skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read people say that a key difference in entrepreneurship in the US versus European countries is that European company founders are much more likely to be held responsible for their companies' debts and are therefore much less likely to experiment with new businesses at the rapid pace we see in the US.

Would that have been true here? If a German startup had raised $150k in venture capital and taken $250k in orders from consumers and shut down without sending any products to any customers, what would happen to the founder? Would he end up paying someone $250k--$400k out of pocket for a long time?
Something can be, at the same time, both more work and more enjoyable than office work.
Amazingly, none of these options are great.

Bookmark OS comes close for me, but the ugly UI ruins the experience. Nothing is more annoying than the Russian doll experience of seeing a hacky version of macOS doubled up inside of the chrome of your actual OS.

Love Raindrop in theory (design-wise they have the right idea), but I dumped it in practice due to the fact it's too bloated and buggy and runs much slower than just keeping my bookmarks on Safari.

Pinboard, while being minimalist which I love, is minimalist in the wrong way. The visual hierarchy is all over the place and impossible to decipher through. Scanning down a list of bookmarks is painful.

So I've largely just been using the standard bookmarks feature in safari--which is actually refreshing and awesome.

Except when I do that, I can't sync bookmarks to other browsers. I use Chrome on mobile and sometimes on desktop.

So back to the drawing board.

Why the hell are bookmarks so hard in 2019?
Yes, that's straightforward at least when coming to C from assembly (as it used to be the case once upon a time...) In practice, though, bitfields are seldom used, so everything related to them is largely academic.
Malware that can proliferate on Windows boxes without user action almost always requires some remote code execution vulnerability (or some security misconfiguration issue) to be exploited first. This is true for macOS as well. That cycle is usually:

Exploit vuln -> download malware payload -> execute malware
That is just plain incorrect, local variables would not work in scripts if that were the case.
Thank you for this! Very much appreciated.
China's library officials are burning books that diverge from CCP ideology
> While parents do mistreat their children, I am reasonably sure that child-care workers mistreat children more often.

Why would you think this? I’m pretty sure there are way more cases of child abuse by parents than child abuse by day care workers. Day care workers don’t deal with children with much privacy, there are other kids and day care workers, whereas parents have none of those constraints. Also, for day care workers, it’s just a job, vs. parents who are more emotionally caught up in taking care of their kids (and could make more mistakes due to emotions).
i would prefer to work instead of providing full time caregiving to my 1.5 kids and my parents (and also myself, it’s been a very rough pregnancy).

anyone that thinks being the primary caregiver is easier than working out of home is delusional. the pressure would probably crush my wife, honestly.

but here we are, the cost of caregiving meeting our standards are high, and unless i also make $300k a year in the bay area, we’re just going to hit a break even point for all the different people that need to replace me.
It’s actually older and dates back to early 20th century ordoliberal ideology. Essentially, their idea was that it’s more important to protect global Capitalism than local democracy, so when the two come in conflict, global Capitalism should be made to prevail through parallel, extranational institutions. Quinn Slobodian wrote a whole book about it called “Globalists” and did a great synopsis interview about it on the Dig podcast:

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/a-history-of-neoliberali...
For reference, MA ratios (some of the most restrictive in the country) are:

1-14m: 7:2
15-32m: 9:2
33m-7y: 10:1
-- https://child-familyservices.org/wp-content/uploads/ma-regulations.pdf
That is polynomial time (specifically quadratic).

See this stack overflow on polynomial vs. exponential: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4317414/polynomial-time-...
Thank you! This is extremely informative.
Three particular comments stood out to me:

> It’s not necessary to automate the 100% of your infrastructure

This is true IMHO, although it's a good goal to strive for, even if you fall short. I will add that if you get to 95 or 99%, the remainder should be well documented and that documentation shared within your team. There's nothing more frustrating than finding that the automation almost works, but there's those one or two manual steps that require that one guy who is on leave this week. Even more so if those steps could have been easily automated. Rediscovering this stuff is usually wasted effort.

> Some would argue that also the coffee machine should be also included in the automation process

Unfortunately, even in companies worth $1bn+, I've seen the devops guys working on the coffee pot because it's more interesting than automating that last 5% of stuff that only they know about.

> You need only to find the simplest solution for your problem.

This is another thing I've seen devops teams fall foul of - using a much more complicated solution than is necessary, introducing extra tools with extra dependencies when a line of bash, python or perl somewhere would have done the trick. They could/should have invested the time they would have spent on the complicated solution finishing off that last 5% of automation that is missing from the source control repository and/or documentation.
This is not about companies following best practices but about what is going to happen when some of the supposedly deleted data pops up again, as it eventually will.

