skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The least competitive markets are most likely local small-businesses with regional restrictions. By this I mean places that where you need to physically go (e.g. dry cleaner) or where someone needs to physically come to you (e.g. electrician). Because you're only competing with people in a specific region, these are going to be much less competitive than industries where you compete with the whole world (e.g. software).

This doesn't necessarily help you come up with new software, but it is something I've spent a lot of time thinking about since I'm also trying to start a business.
> There are already some very feature-rich self-hosted tools in this space (like PostHog) though. Any reason why you wouldn't want to use those tools?

Thanks for mentioning PostHog. It looks promising and friendly: https://posthog.com

I use https://plausible.io (open source too).

As for the reason, maintenance and integration. I only need aggregated insight into traffic such as location (country/state), heat spots on the supabase parts (auth, database), referrers, etc. Most of what I need could be inferred from the logs.
The natural application of this is in a code-inspection plugin for an IDE. Pretty cool tool!
I wouldn't be surprised if their staff have no tooling for looking at user reviews, period. The UI for looking at user reviews of your own stuff as a developer is really, really bad and I know that in the past other Google properties have had this issue - YouTube annotations were invisible to their trust and safety staff, for example.
> IMO, the video and audio both are slightly better than Zoom.

Firm disagree.

Three days ago, I presented a video in a google meet stream for 50+ people. For three minutes the stream dropped frames , displayed visual artifacts and lagged behind my narration.

I was on gigabit internet and so were my colleagues.

I never had this problem with zoom, and I would never use google meets for a streaming setup again.
Cliff Stoll: The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator [pdf]
Pixel 4a with fingerprint scanner, headphone jack and bigger battery looks nice, but unfortunately they don't have an xl version.
A hunting reserve is not a wilderness preserve. The US actually protects its wilderness areas.

And the national parks and forests in CA are very much the result of local residents.
Maybe to this person, reading into The Matrix has become a ritual of conformity, and they're needing to break free of it.

OTOH, maybe reading into people's shallowness has become a ritual of conformity, and we need to break free of it.
They're changing the lights all over the city. You can see the stars again. I can see way more stars now than 5 years ago.
There used to be GHC and Rust plugins. I don't know much about building IDE plugins, but I agree it'd be a great use of Herbie.
Opposite of fast fashion (rapidly created clothing based off catwalk trend mass produced in vast amounts, normally in very poor working conditions, see Primark, H&M, Zara, GAP, Uniqlo, TopShop etc). Cheap, generally fairly low quality, aim is to encourage people to buy more and discard their "old" clothes.

So slow fashion aims to be the opposite, to slow consumerism (sustainable working conditions, materials, emphasis on locality where possible, etc). Obviously more expensive as new clothes removes the mass production [sweatshop] element and uses higher quality materials that won't fail as quickly. As sibling comment says second hand clothes are major part of this
anecdotal, but my roommate is a first year lawyer. A lot of his job is taking old legal docs and updating them for new deals. This is a lot of tedious search and replace and formatting in hard-to-edit PDFs.

A sample scenario is one of his senior colleagues takes a PDF and writes in some comments -- almost like a teacher grading an essay with a red pen, change this x to y, etc. This goes to my friend, who reviews, edits, and returns the draft by email. And there will be a lot of back and forth, plus other people making edits in real time.

watching this i can't help but notice how remarkably similar it is to programming, minus all the convenience of programming tools.

i don't know what the product or barriers are here, but these people could easily 10x if they knew about version control and markup languages.
This is an awesome effort. This looks fantastic and I perused it for barely 60 seconds so far. Great work to you all! Bravo!
Ask HN: Black bar added to top of page?
It appears a new <tr> with a black image as background has been added to the top of HN, above the main table. Is that intentional?
Actually, the correct name is:

"Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu". The 80 character HN limit strikes again.
Pretty interesting, I'd strongly suggest anyone commenting read the article because the researchers use two distinct definitions of "political correctness" which they show to be strongly anti-correlated, with the common usage of political correctness being anti-correlated with the Dark Triad and the "authoritarian" one being correlated to both the Dark Triad and alt-right behavior.

In other words, the title has been changed from the original, "The Dark Triad traits predict authoritarian political correctness and alt-right attitudes" and mis-represents the author's findings.

I'd argue that "authoritarian political correctness" is the wrong term for questions such as, "When a charge of sexual assault is brought forth, the alleged perpetrator should have to prove his or her innocence” as that's straight up authoritarianism. While, "There are no biologically based differences in personality, talent, andability to reason, between racial groups." is pretty well aligned with conventional political correctness.

The fact that the researchers themselves show that agreement in one of those statements strongly correlated with disagreement with the other is evidence that supports my opinion.
This answers the question "will we ever have AI as smart as a human?"

