skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is the fridge magnet poetry of startups, which at least provides a baseline or waypoint co-ordinate. They aren't startup ideas, it's a list of things nobody wants. Clever, but the general problem of ascertaining desires by speculating about them and then testing them is more interesting than just iterating ideas and seeing if any are funny or inspiring.

I'd speculate the best startup ideas will come from more literary minds with insight into desire, and wonder if we can get better results by looking at how succesful startups in fact did not solve a problem at all, but instead understood a desire and implemented something to manage it.
The difference is that desire is understood before it is problematized, where I think as technologists, we all have a tendency to filter experiences through the lens of problematizing, where we index on the things that seem solvable, and ignore the ones that are less concrete, but it's the incremental response to the more nebulous desires that ultimately scale into massive companies.

Snapchat responded to young people's desire for porn. Facebook responded to the desire of harvard students to signal their status. Google originally responded to the FOSS community's desire for indexed technical documentation, and then to the desire to signal tech savvyness to align to power. Airbnb met a desire for authenticity (counter signalling status) in travel experiences.

Some years ago I did an exercise about mapping startups and tech to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and what clicked is there wan't a tech problem I couldn't eventually find a solution to - I just couldn't think of other people I wanted to listen to and respond to their desires, which sounds awful, but I'd challenge anyone to answer the question of who they want to listen to and support. Chances are, you will have the same problem. Wishing some people were a different way doesn't count, and educating them about some truth you are in posession of ends as well as one might expect. Who do you want to listen to?

Problems without people attached to them are boring and useless iterations on disconnected ideas. A version of the post of that listed groups of people Gwern would like to listen to and respond to their desires would be super interesting though.
How much of this is a holdover of lax security practices from before they were acquired? I can’t imagine AWS being managed in a way where local network access gives you keys to the kingdom. Then again, EC2 instance profiles do let you do quite a bit.
> All without numerically estimating a single task in the plan.

However, often you have multiple paths to achieve a goal, and you have to choose which one you're going to take. Either you estimate each path in days/weeks/months or you'll have to compare all the alternatives (a > b?, b > c?), at which point having numbers is probably worth it.
> This ensures that the media file that a NFT represents, will always be available, since it is hosted by many people on the network.

I’m pretty sure this is incorrect. IPFS is not permanent storage unless you host the content yourself or pay a pining service to host it. It may be cached on many computers but those caches are finite and get cleared.

Persistence | IPFS Docs
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/persistence/#long-term-storage

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Long-term storage

Storing data using a personal IPFS node is easy, but it can be inconvenient since you have to manage your own hardware.

[…]

[…] paying a pinning service to store data is a convenient workaround, it still requires someone to bear the cost of storing that data.

[…]

While IPFS guarantees that any content on the network is discoverable, it doesn't guarantee that any content is persistently available.
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We raised £27.5m in Series B funding last month to build a patient-centred healthcare communications platform.

That's allowing us to significantly grow our engineering team from ~35 to ~60.

Unlike many health tech companies, we are a software provider, not a healthcare provider. We allow existing health and care systems (starting with the NHS in the UK) to deliver technology-enabled care, free from any AI/Blockchain-hype.

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The suggestion is sunlight without sunglasses after waking up. That is extremely bright light hitting your eyes. Wake-up alarm clocks may be helping you, but not as a substitute for whatever is being suggested here.
Why I still run the technical phone screen as a hiring manager
I was a very early employee at Wasmer and worked with Ivan for part of that, though I ended up leaving after roughly four months to go back to university. At the time, it didn't seem too bad but, in hindsight, it was a pretty toxic environment.

That was partly a result of a lot of pressure from larger companies that didn't want to work with Wasmer because Syrus, the founder, was publically rude to other people working on WASM (among other things).

Ivan is a really awesome guy and deserves work that values him. I wish him the best and can vouch for his technical ability.
Oh one needs to log in Facebook to read that note? Pass.
Is this an alternative UI for GitHub but without the files, commits history and so on? Why tho? I'm confused.

Actual GitHub repo for anyone looking for the files: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutoria...
Generally agree. I would still make them do some smaller unpaid chores to understand that maintaining the household is a team effort and not everything is paid. Bigger infrequent chores are great for earning money (both from parents or neighbors), like mulching or other yard work.

Encouraging them to start a "business" can be good too. I used to make and sell bluebird houses a few times per year. It teaches a lot about sales, expenses, pricing, etc that chores don't.

"Bring them in to the monthly discussion of the families finances"

This might not be a good idea depending on the specifics of that conversation.

