skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had storage heaters in a rented draughty flat in London and I loathed them. Mine were rather inadequate in really cold weather. In spring and autumn you need to be moderately clairvoyant (or keep an eye on the weather horoscope) because your decision tonight will determine whether the flat will be too warm or too cold tomorrow.

I do not miss them one jot.
lol.

I'm not sure where to begin, but yes - it does take a special kind of idiot to believe that appointed judges can launch a coup to protect the elected president.

and why on earth is this on Hacker News? I guess even Jovem Pan is beginning to realize this whole movement is a clown show.
We're working on rendering more detail about roads for high-zoom cases: https://github.com/a-b-street/osm2streets. Try https://a-b-street.github.io/osm2streets/?test=st_georges_cy... and press "Generate details"
If you are accustomed to a 40-hour workweek, just skip the startup until your kids are grown. You likely won't be able to do that at a startup.

If you can push to 50-55 hours a week by e.g. working a few evenings a week, you may be able to make it work through a combination of contracting, outsourcing, and grit. (If you do not do a B2C startup. Those are harder!) There's no hard formula, but the basic idea is you can likely earn enough to survive through contracting for ~50% of the hours in a year. Relentlessly triage your MVP and launch quickly to paying customers. Then either reinvest the proceeds into labor in lower-cost countries to iterate on the product, or take a hit to your billable time to do so yourself.

If you get to $X,000 MRR, remember you can likely sell the business for a decent amount of money and start again from a more solid base.
As you might have gathered, I’m opposed to this sort of thing.

In that case perhaps we could compare the number of drivers in the United States with the global population and then talk about the environment? The US is a major contributor to global climate change and the US is exceptionally bad compared to other developed nations in GHG contributions arising directly from motor vehicle use. I'm not interested in contrived arguments about slavery but if you want to take a principled stand against a small minority forcing their preferences and the adverse consequences of those preferences on a much larger majority then unfortunately you are on the wrong side of this issue.
That is indeed too technical. Try to explain how inserting an image is not just copy paste.
"Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job?"

Mostly that is the way BUT not the only way. Have you saved any money to take this risk ? Can you work for say 12-18 months and not worry about paying bills if you quit your high paying job ? If yes, then by all means you should consider it. If you don't have anything saved and you don't live below your means, tough luck. You have to give up somewhere if this is important to you.

Another option is to use your money and buy a small project/business that has some cashflow coming in already. This may not be a hockey stick high growth startup but may be you don't need/want that ?
I suspect we disagree on whether (&/or what) should be done about it, if anything.
Ah sorry - we're eventually going to implement karma sharing to take care of cases like this. Often I search to see if someone else has already submitted the 'better' URL but I forgot to do that here.

There's a lot of randomness in which submissions get noticed and achieve liftoff from /newest. At least it evens out over time if you continue to post good submissions!
No sorry, as someone who has worked a lot of startups and helped build companies when they were counting pennies prior to the growth phase, the idea that they are entitled to any of this is a joke, especially in a large corporation where the majority staff aren't putting in nights. Once a team starts to deliver, and you actually have a product that people are buying and profits are good, by all means get the beer taps and yoga mats *but* for the team that did nights for 3 years. Not for rent seeking staff that infest these large corporations. These sorts of perks were largely to thank the staff for making huge sacrifices to get the product delivered, and now for some reason people just expect it. Twitter on the other hand had taken on a massive roster of staff, and was never cash positive.
Why you choose Wyoming and not Nevada for example for your LLC?
I had the luxury of being able to document the hell out of the previous system that I worked built -- before, during, and after development. It was a refreshing change from 'just hurry up and build the damn thing'
Disagree. Not every startup has to be a massive success, not every founder needs to be a billionaire, and not everyone has to work like Elon Musk - you’re probably not sending rockets to Mars.

OP might be very happy with a company with no employees that makes 200k a year.

To the OP: save up for 6 months of working on your own thing, OR, launch loads of little experiment MVPs that don’t need lots of work to get _something_ out quickly.
> IMHO: The modern work environment (or possibly any work environment) is simply not appealing to certain types of people.

> The 9-5 with 2 weeks vacation work thing is a relatively new invention for humans.

I don't think it could be that though, because conditions have generally gotten better, and there was less resistance to work at time where working conditions were worse. Say 1950's or so.

I mean the environment where we work from home and have very flexible hours, retirement, healthcare, generous vacation policies, etc. is pretty new an spectacular in relation to past work environments. These sorts of things used to be the privilege of some business owners who weren't critical to daily business.
> No, people are idolizing Musk because he is a billionaire.

