skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think expert in driver and compiler development is too much. It takes a lot more to get started, because it doesn't assume any defaults, but then it isn't too hard as long as you venture into topics like multithreading, but then in OpenGL you never went into multithreading in the first place.

I think the best middleground between OpenGL and middleware engines are translation layers such as gfx-rs and bgfx, which offer a low-level but userfriendly API and can compile to several different graphics API backends.
Neuroscientists take a Real-Time look at decision making
There used to be some wealth in my extended family and traditionally a huge emphasis on the immense importance of getting a degree. That wealth is gone, spent on useless degrees and vacation homes. This generation, the degreed work in the businesses started by the drop-outs.
Indeed. A good overview is provided by the following blog posts:

https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part-1-review-of-basics...

https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part-2-co2-removal/

https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part-3-other-interventi...
Unfortunate name too
Will they vote for the LFTR? They haven't so far.
It is difficult to provide useful feedback without much more context, but - very generally:

- since you are just starting out, it is likely that your pricing is too low. Again, hard to say without understanding more about your product and market.

- at your stage it's probably best to try and close a few customers. Having >0 real, paying customers will help with fundraising (and maybe eliminate the need/desire to do any fundraising, who knows?)

- make a few extremely specific customers very very happy (instead of already aiming for "a lot of different industries and company sizes" as you put it.)

- pricing: once you have an idea on what type of customer to for first, figure out what your likely customer acquisition cost will be, and extrapolate your pricing from there. If it costs you 5k $ to get a customer, you probably want to get at least 3x from them over their lifetime.
All the BBC podcasts are ad-free, but I get them from within the UK. I am not sure if they have ads if served in other countries.
An interesting aspect to me is that a collective intelligence can easily create a diffusion of responsibility. It's a lot easier to kill or give into base impulses when the blame is shared by the whole. Bees and ants don't tolerate nonconformity, they'll kill a queen if she's not filling her role.

I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird, but I think it's good for kids to read it.
Second it.

If right now you're bootstraped, no revenue from SaaS yet, you and your cofounder are on your own and consulting, if related to your product, can give you 2) and 3) but more importantly 1), at a far bigger payout than you'll get from an early MRR.

This advice is opposed to common YC advise "don't lose focus, consulting IS losing focus" and I agree, but right now you're not funded, not accelerated, not incubated or anything and you're trying to finish your product. Stay afloat and don't burn your savings to the ground.

One more advice: finish your MVP soon, and at some point, early than you imagine, tell your first customers that's the version you're putting in production right now and it'll be like that for a while, because waiting for that customer(s) that "will definitely buy once we do X and Y" will KILL your roadmap and KILL your startup. You'll be doing features after features, won't focus on your core features and propositons, and won't discover what is your killer feature that you must polish. That's what will keep your first customers with you.
id suggest proceeding with caution. these pilot agreements.....did cash exchange hands? if no cash exchanged hands I'd treat these are essentially worthless.

I dont mean to burst your bubble but: if you're solving a problem that is serious enough businesses will give you money today. Usually (in my experience) these "once you add these features" are things that wont actually move the needle enough and you'll find yourself in continuous development of things that won't actually produce revenue.

If no money has exchanged hands, I'd suggest telling your sales cofounder to go get a pilot with actual money being handed over.
If you think that's bad: Ireland are still digging and burning peat to produce energy - Peat! in 2020! Horrifying
That's basically, well, not true. When trees break down they contribute to soil organic matter. Approx 58% of SOM is carbon (SOC) making soil one of the largest carbon sinks on the planet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_organic_matter
Agreed, and yet here we are. People flood the streets to campaign against climate change and when a deranged president in the White House brings the world on the edge of a new major war everybody keep their mouths shut.

Most of the climate change discourse is nothing but a huge distraction from the real issues of the world.
Well, as far as I have seen space in the Dutch sense is not about functionally rather for show. Living room. A lot of living room, something you could play soccer in (or have many friends for dinner.)

Bedrooms, studies, bathrooms as small and cramped as feasible
IIRC a single tree absorbs around 25kg of CO2 annually during its fastest growth stage.

That's an equivalent of less than 200km in a compact car or 2kg of beef.

I believe it makes more sense to pick the low hanging fruit which is making transportation more efficient and reducing the impact of food production.
They are already trying that, with various success. So summer as income is +- covered these days and can improve only by little, but almost nobody ain't gonna hike or bike in winter through former ski resort area, with +5/+10 degrees Celzius.

Skiing is simply more unique/exquisite experience, more people are willing to spend more. It also often requires less effort, if one is not so fit. Plenty of folks ride down 2 times in the morning, park with beer/wine on the sun, eat, do 1-2 runs and call it a day and go to apres bar. For whole week.

