skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went all in on Lean Startup, I thought that it explained why I'd not succeeded with my last startup. I built websites, drove traffic and built a mailing list. I went out and did customer interviews just like they tell you.

But it wasn't getting anywhere. I finally had an aha moment when a guy I'd interviewed told me he was teaching Lean Startup at the local university. He said I wish my students were half as good as you with the interview. Then he proceeded to tell me that my idea sucked.

FWIW Lean Startup boils down to one thing - does the problem exist and are people willing to pay for it to be fixed. Do anything more, delay writing code and you're wasting your time. If you show them screen shots or anything else you will induce false answers. Oh and read the Mom Test so you ask the questions correctly because for most entrepreneurs it is counter-intuitive.
Despite it not being their stated purpose, they absolutely were a bit of a status symbol, though one that waned as more of them were given out of course. People routinely complained (both jokingly and seriously) about not being verified. It's not that rich and famous people needed the tiny bit of bonus (though some of them probably did), but that it was a marker of notability for less famous people. It's kind of like appearing in a crossword clue.

The thing about putting the badge into Twitter Blue is that it makes it not a status symbol: both because it's just generally accessible (so even what little cachet you might agree it previously implied is now gone) and because for many you might see "enthusiastic about Elon Twitter" as an negative signal.

There's a whole separate axis to this where it was clearly easier to get verified as a mainstream journalist than for many other kinds of professions or claims to fame (understandable both just under the basic "verification" goals and for presumably being pretty easy to actually verify as such things go). Much "anti-blue-check" sentiment is just the same familiar fights over the media, simply filtered through Twitter's systems.
> Slavery was also considered above-board at one point, so...

It was also perfectly constitutional[0], hence the need for that 13th amendment. And that civil war thing. As it turns out, the constitution kind of sucks[0], it has a lot of problems with it. Fewer than it did in the past, but we aren't quite at the end of history just yet.

You're going to need a better complaint than 'it's unconstitutional', as this is pretty verifiably constitutional. The people who have been empowered[1] by the founding fathers to determine what is, and what is not constitutional have determined that this is constitutional. It's not a matter of opinion at this point.

> carrying private service X is required for you to exist in the united states.

And that's nothing new. Government can compel all sorts of things from you. Showing up to contribute your labour to a jury duty. Involuntary servitude in the military. Taxing the land you live on. Following emergency orders. Not heading a communist political movement. Every society - even this society - provides you with privileges, and requires obligations from you.

This obligation has been ruled to be well within the legal framework of this society, and if you think it should be outside that legal framework, you should look into passing a constitutional amendment on the subject.

Or, you could believe that this obligation is a constitutional, but bad idea, and have the legislature repeal it. Either way, it's currently constitutional. [0]

[0] You're confusing 'constitutional' with 'just'. They are not the same thing.

[1] Actually, SCOTUS' powers in this sphere are what's unconstitutional[2], but we all close our eyes, and collectively pretend that they are.

[2] You're not going to find anything in either the constitution, or passed legislature granting SCOTUS the incredibly broad powers it currently enjoys. These powers were invented out of thin air, and are backed by neither fiat, nor democratic will. All that the constitution says on the subject is 'We should, like, probably have courts. That should do stuff, maybe.'
> I don't think we need a website, but a js-free webpage with hyperlinks

Wasn't this precisely the use case for HTML and the WWW as originally conceived by Berners-Lee and his fellow internet pioneers?
Man, these anti-piracy laws are getting really mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I think this is the right set of values for going in to academics again. Years correlate less with the ability to go to uni, life and financials are the decisive factors. You won't fit if you have two kids and mortgage.

A wise woman I met said to me when she was around 60 that she should go to university again as she likes the good boost to critical thinking. She ought to do that in every 10-15 year and it's about time. I'd say it's a nice example to follow.
Maybe something like uptimerobot with a webhook.
That title is longer than the limit. The shortened title fairly reflects the contents of the article. What does your judgment say is wrong about the revised title?
I would never take a job at a place that wants you to be on camera while you're just working. I mean, that's an insane amount of survailance.

On the flipside, I do tend to turn my camera on during meetings. If I'm not at my computer, or the network can't handle it or something like that, then I won't, but if I'm at my computer why wouldn't I? I think you lose a lot of communication if you can't see each other, and honestly, I think that most meetings that don't require video could've just been a short text-chat or maybe even an e-mail instead.

I do think it depends on the type of meeting. I think "information" meetings, like a monthly department is more suited for everyone having their camera off, while meetings where a small number of people actually discuss something are suited for everyone having their camera on. But again, a lot of "information" meetings are frankly better as pre-made videos presentations instead of meetings, especially if there isn't room for discussion or questions anyway.
> It is very egalitarian since everyone can participate on an equal footing, everyone can run a node and get a complete copy of all transactions and verify correctness

I have friends that can pay rent but don’t have much left over. There are people in my city that live hand to mouth. I know plenty of people who are well off enough, but aren’t ever going to (or have the technical inclination, or sore cash to) run a node.

