skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I am a person who knows some physics but not a lot).

If any of this stuff turned out to be true, what would the lab experiments and positive outcomes look like?

I'm accustomed to particle accelerators and all sorts of other physical experiments, but I really struggle to relate these sorts of theories to anything that could be done in the lab, and if the theories were predictive, what sort of applied science could be done? No wide-eyed "we could make space elevators and travel FTL", just realistic extrapolation.
Looking at their MRR growth, it seems that they had ~$5K MRR in Spring of 2020, at the time they joined TinySeed.
So perhaps a more technically accurate post would be: "How we bootstrapped to $60K ARR, then took a small investment and grew the company to $1MM ARR" ?

When, in the lifecycle of the company, can you sell a small stake of it and still call it bootstrapped? Basecamp sold a bit of equity in 2006 to Bezos[1], and is still considered the epitome of the bootstrapped company.

Additionally, if one has a couple hundred K after working at MANGA or wherever, or has wealthy parents/friends and uses that money to build their own start-up, is that still bootstrapping?

To me, their journey is much closer to bootstrapping, and is quite an impressive achievement. Congrats, guys!

[1]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-baseca...
A smaller but still important metric....the possibility of turning it permanently blue? (one can hope)
> I have an old Soviet invasion map

Can you please post this? That sounds so interesting.
Haven’t seen a more relevant username to a comment on HN
In my small project ([1], Rust + GTK3) I pass the program state wrapped in Rc<RefCell> to my update functions (closures-as-event-handlers) and so far it's been OK (after all they're executed sequentially from the main thread only). One just needs to remember not to hold the borrow when displaying a message box (as in GTK it enters a new message loop recursively).

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/vidoxide
And varelse, the one who I was responding to, is also using it right now. There are around 145k current users of the system. Which is certainly not enough to keep it afloat if it fails to grow in customer base, but it is a real thing being used by real people.
I agree 1-2% might be misleading, but Dr. John Regehr puts overflow checking overhead at 5%. [1]

I'll take 5% or even 10% for correctness because, again, fast and wrong is very bad.

[1]: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154
The should be a scale of 1 to 10 for how obscure a HN post title is (probably automatically computed by some deep NN).

This one would likely take the cake, especially if you consider that actually reading the article itself does not help very much.
It could mean so many things tbh. It's true though, it's a very odd way to phrase it. It certainly doesn't feel like a typical CISO exit, but idk.
I agree about the game theory/race to the bottom as an incentive. I think there are more great reasons compounding these decisions that others point out too.

Large corporations love to hold cities and states hostage and make them bid against each other. AMZN is a great example with their campus 2 bidding war. I am glad NY had the cajones to stand up to them.

Most cities and states even have dedicated EcoDevo staff to actively seek out these companies.

Cities and states compete to give the largest tax benefits, usually something like you don't have to pay ___ taxes for __ years (like 10, worth tens of millions). Plus they'll spend on infrastructure and give preferential zoning, city regs, etc.

Sure having more jobs probably creates more incoming/housing taxes for the city.

But states like Texas win this race to the bottom (TSLA and Musk personally) and in my opinion the costs of these corporate incentives (imho handouts) are just passed along to citizens in the cost of less societal services and needs, less school funding, less everything. Just a funnel up.
Right - Indiana splits up subjects across universities so they can focus money. It is by design that Purdue is the engineering school and Indiana is the liberal arts school.

IU is a great liberal arts school - but doesn't compete in engineering by design.
sounds like you're living in a bubble. people in NYC are out and about socializing. not living like a hermit. there's like 50 dance events every weekend.
Sure, just like lacto-fermenting foods to preserve them. However stored water could always be boiled? I have always thought it was funny that the most obvious "health benefit" of tea-drinking was boiling water to prepare it (yes, I realize not all teas are brewed so hot, and there are plenty of interesting compounds in there, but still...)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amazon-behind-another-ohio...

I doubt socks are tasty, but please let us know.
They aren’t developers. They are a small group of QA who are making outrageous demands. For example, striking indefinitely due to a few people not getting their temporary contract renewed. Granted, they moved across the country for the contract which sucks. But hey, maybe don’t be QA in a predatory gaming industry. You could make more money and probably be more respected by management working anywhere else.
New Albany is a suburb of the capital of the third most active manufacturing state in the US. Intel is courting the federal government for direct semiconductor industry support that goes beyond tax breaks on semiconductor fabrication equipment.

> Edit: On second thought, Arizona doesn't have port access either so I guess it's not really a significant consideration.

From a pure logistics perspective, I'd say that Arizona beats Ohio. BNSF connects Arizona with both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. (Not to mention Lake Michigan.) It's impossible to drive Route 66 from California to Texas without rolling alongside extensive trains hauling cargo through the desert.

