skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acquisitions and buybacks are done with after-tax money. (Capex as well, in fact, but depreciation reduces future profits and taxes.)
>Did CalTech's filing of this patent help Apple or Broadcom's engineers create their devices?

No but Apple's patent for rounded corners didn't help Samsung engineers from creating their devices...and yet Apple filed the patent and sued Samsung for patent infringement.

Caltech should be championed for trolling a troll.
Mammoth Biosciences aims to be Illumina for the gene editing generation
Or the J incunabulum[1] ...

typedef char C;typedef long I;
typedef struct a{I t,r,d[3],p[2];}*A;
#define P printf
#define R return
#define V1(f) A f(w)A w;
#define V2(f) A f(a,w)A a,w;
#define DO(n,x) {I i=0,_n=(n);for(;i<_n;++i){x;}}
I *ma(n){R(I*)malloc(n*4);}mv(d,s,n)I *d,*s;{DO(n,d[i]=s[i]);}
tr(r,d)I *d;{I z=1;DO(r,z=z*d[i]);R z;}
A ga(t,r,d)I *d;{A z=(A)ma(5+tr(r,d));z->t=t,z->r=r,mv(z->d,d,r);
R z;}
V1(iota){I n=*w->p;A z=ga(0,1,&n);DO(n,z->p[i]=i);R z;}
V2(plus){I r=w->r,*d=w->d,n=tr(r,d);A z=ga(0,r,d);
DO(n,z->p[i]=a->p[i]+w->p[i]);R z;}
...

1 - https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
I think moralizing about companies is stupid. If a company makes moral decisions, and as such, is less sucessful, they're probably going to get their lunch eaten by their less moral competition. The only antidote to this is laws that ensure some basic level of civility.

Capitalism is a nasty, amoral system by nature. Saying some companies are good and others are bad is just scapegoating.

If everybody boycotts amazon tomorrow, they'll be replaced by a company that does the same stuff - because amazon have proved that it works, and that it is profitable. Nothing but legistlation can stop that. Talking about how bad amazon is obcures this.
Can you tell more about that month please. I just cant imagine how that could be possible
And I think you're underestimating it. What's your basis for implying that higher wages would always necessarily do more good for the world than philanthropy?

> I take it as axiomatic that a person with a plethora of money cannot understand the problems of a person with a dearth of money well enough to implement effective solutions.

Maybe. First of all, not everyone who has money now has always had money. Secondly, not every problem in the world requires an understanding of poverty in order to solve it.
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I'm an Amazon SDE in NY. When I visit Seattle, after 5:00 or 5:30, it feels pretty quiet. In NY, it might be a bit longer, but tame compared to other places I've worked.
I think Finnish clients can work with an American LLC. I'm not 100% sure, but I can't seem to even imagine why not.
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> With these countries, it's not important that your startup is actually making money

Wow. I always thought that's a SF VC thing. If anything EU businesses focus much much earlier on profitability. That's the reason why they are much more risk averse and rarely (if ever) create some really ludicrous startups.
Neat find. Clang seems to be consistent about it in all 3 cases though: https://godbolt.org/z/iH7ydo
>For me it feels a bit more like the muscle movements in my larynx are played out as though I was going to speak the words

Apparently, there's been studies showing that is actually true: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science...
There are always massively out of the money options expiring soon that are worthless and would skyrocket if the company suddenly became much more valuable. They're not valued highly because that very rarely happens, no matter what the guys at /r/wallstreetbets tell you.
India, Singapore, Canada, Mexico etc?
Emulate has another meaning in the technology world too though, so it might be confusing.

RN has to keep the bridge up to date with best practices/deprecation, etc... so that seems like a bigger risk if support was lost. Xamarin did the same and had it's fair share of issues. I'd rather use something with it's own rendering engine. Way less 'magic' that can break.

I don't like coding React/HTML/JS/CSS. It's way easier to write UIs in Flutter IMO. And honestly, I don't even like the aesthetic of native iOS either. I prefer material. I see why web devs would prefer RN though, so there's obviously a huge need for it.
You have to do it after, or simply stop the navigation, but once you do, if you select the “Report an Issue” option from the Info menu you can pick from your recent trips.

Once you do so, you can select the wrong turn/other problem from the list of steps and describe the problem.
The data lake is also a real, live GDPR PII time bomb if you worked out how to get the data in but not take it out
Their email today left me with a bad feeling. I assume that wasn’t the intention, but $35/month and only one month notice shouldn’t be buried in marketing speak.

