalls), software driven reservoir:

Each existing home (even ones built in newly minted neighborhoods) would still be connected in parallel. It's the nearby 70-150kV subtransmission relay station historically feeding that parallel bank of homes that would become inactive - ironically bypassing the Nikola Tesla prompted long distance HV amperage flow from remote generation sources. AC implies spinning dynamos (loud flywheel momentum), and PV-to-battery is solid state, with high frequency silicon carbide switching (quiet). Classical home 13kV transformer bypassed or replaced with a small DC boost to launch amperage across the hundreds of feet of a neighborhood's acreage. Typical loads could be balanced even if a few people want to weld or smelt metals during a bright sunny day (especially summer solstice).

As a comment above pointed out, the solar capacity would decay over time, but since there is a local grid reservoir buffer - the reduced capacity PV over time can mean the high quality glass protection can be kept even when cells under them are down below 50%. Such a roof would be contributing less to the reservoir than neighbors feeding the same grid with newer solar roof replacement. The user can be paid for their generation if they use less than they produce, incentivizing low noise, subtle generation sources (charging your powerwall with an exercise bike like Jaimie Mantzel, adding your electric vehicle(s) charge reservoir to the neighborhood grid if next day commute will mean you're parked near other solar roofs that will top you off until ready to return home - transporting and trading energy).
The Weird World of ‘Haunted’ eBay: ‘Purchase with Caution
After a number of years in the space I’ve come to the sad conclusion that many (not all) companies succeed despite their leadership rather than because of it. There are often a large number of true believers involved in keeping the ship sailing straight and they often get little credit for it.
Iris Automation Is Hiring a C++ Software Engineer – AI for Drones
For the most part, could you alias doas to sudo?
Spotify Saved the Music Industry – Now What?
Cropping text in the middle is extremely hard to spec and implement for general inline CSS. Cropping at the start or end can be implemented as a purely paint-time operation. Cropping in the middle means you have to change the layout, and you have to define the layout of the stuff in the middle that has been cropped away in case someone does element.getClientRects() etc. It is far from obvious how that should work.

XUL texboxes avoided this problem by only supporting a single plain text string, but applying that constraint to HTML+CSS would be incredibly ugly (and people soon be complaining about that constraint, anyway).
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What I like in a CEO: takes no salary, and keeps the hell out of the way.

And never, never hires McKinsey.
At least in Debian-based distros, the CLI version ships with the ``keepassxc`` package. I've used it on the odd occasion for password retrieval, and I can confirm it worked for my needs. You can find the manpage to give you some indication of what's possible: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man1/keepassxc-cli....
This happens all the time, and for decades, and is one of the prime reasons why institutions digitize their collection.
I've taken this approach while learning polish, which is the first language of my partner's parents. I started three years ago, and the first tactical decision I made was to take classes - not for the sake of being taught, but for the accountability that comes from having to regularly attend and do homework for a class. I also decided to not obsess over my progress or speed, and have been content taking a few years to learn what some people manage to do in six months of hard study. I figure it takes children 5-6 years to get any good, and they are effectively studying a language full time with seemingly much higher stakes (e.g. the necessity of communicating that you don't want broccoli for dinner).
Let’s play this game
> news isn't religion

Anecdotally it feels that way in modern society.

Ask a random person if they believe Fox news.
I've heard of doas sometimes and it's much simpler than sudo, but it's powerful. Doas has two non-official port for Linux[0][1], but it would be great if someone developed an official tool like doas for Linux.

[0] https://github.com/multiplexd/doas

[1] https://github.com/slicer69/doas
It’s not a good idea, but it could be done very safely. Personally, I think nuclear power is simply to expensive to be particularly useful going forward, but IMO waste is a smaller issue than generally perceived.

Sure, you would encase them in something that could survive reentry or detonation of the rocket. Choosing a launch location and trajectory for easy recovery is also possible.

However, paying 1,000+$/lb to get rid of Nuclear waste is extremely expensive. Simply storing it in a pond for ~120 years and the stuff gets vastly less radioactive as short half-life material decays. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 have half-lives of about 30 years so you get 6% as much of them and essentially everything with a shorter half life is gone. Plutonium-238 has a longer half life of 87 years, but you also get rid of ~2/3 of that.

You still have almost off the Plutonium-239 with a half-life of 24,000 years, but that stuff is not nearly as nasty and can be reprocessed for fuel. Further, reprocessing becomes cheaper after waiting for it to cool down.

PS: Plutonium-238, Strontium-90 and cesium-137 can also be used for space probes via: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_...
The plus side is that I can kill time on my phone while I wait for late people to arrive.
> I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air.

Did you test this hypothesis at the time with a CO2 monitor? Lack of sleep causes headaches, too.
>We wake up students too early

I agree, but... you were staying up until 1-2am playing video games. C'mon.
Skyon's SABRE Engine Component Passes a Big Test.