Also, this requires a partner who participates meaningfully in budget and finance topics.
Ah please. It can easily be found in the record that almost every statement made by Facebook is a lie or not truthful. Just one influential for me is the promise not to do anything with WhatsApp and Facebook. Incredibly naive at the time to approve that acquisition on the pinky swear they’d hold their word. At this stage I’m astounded by any official taking the word of Facebook. Their incentives to spin are insurmountable.
There's also a lot of lath and plaster which tends to have no standard spacing and smaller studs.
By this logic safari content blockers enable ad blocking, so why hasn't google exited the advertising business yet?
There are so many indiscreet USB pentesting devices easily purchasable by anyone today, I'm actually surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.
You are aware that 20+ is actually the magical number of accounts that you're supposed to have in your credit file to have the best credit score?

This is not even about credit cards. Debit counts, too. Say you have two bank accounts, an HSA account, one premium card, one business credit card, one everyday card, one… Oops, out of slots already!

It sounds like you're really happy with Apple products, and will simply change your life around them, instead of demanding something better. 6+ cards is probably already the average for many people.
> created: 21 minutes ago

> karma: 2

[adds pinch of salt]
They offer a serverless platform.

If you want free egress, you can check Wasabi: https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info
I would add that the more experience and time you have on the job those contract rates go up exponentially. I would also recommend if you're free lancing that you still do it under an LLC and purchase a liability policy. Too many risks.

For example. In 2012 average consulting hourly rate I charged $350. Stayed booked. 2016 $550. Stayed booked. In 2018 I had a couple really large clients that paid $1500+hr

There's gold in the hills, the trick is to figure out how to sell the pans, water, plots of land, and transportation to them. If you can work in complementary services or referrals for all the above, you just made yourself even more valuable.
Information is subject to Supply and Demand like everything else.

We don't publish the names of victim of certain crimes, and they are not widely known even if they are leaked, thus significantly limiting the damage. Information about how to make 'violent things' with easily acquired materials, certain recruiting videos for 'very bad groups' aka ISIS etc. - all of this is out there on some level but because it's actively not propagated, the likelihood of it having an impact is reduced.

We shouldn't be publishing individual's income, or the private source code of normal, legit private groups.
"Just take a guess - we have to have a number in this box by the end of the meeting". I was literally just told that yesterday. No one else who would look at that number will know it was a totally random guess pulled out of thin air to satisfy ceremonial box-filling. They will treat it as an estimate, and make plans accordingly.
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Shouldn't this already be covered by GDPR thought? While we usually associate it to the Internet, tracking and cookies, from what I understand it is much more general and should include facial recognition (but of course IANAL etc.)
Slope Raises $20M Series A Funding to Revolutionize Clinical Trial Operations
If you read the story you will see that most books present the appearance of random strings of characters.
I didn't quite understand the initial complaint. Access to the NFC capability maybe; though apps can already use the NFC reader and writer -- I use it with my glucose monitor -- so I'm not sure what is being mistranslated by Reuters.

As far as access to the payment system itself, I also don't quite understand: if you have access to the NFC interface you can can presumably build your own payment system (e.g. google pay could in theory run on the iPhone -- is that what they mean?
You’re wrong. Fresh fruit and veg is not reserved for elitist grocery chains.
I don't think it misses that point at all, unless I misunderstood you. I think it actually absolutely exemplifies what you wrote.

They identify that something is happening, but do not know what to attribute it to. Concrete steps that can be taken are in your immediate proximity. You can see the immediate effects of pollution, therefore you can try to fix that. You may not be able to see the immediate effects of greenhouse gasses or climate change, therefore it is not a problem.

It's the same as pollution not really being a problem until it impacts you, in particular. The same (I would argue confusing) attitude, I think.
Someone actually started streaming going through the code ... on twitch.

https://www.twitch.tv/deepfrieddev
Good money habits start with knowing the value of money. It is very tempting to buy everything for your kids, but it can be very good to let them save for something.

For example let them save for a box of LEGO they want to have. While saving they might see something else they would like. The choice about whether to continue saving or buy someting else is very helpful to think about money.
No, you should confront and fix child prostitution. Your argument is entirely dismissive of the huge problem with trafficking of children. Why are China and the environment the only things you you care about? /s
Or even?:

try:
blog = Blog.objects.get(slug__icontains='some text')
except Blog.ObjectDoesNotExist:
print("No blog could be found")
except Blog.MultipleObjectsReturned:
print('More than one blog!')
I'm not sure I agree that "paying money to get attention" is the majority of the monetary interactions on Twitch.

