skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can’t hire exceptional people then you shouldn’t expect exceptional outcomes: e.g, the outcomes most VCs expect.

BS. Exceptional people are mostly an illusion - yes, there are (for example) Linus Torvalds and Fabrice Bellard, but there are much less such people than startups, orders of magnitudes less. Exceptionalism comes from the combination of the idea quality, low level of mistakes in execution, some luck in the market, some combination of qualities, like perseverance, which smoothes out some problems - and other qualities like that, engineering level is certainly important but you can have exceptional results with just competent engineering. It's hard to find an example of textbook successful startups where engineering was outstanding. Sorry, won't give examples, just look for yourselves.
I'm arguably not well versed in rail/freight, but if they conclude that part of the issue is a lack of railroad (i.e not enough lines), can't we just unlock a few billions to build more and reduce the pressure on the existing ones?
In for HN toon
They are these days, but did printers always used to come with "starter cartridges"?
> This technique practically allows you to perform most of the same proofs on inputless machines.

Emulating a machine allows you to know stuff that the machine being emulated can’t such as the width the the data written to the tape. It seems reasonable that you can still prove incompleteness, but I suspect it’s non trivial.

> Sorry, what is a “program of infinite size” in the context of Turing machines.

“The choice of which replacement symbol to write and which direction to move is based on a finite table that specifies what to do for each combination of the current state and the symbol that is read.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Replace “finite table” with “infinite table”.
I'm not sure most successful tech start-up founders have management consultant backgrounds, I've not seen that at least!

Speaking to the point about not having been a founder myself: you're right, and hope I was clear about that in the article. But I have spent the last year as the first employee working on building out a start-up, where a big challenge is in establishing a team and learning how to build a product that people want to buy.

When you build a start-up as a founder, you need to know how to do that stuff. Otherwise there won't be much point in being good at the founder-specific work like raising money etc, because there's not a business around it.

The main point is to try to minimise the 'firsts' you might have when you start your own company. If the only thing you're doing for the first time is exclusively founder responsibility, then I think you're much more likely to be successful.
Anyone up to do one of these in Lisbon ?
If you the previous extension that was blocked https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beat-that-wall/fhp... you can see that it has way more downloads than https://12ft.io
I don't think it's temporary, if what the reviews say is to believe it has been dead for a while and has questionable practice to begin with.
I used PIA before, and I left after I learned that they were sold to a dodgy guy whose previous company installed malware. The situation with NordVPN seems confusing, but no major red flag such as that one. I would not recommend PIA anymore.
resilio sync (aka BTSync) on my iPhone to send all pictures to a dedicated server in the cloud, where I store a copy of all my stuff.

Format: a simple folder tree /Pictures/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-Album-name
The policies differ chiefly because of massive difference in revenue
I would, yes!
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/buffalo-shooter-stocha...
I don't know why you're telling me any of this, half of which I already know. I asked how he supports it specifically. Not if and not how other people do. uBlock Origin does not solicit donations, it's in the README.md.

> Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.
They're referring to a niche academic term that has within the past few years started gaining usage outside of academia. It can be approximately defined as[0]:

> The use of mass public communication, usually against a particular individual or group, which incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen seemingly at random.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stochastic_terrorism

Only very loose connection to the stochastic processes of mathematics.
America is the country with the world's largest total population of immigrants. As a percentage, we're up there, looking at

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...

many of the countries above us are pretty small, or EU members with freedom of movement among member states.

So, it is more like saying "If the US wants to maintain tech advantage, it better keep being American!" (and of course there's nothing that makes a patriotic American happier than having people who want to join us).
My AirPrint capable printer that I bought almost a decade ago works perfectly with the newest iPhone/Macs…
> I'm curious if he is expecting an anarcho-capitalism type system or he's predicting wildwest/dystopian.

I believe he likens it to BLM Riots:Jan 6 every day, type of dystopia.

> I am intrigued about the cloud country. It almost feels like Estonia might be that place? Or perhaps their attempt?

He is super bullish on Estonia, IIRC.

The Network State is free as a PDF or to read online if you're interested: https://thenetworkstate.com/
I can't scroll on this website, so I can't read the article (except of the first few lines when switching to "Desktop Mode" in Firefox in Android).

Smells like some weird scroll-jacking implementation or so...
Wanting to continue working from home rather than commuting is actually strongly correlated with driving (and longer commutes). 91% of bicycle commuters miss some aspects of the commute; ~40% miss it a lot, whereas 55% of car commuters don't miss it at all. Unsurprisingly the main aspect missed was the activity of commuting itself (53%). Cycling to work is like a free gym membership and a free trip to stores rolled into your commute.