Still very cool progress and quite the test setup.
I really like https://www.tdcommons.org/ as an alternative. Any idea can be published as a free for all disclosure. Additionally, it establishes prior art and prevents anyone else from patenting that idea and claiming royalty in the future.
Wikipedia doesn't include everything, but I get your point.
A single file open and close isn't that much, but dozens or hundreds of these tiny performance papercuts add up and make application startup slow.
Hello!

I too am working on a chatbot startup, that's b2b: https://insideropinion.com/

The path I'm working:

1. Identify a clear problem / use case

2. Determine inside of a corporation who makes purchasing decisions to solve said problem / use case

3. Search LinkedIn for contacts at companies that fit into that role

4. Reach out over LinkedIn and / or use system such as Hunter.io to connect over emails

5. Goal is a video demo / discussion, pitch the product and show them how you think it can help

6. If you make a connection, ask if they know others that may be interested

7. Attend trade shows for your segment if possible

Main thing is follow up, follow up, follow up. Sometimes on my 3rd or 4th follow up I'll get a hit. Ask questions about their business and be as clear as possible. Conversions should be anywhere from 1% - 20% depending on the market segment (I'm not sure what yours is).
Here is one in Python. Uncomment the if statement if you want it to terminate.

def sin(x):
def recur(x, n, s, p, f):
#if n > 9: return s;
return recur(x, n + 2, s + p/f, -p*x*x, f*(n + 1)*(n + 2))

return recur(x, 1, 0, x, 1)

Of course maybe it's cheating from your intent because it's really just implementing the Taylor series, and it has too many arguments. I believe any analytic function could be defined this way if you can figure out the pattern for its derivatives.
I did, more than a decade ago. Do you think they stopped? How would I know there is no shadow profile being constantly updated?

It's apparently not my data and privacy and I have no say in it at all when someone uploads their goddamn contact list to these frickin' crooks. Is that your understanding too?

So This solution is not a solution. This solution only works if we stop other people from using it. How's that going to work? Well it isn't.

Cool? Now welcome to the "what regulation is appropriate" debate because this is clearly an example of market failure, same as national defence, same as national parks, same as pollution, same as any other. The sooner we treat "...using computers" exactly the same as any other industry the better. This is nuts.
Getting rid of XBL is a big and good step, but XUL is still being used. They're working on getting rid of that too. It's not all HTML yet.
Can I ask what solution you use? ZoneMinder or something else?
Why We Sleep[1] is a pretty complete look at what we know about sleep today and implies that many of the things I thought like being able to catch up on sleep is just wrong. Did confirm my belief that there are some people that just can operate on less, but they are fewer than might be imagined.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
Indeed, a granted patent includes a list of citations, and the presumption is that the office has found that the cited works are not disqualifying prior art. A published patent is assumed to not be self-disqualifying.

I'm not a patent lawyer, but I've been involved in this stuff, often conducting extensive prior art searches. The gold standard for prior art is a single document that teaches everything in the claims of the patent. Often, folks think that they've found prior art if they find one thing in one document and another thing elsewhere. Nope.

Now if you happen to find the pieces of a claim in different prior documents, then you may be able to demonstrate obviousness rather than prior art. For instance it's generally considered obvious to take two patented ideas and combine them together. But obviousness is profoundly harder to prove than straightforward prior art.

Meanwhile, anything that's taught in the body of the patent, can be added to the claims at a later date. Within some limitations of course. A patent can be invalidated in its entirety, and the holder can submit a completely new claim set based on the original body text.
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These aren't comparable examples. If you hire a hitman, there's a reasonable expectation that people will die. No such expectation exists for hiring someone to mow your lawn.
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Messages in plain text on the server? That's /not/ e2e at all! That's just a con. Advice: avoid telegram completely, always.

Or is my news old and that's no longer the case?
Lack of end to end encryption is a deal-breaker for a lot. And contrary to what law enforcement says, the metadata of messaging — who is contacting whom, when, and how often — is more than enough for non-lazy cops and intelligence operatives to do their job.
Thanks for the link. I knew I'd read about this before some time ago.
This is already two week old news, and it affects an extremely limited number of systems. Almost nobody should be using a configuration that is vulnerable, so the number of impacted systems is negligible. You don't have to care about this bug, really.

The bug can be more simply restated as follows: if you allow a user to sudo to the unnamed user ID '-1', you also allow them to sudo to root.

Since the user ID -1 isn't a real thing, this only ever happens if you allow a user to sudo as anyone, including root. Then for the bug to matter, you have to explicitly exclude root. This is an extremely weird configuration. It makes little to no sense.

