skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same initial reaction. A SaaS product taking that long to get to $10K ARR is not exciting from an ambition perspective - maybe from a side-project POV, though, it would be.

While the traditional VC yardsticks* are both way too reductionist AND now well out-dated, they at least provide a rough sense of how good of an opportunity you have.

* I've heard these are the perquisites for VC SaaS funding rounds (note this is probably 5 years out of date, and they are likely much higher now): $10k MRR for Seed, $100k MRR for Series A, $500K - $1M MRR for Series B.

That all said, I like how Jason Lemkin talks about this. Basically, "I don't care how long it took you to get to $1M ARR - could be 10 years. But I need to see a clear path to getting to $100M ARR in 5 years from when you hit $1M". Paraphrasing. Obviously this is only for VC-scale businesses/approaches, not denigrating other ways of building a business.
The 300-year journey to the Covid vaccine
I'll be honest and say that I don't know if Rolexes are mechanical. If they are, a quartz $20 Casio is more precise :-)
I voted against that proposal re: "resiliency, equity, and diversity", largely because of how pious and hilariously vague it was. Assuming they actually did anything at all, it take the form of Chicago hiring some expensive diversity consulting agency to do nothing and get paid a couple million a year.
> where would the anti-virus, hardware memory tagging and security consultancy companies be

Selling laptops with 128 cores and 1TB RAM?
A brain-computer interface in every US home by 2033
That's interesting. I'll have Mac access only next month.
The setting `max-width: 100%` actually breaks the design completely, chopping it down to a half.

I have to try this solution[1] to see if that helps to avoid the scrolling.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/56382662/653173
Learning to Fix Programs from Error Messages
Yep. I know the device. While it's promising, e-ink has some inherent problems. Namely, color and speed.

I always design my software on paper first and, color is needed for diagrams. I also read academic papers a lot and use color-coded highlighters (remember / further research / etc.). Remarkable doesn't support these workflows.

e-ink is not a fast medium. I have an eBook reader (Kobo Glo HD / 300dpi) and I love it for reading but, highlighting process is slow and ugly (lower color depth -> overdrive for fast response -> repaint with correct gray levels -> done). Writing will be similar, with some lag and that's flow breaking and unacceptable for me.

At the end of the day, it's a good skeumorphic device which mimics paper albeit a rigid and slower one. On the other hand, paper's tactile response is unmatchable, especially when combined with fountain pens (which I use a lot).

Also, there are some ritualistic stuff with pen and paper. Every project has its own notebook, which triggers context response in my brain. When I get the notebook, I reload the stuff at the background. Every other task is automatically pushed back by the subconscious. It's a kind of leveraging the "library" system of the brain.

iPad pro has a faster screen and color but, backlit screens kill my eyes after a certain time period (All my panels are either OLED or high quality IPS with reduced blue light). I don't want to lose my eyesight for that.

I want to add that paper is hard to digitize, takes a lot of physical space and has maintenance but, these downsides are balanced out by the advantages it brings, at least for me.

I love working with digital systems. I use Pagico & Trello extensively. A digital diagram a lot. Keep structured knowledge bases in Evernote and Zim but, when it comes to thinking and documenting the thinking process, I always return to the pen & paper and, get that 10x boost instantly. I just can't replace it and I don't want to replace it anymore.

Trivia: Words like "On the other hand", "in that case", etc. comes from early memorization techniques where you imagine that you're actually putting that subject/idea in to your hand or a physical case which helps with structuring big subjects a lot. Using paper, different notebooks, etc. triggers the same circuitry to improve focus, retention and efficiency.
Indeed, this is also the argument for universal healthcare.
From my reading on the topic, the general idea seems to be to cut police responsibilities and budget. One of the biggest problems is that police are used to respond to all kinds of issues for which they are not trained (e.g. non-violent mental health incidences). By cutting responsibilities of the police, their budget could be more efficiently allocated for responding to situations for which they have been trained.
Don't you have to pay $100 for an App Developer license to be able to really use this?
Mozilla has already released Firefox 82.0.3 which fixes the vulnerability.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0.3/releasenotes
I ran out of TV to watch months ago and have been working my way down Youtube videos.

