skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a lot harder to pick a good business than you think. Many "micro" sized businesses have significant issues and avoiding them requires you to know all the right questions to ask.

If you are able to make the right pick and the size of the deal is something you're comfortable seeing go to zero, it may be a good learning experience.

However, you'll be learning to acquire and keep a business alive, not start a business through this. Some things may remain the same depending on the stage of the business but if you're looking for experience starting a business, I think starting on and failing will be better training (and free)
There even are YouTube videos from 2016 : https://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kids/man/active.html

At this point, I'm even starting to think that (c) 1995 in the footer is just a joke. Did anyone remember seeing this website in the 90s ?

Anyway, nice website
You’re right! But honestly, Twitter is one of the worst product companies I have ever seen. In the second commenter, I’ve replied with some examples of how they completely fudged it up.

My favorite example is when Twitter said “hey guys, growing users is hard. You know what our North Star from now on is? Monetizable Daily Active Users”

Imagine a social network deciding it’s entire North Star is ad dollars. Pretty damning.
Quarantine the HIV positive, then? Didn't Fauci have some dogs in that fight back when, too?
Arguably in colder climates technology is even more important, due to having to survive in the harsher environment. You need better clothing, better shelter and are more reliant on tools and food preservation techniques.
"Ahead of the <year> elections, the press is lying" is a truthful statement by now. The Russian thing and signing off statements from intelligence agencies was an embarrassing display of professional journalism and an indictment against the state of the whole craft.

Some might say that they do not lie, they just frame and are selectively uncritical. I would argue that there isn't a relevant difference.
He announced his resignation of course via a tweet:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720?s=20
(They considered it! https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/24/disney-bob-iger-on-not-buyin...)
> Currently development of new products is going faster than we can understand the qualities and limitations of those products.

This indicates a very superficial understanding of materials science. No, development of new processes and materials does not go faster than our understanding is progressing, they are progressing in lockstep.

The only thing that occasionally happens is that accelerated aging testing and lightning damage testing does not turn up issues soon enough for them not resulting in visible damage during operations. But aircraft are inspected with great regularity and such defects will almost always be noticed in time. To the best of my knowledge this particular defect has not resulted in any planes crashing.

There were some more substantial issues with early planes using composites but those were to the best of my knowledge resolved, it is of course entirely possible that as these airframes age that new issues will crop up. The main question around these is usually what was the cause, bad maintenance, bad process during application (for instance: a respray by another entity than the manufacturer) or a manufacturing error, and that in turn leads to the question of who will pay for the damage. It isn't rare for there to be additional factors involved, such as issues like these being used to pressure a manufacturer into absorbing costs or waiving cancellation fees on surplus orders.

So before jumping to conclusions about our ability to develop new materials you'd probably have to absorb a lot of information about this particular issue, it is likely a lot more complex than a superficial reading would tell.
Yep.

It's literally nonsense and factually wrong, but gleefully posted here because it agrees with HN's general ideological slant.
> love the product

Seems to me that everything good about the product was present pre-IPO and it has only gotten worse over the years. I still use it but I find the interface/functionality strictly less pleasant with each design change.
> What are your performance requirements?

If the requirements were such that web server performance didn’t matter, I wouldn’t care and wouldn’t be asking about it.

But the problem is that it doesn’t make sense to hide the performance statistics and then debate each user’s performance requirements instead of just letting the performance be a known quantity so we can all decide for ourselves.
> you're going to have to differentiate yourself from the folks who are also putting out winamp-alikes.

No one giving away software has to do anything. Maybe they'd get more donations as OSS or something, but it's no guarantee.
I’m replying to my own comment, because the responses to this all fall along the same line.

I’d argue that YouTube should NOT contain this material. It shouldn’t be outright banned, but there should be sites where you can let your kids watch educational videos and not worry about a beheading autoplaying. YouTube is so popular that I’d argue they fall into that category.

I see the argument (kids should see this! They have to grow up sometime!), and yes - they need to know evil exists in the world and that bad things happen. But allowing it to just pop up on YouTube without any outside context or guidance (e.g. -this is NOT normal, and it should be disturbing) along with processing death should be provided. Otherwise you could seriously screw kids up. So no - I don’t want the Wild West to exist on the entire internet.
Unions Join Biden, EU in Call for Waiver on Vaccine Patents to Tackle Variants
Having just recently watched the OME videos on Immunology, at least they still think this is an unproven hypothesis.

What the consensus seems to be is that autoimmune diseases are a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

Wikipedia claims there is "significant evidence" for the Hygiene hypothesis, but says disagreement still exists, no definitive proof.
Other drugs
Biden's Build Back Better Wants to Save America's Child Care Business
Got me there.

