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Having built many these models, it's now my opinion that if you are at the stage where you're needing a template for a business plan, you better have a product that fits a real need and that delivers a product with margins. Too often in early stage companies, the model is built top-down to meet someone's expectations about a previous company they sat on the board of, helped found, etc. If a template engenders a more thoughtful, fact-based approach to operating the business, that's healthy stuff. Otherwise, set short-term goals. Try to hit them. (And in today's environment, find a path toward gaining customers without having to raise capital). $0.02
> Traditions are not always inherently valuable. Try new things. Discard the ones that don't work for you.

But that's the trouble. The people who make systemd keep integrating it with everything else they make and vice versa, which makes it harder to try new things because instead of things coming in pieces you might replace, it comes as one big interdependent blob.
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I think that the government coming in and telling companies what they can and cannot do with their private platforms is entirely contrary to freedom of speech. What would be better is a wider array of communication platforms, for which there is a entirely different set of regulatory tools available.
Scroll wheel and middle mouse button, as commonly used in most software. Home button reframes the view.
Red Hat made systemd a hard dependency for gnome, forcing all distros that have no manpower to patch gnome to use systemd.
>Sure but who decides what ideas are bad or immoral or harmful?

Simple, whoever owns the platform.
Gate keeping is a thing ... And I smell bad odors here and there from the bsd folks, but on the whole ... It's true: nobody is gonna trade across for equals on grep, ls, whatever. If rust wants to be some OS dev language it's going to have to make a better os or competive one (eg nextstep or k42 and similar efforts) ... It's going to have to go much bigger. And finally serious safe code would be accompanied by frama-c / tla+ proofs .. just pointing out rust is not the high ground.
> What makes banking systems reliable is that there's so much built in latency in every operation that nobody really notices if something is down for six hours.

This is true for settlement, but not authorization. When you spend your money it could be hours or days until the transaction is correctly reflected in your balance. But in order to spend it in the first place the transaction has to be authorized, and this happens in real time. Depending on where you live, who you bank with, what kind of card you’re using, how you’re using it... this authorization may rely heavily on your bank being available for online transaction processing, or not very much. But unless you’re doing a transaction with one of those imprint devices, your transaction must be authorized in real time by somebody.
Have you considered consulting? You sound like a driven individual, so why not set your own rates and cut out the middle man?
Debian used to value stability. Nowadays - not so much.
Before investing in equinix keep in mind it is an reit and operates under different rules (I think; someone should double check me).
While it's a valid argument, it's also a prime example of a special case that should not be the default - especially so because in my university, people were instructed to use the Linux workstations remotely for long-running tasks.
The model where a government politely asks cinema owners to close, with no force of law, and the cinema owners close? I don't see it happening exactly like that were I live at least.
Do you physically write them on paper or use an app?
Subdividing your corporation isn't a right just like mergers this can be disallowed. As with any fraud laws intentionally trying to avoid it can be made illegal.
I've seen this problem constantly with new entrepreneurs. They don't know when to switch off. They have dozens of ideas and they want to do them all.

I did the same thing and failed at everything.

So I decided to simplify: just one thing at a time. And that's the only time I've tasted any success.
Rust's type system also only protects about threading errors if they happen to be data races for in-process data structures.

If they are external resources, there is little it can do.

While an improvement, it isn't a full solution, specially in the domain of distributed computing.
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Would the Renoir desktop APUs make such a thing VR-ready? I'm looking for a cheap-enough box for working in the VR window manager Simula.
And also, I never started a business but from my observation, when you do something small that works it might serve as a base on which you grow something bigger in natural way that is more obvious.
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Related: Gresham's law as a mental model - Bad drive out good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
The point is making decisions on bad models that we know are bad is bad decision making.
Retail packaging is a pain to deal with, take for example salt. You usually buy it in small boxes, about 1-2lbs each, commercial bags are 40-50lbs. So you need to buy 20-30 boxes a week at your local store, open the boxes one by one and empty it all into your restaurant bin. It's really a convenience thing, it's much easier to handle, transport and store a single really big bag. You still buy retail for stuff that makes sense though, maybe you only need like 2lb of lemons a week to make a sauce, in that case you'd go retail.
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Thanks for the comedy video!

It was particularly funny when he got to the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, whose construction my parents remember well, and which you can find so many pictures of (not to mention pictures of how the location looked before everything on it was torn down to start work on this).

