skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t forget that Obama expanded the surveillance state more than GW Bush did.

This will also increase the cost of government to track it all. I expect it will disproprtionately focus on the lower-to-middle income businesses and people, not the high-end deadbeats, since it’ll be easier to grab pennies from many than millions from a difficult few.
Or, alternatively, the vaccine is worth roughly 2/3 of GTA V
Half i learnt then during my employment, Half i learnt when i need to build a specific thing.
Burner phones: you just ask privacy focused communities wether someone has successfully used a given VOIP service to sign up for something.

You can also just buy a burner sim card. Either way it’ll only cost you a few dollars.
Lifetime bans from all spaces seem excessive and arbitrary to me for anything but the very worst hate, trolls and spam.

Imagine a society where people were regularly expelled permanently for annoying those in power.
nope, i build them myself.
If you will grow big enough surely you will need some kind of web presence - then you can introduce Rails :)
Or don't. Honestly having the team on one language makes a lot of sense.
It's so true. My work laptop is unusable running wsl2.
Vaccines are among the simpler things they could use the delivery technology for.

However, their key advantage over competitors is development speed.

Until COVID-19 though, that wasn't something we needed. If vaccines took an extra 2, or 4, or 10 years to develop, it was usually okay.
No i havent made any hybrid apps. I have built only native apps so far.
Have they really put it behind them? Hoefler doesn't so much as acknowledge Frere-Jones in his post.

And one of Frere-Jones' type designers had this to say about the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/ninastoessinger/status/14382710868446822...
OP is testing their next microstartup on HN with this thread :D
While C++ 2014 added a digit separator, in my opinion using a single quote instead of an underscore as in Ada and in all the other languages following Ada was an extremely stupid decision.

The rationale for this surprising choice was that a number starting with an underscore could be interpreted as an identifier.

??!! Why would anyone want to start a number with an underscore? Underscores are needed only inside long numbers.

The syntax should have allowed underscores only inside numbers and there would have been no problems with backward compatibility, as such numbers would have been illegal before.

The single quote cannot have been easier for parsing as the new use must not be confused by the parser with character literals, which can appear in the same context.

The underscore was first introduced in a programming language by IBM PL/I (in 1964, when it was still named NPL) with the precise purpose of improving the readability of identifiers.

Ada has extended this use to also improve the readability of long numbers.

Why C++ has chosen a different character, which is normally used for completely different purposes, without having any decent justification for such a baffling decision, I cannot understand.
Public school has its influence. The asymmetrical power to focus large resources on ideological targets is a part of modern warfare that most high-school graduates are not going to grasp intuitively.
As one commenter mentioned above, make sure you enter all these communication processes with correct NDA's and Legal prevention to stop them just making your product.

Go find yourself a small company decent legal team, they will be integral in setting terms of contracts anyways so might as well start the relationship early. TBH you don't actually need a negotiator. You need a legal team to define your terms of business your willing to operate/sell under (multi year contract, fixed or variable price and so on). How do you want your business to work? do you want long haul big contracts to a singular or few clients? or do you want short term in bulk to many? (these are the polar ends maybe you want in the middle?). Do you want to be repeating this process soon or not for a few years? You also would do well to hire an analyst to value your business/services product to the market your selling to. AKA get someone to data crunch what your price ranges are for sale and how well it allows for growth and all that. Basically an accountant.

Then you take the numbers from that. Slap 10-20% on it and thats what you take to your market as offer. If they dont just pay it and want to haggle, you got 10-20% to play with. Thats when you negotiate. But not by much and mostly via your legal team. What are they compensating you with for the reduction in your price? Why do they deserve it? Will their competitor kick up the same fuss?

If you make bank you can buy a pc off me someday I turnover like 30k a year atm as a one man band MSP. Maybe I should switch to consulting?
Maybe it depends on age? For a lot of these activities it feels like it's always been that way (maybe not true if you're older?), so even if excessive you've had your whole life to get used to it. All of this covid stuff is new. I agree with mwint, don't have a home, not remodeling, no kids, and no business.
> * Windows 10 fixed it

Windows 10 is biggest garbage fire POS Windows version yet, because of their new update model. For the last several months, I've been unable to install the mandatory (for non-enterprise users) feature update patches. They fail to install with a cryptic error code and get rolled back. If I don't get this figured out soon, I'm not going to be able to get security patches anymore.

I should be able to get a version that's stable (enterprise licensees get access to LTSC versions that never are required to install feature updates), but they've denied everyone else. The best I could do was buy professional, which let me delay the patches for up to a year (instead of only a week or two). My understanding is MS laid off most of their Windows QA team, and replaced it with home users drafted to become guinea pigs plus telemetry, and the lack of it shows.
I have launch around 7 or 8

I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build

I dont take more than a month to validate any idea
Ministers plan post-Brexit return of imperial pounds and ounces
It is my understanding that India's reliance on coal stems at least in part from close ties between politicians and coal companies. India is pretty well suited for renewables too, yet they choose to burn more coal.
China is also building a huge number of coal plants, unfortunately.
> Why do they keep pushing this crap?

