skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there,

Good observation. I personally do not spend a lot of time finding a domain, or a logo, or setting up the perfect onboarding sequence, etc..

The truth is the business can work out with whatever domain. I have another SaaS (in the e-com space) that started with the domain angage.net and now we have usecart.com - maybe if we grow we'll get cart.com

But, when you start, you don't need 99% of the things you'd think you need - and a good domain is one of them.

When I'm starting a SaaS I focus on its core features and making it profitable.

Just my 2 cents
Talking about startups in difficulties, any idea how wework is doing these days ? I would expect the work spaces being near empty, and for the companies renting spaces they might be even pulling the plug.
I am worried that if wework goes under because of the pandemic (and SoftBank realizing that it is not worth being salvaged), then it would trigger a domino effect in the whole US commercial real estate market.
I agree, I understand the sentiment, but shutting yourself off is a dangerous head-in-the-sand strategy. Something to be used responsibly.
> In all societies in which there is a power vacuum gangs take over.

Such gangs are the basic form of government. They have command structure, and a population base they exploit. Over time, as gang grows, it comes into conflict with other gangs and one eventually emerges as the dominant. Once in command over a big chunk of population, it either splits into many smaller bands, repeating the cycle, or it evolves to be more structured, and rules appear, which regulate how gang members operate and what they are allowed to do. You may know these rules as 'laws'.

This happens because every gang eventually understands that in the long term, taxing a prosperous population is far more profitable and stable than unlimited plundering.
That's called "containment," not "flattening the curve." It's great that some countries have been able to contain the virus, and I hope it lasts. I wish I could believe we had sufficient leadership and discipline to achieve that in the USA.
What always bugged me about zombie movies is that no one seems to figure out a way to take advantage of it beyond total anarchy.

Not true for Shaun of the Dead!
The Fastest Animal in the World
Oh, thanks for bothering to give that pointer; didn't know that.
How many of those were would-be fistfights that were de-escalated to nonviolence by brandishing (literally: holding a weapon) by a victim? A lot of casually violent people become a lot more polite when they realize they don’t get to punch or beat whomever they like. That’s a good outcome, to me, but that figure lumps it in with violence where people get shot, mixing good gun-related outcomes with bad ones, as if brandishing is an end in itself to be prevented.

You can’t really stop road ragers from getting out of their car with the intent to hit someone. You can indeed convince them that attacking armed strangers is a bad idea—without anyone being hurt.

Providing context means, well, providing context, not just tossing out a composite figure without background or breakdown. A good actual context for that would be the not-gun-related road rage assault figures before and after, and what percentage of that increase is brandished (no one injured) vs shot/shot at (violence that should be prevented/reduced).
What does cheap insinuate? Could you clarify?
same, it's a free-meal kind of hoarding at that point

that said, it may be of use one day and I should finally write that sqlite local bookmark checker / tagger / trimmer / archiver. That would be an actual benefit
Schema.org is a nice resource. If you can find that meta-data on a site, you can be just a little more sure they don’t mind getting that data scraped. It’s the instruction book for teaching google and other crawlers extra information and context. Your scraper would be wise to parse this extra meta information.
I always add an “Accept-Encoding” header to my request to indicate I will accept a gzip response (or deflate if available). Your http library (in whatever language your bot is in) probably supports this with a near trivial amount of additional code, if any. Meanwhile you are saving the target site some bandwidth.

Look into If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match/Etag headers as well if you are querying resources that support those headers (RSS feeds, for example, commonly support these, and static resources). They prevent the target site from having to send anything other than a 304, saving bandwidth and possibly compute.
I highly, highly recommend "The Code Book" by Simon Singh if you're interested in cryptography. It has a chapter on Bletchley Park and tells the stories of several of its cryptographers, including Alan Turing and the Enigma cipher.
> The only information you absolutely need to hear is "am I under a stay at home order or not".

I doubt that's the case for most people, unless they have the luxury to completely isolate themselves for months.
Every year lots of airline and airport workers get injured or die falling from a stationary aircraft when mobile stairs fail or are retracted too early. On the other hand parachute wouldn't help them either
I can honestly see myself using this program to take general notes. It's light enough, and outputs in HTML (which, unlike markdown, can be displayed correctly on any computer that has a browser).
Almost every modern database has a combination of relational and also ability to store unstructured information like json fields and search it. SQL Server, mysql, even memsql. As well as mongo and many many others. Decide on your application. How much data do you need, how much query scalability? I'd start with a data model to represent what you want and try out some free db like mysql.
Yes. For many, it's "all y'all" ;)
(Author here) I’ve barely set foot in California. :-) But I’ve been in the US since I was 6, and I’m in my mid thirties, so for all intents and purposes I’ve always lived here.