Or at least, maybe that's a welcome side effect but not the main motivation for a lot of people.

I am guessing here, I have no data to back this up, but I feel like a lot of people sub out of gratitude and as a show of support, and less to draw attention or get some kind of shout-out..

I do watch a decent amount of streams on Twitch across a few categories, but I've never subscribed or donated to any of them, so it's possible I'm wrong here.

Also I did make the distinction between paid performances and "pay what you can".. That was indeed my point, that Twitch differentiates itself by being an essentially "pay what you can" service where the majority don't pay anything, but lots of people still manage to make money giving their work away for free.
I shall now live my life in fear of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Who knows what they do?!?!
Government and corporate cooperation in anti-disinformation campaigns is certainly an interesting, unsettled area of law. It's likely going to come down to the degree to which the government's efforts are coercive or not upon Facebook et al, and I wouldn't be able to tell you a priori if the current efforts do or do not violate the First Amendment.

It would certainly be welcome to see some people actually advancing these arguments in legal suits, but the extant cases are turning on allegations which don't advance these claims very well.
> pro-parenting tip

Uh-oh...

> ANC earbuds without even playing anything are effectively a "turn down the volume" button on your kids screaming!

That is more of a "non-parenting tip", really. The solution to screaming children is to tell them to tone it down a bit, no to isolate yourself from them. That way they not only learn something but also interact with you instead of considering you to be part of the furniture.

Source: my two daughters who can be quite noisy at times. Sometimes this is fine but they know to tone it down when they're in company of others.
I think they are two different things - statistical modelling to me is about understanding relationships between data (i.e. we are highly confident that X and Y are correlated, and can infer a reason and thus put a policy around that based on open reasoning), and ML is about making predictions in new situations based on historical training data from different situations (but we can't necessarily infer the why).
Reactive, DAG-based notebooks in Hex 2.0
>Do you need consent to be photographed or filmed in public spaces?

You do in Europe. You essentially own the copyright to your face.
It doesn't say that Rebecca bought them, FYI.
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Somewhat surprised asymmetric organocatalysis was awarded over asymmetric photocatalysis or photoredox chemistry. Photocatalysis is newer, has more demonstrated use cases, and holds more promise.
A friend of mine was supervising students while doing his PhD. He gave them a task to write an implementation of binary search that contained no errors. He received twelve submissions.

If I am recalling the story right, he verified each submission in a proof assistant. Eight of the submissions contained errors. These were not first-year, green students writing binary search for the first time.

Empirical studies, few as they are, aren't forgiving either. It turns out that memory management, life times, concurrency, and ordering of computational effects are simply hard for the human mind to comprehend on the scale of non-trivial programs. We need better tools for thinking to help us manage. Otherwise we lean on heuristics and practices and assume some level of tolerance for errors to be made.

Don't write bugs, is not going to be very forgiving when even the most well-trained among us will, eventually, introduce an error into a program.
"Impractical to fix" can also mean writing an awful lot of complicated code to work around edge conditions that may never arise in reality. And the cost of writing that complicated code may result in additional bugs you didn't foresee due to the law of unintended consequences.

It becomes a tradeoff between the bug that you think you're smart enough to see but which may never happen, and the bugs that you're not able to see right now.

And I've definitely been on the wrong side of that equation and dealt with overly complicated code considering edge cases that were not useful, which caused complicated but practical bugs which affected many customers -- and I wound up replacing the overly thought out code with simpler code that was understandable and the "bug" I reintroduced never affected anyone AFAIK years later.

I've also been on the right side of that equation and picked simpler approaches and never had the overly complicated edge conditions that I could "see" in the code actually crop up and affect anything.

It isn't just political, sometimes you really can just technically outsmart yourself.

Plus there's the issue of if design decisions that are 10 years old should be refactored at the cost of introducing breaking changes and pain on everyone using your software. Sometimes you wind up writing some less-robust-than-ideal code which is due to those kinds of foundational issues. And the existence of a single difficult to fix bug is generally not sufficient to restort to blowing up your entire world and starting over again.
You pay for storage. Only , not as much as what AWS charges.

Cloudflare has a business model where they can basically handle any network load you throw at them.

They are monetizing their advantage here by allowing you to make full use of their network as long as you make use of their paid storage as well.

The margins in the cloud business and AWS especially are breathtakingly large and yet, considered affordable by enterprises so far because the alternative of standing up your own compute and networking capacity is not just significantly expensive, there just isn’t enough talent available in the world to go around for every enterprise to have a decently staffed team doing so.
Wasmer has had some controversy on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900186
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> The author seems to be making live changes to the article. It started as “How I failed to Change Wasmer” but it’s now titled “I’ve loved Wasmer, I still love Wasmer”.