Basically, it looks like the author starts with the assumption that humanity can no longer build old-style buildings (as if it's hard to use columns) and builds their world-view from there. It is really quite funny.
Debian fixes this issue by having dist-packages for OS vendored packages and leaving site-packages as a customizable sandbox for the user. This makes it easy to install things without stomping on OS packages.
We made http://mailprincess.com/ a while ago which is $1 per fax

Also made http://maleprincess.com/ for fun
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Could remove line 32 and just put `{ flag = 0 }` before line 31, right?
Seems like the goal is to impress investors. Unless you’re going into the business of financial modeling, focus on how you’ll provide a service that’s worth more to customers than it costs them. Less experienced investors are going to want to navel gaze with you at this shit. Those who know how value is created will focus on the fundamentals like path to market and your value prop, differentiators and moat.
yeah, squirrels are going to kill us all someday. here's a fun map of all the power failures caused by squirrels, as documentation of WW3

https://cybersquirrel1.com/
I disagree. Although offices can have their downsides, I personally can't work remotely because I find it so cold and boring.
As the other comments illustrate capability pertains to something within the person, and capacity pertains to factors outside the persons control.

Hence the person has the capability to count to 1 billion, but not the capacity to do it because other obligations will prevent them taking the required time.

Of course 1 billion seconds is a little over 30 years, so probably the external capacity limit on that task is mortality, dependent on starting point.
It is also one of the reasons why macOS is not welcomed by
enterprise IT for large scale deployments.

You can have dynamic linking with ABI stability with stuff like COM and UWP.

It is also the only viable way to do plugins in scenarios where IPC is too costly.
look into https://www.redox-os.org/
I got into YC as a solo-founder in 2012. Didn’t have any connections or go to an ivy league school. I was working on an app that was growing quickly and doing $15k/month in ad revenue. The odds are stacked against you as a solo-founder so you need to show them something that tells them you can execute. It’s probably harder now, but definitely still possible. Showing them a them a graph that points up and to the right helps ;)
Mostly just unpopular here from what I've seen in industry as a programmer with lots of sysadmin, ops, and infra engineering experience.

The usual arguments are it is not "Unixy" and then fall back on original designer intent and philosophical attacks, or worse ad hominems against Red Hat or Linus Pottering.
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A badly-coded computer virus caused billions in damage
I don't understand this angle. You acknowledge the functionality could have been useful even 25 years ago; it makes perfect sense for a daemon developer to integrate the functionality into a session manager and put it behind a config flag which is exactly what they did.
>This can't be relevant.

You are right that it shouldn't be relevant. I believe that in practice, it is. There are censorious free speech hating people on both sides, but the left-leaning ones seem to have much more power in the US in the last decade than the right-leaning ones. There are cultural issues here, and political allegiance is not irrelevant to the motivation, the rationalizations, or the power dynamics.
This really resonated with me. I am very sad to say that I agree with you. I'm a PhD student elsewhere now, but did my undergrad at UPenn in the States and was absolutely disgusted by the framing of science/learning/academia in the country in general (as well as the country's general level of media discourse). Of course, school itself was wonderful, and I'm blessed to have had such humbling peers there; that stood as such stark dichotomy with the country as a whole. The social moment very much felt like I imagine being a Soviet biologist watching Lysenko come to power would. I worked so hard for social good in the US, but it all felt futile. I chose a respectable opportunity at a program in my home country (Canada) over higher-ranked options in the US because of it. I know a number of friends who similarly chose foreign programs over previously more desirable American ones.
Come on really ???.

He is a paranoid delusional who once claimed to be Jesus and believe that Lizard people are real ... he needs medical help.

No freedom of speech issue here.
A systems language should support everything regardless how useful it might be.

Unless it wants to leave some scenarios open for the systems programming languages that offer tooling for them.
Libreboot does not support modern Intel hardware, as it refuses to include proprietary binary blobs. Coreboot is another story entirely.
And MGS4 as of last November... https://www.dsogaming.com/news/metal-gear-solid-4-is-now-ful...
I use horizon for more than a year now and have quite a few pcbs from it in production. What made me pick up horizon was mostly Autodesk's aquisiton of Eagle and kicads messy library concept.

Horizon misses nothing (for me) now and has a beautifully efficent UX compared to Eagle and KiCAD. Their library concept is also well thought through, so I don't have the feeling I am wasting my time when I am contributing parts.