I have lived in Indiana, Texas and Georgia (three different cities and towns in GA), and have visited a lot of other places in the country, of course, some of them extensively.
It started with registering .ly domains (think bit.ly). Then it stuck for others who weren’t using a .ly domain. Same trend occurred for .io domains. There was also that trend of removing vowels.
Netbox, the free and open source IPAM and DCIM solution
I thought jitsi sent video from user to user, not via server? Or is that a configuration matter?
I suspect this is to deter Russians from coming home for the Orthodox Easter which is way more important than in the West.
Churches and special interest communities make all the difference, but you have to be very deliberate about it.
Intriguing overlap! I spent ~2 years total living in Armenia and bounced in and out of Berlin as well, and once lived in the latter for about 3 months.
Zoom sent data to China based servers during the surge
When you raise money it's not a win, it's an obligation

- Mark Cuban
>This isn't the BUK missile that somehow "happen" to end up with "insurgents".

It didn't "happen", it were Ukrainian BUKs captured by the rebels - June 29, almost 3 weeks before MH-17, "Now the Donetsk sky will be protected by BUKs" https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1741703 [the publication time is easily verifiable through Internet Archive] - a news that the rebels had captured Ukranian anti-aircraft installation armed with BUKs, second such installation in a few days. Both sides published that news at the time.

Similarly a submarine can be hijacked either in real life or, in near future, virtually. Though my bet here is on unmanned underwater drones impossible to identify after attack (and probably self-destruction).
The President is not a generally competent pandemic-response person. His strengths are elsewhere. But the people who have held the jobs that were intended to be experts on this failed and are failing. The rot is institutional because bureaucrats always outlast elected administrations.

Naturally, the "useful idiots" that the bureaucracy exploits are an additional problem. I haven't yet determined if they're a minor problem or if they provide the weight of opinion. If you have a thousand people who will say "Masks don't work" if the CDC says "Masks don't work" are the thousand people more dangerous or the CDC more dangerous. Probably the CDC, I think.
so nuclear subs reactors can never be turned off in operation ?
It only does p2p if there's exactly two participants, otherwise it goes through the server.
In case you don't know, there is a weekly thread to get feedback from others, exactly as you asked, on r/startups https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/boq669/your_weekl...
Thanks for the plugin. I dont know about other countries, but here in Poland we receive SMSes with crucial informations. So there is no need to read all the time about it. Unfortunately it is very hard to read anything else these days. This plugin can help. We need to take care of our mental health. And it is very easy to go into panic mode. Especially since its very hard to notice symptoms of this. It can be bad for our health also. So again thanks. Appreciated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15976979 in a comment: https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2017/12/17/the-abc-con...
> just clients money

And I imagine some of those clients may have money problems resulting from the crisis too, directly or indirectly. Nobody is totally isolated.
Absolutely true — but the GP point about startups being “better prepared” because they already have runway and expect zero revenues (an opinion I wholly disagree with), doesn’t apply if the startup doesn’t have funding. As you say, a lot of this is about timing (and I’ll add, luck plays a massive role here too).
I’m the author of the article, and agree that this figure was poorly chosen. I think “commute distance” and “commute distance by automobile” in particular would be a much more compelling metric to explore. Otherwise, we get mired in red herrings about heavy traffic that leads to even slower average travel speeds in some other global metropolises, or long train commutes that aren’t apples-to-apples to long car commutes.
Zoom's strong end-to-end encryption isn't even that strong
I agree, staying informed is good. I also think taking a stroll on the internet to read other things happening non C19 related is also healthy.
School districts tell teachers to stop using Zoom due to security issues
From a geopolitical aspect I think this is perhaps the most significant leverage the "west" has over Russian military adventurism. Not enough people put these two together, if they did they would not be surprised by either Russia's support of the Assad's forces, nor Russia strong-arming the Turks.
> some of us are just running without venture funding just clients money

That sort of startup probably also counts as a “traditional small businesses.”
No. Sociopaths and opportunists exist. Everyone should be prepared for that remote possibility, because the consequences are potentially large.

Almost no one buckles their seatbelt fully expecting to crash in the next 5 minutes. That doesn't invalidate taking the precautions.
It's only a lifestyle business if they aren't interested in hyper-growth & all

Otherwise, "just" spending less than you make and trying to make it on their own only makes them bootstrapped, don't you think?
It seems mathematicians are not aware of code obfuscation. Mochizuki objective is to keep this knowledge in Japan and protect this technological advantage.
The big question is why would this startup succeed where Intel with their near bottomless coffers failed? AFAICT there have been no major improvements in compiling efficient general purpose code for VLIW architectures since.
That would easily be solved with an API call that says "Hey, i'm helloworld.py". It wouldn't solve the sandboxing stuff, but TBH i do not see that working for desktop applications (in that the sandboxing wont be mandatory for backwards compatibility - the main reason people keep using Windows - and most desktop applications wont bother restricting themselves).

