skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you have a lot of busy tests and you can get feedback twice as fast using less RAM on a SQLite memory database on your laptop, which is not a maxed-out current model, and you know that every commit you push will go through a CI build which uses the same database as production.

Maybe you are consciously trying to avoid locking your project into one database accidentally.

Maybe you work in an enterprise environment where you can’t run Docker or network services on your local system.

Maybe you know that your CI process will run against more data than fits on your laptop and so you’re not worried about missing something.

My point wasn’t that you shouldn’t test in the same environment but that it’s too quick to say that because you have never had this need nobody else does either.
Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud won't come to iOS due to App Store rules
I think you saw the flash waited a couple seconds realized you weren’t incinerated and assumed everything is ok. I think you are missing the fact that there is enormous destabilizing energy traveling you way that’s going to wreck your world. It would be like calling the Great Depression over after in 1930 when the market recovered.
How Carding Hurts Your Business and Not Only Cardholders
Before you can talk about what the key features should be, you should identify what jobs the customer is hiring the product to do. That anchors the discussion; otherwise you'll be talking in a vacuum about whether to build feature X or Y without anchoring it to a job the product needs to do.

The jobs to be done framework too brings the customer into the room. If we're building a photo editor, and I say, "I wouldn't use a feature that makes lips red and removes pimples", then we can talk about the job the photo editor is being hired to do, like "make me look pretty on Instagram". I can put forward my bias like "I don't care about that" and someone can counter that.
Silicon valley startups ignore established industry expertise, burn cash in silly ways, dont prioritise business sustainability and try to reinvent the wheel with a strange mixture of ignorance and arrogance? No, never happened before!
mistake. their data is trash. contains less than 1% of genome.
It’s really striking how little substance there is to this article except that it tries to let us know that it’s bad that White people without experience in an area tried to work in that area.

The combination of race focus and enforcement of credentialism is really a striking aspect of today’s media.
Three things helped to survive majority of the businesses till now. PPP, EIDL, SBA.

SBA helped a lot. I have an SBA loan, and they gave us 6 months. Six months are up in October. At this point, we are not making money, but not using personal saving either. I won't be able to pay the mortgage after October.
There was a RadioLab episode touching on this [0], with a significant change of behavior following surgery for epilepsy. Disturbing listening, so be warned.

[0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/31762...
Time to cash in from the recent pump & dump?
Again, I don't believe it's accurate or honest to call this coercion. These files were obtained from a content delivery network by visiting a url in a browser. Nothing deceptive, cunning, crafty, or coercive about it. Let me ask you, what files am I allowed to access on a public network? Must I ask owners permission before visiting their websites? Must I be able to find it with a search engine? What constitutes a file which anyone is allowed to view?
Separate computers removes a single point of failure. If my gaming rig goes down it doesn't keep my work from progressing, and if my work computer goes down, I can swap out drives into the gaming rig to keep working.
You are right about Neiman Marcus, as they occupy huge spaces in shopping malls. However, GNC stores are very small, and many are in strip malls, which can cost only a few million to purchase, not out of the range of small business owners with some collateral. At a cursory search, I can't find any numbers on the percentage of CRE owned by institutions and corporations, do you have any data you can share?

In any case, my point was not to discuss how much CRE is owned by individuals and small businesses, but rather the dismissive attitude that sweeps individual and small business landlords into the same bucket as giant CRE corporations.
There's a theory we're in another tech bubble and people are just throwing money at everything hoping they pick a winner... if you look around, it's probably true.
Great tool. I heard about it from Julia Evans a few weeks ago, and it replaced my janky half-baked script that used inotifywait
you have no idea how deep this goes. nations are selling data at population scale
NASA’s Maven Observes Martian Night Sky Pulsing in Ultraviolet Light
> NN forbids ISPs from interfering with the service, that's it

Again - that would have been great if it were what the ruling actually did. It's not.
Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you invent the modern consumer electric car and the modern commercial space program. The beauty of SV startups is just that - high variance.
Was this necessary? If it was really a national security threat he would have made the ban effective much sooner. Now it just looks like it’s part of a shakedown to give Microsoft or some other interested party more leverage.
Monetizing the engineer's disease

https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee...
This WebRTC p2p file transfer has been a revelation for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675
It's such an ignorant, yet arrogant way to run a business, especially considering many of these startup founders were likely pretty young with little to no industry experience.

Having an experienced business owner running an actual, profitable business in your midst should be treated as a gold mine of information.

I have actually seen an attitude of "don't listen to or hire industry veterans because they are stuck in the old way of doing things and if they knew any better, they would have already disrupted the industry."

Few if any highly successful "disruptive" companies completely reinvented their segment.