Because every company wants to vendorlock all to their service. Same with systemd, flatpak e.t.c.
I am not sure you got the joke.
Too bad the search index is currently restricted to ASCII-only (or at least Cyrillic and Latin-2 characters were rejected as "contains characters that are not currently supported").

I love the idea definitely, and I've long toyed around with building a similar thing that starts crawling off my own bookmarks (a personal small-deep-web if you wish).

I also love the "Small Web" name: this is the first I hear of it, and it's what I've long complained about — the web today hides all of the cool gems search engines of old would have given you!

I am also a bit split on the "www" prefix restriction (iiuc, domains which do not have "www" subdomain too are dropped from the index because many of them are spammy): it might for sure be a useful heuristic, but I've advocated for dropping "www" back in late 90s and early 2000s already (one reason being that for eg. Serbian, "w" is not in the alphabet, so you can't reasonably quote it as Serbian is otherwise a phonetic-language).
> Rifles there will be several, same for pistols. With rifles and pistols you generally practice with small caliber rounds like 22 as it's much much cheaper ($.02 / rnd vs $2), and really more pleasant (quiet, doesn't kick) than hunting rounds.

Most of my experience, thanks to the US taxpayer to whom I am permanently indebted, is with an M60, an M240, and an M249.

I would like my wife, and my daughters to have skill with weapons too, so I was thinking about an HK417 for myself, and then getting an HK416 clone chambered in .22LR for practice.

It takes a healthy respect, and practiced expertise in weapons to build competency, and I think that relates to a number of rounds fired. Hopefully, small caliber for cost savings!
I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build
One of the difficulties I am having is figuring out the idea - i) What is your idea generation process? ii) Building a startup of any kind is not as rosy as you put it? iii) Can you define what a micro startup is?

Do you have a fallback in case any of this fails, and where you working before you built your first startup?

Also, just from this brief interaction, I can see that you are more of a problem -> solution-oriented guy and don't care much about the tech stack. How can one eliminate this mindset? As engineers seem to be more invested in such things?
The problem isn’t taking two months off. It’s taking a large chunk of time off, then immediately quitting.

That means the team was down an engineer for basically an entire quarter, without notice. That wrecks schedules and causes headaches for your coworkers who now have to figure out how to make up for the lost time or figure out what work to cut from the schedule.
Well, considering that people live on average 80 years, I'd upperbound it to 4/1000 instead of 1/1000. Also I wouldn't call "dying less" a way to frame safety when talking about these type of chances.

So I guess Covid is twice to 4 times as deadly? I mean it's a very rough estimation and clearly I haven't considered everything. But ballparking it like this, I'd be inclined to say so.
IoT is not Linux. Most small embedded devices cannot afford a MMU, or the monstrosity of Linux. Baremetal or FreeRTOS/ThreadX or similar are enough. They don't need that much power, architectural overkill and security nightmares. Most of them are even formally verified.
We've banned this account, not just for this egregious violation of the site rules, but because you've been doing it repeatedly for a long time and have ignored our requests to stop. Seriously not cool.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
One word answer: sortition
Or to put it in other terms, "better" ways mean billions of dollars of avoided loss / additional profit to pharma companies doing drug development.

Suffice to say, there are a lot of people always looking at this, and a lot of money being spent on it.

It's just hard.
"took a while" to cross $100/day. How long before you crossed that line? And how much longer to $200/day. It sounds like the project after the pandemic crunch spurred you to 200, 300, 400 fairly quickly. Which one was that? Which was the first to 100/200?
Doesn't square with the chronology below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28560980
Yeah, by Unix, they mean v6 UNIX™, fresh out of Bell Labs:)
Very interesting. A potential safer and cheaper operating costs. A somewhat more complex design is required though.
The west need to focus on nuclear again to stay competitive. Too bad that we don't have true leaders anymore. But only people who are afraid to make choices and play it safe.
Like another commenter said, this usecase would be covered under a hunting/farming license in most countries. It is absolutely not necessary to have an indiscriminate personal right to carry in cities.
Step 0) Have at least a few dozen million dollars and solid guaranteed access to right of way for aerial or underground fiber

Step 1) Hire somebody who has experience running a facilities based last mile gigabit class ftth isp. Sorry to say your job posting requirements and duties doesn't look anything like that right now.

Step 2) Have that person recruit the rest of the team
I think that's missing the point?

