skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you mentioned, many of the suggested techniques can only take you so far. And it's a problem of the privileged enough to think about a startup.

I find that one thing that can help, and that I would use both as self-help or as an investor judging a possible founder, is the amount of what I would call
"lucid self-awareness".

Is the founder able to phrase to others clearly what he is good on and why, and why the journey is worth taking, in more details than just: We should try or is where is the opportunity. Also is the founder also to detail where are the challenges and how can we overcame these.

At the personal level or at the corporate level. Warning signs would be explanations at the corporate level of the type: We have a certain runaway and we will work really hard. That is a plan running on statistical luck.
A positive explanation would be: We think we will not run out of runway because we have 10 paying customers and at the rate we are acquiring customers, we cover
expenses in 6 months.

At the personal level a warning sign would a behavioral pattern of overtime, overconfidence, depression, anxiety or irritability. Believe on the existence of an opportunity, relying on other founders deliverable without being able to articulate what they will be able to achieve, or for example not being able to clearly articulate what is your plan for failure.

As stress is mostly a symptom of lack of control, the founder able to articulate what parameters he can control, and what not under their control and what can be done to manage that, would engage in more appropriate stress management.

At the personal founder level, one example would be being able to articulate that: We don't have enough funds right now, and my other co-founder was just arrested and one of my VCs is really working for one of my competitors.

So I know where in 3 to 6 months I can get additional funds, even the objective is not guaranteed. I analyzed my co-founder legal problems and are likely to only affect his personal life. I have a plan not to share any more internal data with this VC or I will feed just standard info.

It's maybe not about the stress level, but about the existence or not of a plan to manage that stress level.

Although there might be a lot to criticize about Amazon, I always found, that this interview from 1997, is a good example of the lucid self-awareness, we should look for in a founder, and what might help manage stress:

"Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview": https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM

Of course Jeff Bezos worked at an investment fund, so I am sure in case this Amazon thing had gone nowhere he had already a well fought failure plan.

So in shorter words, you are crossing a shark infested ocean, in a small raft, so make sure you prepare well. From your satellite phone, to your life raft, to provision, to navigation aids. If you are sail out and can still see the cost but you are already under stress, it's normal, but maybe reexamine the preparation you did before the journey, get back to port while you can.
Try later.
Intense exercise while dieting may reduce cravings for fatty food
Maine Resident Dies of Rare Tick-Borne Virus
Thank you for the takeaways.
>one way or another this is pretty weird. I don't suppose we'll get a full explanation, but it would certainly be interesting.

Lets say this parachute team is the true story.

How jumpy are they to be calling for evacuation over something you can go on a website and check on?

That in of itself is a story.
Rule of thumb: The longer and more complicated the article, the more reliable the content.

NY Post article citing 'scientists' or 'a study' about how doing handstands increase your sexual capabilities in 250 words or less? Unreliable.

Scientific paper linking biweekly handstands to increased cardiovascular health in 40-50 year-old Asian men in the Baltimore area, with raw data attached, in 12500 words? Reliable.
How would you recommend enforcing a limit on number of localStorage saves? If the number was held in localStorage as well, that's easily circumvented, and even if the save number was stored in Firebase and associated with the auth ID for the account, seems to me like people could probably just create a new account as needed and adjust the localStorage content to match, with a few lines of JS.
Indeed, however and, somewhat counter-intuitively, the multiplayer game did work without the Expansion Pak. But arguments about the completeness of Perfect Dark aside, my point is that Perfect Dark is still the exception in that the vast majority of games worked without the Expansion Pak. Which is contrary to the earlier commenter who said a lot of N64 games required it.
Flat 2.0 and How It Solves Flat Design’s Usability Problems
I may not be a international law expert, but this looks like a stretch. A very wide one. With some strange interpretations of the articles.
Ask HN: Where to Host Plain Text?
I would like to host simple texts. I don't intent to start a magazine, and so I find that the benefits of self-hosting doesn't justify the hassle.

What options do I have? I don't like Medium as they some times (?) paywall it, push for sign-ups etc. I've been hearing about Substack, but I just had a look and its headline is "start a paid newsletter" - I don't really want to start a newsletter, or sell my publications.

I would accept ads, although everything else being equal I would prefer without, of course.

So, what are the alternatives and how do they compare?
Huffman coding was invented when Huffman's professor, Robert Fano, gave a class the option of either taking a regular final exam or solving the optimal encoding problem which (unknown to the students) he and Shannon had been failing to solve for some time.
ARM Macs have a new security feature we haven't seen previously. They are built to resist attackers who have physical access to the hardware.

https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1425800637166596101
Why are real GUIs not like this?
To that I would add a healthy dose of questioning "qui prodest?" or "follow the money".
I mostly agree. The majority of neighborhoods in the US are designed to support enormous vehicles driving as fast as they can and are therefore an unnecessarily hostile environment for everyone else. I would not choose to risk my children walking on their own just to make a point or "be the change" in a place like that.