No they are not. They are idolizing him specifically because of the success of Tesla, SpaceX, and PayPal.

> "he's rich, so he's obviously smarter than you!"

Nobody is making that argument. Its usually, “look at the success of the companies he leads”.

You can make an argument about whether or not he should get the credit he does for the success, but nobody is idolizing the wealth.

None of these people are going to defend the great insight of the winner of the last powerball because there is no repeated pattern of long term success.
Thanks! Very thought provoking.
Interesting, I've never encountered this extremely narrow definition of copyleft. Thanks for explaining.
WSL2 definitely works on Windows 10 Home, which doesn't have Hyper-V. My understanding is that they split off the VM functionality needed for WSL2 into the "Virtual Machine Platform" feature so that pro+ is no longer required.
Depends on what country you're moving to. But in my experience, moving from Canada to Europe and back, it's not seen as "weird" travelling with computer stuff. My suitcase even had a PC monitor and motherboard tucked in with my shirts and slacks.

For simplicity, it's probably cheaper and easier to send some peripherals to the Sally Ann or Goodwill and replace it in the new locale.

As for the data, 2 TB isn't that much these days. It's just a small portable drive and no one will bat an eye. Photos from my DSLR alone take up more space than that!
How can a protocol get wrecked?
> I'm convinced that documentation, even for large companies, should just be an Obsidian vault of markdown files maintained via git which is just rendered on the web either using a simple static site generator or using Obsidian Publish

This, except for normals, sort of exists:

Craft: https://www.craft.do/solutions/businesses

Default is internal only, but you can allow sharing, which creates a web URL that can be privately or publicly shared (and can be on your own custom domain).

It has versioning, it has comments, it has real time multi-editor collaboration. An entire conference room, in person and virtual, can co-edit in true real time without anything blowing up, a feat not to be tried in Word, or even Google Docs.

Most firms should stop looking and just try Craft. Encourage everyone to do everything there, see what happens.

Note bene: it happily imports markdown, also exports Word, PDF, Markdown, and Textbundle, and can feed a static site gen.

They also keep busy: https://www.craft.do/whats-new

// I use Obsidian for myself, but Craft to collaborate with non-engineers. I've also been known to recommend FOAM to engineering teams, coupled with mkdocs and a good theme for static site gen, such as material for mkdocs:

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material

For eng teams already living in VS Code, it's hard to beat PKM where you already are.
Whow! Diablo was high risk when they built it, now it's even more. On the fault, only 6m above sea level.
They have a population decline problem. 1 child policy was also anti-female. So they have the cultural revolution boomers retiring and the 15-19 year old group is tiny. Even if they allow down to age 4, they are at a net loss for productivity.

It also comes at a period of time where they haven't quite done enough for the development and may fall short of the threshold.

zero-covid on the otherhand is trying to make sure nobody young dies.
Osrm is in memory as well. We were serveing most of Europe and Asia from a box with 128 Gb RAM. It can use a mmaped file but it's too slow, even on a NVME drive. If you route anything more than 300 kms it will take a few seconds and then timeout.
Comments like this make me excited about the book I'm currently writing (hopefully the nail on the head at the tip of the zeitgeist), egregores and tulpas are primary concepts/characters.
Researchers eye embroidery as low-cost solution for making wearable electronics
You create the lowest friction/default path according to your company's needs.

There isn't a universal note taking application that comes pre-organized for your team's use case. You have to put some work into any tool you use.
You may consider and intermediate step of shifting to consulting where you can capture more value and free up more time.

Also partnering with existing projects.

Perhaps there is a start-up in the realm of helping people like yourself do what you want to do.

But you may want to ask yourself why. If it’s just that you are itching to gamble with your families financial future, perhaps back off.

If you feel you have an idea worth pursuing, go for it.
Is there an environmental benefit if the energy saved commuting is used on something else? Example: If I spend $300 less on gas each month and then use that extra $3,600 at the end of the year to take a trip to Tahiti.
The idea that most successful startups are created by people in their early twenties is basically a myth. The median age according to the various bits of research I've seen over the years is somewhere around 35 - 45. And yes, that includes unicorns. [1][2][3][4]

I've never seen any research on the topic but I have a strong suspicion that if you looked at the failure rate of startups founded by 20 years old it would be vastly higher than that of startups founded by 40 year olds, as 40 year olds are likely to be able to invest their own funds in the early stages, have industry expertise and contacts, and are more likely to have learned the interpersonal skills to manage relationships with co-founders, customers, funders etc. They also probably know the market that they are going into so have a much smaller space to search for product market fit than a 20 year old with less knowledge. There are exceptions of course.

