skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this! @vishnumohandas
I wish I could've seen more posts like this when I started out ~3 years ago.

This is my 35th month as a sole founder. A few things I did to fight "loneliness" as a sole founder:

1, Invested in productivity. Life is not easy, so you should treat yourself well :) I spent time building scripts to make dev & ops easy. I rented a WeWork desk (first 6 months), then upgraded to a private office (2 years), then moved out wework (recent 6 months, due to covid-19). I bought SaaS products from other companies - I like spending money to save time.

2, Make it easy for others to contact myself. I put my contact on every page of my website [1]. The happiest moment of my day is always the time when I talk to inbound emails from some strangers. Yes, there will be trolls, but most people are nice & with good intention. Nowadays, I spend at least 1/3 of my time reply emails everyday.

3, Share progress on the Internet. I write a monthly email newsletter to report my progress [2] and some blogs to share my experience & thoughts [3], which help me make some friends on the Internet :)

4, Meet people offline. Quite a few of my former coworkers are doing startups now. We hanged out a lot pre-COVID-19.

5, Unfollow some people on social media (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook…) and avoid seeing news from TechCrunch and other unhealthy VC-focused online media. Avoid status game.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/

[2] http://listennotes.substack.com/

[3] https://www.listennotes.com/blog/
> And of course, that dialog won't be a modal of the browser.

There are several decent options. You could build a modal that displays a view of the file system sourced from the server. Or you could pop a real native file dialog from the server, and I'm betting it's possible to either make it a real modal of the browser window or do a good enough simulation depending on platform. Or in the future you could use the native file system API that is currently in origin trial.

I submit that this is not weirder than most cross-platform UI toolkits that implement their own whacky replacements for the native file dialogs.
Show HN: Recreating Medium's LQIP Technique
Celebration of the 200th anniversary of London's first ever 'Circle line' (2008)
Here's my understanding. YMMV.
Moonlighting: working side job/s for other entities while you are employed full time by one entity.

The full-time employment entity is your own company (if you are the founder) or your full-time employer and there could be other companies or individuals to whom you work for part-time (1 day a week, adhoc days/hours, weekends etc) and you are paid for that work.

You have two things to consider:

1. Make sure it is legal (for example if you are on certain types of work-permit visa in some countries it might be illegal to work for anyone other than the work visa sponsor).

2. Make sure you don't have conflict in your employment contract clauses (many full-time employment contracts have clauses that prevent you from working for others even for part-time without explicit permission from the full-time employer).

Usually if you ask your full-time employer, they may permit you to do one-off consultations to other companies (and get paid for it) if they think it would not take your focus away from your FTE work and if there is no conflict of interest or potential to reveal trade-secrets (example: if that other company is a competitor etc).
The sitting president was elected as a Republican on the promise of deporting foreign nationals living illegally in the United States. Wether you agree or strongly disagree with that policy, how is suing to let them stay “non-partisan”?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/aclu-sues-over-us-border-p...

EDIT:
I’m not arguing about this policy. The fact that 43% of Americans oppose the admittance of central american migrates seeking to claim refugee status makes it a partisan issue.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245624/support-central-american...
"many places"? More like a total relic of the past.

In my 20 year career, I've worked in all sorts of industries across corporate America including NY finance, insurance, politics, and medical and educational institutions as you list. I've never been in an environment where people addressed even the CEO as "Mr. xxxx."

My last job was at a research hospital. Being old school, I always start introductions by addressing researchers and doctors as, "Dr. xxxx." Everyone insisted I call them by their first names, and a few outright told me they felt uncomfortable with me addressing them as "Dr. xxxx." One said, "Only psychopaths address people by their titles."

I can see how titles still holds true for military and law enforcement, but I've never seen an institution where that even exists today. Probably because it's a huge red flag of insecurity if the head person requires it.
>I am convinced it is only "beginner friendly" because of how much folks insist it is so.

Well, also because you can open a text editor and have a script with very straighforward code in 10 minutes...
The Snowden leaks showed that the NSA has built the capacity to spy on essentially the entire internet. You really think they'll balk at a few petabytes?
that seems to me a simplifistic conclusion.

modern interfaces in windows 10 and macOS are quite inconsistent and not-beatiful compared to for ex. KDE which slowly evolves and polishes up. macOS on the other hand limits and removes features without becoming more consistent.
Can't they just ask the NSA for the Emails?
I agree that it is probably quite rare to invoke the c preprocessor in the download folder ... but than again it hardly does any harm.
Reading this article, I feel really proud of the solo founder for having the commitment, fortitude and skills to come as far as he has.

I can also relate to the need for focus and attention, but it saddens me to see founders and passionate developers who think they need to cut off social ties and events for their product to succeed. This isn't something that I like to hear, but perhaps it can be effective for some.

