skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but it’s a lot easier to say no as a civil engineer with both legal and professional bodies backing you than currently.

It’s a trade off and it wasn’t something that happened over night it took centuries of disasters for civil engineering to become the way it is, software outside of academia is a minnow by comparison.

We may get there but it’ll take a successive series of software disasters to get to it sadly.
Universities and government institutions do perform basic research (for drug development and lots of other stuff), but applied (product-focused) R&D would benefit from more tailored incentives. Less emphasis on really generic grant-making, and a lot more on ex-post-facto "prizes" for successful research efforts.
https://www.starterstory.com/
Its like Indie Hackers was back then. Before it changed ownership and became boring....
What would supply-side Jesus do?
it is also invested in large companies, allegedly even was invested in a company which produced birth control pills [1]. But, considering, The Mormons only exist for about 200 years in comparison to about 2000 years the $100B are impressive.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-23-mn-5234-s...
Mirror: http://archive.is/sy1Ay
https://www.indiehackers.com/

The founder also runs a podcast.
That sounds weird unless either

- it is only part of the story like with ddg

- or Bing has improved a lot lately

- or for some reason I've been extremely biased against Bing

I just tested it and the results were way better than I would expect from Bing.
A New Chapter for Kohsuke
Looking forward to that mustard plug interview!
That is just what is uncovered in the investment market with one subsidiary.

They also own 2% of Florida[0], huge land tracts in Argentina, Oklahoma and elsewhere, and attractive urban real estate in most major metropolises including apartment complexes in PA. They centralize donation collection of tithes and good will offerings such that about 8% stays back at congregations (based on personal observation as the finance clerk across several congregations and the analogue of dioceses--wealthy congregations would regularly see $25k/week from 200 congregants and have a budget of ~$8k annually, but this offset with congregations in less affluent areas). They also have massive economic influence over Utah, surrounding states, and often growing suburbs.

They have a very diversified portfolio. As doctrine they take the second coming of Christ seriously and believe they will transform into the world wide government on his return.

For the record I left several years ago, but have many family members still heavily involved. It's an organization which does not allow you to leave with your dignity intact.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/morning_call/2014/03/far...
Ok thanks, I'll check out Sharedrop.

Regarding the TURN server, is that something that is specific to the service? It seems to me that a more general approach would be preferable, i.e. not connected to any particular service.

Also, I'm wondering how IPFS is doing these days.
Here is my list of solo developer blogs. Usually they are on topic. This does not include personal blogs I follow that happen to be developers.

@mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/

Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/

Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog

Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/

Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/

fulldecent - https://privacylog.blogspot.com

Orange - http://blog.orange.tw/

Cocoa with Love - http://www.cocoawithlove.com/

Mark Otto - http://markdotto.com/

Moxie Marlinspike's Blog - http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/

hueniverse - http://hueniverse.com/
Not all large companies are alike.

https://threatpost.com/facebook-to-pay-550m-to-settle-class-...
> Gross mischaractarization, that applies to individuals.

I fail to grasp your point, since the people who were subpoenaed to testify were individuals.
> Being weak and overweight is way more dangerous than deadlifts

Good thing there are many things you can do which are not deadlifts and which prevent being weak and overweight.
I would argue it's both.

If a technology can be reasonably be kept as trade secret, a patent system provides an incentive to publish it as a patent instead (25 years guaranteed exclusivity instead of exclusivity until it somehow leaks or somebody else figures it out).

But some technologies are easy to figure out once you have the consumer device in your hand. In that case a patent system might help incentivize commercializing that technology at all. After all, why would you develop something only to invite everybody else to sell a cheaper version.
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
The Problem of Consciousness and Panpsychism
The head of swiss data protection (Eidgenössischer Datenschutzbeauftragter) was on the news program [1] and scolded them since according to him it is illegal in Switzerland to scrape data of the internet and then do facial recognition on it to identify people.

He said because they are media it may be ok but the average joe and company should not get any ideas of doing the same thing.

He also said it is facebook/instagram's responsibility to keep the users data safe and prevent it from being scraped.

I'm not sure how anyone can prevent data scraping and I also don't see how it can be illegal if the data is on the public internet. Can anyone elaborate why it would be considered illegal to scrape data in Switzerland? I can see there being a conflict between the privacy laws and doing identifying recognition on public images but downloading the images themselves I don't see being illegal?

We deal with scrapers taking our data all the time and this is the first time I heard that it may be illegal.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10vor10/video/fokus-heikle-gesich...
MAY2001NOTICES of THEAMS471A New Solution to TheThree-Body Problem (2001) [pdf]
I hope this helps:
https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
Ways that I have lost the source code for installed programs
Changes to Interfaces in Go1.14
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=canada+small+modular+reactor&t=ffs...
Lately it seems like many in the "effective altruism" movement has gone down a rabbit hole of AI crackpottery. These people will tell you with a straight face that a postulated runaway malevolent AI is the greatest threat to humanity.

