skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no direct experience, but it seems to me that starting to look to the government for funding of your startup may be akin to the phase transition a startup goes through when they have a potential acquirer. A door you don't want to walk through, most of the time, due to the distraction it will create, and potentially seal your fate.

http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
interviewed person here (Bernard, co-founder at Clearscope) -- happy to answer any questions that folks might have :)
I've been thinking for a while now that we could expect to see a lot of "incredible journeys" for which COVID-19 is both the stated reason, and a very useful cover for the true causes. Not speculating on whether this is one of those, but I'll admit I wouldn't be astonished if it were.
It would be more beneficial for communities to not pay the "dealer tax". Why do we need to support a group of people whose job can largely be done by an app these days?
LED lights halve unwanted fish in nets
I wouldn't care if it were devastating only to the current press, it is beyond awful anyway. If it kills privacy that's completely other matter. And SCOTUS judges are anything but stupid, they know what privacy is and how important it is. They maybe don't know technical details of elliptic curve encryption algorithms, but one doesn't need those to understand what's going on, the debate about privacy vs. safety wasn't born yesterday and the judges heard it all already. So no need to pander to anybody, and no need to misrepresent the issue to the public.
> Also so is lifespam

You just invented an awesome word
Please don't play Unicode tricks with titles. HN is supposed to be a plain-text site.

Submitted title was "Not one but 𝘁𝘄𝗼 complete, working, & 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 Raspberry Pi projects". HN users will flag that kind of thing, and did so in this case.
Last summer I started working at a place that does this, and it's been great, for the reasons you mentioned! We have tuesdays and thursdays set up as remote days, with meetings highly discouraged. Half my team has a decent commute, and only come in on monday and friday.

What I like about it: I get a lot of control over where and when collaboration vs. heads down work happens. I know I'll have the space to go heads down for as long as I want tuesday/thursday, and that I'll see my full team at least twice a week, so we tend to plan around that. I can also plan personal activities, appointments, etc. on the days I'm working from home, knowing I don't have meetings or a commute.

I didn't realize how important that face-time was until we lost it at the start of the pandemic. While all of our processes and day-to-day translated to full remote with little to no changes, without the re-centering and catching up and personal side of things we got monday/friday people were more on edge and collaboration/unity suffered. It's been a tricky thing to recoup, but we're finding doing more casual video calls here and there is helping.
The bike maybe the vehicle of the future for many young downtown city residents who live close enough to use it.

Mass transit still owns the crown of vehicle of the present and I would suggest perhaps still vehicle of the future.

Bikes for me represent the vehicles of my past.
Is that common in consumer or even server hardware though?
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How can $20/month flat pricing realistically work? What if I've got a content-heavy site that gets a lot of traffic? Will I get hit with a surprise bill, or will you eat the costs and just cut me off?

It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.
That's what they did in parts of China. Still took some time to get the numbers back down.
That's ridiculous. A 35 minute commute on a bicycle is a 2 hour walk.
20 year forward looking? Maybe across the market and across broad indexes & ETFs, but there is no way you can tell me that they're looking that far ahead intelligently -- one only needs to look at 2008, or the huge volatility over the last couple months.

Oil futures, for example, are only going out about 2-5 years.

We knew there was going to be wicked unemployment down the line in Feb/March. Now it's here and no one is surprised -- and that was baked into the stock price, on top of Federal cash bailouts that make the unemployment numbers less relevant.
Dealers have to check how their manufacturer agreement is. Some will sell at below cost because their allocation of cars and bonus for selling a lot of cars depends on numbers not profit per car (they make up loss per car on other things). I expect manufacturers will modify those rules so who knows. Other dealers may not take new inventory until current sells and be less concerned about a few months of low sales.
Great advice on immutability, separation of concerns/domain logic, and side effects. I think modern languages or tooling should somehow enforce this. I think a lot of code will be better off for it. Specific patterns/zen (like another comment below) is what helps.
No, the point of QUIC is to shave a few % of traffic off of the loads the likes of FAANG have, saving millions, while having a marginal benefit to pretty much everyone else.

