skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see more and more investors looking to do this especially as a solo-founder of a bootstrapped small SaaS business. As I march towards $1M ARR, the savvy investors are looking for ways to be valuable to my business as opposed to me begging investors for the next round of funding in traditional VC-backed ventures.

I would be very happy to share 15-20% if the value-add is strong enough.
Not since C99.

But even regardless of that you still get a linking error.
It's not the UI framework that's adding the bloat, it's a bunch of tracking and fingerprinting scripts. They would still be there even if the UI was server-rendered HTML, because that's Medium's business model!
cool story. What does this have to do with general nicotine consumption, the thing they're targeting? They're not banning smoking at the workplace, which is what you're talking about, they're targeting smoking in your own free time. Also, nicotine gum.
Is this a common question and I'm just not remembering it? I can't recall one time in the last 10-15 years where I've had a company insurer ask if I'm a smoker. I just pick PPO/HDHP from a list of options. I did this a month ago and don't remember it at all.
Why would it be abused more today? It was not abused that much back when I played Quake 1 and Quake 2.
I maintain a fork of Upstart that I call startup. It integrates with udev (or busybox's uevent, or any other event source) so you can start daemons based on device events and then supervise those daemons. systemd has something similar where you can place a SYSTEMD_WANTS stanza in a udev rule and it will pull in a systemd unit, but I really dislike that model because it is hard to discover the policy that led to a unit being activated. With startup/Upstart, the policy is in the job configuration itself.

Source for startup: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/startup

Example of the udev events in action: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/pinebook-pro/blob/master/etc/st...
I still think this idea is powerful. Not because I believe it transforms healthcare, but because it informs consumers a bit more. That’s what seemed to get you excited in the first place.

There are a few paths I see still:

a. Assuming you own a database, expose your dataset as an API. Consider possible consumers. Open source it, and monitor the usage. Who’s using that data.

b. Cold message a few folks on Linkedin from pharmaceuticals that your algo says has high clinical success. Can you “recommend” them? Do they see value. Maybe you have a research tool on your hands.

3. If you can keep your website alive, focus on SEO and gain traction with more users and play that out. Write blog posts, use affiliate marketing, and grow users. But don’t add new features. Just maintain what you have. Try that for a year at least. What did you learn?

I think the toughest thing here is knowing when to stop building the product. That’s what stands out to me as your demise.

The doctor was spot on, and those are the kinds of things you want to hear. It just means looks somewhere else. Writing a doc beforehand with potential opportunities is always a good idea, but it’s never too late.

Disclaimer: I do product at MEGACORP and love product strategy.
It's pretty clear that management has gone AWOL, but what did they do in the past?
Might want to check out Jameco on the Peninsula:
https://www.jameco.com

Not a walk in store, but you can order online and pickup.
Thank you - and really glad it was useful
They have so much space and such few ideas. They could for example organize hackathons, electronics fairs, gaming conventions, etc.. things that an online retailer cannot do. Oh well, seems to me that they are poorly managed.
Machine Learning vs. Rules Systems (2017)
I've been forcibly stopped by them.
I can't help but wonder if this would have worked better if the author had:

1) Tried this in a different country. Healthcare in the US is very different from Canada or the EU. Maybe it would fail elsewhere too, but its a completely different marketplace. I have a hard time imagining a Canadian doctor saying "This is better for my patients, sure, but will it help my bottom line?"

2) Worked on a solution that didn't involve so much labour. It was data processing, right? Might be a good fit for ML. (God knows it's being used for everything else.)

That being said, I'm in awe of anyone who goes out on a limb like the author did. He didn't just try an idea, he invested in it. And then he had the courage to tell us about his failure. Bravo!
According to https://ethernodes.org/ there are ~7.5k nodes & according to https://www.etherchain.org/charts/distinctMiners ~60 miners running ATM. Small city sounds a bit big in that context.
There is nothing wrong with doing modifications. Jailbreaks do modifications to iOS but they are legal.

