skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it ever acceptable to tell someone they aren’t cut out to be a founder? I feel we are responsible for making “startup founder” so sexy that people feel unfulfilled if they can’t succeed at something that is frankly mind-breaking for most people.
But, we’re talking about installing software from non-distribution sources. E.g. the Minecraft Launcher ships as a .deb that you install: there’s no benefit security-wise for that over curl … | sh

And, I doubt most people have the time or ability to read all the scripts that come with large software packages and ensure that they’re safe. For better or worse, executing code downloaded from the internet without verifying it manually is the norm these days.
TSMC has mastered the geopolitics of chipmakingTodo
> Ok you're arguing that dark mode itself is useless

I didn't say it's useless; there are use cases where dark mode is useful, e.g. "people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode" (from the Nielsen study). But it doesn't make much sense to add a feature just because it is fashionable, and not because it has a true advantage. If the people in charge of HN decided to change their site, there would be far more useful features than dark mode. I think that was the OP was referring to with "gateway to more useless stuff": if fashion and not usefulness is the number one priority, then a good product could render useless and development resources are wasted.
Is there an official statement regarding the exploit?
What should/can you do at this point to ensure access to your data?
I also miss Presto and Dragonfly
Getting started with microcontrollers is a breeze today, so many good resources, ready add-on components, controllers that support high-level language, etc. My first controller was a PIC which you programmed in assembly language, then AVR/Atmel Atmega, which could luckily be programmed in C. Probably my favorite class in college too.

But from a hobbyist standpoint - if you want to build cool stuff that you're going to use, I'd probably go for something which has a more rapid development process than the older cards. MCUs are GREAT for learning applied/hands-on electronics, while also getting a small crash-course in computer architecture, but unless you're super motivated, and like to spend time on shopping for parts, it kind of becomes a chore to roll out everything on your own.
Why would I go back? My personal productivity and team productivity has soared AND I'm working fewer hours! Add in that I no longer have to commute, pay for parking, pay for lunches, pay for "business casual" clothes, work in an open area - this just gets more and more appealing!

Now I work in an office. With a door. Work-life balance? Never been better! I'm healthier, I exercise more, lost weight.

I can go on and on but no, I'm not going back.

My team has talked about meeting once-per-month or at the start of big initiatives to nail down some ideas. That's really about all you need for meeting face-to-face. We don't need the office anymore. It's over.
It's like getting a HBS MBA. Sure, once you have it, it's easy social proof.

YC gives up equity. If you don't have any prior experience, it's good, but not for experienced enterprise founders in b2b saas startups. The latter should make demo videos and blog about their progress once they've exited stealth. While in stealth, they need to approach alpha/beta users, who may well invest and/or m&a.
Most gigs jobs are exploitative.

You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules.

Remember when Uber was giving back to back rides to drivers that had Lyft driver app installed so they couldn't effectively drive for both? That doesn't sound like freelance work to me.

Much of the pay structure is based on hitting a certain number of rides per week. So to get "decent" pay rate you need to work a certain number of hours.

Sometimes the company even owns your car and leases it to you contingent on doing a certain number of rides.

And you have no input on which rides you get once you go online.

It's nothing like traditional freelance work. It's more like high tech pizza delivery driver. And those workers are all considered employees.
> I find corporate decision making to be equally random and opaque

That's fair, but it's still madness :)

> ultimately you do need to gather consensus

I think consensus is just one form of conflict resolution. Compromise is another, for example. When we have a scenario of 5 people, 3 pro-X and 2 pro-Y, one could argue that are actually three choices: X, Y and the status quo, where an impasse between X and Y is functionally equivalent to everyone being pro-status-quo. Rephrasing in terms of status quo vs something else might help in understanding where X and Y overlap and where they differ and might lead to more productive open-ended discussions than a discussion that is solely adversarial between X and Y.

I don't believe it's necessarily possible to reach consensus in all cases. For example, the issue of abortion doesn't seem like one where either side is willing to let go. But I do believe that it's possible to reach a compromise in many cases (for example, pro-life proponents might be willing to concede that a anencephalic fetus posing life threatening risk to the mother is an acceptable case, while still believing that normal unplanned pregnancies should be taken responsibility for).

There's also always a possibility of a fourth choice Z, for example a policy from a different country (e.g. Portugal's handling of drug abuse being seen as a medical problem, rather than limiting the discussion to one solely about the spectrum of criminal severity). And there's yet other ways to handle conflicts, such as the iron fist approach that China uses (which some might argue was effective at handling covid, for example, questionable as it may be in other areas such as freedom of speech).