The whole effort reminds me of W3C doubling down on XHTML despite everyone else ignoring it (and it isn't like XHTML wasn't nice on paper, but real world has other concerns beyond doing some things the theoretically "right way").
Coronavirus Threatens Detroit’s Pipeline of Canadian Nurses
i doubt apple is intentionally stifling competition there, but rather, there's not enough market opportunity to drive costs down via competition. as a result, real vnc is acting like a monopolist in their little corner of the market.

it was that way for windows desktops 10+ years ago, when i last really used a vnc client.
Extremely illegal, thankfully. Medical pros are bound by privacy laws, and none would risk coworkers even thinking they violated a patient's privacy.

Anyway, they're busy actually treating patients...
that's also slightly different than jumping down 2 feet.
Before we get too carried away; its worth seeing how the system coped with unprecedented pressure:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52037573

"Millions of mobile users in the UK have yet to receive the government's text message alert about coronavirus.
The SMS - telling people to stay at home - began being sent early on Tuesday morning.
But Vodafone has confirmed it only expects to complete the process later this Wednesday...."
Some municipalities/provinces (states) already have their own channels where you can consume important news OR they send emergency alerts to your phone (such as this morning in Ontario).
"Democracy"? Is that what we're talking about? Read the transcript: "We're gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we're gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding, we could have -- and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right, and it would drag the Court well into party politics, internal party politics to answer those questions." [0]

Are you advising your aged parents to work at the polls this week? Why not?

[0] http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf
I mean if you need aid you should actively seek it out not hope the news talks about it in between updating you on the death toll and such.
“months” is a vague term here. You have two months funding? I have some very bad news about what the world is still going to be like in two months time. Six months? The news is still not going to be great. You have a year of funding? OK, now we’re talking. And even then we’re talking cautiously.

The economic fallout from this is going to be huge. And if you think tech startups are immune to that you’re in for a shock.
> as long as VCs are willing to keep funding you

The markets present an even more compelling opportunity for high risk return at the moment.

I'd argue that VCs (being opportunists at heart) are very likely to redirect funds and shun startups for a while e.g. likely as long as post tech bubble timeframe.
K-Th Permutation Sequence and the Collatz Conjecture – Weekly Challenge
the problem is that Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber understand pretty well how to play the game dirty. Normal consumers get a nice experience when they use their services. They are 99% of the people and are happy enough. The (smaller) content creators and developers who are in the absolute minority are treated like shit. Big tech doesn't give a single F#$k about any of those. And normal consumers on average do not care about implicit negative consequences for others when using/buying services. Whether its a child labor, pollution or mistreated developers/publishers.
The only way of changing this is by some firge political actions.
A couple of other ways to see if two branches are the same or not

git diff branch1 branch2

git show displays any additional branches that are the same.

$ git show -q
commit 2ee0fd3e2717a352b6ded617184be280cb55e78c (HEAD -> master, foo)
...
The doctor who ordered the Bay Area's Covid-19 lockdown, the first in the US
Short answer. Money. You might like this podcast episode from planet money https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812943907/episode-977-wheres-....
But I genuinely believe all federal government leadership is incompetent - it’s not a matter of it being “OK”, that’s just the default for every administration. Which country on earth is responding to this well without resorting to authoritarian practices?
And almost every time that a class of apps get rejected for some seemingly benign reason, there are blog posts, write ups on major tech sites, etc.

Can you find one?

There are plenty of articles about Spotify rejections, Amazon and Apple going back and forth, apps that misuse the MDM functionality. But nothing about “chat apps”.
How is ignoring a major event like this in any way good?
Germany Cries Foul over Berlin-Bound Masks Diverted to U.S.
> As part of my learning in data science, I need/want to gather data.

Also not web scraping, but a few other public data set sources to check.

https://registry.opendata.aws

https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
But if they use the heat to heat homes isn't this a good use?
> Aaron Toponce points out that sensor noise will likely scramble ECB ciphertexts, for instance.

1) "likely" != "guaranteed to"

2) If there's sensor noise when you're sharing your screen, then you're doing something horribly horribly wrong
"Day of the Dead" (1985) has a scientist trying to do this...
A simple web scraper Telegram bot using Python
In terms of the “eight to ten” people, it was a bit hyperbolic, but it wasn’t so far from the truth as to be implausible, and the essential aspect is definitely real. I’ve directly experienced this many times during my time in Yerevan, where I have extended family.

