skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> selling software/service is lucrative.

Can be lucrative. I know many people who have tried to start a business and failed and were never making money.
They're both orgs run by people. If the leadership is corrupt, there's not much of a difference.
I would have called it a subset of psychological priming, but yes, you've got it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
I have a 4K option in the youtube menu.

At one point in the video, there is a 1.8 million pixel image where they discuss and show zooming into the image while preserving detail.
Doubly ironic since in doing this, they created a system where a protocol is the SPoF; namely nonsensical or false BGP advertisements can quickly kill the internet as a whole if done correctly.
This was somewhat the approach used in the ATLAS[1] linear algebra library. In the ATLAS case, systems were characterized through testing and a set of parameters generated. Then at installation time code was generated to match the system type using the given parameters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically_Tuned_Linear_Alg...
On drive failure automatically swap failed drive for hot spare and resilver.
The .net dependency and code maintenance tool “NDepend” has a feature called CodeQuery that this reminded me of.

You can write queries such as:

from m in Application.Methods
where m.NbLinesOfCode > 30 && m.IsPublic
select m
Domain specific video formats could be the future. They can reduce bandwidth requirements and offer features not available in pixel videos.

One good example is https://asciinema.org , which plays back terminal sessions. The text in the "video" is selectable!
"[..] while still allowing for a decent income even in the event of failure." How does this work? You're just taking enough of a salary as an early stage C[X]O/founder that your downside is limited?
A "single point of failure" doesn't mean there's only one of them. It means the whole fails when the SPOF fails. But you can have many of them.

A steel chain made of links has as many SPOF as links.
Ugh, come on, for the vast majority of people, marriage and family are the best things in their lives.

From what I can gather from the article, the author has neither been in a startup, nor in a marriage, yet they feel qualified to mentor people on both :-)
>We still don't have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes

Good thing this isn't a retrovirus.

>But I do have concerns on trying to push out any novel vaccine in less than two years without adequate testing.

They started on this vaccine about 9 years ago, originally for the first SARS/MERS. They just gave it to 1,077 people and all 100% produced the desired effect, and the worst symptom reported was fatigue/headache that resolved on its own within 24 hours, or sooner if taken Tylenol/paracetamol. We're losing ~150,000 people worldwide EVERY MONTH to this virus, how many more months/deaths should we wait until we're sufficiently satisfied that it's safe?
I personally like OKRs, as I find them a valuable counterbalance to 1) daily standup, which can promote short term thinking, and 2) yearly "goals" in performance reviews, which, when evaluated in a binary way as completed/not completed, can deter people from taking on more ambitious and ambiguous tasks.

My big worry about OKRs is that they will descend into the same shitstorm that ruined SCRUM. Daily standups were never intended to turn into a daily opportunity for micromanagement and application of deadline pressure, but this is exactly what they became. And I can't say it was an external corruption of the process - the dangers are inherent to the technique. I always felt that saying standup and scrum are good, you just have to be careful someone external to the process doesn't corrupt it don't turn into micromanagement is like saying nitroglycerine is good, you just have to be careful some chemical reaction external to the process doesn't cause it to suddenly and unpredictably combust. The instability is inherent to the substance.

There was also a mini (or not so mini) industry of industry consultants helping people "do agile", that elevated "processes and tools" over "individuals and interactions", kind of how the 10 animal commandments in animal farm ended amended to mean the opposite of how they were written down.

I see a danger in point in OKRs, in that they're a great way for a manager to turn a casual projection into a committed estimate. I see the inversion of "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation" all over again here. The developer (or employee) is lulled into a belief that we're all friends and can trust each other, the "customer" (or client or boss) is lawyering up with a contract, and when time comes, the developer's feet will be held to the fire with firm commitments, and subjected to daily deadline pressure and micromanagement (because agile).

All I'm sayin' is, this could go sideways. But then again, so can any job.
"I think money is better spent on education and infrastructure, [..]"

The problem that we are discussing here is, precisely, how to give education and infrastructure efficiently to people that live in some of the poorest places of earth.

As an example: Givedirectly[1] have a program that give direct transfer cash to the poorest people in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. They make research about how effective this is and you get some reports back about what people do with the money.

Do you know in what they spend the money? education and infrastructure.

The common themes are: paying the school bills so their children can keep going to school, a cow or seeds so they can start a small business, and (the one I never could predict from my urban European perspective) a metallic roof so water don't come into their house when it rains.

Even if some people could misuse the chance, and that's unavoidable, humans being so diverse, the important thing is the efficiency of the program in its totality.

This theory that poor people just would stay at home drinking the money can be tested. In most cases, the theory has been falsified.

