skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How else can we think about an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

I’m saying buying a home shouldn’t cost that much. See here’s the insidious thing about housing costing so much - when you were younger you surely didn’t want to spend so much on a house. You don’t want your kids to spend so much either. And if you didn’t spend so much you would never have cared so much if it drops in value.

But now that you have spent that much, you want it to cost the same, even though that perpetuates a system that punished you, your kids and your grandkids.

Do you really want to defend this? Does it boil down to yeah it sucks that houses cost so much but now that I have mine I want to slam the door on the younger generation?
It can lead to something like that, yes.

Like in 2008, the Fed will print as much money as it takes to prevent this kind of systemic collapse.
I've used django-test-migrations before and was really happy with it. https://pypi.org/project/django-test-migrations/
I worked at a place where IT had an admin user on every machine named "Backdoor". I opened a ticket when I noticed it, which was promptly closed explaining that it was normal.

The same place had a boot script on every computer that wrote to a network-mounted file. Everyone had read permissions to it (and probably write, but I didn't test) and the file contained user names, machine names, and date-times of every login after boot for everyone on the domain going back 5 years. I opened a ticket for that, which was never addressed.
Is there any chance you're in the Bay Area and would be willing to share which org you got ketamine therapy through? I have a friend in SF who's antidepressants have stopped working over the years - she's hoping to do ketamine therapy but can't find a legit organization to go through.
Apathetic to cookies or being tracked, care about free services. Not really complicated.
A few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22745351

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214387
All of them optimize for different things (E.g. SQLalchemy and Django have very different philosophies), so are they all wrong? What should they focus on instead?
Oil droplets provide a physical realization of pilot wave theories (video, 2016)
The GP was referring to "hardware companies not manufacturing consumer or IOT widgets". Anybots is obviously manufacturing consumer widgets.

There are spaces where even a small prototype will easily run into the six figures in pricing.
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I'd assume spreading this is not legal?
Some leases are conditioned the presence of an anchor tenant. So a department store failing can trigger these clauses allowing rent reductions or early termination for smaller retailers.
I'm very curious to hear from the HN crowd: how many of you are seriously contemplating something like this (not the "quitting the job" part; just the "we need a cabin in the woods" part).

With Covid-19 and everything, I feel that many folks in cities (I live in San Francisco), especially if financially able to, have been increasingly interested in buying land and/or homes or cabins in the vicinity, either as a permanent move, or as a backup.
Does anyone know of a replacement for the chrome extension papier? Made a new tab in chrome into a persistent notepad. I built all my note taking around it and my only option seems to side load it from now on.
Stealing it is probably illegal, and there’s a copyright and export regulations argument to be made around copying it.

However, my understanding of the law is that, once secrets are made public, further distributing the secrets is not illegal.

So, republishing it is probably not more illegal than running a torrent of a Hollywood movie and an Ubuntu ISO (which can run afoul of export regulations).

Note: I’m not a lawyer, and if what I said was true in practice, Julian Assange / Wikileaks would have nothing to fear from the law.
I'll echo this, I develop C/C++ on OS X every day. Have no issues with it at all.
When it comes to market selection, I often think back to how Ryan Petersen came up with the idea of Flexport. He put up landing pages and some ads, and only when he saw interest from the biggest players did he go all in. It's a pretty darn good way to find out, even if it sounds too simple, or cheap, but if you listen to the rest of the interview, Ryan had semi-failed enough times beforehand to realize that simplicity was key. Maybe throw a bunch of landing pages up and see what works?

(original audio segment: https://smashnotes.com/p/y-combinator/e/92-ryan-petersen/s/h...)
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Note: while this has been submitted before, I'm surprised there has been no discussion about it.
I tried to read that.
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Thank you for the suggestion!

We're leaning towards Option 1: free diffing for datasets < 1M rows. Option 2 seems a bit tricker since we are in a way creating a new tool category and it can be harder to convince someone to pay before they try and understand the value (unlike, say, a BI tool – everyone knows they need some kind).
Say we use the Microsoft Windows code that got leaked, was anyone black listed for that?

Also, I would assume other processor companies hire people from other processor companies and everyone all wants the best, most of the basic knowledge would have already made it's way to AMD and other companies.
Also it seems completely reasonable if everyone is telling the truth. Most people have more than one friend and it only takes one of them posting political content to answer yes to the first question.
This rests on an assumption that utility is comparable between individuals, which isn't present in all theories.