I’d be happy to hear about alternative providers.
i dont care about it not being great. its good enough as a language. but maven... but websphere... java is a hellish platform that ordinarily would not win from interpreted languages or those which focus on fast compilation. But it runs literally everywhere, including your toaster, but more importantly on mainframes which also run the real mvp aka Cobol. run once, run anywhere remains a killer feature no other platform has replicated as well.
>It is also true that analysts should not be given access to service databases, because the schema and semantics are likely to change out from under them.

Its not perfect but what we do is create a bunch of table views that represent each of the core data types in the system. We can then do all of the complex joins to collect the data analysts want in to an easy to query table as well as trying to keep the views consistent even as the db changes.
I cannot 'play music in my head'. I can recall vaguely what it felt like to have been listening to a specific piece of music, but not much further than that.

Possibly related, I have a very poor ability to visualise anything internally. (I cannot, for example, "picture a beach in my head")

In fact, most things I try to hold in my head evince nothing more than a foggy recollection.

It has been this way for as long as I can remember.
So don't expect any of your pet Amazon complaints to change any time soon.
The other thing to note when comparing the A-10 to F-16 is that the A-10 is a close-air support jet - when in combat it is flying slower and lower to the ground and therefore a much easier target than an F-16 dropping bombs from a higher altitude.
Ask HN: How do you market a new app that's adaptable, like a web browser is?
Along with the web browser, the other examples of adaptable tools I think of are text editors and terminals. These are tools that aren't designed to solve any one problem, instead they can shape themselves to solve many problems.

Traditional product development says to know your customer, and what their problem is, and then create a product for them that solves that problem. But you don't get products like web browsers, terminals, and text editors through that process.

There's one obvious answer: That when you launch your product, you focus on a single problem, and a single type of user. Which is what I've tried to do. There are some benefits to this approach. It certainly makes some conversations easier. But it also simultaneously has a negative effect, in that it ends up making the product seem less magical, and correspondingly it's harder to tap into my own enthusiasm for the product when I'm so focused on one use case.

To me, web browsers, terminals, and text editors are special. Because they're so adaptable, they become less of just a solution to a problem I'm currently solving, and more of a part of my identity. Something feel I can bring with me to any problem I might be trying to solve. I've tried to design a new tool that I feel the same way about.

I'm wondering if there's a way of tapping into my own, and what I hope is others, interest in open-ended tools like these. Perhaps in addition to focusing on one specific use case, or maybe even instead of?

One interesting thought experiment might be: If a web browser, a terminal, or text editor didn't exist today, then how would you market them?
Perhaps not quite so bad as the Vasa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose At least the Mary Rose had served for over 30 years but it seems that upgrades went over the top. A 500 ton ship was turned into a 700 ton ship.
> 2009 ... required the two contractors to repay the U.S. government US$1.35 billion, plus interest charges of US$1.45 billion

...

> January 2014, the case was settled with Boeing and General Dynamics agreeing to pay $200 million each.

Quite the settlement
I said you shouldn't consider yourself among them, not that you do.

Also your circular arguments towards childless men being stupid while also being a self-proclaimed "stupid & childless man" is poetic and somehow makes sense to me.
Also created some notes/takeaways in markdown (specifically for Joplin) --if you use joplin works great, but you'll need to fix internal links by downloading the infographic above and attaching it.

https://gist.github.com/patrickcurl/2c4386ec7cea7bfd07b18858...

edit: I'm creating a knowledge source of all I can about SaaS to help me organize/stay on focus when I develop my next side project.
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I don't know about the original poster, but I think it's important when we talk about these massive 'success' stories that we're actually talking about the domination of capital holders over workers and the failure of regulators when it comes to technology companies.
I interpreted "Doesn't necessarily mean EVERYONE is getting new data TODAY" to mean that they don't have new data at all. My original comment was a reference to the "the last two years" of the GP, suggesting that their experience will be different now than 2 years ago. Perhaps in the last year it was already different and still not good enough, or perhaps it wasn't different yet and now it will be so the two year old data isn't sufficient to judge anymore. Only fjp can say.
Maybe someone more knowledgable about the history can chime in, but the first thought that entered my mind when you were discussing full deck carriers is that the F-35 was designed from the very beginning for international sales. Only a few nations have full deck carriers, while many more have helicopter carriers. It's not surprising then that there are 2 allies with F-35Bs, 3 allies with plans for the F-35B, and none for the F-35C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
The reason California has the highest sales and income taxes is that it has the lowest property tax. People who have held property for a very long time are taxed very little relative to how they would be taxed in other states, and people who are new are taxed a lot.
It is the observation of linguists that some language processing is hardware accelerated. But hardware acceleration comes in a great many varieties, anywhere from having a slightly smaller partially specialized neuron group in the frontal lobe, to having genetically preconfigured sections in lower brain, to not needing the signals to travel to the brain at all, as demonstrated by headless chickens, and government officials.
Definitely but my partner will probably disagree; I've played devil's advocate way too many times for her liking.
IBM is a consulting company that tries to sell some of their cloud to their clients and some of their buzzwords to their investors. Normal silicon valley stuff, except that IBM manages to show up with some positive cash flow at the end of the day, unlike modern VC darlings.
A drug ad pop up in a health record? Do we have any more "dystopian sci-fi ideas" in the Backlog we want to implement today?
You also lose benefits of microservices if they have to stop and change the data exporting system all the time too, slowing down development.