QUIC can be 'a bit better' in 'some scenarios', but most of the time it is totally irrelevant, except for the fact that it requires TLS 1.3 which is a good requirement overall.
+1 A million times on this, you nailed it.
Counterpoint: Elon Musk is just on a slightly nutty twitter rant
I had an office with a door for 14 years. I've been in a cubicle again for the last year until 2 months ago when I've been working at home.

I was so much more productive in an office with a door. I could close it for silence, I could close it when on conference calls. I wouldn't be disturbed and I wouldn't disturb anybody else.

If my company let me reduce my salary by $2,000 a year and gave me an office with a door I would do it immediately.
I think the interesting thing about SEO is that it's been a snake oily industry for so long.

There's a been a movement to have better optics / positioning for SEO products that appeal to the main stream buyers (eg. your folks that work at Macys or Credit Karma). That's why well polished tools that are priced higher like Botify, DeepCrawl, Clearscope, etc. are coming to market and doing quite well.
I live in one of those sane metric-system countries, but I don't have a clue how to describe my MacBook's screen size in anything but inches...
...but how is this controlled? Do they ask for a picture of the bike? ...or maybe it's a voucher for repair work? ...or are they just giving everyone 50EU?

Answered my own question by READING THE ARTICLE...

> A network of 3,000 registered mechanics will be set up, and €50 of repairs will be redeemable, such as tyre changes or chain replacements. The mechanics will provide the repairs and then be reimbursed by the government, meaning citizens will not actually receive any money

TLDR: It is 50EU credit per repair job.
I read the whole article and couldn't understand what the proposed legislation actually proposed, specifically rather in vague "it's gonna cause problems!" way. Completely terrible journalistic work. Ironically, in an article emphasizing how important it is to protect journalists.
In Illinois and California, at least, the sales tax rate for cars is based on the purchaser's residence. I think though, that the bulk of the tax revenue goes to the location of the dealer (but I could be wrong). Purchasing out of state is generally discouraged by having the purchaser pay at least the difference in tax rates if the purchase was less than a specific time since the arrival of the car in state.
I'd like to see other cities doing something like this. Although a typical annual tune-up costs closer to $100.
So not quite... a lot of modern CPUs have crypto primitives implemented in hardware that allow other instructions to run simultaneously on the same core (taking advantage of hyperthreading and out of order execution).
A midlife or extensional crises ... he needs help.
Lyn Alden did a fantastic in-depth explanation of this [1]. Monetary devaluation is a part of it, but inflation and deflation can work together at the same time in interesting ways.

[1] https://www.lynalden.com/great-depression/
Too much herb ???.
I think it's basically the theory of democratic elections though.

That someone has to present themselves as a non-sleazy person with non-sleazy plans to get elected, and if they do something different once elected or otherwise do something the voters recognize as super sleazy, they won't get re-elected. So a person in an elected position is responsive to public opinion, or does not remain elected.

Whether it's working out so well for us in the USA, I dunno.
SARS-CoV-2 genome size is ~30 kb [1], influenza A genome size is ~14 kb [2]. A protein encoded in the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predicted to have exonuclease proofreading activity, which would result in a lower mutation rate [3].

[1] https://mra.asm.org/content/9/11/e00169-20

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus#Structure_...

[3] https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
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There is a fallacy in taking enterprises that might be done "eventually" as being already completed and ultimately proven.

What you quote is not disagreeing with what I was saying at all.

Quick look at the GCC link you posted:

Project Status (last updated 06/2009)
Phase 1 of gcc-in-cxx now complete (06/2009)
gcc-in-cxx completes bootstrap as of 03/2009

Seriously.

> "Provide C symbols as specified by the standards, but take advantage and use C++ language facilities for the core implementation."

Sure, now let's look at the code

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/libc/src/

Oh, it's not even a completed project. Here is stdio

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/libc/src/st...

stdio/ for example has just 3, mostly empty files: file.h, fwrite.cpp, fwrite.h. Last commit was 8 days ago. It's not a project to be taken as serious evidence for any argument.

