skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for chiming in.

I take your point, very well. But a fundamental disagreement we have is your generous opinion of the 90 %ile user's ability and desire to become an email expert. The loss of that battle was recognized in September 1993.

gmail didn't relinquish its duty to educate users as it became popular; it became popular (in part) because it did things in a simpler way, that users didn't have to "learn" how to use. The vast majority of folks do not care about such trivialities as following a thread. It requires forethought that they do not want to invest.

You have to meet users where they are at. One can wish for better users, sure. That's not a winning strategy.

As well, I still maintain it's unfair to pick on gmail. They had to follow Outlook. Outlook willfully broke threads for other MUAs by not including In-Reply-To headers. That was just evil. At least gmail generates In-Reply-To and References headers! Which Outlook drops. Outlook should be the bogeyman for your article, not gmail!
Very true. In 1996 I incorporated as a British Virgin Islands offshore exactly because of the upfront capital requirements. It was easier than doing it in Switzerland.
> Think for yourself. Learn the math or physics you need and try to form your own conclusions

I studied physics at Harvard, I'm hardly unstudied in the area, but yes, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know QFT or really anything beyond basic QM and general relativity.

> This is the great responsibility for anyone alive in our time and it's hard, thankless work: to think from first principles and to do our own homework

Absurd. I do not need to learn advanced GR/QFT from first principles to know enough to comment on Sabine, nor do I need to verify every principle from first axioms in order to come to conclusions.

Humans have to learn to rely on trusting the judgements of others in order to make scientific advancement. Physicists can't spend their whole life validating that basic mathematical axioms are true, they have to trust the body of academic mathematicians who have done that work. I reject the entire premise of your comment.
I’m not diabetic, but I’m using a CGM for a few weeks, out of curiosity.

My only surprising finding was that diet sodas don’t spike my glucose, but they do crash it, probably because my insulin response is triggered by perceived sweetness.
Imho its the tool and the protocol. I am currently using a paper notebook. Why? Because, while inconvenient, I can use it in any situation, with any medium. I can write down an email task I got, IM conversations, phone calls, paper articles, websites I'd want to read (although I'll email myself the link), things I want to buy. I have one place to look at, and really only one. Old stuff that is done or rejected gets marked and crossed out, remaining readable.

I've wanted to do things digitally, but nothing really encompasses more than a single thing. You get email apps that maybe can define tasks from an email. Rarely more than one task per email. This is siloed from the bookmarks in my browser. Actually, more than one browser, so multiple bookmark lists. But using this even as a simple "to read"-list doesn't work, because I cannot add books, printed articles or PDFs to the usual bookmark list. Adding annotations is something to dream of. Mobile or desktop support is often broken or absent.

I'm currently trying out org-mode plus git. But I've tried a lot and I'm not getting my hopes up.

For people looking for customers: I wan't everything integrated. Don't assume everything to be the Web. Don't assume Gmail as my mail provider. Don't assume that I work primarily from my desktop or mobile device. Don't assume I'll write everything in word. And the kitchen sink ;)
Maybe I’m overdoing it but like true Bayesians mine just don’t believe me anymore. Instead they will just believe troll stories from others.
They are coming from the fact that this was an article written by an undergrad for their school newspaper.
There are only two types of contrarian views.

1. Taking a position that is so novel that your peers neither agree nor disagree with it. Example from 15 years ago: believing that people should live on floating cities. Most people probably would disagree with this if they thought about it some (or understood the ideology behind the desire to seasted), but the position was so strange that it wouldn't stimulate immediate disagreement.

2. Taking a courageous position that is already strongly and overwhelmingly unpopular. This would be something like "I believe democracy is vastly overrated". Unlike with (1), almost everyone in the population has already formed an opinion that is pro-democratic, so when you utter the opposite view, you've got 95%+ of the population ready to disagree with you.

These two categories are exhaustive. In fact a false category of contrarian belief is uttering something that is already popularly controversial, and only slightly unpopular statistically. An example would be uttering "I believe DJT should be President" in a state like Colorado, where a sizable minority of the population already agrees with you. I think this is why most people think they are independent minded, when in fact they aren't. They have a few slightly unpopular views, which don't sufficiently qualify as genuinely contrarian.

TLDR: Genuinely contrarian opinions are either so novel that almost everyone is ready to disagree with you, or they are so novel that no one has an opinion yet on the subject.
Build virtualization solutions on top of a lightweight hypervisor
I’m as layman as you here but I assume it comes from the line of thought “just because light is contained to only go that fast doesn’t mean matter has to be constrained to only go that fast.”

It’s a natural extension of knowing that humans can’t fly. We need only look up to see that constraint didn’t hold up to the rest of time nearly as well as contemporary humans assumed it would.

