skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is everyone so obsessed with ideas? Out of everything needed to succeed with a startup (idea, audience, acquisition channels, competition), the "startup idea" is the thing you can ALWAYS change. It's the thing you have the most control over.

That's not the case, however, with acquisition channels (a topic I write extensively about [1]), or your audience (they come with pre-defined beliefs/behaviors that are hard to change.)

Having this in mind, it makes more sense to focus first on analyzing a) The audience b) The channels through which you can reach to them. Once you get enough knowledge about these 2, you can create a pretty good startup idea WITHIN these constraints.

This is why people have invented things like market-product fit or product-channel fit [2]. I'd like to add that you're more likely to succeed if you FIT your idea TO the channel/audience, rather than doing the reverse.

Would love to hear other perspectives on this topic.

[1] https://firstpayingusers.com

[2] https://brianbalfour.com/essays/product-channel-fit-for-grow...
That part was intended to be a declaration of my position on it not on a universal conclusion. For brevity, I left the 'for me' part out.
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I had to give up my paper route (mid 1980s) because I was too shy to collect. I could get up at 5:30 a.m. every day and spend an hour biking hard to deliver the papers rain or shine, but I collections freaked me out, even though all my customers were nice people.

The crazy thing is that it never occurred to me to discuss this with my parents, nor (AFAIK) did they ever consider having me see a counselor. I just kept on carrying a private shame about my cowardice.

I really hope that parents are better these days about noticing when kids are privately suffering with various neurological / psychological issues, and that more resources are available for helping.
> I believe that China is heading to an economic collapse during this decade.

This has been said during the last 30 years at the very least. It's not going to happen, white Americans must accept that they will not longer be rulers of this planet.
I recalled this story [0] where the Koch brothers said they would organize $1 billion to conservative groups for the 2016 election.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/koch-brothers-network-will-spen...
There is no “teacher” who is going to grade you on how representative your social media feed is of the country. The point of creating an online feed could be entertainment, to arm you with the information and means of communication necessary to accomplish some goals you take part in, etc., but there is no point in trying to achieve some representative feed. You will not be rewarded for it.
Now I sort of regret an apple store visit a year or two ago.

A family member was in school and had a few-year-old macbook air that had a black screen. We took it to apple and they told me they could send it away to have it fixed for $700 or we could buy a new one for just a little more. And well, school.

So we decided on the new one.

And in for a penny, in for a pound. We had to keep going.

We needed to upgrade, so we needed dongles. I think thunderbolt 2 cable + thunderbolt3 to tb2 dongle. and of course a tb3 to usb adapter.

So power up the old machine (it still works), connect to new machine, upgrade over firewire and we're good.

I should watch youtube and fix the old one. it has 2 regular usb ports + an sd card reader, so it's more useful.

But I still have a bad taste in my mouth. $700 for a black screen? I think they really do raise the repair price all the way to a new one because they can.
There was at least one government backed (NOAA?) project, some while back, that was using rockets with ground wires to draw lightning for study.
The "science ethics" system looks uncomfortably like an awkward religion to me.

People will claim that certain things "are unethical", as if that is a simple uncomplicated fact.
I disagree... In the article, the writer says, "If I share an article on Reddit I feel anxious for a week"..

Clearly he was in the wrong line of work. I'm not saying it wasn't worth sharing in self-care, but I don't feel we should be overly sympathetic when the bottom line is that the guy seems to have made a series of predictably bad moves. It sounds like he was hoping to make short term sacrifices for some sort of startup dream outcome, but clearly that only happens a small amount of the time. He's probably on r/entrepreneur right now dreaming about drop shipping.
That's an interesting point because it effectively nullifies the argument for more nuanced voting mechanisms such as Score Voting. Since more nuanced voting would require a stronger reliance on vote tabulators. It is somewhat deflating that better voting methods must be discarded in favor of "inefficiency as a feature." I long for an upgrade to voting, but all these arguments _in favor of_ hand-counting-only make me think we are stuck with plurality voting for a long time.
Isn’t security the biggest reason for most?

Given some of the horrible security bugs found very shortly after the last few versions of MacOS were released... I strongly disagree.

The saying about known unknowns and unknown unknowns is quite relevant.
This "socking away or duplication" of the contents of the iTunes library (same for iPhoto or its successors) was the dealbreaker for me on OS X. It indicated that they were brazenly ignoring the wishes of power users who knew what they were doing, and thus signalled the direction of how the OS would develop.