Reference (N=1014): https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pan...
Yep, the passage would only apply if kf was run on cloudflare pages, or hosted images on cf imgs.
Ironically, Europe is now becoming dependent on Chinese LNG imports, much of which comes from Russia. The sanctions are not working.

>The more desperate Europe becomes about its energy supplies, the more China’s policy decisions will have the power to affect the bloc. As Europe attempts to wrestle out of its dependence on Russia for energy, the irony is that it is becoming more dependent on China.

https://www.ft.com/content/1e20467a-5b53-42b7-ad89-49808f7e1...
https://archive.ph/APcGS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654099
Net neutrality was never about deplatforming, due process, or censorship. It was about ISPs prioritizing traffic or providing free bandwidth for their own services and throttling or charging extra fees for third party services (e.g. Time Warner providing access to their own streaming service without counting towards your bandwidth cap, but not doing the same for Netflix).

It was an economic issue, not a political one.
As (I think) the comedian Jimmy Carr said - "Life is like a box of chocolates. Neither last long if you are obese."
They suffer from the same problem. They can't update the extension because google changed the policies. Now any attempt to remove paywalls is not allowed
An interesting trend that's been picking up more and more in recent years is the Artificial Reality Game (ARG). It feels a lot like the natural evolution of the creepypasta.

For example, a recent one that I've been watching videos about is called 10 Tapes.

It follows the story of a young guy who moves into a new apartment and begins to discover odd notes and messages around that seem tailor-made for him. What makes it so compelling though is the format. It all takes place on Tiktok, and the notes and tapes that he finds all have puzzles for him to solve. Because of the interactive nature of the medium, he crowdsources solutions for the puzzles which lead him down a rabbit hole of more tapes and puzzles to solve.

It's very reminiscent of a creepypasta, but the interactions with the audience make it more intimate and really draws you into the narrative. Whole communities popped up trying to find any tidbits of info in the videos he would post. There are other examples of ARG's that remind me of creepypastas, but I'd highly recommend checking out this [0] overview that discusses and analyses 10 Tapes if only to appreciate the level of effort that people are putting into art like this.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XGxSdZmyI
I recently zipped all my photos ever into one ~400gb file (along with a .txt file list). I have the photos 'online' at home and a copy of the zip archive at home, but the cloud copy is in AWS where I pay about $0.40 a month to keep it there in Glacier Deep Archive. i plan to repeat the exercise every 2 or 3 years, building up a set of zip files. At that price i can treat it like a 'fire and forget' dustbin of stuff that I'll probably never have to access...
This is why the left also needs a gun rights and ownership culture
Ask HN: Anyone using a binary index in production for ML/AI?
I've been investigating using a binary index for some data I've been storing in a search index. Just curious if anyone out there has experience or opinions of using these types of indexes.
Wow, this article caused me to google myself and find that google has labeled me a music artist as well. I should start my own service since it seems maybe all you need to do is create a podcast, then google says you are a musician and presumably the verification process at Facebook follows google's lead.
Broad strokes, biz vampires are trying to suck all of the blood out of businesses that require labor to run. Labor is slowly finding a stake through organizing.

There is no labor shortage; only a shortage of workers willing to work for low wages and in poor working environments.

> America seriously needs to revise our business school education curriculum and our legal system to refocus on long term profitability and stability, not short-term profit gain at the cost of imploding an economic sector.

Amen. Also, stronger policy and regulator guardrails are needed against this sort of behavior by management and capital. Fiat, investment, and economic systems are not the end goal, but a tool to be wielded for broad socioeconomic lift (supposedly!).
Of course: CNN, Fox News, New York Times, White House's press secretary (but only when the president is a democrat).
Traffic fatalities.
Interesting that this comment has two replies:

yours: "they aren't criticised more, this is bias of observation on your part"

other comment: "that's b/c they are more tribal!"

Observation bias exists, but that doesn't mean there isn't a moderation bias, one way or another. However, I think the distinction of "conservative" is maybe a red-herring - it invites tribalism.

As an example, I think people refusing to wear mandated COVID masks are provocative/incorrect. I also believe the authorities (gov and media/corps) are incorrect, and actively biasing scientific discourse.

So, is my opinion conservative, or not?
If they are doing anything illegal (like coordinating terrorist attacks) we luckily have law enforcement agencies with lots of power to address that.
That's the most moral thing to do as long as you're a privileged west citizen. If you're from the third world and specially if the US meddled in your life, the "neutral global citizen" pov is the default. We could list how the US does not respect human rights at all even within its borders, let alone in foreign countries; we could also list all military and political intervention by the west in other countries. With those lists, the only moral thing to do is to "retweet" the anti-western perspectives. The US system has proven time and time again it not only fails to deliver its promises, it breaks economies and has a net negative benefit, so why should we be spreading them?
I'm guessing some of these websites will favor content from "verified" users?