Several people I follow have a call in their video to "donate to help protect our independence," and I think maybe we need to call that out more.

If you don't pay for this video, then either there is no video, or advertisers pay, and advertisers want something in return that is probably not in your best interests.

I'm not sure whether the same goad works for open source, but given the boldness of forkers, perhaps it does.

We have new leadership in our engineering organization, I should bring up the idea of having a budget for open source donations that the developers vote/nominate and the company cuts a check based on how many votes each tool gets. Everyone writing a check for $5 is a lot of work on both ends. It's simpler if an org cuts 10 checks for $100-500.
Of course, do you think they would be hurting for money once they have a vaccine developed? The demand will always be there. They just took the risk with their own money. They have been in the business for decades and they know how to sell a prized drug - with or without a buyer already lined up.
A commitment to purchase doesn't mean much in a "seller's market". It will be profitable for the company either way - with or without a pre-contract.
They forgot biff(1)!
Before you ask for people to help you preclude that anyone mailed in a large number of fraudulent ballots, I think it's fair to put to onus on you to describe how that actually could have happened. Start at step 1 and talk us through it: what does the "thousand ballot mail-in attack" look like? Bear in mind voters are registered with ID and proof of address into every state's voter rolls, states have records of when people die, and every election authority watches for duplicate votes; those are the table stakes mitigations you need to get past. Go ahead, I'm interested in hearing this out.
> If you don't print much, you can get a HP printer for $30.

Those $30 printers either don't come with ink cartridges or they come with very small "starter" cartridges, good for a few dozen pages at the most.

> The cheapest Brother laser printer is $100 + ink.

Toner, actually. The $100 Brother printer does come with a "starter" cartridge but it prints 700 pages. So even if you threw the printer away after the starter cartridge ran out, you'd still be paying $0.17 per sheet as opposed to the $30 inkjet's initial cost of $1.25 per sheet for the first cartridge.

If we're talking refills then, I can buy an aftermarket toner cartridge for my laser printer for under $20 and that yields 2600 pages. ($0.008/sheet). Black HP 67XL ink (240 pages) works out to $0.10/sheet. The laser is an order of magnitude less in both scenarios.

The drum unit in mine did start going bad after 3-4 years. I bought a new drum on Amazon for $20, far less than what I originally paid for the printer. It has been going strong for a few years since.
But that was rather the point: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'" https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_the_.27Git....
> Let me tell you that most C++ game dev never heard of Rust

Why would you say that? I have no reason to believe it.
C++ and Rust discussions frequently overlap so it's unlikely anyone who uses C++ hasn't heard of it. Game developers, in particular, are exposed to a larger segment of programming languages simply out of necessity. Searching for solutions or functionality will usually lead to esoteric options and the ever-present gamedev talks about how language X solves a portion of your gamedev woes.
> The biggest argument I see is that the government can compete unfairly against private companies because they don’t have to make a profit.

I've seen this too, and my reaction is always to ask why that's unfair. The "free" market is supposed to be open to competition. Why is it "unfair" for public bodies to compete? Public bodies are, after all, funded by tax payers. Who in this case would be the recipients of the service. So we have individuals desiring of a service, funding said service through a public body. Now, the public body is not set up to pay a dividend to shareholders - instead it implicitly returns all profit to its consumers (presumably through reduced costs/better service/whatever).

Why is that unfair? It's not preventing commercial entities from competing. If their business model is such that they can't do so - e.g. because of the need to pay away dividends - then that's their problem.

Now: I know there's a lot more to it than that, e.g. public bodies accused of being propped up unfairly. And I know Govt in the US is treated very suspiciously by a large cohort of society.

