skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I/my company have active Windows desktop application as a product with about 50,000 clients. Not making me rich but in combination with the products I develop for clients I am doing ok.
You can also rent mailboxes, or use a friends. Neither of those are crimes.
Am I the only one getting tired of all these crypto scam calling posts appearing on the front page?
If you feel overwhelmed, ask to run through the code together.
Corrected, thanks, I'm an idiot. And I've actually been there.
Good news for learning as well. I had never seen an open source EC firmware before, and I'm curious about what's inside that.
So much energy being wasted in this thread...

That's already how it works.

The PMIC can be configured once, and it retains its configuration across reboots until OS reconfigures it.
I had to do an "inspection" when I moved to AZ and first registered my car. I dreaded what they might find since it was kind of a heap of junk. The inspection consisted of making sure the VIN matched up on the various locations on the car.
This model is supposed to replace the existing macro model cmoonly used in Denmark - ADAM (Annual Danish Aggregate Model)[1] which has been continuously developed and refined since 1970. You can find the yearly updates back to 1999 here.

[1] https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/nyheder-analyser-publ/Publik...
[2] https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/ADAM/Modellen-ADAM/Download
Then you can say "ScrapingBee is closer to a bootstrapped company".

That doesn't mean it actually is one though.

And actually muddying what terms mean is the unhelpful part.
Certainly it must be a lot easier to bootstrap a company if you sell equity to investors to enable working on it full time, but are you still really bootstrapping your app at that point? Even if you only sell as little equity as you need to to pay the bills until the app is able to pay for itself?
I’d be concerned about the ethics they apply to health products given the changes that have happened over the years with search, email, and android.
> not that expensive to send up thousands of satellites

It's relatively inexpensive for SpaceX to do it, but their external prices are still quite high, even if cheaper than the competition.
Both your arguments share one feature: rapid iterations. It's much easier to iterate over various cancer factors/treatments/conditions when the duration of a single mouse experiment is in the range of maybe 6 months. But when you want a mouse to live for 10 years your iterations take 10 years. And you cannot do the research anymore with PhD students or postdocs because they aren't with you for long enough. A problem that actually arises right now in organoid research as human organs, for some reason, need in the order of 9 months to fully develop. And 9 months plus learning, experimental planning, analysis and thesis writing gets you uncomfortable close to the 3-4 years a PhD typically takes (or at least doesn't allow much back and forth iterating).
Netflix and Microsoft show video gaming has become too big to ignore
And Dropbox was just a ftp, and the iPhone was just a lame mp3 player. And e-commerce just a fad, etc.

We're blinded by what was, and wrongfully infer what will be.

Also, we mix in our biases, Douglas Adams said it best:

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Thanks, I was genuinely asking and I see I misunderstood what you were saying. I hadn't realized that looking for Martian life was scientifically taboo, though I vaguely recall seeing something about funding sources being skittish about it at some point (maybe that's tantamount to the same thing).

At any rate, I agree this shouldn't be closed to inquiry, though I imagine there's close competition for which experiments and observations to run on Mars. If that's true, does that amount to a taboo or does it just indicate that other lines of investigation have a higher expected utility? Or perhaps you are just saying that at this point, you feel there is enough evidence to warrant a more full-bodied investigation?

Again, genuinely interested.
> What language is over a thousand years old and still recognizably the same language?

Latin.
They're referring to the CIA assisted fascist coup where the Chicago Boys "ran" the economy afterward using it as a place to experiment with their ideology.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
Because Mars isn't carpeted with life. It is generally thought that if life does indeed exist on Mars, it's likely to be at the poles, in the ice, and/or under the surface where most of the water is.

Life on Earth, on the other hand, carpets the Earth and is almost impossible to completely kill. For example, most space probes are sterilized for forward planetary protection, but they can't be completely sterilized, so they're instead sterilized to different standards. Here's the standard under COSPAR for Mars,

> then the entire landed system shall be sterilized to the following levels: a surface biological burden level of 30 spores (see 5.3.2.4) and a total (surface, mated, and encapsulated) bioburden level of 1.5x10^-4 spores (see 5.3.2.4).

5.3.2.4 states,

> 5.3.2.4 The 30 spore figure takes into account the occurrence of hardy organisms with respect to the sterilization modality. This specification assumes attainment of PP Category IVa surface cleanliness, followed by at least a four order-of-magnitude reduction in viable organisms. Verification of bioburden level is based on presterilization bioburden assessment and knowledge of reduction factor for the sterilization modality.

