skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other interesting loophole is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning which gives you levitating superconductors and (impractical) hovercars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
Ha ha you dont like his tone. You sure are sensative when you get called out for misrepresentation . Grow up. You got caught bullshitting .
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook avoid touching AGPL software with a ten foot pole.

Choosing AGPL is a great way to isolate yourself from any collaboration with that community
Good point, Ada's runtime range checks mean that an assignment can raise an exception. [0] Part of what SPARK Ada does is to prove the absence of such constraint errors. [1]

I don't think Ada supports arbitrary user-specified constraints, but I'm no expert.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-10.2.0/gnat_ugn/Run-Time-...

[1] https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/usage_sce...
I disagree with your disagreement ;) Yes, there could be an exodus, many people think they need web2.0.

But given that sr.ht isn't supposed to be for everyone anyway, it doesn't matter what would provoke an exodus on GitHub.

Thanks for sticking with your values! It is so refreshing. I hope to start using sr.ht soon.
It’s also possible and common to just lose the time with no redeeming experience, learnings, perspective, etc., no matter how open-minded, self-reflecting and positive you may be. Not all experiences have meaningful lessons within them. Sometimes a large chunk of lived experience is just totally void of value.

And that’s ok too. Not everything has to be recast as value additive or enriching from some more mature or greater perspective.
I believe the way for more technically minded folks to approach startups is this: I will fail, I will fail many times, I can lose a lot of time and money. I should see if people will pay me before I build it.

Startups are REALLY, REALLY hard to make a living wage on the whole in a smaller period of time when selling things by the drip (eg: SaaS, Ecomm low price points, etc). The business is an art, which is different than the skillset engineers build up over years in their domain - yet want to achieve 'break even ASAP'.

Edit: Business is a very 'social sport' - if social isn't your thing, you have to: compensate, overcome, hire out, or fail.
Heinlein's Starship Troopers novel touched on this. Neo Dogs are a novelty in society, a sideshow to the general public, but they have the Intelligence similar to a human moron, but is a Mozart for their species. And they use them in war, which is their main use. The recruiter that works with the protagonist, was a bonded partner. They bond deeply to their Neo Dog and if the Neo Dog dies, it is more humane to kill the handler immediately, or put them in a drug induced coma for a couple months and then rehabbing them. The recruiter was put into a coma, but is still dealing with the loss of his Neo Dog, and agrees that killing the handler asap is kinder than having to go through the rehab.
The fact they didn't let the fetus grow really fucking sucks. Sure, ethics most definitely has its name etched on the science stone.

But people WILL without a shred of doubt recreate this experiment, and they most likely won't be as ethically inclined as the nice folks behind this paper.

The point am trying to make here is that we need to be prepared to deal with how a discovery like could influence our future. The best way to do that is to know what expect with enough time ahead to react.

And yeah sure people will say this is just an excuse for morbidly curious people like me to simply see what happens, and while I'm literally brimming in desire to know myself, theres a bigger picture, bearing witness is just a perk:)
Hector’s colleague here. This is exactly what happened.

Please see Hector’s response: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395#issuec...
Method soap is the example of a better soap dispenser like you say. It doesn't work on everything but it had the uniqueness that it was made with natural ingredients, so much that you could drink it, which the founders did to demonstrate that fact.
"Ask HN: Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893771 from three weeks ago lists a couple of resources. KA=Khan Academy. Some suggestions are for advanced mathematics though.
Most people on the planet are not white, most societies are not white, yet there is plenty of racism in those too. Look at Asia: Han Chinese vs minorities like Uighurs. Ever heard of that? Do you follow the news about Myanmar at all? It is complete utter nonsense that racism is a white invention or has anything to do with being white. Take you white guild nonsense elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Asia
Reply on 0 comment thread with wall-of-text self promotion completely ignoring the submission itself. The "Show HN Takeover", a veteran move.
I just watched Citizen Kane. An amazing movie
If you click on the timestamp, you should see a "vouch" link. This is distinct from voting. 'minimaxir describes this a bit more here:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
> Thirdly, the scale of stuff you are talking about is miniscule

Is it ? So is the lack of empathy.

> I would have lost access to the developed world FOREVER

No you wouldn't have. You would have temporarily forfeited the ability to _live_ at _one_ rich country.

> So just make sure you don't take the wrong feedback from what life is telling you

What IS the correct feedback? Certainly not yours.
The default Twitter lets you select from lists of topics, none of which are very toxic unless you ease into confrontational politics.

If this default is "horrible" can you say more about that?

