skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How did you turn your failed business model into a successful venture?
I started with flipping gadgets, but failed at first to make a substantial income. It was hard to make ends meet...

At first we bought devices from dealers and stores who got them in exchange.

But thereafter, my profit increased 5-6x after I started a business model which cut down all middlemen and bought gadgets directly from consumers. There have been some issues like stolen devices and as such, but profits soared!

Want to know other hackers turned a failed business to something successful.
We'll see.

My bet is that having the French and German governments as paying clients will be a game-changer for Matrix. We've moved over to it internally, and I'm federating onto a couple of social channels; using Slack feels like chewing glass now, and if I could interact with my remaining Slack obligations from Element, I would.

Slack can be as hostile as they want, I welcome it in fact, because I want them to be unprofitable, hemorrhaging users, and eventually shut down. Best of all, there's only so much they can do in that department, while keeping all the bot integrations which are their only remaining (and fast eroding) edge.

Matrix deserves to win— and they're poised to.
When the wisdom of the crowd becomes the stupidity of the mob (2007)
I hope a lot of people with your beliefs have the courage of their convictions and refuse to take the vaccine so that I can get the vaccine sooner.
That's actually great evidence! Much better than "I and many of my friends who are currently successful played violent games and we are just fine." The latter is about as convincing as "My grandfather lived to be 90 and he smoked like a chimney."
Now that Trump is out "the left" will end its alliance with intelligence agencies and go back to mistrusting them.
Ask HN: How do you not become exhausted by on call?
Working as a developer for almost two years at company that runs on-call rotation and I feel myself becoming more anxious, exhausted and disliking of my job every time my on-call rotation comes up. I really love programming but things constantly failing and being messaged by various folks to fix and troubleshoot every part of a big codebase has me strung out (even after vacation days). Any advice?
Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range
Evidence suggests independent emergence in north-central Europe (present-day Germany), central Asia (Kazakhs), and multiple regions in Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
Letting SV entrepreneurs set the standard for editorial ethics is guaranteed to suck. They'll either cash in on conspiracy nonsense or censor arbitrarily.
The great thing about longevity is that lots of stuff creeps up on you anyway.
Fine. But my kids are still not allowed to play them. My house, my rules.
Book containing the original short fiction from William Gibson:

- 2003 edition: https://bookshop.org/books/burning-chrome-9780060539825/9780...

- 1986 edition: https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Chrome-William-October-Paperb...
The treaty of Saint-Germaine-en-Laye which concluded peace with the Allies and what was left of Austria-Hungary, was a copy/paste of the Treaty of Versailles. One clause prohibited landlocked Austria from having submarines.

So I guess this sort of thing does happen a lot.
> The MSM has mostly done an outstanding job, newspapers in particular.

I really genuinely cannot tell whether you are being sarcastic.
> I am not suggesting those videos / channels be banned either just pointing the uneven absurdity of YT's policies.

I make the same clarifications in each comment I make so as not to receive a wave of downvotes, it is incredible how HN decreases in quality more and more.
This comment got my interest but I don't see anything linked here that's written by Yuval Harari. I can't tell if I've missed something, or if you're referring to another book called Sapiens other than Yuval's, or something else.
> intellectual emptyness of traditional media.

What do you mean by this? What does "traditional media" mean in this context? Anything that isn't self-published?
> but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in CS:GO and Call of Duty but if you show one women's nipple it's unacceptable.

I havent seen this personally, but isn't this more of an American tendency than a general western thing? On the American side media violence is penalized less (in terms of adult ratings) than nudity/sex while across the ocean you see the opposite trend.

Can anyone with more exposure to European (or Aussie/Kiwi) media confirm/deny this? I'm curious to hear the reason why if true.
It is too late to edit but:

> device, OS and browser

Latest Firefox on Manjaro/Desktop

> are you logged in to Google or Gmail

I am currently logged in gmail, but usually not and I'm pretty sure that the issue is still the same (but either way, I tried a private tab and it still knows my location)

> What’s your DNS setting

Quad9:

9.9.9.9.

149.112.112.112
Tesla FSD Beta 8 tested for self-driving performance in snowy conditions
> Not - I'm not saying that China or India lacks skilled labor, or highly paid experts. But that's not why companies like Apple are there.

I think it is partly. China in particular seems to have a depth, quality and volume of hardware engineering skills that isn't available anywhere else in the world. Maybe the US had this once, but as far as I can see: not anymore.
YouTube makes no money on demonitized videos as well, right?
To declare their shares of having no more legal power than toilet paper.
I couldn't agree more on that. What is your most recommended source of knowledge in areas like business/tech/science or else that you are interested in?
>You do realize she shed light on war crimes right? Do you consider war crimes 'state secrets' that 'exist for a reason'?

