skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have managed to find a niche where others are not grind-minded either. I won't pretend to tell you or anyone how to do this given the complexities of everyone's life. I'm sorry, I don't know.

I am obviously not Startup material! :-P
I am not management material.
I am not an entrepreneur par excellence.
I won't die rich.

But I hope to leave the world a better place than it would've been without me, even if only a little bit.

And enjoy it in the meantime.
Thanks; I was looking for just this a couple of days ago.
This phenomenon is pre-Internet. There were many great used bookstores in New York in the 70' and 80's. I went back twenty years later and most had disappeared. I think it's a function of a certain kind of person that wants to be independent, doing something they love. Those mavericks are gone.
Nowadays avoided by GNU tools, though. (requires --no-preserve-root)
Have you ever wondered why you can't eat fish caught in wilderness lakes over much of the American west?

Because of mercury levels, courtesy of coal-burning power plants. It goes up the smokestack and lands in the food chain.

This is also why people are advised to limit consumption of ocean-caught salmon, tuna, etc. - they have high mercury content, almost entirely thanks to coal plant smokestack emissions.
As far as I know, it was never implemented anywhere in the US. I don't think I was aware of its existence until some time in my 20s, and then only because I took an active interest in retro- and unusually constrained computing environments, and their allies such as oldschool information services.
There's probably a way, register facebook.cn and allow censors to censor content, store everything in a data center somewhere in China, people has to use ID to register, etc.

At which point it doesn't make much sense to operate in China.

This is also precisely why TikTok is not available in mainland China, because it doesn't meet those standards.
I'd love to have Chinese entrepreneurs have full access to the US markets and vice versa.

However, if the business environment becomes unfair I believe the other party has the right to push back.

I don't believe the US is going about it the best way, but I believe it has the right to push. Would much rather have clear and consistent policies as to when actions are taken and how to rectify.
Not to mention it's a false statement. They do fund exclusives through their publishing arm, and are currently in the process of funding the next games by Remedy (creators of Control), Playdead (Limbo, Inside), and Gen Design (ex Team Ico team, responsible for The Last Guardian and such): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_m4LxDG1D4

And according to Skybound Games CEO, Epic was also involved in helping to establish the team that completed development of The Walking Dead's final season after Telltale collapsed, so it wasn't just a case of Epic simply buying exclusivity after the fact:

"We’re excited to work together on their latest transformative event with the launch of the Epic Games Store. Epic stepped up to the plate immediately to work with us in order to bring the original team back together and ensure fans will receive the completed season of ‘Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season.'”"

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/telltales-the-walking-d...

And really, the same can be said for other exclusive games that are still in development, since money given to the devs is money that inevitably goes into the production of the game. By virtue meaning that they're helping to fund the game, at least in part.
> For someone with a family history of heart disease or high cholesterol, fresh cheeses are best due to their low cholesterol content.

Dietary cholesterol doesn’t correlate strongly with blood cholesterol. You can eat a ton of it and your blood cholesterol won’t change one iota. That’s one of the misconceptions behind the vilification of eggs. The article disparages butter for the same reasons, but evidence is also showing butter was falsely accused.

There are too many pseudoscientists in the nutrition industry. You can’t trust anyone. The only thing I know for certain is to not overconsume. That’ll keep you healthy 90% of the time.
This is the reason I'm not suggesting to edit or remove old answer, just down-rank them in results. If 99% of development uses a new standard, showing the deprecated one at the top by default on the post most developers will find via Google isn't good.

Even if you add a comment or an addendum with a link, it is only a band-aid that probably half of non-senior devs will still miss, trudging down the wrong path anyway
> "fairness"

The world is more complex than that.
China is not "bad" because it is not a democracy. China is "bad" because it competes with the USA.

There are other countries that are not a democracy an that are allies with the USA, like Saudi Arabia. But they are "good", apparently.

And also, just remember that the USA only supports the democracies that are aligned with the way of thinking. Just do a bit of research and see what happened to South America in the 70s' and 80's... and more recently to Bolivia.

Also, most of the products that you use today were built, at least in part, in China.
What's the use case of Flight Simulator? If it's meant to be a practice testbed for pilots, how does using (playing) it on laptop/xbox give you the real flight experience?
This aspect still exits in some areas. Local bike stores are still running and have the same community feel. They are perhaps only around today because people who ride bikes a lot tend to not be the people who want to drive 20km to the nearest mega store.
Also Related: 8088 Domination

https://youtu.be/_yTsCOy7j0M?t=174

(live version fro demo party, energy in the room is wild)
I heard the same story but it was Bob Hoover and not Yeager.
One is an annual snapshot of revenue and the other is number of shares * current share price. I see how it helps with comprehending the amount, but it's a very apples-to-oranges comparison.