But that notwithstanding, why is it "unfair" if a community-oriented entity decides to compete with a commercial organisation?
We have the McVeggie over here (Portugal) which are meh, but I recently discovered Linda McCartney's veggie burgers and I have fooled a couple of people thinking it was meat. They are very very good IMHO.
A few minutes of wikipedia-ing and found Walter Mondale, born 1928.
My understanding is that the -80C storage is most likely simply because they haven't tested at higher temperatures yet.
Show HN: Live Tribe Club – Marketplace connecting artists and venues
Live Tribe Club is a new marketplace that connects artists (such as DJs and musicians) with venues and private clients who are looking for the best talent available in their area.

During these challenging times due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we think that when we finally go back to attending live events, this tool not only will help artists to get more gigs but also, give clients already curated and verified offers on top of a secured transaction.

The interface is simple and intuitive. You can explore all the available artists in your area or use the filters for something more specific related to music style, band format or pricing.

We believe in the gig-economy and the platform revolution, so this venture aims to be our little contribution to it.
In the 90s Burger King had an incredible 'meat like' vege burger here in Europe. As a freshly vegetarian teenager at the time it was my go too 'faux flesh'. For some unknown reason they cut it from the menu in favour of their rather awful 'bean burger'.
The Wikipedia article is in the sidebar. Maybe it doesn’t appear on mobile?

You can also search “!s ‽” and get this: https://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%E2%80%BD, but then you have to click “More” to see the full first paragraph of the Wikipedia page, and only then will it reveal the link to the full article there. The rest of the page is just clutter to me.
This is an awesome list!

$1k MRR may not sound impressive in Silicon Valley / New York etc., but 1) it's actually pretty good in other places in the world - the world is just too big, too diverse; 2) not many people have the skill to make $1k MRR without working for an established companies, and not many people have the time / energy to do side hustles or have guts to quit their job to find time to do so.

$1k MRR is a milestone. You can grow it to $2k, $5k, $10k down the road. Your efforts can directly affect the financial outcome.
> Importantly, this means that even with this vaccine, the virus may still be able to spread, and only vaccinated people will be protected (i.e., no herd immunity).

Can't we still hit herd immunity as a byproduct of this though? If everyone can pass it along without symptoms, then eventually everyone will have it...
I think a number of companies, like mine, are working with Rust internally. But articles like these don’t provide any insight into those efforts, which are kept private.

Game development at large-scale is a mix of systems programming of the kind that Rust excels at and gameplay logic programming which has loose performance requirements and may be written by people who are not primarily coders. So you see a lot of codebases split between two languages, like a C++ core with Lua bindings or something like that.

If we see Rust adoption here I’m expecting it to be from a kind of skunkworks inside the company replacing specific, carefully-chosen systems with Rust code. At my company, that’s how it’s done, and it’s a very slow process. (I don’t work in the game industry, so all I hear is rumors from people that used to work in the game industry.)
Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
don't forget to add to your list all the new documentation you'll be reading!
This is fantastic. You should submit this as a post on HN - it deserves its own thread :)
>2. It should have a 'structure' which is similar to that of the new, not yet understood subject.

If you'll forgive my pedantry, at this point you're not discussing metaphors and have veered into analogies. Maybe we can meet in the middle and call these metaphorical analogies? ;)

Metaphors are when you say something is something it is not ("my wife's smile is the bright sun I wake up to"). There need not be anything unfamiliar with a metaphor or any explanatory power behind a metaphor. Analogies are when you explain or frame a concept using an already understood concept ("the car is out of gas, like when you're out of energy and don't want to run around.")

As an aside, I'll mention that the idea that "analogy as the core of cognition"[0] has been kicking around in academia for years, and comes from Douglas Hoffstader (author of Gödel, Escher, Bach).

