skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you practically can't start a mobile phone company that makes its phone hardware and software today and expect to make enough to keep the lights on

That's fascinating. I agree with you, but I'm wondering - how would the world have to change to make that possible? Or maybe, what's possible in today's world?

Starting an MVNO (aka pay T-mobile/others to use their towers) is capital intensive, but still far cheaper than trying to setup a nation-wide network for towers, or launch your own satelite constellation.

The two failures of Windows Mobile and Research In Motion (Blackberry) seem less relevant here given the mass-market appeal they're going for. If the goal were, instead, to operate a semi-private vertically integrated stack, say for a "private spy agency" company (I've been watching too much Archer lately), with semi-custom hardware on an existing network, with custom software, what would the economics be?

Could this be done for a few million? Tens of millions?
That thing is insane!

Although I guess if you have an arbitrary number of divs, CSS just becomes a much more esoteric equivalent to SVG
That’s what I like about working in a .net shop, it goes like this:

1) install windows 10
2) install visual studio

And I’m good to go. I’ve seen my friends from the uni setting up elaborate arch/vim contraptions and I’m kinda glad I don’t have to.
Why not take microsoft.com then in the same way. One could argue the software there has led to a ton of criminal activity. Since we've now decided that private property laws don't matter anymore, then this domain should be blocked from registration for 100 years. Let's throw in google.com. That has led to tons of crimes too, just from the malware ads, let alone everything else.

Obviously all these suggestions are equally ludicrous.
really like the cross-platform nature and the E2E encryption. a powerful application masked by a humble appearance. ideal for creative workers. Would be good see this extended to include password protections, audio conferencing, etc.
I’m no expect and very much speculating too.

My appreciation from Uber comes from my Travels. While Uber faces significant competition in US with lyft for rides, DoorDash, caviar, etc for food delivery, Convoy and tons of other companies for Freight, they are a global company.

I use the same Uber app for US, Australia, Dubai, Kenya, India. In a whole bunch of countries they’ve bought out the competition e.g Careem in Dubai and they’re operating like a monopoly. Multiple brands but Uber still owns the big pie.

They’re running operations at a massive scale. The operational costs bring customer support, software ops. Looks like a software company that way. They don’t own cars and drivers are contractors (sure changing in California) but remember Uber is a global company. A decent chunk of their revenue is non-US.

They may be negative in acquiring new drivers and customers but for their active base, they make a decent profit.

Freight right now is a very paper/pen based inefficient business with a bunch of middlemen. Uber is making that efficient just as they did to Taxis.

Let’s see how this all plays out but I am somewhat bullish on them.
To me, viruses are simply the survival horde of random mutation and recombination of amino acids. Let it be long enough and a world of organic compounds would create something like viruses.
Instead of downvoting, I'll reply with my own logic:

1. Science and clear thinking demonstrates more often than not that the world is chaotic and random.

2. Conspiracy thought like yours can be a psychological attempt to quell one's unease from seeing such chaos by insisting that everything is controlled, so that you gain an emotional feeling of control and security once more.

Like 9/11, I think what you speak of (people's increasing self censorship as a result of draconian dragnet surveillance) is more pure accident - not design - but it's then taken advantage of by opportunists (where in the case of 9/11, it was warmongers and American oil barons).
How to use ML to make prediction on Reddit
Lacan is actually surprisingly rigorous or, at least, methodical. It's just, if you attempt to talk about what preconditions language and language like structures using language, you necessarily enter a metadiscourse. (Having read Lacan in philosophy was actually of help to me to come up with some algorithms as a programmer.)
"The biggest assault the virus launches is on a patient's immune system. It causes a fall in the count of lymphocytes"

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebo...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
It takes a few hours to learn to use the tools mentioned in the article (and many similar ones) to a level of competence - part of the appeal is how easy they are to use. It takes a few hours to learn how to get new data into and out of them as well. Both are the sort of thing taught in 45 minutes presentations and workshops during the Bootcamp training at FB, and then most people can just explore the rest themselves over time in normal usage.

What takes months is feeling like you understand the most important tools and aspects of the environment to be as effective in them as those around you, or to match how you felt in an environment where the scope is smaller. It’s not like you’re sitting in classes for months - you’re doing your job (maybe even more effectively than normal due to the availability of these tools), but every once in a while you’re encountering something where you need to ask someone else or explore or watch a video about how to do something, and that might break your momentum.
shellcheck helps a ton, though.
I'll send an email to everyone on the list when there's a prototype you can play around with.

I've also made a GitHub repo where I might keep code and a wiki, or I may host a wiki written in Polymath on my site. It will explain all the intricacies of the language and people can do a custom implementation if they don't like mine.