If they compared Saudi Aramco's revenue with Hong Kong's annual GDP, that would make a bit more sense since they're both annual figures.
but clickbait titles are the antithesis of this website
I'm not gonna lose any sleep over third world farmers realizing better crop yields using newly affordable fertilizer.
Philosopher Giorgio Agamben criticizes “techno-medical despotism” of quarantines
HTTPS certificates are already treated as a kind of code signing certificate by browsers.
I agree. I wrote a long thing about it: https://twitter.com/EskilSteenberg/status/129752027579013939...

I think Epic has been smart to do a lot of PR on this. They need public support since this will become political. I'm surprised that Epic hasn't filed in the EU too.
Thank you! It's built on python flask: it was super easy to get started
This discussion has been interesting. This article is newer than the top frontpage post with more points and more comments. Why is its ranking sinking so fast?
NextStrain: August 2020 update of Covid-19 genomic epidemiology
Ask HN: Any good resources for learning Chinese?
It's "easily prepared", eh? Let's take a moment to appreciate the toxic, volatile, pyrophoric nature of this concoction:

"sodium powder, crown ether, trimethylsilyl bromide and N2"

Well, the N2 is probably fine.

The pyrophoric sodium powder might even be a good thing, because it will cause an inferno long before the crown ether has a chance to form explosive peroxides.
Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
Another open FPGA project:

https://github.com/haojunliu/OpenFPGA
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-4...
I remember when people used to tell me VB6 was slow... but I bet you a lot of VB6 apps are miles faster than Electron apps and use significantly less resources / storage despite being single threaded by comparison.
rm is not like explorer.exe and is rather fast with destruction, so I guess you must have deleted some dotfiles.
The reply below hits all of the important areas.

From my experiences over the last year I would say there are too many channels that require so much work to reach a point where your reach matters. So unless you have a team I focus on one channel. If you pick youtube learn to create effective videos and use other social channels to reenforce the youtube content by posting on fb, ig about your new videos.

But that's just general advise trying to cast a big nest. The more effective channels usually come from being part of an existing community (think reddit forum or website forum or facebook group) and offering a product that fixes what people want.

As for hiring. Hire someone who has done marketing before or hire someone who is part of a community you want to be in who is usually doing a lot of unpaided work to make the community better.
> your smart devices are held hostage for small-ish ransoms.

I thought the vendors did this already.

But maybe the ransomware developers will do a better job supporting the smart devices than the actual vendors.
As a PWA on Android this is great! I can share from Spotify and then it opens a Songwhip link to share. Solves a minor problem I have about sharing music links.
Let’s say these particular kids had access to the good stuff. Cooked straight from the vial, albeit from Mexico or some further place. Done by the plateful and not in bumps.

I should also add that the ones whom I had to talk down were probably also on heaven-knows what other substances at the time.
> I certainly would not want my binaries to be 200megs with Electron.

We're discussing how to avoid this overhead.
Google does exactly that for Android. You can sideload anything you want. Doesn't get them any sympathy around here, though.
What's so amazing about it?
Fascinating write up! Thank you for sharing!
O_DIRECT seems like overkill, and the lack of write buffering could be a real detriment in some circumstances. Syncing at the end of each operation (from the user's perspective) should be the best mix of throughput and safety, but it makes it hard to do an accurate progress bar. Before the whole batch operation is finished, it may be useful to periodically use madvise or posix_fadvise to encourage the OS to flush the right data from the page cache—but I don't know if Linux really makes good use of those hints at the moment.

On really new kernels, it might work well to use io_uring to issue linked chains of read -> write -> fdatasync operations for everything the user wants to copy, and base the GUI's progress bar on the completion of those linked IO units. That will probably ensure the kernel has enough work enqueued to issue optimally large and aligned IOs to the underlying devices. (Also, any file management GUI really needs to be doing async IO to begin with, or at least on a separate thread. So adopting io_uring shouldn't be as big an issue as it would be for many other kinds of applications.)
I wonder under what circumstances this ban is acceptable. I'm no expert on international law, but even if the charges are Trumped up (pun intended), espionage / security concerns are very likely on the list.
I use it to do a practice flight before I do a real world trip to a new airport. That gives me a much better idea of terrain and what to expect than just looking at charts.

It’s also a huge amount fun and let’s you do things that would be unsafe in IRL.
Could be. This was on a Mac, around 2013, so it should have been pretty snappy.