But the honest reality is that if you don't have a year or two's cushion where you can continue to pay the bills while pursuing your startup you probably shouldn't do it if you have kids and a family, unless your partner is willing and able to pick up the slack financially. That's assuming you go for the classical silicon valley "let's dedicate every waking hour to building our tinder clone for chinchillas that will revolutionise fuzzball breeding" tech-bro method of working on a startup. It might be saner to take a slower approach and bootstrap to begin with while seeing if you can work part time.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-age-of...
[2] https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1220545/founder-age-star...
[4] https://startups.co.uk/news/average-age-of-startup-founder/
Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt Twitter DMs
Would love to hear more haha, sounds like your dad did a good job juggling it all if you look fondly back on it
Neat! This is the direction I’d hoped to see gvisor go in. What’s the reasoning for building from scratch and not piggybacking off gvisor?
That is possible with technology coming within 6-24 months. Especially if you compare it to a lot of the garbage articles that show up on the front page of Google these days mainly to fill the small spaces between clickbait ads. Not saying it will actually be used that way.
Ironically, with solar over-generation becoming the new normal in some parts of the U.S., it's going to make more sense to have "day storage heaters" rather than "night storage heaters".
But can I embed VSCode on Neovim? Yeah, didn't think so.
> a massive share of all purchasing power resides in Africa and Asia?

I don't know about Africa, but Asia already has a massive share of all purchasing power.

> Do you think by 2030, all global governments and their citizens will voluntarily give away control over what they can consume and create to Google and Apple? Are they going to ransom their digital economies to Apple's 30% tax?

No, they're going to build things like Alibaba and Tencent and hold that control for themselves. Which they did do.

> Betting in favor of the current centralized western oligopolies is betting on the belief that the digital economy won't grow, and that there won't be a regulatory crackdown in countries with stronger technological capabilities.

Crackdown on what? Speech or human rights or ...?

> what's the alternative? Every large country making its own app stores and social networks?

Well, they have largely done that, haven't they? The "X" in Musks's "X app" clearly stands for "Wish it was WeChat" with all of the social media, shopping, commerce, banking, and communication embedded in it.

> Or a decentralized variant that isn't completely controlled by a handful of western corporations?

This is also already happening, isn't it?

It seems like all of your hypothetical questions are already answered, and none of the answers are "Web 3."
Basically, an account where multiple people know the credentials. It's the Spartacus effect.

One way to avoid a criminal conviction in the United States is to ensure the existence of reasonable doubt. Part of the reason people are told to never share passwords is that auth credentials are recognized as a form of self-repudiation. If only a limited number of people know the credentials, one of them has to be the perpetrator, if it's essentially common onowledge though we return to our technical, trivially auditable digital paper trail tracing back to a user-agent at best.

This is a move that a layman in the legal system would probably not have pursued. It is however, a great way to create plausible deniability. This'll probably backfire in the long run though. Judges and juries are touchy on that sort of thing.
Introducing the Dagger Node.js SDK
"Based on Chromium" implies that the core rendering code that comprises Chromium is in this codebase, but this is not at all the case if you browse the source. Basically the only thing that this codebase shares with Chromium is a build system and some very low-level libraries (libbase, which is basically a standard library for C++)
Is this a joke, or is it some "you don't get unemployment benefits until the end of time, after some months/years you get welfare/social security/some other name" thing? Most European countries have significant percentages of unemployment, and very few people end up on the streets (and starvation is essentially unheard of), that alone should give you a hint that you've missed something in your reading on the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state has an introduction and also contains various links to individual state's current setup. Germany is currently in the process of increasing welfare (Bürgergeld, literally "citizen money") to something like 60% of average post-tax income.
Yes, exactly. I have a purely secular worldview as an adult, but there are good things worth paying attention to in the bible, at least in the new testament. What's different about the evangelical extremists I grew up around is this complex of mutually buttressing beliefs/behaviors like biblical literalism, believing in direct communication of absolute truth from the holy spirit, that prayer can cause supernatural miracles, etc.

With EA I'd cite longtermerism, the rhetoric around coin flips and risk, and in particular how all of this becomes a normative standard: if you aren't maximizing your earning potential you are a moral failure!

As I said, many of these beliefs and behaviors functionally serve to give the believer an all purpose source of moral righteousness. No one has a problem with Jesus saying you should not just do no harm but have a burden to help those in need. The problem comes exactly in that institutionalization that adopts this as a banner while behaving in the complete opposite way in practice.
It depends on the players, but for how the game is structured you still have a good chance of "winning" (finishing alive with in a draw) even if you're way underpowered, as long as you're friendly and provide some value
I have no idea what rhetorical point you’re trying to make with a reference to… Icarus? Especially as small-r rationality (i.e. science and statistics) is how we went from manned flight being only a myth, to walking on the moon.
I'm a CTO in a startup and all our docs are in .md files, mermaid diagrams with dynamic Table of Content generation.