The main benefit of a dumb copy is that the production service is not impacted by reporting, only a copy is. This relates to performance (large queries) but also implementation time.
Also couldn't they basically sit on their rear and collect on mainframe contracts from now until the end of time?
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That's partially my fault. I wrote a lot of the configuration command stuff for that module and there are a couple of bugs when it comes to validation for setting and deleting items so you can get yourself in a bad position. Plus there are some issues with EdgeOS which this seems to trigger.

I migrated from Wireguard to ipsec quite a long time ago because it was less complicated for my particular needs. It has probably been close to 2 years. No one else seems to have taken up resolving the lingering problems with the configuration issues.
I am confused by this comment. Finland and other EU countries offer startup visas and the requirements for them require minimal capital. Recruiting outside of EU is also relatively easy since there is no artificial cap and no significant salary requirements like with H1B. It's a cakewalk compared to the monsterity that is the US visa system.
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Considering that roughly 90% of the mail I receive goes directly from the mailbox to the recycling bin, I think it's pretty obvious how important physical spam has become.
In at least some cases, the CEO is the one actually running things, and the President is the one whose job is to fire the CEO if they're screwing up. Not that it is put that way, of course.
There’s one thing that constantly confuses me with the housing crisis, which is why more people aren’t moving to other cities (or at least a lot faster than they currently are). Perhaps my mentality is different than most, but if I can improve my economic situation by moving elsewhere I will. I know for some people it is difficult to move because of family ties or costs associated with moving, but I would have thought this would be a small minority of people, not the majority of them. Or are most people so rooted to where they grew up that they don’t want to leave?

The other thing that confuses me is why companies aren’t moving either. It’s been a long time since a "new" city was created, but we have plenty of land available, and a lot of it is in pretty (but not natural park) locations. Is there that much of a network effect with talent being in one region that companies would rather pay a 4x compensation premium than relocate to new or lower cost locations? Are there any examples of big companies that have relocated their HQ to lower COL locations and then failed because they couldn't attract talent to move there, or is it just conjecture that this would occur?
Yes; by comparison, Vulcan rounds are extremely cheap versus guided rockets (tens a dollars per round versus hundred thousand dollars plus per missile), so if you have a low threat engagement like a sniper in a house in Afghanistan it is very effective to shoot 50 cannon rounds at it. Same for a small truck convoy, a plane can get on the target faster than an attack helicopter just because it is 3 times faster at low altitudes.

It is not meant to replace an Apache or Cobra helicopter, but to occasionally take out ground targets.
I was expecting to see the Watson logo
Most of the $3.3bn are also from the US retail business: $1.9bn.
Pytorch actually got an experimental Java API in version 1.4 (about two weeks ago), if you're interested.
Wow, is that really true?

Apparently not:[0]

> While the drug test can rule out heroin, it can’t distinguish the poppy seed from other opiates. This became such an issue that the federal government raised its threshold for opiates in workplace testing from .3 micrograms per milliliter to 2 micrograms so there would be fewer cases of positive opiate testing in situations where drugs where not the cause.

> Sure, the poppy seeds you buy at the store contain between 0.5 to 10 micrograms of morphine per gram, but a dose of medically-prescribed morphine contains anywhere between 5,000 to 30,000 micrograms. So to get that same dose from the seeds you eat, you’d have to potentially eat a ridiculous amount of them.

So you'd need to consume stuff extracted from at least 0.5-1.0 kg of poppy seeds. Or perhaps as much as 10 kg. That's not impossible, if you know what you're doing, and have the right equipment.

But it'd be impractical, and expensive. And then there's the risk that you'll have other toxic stuff. Insecticides or fungicides, for example. So you'd also want to purify your morphine.