Yes. It just turns out it's a particular human, whose analysis is very very dumb.
A friend of mine worked at an agronomist's, and at one point a customer walked in looking to buy a bag of clover for his garden. My friend gave him the wrong bag by mistake, and the customer came back a few months later to tell the agronomist that he now had to park his car over the new spinach plants EVERYWHERE.
3% is in the margin of error, surely, so basically no gain? Just a waste of dev time?

Feels like you should make that the start of the blog post and cut it down massively, so people know it's not worth bothering with?
All publicly available EEG datasets
For most of its history IE auto-updated but was never considered evergreen because its update cycle was tied to the much slower OS update cycle and the cost gating of OS upgrade purchases. Evergreen tends to also imply "shorter update cycle" (at least regular six-month intervals seems to be the general case now) and little to no gating.
DNA testing revealed that I am 47% Jewish, so yes, the holocaust argument is particularly relevant. I have weighed these concerns. But you’re vaguely gesturing towards atrocities and saying “There are good reasons, right there!” And I just don’t see them.

Will you please walk me through a scenario that starts with DNA testing and ends with the murder of millions of people? Because certain unnamed countries seem to already be doing that, and they are either already using DNA or don’t need it.

The argument here seems to be “if we let the US do this, there is a very real risk of authoritarian overreach.” Sure, I see that. I just don’t buy it. What specifically is the concern with, say, the US or Britain using DNA testing?

Even if the world mandated DNA testing tomorrow for the entire population, we would largely be in the same position we’re already in, thanks to the internet and smartphones.

I realize this is an unpopular stance. But is it mistaken?
Unfortunately most VC jobs are purely connection based and do not really rely on any sort of skill. Which is of course natural to do industry.
My favorite excel feature is when it randomly flips a 0 to an 8 or vice-versa in really long integers. Took a long time to figure out what was going on with that one.
How are these non-experts getting started? If they are in academia, academia should start teaching these practical things too. (Yes, I know the problem is that many old school bigwig researchers are doing even worse things.)
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The Problem with Government Regulations
Black Founders Matter makes first investment
New study: 8 in 10 people positive for Covid-19 in England had no symptoms
I think you should still include the temporal factor here.

Yes there might _have_ been a reason for a the market to be competitive, but something might have changed in the past few years that has removed or minimized that reason.

These are the marketing that are ripe for competition.
It's not common in my native language.
It's surprisingly hard to get a "map" of existing markets

No, it's not. It might take more than a Google search.

You can extract what you want from US business census data. See "data.census.gov". Look for NAICS codes with a small number, but greater than 3, companies, and high dollar amounts for the category.
I love prep work! Cutting down a whole chicken.... chopping, prepping the mise en place. I find it really relaxing. :) seriously. Love the cooking part also too... what I hate is the dishwashing!
I disagree that I am privileged to have access to the fat of the land, but if you want to talk privilege then remember this in the context of:

1/ paying someone else to cook for you

2/ paying another person to deliver this food to you

3/ funding a fleet of SWEs and marketers to run the whole thing for you, by paying a double digit surcharge over what you might have paid if you’d gone to the restaurant in person.

I would say that the privileged are those funding the Seamless / Deliveroo serfs. I can’t afford to.
Wear OS will lose Google Play Music months before a YouTube Music app exists
I don't understand the problem. x and y are free, so you can choose x=y. Then obviously, f(x)=f(y). Then it should follow x=x xor c, thus c=0. Or did they forget to claim that x and y are different?
That very well might be the case.
Estimating Covid-19 Under-Reporting Across 86 Nations
This sounds an awful lot like projection and not at all how Republicans think...
Given the range of incubation times and symptomatic vs non-symptomatic carriers, how would you prove that someone caught the infection at location X?
I maybe misspoke. I meant that scientists do not go into science to program, they go into it to discover and do research (among many many other things). Sure, some do find joy in good programming, but that's not why they are there to begin with. Becoming a better programmer isn't their passion, and those skills remain underdeveloped as a result.
Why is genealogical data so valuable?
Great strategy - you are saving yourself a lot of time with this approach.

What's the value of a good "map" of an existing market? What are you willing to pay for one?
I’m not sure whether the competitiveness of the market is very relevant for your success in finding a profitable innovation. Profitable innovation is hard, in any market.

There may be an expectation that there are higher profit margins in non-competitive markets, so you may have an advantage there that any innovation will allow you to capture more excess profits as it will take longer for those excess products to be eaten by increased competition you triggered.

On the other hand, there’s an expectation that the incumbent(s) in a non-competitive market has a lot of funds at its disposal (due to years of capturing producers excess profits in a non-competitive market) to hamper innovation.