> get a complete copy of all transactions and verify correctness

I’m sure this is a real benefit for all the single parents struggling to feed and cloth their kid.

The reality is, most people don’t have the resources (time, technical or monetary) to participate in “egalitarian” crypto currencies. Moreover, even if they all did, it still wouldn’t be egalitarian, because they’d still be out-purchased by those with capital. So we’re back to where we started, except with more e-waste, energy bills and more exaggerated hyper-capitalism.
> Do the labels prefer Tidal over Spotify for some reason? Or did Spotify decide to get out of this game for reasons of their own?

Me, being a naive speculator: Maybe it has something to do with the time. The original contracts between spotify + labels were probably written 15 years ago. Over time they might have changed numbers like how big spotify's cut is, but never revised the rest of the blueprint contracts.

So, my bet is laziness / not caring enough.
This is something that we are actively thinking about actually! It's currently CLI only. API's definitely quite a lot of work, but it's probably worth it. Could you please create an issue for it here: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical/issues

This way, you can stay updated about when it's ready. Thank you!
The part that's missing is that it isn't just "a Roomba", it's "a Roomba labelled with “video recording in progress”". Saying 'a Roomba' implies that it could've been done from any Roomba.
There's also Charlie Stross (@cstross), from "Dude, You Broke the Future" (2017):

When I write a near-future work of fiction, one set, say, a decade hence, there used to be a recipe that worked eerily well. Simply put, 90% of the next decade's stuff is already here today. Buildings are designed to last many years. Automobiles have a design life of about a decade, so half the cars on the road will probably still be around in 2027. People ... there will be new faces, aged ten and under, and some older people will have died, but most adults will still be around, albeit older and grayer. This is the 90% of the near future that's already here.

After the already-here 90%, another 9% of the future a decade hence used to be easily predictable. You look at trends dictated by physical limits, such as Moore's Law, and you look at Intel's road map, and you use a bit of creative extrapolation, and you won't go too far wrong. If I predict that in 2027 LTE cellular phones will be everywhere, 5G will be available for high bandwidth applications, and fallback to satellite data service will be available at a price, you won't laugh at me. It's not like I'm predicting that airliners will fly slower and Nazis will take over the United States, is it?

And therein lies the problem: it's the 1% of unknown unknowns that throws off all calculations. As it happens, airliners today are slower than they were in the 1970s, and don't get me started about Nazis. Nobody in 2007 was expecting a Nazi revival in 2017, right? (Only this time round Germans get to be the good guys.)

<http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...>

Multiple HN discussions: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
Police, firefighters, and military don't have to be provided by governments. There are plenty of historical examples of all three being provided by private institutions (indeed, the article referenced in this discussion talks about such institutions for firefighters in England over a period of several centuries).

Nor does charity for those in genuine need need to be provided by governments. Indeed, charity throughout human history has worked best when it is provided by private institutions made up of people who genuinely want to help others, of which there are plenty in the US as there are everywhere, not by government departments staffed by bureaucrats.
Funny how it's a problem only in the "richest country in the world".

It also pales in comparison to the burden and costs of existing system in the US.
Ooh and apparently everyone gets $30/mo of credits as a baseline, so this is within the free tier (if you don't want to pay 50 cents per month...)
AWS Lambda and Azure Functions both support timer triggers and probably round down to $0/ month if your job only runs for a few seconds an hour
What's interesting is that even though all this is fairly obvious at this point Musk still doesn't seem to be acting on it. No matter who is at the helm, as long as he's the owner he will not be able to distance himself from it and if he sells then he'll have to absorb a massive loss, possibly larger than he can sustain. He's painted himself into a very nasty little corner with the Twitter acquisition, it has absorbed all of the margin for error that he still had. No wonder he was trying to get out of it.
The Serious Science of Humor
I just wish the companies making these devices had the same level of care with other people’s privacy as I would if I was making these devices. It’s not right.

At the very least, companies should have sign an oath to protect their customers and employees - not to abuse them… similar to how health professionals have an oath to do no harm. Is that too much to ask in this world.
with all due respect, I don't think you're aware of the scope and nature of the evidence if you believe these two tweets somehow magically ameliorate their implications. Particularly given their source.

Here is the introductory material to the final report:[0], which lays out the case and presents the evidence.

