skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find angels / VCs who already invested in your space but who didn't already backed a direct competitor and talk to them. Either email them directly or ask for a warm intro from someone you know that they know. Definitely speak with other founders, fundraising can be quite an intense journey! ;)

As far as identifying relevant investors, AngelList is a good place to start if you don't know anyone:
https://angel.co/europe/investors

Alternatively, there are plenty of lists of early stage VCs such as this one recently posted on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042111

Good luck! :)
I totally see that with my newer car. And the sloping windshield also creates glare in the late afternoon that makes it hard to see pedestrians.

I think driver viability has be seriously compromised in the last 20 years. And suspect that we've only be rating cars by how safe they are for their occupants. Instead of over all. Not sure but I think pedestrian deaths are up sharply in the last ten years.
There are about 10 major game streaming services available now, and none of them inject any advertising as far as I know.

Which ones are you referring to?
> Like what are the chances for an agent to be used by a real person if it doesn't download images, lacks mouse movements and, for example, is coming from a datacenter? Obviously pretty low.

Congrats, you just identified a visually impaired user with a screen reader who uses a VPN through AWS/GCP/etc.
We want to build a product. We will build it, investors or not. We are not in it for the cash. We are in it for the positive impact.
(I'm a VC)

1. build something worth investing in

2. make sure people know about it (tell your friends, don't work in a silo, etc.)

3. have the right friends (i.e. be plugged into the community, be friends with other founders, be in a place like San Francisco, etc.) and loop them in to what you're doing

4. if all of the above happens, I will likely hear about you from someone I trust

Almost all of my investments come from a trusted referral.

Also helps: join YC or something similar (few are as good, though)
> It’s going to take forever to be implemented if car manufacturers just roll out these things as “premium features” - that’s like enabling a system of charging extra for a car to come with seatbelts.

I support safety mandates to implement safety technology in cars and retrofit it to older vehicles too.

The road is filled with assholes and dumbasses, and while the assholes certainly suck, as a person who walks/scooters around in the city, the dumbasses are the ones that I've learned to really to watch out for.

People looking at their phone while driving, people distracted that are looking away from the road, old people driving that can't even see a crosswalk and don't notice red lights, etc.

Part of the reason, I think, are the almost laughable qualifications to renew a license in most places, and another part is the lax assignment of responsibility on drivers to be competent.

I trust safety technology to do it's job better than I trust 100% of people to be competent while driving.

Like many things, even if 9/10 people do the right thing, all it takes is 1 person to fuck it up for others.
A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade
Only on Windows. On ChromeOS it supports higher resolutions:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Usual digitial restrictions management nonsense.

Simple rules of thumb: If you could switch to MacOS, then you could probably also switch to ChromeOS.
All their stuff got exfiltrated to China long time ago. It’s too late compadres.
People who need it for one project, use it heavily for a month or two, then forget to turn off billing.
Timing is important. The enemy is latency. Today you can get below 1ms network latency. But as networks latency has improved, latency from IO and most important - the screen, has gone up. So there is still work to do. You would basically need a custom made device that you plugin directly into your fiber outlet. Something like a VR helmet.
That may be what you believe, but it's a fringe belief. I point to every statue, every hospital named after someone, every estate still generating income for non profits, every example of suicidal selfless sacrifice in history as evidence.
Quick tip: On DuckDuckGo, you can search on etymonline with !ety (or !etym).
Yeah, I've been using the picture-in-picture feature regularly since I learned about it recently. Love it for running lectures and presentations on the side.
I use a keyboard-driven browser to reduce wrist strain, and I sometimes get tagged as a bot, probably for lack of mouse movement.
The YC/hacker answer - make something that people want

2 skilled devs, should be able to build a functional MVP and get some traction/paying customers. If you cant, its a signal to rethink your product?

The hassler/MBA answer - everything has a price.

You should be making 10-100 cold calls/emails to any potential seed leads. If you are not, its a signal to rethink your team?

Painful but realistic...
So you've never commented on HN, but have submitted 31 consecutive links to mathvault.ca, and now an affiliate link?

That's not how community sites work.
The problem with this argument is we don't have first hand accounts of most historical events and people we accept as having occurred and existed.
Maybe most correct is to say diff and seq alignments are specializations of some superset, given the specializations for both situations.

Diff algorithms absolutely do assign a "score" to edits, just in a very simple way. For example, by playing with the Myers diff algorithm, you can get an edit distance of one where you simply rewrite the entire file, or a large edit distance but with the smallest edits possible.
U.S.-China Trade War Reshaped Global Commerce
> the core problem

I see what you did there.
Sony Seems to Be Unifying PS Store Sale Themes Across Regions
Another way to view it is that like electric vehicles cloud gaming is not a question of if, but when.