And Corellium might not ask the user for the software but they still are downloading it from Apple servers, so I don't see how that makes a difference (but if it does, Corellium can very well apply the upload-your-own-ipsw idea)
The graph also gives the lower of the Windows 10 requirement of "16 GB for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS"
Well in the case of this particular product that offers medical advice, the info may become outdated fairly quickly. I suspect there is some amount of liability associated with offering potentially out of date medical advice that isn't worth the tiny revenue stream.
I've been to that same one twice looking for various electronics cables and they had nothing. Is there a DFW place now that sells that sort of radio-shack supplies? Or is everything online only now?
Really nice! I especially like the way you can append FEN to URLs to create a shareable link.
Corporate employers generally pay a big chunk of healthcare plans and the large size of the pool is helpful in keeping overall risk and cost lower. As long as people expect to get their health care from their employers then employers will have a say in lifestyle decisions of their employees.
> the Denisovans might have been called something else

You have to admit that Denisovan has a nicer ring than more descriptive "Late Pleistocene Pan Asian Hominid"!
Ethereum mines 2 ETH (exactly) per 10 seconds (approximately).

Bitcoin mines 12.5 BTC (exactly) per 10 minutes (approximately). Normalizing the ETH rate against the BTC, we get 2 ETH * 6 * 10 = 120 ETH.

So at current market rates, 120 ETH * $132 vs. 12.5 BTC * $7,341, $15,840 ETH for $91,792.5 BTC.

This suggests that the BTC network should use roughly 5.8 times as much energy as ETH, to derive an equivalent profit per unit energy.
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Remote and relocatable.

Mathematics, computer algebra, Julia

https://github.com/chakravala
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I don't know much about battery recycling but from the few I've read lithium batteries are above the 90% recycling mark (I've read 99%). Electric cars are far from totally green, but ICE are one order of magnitude more polluting (more parts, more lubricant, more cooling fluid, less lifespan).
I only go to Fry's for geeky gifts. My local store seems to always carry a full selection of "As Seen On TV" merch, for instance. And they have a lot of video game themed plushies and other toys.

But I haven't bought computer parts from them in years. I think I got a CPU fan there maybe three or four years ago. Meanwhile I bought a Das Keyboard from Micro Center in the past year because the price beat anything online.
They're downloading it from apple's servers, the same way a user would
I've had the same v4 address with ATT for over a year. It's technically possible for a dhcp server to deny a renew and have the client initiate a discover to be given a different IP but in practice that would break everyone's active connections each time so ISPs just let DHCP renew until you stop asking.

For something with the user population of a community game server you could also allow the full subnet and probably never run into a user collision.
I have to agree. There were good alternative approaches. For example, I used to play Battlefield 1942 a lot when it was current. A lot of the larger communities had public servers, but also private servers that only people who the mods got to know would be whitelisted for. In the more well-run communities, the mods would hang out and spend some time on the public server to keep order, or were at least accessible (via TeamSpeak, often) if they weren't actively on it.

Cheaters quickly got banned from the public servers and people who stuck with the community could enjoy the private server where they knew there'd be a good group of people and usually very little toxicity.
The first example the author gave with painkillers is inherently bad.

Sure, Aleve is the most powerful. But it also has the most side effects, including ulcers if used for too long. There's a lot of nuanced information when it comes to drugs. If you want to go on pain killers like Aleve for long term, you probably need to take acid blockers as well, like Nexium. So where does that fall into the analysis?

Unfortunately a lot of stuff requires medical doctors that have experience. I just went through a severe health emergency, where I was taking one antibiotic and needed to be changed to another. I needed blood tests and constant supervision for the doctor to make this decision.

Psychiatry, which is what I guess the author targeted, is likely even less reliable. My friend is a pharmacist and was on anti-anxiety medication for a year, but decided to try another one, because of the effects on her were affecting her and now she's doing much better. This requires working with a psychiatrist for a year.

