skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey eloff - I'm a founder who's spent a great deal of time in the trenches and is now scaling a startup so maybe I can share my sliver of experience.

Firstly, in order to be successful you need these two things:
1. Your must believe it is inevitable, if you don't build it someone else will
2. You must fall in love with the outcome

I will never tell another founder to quit because I remember when I was told discouraging advice along my journey and how hard it was to hear it and keep trudging. Starting a company is a lesson in mental health and managing your happiness.

If you are discouraged it is not because of your startup - it is because of the anxiety you are feeling around your future family's situation. What does your future family need to be OK? What does it mean to be serious? What do you need to feel like you are a good parent and father?

Do you need more money? Are you anxious about buying a home? Do you believe you can not raise a family well if you rent? These are all questions that me and my friends who are startup founders (or trying to be anyway) talk about with each other constantly.

Even if you know that people want your product the hurdle of taking it to market is equally hard and cumbersome. When you start a startup its because you are on a journey.. just like running on a treadmill sucks if you watch the distance with every step, startups are the same way - try to forget about "the end" and fall in love with the path.

I'd venture a guess that you are an intellectually curious person.. probably curiosity is a value of yours, maybe your startup is just a manifestation of your curiosity? That's a beautiful thing. It is you being you to your fullest.. think about the wisdom and knowledge you have gained and can pass off to your kids now that you tried your hardest to follow your values and heart. Would a house and yard teach them that?

Give up? Grow up? Get a job? There's no right or wrong answer. The only thing to do is ask yourself why you are worried and address those things independently.

What does getting serious about your family mean? What are the exact things that it means to you and your wife? Quantify it.. if it means make more money.. ask why? if its because you want to own a house, ask why again? If its because you believe you can not raise a family because of a house, ask why again - try to get to the root of your concerns. Perhaps it is not logical.. or perhaps it is and you will emerge with conviction.

I think the question you are asking is healthy but no one can answer it for you on hacker news, only you can answer it (in partnership with your life partner)

Good luck and keep believing in yourself!!
> I really do believe that you would have found very similar results for C++/Rust/C vs Python/matlab/java/javascript

Yes I believe you are on to something here.

> Good luck with your research, but how are you going to discern the difference between high and low level languages?

Thanks! I'll share my findings on HN when I get them, maybe they'll make it to the front page who knows. My research is focused on what features or design elements exactly made Matlab so much more understandable than C++. I think it comes down to

- single data structure that you can put anything in. The table is a very good general structure. Excel echoes this, as people find excel very approachable.

- single numerical type. Everything is basically a float, so you don't have to think about all the numerical nuance involved in choosing between ints, floats, doubles, longs etc.

- 1 indexing, because that's always such a sticking point to brand new programmers

- interactive IDE that allows you to see all of the variables and click into them to see their values. The Matlab REPL isn't great but it's a huge step up from the write-compile-run loop in C++.

Honestly I'd like to try Lua. It has a lot of these properties, so I think it could maybe have good success. But you're right, I'd like to rerun the experiment with all of the languages you listed.
Working from home for such a large part of the population has to be an asphalt roads moment.
Guys please stop falling for this psyops comment. I work in PsyOps and he was ordered to speak like there is no psyops against American citizens. Dont believe him believe me
If you don't check the market, it's not a risk. It's just a poor decision.
yeah, most people i.e liberal leaning ones seem to have wool on their eyes and minds. they don't see that fascism is slowly brewing up.

Putin literally represents the last great hope. And even soon enough, liberals will be disillusioned by liberal policies - you can see this happening in places like San franscisco.

where you can buy a luxury apartment, but have tents and human shit at your front gate. Soon enough, a fascist will come around and they will say I will fix all your problems - from looting, excessive taxes, nimby laws etc if you allow to me chip at some laws / regulations getting in the way.
Libertarians like Peter Thiel mixed with fascists is a complete disaster. And remember libertarians run rampant in SV circles.
Trump wasn't smart enough to get it done. But he's provided the playbook.

I'm a liberal leaning black dude. But I can see what's coming a mile away.
> Maybe it's because I live and work in Canada where there is absolutely zero tolerance for this kind of garbage thinking.

You’ll be quite disappointed if you read about your new country’s history. Even the recent one (the last residential school where natives children were forced to attend and where children unmarked graves were found was closed in … 1998). Or about the province that tried to gain independence twice. Or what happened to the Metis people or the French speakers to the east..

Or just what happens when the dogma of multiculturalism takes over [0].