OnLive was released when most internet connections were still crummy, and before HD capable
computers were embedded in TVs, smartphones and tablets. Despite all of that it still worked pretty well, but at that time I thought if I can run the game on my desktop why bother? Nowadays I don't have a gaming desktop capable of the newest games, so I think about it differently.
Depends on the editor, of course, but e.g.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/redshift-indent.el

(Haven't tried the above, but I've done fairly extensive display hacks with emacs in the distant past, so I have a fair amount of confidence that it's not hard).
A Space Factory game built in Godot and Rust
Bazel is the worst at this. When you try to eg; build tensorflow from source it maxes out all the cores, uses up as much memory as it can, and then crashes when the OOM killer eventually kills it. This is even on a 64GB 64 core machine.

Manually specifying resources doesn't work well either because it uses 2x+ the resources you allocate it.
> If you live with 2 or 3 other SWEs this is an attractive option.

In some sort of software engineering commune?
Well it'd be handy if I could PiP another non-video tab.
I think you are just agreeing with what I said.

> Plus gui's for what exactly

GUI is a huge separate feature request and not "criticism" per say.

> but the effort can be disproportionate

Hence the different beast.

Like I said, I just cannot justify any reason apart from the convenience of using gui to develop that.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about The 2000 movie Timecode! I saw that in an indy movie theater back in 2000, it was great! At the time it was super interesting an original.
Let me chip in here to clarify some things.

> other languages, just as dynamic, like Common Lisp and Smalltalk, have quite capable JIT compilers.

Common Lisp implementations don't need a JIT compiler to be fast. In fact, most of them don't use JIT compilation at all.

What makes Common Lisp implementations (especially SBCL) so fast is a combination of sophisticated static analysis, optional type declarations, and the fact that Common Lisp has been carefully designed to allow for high performance. I cannot stress how important the last point is. The Common Lisp standard is a contract between the programmer and the compiler writer that allows the former to write portable programs, yet gives the latter enough freedom to optimize.

In contrast, the language "standard" of Python doesn't clarify what portable programs may rely on. Instead, programmers tend to rely on the specific behavior of CPython. And reproducing the exact behavior of CPython is much harder than implementing a carefully designed standard.

> So it is a matter of having enough resources to throw at it.

No amount of resources can heal the design decisions of Python. The only way to get Python fast is by going through a painful standardization effort and by breaking some existing code. And I don't see that happening anytime soon. (Python 4 anyone?)
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Where is it a "hype"? Opinion overall (users, press, ...) seems fairly mixed - but it does have some mainstream-ish appeal this time.
It is a good analysis.

There is no way to escape the envy and judgement from your "friends" even if you are just a "little" rich. A friend of mine, who is a former Googler, and keeps a "low key" lifestyle just tries to keep all the "triggers" that people use to recognize wealth out of their life because they value their friendships.
Check out this part of Steve's 2007 iPhone keynote. https://youtu.be/vN4U5FqrOdQ?t=2494

There was no responsive web then. These column-based grid sites worked alright.

For the first year or so I disliked the sites that redirected me to a mobile version (like m.wikipedia.org), since I considered my iPhone perfectly capable of rendering the desktop version.
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Fundraising is just about the least meritocratic part of startups. Depending on your social circle and markers of class, the process can be very easy or near impossible for a first time founder. For most, it's extremely difficult to get someone to invest in your company when you're still working a full-time job on something else.

> the one thing we want most in life is to work on our product full-time

Can you cut expenses and live off of savings for a few months? If not, can you self-fund it as a side project until it can cover your living expenses?
Also you only care about optics. You can wing olfaction.
> We are not in it for the cash. We are in it for the positive impact.

This is the opposite of what investors want -- one of the reasons I'm a serial bootstrapper. Your attitude will either repel VCs, or they'll invest anyway and force you to make short-term decisions to maximize revenue.

I don't think the VC route would be easy for you, nor would it make you happy. Good for you! Look for info on how to bootstrap instead.
Contracts will not be in C++23 and certainly not in C++20.
Hey Designers, Trust Your Intuition?
No worries – thank you! It's been quite an adventure. The course turned out to be more work than I expected, but I'm proud of what I've accomplished.
> A new version of the show, animated by flash instead of being hand-drawn, has been broadcast since 2014.

I always wondered what animation technology was used in these new episodes. Apparently Adobe's Flash Animation was used for many cartoon series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_telev...
I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who thinks this is a good thing. How can this possibly be legal?
Given this perspective, I would postpone investment as long as possible then.
In the case of the parent, they want to enter a fairly mature market with some big encumbent players (Browserstack, AWS Device Lab, Rainforest..). You certainly could bootstrap a competing product but it would be immensely hard to reach enough of the market to get enough revenue to be self-sustaining. Investment makes it easier, especially if you can find an investor who brings more than money eg knowledge of saas marketing or connections to developer tools evangelists.