You need to stop selling things that might never exist, or have long been dead in the water.

Apart from that, I've looked at 10 files and the only use of C++ I've seen was some namespacing (that just makes the code more verbose IMO; YMMV).

It's essentially C, the thing you're leading a religious war against.

In this day and age where it's common knowledge that we're all living in opinion reinforcement filter bubbles, it should be possible to expect from people to at least quickly skim the citations they provide.
Narcissist guy losing his mind publicly.

Where have I seen this before?
Thanks for the link! Perhaps I should have said $50 is a sizable chunk of a monthly grocery budget.

For about a year when I was 19ish I managed to get by on $50-ish/month for groceries, by mainly living off rice and beans, with some eggs and other items thrown in. I don't know if that counts though because I got a lot of goods from dumpsters as well; Whole Foods throws out a lot :O

Now I'm way less frugal when it comes to groceries, probably closer to 3 or 4 times that. And I would still take that $50 for bike repair.
Honest question: Do you think the EARN IT act is NOT specially about ending E2EE?
Lovely voice. With the folk-guitar accompaniment reminds me a bit of Mary Travers.
The word "masks" got my friend's online ads shutdown temporarily.
The hosting is managed by Vercel, who recently announced unlimited bandwidth on their free plan [1]

[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/simpler-pricing
nevermind....

> A network of 3,000 registered mechanics will be set up, and €50 of repairs will be redeemable, such as tyre changes or chain replacements. The mechanics will provide the repairs and then be reimbursed by the government, meaning citizens will not actually receive any money
Not in Illinois where car dealerships are legally prohibited from opening on Sundays.
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't this make it exceptionally clear that multiple people have colluded to both do a thing and hide who was the responsible party? I think the US legal system might have tools for handling such groups of people. I'm reasonably sure this isn't unprecedented, except perhaps in the technological details.

I think it might strain credulity that these "random" blocks "just happen" to have these particular properties. So much so that I doubt the argument would stand in face of the argument that F1 and F2 were deliberately crafted derivative works of C, made in an effort to allow piracy of C.
Lunacy. The EU needs less democracy and less government.

> with no single country being able to block those who want to advance

Why would I want to be unable to exercise any control whatsoever over how my tax money is spent?
What I want is that no one can decide anything on my behalf, which is diametrically opposite from your collectivist proposal.
Remember the time Mozilla sent the full URL history of some users to Cliqz: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
Hah! So much for my attempt to be generous.
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Same here, I wouldn't touch wifi-devices unless I there was no other alternative (not been the case yet with the exception of my robot vacuum but it runs on a schedule anyways and I manually trigger it 1-5 times a year). Z-wave all the way. I'm currently a SmartThings user but I'm sort of considering switching to Hubitat. Probably wait till my existing hub dies or ST does something shady/anti-consumer.
I like it less because I am super confused what they are talking about.
It's not that TCP can't be changed, it's that it's the only option that works.

TCP is baked into firmware on edge routers and firewalls and wifi devices that are beyond the period of support and the companies that created them aren't interested in supporting them or have gone out of business.

There are other protocols in layer 4 that could have been used that are better on some workloads than TCP, but TCP and UDP were the only things configured/supported; many firewall default configurations filter out things they don't recognize so anything new is a non-starter. And because of the perception of responsibility when it comes to networks, if I support a new protocol and you can't connect to it because there's older devices between you and me, it becomes my problem.
To me the comment was neither cancerous nor ironic. We don't need to excise all humor from our discussions on HN. Humor itself isn't a problem -- though of course no joke appeals to all people.
When the overhead shot of the cars was loading, the initial blurring made it look like they were lined up in 20' of water.
I do the same, and this seems to work in a lot of UIs for grouping git branches, with Azure DevOps being another off the top of my head.

I usually use "feat/my-branch" or "fix/my-branch" depending on the purpose of the branch.
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It's not per person.

