skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting elements to me:

- The prevalence of drinking and dining establishments amongst oldest-national businesses.

- And banks / mints / financial institutions.

- The relative youth of oldest-national-businesses in Africa. Most notably Equatorial Guinea with Guinea Equatorial Airlines, the country's oldest business corporation, founded in 1996.

This suggests either a data artefact in which older going concerns are not formally reported (or those reports available), or an extreme level of institutional instability.

Possibly both.
We plan to take a cut of the crowdfunding transactions.
Why not just disable notifications

Possibly because some combination of his device/platform/Facebook didn't honor his request after a while. At one time it wasn't unheard of for an app to self-update and reset notifications and other settings.

or just uninstall the app without deleting your account

Revenge, probably. And/or to punish FB microscopically, but in the only way we can.

I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

Good for you. Not everyone lives the same life that you do.
Because the decentralization is highly questionable with only a small set of controlling nodes, who also receive a big payout which means their control over the network grows even more. (Due to proof-of-stake.)

We're also making fun of how IOTA stopped their network, but EOS had a similar situation in 2018. Granted they have more than a single fricking node, but that it was even possible should tell you something about the network.
I assume the idea behind __VIEWSTATE is that you don't have to save anything on the server side, which makes the whole architecture easier (no need for storage layer, sharing the secret between machines allows for load balancing), and you can support as many clients as possible, since you don't have to worry about the storage size.

__VIEWSTATE should be as secure as JSON Web Tokens, unless you manage to leak the secret (or as in this case, you use a shared one for all customers.)

I don't know why exactly did they choose to (de)serialize executable code, instead of using an XML or similar format, but similar choices were made (and later changed) with frameworks/libraries for other languages, so they are not the only one.
I have. And it is so much better.

I run it with sqlite, so backups are a sinch.

The editor is a good mix of WYSIWYG, but I can use markdown or drop to pure HTML

Opengraph and some SEO stuff out of the box is nice

Tags work. Admin pages are really simple.

Pages work well.

It really feels like the developers are quite focused on the editors experience.

By blog is in the profile if you want to see the site.
I second this. Between fiction and non-fiction I read (or mostly listened to) 76 books last year and am currently in my 14th book this year.

I get contact to a lot of ideas from a lot of different points of view. I am literally bathing my brain in ideas from many different people. Especially when I am listening to fiction these ideas tend to mingle.

This year, as an additional step, I am playing with the ideas behind the so called 'Zettelkasten' to better structure the ideas I extract from the books. And to reach a higher level of retention.

Non the less I mostly listen to books to relax while commuting. So every idea I gain as additional knowledge is an extra win in my book.
I have no problem with difficult things but in my free time I don’t want to force myself to do things I don’t enjoy. I have to do this already way too much at work.
Just because there are functioning members that are drug addicts doesn't mean we shouldn't toss the bathtub out with the bathwater. To me, enforcement should be on particular types of drugs and geared towards young people who's brain is still developing (doesn't stop till 25).
Apparently there is a study just starting related to coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine.

See: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517

You're right about it being much cheaper. A bit over a decade ago, I was looking into a 2-year supply of antimalarial medication for an extended stay in a place where malaria is a big problem, and where I would not have ready access to refill such medication. That amount of chloroquine would have cost me many thousands of dollars.

A doctor recommended hydroxychloroquine instead and after I demonstrated my intent to be abroad for such an extended period (had to show documents) a compounding pharmacist filled the prescription for around USD $20.
For clarification, the goal is to provide a way for the government to decrypt encrypted comms that pass through the internet.
> but we still have the ability to get things done when we want to.

Please provide examples.

- We used to be able to build Hoover Dam. Now it takes literally years to pass a bill to maintain our highways.

- Do I need to remind you what a joke Infrastructure Week has become?

- How are those gun violence stats? Number 1 in the world at something, at least.

- The fastest-growing approach to paying for medical bills, in this country, is a GoFundMe campaign.

- The world financial system was nearly destroyed by inadequately regulated US "finanice industry innovation" in 2008. As Paul Volcker said the following year: “the ATM has been the only useful innovation in banking for the past 20 years”.

- Facebook and Google -- the most successful US companies in history, I think, have destroyed privacy, and are now bringing down democracy. Oh, right, I forgot, Facebook is connecting people. Point for you.

Seriously. What has this country done recently that proves we can do anything productive any longer?
The geo thing is really happening.
> Be willing to make a very long-term commitment to what you’re doing.