EDIT: To clarify the point about "investment making it easier", it makes marketing easier because you can buy adverts, pay devrel people, etc. It has almost no impact on how difficult the technical work is, and it actually makes the business side harder.
Push to talk.
Yes, definitely there is legal reciprocity, but in reality, the talent flows in one direction.

True reciprocity would be more or less an equal exchange of talent. I think this might be beneficial.

There might be some opportunities for the Canadian government to effectively market itself in the USA.
I'm not a big fan of mechanical pencils myself, but i've found drafting pencils, similar to these to be nice.

https://www.amazon.ca/Mars-STAEDTLER-Technical-Pencil-Set/dp...

They've got the pros of both mechanical and standard pencils without the flaws of both. I use one for writing and sketching and i've had the same pencil for 12 years now and still use it to this day. The refills can be a bit tricky to find though in stores. Art supply stores sometimes have them and i've seen them at places like staples.
As an American who's committed to staying in Canada until my kids leave the house, and who's experienced the Canadian hiring market for the last 10 years, I'm both excited and concerned.

Excited, because now that I've joined one of these SV companies recently expanding their presence Canada, my yearly TC is now an integer multiple of what I was making at a local small company.

But I'm also concerned, because the majority of Canadian companies absolutely cannot compete. At all. My fear is all the biggest talent will get sucked into US-based companies. Super hypocritical of me, I know.

Canada needs so many more Shopifys.
Interesting. I use Muji gel ink ballpoint pens, typically 0.7mm tips, and they are they first pen I've found that hasn't given me cramps (found 0.5mm to be too scratchy feeling). So I haven't really looked much beyond them.

The comments in this thread lead me to the wikipedia article for rollerball pens, which mentions the ink being the main reason the pens require less pressure to write and therefore produce less stress on the hand.

Either way, I love Muji pens and Muji pads. Finding them has led me to actually start writing, which has led me to keeping a dev journal.
Assembler – a experiment to help journalists identify manipulated imagery
I agree that just about nobody would care in spirit.

It should probably at least be explicitly noted by anyone considering doing so: I'm sure that's still super illegal.
Bootstrapping was our initial plan, but we won't shy away from ways of accelerating the process.
If anyone knows of a 1mm rollerball that can handle acrylic (pigment-based) ink please post it here. While Molotow has several nice pen nibs they are plastic and wear out sooner than I would like.
It depends massively on platform, architecture, and programming language. Hex-Rays is probably still ideal for embedded and obscure platforms. Ghidra's decompiler seems optimized for ARM and amd64 userland consumer-level stuff that the NSA was most interested in hacking.
From a customer's perspective, there's no difference. These are just rationalizations the business tells itself for those who need to reduce their cognitive dissonance.
Show HN: All of the AppleTV 4k-HDR aerial drone footage
How to design a hospital that's built in days, by someone who's done it before
> Can you cut expenses and live off of savings for a few months?

We are definitely considering this.
I'm beginning now. It may take a while before it's done. If you want to look at it while I still have it up on blocks, I could always use feedback.

Feel free to contact me (See my HN ID - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChrisMarshallNY . I have details therein).
Why bother with investors then? If product has positive and useful impact, you’ll get money from clients.

Investors are a painful crowd to deal with, very sneaky leagalease and make it easy to lose your product/company, esp if it gets any traction.
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This kind of thing is a bit crazy. It feels like it's related to shared history with the UK where some political procedure rules also cause clearly unintended outcomes. It would never happen in more pragmatic systems (think: Germany) because nobody would accept it.

I think it's based in a difference of legal philosophy, English law has always considered "exactly what is written down and nothing more" where some other systems tend to give weight to what is considered reasonable (with the ambiguity problems that comes with it) and the intent of the contract.
Well geez, it makes Dear Mr. Henshaw sound a little less cute when you put it that way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mr._Henshaw
> Each mission at JPL is like its own semi-independent startup.

We as people used to call these 'projects'.. I fail to see how a funded mission within a gov't organization which will never sell anything is anything at all like a small company bootstrapping a commercial product..
My immediate concern would be "What OS is controlling it?" !
I don't like bullet point number three.

It implies you only should do number one if you have bullet point number three.
Wonderful project! I'll have to get more into the Python ecosystem for GIS.
Medical nanorobots our new healthcare defense
"..(the OS and its version, as well as whether it is a VM.."

Could anybody link me up with something to read on how to detect it is a VM based on TLS fingerprint?
The AppleTV4k has a host of stunning 4k-HDR content mostly filmed on drone.