My response, and my question, to solo founders and developers working on their passion projects:

Do you use or know of any resources for finding good teammates?
Do you have to do it alone, or do you want to?

I've made a few friends on angel.co, but I think it would be great to have some kind of resource that helps pair or facilitate partnerships for healthier product development.
Do they put it in airplane mode to enforce that?
I have toyed with DHTs successfully over Tor and it works work fine, but that's just peer discovery. If large data transfer doesn't go over Tor, you're still exposing your IP. If large data transfer does go over Tor you're potentially harming the network (even if it's just to onion service) by over using relays (and Tor actively discouraged BT use over the network). There are alternatives like Tribbler, but none popular enough.

Also onion service v3 addresses, which are entire ed25519 public keys, won't fit in an ipv6 address (haven't checked base 32/36/whatever for v2 onion addresses, but surely also won't fit in, say, a /64).
Dude, I hit a cop with my car one time and I didn't get so much as stopped. So yeah. It's different.
Seems unlikely. This is showing a 10:1 estimate, where New Yorkks, based on zero positivity, was 6:1 or so. Using 10:1 it would be around 25% infected in New York State.
...sounds like it costs much more than the $10 pi0...

I imagine the OP's use case of IoT did not require huge amounts of bandwidth.
1. "Soldiers use even better bullets"

Almost universally not true. The Geneva convention prohibits many types of bullets that are allowed for civilian use. Hollow points, for example. And there are good reasons why they're allowed for civilians and not war.

2. It's not fair to give us a sanctimonious lecture about how great your country's police procedures are without stating your country. Put up, or drop the lecture.

I mean, imagine the chutzpah if you're German!
I haven't exhaustively evaluated it, but they claim to be actually simulating the transmission, not just tracing the death curve.
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices directly via TCP, UDP
"...paramedics are allowed to inject sedatives when treating a patient."

Firstly, eliminate qualified immunity in the USA. Until everyone can be held accountable for their actions, this convo is moot.
And don't come within 100 miles of the border.
Characterizing a trademark opposition as "a routine piece of paperwork" isn't exactly doing the issue any justice, either. Apple have opposed the registration of the Prepear trademark, because they believe that it infringes on their own. The manner in which that was carried out at Apple, e.g. by routine, is irrelevant.

If instead of calling it "breaking out the big guns to stomp all over a tiny business" or a "routine piece of paperwork" we could describe things as they are (like the article does) and be less confused over what's happening.

> This story is that “they’re taking the fight to Canada”, which begs the question that there’s even a fight.

Do you disagree that there is an obvious sense in which one might call this kind of dispute a fight?
"I identify as a male-presenting transgender lesbian" might have placated him.
You could have made this exact point in a far more friendly way and earned friends/supporters. This type of reply merely makes me want to avoid everything you’re involved in.
Because that would be blatantly illegal? Never stopped crappy police officiers to do crappy things but hey.
Hello fellow Onyx Boox user. I'm trying to edit PDFs with the ONYX Note application but, it's very limited. Have you found any hand writing applications that edit PDFs? I guess I'm asking what applications are you using daily on your BOOX.
This study proposes 10:1 instead of 6:1 or so found in New York from seroprevalence. So still not anywhere near a majority getting it even if you adjusted by the difference.
Social workers and ER nurses, in particular, have field-tested practices for dealing with people who are anxiously disoriented — or violently psychotic - in a manner which resolves the situation peacefully.

All I can say for what I did at the time was an intuition that I was confronted with a half-tranquilized, large confused ape and so acted as to prevent them from panicking and running amok with calm words, movements, and (most importantly I suspect in that state) caring touch.
I mean, some hypothetical nasty terrorist could do a drop somewhere along the border, where they presumably don't have camera's.

I'm sure that the diligent border patrol protecting us would find it eventually.
Good reply!! :)
Being charged is enough to hold you for 3 days, as well as to put you on probation for a couple months afterwards, even if the charges are dropped. This happened to a friend of mine when he was frustrated with an inland border control roadblock and didn't want to answer the questioning officer. He did not resist, was not violent in any way. He simply politely declined to answer.

In the end it cost him over a grand to get his car back and to pay for drug tests required by the probation. Again, he was never actually charged with anything.

Policing in this nation is fundamentally broken. The bad cops know how to use the system to brutalize people without consequences, and the rest of the police close ranks and protect them while they do it.
Been indie 10+ years (aged 23-34) and can definitely say that — once it works out — the autonomy and independence make it an absolute dream lifestyle.

Some pointers and observations I've learned along the way.

1. The hardest part of persisting is the emotional game. Improve your motivation by doing things in a way that even a failure of your primary business goal still leaves you in a better position career/skill-wise than when you started. Also: figure out how to separate your identity from your business, otherwise every tiny failure or criticism will sap your energy.

