skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2023, everyone is a millionaire.

Every single Twitter post shares how this person started a million-dollar business, such as making $10K in a day selling buttons or how a 17-year-old made $50K selling a card game.

Or better yet, how I made $30,000 in a single weekend dropshipping backpacks.

However, what you don't hear are the people with multiple failed businesses struggling daily.

You don't hear about people like me who have started various businesses, from reselling and Instagram theme pages to packing groceries for people (yes, I did this), creating a clothing brand, a dating app, selling water bottles, podcasting, newsletters, eBay flipping, curb painting, and offering SAT prep services.

These failed ventures don't catch headlines, and I assure you, I have so many ideas and cool stories to share, but they'll never see the light of day.

These stories fail to consider survivor's bias and the numerous failed software, grand ideas, TikTok brands, and startups that you'll never see.

The richest ideas are the ones that failed due to one reason or another.

Most of the success stories had luck, opportunities, or advantages that can't be explained in a Twitter thread.

I truly believe the greatest ideas that failed are more relatable than the "multi-millionaire who sold a sponge or a comfortable blanket."

Most of us who have failed have nowhere here to share our stories, and neither do most people on the internet.

Imagine the stories, ideas, or interesting components of the guy who tried to start a virtual restaurant, sold funny shirts, had celebrity promotions but never got it off the ground.

Where are they?

The little guy never gets to share their upbringing because all these people get their dopamine from big stories/headlines from exceptional outliers.

I started a twitter where people share their interesting business stories that failed. We'd learn much more from that.

Follow me on twitter for stories/lessons on failed startups-https://twitter.com/bizflops
How does it compare to Brave ?
Anyone know if the "Universal Summarizer" is reliable, or does it make stuff up?
I use quarter turn ball valves everywhere and slam the crap out of them. If a pipe bursts from that, it needs to be fixed, and I’d rather it happen while I’m there slamming valves around than when I’m not home.

But it has never happened.
Yeah I have been using android for every single phone I've ever had, but I don't see the point once iOS allows sideloading. They have locked down android so much(I kind of understand why, but still) at this point that sideloading is pretty much the only difference now. So why go for android?
Avocados are expensive sure but how can you beat $24/gram? Trade risk of spoilage for risk of seizure.
Mathematics and computer science are both in the category of formal science.
I've generally really loved w3schools for their tutorials -- I've been using them to teach my kids web programming and whatnot recently and generally been happy with them. Is there something I'm missing about it? Maybe it's because we have really good ad-blockers running, but their content seems fine and (generally?) not terribly "lifted" from other sites (I.E., just SEO spam).

Is there a replacement for them that fills the same gap for web reference / tutorials?
It was written by a climate professor, the situation is dire, and it won't just be the weather will be a little warmer.
Curious what plugins would you want? The only thing I personally need are LSPs, so it's not a big problem for me.
A surprising number of mechanics will refuse to work on any car with a battery that has more than 12 volts, regardless of the problem.

Found that out trying to get rotors replaced on a Prius.
It's not that bad. We don't have ID cards unlike places like Germany or Spain and don't have an equivalent of a US social security number. I've never felt particularly surveilled here.
Yes, it’s a formal science.
I'm sympathetic to your comment but I do think he has a point, it seems both of you guys are speaking past each other.

I think modern society is quick to cast criminality as either circumstantial or biological.

There is a non zero percentage of the population that are sociopaths and psychopaths with a top percentile disagreeableness trait yet most of these people are fully integrated functioning members of society.

Although their might be predispositions, I think its moral narratives that turn an otherwise "normal" person into criminality.

This goes back to your point, we should not be empathising of excusing those among us who have missed the mark with their moral narratives and downstream actions that follow.
The extreme example shows that there is practically infinite land. And that having trees, grass, and nature between dwellings is far superior for the environment. Why you would want to destroy that unless you're an evil bank investor is not explained in your commentary. You don't seem to have a real point other than you poke fun at the example, as if you didn't understand it. But I know you did. You just don't want to admit it, obviously.
I don't have an opinion but..

> what mess of messengers?

Meet, Hangouts, GChat, Talk, Allo, Duo, Meet, Voice, Messenger. Fi and RCS barely.

With various levels of integration, merging, and unmerging of the services over the years.
this is so true, good lord.

i heard it first hand.
> I'd be concerned if a neighborhood block's electrical infrastructure is fragile enough where even 12kW shared across multiple chargers poses a hazard.

The US power grid is run down to the point it's a regular contributor in wildfires. People make memes about how bad the situation is. There are numerous YouTube videos detailing just how old a lot of the equipment and lines are. Besides, the problem is the continuous load. An air conditioner doesn't run the pump continuously for hours, while a charging post constantly consumes peak load.