"How much would you pay for it" clearly is comparable between individuals, but (IMO) declaring that doing so defines the proper outcome is circular and/or verges on the naturalistic fallacy.
One thing I've learned is that markets are rarely rational. But, with REITs, the real return comes in the form of dividends more than capital appreciation, so if the price has irrationally declined, my return will be greater (I have all of my REIT investments set up with dividend reinvestment). I'm not expecting to liquidate any of these positions any time soon so I can afford to wait for them to do whatever they'll do.
That would cause a massive economic disruption that could potentially lead to actually bad economic effects. Right now things aren't all sunny and happy for everyone but they can get a lot worse if infrastructural components of the economy start getting eroded - either by being chopped up for vulture capitalists or by having their lending chain & backers divided up similarly.

If Fedex & UPS were to be forced to sell off package delivery in NYC to cover losses while USPS continues to be hamstrung by the administration then things will get bad - and there are a lot of other operators that are a lot less visible but just as essential. Let slip retailers and banks are less stable - let slip banks and companies that are operating through the pandemic on shoe-strings and a whole bunch of backed credits lose the ability to keep the lights on.
I think this is another case of knowledge worker myopia. With the exception of Amazon, you can't really work retail remote. Those workers who can work remotely now can leave at any time, that's right, and there has been a bigger shift for them, but we can't pretend that the majority of workers are remote workers. The people who had to come to the city for work, people who worked in retail or in industry, those types jobs aren't moving back rural. You can't work a factory where one isn't and you can't open up retail locations in the middle of nowhere.
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Everyone is aware that it's an imperfect model system. We just have nothing better to go off of. Granted, it got us to where are today so it obviously has had practical utility, but we may have exhausted the benefits of simplistic animal models as we try tackle more complex diseases (cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, etc.).
This seems noticeably snappier than canvas, too.
There's nothing stopping you from hand-writing Django migrations if you choose. Django compares the state of the models to the state of the database after all migrations have been run to determine if new migrations are necessary, so as long as you've covered all of your model changes in your hand-rolled migration you'll be fine.
We saw that shift before - bankruptcy used to be more of a scar for life on credit instead of essentially vanishing in seven years. Going all "scarlet letter" made less money than defecting and accepting redemption which reflected closer to actual risk levels compared to some spiteful imaginary idea of "fairness" or "virtue".

It is part of what made the social credit's justification such a laughable lie. We did away with honor based lending centuries ago and got better results both fiscally and morally from banks! When was the last time you saw someone engage in a murderous duel over credit rating?
How is that helpful though?
They're basing it on the dams actual theoretical use.
If they don't use it, the emissions will still occur, but we get nothing from it.
My experiment that I am thinking of recently is almost the opposite.

1. Start with markets with high competition. E.g. paid alternatives to Google forms.

2. Get a list of 50+ products competing in the space. If < 50 go back to step 1.

3. Google to find what people, who are on the paid tiers of those products, complain about. This is easy as I am now Googling brand names so should get laser targeted results (v.s. googling "problem I had creating a form" -> Stack Overflow user who'll never pay for a form!)

4. Interview them to dig in further. If you can't get any of these people to even spare 5 minutes to talk, then it might be an indicator that you wont get them to buy.

5. Based on this, derive a hypothesis for a MVP that would solve the problem, along with the market it serves and where to find these people.

6. Presell to people in #4. If they say no - dig in further as to why. If they say yes, aim for maybe $1000 monthly revenue presold, then build.

The reason for this approach is it filters for the "are people motivated enough to spend money" which I think is the biggest risk for the ideas I come up with. Since they are (they already use the "competitor" product"), can I carve out a niche where I do something better for a specific group of people? Can I reach them easily without spending crazy money on ads? And am I solving their problem?

Caveat is this is designed as an idea generator for an Indie Hacker style project, not a startup!
At this point they'd be fiscally irresponsible if they didn't assume a certain level of bailing out - and they're likely "investing" in relations with various senators and representatives to make sure their name is on the list of those eligible for the bailouts.
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I would love more content on product design for mobile/ mobile web. Especially how the design should not just look good but also help users to keep using the product. Seems to be a common pain-point for founders.
There are good arguments - development of the kids, transmission from young kids being previously unheard of and now found to still be less likely than from adults, etc. What's absurd is taking such a knee-jerk absolutist stance on a complex issue.
That is incorrect, RocksDB is a fork of LevelDB.
Or a SeedBox.
$90/m/user is a lot, especially when you consider the several other SaaS services you could get together for that price. That's definitely enterprise pricing, which fits with the "call me pricing" I guess.

