skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, but what I have struggled with here is the feeling of being a "solution looking for a problem". It's a step before where you're at. It's not that I can't identify owners, it's that I can't identify _problems_.

I am lacking the domain experience to even have the first conversation, and it feels like paying people to ask "so tell me everything that is wrong with your business" is the wrong way to do it.

I know PG mentions "solve problems you have yourself", but I am not a business owner. I'm a software engineer.

That video you linked earlier - Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business - was incredible and feels like the right move once you have that idea. But what about finding that idea?
>You can follow these instructions to install, initialize, and connect IPFS to the public network.

no, you can't. all of those links go to "work in progress".
"Hey siri, play <search term>"

"I didn't get that."

"Hey siri, play <search term>"

"Got it, playing <similar-sounding search term>"

"Hey siri, stop"

"Hey siri, play <search term (enunciating slowly)>"

"Got it, playing <similar-sounding search term>"

"Hey siri, stop"

<opens app on phone and manually types in the correct search term>

---

"Hey siri, <a search term more complicated than one short sentence with a clear answer>"

"Sorry, I'm not able to show that. <opens web browser with term>"

---

We do not have AI, unless you mean in the loosest possible meaning. Everything is still dumb as rocks, we just have made voice recognition a convenience. Parsing sound into a search term and dumb-ly searching is still dumb. It's not AI just because I'm not manually typing it in.

Every system I've asked questions has failed on anything that's not fairly simple. Taking sounds and mapping that to a google search or a particular app is not AI. It's some engineer who decided that questions with a similarity to X or Y can be answered with Z app. (i.e. questions about the weather) Siri and others are still dumb as rocks.
The land isn’t more valuable because of some inherent virtue of the land.

It’s only more valuable because tech bro’s want it.
Mac keyboards, you get used to it in no time.

alt ( for the curly bracket

alt-shift ( for the square one

A ton of special characters are accessible this way
Startups consume cash to grow. Mature companies return cash to shareholders after the growth slows. Natural state of affairs.
Willing to discuss any of your ideas? I feel like everyone has hoarded ideas (including myself) that are never acted upon because we keep telling ourselves "eventually I'll pull the trigger" (including myself)
Our voices are nuanced. Our facial expressions are nuanced.

Text is not, unless your a 1% top tier writer.

Would love to see more experiments with video and voice to bring back the subtleties of human communication.
Imputed rent is (roughly) proportional the the value of the property, So a tax on one is the same as a tax on the other.
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Part of the problem is that social platforms online are built around heavily optimising for engagement. Content that gets engagement must be better, so it gets promoted more heavily, and algorithms show you personally the content it thinks you're most likely to react to. You can't leave because it's messily wrapped up with your social connections to your friends.

Until this system dies, we won't solve this problem. It's not good enough to instruct people to stop feeding the trolls: there are huge troll-feeding dopamine farms feeding and nurturing trolls by the millions. Until we shut them down the situation will continue to get worse.
hmm, I think that in this particular case ignoring it will make it go away.. because in the end, the problem is that people pay attention to it.

suppose nobody paid attention to such content in the first place, would it really be a problem in that case?

I think the tricky part is that if I ignore it, but no one else does, the problem is still there.
Your thinkpad probably isn't even an IBM product. Lenovo bought them in 2005 and they've done a much better job than IBM would have--IBM sold the division in the first place because they had no vision for it at all. They've been riding inertia since the 80s.
Let's remove them from one 3d engine first, and see how it goes.
>> Ironically, it strikes me that there's a gap here for a business to solve; connecting entrepreneurial devs with business owners aware of problems.

>This. Why hasn't this gap been filled yet?

It's called Upwork.

No seriously, hear me out. When a business owner has a problem they perceive could be solved with technology, they create a job or they go on job posting sites seeking either an employee or a contractor to try and solve their problem.

Where they get it wrong is that they frequently have unrealistic expectations about what it will cost and how long it will take. They have no idea what skills they should look for and who to trust.

Is there a market mismatch here? Absolutely, but you'll have to find a way above the fray of recruiting sites as that's really the state of the market.
I'm really tired of immensely awkward and problematic design patterns that are intended to act as guard rails for good design. It is a myth that this actually works. A rushed project is a rushed project; a team that is inclined to overbuild will overbuild no matter what artificial constraints you give them up front. A microservice design that has concurrency problems can be extremely difficult to debug, in my personal experience this is easily much more difficult than debugging a monolith. Having to spin up 30 services in order to reproduce an issue that could otherwise be done in a single in-memory unit test is a real thing.
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Isn't that just due to `head` being a non-total function?

