skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am looking for a co-founder for a project I've been working on for about three years but am just getting around to monetizing.

Audiobook publishing.

I know, between Audible and Podcast there is no niche for a new audiobook company.

Here is why you're wrong. "Audio" is taking off like a rocket right now. Everyone has access to every audiobook ever made in their pocket, but distribution and cost stand in the way.

OverDrive is great but lacks availability. Popular books are on 2-3 month wait lists.

Audible is great but most people don't want an Audiobook subscription.

Most people want want ONE audiobook, right NOW, that they are going to LOVE.

My company is playing to that customer.

(I have completed steps 1-3)

Step 1. A database of the top ~1,000 audiobooks.
Step 2. A dead simple site that allows user ranked and curated lists by genre.
Step 3. Allow users to modify sources to add for each book. Like their own Amazon affiliate link, OverDrive, YouTube, Magnet or Direct Download link. Each entry can be voted and commented on.
Step 4. Purchase rights to and produce audiobooks, using the platform to leverage the product line.

Please e-mail for more info, thanks!

AudiobookLinks@gmx.com
I can respect this, and acknowledge that there are use cases for all the infrastructure. My question is, are the trade-offs being considered? Not every use case requires all the bells and whistles. It seems possible that development pipelines have moved towards using the bells and whistles in part because developers are familiar with them from FAANG use cases. People choose to use what is in use, often for good reason like there being greater documentation and support for a tool in heavy active use. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're using the right tool for the job. It involves weighing the reduced development costs with possible increases in deployment issues. There are a lot of companies with delusions of grandeur, trying to future proof for massive scaling issues that most likely will never come.
>What if their office get robbed? What if the island gets attacked?

Switzerland, WW2. There is safety in holding EVERYONE's money. Because the moment you try it, you enrage many, many, many people who have things that go boom. You can fuck with someone's politics, their car or even their wife. But once you fuck with someone's money, it's a whole new ball game.

> I don't understand how this is even legal at all

Bank fees are higher. The different "islands" that do this, really don't have a choice. WTF else are they going to do as income generation? There's only so many happy endings you can give in a day spa. It's also easier to "invest" and hide the money in tourist based enterprises on said islands. It totally makes sense to hire an interior designer for $10k an hour.

>how can they trust so few people to hide so much money

Because people don't like getting into car accidents. When you're "trusted" with something on that level, suddenly people make sure you either don't have or do have car accidents that magically attract stray bullets.

>I mean apparently there is a long list of why it's risky, and I don't understand how this is even legal at all.

Homie, avocado farmers in Mexico get kidnapped and executed because avocados are cash crops. Shit, look up "avocado stolen" or even "avocado semitruck stolen". No such thing as making bank and not having risk. Some of those truck drivers in the USA get killed. If you're going to get targeted for making money, might as well go all out.
Which ones last longer?
I'm not really convinced that this (or the Tesla X or Y) are SUVs, despite the manufacture claiming otherwise. To me these are really just hatchbacks, with a bit higher roof line.
I think the distinction being made is that something for casual use (like a Chromebook, or an iPad) doesn't really carry with it the expectation that you will be repairing or upgrading components - if something fails, you replace the whole (relatively cheap) device. For a machine that has a pricetag in the thousands, not hundreds, of dollars/euro, that isn't a very appealing approach...
That might have more to do with you, in your socks, walking on plastic while your metal-encased laptop goes through something that could be used as a part of a Van de Graaff generator.
We really need even just a 1FA solution that's friendly enough for normal people to use securely. Passwords clearly aren't secure for normal people, and we should stop pretending like they ever were.
The way you phrase the question is odd/misleading.

GP wrote that he replaced the previous CTO.

Before firing the vendor, the responsible party on their side had already left the role.
Complexity

The reason so many 'amazing' idea never take off in houses and why cookie cutter housing rules.

There are big regulations, if you cross the piping you could theoretically contaminate the streets or larger water supply.