I mean, people will jump through flaming hoops for some stupid clout / prestige, but I would think there's some financial motive to all this. Could be that once you're verified on various platforms, companies will start to call you down with ad placement offers.
We can go back and forth all day. But legally your friend has no legs to stand on. People do "like copies" of works all the time, and it's been ok'ed by the courts just as much.

Unless your friend thinks the AI is copying snippets of his work into generated images, I'm not sure where they are getting these ideas from.
Most people want those things. The HN bubble just makes it seem like doing a startup is the apex accomplishment in life.
Rotation is actually a lot easier with certificates. I just generate a new key on the client, copy the public key to the CA, and I’m done, with no need to repopulate authorized_keys on all my other machines.

In another comment I went into more detail about how I keep the CA secure.
The stationed troops and machines were not nearly enough to handle the situation, see my sibling comments. You can't suppress protests of several millions with 300k not-so-willing troops and 5000 not-so-good tanks (the Czechoslovaks manufactured their own tanks because of how bad the Soviet manufacturing was).

For one thing, the problem is your tanks and troops have to be ready all around the country - the protesting people are moving across the state quickly. One day there's a protest in Prague, second day it's in Brno - but you can't move your 300k troops and 5000 tanks from Prague to Brno in a day. And then the next day it's Ostrava and you have to do it again. Then an incident happens and that provokes a 10x bigger protest in Prague, Brno and Ostrava at the same time. That's impossible. You need much, much more troops and tanks to handle this scale of rebellion - and the requested air support that never came. And your tanks will never make people go back to work, anyways.

(I'm discussing Gorbachev, not GDR specifically)
I agree it's a problem, but how is it not a choice? There are a few exceptions, but most people could choose to be more active and eat better.
No, it's correct. Null checks are for checking that a browser API is supported, but they might be unavailable, like being blocked or full or whatever.
So many gas boilers and central heating in the UK, abundant electricity wouldn't help many this winter anyway.
It's generally not maximizing lifespan people are interested in but rather maximizing health span which is the period of time you are healthy and able to operate at a high level. If done correctly you die with minimum time spent disabled.
In a discussion of life expectancy, excess carbohydrate consumption in a nation with 75% overweight/obese population seems pretty relevant. Surely, sugar is the single biggest source of excess carbohydrate consumption.

And the way people thirst for their sweet treats and drinks, it certainly looks like addiction. Not that it removes any culpability of other excess carb consumption like alcohol and breads.
Stochastic terrorism involves actual murder. https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/buffalo-shooter-stocha...
1986 and 1987 were unusually good years for life expectancy in the USSR. The early 80s were about halfway between those and the mid 90s.

https://www.prb.org/resources/high-death-rate-among-russian-... `
Yes, you are in fact trolling and doing the tired equivalent of the 20 year old Slashdot meme: “Do people still watch TV? I haven’t watched TV in 20 years”.
And wasn't it settled back then? Now I'm ok with it.
You probably don't even need carbon fiber, some fishing line would do it.
I'm very interested in this.

It got some weird pushback, but Peter Jackson's film "They Shall Not Grow Old" really helped make it's subjects so much more real by cutting through the limitations of the old footage from the 1st World War. Being able to apply similar techniques more cheaply and quickly will bring a lot of old footage to life and make the past much more real for the viewer.
> A protection racket implies collusion between attacker and defender, where the defender comes to you offering “protection”, but then comes again as an attacker to those who refuse

For the average Internet citizen, the practical difference doesn't matter: unless you're hiding behind one of the powerhouses, everyone can shoot you off the Internet by renting a botnet for the equivalent of a dozen pizzas in Bitcoin, without having to fear any consequence. In real life, someone disrupting my business for hours would be carted off by police and I could sue their butt off for damages.

> This is the thing: cutting off diplomatic routes is almost never the right approach, even during a hot war.

There are diplomatic routes beyond the Internet, and additionally, at the moment for these four countries access to the Internet is like we'd let their landing ships take harbor at a port and let them unload their tanks in peace. We're not doing that in real life, we should not be doing that in cyberspace as well!

> The Internet is like the Olympics: it provides a way for the common people of different countries to see each-other’s good works and learn to respect one-another; even as the leaders of those countries, and asshole minorities within those countries, are making the news and fanning hawkish sentiment. Throwing out the counterbalance in such a scenario is something you’d expect an Emperor Palpatine figure to do, to engineer a war.

