skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Startups You Want to See?
What are some startup ideas that you can't or don't want to pursue for some reason but honestly think might have legs and/or that you would like to see exist in the world? And that anyone who likes them is free to grab and run with?

Here are three of mine:

* Shamery: a bug hall of shame; anyone can submit bugs they've found in web, mobile, and desktop apps and vote on the worst to publicly shame companies into fixing them. The business model might be that it doubles as a job marketplace that connects high quality QA pros with the companies that need them. But really I think this would just be a funny website that would improve average product quality AND produce fun drama

* Router: input a list of job descriptions that interest you and your current experience and qualifications; the output is a custom curriculum for you to pursue, built from a curated collection of high quality resources available online, like MOOCs, blogs, learning projects, book PDFs, online playgrounds, etc. Not just a bunch of resource links but a learning path, with a specific ordering, specific assignments, etc

* Rivals - find leaderboard rivals for single player games like Geometry Wars and Slay The Spire. Join up into leagues, run customized competitions, compete across platforms
Huh...so you can add a third-party domain to the history? That seems like a security flaw. I would have imagined you could only add history for the current domain.
> I would never recommend visiting Dallas, it's a dull city, but as far as places to live it's far surpassed my expectations.

I think this point is key. When your day-to-day is spent staring at a laptop, it doesn't really matter where you live.

I used to live in NYC. I loved it; great city to be in your 20s. But I left due to COVID. Since then, I've returned to visit a handful of times and realized that visiting NYC is probably better than living there. In a long weekend, I'm able to visit great restaurants, see a show, and catch up with friends. Essentially, I pack the social activities that I would have spread out over a month into 3 days. Then in my day-to-day, I don't have to pay Manhattan rent, fight the crowds on the subway, or deal with all of the friction the city has.
I'm in the northern suburbs, and you're right that I don't live in Dallas proper but I said "Dallas area". There are certainly homeless people once you get to Downtown—and they can be a lot more "forthcoming" than they are even in SF or LA. Downtown Dallas isn't like any of the west coast city downtowns though, it's small and there isn't much of a need to go there.

However up here I haven't seen a single one in over a year.

As far as traffic, yeah some areas have a bit of congestion but I'm comparing to Seattle, Portland, SF, and LA. Compared to those cities the traffic in DFW is nothing even in the worst parts of the city center at rush hour.
> I can't put the url as it's the same blog as the one from march

So you mean nothing has changed and this is a duplicate of old news?
The regex crate (for Rust) does not have this capability. It used to many years ago via the regex_macros crate, but I abandoned it mostly because of not having enough resources to dedicate to it and its somewhat niche usage. If you need compile time regexes, it's better to use something like re2c.

The reflex library is interesting, but more like a C++ template hack. Its codegen is impressive, but it's missing (last time I checked) a lot of the classical optimizations that a regex engine typically has. Like a literal prefilter scan.
> My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed

Do i understand it correctly?

60k ppl left ur job and went to zoom?
I actually love Svelte, but generally feel much more productive in React, in part, because Tailwind seems to work better with it.
All genes have a function. This paper helps us understand genes of unknown function (which is a LOT of them).

Some of these functions are not intuitive: maybe they regulate the function of another protein, maybe they only function in the context of a particular stressor, etc. You can think of nearly unlimited scenarios to apply and you start to understand the complexity of understanding how a gene functions.
Possibly the Ian knot https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

You look goofy trying to relearn to tie your shoes, but it really is fast and sturdy.
when i switched to sup, it was a paradigm change in terms of interfaces compared to mutt. i can't say how well it works with imap though because i don't use that feature.
Covid and smell loss: answers begin to emerge
> We seem to be pulling all possible levers and are still barreling into a recession at full speed.

The Fed is pulling fairly hard (but far from maximally hard, because there is considerable concern about policy overshoot) on the anti-inflation monetary policy levers. Those are also the ones that cause, rather than fight, recessions. They are doing this because pulling hard on the anti-recession levers due to the hard and fast COVID recession lead to an equally hard and fast rebound with skyrocketing inflation.

Congress is basically sitting on its hands on major fiscal policy levers, having returned to a basic neutral stance after fairly heavy anti-recession stimulus during the COVID recession. (If we really wanted to manage inflation while avoiding recession, we’d probably want Congress taking more targeted anti-inflation fiscal action aimed at the specific sectors driving overall inflation, so that the Fed could take a lighter hand on broad-focus anti-stimulative measures; if we just wanted to avoid recession in the near term period, we’d focus on stimulus and damn the torpedoes of inflation; but I don't think that would be wise.)