Will a judge that is clueless about how computers really work consider that as a GDPR violation or not ? As deliberate or not ?
My system engineering experience avoided "must" as insufficiently specific.

We used "shall" and avoided "not". Because testing: how do you prove a "not"?

Source: 35 years of SE
Controllers Are Services
Women marched for right to work and education. It was not males forcing them to, it was literally movement by women.
I like your question and I am interested into other answers as well. I think the answer depends on the role you want to fit in.

I can tell you, that I will learn portuguesse in 2020 as my longterm goal is, to live in portugal and I will set the right foundation next year.
Over 750k applications for US birth certificate copies exposed online
“It would allow more women to enter the workforce”.

I understand what the quote means but, honestly, this is one of the big wrong points of our society: that caring for the children full-time is NOT being part of the workforce.

This is one of those cultural ideas embedded in XXI Century logic which only does harm and transmits the wrong message: people’s life is as valuable as the money the work or the “job” they have, and of course, caring for the family is not a proper job.

That is so wrong on so many levels.

I am not claiming that it is easy, the best or the most engaging or whatever. I only claim that society has given up on valuing raising one’s children and keeping the household together, and this is terrible.
You should feel obligated.

I believe your opinion is similar to climate change denial since all the experts on the subject disagree with you.
Medications for ADHD are literally used as nootropics. That is their mode of operation - they increase mental focus. They do it whether you have normal mental focus or lessened mental focus due to ADHD (in which case they are considered therapy) or whatever lifestyle issues you may have.
If you give $700 to a company that promises to deliver a scooter, and they spend that money on advertising, that’s fraud.

They have no plausible argument that they didn’t know they couldn’t deliver or refund customers after they started spending pre-order funds.

I hope customers get successful chargebacks and there’s a class action lawsuit. This wasn’t a crowdfunding campaign. Consumers were lied to, and the law should make clear that this is unacceptable business practice.
I've passed on your idea. What did EFF have to say? Anything hopeful?
Because those states already taxed their citizens to the breaking point. It's much easier to pass it off to the federal government where you can't escape by moving to Florida.
Remember all that stuff about the Cayce Pollard Units :P
A couple of interesting capabilities in this post. The section "Controlling What Can Be Imported and What Not" is wrong or misleading though. The dunder __all__ only limits wildcard imports like `from my_module import * `. In your example both `foo` and `bar` can be imported/accessed like `from my_module import foo, bar` or `import my_module; my_module.foo(); my_module.bar()`.

Edit: Also just tried to `import * ` with `_all__ = []` and no AttributeError is raised as is stated. Python 3.7.4
> Childcare is mind numbing work

> It is NOT enjoying life to stay home with toddlers.

> I was so happy to be able to go back to work

> the weekends are way more stressful than the weekdays

I have to say, this kind of perspective on being a parent puzzles me, even though it's pretty widely held. Honestly, many parents I encounter seem almost as if they'd prefer to be their child's aunt or uncle than their mom or dad. Certainly not in title, but possibly in terms of responsibilities.

I get it, raising kids is HARD. But the sense of purpose I feel about writing code that helps my company's investors become slightly richer is totally unlike the sense of purpose I feel about teaching my child about the alphabet, even if many days it feels like a slog.

I like this quote from G.K. Chesterton about the importance of this work.
Chesterton is talking specifically about a mother, but I think it holds true whether the primary caregiver is a father or a mother:

> To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes. and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
I always liked Acronym from a design perspective, but $2,000 for a basic jacket? Seems to me like minimalist street wear should be affordable by design.
Another possibility is that their reasoning was:

1. Raise some money.

2. Spend it on sales, even if their COS exceeds the margin on each scooter.

3. Rack up some "engagement" and "traction."

4. Raise another round.

That's basically what WeWork was doing: Spend so much on commissions that they were losing money acquiring tenants, but raise money based on various BS "metrics."
Glad to see you're still around! Do you post your code anywhere these days?
The original usage of the term "byte" was to refer to fields of variable length consecutive bits on a bit-addressable machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History

Nowadays a byte is conventionally eight bits, especially for measures like "megabyte", but the term octet is often used to avoid ambiguity. Commonly they're used for pointers, yet often only words are addressable by machine instructions (e.g. many ARM instructions take a byte address yet raise a hardware exception on use of unaligned addresses).
Guess you didn't read the original article, because it mentions the exact program you linked towards the bottom about Quebec. One negative found was

> But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in self-reported health and in life satisfaction” relative to Canadians from other provinces.

