skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're familiar with my comment history, I'm actually opposed to the patent system, and most of the copyright system. Yes, in the past I made money selling copyrighted software. I continue to write software, making it freely available, and made no attempt to patent the innovations in it.

Keep in mind that phones at the time did not have side buttons, the side buttons on my iphone are ergonomically unsuitable for use as a morse key, are in the wrong location for it, and there wasn't an app store then.

I've also had many people copy my ideas, steal my software, and claim they invented them and wrote them. It gets a little tiring. I've used a registered copyright to stop some of those claims. Having a patent means I can solidly claim originality.

I also hoped someone would see the patent and want to implement it, as I was focused on other things.
Ask HN: Is Moving to the Middle East a Smart Move for My Startup Dreams?
Hey everyone!

I’ve been a Software Engineer for years, working with startups around the globe, and I love the fast-paced, builder lifestyle. I’m all about startups, fundraising, and hacking away at new ideas—basically, if it’s about growth or innovation, I’m in.

Recently, I’ve been considering a move to the Middle East to get closer to investors and see if it might kick-start the next phase of my career. The region is clearly ramping up in some really interesting areas: AI, chip development, renewable energy… Meanwhile, Europe (where I’m based) sometimes feels like it’s running a slower race.

So, here’s what I’d love to know:

1. Is the Middle East a good place for someone with a startup mindset looking to launch new ventures?

2. Any specific cities, incubators, or early-stage investors you’d recommend I look into?

3. Bonus: I’m that techie who often gets mistaken for a “management guy” because of my people skills—happens all the time, and it cracks me up…

Any tips, insights, or just general thoughts are super welcome.

P.S. USA is not an option.

Thanks in advance for the help!
I seem to be in the minority. I love the whole screen approach in my model 3. I can customize the bottom shortcuts how I like, the screen adapts to the context and things don’t feel more than 1 tap away. I’d take that over plasticy looking car buttons for the most part.
Nope, it's a pressure cooker, the cooking vessel is air-tight.

My favourite recipe is to use 1:1 rice to water ratio and the adjust the time depending on the rice. For example, white rice takes 5 minutes, basmati 6, brown 30(!). When it'đ finished, wait at least 10 minutes before opening the lid, let the pressure drop naturally.
(Sorry for the OT mini-speech)

I don't really like 0 increment games OTB. Online it's fine and you could argue that time management is part of the game, but on a physical board you end up knocking down pieces and having a lot of arguments about whether moves were legal or not.

5 minutes became popular when digital clocks were rare and expensive, but these days a digital clock that does Fischer increment is like $50.
3 minutes + 2 seconds is about the same length as 5 minutes and much better suited to OTB play IMO.
Or we could have more elections, with each focusing on a specific topic. The biggest advantages here are that you only have to vote in elections you care about and that the more we exercise a process the better we get at it. Of course the time burden on voters is greater.

Or we could invert a lot of the races. I am college educated but never involved in law, how can I reasonably pick a judge or DA? What I want is my representatives to choose one, and then have a very low threshold for a special election to fire (“recall”) the person if they do a bad job. And only need that because my representatives have shown that they won’t.

Any sort of non-in-person voting is a security nightmare. But I am very sympathetic to the people who want to make it easier. I think we should vote on a Saturday or Sunday instead of a weekday, we should make it a federal holiday in order to close as many businesses as possible, and I think that employers who stay open should be required to give paid time off to vote, that doesn’t count against vacation or sick leave.
It's a free app. I don't want to keep all the data for a long time. Should I increase this? What duration makes sense for you?
Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That's Not the Job
Billionaires are 'ultimate beneficiaries' linked to €3B of EU farming subsidies
Honestly, I don’t think our government has the competence.
Similar thing has happened to me. Close to a year ago, it was decided that my old manager had too many direct reports, so our group was split into 2. I was asked by my manager if I wanted to apply to manage the new team, which I was not enthusiastic about. I had considered it and weighed my options:

1. Known quality of life and work decrease for having to focus on middle management tasks instead of getting my hands dirty.

2. Big gamble on not knowing what kind of manager we might get.

So, I declined and gambled on a new manager. So far, this has gone terribly. Our group morale and productivity is super low as we now have a petty micromanager with no technical skills a technical team. They insert themselves into our processes with no knowledge of how any of it works, demand that they are cc’d on all communications with any manager or above, and complain when we disagree with their opinions, calling that disagreement disrespectful.

I have been looking at job boards just about every day since.
I was thinking about this too.

My most likely "internet down" scenario would be my local government deciding to launch a national firewall, probably under the guise of "combatting disinformation, malinformation, misinformation, and foreign interference".

For that scenario I need as many VPNs as possible, a VPS in a friendly jurisdiction, and a TOR browser.

