skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a signal that quality of the investments appears low these days.

Obviously a big win can erase a lot of misplaced bets, but I wonder how many of the pure idea, low effort startups ended up reaching major success.

To me it speaks of a non serious/committed entrepreneur, because the amount of cash that Y combinator supplies makes no material difference in the ability to actually bootstrap the project.
There is pretty severe rate-limiting. I've never tried to figure out the exact rates, and it's possible they vary per-user based on some opaque historical factors, but whatever they are, they're low. Try to post 40 articles in a row and it won't let you. Combine that with the fact that new accounts can't submit anything, and that takes care of a lot of low-hanging fruit with respect to spam prevention.

But it isn't 100% spam free. It's just free of the really obvious things usually plaguing blogs with no filters on comments offering Viagra and work-from-home MLM schemes. But a whole lot of content is submitted that pretends to be more or less objective analysis of some tech problem but is really a thinly-veiled ad for a service solving that problem, or criticism of something posted by a competitor. And CEOs/founders are constantly out there shilling for their own crap in comments as answers to user queries. That kind of thing tends to get downvoted and/or flagged quickly, but it's still there.
But that's an Apple problem, not a "you" problem in that case. In Electron the security burden for tracking Chromium CVEs and sending updates out is entirely yours, whereas with Tauri you outsource it. In Electron, Chromium CVEs are your CVEs. In Tauri, Safari CVEs remain Apple's CVEs and technically entirely outside the scope of your application bundle. The trade-off for "old macOS webviews" is that it's not your problem other than general, basic old pre-Chromium hegemony HTML kindness of building web apps that gracefully fail if features aren't available, which is probably what you should do anyway?
Who writes these shitty articles?
It's easy to generate believable backstory. A large LM comes to write the bio of the "artist" and even a few press interviews. If you like you can chat with it, and of course request art to specification. You can even keep it as a digital companion. So you can extend the realism of the game as much as you like.
Surprised to see no one has mentioned https://sendfox.com/. They mention having 100,000+ users, and requires a one-time fee for sending.

Misses some of the bells-and-whistles, but good enough for me and a few friends I know.
I bet this trend will soon reverse, as ecosystems starts to fail one after other, due to climate change, persistent organic pollutants build up, et cetera, and we eventually must replace free ecoservices we rely on today (e.g. pollination by bees, irrigation provided by rainfall) with intensive human work.
Turned away at Del Taco drive-through, high Uber costs: Life in L.A. without car
How are people supposed to use features like this if they get dropped and re-added from time to time? If I want a convenient timer, googling "set 5 minute timer" has no advantage if I don't know whether it will work or not. Inconsistency is an enemy of convenience.
Lack of privacy harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.
And strangely, there's a culture of folks resisting this, trying to get us all back into agriculture. Community gardens, organic food etc. A giant step backward for civilization, to be sure.
> frame-by-frame would be neat to have, though realistically: none of the major video platforms really have that right?

Except the one named “Torrents” - all others that I tried do not care much about my preferences, yes.
Dynamic Permissions in Prosody
When I bring my bike to the tire shop for new tires the guy always cuts the nozzle off and places a new one in. Might just be a safety/liability thing. Since they're also made out of rubber, which degrades.
Most of the people spamming with their bullshit do seem to want a reply, yes.

Here's a fraction of the spam I received last week:

> Dear Friend, I am Alli Ibrahim,I hope you're doing well and keeping
yourself safe from the Coronavirus pandemic. I have a good business
proposal for you. There are no risks involved and it is easy. Please
reply for briefs and procedures. Best regards, Alli Ibrahim

> Hello would you be interested for us to be Partners in business in your country? Regards, Roseline Eribe from London.

> Hi <redacted>, I saw your profile online and wanted to reach out! You might be a great fit for many of the remote software engineering roles that top U.S. companies are hiring for on Turing.

> Hi <redacted>, I am looking for a possible tie up with a business or individual in your country so I can make some investments. Please, advise on investment opportunities in your country. Looking forward to your response.

> Hello Dear, I am Ivanov a Bulgarian, I have a business which I would like to discuss with you because I will be visiting your country soon. Let me know if you are Interested i will brief you in details.

+ about a dozen mails from adtech companies wanting to smear their shit over my property.
The problem is that Germany is taking everyone down with them

The countries that follow the EU wholesale energy price rules are royally screwed, because the price of power is set by the exorbitant price of gas even if they only use 5% gas in their energy mix. In addition to carbon mandatory limits this leads to soaring electricity prices which do not correspond to real supply and demand, but religious adherence to inflexible regulations that have not been changed despite the war. This is madness at multi-state level
So pigeons.
> What’s a word where workplace dystopia meets Stockholm Syndrome?