People second guess themselves when they write something emotionally charged and it goes semi-viral. So what? Wouldn't you? That doesn't make the article any less valid. A title change is very different from materially changing the actual events discussed, yet you imply something of this magnitude is going on (it isn't).

> The only thing worse than startup leadership quarrels is watching one of the founders turn around and try to sink the company

Maybe for you. For the rest of us, being a toxic founder who exhibits even a third of the bad behaviors mentioned in the article would be grounds for forced removal. Looking over the timeline and events that took place at Wasmer, it's pretty clear this dirty laundry needed to be aired, and everyone (the users, the employees) would benefit if this CEO is actually removed. Perhaps this idea makes you uncomfortable? It's also super disingenuous to paint this as an attempt to sink the company -- clearly it's an attempt to say the product has tons of promise but the CEO needs to go. All other options have been exercised at this point, so going to a public forum with huge industry influence is exactly the kind of thing that could solve this problem that otherwise probably has no solution other than the company floundering. The CEO could quit tomorrow, and then this entire endeavor would obviously be justified and well worth it.

> I also wish the author would have elaborated more on their original title (“How I failed to change Wasmer”) instead of laying all of the blame on the other co-founder and alluding to toxicities

In a literal sense you are right to say that the author doesn't discuss this much, but come on man, it's super obvious -- this "late co-founder" was not given enough control or say in the first place to make any of the changes that needed to be made. Heck, he couldn't even take a sick day without incurring tremendous ire. Most of the article is about that. Did we read different articles? It's like you're going way out of your way to trash this for no real reason other than it makes you feel uncomfortable. Airings of grievances like this are one of the good things about Hacker News and have a positive impact on the industry. I dare you to come up with a single example where that isn't the case. Show me an example of a startup that floundered because of disingenuous HN exposure that wasn't caught until way too late. If anything they'll have a sales bump today.
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Since half the purpose of an interview is to see whether you want to work for them, I'd call that interview a success.
Do you remember a time when people were predicting this deep pocketed company Microsoft would bomb with their Xbox? It’s not a sure thing that Amazon could dislodge Steam, but there’s precedent.
Give them an allowance. Let them blow it on goofy things like bubblegum or candy bars. Eventually, they'll learn delayed gratification by realizing that bubblegum isn't as good as waiting for a toy they want to buy. They have to figure it out for themselves. Better now than when they are 18.
I don't think you're meant to have 20+ credit cards though? I'm struggling to think of anyone I know with 6+ active cards they use for payment.

I'd hazard most people have two or three cards tops.
No problems there. The problems start when people try to force others into the office to match their own preferences, or to help them with their personal problems.

"I like getting out of the house because..."; your inability to make your home an enjoyable place is not my problem, unless you make it problem.
Love those ideas for introducing interest. I would let them lose money if they’re investing in your investments and you realize loss as well to prevent unrealistic expectations.

Our house is set against gamifying chores, and finding ways to instill a sense of pride, appreciation, practicality, and maybe even art in cleaning affairs. Granted we only have a 3yo so time will tell if that’s even possible. I suspect that may be personality related.

I think just discussing money is one of the best helps. My family almost never discussed finances and money, and do no investing. I’m seeing the consequences of those decisions for them, and have taught myself about various things money to hopefully help prevent their kind of situation for us.

We often discuss prices when we buy anything for our kid, whether it’s a box of candy or some food they want or a toy. We do give a weekly allowance to our kid, and they still get a big kick out of it even at only 3.
But do you really need to add all of those 20 cards to your digital wallet? Just carry the cards with you if you care so much about min-maxing the credit score game.
Give us your data for targeted ads, but less evil!

I shan't bother, thanks. I'll pay money or someone else's data if they resurrect Servo, or even just stop reinstalling Pocket.
If Facebook is making you log-in to read the bull crap the Zuck has to say, here is a pastebin of the full post.

https://pastebin.com/raw/c5VtaCsW
Ugh - I’m living this right now trying to figure out the best (or “a good”) way to hang new interior doors into so-called steel studs, which are actually just box-section aluminum.
I think Vanguard has resources for teaching kids about money.
cgroups often make the situation worse, not better, by insisting that a small memcg drop caches because that control group is full while the system overall has plenty of resources. This can lead to a system severely swapping for no apparent reason.

Putting desktop apps into individual cgroups is one of the more counter-productive ideas that has cropped up lately.