It's a niche, and a small one at that, but I don't doubt you'll find some enterprises willing to pay what you ask. But outside of enterprise I just can't see anyone paying that, especially when free tools exist (albeit not nearly as polished and features as yours).

I've got to wonder about YC backing for what seems like such a small niche though - very possible I'm not seeing something you have planned for further down the line.
We were lucky in 2008 that there was the political will and capacity for Congress (and the incoming Obama administration) to do what they did. I think whatever people thought of the decisions at the time, the market recovery after 2008 (and all of the banks paying back those loans) is evidence that those decisions were right.

I'd be worried that the political will may not exist this time, or that the administration wouldn't be able to understand the problem well enough to even figure out what should be done.
For me it's too much easy to write them with sql or plpgsql.. and later I can use them from node, rust, go.. or whatever.. for me the dB (the model) it's the source of thruth that will lasts.. independent of the language that interacts with it...

Also the problem gets worst if you add to the mix something like elastic search. That it also has it's own schema and it's also has to be migrated..
Many quick, practical decisions are made on patient assessment and clinical judgement, not just numbers. None of us that I know of has ever come across a perfect pulse ox. "Treat the patient, not the numbers" as the saying goes. When they don't match up, I like to do things like use a different finger/hand (or ear lobe or forehead).
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This brings back happy memories of a college (senior high for the Americans in the audience) computing teacher finding a friend and I had been writing irritating malware instead of doing actual work, and his only comment being “if you’re going to email that to yourself change the extension so it doesn’t get flagged for IT support”.
It’s mentioned in the Twitter thread that at least some of the files have a password of “I accept” instead. That leads me to believe that the primary purpose might just be to indicate agreement to an NDA.
They also use pesticides pretty liberally.

But there is a somewhat interesting paper on North Korean entomology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554493/
I've seen that conversion in Silicon Valley.

There is the Valco mall in Cupertino being demolished for mixed use residential, retail and office space. That mall was dying for a decade.

https://revitalizevallco.com/

Then there is Santana Row in San Jose. Used to be a strip mall as I recall. Now its high end shopping and residential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_Row
Does it take reflections into consideration?
I remember reading that toxoplasmosis might also cause people to be engaging in more risk-taking behaviors. How do you even factor that, or similar behavior-altering parasites into a legal situation?
What mess around channels are you talking about? I've never heard anything about such a mess?

Not everyone uses Django to build a REST API that connects with a javascript SPA. And even if I was, I would still be skeptical that FastAPI could do everything Django does for me. (I do like Pydantic a lot, and actually use it some times in my Django apps.)
This is almost certainly not the same Light Stone. I'd wager a fair amount of money it's a UV resin-based extrusion setup that they mix themselves.
> Is there also support for a code-first approach where these rules are stored in a (sanely human editable) text format.

We follow this approach. ACL is generated as JSON which then pass through REST & GraphQL middlewares. Completely extensible. Do watch us out [1]

[1]:https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
It’s beautiful. Just mod 7 to find the day of the week.
So you're saying it's an area... without a lot of competition...
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> flapping in the wind

I'm fascinated by the push on laws around what people must wear, say on Florida beaches, contrasted with pushback on laws around what people must wear, say in Florida beach shops.

Does the government have the right to make you wear fabric for both face coverage and butt coverage, or neither?
Given the parameters of the experiment -- a tech journalist blocking all aspects of the "big five," including not even visiting website hosted by AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud -- this is obviously impossible. It would be like me refusing to use a smart phone and then yelling "Discrimination!" when my employer fires me for not logging in at work because 2FA using Duo is a requirement.

A more rational -- and interesting -- exercise would be to minimize and isolate the use of the Big Five's properties. In the example above, I could use an iPod touch to use my Duo authenticator to log in for work... and if I want to be ultra secure I could tether that to my flip phone's hotspot and use a VPN as well.

I think it's definitely doable to disconnect from the tech giants in your personal life and on your personal devices while only connecting to them when your job requires it and on hardware (or a VPN) on which you do the work your employer asks of you.
I disagree - their backup plan is getting bailed out. What you listed above is just standard operating procedure for them on a day-to-day.
Django migration scripts are run by devs after pulling from Master as well as deploying to prod. That gives everyone the same confidence that the migrations are working. If the migrations are borked, they get fixed or the prod deployment will break. Ideally this should be part of the CI/CD process for the PR.