For me, the trains are one of the most scenic aspects of that drive.

LAX is the eighth-busiest air cargo terminal in the world, and it has plenty of cargo flights to Asia where computer devices are often assembled. PHX is also one of the busiest cargo airports in the United States, albeit much less so than LAX or CVG.

Fabs have massive physical plant inputs (eg. lithography machines), substantial commoditized manufacturing inputs (eg. boules/wafers, freshwater, industrial gas), and core outputs with small size and high value (ie. chips). The former two can be pipelined without knowing the exact product-by-product breakdown of customer demand, and the latter cannot.

Infrastructure and labor concerns might also tip the scales one way or another. Water supply, wastewater management, energy cost, grid resiliency, labor supply, access to institutions for professional training, and other considerations can differ wildly between the two regions.
You're not allowed to get a gas stove in California any more.

Good thing we never have electric supply issues.
> COVID is in effect a bad flu...

No, it’s not. It is literally a different disease and the impact is well outsized relative to the flu.

> "5 million deaths" 5 million deaths FROM covid or WITH COVID?
> Hint: You don't know because we don't know... those numbers are mixed, conflated and confused.

This “but numbers are inflated” stuff is FUD. There is zero evidence that the real impact of COVID is lower than the reported numbers. (If you have any, please do share.) Excess deaths indicate that the official COVID death tallies are actually significant undercounting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8

It’s utterly crazy that people can legitimately hold the view that COVID is no worse than the flu in the face of mass cremations happening in India or refrigerator trucks filled with corpses outside New York hospitals. This doesn’t happen in a typical flu season.

> That's why kids who are statistically more likely to die tripping on a sidewalk

This seems like an easy claim for you to provide a citation for. Where is it?

I’m totally on board with the fact that the risk to children of COVID is very low. But I’m relatively certain that sidewalks being more deadly is bullshit.

> fear, misinformation, lies and the Holy Religion of The Vaccine.

This coming from someone spreading misinformation. Why do you expect people to engage in real discussion with you when you’re spreading misinformation? Your righteous outrage is unjustified when you’re as guilty of lying to yourself as those you’re arguing with.
When I moved to Australia I needed to get some documents (uni degree, work experience etc) verified by the Australian Computer Society. They required me to get a notarized copy of the original and SCAN the notarized copy, to be uploaded electronically. To this date I've yet to come across anything more stupid than this....
> Then there is federation, I guess that is what you mean by decentralized.

I can't speak for GP's use of scare quotes around "decentralized", but it's worth noting in this case that Briar is fully decentralized, not federated. It is peer-to-peer messaging.
> extremely low cost of living and a city/region that has more good restaurants and activities than might be expected

That's what people said about Salt Lake City and Boise... until about 5 years ago. Cost of living has skyrocketed since 2017, housing alone has doubled in price. It doesn't take long for a low cost of living region to become high cost of living.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master and Political Reformer, Dies at 95
With a P4 it’d have been a sauna instead.

In reality you’d need pretty low heating needs for that to work, the bigger rigs would have a hard time reaching 1kW, which is not even a portable heater.
Behold, the field guide to the American Sandwich:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-...

If there's one food America knows how to do in many variations, all delicious to varying degrees, it's the sandwich.
> Well, everytime you divide by zero, a puppy dies.

Welp, I was a pretty heartless bastard back in the days of getting my first scientific calculator.
In theory you can just buy the keyboard and swap in when/if it becomes available https://frame.work/marketplace/keyboards
> black holes (commonly? -- I never looked into prevalence of this) have "jets" that push material away, often at high speed.

This is quite common. The jets are present in most black holes that are rotating with significant angular momentum compared to their mass, which is, AFAIK, a substantial majority of all black holes that have been observed.
I use Automattic's Simplenote. I pin the web app in a Firefox tab, avoiding the Electron app. The Android and iOS apps are both great tho. Live sync is perfect, you can publish read-only links to notes (like pastebin), and it has basic Markdown support but basically no other frills.
You can't live in a Blockchain. You can't collect rent on a Blockchain.
Yeah, like every start-up clearly did before them (example: Uber). /s
Like witnessing a birth in a morgue: Volunteers working to save the Joshua trees
Field Guide to the American Sandwich
I haven’t used the SO recruiting tool. But I’d imagine it would let me skim the questions a candidate have been asking / answering. So I get a sense of their technical / communication skill, and passion about their domain.
Sorry for changing the topic but does anybody know the reason Intel has removed the seep states?

It drives me absolutely nuts when I open my bag and feel the heat coming out of it, and my laptop is left with 20% charge.
It is a part of the reason why all the big government contractors are spread out all over the place. Even around a single metro area they'll have different offices in different congressional districts.
No (even though I agree with the sentiment).
Yes, the LinkedIn recruiter account.
Works flawlessly for me.