Coca Cola weren't and still aren't offering equity. Nobody describes that as "withholding equity".

Most places in the world, most jobs do not offer equity as part of compensation. And everybody understands that and chooses too apply or not based on what they are offering for compensation.

"pre-IPO unicorns" are very much the exception, very rarely actually pay off, and people who have the opportunity to shop around in that lottery should be grateful but aware that for every guy with an eight figure success story, they're are tens of thousands with some worthless option paperwork that never even made enough money to buy them a meal, let alone a house...
Honestly it could be worse, I worked at a company that gave equity and years later it came out that the founders never intended to sell or take VC money. In that case employees “took below market salaries” thinking the stock is worth something but in reality it’s worthless. At least in this Mailchimp situation if you’re not getting equity I assume you’re happy with your cash comp, I’d you’re not, that doesn’t make sense.
Maybe the actual target audience is people who think they're pros when they aren't? Sounds about right for both photographers and consumer electronics enthusiasts.
> Netflix said that it greatly respected Ms. Gaprindashvili but that it believed her claim was without merit. “Netflix has only the utmost respect for Ms. Gaprindashvili and her illustrious career, but we believe this claim has no merit and will vigorously defend the case,” the company said in a statement.

How can anyone say that with a straight face after keeping this line in the script: "There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men."

And, now, instead of apologizing and perhaps even paying her something, they double down instead.

This is so typical of Hollywood. Even their feminism is fake.
It doesn’t matter. Public perception will do nuclear in faster than a slow killing coal plant (not that Japan does much new coal, they’ve doubled down on LNG).
Inherent? Like, sure, I'm dimly aware that there are guns somewhere, and that if things get really bad then the police ultimately call in the firearm squad occasionally, but it doesn't feel like something that's inherently necessary.
The rural US is very spread out and large, and often slow to travel over washed out dirt roads or worse. If you wanted 5 or 10 minute response time across the continental US you'd have to hire and equip 3 or 4 people per every 5 or 10 miles across the whole US, people who'd 95%+ of their time doing nothing.

I can't see how there's any way gun education in public high schools or similar wouldn't be drastically cheaper. Not that I think they're options that should be viewed as policy substitutes or alternatives.
I would go further and say "don't believe that your below market-pay is due to true commitment to a mission. more than likely your leadership isn't taking that same below-market approach for themselves."

I'm not sure why, in most comments not just this one, the idea that you need to be cynical and not trust someone's stated good intentions isn't included.
I had loads of non-UI issues with 8, 8.1 and even more with 10. For example suspend was completely broken on a Surface Pro on 10, while on my desktop it would mess up the filesystem on a drive every few days. They fixed most of them eventually but it took a long while. I’ll prolly upgrade somewhere just to get the free license (I assume there’s gonna be a cutoff date again) and then go back to 10 right after
A free alternative to their on-brand font? That's crazy in a lot of ways too...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1437998201659920389.html
It used U-235 then switched to U-233 bred from thorium in a separate reactor (but still partially testing the thorium fuel cycle). They did this to simplify the design by not needing to incorporate the breeding elements into a novel new reactor design so they could focus on measuring the reactor's performance. I think it's fair to say it was thorium fueled, just in two separate stages (U-233 only comes into existence by breeding thorium).

The long term plan was to next make a breeding version of the reactor and use thorium directly but development was cancelled.
Discussed at the time (of the article, not the 1974 calculator hack):

Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302364 - Aug 2013 (96 comments)
I still write programs on paper and pencil to see if I can do it as accurately as the machine can.
Austria - Australia is another common mistake.
yes, i agree. One should not depend on the altruism of an employer, regardless of whether the employer is actually altruistic or not. Otherwise, when reality fails to meet your expectations, it is you, not the party with more power, that suffers.

I say this not implying that atlassian is behaving badly - i'm making a general comment that your employer is not responsible for your well-being beyond the mandates by law.
I could do that but its not one single place i get revenue from like

- Google PlayStore
- Apple Appstore
- Google Adsense
- Google Admob
- Stripe
- Affilate Revenue
What is the monetisation avenue for each of these? For example, I don't see pricing for visalist so I assume it's from ads, whereas simpleops is a paid-for service.
It's just a bunch of people.

But you are right in a sense, that is is a large enough group that it's momentum will crush any feelings of individuals in the team.
I can't for the life of me take anything posted as a Twitter thread seriously. It is just so stupid having to write/read something in so many little chunks.
>If you tell me not to worry my little noggin about it because we're never selling :) and then you turn around sell for $12B, I'm going to feel a little shafted...

The thing I don't understand - why would someone 'never selling' influence someone else to work for less than market rate?