[0]https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=23466430-int...
Say a couch has shiny metallic legs that mess with the depth estimation. An estimate of where the corners of the couch are could give better estimate of the legs and weight one possibility more than another.
If you need a new vehicle, the you can certainly go with a quality EV. I live in NJ, it gets cold here in winter, with temps dipping in teens and single digits in Jan/Feb. Don't have a garage either. As long as you can plug your car in overnight, there are absolutely no issues. Range does drop a somewhat in winter, but as long as you're aware of it you can work around it. You don't need chargers in your area, your home will be the place where you charge the most, just make sure you have a high power outlet/wall charger installed at your home. Regular 120V outlets are not really feasible unless you're driving very little. 3d party chargers matter only when you go on road trips/vacations. That being said, maybe you can hold on to your car a couple more years, let the market cool down and EV offerings improve.
Thank you! Sad the what I think is one of the most useful contributions in this thread is buried on the bottom of the page...

Also found this short article that also discusses the clip [1]. Would be nice if someone could find the guy and verify it was him, and also ask him how he feels now about the whole thing.

1: https://kottke.org/15/10/focus-means-saying-no
This problem isn't new..
I remember Creative Sound cards hogging the PCI bus longer than their allocated time slice, a sure way to destabilise the entire computer.
IMHO there's no solution, the only thing you can do is to select carefully the HW providers you use and do lots of tests..
No, you get some free usage in perpetuity
In meditations that I listen to there is a repeated concept that comes up over and over: begin again.

Accept what happened, and begin again.

You wanted to meditate and get into an empty state, it didn’t happen, your thoughts strayed, so what? Begin again.

I see all of life’s challenges as nothing more than the chance to practise acceptance until I must ultimately accept my own death, so plenty of practise is preferred.

That’s not to say I don’t have ambition and experience joy, quite the opposite. By focusing on acceptance I am able to live happily in the present more often without guilt or anxiety.

So how do you begin again in life? Answer three questions:

What do I have?
What do I want?
How can I use what I have to get what I want?
Yeah, no. Training people doesn't work like that. Education is about training people, we don't utilize the output of the kids and reward them with grades that they can exchange for food and toys.

The whole point of testing is to put them in hypothetical situations and grade their progress with purpose of being aware of their development so we can improve it. Another thing we do is selecting the particularly good ones for further advanced training.

The problem with cheating is that it provides wrong data about their progress, you don't want to end up with a generation that cheated their way up without learning anything.

The selection for further training is probably not that big of a problem, its mostly about supply and demand and ChatGPT won't change that.
Gravity confinement fusion with optical coupling. Really much, much more practical than the fanciful notion that NIF will miraculously lead to a commercial energy source that ingests diamond-coated nanopellets and has a duty cycle of 1:1e15.
Everyone RTFA in this case!

I did not expect to see actual photos of the woman sitting on the toilet in this article. But damn, they're real and published dead center. It's awful and voyeuristic to feature, but in a way it brings to life the freakishly perverse Orwellian horror of all of this.

This piece hits hard, as it should.

How did neither Roomba nor ScaleAI have safeguards against PII of this nature? This is inside people's intimate spaces. It could have been sex. Or children. How did they not think of this?

This sort of disregard for privacy should be punished, and this woman should be able to sue Roomba and ScaleAI for a handsome sum.

Maybe they did have some kind of internal data privacy policy or 3rd party policy, but it was wholly inadequate.

My team once had a certain perennial Billboard chart topper's login credentials due to suspected mishandling by one of their team (I'm still afraid to say whom), but you'd better believe we treated it - and all of our customer data - as sacred taboo. Mishandling PII was fireable at minimum, and could probably land us in litigation with a permanent mark against our careers.

We need GDPR/CCPA++ protections here. As an added bonus, the companies that play nice will get a comfortable moat in the form of their compliance.
Great to hear you are a fan. A long time one albeit. Its been interesting seeing Russ Roberts evolve over the years. His interests have moved from quantitative to qualitative questions. What makes for a good life? What makes us happy? What gives us meaning? How should one conduct themselves? The harder questions in life. Questions that are difficult to articulate. Difficult to measure. But are vital to identify, because the economic policies we pursue mold our world which can either facilitate or hinder these interests.
3rd party trust and central point of failure. I don't agree that we've seen Bitcoin be controlled by a single entity or that anyone has power to modify it against the will of market. I would argue the things you don't see a need for are necessary, if not sufficient, to have a sufficiently decentralized ledger. Network effect might be the other ingredient.
This is hair-splitting for no reason, to the point of destroying communication. Nobody (because this is HN: yes, apparently at least one person, but you know what I mean by this) means ERs having to eat the cost of stabilizing uninsured dying/in-labor people when they say "socialized medicine". You can draw some parallels, but trying to put that, plus all the things people actually mean by the term, under the same umbrella, is a step toward making it meaningless.