For a while I've wanted to watch these on an interface other than as screen savers on the AppleTV.

Put together some scripts to downloads the JSON bundles, parse them into a uniform dataset and then output those asset-links to HTML with options for 1080p, 4k & HDR :)

Link: https://aerial-screensavers.netlify.com

Repo: https://github.com/Tawfiqh/aerialWallpapers

Built off the offline documentation for: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
During the school year in my area, temperatures can range from -40 to over 90 degrees F, pushing 100 if you count August activities like marching band or sports practice.

Biking simply isn't an option, not to mention during snow storms and heavy rains. Even the most die-hard cyclists I know around here aren't brave or foolish enough to go biking 10 or more miles in that weather.
> More specifically, "NUL byte" is the character that has value 0, whereas "null pointer" is the pointer that has value 0.

Where is this enforced? You can assign between notional types without a problem. Whatever the context, providing 0 will have the same effect no matter how you labeled it.
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Agree with both perspectives.
Definitely not a great approach.

It's worth pointing toward the actual algorithms commonly used for local and global alignments (global is the one to use in the coronavirus genome case).

Local alignments: Smith-Waterman [1].
Global alignments: Needleman–Wunsch [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algor...
Venturing a guess: the goal was to allow line-item vetoes in omnibus-type bills so that the legislature can’t force the executive into accepting unwanted legislation alongside badly-needed and potentially unrelated legislation.
Movies like 1917 and Birdman (and perhaps even Rope, if I'm being pedantic) only have the illusion of a single shot.

The best true single shot movie I've seen is the German movie Victoria (2015), which really wouldn't have worked half as well if it was shot in a more traditional way.
> impossible to do without PIP.

This is not my experience. I see no added value in this PIP.

I use XMonad, which is a tiling window manager. I've always been able to put a video into applicative full screen, then switch the layout to whatever I want. E.g. 2 browsers windows each playing a borderless video.

Before XMonad, I remember that when I switched to another workspace/window and back, my browser window would have stopped being fullscreen.

I'd rather have Firefox not adding hacks to work around the flaws of mainstream window managers.
No, I don't think you have missed anything from the overview. Yes, you're right... the process to construct and maintain the knowledge graph is not part of the application. In that respect, I have been considering several related features to help the user with that process: 1) topic map templates that allow for very quick creation of a predefined taxonomy and 2) machine-learning for auto-tagging and recommendations for associations.

Although the above features do not make for the complete process you are referring to, at least they assist users as part of that process.

Food for thought.
OHCHR UN expert says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now
There's a line of thinking that, if you can do a thing: "I can veto legislature", then you can do a weaker version of that thing: "I can veto a line or a word from legislature". Similarly, "I can fire a person for no reason" becomes 'weakened' to "I can fire a person for specific reason X".

I think Frankenstein Vetos demonstrates that that thinking is folly, but that's how the reasoning goes. And at least in the case of firings, we've recognized that, just because you can fire a person for no reason, doesn't mean that there can't be reason that would be illegal to fire them.
This is honestly one of my favorite features in firefox.
I had a couple GIS courses in University, along with a few mapping and survey courses. We also used arcGIS extensively for different projects in other courses and for our year long research project. I had never heard of GIS in high school though.
I need to think a bit more about what you are saying. This is a very interesting point of view. Can I come back to you on this?
Do you have local incubators nearby? They will have pitch events and other resources.

i.e. I live in Atlanta and here's just one random event I found at Atlanta Tech village.

https://atlantatechvillage.com/events/upcoming/golden-seeds-...

You'll need to network. Even if you don't need the money because you're bootstrapping, having advisors who have experience in your space is helpful.
In a slightly different direction, there's also The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, which is more of a humourous explanation of English quirks.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29.The_Mother_Tongue
I've heard of a few people living like this, especially in areas with very high rent. I'm assuming it's not extremely uncommon and it doesn't sound like the worst way to live.
I'd recommend writing something you might have used or be familiar with, in bare-metal C. Maybe try writing a simple web server, which is something most people will be familiar with. Try doing it a couple different ways: single-threaded, prefork (processes), event-based with select/kqueue/epoll. Write your own data structures: hash tables, linked lists, etc.

This sounds simple but will give you a good tour of a lot of different areas: BSD sockets, named pipes/unix domain sockets for cross-thread communication, signals, memory management, threading, basic scheduling, and parallel programming (locks/concurrency), to name a few.
I’d not heard the term fiber before react reworked their framework around it. Is it a more general thing, and is there a good resource to learn about the theory?
Constantly working 80-100 hour weeks for several months is how people burn out. Is there any way to defer some of this work or to hire someone (even part-time) to help out in the near term?