What I secretly wish for is a reliable all-encompassing technical reservoir of information without all the cruft that used to be unavoidable (books, libraries, lending, paper copiers, fees etc.). And a working human language that allows for deterministic logic on top. Yes, it's impossible, but some nights I allow myself to dream Frege's dream [1].

So to be realistic, I don't even need this all-embracing technology to exist. I just want current technology to not prevent me from building my own tiny pocket of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begriffsschrift
I think the point is just that for most applications, the reverse proxy server is not a performance bottleneck, so it doesn't matter for any practical purpose. Caddy could be twice as fast or slow and it would not change the number of servers you need to deploy one way or another. If your reverse proxy is a bottleneck, you'll know and probably have the resources to build something custom instead of using Caddy or whatever.
Well, reading the release notes may answer that question. Some highlights:

- running WACUP on Windows 10 for ARM on a Raspberry Pi 4 is now a known to work configuration

- Changed the shared metadata handling to do a better job in skipping trying to process requests for metadata requests that are always going to fail before triggering relatively time consuming calls

- Changed how the CD playback plug-in initialises itself to minimise the delays on loading that it can cause

- Fixed a crash when retrieving the raw lyrics data from a file's metadata tag on opening the Alt + 3 / View File Info dialog
Can you elaborate more on your experience with MicroAcquire as an acquirer? Is it that you don't see enough deals? Not the right size? Bad companies?

I'm not affiliated with the company. Just stumbled upon it a few weeks ago and was curious about the deals stats (size of companies, stage, etc.).
Cloth masks become saturated and actually emit more and smaller particles.
Good luck converting Monero to fiat.
As someone bullish on crypto, I look forward to cleaning up all the spam/scammers on Twitter. I think legitimate integration into Twitter (i.e tipping, subscriptions, cash app, etc) will be powerful.
Foodbar 2000 FTW. https://www.foobar2000.org/

Tiny, fast, simple, does the job.

There's an Android version too, which is my go-to audio player, because of its simplicity.

Both FOSS.
Just use the proper variant: podman
That site serves up a strange experience. What age-group children were they targeting, 8-12 or 48-62 year-olds? The designed and graphics says pre-teens, the copy suggested pre-retirement. My guess is that the site is localized and something got lost in translation.
> It is unclear whether the ubiquitous sign actually contributes to drivers honking their horns more, though the government of Maharashtra certainly seems to think there is a connection.

Whether the signs do or don’t contribute is irrelevant. They are ubiquitous and banning them causes discussion which calls attention to the city’s attempt to reduce the racket.

And I am annoyed that, despite the title, the article does not explain the origin.
Casper Sleep Inc. To Be Acquired by Durational Capital Management
Sending SMS Messages from My Computer with XMPP Through JMP
Please keep the hyperbole to a minimum, without technical argument it just encourages flamewars.
The Infinite Loop of Lost Potential
New York is holding all the regret in that case. They could have bailed early on but really thought they had it.

It was too late when they offered the permit to the defendant.

Now it goes to SCOTUS and while I wouldn’t make bets, it sure does seem like HI, CT, MA, CA are going to lose may-issue and will have to issue permits to legally able people according to thing about “bearing” those arms.
> Also, Mickey Mouse can be held in copyright for perpetuity, but Disney has to pay a lot for this right and continually increase the valuation/tax if someone wants to buy it from them.

A quick reminder that the copyright in Mickey Mouse isn't worth much, even to Disney. Steamboat Willy MM looks nothing like his modern incarnation. And Disney would still have the registered trademark to Mickey Mouse, renewable at minimal cost in perpetuity.
Most of them don’t speak English either — this is merely something that has to go on your lorry.
Ok, but then what do you do on weekends?

Like you still need people, who have the skills to do the oncall work, to man the pager during off-work hours.

Hiring a weekend person doesn't work (they don't have the skills since they're not really part of the team, + bus factor). Forcing people to work weekends doesn't work. Some sort of rotation seems the least worst option.
Solana Program Dev Tools – Alon IDE and Solang Compiler
1. Alon, a Remix-like IDE for Solana using C/C++ code.

Links:
- Tool [https://lithdew.github.io/alon/]
- Announcement post [https://devpost.com/software/alon]

2. Solang Compiler, allows for "Write in Solidity and compile for Solana, eWASM and Parity Substrate".

Links:
- Solang Compiler [https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html]
- Solang targets [https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/targets.html#solana]
Looking at the site in the Wayback machine, it was flash in 2008. I would love to see what they were doing in 1995.
Hi, thanks for your feedback, do you have suggestions on how to improve the sign up process? and for now the PWA is the faster/simpler/cost effective way to have this kind of platform up and running, and it's literally 2 taps on every phone to install it, so it's not that difficult, my 2 cents
Let's go back to your original point: That the PinePhone and Librem 5 are mentioned too often, and that (sorry if I get this slightly wrong) people should pay more attention to the Planet Computer Products, and devices supported by the UBports and postmarketOS projects.