Uber wasn't the first taxi company, it wasn't even the first ride sharing company. Heck, they weren't even the first app based taxi service. Airbnb was preceded by VRBO by about 15 or 20 years.
https://www.sans.org/blog/using-the-ssh-konami-code-ssh-cont...
This is just confirmation bias without supporting evidence. It may or may not be true, but we can't glean that from the article, because it says very little.
> They return exactly the same thing: either null or a node or node list depending upon the method in question

...this is another thing that I'm surprised to find that people don't know. Do devs really just use these methods without ever looking at what they return or how they behave?

getElementsByClassName returns a (live) HTMLCollection, not a NodeList. querySelectorAll returns a (static) NodeList. That in itself is an obvious computational difference/potential bottleneck, because the simplest way to implement a live collection is to cache and return the same object on subsequent calls for it. And that's precisely what browsers do (getElementsByClassName('foo') === getElementsByClassName('foo')). In other words, getElementsByClassName called multiple times with the same class doesn't actually do any extra work. The real work for the browser engine, which doesn't actually happen at the point of function call, is watching any tracked class names and updating their associated HTMLCollections when an element matching that class name is added or removed from the DOM.

On the other hand, gathering the static NodeList for a querySelectorAll call requires actually iterating over the DOM to find element(s) matching the selector every time (in the naive implementation), with the trade-off of the engine not having to watch the collection internally.

As an aside, the querySelector method with an ID selector is slower but on the same order of magnitude (a difference of about a few hundred thousand ops/sec for me) as the getElementById method. So if one looks at all the data in the benchmark and not just the class ones in isolation, it becomes clear that merely parsing the selector string is not enough to drop millions/billions of operations per second down to single-digit thousands.
It does exactly that, in a reliable and repeatable manner. Especially if you are deploying to multiple targets (dev, staging, production) you don't care about which state each server is in.
> Silicon valley startups ignore established industry expertise

The challenge is that if you can actually find some established industry expertise that is merely "we have always done it this way" , you make a lot of money.

Attempts at innovation are always going to lead to a certain number of dead ends that end up being "stupid wastes of money."
Show HN: Idenati – A bookmarking tools that remembers your passwords
Interesting premise. I agree that getting paid $300 for grazing sheep wont scale and is certainly not sustainable.
The trick is to ignore survivorship bias every step of the way
Filtering the noise:

"ScreenShot & Screen Capture Elite",
“Weather forecast for Chrome™",
"GTA 5 Grand Theft Auto",
"Sports Cars",
"Suga",
"Avengers Endgame",
"Bts Suga",
“Video Downloader and MP3 converter Pro",
"Adblocker for YouTube - YouTube AdBlocker”,
"Auto Replay for YouTube",
"Ad-block for YouTube - Youtube Ad-blocker Pro",
"Cars”,
“DBS and Dragon Ball Super"
Ask HN: Building a single account/IAM system?
Are there any guides around this topic? I know about ORY Kratos + Oathkeeper but they're both still in early their development.

I'm trying to keep everything in-house so avoiding services like Okta/Ping Identity.
tl;dr A woman is told her cancer is inoperable and hates that her responses will resemble other terminal patients, whether stoic or sullen. She uses a baroque description of the situation, initially. For example, she refers to her husband as 'the poet'. Not 'I said x to my husband, the poet', instead, she writes 'I said x to the poet'. It's eventually obvious it's her husband, but other aspects of the writing assume a given reader will reach her inference quickly, but without providing the foundation to do so.

It's 4000 words about not having something original to say about dying. I've only read the first half; and, in that half, she succeeds in convincing me.
Show HN: Voicegain RTC Callback API for IVR and voice bots released
greatideainthesameveinivedecidedtoforgospacesandpunctuationaswellbecauseitsavesspaceaswellaswearandtearonthekeyboard
Startup Idea: Integrate Cloud Services with Cortana/Spotlight
Yep, exactly. If I were building rust-fuse with Bazel I would probably split it into about 4 crates (fuse_kernel, fuse_io, protocol, server). This is what I tried to do in Cargo and gave up because of the crates.io packaging requirement.
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> Cool, I thought so, I just wasn't 100% sure! I think it's interesting how different people take away different things here, to me, this demonstrates that you don't have to have namespaces; many of the largest ecosystems do not and have not had them. We did learn a lesson there, just didn't come to the same conclusion that you did. This one is more controversial within the community though, many people do agree with you.

