skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lifestyle business is one where the owners have set a target business size and profit level, and do not try to grow past this; some owners even actively inhibit growth to keep the business from getting too large.

I think this is too far narrow a definition of "lifestyle business". The better definition is simply a business that fits the founder's intent and lifestyle.

I know several founders that started from nothing, built their company to turn a sizable profit and resisted big VC money.

It's demeaning and inaccurate to call them "lifestyle businesses", they made a calculated decision. Roughly, they took a chance with self-financing, and maybe a ~40% chance bet on making a good living, versus taking the VC money and having 3% on becoming unbelievably wealthy.

Given a 40% chance of making several million and a 3% chance of making billions, it's pretty reasonable for folks to take the higher probability, even if the statistical expected value is better with the VCs. These aren't people who "gave up", often, they made the smarter decisions.
Data compiling is just too easy at this point. Anyone can spin up some instances and run webscrapers to compile profile pictures, writing samples, etc. Many data leaks are available as torrents or hosted on pay-for-access sites likely from a variety of jursidictions.

Even with some kind of global cooperation, can regulations really solve the problem? They might prevent corporations from using the data for advertising, but I don't see them as actually addressing the privacy issue.
There are also security oriented container runtimes where this doesn't seem to apply (eg gVisor).
People exhibit such bot-like behavior in certain circumstances that the burden of proof for calling something a bot is extremely high. If you saw sports fans in a stadium you’d think they were bots authored by the team’s robotics division — the same behaviors manifest in online discussions of politics. It's like how CAPTCHAs today are virtually unsolvable for humans -- we meatbags are more bot than the bots.
As long as we’re talking about analog video, I can’t stop myself from throwing Dan Sandin’s analog image processor in there. Think the principles of a moog synth, applied to video signal. Here’s a totally amazing video of him demonstrating the machine, circa mid 70s:

https://youtu.be/8qh6jRzjmcY

Sandin also had a distribution philosophy that was a precursor (early contemporary?) to FOSS: he called it “copy-it-right”. He’d send anyone a copy of the schematics, but you were expected to build it as designed and not get creative until you at least had it working properly. The process of building the machine was also supposed to teach you how it worked.

Many moons ago I emailed Sandin and got a copy of the plans. They’re a hell of a document. Unfortunately some critical components are no longer in production, and updating the schematics was beyond my skill (setting aside that the scale and expense of the project was also beyond me, but hey).
I did but a long time ago, i honestly dont remember it well, i actually used that sentence ironically because while i dont mind mild boosting, just very wary of large scale change.

I actually didnt know the book was being used like that, interesting!
US to ban export to Huawei if 10% of IP work is done in the US
This makes no sense.

I dont even know what you are trying to claim. Is one of your premises that capitalism predicts the highest quality product wins at the marketplace? Because that's not what capitalism is. If it was we would all be eating at 5 star resturants all the time as they have the highest quality product when you ignore price.

Are you trying to claim that part of the reason mcdonald's is succesful is because they have a lot of money to spend on advertising and inertia? If so you are misunderstanding my point (or its just a non sequitor). The fact that gaining a lot of capital allows you an (arguably unfair, especially relative to idealized capitalism) advantage in the market place has nothing to do with my criticism that you are fallaciously finding evidence that contradicts your simplified model and then concluding that reality is wrong instead of your model.
Here is an educated voter who wrote some tech standards and knows a good deal about all this encryption stuff. WA Sec. of State is absolutely right here. We can't secure online systems even when most parties want to make them secure: all these data leaks prove that. When stakes are high, such as the ability to influence voting, this online system will be broken and backdoored before it sees the light.
On the face of it, it looks like Voice IM, with that I'm trying to figure out who needs this product or why its better than other options?

I don't understand where this fits in the hierarchy of human bandwidth (From Lowest to Highest):

Text Message

IRC/IM/Teams/et al

E-Mail

Phone Call/Conference Call

Video Conference

Face to Face meetings
WSL has no real hardware access and still runs on NTFS which is terribly slow.
Windows developers will probably try to fix it somehow but it is not there yet

Another option is to run Windows on top of Linux. But it currently also has some drawbacks.
Combined with ads in word? Sorta.

I still remember the toolbar days. They were indeed dark.
I believe they actually did have it as a subscription model at one point (I think it was at a time that it was a choice of either $400 one-time, or $99 for the kit + extra for the subscription), but I guess they have more competition now, plus it's cheaper?
BBC Documentary – GCHQ: Cracking the Code (2010) [audio]
This is HN. Every corporate example should start with google.

Or I think they dislike how google freemium model from ad revenue to push services has butchered many startups which would have been big today while apple is more secluded.