I am a bit skeptical about this 'reinventing' of ski resorts into something new. I look at Chamonix in France, for somebody like me the best mountain place in Europe, maybe even globally. Beautiful hiking, trail running, climbing, world class (or easy) alpinism available quickly, skiing, ski touring, paraglide, bikes and so on and on. The best season for non-winter activities is actually early autumn, September-October - better temperatures than summer, nature is stunningly beautiful, good stable weather.

But almost nobody comes in autumn. Why? Because kids don't have holidays and are back to school. This is the bulk of visitors in mountains, anytime. So summer season for tourism lasts 2-2.5 months. Winter one, still is more like 4 months.
>Edge, just not worth it for a small team.

I just can't get behind this lazy "small team" excuse; it's really unnecessary hubris.

I worked on a "small team" of 1 (just myself - I was the only dev) for several years on an enterprise webapp. The kind that does complicated stuff - not a simple CRUD app. [Sidenote: I would have killed for a team of three!!] Yet I supported Edge since the day it came out and never dropped support of IE. In fact, I even supported old versions of IE (7 and up) until the day Microsoft EOLed older version of IE (that was January 12th, 2016, FWIW). It honestly isn't very hard these days. Annoying sometimes, yes, but not difficult.
A sequoia sempervirens lives 1,500 years.

I am not deluding myself that we will mitigate climate change by covering Earth in sequoia, but still that gives some timescale on how long trees can live.

If we could mitigate climate change for another 1,500 years we would probably have found some other mitigations by then.
So uninstall the app and then just use hangouts.google.com? There are buttons for video/audio calls, but if you don't click them then it behaves like a chat app and when you have 2 conversations open they get hidden anyway.
PS. Feature-wise I think this could use a grouping of game series, e.g. Journey the Down - there are 3 parts, but it'd make sense to show them as a single meta-item.
>This kind of black or white thinking is absurd. Why would disproving some random comment on HN automatically mean disproving all climate science? It's extremely irritating when someone uses disapproval of a weak claim to as proof that a much stronger claim is also wrong.

So if someone trying to convince you that there's life on Mars starts from the premise that the earth is flat, are you going to give credence to the rest of their talking points or brush them off?

You can be "irritated" all you want, the fact of the matter is people like OP do nothing but hurt the cause and discussion around climate change when they start from a position that's both demonstrably false and so outlandish as to ruin any further discussion. It HURTS the cause because someone who was on the fence would likely be driven off the wrong side.
A chrome app that people use? There’s a lot of hobby flight controllers which are/were programmed using a Chrome app. There was no alternative. And since most web apps can’t get access to the host USB (webUSB seems to exist, but still seems pretty nascent), that whole system is probably going to have to find a new app deployment method.
Let's get started!

https://teamtrees.org/

https://projectwren.com/
Couldn't help but check that it is rated 4.6/5 (113 reviews) in Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Surrounded-Idiots-Behavior-Effectivel...

Excerpt from one of the top review..

The book really helps you to understand why 'blues' ask 100 questions, want to problem solve all the time, always ask for more information, and can be cold and distant instead of being emotional creatures. Yellows on the other hand are always day dreaming, coming up with broad ideas, trying to plan social gatherings and always seemingly have their 'head in the clouds' (this is totally me). Reds can seem really aggressive, very dominant, demanding, and short with those around you, and frankly they can't help it, and greens are very amiable. They agree to everything, but are often afraid to speak their mind.

Looks like it is not only Sweden but other places as well. Seems like easily relatable and digestible like those on Sun Signs and Personality and hence a 'good seller', if not a best seller.
What does it profit a man to gain monetary reward if he loses his sustaining ecosystem?
Against the Cult of Apple
When will they learn that the only way to respond to a hostile government is to overthrow it?
This seems strikingly similar to the "shape" nonsense being sold to managers as an explanation of explain team dynamics [1].

[1] https://www.delcor.com/resources/blog/project-management-per...
Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
oh you're right, not sure where I got the impression it was FF.
Minsky and Papert showed that computing XOR requires a 3 layer artificial neural net: Input, Hidden Layer, Output - which has 2 layers of weighted connections.

This[0] research shows a single neuron can compute XOR, thus the artificial neuron has less computational power than a real one.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ejbwvb/r_s...
Norway and Oslo probably has a higher density.
yes. I love this. until you have 10 customers your business is bull (jason cohen said this, not me and I love it). go get some sales. else you and your partner are wasting your time. best to figure out no one wants what you've built in the next 30 days then 8 months from now when you're sunk costs are even larger.
There are a few reasons:

"People don't leave jobs. They leave bosses." This is true. I have done it, and I see others do it. And it has happened to me.