In the US, social and institutional priorities are such that nobody can time off for that kind of thing anyway, and everybody’s too spread out to be much within the blast radius or overall locus of an event like that. It’s just different in an intangible way that’s hard to describe—I tried my best in the article.
In rhetoric, the revolutionary slogan is "we're going to take money from the rich", but what happens in reality is more like "we're going to take the money from the rich and then murder them".

Also: The Kulaks in the Ukraine. Various persons during various Maoist upheavals in China.

Everyone has the same illusions to different degrees: "Our side doesn't do these bad things." Then, when the facts come out, "It was justified!"
IIRC, Windows and macOS only offered built in dark mode in the system UI components until the last year or two, and definitely don’t offer much color customization freedom... except for the global highlight or accent color
Data Denormalization Is Broken
It's a bit like asking you to define just how many grains of rice there are in a heap. You may be unable to do so and yet know a heap when you see it.
Get with the times.

https://cryptoticker.io/en/toilet-paper-token-bitcoin/
You're right, they didn't necessarily belong to someone else, because "belong" is a useless term. I'm talking about who produces value and who didn't, and my rationale is that getting a lot of value you didn't produce is immoral, which is ultimately a subjective statement but one I can defend. But because they didn't create a billion dollars in value, then someone else had to produce it. Meaning that someone provided value but got less than what they provided so that a billionaire got more than the value they provided. This is a consequence of the premise that they didn't create a billion dollars in value. I'm saying that it's a diversion, because they contributed less, yet got much more. So in my view, since people who contribute more deserve more, up to a limit on both ends, and that billionaires get much much more than they contribute, being a billionaire means taking what someone else deserves. Which if you agree I think can be fairly called diversion.
Lots of good posts don't make it to HN's front page, and then there's this meaningless, harmful "Show HN"...
In all combat sports, there are weight categories. This ensures a featherweight isn't beaten up by a heavyweight. If a guy wins 100 fights straight because he is good, it is okay, because they are fair fights (assuming no doping, no biased judges etc). But in business, this is not the same - one set of rules for big businesses and billionaires and another set for small biz/startups. This is after one becomes a billionaire, which many billionaires use unethical (at best) and illegal (at worst) steps to get to.

I guess "being a billionaire" in itself is not immoral - how one gets there, and what one does to stay there is what defines how immoral the person is.
You answered your own question. It's not that people don't think you're valued, it's that the value you are getting commensurate with pay levels is unsustainable in the region. When the tide goes down, the first boats to flounder are the ones on high ground. I hope we can also see an unwinding of the ridiculous cost of living that is part of the rationale behind unsustainable wage growth. These things go hand in hand.
True. The US government spent 51 billion dollars so the new GM could continue to operate without disruption and continue to pay employees and retirees and took a 61% stake that they eventually sold for 39 billion. So the government lost 12 billion plus the time value of money.

The retirees were lucky that the Democrats were in charge. While a republican may have also provided a bail out, they may have forced a true chapter 11 where the retirees’ pensions are reduced to the federal minimum. The new GM would have emerged without the pension liability.
Dark Reader extension does a better job than their design, what a waste of time, effort and cash.
I agree with you but at the same time, a lot of people can't really create a lifestyle business. Yes, if you are a Senior Developer in SV, you can probably save 50k a year and then move to bumfuck Montana and start your lifestyle business, but a lot can't. I know many senior developers in my country that if they save 2000-3000 are probably in the top savers.

I already refused investment as I didn't think my goals aligned fully with the investors, but I am lucky as I don't have to pay rent (family flat) and I did some contracting that allowed me to save some money. Most of my developer friends will be fucked if their companies fire them as atm no-one will really hire them in the next few months for sure.
Its hard to find investors if you aren’t interested in hyper growth. The financial risk that the company will go out of business is the same but the expected returns are a lot lower. That just doesn’t make sense from an investors standpoint from a risk/reward vantage point.
Work remote, move to the midwest (or, really, anywhere outside of the bay area or NYC), own your house outright.

The idea that the options are "get paid usurious amounts of money" or "live 90 minutes from work with a bunch of roommates" is a false dichotomy.
Good work!

I have few questions:
1/ How do you determine keywords/topics. Do you use any kind of clustering, or do you manually enter the labels?
2/ How do you deal with different languages?
3/ How do you deal with Spams.
I misread that statement the first time. I didn’t realize this was in addition to her primary vehicle.
Why would you think that VLIW microarchitectures would benefit from newer process nodes more than other microarchitectures?
Show HN: Across – one-click Slack integrations across your stack
The rule is "the last year or so": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. The "or so" is there to stretch the dupe window for fluffier, more predictable articles, particularly anything memey.

Conversely, we shrink it for particularly substantive and unpredictable submissions, especially if they didn't get huge attention in the past, which is partly what keeps them unpredictable.

Edit: here's a great example of that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788542