skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can I find time to work an a new idea?
I have an idea for a small start-up.
I'm not naive, but I believe it stands up to scrutiny.
I would need a minimal amount of money to reach proof of concept.

The issue is that I have no time to work on it.

I have a demanding job with weekday average hours of 9am to 11pm and often to 1-2am.
The workload is constant during those hours with no downtime.

I also work c. 5-6 hours on the weekend.
The rest of the time is dedicated to "normal" activities, like housework, food shopping, some exercise etc.

I consume no social media and watch no TV.
I get my news on a 10 min RSS scan.

I could reduce my sleep, but I find less than six hours affects my performance / health.

Unpaid leave / sabbatical is an option, but it would impact my financial situation and I need the salary.

I've progressed the idea a bit, but I need more time without interruptions.

I feel like I'm stuck.
While my job is rewarding and well-paid, it doesn't allow time to pursue this idea.

Looking for advice from those that succeeded on a project in a similar situation.
It's not a Show HN, Kaitai is pretty well established and used pretty widely. Lots of people behind it, and it gets posted here periodically. It's also open source, you could open an issue with them. They're pretty receptive to ideas, given my limited experience with them.
After 13 months of developing the 200th uptime monitoring service on the market (https://onlineornot.com/what-learned-running-saas-for-year), I'm starting to pivot into incident management by adding status pages to the product.
As soon as i reach retirement age i am undertaking a phd in a space related field.

Edit: or as soon as i have enough money in the bank to not care about work.
Why/where, particularly in Laravel?

Laravel has an excellent ORM, a great query builder (I write almost no SQL), an effective database migrations system, a solid class hierarchy (no include statements anywhere), a really useful job queuing system, and it is built around Composer (one of the best package managers anywhere).

Lighthouse is really a first-class, schema-first GraphQL binding with a very logical code interface.

I don't see any code maintenance problems in Laravel that can't be mitigated by the same discipline you need anywhere else.
Dagger.io
Bandwidth is cheaper and cheaper yet our MBA driven world seems to find a way to charge more and more. Capitalism isn’t about finding cheapest pricing anymore, it is unlimited power of business to charge the absolute maximum the customer is willing to expend because competition is gone. All of us on the cloud are just going to sit there with pikachu faces when rates get higher and higher.
Instead of their encoder's

encodedValue = encodedValue | ((nextField & fieldMask) << shiftStep)

you would do the reverse:

decodedField = (encodedValue >> shiftStep) & fieldMask
Summer time triggered JWT bug
> Can KaiTai parse a binary file/stream containing heterogeneous binary structures?

Depends, but in many cases yes - as long as there is an indicator of the format to follow, it can handle variable length/"union"-type structures.

> what if there is change of structure at runtime? Can it handle it?

Probably not unless you're using Java (iirc the compiler uses the JVM).

You probably want a binary parser combinator/pickling library to do what you're thinking.
Yeah, and there are subtle "bug"-type behaviors that are actually correct but incredibly inconvenient. I've gone back and forth on using it (I'll reach for it if I'm just parsing something mostly trivial but not for much else these days).
You are right, I was uncomfortable with the uneven density of the floats approaching zero, but it's just an inherent property of their representation.
Have a nice day :)
With the current state of affairs, I wouldn't be surprised if the American intelligence community world order collapses within the decade, either from within or from international pressure.
130$ shipping to EU... :D
At ETH in Zurich it is around 60k.
> EDIT: It looks like SQLightning got adopted and has been worked on by the SQLite team under the name LumoSQL.

I see none of your claims being supported by your link.

It seems LumoSQL is just an umbrella term that refers to a bunch of patches applied over SQLite. I'm not sure if that's enough to not call it a fork.

Also,I saw zero references to the people actually involved in LumoSQL, other than the project being supported by the NLNet foundation.

I'd expect that a small project managed and hosted by the SQLite team to be hosted in www.sqlite.org, but this looks like a completely independent and unrelated effort.
it used to be incredibly common, in fact normal, to be friendly with your neighbors… dine with them, hang out with them… this has changed dramatically in the last 30 years
Amphetamines convince people that they are performing better but do not
necessarily make everyone’s performance better.
You're profoundly overestimating how 'simple' this is, or even understandable, or how much even most bloggers are interested and/or have bandwidth to understand, what these things are. Whether you're saying they'll need to understand these things is a different matter; so far that hasn't been the case, and is unlikely to be going ahead.
Why second-hand British cars end up on Ukraine’s frontline
You're overlooking the fact that Sweden's policies encouraged the spread of COVID. It wasn't inevitable that so many people got COVID before the vaccine.
Your remaining questions I don't have answers for )) Maybe ask me something about Python?