Also it's worth noting that you can run all migrations from the beginning of time to the latest version on a development DB. And I believe the default Django unit testing framework does this by default.
A brain tumor is most likely a death sentence.
I think this should explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Sadly, this must be the easiest article for Bloomberg to write. They'll write another when his net worth dips below $100B.
It’s called ‘The General Theory of the Translation Company’ by R. Beninatto and T. Johnson.
How much did it cost?
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This seems like a great tool for certain statistical applications. I am learning a bit about the controversey surrounding extremely small p-values in Genome Wide Association Studies (think a million n ANOVA) and machine precision. I guess tools like this would be very useful to make sure your statistical tests can more accurately calculate p-values approaching the limits of machine precision.
> People wanted this because some (dumb) people insisted that "well, that task CANT move because it has to be done by then!"

So? There are tasks like this that simply CANT move, why should a project management tool not have the ability to model that? If you don't like the feature you don't have to use it.

I get that you wouldn't want these fixed dates and if you can just plan and execute your project by yourself, but that is not always the case.

As an example: I had a project where it was really important for us to inspect the Aircraft Type (A321) into which we wanted to install our hardware and software. We where given an opportunity to do so by an airline during the maintenance of one of their A321. This was a fixed date. If we didn't finish our preparations before that maintenance date then we simply would not get this opportunity (or at the very least would have to wait a very very long time for the next opportunity). The Aircraft would simply not wait for us.

Not every task can move and just because you think they should does not make it so. Maybe there is more to Microsoft Project than just YOUR use-case?
Yes, journalists should absolutely follow white supremacists and tell me what they're up to so I don't have to. That is their job.
>>>And?

It's a news story, there doesn't have to be any underlying editorial message. Sometimes the news is just "thing happens".
Banks don’t own much of CLOs compared to other market participants, banks have much more stable and safe assets across the board, the borrowers are not individuals with mortgages but companies with diverse capital structures and interests. They are similar to CDOs and there are certainly those taking too much risk in the CLO market. The Fed brought up this issue before the pandemic and no one seemed to care...
Exactly. That is the whole deal with being a commercial landlord. It isn't just "upward-only rent adjustments" every 5-10 years and cream a load of profit. There is meant to be some risk in return.

In London a lot of commercial rents in newly gentrified areas have went up 10x+ in the last 10-20 years. There has been an awful of lot of value transferred to these landlords for really not a huge amount of work in many cases.
Cloud kitchens also consolidate geographically associated, demographically rich, heavily identifiable consumer data in ways we haven't seen outside of retail, and with more richness and more intimacy than retail is capable of.

Amazon might sell you everything else ever made, but they aren't feeding you a hot meal, not learning what you're in the mood for, what you like to share with your friends and family, what experiences you prefer and reject down to individual condiments on an individual item, not yet, and then find you and physically go to you where you live, and where you work, and where you hang out — these vertical cloud kitchens will.

This is a goldmine for a very narrow slice of the tech economy, and like many tech disruptors the efficiency gains wrung out of the model won't make your life better as much as it will hurt the places you already use, all to benefit someone else the most.

The price or quality won't (and in places where these are already common, doesn't) matter as much as the information these extremely vertical operations can aggregate.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17333047
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I think they’re talking about the „for Dummies“ books
It seems this is for parsing multiple JSONs, each a few MBs at most. What does one do if they have a single 100GB JSON file? :)

ie.

{
// 100GB of data
}
Phew, thanks ...
Agreed. I'm shocked at how sympathetic the New York author was to these terrorists. And these people don't give a whit about "Black Lives Matter" either. They were Hamas terrorist sympathizers latching on to the BLM movement.
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Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074588
You can always say you reverse engineered it yourself. Hard to disprove.
The problem sounds like merging things that are not green on CI, not related to migrations with python Vs sql).

Think on it, you can just use Django on python, but you can use sql everywhere there is a dB.
Ah, my bad...
> No country Will extradite their own citizens, though.

This is demonstrably false. While not all of this list are Canadian citizens, some are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_extradited_fro...
No, because regardless of whether or not there's an epidemic, someone needs to run the schools, staff the fire station, fund an overpaid police force, and fix potholes.

Theoretically, you could borrow money for all this, but then you'll just get a bigger tax bill next year.
It does not matter whether you work in startup, or large company, or founding a startup. It does not matter whether you are a gen-x/y/z.

This is an invaluable resource!!!
yeah, I felt that that could have been the reference there, but the "movie" added onto the end just threw me right off
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