Why are PP and L5 mentioned so often? They are available as new devices and that apparently has some value of its own in our society. They also have "unique" hardware features of arguably questionable usability (hardware kill switches), and are being used by many mobile Linux developers. That's why they are popular. It's not a conspiracy.

Regarding the Gemini and the Cosmo: While nice products in principle, they by design only attract a niche of users that want this form factor. While they in theory have Linux ports, these (except for the Sailfish X port for the Gemini) are unmaintained. Debian 9 "Stretch" is just not enough these days. Therefore and because the main Android OS also feels rather abandoned, there's not much interest in these devices. I would love to use them more, but there's just no interesting software and I don't have the time and resources currently to get that Debian port back to an acceptable state.

With regards to postmarketOS or Ubuntu Touch devices, especially those that also run postmarketOS stable (Community devices) I wholeheartedly agree. They do deserve more attention. These are really nice devices that are well supported and cheaply available.

But, sadly, having been a content creator in that field for a while I can tell you: Videos about these devices get way less clicks. This might be the self-amplifying effect that leads to less interest into these devices. It's sad, and if I ever make another video, I'll make it about a non-PINE, non-Librem phone only to then be asked in the comments why I don't share an update on the PinePhone or Librem 5 instead.
That reminds me of this classic JWZ : https://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html

(Note: you want to copypaste that link, not click it)
Yeah, he's pretty unstoppable lately but there have been a couple new players starting to improve a lot too.

I'll happily share his secret. He recognized that it's not about any single metric, it's all about optimizing for the trophies https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse/tree/master/trophies
The really scary thing is that this could be used as an excuse to hide production ML models and even the tech used to generate them. Sounds like we can expect the state-of-the-art AI techniques to be jealously guarded eventually. I guess optimism on the ground is enough to have prevented that so far, but once the scales tip away from sharing and towards exploitation.. well, we know it's largely a one-way process on the 1 decade time scale. Is this the chilling effect that will bring us into the next AI winter?
You’re exactly on the money. Anecdotally and even talking to ex-Twitter folks, for some reason they entered a glacial period where there really wasn’t any backbone or product authority to ship or improve. I’ll give them credit that in the last 1.5 years they’re getting better, but below average is not good enough. I think Twitter can do more. I’m just not sure there’s a product leader outside of Facebook or Google who can handle that mandate
It's funny how the same people who are very pro-privacy will crap on Twitter for not taking the same aggressive anti-privacy stance as FB.
Mozilla have been losing market share when the barrier to entry is "install this free alternative to your existing browser" the chance that they could succeed with "buy this paid alternative to your existing browser" is approaching zero.

Opera was paid at one point, they lost the competition with free alternatives.

Paid browsers are a concept that has been and gone, and if Mozilla attempted to bring the idea back, it would probably be the stupidest decision Mozilla had ever made. They have made plenty of stupid decisions, but nothing so far has utterly destroyed their market share instantly, this would.

In the end, the funding model alone doesn't define how a company acts. It matters, and is certainly a threat to Mozilla's neutrality, but Mozilla tends to hire developers who care about thier mission, they tend towards openness in their processes. Both these things protect Mozilla from becoming a Google shill despite their funding process.

If Mozilla ever backed Google on the wrong decision, I trust that many Mozilla devs would push back - either internally or by going to the press, even if it cost their jobs. Being a particularly successful open source project tends to select for a certain kind of employee.

Apple devs don't have this advantage - Apple has a culture of secrecy (for prefectly understandable buisness reasons, they don't like leaks), this means Apple's decisions are much harder to monitor, and Apple devs are much less likely to fight internal decisions that hurt the web as a whole.

That said, Apple does have its own incentives to fight Google which are also legitimate - a more independent funding model, and an intense dislike within their internal culture of relying on external vendors for their software and apis. There's a reason Apple develop their own browser, their own compiler, their own dev environment, their own everything. There's a history to that, Apple have been bitten by externally controlled systems, so they are very unlikely to jump to Chrome, probably even moreso than Mozilla.

The point is, both Mozilla and Apple have good and bad elements to their continued position providing alternative browser engines, both are strong in their own ways, and we're vastly better off with the benefits of both than with just 1 of them, either would be a major loss.
I'm an avid user of Caddy but I think the more time it passes and the more opinionated it gets, the worse it becomes overall. I don't object to highly opinionated takes but when your biggest selling point is how neat the configuration is to write it becomes more of a pain when it just isn't anymore.

Two examples from my experience upgrading from Caddy 1 to Caddy 2:

Ex.1: Caddy 1 by default bound to an arbitrary port and served via HTTP, they now default to HTTPS, which doesn't work for me since I use traefik in front of it. Bypassing this means adding a ugly ":80" in front of every single vhost I have (which is 20+), before it was just about adding "ssl" if I wanted HTTPS.

