skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty positive, so yeah, I’m considering it. The only thing is - it seems like a fairly benign request and I haven’t been able to see any way that I would lose out on anything here by the date being 3 days later. I have plain common stock, and the investors have preferred, so I’m already behind in any preference issues.

One thing I’m considering is to have the company’s counsel send me something in writing confirming that my rights as well as the value of my stock now and during any liquidation event are not changed by adjusting the date. I think that should be a pretty straightforward way to protect myself, no?
I’ve finished state with Ukrainian as a primary language of instruction, being a Russian speaker. That was long time ago, more than 15 years.
To be honest, it is not a big deal, you use both languages daily, you watch movies in both languages and so on.

I also don’t get “among neo-nazis” line.

In any case language question is more a Russian propaganda talking point, I don’t see it being major topic in the Ukrainian political life.
This is correct. Russia is a bear that is not worth poking. Take a look at Soviet tactics in both World Wars. This wouldn't be asymmetrical warfare, which is NATO's bread and butter, this would be hell on earth, and humans have only gotten better at war since the 1940s.
> Your children are not your peers. Consensus and compromise are highly overrated

Again. I am not a parent, but isn't this a completely unwarranted, assumptive over-reading of what xyzzy123 said?
If sets were a Python-only thing I'd say that it's too clever, but it's a concept that appears in many other environments: Typescript (unions), Datalog and other declarative logic languages, Haskell (I think) and other functional languages...

So python is implementing an existing paradigm, not trying to be clever inventing something new. I'm happy with that
> I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it.

I'm mostly re-iterating what others have said but this is essential and IMO should be something you do before you are building your product/service. Sounds like you are good at operating and launching, but marketing and product dev need some work.

I'm not you but If I were I would get a job and utilize this as a stepping stone for it. Go back and build again with an audience in mind and try again if you're up to it.
At our high school most of the pickup trucks had gun racks. It wasn't until like, my sophomore year of high school before anyone even considered "Hey... those shouldn't be on school grounds". We all knew quite well "no guns allowed in the school", but rifles were about as common as umbrellas and considered equally notable. One day a nice officer noticed there were like five trucks with rifles visible in the back window, and went to the office to ask the students be advised _they might be stolen_. Halfway through that conversation it dawned on them that they were in fact guns, and then an announcement was made on the PA reminding students that they were actully still guns and were very banned in school so people should take them home after school and not bring them back.

ONE student forgot the next day (who was a "bad" kid but not actually a bad guy) and was allowed to apologize to the school for his forgetfulness over the PA to make amends. (I shared a class with him when he got called to the office, so I know he was embarrassed to have forgotten. It was bad for his carefully cultivated "bad boy" reputation to get caught out doing something this trivial.)

The difference between then and now is that since people were always interacting in person there was less tendency for people to become psychopath basement trolls who would willfully bully someone to the breaking point and beyond.
There's a number of theories stated here but I'd definitely highlight the idea that you've become interesting to law enforcement for one of a number of reasons. This pattern looks like ones experienced by sex workers, being banned from various services because the verification phone numbers are the same as those of a known Sex Work account. Once you match a pattern, the blocking and banning are very aggressive.

So some possibilities:

* your name is the same or very close to a target you don't know at all/have nothing to do with.

* you're working in an industry target by federal law enforcement. Big ones here would be sex work, cannabis, or political liberation

* Someone is repeatedly using your identity for something sinister. If this is a repeated pattern (which it sounds like), then it would make sense if that person is a close friend or family member. - Almost any time some is the victim of identity theft more than twice it turns out it's their partner or parent.
Ask yourselves "how can one make money from their innovation"? It used to be that ads was the default option, at least in the beginning, not anymore. Nowadays most money goes to marketing and naturally the companies that get richest are the marketing companies. Innovation in payments must be a key here, but it is missing
> Didn't the USA carpet bomb many places in the Middle East with drones?

The drone war's been horrible, but "carpet bomb" means a specific thing, so, no, the USA did not do that

[EDIT] To be clear, this isn't pedantry—that doesn't even figuratively describe what's gone on.
I would also add that Grischuk was under no obligation to say anything that he did. He was even rudely cut off by the 'host' at one point. And he even mentioned that in his phrasing he was going to avoid using the war since it's illegal in the media, and he wants them to be able to quote him.