The New American Dream?

I saw someone was bragging about how quiet quitting wasn't a thing for them because they entered the workforce early enough to be able to lock themselves into a similar position via career, mortgage, furniture, family obligations etc...

Quite frankly, it's incredibly dystopic to think of Life in those terms; I'm sad to say that for most that is what 'growing up' and 'making it' now.
Egyptian here, hello.

Some pretty big quotes should surround "democratically". Also, the Muslim Brotherhood attempted to enact constitutional Sharia Law, something unfavorable even amongst the Muslim-majority populace. If we're going to cherry-pick Egypt as an example here, would be nice to provide the whole picture of what went down (which this comment certainly isn't).
I remember watching it and saying "hey, that's the same forest in North Van where my friends and I go mountain biking after school"
Direct funding of Pakistani military forces in recent years is indeed unsubstantiated, but occurred as recently as 2018.

We still provide some significant funding to Pakistan for humanitarian and development (i.e. civilian) efforts. This information is widely available online.

So GP is wrong to be so confident and absolute about their claim that we still fund the Pakistani army, but we do indeed give money to their government, and the Pakistani government is not independent of its army. It’s a messy situation.

Just trying to provide a bit of a more nuanced view before this heavy-handed comment you’re replying to is dismissed outright.
I see, but sometimes there are such statements like "we invest in founders". Founders are expected to execute on stuff. And if I had been given full time in a low cost country with good internet infrastructure I'd execute on >80% on startup related things.
On the other hand, I can quote a founder in quantum mechanics in favor of providing optimal living conditions for startup founders. Would it sound redundant or whatever?
> I didn't even read the article, so there's that. Still not an excuse for being lazy.

Lol, the irony in that sentence did make me chuckle. I mean if you have a background in film (production, etc...) and didn't read the article Im not sure why you commented in the first place? HN was always a place for good discussion, usually about the posted article and (to me which doesnt really matter) the article was very clear. But in the same breathe every article is never meant for every person so maybe its just that.
For timing a meeting, try http://timeit.lol/ — it shows you an estimate of when your meeting will end, which will creep forward if you exceed the time allotted for the current agenda item. It was designed for standups, where each person gets 5 minutes to speak, but you can also add agenda items of varying length.

You can also use it in count-up mode (http://timeit.lol/?0) to count how much time each person has spoken.
Yep, it’s a fair critique and I agree it’s odd.
how about selling software ? You don't have to write code but you could interact with prospective customers, do demos and close deals. Base Salary would be a bit lower but you could make it up with total compensation based on commissions on top of the base. There are lot of consultative sales roles where cold calling is not required but you would mostly field inbound queries.
Video alone from your eyes could be that much. However our senses are most definitely analog, so measuring bits is a bit disingenuous.
never mind, i was hoping you'd see that early enough to fix it.
If you really wanted to get into waste, how about the building to spec process?

Spec universe: engineer makes thing. bean counters believe they will be out of business if others see how thing is made and copywright their code. another engineer wants to make the same thing. a second engineer has to be brought in to write up a spec. the other engineer now tries to reinvent this wheel from basically a telephone game description on how it should work and behave. as a result any time an engineer needs a wheel you need a second engineer to describe it to you so you can reinvent the wheel.

open source universe: engineer makes thing. second engineer forks thing.
Yes. Repair shops have been advocating for a long time for companies like Apple to allow repair shops to obtain certain parts and ICs which are otherwise unobtainable due to exclusivity deals with chip fabs, as well as to provide repair schematics. When companies go out of their way to make both impossible to obtain, it becomes very difficult for independent repair shops to do their work.
Apple replaces batteries for a very affordable price compared to third parties.

https://www.apple.com/batteries/service-and-recycling/
Your comment, probably meant as satire, adds nothing of value to the discussion and invites a pointless debate about naming.
Maybe have the adblocker replace ads, with one of those "buy-me-a-coffee" links that you can click to submit a micropayment.
Monetized platforms tend to put a lot of focus on user "engagement" because that's generally where the money's at. Quantity over quality is usually more profitable.
The Case for Social Slashing
> … most people here against alcohol sound to me like vegans.

There’s a pretty big difference. Most people who drink don’t harm another living being, while those who eat animal products are supporting harm towards animals.