I think there's value in surfacing all this information but to expect people to rush into paying for it is naive. It's a nice-to-have-tool that might be useful like a Google-type research tool but nothing someone would want to pay $5/month for since the actual benefit over a psychiatrist just going off experience is completely unknown. There no inherent home run here.
FUD is exactly what it is, with good reason given Google’s habits with “poorly” performing products lately. Mind you, in chromeOS’s case it’s easy to go back to a regular computer.
>How do you create a homogeneous culture out of a heterogeneous one?

The U.S. used to do it to a certain extent. It was a part of the process of becoming American by joining the "melting pot" of cultures and becoming genuinely American. The idea of multiculturalism in America is relatively recent.
Indeed. There's also concierge medicine and new models that are more concerned with patient outcomes, or at least the appearance of caring about them
Apex Legends, a property from Respawn Entertainment though technically under the EA/Origin umbrella, has a different approach on cheating by using a combination of deep learning from previous matches and shadow-banning cheaters to play among themselves. I've yet to encounter identifiable cheating since the start of the second season (mid 2019)
There was an unofficial build of XP called TinyXP that I used to like to use for VMs. It would use under 200mb of disk space, yet somehow be fully functional.
A number of blockchains already have proof of stake:

https://tezos.com/ for one is pretty cool
This can be partially solved with HTTP2 Server Push
It's amazing, it's a very good job.
It also talks about venture capital. So it's unclear.
It’s easy to phish people with EV certificate name collisions.
From the Wikipedia article you reference: "When his company laid off workers and lowered wages, it did not reduce rents, and the workers called for a strike."

Was it the paternalistic policies or economic factors that caused the strike?
Our Fry's in Austin had a "real tough front" on returns. You had to go through a lot of BS to return anything. I wonder if that contributed to the downfall, and if Fry's in other states were tough on returns as well . . . obviously Bezos and company has had an impact
Smoking is not binary either; there's a world of difference between a couple cigarettes a week while at the bar vs. a pack a day every day.
Perhaps... Would a disclaimer help there?
browsing the shelves and just being around tech is soothing for me. and the feeling of walking out with a bunch of boxes too. for something i enjoy like tech i like to savor the whole experience
It's getting ever cheaper to deliver mail from Boston to New York, but it's getting more and more expensive to deliver mail to remote exurbs that the USPS is constitutionally mandated to serve. So the cross-subsidy of routes grows.
Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s
There was that time a VP embezzled $65 million from them. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/frys-electronics-execu...
Carrying product that people would want to buy at a reasonable price?
Transparent walls wouldn't help if the client wasn't even informed at all of players that were behind it.
One of the only two Fry's in Georgia just closed it's doors permanently. Of the half dozen times I was in there over the past couple years I don't think there were ever more 10 customers in the ~125,000 sq ft store. Of course it wasn't doing them any favors that there is a Microcenter 1.5 miles down the road.
My thoughts exactly. In fact I would modify this to:

> the motivation of insurance is to keep the cost of treatment that they cannot avoid liability for less than the income from premiums
I don't think that's the specific outcome this action was intended to prevent. I think it was intended to prevent this guy from orchestrating any more killing of Americans. I think it was triggered by this guy's people killing an American contractor last week.
This was my experience as well, going into the Sunnyvale store even 2-3 years ago. Their lineup of laptops were all the previous generation from what was currently available, and nothing was priced that well. I doubt that's changed.

Contrast to going into a local computer store, they had full stock of all the latest parts/components and competitive prices.

Would be interesting to know what's going on within the leadership of this company. They must know what the situation is, but how do they turn things around?
You're seeing it wrong. We figured the Tesla would be useful for some things but not for long trips. Since there are gas stations literally everywhere we were worried we'd not be able to take the Tesla on long drives. It turns out we can take the Tesla on long drives everywhere we want to go, so we got rid of the Fiesta.