Your example of linguistic habit is excellent, because it demonstrates that the language we use is both descriptive of how we perceive our surroundings, and prescriptive in influencing behaviour. Maybe ask "can I taste the ice cream" but offer "you can taste my ice cream". Children are wiser than us, instead of perceiving a mixed signal I find they usually figure out how to interpret things in surprising ways - that goes for my own children and other peoples' children. They are far more plastic and have less preconceived "bins" to interpret things.

The truth is, most of our questions regarding raising the kids we will not ever get answers for. That's fine, the kids are learning along the way just as we are.
> signatures got broken

Subroutine signatures are an experimental feature in Perl. Or are you referring to something else?
Was North Korea a dystopia for the entire 70 years or did they at least have a few good decades? Really asking.
CDC isolates teens for two years, CDC keeps them in fear for two years, and CDC is now surprised.
Ethereum’s Russian-born cofounder supported a DAO that raised crypto for Ukraine
Generally, you'd use "user styles" for that, e.g. with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/, such as anything from https://userstyles.org/styles/ or just `* { color: black !important; background: white !important; }`. The problem is that while this works great for the majority of sites, it breaks the layout of some edge cases. For example, this also renders normally-transparent backgrounds as white and thus suddenly some elements are hidden.

Writing global style rules that work everywhere is hard and afaik typically avoided in favor of site-specific styles. I'm currently attempting to create one anyway (win95 appearance).
No one in the west stood to profit from saying "Russia's military is corrupt, unmaintained, and poorly trained." Everybody with an interest in the Russian military had incentive to magnify their capabilities.

SNAFU principle at work. Everybody tells the boss what the boss wants to hear; so the bosses never connect with reality.

I'm sure the US military, fresh form 20 years of triumph in Afghanistan, is totally ready to meet the challenges etc; we could conquer Mexico tomorrow if we wanted.... right?
Show HN: A meditative website where you look out of a window and draw auroras
Thanks for checking out my project! I built this for myself to have something to play with for when I felt overwhelmed. It's designed to be active enough to be a distraction if you want, but also calming and predictable enough to be relaxing.

I built it on p5.js and Tone.js, and all of the settings UI is in Vue. These were technologies I've been wanting to dive into for a while, as someone who codes for a living but does a lot of music for fun. It's also designed to be a PWA, so it should work offline if you install it.
That's just one disease, that one wouldn't expect to be associated with low cholesterol to begin with, though.
Well, that could be said about numerous failed ideas. But it doesn't change the reality on the ground.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=headcanon
Document-Term Matrix (DTM): Numeric Representation of Text Corpus in NLP
Both social media (in some form) and porn has been around for far longer than this has been a problem. I'm a card carrying "Starcraft and DeusEx defined my teenage years"-millennial, and these things have been around most of my formative years as well. I think I was like ten when a friend showed me you could type "boobs" into altavista and get whitehouse.com, which back then was a porn site alluding to Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

I think the big difference now is smartphones, and being always online. It's much easier to have your entire world view informed by the Internet now than it was twenty years ago. It's a stark contrast. If you look on twitter and reddit, everything is always burning, the sky is falling every day for a hundred different reasons, the bees are dying, the Russians are about to trigger a nuclear apocalypse, there's indignant outrage and injustice everywhere.

If you look out the window, there's literally none of that going on. Like it's almost all speculation, or happening somewhere else. Twenty years ago, a lot of bad things were happening as well, but they weren't up in your face in nearly the same way. For some things, you had the dotcom bubble, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq. While they made a prominent impact on the news, the news was only on while you watched them. They didn't follow you around everywhere you went like they do today.
The Tom Sawyer method?
Gen Z wants more than snacks and happy hour at work
At least according to Feynman many of his successful colleagues said psychedelics helped them with their imagination. But I’ve not heard of anyone doing great science (or great anything really) because they went on a trip. It looks more like the Lu just get happier about their life but nothing else.
It would be ideal for someone, but either he can't summarize his product well or it gives me the chills.. Autogenerated texts with correct form and an appearance of putting in the thought is the kind of thing that turns people off to whole industries and gets them to go back to reading things with an earlier publication date than the technology.
I can't find any other media files on that site and the one in use weighs 900 kB. Doesn't seem like a big deal.
https://valvearchive.com/archive/Team%20Fortress/Team%20Fort...
Trump’s social media platform is filled with fake government profiles
I think often the hard part is establishing just what treating kids like 'young adults' means. They're fairly different (for better and for worse) so it can be hard to apply certain things that might work on a real young adult (I think certain kinds of negotiations are where this is most clear).
The soundtrack for the C64 game Lazy Jones [1] is a pretty good demo for the legendary SID sound chip. When I experienced it, my computer has a bleepy PC speaker, and my cousin's C64 had a much more "adult" sound.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxlYYA8yrg
Mr. Bezmenov was never a KGB operative. He was journalist for Ria Novosti and also informant for KGB.
It’s officially on hold for an indefinite period. The squad moved to other stuff (H-L Alyx I think), and since then no news.
Handy link with the name for the concept: https://contrastrebellion.com/

Personally when this happens and reader mode not available, I typically open devtools, use element picker to select text, and change color of text manually in CSS panel.

