skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's being really nitpicky. None of the other firms given as examples are in any way tech firms. Celestica is mentioned in a single sentence as part of a list of firms. The overall theme of companies outside the software industry creating software and marketing it is pretty clearly communicated and unambiguous.

I have seen egregious uses of the term 'tech' used to just mean specifically silicon valley internet software, but this case is more a marginal oversight of one example in passing, rather than a deliberate or misleading misuse.
As an aside, that big list of tasks and diagram at the end are perfect to show next time a client exclaims about how long it takes to get a simple change into production!
- conversation starter ("woah, that's a cool sticker, where did you get it?")

But yeah, mostly what you mention.
At work a lot of people have stickers on their laptops (myself included, but I don't put them on my personal one).

I've never _ever_ had anybody preach to me about some tech/event/company that they put a sticker of. My laptop is mine and I don't give a damn about what others think about it. I assume that this is the case of the vast majority of people who put stickers there.

This whole conversation reminds me of people complaining about vegans preaching.
I finally found it :) https://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-de...
Just FYI: can't access your website.
Twenty years ago, deployment of a new version of a web app means FTP'ing a new php file to the server.
It is backed by the GDP as you can buy goods sold by US producers with dollars. Be it iPhones, beef, corn, cars, airplanes.
And you would quickly notice the US power when you tried to print your own dollars for example.
I see that you have an issue with determination of value, because you are describing it on the way you value things only. After you solve problem with understanding that the value of everything is relative you give a chance to bitcoin too.

You are saying that there are no infinite buyers and sellers, you are right but there are no infinite bitcoins too.

You are taking an example of beef cause you thing it has intrinsic value but let me tell you that in some states in India if they find you eating beef, they will even punish you for that.

Everything's value is relative based on the usage, and usage creates demand.

As conclusion, if community of libertarian will grow, Bitcoin's value will rise because demand will rise, if not, it is likely to fail.

But nothing is black and white, people will take sides and we will always have haters and lovers. There will always be enough bitcoin to serve people they want to use and not enough for the value to become zero.
> but you'll lose in cache coherence.

Did you mean cache locality?
A certain amount of that is certainly tongue-in-cheek. I think if you compare a $20 wine in California to a €10 wine you buy somewhere along the Garonne, you're probably going to enjoy the French wine more.

But we're talking about what changes buying-behaviour, and it's important to consider that as a savvy shopper in the US you can go into a wine shop and buy everything under $20, and you'll find local wins. That's how you anchor your expectations about prices and quality. Now whether that's because of duty/import or it's because of shipping, or it's simply because only big brands will bother exporting is, or any other reason, those reasons are out of scope simply because a tariff isn't going to change them in the slightest.
I did not write a single word or hint about any of the things you listed, I didn't even have them on my mind. You are 100% projecting.
Flight:

1) You have to appear at least 1.5 hour before departure (luggage drop, security checks)

2) You have to drive to an airport and back, might take hours in some cases unless you live close enough (in a big city), but it will usually take not less than 30-50 mins one way

3) It takes up to 30 minutes to get luggage after landing

Rail:

a) Train stations are in the centers of cities; max 10-15 mins by subway or bus/tram; high-speed trains also stop in many mid-size cities/towns

b) You can appear just at departure time
Yes, Bitcoin seems to be popular in the trade of illegal goods and for paying ransomware. Doesn't exactly explain why most other people invest so much into Bitcoin. And the security is very dubious, considering the track record of Bitcoin exchanges.
Where's your control group showing that people who don't age don't have an increased risk of cancer?
I came across Oui-blendish [1] whose goal is to help make blender-like UI

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/duangle/oui-blendish/src/default/
Do you have a link to the study? I'd love to read it.
>but not enough to matter, unless you hoard.

>My solution is mainly to have more Bitcoin than I'd ever use

In other words, you're hoarding.
That's quite a dark name for such a bright idea.
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> Don't.

> Write tests, assertions and logs to understand what happened when something went wrong. Do not ever 'debug', it is losing your time.

What is your definition of "debug"? I find your stance quite extreme and am trying to understand it.
> MRTConfigData

If I'm correct MRT stands for Malware Removal Tool.

I'd feel pretty bad if anything I worked on had to be uninstalled by that.
You almost never need a middleman. But companies, especially smaller ones, are limited for time and attention. Someone comes in and tells you they can do a service X for you that'll cost you Y and net you Z, Y < Z, many companies will jump at it - Y is still much less than it'd cost them to run X themselves (hiring people, figuring out how to do it effectively, etc.).

