skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how this is the diametric opposite of what I see in government agencies or big enterprise:

1. Make requirements include everything, even mutually exclusive capabilities.

2. Never remove anything, "just in case". Add some more just to be safe.

3. More paperwork, more procedure, more complexity is "more proper".

4. Arbitrary two-month delays[1] don't technically prevent you working, just "plan ahead". Also, don't complain that you have a laptop from 2014, just make do.

5. We'll hire interns from India to do that, don't worry about all this DevOps nonsense you keep talking about.

[1] I had a PM proudly announce they reduced the completely artificial two-month delay added to all change requests down to one month. He was seriously expecting us to cheer that now only 20 working days had to be spent waiting for no reason at all other than some change control troll liking things nice and slow.
Interesting analysis. I enjoyed reading it. Seemed pretty much in line with what I would expect.

I am curious where you came up with the 30,000 guess for bootstrapped startups in the following statement:

“X (My guess is 30000 startups) start bootstrapping —-> 2868 list on IH —-> 915 making 10k$ MRR

That puts the actual percentage to be : 3.5% chance of success.”
The enshitification of "progress" marches on under unquestioned faith that "newer is always better". And someone got impact credit on their next performance review for taking away functionality. Plus, Apple never listens to users.. they know it all and know better.
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CEP: Circular error of probable or probability.

The radius of a circle within which 50% of rounds will be found.

For the V-2 rocket this was 4.5 km.

For the Minuteman III missile, 240m.

Blast effects decrease with the cube of the radius, so a more accurate weapon means a smaller effective warhead. The "Flying Ginsu" AGM-114 Hellfire missile has a CEP of 5 meters or less, and uses blades rather than explosives to minimise any unintended casualties.
Yeah the data doesn't seem very high-value.
Wow. Great question. "Add knight moves to your queen for only 200 coins!"
I actually find it easier to memorize the flags than to memorize the commands I created myself, because they're a lot more descriptive than short commands like in your examples.

The few times I do come up with my own stuff, it's a 2+ line function (or full shell script) that can't be duplicated in a single command and can't be done as an alias.
> There is absolutely no way to know if that combination of designs will be fun at all

Another perspective is, you shouldn't be doing this if you can't tell if something is fun without "testing" it.

> Also, most of your ideas are probably terrible

Without fail, all the people I know who are the best at this keep having one good idea after another. They absolutely do not run out of really good ideas that sound and play obviously fun. They lack free audiences and money.

This is basically the difference between making video games and doing product management.
I occasionally get some lazy high maintenance customers (B2B) that I’d rather not have. It gives me a fair amount of stress at times. Even though they generate revenue they are absolutely a liability and I’d pay to quietly get rid of them.
Airtable for Knowledge Graphs? (Graph > (Relational DB & Doc Store))
We are working on a managed service (www.parkourops.com) that aims to make it much easier to utilise graph databases in software projects (apps, services, automations).

Think of it like Airtable or Google Firestore but for knowledge graphs.

Our understanding is that graph databases can 'liberate' a technical team from the restrictions of relational databases (particularly when representing and querying entities with complex/nuanced connections) and the arbitrariness that can result with no-code databases. See article for a 10 min intro on this topic: https://initiative.parkourops.com/why-relational-databases-get-messy-1)

We are conducting user validation and would be very interested to know if anyone else would have any use for this.
Welcome to Unix! :)
> At a large enough scale, the bust-out goes on forever.

I don't think that's true. It didn't work for Louis XVI, it won't work for us. If you continually degrade the reasons to bother playing this game, eventually somebody will start playing a different one.
> The Agriculture Department, for instance, was concerned the label would cause consumers to eat less meat

This sort of thinking has probably killed more people than any war we've ever fought. If Americans didn't eat much meat, it likely wouldn't be the end of the world. But, because of special interests, here we are today.
e.g. Fallow's 1898 dictionary of synonyms and antonyms: https://imgur.com/a/65yLkw7

https://archive.org/download/completedictiona00falluoft

There's many uses in British literature of the 1800's, and a whole lot of uses in academic literature of the 70's to 80's. https://i.imgur.com/BhMv2nF.png "Disabuse" would fit into many of these slots, but not all.

Only common use now is RPG jargon; imbuing something with an attribute is something role playing nerds talk about, and it really needs an antonym.
Wifi 7 consumer routers are already available. This is just Qualcomm partnering with a service provider where they typically less well known on wireline broadband side.

All of this was pretty much Broadcom business previously.
Everyone changed their behaviour when scam calls became more widespread than real calls.

Everyone now texts first. Or we ring a number when exchanging contacts in person so we know the other person got it and knows it’s real.

