skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was answering a somewhat different question, namely, what is the minimum you need to live in quarantine for 30 days, starting with nothing but water and electricity. I'm not assuming the person has an oven or a refrigerator, or access to a delivery service. I was aiming to optimize nutrition and calories while minimizing cost.
Their handbook is better documentation than what they offer for the product.
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Seems right to me.

I guess they assume the WASM VM to be safe enough, that they can cut on system calls, which other user mode programs can't.
Fair enough but another factor is that Europe in the 1980s was the height of techno/rave culture and the demoscene fed off of that. Also, PCs didn't catch on so fast and 8-bit machines (C-64s, Atari STs) and the Amiga stayed popular in Europe longer providing an accessible, colorful flower bed from which the demoscene bloomed.

One more factor you shouldn't discount: In the U.S., drinking age is 21 and going for a weekend "rager" in another country over a long weekend isn't a thing here. Once you're ensconced in university a couple of years, staying up all night to code a bunch of spinning eye balls over a warp field holds less allure.
> The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.

For white male founders, yes. For a lot of others, they don't believe you can do something hard. Speaking from numerous fundraising experiences in which I got continually asked crappy "how do I believe you can do this" and even "what would you do if I do [bad thing]" type questions instead of growth questions.

I realize I'll probably get downvoted not just on Sand Hill road but on HN as well, but I believe this does need to be said.
With how some people use smartphones, you really do start to wonder. Just try to get someone to leave their smartphone at home when they're going outside - they look at you like you're crazy.
Can you provide a pointer to such surveys? In my head the popularity of articles bashing tech companies is out of proportion to people's patronage of those same companies, but numbers would be nice.
Rather than "difficulty", consider ROI and opportunity cost.

If it's difficult, but you're learning a new skill, expanding your perspective or capacity, or enjoying the challenge, by all means, keep going.

If you're not enjoying it, and the payoff is just having completed it, and you could do a lot more valuable/enjoyable stuff with that time, then stop reading Finnegan's Wake, for goodness sake.
I assume you have read Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" -- if not, you should go get yourself a copy this very minute.
Great Post!
A good % of those were clearly people you are not friend with who had simply looked @ your profile. The fb algorithm chooses the ones that rarely log, to receive those as notifications. So you get addicted. Example: ‘that woman/man has probably looked @ my profile, I need to open the app and see whe she/he is’
I quitted too, what a wise choice!
New Zealand has stronger free speech protection than the US and no encryption issues. More freedom of the press and even ‘free’ heathcare for citizens or permanent residents make it a solid contender.
That's my takeaway as well.
Here’s a (potentially frightening, depending on your leaning) thought:

If expertise is just pattern matching, and AI is almost entirely optimized for/shooting towards pattern matching, are we to close to AI making experts obsolete?
> The UK's use of wind is a good example

Wind varies wildly between locations. England being an island probably helps a ton as coastal areas tend to generally be windy. If we look at a wiki entry [1] on the coastline of the UK:

>the coastline as measured by the standard method at Mean High Water Mark rises to about 19,491 miles (31,368 km).

With the general coasltine of the United States being 12,383 miles.

The UK also has nearly 1/5 the population, has virtually no air conditioning while 16% of residential electricit consumption and 6% of total electrical consumption in the United States is from air conditioning [2].

So there is limited carryover here with something like wind. Same goes for solar, solar is great at certain latitudes and in certain regions (think weather) but other latitudes and regions is just not practical.

The UK is also much smaller than something like the United States, that means a much more efficient grid can be constructed. You will also just have less transmission loss because you have much fewer units of measure of power lines.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_of_the_United_Kingdo...

[2] - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=1174&t=1
I don't mind that it doesn't work on mobile necessarily, but it would be nice to at least be able to see a preview or a description of what the product does on mobile.
infinite money!
I see projects like this pop up every once in a while and get abandoned.

A simpler approach may be to just publish a basic web server as your app (express on top of node would do) that runs on the local machine on some random port and have users just go to that URL with their regular installed browser. Bonus points for no leakage of security / CORS / etc. issues from the UI side of things, every unsafe thing needs to be node-side where it can be better controlled. Also enforces asynchronous and efficient communication between the UI and the "local backend".
I understand your point but honestly humans are varied. Some can handle more some less. People self regulate.
> Being good at catching errors doesn't soften the blow of the errors being so readily occurring in the first place.