Meanwhile, mankind continues gradually burning itself to death and the most advanced machine learning algorithms in the world recommend I buy a different edition of the book I just bought.
How does debt help deal with "very predictable capex costs"? You would need very predictable revenue to make it work, otherwise equity financing seems like it might be preferable.
Same for Hydro-Québec but power is cheap. Would be much cheaper if you took some of the fat out, but at least the management doesn't get mega corp salaries. Too cheap really -- dynamic dispatch power used for base load, no incentive for other renewables, could sell more of it to NY.
Ditto for equity
Your heck statement went higher in price .... typo?
Former Mormon here. I'm scratching my head at what is construed as a Spaceship?
I don't follow the Clooney example. Wouldn't he still look more or less the same if he had become a pickle salesmen rather than an actor?
Churches should go back to being churches. No reason a religious organization needs a 100 billion warchest.

What they are planning to eventually do with it? Buy off my local pol? Buy Utah and secede? Never mind the advantageous tax treatment enjoyed. This disturbs me.
I tried to write a few more points that are not available in this article related to angular 9 features. Check this out.
https://bit.ly/2SmHymg
If you want official numbers it is now built into WeChat.

Go to WeChat Pay -> Health

The numbers are updated each day.
Do the internal restrictions apply to everybody at Google (my guess from your past comments) equally, or are there departments with easier access, government contracts etc.?
So I’m officially a Mormon but am not a tithing member or active at all. I’ve asked some of my Mormon friends about this and their response is basically “well of course they are, how else would they build Zion in the city of Independence, Missouri?”. They’ve said that’s where the latter days will be spent a long time ago, and they’re preparing to make that a reality “when the time comes”.

They have a form of socialism called the law of consecration that Mormon society will live under (I believe they might have lived like that in Salt Lake while initially settling there). My seminary teacher, the sweetest woman you’ve ever met, got VERY upset and yelled at me when I said that it sounded like Communism. It still sounds a lot like Communism, though.

It’s truly amazing that they have 15 years worth of tithing for their members saved up. I have concerns though, when my friends family lives in a house where their youngest kid got lead exposure, and they’re barely getting by, tithing their 10%, but the Mormon church is amassing such wealth yet my friend’s family of five is on food stamps. Something feels off there.
But mega fast food chains must have negotiated the card fees to nearly zero, no?
True for you, but not everyone. I find tapping the windows key, typing a few letters, then tapping enter, is much faster and comfortable than touching the mouse.
One thing that seems to be missing is a way to straightforwardly look at individual examples of data points in each cluster. Oftentimes looking at a few images (if that's what you're classifying) helps a lot more than staring at feature distribution plots.
I'm trying to get a forum about MMO development started by posting to my own blog from here: http://reddit.com/r/mmodev
According to the article around 50 billion USD, so half the size.
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Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a smart and kind engineering leader who enjoys operating at the intersection of tech, product and delivery. My speciality is building happy, high performing teams that deliver quality work.

I was previously at ITV where I created the platform which hosts their most important products and services, from the ITV Hub (30M+ users) to airtime and content sales (£3bn+ revenue). I also recruited the best team in the universe to develop it.

Prior to that I've held platform engineering and software development roles with the BBC, Global Radio and multiple startups.

I'm currently looking for a CTO, VP Engineering or Director of Engineering position at a series A+ startup or SME.
Right, but there is no way to edit the title once published.
My bad. The mirror is at https://snapdrop.net [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439659
> Apple's spotlight has had these kind of features

Features? Surely, you mean these kind of bugs? :)
They’re preparing for the end of the world. They call themselves “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”, and take that moniker seriously.
Well something needs to be done, because right now society pays big $ to universities for basic research, and allows drug companies to basically skim this off by adding a tiny bit of their own work and putting a patent on it.
In fairness, knowing about prefix codes and top level domains, paint.NET is an unforgivably bad name for a program.
It seems VERY unlikely they forgot that they didn't have to pay rent all of a sudden?

The way it works fore me here in the EU is that bills land in my bank account and I log in on mobile, select the ones I want to confirm, and sign the transfer.

We also have bank to bank instant transfers for free (useful for paying back 1/2 pizza etc) without external private middlemen. US banking feels so legacy, much more so than the COBOL I work on.
That’s not a very attractive option for those of us here in the north. Being buried in snow, slush, and ice for six months of the year makes biking very unattractive.
Great read, but I had a sneaky suspicion the entire time he was going to just say 'securitise revenue streams', which he finally did.