Good for you for attempting to stop other users getting confused by it -- I have spent several afternoons restoring people's setups for people who are completely unable to organise their files, and explaining this behaviour to them was the dullest part of it.
There are scaling issues though. The US is 5x the size of the UK. Counting is actually pretty hard and I'm not convinced it scales linearly. I'm also not convinced results are actually back in a day, but rather good estimates are given within a day.
In my experience there is only three options to bootstrap successfully. You can sell, your cofounder can sell, or you can afford to hire someone who can sell. The idea that if you build it they will come needs to die, these situations are extremely rare.
Mind explaining that one? To me it seems they have an unnecessary degree of freedom: the "diagonal" one.

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What issues do you get with three motors in an equilateral triangle?

EDIT: I managed to find it, with even number of motors you can prevent unwanted yawing, by letting half spin clockwise and other half spin counterclockwise.
There were 32,014,110 in the last UK general election, which is one fifth of the US total, but then the population is also (roughly) one fifth of the US’.
My anxieties have made me super sensitive to those of my kids. I am careful not to project onto them. I'm also always paying close attention to discover any moments of "you just need someone to notice you're struggling."
> Business logic should not happen at API boundaries

You're right, but the original post seems to believe there are only three layers: frontend, API, database. They haven't left any place for business logic at all, except maybe in the way the front-end would write the SQL queries. (Which I think is a terrible approach.)
How can you possibly even say "We are not Nature"?

Of course we are Nature. We came to being the exact same way every other current living species did, thru natural selection. So then how can we be living, as you say, somehow outside this "Nature" you speak of?

Hell, I know I may be in a small minority who says, by definition, nothing that we do is "wrong" because we are simply doing what our brains, which are 100% a product of this Nature, are telling us to do.

Post-modernism is quick to tell us there are no absolute rights and wrongs...that only culture makes it so. So why then can some say that its immoral to create and study these creatures that our nature-created brains have led us to create?
This is obviously a joke by Vitalik Buterin, also it's a good test as to whether someone actually understands the proof :)

If you know the proof you probably know that you don't actually use the "(n+1) mod 10" mapping, you use that mapping but instead remap all 8's into something else, like 3, in particular you don't remap 8's into 9's to avoid the "99999..." tail problem. In fact if you like you can just use the following mapping: 0->1, {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}->0. Also, for the starting representations you simply replace all expansions with an infinite tail of "9999...", as for every such representation there exists a representation that does not end in "9999...". This makes the decimal expansions unique.

All the name-able reals are obviously countable, this has a deep connection with the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenheim%E2%80%93Skolem_...
I'm not a big fan of GraphQL, but I think that the author would benefit from reading about and using it for awhile. It comes closest to the ideal implementation they're dreaming of, though hooking a GraphQL backend directly to the database would be a tremendously terrible idea.
Exactly. The parent argued against having an MP3 library.
"True Size"

Try Greenland there.
What’s interesting is that in many cases, LiPos can equal the specific power of supercapacitors!
It doesn't matter what 'the developed world thinks'.

For someone who wanted access to a Green Card, to have to give it up is fairly substantial.

And FYI anyone in the developed world, were they to know what a 'Green Card' actually was, would find it probably invaluable. The optionality that comes along with being able to move freely and work in the US is a big deal even if it's not apparent at the start of one's career.
I think people have some misunderstanding of FTA.

FTA doesn't disallow anti-dumping and tariff punishment. Trump admin had slapped huge tariff on Canada/Mexico on automobile/steel/logs, for example, when the NAFTA is still in place.

The other country can choose to slap counter tariff if they see fit, but they can nothing about each other's choice.
"It is complete utter nonsense that racism is a white invention or has anything to do with being white."

Whoever you think you're arguing against in your reply to my post, it's not me.

Let me make my position clear.

Racism is not a white invention.

I never said it, I don't believe it.

What I said is "Not everybody's racist".

That doesn't mean there aren't racists in all societies or cultures. Maybe there are maybe there aren't. That's tangential to my point. But it's clear that there are many racists in many societies.

But, again, that doesn't mean that "everybody's racist". They're just not.

Neither does my point imply that "racism is a white invention or has anything to do with being white". You picked that out of thin air, not out of anything I said, because I never so much as implied it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=419bc_YjaFk
> OK, straight questiom goal directed towards what?

Well, my goals (like anyone's) are far too nuanced to get into in their entirety. But for the sake of this discussion, we can assume that the endurance of sapience is desirable to me.

Happy to conclude the 'understanding' discussion by replacement with 'understanding of fundamentals and nth-order consequences for n > 3' if that will do the trick. As for the rest, you're going to have to stop butchering my sentences.

> Quite clearly there was a question mark at the end it to indicate my implied doubt.

