skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is very realistic when technology risk is involved in a field that is always going to be capital-intensive, it's so different than software you've got to start with more.

But $400,000 is a lot of money so the confidence has to be there for all, that they will actually make enough progress before the money runs out so that it's comparable to what a more mature operation would have who is worth over $2 Million at least.

Even if the new venture is still ramping up and not yet expected to have marketable products, services, or IP yet, that kind of progress needs to be there or how could further investment be justified.

Basically it can be just one or two top performers actually capable of accomplishing a couple million worth of work, or building something that would otherwise cost almost $3 Million if given this type of opportunity.

OTOH you could get 10 to 20 contributors who each work with lesser resources but could still build equal momentum over a respectable runway.

If either of these or anything in between is built for $400,000 that's a good start for all.

In my field I could dispatch a calibration crew from a single reference instrument, or arrange with a preferred client to maintain theirs as a reference instrument and go labless.

Too bad Theranos ended up taking massive funding instead of you less-well-connected biotech entrepreneurs, so much real progresss could have been deployed instead.
No compound semiconductor pr0n, which is much more intriguing.
No, they can't. In a bankrupcy, pension funds get first dibs on all company assets, before lenders, shareholders, or any other interested party. A company has to be really, really fucked for their bankruptcy to not produce enough money to fund the pension.

And in the rare event that that happens, pensions in the US are required to hold pension insurance, which continues to pay benefits when a pension loses income and their coffers run dry.

My grandpa is still getting pension checks of around 40k/yr from the Pullman Car Company, which went bankrupt in 1968. Pensions are, very literally, guaranteed retirement income.
Saskatoon:
- the internet is decent. It is better in a hub city, but as long as one can live with occasional disconnects, it's fine.

- Deliveries : add 3 days, weeks or months (depending) on time to delivery. "overnight" does not exist. International diplomacy makes a difference here - so ship from countries that are at least "not aggressively unfriendly". (fwiw : faster to get things here from China than from USA. Odd, but that's both politics and situational issues). EU is about as far away (time wise) as California, and UK is closer than NY.

- Community - have one. Do not be alone, especially if you have a family. Getting out of tech-centric circles tends to be good anyway.

We moved near a bunch of family. It wasn't an easy move, but the quality of life improved quite a bit for us.
Twitch Bans Streamers Who Started When Under 13, But Only If Not Too Big
Or maybe the plan was to have Germany attack the Soviet Union from the beginning. They could have easily defeated Germany prior to the war, had they tried.
> Uh, why do you think that?

It has been an unfolding story for the past couple of weeks. I wish I know of an article which summarized everything with a timeline, but I do not. The gist of it is that, Canada has purchased many vaccines, but they will not be coming soon enough. It also lacks the leverage that US, UK, and EU have in terms of the production being domestic. So when Pfizer ran into production issues, initially they planned to cut Canada's deliveries by ~50% for 4 weeks but EU's by a 8% for 2 weeks. Of course the issue has developed since then, but the central issue remains the same: Canada is not a priority for getting vaccines, and does not have the leverage to make itself the priority. I am deeply concerned that EU would simply block exports to Canada to make up for the shortfalls in its share of the vaccines. Even before the new laws, that was close to what was happening in practice, with deliveries to Canada being affected most and to EU the least.

Also, Canada's not being far behind is because we started earlier. We have seen our vaccine doses administered per capita ranking go from 6th to 21st. Most of the countries that got ahead of us are the EU countries. And every day, we fall behind more and more EU countries, as our deliveries have been deprioritized compared to EU's. Or at least so it seems. We won't know the full truth until the dust settles. Probably a year from now.
No one ever starves due to lack of advertising, advertising is not needed to let you know you need food.

And your contrived bakery example is unlikely. Ads are about letting you know a business exist, or convince you to give them another chance. Once everyone in town knows of all the bakeries, people will just pick favorites. If you’re the most famous bakery in town, you don’t need advertising. If you just started your cookie business, you do. Choose whatever advertising that works for you: signs, flyers, word of mouth, vitality stunts or just online ads. You will find that online ads are astoundingly cheap.

Again, if you serve the best croissants in town, customers will come back. (Reality is more sophisticated than that due general demand generation ideas such as just reminding you of croissants vs inferior pastries)
> Calling it a “bailout” is mischaracterising it.

It was an unplanned loan so they could continue operating effectively. If you want to pick nits and say it's not a bail-out... whatever. It's not business as usual.
Like other commenters I bow to the sea people. Seriously, I hope we find a solution for this situation. It sucks being away from home.
My ubuntu 20.4 randomly freezes and i have to do a forced reboot. It happens every couple of days while using FF. It is still more pleasant than Windows 10 nonetheless
> From what I've gathered (unfortunately mostly on Reddit, before this article), Ursula von der Leyen wasn't exactly fondly thought of in Germany before this and somehow keeps managing to fail upwards. Is that accurate?