Is it always the case that successful founders do this commitment?
LA is quite dry in the summer. Atlanta does get humid, but not nearly as bad as Tokyo does.
Or, look at the timeline for infection vs eventual fatalities. As I said, draw your own conclusions from the reported data by Johns Hopkins (do they pass the filter for 'reputable'?).

The most useful number I know is, survival chances. How many in 100 stand to be alive say 2 months later. The numbers seem worse than 98, by a good margin. At least worldwide.
CouchDB/PouchDB looks very promising for offline first apps, but I can’t understand how to restrict bad clients. Client potentially could insert document of huge size or execute expensive query and degrade experience of other clients on the same server. Is it any way to prevent this?
This is exceptionally well-written. And it looks like YC's design has stepped up quite a notch too :)

Quick question: how to reconcile these two almost-conflicting views:

1) Raising money is the CEO’s job. If you are the CEO, you should plan for it to be your sole, full-time focus.[...] Do what you can to avoid distracting others with fundraising. Co-founders or other executives are typically only brought in to answer specific questions (e.g. CTOs handle technical diligence), and usually only at the full partnership stage.

Even in the rare case of co-CEOs, it’s best to have a single point of contact. Investors want to see a clear decision-making process, which generally requires a final decision-maker. (https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/prepare-your-company)

2) Signing on with a Series A lead is the beginning of a 10 year relationship. If all goes well, that’s how long your board member will have a say in your company. As such, optimize for your board member, not vanity metrics, like valuation. (https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/how-to-choose-an-inves...)

Given point 2), shouldn't non-CEO founders also be involved in at least some meetings with investors to weigh in on who they want to have as board members?
I generally dislike this, and it's still not a great situation but I'd be down to see google to be put in their place to be honest.
I know this might be off topic but a billionaire making a comparison to wealth redistribution almost reads like a parody to me.
I don't know how data driven it was, but an accelerator I was in a few years ago said that they found that their seed stage startups with early revenue actually had a harder time raising a series A in many cases.
Presumably due to the fact that VCs would try to extrapolate future market from that revenue or would wonder why the revenue wasn't higher already.

But if you were "pre-revenue" then they just accepted that you were pre-revenue by choice and everyone's imagination was the limit for future revenues.
Dentacoin meanwhile continues its slide from a top market cap of nearly $2B (currently at around $15M). It's really worth watching the video which has gone through several iterations and still makes no sense.

https://dentacoin.com
You don't need that, but you are not everybody. When you have a large organization having a simple way to capture this type of thing and make it clear what you are talking about matters.

Of course it does add complexity. It is the call of each organization which things are important enough to be worth the extra complexity and which are not. Maybe for yours it isn't worth the extra cost - there is nothing wrong with that - but other people have different needs and so they will have different answers.

In short, you are wrong in thinking there is a universal right answer.
It's so hard to find quality books to read that weren't published decades or centuries ago.
It's easy to score 1 or 2 touchdowns on accident, even against the best defense in the league. No one scores 50 points on accident, especially against solid opponents.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine JavaScript running on a cloud - forever.
Just a reminder that other antivirals like remdesivir that Gilead manufactures retail for $2k for a 30-day supply in the US, despite costing roughly $40 in other first world countries, and multiple US insurance companies needed to be sued before they would cover them. To put this in perspective, transmission of HIV could be virtually eliminated in the US if some of those antiviral drugs were made available to at-risk populations.

Should there be a pandemic-level outbreak in the US, I just hope cost and IP laws aren't the bottlenecks when it comes to preventing the spread of, and recovery from, this disease.
Valve is famous for their handbook, too: https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/21/2964991/valves-handbook-f...
I think there are two different questions here.
1. Is expertise reducible to pattern matching?
2. Is understanding pattern matching sufficient for building systems that have expertise?

Probably many people here have seen the argument from solid state physicist Philip Anderson that #1 does not necessarily imply #2.

"The main fallacy in this kind of thinking is that the reductionist hypothesis does not by any rneans imply a
"constructionist" one: The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct
the universe", Anderson, link below.

https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...
> Generally arguments are based on facts. [...]

How is that relevant to your assertion that it is up to you to decide when something needs to be discussed and apparently trying to use that as an argument?

> I'm not refuting something you didn't bring up.

Could you please point to where I said we should conclude that they are currently breaking their agreement, then?
Does anybody know if this was fixed?
I haven't used it yet, but looking at the docs it seems that it uses Amazon VPC, but you have an option to peer it with the default VPC.
Ublock > Disable Javascript > Read the article
While not CSS courses directly, these resources should help you address what you're looking for.

Tailwind related playlists on Adam Wathan's YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1H38XrN7hi7wHSClfXPqQ/pla...