The downsides are:

- you still have to create many parts yourself (but parts, packages, etc are json and generating them can help a lot)

- horizon supports only newer OpenGL versions, so if your machine is old it might not run

Other than that I'd take it over all the others every day (and I do).
I’m guessing turbofolk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-folk
It did, I played it on PS3.
Healthy skepticism is necessary for any technologist. However, you do have to use it in both directions. I know my biases are that I prefer new technology to old. So I pay attention to that. However, it is just as bad to reflexively consign something as premature or ill-considered. Sometimes the collective hegemony gets it right. They may have missed on microservices but they didn't miss on the cloud really. I do try to be eclectic in my technology choices if only for cognitive reasons.
This argument could have been used to discourage people from discussing the need to make any ethical improvements in our society, including, for example, ending slavery.

The power of enforcement follows from policy, in a democracy policy is influenced by public opinion, public opinion is shaped by discussion. We ought to discuss moral issues for which there is currently no enforcement.
Thank you will check it out :)
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The problem is not that sysvinit doesn't exist, it's that other packages now have dependencies on systemd, so it doesn't just swap out.
That assumes every user is a developer, expert in security assessment, knowledgeable in tricks like trusting trust, and all the languages used in the code base.
Regarding hysterical languages and aesthetics there is the school of thought that small yet very expressive kernels are the most aesthetic. I recall a discussion in the early 1980s with Alan Perlis who claimed APL was a diamond and Lisp was a ball of mud. But it is easier to make things out of mud than diamonds. I also recall a discussion with Seymour Papert (circa 2005) about the next generation Logo. He claimed that one first needs to decide if the design should be driven by engineering or mathematical aesthetics. Sadly, there never was much progress designing the next Logo.

People's taste in programming languages is coloured by their first language(s). But Logo was designed to be a first language, so it shouldn't suffer from people's expectations that it do things like other languages.
Yes it did
They weren't mandated to stay at home by their governors before. It's quite different.
In what way does China have the U.S. beat from a military standpoint? I am no expert, but as far as I know, the U.S. military is still far stronger.
Exactly. I was immensely frustrated with sysvinit for over 15 years. Jumped over to systemd as soon as it was available on Debian, never looked back, only one had a problem due to symlinking.
In my commonly used software I click on damn things, little boxes appear on corners and I can just drag them in/out to decrease/increase the size. Or if 3D software I have 3 more lines to rotate/roll for each axis. That's my commonly used software.
There are large swathes of the population that have been infected asymptomatically: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti...

There are similar studies and similar findings in both the US and Europe.

tl;dr The virus is much less lethal for the average person than models predicted before we had more data.
It runs on my native windows 10 machine
Nobody mentioned leaving. It's about the ease of scaling down operations and spending less money, compared to an on-prem alternative.
On the contrary. When I lived in such a village on vacation, it was incredibly liberating.

The bakery guy would have a promotion every week with something new for you to try, but apart from that you didn't have to make any decisions. I find choosing between 20 almost identical flavors of sandwich bread in your average supermarket to be much more mentally exhausting.

And since you knew which weekly special everyone else was trying out these days, you had a shared easy conversation topic with anyone.

Plus, to my big surprise the quality of frozen fish and vegetable packs was impeccable. Now, years later, I know that pretty much all "fresh" fish that you see in a supermarket is frozen for transport. So there's no difference.
Not parent but I think I made the step too early. Since I got my MacBook Pro in 2016, I decided to replace my cables with USB-C versions. That's all very nice, but now I prefer new hardware to have as much USB-C ports as possible.
How about https://covid19-projections.com/
What benefit are you really getting from using mainstream distros if you find their choices to be so objectionable and don't agree with their decisions? And have you looked at the state of the kernel or at your CPU lately? I would really suggest not using Linux or any modern x86_64 processor if you are worried about "overcomplicated, opinionated, arrogant piles of unsafe code" at the lowest possible levels of your system.
Nothing to do with the 60s. Having a campy boss with electrical powers imply continued violent rape of Snake's romantic interest was off-putting, to say the least. Plus the constant objectification. My girlfriend watched me play it after hearing me talk about how groundbreaking it was supposed to be and it was... really cringey sitting through a lot of the cutscenes.
Somewhat compensated by other ad venues moving online. I don't think all the signs and billboards in Times Square will be as popular as they were before.
Heh, and my first reaction was that this is awesome. Different viewpoints I guess.
You seem to be rather fixated on the "first amendment" lens, while others have their own ideas of the value of the ethical principal of free speech as a means of preventing control over 'that which we are permitted to debate'.
Well, my point is that (for instance) the specifics of its dependency model are still fairly obscure and undocumented knowledge. So I would say the statement is quite justified. And it also has a fascinating history that often gets reduced to culture war-related soundbites, which too deserved to be told.
Awesome! I thought chemtrails was comedy gold, but this is really funny to see! To think you'd know so little of the world that you could convince yourself 'old' buildings (50 years ago! as in the old Eddie Izzard joke) are basically impossible to build, so they must just be discovered.