OK maybe I can think of some reason for a company producing something that saves peoples lives that you're afraid a big company wants to buy to shut down and push their inferior product but this ain't that scenario - so why?!?
I had a Timex/Sinclar 1000 with the 64K memory module that sort of worked half the time. Zot, there it goes again and I have to type everything in again because I didn't save it to tape.
Here is what I said initially:

>We are usually behind Canada, New Zealand, the Scandinavian countries, and a few other European countries depending on the specific criteria being evaluated.

The countries we are behind on all 4 lists and therefore unanimously behind:

- New Zealand
- Switzerland

The countries we are behind on 3 of the 4 lists and therefore countries we are "usually behind":

- Canada
- Australia
- Ireland
- Denmark
- Finland
- Netherlands

The countries we are behind on 2 of the 4 lists and therefore countries we are on par with:

- Germany
- Norway
- Sweden
- Iceland
- Belgium
- Austria
- Portugal
- Czech Republic
- Lithuania
- Slovenia
- Andorra
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Estonia
- Cyprus
- Jamaica
- Costa Rica

So that is a yes on "Canada, New Zealand... and a few other European countries". I don't know why you and the other poster are pretending that naming countries that we are ranked higher than disproves this statement. The only thing that isn't backed up by those rankings is that I said "the Scandinavian countries" when it is only Denmark and Finland ahead of us while we are on par with Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.
Start where you are. Start small: take walking breaks during the work day. This may even make you more productive. :)
Not enough time for a walk? Do some push-ups, or planks. Jumping jacks and squats can also be done anytime, anywhere.

When you’re ready, I’d recommend checking out some fitness classes on the weekends or evenings, like yoga, Pilates, HIIT, strengthening, etc.
Try Stretching.
i sped thru the first 10 or so minutes but i really wanted the tldr;, first.

so, still no idea what it's about. :-/
Hands up everybody here who wouldn't go back on their word for $6 billion?

You lot are all liars.

If you don't think your best friend, your parents, your wife/husband, or your children - would not sell you out for $6billion, I reckon you're deluding yourself.
If the county owns the poles and last mile electrical grid you should be looking at some of the fiber networks run by county sized PUDs in eastern WA as an example. Go visit some.
This is how I try to figure out ideas

- I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not

- I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build

- I set a goal on day 1 on what the microstartup should achieve once its launched. I try to take no more than 4 weeks to build it.

- I do a public launch in IH, PH, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Reddit. In few weeks if I reach the goal that I set at the beginning, then I continue working on it to improve. If not then I will drop it and move on the next.
I can't say they are without looking into them individually. How can you expect me to know one way or another? Do you claim to know?

My point was it may be wise to err on the side of history and what your eyes tell you about the nature of politics in modern democracies. I don't want my fundamental rights subject to political whims and opportunism.

Also, I don't think there is anything extreme about the US's free speech laws. What do you think is extreme about them?
Let's see how many companies will rename themselves to add mrna to their title
When was the last time we managed a pandemic? When was the last time we got a vaccine out this fast? We’re doing a lot of learning as we go.
Most humans prefer to exhibit trust towards other’s stated intentions. Cynicism is perfectly valid, but not a solution to the breaking of trust.

The idea of a world where I must be cynical about everything and trust nothing, is dystopian. And quite simply, would fail incredibly quickly.
Today I learned that billionaires can be disingenuous lol

Backstabbing and lying are the cornerstone of the startup system. People shouldn't be shocked when there's money on the line. Sad but true.
It's fascinating (in a good way) to me that typographers are still around. On the surface, apart from IP licenses, it doesn't seem necessary, with perhaps the exception of marketing & advertising where a unique design is desired.

Yet when you peek under the hood, typography is a lot more than just typefaces, and often goes to the heart of readability and accessibility. A graphic designer might design the text for a logo, or even a typeface, but a professional typographer is so much more, and more nuanced.

It also seems like one of perhaps only a handful of trades that has been around centuries and yet did not have all of its fundamentals, in essence, changed by the shift to digital. It seems like all the digital world did was change it's implementation methods.
> But the margin doesn't account for the 10+ years of R&D spend that put Moderna into the position it is in today.

This and the associated economics seem like the central problem with biotechnology funding.

The timescales and likelihood of success preclude anything under the size of government investment. Even Gates can only nibble around the edges.
by the end of its life it was fine, but it took waaaayyy too long to come out, the 64bit support was ahead of its time with no alternative, it was buggy, new access control model was too restrictive (bombarding users with escalation prompts for mundane things), and a bunch of other things that the sands of time caused me to forget.

it was not a great launch. usuable by the end.
- Visa List: Ads, Affilate revenue, subscriptions

- AnExplorer: Paid purchase, In App purchases, Ad

- ACrypto: Subscriptions

- Simple Ops: Subscriptions