skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was using MS-DOS, boxes were typically done with line-drawing characters that are basically the same that can be used in terminals nowadays, i.e. with color bleeding. But then I learned that it was possible to avoid that, by creating some custom characters (still staying in text mode on an EGA/VGA) to have the lines exactly at the border of the character boxes. It was looking much better, and I still believe that.

Now, I'm not saying that my eyes hurt when I see boxes with color bleeding in a terminal. I've seen so many in years of TUI under DOS that I find them to be absolutely normal. But when I see a nicely done TUI, possibly in an unexpected or creative way, I find it more pleasing to use. It is the same as for a GUI: why not keep Windows 3.1 window decorations, if those details are not so important? The fact that it is in a terminal or not does not make any difference.

Aesthetics are medium-agnostic, they are valid both for TUIs and GUIs.
Ask HN: How to start a startup when you have kids/mortgage/high cost of living?
Hi HN,

TLDR: How do you start your own startup when you have high living expenses (2 kids, mortgage, high CoL)?

Background about me:
I'm a typical software engineer who worked in several FAANG/unicorn companies for the past 8 years. Up to this point, I have been climbing the ladder like most people. The pace was okay, but definitely not one of the most successful ones. I don't see myself making any major breakthrough in the next 5 years.

Recently, I realized that this path won't lead me to my goal - reaching certain level of financial freedom in 5-10 years, either with my own business or a higher up management role in a big corp. I'm not looking for FIRE status since my spending is expected to keep growing in the next 10 years and I plan to keep working hard. I have 2 babies (both < 2 yo) and live in a high CoL area. I want to provide my kids good education ($$$) and my family a good life ($$$ again).

Keep working in FAANG or jumping to the next pre-ipo unicorn is too slow to bring me to my goal. Looks like starting my own business is the only way to go. I have some saving that can support my family for 1-2 years which isn't quite enough for me to safely quit my job. With my already high expense, I'm not accumulating much wealth even when working in FAANG. Staying in FAANG for longer won't change my situation. But starting my own startup is risky and I have so much to lose (vs someone who's single and young). I feel like I'm in a terrible position to make a change.

How do I start? Folks who have gone through this transition, can you share your experience?

Thanks!
It's the leaseholders who handled it. They sent out updated terms for the apartment building which extended insurance exclusions. Not in USA for ref...
> A place to live is a rather inelastic commodity.

People always say this when prices are going up. Then prices go down, like in 2008.

The thing is, it is elastic. For example, people get roommates to split the rent. They get larger or smaller places based on their willingness to pay. More convenient or less convenient. More or less amenities.
> Please - verify, verify, verify and think critically about what you read.

If you're going to excoriate someone for an improper benchmark, and then provide one of your own and advise your audience to "verify," then it might be wise to include instructions for how to reproduce your results.
I will trust my own intelligence over artificial intelligence any day.
"Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit" -- I learned that I wasn't a bad writer. I just wasn't hooking people in the first sentence. You need to hook someone in the first sentence, get them to the second, and repeat until the end. This goes for every type of content creation and even other things like first impressions in work and dating.

"The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" -- I learned about leverage, the importance of peace over joy, and how to build long-term relationships. I come back to this book every few months and look through my notes even more frequently.
A reason is if you're using a scheme that has information theoretic security, rather than computational, when instantiated with a TRNG.

Hopefully adequately built computational security is sufficient for any purpose, but this is a certificational difference-- hopefully not one in practice but potentially one in the kind of guarantees that you can give. (E.g. you can't prove that someone doesn't secretly know how to invert a HMAC-DRBG to get its state given a large chunk of its output)

It would be pretty foolish to use a IT security scheme just to destroy the property by using a DRBG to source its random numbers.

That said, since TRNGs are mostly interesting to snake oil drinkers there is good reason to expect most TRNG to be poorly constructed. (E.g. it's really common to see then dropping output based on a NIST SP 800-22, thus technically resulting in a biased output).
> how can you even police that?

Trivially, after the investigators identify the cause of the fire. With all insurance, it’s not a matter of policing, it’s what will be covered when you try to make the claim.
There is still a race condition: if you read data from disk into a buffer, make a copy of the buffer, then do 2 checksums, the bit flip can still occur before the 2nd copy is created.
More like "Hey, nice mission-critical database you have, deep-pocketed enterprise customer. It would be a shame if a bit-flip happened to it".
I read a book called “Thinker Toys” when I was younger. It had some unorthodox methods but I found them useful for “thinking outside the box”. Often times the solution would pop out doing something wild lol.
'Internally, KataOS also is able to dynamically load and run third-party applications built outside of the CAmkES framework.' jumped out at me... is it just that they are testing other compiled apps or something else
Largely ignorant buyers of mass-market, commodified devices lead to intense cost wars that shed features that aren't "essential." If a buyer wants ECC in a laptop or desktop, typically they have to purchase a workstation-class machine that costs 4-5x of low-budget models.