If the "internet is down" for "good", it's hard to me to think of a scenario where it didn't bring down the rest of civilization down along with it.
Touchpads, you mean? Touchpads are waterproof and washable, like membrane keyboards, which is a real plus in the kitchen. Also they're cheap as fuck.
> all of them use mutable self

As demonstrated in the linked tutorial, Ractor passes its handlers `&self` with `&mut State`.
I misconfigured the rate limiting. 429 should be ok now.
I am not respectful of excel at all, true. I could see your perspective, if it wasn’t a client who comes by itself(!) begging to do something with their spreadsheets cause key roles spend all day maintaining these, blocking further growth or mergers. Maybe I should not have called it crap out if respect to a client, but that’s what it was from the design pov, no reason to spare a word. I didn’t like it cause no one likes to dig in such sort of legacy. You treat the failure rate as an excel good indicator, well that may seem true until you get yet another call for help. It’s a failure rate of excel. I agree that we should have just bailed out by default and left them to sales sharks. At some point that’s what I did basically, said no to yet another “project”, cause these were crappy low hanging fruits that no one else wanted to deal with, not interesting jobs. Idk how it all assembles into “excel good” in some minds. As if companies just called integrators out of boredom because everything they’ve built in excel works.
I am more in favor of that then continuing to give money and bailouts to failed executives.
I've not seen many IDEs with the functionality I just listed. Most of the time it's just debugging support and code completion. The idea that most programmers have edited code in the way I just described for decades is patently absurd.
It would’ve taken you less time to click the link provided and avoid the confusion than it took to write that comment.
nice and simple ui design. i like it.
Cost and durability as well. Physical knobs wear out because of friction and dust.
Intel clearly doesn't have the competence.
They've been back. One of the main reasons I went with the car I ended up buying was because it had buttons. And it's fast. And it has carplay. And I don't have to press the (A) button every time I turn on the car to disable the engine off at red light thing.
Probably shelf stable food, firearms, hard currency like gold and silver. For information the books I already have (Classic literature, engineering references, cook books). Honestly, computers would be the last thing I care about even though it’s both my hobby and my career.

I say this because the Internet is so integral to our current society and way of life that it would be like losing access to electricity. Most young people have never lived in a world without Internet access. Electronic payments, logistics, food distribution, etc would all stop functioning. Society is far more fragile than anyone wants to admit and people would panic.
This is the kind of stuff you can now simply ask Claude 3.5 Sonnet to build it for you and it will do it, no need to search for one.
I was kind of hoping Kieran Healy wrote this
I don't mind having the extra functionality on the touch screen, just let me use the basic ones that already existed before touchscreens (A/C control, volume, etc.) on physical buttons.
what's the failure point? then you work inside that

I know a guy who did this for a job for a company that produced food

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

his entire job was to allow the company to push up as close to that line as possible without going over when checked randomly

saving them tens of millions a year
Executive mis management is why companies fail. The majority of the bad decisions are made at the executive level.
They are being overridden by people trying to justify their jobs by changing things for the sake of changing things.
Intel is already doing what only a few nations in the world can do, and at a more advanced level than our rival superpower. The view of incompetence is because they are a few years behind cutting edge, and as such, are losing orders.

There is absolutely no reason to believe our government is competent enough to solve that particular issue. Heck, China hasn’t succeeded in solving it; and only recently began mass production of 14nm. If TSMC, and only TSMC, was not around, Intel would be viewed as ultra-competent right now.
If it was purely local (saved on localStorage) it could be stored indefinitely? But then of course it would be hard to share.
I do store and update backups of public information regularly, since losing access to much of the Internet completely is not such a remote possibility here; many resources are blocked already, both proxying services and protocols are being blocked as well. Storing those backups together with personal data backups.

The things I store are those that seem valuable and information-dense, the kinds that I would be able to use in a relatively prolonged isolation. Storage space is limited, and redundancy is important for backups, so more copies of important information are preferable, to some extent, over added less important information. That is, one may consider tiered backups.

Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg, perhaps as OpenZIM archives (for Kiwix, making them more readily accessible), look like good starting points, along with other Wikimedia projects (e.g., Wikisource, Wiktionary; also available as OpenZIM archives). A music collection is a part of my personal backups. Then there are textbooks: OpenStax provides good ones under the CC BY license, LibreTexts books are of variable quality, but also worthwhile to look into, while WikiBooks are mostly disappointing. Then one may consider copyright-infringing book libraries, if one is fine with those. A few hundred gibibytes seem sufficient for a decent stockpile, including a good chunk of human knowledge, and providing plenty to do alone (read and study, that is).

Textbooks could be much more lightweight if their sources (e.g., in LaTeX) were provided, rather than PDFs, but unfortunately even for those under permissive licenses, usually only PDFs are available, which hinders both printing (as another form of backups) and regular digital data storage.