If there was ever a man you want with a voice and face in the media at a time like now, it would be somebody like Grischuk. This is somebody that, especially in times like now, that should be elevated. Instead he's going to be effectively depersoned on the international stage and effectively silenced, seemingly like every single Russian regardless of their wrongthink or lack thereof. What a world we're creating.
AppleScript is not much of a general purpose programming language (the syntax certainly takes a while to get used to), but for automating stuff, sorting files into folders, and the like, it is a nice tool. I have scripts that are indispensable to me, and combined with Folder Actions it ensures that there are things that Just Work.
Talking about inner representation, I'd really like to know how people computing nth root of large number operate :)
wow tough crowd.
You are being extremely dramatic... whatever it is Putin wants, there has been zero evidence he's looking to eliminate the Ukrainian people (there has been civilian casualties, obviously, even if you're American with high precision bombs, they still are going to end up in the crossfire someetimes - but if anything, conflict experts have been surprised by the slow intensity of the attacks and small deployment of weapons by the Russians - which may hint at them just being careful to not spend too much power upfront rather than just trying to not hurt innocent people, nobody really knows - e.g. they've only used around 75 aircraft out of thousands that they have at their disposal)... you are maybe confusing his desire to deny Ukraine is a separate entity from Russia... at least as I understand it, he thinks of Ukrainians as the same people as Russians, not as inferiors and definitely not as Hitler thought of Jews, for fuck sake. He seems to take issue with Ukraine's existence as a separate country, not just simply with its pure existence! I don't know where you're getting your news, but if this war is looking like a genocide to you, I would suggest you try to look into more reliable news sources (I won't suggest any to avoid biasing you in any way, take your pick).
Didn’t Abe Lincoln pull this same stunt too?
Interesting you say that since US has played a big role in crushing democracies here and there and also in the Middle East which of course fueled the anti US rhetoric in those countries. For example, look at 1953 coup [1] in Iran backed by UK and US with the help of clergy! to topple a _democratically elected_ government! The mess that Iran is in right now is not unrelated to that incident.

We shouldn't downplay the war in Ukraine just because US does what US does. Also what's happening there is not important just because "Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil." but because Ukrainians are fellow humans, like the rest of us, and are victim of an unfair confrontation against a bully few times bigger than them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

Edit: grammar
Value of Time as an Employee
You'd have to check Austria, surely?
> Fighting the people directly who are holding the guns will do less “collateral damage” than uniform discrimination of all Russians.

Nato forces directly attacking Russian military in Ukraine would be the start of a third world war. The collateral damage of a direct war between Nato and Russia would be unfathomable.
I'd counsel caution.

Simple obvious questions can be natterings about the "known unknowns". 1) Where do I order a beer? 2) Do they serve food? 3) Which tram do I take to get there? Progressively these three questions tell us more about the querant's location or context. But this can be quite unconscious. What about asking for summation: You've asked about beer, food and tram info, can you sum up for me what would make you happy? (Really want uncle Owen's fish and chips. Want a companion to eat with...)

Simple obvious questions can also be testing for "true facts" as opposed to "documented facts", although I would expect that behavior to subside with increasing acquaintance.
There are tons of documentaries and interviews. [1]

[2] https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/
Congratulations on launch. How’s slai different from huggingface?
You'd have to check Austria.
This is a popular misconception. They want all of Ukraine.

The east was just a part they could get control over in 2014. But their goal was always the whole country.
Are you talking about Joe Rogan? He’s not a conservative.
While it's true that putting up with overly-difficult people can be good for business, this creates a race-to-the-bottom situation and there's no reason it shouldn't change. Someone's bad day is never an excuse for abusing service workers.

For what it's worth, I was a service employee who deprioritized these people and I can tell you I'm certainly not working customer service at Comcast now-a-days... which is a reference I don't even understand (I know what Comcast is but ya...).

Tangentially, I feel that there should be a form of conscription where everyone is forced to work at year or two of customer service in their teens. While I'm sure it wouldn't discourage everyone from being a prick, it could certainly help.
"We're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

"So we're supposed to protect you against Russia and you pay billions of dollars to Russia and I think that's very inappropriate"

Trump 2018

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-summit-pipeline/trum...
> If your kids are experiencing horror and mental problems from an antigen test, you’re the one causing it.

This, though, is a crude overgeneralisation. Swizzling a swab in their nostrils (or around the back of their throat) could well cause instant, significant distress if they have a hypersensitivity disorder or other trauma.

It's necessary, it's appropriate, it's the right thing to do, and parents should try to do it.

But you're making a crude assumption about the difficulty of something that some very good parents of children with a variety of challenges will tell you may not be possible, especially with a very young child.