However you can choose where to live. there are still plenty of walkable neighborhoods in cities, suburbs, small towns, etc. The issue is that you will have to find them and then you will have to pay more for the privilege of living there.

With respect to finding them, we used national commuting mode share and various websites to pick a handful of regions that had a reputation for walkability, spent a bit of time on Google Maps, called the schools to inquire about their mode share (e.g. percent of children who walk/bike minus the percent driven by parents), chatted with the folks who run the state's Safe Routes to School program, and rented an apartment while we spent a couple months biking around the candidate neighborhoods/towns, especially during rush hour.

With respect to cost we were priced out of the really walkable areas but were able to find something where many kids walk or bike to school on their own in our price range. Based on price premium for walkable areas it seems that a lot of home buyers prioritize the same things we do but not a lot of new neighborhoods are built to prioritize walking. It felt like there were a lot of people competing for a relatively fixed pool of (typically old) neighborhoods.
Curiously enough both industries you use in your example (Auto, Fashion) have permanent designers in their payroll which again touches on GP's points.

I don't have to learn how to use scissors or paperclips everytime, I use somebody else's stationery. There is a fundamental form to daily objects that does not change or otherwise changes in leap steps often by completely depricating the old object.
There are a range of sources that I will trust to a very high degree.

A trick that I've heard about in this video [1] is to focus most on information in this order of publication style:

1. books [2]

2. research papers

3. articles from respected [3] news sources

4. anything else

[1] https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/VODOrgBe...

[2] caveat here: garbage books exist, but when you draw a "web" of bibliography (references in books to other books) you quickly see which books are by the authors considered to be noteworthy books as well.

[3] A "respectable" news source will, for example, retract a statement if they later on discover it to be a false claim.
This concept helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience
Yes, the money might go to different platforms; wherever the eye balls are.
I did like the name ProjectiFi (when pronounced correctly), but I found it had too many readability issues. A lot of people missed the first "i" and thought it was Project Fi, and others would say "Project i-Fi", like some oddly named apple product.
Whoever wrote this doesn't appear to have a solid understanding of English.
> parent's

Having parents who are presumably supportive and can provide you with room and board and space to play around with your ideas makes it difficult to take the rest of the sentence seriously. In particular, lots of folks who support children, disabled spouses, ailing parents, and people with bad credit because they've been poor all their lives wouldn't have been able to do what you did

I don't generally find conversations around privilege to be useful since almost everyone is privileged compared to somebody else, and almost anything can be framed as privilege, so the term is very easily weaponized. At the same time, I think it's important to have awareness about the ways in which one can be privileged to someone else -- at least the large ways -- and parents can often be a very large way.

Not because you should feel guilty, but because it's very easy to lose sight of certain terms in the calculus of one's success, particularly the ones involving luck or help from others because it might feel like they minimize the contribution from your skills and blood/sweat/tears/creativity/appetite for risk/other stuff that you might be proud of. Mainly I think this stuff is important because I think self-awareness is important, and because I've found it helps with understanding and having more compassion for other people. That's all
"Relatively constant" doesn't mean "5.0%". It means it's always been present (which is true as far as we can tell, it's even present in other mammals), and it's always been a small minority.
indeed, then what did happen to the storyline of nvidi and lapsus?
I'm always in support of donating laptops to relatives in need. Good on you.
I think it’s fair and reasonable to expect a basic level of knowledge when someone is making such confident statements regarding their reverse engineering work.

Defeating certificate pinning with tools like Frida is one of the most basic and common tasks when reversing iOS/OS X applications.
1) Banning speech isn’t ok just because it’s speech you don’t like.

2) That is a gross mischaracterization of the intent and actual effect of the bill.
I must note that TruffleRuby is a fantastic and genius bit of work with similarly genius folks working on it, but to answer your question.. there's a big cultural aspect. Things involving Oracle, the JVM, and Java generally do not tend to particularly click well with the entire Ruby world (but are just fine in specific niches). Consider that JRuby was significantly faster than CRuby for a long time yet the level of usage it got never really reflected that. Also consider just how poor Windows support was in Ruby for many years - this also wasn't purely a technical issue.
It's not 80h/week vs 40h/week, it's how many weeks can you endure it.