[0] http://worrydream.com/refs/Hofstadter%20-%20Analogy%20as%20t...
Forgot to say in my other comment: a huge difference between those businesses and a SaaS product is margin. A $10k MRR SaaS product at 85%+ margins, requires no equipment other than a laptop to maintain, is vastly superior to a lawn mowing company IMO, which will have a truck, a mower, labour, etc. So from a margin perspective, you'd vastly prefer the SaaS product.
I'm currently taking online classes at a program which has had entirely online offerings for over a decade. Out of the 10+ classes I've taken so far, I'm currently enrolled in the only one that has required a lockdown browser (I haven't taken any tests yet, so I'm not sure what that will be like). Up until now, all the classes just had me sign something saying I didn't cheat. Also, usually the test was designed in such a way as to make it more difficult to cheat. About half of the classes, the tests are open-note. They combat the effectiveness of cheating by making the time of the test short enough to where if you don't know the information, you won't b able to look up more than 25% of the questions before time runs out. I can see how that wouldn't work for all classes, and admittedly I haven't taken any Math or Science courses so it may be different in that arena, but it seems like they have decided to take a different route than the schools mentioned in the article, and presumably haven't had any issues.
The fun follow-up question is whether we should extend this observation to static type systems too. Should we just accept that those should be Turing-complete too?
Forget about electoral reform. It looks like they are going to completely botch pharmacare.

EDIT: I am getting downvoted, which is fair. I did not provide any context and assumed it was common knowledge. In his throne speech, Trudeau had this to say about pharmacare:

> The Government remains committed to a national, universal pharmacare program and will accelerate steps to achieve this system including:

- Through a rare-disease strategy to help Canadian families save money on high-cost drugs;

-Establishing a national formulary to keep drug prices low;

-And working with provinces and territories willing to move forward without delay.

Essentially, the government will try to make drugs a tiny bit cheaper for consumers. It does not look the Pharmacare program is going to be universal and free, like the Medicare is. But perhaps your 2000$ per month drug price would come down to 1500$ per month, if you are below a certain income threshold, etc, etc. This is not nowhere near enough after Liberals promising Pharmacare for decades.

EDIT 2: The price of insulin in Canada is an order of magnitude lower than the US. Despite this, many Canadians are still forced to forego or ration their insulin and other drugs and supplies [0][1]. Reducing prices does not work nearly as well as one might think. Making them free does.

> At T1International, we found that 19 per cent of Canadians with type 1 diabetes had rationed insulin in the last year; 3 per cent were rationing at least once per week.

> Yes, Canada has less insulin rationing than the US (25 per cent) and at lesser intensity for sure; Americans who rationed often skip doses daily whereas rationing once per week or month was more common here. But Canada is a far cry from countries like the United Kingdom, where there was essentially no insulin rationing reported.

> In the U.K., all diabetes supplies, including insulin, are covered by the National Health Service. Such is also the case in many other high income countries. Even many middle income countries, like Morocco, cover the cost of insulin for their diabetic population.

[0] https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/07/29/cana...

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/blog/the-soaring-cost-of-...
The one thing I would never do is advocate internally for 'supporting' or 'sponsoring' OSS. Managers will just hear 'we should pay for something we already get free'.

The best way to sell the idea is to make it transactional. 'We need feature X. It'll cost us N to pay the core devs for it, or we can do it in house for N^2.'

Then put together a spreadsheet of those examples and send them up the food chain come budget time.
> Many people have an aversion to something if it's called plant, healthy or natural.

I don't think that's true, particularly "natural". People have been labeling everything they can "natural" for years in order to boost sales.

But it's interesting that McDonalds is being so explicit. Perhaps Impossible and Beyond Meat have already done the hard work of exposing people to these products and now McDonalds hopes to swoop in without dealing with any of the product confusion?

Either way I'm interested to try them. I've had a few of the Dunkin Donuts Beyond Meat breakfast sandwiches and they're fantastic.
Agreed

"There’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling." - Barksdale

https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...

