skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eclipse primarily for coding in Java, Python, etc.. When I'm editing in console mode, I use Emacs. Rarely if I'm on a machine without Emacs I might use vim or nano.
I don’t understand what the point is. You have the option already to hold on for 5 years+. Many people do this (especially employees with vesting schedules) and they are rewarded for doing it.

> is why people talk about the short term quarterly focus of Wall Street.

This is a false meme though. Tesla was worth more than multiple profitable long standing car manufacturers combined before it ever turned a profit. Investors fixate on short term performance when the company has no long term vision and deriving cash flows is much easier (e.g. a container ship holding company).
GCC has stack probing.
I truly appreciate your response because this is the type of feedback and questions I'm looking for. If you take out the UI the main difference is group messaging which is a new feature but as I'm typing this I realized I haven't added this to the website.

My vision is that this will be the app everyone uses to travel with friends. Some of the things in the near term I'm looking to add is travel booking (hotels, flights, cars), AI where you type the location and the type of things you want to do to create a customized vacation, and voting on vacations before they are planned for example to see if my friends are more interested in one location compared to another. Also a share expenses feature is also in the future
A lot of mental gymnastics that could have been avoided if one just read Ayn Rand...
You never heard of post-viral chronic fatigue?
I was co-founder of my last startup at age 38. Exited at 48. Started with a wife, three kids, two dogs, one mortgage, and an IRA account. Exited with the most important things still intact (minus one dog and an IRA). The company's exit was a member acquisition deal and a fire sale of our IP. Far from glamorous. Far from a fairytale ending.

The whole experience was the hardest thing I've ever done.

It was also one of the most fulfilling professional experiences of my life.

I intentionally stepped off the corporate ladder to pursue this dream. But because of my prior commitments/obligations, I wasn't able to drop everything and go all in. That was a hinderance. It made things harder. It put a strain on my family. But it was doable. And even though we didn't achieve our ultimate goal, these complications were not the reason for failure.

I became an independent consultant that gave me an income with some flexibility to allow me to asynchronously lead our startup. I called the time outside of my consulting work "the nightshift". We raised a seed round that allowed my younger and less encumbered co-founders to work as FTEs. We took in more funds that added another six FTEs and an offshore team. Over the 10 years we existed, I never took a salary. When the chips were down and I needed to be 100% dedicated, I emptied my retirement account.

This arrangement was far from ideal, nor do I fully recommend it, but it gave us a shot. We built, tested, and learned our way to a product that served several million (non-paying) customers. We made plenty of mistakes. But we learned from them. We learned to be so frugal, so resilient. So incredibly nimble and innovative. I yearn for that kind of creative power again. It has prepared me to take on anything in life. I've never been to war or faced death with my comrades on a daily basis, but in business terms, I imagine startup life is as close as you can get. The experience has made me a better husband, father, friend, and colleague.

I've since returned to corporate life (for now). There I am invincible. None of it scares me. Corporate politics, bureaucracy, and general bullshit pale by comparison. My startup experience has become my superpower. Because I know I can help raise our game, knowing how to bring out the best in our people and to keep perspective on what is truly "hard" and how to get things done with less and under far less ideal circumstances.

So I say go for it. But go in with your eyes open. The odds are long no matter what. Might as well take your shot. At the very least you'll learn a lot. And someone with your talent, as long as you continue to hustle, rarely go hungry in this world. And if you succeed, well then, you might get a book deal in the process.
IMHO Xi Jinping is the fundamental reason. Since he took power in 2012 he has continuously shut down freedoms.
Have rich parents and a trust fund that takes care of your day to day money problem.
But that money doesn’t get returned to investors. Additionally, investors in Meta don’t have the power to vote for the money to be returned to investors. A stock without an ROI is worth $0.

I used to be an investor in FB but I sold out of it all in JAN 2020 at $206/share when I didn’t see the point in it.
90% failure rate assumes you're starting with at least a product or even willingly paying customers.

If all you have is vague ambition and no openings/unique angles, 90% is too optimistic.
Probably opposition to ending life and/or assigning a positive value to living while incarcerated, rather than making a financial calculation.
A brief interview with Mu creator Dr. Kartik Agaram
I love neovim but I don’t have a good replacement for the git plugin of vscode. I haven’t found my way to replicating that experience in neovim. I tried lazygit but I find the diff viewer hard to understand and navigate. Diff view (https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim) might be it, but I haven’t made the time to install a newer version of git from source (Debian…)
I wouldn't even bother with the static site generator. While I like the idea of STGs, in my opinion, they all suck. And now there has to be someone to maintain how those pages are rendered and know how whatever thing like Jekyll works.