I am pro-vaccination, pro-testing, pro- whatever sane measures the appropriate health authority deem necessary. But just because they are necessary and appropriate in the aggregate does not make them easy and breezy at the individual level.

I am amazed at what some parents have stoically put up with and what kids will adapt to -- they are as I say, astonishingly resilient in general -- but not all kids can adapt and not all parents necessarily find it easy to medicalise the relationship with their children.
grid synchronization 'issues' are a feature, not a bug - by very, very slightly varying how hard to you try to 'push' out of synch you can manipulate power flows at will. This is dramatically more difficult with DC. That, and ease of voltage level manipulation were the reasons so much transmission was AC in the first place!
These kinds of attitudes show to me that much of the western world didn't draw many lessons from 1914 other than that you can do more than figurative painting in the visual arts.
My very brief, hopefully not too harsh 2 cents:

The description of what you are building sounds like a deeply technical, profoundly specific thingie for deeply technical people (with unknown market, and unknown business proposition at best). The fact you have not started with or outlined the problem it solves, the business need, or who is the customer in non-technical terms feels like a massive red flag to my naive mind. Bluntly, at best it sounds like a "tinkering hobby" - NOTHING wrong with that, unless you need to pay the bills :).

I would suggest getting a job in a place / position where you can observe the business flow, verbiage, get some mentorship, and not only pay the bills, but set yourself up for long term success should you desire to build something of your own again. I have no idea what your technical prowess is, but it sounds like you may have spent your years building stuff rather than building business, and that's where your growth opportunity lies. To put it another way "Selling and marketing are not my skillset" is almost a token of pride for us techies, but it is empathically not a successful mindset for a potential business owner. If marketing and selling are of no interest to you, and you just want to do the technical part, than accept your own preferences and priorities and go work with/for somebody who does prioritize and excel at sales and marketing :)

(all this of course based on reading three paragraphs you've shared and therefore as likely completely misread and wrong as not :).

Best of luck!

P.S. For what it's worth: nothing prepares and nobody can explain to you the MASSIVE transformation and upheaval of your life that having children will be:). If money is in any way a stressor, to you or relationship, or if this brings you anxiety, that's another good reason to settle that down before kids come along :>
Chemically castrating a child is child abuse.
Probably a neonazi who changed their name.
I would love to work at a company that does something great for the world. Like work on climate change or longevity. It feels so hard to find those roles though.
Your employer is the best source of seed funding for a solo founder venture. In other words, use your steady income from a job and turn your software business ideas into hobbies. If one takes off, great, if not, you have a hobby.

As others have stated, being a solo founder is almost the LEAST about programming cool things and more about marketing, sales, invoicing, payroll, etc. And especially if you are successful, you won't be programming for long.
OK. It's obvious but maybe only in hindsight...

I started programming computers when I was 10-11 yo. And that was with punch cards on a mainframe. How did I get access to that? Interest, good parents and luck.

Bill Gates was a lot like me in that sense - he'd been involved using a time-share computer system all through high school (just as I was also).

So he (like me) already had his first 10,000 hours of experience long before he got to Harvard (or I got to engineering school). It was already a 2nd nature skill. Ditto for me for electronics - started at the same age. Ditto for chemistry - started at the same age.

So that's how I was the 4.0 curve-breaking in engineering school - I'd already been exposed to all of it just without some of the math and corner-knowledge. I got jobs over summers doing engineering straight out of high school.

That included one summer job on a Naval Test Range operating and fixing radar systems - I'd already learned about similar systems through shortwave and amateur radio combined with my electronics building. I was already reading Skolnik's "Radar Handbook" book (and knew it existed) by sophomore year in high school. Note that I had ZERO romantic life and didn't lose my virginity until university plus I've been married and divorced twice - there's always a price - NOTHING is free.

In the case of Bill Gates, I'm guessing he realized at Harvard "I'm not learning anything here; I already know what I want to do and even how to do it". Because he indeed could. Plus his family had money so he had options most people never have.

That's not the only or even best path but it's a path.

I "did time" in government, military and Fortune 20 corporate with my experience (which was ALWAYS a major career advancing asset) so when I decided to move to entrepreneurship, I'd learned a ton about economics, organization behavior, social interactions in addition to how to do things like project management, finance, etc. on top of multiplying up my technical knowledge and skills. That's another path.

There is no "right path" BTW.