Nothing to do with null per se.
They frequently do see things in that way - and they're wrong. In fact, they're worse than wrong, because many people see the dueling assertions of fact and give up on knowing the truth of a situation altogether. This is a classic disinformation technique.

We do have the ability to determine truth from fiction, it just takes more work than cynically throwing up your hands and smugly concluding all sides are lying.
Perhaps CERN can spin up its own Mastodon instance? https://toot.thoughtworks.com is an example of an organizational adoption of a Fediverse node.
The conclusion I draw from people attending climate conferences and flying is that we as a population care about preserving the environment and want the freedom to travel easily. Hopefully the AI could invent for us low impact travel methods and geoengineering to keep the environment in the ideal state.
I disagree, but then I used bivectors extensively in the geometric part of my mathematical research (back when) so I would. ;)

y^2 = 1 is because it's a unit vector. The fact that bivectors are the correct way to view rotations is evident if you look at higher dimensions. Bivectors work just the same way as described here when you want to work in R^n, you just add basis vectors beyond x, y, z. But the algebra they describe no longer forms an associative division algebra over the reals. There is no way to get to the algebra of the (generators of) rotations in higher dimensions from the quaternions.

This is why i would say the quaternions (as built up from the complex numbers) are a non-sequitur and incidental to the structure of rotations.

Then again, I would always argue that one should use complex numbers to think of rotations in R^2, so.... :)
This is bizarre. I understand that not all keyboards are made the same, but why would a technical person not have a keyboard with square brackets? Perhaps one keyboard for writing volumes of text in his native language and another keyboard for doing technical work?

The French language doesn't use the standard quotation mark to indicate dialogue, but I would still expect a French programmer to have a keyboard capable of producing one.
Mafias are downright cults.
Fair enough so we should also tax equity in private companies. That money could also be used for positive economic activity.....
I admire your being able to quit and start your own biz. I admire you staying the course, but I feel very sad at your progress. You seem to be more of a builder than a business man.

Everyone one of your project makes me yawn, I'm sure many have said it. With that said, you need to find some good ideas. Forget originality since you're not doing great on that, just find something making money and clone it. Or find a co-founder that can sell and come up with good ideas.
the third, while the weakest, is still worth watching at some point just to see how Michael's crazy story ends. sofia's miss or miss performance really drags it down though.
Is it mentally unhinged to accept an adverse fate rather than live in silence?
Agreed. Their charts are a good way to find recommendations, especially if you filter by particular genres you like. Also good is to look at lists by users who like something you like.
Maybe we should focus more attention on why some children are being hurt so badly that they lash out violently, and less on what weapon they use when they do.
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The biggest problem from the last 10 years is the spread of "everyone's entitled to an opinion". It seems that objective truth no longer exists in the eyes of the population.

This is both a cause and a consequence of the defunding of journalism and the change of the profession from news to views.
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In English awareness is gained with money - pay attention

In Hebrew awareness is gained with emotion (put heart) - שים לב

Any native speakers of other languages able to chime in? Sapir-Whorf revived?

Edit: used word awareness to clarify what is being gained.
If your criticism of this position is "who cares, it's just spiders" then you're essentially saying it's not a big deal because it doesn't involve something you give a shit about, never mind that it's the principle -- not the subject matter -- that is being argued here.

What's the name of this logical fallacy. Ad idiotim?
>How did you cut down so drastically on expenses in the second year, +50%, or was there a large investment in the first year, sorry I havent read last years update yet!

Mainly, I outsourced less.

This was less about cutting costs as much as it was about building faster. My first year, I hired developers to do a lot of work with me, but I realized after a few months of doing it that contractors actually slowed me down overall. Early in a product, there are so many course corrections and pivots, but contractors make it difficult to follow those because you need to give them enough to do because they're not going to just sit on unpaid standby for you, but you also don't want to just keep interrupting them and throwing away their work.

>Also, I'm just coming accross your Zestful service and can't believe that is exactly what i am looking for and actually started to write, but I have other stuff to do so no point re-inventing the wheel!

>Consider me a new client sir!