I expect the government will block software repositories among the last ones, so not backing up those yet, but mirroring, say, Debian archive (including sources) may be a good idea for such a situation, or when preparing for the Internet to go down.

If one has a lot of extra storage available, other easily available large data dumps to consider are Common Crawl, arXiv bulk data downloads, complete OSM data, huge copyright-infringing libraries, and videos: plenty of nice YouTube channels and TV series.
Small consultancies, usually self funded. They tend to eschew flash for substance. They're usually experts in their niche and stick with it.
It's pasteurisation, your 50C-only yoghurt would potentially not last as long; possibly even succumb to unwanted bacteria before (or the wanted be outcompeted by the unwanted) turning to yoghurt.

I don't measure it to 80C, just heat milk until it breaks then switch off and let it cool. I didn't have a thermometer when I first made it, but now I might measure that it had cooled enough. I wouldn't say it has to be as hot as 50C, you just probably don't want it hotter, so if you're making it without just let it cool to tepid, feeling warm to the touch, then add whatever you're using. Cheese similar, just more specific cultures.

(And I suppose if you really get into it, the specific temps and holding them thing is a lot more true for cheeses - or rather for different types - than it is for yoghurt.)
Wikipedia will surely decline like the rest of the internet, but at least any Wikipedia article can be retrieved as of a pre-vandalized timestamp.
I like this one for VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen...
> healthcare.gov

Are people really still citing this website as a government failure? It had some scaling issues at launch that were fixed within 2-3 months and has been serving tens of millions of Americans without any major incidents since then.
> As someone that has been on the hiring side, I always prefer to build a full time team, even if that means paying for someone in my team to learn something new.

> The part that consultants don’t talk about is that you have to pay them to learn your code / company too. Nobody can just jump in and add value immediately. So you’re paying for onboarding hours, you’re paying for other employees to educate the consultant, and so on.

as somebody who's been on the team, i agree on this. in my previous job my skip-level management insisted on handing off some crucial infrastructure work to external consultants.

results:

1. we on the (internal) devops/sre team did not know how parts of our infrastructure worked

2. when changes were needed, the first lenghty step was to figure out what was built by the consultant, and how (the manager did not like to pay the extra hours, of course)

3. when help was needed to troubleshoot something along with developers, we (devops/sre) ended up playing the role of messenger, and stuff that could have take anything from 2 hours to two days ended up taking up to two weeks

It was a frustrating job, so of course some people (me included) ended up leaving the company.

I still see the value of consultants as people that can bring the knowledge you need when you need it. However if they're going to work on something long lived, the manager must be enforcing some proper knowledge transfer during the consultant employment and at the end of it.
If you mean beyond the product page and our docs, then no. Accelerate is not an OSS product from Prisma.

All that being said, if there are specific questions that you have which relate to a use case, ask away!
GNOME isn't a distro, it's a Desktop Environment. It comes as the default in Fedora and Ubuntu, among others.
I wrote an easy to follow guide for hosting matrix a while back: https://hcrypt.net/synapse.html
Hard agree on VR / AR latency requirements. It's the first consumer use case in a while that's ahead of the average user's compute power, and I really hope it will mean good things for performant software.
Store the state in the URL
You can connect a bunch of analog switches to one LINbus microcontroller; then you only need one databus.
might? -- excuse me, is.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/assault-battery-aggr...

> Historically, battery and assault were considered separate crimes, with battery requiring that the aggressor physically strike or offensively touch the victim. In that way, a battery was a "completed" assault. Many modern statutes don't bother to distinguish between the two crimes, as evidenced by the fact that the phrase "assault and battery" has become as common as "salt and pepper." These days, statutes often refer to crimes of actual physical violence as assaults.
Maybe it is an unintended but actually beneficial effect.

The problem with drawing too much current is that things can overheat, and it is more of a problem during heat waves as well.
I use vi ~/todo.xit.
xit is this text format: https://xit.jotaen.net/

But this app is for other purposes. Me and my wife add house stuff to a shopping list. We don't want an installed app. Or even login before using a simple list.
The paradox of non-transparent drug prices
> I don't know why people feel this need to take the words that someone said and add an entirely new meaning to them.

This is playing games. Whether you intended it or not.

I called for boycott. You dismissed it. GP called you on it and now you’re playing dumb.

This worked in public discourse a long time ago but nobody buys it anymore. It’s a bad deflection.

HN is better at it than Reddit but there’s still way too many people who pretend like their reply has nothing to do with the chain of conversation they attached it to. Some of that is how we display follow-ups, but I can’t fix that.
Why not use the Brazilian system? It's been working for a long time
Apple reportedly releasing 'total redesign' for MacBook Pro in 2026
> Oh and real indicator stalks, that would be nice too.

