skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch out for sites that are being sold because they are on the decline. Many people will keep a project while it is profitable, then sell it once an external change has trashed its value prop. But they try to price it based on its peak, so you are over-paying for a dying project.

That doesn't mean you could not buy it and pivot it to a model that does work, but be exceedingly wary of the pricing.
Lead Your Small Business to Success
Businesses are living organisms that require plenty of attention and care. There are numerous reasons for business fluctuations, including a challenging environment, new competitors, or a change in management. Still, to keep your business running and moving toward success, you need to constantly evaluate its internal and external structures and ensure it is moving in the right direction.
DCF is still perfectly applicable, nothing fundamental has changed. You can easily include growth into a DCF valuation.

The non-fundamental factors which have changed are: the neutral interest rate has dropped perhaps because of demographics and change in consumer behavior.
Go to Bogleheads https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started. There is an active forum https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php . Bogleheads is named after Jack Bogle, the late founder of the Vanguard family of funds and a champion of stock index funds. Bogleheads is not the place to learn about crypto or FX trading. They generally advise against non-traditional investments.
TDD starts with failure.

I don’t really subscribe to TDD, but they have a valid point: Start with something that doesn’t work, and work on it, until it works.

I tend to develop my software in a similar way, but I also start with a “fuzzy” design, which would give TDD people fits.

I fail every day. Repeatedly. It’s how I end up with some damn good software, at the end of the day.
Is it all opponents of immigration that are branded Nazis, or is it just those that regard foreigners as sub-human and refer to their countries as shitholes?
Equal hypocrisy, you say? So what universally accepted scale did you weigh the entirety of US and Russian societies on finding them equal? Maybe it might make sense to look at some metrics with an agreed-upon methodology.
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato may be of some interest:

> In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximise shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma’s ‘value pricing’, we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value – what it is, why it matters to us – is simply no longer discussed.

* https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-value-of-everything

> In this scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just moving existing value around or, even worse, destroying it.

> The book uses case studies - from Silicon Valley to the financial sector to big pharma - to show how the foggy notions of value create confusion between rents and profits, a difference that distorts the measurements of growth and GDP.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502362-the-value-of-ev...

One interesting anecdote she brings up: the US government gave a $456M guaranteed loan to Tesla, which Tesla paid back. But now that Tesla is "successful" and Musk is super-rich, does the US government get any credit for helping its success? How much 'value' did the folks at Tesla create versus the US government in helping to fund it?

Her previous book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, also has an interesting thesis:

> This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facilitate the creative innovation which happens in the dynamic private sector. Analysing various case studies of innovation-led growth, it describes the opposite situation, whereby the private sector only becomes bold enough to invest after the courageous State has made the high-risk investments.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17987621-the-entrepreneu...

* https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state
Donald Trump super-rich??? I thought he was mostly living off dangerously, wildly overextended debt.
Laser-Powered Oven
To be honest I was thinking this would be about economics
Well giving them a spotify gift card or the printed out specifications for mp3 isn't going to make them very happy after all.

You can say whatever you like about vinyl, but it is tangible.
CMU has public IPv4 on WiFi. It’s awesome to spin up a server on your laptop and send a link to anybody in the world.
I wonder what the future holds now that Project Trident (Void-based Linux distro that came with Lumina as a default DE) has reached its end.
I'll get back to turn based RPGs once the industry stops going bonkers with random encounter frequency (or ditches random encounters altogether).

It's ridiculous how The Last Sovereign, a lewd game made with RPG Maker is one of the few turn based games that got story and turn-based combat right.
> it can make you live through a story, which neither books nor movies can. It's a distinct kind of experience.

SOMA is a great example of this; It could maybe also work as a movie or book, but the FPS perspective fits the story and narrative so good that it elevates the whole thing to its own unique experience.

A VR version could turn this to 11, but sadly any work on that seems to have fizzled out.
If your answer to a claim of crappy building is "go outside", you've admitted defeat in an architecture fight. Architecture is about making enclosed spaces work for you to obviate the need to go/have somewhere else.
> Unfortunately this is the case with most Android phones, aside from the Google Pixel series, which allow custom versions of Android, like open-source GrapheneOS, to be installed.

In my experience, what's important is not the manufacturer of the phone, but whether or not the phone was bought from the carrier or the original manufacturer. If you buy a Pixel directly from Google, then the bootloader will be unlocked allowing you to install a different OS. If you buy the phone from a carrier like Verizon or At&t, the bootloader will be locked and it will be impossible to install a different OS.
Ask HN: Been in the IT industry for 10 years with nothing to show for it
PRE-DESCLAIMER: I apologize if posting such rants and discussion threads is against the rules of HN.