What warcrimes? Please be specific. Because if you're talking about that Helicopter gunship video, that was not a warcrime, and was selectively edited by Wikileaks to try to make it look worse. All of which made Wikileak's claims far more dubious.
> [...] which are closer to the domain Brooks would have dealt with.

If anything, that confirms Dan's argument that we're solving problems today that Brooks couldn't even imagine back in the 80s.
My take is that a large part of this situation is driven by businesses that no longer optimize for people, communities, country, or workers.
Some things still need to be said.
Wallabag [0] may do what you require, with regard to having a browser extension to reduce friction when saving something. There's a bit of friction in getting the browser extension set up, but once you do so, it's there as a status bar button - click to save. Simple! On mobile, it becomes a "share destination" for iOS or Android.

[0] https://github.com/wallabag
The EU is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is US law.
"Work it out" is a strategy for equals. With major age/size/strength differences it just becomes domination and submission. Parents refusing to provide the "monopoly on violence" just results in kids who are worse at fighting learning to do whatever the bully says, and probably still getting beaten for the fun of it.

I mean I do agree that kids need to learn to navigate conflict, but adults should ideally be monitoring and should definitely get involved when power differentials get out of hand.
How does that even happen back then? I guess the human who was retyping/rewriting things didn't think about what they were writing?
How would you approach the situation?
If anyone wanted to provide half useful bikeshedding, they could make the "Load Comments" button disable and change to "Loading..." while it's being fetched. Right now there's no feedback and the user is likely to click multiple times wondering if it's working on a slower connection like mine.

They could also probably just html-escape the few foreign values rather than bringing an HTML parser to the entire template.
A major expense for employers are benefits. So your 80% number is reasonable strictly from a salary standpoint. You may need to take a further 10% cut to cover the benefits so that your total compensation or cost to the company is 80% overall.
seems like a cool idea, but without any demo to try, it's hard to go for it
Why should a business be doing the job of a government and multinational governmental organisations such as the UN?
But think about the abuse of the shareholders! The horror
Whole social clubs may have been on the decline for decades, there’s been a pretty big growth in group fitness. CrossFit has been huge for over a decade and BJJ had really begun to explode, prior to Covid. I hit my two-year mark in jiu jitsu, right before the pandemic. While I still maintain contact with a few members, I really miss the camaraderie. I have no interest in returning to my office for work, but the moment it’s safe for me and my family, I’ll be restarting BJJ. And possibly reforming dormant bands I’ve played in.
> the punishment is just

I think it's reasonable to hold the belief that the punishment, especially in today's prison system, is not just.
Most companies can and do prioritize vendors who meet non-monetary criteria. Apple can easily ask vendors to complete external ethics audits, these audits usually request information on each vendors suppliers, suppliers of suppliers, etc.

Apple absolutely has control over who they buy from in this regard. Failing their willingness to act the US federal government has the authority to enforce labor law parity with trading partners through trade negotiations, tariffs, and bans.
> CCP shills

And that is also against the rules:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

If you despise the rules so much why do you even keep coming here?
New vaccines will likely be approved over the next few weeks (particularly the Oxford one), greatly increasing supply, and the kinks around distribution and administration will be slowly worked out (the Oxford one will also reduce the logistical challenges there; no special transport or storage needed). I'd be very surprised if rates don't go up considerably within a month.
iPod and iphone more ?
If the cost of living in a place as people actually live is below what a federal poverty formula set in 1963 says it is, then the rate will overreport. If it is above that line, the rate will underreport. In both cases, a number based around the social assumptions of 1963 is not a perfect way to measure what life is actually like for actual people more than fifty years later. Things like household composition and non-cash income affect lived reality too.

I hope that answers your question! Personally, I found the report from the Census Bureau and BLS (as per my earlier comment) quite educational for exactly this sort of eminently reasonable concern. But your mileage may vary!
NYC Rent Market Overview
You may not remember VIOXX. I was working at FDA when this scandal broke. Politics and money got this drug approved. A whistleblower got it exposed.
A workflow system I worked on there was had features designed to hide information from certain doctors/researchers.
I work on voice control with a custom speech engine and models (Talon). I know nothing about subvocal mic hardware or even how the audio sounds, but if anyone has a viable answer to this, especially with a good hardware option, please reach out to me.

Basically, if someone can point me to a solid subvocal speech recognition tech demo and a reliable subvocal mic (note the sibling comment that indicates generic subvocal mics are frustrating and fall out of alignment easily): I think I could train production subvocal speech models, tune support for the audio style in my app, and ship to the public in a matter of weeks.
In the east, the Appalachian Mountain Club (I'm a leader with them but don't generally do group backpacks) and the Adirondack Mountain Club also do trips. The AMC (like the Sierra Club) also does longer "adventure travel" trips which probably include backpacks.
What happens when people start missing their second dose because of insufficient supplies?