Life on Earth has survived, amongst other things,

- On the outside of spacecraft, for several years.
- Beyond the photosphere in places like geothermal vents or the movile cave, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave
- Hyperacidic and hypersaline lakes
- In volcanoes
- Anoxic lakes

Given that there are - almost certainly - more varieties of life in more niches on Earth, and that these species often co-exist with humans. If any large-scale settlement of Mars occur, then human by-products like sewage, and other by-products produced through agriculture, are likely to cause sub-surface contamination. All it takes is one place for the microbe laden water to seep through into the subsurface water of Mars, and we may end up killing off life on Mars.

More specifically, the worry isn't that they interact with each other, but that our life will out compete the martians for the same resources.

Backwards contamination is less of a concern, at least right now, as we may not be that biocompatible and it is extremely unlikely that the Martians will have the right proteins etc to get past our cell membranes and make us sick. The most plausible disease scenario is the one discussed in the Expanse, where an alien organism finds its way into the vitreous humor of the eyes and starts growing there, causing blindness.
I think the vulgarity is very much in line with the subject matter.
Columbus did seem nicer when I visited. But is it really "not down and out"?
There is also https://Berty.tech
This looks really cool, and I'm particularly impressed that it's a one-time purchase for lifetime access and you're still able to make this much off of it (and at a very reasonable price point). Congrats all around.
>they can simply mail you a unique qr code which you could then scan and complete the process entirely online. Or at a minimum bring physically to an office.

How is that any different than bringing any other piece of official mail that you receive at your home address?
Bukowski dead drunk on French TV in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99h2r8txh4

At the time there were only 3 channels, and that show was very popular, so it's a famous moment. What I find surprising is how elegant he is, even in that situation.
What a bunch of words.

Saying they're a Ponzi Scheme over and over again doesn't make them one. Blaming the group for the individual is certainly in the zeitgeist, but it's still BS. There's so many ways it's not a Ponzi Scheme. Maybe Tether is? But Tether isn't all cryptocurrencies.

"... making unmediated online transactions securely in a trustless environment in this way is not without costs."

Yea, sure, but it doesn't support the thesis.

"Given that cryptocurrencies don’t produce anything of material value..."

How is that a given? What defines material value? Is the author a Gold cheerleader? Do they expect us to eat dollar bills?

"The 2008 financial crisis made clear why the financial sector must be brought under public control."

What does public control mean? They are, that's what the SEC is.
Failing to recognize it as such is not a hugely different kind of failure. Symlink attacks have been known about for a long time. I'm not castigating the devs/teams here (I don't even think the underlying security risk is that high) but any credit for speedy response should carry caaqil's significant caveat.
Did the people dumping ice on their heads contribute in any material way?
"Is a Tesla Powerwall 2 Worth it? (1 year review)"

https://youtu.be/IGhdQWyM6B4

Conclusion is: For most persons wont make sense from an economic point of view, if you want a backup against blackouts then its worth it.
I wouldn't even compare the metaverse to music and art.

Anyway some =/= all. Something can be both pointless and entertaining. I'd consider some examples of music and art that are both.
There is the Accept-Language header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
interesting -- i'd looked them up previously, but maybe not in a past few weeks.

it seems they're growing or have much more of a footprint now, etc. nice site, associations, etc.

i've been skeptical of them for a few reasons -- maybe primarily because of i guess i would call the business focus and maybe the class issues.

it feels like it is basically some rich-enough-to-retire-early-white dude who is bestowing upon us, the bewildered herd of workers-working-because-we-have-fucking-have-to, the ability to wage slave for you a few less hour per week? eh, thanks mate, but no thanks.

what are you trying to be the Elon Musk of the 4-day work week? or that dan price guy who is just as crooked and is always bragging about how benevolent he is for paying his employees a living wage?

like, do i actually care about making companies even _more_ profitable? not fucking really -- not unless it's my own -- i'm more interested in democracy, a habitable world, etc. -- and that's why I'm primarily interested in a 4-day.

but thanks for the reminder, i'll def check them out again and give them another chance. maybe they're the answer, or the good-enough answer, or maybe we could use an org that is more worker-driven -- we'll see. thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772097

This reminds me of 1MB being free and the dev claiming it would last as long as you want it.

I got an email a while back saying it's no longer free.
> One of your many American rights is to have no ID at all.

Ha, if only. Everyone from FB to the NSA is keeping tabs on individuals in all aspects of life. There is no hiding in the US
Nice symmetry.
Prime 997 Revisited
I'm sad, I really liked Developer Story and used it as a resume builder.
Yup, Honda has a big plant in Marysville, in the next county to the northwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marysville_Auto_Plant
Im of the opinion that treating diseases caused by a weakening body is a net good.

But you are right ofcourse. All thats left for us is to decay beneath the soil or burn to ashes.
yes. I think tha change is from now on you can not target your ad for only conservatives/ only socialist leaning people (as determined by their browsing data).