I'm 100% agreeing with root cause. Thin fonts render like crap on non-Macs. I never saw a designer testing anything on a non-Apple machine. Hell, in most companies, no devs have a Windows machine those days! "How to repro this Windows-only bug" is a recurring theme. In my last job I was the only Windows-based dev out of ~100. (And I'm based in France where Mac/iPhone are not the #1 choices among consumers). In current job (remote at US-HQ company) everyone's on a Mac (me including, no choice plus it would have been an uphill battle, makes no sense; I must say though, MBP are pretty good; wouldn't buy one personally though due to price tag).
This is kind of a sample of the author’s book on her experience learning and applying non-western parenting approaches from traditional cultures, which is well worth reading (or listening to on Audible). The book is titled: Hunt, Gather, Parent but she actually only visits one hunter gatherer group.
You talked about changing your mind and transforming as a person, not doing great science.
No question the interview process is akin to testing a marathon runner by their 100m dash time.

I was just talking about to implications of poor company chemistry which stems from lack of trust and job insecurity.

I think the best way to evaluate a person is just to talk to them about their experience and why they do what they do. Passion is a critical indicator
This 100%.

20+ years ago I took my NR class as part of my physics PhD program, it was a required course for all physics and astronomy students.

I don't think anybody in the class was planning to use the actual recipes from the book as a drop-in placement for their work, but it was to explain the methods behind the software we all used (Matlab in my group, IDL and IRAF for the astronomers, etc), so users can make the best choice for which curve fitting or regression or optimisation routines to call, and avoid potential pitfalls.

To me it seems like an OS class that uses minix to explain behind-the-scenes operation system functionality. Hardly anyone in the class will go on to use Minix as their primary OS in their future career. (I've not done any formal CS study, so forgive the analogy).
> looked at it recently and was appalled at the amount of clicking required

IMHO that's actually not a big deal. From a comment I made in 2020 [0]:

> That's what I was concerned about before I played through one of the three campaigns a few years ago — that the UI would seem unbearable after having played a lot of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. I found it actually quite OK after learning the keyboard shortcuts (of the Dos version). What actually ruined it for me and made me not want to play the other campaigns is the poor AI. Easy enemies would have been alright; I'm not that good at RTS games anyway and being able to finish each level on the first try was nice. But the opponents are so exceptionally stupid that it just got boring.

So, yes, the controls seem silly from a modern point of view, but they're far from the critical issue that prevents the game from being enjoyable.

By the way, there's a grave mistake in my old comment. I had written:

> Dune Legacy lets you play the campaigns, not just single-player skirmish, against its improved AIs. I just tried selecting ‘hard’ and (with game speed at maximum) got completely wrecked on the second map. Wonderful!

As I played more of the campaign in Dune Legacy, it turned out that the AI is even worse than in the original game. I only thought it was ‘wonderful’ because it attacked my base-under-construction with most of its preexisting army as soon as I gave my presence away too early on. But once I switched my strategy to build more stuff in secret before attacking, it turned out that the AI just sat there uselessly; no halfway decent build order, no scouting.

TL;DR: If you'd like to try multiplayer vs. humans, learn the controls and give it a try, it's really not bad! But if you want a good single-player RTS from the olden days … maybe try Plants vs. Zombies? Overcooked? Definitely not Dune 2.

Oh, and about UnDUNE II: that one really has poor ergonomics, judging from the 5 minutes I played it. It's an incredibly cool piece of art, but what it does particularly well is emulating the original game within the constraints of Pico-8. As opposed to imagining what Dune 2 would have been like in a world where Pico-8 were state of the art. It's like playing Doom on a digital pregnancy test: It's extremely cool that I could do it if I wanted to; but I really, really don't want to.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487643
Why do people think that if you buy a smart TV, you MUST connect it to the internet?

If you need a large screen, you can still buy a smart TV but simply never connect it to the internet. Or better yet, take it apart and rip out the wifi antenna so it won't connect to your neighbor's open network on its own.

With Facebook, it's not that simple. You're either on there, or missing out and inconveniencing others.
Extrinsic motivation (which is what this is) is tricky for several reasons.

First of all, it kills intrinsic motivation. Once you start to reward someone materially for behaviour, you have to continue in perpetuity because they no longer see any reason to do the thing "for its own reward", as we say.