Memory issues can be caused by the PSU, motherboard, the CPU, or the memory itself. Personally, I always run memtest86 and memtest86+ for 2 days on any new components.

Out-of-date but pertinent: https://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html (c. 1999-2006)

Other risks: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/Schu...

The mitigation of bitsquatting requires ECC in network gear also. Furthermore, ECC isn't just about the memory type but having integrity in data buses, caches, storage, and network protocols also.

Home system is 96 thread, 512 GiB (16 x 32GB ECC Registered DDR4-3200), numerous SSDs and HDDs running RAID.
This would mean a) it will still animate regardless of setting b) there's a high chance it will spike your CPU load because your CPU cycles don't cost the authors of the ad money.
Did you find work in Software Development for Unix?

In university, I was the other way around, when I got out I said "time to roll up your sleeves and stop using printf to debug things, VS is where things get done".

Little did I realize I'd transition from a chipper, curious regex piper into a jaded highly productive custodian.
If the profits are above the usual profits, you can usually point to government interference causing supply shortages.
I updated my server to Windows 11 (Dell SFF hexacore i5 Intel 9800T) and it looks rather good.

I will give the unofficial upgrade a go once I have done boot drive backups.
I dont think it is intentional slander, I think they are intentionally confusing the topics to drive clicks.

I am curious about Teslas AND EVs, but they way they mix them up I learn nothing about either.

Is this a Tesla specific issue... unclear

What is happening with other EVs... Unclear

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration makes a statement about Teslas... did they mention other cars? exclude other cars?
This is brilliant. Every office should have this!
>Sigh, another article focusing on Tesla battery fires when it is a common failure mode to most of not all EVs.

The article uses Tesla as a way to catch the readers eye. The actual article shows that Senator Scott asked not only Tesla, but other manufacturers such as Ford, GM, and Stellantis about what they were doing to mitigate this.
Digital Zen Garden - https://notes.binnyva.com/ :-)
> However, what if the cow was injected with growth hormones to double milk output per cow, and then treated with prophylactic antibiotics to prevent the resulting udder infections, and locked in a stall and fed with alfalfa laced with three different kinds of herbicides and pesticides?

Then your meat and milk would be illegal to sell, in every country in the world but one.
"Is that free expression, or is that free expression the American way?"

Jokes aside, here is tweet[1] from UA, that is quoted in rt.com post.

[1] https://twitter.com/mfa_ukraine/status/1580925126597484544
Sure, but these are really niche edgecases where you really have to optimize it on a case by case.

Augmenting with 4G/5G could really help but before daring to do that you'd really have to make sure that it doesn't incur extra costs or drain the data-plan.

And mixing in wifi also begs the question, is this latency bound or not? And do we really want to pollute the spectrum with this high-throughput transfer for a minor speed increase? Potential ruining it for everyone else.

To make it sensible the server would also need 2x1G which is already very very niche and if it was a considered usecase you'd probably opt for 10G anyway.

In the vast majority of cases and probably the only sensible defaults would be wired > wifi > 4G/5G.
As a founder myself, I’d say this is one of the best resources how to sell for early-stage B2B startups https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57daf6098419c27febcd4...
Same here for turbovision interfaces and similar. I've never found them bad. But when I've seen that an alternative was possible by changing the VGA character generator, I found that more aesthetically pleasing.

> it feels like a strange problem to solve.

Seen this way, why bother creating nicely-looking GUIs? It would be the same strange problem to solve.
Since the market is inelastic, and landlords can charge whatever they want, make it 10x.
The Taliban's offer was obviously not in good faith. They were playing for time, and would never have handed over Bin Laden no matter what proof we showed them.
Well, yes and no. You can use the todo system, as you mention, by adding TODO or LATER or DOING or something. And in a block, you can also do something like

- This is an item
* [ ] This is an open checkbox
* [X] This is a checked checkbox

and it will render as expected. However, you can not write

- [ ] This is a checkbox

and have it rendered as a checkbox, which I think is a bit strange
I design tube guitar amplifiers.

(1) excellent reference

(2) that was a 100 watt JCM800 Marshall in the scene. 7 orders of magnitude increase means the amp’s output transformer would look something like this[0] which is pretty rad

[0] https://www.westrafo.com/15-gw-of-transformer-power-shipped-...
Why divergent thinkers beat geniuses in the real world: David Epstein [video]
The Great Depression was not a deliberate purge, markets follow boom and bust cycles.

>And? What's the point? That they learned by observing? Is that bad?