Yes it does. If you can see the errors you can change your usage pattern or request a rate limit override. Flying blind is the worst way to go!
If you are comfortable with this approach you should have a great future ahead. Most engineers would hate that approach although that’s where the money is.
It says so on its Github page[0]

abler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kit built on Bootstrap

[0] https://github.com/tabler/tabler
Not sure why you've been downvoted (usually HN isn't terribly pro-BTC). Perhaps it's referencing the buttcoin subreddit, which for those who don't know, is an actual subreddit that is very cynical towards cryptocurrency.
> Ugh, can you imagine how bad TCP/IP would have sucked if it had been developed by venture capital funding?

It was. Several times. It was developed by a lot of large companies too. Nobody remember those, for obvious reasons, but people used to use them.
If the NSA can't keep its employees from abusing their spying tools to spy on their neighbors then what chance does law enforcement have?
I'm sure those limits exist, but who's to say we'll ever hit those limits on human timescales?

right now, global warming is an existential threat that sets an upper bound on how much energy we can responsibly use. but if we can develop carbon-neutral means of harnessing energy at scale, we can use much more. if we can develop viable space travel, we can gain access to more material resources than exist on Earth. any one of the "next steps" along the exponential curve can fail, but I wouldn't assume we will hit a hard ceiling anytime soon.
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Custom backend means no synchronisation and no advantages over postgres.

Do you propose to create proxy that parses query and estimates complexity? I think this task at least as hard as implementing couchdb myself (actually harder)

Is there any secure open source code with pouchdb/couchdb integrations?
My expat friends and family have mostly set up shop in Germany. It seems like Germany has pretty strong encryption support[1]. Doesn't hurt that they also bought homes there at around 1% interest and get no less than 6 weeks PTO a piece.

[1]:https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/05/30/encryption-debate-i...
Indeed, but many programs, backup or otherwise, or unaware of it. IIRC gzip/bzip/zstd don’t (will spend time reading and writing all the missing pages) whereS gnu tar does.
> but few are actually practicing those things

It really depends on the kind of books you read. If you are reading a self-help book of some sort and you think its ideas are sound, sure, you should at least try to practice what it says. On the other hand, I don't think I am expected to jump under a train after reading Anna Karenina.
If you actually want the subscription and are slightly stingy, this is also a good way to get a vastly reduced price. The people they make you phone to try get you to stay offer very different deals to what they display on pricing page.

Definitely a really dark pattern though, and should be regulated against.
Here is the thing: you don't get to return a movie ticket if you don't like the film. There are countless videos, playthroughs, reviews, streamers, curators and what not to see if you like a game or not.

Returns for digital goods are OK as long as there is some time limit on maximum play time and at least a minimal form of DRM, like Steam does it (2 hours). Without DRM plus this policy, GOG will suffer rampant abuse.
I think the term "techlash" is an attempt to shape opinion on the existence, source, nature and of the problem being discussed.

Really, the issue is "corplash", or backlash against large corporations abusing privacy... and even then, it's really not the corporations' fault, it's the fault of the US government for not making what they're doing illegal.

Corporations are actually obligated to make money for their shareholders. A corporation does not have the free will to choose a moral course over those obligations, especially in the US.

Corporate officers have to seek out and take advantage of every opportunity to make money available to them or otherwise they may well lose their jobs or even be sued.

Since it's not illegal to make money off of invading privacy, corporations are obligated to try provided doing so won't negatively impact their profits.

Calling it "techlash" implies that somehow tech is at fault, or even large tech corporations, but in truth the US Government is at fault for not updating privacy laws for the computer age. The term directs anger away from the real culprits.
>Suspects. Alleged criminals. Until convicted, they're not criminals.

And even after they are convicted, they and their associates are still protected by encryption. Encryption protects everyone equally. That is viewed as a positive by pro-encryption people and a negative by anti-encryption people.

>The government does not have an unlimited right to collect all information; they have a limited, judicially controlled right to try to collect information.

This the point of warrants. The problem of massive warrantless collection of data by the government is a bigger and separate issue. I personally think encryption is a valuable tool to address the symptom of that problem, but it does nothing to actually fix problem of a corrupt and/or authoritarian government. One of my personal annoyances with the tech community is that we have a tendency to try to work around any governmental problems as if that solves the issue while making no attempt at fixing the root cause.
It shows that the framework itself only uses 60MB and implies any higher usage is due to the application built on top of electron. I'm not sure why uptime matters unless you're assuming there are memory leaks?
It’s a good concept but limited posts for now.
I wonder why we don’t write a twitter search engine that automatically finds these kinds of job postings and aggregates them by location and company.
This is interesting. While I haven't seen any data to suggest this is a generalizable rule, we certainly do see rounds happen for companies that have no revenue.

However, most of the rounds we've seen do have revenue (ex-"hard tech" which is a whole other thing). Whether or not that revenue is material is another question.
Another thing with technical books is that you can read portions of them and interleave several books (or books + papers). I have 4 or 5 books going on at a time, and I make progress in each most weeks. Usually not all on one topic, either.