That it later turns out that the deal was bad for the company long-term - well, that's the reality of business. Plenty of dishonest and exploitative companies exist and are successful.
Apparently not. I don't know his medical details, though.

Although I do wonder, if we're wrong about B12 only coming from animals, is it possible that we, or possible even Dutch physicians, are under-informed about our options?
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> From what I know from german makers on youtube and IRL, the fair is pretty decent and well staffed with actual makers.

I can confirm. It has definitely gotten more commercial over the years, and I also wish they would get rid of some stuff that plain weirds me out (don't get me started on the BattleBot arena... also, some of the cosplayers...), but as I said: all in all, it's still OK.
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>With the fractional reserve banking in place as todays standard the Federal Reserve just print more notes when needed to bail the banks.

The Federal Reserve doens't simply print notes and drive them over to the banks. There's an asset exchange that takes place.
Yes, have been excitedly following Scenic since Boyd Multerer's talk about his experiments a couple of years back. Haven't tried it yet as I somehow kept putting off wrapping my head around Elixir and FP
The original recipe consists of one sentence about the ingredients and then a long description of a method for freezing it. The reworked recipe is just a fairly normal ice cream recipe with some added rosewater.

> If you recreate the recipe using the original method, please let me know how it goes in the comments!

So really the only thing they got from the recipe is that perhaps rosewater is a possible ingredient for ice cream?
They don’t have the range to be that detailed. But there was a fad where teens would use the tone on their phones.
>Of course Coase would say that's a risky bet (the spun out business could fail for ordinary business reasons and then you'd have nothing).

But if you've spun it off, and especially if you got in outside investors, you've both partly cashed in and largely hedged yourself against that risk. Now you can just treat them as an external vendor and if they fail, buy elsewhere.
there's a block caller option in the contact area/recently called, someone did this to me before and it wasn't frequent enough to prevent me using the phone.

Even if it was, enable airplane mode, block caller, then disable airplane mode.
I'm glad someone's trying also.

And the reason 1d text is hard to get rid of is not merely an editor (ie, an "app") but a galaxy of languages, tools, and operating systems built around 1d character streams. Everything from the serial driver to the style sheet can be manipulated with primatives for mapping, filtering, and composing character streams and operations on them.

There ARE a bunch of benefits to structured code, for example Docker and npm/pip/etc have recently showed us a hint of what composition of standard components can bring.

What might be missing from structured code is the rest of the primitives on ASTs. Once we have all that we can talk about backporting to emacs :)
WTO confirms US failed to fully comply over Boeing subsidies https://phys.org/news/2019-03-wto-fully-comply-boeing-subsid...

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It's probably number of transactions in a single block (e.g. within ∼10 minutes). All transactions of all time is way larger.
Having written scientific numerical software for decades, and having been in situations where I want high speed or I want reproducibility, and having worked with hundreds of developers, I agree wholeheartedly with Gustafnot - the vast majority of developers prefer performance over bitwise reproducibility. Lose a few bits here and there, and most don’t care, because they treat floats as fuzzy to begin with (and almost never care about reproducibility since it’s very hard to obtain due to compilers, libraries, etc.) . But slow down code, and they sure notice quickly.

If you really want to claim the opposite, do you have evidence? Or experience that it’s true?
If that scheduling program is proprietary and a significant competitive advantage to your particular furniture making business, you may prefer to pay the higher cost to keep it internal.

The problem is that many companies incorrectly make that exact judgment, assuming that their competitors are, on average, buffoons.
Awesome comment
I think US companies are just now realising just how much of their business activity can fit into few lines of code.

The thing happened in China over last 5 years:

- Restaurants run ordering APIs for food delivery companies

- Restaurants run ordering APIs for online menu companies

- Laundries run restocking, and order ready notification APIs

- Logistic companies pretty much became a few layers deep API business with most companies having 0 user facing "frontend"

- Hotels - some will deny you booking if you don't checkin online. Some went even further, and check in you remotely

- Construction companies - now run with client facing construction site management software, and run joint CAD projects with
clients

- All kind of odd job service aggregators now do what is called o2o: dog walkers, handymen, porters, cleaners etc

- Many business service companies simply went out of business because their entire businesses were turned into free apps. You can file your taxes with a free app that scans QR code or electronic invoices for example

- All kind of retail store interact with wholesale suppliers only through some EDI stockkeeping or a more advanced API

- And for commerce, things are all self explanatory: JD and Alibaba
Something like https://www.box.com/ (dropbox recently added more team features as well), https://basecamp.com/ or https://www.notion.so/ for company knowledge management might fit. If it's mostly about files I'd check box.com or search for 'box.com alternatives', the others also try to be your intranet where you write new content into pages like a wiki. If the pricing sounds too high there's also open source https://owncloud.org/ (and the commercial https://nextcloud.com/)
Maker Cosplay? Do they dress up as MOSFETs?
That is not about CORS it is about "DevOps", implemented in a way: let just developers do what they do on their local machine so we don't spend money on Ops people and security people because our developers are smart enough, we pay them 400k a year.