Think of gmail, chrome, gmaps, youtube, android, analytics, google cards, snippets etc.
Only recently their revenue has more diversification than ads - at 89%.
The key piece of equipment in this is what sits in front of the amplifier. If you could "AirPlay" or "ChromeCast" to a room of your choice, it would be significantly better than a whole house Sonos. If only the protocols was open, so you could use an off the shelf computer with enough audio out, then it would be nice.
How do they secure baseband?
That analogy does not work. It’s more like google is a telephone directory.
That's ridiculous. Everyone knew opiates were addictive, though quite safe otherwise if administered properly long term. Everyone's known for well over a hundred years about addiction and about opiates for hundreds of years more. This whole no one knew nonsense is utter bullshit. Marijuana also has consequences and they too have been known for thousands of years.
Learning different programming paradigms. For example, logic programming with Prolog makes you think about solving certain problems quickly and efficiently in a declarative style. Strongly-typed functional languages like SML and OCaml make it easy to use types and pattern matching to reduce errors and shift some cognitive burden from yourself to the compiler. Lisps allow you to quickly prototype functions in the REPL and test them interactively, and thinking about code as data (homoiconicity) is a powerful concept.

In short, learning new programming paradigms completely changed my view of programming and these skills can translate over to more "mainstream" languages, so it is still a worthwhile effort.
Nice trick: Install an unlicensed copy of Win8 and get the free upgrade to Win10. It gets activated.
Or a dog / pet that sheds.
First off, the US lets people shit on the side of the road too, maybe you've never visited SF. My point is that having a regulation does not entail its enforcement or its compliance by the populace.
Just store the JSON in a K/V store
It's okay to be messy.

Treat code mess with the same techniques you would treat RL mess. Sometimes you sweep it under the rug. You can toss it in a closet or attic. You can buy a shelf or box and toss everything in there.

You can clean it up seasonally, like set aside a sprint for it.

Some kinds of messes are hazardous and absolutely should not be tolerated - this is similar to leaving milk out or trash piling. Many people make this mistake of assuming that because some messes are very dangerous, all of it is too.

Most messes will slow you down, but cost more to clean up. Overall, I've seen documentation do more harm than help - it's often faster to interrupt a colleague doing something than for that colleague to spend weeks documenting and updating documentation on something that gets thrown away.

Some will take more time to fix later than now - this is what people mean by tech debt. But it's less common than it seems.

With a lot of mess piles, the important parts float to the top and the less important ones sink at the bottom. God classes are mess piles.

Once the mess becomes a burden, it's a good time to clean up.

You may need a few janitors and landscapers, especially for a large code base.

Some people place much higher priority on cleanliness than others. Be respectful of them but you don't have to be like them.
Walkaround and high level interviews with GCHQ staff about their work including Clifford Christopher Cocks (‘Inventor’ of public key cryptography) and Katharine Gun (whistle blower who leaked the NSA request to bug UN diplomats)
What about fake beards and moustaches? I've heard they're the norm in Korea. Imagine thousands of Santa Claus or Paul von Hindenburg protesting.
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

> In 2005, Wikipedia co-founder and Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales told a TED audience: So, we're doing around 1.4 billion page views monthly. So, it's really gotten to be a huge thing. And everything is managed by the volunteers and the total monthly cost for our bandwidth is about US$5,000, and that's essentially our main cost. We could actually do without the employee … We actually hired Brion because he was working part-time for two years and full-time at Wikipedia so we actually hired him so he could get a life and go to the movies sometimes.

2005: bandwidth cost of $5000 in with 1.4 billion page views

For 2018:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

15 billion page views

$145,850,778 in assets

$10,901,208 in liabilities

$134,949,570 in net assets

$104,505,783 in revenue ($97,748,964 from donations)

$81,442,265 in expenses ($38,597,407 salary, $2,342,130 tech costs, others)

I am not that educated on their operations but it seems a bit crazy to me how only 2.4 million out of all expenses is the server costs. And the 39 million salaries are all to their employees none of which do the actual content contribution

Going from 1.5 billion page views at $5000 to 15 billion page views at 82 million is crazy imo.
Life, a lifelong struggle.
ADHD is a blessing, not a curse. So many things now would be better left undone.

If I were a doctor or a pharmacist, I'd be more interested in inducing this condition than curing it.

Personal procrastination deep-dives have rewarded myself and my family more handsomely and more permanently than any wage labor ever has.
Indian insurtech Digit secures $84m from equity investors
Who said "everything"? You're just making up arguments I never made. Can we agree that an app with zero features is useless? Assuming we can, the utility of an application is a function of which features it has and how well those features are implemented. So the features are important, and how they're implemented is also important. I don't understand why that's (apparently) controversial.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22135938
"Our Drinking Water" should be changed to "Drinking Water in the USA".
As a snus (ab)using Swede, I'd really prefer this packaging rather than the original ones.