As of right now, the demo page (this article's link) showcases the language itself in the preformatted text sections below or to the right of the document content (depending on whether you have a mobile or desktop screen)

The primary goals of the syntax are:

- Human readability

- Clear, explicit nesting

- Very easy learning curve
Smartreply : Unofficial port of Google's Smart reply framework to Python.
Unofficial port of Google's smart reply runtime (powers gmail and assistant) model to python, allowing developers to leverage intelligent smart reply as an API in Web and embedded systems that supports Linux, a loader (ld.so), a fully POSIX C++ Runtime and Python interpreter.
somewhere between 2.2~(3 | 4 ?), one thing though, unlike SARS, WARS(nCoV) is already contagious during incubation period(14 days) and even before any symptoms cough/fever shows up, this SUPER complicates any measure to quarantine it
> This is sorta why it makes me even more mad that our species is more concerned about silly political arguments rather than investing large fractions of our GDP into Science, educating more scientists and unleashing them on the mysteries that the world has to offer.

Science costs money and resources. Politics enables money creation and resource extraction. The capacity of our current society to do science is greater than in any society in history. That’s no accident. It’s the direct result of the environment created by our political decisions.

The Soviet Union is a great counter example. For a short time, it was at the forefront of science, thanks to the state directing resources to science. It was only due to the untimely death of the head of its space program, for example, that the Soviet Union didn’t beat the United States to the moon. But did the Soviet Union cure AIDS? Create the Internet? Create smartphones? No. It’s politics weren’t sustainable, and it collapsed, and in the long run, its capacity to do science turned out to be quite limited.

So maybe our “silly political arguments” serve a function after all?
Thanks for the response.

So to file a motion to dismiss, is there a USPTO process that one can follow, or there must be a real trial?

My goal is to find the fastest (and the cheapest) way to starve the troll.
What if the death count were 0? Would it be even less robust?
I accept that I cannot fix it for myself, but I am trying to make it easier for my children. Hopefully, they will have enough resources to fix it for their children.
Ask HN: is a non-profit/social enterprise for reviews platform worth building?
Does anyone remember when Consumer Reports was good before the internet? If not, they never accepted freebies, ads or sponsors and regularly reviewed common products, long-terms tests (similar to MotorWeek), how industries played with customers and announced safety recalls. They were subscriber funded. Something similar sounds useful but a $$ scalability challenge to translate it to a platform. Perhaps starting small like e-bikes, water heaters or golf clubs would be best, eh?

I think affiliate links, donations, volunteers and/or subscribers for a freemium model with some random free content could work, but the way Consumer Reports dwindled and didn't really try to get new subscribers seems like they let decline happen. To keep people who are actual employees or major contributors motivated and caring, vested co-op shares that share in excess profits seems like one idea.
How do you keep track of 1000 people a day? What are your thoughts on the existence and estimates of Dunbar's number?
quick look at Wikipedia shows Mathematica:
"Initial release June 23, 1988;"

Mathematica took at least a year or more to write.. so that goes back perhaps to 1986.. 90s is way off...
I was assuming that this is their main competitive moat against Alexa, etc.

I.e. that they avoid sending any audio to some central server.

It is possible:

https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/issues/3571
Except it wasn't swapped ,it had the v8 in it, as also advertised, and then post auction they broke into your garage and swapped for the v6 because they were unhappy with their final sales price. If the sticker was on the car uncorrected, I beelieve it would hold up in court as advertising.
Ok. It crashes my galaxy s9s chrome browser so let's put up a warning about it being an insane browser expwriment
Hell, tech is boring to other people. How many of us are just in the position where our sole tech hobby happened to be lucrative on the job market, so now we've just doubled down on our boring antisocial single-dimensionality?

Took me quite a while to cultivate interests outside of tech, and pretty much all of them move me closer to other people where tech did not.
My dude, you've obviously spent hours on hacker news trying to defend your belief system (or lack thereof). Just let it be, if you don't want to be Mormon anymore, then don't. Your inability to live with your decisions is painfully clear by the time you invest trying to publicly justify your choices.

Move on like the dozens of people I've known that just sent in a letter and have not been harassed since.

Edit: Also, the part you edited out wasn't as clever as you hoped, glad you removed it.
Why — store everything you don't want to ever be public (like your private documents allowing for ID theft, medical records, business plans, nudes of yourself, etc) encrypted, and be the only one to know the key. Those are not many. Use SpiderOak, or Tarsnap, or any backup program that does this.

Anything you share with others, online or not, has a fair chance to become more widely known; just keep it in mind. This has always been si, afaict.
D'oh, I never noticed the right hand side. Thanks. The markup looks clean and usable
^^ this is the one
I use a note type approach with an app that allows me push tasks to the top. No needing to transcribe items to the top. The app that I use is called Sortd.com. It’s like a bullet journal but simpler.
Didn't he grow up in a wealthy family? Multiple homes, etc, back in the 30s?
> Depression rates have been steadily rising in the US since the mid-1930s.