You used to be able to send socialist ads to socialists and conservative ads to conservatives... and be everything at the same time and win. Its like a cheat code of politics.

Now to do this you have to promise Zuck to not support any antitrust and data protection regulation in return Zuck will probably take you to office by microtargeting. You don't need to worry about the media, facebook will "fact check" everything for you.

You can still target nonpolitical ads based on other attributes if it is not specific to very few people.
Yeah thats true I’ve seen that periodically too, in non finance/crypto contexts.
I remember there were several games in my Steam library that didn't survive any upgrades past 7.
Don't think the site is going against these. It says "Choose Location and Language" and offers for example:

- :us-flag: United States [USD]

- :ca-flag: Canada (English) [CAD]
Our electric kettles work just fine on 110VAC. We're just isolated from the rest of the world so external cultural changes don't take hold. We still use Imperial measurements and serve half-pints of beer. Same reason Japan has an "old" World Wide Web; it works fine for them, and their culture doesn't change easily.
Cryptocurrency is definitely very successful at exploiting the post-2008 mindset of many young people: everything that touches upon finance vaguely feels like a scam, so along comes crypto which strips out everything but the scam. "At least it's our scam if we get in early."
> having a plan to reach profitability with total investment on the order of what a [not-outrageously-wealthy] group of founders might invest

$120k USD is a lot of money for many international startups.

10-20 years ago it was also a lot of money for US startups to receive early in their journey.

So this definition is pretty pointless.
You are right and thank you for pointing that out. He hits these areas but, in my reading, fails to fully close the loop.

I feel that policy supported wage floors for tipping isn't addressed enough, if at all. Sure, they tried to get rid of tipping, but tipping here is only a problem when a former policy maker says, "tip because the policy supports it." I don't agree that policy should be reliant on goodwill but rather policy should support outcomes of goodwill.

That's the only part I find missing, especially considering the conclusion which doesn't strongly suggest policy around labor and wages as a cause (or even a solution).
sounds like you are a cofounder only in name - are you actually on the board of directors? do you have access to the company bank account? Product -> Traction -> Investors. Don't skip the traction step. i get runway concerns hearing this.
I guess this is sarcasm but if not:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
>there also isn’t any better alternatives.

Of course there is. It's having a central resident registry like is common in most countries other than the US.
The proof that it's a ponzi scheme is that some blockchains use proof of work which requires electricity. It's left as an exercise to the reader to prove the claim that a distributed and decentralized database has no value (or better the reader should just take those unproven claims at face value). Lots of web3, NFT, DAO, decentralized gaming, metaverse, and DeFi projects are of dubious value but I find the lack of discussion about any of that in the article to be a pretty big red flag.

This reads like the writer had a conclusion in mind and couldn't be bothered to actually look at any of the existing or potential future use cases and wrote off the entire thing as a scam. It's possible the conclusion is true but too many of the actually important details are missing and too much of the focus is on completely irrelevant things (like the fact that some blockchains are proof of work so even proof of stake blockchains would be Ponzi schemes) for this to even be worth reading for most people.
"The Facebook-owned smartphone app said in a blog post that once a message has been forwarded from one user to another more than five times, anyone getting the message will be able to send it along to only one other person or chat group."

They can't read message contents.
Aside from Cal, which other State(s) do you consider to be at least growing a culture of innovation? Just curious because might move to US from Canada in the future.
On a lot of systems load from address zero doesn't segfault, I'm fine with the cpu loading it. I'm disappointed that the new compiler removed the check someone wrote a dozen years ago to prevent the cpu from overwriting something important though.
Most reasonable people interpret "Free Forever" as "Free, as long as the company exists". The risk of company folding is baked into the statement in my opinion.

The problem most people have is the company going back on their promise out of their own volition. In essence it could be considered a "bait and switch", especially considering the nature of the business they are running.
Ask HN: Should there be more alternatives to high school?
I’ve never been an overachiever in school. I’ve always just been in the normal classes because I didn’t want to put in the time when I had other, more genuine interests. And I don’t mean playing video games all day. I mean things like programming and hacking with different electronics.

I don’t know very many people that aren’t hell-bent on getting into the best universities. Most of them are taking a significant number of advanced classes (by choice), then going home after school and doing hours and hours of homework, only to get up the very next day and repeat. I constantly wonder where they find the motivation to do this. I’ve talked to a lot of them and many don’t even seem to have any clear motivation except that of getting into the best universities. Maybe it’s not even them but someone else, like their parents.