Setting up some local shizzle on production server that is callable from frontend ... Just stop, you can have microservices that listen on local interface but please call it from behind api gateway. If you have some different domains you need to use then yeah make subdomains? I don't know just hire some Ops people and make them work together with Devs.
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Sorry for my bad English! I will try my best to explain everything you don't understand although I can't promise I could make it. First of all, I have been concentrating on the topic of a more effective propaganda. Whether you like or not, these are the real thoughts of a portion of people targeted. Please pay attention to tell apart the discussion of tactics of propaganda from my personal political view.

> It didn't say that, it said it was an extension to introduce more democracy. Not 'self-governed Dominion'.

Read the first image of https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...

> You keep throwing in this stuff without telling me what Britain actually did. I can't respond - or learn - unless you give me proper information.

Read the Young plan.

> Again, justify what? What practical actions? What do the protesters think? I literally don't understand what you're saying.

Some protesters think the colony is a good symbol of democracy. Many mainlanders disagree. Because to prove colony really cared about democracy, abandoned plan is not enough, and practical action records are required, like limited democratic legitimacy for a small area within Beijing's tolerance. I can't see how China wound invade just because of any small-scale democratic experiment.

> But I spelt out what freedom meant clearly, and I very carefully excluded rioting or other destructive behaviour.

I noticed that. I believe we would agree with each other on freedom and many other values most of the time. I am not arguing with you on the difference between us or between protesters and tourists. The point I raised is that some propaganda towards mainlanders did distort, without spelling out the meaning clearly and excluding extremism carefully, and this is bad, even if their heart is good, that's all.

> From memory, as I can't find the link, china was considered an aggressor by invading north Korea, and it wasn't just the UK but a large collection of countries that embargoed/sanctioned it (seems the words mean much the same thing here, I had to look up the distinction!). It wasn't just the UK by any means (if you want a ref, just ask, I can't find it right now).

Nobody denies this. It's in the name of United Nations and everyone knows Uncle Sam is the leader of the embargo. What I want to say is, Hong Kong was strong enough at that time to neglect certain pressure from the mainland and push Britain's policy.
This is, by now, basically a Zelda speedrunning tradition. They also used it to much success in Ocarina of Time, where it was possible to overwrite the pointer telling the game which cutscene to play by doing a very specific sequence of actions, which allowed you to basically jump to the last battle of the game.
I wonder about the US response. Because they themselves also get shortchanged by the same companies, yet still doing their legwork, in this case by bullying France.

Why doesn't the US tell Google to go complain to Bermuda, and implement a comparable tax themselves? And apply it to all corporation evading US corporate taxes while using US infrastructure? (big pharma)

(The answer, of course is nationalism and corporate money in US politics)
> avocados, nuts, dried fruit, and sweet fruit juices

I know many on a vegan diet and many on raw food. High nut consumption is definitely a thing. What is this "party line" being talked about here? Feels like a straw man kind of.

> An alternative is a diet of nuts (fats) and sweet fruit (sugar). Such a diet may work better than a diet of avocados and sweet fruits. However, such a diet violates the strict form of the raw "party line" that one should sharply limit nut consumption.

Is there a source for that this is considered a violation by many?

Anecdotally, I know a guy who sustains pretty much exclusively on nuts and fruits grown where he lives (commune in Spain, they have nut trees) for 6 months a year (he's traveling the rest) and claims he never felt better and aims at keeping at it.
I see quite some similarities with low-code systems, 4GLs, smalltalk etc, so AFAIK the market is there...
Please take into account that your target audience probably is not on HN.
If I would be you, I would target web agencies, that can use the dark platform as a competitive advantage, if your system allows you to build stuff faster...
IMO it does not make sense to learn all these new paradigms for a small project, you really need scale for this kind of investment from your customers...
Right now it feels like you are building a solution that does not know which specific problem it is solving...
>bombing something that small would've been very difficult given that it was in operation and well covered by fighters

The veteran British radar scientist and others interviewed on the TV show _Battle Stations_ said different.

