skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is ultimately a personal choice. People argue that whether do you want to own 10% of $1B or 100% of $100M.

> "My personal ambition is to build a product that people love and which gives me a decent revenue to hire a few people and to continue working on it."

From your last sentence, it seems to me that you already have made a decision in your head. You are leaning towards building a sustainable bootstrapped business.

I guess focus on building the product, providing value, start selling your product early on and let the market define whether its a billion-dollar company or not.

Highly recommend checking out the following websites:
[1] www.indiehackers.com
[2] https://getmakerlog.com/stories
[3] https://district.so/bootstrappers
> it isn't an US or Canadian bank

The U.S. dollars HSBC transferred liaised HSBC’s American offices. The fraud was conducted against an American entity with respect to U.S. dollars. Bank fraud is also a crime in Canada, allowing for extradition.
> First thing to do, is to create a new "homedir" inside the OS-provided homedir. I want my homedir to be immediately backup-able, and unfortunately most OSs spam the system homedir with various nonsense, e.g. applications (on Mac, Chrome installs (or used to) in `~/.ApplicationData`, on Linux, there's various package managers' binary caches, ...). I used to name this `home` but next time I'll name it `my`, less confusing.

What's really bullshit about this is the mixing of crap you wouldn't want to back up and actual user-relevant documents and config. The lowest-friction use of a bunch of programs will end up putting config you might want to keep, or documents, in your actual '~/' (say, "~/Documents"), but as you point out tons of stuff that you don't want ends up in there, too. At this point we almost need two "home" environment variables on unixy systems (and Windows has the same problem, of course). Another issue that's mostly Linux-specific (maybe the BSDs, too?) is the way someone who's not even that into sysadmin junk may end up with a few files in '/etc' that they'd like to back up, when really those aren't intended for use by any other users on the system (of which there may well be no other human ones) and could go in the home dir or somewhere else segregated from package-manager-sprayed, untouched-by-the-user noise.
> For example the 5N7 5.45 AK-74 bullet, the "poison" one, had an air-pocket in front between jacket and the core.

This is actually common on a lot of rifle bullets. Search for OTM or open tip match. There are some open arguments in the gun community about it's effect on ballistics etc, but it actually comes from a by product of the manufacturing of the bullet. Most FMJ bullets have the copper skin formed so that it's open in the back, OTM bullets are "backwards" and are run through a form after the lead is poured. This shrinks the area of the opening in the shell and pushes it to the center. Which makes it easier to keep things radially concentric and balanced. Something that's very important at longer distances.
I was reading this this morning, on the subject of "who controls the police," seems legit (the answer is, the economic elites, absolutely represented by Gucci patrons):

https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-...

> More than crime, modern police forces in the United States emerged as a response to “disorder.” What constitutes social and public order depends largely on who is defining those terms, and in the cities of 19th century America they were defined by the mercantile interests, who through taxes and political influence supported the development of bureaucratic policing institutions. More than crime, modern police forces in the United States emerged as a response to “disorder.”

> These economic interests had a greater interest in social control than crime control. Private and for profit policing was too disorganized and too crime specific in form to fulfill these needs. The emerging commercial elites needed a mechanism to insure a stable and orderly work force, a stable and orderly environment for the conduct of business, and the maintenance of what they referred to as the “collective good” (Spitzer and Scull 1977). These mercantile interests also wanted to divest themselves of the cost of protecting their own
enterprises, transferring those costs from the private sector to the state.