It's a self-serving bias to attribute their economic development to their leadership. They would've developed sooner and are simply taking credit for getting out of their own way. Sure, you can point to specific projects and say "the government bankrolled this therefore it exists" but it's not like in their absence nothing would have developed. Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo et al have pretty skylines and good public transportation too.
Uh.....

Your example is forest fires taking out regular cars...

The article is talking about flooding sea water starting battery fires... gas cars don't set on fire from sea water ..... making hurricane cleanup harder .........

They're.... completely different .....
I'm assuming they are working for startups, typically startups do not require the same level of deep domain expertise as big firms.
> cause of inflation is excess money created by the Fed (i.e. things like the $2 trillion "stimulus" package)

You’re mixing up fiscal and monetary policy. Congress and the Fed.
I've tried and failed at this, a SAAS that served small builders.

Your best bet is probably the blog and going to conferences. However I only got one customer that way.

It's also worth looking at partners. Do these companies have software that they're already using and could those partners upsell them onto your software?

I hired a cold calling firm. They made a lot of calls, but didn't get any free signups to the product, or any demos.
> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is aware of multiple fires in Tesla vehicles, the agency said in a letter sent Friday (Oct 14) to a Florida official and obtained by Bloomberg Government.

Perhaps due to the popularity of Teslas, it is being seen in them more so than other vehicles
How truffles took root around the world
Putting aside who-wants-to-be-what, a change in a common tech stack is a serious change with all sorts of implications. Arguments for and against should be carefully considered, and yes "going faster can't hurt" is not an argument.
I think that's only potentially true because the opposite side of the aisle is utilizing race to begin with from the negative end. No you shouldn't ignore that it is being used that way, but by playing into the game that side is playing, you are furthering their intent.

Instead, just go after the problem as if it is something that affects everyone, because it does. Even the rich are affected by poverty, just in a different way. Sure, they may not be poor, but they still have to deal with the after effects of the impoverished. This is what I mean by poverty affects all. It may be more drastic for those it affects directly, and yes we should do something about it for them more directly; but by approaching it from a wide range approach like how I suggest; you avoid the nastiness of assuming race has anything to do with it.

Example: I grew up with many first nations individuals surrounding me. Many of them were impoverished. I am also partially first nations, but don't appear to be. We were just as poor as many of them, and worse off that some of them to boot if you are to compare finances without biases. If we were to approach poverty as if it only affects the first nations, then our family would have potentially been cruelly left behind.

Instead, by treating poverty as something that affects all of society, no one is left behind.

A rising tide lifts all boats; though sometimes some more than others to be fair. Waves are not equal after all.

> You have to be able to study all the reasons for poverty in order to craft appropriate policy.

Exactly my point, but without focusing too hard on any single factor.
Yeah many of the quotes in this article are straight out of the psychopath textbook. These are the worst kind of people, and unfortunately capitalism breeds them. It’s a system where ethics is a weakness.
Even when considering benchmarking errors, performance can be more objectively measured than developer ergonomics, good architecture, clear API and documentation, good implementation and other aspects that usually matter more than performance. It is usually the fun and immediately gamifiable aspect that more junior developers can and do easily optimize for.
It's not a blunder 100% of the time. Sometimes non tech people need to see it working before they understand.
Yes.

My preferred version is something-something-decoherence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence The people that work in that are call it "Decoherence", but it's not finished, there are still a lot of details to fix, and perhaps it will need still like 50 or 100 years of hard work before it's completed. So it's too green and I prefer a funny name like "something-something-decoherence" to avoid confusion. And perhaps it's the wrong explanation.
If you mark all of FL as uninhabitable (which is true to a first approximation), you would have a whole lot fewer EVs parked in the state, for sure.
And nobody has the right to inhabit another persons body without their consent.
> Yes, informed. The output of this software, and Zillow's algorithms, is only information that still needs to be applied to the real world ("the market"). The algorithms just provide information that wasn't as easy to access before.

Who verifies that the algorithm is correct? Who is culpable if the algorithm is flawed or applied incorrectly? If GreyStar or Zillow realized their algorithms were significantly inflating values, would there be any incentive to correct it without regulation?

> It's like saying that Google is responsible for higher rents/prices because it allows landlords/homeowners to easily access and analyze market data. I don't think so.

Except that information isn't readily available and easily accessible on Google (in many jurisdictios). It's locked away behind pricey subscriptions to vendor products. In the case of YieldStar it means that tenants cannot fairly negotiate because they don't know what a reasonable price is.
Video tutorial: Create a mini-CRM using Cloudy CMS using C#, .NET 6, and EF Core
It's the CppCon 2017 talk with the title "What has my compiler done for me lately? Unbolting the compiler's lid".