Indeed there was, but I was able to (like you did) chop off the comment and create a 'quotation' that had you take the opposite position. Normally, that would be disingenuous but I did it solely to show you what you were doing.
Uhm, I’m honestly curious, who do you think is doing the segregation of Roma?
I assume you're located in the US? I don't know how your system works over there but here in Australia it's a bit of a hybrid. Most of the fire service's funding is taken from the private insurance industry then the rest is taken from governments. [1]

1. https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=48#funding
As a former pentester, this makes me happy inside.

As a DevSecOps Engineer, I field requests like this from frontend developers all the time. The answer is always no.

In this case it would be "I am sorry that you are not happy with inter-team planning and communication; please raise this with the appropriate project owner at the next scrum meeting. Sadly poor communication can not be allowed to drive well established systems planning and architecture best practices..."
I used Nordic SDK's for years and didn't like them. There were many problems:

- They released new versions often, and they were tied to new versions of the hardware. So you HAD to upgrade your SDK to use the new hardware. And they would drop support for the old hardware so if you wanted to be able to buy chips you had to upgrade.

- They changed the API's often which broke all my software. Not little changes either but major ones.

- They have lots of examples programs but the examples can't be combined. Want to use the interrupt handling example with the timer example? It doesn't work and you have to reverse engineer their code to find out why.

- The example programs are not updated until long after the SDK changes. Because the changes in API's are large the examples often don't work.

- Some features didn't work. We specifically chose the nRF51822 because it was supposed to be able to do simultaneous send and receive of BLE on multiple channels. Turns out that was marketing hype, the feature was experimental, and they didn't deliver a complete working example for years.

- The debugger was useless. It worked for simple programs but this chip is a real time system and turning on the debugger broke the real time operations. Often it didn't even work at all, returning random values for variable contents.

It's difficult to find out things like this when all you have is the spec sheets and forums to rely on. It's only when you get deep into the system you find them out. That's why developers often stick with one microcontroller forever; they know it inside out and all the tricks to making it work. I have a suspicion that some of the problems were intentional to get people to buy their development services.

Microcontrollers themselves are still stuck in the dark ages. Atmel introduced some positive changes but most MCU's are still really primitive and difficult to use. A 5000 page manual? You've got to be kidding! And critical changes to the info in the manuals is published in errata sheets? Unusable! If I turn on a UART why doesn't it default to a standard configuration instead of making me set bits in registers? Perhaps it would increase cost slightly but there should be much more standardized automation in MCU's and more should be done in hardware rather than requiring software. There should be autonegotiation of communication protocols. MCU design hasn't changed much in decades and is ripe for disruption.
Wow South America is so much bigger than expected. Brazil is as big as the USA.
I don't think politics will reset just like that. Schultz was sacrificed at the altar to calm the public. The superdelegate system, too. The political establishments (Dem and Rep) have been given a taste of how much their constituencies resent them. If they want to maintain power, primaries can only become less democratic going forward.

I'm worried that insurgent candidate like those in 'the squad' were only allowed to succeed as an olive branch to the left-populists for the purposes of maintaining a coherent anti-trump coalition.

The Republicans ran a reasonably clean primary in 2016, and got Trump, a demagogue completely dismissive of the party's interests, who catered to his base, and only helped the Republicans in circumstances of mutual interests. I don't think the party's leadership will be willing to risk something like that again, if the behavior of the Bush-era cabinet appointees he had is any indicator.
I believe the parent comment is actually implying the opposite.

You said, "it really underscores the reality that most of these founders have rich family or friends to fall back on", someone else replied saying that they've been bootstrapping a business on the side and you come back with, "I just can't do the weekend warrior thing".

You can't say "well only rich people can start a business!" and then dismiss bootstrapping as an option just because you personally can't "do the weekend warrior thing".
This election is an anomaly and should not be considered the norm. But there's also some confusion where winners get announced before the total counting is done. They are just announced when there is believed to be statistical certainty. A nation wide (full) recount is not happening in a few hours and if it was I would expect it to have a decent error margin. The UK also doesn't have as many options on the ballots as the US you have president, house, senate, judges, reps, measures, state constitution amendments, etc. You can't make a one to one comparison.
Oddly, I do work reasoning about security protocols and the notations in this still seem opaque. The trail of bits article has some standard notation in it in their cartoons, but both seem to jump between levels of abstraction. Does anyone pay to have these things described clearly?
You do realize that some people have been saying almost exactly what you said since the late 1990's, right?
Sort of like some folks have been predicting the collapse of the US economy due to Federal Reserve policy for the last half century. Either way, the economy of china is structurally quite different from the US or EU. The role of public (and some "private") debt there is different. Which is not to say that they don't have problems -- they have lots of problems. But saying "the Chinese economy is effectively a huge bubble fed by monetary stimulus" is just wrong.