And this publication (by same authors as Tailwind UI, that is Adam and Steve)
https://refactoringui.com/book/

Enjoy!
Kashmir's Internet Blackout Enters Its Seventh Month
Update for Fiber v1.7 (Express.js inspired web framework build on Go)
For alerts a sharable template is doable. So maybe a bad example, LOL.

But for buttons & heros not so much. I've worked with apps that have a "button" template. I find it overkill.

For one project we have some components rendered both server-side & with Vue.

Other cases I've had are sharing styles across multiple apps and pulling in markup from a 3rd party, like Stripe or a WYSIWYG.

But you're right. Ideally this wouldn't be an issue w/ view templates.
In that secenario why even use tailwind? Why not just normal css?
I wish more people would learn from it: Monopolies are bad if it's a private company or the government.

The outcome is still the same: a stalled industry, little to no innovation, and many times, high prices.
Very true. Based on personal experience I'm convinced that the female/female divorce rate is so much higher not because women have worse relationships with other women but because women have a tendency to rush into "serious" relationships that ultimately don't last. This would certainly lead to a different dynamic than you see on Grindr. The lesbian dating style is very much:

1. meet girl you like

2. almost immediately become exclusive

3. date "seriously" for several months, effectively skipping the early phase of the relationship where straight couples tend to play mind games or continue casually dating other people

4. break up

5. repeat

My gay male friends tend to casually sleep around a TON until eventually settling into a very serious long-term relationship, while straight couples are somewhere in the middle and have a much longer casual dating phase before making relationships official (at which point the relationship is more likely to last). When you take men out of the dating equation, the vast majority of women become serial daters who hop from one semi-serious semi-long-term relationship to another. It makes sense that a number of those couples would get married and then quickly get divorced before an equivalent straight or gay male couple would even get married in the first place.

It's actually quite interesting to observe these dynamics IRL; makes me feel a bit like a dating anthropologist.
I don't know how Mac works, sorry. There is a community guide for Windows, though - so maybe this might help you in terms of direction, but again, I don't know how Mac applications are packaged, and how much you can tinker with them:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/beginners_guide_sw...
”There's always the option of resuming it if you feel like it”

Exactly. Sometimes you just aren’t in the right mood/phase if life or simply not ready for the material.
You resolve that issue the same way you would resolve the same issue if you were using Postgres - you introduce some back-end.

For your example specifically I'd use a proxy.
> But sure, stating an opinion is the real problem

Where do you get that? All I suggested was you express your opinion clearly, rather than euphemistically.
As for me, representation of open-source alternatives on AlternativeTo wiki looks better.[0]

[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/youtube/?license=opensour...
If you change your address to California to stay in compliance with state law, it should present an option to cancel online. Unfortunately a lot of print journalism websites are like this.
I do not consider vagaries of the stock market a valid reason to potentially wipe out an entire species.

More than that, you correctly identify it as a scare, which should be a clear indication how a short-sighted policy that may be.
What's not solid about their current Kerl implementation?

It's a scam? Any link to how they are intentionally stealing money? I'd like to know how you know.
I wouldn't overthink it; the same way they "stop you" from dodging taxes, using illegal drugs, etc: the threat of violence if you're caught. https://xkcd.com/538/

The real question in my mind is whether they'd manage to overturn, or carve out an exception to, the "code == speech" ruling. [1] Would we actually see academics arrested for teaching someone how to craft an unbreakable encrypted message, let alone posting their code to GitHub? It would probably take a panic event far beyond 9/11 for the public to acquiesce to such a thing.

In practice, I suspect law enforcement just wants numbers, to nail more pelts to the wall, and would be entirely okay with choking off encryption at the source for average consumers: by outlawing the creation of mass-market encryption apps without backdoors. It's also not infeasible that they might try some sort of mandatory key disclosure, again enforced by threat of violence: "I, Alice, sent an encrypted letter to Bob on Feb 26th 2020, using key 0x123..., which I am hereby committing to the government database as required by law. I'd prefer you didn't use that key without a warrant, pretty please with sugar on top."

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
I finished my frontend work in two days with Bulma. This is someone who had zero experience with front-end development.
Awesome, I signed up for your newsletter.

I'm excited to see updates!
I'm aware it is implemented more efficiently. The problem it is trying to solve is orthogonal to what DNS does: search vs. verification.

DNS needs to resolve an name on the order of nanoseconds across a distributed system. It is designed with this in mind. A blockchain is designed with integrity in mind. Wallets can verify transactions on the order of nanoseconds with SPV--also distributed because a client can get the intermediate block headers from any server. Querying data, like for DNS, has constraints different from verifying integrity, like for a ledger.

