skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did fail. For what it's worth, we did as well. I think our eventual product idea was much better than our first one, though, and I think our fatal mistake was not about lack of user demand, but on building too much on the theory that we could use Facebook for viral growth. As we were about to go for our A round Facebook changed a lot of things to de-emphasize apps and posting to people's feeds, so our growth numbers fell off a cliff. Turns out investors only like hockey sticks when they go up.
The nuclear winter theories I've read all involve the injection of soot into the stratosphere by nuclear-ignited firestorms. Buried nuclear blasts can dig pretty big holes (Sedan crater and all the other craters in the Nevada Test Site, which looks like the surface of the moon) and are certainly a huge fallout threat, but the claim of nuclear strikes against buried silos causing a nuclear winter is a new one to me.

Some napkin math: the Sedan test was optimized to dig a big hole, was buried almost 200 meters deep, and moved about 11 million tons of earth, leaving a crater of 0.005 cubic kilometers. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambura, which caused a 'year without summer', ejected 160-213 cubic kilometers of material into the stratosphere, something like 32 thousand times as much as the Sedan blast. I'm guessing each strike against a nuclear silo would probably create craters a fraction the size of Sedan.
Could Indoor Vertical Farms Feed Livestock?
Why pseudo-solution?
Yep; those icons can be used freely, however Trademarks apply. Generally, that means you can use it (for example, link to Duck Duck Go), but you probably couldn't sell it on t-shirts
> We further show that SARS-CoV-2 is more reliant than SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) on the TMPRSS2 pathway, and that this difference is due to a furin cleavage site present in the SARS-CoV-2 S protein.

That's interesting, it's a furin cleavage site that the New York "Lab leak hypothesis" article pointed to as suspicious and possibly man-made, though I'm not sure if it's exactly the same.
The biggest problem is peak power. The naïve approach is to try to pull 500kW from the grid during the 20 minutes that you have five cars charging, then zero once they leave. This will at best be very expensive, but most likely impossible as the local grid won't support it.

So a battery buffer needs to be built into the charging station in order to operate them cheaply, with a smoother load profile that the power company and grid operator will service without exorbitant costs.

Thankfully, at least one EV company has already realized this :-) Let's see if more than one of them eventually starts producing enough batteries to support the strategy.
The Wim Hof method rests on the assumption that peaks of stress are good for you, thus we benefit from artificially generating these peaks through exposure to cold and breath holding. Anecdotally this seem to work rather well and there is growing scientific evidence to confirm it.
Yeah! I use this same example often in the same way.
The organization bills itself (on it's Facebook page) as:

The Socialist Workers Party is the largest revolutionary group in Britain

My guess is that tag line is causing automated take down issues.
There was (is?) a website that charges you a couple of cents per article. They offer content from many different magazines. I got some free credit during the early phase. Even though I wasn't even spending my own money, seeing the amount go down after every article made me realize that none of the articles I read were worth any money.

On the other hand, I am willing to spend $80 on a book if it contains really valuable information.

One idea I like is spending $x flat each month and then consume as much as I like knowing that the amount gets shared equally among all the creators whose contents I have consumed. There probably are businesses with such a mode out there but I am not aware of any.
I'm really curious, in what way(s) have you experienced God?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NS...

> Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc-like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla clients, many of Red Hat's and Oracle's server applications, and other software offerings.
I think that would be fine as an initial reason. Having had that back in Dec, you'd think they would put SWP on a safe list? Who knows, I guess. And that's the problem, not so much the taking down as the taking down with zero reason or discussion...
> If a big team is going to be working on it you need some strong opinions around it.

You are just stating the problem the article complains about.

Whose opinions are those? You need to take a lot of decisions.

Moreover, those decisions which seemed good (to you...or the one that dictates those strong opinions) at the time you took it, are not valid just months or years down the road. So you will need to reevaluate them periodically.

Moreover, even if you are happy with your decisions, you might be forced to take them again, because the library went out of fashion, unmaintained, or the developers just stop responding to issues and ignore you completely. This is already happening to a project I work with where the react-router developers just went to build their own nextjs competitor and stopped responding to issues. Same with styled-jsx from the same next.js team, not even themselves seem to be using it anymore.

This never happened to me using Rails. True some gem might go away, but at least it usually is some helper thing and not the core of my f*ng application. Same experience with django and many other uncool stacks.

So, yes. React is amazing if you are facebook, google, amazon, building a side project or just working for your own resume. It is not good for the average business. It is not good for enterprise applications.

