skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. This could also be useful to post a mirror for other users if the site ends up going down.
Please don't take my previous comment as some kind of indictment. I appreciate you being conscientious about your decision.

> I think your pessimism is useless, and serves as an indulgence.

Nah, it's a defense mechanism, and a simplification of my life. One less thing to worry about. I got enough things to worry about, so this actually saves me mental load and reduces the number of dependencies in life.
Ask HN: Huh? Is That a Universal Word for Confusion?
My niece started saying 'Huh' way before she picked useful words in any language. Although she's been living in a multilingual environment, 'Huh' seems to be a built-in. Maybe it's just a grunt sound, maybe an actual word.

Ref:

[1] My niece says 'Huh' to signal confusion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_xxtZ76aI

[2] Huh? Is That a Universal Word? - https://www.americanscientist.org/article/huh-is-that-a-universal-word
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I'd go even further with this.

I'd say that most software engineers are ultimately powerless to improve software beyond a certain point because doing so would cost more than their employer is willing to spend.

Given enough time, any software engineer could make a reasonably solid product/service that would stand the test of time. Most projects are run on a deficit of either time or resource, and as a result we end up with cut corners.
I admire this post as an exception to the usual cheerful failure porn. Failing sucks.

But-I-learned-something is the very least you can achieve without being in a coma.

The time is lost.

Your waning bank account measures your (and maybe your families) prospects in an undeniably meaningful way.

The silver lining is...there isn’t one. The loss of time, energy, and money is something to grieve for. Every day is a reminder that it all could have been better spent.

When jumping into a startup, the question “why not” has very real and consequential answers. Beware and take this shit seriously.
Exactly. When markets are volatile I imagine they find it difficult to manage risk and so just shut everyone out and blame it on IT.
Agreed - it does seem like a cynical move. Now waiting on Justin to share the story from his side.
He is a PR consultant, what would you expect him to sell?
PR conultant's way of doing things:
Spend the budget.
If project was a win, claim own success.
If the project was a failure, blame a business, never show results.
That's what differentiates a tool from a toy. A tool is designed to maximize user's productivity in regular use. A toy has to look easy and shiny in the first few minutes of use, so that it secures a subscription.
Not confirmed by current immigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigration_to_the_Uni...
If mods have a problem with my attitude, please close my account. Because I’d rather be rude and right than polite and wrong, and these regular apologetics really get my goat.

This culture and profession is far better at making excuses than systems. That should be utterly unacceptable when these systems impact the lives of BILLIONS. Priorities, people.
This is actually very good advice. Making small concrete steps is great way to avoid depression. And stay away from entrepreneur porn.
Same here, too much work just for simple charts
I think the advice that the whole reason to be an entrepreneur is to become wealthy as opposed to having some sort of drive or care about your product or service is totally sound. i mean who doesn't want to be super rich? but i guess it's also stupid because if all you care about is being rich there are plenty of grinds you can do to get there. But i guess you have to be prestigious.

also caviar comes in a tube and people put it on crackers. i would prefer to eat other stuff.
This was a good article, but I want to briefly call out that `6X more likely to suffer from ADHD` is not a useful stat when trying to argue that being a founder causes health issues. ADHD is present from birth and cannot develop as the result of trauma.

It's still an interesting statistic, but for a different reason. People with ADHD are more likely to become founders, as they're more driven by passion, challenge, and novelty. Meanwhile, they're less driven by the security and consistency offered by traditional workplaces.
Well, firstly I don't need to place words in fermienrico's mouth, since the comment to which I was replying says: ‘"Sementic" structure is how we got responsive web soup of ugly websites with hamburger menus’. On my part I'm trying to figure out why fermienrico considers that connection to be inevitable, in the context of HTML production, as compared to PDF production—i.e. with my correspondent taking the place of an author.

Next:

> I don't think that's a problem in HTML. I think the problem is in your head.

This directly addresses fermienrico's complaint as being targeted at HTML. The ‘in your head’ part says that the problem is imaginary and that the person's reasoning and motivation in arriving at that connection is a mystery to me. So there are two meanings combined, both of which aren't ad hominems. The statement also deliberately invokes the words of the character of Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov's ‘Heart of a Dog’, on the condition of the fresh-born Soviet Union: “The Disruption isn't in the lavatories, it's in the heads”.