Classy, Norway!
A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
Adaptive Loading – Improving Web Performance on Low-End Devices
Not new. This existed a long time ago. It was called Nextel. Was hugely popular with contractors and in construction trades.
Vapor IO Nets $90M for Edge Computing Buildout
My monitor is colour calibrated, yet a Google image search shows this:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=Pantone%20448%20C

Despite all the bells and whistles added to the web over the past 20 years, it seems we still can't get colour right.

/sigh/
you can buy it on Amazon or I also saw the kits at Target - pay with cash if extra paranoid.
use a vpn, don't give your real name or real address. it's some work but it's doable if you want to.
Agree with everything except the "lean budget" part. My other comment has breakdown of their costs. They spend way too much money imo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22135938
Google is essentially a piece of international infrastructure at this point. If it went out of existence, the productivity of millions of people would take at least a minor nose dive and the funnels for user conversion for businesses would change drastically overnight leading to a macroscopic restructuring of business priorities.
> The DoD __does__ have a backdoor. It is the cellphone, not Signal.

How? By compromising the baseband, and then pivoting to compromise the AP? But what about IOMMU? Or is that pwnable?
>Hubble's tuning fork has been more or less the standard for a century now. It's done a decent job, but there have been some galaxies that don't fit the pattern. For example, one might have a small bulge but tight arms, or another with a large bulge and fairly open arms. If there's a galaxy that didn't quite fit, astronomers usually used the arm structure to place it in the diagram.

More specificly, it suggests that there are additional categories that should be added.

The fork used 2 variables to come up with 6 combinations: bulge size( with 3 states) and bar presence (with 2 states). A third variable, arm angle, was assumed to be linked with bulge size.

the data suggests that arm angle does not have the relation to bulge size that was assumed.
Roy F. predicted JavaScript was going to succeed and why (paragraph 6.5.4.3)
Toshiba Promises Quantum-Like Advantage on Standard Hardware
> I'm surprised they're issuing a statement admitting they made a "misstep".

Here's the original Email Sonos sent on Jan. 21 (Tuesday). It's pretty bad and implies that your legacy products might stop working in the future and almost definitely won't work with new products.

> End of software updates

> In May the following products in your system will be classified as legacy and no longer receive software updates and new features. This will affect your listening experience.

[My products]

> Legacy products were introduced between 2005 and 2011 and, given the age of the technology, do not have enough memory or processing power to sustain future innovation.

> Please note that because Sonos is a system, all products operate on the same software. If modern products remain connected to legacy products after May, they also will not receive software updates and new features.

> You have options

> Continue using legacy products

> You can continue using legacy products after May, but your system will no longer receive software updates and new features. Over time this is likely to disrupt access to services and overall functionality.

> Trade up legacy products

> Save 30% on a new product when you upgrade through the Sonos Trade Up program.
I would go a step further and say it's just another form of making the exception the rule. People will point to a handful that came up out of poverty and say "Look! They did it, everyone else could too but they are just lazy. It's their choice to live in poverty." That sort of thinking is thoroughly rejected in large segments of the population now. Well, it's not really a stretch at all IMHO to extend that to most things self-help and growth wise.
Sure but in this case it’s his adherents who are claiming to be right leaning and former MAGA supporters.

It doesn’t look good to Democrats to see memes for Yang or back to Trump so I cannot be cynical here.

edit: Because it's a bad look with Democrats to have a lot of right leaning support I take the MAGA supporters at their word. Particularly because I'm a Yang supporter and became politically disengaged after supporting Bush in my first election cycle.
TDD for me. It's frowned upon but has helped me craft elegant code with less bugs .
I used TRAMP a lot in the past, for some reason I have mostly forgotten about it. Maybe my projects just changed in nature?

Thinking of it, what I do rather frequently is ssh into a server and sudo -e there (root account is locked). I'm somewhat confident that TRAMP can be configured to do that. Need to investigate when I have time.
musiccast speakers are reputed to work well, but they're a little pricey. currently, only the apple tv has an internet connection (via ethernet cable into a router, not wifi). i may eventually extend speaker wire into the kitchen to have two independent audio zones off the receiver.

and to confirm the other responders, i have a set of "dumb" polk speakers connected to the receiver. for audio, i'll often just stream to the receiver over bluetooth from my mbp, iphone or ipad (so yes, i'm apple-dependent, but not in the way you meant =)

airplay works well to stream video via apple tv to the receiver (and then to the tv screen).
Back in the 90s I once worked at an office that had a phone system with no ringer. You’d dial the extension and just start talking. Or you could “ring” them by saying something like “hey Jeff!”

As a new guy in that office, never having met “Jeff” before, this was really difficult for my introverted self to get used to. I was glad when I finished the trip and flew back to the home office where phones worked like phones.

