skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be good if there was common agreement that startup is a special type of new business who purpose is to scale rapidly and faces uncertainty and high rates of failure. There is usually high upfront investment needed (whether R&D or customer acquisition) and the revenue will follow much later. This type of business is an all-in affair, cant do it part time. Even wiki is now up to date with this definition [1].

This is to be distinguished from new businesses that do not intend to have rapid growth (even go beyond solo founder) and are in stable markets (used to be called small businesses). The OP seems to be running what I would call a small business which is not exactly a startup so why is he trying to tell us he is doing something special. For example, pretty sure I can make a case he is already working too much for his busines, maybe play guitar some weekdays, take some time off. There will be minimal impact to business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
We were talking about scrubbing.
For heating, lots of carcinogenic compounds are released during the process of seasoning, and I don't see why the same wouldn't continue to happen at high heats afterwards(happy to be corrected). Hardening and releasing dangerous compounds aren't mutually exclusive.
Why should I trust this site over the other one? Open source isn’t some magic bullet that means everything is okay.
That wouldn't be flipping just a side-effect of ownership. Flippers should provide renovation/real-estate as a service with the original owner maintaining ownership until the sale to someone else.
It is kind of fly-by-the-pants... But when you know a change could break at runtime on some hardware, and there's no testing organization with a full or even representative sample of supported hardware, and there's no real way to try it and then fallback at runtime, the options are push it out through the (emergent) testing process and see what happens or push it out disabled where almost nobody will use it.

If only a few issues were noticed, those device dricers could likely be fixed with small code changes and most people would be happy. When Linus's machine breaks, there's a heuristic that many machines will break, so that's a recipie for a release that will cause lots of upset.
No. I even have a radon mitigation system. I just don’t think the science that led to its installation is rigorous. It’s a basement not a coal mine.
Related, there was a pretty significant discovery of long term release of these chemicals that contaminated the water supply of a county in upstate NY.

Alot of money and research is exploring the topic, not surprisingly, guidance changes as knowledge gets refined.
My art school friends used to point out "artful ambiguity" as a key success factor beneath religious leaders, political movements and pop music.
Data science, ML at least it is the uncontested #1. R and Julia are making strides but are second or third fiddle.

Webpage programming with Django, you might not like it (?) but for many people it's the top choice.
It sounds like you’re treating startup shares as something more than lottery tickets. Pretend you’re getting zero shares, and there’s 50% chance the startup will fail within the next couple of years. Do you still want to work there? For me the answer was yes, and I work for a startup - with no illusions.
The problem being addressed is the Moore's Law equivalent of the Hedonic Treadmill.

Some of us don't want EVERY available byte of RAM or clock cycle occupied by bloated window managers, terminals, browsers, init systems, text editors, etc.

Suckless has a lot in common with the Handmade Network's philosophy. Keep it small, keep it simple, stop throwing a billion layers of abstraction on top of each other, give a shit about cache lines, heap fragmentation, pipeline flushes, etc.

We are mired in the Jevon's Paradox of the computing world right now. The faster hardware becomes, the more obese our software becomes to utilize it. And as a consequences, much worse.

Suckless aims to address this.
It is interesting to note how everyone talks about the dependency on gas in Germany, while nobody mentions France. If we look at the two graphs:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/En...

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/abm6r4/germanys_en...

We can see that both Germany and France use about the same percentage of gas in their energy mix. Making this discussion a reason to revive nuclear is quite dishonest.
Canada has shorter mortgage terms that require multiple mortgages to pay off a house at different times, transferring interest rate risk to the buyer. Canada also has higher house prices than the US. Mortgage term length may contribute to price growth to some extent, but I think the supply of and demand for housing swamp any effects of financing.

Being able to lock in a low interest rate for thirty years, the probable lifetime of the amortization period, is very advantageous. Combine this with a lack of a prepayment penalty and American mortgage holders get a great deal.
> My friend only had his city bike stolen after 4+ years of not owning a bike lock.

My friend had something similar after claiming you didn’t need to lock your bike in Japan. Only they didn’t take his bike. They locked it, and took just the key. It still brings a smile to my face to think about it.
Who says we havent?
PFAS have been in use for +50years.
> a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

I had a homeless friend that very much insisted on this. And I happen to agree.

As for degeneration of American capitalism to rentier capitalism, this is also something we need to address. I don't mind e.g. Henry Ford getting filthy rich -- at least he built something.
First of all, these are almost certainly costs per Kilowatt hour, not megawatt hour.

These costs would skyrocket if the world actually tried to deploy them at grid scale. The entire world only puts out 300 GWh of lithium ion batteries. By comparison, one hour of electricity storage is 2,500 GWh. You'd have to direct all battery Production to storage for 8 years, and pause the production of all EVs and electronics that use batteries. This drove the cost up above $500/KWh in New York for example: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-york-battery-storage-co...