> Maintaining a stable and disciplined work force for the developing system of factory production and ensuring a safe and tranquil community for the conduct of commerce required an organized system of social control. The
developing profit-based system of production antagonized social tensions in the community. Inequality was increasing rapidly; the exploitation of workers through long hours, dangerous working conditions, and low pay was endemic; and the dominance of local governments by economic elites was creating political unrest. The only effective political strategy available to exploited workers was what economic elites referred to as “rioting,” which was actually a primitive form of what would become union strikes against employers (Silver 1967). The modern police force not only provided an organized, centralized body of men (and they were all male) legally authorized to use force to maintain order, it also provided the illusion that this order was being maintained under the rule of law, not at the whim of those with economic power.
As a founder who has an experience with kind of both and raised after more than a year generating revenue, I'd say the things you mentioned as negative are actually often positive. Facing with these problems head-on will burst a founder's "happy-bubble" of their perceived reality, and often early entrepreneurs tend to be over-optimistic. Inexperienced founders who raised funds may easily over-estimate the value of their business, hire prematurely, hire too expensive people who will not be ROI positive. Being forced to work with limited capital can make a talented & ambitious entrepreneur become very creative and efficient with its capital. The opposite of course is the distortion we're seeing in the market with "Softbankish" type of businesses who use their capital to distort the market. The optimal course of action is probably somewhere in the middle but my main point is I'd argue the things you mention as negative are actually positive and will allow for a founder, gradual and healthy growth.
Historically most groups that have practiced cannibalism over long periods didn't use it as their exclusive source of sustenance...
The bummer is that they made Safe Mode about 10 times harder to get into. Last time I tried, you could not hit F8 at boot time to select safe mode. You have to either be able to boot into the OS and say boot to safe mode, or you have to do it from recovery media, which doesn't come with new PCs. I think there's also the condition that you can get to recovery mode after the PC fails to start 3 times... either way, F8 made it easy enough to tell someone how to boot into Safe Mode over the phone without all the extra steps... but I guess you gotta save that half a second of boot time.
I'm not sure that Larry Summers would call the people at Harvard his 'pals'; my understanding is that Summers was forced out of his position there.
Because an app can disable loading libraries/plugins signed with a different developer id certificate, and it seems Core Media IO wants to load the plugin in the actually app process, and it doesn't use an helper process.
Useful async stack traces in Node.js 14
Ask HN: Why are we still under lockdown if mass protests are allowed?
I found https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/ to be a good starting point.
It looks like this comment is not right. There is:

public static int blue (int color)

Anyway this thing has range [0, 255] and adding three of them together as an index of an int[256] doesn't seem like it would ever work regardless of the colorspace.
I think what's cool is that there now at least 3 different supported ways to run Linux on laptops today:

1. Directly run your traditional Linux distro (i.e. on these Lenovos, System76 laptops, etc).

2. Run WSL using Windows on a Windows laptop.

3. Run Crostini Linux VM on a Chromebook.

In the past, the Linux laptop options were largely limited to those who wanted to install it unsupported on devices (remember the campaigns to get refunds for the default Windows installations on laptops?).

And sure, the above listed supported commercial solutions don't embody the hacker ethos of the old Linux-on-laptop communities, but they do represent the growth of Linux as a broadly usable software development environment.
Why Elixir Is the Programming Language You Should Learn in 2020
I could still be useful as a propellant for say, a nuclear thermal engine.
> The CCP has made it clear they have no will to enforce anything like that.

Could you point me to an official statement to that effect? Patent infringement lawsuits in China definitely paint a different picture: foreign companies are more likely to win and awarded higher damages than Chinese companies: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/02/things-infringement-lit...
This is what GP means by "Wakefield".
I've been using Heroku to deploy my Rails apps but I always wanted to learn how it all works under the hood. Over the last couple of months, I decided to learn more about how to set up a server and deploy a Rails app to production. I've made this open-source project to consolidate my learning.

This Ansible playbook includes roles for performing the following tasks -

* Installation of common packages

* Ruby (via rbenv)

* Rails 6, Puma, Sidekiq

* Redis

* Nodejs/Webpack/yarn

* Postgresql + saving daily backups to S3

* Install Puma, nginx & Certbot (for Letsencrypt SSL Certs)

* Deploying using Ansistrano

Let me know what you guys think about it.
He and Schulz winged it and treated it like a jock treats finals. “I’ll pull an all-nighter and I’ll get an A”. Nope like most people who don’t show up for class and do an all-nighter, they got a D- and failed.
Tools and Practices for Micro Front Ends
The core fan base of KSP is super passionate and if the game is good they'll play it regardless of the studio name.
I'm compensated, which I mention because it's relevant to the health of HN. When people aren't paid to do something, they extract compensation in other ways, and that would exercise a distorting influence if it happened here. Being paid is part of what allows us to be relatively neutral. Also, the job can be a little intense, so one needs to remind oneself that one is choosing to do it, and being paid makes that relatively easy.
Cool, yep that also works. Another awesome thing would be the option to run a speech to text algo on the conversation and have it transcribed into the channel log so if I miss the conversation I can catch up on things. But also you would need an ‘off-the-record’ Mode if you wanted to complain in private.
> I think that's all the validation we need for HTML/CSS/JS as the best tool for UI development nowadays.

"Best" makes it sound like the entire landscape isn't an ocean of garbage.
> Facebook stopped being about Zuckerberg a long time ago

When did he change the voting structure of Facebook?