I understand the vegan perspective but not the perspective of the use who criticize causal drinking.
> Also, pretty soon energy prices in Germany might be so much lower

Jürgen Trittin (2004): Eine Kugel Eis... (costs for "Energiewende" )

There is the infamous saying, "Fusion is always twenty years ahead." But renewables seem to be trying hard to live up to that saying (AND getting more expensive along the way)

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/13020/umfrage...
user "sidlls" posted the link to the actual Nature article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544794

The abstract makes it very clear the contribution explains the empirically observed anomalous behavior of water.
you quoted Lazard. I always warn anyone quoting that study to be careful with the prices claimed there. There are two major issues - one that the current prices of wind and solar are primarily driven by zero fuel cost. Meanwhile, the rest of the grid continues to exist. Second - because the grid exists, energy for when the wind isn't blowing at night can come from somewhere and your lights stay on. Wind and solar introduce volatility into the mix, volatility on the generation side. That has a cost that is not currently borne by them but by us - the consumers.

Lazard and co conveniently ignore this aspect when claiming that wind and solar are as cheap as they make them out to be. To be clear, wind and solar are cheap but that may or may not hold true in the future.

There is currently no gigawatt scale power grid anywhere that runs on renewable energy for more than minutes at a time. Renewables are very far from being able to provide energy 24/7 and cheaply.
I agree with you in general but not in this particular case. Best case scenario: you get a five minute timer running right away. Worst case scenario: you click the first link and get a five minute timer right away
:D haha which message service will they send the reminder to?
Do you think it's unreasonable to assume that an app written in Rust will be smaller, use less memory and be safer than a similar app written in JavaScript?
You mentioned a wheel in the context of Apple and I thought you were talking about the Apple MacBook Wheel.

https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
Universe Y is fine if the company is certain to survive for one year but it is quite possible that slow development of features will mean that in Universe Y there is no Programmer B to benefit from the beautiful API.
People say this and I look at their cars online and I see touchscreen looking things in them. What is with that.

Meanwhile my car has its 10-year birthday next month and a giant dent in the front end and I'm becoming the weird old ranty dude who just won't give in
This is mostly off-topic but this goes against my current understanding:

> Facebook’s parent company Meta

Isn't Meta the company that owns the product Facebook? Dissimilar to how Google is a company that is owned by Alphabet.
Google making ad auctions more efficient and "state surveillance" aren't the same thing. Did you legitimately not know this or are you being intellectually dishonest in your argumentation?
Haha. I'm not even for sure why I need a timer in the web browser at all.

However, I will concede it is indeed rather buggy. A Google search of "timer 3 minutes" does nothing for me, as it just performs a normal search with no timer widget. A search of "timer 2 minutes" or "timer 4 minutes" works fine.
I drink alcohol because I enjoy the taste. I am now in the middle of "researching" different scotch from different parts of Scotland. Each scotch is very different from the other one. Last year I was "researching" beers.
You're only seeing things from the Google bubble where the data they collect is kept only for themselves and law enforcement/nation states. There's a whole ecosystem of unscrupulous trackers selling your personal details indiscriminately to anyone who wants it. It all goes into profiles that most definitely have an impact on you in real life. No amount of goodwill for supporting free services is enough to permit this activity to operate without your knowledge or consent.
And all of the supporting infrastructure including everything it takes to maintain the governments that write and enforce trade treaties, improve the roads, launch the satellites that makes communication for efficient allocation of resources possible, etc.
That's a start! I think their video appearances should be like a car in NASCAR with permanently displayed logos superimposed from all the interests that have funded their rise.
making things cheap encourages experimentation and paradoxically increases total spend
The disaster is already preprogrammed. Lots of germans bought electric heaters to heat flats through the winter, as the heat provided by the house central heating will be reduced. Which will result in large increases of base load on the network, which already will be under strain.

Which means rolling black outs as soon as it gets cold. Perma-black outs if the people do not see reasons and unplug their heaters.
No solution has been proposed for this. The clever ones went for wood for heating.

Still preferable to shiver one winter through, then have it warm in putins prison.
The temperatures to cook green chili are really high - you want to get some good caramelization/burnt spots on the outside, at scale, very quickly. That's why they usually use big propane burners on the outside of the steel cage drum and rotate the peppers.

Most solar ovens can get high temps, but they require tradeoffs on scale or speed.
Indeed, I am a bit spoiled... I neglected smaller shops where 'not enough people' rings even more true.

Where I'm at, we have tons and tons of people, enough to dedicate (and form) teams for things. It admittedly skews my view quite a bit. Here... we don't have enough capable people.

I'm also a bit sour at the alternatives. We have certain (publicly visible) certificates that must go through a CA. That's an absolutely painful process that requires about six levels of finance approval -- every year!
High Performance Computing with FPGAs and OpenCL
And here I thought this was going to be an article on World War Crow (https://imgur.com/HJ27Mc6).
Which will hopefully be running from solar then, when the sun's out. ;-)
I'm surprised it wasn't at LANL, considering one of the shops in Los Alamos near the lab has this amazing hatch chile burrito that's under $8 and is 10/10 in terms of flavor.
> We do understand by now that the state is just a better solution than private entities relying on "market forces" for certain desired outcomes.