> fake emotional output of a single user's anecdotal experience

What do you mean by this? What is the emotional output and what is fake? Are you talking about my single user's experience, or that of the person I replied to?
This spams your browser history something fierce. Can that be optional?
Ever thought that his anxieties are the result of his failing business and not how he started?
And life is telling nothing.
There is no guaranteed way of success. You can have all the abilities and knowledge you need and still fail miserably. Luck is a large part of every success story. Nobody has really unique capabilities.
It doesn't necessarily need to be a Federal government program,. It could be an initiative that all states take up on their own, or even a Federal mandate that voting software be open source.
Absolutely terrible advice!
Bertrand Might: Life, legacy and next steps
Don't know about UK, but I suspect it is because they start counting as soon as they receive them.

In US there were some laws that counting couldn't start before polls are closed. Despite mail in ballots arriving a month earlier. In some places they weren't even allowed to prepare them for counting (like verifying signatures and removing ballots from envelopes).
Littlewood's Law
So, we are trying to make Planet of the Apes happen IRL?
Matt.Might.net has had many submissions to HN [1]. Professor Might pivoted from CS to medicine on account of his family's success figuring out what was wrong with their first-born son, Bertrand Might. Further context for this link is provided in dang's comment on a 2018 submission about the family's efforts to improve diagnosis and treatment for rare diseases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962575

I read Cristina and Matt Might's blog posts [2] in 2010, when they were in the midst of their search for a diagnosis for their son. In 2012 they determined [3] Bertrand had a glycolysation disorder caused by inheriting two malformed copies of the NGLY1 gene [4] [5]. The family moved from Utah to Alabama for the University of Alabama's medical school [6], and probably also for the change of weather (Utah: substantial snowfall every winter. Birmingham, Alabama: 1 inch snow/year). They eventually decided the odds of their having a second child with Bertrand's NGLY1 disorder were acceptably low; their other two children are not affected by Bertrand's genetic condition.

Bertrand Might suddenly passed away about three weeks ago, not quite 13 years old.

*

Growing up is like getting to the Moon and back. Most people make it to adulthood, but we all need help getting there. Parents are our Mission Control. Matt and Cristina found themselves in an Apollo 13 scenario [7] -- "Houston, we have a problem" -- soon after Bertrand's birth. One of Bertrand's symptoms was lack of tears. Matt posted a writeup after they pinpointed the genetic cause of Bertrand's condition: "My Son's Killer" [3].

Matt added 'precision medicine' to his undertakings. They rose to their occasion, found their answers and almost had Bertrand back to Earth ("A significant gene therapy trial is on the horizon" [8]). Suddenly losing their son is tough (but not entirely unexpected), as it is for all parents who outlive their progeny.

My condolences to the family.

*

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=might.net

[2] http://www.overcomingmovementdisorder.com/

[3] http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGLY1_deficiency and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGLY1#Clinical_significance (Bertrand Might was the 2012 patient mentioned in this section -- references [40] and [46][47][48]).

[5] https://www.ngly1.org/

[6] https://www.uab.edu/medicine/pmi/matt-might

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

[8] https://bertrand.might.net/#glycocauses
> [for] a blackmailer or con artist, deniability is very useful

Fair enough, but for any legitimate purpose?
That's not what the parent said at all.
The UK does not start counting until polls are closed. They count all ballots - both in-person and mail-in - within a few hours. They have a lot of people in gyms and just go through them quickly.
I would guess that vaccination is one of the most well protected and guarded subjects in all of media and usually any criticism or citing of critical information is immediately shot down. "Anti-vaxxer" is right up there with calling someone a racist.
> the scale of stuff you are talking about is miniscule

This is NOT a competition.
Fun, but I think we killed it. :D Can you describe your hosting setup?
It is similar for a lot of Asian populations as well. I think it is mostly just due to how much exposure you have had to the various populations where you can notice the small differences that tend to make a group distinct. Most Americans do not interact with enough European sub-groups to distinguish between them, while most Europeans I have run into tend to lump east Asians into a single group while I can easily distinguish between London tourists who are Chinese, Korean, and Japanese just from having spent a couple of decades on the west coast of the US. When you are surrounded by different groups you tend to pick up on the subtle clues.
That Pre-Thanksgiving Covid Test Won't Keep You Safe
I think a lot of folks have been traumatized by their experiences with iTunes, and its default settings.

I don't know if this is still the case, but at one time installing iTunes on Windows meant that some or all of the user's default app associations for media files were hijacked. Then, because of the default iTunes settings, launching a media file for playback would always initiate a process of importing that file into the iTunes library. Whether or not the user cared about creating or maintaining such a library.

Whenever installing iTunes, for myself or others, I am careful to fine-tune the system's file associations, and even more importantly, I make sure the iTunes prefs are in line with what the user would expect/prefer. Especially the settings for 'copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library,' and 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized.'