I remember Mark Zuckerberg owns the majority of voting shares of Facebook and hence Mark = Facebook?
I’m curious - which drugs do you think should be available for sale commercially? All of them? The libertarian side in me says yes, but the pragmatic side says easily available meth wouldn’t exactly be a great thing for society.
That being said, Bloomberg entered the Democratic primary very late and does not own one of the largest propaganda machines in the world. If done right, Zuckerberg might have a decent shot. After all, Bloomberg achieved ~18% [1] in the polls despite his late entry.

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2...!
University Entrepreneurship – Without the University
> Saying the arc of history improves overall cruelly glosses over the reality today for millions of Americans.

No it doesn't. Medical understanding and technology has gotten way better over the centuries, and people still die of things that could have been handled. Acknowledging progress doesn't imply perfection, but progress.
Police brutality videos on twitter have left most of us, even in the developing world, in utter shock.

I am in Bangalore, India

For most of us in developing world, US has been a model state - with problems yes. But a great example nevertheless.

For God's sake, WE were supposed to be a third world country, always looked at with sympathy in popular media (usually grossly incorrect depiction though)

In India, civil unrest is common, and has increased over the past decade. Cops know one thing very very clearly - they are outnumbered. If civilians start to become violent, it will be impossible to control them.

So they stand down.

I have read umpteen number of articles talking about how policing could be improved in the US, from removing powerful weapons to changing the training programs.

I feel that the solution is probably simple - sensitisation to the fact that they are outnumbered. If war mentality is what they get into the field with, better factor everything in.

No army in the world engages with a superior force unprovoked.

People, the citizens, ARE the most superior force - not just morally, but Truly . F*ing . Practically.
I already like the sound of the GSD — Get Stuff Done, apparently.
Yeah.

There are obviously times when you can truly "write yourself out of a job." That truly happens.

I think that there are far more times where a transparent and earnest approach to managing technical debt and keeping things maintainable for your clients leads to more work in the long run. Possibly even permanent employment if that's what's desired.

(Of course, this depends entirely upon your communication skills and the client's savvy and receptiveness to such an approach)

Because the usual reality is that any client who needs consulting work in the first place is certainly going to need more of it in the future - maintenance, iterations, new projects, etc.
South L.A. is largely untouched by unrest. That is by design
My experience has been that my MBP gets hot if I try to share a specific window. Switching from a window as a source, to a full screen source has improved OBS performance quite a bit.

And I do use this plugin.
TDS at it's finest
So, instead of bludgeoning or shooting them, bore them to death!
Agreed, they also abuse their unconstitutional power. I'm just saying, they don't "protect and serve". They are just an armed force for the legal establishment.
I love this point and I've repeated it so often over the years to friends and colleagues who end up at this point. A good forcing function is to always ask, when you're getting a new tool, whether you've exhausted the capabilities of your current setup. It's hard to be honest about this, but consider what skilled practitioners can do with lo-fi equipment, and you might find it'll force you to re-evaluate what you can do with yours.

At a certain point, I stopped looking to new gear (as it pertains to music) and started focusing on trying to push the boundaries of what I had. As it turns out, I wasn't anywhere near close to pushing what I had to its limits, which proved I should just focus on technique and craftsmanship. Since then, I've grown a lot more.
SpaceX – Building Real-Time Systems with Bazel
Shit always floats to the top of the tank, so possibly.
That's simply false. They have, over and over, come to the table to work with Trump. It's a point of frustration for me considering how little compromise they have been able to achieve.
> Anyway, there are even cultures (now extinct I think) that eat their own dead as a form of mourning.

Yes, but you wouldn't call those people murderous cannibals, would you? Murderous implies that you murdered someone. Now, true, one man's liberator is another man's murderer, but someone who has not killed anyone can't be called murderous any way you stretch it, even if they are a cannibal.

So, even if you are right that most cannibals were not criminals, I think it's safe to say, as GP did, that murderous cannibals are criminals.
Come now. The issue isn't that Veritas is "biased", it's that they have been caught time and time again fabricating evidence.

We can talk about tech surveillance without playing into the modern fascist agenda.
I don't hear it so much in arrangement, but in things like harmonic rhythm or harmonies. So that means we disagree, because harmonic rhythm is an aspect of the "music" by anybody's definition. I wrote about a couple examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22104132

I don't think "amateurish" is a good word. It's more of an extremely accomplished work but needing an additional round of editing. Stuff which would have been obvious to Beethoven had he actually been able to hear it, but since he never got the chance to, it never got corrected.
I am looking forward to it.
Matrix gets better and better, and at the same time still more exciting.
Evidence of armored dinosaur's last meal found in fossilized stomach
This is extremely false.
Obama's DoJ signed 26 consent agreements with PDs, under the authority of the 1994 crime bill.
Sounds neat, first newsletter I've voluntarily subscribed to since I was a child. Looking forward to the next issue.
The buttons on a touch interface absolutely can change positions. What button is currently in scope? Everything is contextual in my experience. With physical interfaces, I don't have to worry that my radio's volume knob is going to wind up on the ceiling after I had just turned on the AC.