I just don't think for the most part this will happen in any meaningful way, because high growth companies that need the money just don't have the track record to really underpin the value of said revenue streams.

As for more established tech companies ... surely they must have been doing or at least trying to do this already?
Free App Generates Arduino Timer PWM and Interrupt Code – Wysiwyg
Maybe poster is somehow confusing the Nauvoo Mormon spaceship from The Expanse with official doctrine. (understandable mistake)
They mixed up Mormons with Scientologists
I bet the banks lose money on credit cards in EU. They are loaning out money up to 60 days for only a 0.3% fee. Interchange is meant to cover these loans.
Love these sorts of tools that don't require login or registration, and are usable immediately! Great job.
How ARM Makes Money (2013)
I've found why anybody outside the church should care:

«If the whistleblower’s claim is successful, that person could receive up to 30% of the proceeds collected by the IRS.»

Meh.
> In the distant future of The Expanse, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has commissioned the construction of the Nauvoo – a giant spaceship that will carry their “best and brightest” Mormons to a new planet with a new sun. This rich slice of universe-building accompanied the introduction of Fred Johnson, Director of Operations at Tycho Station and the man overseeing the construction of the Nauvoo.

https://observer.com/2015/12/the-expanse-recap-1x04-mormon-s...
Try holding windows key and pressing the number that corresponds with the order of the pinned item.
"Business debt is just as dangerous as personal debt."

They are barely related to the point they should probably even be called different things.

Business debt is to buy equipment to make stuff to sell at a profit.

Personal debt to buy a nice boat.
>Consider what happens if everyone who has a moral complaint about their employer immediately quits

Holocaust would not happen.
Modernity and the Holocaust by Z. Bauman should be obligatory read for corporate workers.
I don't think it's "a tiny bit" if we're accounting for it by money spent. You might think that the later steps in drug development (medical trials, especially) are wasteful but then that problem lies with the FDA's overly strict standards.
So if we're using the Nautical Almanac for navigation purposes,does it matter if we use NIST or Navy? Or is the synchronization very close? Also, where can I learn more? In the sailing community these questions come up, believe it or not.
Nope, they are saying once you are spending 8000 it's worth it to go up another 1000 for a fairly major upgrade
Why doesn't Microsoft just hire this guy? Why didn't they hire him 5 years ago? The internal politics around this feature must be utterly insane.
It always surprises me that wealthy churches pretend to take Christ seriously, when Jesus was not very fond of amassing money.

I get why the churches do it (of course they don't believe in Christ), but why do the exploited masses believe them?
Outstanding comment.

The unwillingness to acknowledge that intelligence is genetic (as are many psychological attributes) has completely neutered any meaningful discussion on a variety of very important issues.
I would be happy if churches had exactly the same status as any other business. Nothing less, nothing more.
Now I understand those "Thank you Jesus" signs.
>My wife is mainland Chinese, and she has been saying that it a worse than what the government is saying.

Which could just be the common conspiracy theory suspicions of parts of a population...
At this point in this thread, I'm starting to hope someone reverse engineer windows search, and do a write-up of how the indexing, stemming and search actually works...
The entire mainstream music industry moved on from vinyl records decades ago and a vinyl-only release today is going to exclude most people in any generation. At least the people that grew up pirating will likely be aware that a vinyl rip is a thing!

And millennials seem to have been largely responsible for vinyl's limited resurgence anyway.
I think we are saying the same thing - at the moment money chooses to be VC funds because normal debt has such low interest rates.

Yes I absolutely think there will be shake ups in VC market meaning smaller more frequent and earlier investment (taking the place of what used to be bank business loans). And I think a lot of money will want to do that.

But both of these are not debt - and until savings rates globally change then there will be plenty of supply of money and interest rates will remain low.

Given that savings rates generally correlate to countries growing in wealth then SEAsia and Africa suggest there will be a long while before interest rates tip up structurally
I don't know how well this would scale down. Viscosity would work against you.
>case fatality rate: the number of deaths due to a specific disease as compared to the total number of cases of the disease. [0]

You can't take a case into account until you know its outcome. What am I missing?

0. https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lethality+r...
If you liked this article, you might enjoy the book "Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?" by Frans de Waal [0]. He does a great job of describing all kinds of surprisingly intelligent animal behaviors, and some very clever tests to decide how and when they apply.

Interestingly, about 30% or so of the book is kind of a rant against other animal behaviorists who have an "animals are stupid, and no amount of proof to the contrary will shake that belief" attitude. But that yields some pretty entertaining stories (and interesting experiments) as well :-)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393...
There seems to have been a store for buying components but from what I can tell the people behind it all are busy with kids nowadays.
JSR 390 (Java SE 15) JEP Dashboard
No.