IMO that should be the law.
I only do fix priced contracts with a lock solid list of tasks. Usually it's smaller in scope and clearly defined. I spell out that any deviations are costs outside of the original pricing.

As another poster mentioned, you very much have to be selective. A lot of time our first contract will be a fixed price with a client to show our ability to deliver, so in that instance we lose a little to gain a client. It's a balance and it's not an easy life for anyone.

Consultants can be beaten and battered on behalf of an internal team and those that are good realize that in many instances that's what you're hired for.
There are also decent notes apps on android and ios. I use them to checklist my gym workout.
Automatic layout can work really well if the diagram kind is known. E.g. you don't have that many arbitrary placement options for a flowchart as opposed to an arbitrary diagram. In those cases of your layout algorithm produces an okay result, most people won't miss options to change certain parts of the automatically-laid out diagram. I think I'm that's a major part why solutions like PlantUML, Mermaid, or D2 often require you to specify a diagram type: to restrict the layout to what makes sense for that diagram.

That's a problem that plagues more generic options like Graphviz or (disclaimer: I work on that) yEd where you get the generic layout options and have to adjust them to make sense for your diagram. More flexible, but also more cumbersome, often with the problem that you crave for manual adjustment if the layout is not quite right.
Yep. It's a share-first app in a sense.
If you’d rather not lick your finger, you can get one of those old-school sponge stamp/envelope moisteners.
It's the eating that's the real challenge
Wet sponges [0] for people counting money were a very common sight some decades ago before money counting machines and mostly electronic payments. Probably still being used just not so obvious anymore. Regardless of age fingertips will eventually get too dry as the paper absorbs all the moisture and flipping pages or separating banknotes becomes hard.

For touchscreens dry fingers are also called "zombie finger" [1]. The screen registers the too minute change in electrical field as noise and rejects the touch event. Some sweat (but not too much) on the fingers makes all the difference.

[0] https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sponge-finger-wet...

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/06/zombie-fing...
I'm only 40 but have had this issue for years -- especially with Apple products -- and I think it's compounded by my fingers being pretty callused. Regardless, I'm just unable to reliably use my family's iPad, sign my kids out of daycare, etc.

This is yet another example of accessibility being in everyone's interest.
> Billionaires should not exist.

I'm ok with them, but they should not use their money against the rest of us.

Because when we pay for their wealth, then there is an accounting step missing somewhere.
I'm also in a dry climate, and even as a teenager I often had to lick my fingers in order to get the plastic bags at the grocery store open (I was a bagger so had to do it all day). Eventually we got smart and started putting wet sponges by the bags, which is also an amazing life hack if you have trouble turning pages.
Apparently OEMs aren't aware of such marvel.
How many checklist 'apps' have AI in them? That you couldn't find one without it? Or is it just a marketing thing now to say "no-AI" to bank on the anti-AI movement in tech?
Ok. Personally, I dispute that the designers don’t care about efficiency. I think it’s just expensive.
GNOME, the desktop environment that doesn't let you change gamma on Wayland without using ugly hacks which are not officially supported.

GNOME, the DE where the "system monitor" app doesn't display network traffic per process, but instead of adding the support for that, we have another app called "Resources" which doesn't let you see anything you couldn't in the system monitor.

Whoever prioritizes tasks there seems insane to me..
Right, this applies more to private held firms and late game startups than public corporations, but I would still expect that the higher you typically go, the more shares one owns on average, so the weighted average of that won't be too far off compared to the actual structure, minus external shareholders. We can imagine those as foreign kingdoms that the king owes money to :P

Plus there is upwards mobility, whereas in typical feudalism there is none, but it is still funny to think about the suspiciously odd similarities.
A few years ago I was concerned of this being a genuine possibility (at least for a few months) due to regional conflicts, so I prepared the following on some SD cards and flash drives:

* Offline copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and some others using Kiwix

* Arch Linux iso and mirror of some packages for installing a new system

* Godot Engine along with game assets shamefully stolen from hl2, so I can have some creative outlet, or make training sims if things got so bad

* Hours of videos and songs I like

Today I would probably include Llama or other LLMs.

It's unfortunate to see big companies pushing for an online-only world. Windows 11 requiring Internet access to install, YouTube restricting yt-dlp and YouTube Premium downloaded videos only being playable if the app was able to ping YouTube servers in the past few days. It really feels like technology is regressing, we are creating new problems for ourselves for no good reason. But I guess it's fine when all of the company offices are in rich Western countries with fast and stable internet access.
Hey, I'm the author of the blog post!

I had planned to write about the Kahan summation, but I didn't want to overload the blog post with too many different concepts. I'm definitely considering writing about it in a follow-up post.
30 days makes more sense

Also why not make it all client side? When they grab a share link you can convert the text to image, image to base64 to spend to the URL, and when somebody opens the link you ocr it and recreate the list.