FWIW, we got every feature on a Model 3 AWD LR sans the 19" wheels, performance, and the white interior. After tax and whatnot it worked out to around $68,000. It had nothing to do with price, but with features / functionality. We bought one of the "higher end" Fiestas (the SEL) in 2011 and I think it worked out to around $20k after all of the options, dealer mess, and taxes.
> And in reality, what the majority of people see on the frontpage is the frontpage filled with the default sub-reddits.

This is a fair point. I'd argue that there is one single frontpage for reddit; each signed-in user has their own and this raises the cost of astroturfing with the same reach (%) as the universal Digg frontpage. Mods get their own fiefdoms in subreddits, but they don't wield the kind of power mr babyman had over the overall frontpage. This balkanization means disgruntled users are likely to leave subreddits, but stay on reddit itself, or if sufficiently motivated, create a competing subreddit (see the countless /r/X vs /r/true-X for any given X)
It could be either. It's not at all far-fetched that the anti-cheat looks at it's environment and realizes that things ARE NOT normal - different tricks and layers are used to make the game run at all.

Then again you could certainly be right, and it's just a few cheaters crying trying to cause a fuss to get unbanned.
That's very cool. Maybe I'll try it, just for lulz.

> I've also stuck a 3 1/4" floppy disk to a huge 2"x2"x5" neodimium magnet with no ill effects. The drive was able to read it fine afterwards with the same md5 hash of the contents.

Right.

But thinking of EvanAnderson's anecdote, maybe a permanent magnet near a spinning platter is a changing magnetic field, from the perspective of the platter surface.

Still, with the platter inside a steel case, you'd need a very strong permanent magnet, held very close.
mars.exe has only a size of 5.6kB. When you disassemble the code you realize that most of the code consists of just massive loop unrolling. It would have fitted in 2kB easily.
Datalakes Go Transactional: Databricks Delta vs. Uber Hudi vs. Netflix Iceberg
FUD

> I wonder how you might feel about your car if you are caught in the middle of an emergency (earthquake, fire, take your pick) and your car has 60 miles of gas left, you are at work and have to drive home and evacuate your family.

60 miles of gas or 60 miles of electrical range in an emergency is all the same, you are SOL. At least with an electrical car I can plug in every night and be assured that I will have a fully or mostly fully charged car in the morning. With a gas car, I will fill up my car once a week and run down the miles until I need to fill up again. Gas stations need electricity to work and if I can't fully charge my car with electricity, then I sure as hell can't fill it with gas.
> Corellium heavily modifies iOS. Parallels and whatnot run unmodified Mac (not i)OS.

Not quite. The optional "modifications" are pretty much the small byte patches in the kernel and bootloader which are normally done in a jailbreak. It is similar to how "Parallels Tools" is automatically loaded; Not entirely required, but makes the experience better.
Is there a practical way to achieve better draw distance? The horizon seems superficially low.
This is also true of young people, slim people, exercisers, teetotalers. With many of these attributes having a larger impact on health than nicotine itself.(sans smoking)
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I was a smoker during the bans and happily voted for them. Airports and other huge event centers not having smoking areas is incredibly inconvenient but I didn't have any problem standing 25' from an entrance, going to a designated area or any of that. I've always thought it was disgusting and didn't want anyone to have to walk through my addiction.

Smoking is still legal in bars/clubs when I go back home and it's so disgusting when I get home that I want to trash my clothes.
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WinReducer and NT Lite both appear to still be active and support Windows 10. I don't see any quick info how how much they help.

https://www.winreducer.net/

https://www.ntlite.com/
By parody, I don't mean the entire thing. I mean lines like this:

“Call me when you have a business plan,” I said, lacing up my Allbirds before and riding my Lime scooter into the sunset.
US executive doesn't need congress approval to kill heads of US designated terror groups (IRGC). At least it doesn't seems so.

(I guess it already has it)
Assuming you don't smoke tobacco, aren't the health effects of nicotine (at the levels 99% of people limit themselves to) basically nothing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Adverse_effects

It expressly does NOT cause cancer in humans. It means you get a bit less REM sleep. No one has shown it causes birth defects in humans.