DESCLAIMER: This post can be quite long for some people, and I get it if no one wants to read it, but I would be grateful if you don't downvote me, maybe someone who's actually willing to help might see and answer me, because quite honestly I've been stuck in a terrible rut and I need some professional help.

Some Information About Me, I am 25 years old, and I live in a third world country (Iraq to be specific), the city I live in almost has no software-based startups / companies, also goverment work in IT is very very very difficult to get due to the amount of corruption there is, what I am currently doing is some freelance work, sometimes a client comes and wants a very basic static website, and I build it for them (Using a premade template from ThemeForest, because I am not a UI/UX designer). Sometimes a client requires a mobile app, so I stich together an app by following tutorials here and there, even though most of my stuff works, they are by no means professionally made, nor scalable or maintainable, I just need to do these jobs in order to get some cash flowing on, otherwise I would have nothing to depend on.
I have gotten my CS degree last year when I was 24, and currently I have a BSc in CS. I have been coding 10 years ago, but to this date I haven't built something that I can be proud of!

I am stuck in a rut trying to specialize in a niche and keep on improving myself on that particular area.

I have tried Frontend Web Development but quite honestly I really hate working with CSS, it's not the syntax that I struggle with, it's the fact that making a site responsive really really is something I hate, I mostly hate working with UIs.

When I was in college I really loved working on the console, I built great apps using the console, and I quite enjoyed what I was doing! We were learning C++ at the time, and working on the console made me think about my logic, my code, my idea, instead of sweating about the design, or how a button looks, or how to make text appear good on all screen sizes.

I want to try out Native mobile development but I am not sure whether it would be the right choice for me or not.

I am stuck, and there's so much on my mind that I want to speak here but I can't explain them easily without going too much into the details.

I really want a hand guys, and would be willing to answer or comment on any ideas or questions you might have!

EDIT: Sometimes I also think coding might not be for me aswell! Maybe I made the wrong choice, but there are times that I enjoy coding, especially when someone gives me a problem or an assignment to solve.
I don't think it's corporate-speak. To my understanding the use of "sunset" as a verb comes from law where contracts and laws sometimes have "sunset clauses" ensuring they become defunct at a certain defined point in the future.

From there, "to sunset" something seems a fairly logical next step.
For most tech companies the value is in the number of users rather than profits. High numbers of repeat users, coupled with growth in the number of users, suggests that the company is on to something.

There is demand for these stocks in part due to the possibility of future profits through the monetization of these users. As well as the possibility of the company being acquired by a larger company (whereby exiting shareholders can sell their shares at high values or acquire shares in the purchasing company via share swaps).

Nowadays there is also a lot of pure speculation going on without any fundamental value considerations. This is akin to gambling, and in a bubble market it can look like the casino keeps paying out as everyone keeps converting their winnings into chips and bets it all again. But the market isn't a casino, and bubble stock values are held up by the demand to keep playing. This is great for everyone until everyone tries to sell at the same time.
Sysexits – preferable exit codes for programs
Maybe it's just a little bit arrogant to think what you would like to be said could be important to other people when you don't even want to take the time to write it down in a convincing way.

Living in a house somebody built for you is equivalent to reading.
Why would you care what address your PC is using ? If your ISP gives you an other IPv6 assignment your router should just advertise that and your PC will use it. You wouldn't even notice. If your router doesn't do that is has a bad IPv6 implementation. The protocol itself is perfectly fine for that. That is one of the big stumbling blocks for IPv6: bad implementations in networking equipment.

Causing a conflict in your LAN with address is a problem of IPv4 and the tiny address space it has. It forces you to keep a tight administration and use a bolt on address space management technology like DHCP. IPv6 does not have that problem and you'll have a service less to run.

Indeed, it's not trivial. Many parties will have to do something. I hope they'll get more motivated as the price for IPv4 addresses rises even further. When CGNAT solutions get starved of socket space and adding extra IPv4 addresses gets prohibitively expensive maybe IPv4 will get so slow and unreliable people will give up on it.

The graph of IPv4 address space pricing gives some hope:
https://postimg.cc/QKKx847B
>Low precision

This is not true. You base your whole comment on the notion that posits are only good for low precision? This is not correct, for instance 32-bit posits outperform 64-bit floats.