That's how EU politics work. It's a storage area for unpopular politicians that did not do well at the national level, and a recycling center for unpopular legislation that was not approved in national legislatures. An example of the latter, also from Germany, is the copyright directive, which recycles proposals that German publishers could not get passed in their Bundestag.
Do you honestly believe that these are equivalent? Or are you just arguing in bad faith? I’m gonna assume the former and explain the difference.

The interest you are paying when you take out a loan is a) compensating the creditor for money lost because of inflation, and b) paying for a service. The bank/credit union at the same time will at the same time a) compensate for inflation and b) reward savings accounts for injecting money into the bank/credit union.

This is fundamentally different from shareholders buying stocks from a business siphoning parts of the profits from the workers to the shareholder.

People taking loans need the people that open the saving account, and get something of value (money they need). Workers don’t need the shareholders, and they get nothing in return (except lower salaries).

I’m sorry if I sound like I’m talking down to you. It is just that the different is so obvious I don’t know how to explain it differently.
The caveat I'm aware of with array_filter is that it can leave gaps in the indexes, but having an array like that doesn't break array_map. The output from it will just have the same index gap as the input.
I really want to like desktop Linux but the stability compared to macOS wasn’t there. My latest experiment ended after randomly the OS stopped booting past disk decryption. I’m used to having to spend an hour or two tweaking things on it but after I failed to resolve that on my work machine in a few hours I was done
> You don't need them, you might even enjoy life more without them.

So I should probably lower the quality of my life to make a statement that will have no impact on them at all?

>You can't change how they operate.

Sure you can, by petitioning your government to draft laws and so on.
North Texas Investor Uses GameStop Gains to Help Sick Children
If they had to take this action to save themselves, they have already betrayed the trust of their customers.

> Robinhood's entire product is built on a manipulative and predatory premise that making people feel comfortable "trading stocks", whether they fully understand what is happening under the hood, is a net positive.

I think that people generally understand that when they buy stocks, those stocks may go up or down. There is no guarantee of making money. You take your chances.

What they don't understand is that the brokerage can sell what they bought at the day's low price, because the account they funded with cold hard cash was termed a margin account. What they don't understand is that their brokerage might arbitrarily decide to prevent them from trading particular issues on a given day. What they don't understand is that, due to their broker's lack of financial prudence, that their broker may need to manipulate the market to their individual disadvantage "for the greater good".
'Private company, they do what they want' gang arriving in 3, 2, 1..
That hub motor weighs probably 40+ lbs to be able to do a fairly measly 8kW though, low RPM motors by nature are very large and heavy compare to a small motor running through a chain or gears.

A chain should last a very long time, as long as it's not overloaded and lubrication is used every now and then.
Gaming. If you look at the author's posts on twitter, you'll see he's heavy into gaming / game dev. There simply aren't other platforms for this. OSX is atrocious with anything gaming related. Linux is getting there, but it's always a hack and there's a chance you'll be banned by platforms due to anti-hack detection algos often flagging linux/wine as nefarious.
>I have never seen anyone on HN questioning another person's humanity.

It's subtle and masked by the "politeness", that's the trick.
I worked around this problem in Firefox by changing the browser useragent for the YouTube site to an older version # though the fix won't last forever.

I have become accustomed to using multiple browsers and OSes simply because of all the issues surrounding video playback.
My thoughts:
Windows 10 isn't that bad in fact I prefer the standard windows UI than most of the weird linux desktops. They call them modern but none are simple enough such that they get it out of the way. Eventually on linux only i3 makes sense for dev work but otherwise for the common desktop user windows 10 UI makes sense (once you remove the search and cortana and turn it into XP style UI) even over macOS. Sadly the telemetry the bloat makes it quite unusable. It just keeps reinstalling things though there are antispy tools disabling (or limiting i'm guessing) telemetry.

Also i've tried WSL2 and Debian is much better than ubuntu. the ubuntu and snap fiasco is quite annoying. i know you can just uninstall snaps but i think a simple debian install is enough for most dev testing if you plan to go WSL2 because it's extremely lightweight and fast inside wsl2. Also vscodium is an option as open source without telemetry but wsl2 can't be accessed through it because it's apis i believe are closed source.
For anyone else wanting to, this might be fairly easy to do in Qt with QWindow::fromWinId and then using a tab widget. I have recently done similar w/ a POC to embed FF into a tabbed UI on Windows[0] when researching making a new browser backed by FF instead of Chromium (granted I used Go to test out their Qt binding at the time).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc
I wonder if there is a way we place these App Store decisions into the hands of a third party. Either that or break Android away from Google and forbid them from colluding.
I’d just like a documentary about fabs. It seems like an insane secret world of some of the most expensive places on earth. I’d love to know what they do with old ones etc.
I agree. Everyone's notion of documentation, its placement and role, can be different.