Fantastic! If you have any questions or run into any issues, shoot me an email at michael@zestfuldata.com.
Yeah, this looks pretty awesome! I ran it against one of my own domains and there's a fair bit of false positive/flood of information, but the data is really interesting!
This is super exciting and definitely one of the problem in foundations of internet. Happy to help in any possible way!
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But this is possibly a kind of a fallacy in itself: it's possible that there is bad behaviour out there, and that it's associated with one particular group as opposed to another; there's points to be scored by pushing a particular position online if it influences reality. In my experience on some forums, mention anything about Brexit and a flood of anti-Brexit comments appears; either there were hundreds of lurkers that just happened to be online and spot the comment, or there was organisation behind it.
I just realize you mean that they use their power to not enforce something when that thing is "very often extreme, and unpopular. " The way you said it "The cases where they exercise this power are very often extreme, and unpopular." seemed to me to indicate that their choice to enforce their action was extreme or unpopular.
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You could say the same thing for almost all goods and services which are subject to consumption taxes.
I found that learning geometric algebra in a nice flat space made differential forms much more intuitive for me. I don't think they're so at odds, and teaching one then the other may benefit both.
"yet we have ample evidence to the contrary on both points"

People on HN believe that? The web has changed...
"Look into the lives of politicians in the 1950's and 1960's. They frequently socialized together and worked together. They were able to find common ground. Every victory for one party wasn't necessarily a loss for the other. How often do you think Mitch McConnell goes out for a drink with Bernie Sanders?"

That's the problem with transparency and constant scrutiny. In the 50s and 60s you could hide affairs like Kennedy did. Or you could have a drink with people from the other party, discuss things openly and find a deal without anybody knowing. If McConnell met with Sanders today there would be a huge uproar. There is something to be said for the ability to make backroom deals.
I agree with you. I am pretty sure the AGPL exists so that you get the "warm fuzzies" of "open source", but the company that wrote the software can still profit from it as though the source wasn't available. It is also administratively easier than making a "hobbyist edition" for people that want to screw around with the software in their free time in the hopes that they someday make money with it and buy the full version. (Also, in the event that you do license the software and need to make a small customization, it's administratively easier. Just edit the code and you're done, as opposed to the company having to set up a meeting with your team, looping in the sales engineer to see how much to charge you, then having a year of weekly status update meetings to see how your feature is proceeding.)

The problem I have is that I think truly free software is relatively unsustainable. Look at Docker's financials after basically revolutionizing how software is distributed and deployed. Look at big projects like Kubernetes; do you think you would convince investors to fund a project with a pitch like "we're going to give it all away for free with no encumbrances". Nope. It only works when you already made money from writing proprietary software. The AGPL attempts to be a middle ground, which I do respect. I am personally afraid to touch it. So are many other people.
Only if you are the sole copyright holder, i.e. no (nontrivial) external contributions.
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People in 2010 didn't get into arguments online?

I don't think any of that is true, there were tons of arguments on forums and IRC and stuff.

I believe this is purely a "now we see it all" where as before it was hidden behind private invite only communities and hidden/private chat rooms.
Agreed, but that's similar to doing a find-and-replace with `sed` versus doing it in your text editor. Even with a CLI that can do find-and-replace there's still a lot of times you'd want to do it within your GUI text editor. It's the same for me with the web browser and the uses cases I listed in the post. I'm curious why other programmers aren't as interested in these workflows as I am.
The desire to "correct" other people who are wrong is the fundamental impulse of authoritarianism.
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Oh, yeah, it's a terrible thing to do, absolutely. All I'm saying is that you can have a perfectly consistent /component/ using GA, but if it's living in a larger ecosystem of matrix-based code, you're going to have to do these translations somewhere. (eg, we rewrote the camera compoent in GA, but the dudes doing grass modeling haven't converted.) You get an all-or-nothing problem: it's efficient if the whole codebase is using the same abstraction, but converting around between a bunch of abstractions will come with a cost.
Sure. But, again, the central point is that unequal voting power isn't unique to Presidential elections, indeed, the unequal voting power there is a direct consequences of the unequal voting power in Congress, particularly (but not exclusively) the Senate, which is also house with the most power in restraining the executive (the Senate confirms principal executive officers and judges, ratifies treaties, and adjudicates impeachments of impeachable officers, most relevantly here executive officers.)
This seems to be specific to Mac.