We are very, very far from pulling all possible levers to prevent a recession.
Or even EU. There is a reason there is still brain drain from Europe to the US.
Setting the bar as Cyberpunk is pretty hyperbolic. It's the most demanding game in existence that I know of right now.
The reason they aren’t down more is because they have systems and processes to keep them up. It generally requires multiple failures for them to go down in any meaningful way.

That being said if your service went down for 24 hours because of a bad code change, it probably means and your service goes down a lot. Because whatever caused that 24hr outage probably points to a systemic lack of process and discipline within the organization.
The RHP0 in (Canadian) housing comes from including mortgage interest payments -- a term that increases in proportion to interest rates -- in the measurement of the CPI.
I’m still chugging along a Wordpress.

https://fredlybrand.com/2021/10/28/better-writing-better-blo...
There's always that possibility, but his history of market manipulation should incline people to distrust his stated motivations.
A classic rant on the subject: Steve Yegge's "Code's Worst Enemy:"

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.h...
Corporations Aren’t Greedy Enough
Asteroid Samples May ‘Rewrite the Chemistry of the Solar System’
Interesting question really, but considering the amount of philosophy and other record information we have from Greece they probably had some system of disseminating this information. I would imagine the intent would be to create a few copies, send them out to the officials of various cities who would then use the information to educate the general populous because what benefit would one derive from living in a under defended city.
Very interesting:

> Instead of writing the same code again and again in the console and assigning each function different amounts of storage, I can write the code once and declare multiple functions that each reference that same code, while assigning different amounts of storage for each one.
> If that is true then that means there is no data privacy protection in the US?

There may be some very specific data privacy laws (like two-party consent states), but yeah, you should assume no data privacy protection in the US.
I know about the other organizations, but are they any better in your eyes than the FBI? AFAIK, the DHS can be much more aggressive, perhaps lacking the Justice Dept's oversight.
I am good with the Spirit model. You know exactly what you going to get and can buy what you need. It would be great if US healthcare was the same way. Clear, upfront pricing is much friendlier than handing over money for a service for which you don't know the price or extent.
I assume the theory is that the fetus is a Texan and the state has an interest in protecting them.
Crap... Late to getting back to this.

Newsgroups used to churn through a ton of messages. I don't remember them bogging down this badly. ;(
I have it set up in my basement next to the router; both are plugged into a UPS. UPS claims to run for about 2 hours on battery (with an ear-piercing beep every minute the whole time), so it'll cover most momentary power outages. Admittedly, I got the UPS because I have the drives encrypted and didn't want to re-type the key every time I had a half second power outage.

Oh, and backups. I'm pretty solid on backing up the data and server software (I think), but I don't have spare hardware, so if something physically breaks, I'll be down for a week or so.
I found out there are full audio books on youtube a year ago. I just pick a random book that "sounds good" and play it in the background.

Learn a lot from background noise on various random topics.
Best PaaS Back End Hosting: Heroku vs. Render.com vs. Fly.io vs. Railway
The economy should have failed during the 2020 crisis. That's the point. Government intervention not only prolongs the pain but inevitability increases it as it tries to save.
This is almost certainly the future of warfare. Cheap and plentiful autonomous robots working together as a swarm seems essentially unstoppable other than through EMP means.
I use my own website. I really want to focus on writing and not on tweaking the code so I’m using Hugo with a minimalistic custom template.

https://alessandrocuzzocrea.com
But with remote work, you can, say, go east of the Cascades where the weather is better and you have all that outdoor stuff too.

I grew up in Eugene and I am just done with that much rain and, like others have mentioned, endless gray.
So, people do this a lot and frequently make mistakes. For example, when you knock out a gene, you also damage any overlapping genes (yes, genes can overlap). most studies don't pay attention to the damage they do to overlapping genes.

The underlying physical model for how gene products interact to make phenotypes ends up being so hopelessly complex and latent that most conclusions in this area end up being "sufficient, but not necessary" instead of "necessary, but not sufficient"
Recessions are built into the system. They eliminate market inefficiencies and are the culling element in a system designed to efficiently allocate capital. They are small bush fires that cause minor damage but are ultimately healthy for the forest.

Without recessions credit risk becomes meaningless and is never tested - everything is endlessly going up so there is no leverage risk. People take on progressively riskier bets, zombie companies survive on loans, asset prices increase beyond reason because "you can't lose".

The system is incapable of monotonic growth and market intervention to take the sting out of recessions means the trees burn down not just the underbrush.
Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History
You should really be using the dart-sass[0] build (just `sass` on npm). None of the headaches of native binaries or using ruby, its pure JavaScript (its a dart codebase transpiled to JS). It is very fast.

[0]: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/#older-versions
In just about every store that lets you use a phone number you can use the “Jenny” number as someone has signed it up: (XXX) 867-5309

Either use the local area code or a common one like NY (212) or LA (213).