Sure, you can use a blockchain for storage, but who do you trust to do the lookups? It can't be on chain because it will be far too slow. You'd end up having to trust some entity like Cloudflare to run a DNS-on-blockchain node that stores the ground truth, going full circle back to regular DNS. What's the equivalent of SPV for DNS-on-blockchain where I can do and verify name resolution with limited resources?
The way I'd put it is

3) In its current state, you can get string theory to "predict" just about anything.

The reason is the enormous amount of string theory vacua, each giving rise to different "laws" of low energy physics. You've probably seen the old estimate that 10^500 such vacua exist. That turned out to be a slight underestimate:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03209

Even if you try to narrow down your search to vacua with the same rough features as the Standard Model (types of particles and interactions) you end up with numbers like 10^723:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00444

(Disclaimer: what follows is a caricature meant to illustrate the magnitude of the problem, not a rigorous argument.)

So in principle you can imagine performing lots of precision experiments to measure a bunch of quantities which can be derived from string theory, and then run through all those 10^723 vacua to see which ones match your data.

It will take a while.

Can you derive precise parameters of low energy physics from string theory vacua at a rate of one per second? The number of seconds since the big bang is less than 10^18. You do the math.

And even if each quantity you measure can discriminate between two halves of the remaining search space, narrowing those 10^723 alternatives down to 1 will require more than 2400 such mutually independent quantities to be measured (10^723/2^2401 ~ 1).

Alas, once you fix the rough features of the Standard Model, it has only about 25 free parameters.

So, even given all the experimental data you need and eons to run your search, you will not be able to nail down one string theory vacuum as the one we are in (assuming that string theory is correct), if all you know about experimentally is the Standard Model. That only reduces the uncertainty about which string theory vacuum we are in to 10^723/2^25 ~ 10^715 different alternatives. You need to discover new physics at higher energy, to bring in more free parameters to use in your search. Something like 2376 (!) new free parameters.

Only then will you be in a position to finally say that future discoveries in particle physics will be able to decisively rule out string theory (or not). Until then, whatever comes out of an experiment will just tell you that some vacua are out, but you will have plenty left.
Here’s where the money goes - and why most don’t have anything left
This is not normal even by American police standard. The cop who handcuffed the little girl is obsessed with arresting people. I listened to NBC last night and they reported that he brags about his arrest records a lot: a few thousands arrests in his 20+ years in the force. The youngest one he arrested was 7. He claimed this little girl just broke his record. This is obviously a sick person.
Or companies which can afford research fellows working on fundamental technologies with a very long view.
Coronavirus far more likely than Sars to bond to human cells
I see lots of advice about stocking up on basic supplies and being ready to stay home/indoors for a few weeks up to a couple of months. It sounds like great advice and my family is already building our stores up some from the typical stock.

Does anyone have any advice though for those of us that have to leave the house? My job is literally travel. I don’t have much choice other than a leave of absence or exhausting sick leave etc. My biggest concern is bringing this thing home to my little one.
A secretive $250M private transit system just for techies
It is way safer and quicker to do the return than to mess with shady sites.

So your assertion is likely false.
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I learned a new word today https://www.wordnik.com/words/interpenetrate
With technical books I find it very important to actually apply them. So one technical book per year may be enough. I made good money doing C++ for more than decade and had maybe 3 books that I understood more and more over the years.
> To be honest, I have never seen sports as "culture".

As always it is extremely important to remember that your culture is not everyones' culture!!! You may not view sports as any sort of culture and as far as I'm concerned that's totally fine. But I would say that I feel connected to running "culture", and I dare you to try telling an Italian 'ultra' (soccer super fan) that their sport is not part of their culture ;)
> Regulation is a reaction to demand, it's not what creates demand.

A regulation that mandates, e.g. catalytic converters, creates demand for them. Requiring car insurance, same. Examples abound.

> The Fed also doesn't create demand for products and services.

The Fed(eral reserve) sets monetary policy. It's supply side. By setting interest rates low, it increases demand for credit.
Tesco opens cashless store in central London
> I will always error on the side of privacy even if that means not everyone bad is caught.

Reminds me of something my dad always told me, "I'd rather see 10 guilty people walk free, than have 1 innocent person in jail."
I've had ISPs do this too. As other commenters have said, it's a slimy tactic to give them one last chance to talk you out of it.
The plans you're suggesting as too idealistic don't require the cooperation of every human being on the planet. Yours do.

They also hold the chance of turning someone a profit. Yours don't.

By definition, they're less idealistic than what you're proposing. They may be crazy, but definitely less idealistic. And have a higher chance of being tried out.