Some workplace relies on self-documenting code, some would require technical specs to be written in an internal wiki, some uses function/class/module headers.

It is inevitable that someone would ask how should I read the documentation, and any question on slack should be treated as a chance for improvement and better UX for devs.

Repeated questions from different people is a sign of the lack of improvement in the same area.

My usual go-to method to partially solve this issue is to challenge newcomers to write the question they asked and the answer for it, including how to write it, or make change to an existing one, so that other newcomers will find it easier to onboard.
That makes sense for a Windows development shop, but for a personal development environment? This blog and others I've seen seem geared at hobbyist developers.
Here's a compilation of other lightweight news websites as well as other services.

https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites#news
Pardon my ignorance, I have no expertise in the field. When you issue new shares, do they have a fixed price or are they sold at market value (whatever market decides the price to be)? If the latter happens, I expect that the price of the [edit:GME] stock will collapse immediately.
In dictatorships at least there is a clear authority with clear rules. Here we have multiple aithorities makiblng it up as they go
> Even CPython is faster.

The benchmarks I’m familiar with[1] show recent PHP releases to be a lot faster than CPython for many tasks. Are there better benchmarks I should be aware of?

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
From what I read recently, New Zealand was already struggling to cope with its tourist population. That means they're already on the edge. Probably not a problem anymore since COVID, but we'll see what happens when/if things go back to normal.
Just monopolies protecting our democracy, like Adam Smith envisioned.
They should kick Facebook out of the play store. See what happens. Facebook can then pivot to paying OEMs even bigger sums of money to bundle it with their devices.
People are so distracted by the Gamestop mess not a lot of submissions?
getting a remote job isn't hard in 2021 and it sounds like you're fairly well set where you live. it'd be different if you needed coworkers to eg bootstrap/lean on for your social life after a fresh move. you'll be fine.
So on your platform it would be fine to advocate for a whites-only ethnostate as long as you're polite about it?
I redid it multiple times to be sure too, that's basically 50 times more expensive than other backup options, crazy!
WPF is really not legacy - since it's included in .NET core but IS Windows only.
OEMs and software vendors have been pushing hard towards locking-down and controlling people's computing devices and people have largely been indifferent.

It genuinely seemed all was going to be lost until the tech industry went crazy exercising their control. Their recent (and imo unjustifiable) actions have clearly demonstrated to everyone what it means to hand over control. It remains to be seen whether people will grasp this chance to reverse the course that this rotten industry has charted and is adamant on following.
I wonder if France will have something to say to Google about this in the EU.. France uses Matrix. Google's powerful, but they're not a legislative body.
They've since edited their comment to remove what they had said when I replied, which was How much worse do you think it could have been? Fauci said we were getting close to herd immunity. Do you think as many people would have dies again next year? 1 in 250 when finished?

I don't understand why Fauci has made those choices and still find him plenty credible.

And then, his credibility isn't really an issue when the supposed statement is a complete misunderstanding of the actual situation (we are nowhere near herd immunity via infection or vaccination).
A Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign
Legislation equating these walled gardens as a new kind of monopoly. Legislation making “terms and conditions” less like laws, and less enforceable.
On a daily basis I use Windows/OSX/Ubuntu interchangeably depending on what type of computer I'm on (desktop/laptop/server, respectively).

Up until I set up a similar environment to the author, dev on Windows was always a nightmare. Typically I'd just ssh into a server and use vim when I was on windows as it was a better experience. WSL has been a game changer. Code... just works. It's actually impressive how well integrated they've made it. I no longer have to do strange hacks or worry about different line endings on windows. It all just works now. If you're on a decently powerful PC, I'd recommend trying it out. It's more resource heavy than a native Linux install for sure, but it means you no longer have to dual boot for gaming. That's a big win in my book.
That’s not the same as what parent comment was suggesting. You can’t send money to literally anyone using only an email address. You and the recipient still have to have regular bank accounts within the settlement system. The email address only serves as a more friendly identifier than the account number.
Hey jbegley, I reposted this story since the initial submission did not garnish enough attention

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966014
The Republicans have already used this strategy to great success for 40 years and they're mad because the Democrats (finally) figured it out and are playing the same game. Politics is about attaining and keeping power.
Ask HN: What are some ways to build culture in a small, remote-only company?
'You can't change how they operate'

We used yo have laws..

And opting out is literslly impossible, there are people and authorities i -have-to- communicate with, and its impossible outside those platforms
It's nice that e-paper has suddenly gotten a lot more affordable. I wonder what the cause of that is--did important patents recently expire, or anything like that? Still, it is most interesting in larger sizes, preferably full A4 for purposes of reading ArXiv preprints and other pdfs at their intended size.
My math doesn't compute with yours:

depending on how you define a TB(memory tends to favour the latter definition, but YMMV):

1,000,000,000,000 / 7.8billion = 128.21 bytes per human.