How do we know that some immutable property of space/time causes light to travel at the speed it does rather than the other way around where some immutable property of light causes it to be incapable of traveling any faster (the old strap wings to a human and look now it can fly; so strap X to light and look now it can go faster to!)

Again, the extent of my knowledge in this space is from Star Trek not science so please be gentle with my clear level of ignorance.
I wish a tool like this would publish a usage guide that suggests some of the optimal architectures for using it. I read over the series of initial docs and now I understand what the basic abstractions are, but I’m still at a loss for what important problems I should use these abstractions to solve. Maybe because it’s not obvious, this product isn’t for me?
J-1s are still being issued but only on an exceptional basis. It's likely that this ban will go away with the change in administration. As an H-1B visa holder, you can only work at the locations listed on the LCA and I-129 with limited exceptions. So if you want to work remotely for an extended period of time at a location no so listed, then your employer likely will need to file an amended H-1B petition before you are able to work remotely.
Whatever you think of it, it's not "terrorism" (the objective is presumably to deter a state nuclear weapons program and not specifically to frighten the masses). While any loss of life is unfortunate, and while the US and Israel are not without blemish, this assassination was very targeted (no collateral) and it plausibly deters Iran from advancing (and thus using) its nuclear weapons program. This seems like a pretty good deal on balance, at least for those who can accept that the world is not perfect and very often the loss of a single life is the best one can hope for to prevent the losses of tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.

Anyway, I want to steer clear of the "which country is more evil?" question because it's so very unlikely to yield productive discourse (we can use enumeration fallacy to support whichever position we like even if we agree on core values).
A quick look at the website where this was published should discourage anyone from sharing links from it. I know the HN crew will downvote this because 'murica but whatever.
> the browser should start with a single empty window

I’m building Amna (getamna.com). It does exactly that. And let’s you open new windows based on the task you’re working on.
My specialized has a walk mode. Not illegal in the states
IANAL you must get ead card in your hand to be able to work. Employers will not even interview you if they don’t receive a copy of it.
I'm imagining a "Do not shutdown while OS is installing" message pulsing in mid-air...
> Iran has been quite virtuous,

Are we talking about the same Iran?

Because the Iran I know funds Hezbollah. It's not a well kept secret either.

> while the US and its allies (Israel and Saudi Arabia) have been waging constant war. (Israel vs. Palestine and Jordan / Saudi Arabia against Yemen).

Are we talking about the same Israel?

Because for all their warts the Israelis are extremely restrictive and has been for a couple of decades even in the face of constant missile attacks, tunnel digging etc etc.

Even before that they have given away massive areas for peace agreements - and kept their part of the deal.

I agree Palestinians are in a rough spot, but lets not forget an almost equal amount of Israelis/Jews were chased from their homes at the same time, and lets not forget that Israeli officials tried to get the locals to stay (because they were afraid to get carpet bombed if they were alone, but still.)
How to complain about PC thought police without getting lynched — verbose timidity from the mildly conservative libertarian with too much to lose. By Paul Thiel.
Nuclear: Out with the Old and in with the New?
Apple Silicon Running Fedora Server 33 in a VM
I don't know what your motivation is, but 60fps is simply not possible. I bought one now (8G/512G) and hooked it up to the 4K TV.

At native 4K and max settings, it's in the low 20's.

At 1920x1080 and max settings it's at ~35fps. To get it close to 60fps it needs level 7 details at 1920x1080. That's in non-crowded typical quest areas.
I doubt that's it; the last American president to meaningfully oppose anything Israel does was JFK, who tried to get international inspections of Dimona to stop Israel's nuclear weapons program.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kennedy-letter-to-ben-g...
> Docker support with full support for running x86 docker images from docker hub via rosetta would be what is needed for me.

Docker isn’t going to be doing that, at least they’re not going to work on it themselves.
I wonder why they don't mention Doodle, which is probably one of the best-known Swiss-made software solutions.

Personally I use Tresorit (end-to-end encrypted Dropbox alternative), which is also made in Switzerland. And then there's Protonmail of course.
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Hi Peter,
Thanks a lot for doing this.
What are the risks for an F1 student on OPT to run an llc a the US?
A large complicated well maintained and widely used library is infinitely preferable to a large complicated library you need to maintain yourself and used only by you. In a similar vein, a well known standard format (or encoding) will always be a better choice than some ad-hoc format you create yourself because not only will that standard have encountered and dealt with problems you haven't even considered, but there are also likely to be a plethora of libraries, frameworks, and tools that support that format, where as if you create something yourself you end up needing to create anything you need.

Your time is generally better spent working on solving your core problem rather than the dozens of ancillary problems that end up needing to be solved along the way (particularly where a whole bunch of other people have spent a whole bunch of time already solving those problems).
My family and everyone I know in Iran has been suffering from the sanctions before they were even born. From a shortage of diapers to medicine. Just look at the numbers of how many Iranians leave their country every year.