You now have two water systems in a house. Plumbing is not cheap, having two is more $.

You'll need a pump and holding tank, a place to run the pump and holding tank. It'll might me loud and can break down, will fail in blackouts. Can the tank get legionnaires disease?
Reminds me of a quote from the film The Usual Suspects-- "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

The system remains that way in part because a large number of people are duped into believing it is in their best interest to keep the system in place, despite the minuscule probability of actually benefiting from it.
It hurts to hear people ask that question, and others like it (what can I blog/podcast/sell) that makes the most money?

You are asking the wrong question if you want to make money.

Ask this: "What value can I provide to a group (people/businesses/pets/whatever) that is so useful/entertaining/removes pain point/etc that the group I'm targeting above will be willing to pay me money?

I recommend reading or at least listening to the audio book version of "Unscripted", by MJ Demarco.
Another asnswer: Because the people making the business decisions in these companies is the only thing they can do.

When you have no vision as a company or no visionary in your team, you get served by the countless consultants and ex-bankers who went to big-tech because of its the new Wallstreet. Of course, they have no idea what Tech does and is and of course no clue how to provide something of significant value. Instead, they steer the companies into direction where is familiar to them through their finance classes and/or their Private Equity, Venture Capital backgrounds.

The fact that everyone wants to become a bank is not engagement, is not profits. Its a sign of a failing economy where capital decided that the best thing it can do is to invest in itself.
The code is what I described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567202 . It's equivalent to first converting 0 to E and 1 to T, then transmitting that. It's not using the representations of 0 and 1 themselves, which are five times longer.
> 700K perps world-wide and an (obviously) smaller number of producers

The figures I'd want are not consumers or producers but numbers of children. A child being abused 1000 times is obviously awful but its not as bad as 1000 being abused once.
I feel compelled to point out that FreeBSD manual page for the led driver has this example:

/usr/bin/morse -l "Soekris rocks" > /dev/led/error

Guess what it does :-)
But you can remove and replace the individual keys though, which means if issues arise presumably you wouldn’t need to replace the keyboard wholesale.
While you make a solid point about likely behavior, I'm sure there are those that said Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux.

"Never" is a bold word, and it's worth highlighting things like a hard-to-replace/repair keyboard to keep on that tiny bit of pressure to change (how often have you been in a meeting where "customers aren't asking for this" came up as a justification to not make a change?).

Also, just to let people KNOW - when buying a laptop you may not be considering if the keyboard is easy to service. Plenty of developers on any given day are making their first foray into these sorts of decisions, and there's nothing wrong with pointing out that which is obvious if you've been following for a decade but not if you're new to it.
You forgot about Sri Lanka sectarian violence. If coffee (or tea) eases the exchange of ideas, social media eases the exchange and amplification of outrage.
Some people don't mind throwing a few grand every couple of years on a new machine. You see the same with the phones, they cost a fair bit but people just buy them anyway.

A little annoying that certain things aren't simple a socket that can be replaced though.
Texas receives more federal dollars than it contributes. The real tax dodge is perpetrated by state governments that manipulate the federal budget to their benefit.
I mean... they did literally reinvest it in themselves by doing stock buybacks. If that is a good thing is up for debate.
I'm laughing too.

Its all opportunistic as Disney+ is hot on the news right now. Wait till they find out that these tools are cracking Hulu, Reddit etc etc, probably also the BBCs own site. And I guarantee the net is more than 4000 for them.
> What would you consider a fact? A half dozen links to such content?

Well, one link would be a start. And to consider something a fact, I'd generally want to see some evidence. When I'm told something is a fact but there is no evidence to support the assertion, or if the evidence turns out to be an estimate with questionable methodology methodology (say, 1 In 5 College Women Are Sexually Assaulted), then I tend to lower my opinion on the honesty of the individual or person involved.

> But that Unicef report is there for you to read and if that does not convince you likely nothing will.