Just let developers either read the markdown files as-is or set their IDE to render markdown previews by default. I prefer the latter because I don't have to wait for someone who's on vacation half the time to render the latest docs.

When it comes to API documentation, everything should just be inline comments in the doc format of choice for the team. Don't bother rendering this out, because every flipping tool ever invented for converting inline documentation into HTML fails on something simple. Developers can read the inline docs as-is and/or rely on their IDE to provide them hints from those docs.

If you have to deploy your documentation, that's how you know you might as well give up. It's one thing to deploy documentation for 3rd parties, but for documentation being used internally there's few good reasons to turn the documentation into its own website. That's extra work that I've never seen increase productivity or developer happiness. Don't put documentation behind one or two guys with special permissions to press a deploy button. If you do, the documentation will always be out of date as soon as it's rendered.

Remove as many reasons that devs won't write documentation as you possibly can.
Just to be clear, 122 random bits are just fine as a security measure depending on what you want to do. For example, if I have 1 URL and I'm trying to prevent someone from guessing it.

How you choose to encode the bits doesn't affect the security; if you use UUID form it's just as secure as if you use Base64. Regardless, if I had my 122 random bits, you would require 2^121 guesses to have a 50% chance of guessing it.

Edit: this is in the non-quantum case cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

Edit 2: (3:32 ET) done editing
Pure speculation on my part

Perhaps it was "targeted" for some internal skunkworks project to get Windows running on ARM Macs? Linux/BSD obviously got there first (at least in the open) and Microsoft is under a Qualcomm only contract for now

Microsoft can't directly request that Apple allow booting their OS, or work with them directly. But "leaving a spare key under the doormat" is a bit more innocent looking
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/9/a-law-against-islam

Looks like for now, it's only for minors

it's also banned in sports

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/19/french-senators-vot...
We currently have sign-in with google and apple but thanks for the suggestion of sending a link without a sign-in requirement. I do see how some people would like that better than downloading the app.
They got this donation after they already build decentralized infra for years. It's all in the article.

But yeah, I know, no true Scotsman.
or CSS (and every one of it's derivatives), GraphQL, SQL, regex. Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but each one is a language and something I'm currently using or used in the past. Little languages are everywhere.
> Heck, it probably works great on Apple computers for the same reasons.

Nope, the very first (and last) time that I suspended my Macbook and stuffed it in a backpack, it was hot to the touch when I went to go take it out. I looked online and everyone was just advising each other to power down every time they wanted to take their laptop anywhere. So no, Apple can't get it right either. FFS, will OS vendors please just let me hibernate to disk like the old days?
This is what should work:

1. Reduce expenses as much as you can.

2. Get your wife a paying job if that is possible.

3. Save enough to be able to live off the next 4 years without earning anything.

4. If 3. is not possible, then start something on the side.

5. If savings plus side income gives you runway for 4 years, then you are good to quit and focus fulltime.

6. Dont use your wife's savings to pay the bills. That is just fall back. If you are using up wife's savings/income, then it is right time to start looking for a job.

7. Consider moving into a more comfortable job, which gives you more free time for side hustle.
Pre-coffee non-clarity on my part. I was referring to this part:

> One thing for developers to note is that assets that have already been compressed with Brotli cannot be decompressed with Brotli-G decompressor implementations
Universal needs will always be a demand market.
You should be as low-profile of a traveler as possible to avoid getting investigated in the first place. Fly with one laptop, one external storage drive, and other normal personal things.

Check on customs laws to be sure that shipping or carrying a lot of electronics with you is legal and pay any import duties that might be necessary. I imagine moving companies have experience with this kind of international move and also raise absolutely no suspicion about random electronics that are part of a permanent move to a new location.
Regardless of the country you're from?
I think this comment wins today. But could sled dogs have left "signs of their presence" that would remain for a long time?
Show HN: a website to track YouTube subscriptions
This has caused me to realize that I need to replace my old model of vi:

> command mode has primacy; insert mode is a time-bounded special case

with:

> insert mode is every other mundane editor; use the Esc key to enter the matrix (i.e. command mode)
It kind of already has collapsed. How many Americans actually earn enough to survive as Twitch streamers? Maybe a few thousand at most? Relative to the population size they are completely irrelevant.
I built and sold my first startup in my 20s and building another in my 30s with family and mortgage - I suppose I'm qualified to answer this question

Short answer: yes, its possible

1. Find your niche and work 1-2 hours every day to create a strong pitch (a prototype and ideally a few early customers) - consistency is the key - EVERY DAY. Act with urgency here.
2. Raise a pre-seed round - this is when you quit your job. Yes, you are selling equity in your sweat. But there is no free lunch - you want to keep the living standards and also, stop working full-time for someone else - you need cash flow. There is a probability that you identify a really good problem and you grow customer base really quickly - that is very less likely in my opinion.