Let's inspect the statement more closely. The use of the second-person ‘you’ in hypothetical constructs is ubiquitous in English, instead of a third-person ‘a man’ or ‘one’, e.g.: “When you try reading PDF on a phone, you experience unspeakable horror and loss of all hope”—this doesn't imply that the addressed correspondent is the one doing this, and in fact may be directed at multiple unknown readers or listeners.

The hyperbole of ‘you're nuts’ is, to my knowledge, also a typical feature of colloquial English language, e.g.: “You must be crazy to try reading PDF on a phone”, or “What's wrong with you, that tablet is too small to display PDF adequately”. These both don't mean that the correspondent is literally mentally damaged, but that the speaking party doesn't understand their reasoning or doesn't agree with it.

My choice of words there is rather harsh, yes. Why I needed that is, I've had this same discussion before and I repeatedly failed to extract from people the reasons why they make this inference. I tried different approaches, and now came the time of directly placing the person in the shoes of an author. Still nothing so far.

On top of all this and nitpicking further, even disregarding the above I still can't quite fit the statement in a ‘personal attack’ category: as I understand it, an ‘ad hominem’ works by carrying a belief ‘the person has some bad quality A’ over to ‘the person's opinion B hence must be wrong’. In the case of ‘you must be insane/naive to have the opinion B’ no other personal qualities are involved, and the opinion B is directly stated to be wrong. Possibly uncivil and possibly unsupported yes, personal no.

P.S. Could someone please make the ‘collapse comments’ button-link larger on phones? It's even worse on a higher-PPI display, easily taking a dozen attempts to hit it—and extensions like Stylus aren't readily available on phones, what with Firefox dumping them in Preview. Just making the link a dozen characters wide would be splendid.
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try convincing my phd adviser of this who for whatever reason doesn't believe it. lol.
You mean loading cars on to trains? Surely they have sidings?
Audio quality depends on jitter timing. Too low and you get dropouts, too high and you get uncanny valley with the delays and pauses. You should never have to twiddle these settings since internet routing is so dynamic. But things to look at include jitter sample size (20ms is a good start), codec selection (lower bandwidth), and server resource usage (more cpu or ram). I don’t use mumble but ran an asterix server for a decade and these where the three things that mattered most to reduce conference call latency
As an ex-machinist, I can confirm that bad drawings are a thing.

But then, non-software engineering is a wide field. There are products that you can afford to iterate on, and then there are very expensive (and potentially very dangerous) projects where you generally can't afford many slip ups.

If your engineers make lots of mistakes (which aren't caught in time) in a project that costs millions and can't be replaced by another unit off an assembly line, that's kind of a big deal. Thankfully, we don't hear about bridges, skyscrapers, heavy industrial lifts or nuclear power plants failing all that often.
If up/downvoting would work in Lynx, I wouldn't actually need a CLI tool to read HN. Well, I guess you can't have anerything.

I wouldn't need offline mode, but a CLI tool to read HN would be very much welcome.
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The interactive floating labels are for forms with only very few fields.

If you have a form with many fields, it’s advised to force the label to always be in the top-left corner anyway.

The field should also be wider, which also helps with the text being cut off.

And with only a few changes, most of the complaints of this article are instantly fixed.
Glad the writer has written openly about this, and I hope he continues to get better and find more balance in his life.

Businesses are tough endeavours, and those who truly do it honestly and with love for their biz and their customers can seriously run the risk of draining themselves if they're not careful.

It's also tough because there is an entire industry of "hustle porn" out there, and the world is moving so fast it is easy to not feel like you're getting left behind when your business isn't moving forward the same as others.

VCs (like YC) and others are also in a numbers game. While I'm sure they're not planning for burnout and depression in their founders, their model practically requires whoever drinks from the cup to push until they either succeed or fail. A binary outcome is required, middling along is not allowed. Even pg himself has said a variation of the Vaynerchuk quote (can't remember if it was a blog post or tweet).

It's a complex topic, but if you're reading this, find some solace in the fact that there are many others out there who have similar ups and downs, but more importantly, work to find balance in your life. This means time for eating well, sleeping, and relaxing time (video games, walks, gym, spending time with family). By the way, "relaxing time" is separate from "sleeping time" -- don't pick one or the other.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't have strong work ethics or push hard when you need to, but constrain things and re-evaluate constantly. I sometimes have a hard week of 70-80 hours because of coding sprints or sales pushes, and then break for 2 days. Eg: Monday and Tuesday this week were chill days for me, as a break from the past 10 days.