Similar story with pumped hydroelectricity. You need the right geography to build pumped hydro. Most of it is in remote inaccessible places (Tibet has huge pumped hydroelectricity potential). The only economically viable sites are the ones that are close to transportation infrastructure. Once those are developed, the cost climbs as more and more remote sites need to be developed.

Liquid air was promising, but the pilot plant took $600/KWh just to build. And who knows what the maintenance costs will be and if it'll live up to it's promised lifespan.
Not gonna lie, I get nights where I don’t sleep at all and my mind ‘glows’ with thoughts and the thoughts are intrusive, almost an imposter on my mind. This is a good time to write and take notes. Missing a night’s sleep is detrimental to the next day where all the things that would normally excite me are boring as hell. All I can do is exist during the day and I feel slightly drunk and can’t do anything that requires good dexterity. It’s horrible. Then I make up the sleep debt by falling asleep on that day, and the feeling of rejuvenation is tremendous and I can function. I’ve talked to my doctor about those nights where my mind ‘glows’ with activity and I was diagnosed with mild psychosis. Luckily it’s treatable with meds, so there is that.
Because the Green Party (which was founded as direct result of the Chernobyl desaster) has been pushing their irrational agenda against nuclear power. They deliberately ignored any scientific arguments that were even slightly in favor of nuclear.

The Greens have brought some very necessary ecological improvements that would otherwise not have happened (probably), but their continuous crusade against anything nuclear, ignoring scientific findings and statistics, is just annoying at this point
It does extend, just it results in a moving castle of an infoelectromechanical self complication with overly bureaucratic interfaces, tons of back channel behaviors and tangential error messages.

The Japanese culture is not known to focus on setting global goals and recursively dividing it into local decision makings and actions. Rather it’s optimized for optimizing local behaviors, which yields amazing features, but often only as features.
Yes. Yes it has.
Being born earlier is not nearly the only thing they did. They also (almost always) bought that land, (almost always) paid continual rent to the local government for the use of that land, improved and maintained that land, and finally, reached a decision that they needed to sell that land and improvements to someone else.
Look inside the commit's comment.

It's hard to believe that the request is accidentally rejected if your referrer is not Microsoft's download page.
Seems pretty clear it’s a VPN replacement?

From home page: “Replace your VPN” and “Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances”
FYI https://lotteweber-grillpfanne.de/pfanne-erneuern/ is the service I plan to use; haven't yet though.
I remember the first time I used Zoom years ago. I was interviewing with a company and they asked me to join a Zoom call. When I went to the website to install it, it seemed like a poorly branded product and I had this concern I was installing malware. When I opened it for the first time the UI felt mediocre and I was sure at the time that I had compromised my computer.
The solution to climate change and all these crises is a vastly reduced human population living in small agrarian communities with preindustrial lifestyles. We keep having these environmental crises because technological civilization was a mistake.
- You are a true believer, blessings of the State, blessings of the masses. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.
Most of the global population doesn’t have access to cancer screenings/health treatment. Come on.
What I don’t understand is how those two incidents are even relevant. Chernobyl happened because of a faulty design + mismanagement and Fukushima was located on a region prone to earthquakes/tsunami’s caused by earthquakes. The factors do not really apply to Germany. And even if it did, the deaths caused by those accidents were quite low. Meanwhile coal pollution is killing people by the thousands but this is somehow ok?

I think the sole reason the west moved away from Nuclear is because it sounds scary and because the oil countries had a strong interest in maintaining the non-nuclear status quo.
If I get a reverse osmosis water filter, will that eliminate the PFAS?
Tell that to the electric grid. Natural gas is still king in the U.S, and always will be. That's because it's the only power source that can scale with demand. When everyone turns their AC on in the summer, or heat in the winter, renewables can only offset the cost.
The iso/ipsw signatures expire after months/years though, so you could end up with an image you can’t install from.
The whole situation is confused; banks often have quite the ability to "go after you" for deficiency but in actuality they rarely do.

And in some states, such as California, on the original purchase loan they cannot; it's non-recourse.

But they sold your loan long ago, and trying to "do the math" and resell a new underwater one doesn't work.
Whoa! Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment, lost 10 pounds and went to hospital twice due to panic attack while finding PMF!

It can be very gruelling.
So some dude, thousands of kilometers away, grew his bananas, put them in a boat, for a weeks long trip to Europe, followed by hundreds of kilometers in a truck, to end up in my office trash

Along with millions of other bananas that got eaten. You're arguing against economies of scale here, and you'll need to show your work rather than dismissing long-distance trade as "madness".
> What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?

Stopping bothering me with damn fool questions would be a good start … ;-)
There exists tooling to convert these typescripts into, for example, HTML output to include on your website. I use the script(1) util as part of my dayjob to create a bit of a trail when there are questions later.