And then you can mix in other readings. A chapter in a technical book may only survey its particular material, but you may want to explore the ideas further. So you go out and get some papers to read or another book.

I may not finish many books in a year, but I do get a lot of reading in.
Case and point, just five years ago Redditors figured that out that by upvoting a post of image of a potato titled "Gaming Console. If you upvote this potato it will show up on Google Images when people search for Gaming Console." It even borked their news algorithm - https://i.imgur.com/A0zLPSR.png
In the earliest phases of my career, working the help desk for a small dial-up in the late 90's, the worst customers to deal with were doctors and lawyers, due to their overconfidence.
Machine learning isn’t niche anymore
I never thought of toothbrush issue. I keep a cap on my brush and store it in cabinet
The internet enables all of those things too. Before that, telephones and fax machines did.

Hospitals enable the spread of disease by clustering all the sick together with a constant flow of healthy people (visitors, doctors, etc). They also enable the development of superbugs.

What's your point? You're confusing incidental usage with enablement. The lack of these good things doesn't prevent the occurrence of the evils listed, and to make a conversation one sided for how much it exacerbates the evil without instead focusing on the good and the reason they exist is incredibly disingenuous (which is the clearly the intent of most of the people on a soapbox about the evils)
I think people downvote you because you attack their dream that they are "special" (snowflake syndrome, geek version) and will somehow succeed even if on average startups DO crash and burn.

You don't seem to be mean, just maybe a little blunt, but it changes nothing: In my experience on HN as in anywhere in the world, people hate to be told then reminded of their failures ("I told you so!"). Because truth hurt.

You are trying to give them the truth in one simple post, while YC and co are selling a dream in an expansive application process (in terms of time, effort, equity lost etc)

Sorry, but you just can't compete.

> The highest EV play is to first get wealthy and THEN do what you want

Exactly. Shut up and work for a while, then when you take risks, do it on your own schedule and bankroll. If
you are as good as you think you are, certainly profits will come raining! And you will be the only one collecting with a very large bucket. If it's just a "small" acquisition (say 6 digits, something that a fund would find a sad outcome), you will be extremely happy and be ready to try again with your new fuel and hopes- thanks again to your large bucket.

Still, there is a place for things like YC: when your idea blows out of proportion and you know that it will die if it can't grow fast enough. But it's an exception, not a rule.

Than again, why I am bothering, you can't tell anything to people who don't want to listen.

About the "mission"? I disagree with you. Maybe that's what getting you downvoted. We all have one! Mine is to maximize my lifetime wealth while doing things that I enjoy because they match my morality. I think most people have a variant of this one - and, no lie, it is designed to keep funneling money to oneself!
Many of the knowledge works across other vendors that are just Linux. What AWS specific feature are people so desperate to use to get themselves locked up?
has been on my list for a while...so I just went through this. Juan was clearly multiplexing a few conversations with some macros just so I dropped in every once and a while to see if it was my turn. he asked why, made two special offers, and then said 'ok, I understand, thanks for being nice'
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>But it does work. I was at a restaurant there. Some girls are chatting, and they walk away to go get something, and just leave their bags there unattended. Why? Because it's an authoritarian country - people aren't going to steal stuff there.

Chances are high that you could do the same in most European countries. Just like in the Soviet Union, thieves exist in Belarus. People's perception might be that they're safer, but that doesn't mean they actually are. Just like during Soviet times, people felt safer, but crime still happened. It just wasn't talked about, because it makes the state look bad.
One of your points restated with a small tweak:

> Is Apple scared that vulnerabilities will be found in iOS? It's much easier to find them in a virtual environment.

And this is exactly why I really hope Apple loses—if they win, it could have a chilling effect for years to come. We want it to be as easy as possible for security researchers to find vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.

iOS is the worst offender of this because it’s so incredibly locked down. Where are those special iPhones for security researchers? Checkm8 helps, although it can’t be used to inspect devices newer than the iPhone X.
Matt Levine has an interesting take in his email newsletter that refutes your claim. Basically, by so many people buying calls, it forces market movers to purchase the underlying stock to cover their call and this perpetuates an upward movement.
Ask them if they're OK with being told to put TSA locks on their house and car, to prevent crime. Anyone can buy a key online but at least we're all safer. /s
They detect your private mode using JavaScript; you can bypass by pausing script execution with the developer console immediately after the article loads.
Being an expert is certainly not "just pattern matching" for physical sports, music, real-time video games, and many, many other things. Not only does one need to see the pattern, but they must be able to physically make their body do what they recognize needs to be done. Beyond "just pattern matching", if there's any chance of failure, what separates experts from amateurs is consistency of execution.
I'd argue that in terms of land/housing market, in an established, multi-centuries contiguous (ie not disrupted by revolution, nationalization, large redistribution) urbanized area it becomes a zero-sum game and hence all the problems that entails.