[1] - https://www.givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers/
I think that happens much less often than you think. It just so happens that stubbornly opinionated people are more likely to respond, so that's what we see.

The emptier cans rattle loudest.
The Largest NLP Model Can Now Generate Code Automatically
>I’ve interacted with people who knowingly vote for their own economic interests at the expense of society’s interests because they fundamentally believe they should take whatever they can get.

This should hopefully be balanced out by the fact that everyone gets a vote.
TLDR: I think in house shopping services are your best bet and they will only get better as companies invest more and more in them. These will hopefully replace Instacart.

I have ordered all of my groceries since March using various online services because my wife and I are both high risk for covid (asthma + pregnant). This includes Instacart, Whole Foods Delivery, Whole Foods pickup, and now Stop and Shop Pickup (effectively Peapod delivery).

Instacart is by far the worst in terms of reliability. Sometimes the substitutions make absolutely no sense whatsoever. The integration with the stores just aren't good enough and it relies too much on the individual shopper to to pick something reasonable it seems. I have had good shoppers and I have bad shoppers that take too much leeway. I don't blame them though, its just what it is. In my experience the item catalog for my local stores is also inconsistent too. Items with the same name at different prices for example. What am I buying?

The most reliable system for me is Whole Foods pickup. I have to go to a whole foods that is about ~20 minutes away instead of 10 minutes away, but the pickup basically has unlimited slots. I have never not been able to pick any slot I want, even same day. Delivery is much tougher to get slots, so I don't even try anymore. Whole Foods lets you select the actual item you want them to substitute with, although they only give you the closest ~5 options, which sometimes aren't perfect. For example, if you are trying to get lactose free yogurt, not all the replacement options will be lactose free. You also can't talk to the shopper, you can only approve or deny substitutions when you leave the item on "substitute best available". The cons basically come down to selection and price. The selection seems a lot more limited than in store which can be annoying. Prices are obviously Whole Foods prices. Another unfortunate thing is that you can't tip the shoppers. I tried to leave money in my trunk for them to take, but its against the rules I guess, so some would take it and some wouldn't. I ended up stopping because I didn't want to put people in a position where they they could get in trouble. You can tip on delivery and I always assumed that some of that tip went to the shopper, but I guess not.

Stop and Shop pickup is a close second. It's run by their Peapod service, but you just pickup curbside instead of waiting for delivery slot. Much better selection and prices, but there is no way to pick substitutions, you can only say "Do not substitute this item". I will probably use this more often going forward to supplement my Whole Foods orders. I can hit both stores for pickup in less than hour. The people that do the shopping and delivery curbside can accept tips.
I developed an addon[0] for myself to avoid online distraction. It has a small price tag so that I don't get overwhelmed by support requests :)

If you have any feedback or suggestion on the addon then please do let me know at the email listed on the addon.

[0] https://switchoff.neocities.org
herd immunity isn't an all or nothing.

HTT targets for influenza is 40% while SARS requires 80%.
Kijiji is the go-to site for classifieds in Canada. Craigslist exists, but it's nowhere near as popular.
Hey all, apologies my internet was in error I just check the comment section. Also sorry, I did not link the repository earlier I missed it but no worries, I have provided all files of addon here for you now: https://gitlab.com/phoennix/youtubesearchfix

Thanks for all the kind words.
Also:

uuid -r

See https://linux.die.net/man/1/uuid
Trump admin opposes new funds for testing, tracing and CDC in virus relief bill
The design seems to work in favour of the paranoid, it takes an extra-double-ultra-plus paranoid who takes the board through an X-ray machine to find those hidden traces or sandwiched secret baseband processors to uncover this nefarious plot.

Alternatively these devices deliver on this front, i.e. the user gets to control whether the baseband is active or not. I'm not paranoid enough for the former scenario so I'll keep it at the latter and am considering to get a Pinephone for fun and, well, fun I guess - I already have plenty of devices running different iterations of AOSP, some of them running headless Linux without zygote (i.e. without the Android user space). A truly modular multi-vendor architecture with pluggable SoC, baseband, storage, audio, camera, sensor package, power supply and display would be the preferred solution - something like the original PC clone market with vendors competing on price and features - but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it. Not that long, anyway.
I really liked the article which raises many valid points. You should not start a company without thinking those through. And have a cofounder who sees those in a similar fashion.

On a flip side working for a large company has different challenges and limitations. They tend to be bureaucratic and have been moving in the direction of avoiding risk and increasing control over employees. Once this reaches a certain level, dancing to the HR tunes while in the straitjacket of 20 policies can get very taxing.

Separately, I wonder why the 14-hour workday is the norm in startups. What would happen if founders try to get somewhere in four months instead of three and have a firm agreement between founders of "no more than 10 hour work days; at least one, preferably two days a week of no work"?