Some terminal emulators also support dumping the buffer as HTML.
Ask HN: Proper Tab Management for Firefox?
I've been using chrome always since it got released, but firefox consumes about 25% less battery.

I have optimized Chrome for max performance at the cost of power usage (using chrome://flags and command line switches). I don't feel like having multiple chrome configs. I'd like to give firefox a chance, maybe it has some benefits over chrome.

But wtf? Is there really no proper add-on for managing tabs and windows such as Session Buddy for chrome?

For example Tab Session Manager for firefox only shows previously closed sessions. Every other add-on I try is seriously lacking in basic functionality such rearranging, searching, and closing tabs/windows.

Importing and exporting, renaming sessions.

Tabby for example has only a tiny 800x600 pop up window. Manage 100+ tabs in that? pass. (I do lots of researching).

Can anyone save firefox?
No, the problem is that the one that wins the competition is still not viable at grid scale. The competition isn't against other storage systems, the competition is against energy systems that don't require storage. Nuclear was build at around $1-2 billion per GW when it was built at scale during the 1960s and 70s. It's hard for any renewable + storage system to compete against that.
> Well, I think that’s bullshit.

I think people underestimate why running a startup is so time-consuming. Having real users with real business needs is like having a family with children. You don't take it easy when your kids hurt themselves or need help with homework. In the same way if a customer is having problems and needs a fix ASAP. In either case if it happens at 5am on Saturday morning you are on the hook to ensure it gets fixed--either do it yourself or roust out others to help, then make sure it gets done right, then make sure it does not happen again.

Over time you eliminate common problems. Moreover you can hire people to handle these issues so they don't bubble up all the time. But in the meantime there's no viable way other than putting in a lot of time.

p.s. Many startups are blessed with an offering that only needs 9-5 answers. I've never worked in one, though. It sounds really nice. ;)
The title is somewhat optimistic by not specifying the month, or an ordinal.
Serena 1999 vs. Serena 2017 A.I. generated match
I think the issue was more that they would copy-paste those lines from somewhere else and then forget to change one of the expressions.
There was a now-deleted reply to this that made a great point: Is it possible vaccines could be included in your list?

The answer to that is no, it is impossible for any vaccine to be included in that list, which gives rise to the more general point: modern scientific studies are so heavily agenda-polluted, that skepticism and conservative adoption are prohibited. That a handful of short-term (<100 years) studies are sufficient for rolling out unprecedented technologies to the entire world. That an absence of evidence of long-term effects is taken to mean evidence of absence.

Whether it be DDT, GMO's, or PFAS, if the science to date can't detect harm, then there of course cannot possibly be harm - throw caution to the wind and roll it out 100% the world over, from Antarctica to Tibet.
Me and some friends are planning a skiing trip for winter and were considering Italy, Slovakia and Austria (or just going somewhere in Czech Rep). I never thought to consider Georgia, though! Thanks for the tip, just checking it now :D
Oh, I was going to correct him. Never heard it called anything other than makku.

But yeah, Kanto ;)
Then I must have confused it with some other brand. A colleague showed me a thin one one with light that can be regulated from cold to warm and had very fast notetaking functions.
From XON/XOFF to Forward Incremental Search
The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook
> that's also why American academics is widely viewed as corrupt and unproductive, ridden with fraudulent con artists

.... according to who exactly? This is total hearsay.
You have a good point. It’s hard because radon dramatically boosts the risks for people who smoke or have other risk factors.

But since remediation is now part of the way of doing things, ironically nobody has an incentive to learn more.
I recommend the paper "Precautionary Principle" by Nassim Taleb and co-authors

It does a great job presenting your argument in mathematical format as well as rebutting usual criticisms you may encounter
Something like dialog or whiptail? Dialog uses ncurses and whiptail uses s-lang.
> At that time, each new improvement brought astounding differences in capability.

Yes! There's a post we wrote on precisely this phenomenon with John Carmack as the main character that you might find interesting.[1]

TLDR: There was a time when people were willing to spend (literally) tens of thousands of dollars on ultra-premium hardware in order to compute on hardware a few years ahead of the market.

For example, John Carmack spent $23K for a NeXT workstation on which he made Wolfeinstein 3D, Doom I & II, and Quake. He also spent ~$10K on the world's first 1080p monitor, which he used to program the Quake trilogy.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/paying-for-productivity/
| and they have been around so long, if they were really bad we would be seeing massive issues. However, we are not.

1. They really haven't "been around so long". Not even a single human lifetime.

2. Plenty of other things cause cancer, endocrine disruption etc. Red meat and the beach are here to stay, but why should I be ok with some unaccountable corporation dumping additional pollutants into my environment?