To me, this illustrates that whether the market is competitive or not is not very relevant. The question is whether you are able to outcompete the market by reducing costs and/or improving your offering compared to your market, whether that’s a single monopolist or 1,000 highly competitive companies.
Posts like this are really disappointing to me. I come to hacker news to read about technology and startups. If I wanted to read about general news topics (bees, insects, glyphosate, general monsanto hate, etc...) I would frequent google news, CNN, or reddit.
Slated for release in Firefox 80 in less than three weeks (8/25)
There are already a few formats that work just like JPEG but for modern video formats. Some of them even compress better (FLIF). They just haven't caught on at all. JPEG just has so much momentum.

Those other formats weren't developed by huge corporations who can force it into browsers through pure hegemony. That's probably a factor.
Those who repealed net neutrality are consistently pro-monopoly and corporate corruption. It might be not ideological, but does it make it any better if they do it for money? The result is still awful.
Sigh, these federal-state-local legal fights over single issues are so exhausting to see, because they really point to no single coherent strategy across our country. For so many issues.

Topic A -- certain state governors don't want to be mandated to do something they don't like that's gaining popular support, and so declare / pass laws that prevent localities from passing their own mandates (any current topic you can think of?)

Topic B -- same or other state governors don't want to have federally mandated rules on another topic, so go against the principle they just used for their own localities, and say that they cannot be mandated to follow something they disagree with.

Topic C -- yet another topic comes up where governors want everyone to follow a certain guideline and not deviate, and insist that every locality does follow top-down legislation, and get upset at other states that don't follow the rule.

Topic D -- "states should have the right to try their own solutions" and not be imposed upon by peanut-butter inappropriate federal solutions on things they disagree with.

Topic E -- "states should follow rules given from the federal government" on things they do agree with.

I'm sometimes exhausted by this patchwork. And principles that flap in the wind.
The biggest problem with government regulations is that they are often written in a reactionary or temporary way, but then become enshrined either by bureaucracy or entrenched interests.
I don't understand what their AUM has to do with it?
Happens when someone dies.
To get started hacking satellites, you've got to communicate with them first
Probably exchange to exchange cold wallets etc
This is often used to memorialise important figures. I wish there were some set-up where one could click on it to find out whom it's memorialising. Usually there's an accompanying front-page story, but I don't see it today.
From the article:

> The labels will go on the accounts for China Daily, Russia Today, Sputnik and other media outlets, a Twitter spokesperson said. But not Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, two media outlets funded by the U.S. government, or NPR and the BBC. The blog post described NPR and the BBC as “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence.”
This thread talks about Apple as if they're the only company offering support and warranties. Whether it's their products or services, Apple's success is based on a smooth experience and they pursue to control the entire ecosystem. So for them to offer long-lasting support is neither surprising nor significant.

The Android phone market is distributed. You can get almost anything there you can get from Apple, in particular wherever the competition regulators had done their work.

The stuff Google itself is participating in is a different matter. Honestly, with respect to consumer products and UX Google is generally a failure. It's like Google is full of engineers and analysts but lacks talent in every other profession. Even Microsoft which has been so often a late-comer and the death for so many brands seems to be better at it.
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we are hoping that would change if more VCs start listing their jobs publicly so anyone can apply.
I don’t think so, as their competitors already know Google is Google and has virtually unlimited resources. As far as I understand from the article it was mostly a matter of “hey can we have extra capacity”, which shouldn’t surprise any competitors.
> I don't think the schools should open, but I'm also quietly prepared for this to be a lost educational year for my kids.

"Quietly prepared" as in what? You're just going to accept it? Or you're going do what you have to to fill in the gaps and make it not a lost year for your kids?

I'd urge you (and everyone) to go for the second option. They're your kids. They're not the school system's kids; they're yours. If you have to spend time and/or money to make sure that they actually get the education they need (because the school system can't or won't[1]), even if you have to give up some things to do so, do what you can to help your kids.