Now I’ve started shifting my focus even further away from school. I’ve got a failing grade in math class, and I’m not even bothered by it. I care about math and believe it is important to solving many real-world problems, but I can’t get myself behind the idea of math class, and school in general. I’d rather learn these things on my own where I can work to apply them to meaningful problems. In other words, there needs to be more of a purpose.

So what if there were more opportunities for people who are not having it in high school? By this I mean something similar to a trade school. A place to go and learn all about a specific topic you are genuinely interested in, or think you would be interested in. And from there have the option to continue through on your current path, or pivot.
I've given some light thought to this: There are several which are considered "good starting words", that mainly contain lots of vowels or most common used letters (such as "audio", Raise, etc). Then, as a second word, you could use another word that complements those letters (audio/rents, raise/mould ).

But there is a better strategy (similar to what is used in those interview puzzles of "From N weights, find 1 that is different in X measurements of a scale): The fact that you input some vowels and see that they are not in there, tells you that the remaining ones MUST be in the word (treating Y as a vowel as well). So it might be possible to come up with a strategy that uses that negative information as well to minimize the search space.
Ironically, yes. Casino sites can also do the same thing (although obviously if you deposit 1.215179 BTC from one address and then withdraw the exact same amount to a separate address it's probably still going to be possible to link the two addresses) This is why some blockchain analysis companies increase the risk score of coins from exchanges with effectively no KYC like Huobi or Kucoin.
In my experience, there's typically more than one "smoking gun". The problem isn't finding one, it's eliminating all of the "smoking guns" that aren't actually related to the outage.

If I worked at an organization with many teams deploying updates multiple times per day and several same day events seemed related, I would probably also put less weight on a gradual, months-long deployment that had completed a day prior.
> Given that cryptocurrencies don’t produce anything of material value

I've read this "crypto has no use-case" meme a lot recently, and it's always perplexed me. Crypto is clearly the easiest way to do international payments right now, particularly for countries with restrictive capital controls, like, for example, Argentina (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/argentina...).

Sometimes this is qualified as "crypto has no use-case except crime", but what obligation do I, a US person, have to follow or respect corrupt Argentinian regulations?
Web3 isn’t going to be about crypto or the metaverse. It will be all about WASM.
There is no cure, yes. But I just learned from Wikipedia that the Fore (the people from Papua New Guinea) developed a gene mutation, so that the Kuru disease does not break out. And it even protects against all other TSEs!
Probably worth repeating, Joyent

> In 2004, TextDrive bootstrapped itself as a hosting company through crowd funding: customers were invited to invest money in exchange for free hosting for the lifetime of the company.[39] TextDrive and, later, Joyent repeated the money-raising procedure a number of times in order to avoid the venture capital market.[40][41][42] and began to flounder, suffering from an absence of leadership and plagued by reliability issues, with users leaving for other hosts.[42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyent

They took money from people and failed to uphold their end of the bargain.
I think at the end of the day people don't associate "bootstrapped" with "strangers' money." Of course the cofounder says the definition is "nuanced," because it would have to be in order for them to claim the descriptor, a descriptor that carries weight as a mark of independence. VC is not independence.

They came from Tinyseed, why wouldn't they use "fundstrapped?" Because it doesn't sound as cool, and they know VCs aren't cool as far as the independence denoted by the term "bootstrapped" goes.
No affiliation but I use this for a client domain - NameCheap private email hosting. Very inexpensive options for most users. (Even my oldest Google Workspace account with 100,000+ emails uses under 2GB, though I have gone in and deleted out emails with large attachments.)

Supports custom domain names and catch-all email addresses.

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
As little as $1.24 / month per user.
Yah, I'm currently a (otherwise happy) Migadu customer, and I also think the send limit on the micro plan is strangely low.

I've only personally hit the limit once in the last two years, but I have a hard time believing that e.g.: 100 emails a day would impact their bottom line. I'm kinda tempted to just use Sendgrid's free tier for SMTP which is 100/d.
When I first started, I was posting about it in various laptop forums and running Google Ads. Having a free version was extremely helpful (there are hundreds of thousands of free users). It spread via word of mouth pretty quickly.

After a while, I just stopped all marketing efforts and now it's all just word of mouth/google search.
>This is one of the main reasons many are against an increase of centrally managed services such as universal state healthcare

Huh, who'd have thought that treatment at the point of use is simply a way for Big Government to control me.

I shall insist on paying thousands of pounds for simple and routine treatments in future. That will show them.
Thanks! 140mA is pretty high; it's literally 1% of the battery life (100× the power draw) of a more modern 8-bit processor like a 20-year-old 20MHz AVR, which is a bit faster than a 50MHz Z80. And as I mentioned below the Ambiq processors are orders of magnitude faster at the same power draw, and can scale down to very low power draws. They can self-host compilers but probably not logic synthesis.