But, by all means, continue to avoid a rational, cautious mode of decision making. It's probably not that harmful in my opinion.
> Their point isn't that that's the best idea, but that we have lots of things that would actually work, and between them there was never any reason to worry too much about it.

And the above commenter's point is that it doesn't actually work.

The fact that so many support and energy policy that amounts to "whatever, we'll figure out storage eventually" is astounding. If that's the mentality you're going to take, just let fusion solve all our problems.
4 teenagers would not make me nervous. Happens many times per day for many of us. Parent comments are talking about something different than "common sense" or "being alert". Profiling is a real thing that many people have to deal with.
Our property business (side hustle) provides nice places for people to live, where they do not have to worry about the larger maintenance and upkeep that comes with all property, not to mention the financing arrangements now required due to how our economy has (d)evolved.

I see it kind of like a what friend of mine, who was a pretty decent software engineer, said about going out on his own, rather than working for others (I am an entrepreneurial-type thinker, have run my own businesses for the last 30+ years, although not completed them in a buy-out process, just use them for cash flow).

Paraphrased: He didn't want the work of the overhead of running a business, he just wanted to work on software, then do other things in his life.

It is up to each person in life to do what they do as ethically as they think best for them, and up to each of us to choose whether we care to interact with others or not, with others' values/ethics in mind. And in that way, we get to benefit from others' expertise in areas we may not be as proficient.

Software can do great good, and it can do great harm. It is us humans that make the difference. Same with providing housing or commercial space. It is yet another tool, judge for yourself how that tool is being wielded by each practitioner.
Many answers here seem to come from wishful thinking bordering on financial illiteracy.

Money has a cost. Whether you use it to build houses or indirectly invest in companies through stock markets or your own business or treasury bonds, all expect yield vs risk to match other investment opportunities. If you make it tough for new investors to enter housing markets, then new money will stop flowing into housing markets as they can find better yields else where. That means lower new supply and higher rents. If you assume your toothpaste company is ripping you off by increasing prices, then the answer is not to make it difficult for new toothpaste companies to enter the market (or add more taxes to the existing ones). The answer is to make it easy for other companies to enter the market and ensure its profitable for them to do so.
A few minutes in Firefox' Network logger reveals that https://dict.org does not expose the search term in the URL, unlike all of:

https://ahdictionary.com
https://www.collinsdictionary.com
https://www.merriam-webster.com
https://en.wiktionary.org

Furthermore, the last three, excepting ahdictionary.com, issue HTTPS requests per-keystroke -- needed for auto-complete.

Note however one tripping hazard with dict.org: Unencrypted port 80 i.e. "http://dict.org" is functional, does not redirect to "https://dict.org", and Firefox responds to a bare "dict.org" in its search box by first trying "http://dict.org". FF presents the dict.org home page upon getting the port 80 success response.
Pretty much all of "social science" is not-reproducible. It's probably been that way forever, but it is now becoming obvious.

Biology is also prone to "not reproducible".

None of the above is due to machine learning.
You should get some sunlight for your circadian clock
I actually see a food bank "gleaner" regularly at my Safeway. Bananas with any black spots at all are considered unsaleable, although they're perfectly edible.

So long before they turn all black, they're taken to the food bank and given away to whomever wants them at their central location. If a banana does make it all the way to black, it means someone bought it and then didn't eat it.

There is actually competition among the food banks for supermarkets' unwanted food. One will go to the supermarket manager and ask for their unwanted food and get told "Sorry, we're already giving it to Second Harvest."

It isn't only produce. The gleaner regularly fills up his car with breads, milk, and lots of other stuff.
The main way if you look at it is investors willing to run on empty - buying houses and then failing to rent them at the amounts they're trying to get, where they sit empty for some time before the investor goes belly up.

This reduces the supply of housing in use.
Your argument is that places that are zoned lower are worth less, and places that are zoned higher are worth more. That's only true in the existing paradigm.

What would be true in the new paradigm is that places would only allowed to be zoned lower if people are willing to pay for that exclusive access. It's not just industrial areas, all higher zoned areas would be cheaper than lower zoned areas.

Land Value Tax incentivizes proper zoning, as the more scarce the housing is, the higher the tax. Proper zoning(like Tokyo has without a land value tax) flips the structure.
I’m not asking it to help me know them. I’m asking it to use an identifier I recognize. On earth, we use names.

And regarding profile pictures, I’d say 10% of the people I interact with on zoom have them, and 0% of the people I interact with on teams. These platforms should get over themselves and realize people aren’t spending time customizing their profiles, because it’s just not important. You’re just a tool, zoom/teams. Try not to go wild with your fantasy of becoming a “virtual town square” that is integral to all aspects of life or whatever you are telling yourself internally. First goal is making meetings less of a pain in the ass.