[0] https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/15/as-ndp-leader-j...
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That idea sounds a lot like https://materialize.com/

It’s a cool idea though.
It's one thing to be trying to act in a constructive manner but lack some social graces. It's another thing to be a person who expresses hostility by being unreasonable and difficult.

I think this article is about the latter, not the former. Consider that a person with highly polished social skills can still be hostile and difficult. In fact, they can be worse because they can use those skills to create the illusion that they aren't doing anything wrong.
It's the censorship making the division worse.

Social media already has a big problem with filter bubbles. If you go to a place where 99% of people there are one party's partisans and try to rebut their misinformation, you get dogpiled. People insult you and sling baseless accusations of racism, which deters people from attempting to debate when they're highly outnumbered. So any place which has any partisan bias gets an even bigger one until everything is totally polarized.

Platform censorship makes it even worse because the platform's censors will be in one bubble or the other, their censorship decisions will be biased in that direction and push anyone on the other team onto other platforms and we end up with entirely partisan platforms that never talk to each other, and are thereby both highly misinformed about different sets of things.
> I think the whole reason for this war is the green transformation of the world.

I think you're on the right track but slightly off.

NG is "green" by EU standards and Russia does make it's money from NG sales to the EU. I think the piece you're missing is that Ukraine's current government is more friendly to the EU and Ukraine has massive, untapped NG reserves[1]. I have to think that the EU is eyeing Ukrainian NG in order to cut Russia out of it's economy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_in_Ukraine
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FBI Gains Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Google Account Data
Hi, I appreciate the feedback. Here's some clarifications:

- Making extra accounts was purely done for anonymity. I don't have any plans to make a brand out of this.

The decision to make a rather fancy site showcasing it's features was purely made because I wanted to experiment with React development and building a product page. I'm sorry if it looked as I was trying anything else.

- This is not meant to be a project that will operate at high scale and hurt Discord or cost them a lot. I understand the concerns and if Discord ever reaches out or the service gets too big I will reconsider things.

Of course, the big advantage here is that if this is how it'll end, the files will still be accessible on Discord itself.

I would be very surprised if this ever reached a scale that will cause discord to change their policy, and I hope it doesn't reach that stage.

- With that in mind, I agree the "forever" wording doesn't really fit, and I will change it.
The ellipsis seemed like a dead giveaway.
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The clients that do plan in advance are more sensitive about the quality of service rather than price. There are QoS SLA contractually required and if they can't be met clients will leave.
The four books are mystery books, in the sense that people paid without even knowing what were they paying for. Keeping the books secret even when they're already written looks like a marketing stunt.
I was in this exact situation together with many colleagues. Just leave. It sucks that you have to leave what you've invested, but it's a fallacy to think that it will get better. The project manager needs to be punished and you need to find a better job.

Take it slowly and rationally though. Do not give them any hint that you are leaving at all and start a slow powerful search for your next adventure. My number one tip? Make sure you get a good manager which is both good to you as well as in control of their immediate environment meaning so that they make sure you can keep your sanity as well.
But what's happening in the Ukranian theatre validates all of that. The Russian military is being revealed as a paper tiger. It makes no sense to invest heavily in defence when your enemy doesn't have any real forces they can deploy.

Unless you choose to believe that the Russian military, for some reason, is throwing green units and third-tier armor into the field - and holding back battalion after battalion of elite troops equipped with elitely-maintaine vehicles - it seems very hard to criticise European levels of defence spending given the reality of the enemy forces it appears to face.
It seems like if they could have taken out Ukraine's remaining TB2 drones, they would have.
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It seems so unlikely to me that large swaths of people who act this way can make it to a place in any industry where they're surrounded by more resourceful peers. How does this even happen? I just want to make sure that I'm not creating a view out of reading exaggerated anecdotes, and that this actually reflects reality.
Pivot to Ukrainian speakers.

Also, don't invest in non-democracies. You took a big gamble.
True. What's the chances of stumbling upon an abandoned Facebook data centre and actually being able to exfiltrate any meaningful data from it?
And United States have invaded Iraq, Afganistan and Lybia. Should all American citizens and companies be cut off the internet for that?
I had a similar moment :) If you have a good on/off-ramp it's quicker, cheaper, and just as easy for international payments that go through different banking systems. I wish all the hype around speculative trading of NFTs and 'Web3' would die for a while so we can finish building the actually awesome parts like financial accessibility.
The more I watch this the more I distrust the presenter. Lines like¹ "'A little warfare in the border areas is needed to maintain a patriotic spirit.' This was said in the 1800s century, bu this could have been said in the 2010s or 2018" is wholly unconvincing. It appears that the presenter is projecting his racist animus, inserting words into the mouths of his perceived adversaries and generally carrying on in a non-intellectual, unintelligent manner which seeks not to understand, but to caricature.