It seems everyone agrees that "it does not work this way". Can someone explain?
Multiple time you omitted or avoided to respond to the obvious fact that what you call "Marxist" (which you use to evoke a negative red-scare emotion) is in fact Democratic Socialism - the attempt to extend democracy - not a Stalinist dictatorship.

The issue is that extended democracy implies an extension to the economic sphere, and thus an overhaul of private property relations. This is the actual threat that is attacked by capitalists, and the Stalinist regime is used to paint all threats to these undemocratic institutions in a totalitarian light.
The worst part is the moment you realise Twitter wants you to feel this way, they could actually only feed you positive things but instead they see it as their moral imperative to push this anxiety on you.
Oh, hmm, that's very interesting and not something I would have thought about! :)
Parents are losing their babies sooner due to fevers.
Ask HN: Any companies giving out free t-shirts to developers?
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but there's something special about free t-shirts.
Wil Wheaton was on it for a while and gained a significant following (relatively speaking) but then he got cancelled: https://mastodon.cloud/@wilw/100635779449174251
Problem for who exactly? This isn't a local newspaper being swallowed up and then gutted by some faceless private equity group, which would be detrimental to the public interest. It's a multi-billion dollar business changing hands between two well-heeled megacorps.
Google working on dual-screen Chromebook codenamed Palkia
Feel the Pain – How to Observe Problems
If you're interested in the wider world of startups you might like the "Startups for the Rest of Us" podcast (https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/) and the community around it. Some examples:

* https://microconf.com/

* https://tinyseed.com/

* http://bootstrappedweb.com/

* https://indie.vc

They are probably closest to the Silicon Valley startup world in the kinds of businesses being built.

Getting further away you have things like affiliate marketers and drop shippers. The "Tropical MBA" podcast (https://www.tropicalmba.com/) is more in that space.
The narrator explains why getting HD video would be impractical, but I disagree that we get the same experience from panning stills.

imagine seeing the swirling dust, shifting sands, the bumps and parallax from a moving rover. that would be so cool!
I meant the "CDN with a meaningful free tier" part of the business model. That's why "half the internet" has CF as a single point of failure.
Resizeable link! Previous one was a bug

https://files.vectorly.io/demo/resizeable/index.html

We're still not comfortable putting demos on our front page, for all the bugs everyone's mentioned, and other issues.

Not even sure who posted this on HN, but grateful for the attention / feedback!
This reads like one of those "Golden ratio appears everywhere!" posts. It's overly self-congratulatory and a scattershot of ideas with varying levels of technical depth which makes it very hard to track the topic.
I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
Kohls has been doing exactly this a while with Amazon:

https://corporate.kohls.com/news/archive-/2019/july/kohl-s-n...
Reasonably priced color e-ink display
Ask HN: How do you manage time while developing your app for multiple platforms?
If you are developing your app for multiple platforms then how do you divide development time between each platform?
The "large enough" argument does not work if you explicitly or implicitly filter or stratify the input to your sampling function. Just like law of large numbers does not work for heavy tailed distributions directly.

In which case your client do not represent the market, either by volume, or by number.

If you can actually know in which ways your sample is different, you can play it then against the market.

Robinhood would optimize its input for small clients with less knowledge, or clients looking for highly speculative risky plays of smaller volume. These are very specific characteristics that likely differ from general market.
From TFA:

> The only requirement to use Proactive Nameservers is that we have to be your registrar, because we need to connect to the registry to update your nameserver delegation.

So I guess technically this could be achieved with an API for your domain settings.
> The VCs are your "bosses" as you answer to them (though much less than a regular "boss") and to the ones you hope to raise capital from in the future.

Isn't this based solely on the equity makeup? If an investor only has 10%, but me and my co-founder share 90% then what absolute power does the investor really have?
Tech interviews fail those with hidden disabilities
While this is useful, I won't add add-ons if they don't have a GitHub/gitlab because the barrier to review is significantly more and I shouldn't need to look at the entire extensions source code every time it updates. Could they sneak in a release that's not on the GitHub page? Sure. But as long as I stick with the big add-ons I'll survive.
>Then how did moms get by when kids were in school not helping?

They got by better because children were in school. If you don't have to keep an eye on your kids, you can commit 100% to all the housework and get it done that much sooner.

They were productive with or without the children around. The point is that there was no productivity to spare for mother and child to do any teaching/learning.
In my case I definitely only included it as an example due to the recent submission on HN, so not Baader-Meinhof in this case. I'm still surprised that @rantlab and myself came up with the exact same analogy independently though.