1,099,511,627,776 / 7.8billion = 140.96 bytes per human.

population source via Wikipedia.
The infrastructure is run by private parties -- but since the advent of encryption it ought be possible to lay down some basic principles or precepts of the online denizen. "The Right to be Forgotten" is a strong step in the right direction, but anonymity sometimes makes people act rashly -- which reminds me of the need for Nettiquette. I believe the difficulty comes in guaranteeing backdoors for law-enforcement and crime-deterrence while still affording a strong level of privacy. It's unlikely that law enforcement will simply "get used to" the fact that encryption works and is difficult [and in the case of ECC likely intractable] to decipher. The alternative is state-run applications and tech-companies with cross-sectional presence of politically inclined people, or some weird tryst of tech companies, lobbying, legislation, and law-enforcement that effectively elevates tech companies to governance level without the primary oversight of elections to place them there. If there is a third option I'd love to hear it.
The moral of the story is that when you beat Wall Street at their own game, they will change the rules on you so they win anyway

https://youtu.be/MpmGXeAtWUw?t=90
> Linux is bad for laptop batteries, 4K screens, other hardware, and most office programs. If you only use vim, stay plugged into an outlet all day, and don't need great video conferencing, then Linux is fine. But that's not most people.

I don't disagree with any of this[1]! But we're talking about developers, not most people, and it looks like this particular author went out of their way to install a CLI editor.

Others have pointed out that Windows is still the right platform if you're a game developer, which makes a lot of sense to me. Are there other specific hobbyist development cases that are best served by a Windows environment?

[1]: Except the 4K and video conferencing. Those actually work quite nicely for me (n=1) on Linux.
I am a self-taught typist from a young age. I type very fast (140 WPM? I forget) but my technique is totally non standard. I hold my hands/wrists at "natural" angles (as one would on a split keyboard), but on a standard keyboard. No "home row" for me. The letters in the middle of the keyboard are liable to be typed by either hand, depending on the word: I cannot use a split keyboard because of this. Thumb helps out with lower row sometimes. I can type single-handedly without much difficulty.

I credit this "technique" with not having developed any sort of keyboard-related RSI over 30 years of daily typing. Mice gave me terrible grip-related RSI after a decade (I now use a trackball), but not so with typing.

I assume I'm not unique in having stumbled naturally on this method. But it's not something I've ever seen taught, probably because it's not very "orderly".
The chat client of Matrix
You can day trade on a cash account as long as you have enough cash to cover all your positions for the time it takes them to settle (T+2)
About a quarter of the long list of vaccines was developed by public universities. Almost all were developed with billions in public subsidies.
1. Get out of Gmail etc.

2. Block ads

Thanks rubber ducky
> Ms folks close the issues as ‘unable to replicate’.

I'm sorry, but that begs the question - what is even the point of telemetry then?
Is there a list of indecisive battles that changed the world? Battles like Jutland, Guadalcanal, the Atlantic, the North Russia Convoys, Stalingrad, Siege of Malta, along with all the knock-down guerilla warfare in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the Syrian Civil War, etc. These are almost more informative, because

a.) they seem more representative of what most war is like

b.) the turning points of most wars actually fall during them, eg. Guadalcanal rather than Midway was the turning point of the WW2 Pacific Theater, the Battle of the Atlantic rather than Dunkirk or Normandy was the turning point of the European theater.

c.) oftentimes, the long, brutal experience of these types of battles is what led to the logistic and technical improvements that actually wins the war

Similarly, it'd be interesting to read war histories that focus on logistics and technological development. D-Day has had zillions of movies made about it; codebreaking has had one or two; and the logistics of assembling an army of millions and shipping them across the Atlantic in secrecy to land on hostile territory has had none that I know of.
I don't think it lowers quality of life. YMMV of course.

Petition the government if you like. It doesn't matter. You don't have millions to donate to the next campaign or their personal enrichment. You're not who they care about.
If anyone needs a download, you can easily install/sideload via f-droid or the app can be trivially built with './gradlew assembleDebug' (provide your own keys to build a release version)
I suspect you're asking whether you'll regret taking a job for a local company with an option to work remotely rather than holding out for a more "tech" focused company that enables better networking opportunities?

Why would you hold out if you're uncertain? Or are you hesitant you won't like it?

Who says you can't test the waters for a few months while looking for other remote opportunities?

I don't know what's important to you but I'd ask that first. Remote opportunities abound; there weren't this many remote opportunities 10 years ago. Find what works you and don't be afraid of change. You can always relocate when your personal life settles or you may decide not to.