It is?

> For a while it was Thailand, then the Thai really cracked down on the sex tourists and the child porn production and so the producers shifted to another location.

I don't follow Thailand terribly closely, but I'd be interested to know details about this, particularly how they know child porn producers were there but left.
The maximum warranty period is 3 years, though obviously there are lots of ways to still hand yourself an expensive repair (spill soda on the keyboard, that kind of thing).

Now, to be fair, I was a first-gen MacBook owner, and suffered from the issue with the magnetic latch cracking the topcase plastic and the plastic itself getting stained. I'm pretty sure I had that topcase replaced at least four or five times over the course of the computer's life, several of them out of the Apple Care period. That was a while ago, but at least back then, Apple were good about taking care of people once they'd come around to acknowledging a flaw.
I'm not the OP, but I use this one with similar results: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01FYWU2IS

One of these days I'm going to have to rig up something to start the house fan when the CO2 goes above 800 ppm and I think you'd need a different sensor with a realtime output port for something like that.
Calcite calcines to quicklime at 850°, which is red-orange. Mere campfires commonly reach yellow heat, which is over 1000°, and have often been used to cook shellfish, whose shells are made of calcite and can calcine to quicklime. So I suspect that the discovery of quicklime probably happened numerous times in mere campfires during the first three million years of human history called the Paleolithic. (There might have even been several independent nutcases who decided to experiment with the stuff even after they saw what it did to water.) Lime kilns, though not the same thing as campfires, were commonly wood-fired, even into the 20th century.

In the Neolithic, the humans were firing pottery, which often requires temperatures over 850°, depending on the clay body you're using. It isn't clear whether lime kilns predate the Neolithic, but if they don't, pottery kilns would have occasionally produced quicklime by accident until you figured out that you can't temper your pots with shellfish (or calcite-containing sand) if you're going to fire them over about 800°, which is not particularly difficult. (Modern earthenware is usually fired over 1000°.) That would have made the discovery of quicklime unavoidable, if it didn't happen earlier, and of course potters must spend a great deal of time investigating the properties of their materials and how they respond to firing.
> A beloved old feature returns to the MacBook Pro, and it starts with M-a-g.

Way to play with my heart, iFixit.
I work at home in a very quiet neighborhood with excellent sound insulation and a silent PC. My home office is very, very quiet. I consider this a great luxury of life well-lived.

Then someone bought the empty lot next door and started building a house. I ordered these 3M X5A earmuffs for $30. They are remarkably effective and proved to be a terrific investment.

https://smile.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Over-Earmuffs-X5A/dp/B00C...
Cool demo but how can it figure out that all 3 guys are wearing briefs?
The problem is that no direct to consumer fintech company has found a legal way to make money other than 1) processing transactions 2) holding savings. The examples of struggling companies in the article underscores this point.
Object Storage – Linode
The Raspberry Pi handles the load well after fixing that configuration mistake. (I still need to investigate to understand in detail what went wrong there...)
Well... it's the BBC. What did you expect?
Call me crazy but I must be the only person who enjoys typing on the old butterfly keyboard.

Yes I was one of those people who originally thought the travel was too small but after using it for a couple hours I found the low travel was a huge relief to Carpal Tunnel and I also typed much faster.

Maybe I have the only keyboard that “works” but I love me some butterfly keyboards.
or https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php also free, been using it since 2016
It's not a free market.
Apple has a monopoly on Mac OS alas.
Most people don't change their operating system and habits just like that.
> I have "merged" in quotes because I am not sure if changing your D+ email changes it for your MDE account as well, or vice-versa.