Clearly it wasn't as creative of an analogy as I originally thought. For myself, just a very small leap of logic after reading 'jobigoud's comment. Very surprised to see other people making it as well, and a good re-calibration for me!
Read our S-1, it's all in there.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...
Or Linux Kernel people. If you are distributing their work, you can do it because GPL allows it. But for GPL to allow it, you cannot break it or ignore it, otherwise you will lose the distribution rights.
As I understand it, they'd buy 90-something% of your shares and you'd keep the rest.
Yes, but the computing they are trying to do is expensive, so it makes sense to then try and get some self-sustaining revenue by leveraging their research into a software service. I must admit I don't know about their current status of funding from large companies etc, but I do think it makes sense to try and make a bit of their own money to be more independent.
My first video post and didn’t add the required [video] suffix to the title.
Just realized about it, apologies.
I would be highly surprised if Trump didn’t.
But doesn't that line of reasoning fall apart in the face of things like the LIBOR scandal?
That was true for the monkeys that were challenged with huge viral loads. We don’t know if it will still be true for humans who encounter normal loads.
“The Night Watch” by James Mickens: on the pain of systems programming [pdf]
I agree it could be read in different ways, though that could be said of anything. Even your mood or current context can influence how you perceive what you read.

I don’t think being old and boring is a reason to not reevaluate our words; I find doing so can be interesting.
What would really blow me away is if you could set the text on the cover with CSS too, and then just drop in a background image behind it.
How long did it take you to get access to the API? I filled out the form almost a week ago and haven't received anything back.
I worked on this project a bit and have a deep understanding of how it went about, though, I am not sure how much I can talk about that.

edit: I guess what can be said was it was a highly efficient project, and there weren't so many fingers in the development pot so to say.
If you are trying to watch this on a phone then the YouTube app is limiting the maximum resolution to the resolution of your phone.
It's all estimates, of course, but there's some good reading about what factors effect the herd immunity threshold here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics They estimate 50-83% vaccination threshold to achieve herd immunity for COVID-19. I believe the citation is this study, but I admit my ability to read scientific papers is lacking: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32433946/
It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it.

EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
Does this video make them more accessible? It seems to make them less accessible. It's a video composed of readily-available images from https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images
I'm using Hardware keys to secure my personal accounts. What are the alternative auth methods suggested for this situation?
There's no known natural immunity for HIV. Vaccines work by triggering an immune response, but if there isn't an immune response that works, a vaccine won't be effective.
Google Answers v2.0?
Just avoid RAID 5/6...
My (Failed) Attempt at the 4-Hour Workweek
Now that Cloudflare is also a registrar, they could pretty easily implement a nameserver failover like EasyDNS. I hope this event underscores the importance of that to them.

It's worth noting Cloudflare also supports secondary DNS, but only for enterprise customers: https://blog.cloudflare.com/secondary-dns-a-faster-more-resi...
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all offer competitive alternatives for the small business sector. Personally, I find the actual cost of CloudFlare very difficult to reason about in advance of actual use. This is in part because it's easy to miss a bit of the a la carte model you need.

Full disclosure, I work at Google on the SRE team for Cloud CDN. If you want a credible alternative for the CDN part of Cloudflare, our product is extremely fast. We were all very sad for Cloudflare and watched the whole affair closely, as we've got a few customers that use our services alongside Cloudflare's.
High-performance self-supervised image classification
Mux and cloudflare stream are on my list of potential alternatives. We do use this domain restriction of Vimeo. It’s not fullproof but definitely stops casual downloads.
I don't really know, but I guess the biggest feature in the past was protection against DoS attacks.

Bandwidth isn't expensive compared to what most people are paying for it. Cloudflare is paying for the infrastructure as it is to handle attacks, so why not use it? As long as it doesn't affect paying customers then it's great marketing.
Regarding 2, that’s exactly what the blog post was advocating for: Redundancy. They weren’t saying give up on Cloudflare (as they mentioned, they use it themselves).
I have a demo for /r/WritingPrompts/ titles (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/tree/master/e...), albeit not the generated output from that title.
Where do you draw the line between 'vaccine' and some other, similar but distinct technology?

For me, the things being developed are not 'vaccines' but are a different thing entirely with a similar intended purpose.
I'm looking at some of the comments and still having a little bit of trouble understanding what makes the data engine "universal."

I see reference to "universal storage" in some areas, but keep landing on a multi-dimensional array structure for data storage - and this seems kind of at odds. Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't specifying the structure of the data inherently not universal?

I'm relatively shielded in my databases knowledge, though - having only worked with "traditional" tools. If I'm missing something definitely let me know!
Europe Said It Was Pandemic-Ready. Pride Was Its Downfall