Whatever it got I never noticed. Maybe it was trawling through a bunch of build detritus in `~/.cpan` or something.
I tend to use the command line utility tras-cli instead for these reasons. So easy to screw up with a wild card.
The website here, at least in its mobile incarnation, is all but content-free.
> the only people making sustainably good profits are those with access to lower commissions by owning their own platforms

What are some examples of this? What do you mean by "platform"?
If anyone is feeling lonely as an indie founder and looking for an indie founder Slack community where you can reach out and bounce ideas of other founders in real time you can join the Nugget Slack community here:

https://nugget.one/join

Access to our Slack used to be paid but we've recently opened it up to everyone.
The software and/or device you are trying to trick would be able to determine it's true location using the MAC address of other WiFi APs in its vicinity - the same way a map app on your smartphone can without GPS and cellular network assistance.

If you can use Ethernet (e.g with a dongle on the Fire stick) and turn all the device radios off then there are less inputs available for the device to determine it's location.
They're being completely civil. This does not at all sound like an "ideological flame war."

Racism in society isn't an ideologocal point. It's reality. They're pointing out facts that are uncomfortable.

If the "spirit" of HN is truly about intellectual curiosity around things that relate to tech and entrepreneurship, then HN needs to embrace the fact that society ultimately rules over all -- most certainly tech and business.

I fear that your comment here and re-direction to "the rules" is a censorship attempt because this is an uncomfortable thing go think about. Is HN a place where discussion about social problems that infect all of tech, business, and entrepreneurship not allowed? Is talking about racism "ideological"?
So is the common practice of running 'sudo pip install' which can create a world of pain.
Digital Conversion Kit for the Leica M3: a 1950s film camera
Good luck picketing, pressuring scabs, leveraging local politics. I'm not convinced this model could possibly work at the global scale.
Semi-related, but does anyone know if Firefox Send is on the chopping block? They took it down before the layoffs due to security concerns, and now I'm worried it won't be coming back online.

Every alternative I've been able to find has been either poor quality or too shady for me to ever actually want to use.
Oh, I have fond memories of 36-bit byte pointers.

My first two programming jobs were in PDP-10/20 Assembly. Occasionally someone will complain about network specs that say octet instead of byte. And I‘ll just casually say, well some machines had variable byte sizes and go back to what I was doing, waiting for them to start sputtering.
Normalization engine to manage configuration management database integrity
I had a bad reaction to a 10 day cipro prescription a few years ago and it felt like getting hit by lightening. So many things returned to normal but being able to sleep for more than 4 1/2 hours, was not one of them.
Form 4 Insider Trading Data Explorer
> ... does the act of downloading from a peer change the situation so it is actually some kind of entrapment or at least commiting to have done a crime as part of the investigation?

No.

It certainly wouldn't be entrapment and it's not "a crime" for you to download files that you own the copyright for (or, in these types of situations, have been granted permission by the copyright owner -- whom you would typically be working on behalf of -- to download).

In my opinion, the addition of the "bogus IPs" is pretty pointless. Once you've gathered a list of seeders, it's trivial to actually connect to them and verify that they are sharing (portions of) the file.

In fact, I would think you'd have to do that in order to be able to affirm that the file was, in fact, being "shared". You couldn't honestly state that it was if you didn't verify that to be true.

I can't recall the name of it now but the firm that does this stuff on behalf of HBO (or did, when I worked at an ISP and received e-mails from them) connects to the "seeders" and downloads (part of) the file(s) from them to verify that they're actually illegally sharing copyrighted content.
In a previous post about PHP, people were complaining that you still require nginx or Apache. I guess OP found this while looking for an alternative.
whats your study plan?
Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC
I don't see why you're "amazed". Neural networks are _provably_ an universal approximator. As such, they can approximate _any_ function to an arbitrary degree of precision. It just might require an impractically large/complex neural net to do so, and you might not be able to train it yet, but it's _provably_ doable in the limit, if you remove size/training constraints.

I'm a practitioner in the field, and an AI skeptic because of it. I think perceptual tasks work reasonably well, NLP barely works for anything, and any sort of cognition doesn't work at all, as of August 2020. I will be the first to admit that we don't have real "AI" yet, and we won't have it in the foreseeable future. But to say that real intelligence is not possible with the current tool set is simply incorrect. It may be impractical. It may take 100+ years to figure out how to build nets this large and train them successfully before sun burns out, but it is _theoretically_ provably doable.

In a way it's kind of like fusion: you have a proof that it can work right above your head during the day. We just don't know how to do it at our "human" scale with our knowledge and capabilities. Our knowledge and capabilities, however, are not a constant - they improve exponentially over time, although most people don't perceive this process as exponential.
I feel like the the x plane story is pretty good place to start to get an good understanding of why software patents are so bad... maybe here https://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/details/

To start... and then continue here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157984
What China thinks about app blocking is irrelevant. The issue is about what fellow Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the western world think. Censoring apps is a massive departure from our own values, and compromising the values our society is built on just to race to the bottom with China will lead us to ruin. If black box content editorialization is a problem, let us push back market wide instead of picking on lone targets for being more overtly unaccountable.
Try setting "desktop view" in your browser if possible on mobile devices, as the mobile website is spectacularly uninformative.