Are we accepting that as true? Is not our awareness of depression greater? How was depression among those in a small town reported back then? Was depression even a “thing” in common knowledge then? All the sudden everyone seems to have a gluten problem — a problem that, while real for a select few, is mostly a manufactured fad. Did human biology actually change that much, or are we just getting more messages that make us notice or perceive more? When the media says everything is a nail, we start to buy more hammers.
jspaint.app ftw
The book Radical Markets has very innovative ideas in combating inequality using market strategies.
We are deluded if we don’t acknowledge Inequality is one of the biggest challenges facing us that we have to solve.
Uber takes 25% service fee. I guess others things like credit card processing and misc expenses may bring that down to 20%.

It’s still good to see that 20% number on their earnings report.
Some conventional wisdom candidates for most importance piece of technical debt across software engineering: complexity, memory unsafety, excess authority, formal methods underutilized

Probably not a candidate for "most" but maybe worth mentioning: pgp

There's also lots of non-technical debt; indeed not even any of the above are purely technical, at the least getting solutions adopted likely requires a lot more than just serious hacking.

Surely there are existing projects, or at least communities, that have formed around taking on what participants thought/think of the most importance piece of technical debt, at least that they were/are equipped to take on; perhaps [non-]reproducible builds, shotgun parsers (langsec)?
Be careful about making a file like that -- one where you have to write the entire contents back to disk when you update it even though you only modified the last line or so -- too large. You're definitely better off splitting to give you more chances at not losing everything in the event that it gets corrupted. But I guess proper backups would also take care of that.
One of my favorite features of fish shell is the wildcard expansion:

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_wildcar...

It's rare I reach for find nowadays since switching.
Maybe it’s because neoliberal economical policies (deregulation, austerity, lower taxes for the rich) has accelerated economical inequality in developed nations such as the US and UK, and the majority of the working class people are no longer able to pay for critical services such as healthcare and education. And the establishment has been so quiet about this issue and just acting as everything’s perfectly fine, and smartphones are the “real” reason people are so depressed. The basic reasons behind today’s societal depression and eventual political instability can really be explained with simple economics, even if you ignore the cultural changes that neoliberal ideology have brought.
I'm curious to see it. My irritation is really just when I actually care about the picture. When I'm specifically browsing my library, for instance.

When it's the background for some webpage, or some other photo I'm not focused on, the progressive quality is probably a good thing.
That sounds cheap.. Seriously, the potential to make a far bigger business out of *.corp.com is better than whatever current startups that VCs have been smoking.
Not sure why this is on the front page.
Remzi is a great teacher, and the papers cover the historic approaches used to get to where we are now, but most readers will probably find a summary and survey to be a more pertinent and efficient use of time.

I learned the art of scientific reasoning by repeating historic physics experiments, but you don't need to know about the ideal shape of water clocks to use a stopwatch
Mapping N Turing Machines (“K-Tape”) – Into a Single-Tape Turing Machine
Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay
I think the easiest -- but not the best, of course -- ro separate these for the average home user/consumer would be to just "daisy chain" two standard consumer routers.

The first plugs into your "Internet modem/router". Connect all of your "untrusted" devices to it. Your second router also connects to the first, just like the other devices do. Your "trusted" devices will connect to this second router.

Your "trusted" devices (PCs, laptops, tablets, etc.) will be subject to double NAT and, of course, NAT is not a security feature but this second router will provide a bit of separation between your trusted and untrusted devices by way of NAT and stateful firewalling, just as it would protect your internal network if it were connected directly to your upstream ISP's network.

Again, this isn't ideal but it would work for the average home user and it eliminates the need to deal with/learn about VLANs or buy special hardware that supports them.
>Chrome can render as many triangles as possible but Safari and Firefox don't work well as the triangle is getting smaller.

Web is awesome, and browsers are the most advanced tech! But it seems to be hard to draw flipping triangles at fixed coordinates. Maybe that could be fixed with e.g. a special planar geometry library that makes precise calculations. Like 500x3.125%==15.625 and not 27.
Indeed, I jumped to a conclusion
So its a suggestion to try openshift or proxmox..
Yeah, that's why I put it in quotes ;-) I also dislike it, by that definition the people running the corner market are running a "lifestyle business". I run a business. I am not trying to get a $10M exit. Maybe that disqualifies me from being called a "startup", but indeed I am still... starting it up...

So in the context of the hackernews crowd at least, it's useful to make a distinction between business with a goal of growing rapidly, or providing a service as an independent entrepreneur that may grow in a natural way but which is not really desirable to force things with.

Personally I just think of myself as running a consulting business.