Again, what on earth is the academic institution allowing this drivel to be associated with their name?

Why does YouTube take down other racist, hate speech videos while leaving this one up? (I am completely against taking any videos or posts down for any reason, but the selective nature of their actions suggests that some racism and misinformation is deemed not just acceptable to them, but even palatable.)

1. https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=1263
What are you even talking about. I asked you directly to show me evidence of the claims you made, nothing else.
Yeah, sorry, still used in spanish, my mother tongue. My bad!
Wonder how commenters like this will feel when Russia/China/Iran have their own sphere with an alternative to SWIFT like CIPS.

Your complete inability to be a fair global hegemon is the reason nobody respects or trusts your government. Cuba is still needing to ask Uncle Sam for permission to import syringes during a global health crisis, we're still backing a genocide in Yemen, doing all of these terrible things while acting like global arbitrage. USA isn't the global police. If you're going to undercut the WHO, the UN, etc. then you don't get to act like it's about freedom and democracy or the rule of law.

Might makes right is an inane policy for Machiavellian wonks. Just because you can do whatever you want doesn't mean you should. The US imports a lot of things too, and a concerted global effort would at the very least require an isolationist USA. Where are you going to get your silicon chips from if the Republic of China reunifies with the People's Republic of China?

US wants to play by different rules than everyone else, not sure that works long term. Either invasions are globally kosher or they aren't, over a million dead and 38 million displaced over a "war on terror" that didn't do shit is a war crime. If we're not going to call an invasion on false pretexts that killed and displaced millions of civilians a war crime the word has no meaning and the discussion is moot.

And if the US can do war crimes but only China/Russia/Iran face consequences for them because we're a "big powerful country" I hope you're ready for the era of multiple US-hostile nuclear powers. Almost ruined the Earth when only two nuclear powers were butting heads in the 20th century and now we've got several to pick from :)
If you're not doing sales and marketing, it's a hobby not a business. It's fine to have a hobby! As I see it, you a choice: stop thinking of your hobby as a business or make your hobby a business by either learning to do sales and marketing or hiring someone who can do them for you.
> The real reason for this is likely continue have an industrial base for their naval submarine reactors by subsidizing a complementary civilian industry.

Interesting, I've never read about that angle. Nuclear is a great complement to Wind/Solar as it provides a steady base load.
> I've tried numerous attempts over the last 20 years to start a software business as a solo founder and none have worked

You tried. It's time to double-down on what you're good at and get a job.

I also tried. I realized that I do best when I'm not trying to define what the business and product are and how to sell them; but instead I do best when I'm just concentrating on the software.

So much of being a solo founder involves non-programming tasks that it's extremely difficult to be a solo founder writing complicated software.
Reminds me of the early days of dial-up Internet... ;-D
On Android the Google Play store app has a "Payments & subscriptions" screen which allows you to add, remove and select payment options.
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I want this to be part of a Hollywood movie. The protagonist is using his makeshift wifi setup to hack into a bank computer systems 43Km away from his location, and the bank people has no idea what is going on.
"Human liver" vs "human liver cell line" may sound like only a slight alteration in meaning to a layperson, but it's actually an enormous difference. I don't think anyone is particularly surprised to hear that a cancer cell line is expressing reverse transcriptase and grabbing random mRNA. People would be very surprised to hear that about cells in a random human.
I’m in management (former IC). I fight against as much pointless paperwork and bullshit as I can, but accounting principles and tax treatment of capitalizable work (and sometimes R&D credit programs and similar) force some amount of good-faith estimation of activities for which some amount of tracking is needed.

(If we paid you to do some operations task for an hour, that whole amount is a business expense this year. If we paid you to build software that will deliver value for the next three years, we have to take the expense of that hour across the next 36 months, not at all once. It’s a GAAP and a US tax code requirement. In no way do I care if you worked 33.25 or 40.75 hours in any given week other than to have enough data for finance to do accounting and file taxes correctly.)
One person suffering is not a good reason to go cause some other person who isn't at fault to suffer.
Again, encouraging bad actors is 100% different from using the full power of the executive branch to persecute journalists which he did not do, and Russia does.
The image cannot be dispalied. I wish github only allowed Open Image Formats, but too late now since Microsoft owns them.

Lately I have been running into image/video files people at work create on their MACs that cannot be viewed in Linux. I wonder if that crap is carrying ofer into github.
Here's a short version:

Joost, backed by the founders of Kazaa & Skype, tried this starting in 2007. It failed, YouTube and other streaming approaches won.