I’d say the opposite is true actually. I don’t understand how any mandated entity is better. I’ve formed plenty of organizations, governments aren’t necessary. It’s supposed to help mediate force. Instead people use the governments monopoly on force to get what they want.

In terms of scale, we have planned parenthood, Churches, habitat for humanity, and so many others that work at scale. If pollution was an issue as described people would care. HOAs would hire organizations to monitor pollution and then HOAs would sue for damages. Almost exactly what the EPA does btw. Except the government gets the money and people in the country fund pollution research like this.
Ask HN: What's Your Data Worth?
Found a few articles about per-user valuation and average revenue per user. There are posts on data marketplaces and the likes. Yet, I'd like to understand what people think their data is worth and whether different forms of "putting that data to use" affect that valuation. So here are my two questions for you:

How much money would one need to give you in exchange for your data?
-> Imagine a service where you upload all your data and receive some money in exchange.

Assuming one could use your data without ever looking at it and it never leaves you, what would you want in exchange for it then?
-> Imagine a service which basically trains a machine learning model locally using your data (e.g. on your computer) and then only uploads that model while you receive some money in exchange.

Does it make any difference? Would you want something different in exchange, i.e. free services or data?
To this day I think ATM was an interesting approach. Virtual circuit switching with quality of service capabilities designed into the protocol. If nothing else, it is a great example of a complex and optimized protocol losing vs a ubiquitous and simple protocol.
This feels like a viral article to get people to watch The Sandman (again). It is literally unbelievable for someone to be so visually detail oriented to ignore how poorly the rest of the production is. Visual style was the least of the problems...following being relatively obscure, as comic book readèrship has been crashing over and over since the 80s.
Somewhat related, my post about receiving TPMS signals, but without SDR: https://milek7.pl/tpmsreceiver/
I bet you could get me to give the wrong answer to most of these questions if you worded it cleverly in informal conversation, but the answer to anything time and date related in a technical setting is "Ugh, we'll have to look up the stupid edge cases here," right?
Why is it a worry? That would reduce the cost of living dramatically again.
Interesting. I took a stab at your prompt and SD really struggles. It just completely ignores part of the prompt. Even craiyon puts in an effort to at least complete the entire prompt.

The bison is very realistic at least. So maybe the future is different models that have different specialties.

Edit: managed to get this one after a few more tries
https://imgur.com/a/3061n5d
Of course it isn't but dissolving the judiciary still wouldn't have been a good thing.
Those folks might not want to waste that money in a propaganda race against the entire fossil fuel industry and the emerging renewable energy industry. GE and Westinghouse are large and successful companies, but is nuclear a major part of their portfolio such that they would take such a big risk (compared to fossil fuel industry which views clean energy as an existential threat)?
This article says, "Germany did a bunch of reasonable looking things."

But after Russia invaded Georgia (2008) then Ukraine (2014), Germany worked to increase dependence on Russia for both electricity and heating. They failed to take even the most basic steps to diversify. Such as building LNG terminals to give them the option of importing gas from countries like the USA.

And it wasn't like there wasn't some history demonstrating the Russia wasn't always a reliable supplier. For example in 2009 they shut off gas for 10 days. As it happens they had a good reason (dispute with Ukraine over Ukraine stealing gas - which Ukraine had been). But fundamentally all of Europe, Germany included, should have been on notice that a single man could take out their gas supply. A man whose capriciousness was demonstrated in 2008 by his invasion of Georgia.

Why on Earth did Germany not work to diversify? And why, given the current consequences of that past failure, are people trying to defend Germany's past bad decisions?
That's because pesky things like "democracy" get in the way of getting shit done.

Don't you think?
Might be the level of heat required?

> Using 38 to 42 of the 212 heliostats — mirror-like devices used to focus sunlight — at the thermal test facility, Ken was able to achieve a temperature above 900 degrees Fahrenheit uniformly across the roasting drum, he said. This is comparable to the temperature of a traditional propane chile roaster.

Your standard oven certainly isn't going to get to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. So maybe 90's drum cookers could roast things like chicken wings, but probably not chiles.
It is not also gas, also less hydropower available than usual in Norway, Switzerland etc. due to unfortunate climate/weather past year. There is genuine energy shortage not only an issue of setting the right price.
Yet since as long as I can remember, I see business claiming we need to raise productivity before workers can expect a rise in wages.
How are you going to perceive the .01% difference in height vs width of the earth? Are you planning to use calipers to study it?