> any good alternatives more privacy friendly than Chrome?

Chromium, as far as I know. People love Vivaldi around here but I have no idea what their privacy story is like.
Me too, but I'm reasonably sure this is information I will never use.
I think the coming years will see a push to move away from Google and these megacorps in general.

It will start with the nerds like us as always, starting to use alternative products and recommending them to the mainstream people who just use what they are told.
More like a String Idea.
invest in the company financially
I'm making Windows/.Net based app for managing queues - QueueExplorer.
Started with MSMQ support back in 2005, now it supports Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ. It's old fashioned perpetual licensing, so revenue is a rollercoaster. Because of that, it's emotional rollercoaster as well. Good thing is you get paid for full license at the time of purchase instead of collecting it in 10-20 months. Bad thing is every month starts at zero.

Although .Net went multiplatform years ago, my app relies on WinForms a lot so it's Win only, except through Wine. I would love to support Mac as well but the only realistic option looks to be Electron based, and it would be a significant step back for my Windows users. Maintaining two different GUIs looks like a problem for micro company.

The best thing about desktop software is it can't break for all the users at once like server-based app can. That gives some piece of mind when you're micropreneur. Sure, there are bugs, but they affect only users who downloaded buggy version. You can't crash all installed instances just like that.

The worst thing is, it's hard to ask for a subscription. Yes, I hate it as a user, but would love it as a business owner :)

https://www.cogin.com
> I thought a pretty big defining factor of black holes was that nothing (not even light!) ever escaped it?

Nothing ever escapes from inside the hole's horizon. But there can still be a lot of interesting things happening outside the hole's horizon as matter either falls in, or orbits the hole, or some combination of the two; and we can certainly observe things happening outside the hole. That has been known for decades.
Unsure where to ask. Worried about high costs. Suggestions welcome :)
Are you talking about personal testimonials, or published data?

If it's published data, mind sharing a link?
Cost of living in Columbus is low if you are looking at it with Coastal city eyes. That being said, its still the most expensive city in Ohio. Houses in the hot neighborhoods people write articles about were hitting 700k 6 years ago. Rents in new apartments are like $1300 for a 1 bedroom.
It doesn't matter if it's rust or not. You can still modify read only data and still redirect indirect calls. You can still modify the stack and the heap. Rust changes nothing.

Also, not sure where the comparison to a hypervisor is coming into play. As @kllrnohj mentioned hypervisors are relying on actual hardware.
I was surprised to learn Minnesota has a fab that's critical to the US govt! They are one of the only secure trusted chip makers.

Growing up there I had no idea. My dad loved to talk up MMM, Honeywell, Monsanto and a bunch of other legacy companies in MN that still play huge roles that I have overlooked.

Just one article at top of search I found even talks about the public-private partnerships (tax & other incentives)

https://www.aroundosceola.com/news/skywater-seeks-dod-approv...
> the star itself or its remains will still likely end up inside the black hole

Not necessarily. Black holes don't have any more tendency to "suck things in" from a distance than any other object with the same mass.
I think those are one and the same; I was just more polite about it, I guess. I think yours is closer to the truth than mine.
I'm not denying any of that, and said something similar in another comment. But Minecraft, Escape from Tarkov came into existence without dependence on a store or a platform. Same for Runescape, albeit in a different time. WASM+WebGPU will make an appearance of such things more possible in 2022+. It's just a technical capability. A web implementation (of an online game) could come in addition to the ones available on Steam and Android/Apple, etc.
Lyn Alden has a lot of great content, start here: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoins-network-effect/
It seems to me that a big part of the problem is a lopsided development of the internet and of computer tech.

Specifically:

The focus on clicks as a proxy for value. And the lack of a native system for payment.

1) Focus on clicks and attention

The internet pioneers of the 1960s had the vision that a computer would learn facts. The idea would be that a future internet would be immune to false ideas. Computers would be able to merge the world‘s fractured knowledge.

People would instantly know the best answers to any question they would come across, and not waste their time anymore with blind alleys, or with ideas that someone else, anywhere on Earth and at any time in history, had already falsified. Humanity would be free to work at the cutting edge, pursuing only those questions which truly haven‘t been answered yet.

Now, this is not what we got. At all.

What we got instead is clickbaity articles and FUD.

Not what is true propagates on the internet. But what gets clicked.

Why is it that way? Because we never cracked the nut of a computer bringing together facts from the real world.

The best „AI“ we got is stuff like GPT-3... which is essentially a parrot that has learned a bunch of song lyrics well enough to fool you into thinking that it can speak.

Our computers just cannot tell facts from fiction. Worse yet, our best language models actually create more fiction, fiction that is harder and harder to distinguish from facts. It‘s precisely because we haven‘t solved this technical problem that we are resorting to human clicks as the currency of the internet. Which is, of course, a terrible proxy for truth and value.