Once you have some capital, you'll have a larger canvas to paint - it changes the mindset to be faithful to people who trusted you with their money and also, brings in so much of focus.

There is the whole weekend hustler concept - I am not a big fan (I made more progress in 2 months full-time compared to what I could make in 2 years working on weekends)

What's the worst that could happen? Just do it.

Two mantras for you: Focus on intent; Always measure impact
Hadn't heard of this before, looks very cool. For anyone interested: https://github.com/claudioc/jingo
>>> It’s not just about the meeting, which is itself a thirty to sixty-minute intrusion on someone’s day. It’s about the time wasted anticipating a meeting, where people feel they don’t have the time to plunge into an important project.

Oh god yes! This - a thousand times this !!
A so-called 'smart contract' is not a replacement for a contract. Just because you call something a contract doesn't mean it is. The same applies to 'decentralised finance'. It's not finance unless it can do financing, and defi can't.
>So we kind of want to see it fail as we would want a MLM business to fail.

Do "we" really? I like you don't see any value creation when it comes to coins, NFTs and what else is out there. But the idea of a crypto _currency_ is great. I just want the speculation to end and for people to use it as it was intended: As an alternative to government provided funny money.
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> Publicly listed companies usually optimize for this quarter.

No they don’t. The sales org might but when I was at GOOG the quarterly deadlines had zero influence on launch dates, engineering decisions, etc.

Public companies frequently get punished severely in the market when they have a great quarter but advise a negative outlook for the year.
Just my $0.02: start a side project and work on it evenings/weekends, while keeping your day job. Yes, it will be tough, but delaying it is not the best idea, since working overtime without burnout gets harder and harder as you get older. Make sure NOT to make the mistake of focusing only on the more enjoyable, technical side of the undertaking (read: exciting technologies and software development), but pay a lot of attention to the more boring, business side of your project (read: educating yourself on product/market fit, initial marketing strategies, growth hacking, etc.) Find out whether you are going to even enjoy the non-technical, business side of a startup. Realize that since you do not have a lot of money to burn and/or a lot of time to clock in, you will have to avoid huge mistakes and develop a very good business idea and a very good Minimal Value Product that will let you FEEL at least SOME startup traction early on; otherwise, if your side project never gets at least a bit exciting relatively early on, you will just get tired of it all and dump it. (Or not, which would be a valuable lesson as well: the one that you get addicted to running your own businesses.)
This is what the Gitlab wiki does. There's a markdown+git interface for technical folks and a web interface for normal people.
> Nobody said “self-sacrifice”

I was responding to the claim about NASA.

> do you pick your spouse/friends or make a decision to have children based on their ability to maximize your wealth?

People marry for money all the time. If you're a man, and have no money and no prospects for money, what do you think your odds are of finding true love reciprocated?

As for children, the birth rate declines as the economics of having children changed from an asset to a liability. This happens in country after country. People most definitely historically have had children for their ability to produce for the family.

I know it's gauche to suggest that people are motivated by money, but it's a fact that they are, even in affairs of the heart, and especially in their professions and their behavior while working.
Here is my two cents on this whole non-work thing.

We are in a 21st century western civilisation where food (= no hunger) and entertainment (= no boredom) are cheap and abundant. If you somehow manage to find an abode (the hard part), why would you "have" to be working for money? Why is the assumed "issue" here even labelled as an issue to start with?

1- At the personal level: What do really every human yearn for? We need to stop generalizing our value-system. Even if you are poor, without a college education or a job. you can still be growing inwardly (= better person) and contributing around you in many non-monetary ways (= better [virtual]community).

2- At the society level: what do the world really need/want among all this busy-ness and activity (= growing GDP)? aren't we, to a great extent, just carried away with the momentum and weight of the modern world, unable (and unwilling) to collectively change the course of this high-speed, problem-riddled train ?

The rise of the Non-Working-for-Money (and not work per se) Class is not an issue. It is just a symptom. We need (and will have) more of them.
> almost two terabytes

Stick it on a little encrypted USB drive and put it in your pocket? Maybe with a couple of spare drives in your checked luggage, and post one as well. Nobody will care. Wipe the devices if you really want. Not the huge problem you think it is.
Creating Digital Life
Coinbase stock is already a bet - and a diversified one at that - on crypto. Why buy both?
Just a question as the answer will be interesting, troll or not:

If you decided that "gays" have no human rights... Can the USA decide that Qataries don't have them either? And then "liberate" the oil from the nonhuman bipedal beings "wasting" it?

This is a hypothetical, naturally.
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Some people have built it. For example: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49459/draft-control
> it requires many force push in the branch

Can't say I recommend this approach.
I'm not making any claims about glorifying subsistence farming, that's a straw man.