The Compiler Explorer backstory starts here: https://youtu.be/bSkpMdDe4g4?t=4m57s
>I cannot be sure if I will be allowed to read a Medium article

True. Every time I've clicked on Medium link the question that I've in mind, higher even than the "will I waste my time?", is "will it allow me to read it?".
https://clang.godbolt.org resolves but doesn't seem to do anything.
Rust is going to the moon.
Here's a Bloomberg.com (not .sg) link that says there's been two such fires in the entire state in the wake of hurricane Ian, but doesn't name the brand. Draw your own conclusion as to wether that's a statewide emergency affecting Teslas.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/tesla-fir...
Yet another

A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian.*
There's a reason that people still employ door to door salesmen: most people don't like to reject people in person. It's why you normally buy your new roof from a guy you just met and have so much trouble firing employees who used to be good but have fallen off the wagon.
It seems we are talking past each other.

Typing is the base for many reasons I love FastAPI, so yes it is useful. And I speak as someone who has used it in production on multiple projects, and even converted some from Flask (but not because of speed).

Far from "fast to get going", starting with FastAPI is slower actually, but it takes you further (as you pointed out). The train of thought that "typing" leads to "fast to get going" which leads to "fast" in the name... Let's say I don't buy it.

The link to "performance" is difficult to miss, I don't think that is a coincidence. And it's OK. If this is what matters to devs that much, they would be stupid not to highlight it. I'm actually happy people are using it, even if for the "wrong" reasons.
I mean the argument was that that "they have to keep filling out these forms, causing lots of overtime", that was the argument I pointed out to be unreasonably dumb considering it's less then 5 times per year.

So... The one that's doing that is pretty much you.

None of us can argue about wherever the drug should be approved by now, as we don't know why it isn't yet. You'd have to first get a statement from the agency before that discussion can take place
^ This. Exactly this.

By committing to building BEFORE you know what to build, you may have invested a lot of time to just get "NO". Stop what you're doing right now and go and talk to 20 people who might be customers and DO NOT PITCH them. Find out their problems and explore from there.
Why would she object to deletion on her own talk page instead of the deletion discussion?

She did object on at least one of those:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
I think that the key takeaway from the entire Wire vs Meta fiasco is that there is a lot of absolutely weird Spy vs. Spy behavior going in the Indian political and media industries.

I was initially extremely sympathetic to the story presented by The Wire, because it's quite believable that Meta/FB would go to extreme lengths to try to distance themselves from such a situation, but the facts ... just ... don't add up. As Alex Stamos has noted, there is little debate regarding collusion between Meta's "government relations" people and policy groups, so that's not really much of a scandal -- it's not like Meta will deny that Modi was treated like a divine being when he visited their campus, so the idea that his people can easily call in a favor to crush a social media post won't really surprise anyone.

The bulletproof evidence with DKIM authentication and a video of a logged-in admin instance doesn't look so bulletproof after all, based on the credible reports from those who know how Meta's admin tooling actually looks and functions, and those with other DKIM authenticated emails from the fb.com domain.

So, the question is, what's the agenda here? Why would someone go through all of this effort, to create a scandal out of something that is not very far from the truth? What's the point of this entire thing? Maybe this is like Nick Denton and Gawker losing their entire business over the stupidest sex tape story ever; or maybe this is part of something else that requires domain knowledge regarding Indian politics and media to understand (do page views monetize so well that this mini-scandal is going to be super-profitable to The Wire? Highly doubtful, right? What could they possibly get out of this?).

The whole thing is just really weird. It's also a major distraction from the very real problems that Meta doesn't even try to hide. Meta's relationship with the governments in various countries -- including the United States -- is way too close for comfort, and absolutely toxic on multiple levels. If this story turns out to be fake news, it'll do a lot to help the company deny, deflect and discredit the next real scandal. I think this is what the wacky conspiracy theorists call "4D chess," but I don't think that's what's happening here.

The true story behind all of this is bound to be very strange, and very stupid.
>The typography and layout on Medium is fine

Isn't there any Medium-like theme for WordPress? (Though maybe you frighten people thinking they ended up in a Medium blog.)
For the past few months I've been in a somewhat unusual housing situation. My wife is a medical resident in NYC, and the hospital system she works for is quite large and owns a lot of NYC property. They offer their employees subsidized housing at greatly reduced rates (meaning, an 1100 sq. ft. Manhattan apartment for $2300 a month). It has a "company town" feel, but it has been great for us, and the incentives seem like they're aligned in this case - employers have an incentive against being extractive because it reduces their employees' effective compensation. The residency program is 7 years which means we're stuck here anyway, and we don't have to worry too much about about her being fired or wanting to find a new job. In a competitive labor market like tech / finance / medicine it seems like employer-subsidized housing isn't a terrible idea, and is an alternative to just relocating corporate offices to a lower CoL area.