With those two settings unchecked, the contents of the iTunes library are not duplicated or socked away in an obscure location; they're exactly where the user wants them to be. And the files don't get renamed. That's the way the media library feature behaves in the current version of VLC—and there's no reason to assume that VLC will change this behaviour, to be more like the iTunes default, just because it may change its GUI front-end.
> Most of these ideas fold because travel is very cold market for an investor and most dont want to invest.

This isn't true. For example, AirBnB has plenty of funding.

Investors as the constraint currently happens for capital-intensive opportunities, like nuclear fusion. There's plenty of investors for software as a service.

There are lots of other reasons why there aren't more "apps for x." The main barrier for any app is that it has to improve on the alternative. In this case, tech services like AirBnB and TripAdvisor are competing with DIY search, or simply talking to a friend or travel consultant and having a human conversation.
Have you seen how big the Chernobyl exclusion zone is? are to move your family there?

Have you paid any attention to the after effects at Fukushima? Do you care to realize that we are pushing radiation with unknown effects into the largest body of water (and one of the greatest repositories of life) on Earth? That the effects will likely reverberate for a 1000 years or more?

What is your solution to the problem of accumulating Nuclear waste?

Has it occurred to you that life has succeeded on the planet primarily by a fantastical luck of getting dosed with EXACTLY the right amount of radiation, carefully controlled by an atmosphere that literal took a millennia of millennia in order to develop? That fucking with that balance by inviting disastrous and unknown consequences into that careful envelope might turn some people off?

No. You must be right.. just a bunch of loony activists that are clinging desperately to the activist identity.

How shallow and unconsidered an opinion. Did it make you feel as smug as it sounded when you typed it out?
The conclusion is a bit spotty, but there are some good points in there.

If you have dedicated backend developers and front-end developers — or worse, separate teams — then each and every change becomes painful. Writing bog standard UI and backend code shouldn't require in-depth specialist knowledge, and you can usually collapse those down into a single role.

I also agree that the frontend requirements should drive the shape of the API. If you have a backend team they tend to picture an idealized consumer of their API. They stress over whether the API follows RESTful principles and how to model things out correctly, and version breaking changes so their consumers can have their own update cycle. But when you step back and realise that the API has one, or maybe two, consumers. And it turns out writing some weird, esoteric, heavily coupled endpoint for a specific use case is not so horrible.
Thank you. My goals are aligned with things I love, but it's still hard.
ZWave switches and dimmers also continue to work fine without the hub.

I do enjoy Caseta's smooth dimming and "nice touch" switch controls however.
I’ve had terrible reactions to statins. The best way to describe it was that it felt, mentally, like my consciousness was fading and that I was dying. Closest sensations I’ve experienced to it would be fainting or moments of low blood pressure. Sort of like getting dizzy after standing up too fast, but for hours and hours. Not pleasant.

My doctors have no idea what caused these symptoms, but in both cases going off the statin (first Crestor, then Lipitor) got me back to normal.
> This is much faster than US voting machines.

That's actually pretty much on par for much of the U.S. We have paper ballots and results mostly finished before the next morning. There are stragglers, of course, for good reasons, but you don't really hear much about those unless they are possibly going to decide the election, like this year.

And then of course 2020 is it's own special kind of fun, not typical of any other year.
Does the article mention business logic?

Even at MVP stage, many backends do quite a bit more than CRUD.

This is why I wouldn't pick e.g. https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest even when it's a perfectly fine (and probably well thought-out) project.
In the UK CBus have CAT5 cable that's rates for installation alongside mains cables (back of lightswitches etc) https://www.cbusdirect.co.uk/cbus-product-range/cbus-cable-a...
Hey.

I've been working (with a co-founder) on a side project that's about to pan out for the past 2.5 years. About 1.5 years of that was working after hours, then about 10 months or so of 6 hours at my day job and 2 hours in my company, then just recently I quit my job with about a years worth of savings and am full time in the company.

The risk I took, until recently at least, was almost nothing, since I had a job all along and was actually saving money at a quick pace.

You too can start a company without going bankrupt with a bit of planning and a bit of frugality.

nb. I'm counting my project as a success if it brings me >= 1x median wage on the side, which is a low bar. Also, I am not rich.
I don't know that I'd agree that you lost a year of your life. Rather, I think it took you a year to learn a valuable lesson and to learn it relatively early in life. For most of us "tech types," building stuff is the easy part. Telling other people about it, about why they should use it, why it's better than the other guys' -- that's the part we struggle with. You tried something difficult and learned something valuable. I hope your relationship survived/survives the experience, but remember that life is itself a series of experiences. That's what I would take away from this: it was a new experience, I learned something, and I came out of it on the other side a wiser person.
At some point in the process, vote information will be stored digitally. Whether it's posted to the SoE's website or during transmittal to the Federal or state governments.