7-11 is the best for this as there’s tons of people using it. At one point they had a free coffee every 10 promotion so every time you buy a coffee it was a 1/10 gamble to get a free one.
The lack of closing tags is giving me severe anxiety. I know it's valid non-xml syntax but all the hairs on my neck are at attention.
Depends on how much success you have with the SaaS, perhaps it changes your life enough to be a world-changing event. Some people fall in love multiple times, not many can say the same about making a ground breaking SaaS.

Tongue firmly in cheek, in case people don't get what I'm saying.
> Privacy is kind of a fantasy, though.

It's incredible to see how trendy despair is. It's a trend that suits those in power - imagine your opponents just quit! That seems like a fantasy.
I also have a poor rate at typical leetcode interviews. All of the jobs I've gotten have used alternative interview methods and it's worked out every time. And by "worked out", I mean they get a good hire at a relatively cheap price.
I love this complex-engineering-thing-you-thought-it-was-trivial-but-it-doesn't-even-try-to-be kind of articles!
Thanks! Sure, I'm not planning on reposting the code, I just collect LuaJIT stories.
It will be the same as the .COM bubble. Most will die and a few major players will emerge. Especially the startups that were built to be acquired will have a problem.
Think the extreme case - what if the site is down for a whole month, a whole day? Then you can understand.

Another way: you have nothing else to do at the time. so you might click the ads. But now the site is down, there is no ads for you to click.
Subscription is not needed. One can just purchase single titles.
Fortunately, it does work with 1Password for SSH.

Good "git" signature for [REDACTED] with ED25519 key SHA256:VqH020xxJ+XyDLBh99HuBjkdXye4xakUqE05dyDnZC8
fac93bd4295e 2022-06-08 | Some further updates (HEAD -> main) [Austin Ziegler]
Amazon's Newest Ads Team Is Facebook's Worst Nightmare
Work is a fundamental human experience, too.
Recent fun when the UK's Secretary of State for Culture admitted to sharing her password with relatives in a televised Government committee meeting:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/19/nadine-dorr...
Given our infection rates it makes more sense to me to test on the way out.
I am curious what level of details the text of the law requires:

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?billnumber=5761&year=2021...

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Se...

>disclose in each posting for each job opening the wage scale or salary range, and a general description of all of the benefits and other compensation to be offered to the hired applicant.

What is general description? Is that how many RSUs? Does it require showing what metal level health insurance is offered and specific the employer paid proportion?
It would have made sense to simply ignore the M1 hype altogether since the tools you require do not work / run on ARM, or run worse than on Intel, you're better off staying on Intel to wait until the situation for VMs in Apple Silicon improves first: [0].

For developers using VMs, Docker, multi-pass, etc I think it is more trouble than it is worth to jump on to the new shiny thing and invest time in workarounds that break on a new update. At least you weren't part of the November 2020 launch day chaos otherwise you would be waiting 6 months to do any work if you went all in on the M1.

Looks like Intel is (still) the way to go for VMs until Apple Silicon gets better (eventually).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159495
As an emacs + notmuch [1] user, I'll agree with you :)

[1] https://notmuchmail.org/
Still, nothing would've prevented IBM from using the Cell PPE as the basis for a PowerPC chip for the military, so that doesn't disprove the theory.
My experience was it not working in Firefox, but working in Edge.
It can't be that hard to follow this law in specific places. This is a meaningful policy decision, not just following risk.
https://miscdotgeek.com

WordPress, Rocket.net (also where I work)
Advice for College Students
https://lungfoundation.com.au/lung-health/protecting-your-lu...
Due diligence isn't the issue. The fact that Twitter has been defrauding every shareholder and the SEC is the issue. He can walk away easily. They should be prosecuted for fraud.
California does regulate private individuals that lived in California in the past. It also does regulate private individuals with residence in California and working in a different state. Just saying.
The author lost all credibility when he said I have to countersteer to turn my bike. The author is a "professional engineer and consultant, specializing in feedback systems and motors" too. There are >50 million cyclists in the US who would presumably immediately recognize this as a false statement and he didn't ask a single one of them to proofread.