My take away is mostly that even if things are as they are because of something that was settled by scholars centuries ago, it still behooves us to revisit different ideas, ideologies and approaches to tackle today's problems, rather than ignoring or not understanding the weaknesses of the status quo processes.
Easily build real-time apps with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub
I've never thought of myself as a C++ dev (or a PHP dev, or Rust dev, or Haskell dev).

I write computer programs. I don't "invest" in a language and only take jobs that use that language.

Learning more languages is almost always good. Not because you're learning more languages, but because you're learning more modes of thinking which will apply to any future language you learn.
I've worked a variety of jobs. I tend to a lot of mild upper respiratory infections I recover from easily enough.

The only things I could ever really link were routine public transit use. Or when I worked in a bar. When those were true I got sick a lot more than when they weren't.
It's not a fabrication. These vaccines haven't even existed for a year; there is no possible way to do a long term study in under a year. Whether you feel like a long term study is needed is certainly up for debate, but none have actually been done.
What time frame would these long term studies normally be done over? My understanding is most of the acceleration came in the form of ramping up manufacturing early and moving to Phase III faster, but we're now 1 year out from when Pfizer started their first study and we've obviously been giving out ton of vaccines for a bit since then. We understand pretty well what sort of side-effects come from vaccines and they aren't invisible for this long
Coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity
curl'ing is not the same at all as running, say, a Debian apt-get install.

You apt-get signed packages coming from official mirrors (at least I do). Most of the Debian packages, by very far, are also fully deterministic and reproducible. If someone serves a backdoored package, that's probably incredibly noisy, leaving lots of traces everywhere and evidence can be gathered.

When you curl, there's no way to know if you're the "lucky" one to get served malware by the server on that one curl call.

This is completely different.
> Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.

The real issue here is human experimentation without consent or even information. Why do they think they can run experiments on free software developers without even contacting them about it?
"Increasing the House of Representatives by ten fold or more might help."

While you would end up with much more representatives - and in theory more representation - each individual rep would become much less influential. I think expanding the house to be thousands of members large would also make deliberations much more difficult and shallow as a result. I have no idea how parliamentary procedure would work with thousands of interested parties. But I do acknowledge that it is do-able.

That being said, I am in favor of increasing the size of the house, but only by about 100 seats or so. I'd also want term limits in order to facilitate more turnover for district seats. But that's a separate debate.
Do you have a reference for this? My SO still insists on washing our shopping, which, according to your information is totally unnecessary.
We aren’t really talking about installing packages from official distributions, right? We’re talking about things like installing an interesting tool from GitHub using the ability of nix to download an build master.tar.gz. In most of these cases, there’s always going to be some amount of reliance on the assumption that the developer of the software is trustworthy.

Also, I mainly use nix on Mac, where the sandbox is disabled by default and doesn’t work as well as the Linux sandbox, by all accounts.
It's not ideal, but I'd rather something like this get adopted from the bottom up (actual rescuers taking initiative) rather than the alternative, where an overly complex, expensive, and barely working attempted solution is implemented by bureaucrats.
I just heard about the Russian ones... with the cold virus in it that may be able to replicate.
Stunning drone photos over Lake Oroville illustrate drought emergency in NorCal
Denying me the ability to make harmful or foolish choices dehumanizes me.
I have bought this for my grandma that live on a senior home:
https://www.noisolation.com/global/komp

Just one knob to turn it on and adjust the sound.

My other grandma have an iPhone that she barely know how to use (she still have the old one on the wall she love). I first call her, than tell her to tap the green button if she she want to use camera (switch to FaceTime).

This works great for us to keep contact.

Though both of this is solutions only allow us to initiate the contact. Here the Yayagram is brilliant!
Alright, I concede that’s a good point. You’re using a diagram to communicate an idea, and it’d be a pain in the neck to have to teach everyone a new vocabulary before you start each meeting. In your experience, do people understand enough UML that you don’t have to explain it?

I was thinking about this conversation overnight, and I wonder if a “UML 2” or “UMLite” that had a very limited vocabulary and a narrow set of use cases would be well received. Basically, not “here is how you can describe every noun, verb, and relationship in your enterprise so you can automate them” but “here’s how we draw classes, databases, and sequence diagrams to communicate with other people”. I’d be all over that.
How does the name get reclaimed when you lose the key or die? Do we just accept that it's possible for domain names to be forever unusable?
This ban also includes flavored cigars, which most users only smoke occasionally. But even so, why is society bothered with someone's individual choice to smoke a menthol cigarette away from others? I don't see the "external effects" you're alluding to, so it feels like the "long tail" is small in magnitude.