2. For many — maybe most — products within reach of a solo founder, marketing will take up at least as much time as development. Unlike programming, marketing is shrouded in something not unlike the fog of war in RTS games. It is highly exploratory and experimental in nature. But dealing with this uncertainty carries its own intellectual appeal, one that you can learn to embrace — or even enjoy.

3. Outsource as much as can. If some work can be done for less than your hourly rate as a freelancer, then, overall you're more efficient to code for $$$ then pay someone to handle that part of your business.

4. The technical skills that are most useful to a solo founder are more to do with system design than programming languages and frameworks. You should focus on things like data integrity, uptime, redundancy, error-tracking, rapid response to production issues, integration testing, etc. rather than which React.js state library is better.

5. Get to know other solo-founders. I formed a monthly meetup with about ten other people in a similar boat in my town and these sessions acted both as a support network and as a way to get feedback on my (sometimes harebrained) ideas.

I've a lot more to say on this topic and I go into way more depth in the screencasts I post over at https://www.semicolonandsons.com/
Great idea. MobileNetv2 is the model used currently due to it's small footprint (I used transfer learning on a dataset of NSFW and SFW images). A more robust model ran on all positives could improve performance overal.
If you think Americans have to address superiors by their titles, you haven't interacted with Americans nor been inside an American workplace.
That's an easy question to answer.

python -m pip is often advised over pip or /usr/bin/pip, because it uses the version of pip associated with that particular major+minor python install.

https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/
Which is near impossible if you live in any city with an international airport.
This is really interesting given the history (Steve was Disney's biggest shareholder as a result of the Pixar acquisition).
Definitely but the conversation is about the use of ketamine, not prosecution of bad policemen, which everyone universally condemns.
Really wish I could enter a fake password on my Android device to launch a fake persona
Are you crossing illegally? If not then they wouldn't care. If you are then you got bigger problems than them.
> There has to be a reason it took half a dozen people to hold him down.

This is the kind of rationalization that gets policies like this instituted. Having to be held down by six people isn't a requirement for being diagnosed with "excided delirium," anything is sufficient, because it's not a falsifiable diagnosis. The look in someone's eye can be enough. Talking back can be enough.

Also, by "enough," I mean enough for people who are already reactionaries of the law and order type to rationalize it. If it happened to a hypothetical white guy in some office complaining about his tax bill (who also showed no aggression and only tested positive for trace amounts of marijuana), could you imagine that people would still be alluding to "some reason" why "excited delirium" was actually a cool and reasonable diagnosis?

I mean, this is a violinist massage therapist who volunteered at animal shelters. This event is just more evidence that video will neither save you nor avenge you. You're as likely to be able to keep law enforcement from injecting ketamine into you on a whim as you are to keep law enforcement from being able to search your person or your car. With "There has to be a reason it took half a dozen people to hold him down," the reaction justifies itself.
And murder is ok?
Massively unpopular? I doubt most people are aware of them, and many would be in favor for protecting us from terrorism/drugs.
Don't persist as a solo founder but do it if you have to.

I was a solo founder and at the end of my journey, I realized I would have given up 25-50% of my company just to
1. have someone else to talk to on a daily basis
2. have someone I could bounce ideas off,
3. someone who could have focused on the parts where I was bad (even if they didn't have that skillset).

I would have done twice as much as solo founder.

Push yourself to find a co=founder. Invest 10% of your time in it. Have no expectations. Slowly you'll get a nose for the kind of people you will want to work with. Also you'll polish up your people skills which you'll need to raise money and to run a sucessful business in the future.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further go with a team.
(There is no fast startup.)
There are a plethora of full disk encryption tools. Linux has dm-crypt, Windows has BitLocker, iOS and Android have it. I assume there's a way to enable full disk encryption in OSX but I'm not familiar with the ecosystem.

They can force you to unlock/provide password to your devices if they have probable cause that there is evidence of a crime on the disk. Typically this is because someone looked over a shoulder and saw child porn on the screen. I'm not aware of anyone being forced to provide passwords or keys in any other circumstance, but I'm not an expert.

Encrypt your data, keep your devices off. Do this even if you have "nothing to hide".
This ties in to what I wrote before: I prefer a philosophy where groups of commands are not written in the shell DSL, but are instead native statements (as much as possible), and the user is forced to use native control flow.

Documentation is not going to make me warm up to the idea, because I don't like having the choice to use the DSL so much.

With that in mind, perhaps I'm not the most valid person to provide criticism of this project ;)
I fail to understand how a country that (purportedly) has always been anti-communist establishes these measures.

These searches are literally worse than what happened at the iron curtain borders.