However, what's interesting is the possibility of using poppy seeds to mask usage of other opiates. The article notes that drug tests "can rule out heroin, [but] can’t distinguish the poppy seed from other opiates". So perhaps you could eat lots of poppy seed cake, and hide your oxycodone habit ;)

0) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opium-poppy-seeds_n_59709d98e...
And the supervisory tree that each process sits within.
Grandfather them (current owners) in till it’s sold and all new units are outside prop 13.
“Legalize” housing options. The way we talk about housing reflects part of the problem: the government wants you to ask for permission (and take their cut) before you can do anything, via permitting and zoning laws. They could care less if they’re a big part of the problem.
"Is this field set" costs 1 bit per _optional_ field in Proto2. _Required_ fields (which are also supported by proto2 and not supported by proto3) do not incur this cost. Those flags then would get packed into a bit mask. Not too big a cost, if you ask me.

But now you can't figure this out at all without adding another, boolean field, _and setting it separately_, which I'm pretty sure nobody is going to do unless they really have to, leading to the type of issue we're seeing here.
I'm starting to believe it'd be cheaper to just start out the same project with 2 or 3 companies, and then just keep the be st performing one and dump the other two as soon as its clear that one will be finishing the project in time and within budget. That would only double the cost (if you dump early enough) of a govt project, and since most projects seem to have a budget overrun much larger than that, it'd actually end up cheaper.

Companies with no competition and a guaranteed contract will never deliver the goods.
> If every corporation took a carbon negative stance like Stripe and Microsoft, that would make a big dent in carbon emissions.

Sure, but it's a lot easier for a software company to go carbon neutral than a power company. Which is not to take away from what they're doing, it is still hard to do!

The way I see it, we have two basic technologies for coordinating as a society: free markets, and governments. Neither is perfect all of the time. But when it comes to problems rife with externalities (like pollution, or intellectual property), free markets on their own tend to be bad at aligning incentives, and governments are the least-worst solution.

Edit to clarify: this was about the climate change part, but I agree that the government is causing the problem here wrt. zoning.
He'll become the IBM President.
Yes, definitely. I started doing something similar (though much more narrow in scope) while I was freelancing in Austria:

https://punkrockdev.com/accounting-austria

Ideally, we would have crowd-sourced instructions and spreadsheets with taxes, pension calculations etc. – like a Wikipedia for entrepreneurs.
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More growth ultimately will require another management layer. Maybe that's a risk not worth taking?
They don't need to. They only need to turn over data they already have for that user and potentially any future data that is generated for that user. Wiretaps work the same way.
Cool. Is this usable only as a Slack integration?
They are a great tool. We know a roofer that's using them to easily inspect and do initial quotes for roof repairs & replacements now...safer, easier, faster. Great idea.
California does NOT have the lowest property tax. It is very distasteful for you to try to win an argument by lying.

http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state

And if you rank the states by percentage revenue from property tax, you'll see they are right in the middle

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
> Is there that much of a network effect with talent being in one region that companies would rather pay a 4x compensation premium that relocate to new or lower cost locations?

Yes, it's pretty strong.

Employers want to be where the employees are, and employees want to be somewhere where there are other jobs.
I guess that's why I don't have an answer for "what language do you think in"? (I'm multilingual).
Repealing prop 13 might help a little, but it's a weaker driver than recessions and interest rates.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CASTHPI

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JHDUSRGDPBR

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
Accounting Software
What accounting software do you use and recommend? Xero? Quickbooks? ect.
This is actually noteworthy because the $2k strike was by far the most heavily traded call option today...not even close, so this wasn't an extremely random dumb lotto bet made by 2 people on /r/wsb
This judgment sounds big but it can be appealed and Caltech may never collect a penny. A $200 million judgment against Apple was thrown out less than 2 years ago [1].

Most tech transfer programs at universities don't break even, they usually lose money [2]. This is even more insane than it sounds because the research is already paid for. Tech transfer deals don't even cover the university lawyers.

If the patents were so valuable why wouldn't the universities be starting unicorns left and right with actual investors or actual revenue? Instead they try to get the money through litigation.

It's sad (and a waste of money) that universities have become fixated on being get-rich-quick patent trolls instead of doing transformational research.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/&apple-wins-reversal-in-univ...
[2] https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/09/the-changing-face-of-u...
The work only needs to be wasteful from a personal compensation perspective. It can still generate a public good.
Introducing boundaries between problem domains should drastically reduce cross-cutting concerns. It also makes issues easier to find.

Not that this isn't possible in a "well engineered" monolithic system, but design constraints are usually better than hoping for engineering discipline.