Maven is from 2004 and has namespaces. Maven has it's problems, but the Java package management ecosystem gets many things right that later systems have not.
Yep, agreed. If you look at companies like Nebula Genomics [1] (disclosure: I'm a founder) or Dante Labs [2], they're doing whole genome sequencing for comparable prices. I'm not sure why we aren't seeing a more prevalent shift to next-gen seqencing.
[1] https://nebula.org
[2] https://dantelabs.com
My theory is that everyone is afraid of doing 'old' business practises because doing something that someone else is already doing is bad and wont make you a billion dollars (not true btw). California startup culture is a victim of its own ego.
> Before the pandemic, she says the company was super late paying her for the products she sold them.

> “It was not a lot of money, but it made me really upset,” Albrecht says. “I don’t know why they run the business like this.”

This is a well established albeit scummy practice and very common. They do it basically as a way to borrowing from you for free.

My family used to do a lot of business with grocery stores. Except for Walmart, none of them paid on time. Plenty made you chase the money constantly.
Here's a repo I made with RSS links to the LibreOffice torrents: https://github.com/alexyorke/oss_rss/tree/master/libreoffice

I'm looking into ways to automate updating this feed, stay tuned. If you have more suggestions let me know and I can add another feed.
To double down on your examples, AirBnB was preceded by Couchsurfing, which proved that people were willing to host strangers in their own house.
We won't have enough supply for the general population, but ramping up the supply of a cold virus inoculation would run into mostly the same challenges.
> Her tenants included companies like the pizza-delivery app called Easy as Pi, a meal delivery service called Din and a ready-made meal kit company called Sprig.

> far different than the food tech would-be entrepreneurs. “They are young, white,” she says, “the kind of people you see in a J. Crew catalog.”

This isn't even true. Easy as Pi is founded by Evan Kuo, who's Asian. Sprig is founded by Gagan Biyani, who is Indian. Din seems to have the only white founder, Emily Olson LaFave.
Interestingly, this is the problem online reviews were supposed to solve.
> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020?

For me, by its ubiquity. It has desktop and servers images [1], cloud images for containers and virtual machines [2], and base images for all kinds of embedded devices [3], all with multiple architectures (amd64, armhf). I run it on everything from servers and desktops to QEMU ARM guests and e-readers.

[1] https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.1/
[2] https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/
[3] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/20.04.1/relea...
I think being in a highly regulated market is orthogonal to the original point. Regulatory compliance is a checkbox and not a differentiating capability, even if it is an arduous checkbox. Hard/Deep tech is a completely different animal. None of the three YC companies you list fall under this rubric as they are essentially novel presentation layers on existing tech (yes, this includes Cruise, whose tech I am familiar with). The point isn’t about startups where the hardest thing you need to do is business execution and compliance.

Some kinds of hardcore tech, even deep software tech that has no compliance issues, has extremely steep engineering hurdles that must be cleared before you have the most minimal of MVPs that will have any currency with customers. How do you iterate fast when the most minimal demonstration of capability requires writing hundreds of thousands of lines of highly sophisticated code from scratch? Or requires physical engineering that necessarily takes years to complete? Many of these kinds of opportunities exist but almost all of the “ship-and-iterate” guidance is for companies that are using core tech, not creating core tech. That’s playing the startup game on easy mode.

If we end up in a place where a “tech startup” is defined as companies that are technically trivially to execute and amenable to rapid ship-and-iterate, which admittedly is most of them, then we might as well elide “tech” from the nomenclature. At that point, they are merely tech-enabled ordinary businesses, and what ordinary business isn’t tech-enabled these days? If deep tech problems could be solved by slapping together some open source and layering on clever marketing, they wouldn’t be problems.

It feels like we’ve redefined “tech startup” to exclude doing hard technical things, but aren’t honest about that change in definition.
I don't interpret that as being upset, just pointing out the stark contrast in solutions and people involved in (ultimately) trying to make a living selling food.
We released it to prod today. If you are familiar with Twilio's TwiML it is a similar product however at much lower price and supports grammars for speech recognition. This is a first release of this API. Our plan to keep adding features that simplify building voice bots and IVRs
A few other things which are easy to miss manually: identify when you have model changes which are not reflected in the migrations, ensure that the migrations always run, and fail loudly if someone tries to run migrations which started at the same point but haven’t been explicitly merged (which is really handy switching branches or on fast-moving projects with multiple features in-flight simultaneously).

None of this is magic which you can’t do by hand but there’s a substantial benefit in being able to rely on it always happening and not having to spend any time thinking about it in most cases.
Maybe, but thats basically developing a new vaccine, and in the time it takes to test that out and make sure it's safe and effective, we'd already have other vaccines on the market that might be more likely to be effective. Theres also the risk of antibody dependent enhancement where a competing immune effect makes the disease worse if previously infected with a different strain as seen in the dengue family
I don't see the article being "upset" about anything? If anything Albrecht seems to mostly find the startups comical, at least until they stop paying her bills.
That’s a misrepresentation. The point is that they can achieve the same safety level for naive users without mandatory rules across permissible content in all applications. I can toggle privacy controls, for example, and manage advertising IDs, and relax (and strengthen) my online safety controls in many other aspects.