If the merger of Disney Movie Rewards and Disney accounts, or the merger of Marvel and Disney accounts are any indication to go by, it's likely forever to always be a mess. Disney's goal for "one account system" has just been one wild ride after another. Given how many of their websites still in 2019 redirect to or through *.go.com for reasons unknown, I have to imagine their web tech stack is a fascinating archeology dive under the hood.
I believe that is caused by the rubber conveyor belt carrying the laptop through in a nylon bag rather than the x-ray itself. You can get the same effect from other non-x-ray conveyor belts at the airport.
I’m a caring and loving woman with a good heart but still my spouse still cheats on me,
he asks me for sex 6 times a day still i do it for him, upon all this he still cheats on me and it hurts so bad.
I thank “andersontech65@gmail.com’’ for helping me out with hacking of my spouse phone,
he also hacks every other thing you can think of, you should try him out
and he collects money when you’re satisfied with the job.
If not for this hacker I won’t know that the man I have been living with has been cheating on me.
Contact him via email.
What is the same between FedEx and me is the lack of scandal. There is no scandal/news in a corporation following the tax law, just as there is no scandal/news in me following the tax law.

I want to be clear that my intention is not to debate tax law. I think that's irrelevant.

If the NYT wants the law to change in some way, I think that's fantastic. I welcome them to register as a PAC, subject themselves to the relevant regulations, give up their press passes, and fight for changes to the law. I think they'd be great at it, and I think they have a lot to offer the world in that arena.
I'm going to be honest. As an American it feels like my government is not in check. Not at all. They are failing to represent the wishes of constituents.

I too feel like the person you replied to. Why can't our goverment get with the times and create infrastructure to support the new global economy.
The drones are messy because they have ugly messy human bodies. The ships are highly patterned and repetitive.
Charles Darwin, Tortoise Hunter?
Interesting read, I'm glad to see others are beginning to call the bluff on the AI hype machine. The summary is excellent:

> The whole field of AI resembles a giant collective of wizards of Oz. A lot of effort is put in to convincing gullible public that AI is magic, where in fact it is really just a bunch of smoke and mirrors. The wizards use certain magical language, avoiding carefully to say anything that would indicate their stuff is not magic. I bet many of these wizards in their narcissistic psyche do indeed believe wholeheartedly they have magical powers...
In a world where sourcing materials and building computer parts that cannot be recycled has such a high environmental and societal cost, no, I can't find any way of seeing this as acceptable.

We should not let the market and consumers preference decide on this. We need informed, resonnable and thoughful decisions. If it leads to laptops a bit more heavy and thick but less wasteful, so be it. Convenience cannot be demanded at any cost. Anyway, repairable is convenient.
I don't think you understand my comment.
Oh, I'm sorry for pointing out the fact that speech recognition wants outbound access through the firewall even on Cortana-less LTSC. That must be so hurtful! Please forgive me, I'm on your side, I don't even vaccinate!
What do you mean by 'at some point? that point was when W10 started sending telemetry, and yes, you can block it with windows own buildin firewall.
Strongly agree. I have had my PXC 550s for about 2 years now, and they have held together very well. In my opinion, they are comparable with the Bose and Sony flagship NC headphones.
I license land from the water Dept now..it’s urban edge farming. It comes with its own set of challenges including lack of benefits of scale.

This is actually giving me an opportunity to think and figure out how create farm systems in urban settings. Rural areas are degraded and without support ..in some ways..like with law enforcement, basic infrastructure, connectivity, environmental protection etc.

I think the future is melding self sufficient urban centers with modernized rural food hubs. It’s the only way. On one hand, we have housing crisis and on the other hand, rural areas that are like the Wild West.

I like to imagine them as new cities of the future and just write down what comes to mind. I suspect much will change in our lifetimes..who knows?...but imagining how it can be better saves my sanity and keeps me from losing my temper in bad ways.

Where I farm..because it’s land associated with federal funds has security and a zillion resources that protect it. It’s also in an urban area. It can be improved. We can urbanize around rural hubs. We can introduce food producing hubs in urban settings.. Altho it might be smaller in scale...it will reduce supply chain and value chain when part of food production is local.