You outgrow the position or company. This has also happened for me.
In the US, internal layout is not generally available (may vary by locale) and may not even exist on paper. Square footage/location/owner is--although, speaking for my own case, details about the house in the public record aren't necessarily accurate.
Possibly, but that still defaults back to brute forcing a long passphrase with a salt. If guessing the passphrase goes above a certain entropy and Apple derives the password with a key stretching algorithm, then the timeouts won't matter.
What verytrivial said!!!!

I’ve been in similar situations, but never without an immediately obvious solution.

That system WILL FAIL. Even as we speak the time-to-failure is shrinking.

Even if one of the solutions described below actually works, you won’t get 100% recovery.

I recall a story years ago - from MIT, if memory serves - where they rebooted a system because they had many generations of Sybase backups. When they tried, it didn’t work. Nobody had actually tested recovering from a backup.

Grit your teeth; cover your ass; and get on with it. The clock IS ticking.
It's an ASUS C300M, I bought it around 2015. There is no "Linux (beta)" entry in ChromeOS settings, though it's running version R76, the C300 is listed in the "compatible" list, and it's powerful enough to run Linux applications (dual core x86, 4GB of RAM).

I'll have another look but I don't see why it should be any different today than it was last month.
that sentiment is exactly how many people have gotten convicted for murder. Because it was believed there was a specific way one should react to ones SO getting murdered, and it was wrong.
HDMI learnt nothing from the old db connectors like VGA. Try it with HDMI when the cable has to go in but you can't see the port. Get gud as they say.
Man, I feel like I wrote this post. The problem is absolutely familiar to me.

What I do in order to socialize / find people who can complement projects that I'm, working on? I write to my blog and share posts on topics that I care about in local social communities. Then I monitor a reaction. Also I like to join discussions in the social networks where potentially I can find some people with the same vision :)
Same! Instant delete. I hope game publishers start to get the message
I think it is important to credit Rob Kuntz who did the original adventure of the Lost Caverns. You can find his original hand drawn map on Grodog's informative site. https://grodog.blogspot.com/2018/10/module-challenge-day-11-...
There are a lot of good board game apps. The only thing you buy in app is expansions to the games.
Thank you, this is very helpful and insightful.
I am all in to form a peer group to study RE (Windows or Linux)

I am more interested in memory patching and binary modification of software (including games) than malware analysis
> Our pricing model is $10/user/month.

patio11: charge more

Seriously, unless you’re going to be selling exclusively into businesses with over 100 employees using b your service you need to charge more. The meetings to consider whether to use your product are going to cost the buyers more in employee time expressed in dollars than your product will.
Many of the Chromebooks are pretty simple to convert to a standard OS. I've got two chrome devices flashed with 3rd party firmware and running FreeBSD. It seems more likely if you get devices running Intel Core series chips (cpu model numbers like xxxxU or maybe xxxxY, but not Nxxxx), but it's good to confirm it's supported by your 3rd party firmware of choice before you buy.

I use firmware from https://mrchromebox.tech/ these days.
Big houses get less dirty. If you’re not religious about cleaning up a small place it gets hard to manage. (It’s like swapping to HD. You have to move stuff so you can move other stuff to get stuff into place.)
While I agree with you that it's virtually impossible for humans to use up the uranium in sea water at our current energy consumption rate, I think it's worth thinking about that if we had "unlimited" energy, we might use orders of magnitude more of it than we currently do.

That being said, for that to be an issue, we'd have to increase our energy consumption at least 1000x, and if we get to the point of using that much energy, it seems likely we'll also have advanced technologically to such an extent that we'll figure out another solution. It's just an interesting exercise to consider how what seems impossible today, might be totally routine in 10/100/1000 years.
That's on purpose. You are not allowed to build outside of the core areas. We do this because we don't want it to end up looking like Belgium.
Helm makes Emacs so much more discoverable . It saves me an enormous amount of time by giving me discovery of feature and for the most part approaching DWIM.

https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
In Huawei Battle, China Threatens Germany ‘Where It Hurts’: Automakers
I appreciate the blunt feedback. Will definitely follow this. No cash has been exchanged yet in the pilot agreements.
I suspect that unfortunately there is a mismatch between hypothetical polling and reality given the current outright hostility to solar and wind in spite of them contribuiting jobs and income in their regions. Farmers are renting land for turbines using fallow fields for solar panels and are facing bizzare objections when there are fewer externalities than the existing options.
Does that series cover eliminating Rupert Murdoch? I know that this is taboo to discuss, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that non-technical solutions to climate change will necessarily include the elimination of those who metaphorically are holding a gun to humanity's head.
Using C Libraries from Julia
Similar here, except i'm sticking with OpenGL 1.x (or 2.x for when i want shaders... or 3.x/4.x for when i want MORE shaders :-P), exactly because of the sheer simplicity of the API.