Even if you design the logical interface such that all 2-d screen mappings are consistent regardless of context, there is still the problem of tactile feedback. Physical affordances can provide varying shapes, materials and actuation methods which can immediately distinguish them from each other without the need for visual confirmation.
> The child worker is a third party that has nothing to do with the customer and the merchant

This is a fair counterpoint; it is not a perfect comparison. I think it did its job though, to clarify (now with your help) the actual point of contention:

> why should the government able to stop this transaction between parties that mutually agree?

Most nations have a concept of human/inalienable/natural rights, which cannot be signed away. For example, it's usually illegal to sell yourself into slavery. In the GDPR's view, privacy is such a right.

Do you think the government should not be able to stop these transactions at all, or do you think privacy should not fall into that category? Or a different objection I haven't thought of.

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I have my own views, but I'm not really interested in arguing them. It largely comes down to what moral system you subscribe to, which I think is a waste of time to discuss on HN (or any public forum) -- there's too many people on the internet to argue with everyone you disagree with; better to learn to get along, and focus advocacy on communities closer to home. As for why I comment at all: figuring out how to frame issues is not a waste of time — it's much easier (less emotional) and provides a useful reference for future conversation.
> Donald Trump declared a national emergency so he could bypass Congress and raid the military budget to build a wall.

your argument is that Obama should be more like Trump? Declaring a fake national emergency and raiding the military budget is dubious action. Obama was never going to do ish like that and we should all be happy about that.

Also as Obama pointed out in his medium posts, policy positions get converted into action through electoral wins.

I'm old enough to remember that Trump was elected in part due to Obama backlash.

I'm also old enough to remember the backlash when Obama said Cambridge police acted stupidly (the police arrested a Harvard professor in his own house when he had to go through a window bc he lost his keys)

I know people are disappointed Obama didn't accomplish more. Obama is such an impressive person you just assume he can work magic. But Obama was constrained by the system of democracy and that limits what is possible.
If they ended the failed and ridiculous drug war not only would police departments have less friction with the community they would also free up massive resources to deal with real problems. Maybe even start preventing property crimes! One can dream.

The old adage about go catch some murderers instead of chasing kids around with a joint.
In a bit over 1M years another star is expected to pass around 1000 AU from the sun. Chemical rockets should be able to get there in a decade or two. It's a huge stretch, but we have a million years to prepare.
This is great, thanks for sharing.

I would like to point out that it's still cherry picking, and ignores the cases where Democrats voted against sensible legislation. They supported the Patriot Act for example, and recently supported bailouts for large companies that didn't need free money from the government but still got it, all while keeping it difficult for people to access unemployment benefits.
I don't understand what problem OBS solves. It records video, but Windows and macOS already come with video recorders built in.

So OBS is better somehow. How? Why is OBS better than built-in OS recorders?
> At the very worst it throws an exception

Yes, from what I have read that's exactly what was happening, it was throwing an IndexOutOfBoundsException. Apparently, nothing was catching that exception, so the whole process was terminated.

> How can that crash the whole phone?

The main problem is that the process which was crashing is the Android equivalent of the window manager or the X server. It recovered from that crash either by restarting the process (which immediately crashed again), or by rebooting the phone (and immediately crashing again).
Yep, I think that's exactly what happened, an uncaught java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException crashed the rather important com.android.systemui process.
Replying to myself because the edit window closed.

I posted this scenario (the background of my original post, as well as the response here) to FB to ask for feedback. I specifically asked for criticism if they saw it (not just for echochamber validation).

All 10 respondents thus far saw no issue with what I said, with the most telling comment to when I asked again:

Q: Do you think I was promoting hate speech in the given contexts?

A: possibly, In the eyes of someone threatened by your opinion.

I stand by my words. I will correct them when the correction is valid, however, I've not seen that here in this dialog.
Black Tech for Black Lives
My DSLR saves a JPG and a RAW file for every photo I take. It would be nice if there was a setting to apply logic similar to my phone to make that JPG look amazing while leaving the RAW file for my own touches. Sometimes, I just take the photo with my phone instead.
Fair. See my cousin reply to Aunche for slightly more detail.