- Endless stories of incompetence in the media

- Lack of clarity in need for second dose

- Infections in suboptimally vaccinated people draw question towards efficacy of vaccine.

These are all going to have deleterious effects on future messaging and policy decisions. There's no way to survive this situation with your reputation intact as there are loudmouths on both sides, at least try to salvage the process restore confidence in the underlying medical science.

I've been in a situation where medical policy directly contravenes with the health of a dearly loved individual. We lost that battle and the lives of myself and my children will be forever changed. However, I can rationally see the merit of this approach.
Also it gives time for various IMSI and surveillance related tools to function.
Maybe you'd like a duplex instead?

$89,900 -
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/130-Main-Ave-N-Fessenden-...

$92,000, No basement, but 5 bedrooms, 2,730 sq ft.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/402-N-Mulberry-St-Eureka-...

$82,000, 6 bedroom, 3,198 sq ft

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/300-Seminole-Trl-Foss-OK-...

$55,000, 5 bedroom, 2,500 sq ft

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1601-Spring-St-Parkersbur...
"Hurr durr America bad" is the standard trope on Reddit.

Most people on HN are pretty well informed of the less than nice things the .gov has done over they years even if they bury their heads in the sand when advocating for expansion of government scope on <insert personal favorite issue here>.

And the right has their own laundry list of reasons the government is not to be trusted. Those people have nearly zero trust for pretty much any gun-toting federal agency.

I wouldn't say that people are "oblivious". I'd say that people are divided on how to fix the issues.
Not unexpected from the administration that claims that climate change is not real, in the country where close to half of the population believe in imaginary friends and that vaccines are bad and contain microchips.
> Apple mice have always sucked

This is basically true, but in the annals of Apple mice which suck, the hockey puck iMac mouse stands alone.

It remains a popular study in design circles for how to be hostile to your users, because a perfectly round mouse doesn't fit a human hand, and it's pointlessly difficult to orient the blasted thing.
> Take for example on site servicing. Apple have never offered that

Apple has offered on-site servicing as standard under AppleCare for many many years.
Wut? I always wonder what people mean when they say 'in Europe', as if there weren't vast cultural and economic differences. Remember e.g. Switzerland and Albania are both in (continental) Europe.

A couple of years ago I inquired about the prize in a room in a hotel in San Francisco I happened to walk up to -- the front desk person cautioned that it offered 'european style' shared bathrooms. plonk -- I never encountered a hotel in Europe with shared bathrooms, but I've never been to Albania either.
No one is paying for a web browser. It doesn't matter how fast it is.
Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person
https://ttc-subway.vercel.app/

video ride
> Ian Mc-whatever

We just call him Gun Jesus
I think his point is that sex is a normal part of living whereas violence is generally not.

For example, the last time I was in a real physical fight was in kindergarten. If I watch/play violent media, it can't affect the way I fight because I do not fight. Sex is something I might actually do though, so overexposure to twisted versions of it could actually color my real world experience.

I still tend to think that most healthy adult minds can easily make the distinction between reality and pretend though.
Can you please tell me about your experience?
It isn't, which is why the 13th amendment (which bans other forms of slavery) explicitly permits it.

Some members from both houses of Congress have recently proposed a constitutional amendment to change this:

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/The%20Abolition...
> Because if you're talking about that Helicopter gunship video, that was not a warcrime

Since when is killing journalists not a warcrime?
Organizational Update from OpenAI
Try one of these, maybe: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/British_Columbia

It's a bit unfortunate that most of them might have shut down (either temporarily or permanently) due to COVID-19, but I hope you'll find what you're looking for!
The assertion that violent video games cause violence is pretty non-sensical to begin with given that violent media already existed before video games. It’s just another way to push censorship. You see a lot less criticism when the same thing is done for pornography and eroticism, even though there is no real hypothesis for why it would be any different.
My childhood home is a nice brick 5 bed/3 bath, more than 3000 sf. Five years ago it went for $140k. It is located in a quiet small town 30 minutes from a real city. Built in the 1960s and still in good condition.

Another childhood home, 3 bed/2 bath and 1900 sf, is worth $55k currently. Also a brick home in relatively good condition, built in the 1920s, though considerably further from a real city.

These are places I actually lived. People seriously underestimate how cheap housing is in the US once you leave the big city.
Off topic: Strange, I submitted this link 2 days ago. Why does it show up as "2 hours ago" now?
> Perhaps we're simply confusing CS with software development, which I suppose could be likened to confusing mathematics with accounting.

I think the confusion stems from the amazingly vocal community of people who claim how a degree in CS (whichever level) made them amazingly better at software development/engineering.