The real distinction has nothing to do with how pleasant life is but the fundamental stability of society. For nearly all of human history since agriculture there has been a ruling class which survives through the exploitation of the labor class, but for most of the history there was an asymmetric dependance between ruling classes and labor class: ruling classes where absolutely dependent on labor class, but the inverse was not true.

This is healthier for a society, not because of any high moral vision, but simply because the collapse of the ruling class does not mean the fundamental destruction of everyone. Peasants know how to till the land with or without a king.

Today when have an unprecedented interdependence of the two classes. For example this is fundamentally incorrect:

> people have the option to go back and start their own farm.

A select few individuals do have this option, but all of society cannot return to an agrarian system because we do not have the resources for a population of our scale to live off the land without the massive industrial system required to maintain modern agriculture. Billions of people would die in this case.

This interdependence is particularly troubling due to the inherent nature of the ruling class to seek to exploit the labor class. Though it is to the short term advantage of the capitalist class, in the long run it threatens all of industrial civilization. We are quite literally seeing the consequences of this right now.
> Writing and aggregating good documentation needs to be easy and simple. Gating documentation behind git is the opposite of that for non technical people.

How do you find a happy medium between this and a Confluence-like free-for-all, where anyone can create/edit a page?
I think you’re confusing age with tenure of a position.
Tbh I didn't even know the source was a deeply conservative website.

That said, the article is just a discussion with an author. Not seeing how this falls under misinformation here, but maybe I'm misguided ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Show HN: Fast and light character recognition from pen or touch input
From my perspective, calling yourself a "high documentation" org leaves a similar impression as calling yourself a "high code" org.
1. Paste image into assets folder.

2. Write ![imagename](imagename.jpg).

It's not that hard really is it.
I have some leftover solar panels and want to try connecting them straight to a (correctly sized) water heating element -> 50 gal container of water in my garage, and see if I get any meaningful heat in Fall/Winter. That would save the cost of a battery, charge controller and inverter.

If successful, phase 2 would to be to circulate that heat into the house.

Of course it's way less efficient than a solar water heater, but reduces a lot of the complexity/cost and potentially lets me dump excess solar.
Matthias is a good example of a 100x engineer. He's insanely productive.
Hey, I totally rewrote my comment after reading your response. Thanks for engaging - hearing from the project author made me realize I was acting like a cynical asshole. Congrats on Hermit and thanks for supporting free software.
There are some situations where character recognition is easy enough that it should be possible without a ton of machine learning, so I am creating a JS/wasm client-side library that can accurately identify characters from pen or touch strokes. For some reasonably accurate results for the English alphabet, it currently zips down to about 50KB all-inclusive and takes just a few ms to identify a character on most devices.

I have tried to make it easy to train your own character set if anyone wishes to try that out. It is still in the early stages but I am hopeful it will eventually be good enough for many use cases.
You can search tabs on firefox if you add % to the address bar
True, and regular investing does pay off. Others have pointed that out.

However, these evergreen articles (i.e. just dust off the one from the last market crash) are suggesting that you should particularly invest in tech right now, not that you should regularly invest in it. Possibly even with money that was going to be on the sidelines otherwise.
We've been committed to battling through regulations to open and expand the market for close to 4 years now.

As I posted above, here's more (insider) information about what happened with PredictIt: https://www.capitolaccountdc.com/p/gambling-on-politics-an-i...
Once we have complete control over the determinism of a test, we can start to play with tweaking the non-deterministic inputs in a controlled way. For example, we can tweak the RNG seed used for thread scheduling to explore schedules that wouldn't normally happen under the Linux scheduler.
I see. This is good to know. I don't know about your nephew's condition, or if there were other issues: drugs, personal problems, etc. I also have a family member who suffered a similar fate, but I think he was addicted to illicit STIMs. Sorry for your loss.

I'm trying to get put on these meds, because I know how effective they are for me. That said, I will listen to your warning, and your nephews experience. I appreciate the reasonable conversation.
Indeed. But isn’t it also a waste when someone doesn’t follow through and then we have situations like the one described on the article?
Indeed, they look identical, even down to the font used.
Water is such a better storage media, plus it can be pumped to where you want the heat.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Thermal_mass
This is precisely why I care about this "decentralized" web. I don't want to live in a China-like walled garden. In the absence of decentralized alternatives, enforcing such walled gardens just becomes easier.
Definitely listen to StartUpsForTheRestofUs.

Do not leave your job! There are lots of ways to begin your journey to having your own company/startup.

Being employed is a great source of bootstrap funding.

I also highly recommend @DHH startup school talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

You have plenty of time. Save up and use your 'extra time' wisely.

Rob's stair step approach is a great way to get started.
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