Overall, try to plan out the trajectory of your business and the work you are doing. Don't just flit from one priority to another, take a step back, take a deep breath, and plan for a definite outcome in a short period of time (2-4 weeks). Do this constantly, and you're basically tinkering with the the trajectory of your startup based on your efforts.

If you can't do the above (maybe because you've got a few people already on the team, have customers and are just running about hair on fire every day dealing with operational and customer issues), I would recommend getting some professional coaching advice about how to eventually structure your biz to be more manageable.

Bottom line, none of the stresses should be permanent or long-term (despite what banks, VCs, or any other funders may say), so definitely work towards building smaller bite-sized sprints for yourself and your team.
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Nice writeup. Too many startups and founders out there w/ no idea about the industry. Thus, excuses of the type you mention ("sluggish, tech-averse, etc") predominate over critical evaluation of the extremely sticky and complicated obstacles to new innovations in the legal tech space.

That said, as a fellow lawyer, coder, and legal toolmaker, I'd posit there's more of a middle ground than you laid out:

> It's easy to sell a lawyer some technology that their counterparts are using to run circles around them.

Of course – it should be easy to sell lawyers on established technologies! In fact, one could argue competence REQUIRES lawyers/firms to adopt said technologies. It's not wrong to be disappointed with what's being defined as tech adoption in this thread by industry defenders:

> security standards, word processing, LANs, spreadsheets, aggregating data & metrics, owning an iPad, ...

These are bare minimums and best practices in every other industry, and celebrating attorneys for meeting an extremely low bar is no better than technobabble.

> It's hard to sell a lawyer some technology with a change-the-world, techno-solutionist pep talk.

Stipulating there's a difference between snake oil and actually meaningful legal-specific technologies for practicing attorneys/firms, then yes, certain players in the industry will be more conservative about adopting new innovation. Conversely, a functioning market would also imply the opposite: those who responsibly bet on the next big thing, whether in an operational capacity, to drive costs down, or with the consent of their clients.

Sad to say, that's not the current state of the legal industry. Sure, I'm likely biased since I'm still on the vendor side irrespective of how much we aim to make well-built software with solid UIX focused on the practitioner. Nonetheless, firms remain extremely risk averse, hierarchical, obsessed with profits per partner above all else, and long live the billable hour.

Once again, it's complicated, and no one really has the nuance or all the answers, so we all fall back to a bit of a stereotype which makes that middle ground elusive. Ultimately, however, it's really the industry that suffers, and I wonder if/when it will ever change, what the impetus will be, and if it truly requires another global economic meltdown to shake things up.
> Farmgirl Flowers CEO Christina Stembel normally sleeps just 4 hours per night

Doing this for sustained periods of time will lead to reduced cognitive performance[0] and, eventually, severe fatigue and possibly depression. Sounds like optimal operating conditions for a CEO.

If the dotcom bubble taught me anything, it's that working all the time is neither cool nor a measure of success, but rather the opposite.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469
Is this just tradition? Surely a computer system can see/hear, maybe using night-vision (lidar? radar?), way better than guards can. Then lights can activate and guards can shoot at anyone unwanted who crossed the perimeter .. surely enough incentive?
That is an excellent set of articles for learning d3!

I love how it gives an overview of all the d3 modules, then explains them in groups by related functionality. I just started exploring, and will study it over time.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, the articles are really well-done and high quality. I'm guessing the visualization of d3 modules is done in d3 itself. Beautiful in concept and presentation.
I personally use old text fields.
Where was it stipulated that a characteristic of a microservice is that it can be completely written in a couple of weeks?
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Thats missing the point of the poster. Its not about self destructive behaviour. You're not going to make it to month 48 by running yourself into the ground.

It just means results are not instant.

Maybe we should all be focused more on delivering actual value, instead of obsessing over what other people think on the internet..
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I've actually adopted the Japanese Buddhist clock. There are 12 hours: 6 during daylight hours and 6 during night time hours. The actual time of each hour depends on the season and the latitude. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clock#The_traditional...