If this becomes useful, people will start checking their voicemails and leaving them more often.
Absolutely not. Nevada requires two things that are very important:

1. Anything that appears to be a representation of a physical object or device must behave exactly as the thing it represents. So, like in this case of the article if you have 4 cards, one of which has a rock behind them, each must have exactly a 1/4 chance of containing the rock. Wether this is pre-determined or after the choice is made is irrelevant if the odds are fair.

2. Any manufacturer selling games to Nevada must abide by the Nevada rules for any machine they sell anywhere in the world, so no switching a machine out for something that looks the same but operates differently.

It should also be noted that there is a seperate class of machines called "pull tabs" that are legal in some jurisdictions (often found in places like gas stations and bars) that often present as a slot machine or video poker, but actually work more like a lottery scratch off - the result is 100% pre-determined, and any agency the player appears to be given is an illusion. So, like, if you hit the jackpot on a video poker (like) machine, and get given a royal flush on the initial deal, even if you discard all 5 cards you'll get another royal flush on the draw.
Definitely found the Fortran guy.
My friend was flying his, lost it and asked it to fly back to him and it went absolutely full speed into a waterfall about 10 meters in front of us.

It was hard not to chuckle.

RIP.
Fish's autocomplete makes life a lot easier, too. It's delightfully well designed.
You made it sound like there's only one choice when you wrote above:

> Eventually, you simply have to go to work for a roof over your head, food and healthcare.

I'm glad we finally agree that there are at least three choices, that building a safety net is one of them, and that going to work so that you have a roof, food, and healthcare isn't the only one.
12 years ago I stayed in a Motel 6 for a night and there was no running water. Afterwards I wrote and asked for a refund. A voucher for a free night would have at least made me feel not ignored. But they replied with a generic dismissal. For 12 years I've been telling people on and offline how terrible Motel 6 is. Left one star reviews. Every time the topic of motels comes up I jump in. It's become an inside joke with my friends.
UK considers banning cigarettes for next generation
Conversation: Salam, Sciama, Witten and Budinich [video]
You actually bought a Haier dishwasher with a GE sticker on it.

It’s hard to tell these days whether you’re buying a product from a brand you trust or from a company that bought the brand you trust.

Though, having said that, I recently bought a Bosch refrigerator because Bosch is still Bosch and I trusted Bosch.

But the refrigerator is crap, broken on arrival and it took 5 phone calls and 3 weeks to get service.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(chess)
I have yet to come across a western politician who directly financially/career-wise benefits from advancements and growth in tech industry; could name several that benefit from other industries (natural resources, military, etc.)
Companies aren't allowed to choose whatever serving size they want. Serving sizes are governed by federal regulations drawn up by the FDA, which means they have the force of law.

21 CFR § 101.9(b) defines general procedures for determining serving sizes: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.9

21 CFR § 101.12 defines specific "reference amounts" for particular food categories: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.12

See, for instance, § 101.9(b)(6) which says: "A product that is packaged and sold individually that contains less than 200 percent of the applicable reference amount must be considered to be a single-serving container, and the entire content of the product must be labeled as one serving."
UAW represents the staff of multiple companies, this CEO represented one. Not sure why the CEO expected the UAW to bail him out of his suicidal negotiations when they had less to lose.

He also kept giving out bonuses to the salaried employees while playing hardball with the union, which is just petty, spiteful, and vindictive. He also didn’t cut his own salary. He put the union in the position they couldn’t opt to cut their salaries to save the business because he was intentionally enriching everybody BUT the union while the company failed.
Which people? If you are software engineers or AI researchers, sure. Otherwise, it probably won't matter to you.
IANAL and also have no experience in this, but there is such a thing as patent and IP insurance. Both offensive and defensive. I am sure there are also companies that can perform code audits to find potential infringements early at varying degrees of quality. That of course all costs money.

The other important thing is to have appropriate incorporation and liability insurance once you are actually exposing yourself as an entity.
From the perspective of the executive branch it very much did.
Arguably still does, depending on your political persuasion.
Everyday we are one step closer to realizing Idiocracy

1. Crocs are a regular shoe

2. US President was involved in professional wrestling

3. Costco for everything
This is not that uncommon and has nothing to do with the jet being modern.

Example, YouTube: india highway airforce

Is what's special here is that they can use very short strips for that specific variant? I see no mention of length being a factor as to why it's noteworthy in the article.
Good. Amazon has something similar. Not sure if the Costco one can be used for kids (i know Amazon doesn't) . I have to pay 150 dollars just to see a pediatrician to check if my kid has an ear infection.
Feels like an orchestrated attempt at taking down a competitor to be honest. HN has had nothing but praise about Bitwarden before this. I use it and have had nearly none of the issues people are complaining about here; the one complaint I have would be the biometrics login with the desktop app being clunky - not a show stopper.
I wonder if killing their dumber commanders might inadvertently be helping them…
It's not some mysterious thing; you have to study for interviews.
You either need to hire a patent lawyer or be prepared to pay plaintiff's attorney and court costs in the worst case that a patent owner sues you and doesn't want to make a licensing deal. (If going hardcore, you could also try to perform the work of patent lawyer yourself, but you would need to have sufficient patent law knowledge and still assume the risk of missing some unlucky patents with uncooperative owners.) Moderate funding of this risk would be sufficient. If you don't have this initial money but you're confident that you will find certain profit, maybe take a loan?