> e.g. the claim that posits have the advantage of not generating Nans. They do not generate NaNs, because they generate an exception

This is incorrect also. There are no exceptions in the posit proposal! The point is that e.g. a division by zero is simply a bug in the code, like violating any other ordinary invariant/precondition in ordinary code. If you want exceptions, turn on debugging in your compiler like you would turn on bounds checks on array access for instance. It's silly to require always-on debug assertions and maximum performance at the same time, which is what IEEE floats attempt and fail at.

Regarding NaN, the advantage in posits is that there is only one such value (unsigned infinity), rather than the quadrillions of NaN bit patterns in IEEE floats.

> I have yet to see a single example with posits behaving better than traditional FP formats at high precisions.

Again, then you cannot have read the posit proposal thoroughly x) they show that 32-bit floats outperform 64-bit floats in precision, sacrificing only some dynamic range which is useless anyway.

Consider now that most HPC applications nowadays are I/O bound... switching to 32-bit posits increases precision and slashes memory requirements by half. It's immense.
Can youtube-dl work with live?
> Is lack of interest a solvable problem?

I would say yes, in large part. The solution is simple but not easy. The key is “Motivation follows action”. When you don't have motivation, act like how you would if you had it. Motivation will follow.

People who are prone to procrastination may find it difficult to decide what to act on. Begin with the most trivial action that is almost silly to consider an action. After you do it, continue with the next most trivial one.
You could also build a matrix of precedences.

Also, they should mention ternary operators.
Snowden is not an honorable person. He chose to work for US intelligence agencies as a low level unix admin, agreed to keep information private, attesting to that in employment agreements. He obvious is a sniveling liar. He's not a hero He's trash. If his was a case of conscience he would have turned himself in but he didn't. He took refuge in Russia. The guy is scum.
Creepy case over an invalid patent: 2 unethical businesses and 60 jobs lost
None of his parents have died of covid after a month in intensive care and he himself has a comfortable remote job with low risk of exposure. That explains the attitude, Pharao let the Children of Israel go only after his firstborn son died.

It's baffling. We have a crisis now because the current policies are not working and the answer is that it's not so bad. People can't even imagine different policies, meanwhile China is very successful with covid suppression.
It gives a lot of metadata to the email providers.
Making my life difficult certainly isn't how to get me to use your direct retail site rather than Amazon.

My preferred boots have a catalogue number. It's printed inside the boots, it's printed on the box they come in, it has remained the same for many years and it clearly identifies the exact model of boots and foot size.

If you type that number in to the manufacturer's own retail web site they're confused, what can this possibly be? It's unclear to them apparently, maybe I want er... women's boots? [What even are women's boots? Answer: The same boots, but limited to small foot sizes. I actually have size 10 feet.]

When I type the same code into Amazon, unsurprisingly it matches a product advertised by a seller, because the sellers have a strong incentive to advertise codes that result in sales. I get the exact product I want, admittedly it still doesn't auto-select the correct size but at least I'm on a page showing the product I want, one drop-down away from buying my boots.

So, Amazon gets the sale and the manufacturer misses out on what's presumably a considerable gap between their wholesale price and the retail price I'd have paid on their own store.
Imho that quote says more about what parts of games John Carmack has mostly worked on during his life than it actually says anything about storytelling in games.

The guy is so deep in code engineering that sometimes other, more nuanced, details can be seemingly totally lost on him.
But, Mr. Zuckerberg, How Do You Play Basketball Against a Hologram?
I started reading the this article but then half way through the second section I realised I'd be much better of reading about financial innovations in India.

I agree the US is also a big country and has made lots of efforts to bring banking to every citizen.

India, though quite far from having at least one bank account for every single citizen, is leaps and bounds ahead of most other economies in terms of fintech and innovation in the field of mass banking.

Be it, the post office savings account scheme, way before banks had moved to computers, or the current wave that's happening with UPI and the aadhaar ecosystem.

My point is, if you want to read about financial innovations brought by technology ("fintech"), read about things happening in India (and also China).
The problem is not Google or advertising (for me). There is a trend among governments world wide to get your Google data when you are at the wrong time at the wrong place or searching the wrong thing at the wrong time.

That's the real danger. Not what kind of advertisement you prefer.
Many of Google services allow users to take advantage of data collection. For example I once received a notification along the lines of "based on your location and traffic, you should leave at 3pm to catch your 5pm flight". I did nothing, I just received my flight ticket on my Gmail account, Google algorithms did the rest.

This is just one example. I find personalized search and suggestions rather good, and I regularly use location history to remember where I was on a particular date. This is of course a byproduct of data collection for monetization purposes, but I like the fact that you can get something useful out of it.