ChurchCo is just an unbundling of Squarespace it seems like with a specific niche. I guess we've reached the point where Squarespace is now big enough, with so much configuration options, that it's confusing for people who "Just want a good looking church website".

Small fish in a huge market seems like a great strategy.
Probably due to DNA storage because I used to work with genomics and we had the same temps
The missing browser devtools for Tailwind CSS
The Journalist vs. Facebook
I found that I didn't even need to manually install any drivers for my Brother laser printer. Once I got it set up on the wi-fi the Windows, Mac, and Linux machines in my house automatically detected it and were able to use it just fine with only the built-in drivers. That gave me a good feeling about investing in it.
Right, for something at VC-sclare ofcourse it should in millions of $$$.

Here we are talking about purely small indie hacking companies that are growing big. :)
They are all data formats that are used for configuration.

Configuration systems tend to sprout macro systems of various kinds. So you're writing in JSON, but it is fed into a macro system and voila! You have a programming language.

The progression from data format to custom programming language is surprisingly short.

And sometimes the transition is unexpected. For example https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_comple... includes as an example of a Turing complete language, HTML+CSS!
As David Attenborough stated in his most recent documentary, the solution for healthy oceans and enough fishing for all is to protect 1/3 of the ocean and coasts with marine reserves. This model has proven to work in many places, now it just needs to be implemented worldwide by unanimous consensus. And enforced by a properly funded Sea Shepherd armada perhaps.
I think the license has a loophole where it forgot to include the blood signature on my computer screen, extracted with a carbon-fiber blade made from Stallman's mane.
>Spotify will always dominate marketshare - it has a free tier.

It has nothing to do with free tier. Spotify is dominating even if you only count paying subscribers.
If you are interested in doing something like this I'd love to chat! I run a website about related topics[1]. I'm working now with a few different organizations on a kind of franchised ISP model.

[1] https://startyourownisp.com
A British Covid tracing app misses the mark
Saying "I hope the kids are ok." Implicates being a full-blown narcissist?

Absolutely breaking HN rules here, RIP me, but you're fucking insane and your mind wasn't going to be swayed any other way to begin with lmao. Impossible to tell how you've gotten to the point you are with that line of thinking, but I'd suggest seeking help for it. That's just outright toxic.
If you count Unreal engine game devs then I could see it being true. Many devs script with blueprints or work on art or sound or level design etc. Not every Unreal dev codes with C++ daily.
How to Study Abroad When You Can’t Leave Home
Widevine Certificate for Phillips TVs revoked, only playing 480p
1. Build a monolith with copious amounts of telemetry

2. Use a RDBMS

3. Use a CDN

4. Let your telemetry guide you on how to scale, cache, or split your workloads

5. Don't hire people who want to boil the ocean

Keep things simple, fast, and efficient.
From what i've read, the impossible burger is pretty close to meat, unlike other plant based burgers.

On the other and, burger king already sell those.

So i'm curious, why doesn't McDonald's sell those too ?

Is the supply restricted to burger king ? or do they think it's not woth the more expensive price, and and meat eaters will still prefer to eat a McD burger, while plant easters don't care that much about closeness to meat ?
You are living in a bubble.

The people who make budgetary decisions are not in this bubble, which is a big part of why we keep getting overruled on important things. We can either go on acting surprised, or we can figure out how to do the work of communicating. We have decades of evidence that the rest of the world really doesn't give a damn, and are willing to pay a lot of money to continue not giving a damn.

Turing complete sounds like something people want to have. Why are you the "good guy" for trying to make something incomplete? Wouldn't it be more desirable if we completed it?
What's Xscode's value add beyond going to the developer directly and paying them by PayPal?
I heard some random researcher from Microsoft asked about that on the OCaml mailing list in 2001 [1]. I think it led nowhere [2].

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2001/02/57705...
[2] https://fsharp.org/
Ditto! I feel the same - I'm more comfortable with facts and stats.

It's a shame that the news emphasizes pessimistic headlines and anecdotes over science.