Literally, everyone in my family and relatives lives outside of the country (Canada, Sweden, U.S., Dubai, Armenia and etc.) and the sad thing is I don't think I will ever go back.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diaspora
Why aren’t saliva tests for Covid-19 widely available?
In general, I think one of the major benefits of building out a remote dev environment would be freeing all local resources to do things like linking and formatting etc.
With devlunch.io we bring lunchtime techtalks to your remote team
I've often thought that "the speed of causality" would be a much better name for it. Interesting you landed on the same.
Agreed in general, but this standard needs to be applied uniformly, even when stories like [1] show up.

1 - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201117/12384545723/gover...
Rant:

Technically, that code invokes undefined behavior as you use `reinterpret_cast` to alias variables. The only standards conforming way (prior to `std::bit_cast`[0] in C++20) was to use `memcpy`.[a] `reinterpret_cast` was added for situations where code you have no control over requires a certain type, but you need to force it to take your variable.[b]

[a]: As `memcpy` (in addition to reinterpreting bits) copies the bits (although a compiler will most likely optimize it out), it doesn’t violate aliasing rules.

[b]: This also requires that the code you give your kludged variable to not read out those bits as what it thinks it is (because aliasing). Kindof pointless because: what’s the point of passing a variable that’s never read?

[0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast
Investors have very little risk appetite, enterprise makes big money, but innivation is usually pressured into low-cost as much as possible.
It’s hard to find a developer job where you get decent pay and interesting work with a swiss company.
Source, I’m a software developer since 20 years in Switzerand
My experience is a bit opposite. I started a year ago and have generally done alright.
The Iranian nuclear scientist in question was building a nuclear bomb to destroy Israel. Iran is building an offensive nuclear weapon. In the U.S. our nuclear arsenal is a defensive weapon. So, not morally equivalent.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/527724-iranian-scie...
This is exactly my point. What in this article is "woke politics"? It is all just basic "don't be racist" problems. When that is labeled as "woke politics" and you can't talk politics, we have a problem.
There is no tool that I love more than SQLite. It's perfect. It does exactly what it says it will do, it never breaks (NEVER), is so small as to be invisible, is lightning fast, and packs many features a lot of the big guys still lack.

It is incredible.
There are very interesting software companies in Switzerland. And those companies are taking a lot of risks as well. Maybe your impression stems from the fact that it's not a very visible ecosystem and the funding is obviously much smaller than in bigger economies.
I think it is fundamentally the emotional problem of FOMO. The way you solve that issue is by understanding clearly the tradeoffs. Better organization and an ever growing backlog sheds light on how much you can actually consume versus how much you must miss out on. The lack of knowledge regarding this is the source of the pain point.
[1] is currently erroring for me, here's an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201127171502/https://theanarch...
Agreed on that front — especially since you can distribute the source in addition to the binary so that users can make changes & recompile if they want.
This makes logical sense for another reason too.

If you hold a view that very few share, you're more likely to have thought from first principles about why that view should be held. If you hold a view that everyone shares, there's a much higher probability that the view is programmed into you by your social stimuli.
> Neither have been its main nemesis, the Saudis, Israelis and the U.S.

One of these is not like the others:

Israel for all its warts has been quite consistent in leaving alone those who doesn't mess with them. Of course it makes competely sense given how they are consistently outnumbered in every way but quality, but still.

They also have a long history of peaceful sharing of civilian technology etc etc.
I've seen in leaderless orgs that getting new headcount for your part of the org is very hard, and everyone just does what they want. Theres multiple tools competing for each other. Getting promoted is hard. Ownership is difficult-- everyone wants to be an advisor and not an owner. "No managers" sounds good, but I havent seen it work well.
EDIT: Oh, yes, I see, I am not sure why anyone would do this. Maybe someone who had an address or two they want to keep at the lowest possible cost. I'm not sure how email is managed for such accounts, but it's possible Dreamhost will take care of the setup, so maybe you don't have to interact with the web control panel, which might be intimidating for some users. Could also be a legacy arrangement for an older product offering.

Original reply:

Buying domain hosting gives you "unlimited" email addresses, so domain hosting is cheaper as soon as you need 3 or more addresses.

3 addresses x $2 = $6/mo for email vs $4.95/mo for any number of addresses. I have a friend who is married with 4 children. He pays $4.95/mo for 6 addresses. You don't have to actually host an http domain to get email hosting that comes with domain hosting.

"unlimited" in quotes because obviously there are some limits and service terms. You can't start a competitor to gmail with a $4.95/mo hosting account.
I've played with remote docker a little before, and 2 things were stopping me:

- Is there a way to forward local ports to the remote docker instance? So I can access the app on "localhost:3000" as usual? (OAuth setups make the app URL a pain to change)

- Is there a way to "mount" local volumes on the docker instance? (Reaction Commerce mounts the code folder as a volume. Altough that project has other issues, that's the main thing that kept me from using it).
It's not much of a consolation, but "forced" back then meant "no other options" (except death). People were Shanghaied onto ships, forced to work for someone else for little to no pay, or because they simply had debts, and they had no state-mandated rights.