It's how far you go, not how fast you go.
On wikipedia: don't trust it blindly and always read the talk page.
Wow, that sounds like a horrible idea. It's like the new owner of an ISBN demanding libraries to burn the book previously sold under that ISBN.
I suspect there's some formula some way to use copper crystals to make better methamphetamine crystals.
Two sidenotes:

- actual desktops, and some entry-level server are designed with much more CPUs that their usage need, and chronically too tittle ram. I'm curios if that's a classic "my CPU is big" vs and old reminiscence of the past were sw was far less resource hungry and CPU very slow...

- storage is "cheap enough" to "wast" some in exchange of "buffer for peak loads", however until GNU/Linux do something less ugly for the OOM killer there might be still issues...
They also do this because it is likely that Microsoft will stop signing their bootloaders/kernels with their UEFI CA keys if they allow arbitrary user modules to be loaded (because it would be trivial to abuse those kernels to break Windows' full disk encryption).

And if Microsoft stops signing your bootloaders it is an automatic death sentence for your distribution, as you can no longer boot the LiveCD without "scary prompts" and/or fiddling with the BIOS setup.
Then demonetize it, don’t remove it.
Pah, neobrutalism is just sparkling concrete.
One of the nice things about being a solo dev building this as a side project is that I don't have investors I need to pay back, and so far operating costs are pretty minimal :)
I don't think he's more disliked than Bezos, or Zuckerberg. Unlike with Bezos and Zuckerberg, Elon at least seems to have a personal mission beyond earning a lot of money, whether it is a lie or not. Out of curiosity, who are the Waltons? I couldn't figure it out even through search.
I suppose in the sense that concentration of mining power makes a cryptocurrency vulnerable to 51% attacks or that concentration of mining power centralizes influence and cryptocurrency in a way philosophically antithetical to the principle of decentralized cryptocurrencies.
Netflix Claims 'Fortnite' Is a Bigger Competitor Than HBO
Like I say, the text states that there is light and the day-night cycle before the sun, moon, and stars are created; so the text does not allow for a simplistic interpretation of the individual words in isolation.

You could conclude that there is no logically consistent interpretation possible, and if your prior is that the narrative can't be correct then I suppose that's an appealing conclusion, but I think it is just as reasonable to say that the text is describing (at least poetically) the subjective experience of a nominal observer on the surface of the Earth as it is being formed.
About Snaps
It isn’t for the initial copier but the consumer is certainly consuming content they did not pay for.
/r/conspiracy subreddit but the credible information is mixed together with fake news. But it's easy to figure out which is which if you do a few searches online. A lot of stuff on there just seems insane, but then you start searching and sometimes it all checks out.
It's Red Hat, they dropped their support for community based linux. Why wouldn't they also drop support for old hardware.
Not that simple

Articles: Not really, a lot of SEO practitioners and expert storytellers use these tactics to their advantage.

Scientific papers: You have to be technically trained a bit to see the nuances - ex: journal impact factor (citations), methodology (sample size, variables controlled, stat. significance...) affects results, analysis & interpretation; conflicts of interest with industry sponsors (often stated, but sometimes hidden), etc.
Front end complexity - Making applications isomorphic so you can re-use code on the client and server

Hacker News commenter: Ugh, why is this problem so over-engineered. It's completely unnecessary

Back end complexity - Two hour Google article from yesterday that goes through layers of C++ and raw assembly that results in a 2-3% speed up by basically using SIMD and turning off branch prediction

Hacker News commenter: Wow! So cool!
> It's a bit sad that the author went to the depths of buying this domain, create this page and then don't provide a correct library they think it's appropriate like https://colorjs.io/

Colorjs.io doesn't address most problems the website highlights.
Seems like Viet Nam invalidated Nato, and we’ve been living a lie ever since!
It says limes are 0.29 cents each on the sign, not $0.29.
I'm not in startups, but I think it's because of the fierce competition. If you don't do 80h/week, someone else will.
All the applications where the volatile state matters, e.g. browsers like Chrome or Firefox, source code editors, office applications, etc. already restore their tabs/working documents on restart, in a second or so on my computers.

If there are such applications which do not restore their previously open documents upon restart, it is they who should be improved, instead of using hibernate.

More frequently than wanting to close the entire computer, I just happen to stop using a certain application. In that case I want to be able to close it and restart from the same state at some later time.