I have written a bit of Vulkan code (i wrote this[0] the day the spec came out, after banging on it for several hours - and i found the spec quite readable, at least from the side of someone who wants to use it... someone i know who worked on the implementation side has told me that it wasn't that great), but i find the API way too ugly and verbose for my taste.

I have considered writing a small OpenGL-like wrapper on top of it since i am concerned that OpenGL quality will deteriorate in the future (though that would break a TON of games, including the ultrapopular Minecraft), but for now things work fine.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/rd8Xk84.gif
Even Groningen (the Province) has a population density of 252, about 7 times as high as the US's average of 33.6/km2.
I'm really surprised that binary CNNs aren't more popular - i understand that you're taking a decent hit in performance for CPU usage & a GPU really isn't all that expensive - but to me it's really interesting. When XNOR came on the scene in 2016 i thought they were really going to shake up deep learning and we'd see more binary CNNs pushed by Intel & AMD to counter the dominance of NVIDIA, but it never really happened.
AKA confirmation bias: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-confirmation-bias-279...

Fascinating how it's the same thing "mediums" use to say there's some person speaking to them from beyond the grave, with a message for someone whose name begin with M...
Here is my contribution (a webapp, a.k.a. a website) http://lalo.li/lsd/ coded it years ago mostly drunk on an island in Thailand, I now like to play it again on my iPad with iPencil.

Github: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd (Warning: a single, dependency less CoffeeScript source file)
Huh, I'm happy to see it's still available. I sold my Surface years ago and tend to not look at PDFs on Windows anymore, all I'd noticed was that I didn't have Reader installed anymore.
Side Project Income 2019
We can continue to plant trees until the end of time.
Armslist: The crime-friendly Craigslist of guns
Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with girlfriend to connect with Musk
Thank you!! This is part of the reason I was hesitant to do consulting. (Losing focus)
The value of complementary co-workers (2019)
it was legitimately a good movie. I would've gone to see the sequel despite never having played any of their games.
Oh, right, it would work. Anyway, it looks like compilers have a known bug and they’re supposed to treat the types as incompatible.
Moldable Development – Tudor Gîrba (2019)
That's the case now, but it wasn't in 2015 when this post was published.
There’s also a big toxic waste dump that makes that area verboten for the foreseeable future https://www.volgermeer.nl/Geschiedenis/Stortplaats/
You need someone with sales experience.

Without knowing what business you are in, $10/month/seat sounds _way_ to cheap. You are working with businesses here, not consumers.

At this price point you would have to sell about a 1000 seats just to pay for yourself and your co-founder. If you want to bootstrap and hire 4-6 people, you would need to sell a whole lot more.

If you can really 'automate pretty much any business process' as you claim, than your product is worth much, much more than you are currently charging.

See if you can sell it at $1000/month/seat. Yes, sales will be twice as hard, but you'll need 2 orders of magnitude less customers to stay afloat. If you can't sell for that price, rethink your product or ditch the bootstrap idea.
Many of these people have a past track record which helps hugely, and/or connections with investors. For example, people which have worked in finance often have many coworkers and other contacts who are high net worth which will be willing to write a cheque on the basis of their personal relationship. I wouldn't underestimate this factor when looking at other investment deals.
Ah interesting thank you
Id say the $125+ for a day pass at most resorts is killing it as well. Maybe donate some of those profits
The ThinkPad Chromebook 13 is actually pretty nice: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo...

Of course, Lenovo doesn't make those anymore, but you can find them used.
Note that this is the second planet found around Proxima Centauri. The first one is only 1.3 Earth masses and sits 0.05 AU away from the sun, which puts it in the potential habitable zone.
Some trees takes years to fully decompose, even in contact with the soy, even on tropical climate. I say because I practice a kind of agriculture where we plant trees to feed to soil, we prune/cut the trees to cover the soil 4 times a year, the soil keeps increasing in organic matter (becoming darker and darker each year) and I notice some especies are very good at not decomposing, usually this are trees used for civil construction, which is another way of storing the CO2 I think. For me cutting trees down is not the problem, the real problem is not planting more... also where that energy of the tree ends up, burning wood I think is a waste.
It's actually calculated based on the frost line for the area. I don't think when building on solid rock it matters, since the point is to avoid expansion and contraction of freeze thaw cycle pushing the house up.
I don't know how young is young, but finding this PBS app was great:

https://pbskids.org/apps/pbs-kids-games.html

No ads, works disconnected from the internet, and games are pretty simple and not driven towards some kind of monetary business system.
So you strongly despise someone for being a rational actor within a broken system?
As an adult I downloaded some tower building game and then eventually realized I had to pay to be able to keep playing it reasonably. It was my first experience ever with pay-to-play. I just deleted it and flat don't play mobile games anymore.
What a brilliant idea... almost a Why Didn't I Think of That Idea!