In fact, it's quite likely that if you're using such a config, you're already vulnerable to privilege escalation anyway, without any sudo bugs. For example, on many systems, the 'adm' user can write to raw disk devices, and thus give itself root access by directly modifying the filesystem. If you use an 'anyone but root' rule on such a system, then it's trivial to escalate to root anyway.
I use neither Chrome nor Firefox, nor am I installing extra software to access a website that doesn't want me.
> if you gave a candidate some completely orthogonal task unrelated to the career and they excelled at it... would they be a better hire

This idea has been tried. It’s called college.
All benchmarks depend on both the CPU and the compiler -- except those coded in assembly language. Everybody knows it, so it is not (by itself) a deception.
I wonder how much of RCS was planned with advertising and corporate partners in mind: will short-codes (and the $20k/year fee) still be required for companies send massive numbers of RCS messages?
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By that logic, if we moved school to 5 am, he would have simply only stayed up until 10 pm. Is that particularly realistic?
Look into deconstructed club
Wheels of fortune? A new age for electric motors
I have been using Pragmata Pro (https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/) for over a year and it has been fantastic. I'm using it in PyCharm for the UI and Text Editor and in VSCode.
Indeed. Just to back up your statement:

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/03/analysts-pe...
I stayed up til the same time reading books for the same reason OP stayed up, not being tired. Teenagers have a delayed sleep cycle compared to adults, it’s not a matter of choice, it’s when your body says to wake up or sleep autonomously, same as my baby wakes at 5am and sleeps at 8pm, because that’s what his body is telling him to do.
If you factor in iOS, usage is actually quite significant. Almost a accounting for almost a third of the market, making it the second most popular browser.

https://www.stetic.com/market-share/browser/
Were Raymond Smullyan still with us, he would point out that you just answered your own question. And yet didn't. In which case you did. Provided you didn't.

Another example:

"The smallest integer that has a description too long to fit in a Hacker News comment."
I have seen a number of companies try this without Docker, and it's never as thoroughly, reliably identical as Docker makes it. Plus it's a surprising amount of work.
Reminds me of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Square Pixels and 1080 (2012)
Major sites have been maintaining tor hidden endpoitns for some time now. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebookcorewwwi.onion
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If you have comments/questions/complaints, you can write here but you can also follow-up to article <1571189269.bystand@zzo38computer.org> on Usenet. (You could also find some questions that some people have already asked.)
I disagree.

My daughters are “lady-like”, in that they are feminine. That has different definitions to different people, obviously, but to us that means that she is capable of carrying herself with grace, dignity, and class.

They’re also stubborn, strong-willed, and capable. They get the same advice from me as I got from my father: don’t start a fight, avoid a fight if you can, but if you have no other choice, fight. Fight hard and win, so there won’t be a second one.

We live in a fairly rural area in a very “Red” state, and my 11-year-old is currently saving her money for a new machete. She loves knives and carries at least a good pocket knife everywhere. If she’s wearing jeans, she has a Ka-Bar hunter’s knife.

One of my favorite photo sequences of my oldest daughter is a day that began with her winning the “Peach Princess” pageant, followed by the two of us spending all afternoon driving backroads and trails in my Jeep, and ending with her sitting in a booth at a local Mexican restaurant wearing a Spider-Man tee. She had messy sun-bleached hair, wind-burn on her cheeks, and a big smile on her face.
How often do people keep the same window size?
I think that perhaps they should have an option to report the height of the content window as Infinity, regardless of its actual height.
My in-laws are Scots. Don't call it "Scotch" as they will either look at you funny or chastise you. It's just whisky.
Never underestimate the capability and connections of a good sales person.

There are lots of ways to waste money on sales, but if you are careful to avoid them, a single experienced professional sales person can work wonders, even for a startup that is still a few pivots away from its final shape.

This may not be the most HN-compatible opinion, and there are certainly many additional ways to sell to big companies, but I worry that a lot of founders, especially technical ones, overlook staffing sales until later than they should.
The theory of exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour (2016) [pdf]
Are you arguing that the US airline industry spins profits? I mean, sure, you have some carriers like Southwest which do, but as a friend of mine once put it, the US airline industry exists mainly as an outlet for Boeing to sell airplanes...
Sure, only the markets that are worth investing billions into winning
McKinsey’s advice on what makes a great CEO is like my advice for making it through menopause. They know absolutely nothing about it and their expertise is mainly in creating CYA documents for executives and assisting corrupt governments and regimes.
I happened to just finish watching the HBO Miniseries From The Earth To the Moon [1] last night. The last episode features a side-plot about the french film Le Voyage dans la Lune by Georges Méliès, which had an interesting tie to Edison I had never heard of before.

Méliès had intended on US distribution for the film, but before he could make that happen, someone working for Edison bribed a theater owner in London for a copy of the film they had, and Edison then made copies which he redistributed in the US. Méliès didn't see a penny of this, and went broke within the next few years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(mi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
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