I'm also trying to imagine elections with the number of people we have and number of races being counted by hand from the beginning, with no digital storage or tabulation, and it is rife with errors and even harder to validate in a reasonable way.
Give them a term limit, and then send them back to their life appointment on the district courts (with a higher salary if you want to sweeten the deal a little).
It already has an impact within the UK.

St Ives constituency in the UK is generally the last to declare, presumably because the island populations are so small and remote it's considered unsafe for them to individually count and report the results for collation, for multiple potential reasons (Gugh: 3 residents)
I thought efficiency of a fan < 2 counterrotating stacked fans < ducted fan?
I find this to be highly unlikely. I took statins for about two weeks and started getting weird muscle pains and aches which resolved within 2-3 days after ending treatment. I didn't even know that muscle pains were a potential side effect until I brought it up with my doctor. I take several drugs, and statins are the only one which have brought on notable physical symptoms; so I find it unlikely that this is "all in my head", because I'm not mentally paying attention to what individual drugs are doing to my body. I find this reporting to be so irresponsible that it is borderline unethical in my opinion.
I strongly disagree with the advice in this article. There are many reasons. I’ll name a few.

Your DB is likely to contain internal state that has no business being sent to the client. Over time applications change and fields can change meaning, become deprecated, or become dependent on other fields through business logic.

If you do this, any business logic not captured in your backend has to be duplicated in each front end. Imagine needing to write and maintain the same business logic in a JavaScript framework, Java for Android, and Swift for your iOS app.

How do you make breaking DB changes if you take on this strategy of API design?

In most cases in my professional career, making a choice to have a thin RESTful API that corresponds closely to the DB structure has been a mistake that only time made clear. RPC-like APIs fared much better.

This advice may be good for a proof of concept, a prototype, or an early version which stands a good chance of getting rewritten. I would not recommend it for anyone wishing to build a lasting architecture.

Don’t take my word for it. Take a look at your favorite famous internet company and look at their API and try to deduce if they follow this advice or not.
In digital cinema the projector and the playback server does a handshake and key exchange before you can play encrypted content.The rest of this story might not be entirely correct, I've been out of the business for a few years and this happened maybe 5-6 years ago, but it's a bit fun and kind of relevant.

This usually works without any issues, but on one type of projector they had used a non-shielded network cable internally in the projector and if the projector lamp was lit juuuust at the right moment, the handshake would fail and the film would not play. Normally it wouldn't be a huge deal as the handshake happens just before the film and the lamp is usually lit on the beginning of the show long before the film starts. HOWEVER, there was this one cinema chain that had standardized their playlists in such a way that they for some stupid reason turned of the projector lamp in between the trailers and the film (I think to "introduce" the film) and then turned it on again just before the film with the result that the handshake failed 3 out of 10 times or so.

Long term solution was to replace the shoddy cable. Short term solution was to change all their playlist templates to blind the lamp instead of turning it off. Like they should have done to begin with.
> In US there were some laws that counting couldn't start before polls are closed.

This is a good time to remind everyone that in the U.S. there are many different voting jurisdictions, and at the very least 50 different sets of rules. Some similar, some not. So it's difficult to generalize, some places count early, some not, some allow late arrivals, some not, etc.
The Koch Brothers are also directly responsible for poisoning a generation of poor people who've had the unfortunate luck to live downwind from chemical factories owned by Koch Industries.

What's even more audacious is that all the money they gained from killing people, a lot of them from cancer, they pretend to be patrons of curing cancer funding cancer research.

The family puts most robber barons to shame.
Infant immune systems are significantly dependant on exposure to infections to workand transition from their in vitro system. Lack of natural exposure is already thought to be responsible for a whole host of medical issues.
Are you seriously shaming them because you think they have social anxiety and you don't think they took a big enough risk?
Yes, exactly. I can usually distinguish between Japanese/Chinese/Korean just by realizing there are differences and noticing, but most other people just think "Asian" (or, even worse in my country, "Chinese").
Yup, still receiving them on Mojave and not planning to move past that.
No one is being "forced" to do anything. You want an ICE car, you can keep your ICE car or buy another used one. I am sure when it comes to it, there will also be a thriving niche market to keep these cars roadworthy for even longer than the normal 15-20 year lifespan. That also probably includes aftermarket modifications to make the cars safer.

I'm also sure at some point someone somewhere might be inconvenienced by decisions like this, but we are going to have to just accept that if we want to combat climate change. Maybe you object to it for a political or ideological reason. However it doesn't make sense to blame that objection on the lack of currently existing infrastructure when it would be 20-30 years before we truly need that level of infrastructure.
You're effectively experimenting on your child? Don't you think the repurcussions might be severe?