The web angle is simply demonstrating by contrast that the claim these hardline rules exist for online safety is horse shit. If they were prepared to irrevocably cripple one functional area for safety’s sake, why not another?

The answer is, because that was never the goal.

These rules are simply the protectionist use of market power, and by obliging other vendors to mislead consumers, become an abuse of market power.
The point is not to sell food. The point is to separate credulous VCs from their money.
re/ the Mac Mini + eGPU + File Vault = no reboot... Really? Brutal!

I was just yesterday looking at a new Mac Mini and a couple of LG 5K monitors (and, thus, the Apple Store eGPU). And I use File Vault. Because Apple.

So is this a known reboot problem? I want to run this Mac Mini as an always-on server for home media when logged out.

Any Apple support links on this?
It's essentially secured through obscurity. which I'm sure with this leak will lead to several CVEs over time...
I don't think you view is contrarian. At least I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I spent 7+ years doing work in QIS (five years ago). Obviously if quantum computers start to do something useful within our lifetime it will be an interesting development, but that's a big if right now and also not clear if the new interesting stuff that comes out of QC will actually be useful for something.

Also, I don't this think we're alone thinking QC is overhyped, this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961967 links to a report by NAS that is rather lukewarm if not cold on the prospects.
“No shit!” —everyone
The ‘Lexical Functional Grammar’ image mentioned in the article used to be available together with an emulator that ran on the Alpha under OSF/1. I remember this because it caused me to slightly improve the OSF compatibility layer of NetBSD¹ so I could run it on a surplused DEC 3000 that I'd picked up for $100.

¹https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2001/05/30/0003.ht...
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And how to price?
It mostly has; most serious work is done in R and python, and there are a lot of supporting tools, documentation, and useful packages for both languages. It's not like the actual statistical analysis in your average paper was actually done in excel.

However, Excel remains a nice tool for "I'll just look at this CSV with the final results from this analysis, sort it by correlation, and see if any of the usual suspects are up top". And if the next step is "yeah, that looks fine - I'll just copy the top 100 genes into this convenient GUI pathway analysis tool", you're suddenly exposed to whatever Excel did to your data.

And as for "why not libreoffice", most researchers I personally run into are strong molecular biologists who've learned a subset of R for their uses; they're not really likely to go out and find libreoffice on their own. Besides, the writing process for papers includes sending drafts and spreadsheets to doctors and pathologists and editors, who are probably on hospital computers with a short whitelist of programs ... and I don't really want to debug subtle compatibility issues in the sort of garbage fire those documents can turn into.
> throwing money at everything hoping they pick a winner

That's the whole point of VC, so while I see what you're saying about a tech bubble I'm not sure that this proves it.

Tech is very lucractive, so it makes sense that a lot of money is being thrown at it regardless if there's a bubble or not.
The modern consumer electric car did not come by throwing darts at a board and hoping for a bullseye. It was planned on scientific principles and took decades of precursor work.
Valve got them to allow Steam Link, which is pretty much the same as this but you own the hardware. It even has a feature where you can press on a game before it opens the connection and you never see your computer at all, it might as well be a cloud gaming service.

Microsoft could fight them in court (or testify before Congress, which would be interesting). If it's fine for Valve, why not MS?
The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)
> such obviously flawed plans.

People are willing to question the "obviously flawed" part. Lots of logistics people said that that Amazon was "obviously flawed" because you can't move goods independently to the consumer cheaper than you can move them in a truck to a store.

Turns out, you can.
It was, in point of fact, a Java applet. [0] Older, less secure, but more powerful.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20191231213153/http://phototour....
Just gave some but ok, beat that drum.
Sure there is, just buy a 'blood drawing kit' online and get a nurse or ex-nurse friend to do it for you. Then dump it down the drain and physiologically you'll be in the exact same place as anyone who gave blood.
You mean startup culture is a victim of its own ego. By that, you mean entrepreneurs are victims of their own ego. That's the gamble, though. You don't take risks if you don't have an ego and starting a business is a risk (well, to most).

Are California startups any different than other places? Besides being more popularized and having easier access to capital I see dumb ideas everywhere I go. I also see amazing ideas.
> if only people would read man pages

Sounds suspiciously like "if only people would read Terms of Service". A single document, given lots of leisure time, is fine. The aggregate of all man pages (or in my example ToS docs) is ridiculous.

I would argue that man pages are good if you know what you're looking for. The hardest part about modern tech stacks is knowing which layer (therefore which M) to RTFM.