Many patent owners would be glad to find a new licensee at a fair price. Since you intend to commercialize your project, you will be able to pay reasonable license fees as you make sales.
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I played doom recently on Linux. I have almost all the original wads from Doom box set. One thing that struck me is how fast you can move in that game. But the not being able to look up can make it a little wierd.

I like simplier story games sometimes. The uncharted series I thought was fun, you get 2 weapons and maybe some grenades. Lots of cut scenes.

Compared to some of the inventory and level up trees I have seen it was refreshing. Watching my partner play fallout 4 I was amazed at the inventory management required.

On iOS when I need a quick game, I’ll play plasma sky which is a modern galaxan style shooter.
Funnily. Speech to text is incredible on pixels and many Samsung phones (S series at least).
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Eh Louis XVI’s downfall still required a famine to kick it into gear. For all of its faults America won’t face famine anytime soon.
Ask HN: How to find papers with technologies that have potential for products?
Hi, I am interested in a structured way to find papers that may lead to innovative products. The idea is to look into the CS Stanford syllabus and read papers in the reading material. Any other ideas? Does anyone else also have this need?
I'm "obsessed" with them, despite not owning any of their products, because the anti-consumer lucrative garbage they pioneer shoveling to their victims trickles down into every part of the computing industry.
This is a legit topos.
I don’t think I had a remotely stressful family life growing up and I am a near prototypical case of ADHD. So is my mom. It’s anecdata, but I think that perspective is complete bullshit and it makes me upset because it allows people to shame you for using stimulant medication.
Closing a playstation account seems to be harder than hacking them.
>They were only a bit more expensive

Not to be a doubter, but it seems like this note completely changes the context of the problem they stated. A slightly more expensive housing is competitive with the current housing you had. A higher-end luxury building being built costing 10x as much would likely have different effects.
And the F-35B is the one that does [B]rief Take Off and Landing
Are people taking my posts as judgmental? Maybe I’m writing them very poorly. It’s entirely fine to mostly or only read books that one finds comfortable and easy. That’s what most people do for most things, not just reading, as you point out. Most people are bad at most things. That’s how… things work. And it’s OK.

[edit] and, moreover, not everyone who can deeply appreciate acid jazz or whatever avoids listening to top 40s hits. That might even be most of what they listen to. To be clear, not everyone who reads easy books can’t read more challenging ones, and preferring easier ones is fine. My entire point was just that reading-is-necessarily-better is both wrong and a bit snobby, and that failing to read in a way that lives up to that cohort’s suppositions is entirely OK—reading can be taken off that bizarre pedestal and it’s still a fine activity.
The average medical degree costs $220K and requires a decade of education. This has natural consequences.

https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-medical-school
I tried ChatGPT Image Recognition and here's my experiments
I'm fortunate enough to get early access to this new feature and I think it creates great use cases...
if you use a SWIR camera stars are pretty visible in the daytime even at ground level. Scattering is related to a fourth power of frequency so by the time you're down to IR the amount of scattered light is pretty low.

(which is also why the sky is blue-- or really UV, if we could see it)

The software for plate solving is pretty good. I've had some fun taking movie screenshots and figuring out if the stars are real, and if they're the right hemisphere. (can't be used for location without the time and orientation of the camera)
But pi is ONE "real" irrational number. The golden ratio is ONE more. That's TWO. QED the rational numbers 1 and 2 are "real"?
My Nexus phone was the only one that had ever developed a swollen battery in my lifetime.
Einstein must be wrong: In search of the theory of gravity
Sure, just look at the dismissive, anti-philosophy tone of some of the comments in the discussion here.
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For context Telehealth via my workplace, with insurance "discount," costs $50 OOP.

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: If the US insists on capitalist healthcare, they need to make two very specific changes to really have close to a free market system -

- Insurance discounts are banned including to Medicare and Medicaid. Everyone pays the same "cash price" (i.e. one price) and then insurance reimburse it to the patient rather than talking with medical providers at all. You get the bill, pay cash, or get insurance reimbursement, but the price is the price. There is nothing limiting your insurance company for providing tools, advice, and technology to find the most cost-effective and beneficial healthcare. But you're both working together on the same "side." The patient is the king-maker, you decide utlimately.