>the infrastructure around the RADAR was more important i.e. the command centres

The fact that the stations by themselves would have been useless has no bearing on the question of how vulnerable the stations would have been to German attacks.

I didn't mention the communications lines and the command centers because they were less vulnerable to German attack.

To summarize: if they had known about it, the Germans probably could've degraded the British radar network enough to succeed in their goal of destroying the RAF. They came close to destroying the RAF as it is.
There are many good reasons to burn coal too.
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Zoom was literally reinstalling itself after being uninstalled. It's basically the definition of malware.
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I have been reading "On Writing Well" recently, and the same mantra is echoed throughout that book. Simple and easy words above more complex and seldom used words.
Nope. They are alive, well and kicking arse on multiple fronts.
So how would you receive the data, then?
sigh, how this is still an argument?

try going a step further and ask yourself why is bitcoin "popular in the trade of illegal goods and for paying ransomware".

hint: there's a thing that is even more "popular in the trade of illegal goods and for paying ransomware" - cash.

hopefully it's enough of a nudge in the right direction.
The "winner take all" turn of the culture has hurt the legitimacy of the system and I think it feeds anti-vax, "the moon landing was a hoax", etc. It's just too transparent that the people in charge grade their own papers.

To counter it, the elite has to be held to a standard higher than we hold other people. Otherwise the erosion will keep happening.
Works fine here. Still barely usable though because it's all in some strange imperial units :P
The problem is that Apple appears to have made an exception to its own rules in this particular case. If I understand correctly, they used a first party system update mechanism to change third party software.

It's like Google making an ad hoc decision to use Chrome autoupdate to silently patch a particularly bad vulnerability in Microsoft Word just because they can.

So what is the principle behind this kind of exception? It's simply this: If it's bad enough, normal rules can be suspended and anything goes. It's like declaring a state of emergency. It's not normal or mundane.

Now the question becomes what is bad enough and who gets to decide what is bad enough? People will point to incidents like this and ask questions like: Why was the San Bernardino attack not bad enough for Apple to suspend its ususal rules? Why can people store tons of pirated music on their Macs without Apple taking action? Why does Apple allow criminals to hide behind end-to-end encrypted messaging software?

If Apple has decided to take responsibility for the security of all third party software on macOS then they should say so. They should change the rules instead of breaking them in an ad hoc fashion.

Then we can all decide whether or not we want to hand total control to Apple (and to those who have control over Apple).
I'm guessing you're not in the EU then? I see this everywhere.
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> It's just that they're talented at and work hard at something people here don't value: popularity.

Rightly so. It is easy to gain popularity by appealing to people's lower insticts or by being ridiculous. Maybe the top 10 "famous for being famous" persons really did put extraordinary effort , but i think it's much less true for everyone else, otherwise they would be famous for something else. And even if it is true, it's not the kind of work that ppl value a lot. It's one thing to be famous as a Kardashian, another to be famous as Maria Callas or Madonna
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How it's different from an FPGA that has some classifier encoded? It's just all "fiber optic" instead of electricity.
Looks like a badly disguised ad for a coding coach site to me.
I put stickers on my laptop from people or companies I care about, or from times that are special to me.
While we are on this subject, and since I agree wholeheartedly with what you said, let's give another exemple where fact and numbers are more important than generalisation and opinions: a big contention point about tariff between EU/US was cars, and how the US claimed EU had a larger tariff than the US, while the numbers actually showed the US imposed a bigger tariff on average due to the trick of calling some cars "light truck" and putting truck tariff on them.

US argument: "Europe taxes American cars 10%, while America taxes European cars 2%."

Which seems true, when you look at the actual EU/US tariff numbers:
US: 25% tariff on trucks, 2.5% on cars
EU: 22% on trucks, 10 % on cars

Quote from [1]:

> But when you look in details at the numbers, you realize that most of what is sold in the US, that is considered as car in the EU, is put in the trucks category in the US, by being called "light truck".

> In the US there are twice as many "light trucks" sold compared to "cars". Light trucks are pickups, SUVs, minivans. Those are just "cars" in Europe.

> EU import fees are 10% on cars (hatchbacks and SUVs alike). US import fees are 2.5% on cars and 25% on light trucks.

> Average car price in the US is $26k, average light truck price is $36k.

> Therefore, if you care for math, average duty on combined US car+light truck market is 19%, nearly double of the EU rate!

Trade, tariff and the likes are complex matters, but ultimately they're also just numbers, so when in doubt, run the numbers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8vaqdi/trump_on_tra...