Ex.2: The reverse proxy is now transparent by default, in Caddy 1 it wasn't and you just added a "transparent" flag if you wanted it, but now you can't opt out of it and you have to manually specify every header in the config.

I don't think my use-case is that unusual (file server behind edge router) and yet I feel like I have to work against Caddy every so many steps of the way, at one point I will have to ask myself how much more work would it take to just go back to nginx instead.
Sounds good, but I'd move for the total removal and banning of all JS and other scripting.

Otherwise, what's the point?
Dadb: Connect directly to an Android device without an adb binary or ADB server
Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite from the ground up, built around the new skinning engine and the "Wasabi" scripting language. But as you say, it wasn't very performant, and it was also super buggy.

I believe there was some drama which resulted in the lead dev for 3 getting fired, and then the skinning engine (which was the most popular part of 3) was grafted onto the 2.x base for version "5".
I've maintained a QEMU fork with pinning support, and even coauthored a research paper on the Linux pinning performance topic, and the results have been... underwhelming; "sadly" the Linux kernel does a pretty good job at scheduling :)

I advise pinning users to carefully measure the supposed performance improvement, as there is a tangible risk of spending time on imaginary gains.
News say the current CTO is going to replace him. We'll see how it turns out. Very surprising to me that are going with someone with zero relevant experience. If I were a Twitter share holder I would sell all my stocks today.
You can bet that they did test for those conditions. The question is what combination of elements here is causing the problem, which is likely not an easy to answer question. Paint is complex, especially airplane paint.
Side question: One thing they highlight is that this supports live collaboration, including simultaneously working on the same files. Can anyone describe a productive way of working where that's helpful and not confusing? When would you choose to work that way rather than e.g. pair programming with a single IDE or splitting up work in different branches?

Shared editing of a document seems mostly fine but occasionally confusing, but code has to be internally consistent, and it seems like two parties trying jointly complete a feature on the same copy of a repo might be slower than sequencing if A's intermediate changes can prevent B from building/testing what they just wrote, etc.
Very happy

* I can do whatever and everything I want without the fans kicking on

* Snappy start up

* Great screen

* Solid keyboard with the actual function keys

* I’ve only run into 2 software issues—Dropbox and SciPy and the latter is apparently fixable I just haven’t done it yet

* Speakers sound awesome

* I’ve never noticed the notch and I never got used to the iPhone notch

* I really like the squared off design

Complaints:

* I wish I could control the backlighting of the keyboard beyond it being “on” or “off”

* They should have included a USB A port and put in an ethernet port somewhere

* I feel like the mag safe cable isn’t as safe as my mid-2012 mbp but haven’t tried to knock it off a table

* I can’t see the camera in the notch under normal light so covering that up isn’t easy
There are some fantastic fringe right-wing communities I’m going to miss tremendously after the new CEO inevitably starts purging the ”unconventional” content
The immediate interpretation I have from the placement of the words is:

- Directly behind me? OK, that's fine.

- Passing on the left or right? Horn, please.
Seems like an organizational failure, as they got conned by their 3PAO into believing that DNSSEC was a requirement for FedRAMP moderate when it's not. The disproof of this belief is that Google has FedRAMP High (for Google Cloud and Workspace) but does not use DNSSEC for google.com.
Depending on the server or mainframe hardware it was being run on, databases, network connectivity, interactions with financial institutions, and potential physical activities (printing checks and such), 9 hours may not have been unreasonable in the 1990s.

Digging around on C2:

ChryslerPayroll (Essentially a batch app)
db size: 2.5 - 4 GB
server: Sun Enterprise 2000 4GB RAM
interactive users: 5

So not exactly a beast by modern standards.
> A reminder that pretty much no lorry driver in india knows English.

It would be rare to find a lorry driver who can converse in English but most of them would know the words "Horn, OK, Please". Thye aren't obscure words and phone/smartphone is widespread in India with mostly latin script interface. So, while I agree that it has become kind of a protocol/decoration, drivers while knowing the meaning, wouldn't care much about it given that it doesn't hurt to write that and can potentially help.

> Of course you expect every passerby to steal your car and you act accordingly.

That would be an exaggeration. There hasn't been any vehicle theft in my wider social circle ever. I read news about capture vehice thieves and I wouldn't be careless about the vehicle but I wouldn't expect everyone around me as potential thief. May be things are different in TN.
Try moving to VSCode on Windows, see if you can re-create your workflow there using plugins.

Then, if you are successful, port your workflow to VSCode running in Linux.
Also security, but different: Apple want sight of all of the native code that's running in your app, because their ABI is also a privilege boundary. JIT that's not controlled by them could be used to call symbols that your app is not supposed to call.