Desktop isn't much better.
I've thought about this in terms of people passing away and the domain no longer being renewed afterwards.

10 years limit on domain registrations seems ridiculous, we need lifetime-span registration capabilities, at least.
It is probably for compatibility with the way POSIX handles $PATH https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...
Agreed if it were just between those two parties, one wanted to sell me a questionable product, and the other wanted me to be informed about the questionable product.

Right now though it's Harvard and 163 other parties each hoping that their patented-sequence still-totally-unknown product will be the one the entire world rushes to purchase: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-c...

I know your Harvard example was hypothetical, but for what it's worth here's Harvard's actual COV*D trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04436276?term=NCT0443...

It's listed under Janssen, but you can read about the relationship here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/harvards-coro...
> I meant like GitHub and competitors, which let you attach comments to specific lines and files and such

Github does allow you to filter the diff down to the commit or jump to a particular file within the diff. Commenting on a line in the diff isn't really any different than positioning one's comment inline below the relevant line(s) of code in an email reply. I know that in Github, it's also possible to comment directly on a commit (though those comments are not displayed with any context in the general PR view), unlike an email reply to a particular patch series.

Depending on one's email client, it's certainly possible to search for things like /^diff/ or /^@@/ to jump from file to file or hunk to hunk within the compose window.

> perhaps follow references into the full code faster than you could flipping between your mail client and your editor (and save you the effort of applying the patch to a local tree for that review).

For some, the email client doubles as an editor (i.e., gnus). And, at least in my experience, it's far faster to navigate code in an editor compared to the web interface that Git??b provides.

> 27 kLOC will be a big project to review no matter what, but I'd probably rather take them in a single commit--the files presumably depend on each other

While that's true, the dependency can be preserved when merging the branch of the series of commits in the mainline repository. Plus, many may find it easier to review declarations, definitions, and calls in that order.
> Are there countries that just never had (widespread adoption of) teletext?

It was never really a thing in the US. There were a couple of short-lived attempts, but none of them ever caught on, and receiver hardware was rare.
This is #BRILLIANT
Wouldn't "dyn" get you the equivalent in Rust? Runtime generics as opposed to compile time.
It's a freemium model, so maybe in the Pro version (waiting list).
Huh, I have never seen weight specified on any ID.
I think officially that’s supposed to be step 1. Makes sense so you can’t remote wipe it.

Legally they are only allowed to inspect what you are bringing into the country, so stuff in the cloud is out-of-scope.

It’s an open question about whether they can compel you to decrypt anything or get you to unlock. They could always seize to inspect later though.
On sales leaders:
I personally know some sales leaders who mentor/advise other start-up founders. This includes getting on some client calls.

However it's tricky, in that they wouldn't do it if there was a conflict of interest of any kind, they'd be more likely to do it once they know these people a bit more. There is also the WIIFM factor.

All that to say, it is possible to get help.

--

On sales reps:
As others have mentioned the biggest factor here will be how long it takes to close a deal. If you have quick close cycles (typical in the small to mid-market), a higher commission component or commission only is possible.

Typically, I've seen commissions in B2B to be about 7-10% of Annual Contract Value (ACV) for the first year. Mind you this is highly generalized, based on my experience.

Most sales compensation plans aim for sales reps to earn 1x base as commissions if they meet target. So a base of $60K, would result in $120K in income if they performed.

Based on this you could try finding reps on 14-20% ACV on a commission only basis, paid out on paid invoices.

To be candid, I wouldn't try doing commission-only positions for my own ventures. That said it's worth a try if there are constraints that make it hard to pay a base.
> It is still nice for quickly running something and get rid of it. For instance an ad-hoc script mocking an API endpoint that you can run on an arbitrary port in seconds.

That is one of the many things Docker and Docker Compose are good at. If you have a docker-compose.yml file you can do just that with any web server backend.
Two things:

1. AFAIK NTSC doesn’t support it, so North America never had it. There were equivalent standards but not one universal one to unify around.

2. Are there that many cultural references? I’m struggling to think of many that I saw growing up and I’m in my thirties. It existed (and I used it a lot!) but it wasn’t exactly part of the cultural zeitgeist. The internet had already taken over.
Came here for this comment :)

Saw the hand and that immediately became my favorite thing in the notebook.
Not really, there is a big framework of regulations designed specifically to make that not a thing - from international treaties to local laws. They cover all sorts of things including the materials, the development and trade of adjacent and dual-use technology and industrial capacity, etc.
Ask HN: Have you ever had a successful onboarding?
So many stories of no computer for the first six weeks, or HR going 'who are you?', or no access to git etc. What's the best example of onboarding you've seen?