It is per REPAIR JOB. Big difference.
Ask HN: How do you recognize a good bug fix from a bad one?
The design of the experiment is often as important as the result. It opens up a whole avenue of discovery as the same technique is applied to other problems.
You might also have gotten that impression when it auto-installed through unrelated chip.de downloads [1], without a way to opt out.

This [2] post also documents Cliqz being covertly auto-installed with .NET Framework.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74vt08/psa_huber_b...

[2] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_m...
Grover Norquist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

Counterpoint: When you drown the government in the bathtub, people die > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/10/when-you-...
How does it play with Squarespace sites? I didn't see that mentioned as one of their supported back-ends.
Uninsured Americans could face $75k in bills if hospitalized for coronavirus
IPOs, crypto funds and other things I missed this week
I don't think that most people would buy a new bike when they get a flat tire. Some of course but probably a minority.
Lagavulin isn't whiskey, it's whisky (/s)
I tend to agree. I hadn't heard of this company and my immediate thought was it was something related to marketing/advertising.
The Great Realisation
IIRC, they do actually have their own index too.
"google", the name, was inspired by "googol", the SI-prefix, meaning 10^100. so "google" means, more or less, "a massive amount" -- which is perfect for a search tool.

there's also the "goggles" connection.
Tim Westergren, digital radio pioneer, returns to break music industrial complex
Article is about Sessions, a new free livestream service for artists, allowing tips from fans, in beta in 200+ countries

Original title was too long. It was:

‘Pandora broke my heart’: Tim Westergren, digital radio pioneer, returns to break the music industrial complex
Some of the things required to manage a tail risk fund are:

1. Finding mispriced way-out-of-the-money puts, probably a full-time job in and of itself and requiring savvy, if not also sophisticated, price models

2. The other half of the strategy is to mitigate the losses on the way OotM puts by simultaneously selling close-to-the-money and in-the-money options. I don’t recall the details but Taleb has mentioned this in the past. There’s a lot of work in designing, managing and executing those too.
A simple hack to show face and hands in videocalls
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yah, besides decriminalizing large swaths of behavior to make case loads manageable, let's further strike down any law that's more costly to enforce than it provides in benefits (it's literally absurd to have them). instead, put those in a civics manual that guides people on how to be a good citizen and avoid conflict (and lawsuits) with others. and teach civics in school again.
What's extra frustrating is that Google does control the OS for Android, but they don't use that to make TCP better.

Things they could do:

a) enable MTU blackhole probing, so people behind dumb networks can talk to servers that don't artificially reduce MSS. Apple has a pretty agressive implementation of MTU probing, and it's very effective.

b) put in hooks for userspace congestion control. Make sending faster (or not) with updates from Google Play services (or whatever)

c) the article mentions sending fewer acks. That could probably be done in TCP too --- it makes sense to make that a setting that they could roll out.

d) some sort of name and shame program for bad networks / bad network devices. It's 2020 and people running PPPoE and sending MSS 1480 when it's really 1472 should be ashamed of themselves, but big companies just set their servers to MSS 1460 and call it a day. :(
Sounds like lisp is good for a team of size 1, but are there any larger teams using lisp successfully?

I've heard theories that lisp teams don't scale well because the language is so customisable that team members have trouble reading each other's code.
Of course, it will also be trafficking or child porn or terrorism as the reason. We all know this is about surveillance unchecked.
Patents should be eradicated from this planet. China will outgrow US/EU/Japan because they have little enforcement for these things and execution matters, not ideas.
System design is not a typical part of a research interview.

Yes, they do. The rule of thumb is: The higher the level you are hired, the more wiggle room is there. A random PhD grad will need to pass the normal coding screens which are carried out by SWEs who do not know anything about the candidate.

Last q depends on the FAANG org, everything exists. MS research is very pure, Amazon/Apple very applied, everything in between.
The Design Squiggle – simple illustration of the design process
All those advantages could be provided by the car company owning all the dealerships that sell their cars, except it would be cheaper for both the car company and customer.
To me as a native English speaker, I don't get "clique" - it both sounds and looks like some kind of scammy ad company though. The name just exudes sleeze. I've seen the name several times on HN, and would never have guessed it was a search engine!
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