If I have to take a guess, you might be thinking of healthcare costs and having to subsidize smokers. But if that's a concern, I feel we should avoid universal healthcare proposals (like Medicare for All) and instead let people choose what insurance coverage they want from private companies, from a menu of choices, so that they pay for what the coverage they want based on who they are and the habits they have. I suggest this path because everyone has a different idea about what they want covered. Some may not want to subsidize smokers, some may not want to subsidize abortions, some may not want to subsidize healthcare for the obese, some may not want to subsidize puberty blockers for children, and so on.

Ultimately, all of this is leading us back to what I feel the US got right in the past - favoring choice, control, and responsibility at the individual level instead of increased government size, regulation, and paternalism.
Same, it's the only mobile browser I've found that has decent dark mode..
Any specific reasons to not use Opera?

I actually just switched this week, being fed up with Firefox. So far so good. I very much like the UI/UX.

I hope this isn't just another case of "China bad".

Edit: Ah, I see the link you added. So the new owners seem shady.
150MM? That's a trillion, yes?
I wonder if anyone who supports this also supports banning any alchohol with flavor.
I did embedded systems for 20 years before moving towards backend/web development. However, I still do a bit of embedded development. One thing I found is a "hobbyist" approach to writing embedded code is fine for home made projects, but tends to turn into disasters in commercial projects. Beyond simplistic embedded systems (quite a few projects I work on have multiple embedded devices, but often have code that do one very specific thing) you need to create a well designed "engine" which is like a mini custom OS with very modular and adaptable micro "services". Where everything is built from the ground up to be traceable and observable for easy debugging. This has to be done really efficiently where there often isn't much wiggle room. Everything has to be done very robustly where things can be easily tested and simulated. It's quite fun to build systems like that, but they do require quite a specific set of design skills.
I am young, and decline to comment on the others, but fully agree. It irritates me to try to do such things on my phone; I often give up and reach for a 'real' computer & keyboard to start again and wish I hadn't bothered with the phone to begin with.

If I didn't need a WhatsApp app on a phone in order to use WhatsApp on a computer, I probably wouldn't have a phone, (maybe an emergency use classic Nokia brick) or at least use it extremely infrequently.
Just don't touch my Cuban cigars!
Mono layer DNNs with a block-chained backpropagated backend
Helios64 looks amazing but they've been sold out for a while.

You had my hopes up for a moment there, haha
I don't consider blood clots as genuine worry. The risk of getting a blood clot from covid is much higher. The risk of suffering a serious adverse medical event from covid is much higher. There is a much higher risk/reward ratio for public health to have vaccines proceed than to not.

The narrative of AZ being scary is fueling vaccine hesitancy and contributing to vaccine shopping.
Sweet potato is ~30% the calorie density of beef, and causes 0.01kg co2 per kg according to [0]. I didn't ignore the calorie density,I used the worst case comparison from the article the parent shared, and compared it against the worst case of meat.

[0] https://cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3461
I agree but many job postings contain stuff like "3+ years of professional experience in language x".
Use a hypothetical set of parameters to study a subset of the population. For example it could be a yet unidentified genetic variant related to blood clotting. Or just whether or not you already had the disease. Statisticians try to identify these parameters with the limited data available.
I believe originally (back in the early drafts of the spec) the concept of a "site" was significantly stricter (based on the origins matching), but it got watered down which was a real shame. I'm not sure why.

c.f. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies-0... and https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies-0...

Excerpts (draft 2):

> If "document" is a first-party context, and "request"'s URI's origin is the same as the origin of the URI of the active document in the top-level browsing context of "document", then return "First-Party".

vs. (draft 3)

> A document is considered a "first-party context" if and only if the registerable domain of the origin of its URI is the same as the registerable domain of the first-party origin, and if each of the active documents in its ancestors' browsing contexts' is a first-party context.
In addition to CT's application to commutative algebra, it's pretty nice for reasoning about programs and logic.

Programs: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~rtate/publications/proofgen/proofgen..., https://blog.sumtypeofway.com/posts/introduction-to-recursio..., the Functor/Applicative/Monad hierarchy in Haskell et al

Logic:
https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/catlogprime.pdf

CT as a bridge between programs and logic: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-tr...
Nano has syntax highlighting...
I don't know about OP, but I've been fooled into buying one of these margarine products instead of butter:

https://www.vitam.gr/proionta

And I was very annoyed. Mostly at myself.
Under rated statement of the day .. “These vessels are designed to carry the boxes, and to have these losses is — dare I say it — unacceptable.”
This makes sense. I've always caught a flu or cold in the tube or in the office, usually from an infected parent. Last year many parents were enjoying a flu-less life while the schools were closed, only to catch it again a week after opening the schools again. I don't have kids, so last year, for the first time in my life, I didn't spend a single day sick.
I know this idea is a little ridiculous, but it just popped into my head: what about using one of those rubber ducky USB keys that pretend they're a keyboard and enter certain keystrokes? You could have it enter the password when inserted.