We have two repos: Product (to anything relating to product) and Wiki (anything else, ranging from onboarding checklists, brief design documentation of key parts of the code ... to meta documentation)

Although our team is small by many standards (8) everyone likes it.

We spend a ridiculously small amount of time on meetings.

The obvious and great upside is the code/documentation integration which has virtually 0 context loss.

One downside however is indeed the difficulty of git branching to non-developers.

Once in while I find myself debugging a messed up version.

But I'm willing to pay that price.
1 message broadcasting to 10 silo'd people is a completely different system than ensuring a celebrity tweet gets to 100 million people within a couple minutes, which is what twitter considered their task.
Citation?

There are plenty of Muslim women with hijab in streets and workplaces in France.

Source: I am French and living in France.
This was the story I was expecting.
Little hooks that go in the trunk to keep grocery bags from rolling around all over the place.
Copyleft[0] accounts for a significant but minority fraction of free software. The GPL is a Copyleft licesense, but the MIT and Apache licenses (which together might account for a majority of free software) are not. Copyleft refers to the restriction that derivative works also be subject to the same Copyleft terms; it's the "infectious" nature of the license.

Having any license requirements at all, e.g. attribution, inclusion of license alongside distributed copies, etc. does not make the license Copyleft.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
You’re still fixating on the wealth part, which people on this site (at least the arguments I see upvoted) do not.

People are “worshipping” Musk because of his repeated success in making successful large innovative businesses. The wealth he has is a product of that, but the deference is to the success of the companies.
>I know git can be tricky but it cannot be that difficult to teach people from non technical departments add, commit and push and then show maybe one person from each department how to solve conflicts

Nah, that's going to be a crapshoot. You want a few people who know git and do this for a full time job and that's all they do - manage the documentation git repo.
>talk to any of Qatari women

It'll be hard to get their unbiased opinion with their male guardian permanently present.
Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable?
Poor work performance hurts everyone.
> I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up.

This is a conversation you should have with your spouse. Many spouses go back to school or pursue a financially risky entrepreneurial path. The other spouse supports the family. I've also seen this blow up, as the fiancee/spouse that supported the partner gets dumped after shortly after success... If you do this, I strongly encourage you to offer your spouse a generous postnuptial agreement (i.e. more than CA family law defaults to.)
Did you miss the existence of decentralized exchanges?
Most of the PDF editing I do is the equivalent to physically typing over, covering over, or cutting elements out of a print document. I would not expect a an editor to be able to (for example) reflow the layout of PDF.
I built this documentation/testing framework to do just that: https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory

I realized one day that the specs, tests and how-to markdown documentation I wrote all used the same examples.

From that I derived the idea to create a "spec" DSL that could both be run as a test and generate markdown (with screenshots, etc.) to make nice high level how-tos.

Cucumber has the same sort of idea but the DSL really isn't suitable.
Had to uninstall Adobe Reader this week because it's become unbearably slow on my 2015 MacBook Pro. I'm talking it can't smooth scroll a 2-page resume PDF.

Preview does the trick just fine.
Can you explain how making flakey tests, not flakey, helps find bugs. I would have thought these differences are essentially free fuzzing and desirable?
Weird, I have a homepod (mini) also. In fact I hardly have any Apple stuff anymore, I only got homepods because it was the most privacy-friendly option out of the big three. I just have an iPad from work which I used to set them up. And most of my automation goes through Home Assistant anyway.

When I give a double command Siri literally tells me she can't do two things at the same time and I have to present them as two separate commands.

Perhaps it's because I have it set to UK English? Perhaps it's smarter in US English. I'll have to try that.
We're working on it! Should be fixed soon.
Nobody else did it, including NASA.
Just spitballing but even if you can’t enumerate the fonts, you could draw text with the targeted font on a hidden canvas element and check if the resulting pixels roughly resemble what would be expected versus a “fallback” font?
This. It is amazing to me that the cult members talk about the fiction as if their take on it is real instead of the reality.
I think some (not all) of that factor is that, being a 3+ player game, it makes explicit some friendship group dynamics that were previously implicit, and potentially not known to all the involved parties.
About 17 years ago I was an intern at RIM/Blackberry and even then Matthias was a legend in the company, built the communication/foundation layer for the device.