IMO this is more or less the inevitable result of long surviving land ownership rights. You can see this in the correlation between home ownership rates and when was the last time land was nationalized/redistributed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...

What do the top 10 countries have in common: they were communist dictatorships in the previous century were all land was taken and managed by the state.

What do the bottom 10 countries have in common: very long standing property rights with no redistribution in the last few centuries.

Not saying that what we need is nationalization/revolution but simply pointing out statistics and trends which may help inform people in order to counter their effects.
While not the same, a company called Hikeshi Spirit actually sells products with similar designs: https://hikeshispirit.com/en
It does, but keep in mind for 3.0 this is a change to the default settings, not a hard cap. The idea is to give people lots of warning and time to do any migrations necessary prior to 4.0.
Then what is your basis for saying that the sum of a sequence is more important than the sum of two numbers? Given associativity, the sum of a sequence is the same as recursively taking the sum of two numbers. Going the other direction, if you have the sum of a sequence, then the sum of two numbers is obviously included in that. The two approaches therefore seem completely equivalent to me. So why say that one is the more important concept?
Yeah. I was shocked at how many -CS MAJORS- were pro-DRM.
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2-3 weeks ago people on here were advocating stocking up on masks and selling at a high profit.
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"It sounds almost dumb/crazy for people to try..."

Timely comment. I hesitantly shared a "Show HN" this morning for an early search engine I have been working on.

I almost feel silly when I tell people about it because I realize it is such a crazy idea. It's obviously nowhere even close to being a competitor to anyone today, but I figure why not.

I have been lucky with two prior highly vertical startups, so I decided that my next project would involve asymmetric risk.
>Are we really ready to admit that the late 20th century was peak civilization?

Unequivocally yes. If we admit it now and work hard to limit climate change it might be a local peak. If we continue on our current path it's going to end up being the global peak. There is no scenario in which we fix the climate without giving significant ground on quality of life in the first world, especially considering that ideally we should be working to bring quality of life to parity across the developed and developing world.
Some game (dont remember which) kept leaving weird text files on my desktop. Turns out they were Java stack traces.
Well, it would have masks as well which are directly helpful. And if you must be quarantined for days and possibly care for yourself or someone else in the house with a bad fever/illness then yeah everything else is useful.
Chloroquine =/= quinolone class of antibiotics
Easier just to spell it out right here. Bear gang wants the market to die, Bull gang wants the market to moon (go up) and theta gang wants the market to not move at all.

P.S: Stonks only go up! ... I mean down (as of late).
At my work, crashes and even data loss situations are often given low priority and high severity. That's because we just tell the user the workaround and he can keep doing his job.

Low severity and high priority can be:

- it breaks the software for just one person, but that person is on the critical path.

- if breaks users workflow. For example a keyboard shortcut that is used every second stops working.

- the bug is an easy, high value fix, so why wait?
Yes, and they did cancel $1.8m worth of them. $8.3m has been redeeemed.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3468958/the-uk-and-nz-...

>New Zealand’s Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act was introduced in 2013.

>On receipt of a warrant from a surveillance agency, a network operator – defined as a public telecommunications network or a telecommunications service – must “decrypt a telecommunication” on their network or service, but only if it has “provided that encryption”.
And I can encrypt my postal mail. Humanity has been encrypting things for maybe 2,600 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography
I don't think these are in contention. It's the CEOs job to focus on fundraising, it's other founders (and key hires) job to focus on doing the thing they are raising money for.

But that doesn't mean it's the CEOs decision alone when it comes to choosing - there is a lot of legwork to be done before you get there though. I'd absolutely expect other founders to be in later meetings, and a sounding board before then.
100 gal of water and growing, 1,000 rounds of JHP, rice and red lentils. Bring it.
How is that a good thing though? American police are not very popular, to put it bluntly. Even among the Americans I know who support their efforts, they still do not have any affinity towards individual police officers.

Compare this to the situation in Europe and Asia (or at least the civilized parts like Japan), where it's perfectly acceptable and normal to ask a policeman for directions. And where their role is indeed to protect and serve people (not property).

"Police have the role of protecting and serving people" really does not feel like such a controversial viewpoint to me.
I'm the original author. If the reader might get the wrong impression then I need to fix the text, that's my fault not theirs. So I'll do that.

My impression from the talk linked in the article was that HDF5 doesn't do BLOSC by default, and that in general it's much easier to plug new things in, add caching, etc..