On Linux, when I remap the keyboard to Belgian (setxkbmap be), typing ] is done with AltGr+the-key-two-to-the-right-of-P. At least on PC keyboards, ] is printed on this key, on the right as is usual for AltGr combinations. Exiting telnet is done with Control+AltGr+the-key-two-to-the-right-of-P.

When I set it to Danish, typing ] is done with AltGr+9, and exiting telnet is done with Control+AltGr+9. ] is also printed on this key.

Why is Mac confusingly different?

For testing:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Edit: if you think this is not a Mac-only issue, please elaborate...
The problem with lies in politics for me is that every politician needs to do them to stay competitive. Also every party has politicians with different objectives, which makes things even harder. Also a good leader should be well compensated, at the same time people are envious of politicians who make a lot of money legally, which makes corruption for politicians necessary.

The only improvement I see is decentralization, which is a very slow, but powerful process. The Gutemberg printing press showed that it is possible, and Bitcoin is doing the same thing right now, but I think superior technology for organizing people and resources is the only solution.
The article's main example of an AI fail is YouTube's recommendation engine optimizing for extremist content. But it didn't seem to explain how "inverse reinforcement learning" would solve it - don't people's clicks already model their desires?

Nothing in here seems to be an advancement towards AGI. I'm sure their robot can learn the optimal rules for driving in a simulator, but what about the unexpected in the real world? We don't even have a clue as to how human creativity actually works, much less how to make a creative machine (ie an AGI).
DDNS maps a domain to your current dynamic IP. Its built into most routers. They will push the new ip to a DDNS service when it changes.
Providing housing is not the solution.

A previous partner of mine worked as a social worker for an organization that did "housing first". She would house homeless individuals in apartments, advocated on their behalf to the landlord, get them some basic furniture, and helped them get financial assistance to afford rent and food. That part was easy.

The biggest problem she faced was that people would leave their homes. She would come by a few days after housing them and they weren't around. She'd call them up only to discover they'd taken the train over to the next town and spent the night on the streets there. One lady complained that she thought the apartment was too small and preferred to be outdoors. She housed a family of 4 who were sleeping in their car, only to find that they crossed the border a few days later because the father thought that there were better opportunities there.

Homelessness is not about "not having a home". It is a mindset and lifestyle that people develop over many years.

The best solution is to try to stop the incoming generation from developing this lifestyle - get 'em while they're young. Keep troubled kids in school at all costs. Double down on drug and addiction education. Police the shit out of poor neighborhoods. And then provide some health and wellness support for those who choose this lifestyle. Because that's all you can do.
Sorry, but I don't think that's part of the 12-factor app. The 12-factor guideline is that apps shouldn't be dependent on implicit dependencies (I dunno, like having imagemagic installed on the system), but instead should use a dependency management system (like NPM or Composer). So I don't think the statement "shared code is an anti-pattern" is true. But I could be wrong, haven't read the 12 factors in a while...
I don't know if ignoring lies is necessarily a problem. Because what are the realistic chances that anyone responding to non factual information, is responding with factual information? Probably pretty low on the net if we're being honest.

That said, yes, we absolutely cannot ignore the toxicity in its entirety. Ignoring it entirely is how little old ladies at church bible studies wind up dead. There are certainly classes of toxicity that it's just military sense not to ignore. Religious and ethnic extremism, etc. Basically anything that is going to cause issues with physical violence. To my mind, violence is the line.
I can't speak for this site, but for the internet overall: There will always be teenagers and trolls.

Teenagers will always find it amusing to say naughty things and being transgressive. Trolls never bother finding something more interesting to do.

It is like a prank call. You used to call the local pizza joint, and ask for orange chicken, annoying the manager until they flew into a rage. Now you get on a comment section and annoy people.
I'm glad you've come around to my p.o.v. on property taxes!

The pros and cons of a mark to market capital gains tax are pretty far outside of the scope of this thread, so I will save my thoughts on them for another day.
> Thanks. I believe I can improve my diet with more veggies, fruits and grains.

That sounds like a great start!

Once in a while, i like to take a hike in the forest and look around and marvel at all the nature. It's really impressive. And to think, that everything you see before your eyes was the only thing humans had to eat: mostly edible weeds, various types of leafy green veggies, and whenever they were lucky enough to find it, they'd gorge themselves on a fruit tree/bush. One of the things you'll notice very quickly is how much abundance of choice we have in the supermarket (compared to how little in the forests and plains) with so much access to so many delicious fruits and veggies - it really makes you greatful for all the abundance we now have.