In my own experience, at least.
we haven't had a total shutdown of the entire world economy. that would imply no one's making anything or buying anything. as far as what we need, we're still producing more than enough. we could cut more than we have and still have ample. no one would be getting rich though. so there it is, the driver of climate change from the beginning remains the driver of climate change now.
Not minor, making eye contact when communicating is a super deep instinct. Even animals make eye contact. It totally takes you out of the moment when it isn’t there.
One pro-tip when building a product that you don't yet have product market fit for is to be a bit more general in your technology choices and naming conventions.

Ideally, you don't lose 100% of the work you've done in the past when pivoting. The database should ideally stay the same with the infra, deployment tools, etc. The code structure should stay similar with various internal libraries (i.e. logging, synching data, etc.)

In a way, it also help to make good architecture decisions because rather than hack a one-off, it's easier to spot the right abstractions that can be re-used across products.

Same with naming.. instead of naming all your things based on the product name, just use fun/code names, so when you pivot or re-brand, you don't have to rename everything or need to deal with legacy product names.
It really isn't a minor point. Lack of eye contact is really important. I pulled out a gooseneck webcam mount I had bought and never used from years ago. I can position it almost right in front of the Zoom window and achieve almost direct eye contact, though it is tricky if I need to see detail behind the webcam itself. Multiple monitors with extra area reduce that problem.

I ran across a video that showed how to create an actual direct eye to eye contact effect, using a half-silvered mirror and parts from a laptop webcam[0]. I started shopping for a used laptop webcam part, and then realized I have never seen laptops rated by their webcams, so it is almost a shot in the dark to get something good.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AecAXinars
NextCloud is more than enough for me with full secure setup. I do remmember pulled the repo of ownCloud on some dietpi and I did not liked it.
UI a bit oldscool and borring source code.
You only have to collect state sales tax if you have a taxable nexus in that state (basically, six figure revenue from that state alone in a fiscal year or a physical presence in that state)

I doubt many non-US companies meet this condition in more than a few states. Hell, I doubt many US companies even meet this requirement (nb, that's why a lot of smaller ecommerce stores don't collect tax). That would be a minimum of $5,000,000 in yearly revenue from the US alone - more than enough to assume that they have at least one accountant on payroll to deal with this.
You have to admit that that's a goofy title.
I've taken several long (2000mi) road trips in my Tesla. The only range anxiety I've had has been self induced. Eg, skipping the Tesla map planned supercharger and using the next one down the road for a variety of reasons [1] . The most anxious I've been is when I pulled into a supercharger with 2% remaining.

[1] I often do this to arrive at a supercharger with a lower state of charge. This allows for charging lower on the curve, which allows for faster charging. I sometimes do this to avoid unpleasant chargers. My least favorite is the Savannah super charger, which is located several stoplights from the highway in an airport parking garage.
In Copenhagen there are charging poles in a lot of places, also in the inner city. They’re reserved for EVs. For this reason, it’s very easy to find parking with a EV and leave with a full tank.

You bring your own cable which costs $120 (+25% VAT), which is locked to the car and the charging pole, so it can’t be stolen without being ruined.
That is how you get Breitbart and Infowars becoming the main source of “information” for many people.
They did make modems for the Commodore, yes...

The big obstacle to sending video back in those days was one of bandwidth and storage space - it's not difficult to add to the protocols. IRC is a pretty well-known client for easily sending files - it's purely a design decision not to display them in-line like Discord and Slack.
GM as in General Motors? Is there some context here I am not aware of?
> The climate imperative is poor reasoning because this will be a significant increase in electricity generation demands.

Relatively centralized electricity generation can be converted to lower carbon generation. This is happening pretty rapidly in many places for economic reasons; renewable power generation is a lot cheaper than fossil fuel power generation.

Doing the same for more than a billion ICE engines distributed all over the world is effectively impossible.

> Renewables alone will not be able to keep up

Source please?
The cable locks to both your car and the charging pole, at least where I live
Facebook has been around since 2004, that excuse must have been used before.
I did buy an extended warranty for one car, never had a warranty claim until it broke down with only about three or four months left on the warranty. That one paid off.

In another car (same mfr) I looked into getting one when the regular warranty was about to run out. Sales guy looked and said: main thing that happens to these older cars is X and Y and you already replaced X so it's not worth it. I always wondered if what he really meant was "main thing that happens is something expensive and I'd rather get paid retail to fix that". Either way I skipped it and never had a problem.

I do consider it insurance.
> There's about 20 cars for every lamp post.