I really like it. There is actually an Android app on Fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aragaer.jtt/ although it unfortunately doesn't have alarms -- I really need to get off my butt and contribute that feature. I set my alarm so that I get up in time to go for a walk at sunrise.
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For most people, owning 100% of a company making $1M/year would be preferable to owning 10% of a company making $1B. It's not just that money has decreasing marginal value. It's about what life you want to live. The ten percent life is... just not for everyone, and maybe not for anyone, which is why it needs to be incentivized so much to ever happen.
Don't want to put words into the mouth of totalZero, but that clearly seems like a joke.
Founder burnout is simply a result of the stress of the increased responsibility you have. Your employees expect a pay-check every two weeks, and even if you pay yourself nothing, you have to make that happen. Lack of income stability destabilizes a lot. You don't have a boss, regardless of who is on your board of advisers or claims to be your mentor, all they can offer is words, the founder has the responsibility and has to make the decisions. You may have friends doing their own startup, and despite your best efforts to resist, you compare your own success to them. You make excuses for those that surpass you, feel schadenfreude when others fail, and then feel guilty for even having such thoughts.

In practice, founder burnout is pretty rare. The stresses of running a business are real and can affect your life and decision making process, but the business challenges themselves are often even more difficult. Also, founders don't just start a company as any employee would start a job, they need to start with a huge reserve of enthusiasm or motivation. Emotionally, they start from a higher place, are subjected to higher than normal stresses, but their stress tolerance itself is not often the limiting factor.
You can. But especially if you don't have frequent contact with other timezones it is very hard to keep track about how far they are ahead or behind your local time. This gets even harder with DST.
While this might be easy if you're just in different US timezones, but it gets increasingly harder with larger distances.
If you only own 1% of your company after raising funds, you've made some serious mistakes along the way. Even Bezos, prior to his divorce, still owned 16% of Amazon, and that's after they raised money and went public - he owned 48% prior to the IPO.
Ice is not that bad in the city.

In winter you want to change your breaking habits. Your rear break can become an insta-lose-your-traction lever; front break is safer (your mileage may vary, obviously).

It's when things start to melt that you may consider not biking: melting snow on ice creates a nasty surprise!
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That means there are no orders mishandled either. If no one has an SLA then just switching the servers off without thinking about whether customers were planning on trading seems fully in their right. This is terrible for their reputation, but that does't mean they are going to start handing out money because people argue they could have avoided losses if the servers had been up. It's going to be extremely difficult for any customers to back that up legally.
> When jumping into a startup, the question “why not” has very real and consequential answers. Beware and take this shit seriously.

The article listed a host of real and bad experiences, but it never said that if they could go back and do it again, they wouldn't.
> Consider YC as a last resort if you have no other options.

I think you mean, consider "accelerators" / outside-investment from Angels and VCs as a last resort? YC can't be last resort, because it would be foolish to think you'd get in, given the quality of startups and founders that apply-- Might as well pack up bags and brush up on leet-code, instead, as that's a last-resort more likely to work.
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Material Design has many other bad ideas in it too.

Examples: the color suggestions are garish. The idea that a website should simulate physical motion has usability problems for people with motion sensitivity. There is a lack of aesthetic restraint. It encourages gratuitous animation spam, like the ripple effect. It's like a cake where 50% of the cake is frosting.

Some of those things could be fixable, but I think it's unwise for other companies to adopt Google's visual branding in general.
China enacted a sweeping new law that bars people from posting negative content
Not disagreeing – I do this often too – but the downside can be having a very large dataset which in turn generates a very large response, which might be more efficiently sent as data and constructed client-side. Less importantly, Google’s lighthouse tests for a certain number of DOM elements, which a complex chart can easily exceed.
He was always big on pure caloric arithmetic, insisting that microbiome, macronutrient ratios, feeding/fasting timing, etc. couldn't possibly matter because no papers he liked said so.
>A majority of Europeans speak 2 languages, a quarter speaks 3 or more.

You haven't met many Europeans have you. Not all of them are Dutch, Scandinavian, urban youth or immigrants.

>a majority of them are not really all that good even in their mother tongue as we can see from standardized testing

This makes no sense. You can't be not good in your mother tongue - it's your mother tongue. Standardized testing has no say about how a language is structured, that's an absurdly prescriptivist point of view. As for foreign language ability, in real life it's not assessed by making them sit down and pass test questions, it's assessed by having them speak and write close to a native. Someone who casually uses slang, "bad forms" and occasionally makes native-sounding mistakes is more proficient at a language than someone who speaks an academic version of it and got good grades at a test.
Suggest considering implementing a bridge to NNTP, or SMTP mail spools. Then use offline NTTP or mail readers.