> I don't like how these concerns only get raised about EVs and are seldom raised over appliances that utilize far greater power over longer periods of time like individual air conditioning units

FWIW yes people are talking about air conditioning, and it's already a massive hassle for grid operators to balance loads when it's extremely hot as a result.

No matter what, electrical grids - and not just in the US - need a serious overhaul over the next few decades. Other than being generally old and poorly maintained, electric vehicles are just one issue... decentralized power generation, distributed battery storage, more demand for heat pumps (particularly in winter) and AC (in summer), the existing grid can't handle all that.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a44598975/electric-... (Jul 20, 2023: EVs Edge Out Diesels For The First Time In Europe)

> Sales of EVs surpass sales of diesel models for the first time in Europe, with battery-electrics holding a 15.1% share of the market, while diesels hold 13.4%. (Audi e-tron GT pictured above.)

> Plug-in hybrids have seen gains and losses over time in different European countries, but hold 7.9% market share on the continent overall.

> The Tesla Model Y has been Europe's best-selling model in any vehicle category in the first six months of 2023.
I think so, yes. You start with axioms, and the proof follows from those.

You can argue whether that’s interesting or not, but IMO it’s as much a proof as anything can be, and IMO it’s very interesting.
You misread my comment.
But why are we polyfilling a function that exists in every version of node? When did this code not just work after installation that it required a polyfill?
There is no difference. The point wasn't level of support/theatre/posturing but presence of support at all that tacitly indicates the level of intelligence behind Canada's accusation. It's credible enough that FVEY can't deny. Which is key. How they hedge / crisis manage,whether they hang Canada out dry during G20 etc, is secondary to the fact that they can't swept it under the rug. The narrative this isn't India said vs Canada said, it is India said vs FVEY said. With underlying assumption that FVEY can't deny credibility of Canadian allegations. Even if 4/5 of FVEY also say meh/whatever to the incident overall. And as I mention previous, entire layer also modulated by how much credence you place in FVEY, only that its extremely counter to their interest to not be able to deny.
Most of them, except for one thread, seem on-topic.
It's a mark of where we are that "lynch mobs are a bad idea" has become open to debate.

And not a good one.
The best cellphone CPU’s easily beat cheap laptops’s from a few years ago that used low end 10th gen Intel chips. They don’t have the terminal budget to quite beat today’s chips, but it’s much closer than you might expect.

That might seem unfair, but many people replace their phones far more frequently than their computers.
The article was both about attacks on scientists and attacks on science itself.

My view disagrees with that of Peter Hotez, as I think that science should be vigorously attacked, especially by trying to disprove all kinds of scientific things, while also trying to prove things that contradict science. I expect that after such attacks, science would be strengthened rather than destroyed though.
To be fair, before I used helix, I only used neovims basic keybindings (hjkl, dd, ...) and nothing advanced, so I didn't really need to 'relearn' much, but I completeley understand when someone used a set of keybindings for some time it's really hard to switch.
Everyone ok with your searces tied to your credit card?
And the funny thing is I bet ICE repair and maintenance skills are a lot more transferrable to BEVs than carriage -> ICE. Most shops have already been servicing hybrids for 20 years now.

It really bothers me when people point to perfectly solvable problems as reasons why we can't have electric cars.
Exactly this, doing it right is possible but vastly more complicated and requires tons more UI work.

It's not impossible - tape drives jukeboxes with 5 minute delays aren't a new invention.
I'll pay for a search engine when they are transparent about their algorithm.
Which proves there was no tipping point! Diesel are losing sales despite being dominant at one point. BEVs will probably go down the same route. Some newer idea will drive BEVs out of the market just like it did with diesel cars.
Have you tried Dendron? I'm at the point where I'm debating if I want to migrate my workflow from vscode over to emacs so I can use org-roam in a combined notes/code/documents workflow, and both dendron and foam popped up in my searching for alternatives.

I'm curious if you had any preference or reason why you went with foam.
As far as I can tell, the "privacy" here is based entirely on trust and on the promise that they don't log searches and other PII on the account that their business model doesn't need that information. Creating an account linked to payment details and your searches is otherwise a red flag.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-protection.html

https://kagi.com/privacy
Too far from the airport.
Server side rendering in no way guarantees a bad DX. Such a statement is narrow-minded.
You have to read the study to find out what it meant by IQ. People freely confuse IQ (a score on a test that's calling itself an IQ test) with IQ (a platonic ideal statistic people assume exists for the purpose of publishing research about it). This could be either.
There are two separate questions:

"Should libraries still be polyfilling to support ancient runtimes?" and "How should that polyfilling be implemented?"

Even if a library wants to maintain backwards compatibility, we can still argue this method of polyfilling (especially the phony polyfills) is damaging to the wider javascript ecosystem.