Also, Google does a rather good job of not leaking your personal data. I am not talking about state actors level threats, but unlike with Facebook, it doesn't have a tendency to show pictures of you getting drunk to your boss.
Okay, I still don't get the purpose of your comment.

Imagine rust is being built and you reply

> Many things are possible in our imagination. I'm grateful in my actual world we have working BCPL.

:^)
>>I have got enough value out of Google search, Gmail and Google docs over the years to make the privacy trade-off worthwhile, personally.

You are assuming that no one else would have provided the same stuff with less intrusion, killing competitors (will come home later to roost) etc.
I've played many of the author's games and consider them to have better stories than most. I’d have to reach for the likes of Planescape or Disco Elysium to find something I’d consider more compelling.

As you imply, there are many games whose brief summary might sound weird, cheesy or cliche but are actually very well crafted story experiences when played. For me, some would be: Life is Strange, Soma, Deus Ex, Human Revolution, Alpha Centauri, Alan Wake, Control, Quantum Break and Detroit Become Human.

Then there are the Soul Reaver games with middling stories but whose written dialogue and delivery easily put them at the level of great literature for me.

Storywise, some of the author's games would not be out of place if ranked highly amongst such a list. It's like Berkson's paradox, his studio has had staying power but you certainly couldn't point to graphics or unique game mechanics as explanations for why.

>This article seems like a self-congratulating piece

I'd go as far as to argue the author undersells his abilities. His RPG world building and stories are a great deal more entertaining if compared to many fantasy books.

> That doesn't mean AAA studios can't make a good game story,

They could but rarely do. Meanwhile, the majority of those few attempts get workshopped to death (it's easy to tell when a game with potential got derailed in this way). The author isn't saying good game stories don't exist, only that they're rare and most often from smaller studios.
Integrate the fact that you pay for transmitted data in the protocol, a company that would setup a cable will passively get money.

This make the internet grid a true free market that anyone can participate in.
I'm glad the lightning bugs haven't disappeared in my area, but I wonder what would wipe them out in a region. I'm leaning towards drought, but insecticides and habitat destruction could play a role as well.

I'm in the Chicago area, and I see them in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin as well. This was a good year for them in my neighborhood.
Had no idea curl could do this. If you need a deeper dive, you can do something similar with headless chrome and the chrome remote dev tools protocol.

There's a good example with puppeteer, here:

https://github.com/addyosmani/puppeteer-webperf#navigation-t...

There are other snippets there that you can turn into text command line tools too.
I would prefer that over what we have today, yes.
I thought the poster was quite clear. If the UC system can't support the top 9% of their high school population in-state, and exacerbate the problem with overadmissions, then it seems clear there is a systemic failure somewhere that someone doesn't want to admit.

I'd say follow the money.
Britain can't decide whether it should send its looted treasures back
Um, aren't they already doing this, or are Zuckerberg, Murdoch and co now not billionaires?

Or are we now getting into the post-misinformation/disinformation war where truth is redefined again for us?

Long shot, but maybe people might start realising that just blinding accepting what powerful groups tell you is disinformation is naive.

Also, "fact-based information" then "progressive causes." Nothing political in there to generate bias, not at all...
> Your main motivation should be fun and enjoyment of making the music.

It's much like brain surgery. People assume you should start out treating people's illnesses and curing them, but the successful brain surgeons know that you should spend your early years just having fun and enjoy playing around inside people's skulls. It's such a rush the first time you probe someone's central gyrus and see their arms twich. Don't waste your time planning for "in network" glory and how to calculate billable hours, just power up that bonesaw and start shredding.
Circa the one minute mark:

> Oh yeah, and I should warn you that all the crazy stuff you're about to see was done completely for educational purposes. I mean if you were to try any of this stuff at home you'd probably die, so yeah, please don't try this at home.

This guy is a extremely casual in his attitude, but he never fails to talk about the danger of the devices he builds or of the relevant components.
To be frank, I really don’t care. The ad-driven business model needs to die.

The ad-driven business model is making our society sick on so many levels. The incentivization it creates is totally toxic. It’s one of the biggest driving forces behind our near total loss of privacy online and offline (the psychological ramifications of which we’ll be unpacking for decades to come - if, of course, we don’t destroy ourselves first in advertising-promoting algorithmically driven social media-induced fits of rage).

There are many other ways to make money online that allow you to make the user and the customer the same person. And if you can’t find a way, maybe your site/service shouldn’t exist in the first place.
He is the person that showed us how rotten the system is. If you want to live your life in ignorance, go ahead. But let us make our own heroes.

Look at the current state of surveillance. It's sickening.