Second, you replace an imperative (one washes one's dishes) with a business transaction (is the proposed payout really superior to the opportunity loss of my time?)

Third, you introduce odd incentives to optimise and find loopholes that allow you to get away with as little as possible for as much as possible.

It simply becomes a very different game. It seems like that worked out for you, which is great, but I'd be very careful about doing it with my children.
I mean, I’m not going to write up a whole diatribe on the topic, but yeah; Kim Il-sung was pretty tyrannical from the outset. You can say it got really bad under Kim Jong-Il, but it was never “good”.
Absolutely. Stating that an assumption is false with no further information doesn't help me update my mental model of the world. Giving an example of how an assumption is incorrect shows the type of errors that can occur, when they can occur, and lets the reader figure out a better way to work around the false assumption.
I think your experience is pretty consistent with nationwide reality due to restrictive zoning, but it is more or less ubiquitous in locales depending on how tight the market is there.

And I sympathize, because I've seen horrible examples of renovations, like people on Facebook forums proudly showing off their renovated kitchens, which scream "usability nightmare" to anyone who has ever looked at design standards. When I lived in San Diego, I could always recognize the work of the flipper who did my house because they used identical kitchen materials and appliances every time.
Not sure if it has a name, but I've seen it called "reverse dialing" (which apparently golang's official build servers use to bust nat & firewalls): https://github.com/inetaf/tcpproxy/issues/8
> There hasn’t been any official announcement from WordPress.com either about what we’re seeing, whether these users’ experiences are the exceptions or the rules, or anything else.

So WP .com changed a bunch of stuff and there was no warning? What world are we living in where that's wise? And acceptable?

That said, if you don't use a domain you own and control then you're going to be a victim to nonsense like this. And while I understand everyone wants something for nothing, free is never free. If more people took the time to understand the hidden cost there would be less victim'ing.
It's not like the CDC wasn't warned that their policies would be harmful. Oh, wait, they were!

Unfortunately, the CDC policies were captive to the teacher's unions, who are anti-child and anti-parent.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-wi...
Medieval Cambridge colleges demanded their rent in saffron
Yes, they did:

https://www.pcgamer.com/arma-3-clips-masquerading-as-footage...

The magnificent irony of when pcgamer does better information than most newspapers. And there's plenty more material confirmed to be fake out there.

This is the ideal media environment for pro war hot emotional takes.

It looks like you are looking for any excuse to not see things for what they are.
To add to this - each game is stored self contained into a png image file [0], where the assets and code take up predictable sections. Each image is the entire game.

It's pretty easy to build your own tools to generate the format, if you were inclined to build an IDE or something along those lines.

[0] https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
Yeah, on stage you're fighting with adrenaline, shitty monitoring, screaming audiences and it's usually a pale imitation of what happens during jamming/rehearsing where you actually develop the songs.
Book Review: The Programmer's Brain
While the Lazy Jones soundtrack is a pretty good demonstration of how early SID music sounded like, it does not even come close to what more recent music players are able to produce - on the same hardware.

If you want to be blown away by the sounds the SID chip can produce, I would recommend some of LMan's work. This is one impressive tune: https://youtu.be/h0qMNfpiLmE

And this is done with the hardware that Bob Yannes designed for the Commodore 64, in his early 20s.
Hire a cleaning service
The only way to know is to have a valid model, and do the math...
Swanson's observation/hypothesis of linear continuation on a few data points is far from a solid model, definitely not going to be added to thermodynamics just yet! You need World-3 and much understanding of the EROEI of everything, intermittency, and so on.
My readings lead me to believe that the current batch of renewable energy is heavily subsidised by many still-functioning CO2-producing activities, and a true renewable-based world looks a lot more like that street with horses than what you believe.
Contra Chrome [pdf]
Proposed EU rules would require clothes to last longer and be easier to repair
Aha, that's a good point! It was silly of me to assume that if any cheap dongle works, that should mean ‘proper’ interfaces would work at least as well.

However, it seems like that explains why we needed Windows drivers, but not why device-specific Linux drivers are a thing? Unless the implication is that manufacturers who needed to make custom drivers anyway didn't bother to make their devices class compliant?
How to be a sustainable fashion lover and why it matters
He was a KGB "operative" but not an officer[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_KGB_defectors
OK I love SQLite but there has been a long-standing misconception, or issue, that I'd like to get clarification on: Is using SQLite from multiple processes safe?

For a long while, either SQLite itself or the Python bindings weren't safe for concurrent access, is this still the case? Can I use SQLite for my Django app? With the backup system on the Tailscale post yesterday, the operational burden is much much lower than Postgres for many use cases.
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