So a success for parents and for the economy, but not for the well being of the kids.
Getting a sim card using social engineering is easier and safer. You go into shopping street in front of a cell phone shop, explain you're a foreigner in distress.

"Sorry to disturb you, but could you please help? I just lost my phone. I urgently need to be reachable for {"my ill grandmother", "my biggest client"}. I have money on me, and I already bought a new phone, but I left my id at the hotel in $next_city, and the shop won't sell me a sim card without it. I'm desperate! Could you please help me out and get me a 20€ prepaid card?"

Give it 10 minutes tops and you'll have your sim...
My issue with all bookmark managers, including the one I currently use (Larder.io), is re-discoverability. I will happily bookmark this and that, but it's unlikely I'll ever actually go back to the bookmark. Every once in a while I'll go through the library when I feel like looking for random gems, but the first port of call when trying to solve a problem will always be a search engine.

I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search, giving preferential treatment to previously-bookmarked material. That would be the be-all end-all of bookmark managers.
‘If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.’

Also, writing documentations helps me understanding and reflect.
We don't need to assassinate political leaders with robots to do it. One thing we could do is maybe stop creating these terrorist organizations in the first place.
You're right. Sorry!
Interesting!

Any response to the view that universal-childcare-educated children are "DQN" from over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21745453 ? (I'm not sure I understand it.)
There are still plenty of small companies that ask you to leave your number in voicemail. I guess corporate voicemail doesn't work as well as smartphones?

Half the time when I call a company I have an ongoing relationship with, they have all of my information available. Half the time they don't.

ISPs and the phone company in particular stand out, as the question of "if we get disconnected can I call you back at this number?" vs, "what number should I call you back at?" to which I reply, "this number", followed by a pregnant pause, no reaction from them, so I say my phone number.

And for some reason I can't decide which one is more annoying.
While I agree that's somewhat ridiculous, just look at tesla and their integrated tablets. He had the right idea with integrating more technology into cars.
For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
Ask HN: Venture Capital Method. Why? Why Not?
I've been looking at the theory of pre-revenue startup valuation and came across William Sahlman's widely adopted (I think I can say that) approach. This method is described mathematically in the spreadsheets found here [0].

I would like to ask the HN community for pro's, con's, objections and support for this method.

I realize this method starts with projections based on assumptions as to net profit at the exit point. Frankly, not sure how else one might legitimately --and fairly-- value a pre-revenue startup unless there's non-trivial IP or a prior round of investment.

If the startup is a slide deck and a working (hardware + software) prototype, it would seem that Sahlman's method is fair so long as the estimate of future net income is reasonable.

Anyhow, I'd appreciate reading opinion on this, particularly from those who have gone down this path. I have never raised capital and self-funded all of my prior startups. I am doing another startup and decided to consider going for external funding because it could help accelerate time to market and more. As I hinted above, this is a hardware + software startup with IP (provisional patents and trade secrets) and a nearly-ready-to-ship prototype that most customers would see as a finished product.

Thanks.

[0] https://www.vcmethod.com/
Caller id name is a separate service called CNAM [1]. It's handled by the terminating (reviving) carrier, and from my understanding, has been done using a mess of different database [2] and interchange formats (think: massive CSV versions of phone book, adhoc shipped between all different ILEC/CLECs). The cellular carriers never got into publicly listing phone numbers for whatever reason, so there's generally no names available for outgoing calls. Your carrier also has to actually provide this service to you for incoming calls, and it seems like most don't, which I'm guessing is them trying to save money as the standards (GSM, CDMA, etc) all seem to support it. Apparently some carriers offer it for an extra fee.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_Name_Presentation

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_information_database
We Are Explorers: In Search of Mystery in Videogames (2012)
Amazon sues Pentagon over $10bn Jedi contract
Of course Amazon would call that an Elastic Sundial.
As mentioned the cost is negligible when you already have a animated 3D scene with the case for games.

For non-game (desktopey) app, well, there's no reason to render at 60 FPS you should only render on user interaction otherwise go idle most of the time....
> but a LOT of women prefer office work over raising children

Do you have any statistics about that? I once saw a map of Japan, which is a place were a good job can still provides for a while family, showing that in every prefectures of Japan except two, more than half of women preferred to be stay at home mom. In two more others it was half-half. Of course there is the cultural context, but it’s interesting that when given the choice for real, most of women would indeed chose not to work.