I understand farmers better now...but I had to walk in their shoes(But had to lose my shirt, as it were..)
Nonzero: How to Make “Intractable” Social Problems Utterly Tractable
California pulls back clean-vehicle rebates to point them at lower-income buyers
As someone with misophonia I wear noise canceling headphones at all times at work. Somehow my office mates are constantly eating, sniffling, grunting, coughing or loudly talking.

At least I can block out most of that with music, but I'd really like to be capable of interacting with my co-workers more naturally.

I have to get up and walk away on my own a lot to make sure I don't snap. Wearing headphones 24/7 also makes my head sore and often gives me headaches.
Does this build system cover a similar space to Buck, Bazel, and Pants?

If so, is there a reason for building your own vs working with an existing one?
You're generally right (in my experience) regarding ANC but I've found that Sony's WH-1000XM3 over-ear headphones do an excellent job with higher frequencies and "one off" sounds. I'm also a big fan of Mubert, an iOS app that generates non-distracting instrumental sound tracks.
That assumes you've got apache set up, or nginx and php-fpm. It also uses the php interpretor. If you had to build a binary like Haskell would, your approach would be different (although you could run haskell in interpreted mode I wouldn't recommend it). It's also kind of unfair because PHP was created for making web pages, Haskell wasn't.
So, it really depends. (I am not a lawyer)

1. Usually you have a probation period (Probezeit) in your contract which allows to resign with 2 weeks notice time for X months (usually 6 months), so you could resign right when you start. During that probation period also your employer could end the employment with two weeks notice. Your contract forbids resigning before you start, so you would need to resign on your first day.

2. You can ask for nullifying the contract (Aufhebungsvertrag).

3. Depending on your contract, there could be a penalty in the contract if you resign early.

I think option two, nullifying the contract is the most honest option. Just be direct with the company you have signed with that you have a better offer.
That's pretty straightforward. There are 128 million people working full-time jobs in the US. The full-time median income in the US is between $48,000 and $52,000 for 2019 depending on your source. The BLS says it's about $48k for the third quarter of 2019.

The often quoted lower median figure, in the $30,000s ($34,000x for 2019; it was ~$33,700 for 2018), is the median income for all US workers, including people working relatively few hours.

Being conservative, the US has at least 60x million people making $50,000 or more per year. That's ignoring anything that doesn't show up in the BLS numbers.

Now consider how massive the rest of the global economy is and the tens of millions of people in dozens of other countries with high incomes. The US all by itself eliminates the possibility of $34,000 being the 1% line.

With the strict US median at the $34,000 line, that's ~78 million workers at or above that level. Again, that's for one country.

China has a very large number of people earning around the US median now, due to their scale. They add tens of millions of more people to the over $34k group. Then include Western Europe, they add tens of millions more. And so on.
No longer true because those are the only people who can succeed in the poor office environment?
> I have had to come up with a dollar amount worth several months of expenses on very short notice (same day, life is unpredictable).

That seems like a perfect use case for using a credit card to cover the expense and then pay yourself back when your money moves out of the savings account.

I have trouble imagining a case outside of a hostage situation where you would need access to your emergency fund same day.
Bing Deploys Bert to Production Using Azure GPUs
Awesome product! Do you have any testimonials you can share?
Nothing wrong with an immediately steep learning curve it's only hard until it isn't
To give some background: Me and my fiancee live together in major city in eastern Europe. We do not have children. We both work for the same company. Me as a software engineer. She as a QA manager.

I wouldn't say our morning ritual is healthy or great. But it's just how we like it.

* Wake up when we wake up. No alarms. Usually around 9.

* Make a cup of coffee.

* Smoke a ciggarete while I catch up on HN and the news.

* Take a shower

* Do some dishes

* Head out

This isn't a particularly healthy morning ritual (smoking, no breakfast, coffee etc). Fortunately, we do get plenty of sleep. We are fortunate enough to have a very flexible employer who cares more about results than about when you show up.
When Pforzheim Burned to the Ground