This is like a burger joint telling you they don't serve onion rings, and then you insisting that in fact they do, because they put circle-cut onions on their burgers, and technically those are both rings and onions. Like... OK? So what? Which framing: "this place serves onion rings", or "this place does NOT serve onion rings", is more likely to confuse a diner?

The only times I've seen people really, seriously try to frame this as "socialized medicine" is when they don't understand how very limited the mandated scope of care is. It doesn't amount to much more than "you can't let someone simply die or give birth on the curb right outside your ER". The vast majority of what counts as medical care isn't part of it.
Sometimes we're serious, sometimes we noodle around
FTA: “Tesla buyers can opt out of arbitration, and preserve their right to a trial, by sending a letter to the company within a month of buying a car. But few are aware of or exercise that option, plaintiff’s lawyers said.”
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/4/10696/fi...

Voters in the county in question did eventually approve "universal" fire response, either small prepaid fee or post-paid full cost after response, but it sounds as though they won't consider converting the fees into standard taxes until 70% of residents have opted in to protection. Quite a few people who live and vote there seemingly have no interest in fire service.
Can you quote from the article please? Because I don't see it. The closest I get is this:

> she accuses Musk of having 'always' doxxed people in an attempt to silence critics of his treatment of employees
The logic is backwards though. I may have multiple consumers of a library some of which may want static some of which may want dynamic. You need to create/import new targets to do this even though the original target creates both static and dynamic libs by default.
Biggest challenge(s) working remotely? What needs improved?
What are your biggest challenge(s) working remotely? (Specifically interested in hearing about communication and culture related challenges)

What needs improved?
Monopolies are to free markets like evil/incompetent dictators are to socialism: they might not be a core tenant of the philosophy, they may even be antithetical to the core tenants of the philosophy, but they sure seem to be encouraged by the practical mechanics of the philosophy.
So what? She's trying to build an addition and rent it to her kids. Even if she was going to rent to randoms, so what? Is it better she just keeps the property as a single family home?
When TWO THIRDS of fathers aren't paying obligations, that tells you the problem is a fundamentally broken system rather than jerks just needing to be shamed and punished harder.
Is there an easy way of downloading the favorites?
> It comes from reading/listening/etc the responses of Americans to all the crazy shit that happens there.

Right, no disagreement from me that these things happen. And responses are varied, as you say.

What I was trying to get across was that you get a very lopsided view by concentrating on "crazy shit" and people's responses to it.

For example:

I live in the US. It's snowing where I am. It makes things beautiful. Some birds are at the feeder, and the furnace just turned on. I'm thankful for the warmth. I have some cookies to deliver to the neighbors later on (they recently gave us a loaf of their bread, which was delicious).

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There you go, that was some real American culture (still second-hand for you, and admittedly not entirely representative). Not very interesting, but it's home. Multiply that by hundreds of millions of people, and yes, sprinkle in a handful of crazy shit too for good measure. Maybe that gets you a little bit closer to reality.

Still plenty that needs fixing, of course. And I'm glad I don't live in Mississippi (:
As long as stocks are primarily owned if not traded by humans, I do think its a good idea to have a lower limit on the price. There's a sweet spot, where humans have an ability to discern price movements. If there are too many zeroes before or after the price, we can't tell if the price moved and what it means. So we don't have $45000 stocks or 45 cent stocks.
Do people still have to use primarily their custom programming language for most work? That's my current understanding, is that the engine is primarily exposed to GDScript.

Seems like such a poor choice.
I dunno I have some genmaicha with roasted rice and a good number of the grains look like downsized oblong popped corn
Sick burn. Agreed with op though
It actually makes me really sad to think that bombs destroyed the broth from 1400 AD.

I do realize this isn't much of a start on what WWII destroyed.
Any serverless FaaS offering should have a Timer trigger, which is essentially a cronjob.
Wasn’t Twitter’s policies prior to Musk essentially a reversal of Musks policies already? Would that really do it on its own?
How short?

How much local compute do you have?

I think people underestimate dynamic DNS or a static IP if you can get one for your home for cheap.
You can have kids. You just need a 10 years younger wife.

I think that it's quite hard to handle the lack of sleep for more mature people so that might be a problem, but please don't think that having kids is too late. It's too late in your 70'ies.

It got my shit together in my late 30ies. Got married and got two kids.

I spent a lot of time on making myself more attractive to the opposite sex prior to meeting my wife. I ran and worked out a lot and managed to attract some attention which I didn't get when I was a nerdy fat guy.

I never lacked work but had some some time off work because I'm weird and quirky and people usually don't get me the first time.

I really like what I'm doing with my life now (being soon 45) as opposed to how I behaved 10 years ago.

So yes, it seems that its possible to turn your life around. :)