Edit: On contemplation, I think really the issue is that "lifestyle business" is treated as a derogatory. I've gotten over that, I'd happily agree that I'm running a lifestyle business. It's a business designed to be a good fit for my lifestyle, to let me make money doing what I love to do. Like an independent plumber or something. That's also a lifestyle business in very reasonable interpretation. She sets her own hours, finds her own clients, does the work herself, for a living. Lifestyle.

So maybe the issue you're picking up on is that "lifestyle" is being used as a derogatory, whereas I (and my current mentors) think it's just a decision for how you want to live. I want a business that lets me do what I want to do with my life, I am not ashamed of wanting a lifestyle business. I can also see why you'd want to avoid it... at least in the bay area. Because of ancillary impacts on people's perceptions.

If I get so much work that I can't handle it, I'll encourage someone I think is really great to be an independent businesses by guaranteeing their first non-exclusive contract so that they can get a running start. Sure, it's a "gig economy", but very limited in scope and at least they're truly independent and able to use that baseline income as a springboard to do their own great thing.
> It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming.

100m? For real?

> Burying them doesn't sound very green.

Why do I care if something doesn't sounds green? Tell me an actual consequence.
Oh I was in stitches by the end of this article! So eloquent and so relatable to any parent who has gone through this.

We are still struggling with our youngest one who is four. We have tried the incentives, which worked until he figured out that he just didn’t care about staying dry. Misaligned incentives, indeed.
Also if this is such a big issue, you can simply configure your local DNS server to point that domain to whatever you want and ignore its original SOA.

If everyone would do that the domain would be worthless.
I tried everything and kept coming back to pen and paper. On the right side if the open notebook is an organized todo list. On the left side are notes and diagrams that I come to during the day.

I had a stroke last May and the only long term side effect (thankfully) is that my handwriting needs to be 2x the size to be legible, making my notebook obsolete.

Will try a todo.txt soon. I love simple.
Yeah... once you are no longer a small business interest as defined by the government, you are at least at the tail end of the period you should be able to call yourself a startup.

It's just a buzzword if the company is more mature than that. Maybe it helps them get job applicants or something to market that way. Or get a bigger multiplier on their valuation relative to actual profits.
Thanks! It is way trippier in person. But yes, I put up so many strobe warnings that I think it'll be alright ;-) Hope so anyway! I actually enclose the whole thing in a pop up tent so it's impossible to see without reading the signs first, seems to be a good way to show the piece.
Outlier. My search turns up 10 sales since 2017, only one was higher than 3.5m, and that's "voice.com." I chose a sale that was in the ballpark of the stated figure for "corp.com."

"California.com" sold for $3m this past year, so let's not pretend that much has shifted in the market for these domain names in the span of this decade. $1.7m is a hefty sum for a domain name that isn't even a word.

But it's an irrelevant debate.

My point is that the counterargument against any lawsuit would be that the high value of the domain name "corp.com" comes from the Microsoft issue, so it'd be pretty tough to argue that the owner was harmed by Microsoft.
> Different shells have different globbing mechanisms. Why should all programs tie themselves to the mechanisms of any one particular shell?

I don't think my proposal would do that.

First, a clarification. When I said "For those from wildcard expansion, it would tell the program what the wildcard was" I meant the shell tells the program the full argument containing the wildcard, not just the wildcard part. E.g., if the argument was a?c which expanded to abc, the shell would tell the program it was a?c, not merely ?.

Let's say myprog takes one argument, which it expects to either be a file name or a wildcard in some pattern language that is not necessarily the same pattern language used by the shell.

Suppose myprog is invoked and it sees it has one argument, X. If the shell tells it that X did not come from shell wildcard expansion, myprog can safely use it.

If it does come from wildcard expansion and the source was Y, then there are a few cases.

1. Neither X nor Y contains any myprog wildcards. In this case, I'd have myprog go ahead and use X.

2. X does not contain any myprog wildcards, but Y does. Myprog can infer from this that it and the shell probably have overlapping wildcard languages. Report a "needs quote?" error.

3. X contains a myprog wildcard, but Y does not. Probably myprog and the shell use different wildcard languages. I'd guess its pretty unlikely that the user expects that a filename will contain a myprog wildcard, so I'd report an error in this case.

4. Both X and Y contain myprog wildcards. Go ahead an accept X, applying myprog wildcard expanstion to it. (Maybe first check that X and Y contain the same myprog wildcards, in the same order).

I'd probably add support in myprog for some optional flags to change the defaults in those cases so if you really want to do obscure things like have file names that contain myprog wildcards and use shell wildcards to provide those file names you can do it.
Is this just using zfs to copy the data directory? Why do o need a tool to do that?
Whale corpses tend to reach the bottom of the ocean largely intact actually! It's hard for most creatures to eat them quickly enough, and they're typically largely eaten by sharks and scavengers on the ocean floor.