[1] I'm not yelling at the school system here. They're in an impossible situation. They can't function at 100% effectiveness in an impossible situation? No shame in that, and no surprise, either.
Society has collapsed several times throughout the millenniums of human existence and gold has been one of the few constant sources of wealth store and retention that has resurfaced with each new incarnation of society. Given this truth, it is a pretty good indicator that it will resurface after/when the next collapse comes. We know gold was used a exchange and storage of value since the dawn of recorded human history and probably was for sometime before humans started recording history and it is still used now, which could be argued that it is of least use to modern society yet it has endured. Simply put gold while maybe not the greatest investment, is one of the most stable sources of wealth. If I have a million dollars today and I want the equivalent of a million dollars in 100 years, gold is one of the best stores of that value. That does not mean I will get a return on my money (i.e my money working for me) but it means I have reasonable faith that I will at least get out close to what I put in and that is what gold has been traditionally good for. I heard it said one that in the 1800's an ounce of gold would buy a man a finely tailored suit. Today and ounce of gold will buy a man a finely tailored suit and that is really the point of gold, it is not an investment, it is a fairly secure long term storage of wealth.
Airtable is closer to a database than a spreadsheet. Records are represented as rows in their default grid view, but there are other views available. They can also be retrieved as JSON objects through the API that Airtable automatically generate for you.
So true. Reddit loves these "pro revenge" type stories, all one-sided and unverifiable, where the author is a lone hero, toiling against an uncaring world.
Don't expect much from a BuzzFeed blog about a viral photo.
I was curious so I looked to see if I could find a chart that shows how long iPhones typically receive iOS updates. Some are up to 6 major releases (and possibly more — we'll find out next year).

https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...
I think in most cases the thermite trap would probably get you into more trouble for ATF violations and not even help by adding destruction of evidence and whatever they imagined was on the drive unless you had some authority like security clearence and classified documents or some sort of legal pretext to justify uses of such flammable boobytraps.
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I dont know Lua, but async/await in JavaScript is syntax sugar for a coroutine.
This is great - thank you.
US offers $10M bounty on hackers meddling in the presidential election
You can change 'republican' to 'democratic' in your comment, and it would still apply. You can also change 'budgets' and 'deficit' to 'war' and 'interventions' (with either party), and it also works.
The least competitive markets don't exist yet, the next least are tiny. These attract the smallest and least well funded competition.
And here I thought you were asking in good faith.
Take the red pill, and find your way there.
DNA testing company Ancestry sold for $4.7B to private equity firm Blackstone
Talk with potential customers

https://www.slideshare.net/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-test
entr is a critical part of my workflow these days. I have set up an alias `w` which watches a specific file and I have set vim to touch that file every time I save. This works for basically all projects with no setup.

Example `w cargo test` runs my tests on save. `w systemctl reload nginx` when I am trying out changes to `nginx.conf`, `w gitlab-runner exec docker build` or `w d eval 'cargo build --release && time target/release/solve' games/micheal-fogleman.txt` to build and benchmark my program on every save.

It is incredibly simple and useful for just about anything.
Does the lady in picture shown breast feeding two kids holding a beer? I think it might be harmful to consume alcohol while breastfeeding but more strange is the choice of picture for the article.
Pronunciation for those curious: https://web.archive.org/web/20081014111519/http://www.korero...
LibreOffice Calc: "SEPT-2" is a date, "SEPT2" is not.
> Tere are smarter ways

Smarter ways that don't work don't help. There might be smarter ways to prevent monopoly abuse than anti-trust laws (and net neutrality is idea of the same category like other competition laws), but monopolists have a lot of power to counteract those ways once they are already entrenched. They never play fair.

Google tried with Fiber. It went so well because of fair entrenched incumbents, didn't it?
After going to one of the early Maker Faires, and seeing so many interesting exhibits and projects, I had this same idea, of course with absolutely no clue about how to implement it. If enough people take pictures of the exhibits from a variety of angles, and make them available online, a virtual Maker Faire could be created. Thanks for sharing this!
I presume because of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066832
When did you last visit a farm?

Maybe a farm-to-table joint in SoHo, Soho, or SoMa makes things seem glamorous. The prices probably do.

In rural England, raising livestock and growing food is so run of the mill it’s incredible to think it’s some kind of privilege to have access to primary sources of food.

It’s not even expensive. You just have to not live in the/a Metropolis.
Correct. See, for example, this story about a man being arrested and jailed for a crime he didn’t commit because his photo was in a database:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni...

The implications for misuse of genetic information are even more serious.
> Adding types post-hoc has never improved a codebase that I've seen but it has caused a lot more bad patterns to show up.

I mostly meant that I do all my greenfield JS dev using TypeScript. Out of curiosity, what bad patterns have you seen caused by adding types “post-hoc”?
Health codes in saner municipalities which are the municipalities occupied with people that have the most disposable income are extremely expensive to follow as they dictate enormous number of variables, ranging from what can be stored and how to what kind of cooking process one must follow.

For example, AC banned partially pre-cooking of poultry around 2012(?) at which point Revel's restaurant had to can its most ordered and one of the most profitable dishes as its guests were not interested in waiting for nearly an hour for a chicken to be cooked from scratch. They used to partially cook it, stick it into the fridge, wait for the order and finish cooking it in ~15-20 minutes. It was a total disaster for the restaurant.