In an ideal world, the cost of polyfills for developers who don't need them should be zero.

For developers using bundlers, the bundler is expected to implement any required polyfills for the developer's targeted runtimes, and having the library ship with it's own polyfills is counterproductive at best. However, I suspect these libraries wish to maintain compatibility for developers not using bundlers.

Maybe npm should be upgraded to support multiple variants of packages? That way these libraries could ship both polyfilled and non-polyfilled versions of their packages in parallel.
Interesting. Also interested in getting into this. I have played with SDR, not FT8 though. Maybe you can point to a site that helped get you started with FT8.
The closer the housing the more expensive. That's a stastistical fact that is very inconvenient for your bullshit.
Idk why everyone interpreted this comment as asserting that we should switch to a centrally planned economy nationally, I'm just clarifying that the argument "centrally planned economies don't work, therefore nationalizing natural monopolies is folly" doesn't hold water.
Structure and schema validation are not typically something your VC cares about since it treats everything as text. So I'm not seeing why that resolves the problem.
MonetDB has been doing this (VM for query execution) since 2002-2004ish.
Huh? It used to be very common to find that a web page was stuck processing some script. Still isn't that uncommon, all told.

You are mostly right that you couldn't block on IO, necessarily, but you could still hose up the event thread quite heavily.
The biggest problem with diesel is supposedly adblue inconvenience? Said who?
Have used it for years. Did you actually try it out?
A dead battery cell is unfixable. At best, you have a few dead cells and a mechanic can replace them. But if replacement cells can't be found, or too many cells have died, then it is a full battery pack replacement. This is going to be a big problem for old BEVs.
You can't demonstrate causation by controlling for things, because of collider bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_control

You need better methods like an intervention study or a natural experiment to show causation.
The Steam Deck is Linux and runs a large majority of games. You can do it on your laptop with Proton. It's amazing. Even weird stuff like Mass Effect Remastered (which requires EA Play client) works on Linux now.
well poverty is the most common theme on this one.

being a person of color or being a low rank caste member doesnt necessarily make you an asshole by birth, but poor living conditions and peer pressure makes you wanna say yes to immoral ez money things. it sucks.
Perfectly reasonable and expected response. I think if you asked Lord Kelvin he would say it meant only in a particular context.

If you said Whitman was more prolific than, say, Frost, but didn't have the numbers then it is an empty assertion.
I love "Lean" actually, have you noticed ∃∀. Googling Lean concepts does primarily return the codeine syrup links though yes.
has anyone figured out how to configure this on iphone successfully
At least two of the major candidates for the US Presidency and a few members of Congress (including a Senator) have suggested unilaterally sending the US military to take out the cartels [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-new-border-plan-sen...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fen...

[3] https://thehill.com/latino/4170236-gop-talk-of-military-acti...
An Inside Look at TikTok from a 3 year employee
It's a quote from the article. I don't understand your "added content" comment
Anyone using the Family Plan with grade schoolers? How is it?
>The interface belongs in the 90s
Maybe this is why I actually like Splunk. Everything is simple an intuitive. Modern UIs seem to be universally terrible.
If your goal is an expressive, safe, low-footgun language for expressing BLAS computations, you'd probably use NumPy rather than Fortran.
Actually it turns out that was a baseless claim made by alarmist legacy media.

Florida Bay is a very shallow estuary basically inside Florida, not “the ocean”.

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2023/08/06/being-boiled-al...
All of the battery retailers around where I live (southern Indiana, USA) stopped paying for old lead-acid batteries years ago. Only the local scrap metal yard still pays for them, and they only pay $5 per battery. People only bring in their old batteries for recycling because it waives the core charge.
Other people in this thread have said that.
Ironic that this complaint is from the same people who’ve been repeatedly caught selling better placement to those who pay.
“Yelp sort” is the default and is basically “paid accounts first”.
that sounds promising. looking forward to it.
I think people have been using MDN.

This has some of the context https://web.archive.org/web/20110412103745/http://w3fools.co...

But looks like w3schools has cleaned up their act in the past decade.
Broadly, yes, but chemosynthetic organisms tend to be benthic (afaict, IANA marine microbiologist), so they can stay close to their food source. So something big that feeds on them would probably be a grazer more than a swimmer. Unless, perhaps, they need to swim between vent sites or something...
This probably makes the 6a (currently $250) the best value webcam on the market.
I have ADHD, but this seems like a great product for most procrastinators, er, I mean people.

Don’t under market once you have vetted your fit with the ADHD crowd!

Go big then sell out to Microsoft to bundle. Or go really big. Productivity enhancement pays for itself, go enterprise :)

Really nice bonus would be one click access to open completion logs, by project or type.

That would add motivation too improve speed in calendar time, as well as real time.