It's really incredible what you can believe in with the right mix of bad education, lack of experience in the real world, and childlike thinking about how the world hasn't changed. Reminds me of when I was 5 years old and wondering how come some people are bor. children like me, while others were born as adults, or as old people!
But Syria wasn't exactly an oil-rich country. Sure they had some oil but not game changing levels like in the Gulf.

Also notable is that Syria is a "failed state" largely because of the oil money pumped into the opposition by those same Gulf States.
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Ask HN: Best Slide API?
Hey all - we're looking for an API for rendering PowerPoint slides... is there any third party service that you've had a good experience with?

Ideally, we're looking to send a JSON payload describing the slide and receive back the URL to download it.

If you haven't used a third party, any tips on building this? Does anyone currently deal with creating slides programmatically for clients?

Many thanks,
Josh
I understand. In fact I even before thought that this might be a problem, so I mentioned adding buttons for scroll and pan (Blender-style) in a github issue as well, because I thought it might help users like you with onboarding.

The maintainer seemed to be open to the idea and noted it down for later. So maybe it will be there in the next release : )
What if this is the new HIV/AIDS?

(I'm no fan of oversimplification, but this is what's at stake.)
In Europe most serious graphics business during DOS-era PCs, was done in Amiga and Atari STs.
Most big websites are now in this state.

AdBlock uMatrix etc. Use the tools to remove these.

Life is so much better on the Web without being bombarded by banners.

I've not seen an ad in over 2 and a half years.
If I'm interested in content not on HN, I'll find it elsewhere. Why is it any different for YouTube? Now, if you'd said to me that Google doesn't prioritize other content, I'd argue that those wanting to talk about other content always have smaller forums to do it in, they just might be more local or viral in other ways. To me it's the difference between national broadcast TV "I'll know it's wrong when I see it," and the ability to post flyers or posters in a community. One is local and the other is wide-reaching.

There is, I suppose, another alternative. If we want to promote fringe ideas, we should make it easier to organize and elect local candidates, abolish "first-past-the-post" voting systems that encourage a two-party system, and so on.

But currently scientific reasoning is an accepted system of analysis for evidence-based decisions, and most politicians rely on it in addition to emotional intelligence to alter and guide their behaviour and decisions, even as they generally do whatever the person with the deepest pockets says to do, whether because that person sponsors scientific research or conducts surveys and campaigns to sway public opinion.

The issue I have is that fringe opinion, like this, would reject cause-and-effect reasoning and evidence to rely almost entirely on emotions instead. And because it's controversial, people click on it and watch it and wonder about it. When there's no actual evidence to it.

We used to and probably still do, have courses in grade/high school on media literacy, or not believing everything you see on TV. We routinely, as an HN community, encourage reading source materials and deciding for ourselves. But we're a small community, and for YouTube, it's easier to say "it's not our problem any longer" than it is to try and provide counterpoints to the material.

There's a serious risk to YouTube to not pull this down, because of how the feedback loop of their algorithms will encourage folks who like this to watch other fringe videos, until eventually they think all of YouTube, or the world, thinks the same way as these commentators. It's easier in the short term to pull down the content than to change how the algorithms work to make them somehow less relevant. And back to my original point, folks who want this content, they will find it, regardless of what platform it's on.
We had to back burner this feature, because making slides wasn't a core feature for us.

But it is a pain... haven't seen a third party, but have made something similar in the past with open source libs
I would be for the common carrier argument if the logical extension that YouTube also gains the protections afforded to common carriers. No more having big companies get special treatment in abusing the Content ID system.

As much as I dislike YouTube’s policies in general, I find it difficult to argue against their current actions simply because powerful entities are already abusing the system behind the scenes to moderate content themselves.
I wonder how to train for those. The biggest one has 32GB of RAM and needs a frozen inference graph converted to TensorRT. So one would need a GPU with 32GB of RAM in addition to this to be able to train the network. AFAIK, Nvidia doesn't sell anything with that much RAM.
I haven't seen that usage anywhere.
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