Caffeine sounds much worse!
This is called hardware banning and is not "super" common in the PC world, usually they just ban accounts. I know overwatch does this HW bans, but no VAC protected game does.

Consoles generally ban by HW I believe.
Good idea, any wishes?
Or try insurance actuaries. If _better outcomes_ is the goal then doctors will want to keep their premiums low by prescribing the optimal drug. If the actuaries are able to see what the doctors are prescribing and what is the better fit they might be able to increase premiums for doctors that take more risks prescribing off of the meta-analysis.
For one thing, Vista onwards includes the entire system on the hard drive, including optional drivers, language packs, features, etc, so you never get the dreaded “Please insert Windows setup disc” prompt. This also makes Windows setup a bit faster as it can for the most part just install one big disk image.

Another factor is 64-bit Windows, which became mainstream with Vista. 64-bit installs include both 64-bit and 32-bit system libraries, so it takes significantly more disk space. This is still the case with Windows 10, which might explain why some low-end devices still have 32-bit pre-installed.
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Lands' End Sued by More Delta Air Lines Employees over Uniforms
Apropos of nothing, Microcenter's "locations" page is atrocious. Just give me a map!

My Fry's is similarly a disaster zone, so I thought I'd see how close the nearest Microcenter is. Figuring that out requires me to either be familiar with the suburbs of major cities outside my state, or to click through each one to see where they are.

https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/default.aspx
While Google hasn't been the best at supporting products (and support in general), I always find statements like this with sites like that distasteful, as they leave out a lot of context that mitigates how bad it is. Sure, Google is EOLing Hangouts, but they provide a replacement. Sure, they've turned down a lot of products (like reader), but many (possibly most of the very large number presented on that site) were beta products.

I clearly remember telling people that asked me about whether they should worry about it saying beta on some Google product I had recommended that Google always leaves stuff in beta for years and not to worry. Well, now we all know better. I'm not happy about it, but I don't feel like I can blame them for that either. They were pretty up-front about services being beta in most cases.
SaaS Features for Big Enterprises
The Palo Alto location is prime real estate. It's a couple of hundred yards from Wilson Sonsini. So if that lease was up, it is going to be expensive.

https://goo.gl/maps/bwVeeWYWSNjL1X4dA

Fry's should have been sold to better managers. I go to Central Computer for what I used to go to Fry's for.
As with most things in our field, the opposite of a bad thing is also a bad thing.

When stuff is new, people have a higher tolerance for repetitive, error prone things. For tedium. For bullshit. But over time a portion of your team will lose patience. Their allergy to bullshit will return. These are many of the same people who pull off productivity gains, hard performance fixes, who fix hard to find bugs. Who prevent whole classes of bugs. If they don’t get to fix the things that bother them, they will go somewhere where they can.

What will be left are the status quo people. If you don’t have your project in a good shape when that happens, it never will be. You will have achieved mediocrity.

If things are good and the allergic people are still pushing? At some point it’s appropriate to move on. Just make sure you know for sure things are good and aren’t just listening to feedback from the status quo folks.
A short article titled "Voxel Landscapes 2D and 3D By Scout/C-Lous" described most of the tricks, but I can't find the text anywhere. A similar article by the same author on another topic I found here https://github.com/ggnkua/Atari_ST_Sources/blob/master/Docs/...
What makes you believe that?
It's really funny to me that someone could get excessively sucked into tinkering with and "nerding out" over Macs, the desktop/laptop platform that's by far the least inclined toward that. Usually stories like this start on Windows or Linux and end up on Macs precisely to minimize time & brain space lost to tinkering and esoteric platform knowledge just to keep things basically working OK, as the appeal of that sort of thing wears off.

I don't mean that in a bad way! It's just one of those "huh, so many different experiences out there, who'da thunk it" things.
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