You can NOT become successful just by practicing Cargo Cult behaviors of other successful people (e.g. Elizabeth Holmes cargo-culting on Steve Jobs by wearing the same kind of black turtleneck sweaters apparently for karma). You have to commit to something and enjoy the ride with all gusto. That's the only thing that works (though you never get a guarantee on success either - just table stakes)

However, being conscientious and persistent are probably worth slavishly emulating. Those leverage well.
How is that different from a car crash? Just the number of passengers?
Did you, uh, look at the other headlines on that site?

"Three Cultures God Destroyed Because of Homosexual Sex"

"Russian Prophecies of Antichrist & End Times - "Salvation of the World is from Russia" by RF Staff"

Yikes.
I am an established poster here with a mildly pro-Russia opinion. I don't think Putin is morally right to do what he's doing, but the reasoning is solid. I agree that the bots are everywhere, but there are also reasoned opinions, we're just few and far between.
I think SECAM and PAL were roughly equivalent and both had better spatial resolution than NTSC but the 25 Hz frame rate never sat well with me.
That's an intriguing idea. Do you think you could go into a little bit more detail on how to do that?
>I feel like the left has historically been simply pro immigration, and then somehow race was brought into the conversation. I won't name the party I think responsible.

Simply false. Historically, US labor unions were anti-immigration because of competition for their own members already in the country. Go look up Cesar Chavez's view on allowing more Mexicans (especially illegal aliens) in to compete against his United Farm Workers. Unions being for unlimited, uncontrolled entry from outside the US is a very recent phenomenon.
I lament the modern dearth of natural-language scripts designed for normal people who have slightly higher engineering instinct than average but otherwise just want to use their computer. Different people notice the usefulness of such things in different places, but for me it was Minecraft server administration. You have thirteen year olds doing a 'banging on the keyboard' level of management for game servers for eleven year olds, and who do not know the first thing about programming and would take years to get up and running with Java, but who have added to the server dozens of commands and idiosyncratic game mechanics with Skript, because Skript's language is so fundamentally easy and approachable that just about anyone could make just about anything in it that they could conceptualize of the details for.

I really don't think AppleScript's primary application has vanished like many people seem to think it has. Desktop software may be on the decline, but that just means that something equivalent for web needs to exist. Every other day you hear about a business that had some major component, which finally broke, being a giant kludge of an Excel sheet. Those things don't start because they're the best tool for the job, they start because Excel's approachable for non-programmers who can figure out how to make an algorithm work as long as you don't call it an algorithm or force them to start with stdio. Flash had that property too, and the Internet is the lesser for its disappearance; it took so little effort for an animation to be turned into a game that so many animators decided to try. Nobody ever bothers making things like that anymore because everyone's internalized this idea that anything like programming is as hard and as not worth targeting towards normal people as general programming.

I don't know how to end rants.
Security ny obscurity doesn't work.

Without Sci-Hub only wealthy and government actors had access to knowledge.

Very bad idea
Damn, I let my kids watch Alphablocks as toddlers but I never noticed Numberblocks! At 7 and 8 they're very good readers but the older one gets bored with arithmetic homework very easily. I've failed as a parent and mathematician.
The expectation for conservatives / republican politicians is that a failure to disavow any problematic group is perceived as endorsement. So I can just as easily beg the question, why haven't more Democrats come out and disavowed antifa?
RFC: Remove support for Russian Elbrus processor
I disagree - but negative reviews certainly almost always are.
Would TravelSky step in? To my very limited understanding they have a very similar offering, mostly focused on the Chinese market.
I feel like the first month is great then its the same cycle. Especially because you have to start over and build a reputation of doing good work so you work a little later and a little harder one week then that becomes the norm and on it continues.
Please don’t misrepresent what she said. She said “At the time, I was mostly referring to the open sewers that are certain web forums on certain days of the week and certain hours of those days. For some reason, when the regular people are out doing whatever they do, the haters have nothing better to do than run unchecked on the web. With no sensible people there to set them straight, they feed off each other, and pretty soon you have some straight-up nuclear waste in those forums.”

I think that is saying HN is usually a good forum, but at some limited times it is not.
Unless the bank has a 43km perimeter with trenches and guard dogs, why doesn't he just move closer?
The Norwegian name for it is very similar. Kirurgisk :)
Looks like a cool product.

How does this compare to Checkpoint CloudGuard?
A country concerned with increasing wealth above all else wouldn't be risking a trillion dollars for a billion dollars. This is political.
"..disproportionate share of the public. They've been getting it because helicopter parents are pushy"

What degenerate world are we living in, parents wanting their children to succeed and do what they know is causing _you_ to discriminate them for their success?
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> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html