Some of that was content, but some of that was that bandwidth became cheap enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost
FWIW I despise censorship, irregardless of which party it comes from, and can tell we both see a lot of flaws in human nature in general so don't think we are far off in disagreement here. Journalists should be left the fuck alone, certainly.
It doesn't matter if anybody needs them or not. Microsoft introduces whatever is profitable for them and most users have little choice. Those who could, Migrated to macOS or even Linux already. The rest will be milked, permanently.
Samsung might be throttling the performance of 10k apps by
I once worked for a manager like this for some fraction of a year. He was the deputy director of systems engineering, but it seemed to me that part of his brain was missing. During that time, the attrition in our group was over 50%/year. I got the worst performance review of my career from him and I was happy to move on to a better position elsewhere in the company.
The last thing the US wants is a strong, independent Europe taking care of itself. The only thing worse would be, horror of horrors, a strong independent Europe trading happily with a strong independent Russia, with no scope for the US to interpose itself.
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What a highly inefficient way to represent numbers.

Was this learned by him or is this some sort of synesthesia condition?
I've seen a lot of speculation like this article, something to the effect of "these sanctions will weaken the international power of the U.S. dollar by forcing more countries to consider non-dollar monetary systems."

It's a reasonable concern. But I think it's important to consider the reasons why that might not happen.

Alan Cole from Full Stack Economics provides a couple good general thoughts on sanctions here [1], but I'll highlight my favorite:

> The fact is that the US has most of the world’s largest economies on its side. China is the world’s second largest economy at nominal exchange rates, and Russia is about eleventh. The top ten also include Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Canada, and South Korea, all of which are actively participating in the anti-Russia sanctions.

> Financial commentators love talking about the dollar losing its status as reserve currency, because it gives them a permission structure to wildly speculate. But there is little constituency for a Russia-friendly financial system among the world’s largest economies. And for countries seeking a relatively neutral and rules-based system free of geopolitics, China isn’t a very good alternative anyway. (It has a variety of idiosyncratic foreign policy demands of its own, and regularly uses economic might to help reinforce them.)

The fact is that a huge majority of the world's GDP is actively in support of of these sanctions. This is not some arbitrary, capricious act – Russia is engaged in the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state. If you want to look at things from a purely economic standpoint, there is very little that is more destructive to global economic prosperity than large-scale, boots-on-the-ground war.

[1] https://fullstackeconomics.com/five-reasons-the-sanctions-ar...
Information is the antidote to war. Don't cut it off.
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> Should the global community have targeted all Americans for the actions of the Bush Presidency invading Iraq under false pretenses? Or how about Vietnam?

I don't think it's fair to compare the democratically elected government of an European country to a blood thirsty middle eastern dictatorship. At least, they certainly didn't garner the same sympathy from people.

As for Vietnam, it’s interesting to see that the loosing side was where people desperately fled, often risking their lives in makeshift rafts. That the people would risk their lives for a shot at maybe getting refugee status in America rather than live in a communist nation should tell us a lot. Same goes for failed states like Venezuela and Cuba.
Hmm, I suspect it’s best to decide upfront what you are willing and unwilling to do. Then others can have whatever “type” of personality they want, that’s their business.

The truth is, there are always return volleys you can make, depending on how petty you want to get, or how many cycles you feel like burning with a person like the article describes. For example any statement of the form “you should…” implies a belief in a particular policy, so you can then inquire why they think that should be so. Any question can be answered directly, or you can start asking questions about why they asked the question, or you can just answer a different question entirely. Et cetera.

At some level this stuff is war and if people aren’t going to bring their thinking caps, a change in tactic is appropriate.
Heh. The one where he has two Russians arguing and one asked whether the SU was at the pinnacle of communism and his buddy’s answer was hell no, things are gonna get a lot worse!
> The industrial revolution could probably have happened in republican Rome

Before the printing press and modern steel processing? Before newton and other fundamental physics and chemistry innovations?
I found "Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making" by Reid Hastie and Robyn M. Dawes very good on this topic. I read the first edition, but I believe there is a 2nd one now.
There are certainly exceptions to every case, but I when I was first starting out my career, I was super guilty of doing this. Always asking my coworkers for help or information, even though I had all the access to information that I needed, or could just ask Google. It wasn't until the lead engineer kindly sat me down and told me that I need to be more responsible for my interruptions and only ask when you're completely stumped. Some of the best career advice I have gotten in this industry.
> HN is filled with bias for the success stories

This is true.

> He gave up a job at Google and beats himself up every day for literally giving up millions, probably well over $10M had he just stayed.

This is also a biased success story. Very few people will experience Google-like returns.