So this is a feature that I want in any application. If the feature already exists at the lower granularity of each application, it also removes the need for a hibernate feature of the entire computer.
Exactly! OmniOS, Tribblix and Smartos are probably three most prominent ones. OpenIndiana is another one, but it is aimed at desktop computers.
Great job not answering.
Yes Fedora is "a distribution of linux". A distribution that is an upstream of an enterprise distribution. Why do you care if enterprise markets don't care about legacy support? Just use another distribution. That's one of the boons of linux.
So ironic. I always keep the idea of getting parts from disassembly as an example of things that you can do at small scale that aren’t viable at larger scale.

i.e. as a hobbyist you can’t compete with a large manufacturer w.r.t. large orders that get low per unit costs, but you can repurpose old parts cheaper (for your metric for cost) than they can.
> The first is easy, and most of us probably already agree; designers gotta design. They have to justify their salary _somehow_.

Designers are typically just _workers_, if it's their own thing, then sure they might want to use that as a canvas to explore things. But generally they produce things and solve problems and don't create them.

In my experience and opinion, products are redesigned because:

- Users who get bored quickly and have superficial concerns are very loud. They want more stuff and different stuff all the time, and they make sure you know it. They don't care about orthogonal, minimal features that work nicely together, nor about stability.

- Marketing people are very good at selling things, internally and externally. Sometimes this is data driven, but it's generally a very hard and fuzzy thing to interpret. They are very good at hitting the right nerves.

- Decision makers, executives are good at inventing work for others, convincing people to follow and expanding their influence. They need to think in the abstract and are often detached from workers and users so they miss important details.
On One-Way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity
Ah yes, the iX has not sold very well as far as I'm aware, globally speaking. I'm just not convinced of BMW's leadership in the marketplace.
I pay people to verify information on finclout.io
For investments its critical that information is free from pump and dumps, scams, etc. you get the drill.
Hence, I have a clear incentive where payment makes sense.
I would argue that the best designs are the ones that require the fewest alterations over time.

Wikipedia, craigslist, HN, StackOverflow, Indeed, GitHub/GitLab, etc. arguably all fairly consistent while many other e-commerce sites, forums, social networks, job sites and so on have been all over the place and still hideous now.

Yes, they've all had tweaks over the years but none have taken dramatic shifts or bent towards "trending UI paradigms" like "flat" or "brut" which frankly I've always found rather unnecessary on any website that requires you to interact with it.

The sites I listed above are all ones I enjoy using because there's no BS in my way, it's just efficient and quiet.

Well, I don't use craigslist — but if I needed to buy a VHS player, or wanted to find a cash-in-hand gig performing in an adult film, it would be my first port of call.*

Personal portfolio? Sure, design the shit out of it. Random blog or publication? Yeah go for it as long as the content is clear and consumable.

Forum? Shop/e-commerce? CMS/CRUD? Actual web app? Data tools? Anything that actually has to be used? Make it plain and bland, but make it work and work fast.

* Do not do this.
Generics alone wouldn't be sufficient to replace the code generator, you'd also need specialization and/or overloading, or at least some significantly different syntax allowed for comparing primitive types.
You look for information from the original source, not opinions. You take that information and come to your own opinion. You validate your opinion with an open mind and curiosity - look out for people who can challenge their views. You introspect and change your mind. You also say that some information is beyond your comprehension and “too hard to understand”.

“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.”— Charlie Munger
Yes, flat can be bad if not done properly. But the bad on flat is x1000 better than any other style applied mediocrely.
This exactly.

YouTube’s business model is so simple it’s phenomenal. Only reason Google will continue doing well for investors as they are no viable alternatives to YouTube in the near future
Does anyone know what the two unproven theorems he proved were?
With, however the caveat that scientific papers can be embarrassingly wrong, and the error can not be spotted for 17 years, and the paper can go on being widely believed and quoted many years after the full debunk (and the case I link is apparently an honest mistake, not fraud which may be obfuscated).

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...
Cool, thank you for showing me a new airport for me to gawk at. I feel better that the US is getting at least some new infrastructure.
I think that disabling SIP can break some programs and it's hard to do for a normal user right? I'm curious how anti-malware software is doing this, because it's doing a lot of fancy stuff, maybe I should look into it by reverse engineering one of them. Thanks for the link I'll definitely check it out.
They should have said 'would be actually useful if' rather than 'should be.' From a design perspective, the utility of gradients that come to a muddy gray in the middle is nonexistent. Framing it as a way to make them more useful to people who need them rather than 'correct' would have been more productive, but way less likely to hit the top stories on HN.

I'd say the transparency assertions are more dubious. There's a zillion ways to superimpose a color on an image and the one they suggest isn't even more consistently useful than the others, let alone 'correct.'
Ask HN: What are some good podcasts about programming?
Worth noting that one of the authors is this guy https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958916

"The largest nonprofit health system in Texas has secured a temporary restraining order against cardiologist Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic [...]"