B Corp is a governance model, not a funding model. It doesn’t explain how the company will find funding. And B Corps can be venture funded.
Agreed, though I don't think he's trolling.

Here's the link to his classic "Drunken Blog Rants": https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/
Snake Game in angularjs with self playing
Its Heavens Gate and Raëlism that want the spaceships to land. Scientologists seem to just want them to be left buried in the mountain fortresses, unused.
I start a game project in javascript. it will have multiple part like self playing or playing with AI (neural networks) in javascript.
You can follow and contribute the project from github
I don't think it's only cultural, software businesses also have very few assets that could be liquidated. Volkswagen might finance 2/3 of everything it does with debt, but if it just stopped tomorrow and sold all production facilities then lenders would get more than half their money back. If a typical software startup stops operating and sells off all its assets it gets a bit of spare change and the lenders leave with close to nothing.
He'd probably be fatter, you know from all the sandwiches he'd have to eat taking out pickle clients on sales calls
In a nutshell, Austrian economics. Central banks have made money ridiculously cheap for over a decade, and this leads to malinvestment: investors pour this cheap money into projects that probably yield negative real returns, because there is way more money floating around than viable projects to spend it on. Spend capital on negative-yielding projects for long enough and you erode the productive capacity of the economy until a crisis hits.

That’s the story; hard to say how well it describes reality but there’s surely a modicum of truth in there at least.
Isn't there an aspect of Mormonism that intends for its saints to one day rule their own planets?

I find that kinda cool, honestly.
Before I even clicked to see the comments I knew this sentiment would be here. Why is it that anytime a news article is published about some org having a lot of money someone has to say something like this? They have a lot of money. So what? I’m also under the understanding everyone of their members has a years worth of food too. Kind of prescient with cironavirus running around? Full disclosure - I’m not a Mormon.
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God."

-Jesus

Matthew 19:24
I can't speak for more faiths, just what I saw in the Mormon faith. Basically, they literally believe they are the only church that has authority to act for God on earth, it was given to them, and they will be the world wide government during the millennium (a time period kicked off when Jesus Christ returns, in their view).
“The VC model we’ve honed to perfection over decades”?
Can this artwork be sold ? Because its value seems to be derived only from insurance cost.
Consider a room in a share instead? There’s a reason that’s the norm for the first 5+ years or so of a new grad’s life in a major city.
This is absolutely fantastic! A REAL alternative not just a search collector like ddg which are endorsed by Google or Bing as the traffic and ad opportunities remain unafected.
I'm really not sure what's the point of the article. The idea that there is no debt yet in "tech" isn't even true. Uber, WeWork, and especially Tesla have been raising capital via debt. Not to mention Brex which covers the tail end of the startup market with "debt backed by revenue". I'm putting it in quotes because it's a ridiculous idea.
Laundering Little Women
Quebec has a ton of cheap Hydro.

But it's also subsidised $500M by the QC government and the rest of Canada.

If Quebec elected to provide direct subsidies to citizens, then that would have to be paid for by QC gov. and nobody else.

But what they do is sneaky - they merely give Hydro Quebec $500M directly every year to 'invest in energy' - which they do, but they also operate magically at a $500M loss. But because 'energy investments' are part of equalisation payments - the other provinces have to help pay for this subsidy.

FYI I'm not perfectly sure of the $500M figure, I think it's more.

Also, it's not 'management' necessarily where the pay problem is at Hydro One. I think the CEO was making $1M a year, and that's not a lot. It's the thousands of linemen making >$100K and the massive pension costs.
The patent system was made with worry that "more advanced countries, would be able to use scale" to cripple our own industries as one of the major concerns.
> but why do the exploited masses believe them?

my favorite book on the subject of why is "Robert Cialdini's Influence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence:_Science_and_Practic...
Indeed, it is sad when people have to be motivated to report corruption such as tax evasion and other unethical behavior.
Well, at very least, Compact Disc is a 1980 standard... not like 20 years old, more like 40 years old. I don't understand why statement like above is met with a response like yours. It's a shitty '80s format that beat vinyl in affordability, why defend it as if CD is the pinnacle of digital recording technology? It is not, never was. Just say yeah CD sucks you gotta try DSD, and move on.

Anecdotal but I feel some sort of acoustic 'odor' to CD, that no other digital formats have: CD rips and even CD-DSD conversion has distinct tone that tells the data had been on a disc. Something's wrong with the standard and/or its mastering.
Solo developers are too busy with the business. I once started a series called "from 0 to 0.1: the journey from 0 to 1,000 customers. But I was too busy with other works like dev or marketing towards my target customers.

https://blog.seo-product-optimizer.com/index.php/2017/01/11/...
You mean they are not as competitive as a billion dollar company 20 years in business?