2) Lack of a payment system

And the second big factor, I believe, is payment:

Payment was supposed to be an integral part of the internet. There‘s even a status code in the HTTP protocol to this day that means „Payment required“.

But payments never got implemented as a feature of the internet itself. Instead, you needed a merchant account to receive payments. Which lead to a system where a few large companies get to collect real money. And everyone else needs to find some other way of monetizing their service. Which, for many, became: Running ads.

Since then, we got a few improvements. PayPal tried to fill the hole. But they got acquired by eBay, and eBay never bothered to make PayPal into the central money system of the internet. Now the contenders in this space are Stripe and cryptocurrencies.

But none of them have, so far, remedied the central flaw of the internet, which is that getting paid for your services is still a hassle.

Frictionless payment only works in walled gardens like Apple‘s App Store, or on Amazon. But if you publish a blog post, and you‘d like to charge like $0.50 for your article, you‘re out of luck. It‘s not that nobody would pay you. It‘s that the act of paying would be such a hassle - requiring registration, email confirmation, payment data, etc. - that consumers just give up. Hence the only way for smaller providers to monetize their content is to a) join a walled garden and become a modern day serf, or b) run ads (or sell user data for the purpose of running ads).
Ironically, it's because the code they generate is too slow.
Not parent, but if I could alter my state to be like-high without smoking weed, via sheer mental willpower or focus, I'd have probably started a cult by now.

If it was a teachable practice, I'm sure I'd have plenty of followers to boot.
How the U.S. Messed Up Its New 5G Rollout: 'It Wasn’t Our Finest Hour’
CoinDesk: Conflicts of interest make journalists more independent, apparently
I suggest to add an HTML preview page in the API playground page. It would be easier to see what the scraper see on the webpage.
The CSO role has basically nothing to do with the stuff that made Zatko famous; it's mostly boring organizational management stuff, with a sprinkling of being real good in meetings. It's not surprising to me that a new CEO who had just shaken up the whole engineering team would also clear the decks on security as well. For instance: this kind of thing happens when a company decides it wants security more closely integrated with engineering --- or the opposite.

I have no insight into what's happening at Twitter but if you made me bet, I'd bet against there being any interesting drama here.
I would say in certain - often southern R states - this is done on purpose to make it harder to vote.
If we expected Starlink internet to censor any negative opinions of Elon Musk or Tesla, there might be similar calls to stop it.
Many nations have an official religion, often enshrined in their constitutions or even their names; for example, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and several others are officially defined by adherence to Islam. Many of these nations have terrible human rights records with respect to women, gays, and members of other religions. Many make the practice of other religions illegal. Yet only Israel,the world's only Jewish state, is singled out for boycotts and called an "apartheid state" by academics. Why? That is what is so clearly anti-Semitic about these boycotts.
The Effect (strategy and architecture part 3)
No, they're definitely features. The removal of null pointer checks in gcc is enabled by -fdelete-null-pointer-checks and is often enabled by default.
CRT monitors and TVs were the same: the advertised size was the size of the picture tube, not of the visible area.
Yup, I guess we can still do it today, for ourselves and for our kids, with the right tools. I'm thinking maybe it is not a huge amount of effort to build your own hardware back in the day because so may people did that. At least they had kits too back in the day.
I've never understood this. There doesn't seem to be a natural synergy between delivering mail and storing money. Is it just because post offices are everywhere? Why not make court houses banks? At least they would have security. Or town halls?

It just feels kinda random.
When you cancel, the fallback license is for the version that was latest 12 months ago.
Yeah, that's what I meant - there's a beta out (i.e. a development tool), not a self-sustaining product. The scale is still too small; for this to be economically viable they need to show they can scale much larger and at competitive prices. I'm not saying that won't happen; but let's not go counting chickens before they hatch either.
Naively, it sounds like the same problem — you’d want some kind of sheaf on your data to evaluate rules.

Detecting routes sounds like a persistent homology problem — and then you’re detecting flow across that inferred structure.

I think Michael Robinson has work in that area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wu8kTngoE
I don't understand the need for this.

Everyone reading this code will have to spend 5 times as much time understanding it compared to vanilla exception handling version.

Why can't developers just stop complicating things?
Supply chain attack used legitimate WordPress add-ons to backdoor sites
For pure visual observation you might be right, but any sort of amateur astrophotography is already significantly affected and is only going to get worse because 1) it's usually more wide-field than in professional observatories, which significantly increases the chance of Starlink streaks and 2) the ~6.5 magnitude is still a lot brighter than all the interesting deep-sky objects and is only dimmer than stars visible to the human eye.
https://archive.is/zuJHP
And some of the stars close to the Milky Way’s have completed entire orbits on camera: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/