Given the Great Firewall of China, the almost-complete censorship in North Korea for everyone not a high-ranking party cadre and the Internet restrictions in Russia and Iran, it's hard to claim that the Internet in these countries actually fulfils that role.
I think the thing about starting your own start-up without experience seeing what works elsewhere is you're highly unlikely to avoid making some big mistakes.

If you've spent time in a growing company and at least seen how things evolve over the years, you have an idea of what does work that you can base your first attempts against.

Trying to come up with novel solutions for everything from hiring to org structure is a recipe for pain, and I'd invest my money with a team of people who've experienced good versions of these things over those with none any day.
FCC always only covers broadcast TV and radio, not cable or streaming.
If you sign your dog up for the Dog Aging Project[1], you can get rapamycin for your dog.

[1]: https://dogagingproject.org/
Medical staff now get personal satisfaction scores from patients at some hospitals, so now there is also a huge tension about telling patients things they don’t like.

Anecdotally, this was a big reason many of my friends left medicine and nursing.
> Seems like doctors either tell people to lose weight to cure an ear infection or they don't say anything about weight ever because the outcomes are poor so why bother.

Pretty much. But larger thing is that ... doctors are not nutritionists nor lifestyle experts. They do know their own specialization very well, but they are not able to make people loose weight. They do not have evidence based well know strategies of the "we know that this program/advice makes x% of people to make loose weight long term" sort. Usually, what patient gets is general advice of "eating less" followed by some unsustainable diet that is necessary going to fail and just lead to yoyo cycle.

By unsustainable I mean the sort if diet that leads to malnutrition of some sort due to missing stuff your body needs or the one that is too low in calories making the person following it unable to function normally.
history of civilization is a history of people making other people miserable using whatever tools available. this _maybe_ changed a bit in the second half of XX century... looks like we're back to usual programming nowadays.
I got pericarditis after the booster, it felt like it was going to turn into a heart attack at any moment. I’m fanatical about my health so I could easily imagine others who are less careful getting a heart attack from the vaccine. And due to the anti-vax stigma I’m sure it’s under reported.

But I’m assuming covid dominates the deaths.
We all got it and realized it's a cold?
There are discussions about a gas pipeline going from Portugal/Spain to the rest of the EU.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/12/portugal-and-spain-welco...
What’s your source, KF’s owner’s public statements and posturing? lmao
"Is it generally considered funny and/or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?"

No it isn't. I'm American btw. Sorry, some people are jerks.
> Is it generally considered funny and/or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?

This is consistent with the American stereotype in several places… Though it is not consistent with my experience with American, but then I don’t tend to hang out with loud obnoxious jerks.

Empathy is in short supply overall.
Also, the electricity that the germans are exporting very likely might come from coal plants burning filthy north rhine lignite. Great way to own the nuke ppl.

Don't forget they spin up coal plants for peak demand and then just cut them out of the grid to avoid counting their still-running emissions.
Agreed. I've watched a few Everest documentaries over the years. The camera work in the ones I saw doesn't quite give me an overall sense of the space. This was very nice to see.
Sometimes people think it ought to be obvious, bright-line-tests only, to determine what is truly transformative or novel. The divergence you're pondering, if taken real charitably, maybe signals that that is wrong and that it requires some domain expertise to be able to ascertain whether imitation is really problematic.
> unused accessories...

With the mac mini there only comes a power cable inside the box, no other accessories fortunately. They will have loads of Apple stickers though...
Perhaps I'm mis-remembering, but I remember US policymakers repeatedly warning Europe, over many decades, about the dangers of depending on Russian energy sources. Here's an article about the discussion while Reagan was president: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/climate/europe-russia-gas...

In contrast, the US has invested staggering amounts of money into work on energy independence (triggered by the OPEC embargo in the 70s). This led to research in solar, wind, and fracking, which eventually led to significant improvements.

The result is that while things aren't perfect:

1. The US is a net energy exporter: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-...

2. The energy jugular vein of parts of Europe is exposed to those who are happy to hurt Europe. I think France is mostly okay due to nuclear power (yes some are down for delayed maintenance, but they still have a lot being generated).

Yes, yes, it's all more complicated than any simple summary can make it. But lack of energy for a country can quickly lead to a lot of dead people. A country is unwise if it ignores the issue. In contrast, I think it's quite reasonable to take steps to ensure that any necessary energy will be available in the future.
The idea that you could just take a pill one time and be "protected from aging" or something sounds ludicrous. Would be interested to see people reproduce these results and have them supposedly transfer over to humans. Humans are a much longer time scale.

I always go back to the SENS concept of having several different problems to solve related to built up damage, cells that won't die, etc.
Comparing an agent of Russian intelligence to Chinese censorship of Hollywood is just...perfect.