But if you are in favor of the original ideals as championed by the constitution, you are a bad libertarian or alt-right.
You mean the letters of some publicly unknown sympathisers of unsavoury policies back in 1945? They would be of much use to state agencies.
I can find only finland where internet is a legal right.

"Since July 2010, Finland has become the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Finland

Other country like Estonia and Croatia have a very large free wifi access for everyone.
2 out of 3 people in the U.S. live within 100 miles of a border zone. About 200 million people. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
> My entire point is that we should not be injecting people with non emergency drugs like Ketamine.

Instead your argument seems to be that we should be subjecting people to significant risk from rhabdo, hyperthermia, which to be clear can be entirely significant.
> That’s it - that’s the only thing I’ve heard that Apple’s actually done. The press makes it sound like they’re trying to have Prepear’s founders keelhauled or something, but to me this looks like routine paperwork

Where does the press make it seem like Apple are trying to have Prepear's founders "keelhauled or something"? I understand that you are now not commenting on the article here (which certainly doesn't).
I read a story where someone lost access to their google account and had to go through living hell to get the access back. Reaching a human for support was outright impossible.

Privacy was not that big a deal for me, but if I had lost access to my email for any reason, I would have had zero rights to demand what is mine - because nothing is really mine, as I have never paid for the service, so I was never a customer to begin with.

I moved off gmail last year after using it since 2004 (I remember getting an invite and using the service even before it was launched).
Why destroy the wall when it traps valuable equipment that you can lob explosive shells at.
What is their current motto, out of curiosity?
Is the earth flat? are you still close when the earth turns 90 degrees?
This has literally nothing to do with communism. And plenty of people from the left are against these measures too so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Why are there so many comments on this page talking about courts and judges and suing?
Well, in theory, yes. In practice, there have been recorded instances where the US Government has asked people to disclose their social media [1] and in other ones (I failed to find the source) refused access to people who refused to log into their accounts.

Also, if you're a non-american traveler, all the constitutional rights you're afforded as an American don't apply. So they can pretty much ask whatever and refuse you access for any reason.

It's like the US is becoming more and more like China. But it's a worlwide trend, really, with old men screaming "We're gonna be in the dark !" ... It's thoroughly depressing.

Edit: As written down in the comments, the part about foreigners' rights is wrong. See comment for correction.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/22/14066082/us-customs-bord...
> What's a reasonable way to protect yourself here?

Contact your representatives in government and tell them to make legislation banning this practice. Donate to the ACLU.
Depends, cross platform native like APIs are one thing.

The other is when an application is packaged for the store, the native APIs are automatically made available, no need for you to manually write any FFI.

This how it used to work for old Edge, and Edge Chromium might eventually get something similar.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-...

And on Android,

https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi...
The Playstation 5 system software is based on FreeBSD 12
That seems like an overly generalised thing to say.
Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna (2017)
I'd love to see Apple's trademark terminated because they appear unable to tell a pear from an apple and are therefore unfit to use trademarks with fruit images.
Which is what would start happening if professional medical associations banned the practice.
> I think its theoretically the best way to do things

I think a GPU-targeted equivalent of Skia is going to be better on modern hardware. And will continue to become better on future hardware because GPUs improve faster than CPUs, even on mobile: Pi4 can do about 10 GFlops on CPU, 32 Gflop on GPU.

Skia was designed at the time when vector graphics was expected to be rasterized on CPU. People have managed to implement GLES backend, but I don’t think it’s efficient. A purposely-built GPU-centric library can do better.

Microsoft did better when they made Direct2D and DirectWrite, these two make the rendering backend of UWP GUI framework. There‘s 1 disadvantage of that platform but it’s a huge one: it only works on top of Direct3D 11 and therefore Windows only.

Wasn’t always the case, but by now we already have decent 3D GPU support on all platforms, both hardware and software. Even the web can now do that with WebGL. However, no one so far made a cross platform equivalent of Direct2D and DirectWrite.

If you click on the link in my parent comment, you’ll see a proof of concept how it can be done. It even includes a component to play h264 video with hardware decoder. That was an unpaid hobby project so there’re large missing pieces (the largest of them are missing text support when using Direct2D backend, and no gradient or image brushes in my custom 2D backend), but both are doable, I just neglected.

That library is built on top of .NET Core 2.1 (I didn’t want to use C++ more than necessary), works on Windows with Direct3D 12, and on Raspberry Pi4 on top of GLES 3.0. The GPU abstraction library I’ve picked supports all of them except WebGL, supporting iOS, Android and OSX should be straightforward: http://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/
I literally thought this was an onion article. What competent judge would rule that those logos are remotely similar. Does apple get free reign of all fruit-based logos in the tech space simply because apple? WTF?
Authoritarianism != economics.