Also, if one look at jobs that are prized by women, teacher arrive in a very good position. And teaching is basically rising others people kids on an industrial scale.
Do you think inflation has been a significant outcome of this program?
At $198 for a button-up short, I sure hope it's amazing.
> The dirty secret is that most women work because they HAVE TO. It's not a choice. It's sold to the society at large as something glamorous because -- what? They're going to tell the truth? Yeah, you need to work your ass off 50-60 hours a week, with credit card debt, student loan debt, two cars loan, etc, etc. just to be able barely make it to have two kids at 35 ? Because before that you need advanced degree or two. Actually both of you do... I mean how is that a better deal?

> I can see that also from the reaction of my wife friends who stayed in the US working to basically help their husbands as one salaty won't cut it. It's not like they wouldn't prefer to stay at home with kids. But, again, it's not like they have a choice.

Ok, all of that is incredibly sexist. Male here, born and raised under (full) communism, now living in the opposite system and I'm appalled by this attitude. Women work because they have to? Of course they have to. We live in an economic system in which we all need to pull our weight. There should be no class of people (like women) which should be excluded from the workforce based on some ideological bullshit idea from the 50s. It's funny that in the land of the free, financial dependence on a spouse is a badge of honor!

This kind of broken thinking is also the source of the horrors of the US divorce system (for example the absolute batshit crazy spousal support). Let's not even bring up the fact that women also have, like a normal human being, aspirations and ambitions which aim beyond being a childcare provider..

> help their husbands as one salaty won't cut it

Help their husbands? In what way are they helping their husbands? They're not helping themselves or the family? If you look at this from the perspective of 'helping the husband' then there will be a problem in there somewhere. Am a husband. If I can't make ends meet the whole family suffers and the wife isn't helping me, she'll be helping the family.
My roommate brought some of this stuff back with him when he went out to China a year ago. He told me it gave him the most terrifying nightmares ever, so I've kept it on my shelf and avoided it so far.
I'm not giving my point of view on fairness of skipping adverts in video vs. ad blocking on the web, but a big difference for me is tracking.

I find sponsored segments really intrusive and I hate ads, but at least they are not targeted at me specifically. The sponsor hasn't installed some crappy js / resource to track me and target me. The ad is bound to the video instead.
Only if you don't consider bias an actual problem. If it is an actual problem then surely that would be the "the real issue", not the secondary effect of people getting angry about it?
> The dirty secret is that most women work because they HAVE TO. It's not a choice. If you can have a house, nice car, four kids, vacation home, 40 hour week, no credit card debt, no school debt, and all of that on carpenter salary -- why not to enjoy life instead of spending 50-60 hours at the office?

I think you can replace "women" with people and make this statement more accurate. I don't see why this would be unique to women, whether you agree or disagree with the "people work because they have to, not want to" statement.
Chuhais for everyone!
...assuming that women in Japan can choose at all.
Why do you think software engineers never blame themselves and have such a poor opinion of their management?
Should you post your content on Medium? No.
>carbon-neutral biofuel

Diesel powered jets. Instant classic :D
PG: To be successful make the right product, don’t pay employees less
Of course they did. So that they can work. But don't have too. Great deal if you ask me.
Sounds like extra work and and an unwanted nuisance to my life of leisure. Plus I love alone time, I could never live with a woman long enough to breed with her.

Whenever I walk in public, all I can think is jeez ... there are so many random people. Seems like we need better planning. People just have kids on whim, to satisfy themselves, like a life goal. It doesn't make much sense to me. I think mostly ladies want children.
I agree generally (I believe you may be discounting that many women do want careers and the joys of motherhood and it's hard). I disagree with some commenters that this is an overly gendered idea: while it's true that there are plenty of exceptions, it's definitely true that men and women, as a broad generalization, feel differently. While many men feel a sense of pride if they are able to work hard enough and be successful enough to support their family, many women in the same situation feel guilt for missing out on their kids' upbringing during the day (again, since someone is going to say it, I'm aware there are many exceptions). I think the author missed another difference compared with past decades, however: it used to be more common than it is now for grandparents to cover childcare of young children while both parents worked (or in part-time support of a busy mother with many kids). This seems to be less common than it once was, and it might be because we are now two generations into a trend of people waiting much longer to have kids than they once did. As a child, my grandmother was in her 50s and 60s, and was able to take on a good deal of childcare in her retirement. If two generations each wait until 35 to have a first kid, then the grandparent of a 5 year old is 75 and less likely to be able to be relied upon for childcare. Added to this is the fact that the labor market for childcare looks a lot like the labor market for elder care in that both are career options for similarly situated applicants, and there just isn't enough labor supply.
Strange, I have always found IKEA instructions to be fairly straightforward and descriptive, in contrast to instructions from other furniture vendors.