Maybe the real problem is we have too many cars in the first place? Maybe we should limits cars to one per couple or something like that?
I remember doing the same for Windows 2003. Got a little more difficult with the theme engine and having to use cmd shells running as SYSTEM but the end results were so satisfying. Sigh
>The BBC is committed to creating a truly personalised experience for everyone. We believe that a more personal BBC helps us build a deeper connection with our audiences, and helps us to extract more value from online. We have so much to offer across our products and services and one of our challenges is to help our audience discover the content we have.

I had to stop there. Just, why? The BBC is established by a Royal Charter [1] and their operations are funded by license feeds.

I have never read the Charter before, but I found it a moment ago. Here is what Elizabeth II ("by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith") has ordained because internet provides great value for disseminating "information, education and entertainment":

>4. The BBC’s Object

>The BBC’s Object is the fulfilment of its Mission and the promotion of the Public Purposes.

>5. The BBC’s Mission

>The Mission of the BBC is to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain.

>6. The Public Purposes

(some explanatory content about the Purposes is skipped)

>The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows.

>(1)To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.

>(2) To support learning for people of all ages.

>(3) To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services.

>(4) To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom.

>(5) To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world.

Does it need to have a personal recommendation relationship with each one individual in its audience, too?

[1] http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/h...
Thanks! And yes this is interesting.

For a few days now I've been thinking about an API system allowing users to create lists directly, without going through Multy. With a POST that would return a unique link to a JSON. This would allow people to integrate their own system to their site/application.
If I had to monetize a part of Multy, maybe it would be this API, I don't know what you think?
> why can't news sites just charge you $0.01 to read an article, or even half that

They can. See https://blendle.com/, though the going rate there is considerably more than 0.01. But that's a question of pricing, not of logistics. The way it works is that you pay a small-ish lump sum up front and then you draw down that balance in small increments. That is different from true micropayments where you can send small amounts to anyone on demand, but it's a proven model.

The real problem is that to scale this beyond payments to a fixed set of vendors you basically need a license from the federal government. You need to either be a bank or a money-transfer agent, and both of those have extremely high barriers to entry, basically insurmountable, mainly to prevent money laundering, which is the tough nut that no one has been able to crack.
I literally haven’t used Adium in five years. Whenever Google deprecated XMPP from gchat and Apple killed iChat, there went my decade plus of daily Adium usage (and Gaim before that).
We did not simply make "behavioral choices". Whole swathes of humanity were ordered indoors! It was achieved at untold cost (actually, much greater than the trillions of dollars that have been given away already by governments) that will be paid by generations to come. Only people who were lucky to hold a job that wasn't affected made a conscious decision to cut down.

I am willing to bet that come 2022 or so, emissions will rebound and exceed peaks as people 'catch up' on travel, including simply visiting near and dear ones, that they have missed out on.
The duckduckgo icons are labelled as such. Plenty of icon sets will have recognisable brand assets for the likes of social media platforms and so on, which will allow use according to certain guidelines.

Their inclusion probably isn't an issue in itself, but the blanket guidance in the copy above the result will be.

> The icons below can be used for Personal & Commercial purposes. They can be used on your website, branding and designs.

Obviously assets relating to existing brands will never be permitted for use in the branding of an unaffiliated party. onassar may want to update the guidelines to note such exclusions.
I don't disagree that creating a much larger House would lead to better representation and better constituent services. It's also probably one of the most feasible approaches we could take to electoral reform. So, pragmatically we see eye to eye.

I predict it wouldn't change the tendency toward governance by party hacks, though. That's an effect, not a cause. The root cause is that residents of geographically contiguous regions don't represent a shared interest in the same way they did in the past: there are different dividing lines nowadays.
Narrated – Listen to articles (including Hacker News)
For me, I have more than enough time, especially when working from home. It’s just that after work I feel like a brain dead zombie and programming is the last thing I want to do after work.

In the time before I started work and after finishing school I used to do so much open source stuff in the time that I now spend working.
It definitely isn't here. A new Tesla Model S (Long Range Plus) is 89,864 € and a new Tesla Model 3 (Standard Range Plus) is 50,560 €.

If the 600 € documentation fee doesn't apply to the 50,000 € max price restriction, you might be able to get a 2,000 € incentive for the Model 3, which would bring it down to 48,560 €.