Seriously, good work sir!
Why are all of these 'suspicious' companies in CA?
Most "production" ML models of the last 10 years were only a few millions of parameters owing to limited training data and simplistic tasks. While BERT and similar models raised the parameter count substantially, my anecdotal experience observing hundreds of ML projects was that BERT based models provided only a marginal (to the business) gain in performance over smaller models.

We are now seeing mass consumer and enterprise adoption of models in the hundreds of billions of parameters (GPT-4). These models use relatively standard, building blocks - and are even chained together in a relatively standard manner. If everyone's laptop was running a 7B parameter LLM, or actively using a cloud based derivative - then LLM inference would have a chance at being the dominant compute workload in the industry.

This will definitely change the way that inference is done, even if training remains the same.
Why does Azure deployment take so long?
I knew a programmer who couldnt do this. Yes, couldn't open a 7zip file.
> You don't come out ahead in the worst case

But you were offering it based on the market price when you offered it. The "loss" is merely one of opportunity, you're not actually losing any value you had when you sold the option, right?
I think Mexico would need to go the Bukele route to address the issue.
Their previous pricing really puzzled me. If you're charging that much, the only people that benefit enough to pay have big search needs, but Kagi said "we don't want your business". Who wants to monitor how many searches they've made so they don't run out before the end of the month. Or what if your kid sits down at your computer and does 25 searches for their homework.
If I'm not mistaken, that was added relatively late, in version 3.2, which was released in December 2015.
Well, yes, I explained myself horribly.

What I meant is that most people are way more sensitive to graphics than anything else. A lot of people will never play a game that is ugly but don't seem to mind laggy inputs.

There are a lot of games that, even without "real" input lag, have tons of animation dampening/inertia to the point that it makes them IMHO unresponsive, just to improve the "cinematic feel" and avoid characters instantly changing direction.

If you prefer responsiveness to having the player character spin be perfectly smooth, well, sucks to be you, because prettier games sell better.

Obviously this doesn't apply to fighting games or competitive shooters or anything like that where responsiveness is the point of the game.
Glory to GloboHomo!
Hasn't iOS already had this? Or maybe it was OBS.
Why does one random Jovian moon have so much water? And why not all similarly sized rocky bodies in the solar system?

Isn't this even stranger than Earth's water?
Unless it’s anonymized, Hurricane Jeanne dates it to 2004
There is also onedev https://github.com/theonedev/onedev
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
And you want to open the Pandora's Box to legions of snake oil salesmen who will vastly outnumber the good players? see: Steve Jobs

If you go this route, the snake oil will quickly crowd out the treatments that actually have a chance of making things better. Not only will dying individuals be less able to wade through the garbage, but the researchers will have a tougher time getting to the patients they need for actual trials so future patients will also be impacted negatively.

Dying cancer patients have my sympathy, but I also went through this with Alzheimer's treatments for a parent. I had to wade through a VAST amount of garbage treatments that were even "officially approved". At least they went through clinical trials so they weren't actively harmful, mostly.

I can't imagine the disaster that would ensue if treatments for terminal patients didn't at least have to clear some level of phased trials.
Dosbox + Steam with Proton is the best PC gaming I've ever encountered.

There's a tiny gap in the early windows 9x days that I've been thinking of filling by upgrading my Dosbox Win 3.11 to Win 98. Overall though, it runs a greater percentage of dos/windows games than any dos/windows machine I've ever had access to.

(I'm considering moving to FreeBSD though. Dosbox runs fine, and Steam + Proton sort of works there, apparently. Checking it out in more depth soon.)
Unlocking SwiftUI at Airbnb
Ironically that website gives me ASP.NET vibes.
It probably happens, but not really on purpose.

If the package.lock file gets deleted or someone runs a global npm-update then npm will update any packages while respecting semantic versioning.

It's possible an organisation forgot to include the package.lock file in their deployment image and they get updated npm packages every time they redeploy. It's also possible a developer making minor changes to a legacy system triggers packages to be updated, perhaps without even noticing.
Well no, because there is nothing illegal about the trade itself nor the profit.

What's illegal is to use insider info to make the decision to do the trade. Did the entity making this trade use insider info? We don't know. If they did not, nothing wrong with the trade.

Now, the circumstances are such that this reeks of insider info. Nobody sane would have done that trade otherwise. So hopefully the SEC will investigate fully. If it turns out the trader really did not have any connection to either of these companies and had no knowledge of the acquisition and simply made the luckiest bet of their life.. then that's fine.
Not a native english speaker, but "never-before-seen" doesn't sound right, shouldn't it be "never-seen-before"?
Many government-type travelers are obligated to go with the cheapest airfare that’s reasonable. I know folks who take 5:30am Delta flights so they can get loyalty benefits while obeying those rules, but these new spending levels makes gaining status that way impractical.