Edit since some people are confused by this apparently: You can steer your bike away from the edge of a cliff by leaning to initiate the turn instead of countersteering. This makes the author's advice of "Don’t ride your bicycle on the edge of a cliff" much less critical.
Rendering Invalid HTML
Don't know about others, but I can tell you my reasons:

a) Higher salary

b) Better career opportunities

c) An idealized view of the American society

a) is easiest. I more than doubled my income by moving here. If I jumped companies (I can't due to visa) I could easily expect a 50%-100% bump. That's nothing to scoff at. Even accounting for increased cost of living, we are talking about life changing amounts of money. Also it's impossible to not feel bad when you know that the junior eng. you are coaching due to perf issues makes more money than you, just because he lives in the US and you don't.

b) is more subtle. I always had the perception that people at the main offices got better opportunities and faster promos than people at satellite offices. Other's have echoed these feelings, but I've never seen data. Outside the company, it is undeniable the job market is bigger and hotter here. Even the largest EU tech hubs don't come close.

c) is the lousiest one. I haven't had much chance to experience it yet so I don't have much of an opinion. I'd say though that having lived in 5 different countries, there are other places with a culture that resonates with me. So yes, USA might be better than my home country, but there are alternatives.

Now due to Covid points a) and b) are becoming less important. Salaries in the EU have gone up, and with mostly remote workforces career opportunities are better distributed. c) was always subjective and a matter of taste. So far I haven't got a great image of the American society, but our landing here has been particularly rough. I think I'll give it a couple of years before I pass judgement.
It seems they have been testing it out? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/09/london-tube-gains-regen...
for me, the value is in staring at it, running your hands over it, knowing that decades ago, perhaps hundreds of years ago, this specific object was being seen and felt by another person, just like you

a relic in the right hands is both a time machine, and a constant reminder, via all our senses, of our fleeting existence, and of what we can do in that brief time, and what we can leave behind

it's also why I like old-growth forests, which don't really require purchase

buying something mass-produced last month doesn't give the same sort of visceral, emotional connection
Yes but there should exist a global regulation for autonomous weapons, unfortunately lots of nations don’t want it and it’s still on hold…
It's right after the second set of dashes.
Yeah. They will recycle your TV as you look at it.
this is pedantic as hell. if you are going to be so pedantic, then i ask you: should we be calling black people "black". that is not even close to an accurate description of their skin color.
Title really should be, "Greedy class action lawyers try to steal money from a company providing a service that can be easily cancelled".
I guess I'm a bit late since I've just started a blog [1]. Anyway, I've chosen the old self-hosting + Zim combo but also copy articles over to Medium [2].

[1] https://slothblog.org/
[2] https://medium.com/@balle.johannes
Working with the ESP32 is what introduced me to the concept of eFuses. Really neat. Allows you to run encrypted firmware images which cannot be easily decrypted even with full physical access to the hardware.
I moved from Thunderbird to claws because it works on my 2GB ram Linux netbook.

Performance is great but one feature I miss is an "archive" button that would let me move selected messages to an archive folder. I can still manually drag them, but sometimes I drop at the wrong place and have to navigate around to make it right. Would love to see this simple feature.

Also, claws search is horrible, I often have to open thunderbird on another machine to find things that claws mail can't.
without even touching the pseudo selectors, your example is roughly this with vanilla css (didn't check the exact values from the TW config, just for illustration purposes)

input {
margin-top: 1rem;
width: 100%;
padding: 2rem 3rem;
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid slate;
border-radius: 25%;
font-size: 1rem;
box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 10px 15px -3px,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 4px 6px -2px

}

now, most of that is pretty straight forward - but you're just going to end up with a whole lot of copypasta when you need to implement outline/focus/shadow/etc state on many elements. and maybe on some specific instances of them you don't want that, so then you have to create a class just to override your global defaults
> If you manage large amounts of email (100K+ messages in a mailbox, 1K+ messages a day), mutt is the only reasonable choice.

I have a couple hundred thousand emails in FastMail and both their web client and Apple’s Mail app seem to scale to this absolutely no problem.

100k emails is way way less data than you think it is. Will likely fit in your laptop’s RAM!
> Can [Meta] be sued for its algorithm, or is the content to blame for social media addiction?

Replace [Meta] with [Hacker News] and re-read it again :)

Personally, since I discovered HN about 10 months ago, I have to admit that I got addicted to it in a way that it totally replaced FB and in recent, maybe 60 days, it swallowed my YouTube time as well! Why? Because, every single day I visit HN (or just refresh), I learn something new from the community, whether it's a "spot on" question, an interesting article, some hacker built something cool and "Show HN'ed" it or.. that ”well-thought” comment with some links, otherwise undiscoverable.

Thanks to all of the above and more, HN consumes about 70% of my free online time.

Thank you hackers for this awesome community!
Possibly, but that's basically the applicants choice to go ahead and apply (within the normal confines of "choice" in work). At lest there is a bottom they can expect. This won't even be that often if the company is actually upfront about how it determines pay: Higher for x qualification, lower without the optional qualifications/experience.

On the other hand, some folks will be happy about that bottom since it will be either more than they expected or more than they are making now.
Is there a way to get the parent comment unflagged? The response from the commenter shows they have a lot to contribute, technically speaking.