For comparison, a new Mercedes-Benz C-Class starts at 38,750 € and a Volkswagen Golf starts at 24,400 €.
Bitpass was an early micropayment startup that was around for a few years. Beanz and Flooz were late dotcom era "micropayment" startups (they were more like gift certificates really) that were very well funded and failed terribly. More recently Kim Dotcom tried it with Bitcache. There are significant problems with the model.
OK, maybe the goal should be to relax our assumption that recharging happens at the gas stations, and just spread the load to all the parking lots we can find. Then gas stations could just have the quick-charge versions for more $$.
I agree. They declared legislation superior to mathematics. Crazy.
According to the news sources I've been reading[0], this is a management failure by auto companies rather than some kind of structural issue with the chip industry. So it doesn't really make sense to me that automakers might build their own fab. They're the problem, not the fab. They're crying to the newspapers because it looks bad to admit they were cheap and will have to furlough workers. Politicians are playing along with the shortage angle, because when you save a worker's job they tend to vote for you. I predict the end result will be politicians spending taxpayer money to make filling these orders worth the fab's time.

>Mr Duesmann described the problems as “a crisis upon a crisis”. Demand for cars slumped for much of last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting auto suppliers to cut their orders for the computer chips that manage everything from a car’s brakes and steering to its electric windows and distance sensors.

>But demand for cars jumped unexpectedly in the final three months of 2020, as buyers became more optimistic. Audi had its best quarter ever, largely because of a rebound in China.

You say that development of the chips in cars is extremely complex, but I was under the impression car chips are generally outdated, semi-rugged processors that might have some additional safety features like lockstep cores. The control systems algorithms for the functions you describe aren't particularly complicated as far as I know.

Auto manufacturers are infamous for cost cutting. I assume selling them chips is a low margin high volume business, in which case I would be glad to replace their orders with higher margin ones at the earliest opportunity.

[0] https://on.ft.com/39V7w9h (paywalled after 3 free accesses)
> an awful lot
I am lucky to understand 10% maybe. I wish there was a scientific journal which would dumb it down for the layman.
question from ignorance - Why not use Metal? Is that too embedded in the macOS system to be useful for something like Linux? Or is this for the sake of understanding the bare metal?
Italy orders TikTok to block underage users after 10 year old girl dies
Then we'd probably destroy our ecosystem more quickly. People in cities much more efficiently than rural or suburban people.
Not that this proves anything, but this author's twitter account is followed by:

* David Fowler (ASP.NET Core creator)

* Andy Gocke (Lead developer for the CLR)

* Jared Parsons (Lead developer for C# Compiler team)

* Miguel de Icaza

Presumably if he wasn't saying anything worth listening to, they would have unfollowed him by now.
And watching so many small businesses in my small town close, that was not at all a thing I hope climate change policy replicates.
Yep, and this info is 2 clicks away, literally.

Select his name, right-click, "search in Google".
Isn't this what in-app payments are already doing?
Look forward to the day when GitHub pages and sharepoint sites can be one and the same.
Five years is not long.

"Facebook is powered by React. Large, complex, enterprise, and fully powered by the cutting edge of JS frameworks"

A very bad example. Most software of significant cost and size is serving a industry, and not the industry itself.

Facebook can break things. If your insurance company or bank break things... Get my point?
Sure! It depends a lot on the product. But in our case, a key interaction was on Facebook. So we pretended to be doing market research on social media and brought a lot of people in for user tests. Eventually we'd have them log in to Facebook on our test computer, asking them what they though of various posts.

What they didn't know was that we used Greasemonkey to alter the Facebook page, inserting fake feed items using their real friends. (We told them at the end if they didn't figure it out.) Some people liked what we were doing, but a lot hated it. So many that it was clear we'd never get the market penetration we wanted.

My cofounder did a 5-minute video talk about it if you'd like more details. https://vimeo.com/24749599

As an aside, surveys are worse than useless for this. Look for things that let you understand live user reactions in circumstances that are as real as possible. Signups are a good metric, especially if they'll give you a credit card number up front. But if you can, always back the metric with live user tests and discussion with real users. If you're patient and ask good questions, you can learn a ton.
Google tried that years ago but it didn't pan out. I was part of the program and always had a few bucks in there. I loved the idea. I can't remember the name though
a couple random responses.

I don't think I hear "not a good look" the same way you do. in particular, I don't hear it as a putdown, more of a cynical comment that expresses something like "I don't necessarily oppose what you are saying/doing, but I hope for your sake that other people don't notice".

> This "weak man," tactic is taught in undergrad, the idea is to destabilize an opposing view to neutralize the person holding it. The emphasis is on "neutralize," because the underlying strategy is based on the premise that there is no truth, only power, and for an opponent to be neutral, or do nothing, means there is no resistance to your agenda.

I'm having trouble fitting this in with what I currently see in the world. it doesn't seem like either "side" would be content with my neutrality/silence. they seem to want nothing less than full and vocal alignment on every issue.
Forgetting to plug in is like forgetting to bring your keys. It becomes second nature pretty fast. You always do it after you park, unless you do 20 errands a day or something. It takes five seconds.