Lots of people have sacrificed their lives to give us a better one. I'm only from an ex-USSR country, and I've never been to countries worse off, but from what I read, workers rights have taken hold pretty much everywhere.

The anti-maskers/pro-authoritarians part was in reply to "people are gathering in groups based on their levels of competence, interests and views".

Yes, everyone gathers in their own groups with narrow views, and they don't have to live or even communicate with people who have different views. So they don't even try to understand the opposing point of view. It's automatically just them "being dumb", "just wrong" or "fake news" or whatever.

It might make for more effective social associations in the short term, but I don't see how it's sustainable in the long term. It's the same exact type of divide that exists between the wealthy and the rest.
I tend to agree. Apparently it's very hard to get funding for novel ideas in Switzerland. And yes, risk aversion is a big part of Swiss culture, an example of which being that Swiss are some of the most over-insured people, and savings rates also regularly top the charts. A fairly egalitarian society with a high standard of living makes for a people that doesn't like or "have to" take risks
Surely negative votes if the crowd doesn't like will pretty much happen by definition any place people can down vote?
Unfortunately, you can't escape the need for pedantry as a native speaker, and as a non-native (which I sssumed they were), I generally find they appreciate th clarification.

Arguably, what makes motor traffic "flow better" is increased predictability, and decreased demand on shared infrastructure. I'm not condemning all cyclists or saying it isn't worthwhil; merely that the arrangements we've got with them being sometimes pedestrians/sometimes road users leads to a cultural clash that leaves everyone frustrated.

The entire urban network architecture leaves quite a lot to be desired.
I'm sure there are interesting technical problems to solve at Logitech, but from the outside it doesn't strike as the sort of company that ambitious young developers are champing at the bit to join. Hell, as a developer SAP seems like a more fun and interesting European "tech giant" than Logitech from the outside, and that is saying something.
> This entire thing reads like it was torn from the journal of a clever middle-schooler who thinks he's so much more clever then the world.

That honor is already claimed by Sam Altman's blog.
The NASA planned replacement for the space shuttle had a bunch of setbacks, but what killed it was the carbon fiber cryo tanks delaminating. They couldn’t solve the problem fast enough and it all got shitcanned. Has that been solved now?

The Mirai can have a low pressure tank, fed from a much larger, higher pressure tank at the fuel station. That tank and the delivery systems for it are separate problems that also have to be solved at scale.

“At scale” is the problem that public policy has to wrestle with. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you can do it for everybody.
>>Edit: Why doesn't the EU replicate the success of US startups? You think EU policy makers don't understand what is needed for that? Or that there's not enough "talent"? I doubt it. I think it's a more or less conscious decision to avoid the US startup culture. It's a cultural thing.

If it is indeed a cultural thing, I would argue that they have also thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

Example: here is a very curious thing about the GDPR - non-European countries cannot really put a "counter-tariff" (metaphorically speaking) because nothing that useful has actually come out of Europe to tariff in retort. We did see some comical efforts of some websites to block the entire continent of Europe, but what would have been actually interesting is if non-European countries could block, say, the Google of Europe. Europeans had no skin in this game so to speak, because they haven't actually produced anything at that level of utility for a long time.

Note: I am neither American nor European, and my country has done almost nothing of note either. But I am not going to say that "oh, we don't need all that SV shit because as a culture, we think it is beneath us".
Not to detract from your point but I think that's the point of constitutional republic over direct democracy. Statute and the judiciary constrains actions such as this which would require a supermajority to enact.
Starting a GmbH theoretically requires 25.000 € in Germany, but you only have to pay in half of that in the beginning. I think in Switzerland it's similar?

If you don't want to invest 5-10 T€ to start a company you can look into Estland's eResidency programme, which enables you to start a limited liability company there, giving you access to the EEA market as well.
As someone who did sport and hung out with sport types a lot, they always played computer games. I mean, you have to be deep in a bubble to think that people who do sport are either a.) invariably dumb b.) do not play computer games.

> There can be sports-types who also like intellectual activity

Quite a lot of them, to the point of such people not being exceptional black swans at all. That is what the MMA fighter commented on - the only way to be surprised over him playing computer games is that you dont talk to athletes at all.
Thank you. I thought it might be something like that.
> it plausibly deters Iran from advancing (and thus using) its nuclear weapons program

Having looked quite deeply into this, Iran does not currently have, nor peruses such a program. Meanwhile Israel not only does have a nuclear program, but refuses to sign any treaties regulating it.