As for "increasingly becoming aware of the corruption in its government"... that's not really true simply because everyone has been aware of it for literally a thousand years. The corruption is sort of background noise there, it is essentially expected. The question most people ask is instead more like, "is there more or less corruption now?" "is the corruption more or less harmful?"

Finally, I don't know where you're getting the idea that the "the number of conflicts between the population and the PCC has progressively been escalating". If anything, the gov of china is more respected inside China now than ever before. I suspect it's mostly because of their aggressive response to covid. Which they never tire of letting everyone in China know about. Short term, at least, the CCP's power inside China is quite secure. Long term, who knows.
And we were also, separately, talking about Apple all week, and we spent the past year talking about Facebook. What is your point? (Actually, looking at your comments you seem to spend all your time talking about Google, so I am guessing you are a Google shill and probably work for them or something :/.)
Or a huge room for corruption.
Other piece of Russian literature is also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog

The story of turning dog into a man by transferring a part of the human brain
I mean, when it comes to problems of age, is there anything to do other than delay?
> Computation should look like computation.

If you follow standard naming practices in C#, properties are distinct from fields, which means they do "look like" computation once you're used to it.

Add null-conditional operators and null-coalescing ones, and you can get code that is overall much more readable and easy to reason about.
What is cold bread, and what's the output, after these 15s?

Keeping bread in the fridge and want it very quickly room temperature for a rush sandwich? Does it really need to be in the fridge?
Clementine has a full-featured media library... that I never used though I use Clementine daily. I put files in playlists and play them as is.

Maybe the same thing will be possible with VLC?
Spent a year doing something different. That has to be worth something.
Out of interest, what light switches did you choose?
Same. Sorry you're in the same boat, but it's nice to hear that it's not just me :/
This one.
It's quite incredible in the way it's constructed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_(2019_film)

> The film consists solely of archival footage, including 70 mm film previously unreleased to the public, and does not feature narration, interviews or modern recreations.

> In late 2016, Todd Douglas Miller had recently completed work on The Last Steps, a documentary about Apollo 17, when British archivist and film editor Stephen Slater suggested making a similarly themed documentary for the upcoming 50th anniversary celebrations of Apollo 11.

> Miller's conception of the film was centered on a direct cinema approach. The final film contains no voice-over narration or interviews beyond what was available in the contemporary source material.
I'm a spaniard, and while I agree that green cards are obviously unknown here, I would tell you to get a closer look at the requirements for someone from the third world to come work to your country - they EU is awesome, but out of that it's all atrocious.

I had a girlfriend that moved here from the US of all places, and almost 5 years of avoiding pitfalls later she still can't be sure she'll be allowed to stay...imagine the chances of someone from, say, somalia making the jump.
It was the old wifi standard, 802.11b

The microwave had a label 2450 mhz which hit channels 7-11, so we put it on 1.
imo the author is playing dumb. He really doesn't know the difference between "starred" and "important"? He really couldn't be arsed to hover the important icon next to a conversation for a clue? Couldn't spend 20 seconds googling it? Does he actually have a suggestion for a better one word summary of the features, or does he think that a feature shouldn't exist if it isn't crystal clear to 100% of users when they encounter it for the first time?
Not just with Australia, the question is whether China, or other members, will honour their obligations.

Speaking of China: China joined WTO since 2001, promised to open up its financial and banking sectors to foreign competitions as conditions for joining, still has not done enough.

I agree that this new agreement may not mean much.
I don't nitpick UIs. I merely switched to text labelling and disabled the important indicators.
Those look incredibly useful. I'll be ordering some in the future if they are still around and don't seem to have any reliability/safety issues (I'm slightly wary of Lithium batteries being crammed into places that haven't been thoroughly tested for that application, given the tendency of these things to catch fire. A Mag-lite with lithium batteries would be great but resembles a pipe-bomb a little too much for comfort until they're proven.)
(I assume you meant uninhabitable)

For the individual the answer is almost certainly yes. If we have the ability to survive elsewhere than earth and we have brought earth to the point that it is 99% uninhabitable then going someone else is probably the best choice.

One could easily argue that our ability to consider our environment and make changes to our behavior accordingly is unnatural. Avoiding the above scenario is something we should be using our unnatural gifts to avoid.

Arguments based on how natural something is is highly subjective and not really worthwhile imo. Replace natural with what we're actually trying to discuss: As a species we want a stable environment that requires the least effort to survive in. Individuals have additional traits they want from the environment but that's all subjective. Things that most people consider natural are usually things that have a large data set to demonstrate their stability.
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