- Employer provided insurance is banned. Everyone, from congress through Walmart cashier buys it on an open exchange creating larger fairer pools that allows people to pick bespoke insurance based on their personal needs and finances. It also forces real competition, not for employer contracts on behalf of their employees, but for individuals and what they want/need/prioritize. It increases social mobility because you can leave one job and go to another without losing your insurance. Making insurance premiums tax-free is an easy problem to solve (we almost have the tools today).

The US either needs to lean out of capitalist healthcare completely (e.g. socialist healthcare, like Canada or multi-EU countries) or they need to lean into it. You cannot do this silly and destructive middle ground wherein people cannot pick their services, providers, or insurance then expect the "market" to be rational.
We need to be able to fund firefox directly. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
But they are wrong, that doesn’t make the not useful though
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The reason Russia doesn’t fly much over Ukraine because of its AA network, not because the Ukrainian Air Force is a particularly good opponent.

Can’t exactly fly combat sorties when the whole country is littered in NASAM and Patriot systems
Isn't this sort of a useless line of reasoning ultimately? I mean sure, blah blah everyone is aware of the history of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. But the same issue is just as, if not more, prevalent across public schools in the United States. Would the same argument seem as reasonable if it read "Maybe the federal/state government should sort out its own back yard before making demands"?
I don't see the distinction. What sbest for shareholders may well not be best for the employees of the company... but that's just how it is. Companies are run to benefit the capital that funded them, employees are just an expense.
That actually looks great. Slightly more detail but still bearing a very strong resemblance to the original.
There are still lots of great games (mobile and board games) which aren’t like this at all. It’s just that mobile gaming is an awful platform because it has fully succumbed to financialisation.
Extending this line of reasons not to be as dismissive: perhaps both are true and result in the same behaviors. It seems totally possible that a rough and stressful family life could result in similar effects to have a physiologically innate issue. The term ADHD is rather broad a describes quite a few different things, which I don’t think are effectively taxonomised in current practice e.g. overlap with autism etc.
Nonstore retail as a % of all retail: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=19hYU

He just waves his hand at all that. He mentions Amazon once.
> QFT is one of the most successful theories we've created, but GR is still our best theory regarding gravity. There's still no evidence for the graviton. We probably need something else besides QFT to describe the nature of reality

The evidence for QFT is orders of magnitude stronger than the evidence for GR, and the two are incompatible. The empirical evidence is simply the fact that gravity exists; if there's no graviton then how does gravity work? If the right model isn't one of the (obscenely many) possible string theories, then what?

I'm sceptical about string theory, but unless and until we come up with a better alternative, it's the only option. (People love to compare it with epicycles - but until you have the insight that lets you eliminate epicycles, you use them, because how else do you get on with doing science?)
Web-Search-Keywords in KRunner, tales of optimizations
What's inconvenient about wireless ones with ANC versus wired ones with ANC?
I should add this. Approximately ten years ago I took a course related to selling on Amazon. Online marketing was covered in detail. The course is no-longer available or I would recommend it. However, it did cost over $5K. Which is to say: Don't be afraid to spend money to educate yourself on sales and marketing. If you are an entrepreneur, it is well worth the money. Sure, there will be some courses here and there that aren't great. That's just the way it is. Don't give up on learning just because you didn't find the perfect vehicle the on the first attempt.
> Approximations aren't "wrong", they are just simplifications of something less wrong, usually in certain corner cases.

I think it’s true that wrongness is relative to the use-case. But, on the other hand, before things like the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the Michelson-Morley experiment, a lot of physicists thought they had the big picture of the universe basically right and just had to fill in the details. The revolution of GR and QM was barely even suspected and this should give us pause when it comes to our confidence in the modern picture of the universe. Relativity and QM will always be useful as models of the spheres they model, but the worldview we’ve built on top of them could change drastically overnight (in historical terms).
Factually incorrect. Most high-end audiophile headphones are only wired. And we're talking 400$+.
Yes, I know about their "country of countries". Before commenting I did an HN search and double-checked that benj111 consistently uses "country" to mean "UK", such as using "in my country (UK)", at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995793 .

As for "the North", we have a similar historical construct in the US, where "the North" does not include Alaska or even North Dakota. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_United_States .

Similarly, while Miami, Florida is geographically in the southern US, it is not culturally part of "the South".

I think it's more likely that benj111 simply did not know that detail about the Glasgow, rather than knowing that detail and deliberately excluding it because it's in Scotland. It is, after all, a rather small system without the international fame of London's underground.