I can imagine how a CS degree can help you with pure functional programing, or with designing distributed systems.
Minor nit: essential fatty acids must come from diet as they cannot be synthesized directly. These are alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid, with docosahexaenoic acid and gamma-linolenic acid as conditionally essential under some conditions. Though required quantities are minute.
> People used to fill bags with cats, dose the bag in oil, and then light the bag on fire for the joy of watching the cats die from the fire.

damn. that was unexpected
Would you mind sharing the newsletters you pay for ?
U.S. Diet Guidelines Sidestep Scientific Advice to Cut Sugar and Alcohol
I think it's poor journalism without due diligence verging on clickbait.
> The problem I have with these type of solutions is basically the time it takes to just quickly bookmark.

You can write a browser extension to do this relatively easily. Mine is maybe ~200 lines of ES6 with login, bookmark-on-click, and ability to update with description + tags after.

Both Pocket and Pinboard have similar solutions.

For iOS/Android you can write a share extension.
FPSes are cool in the US because of how we glorify our victories in WW2 and the Persian Gulf. I'd imagine it might be opposite in Germany for the same reason.
i agree with this.
> Do they deserve it? No of course not. Nobody deserves bad fortune like this.

Imagine two people that both earn $100k a year. Person A spends $50k and saves the rest. Person B, spends everything they possibly can. Person A is working toward a master's degree in their field investing an hour each evening toward it. Person B spends an hour each evening watching netflix.

Then the pandemic hits. (or any other number of other things that are likely to result in job loss.) Both lose their jobs. Person A has savings to get by and ramps up finishing their master's degree. Person B is broke and facing eviction.

Does B deserve to be in a worse situation than A? Well, yes, but by "deserve" I don't mean that I would wish anything ill on them, but A was willing to forgo spending in order to have more security in the future. It is kind of like asking if someone who buys 20k mile tires "deserves" to have them wear out at 20k miles when someone that spent significantly more on 90k mile tires has their's last much longer. It was just a matter of investing in different things with different consequences. Both buying the 20k tires and the 90k tires could be very rational depending on what the person was optimizing for.
I don’t see how forced labor is not a typical example of slavery. This is not “precision,” it’s apologism.
I don't think it makes them more sexual, but it gives them the wrong idea of what a normal sexual encounter is. The same thing happens with violence, but the majority of people aren't going to engage in direct violence against someone else, so it doesn't matter if they think fights look the same way they do in anime or video games. The discussion is about video games making a normal person into a violent person, not about giving people unrealistic expectations about what happens during violent encounters.

You should also try writing with less question marks, it's condescending, especially when you completely missed the point of this whole conversation.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
And u/echelon was never seen in this thread again.
"The greater good" (hot fuzz ;)
or just paying for youtube premium ...
But you have pharmaceuticals to help with that, the trick is to keep you just enough alive pumping those drugs in your body. Death is a serious monetary loss.
> Not to mention the fact HRC called for the assassination of Assange and his treatment has been characterized by the UN as torture.

The claim of Clinton calling for Assange's assassination seems to be a completely unsubstantiated rumor.

Your "torture" claim is plainly false (even if it were true, what's the point in appealing to the authority of UN?), the "characterization" is by Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture (so he's just something like an independent consultant).

More importantly, basically everything Melzer said about Assange is bullshit. I read the interview of Melzer that seems to be the source for all of the absurd claims; and all of Melzer's claims there are vague, unsubstantiated, unverifiable or nonfalsifiable; except for one:

Turns out that Melzer's only concrete accusation is based on a misreading of evidence at best; the one against the Swedish police, of how they supposedly tampered with (even fabricated) one of the testimonies. The evidence for that is inconclusive, Melzer was possibly confused with the format of the Freedom of Information documents released by the police, but in any case Melzer is making a big fuss out of nothing and downplaying rape with his other comments at the same time.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209868

Also see the comment by one of Assange's alleged victims:

> One of the women interviewed by Melzer later sharply criticised him and demanded his resignation. She said that by defining how a "proper rape-victim" would have to act, Melzer was engaging in victim blaming and that his report was partially "untrue and defamatory"

I think it should be pretty clear that Melzer's word is worth very little.
I would argue that the internet nowadays feels very one-directional. You intake information but individuals rarely have influence over the future direction of that information. It's more of a lecture than a dialogue. Of corse, many internet forums like HN or Twitter serve as counter examples but the vast majority of content like blogs are like that.

I think the main value I see in grad school is the community of learners rather than the actual knowledge imparted itself.
The goal post moving was the phrasing "with any history of human rights issues" (emphasis mine). The goal was: let's not do business with places who are currently abusing human rights like this. The goal post was then moved to: let's not do business with places with any history of human rights issues.