Or, perhaps a physical password manager that can store multiple passwords, with a labeled button for each?
VS Code: what extensions should be built?
I'm crowdsourcing project ideas to create VS Code extensions. If it's feasible, I'll build it and let you know.
I had never considered this angle before. This effort suddenly makes a lot more sense.
Surprise no mention of the special exception drug companies received that absolves them of legal liability if they give you a bad dose.

When you combine people's (accurate) beliefs that most politicians are either dumb or sociopaths, with those same politicians screaming for people to get the vaccine, and drug companies being absolved of liability for negligence, it's clear why a greater fraction of people are skeptical about Covid 19 vaccines than others.
It is not what "poeple associate with black kids", it is what it was and what it is, most black kids are not middle class. The black community first and foremost were the one to adopt hiphop as their "voice".

In general, all types of electronic music thrived in Europe rather than in the US, house, techno, trans, even dub/regeae/jungle etc. not necessarly just the black middle class music.
In this context we’re not talking about .debs from an official repository

PPAs and debs downloaded from a GitHub release page have all the same problems as curl | sh
> Adults should have the ability to make their own decisions

How many people actually really make their own decisions, and have all of the information available to do so? Does the right of those people to take that decision and have their chosen product available cheaply and conveniently outweigh the incremental harm that accrues to everyone else merely tempted by the cheapness and convinence?
After reading something so well written, I am hesitant to comment. Confronting your personal shame is incredibly difficult to do let alone write eloquently about and post it publicly. This is the kind of story that makes me want to reach out even just to be friends; charisma through shared vulnerability is powerful.
What's weird is the way the government decides to deliver these messages.

Why do government responses have to be framed as "arm over your shoulder" do-gooder decisions rather than evidence-based decisions when there's already lots of data?

IDK, maybe the "think of the children!" line and knee-deep assumptions of helping disadvantaged groups is all that's needed to stir government policy vs analyzing perspectives from a scientific approach.

I mean, it's still good overall, and it's a net benefit to reduce long-term smoking.
> These plugs have more leeway if not plugged all the way in than micro style plugs

Oh, that's a great point! You could route a simple on/off signal across only the sleeve, and not even use the tip at all. Even if it were only half-way inserted, it would still work.

Edit: looking more closely at the photos, it appears that's exactly what he's doing, neat!
It's been ages since I made electronic music on my PC. I always liked FL Studio and some friends of mine sweared by Reason but I haven't been keeping up with DAWs / sequencers. What are people using these days?
Big Sur has been a significant drop in quality, even worse than Catalina. Some are bugs such as this one and some are just deliberately stupid design decisions like the changes to the notifications. I’m worried for the future of the Mac.
I use one of these chassis [1], the form factor is great. Be mindful that some of the bracing blocks the pcie slot on some motherboards.

[1] https://m.aliexpress.com/item/33038670915.html?spm=a2g0n.pro...
Atlassian Plans to Win Collaboration
There are penalties if you don't pay your quarterly estimates.
The Electrical Blueprints That Orchestrate Life (Michael Levin on Ted)
Combine this with the email based picture display and you’re set. Just an rPi and an inkjet.
How to create a task in Slack using an easy integration
How is it not a SPOF?
No mention of recovery. I wonder.. are the containers ever recovered, or is it prohibitively expensive, or, logistically near impossible?
I mean you already need a working phone and gps. Why would there ever have been an alternative
> I do not want to suggest that people "just don't like vegan cheese because they're expecting animal milk cheese" but I do suspect that if people would stop thinking of certain vegan cheeses as substitutes for animal cheeses, they would feel really differently on average.

Naming the product "vegan cheese" isn't doing it any favors in this regard.

A Chinese instructor told me once that tofu was the Chinese equivalent of Western cheese. ("And in as many varieties!") Nutritionally that seems basically correct. But you're not going to sell much tofu as a cheese substitute, or cheese as a tofu substitute.
Reaper is incredibly powerful, no doubt about it. However, as a long time Ableton and Logic user, I would say that both of those programs have a much better UI/UX than Reaper. Personally, I find Ableton more enjoyable to work in, as it has a nice UI and stays out of my way while I work. That’s just my opinion though. In the end of the day, the best DAW is the one that works for you.
> funds raised so far

Can it be $0, or do you expect cold reaching only after raising initial funds?
nope, they are still nutjobs.
The total cost of an employee isn't different to the employer in either case. For any X which is the cost of an employee .124X goes to govt. When .062 is sent to govt directly from the employer the govt is effectively hiding .5 of tax liability from the employee.

Gig worker sees the whole .124, which is probably why govt wants more classed as employee.

TANSTAAFL