This seems a bit like that, but with at least the ability to set some boundaries around who could start talking to you. If my current team adopted this I bet I’d spend my whole day in “focusing, don’t interrupt me” mode.
"Rewrite it in Yang"
yes + you can actually download the raw data and analyze it with a couple of other online tools (e.g. https://www.promethease.com). It may be worth it especially if you have a rare disease - but you'll have to be the judge of that
It's almost like you and the other founders needed a better way to communicate...
That's the whole point of a system like emacs: it enables the users to easily write solutions to their specific problems. It doesn't have to be general, it has to be easy to solve the problem at hand. It's the same with bash and unix tools. Writing general bash scripts is a nightmare, but datamunging particular problems works really well.
I recently got an email or other notification of some sort offering a discount to get retested with their new V4 chip, as apparently my tests were run on V3.
For 2018

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

They are spending 81 million in expenses, a lot of of which is salaries.
has a military feel to it, which is perfect for the demographic
This reminds me of the fact that younger generations have a completely different understanding of the first sentence of Neuromancer
It's like you magically didn't read the article nor read any of the discussion herein.
When I was younger and living alone this used to be cleaning my apartment on Sunday; always. No matter how much I procrastinated on other stuff during the week or month, or how I felt, I would always clean on Sunday. Created a nice little bit of "responsibility continuity" so to speak. Mixed with a few other life-admin rituals throughout the week this always helped maintain a base level of discipline through ups and downs.
You apparently did not read the linked article, so let me repeat a couple of salient points:

(1) the guy was not arrested in some house after a raid but sold by kidnappers to the Americans being told that he was someone else.

(2) he wasn't the 'driver/messenger/accomplice' of anybody interesting, he was a cab driver with a pregnant wife minding his own business

Note that because there is no trial that none of the above has ever been countered so that's the only evidence there is. If the other side has a story it wishes to tell it's had 17 years and counting to do so. The only apparent reason why he is still there is because the people in charge are scared that he will sue them (and rightly so).

It's a case of perverse incentives gone bad, not a case of catching 'Bonnie' when looking for 'Clyde'.
Some of these $20 bills would get reported to FBI. The probability is tiny, but it grows exponentially with the number of participants.
One of the key principles of functional programming is, well, functions. A for loop isn't a function and isn't composable, map and filter are.
> Are you hinting that I stoped developing as a ten year old?

No, definitely not. I was just trying to analogize the "dirty little secret" bit to another dirty little secret we all directly experience. They're not really dirty little secrets; they're life, and there's nothing substantive that can be gleaned from stating these facts alone.

Similar to the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia, though in our own private and professional lives we understand reality is complex and ignorance reigns, notwithstanding the polite fictions we maintain, somehow when we discover hints of this reality in other fields we think it's a noteworthy insight and something to criticize.
yah, the volume buttons still work through the apple tv to the receiver via radio (for me).
I have two friends who work in grocery shops... They hate it... It takes at least twice as long to find the correct item when customers ask for it...
Dimensional Analysis in Programming Languages (2018)
State Machines.

Thankfully that was decades ago, which means I enjoyed the magic and bliss for most of my professional career.

Also interesting: I started using state machines in hardware designs before I applied them in software.
The InReach is far superior. You can communicate with rescuers, but you can also communicate with anyone with a phone number or an email address. This is extremely useful if you have a minor emergency and just need a friend to pick you up at a road somewhere or you just need more food or water. On the other hand, you can also tell rescuers that you need a helicopter immediately and not wait for people to hike to where you are.

The InReach also has tracking, so if you go missing and don't activate the beacon, they'll have a very good idea of where to look for you. I've also found it very useful for arranging pickups/meetings if I'm behind schedule or plans change.

The device itself is about the same price as a PLB, but there is a service charge. The basic plan is $15/mo, but you can turn it on and off at any time, so if you only go on a couple of trips per year, the price isn't overwhelmingly more than a PLB.
You might like https://volumio.org/
That's really not too shabby for a long tail though. What's the % that had zero views in December? Do they account for bots?
Additionally, this is only a 5-year victory. Must we repeat it again every five years? At least the victory in the war for encryption lasted 20-odd years.

I think the idea is to ban it in Europe for 5 years while the rest of the world carries on with it, and then reassess the impact by looking at how the rest of the world has changed. If the tech hasn't moved on and there's been very little impact, great, use it. If other countries that use it are police states where citizens can't leave their houses for fear of automated oppression then ban it permanently.
From experience it's between irc and having an office mate. I've only done it with an always on videolink which is different from this.

The problem I see is that this seems to mean you need to learn radio dicipline which is hard, compared to having a video link constantly broadcasting.