skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What should we check to see which state is the best to form an LLC in? I want to double-check whether it’s viable to form one in my state before considering Delaware.

Why an LLC instead of an S-corp?
The problem with ads is that they throw data at browsing readers with no consideration to the cost of the ads to those readers.

Several times I have been in situations where I have had very restrictive monthly data download quotas. Try travelling in foreign countries and having a monthly quota of a mere two gigabytes. That comes down to just 60 megabytes per day. When a single ad can throw several megabytes of unnecessary data down the line, it soon ruins your browsing day.

I use an adblocker. I also permanently block all websites which insist on cookies or registrations or paywalls before allowing entry.
Stan Wichnowsky, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, working at the paper for 20 years, "resigned" after publishing a headline "Buildings Matter, Too" - does this count?

https://www.inquirer.com/news/stan-wischnowski-resigns-phila...
Will this search inside the bookmarked content or only the titles and tags?
“ But the author doesn't seem to even touch on what those are, other than drilling into the issue being "cultural." ”

The author very clearly described how:

1. His community prized shorter term economic gains over longer term ones.

2. How he was denigrated, called a “coconut” and accused of acting white, for choosing to study and perform academically.
Damn, that's what I was hoping to avoid :/
What language would be good for operators if not JavaScript?
It's still frustrating how different it is from all other software.

I know blender people are used to it but there are UI conventions. They work on all other programs. they fail on blender for "reasons".

One simple example. Click to select, press the Delete key to delete. Works pretty much everywhere. But no, Blender wants you to press X

Another is the way you move and or create window panes. Pretty much all other apps you just drag the title/tab/corner and if you to close there's (a) a close [x] icon, (b) no icon but drag the tab out to a separate window and one will appear (c) right click the tab for a context menu. None of these work in blender so it's off to search for a tutorial on how to close a window.

Another is using a non-standard file dialog which breaks all kinds of conventions. Sure they wanted more options I guess (though OS ones offer a place to add options). Or they wanted one UI across platforms, except of course people on each platform use used to that platform's conventions...

etc...

Still it's amazing software
Maybe “uncommon” vs “scarce”?
Mean Machine · the Last Poets (1971)
IANAL, but if someone else paid for it and you keep it, then it is almost stealing.
Regulation for digital platforms: Why economists need to work on business models
No, I’m saying that, according to your link, fascism attacks liberal democracy and advocates for the “complete mobilization of society” to a single end. That’s exactly what the Green New Deal is.
Not just authorities, but wackos who think the residents living there hacked them, etc, etc...
No direct relation to https://www.susanblackmore.uk/the-meme-machine/
Their rarity might mean that its impossible to travel to one, despite positing millions in existence
I launched my project a few weeks ago. It’s called Newsy (https://www.newsy.co)

I got tired of many of my un-used domain names and this was the best way for me to make use of them without spending much time on them.
I wrote the whole thing from ground up. I don't think I remember seeing any libraries back then. It actually initially used 1-pixel DIVs, then SVG, then later changed to canvas.

type:0 just means a regular y=f(x) function
how do people generally get in contact with manufacturers?
that's very unfortunate that people get stuck on something like that.
Do you think these periods of hyper awareness had a long term effect on you?
Hmm, yeah, that makes sense - I'd still be interested to try it just to understand the process and see how it turns out. Ultimately if this gets big enough I'd want to find a co-packer for production, so it would be good to understand the whole process at a small scale before going that route anyway.
Robert Peel’s Principles of Policing
How about improving your practice driving experience?
> by replacing them their own ads backed by a shitty cryptocurrency

This is not true at all, and it has been talked enough here but I figured I'd explain it again. The Brave ads are opt-in, for people who would like to earn "shitty" cryptocurrency by clicking on them.

They are fixing the ad issue by blocking the ads and letting you "pay" the sites with BAT tokens. This can be done by a one-time donation or automatically each month (based on your attention). Reason for the Basic Attention Token name.
> To me most of the bad reputation of desktop linux seemed to come from people refusing to use Ubuntu for demented reasons...

My experience is completely different. I spent 7-8 years using linux on a laptop about 4 of those using either ubuntu or derivatives, my experience was that after about 6 months it was time to reinstall the OS.

Since I have installed fedora and it has been the most stable and resilient system I have ever used, I have also been treating it badly as an experiment (like powering off randomly if my 50 reddit tabs where causing too much lag) and it has no problems at all.

Currently I am using mostly my office laptop with debian and it has the same issues as ubuntu.

From my point of view I cannot understand why fedora is not more popular.
how did you find expiration dates for your consumables?
I am familiar with Blanton's Radical Honesty if that's your reference. What was your experience?
Thanks! I spent 10 years as a PM in enterprise SaaS, and my favorite part was always talking to our brick and mortar small business customers. Maybe it's just a grass is greener thing, but doing something with a tangible product has always just seemed so cool to me.
Very heartening to hear. You think some of us tired enterprise/product devs that come from non-traditional (read: didn't study CS) background can make it? Any recommended starting resources? I've heard supposedly good things about fast.ai as a "guided tour".
What a great site, thanks for the link. I've sent every article on it to my kindle & now I've got some good bath time reading! :)
For those with uninterrupted income: I wonder how much the illusion of consumption == happiness has been upended by the shutdown. People make other people happy not stuff, and depriving a lot of people from contact with other humans may (for a while) refocus our attention on that. Being able to be with other humans is the new luxury.

For unemployed: They may be too sacred to start buying stuff if they do have income (or govt checks) in case of a second wave (or relapse of the first).

Also, there's also a whole group who realizes the economy is in free fall and are holding their collective breath. As my father would always say, the fall doesn't kill you, it's just the sudden stop at the bottom.
There have been sites that do this for you for 15-20yrs?

A quick google finds these

http://www.yourfonts.com/

http://www.fontifier.com/
Ha, my dad tells me we had a strict rule of no running in the house while he was working on the Spectrum for this exact reason.
There's a 'Domestic Manners' font, apparently based on someone's handwriting, that I've used on and off for a while.
Connecting the Quantum Internet
Apples and oranges. Solvespace is closer to a traditional CAD package, with a layered constraint system, while OpenSCAD is more more mathsy and programming-oriented.

For purely mechanical parts where I don't have to repeat myself a lot, I found solvespace to be a much better solution.
Learning 12 skills in 12 months seems extreme to me, in particular, because a lot of skills take long to master. Instead, I prefer the "theme of a season" approach as espoused in this CGP Gray video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
I made http://backseatbarber.com/ mostly just for humor. I get a few 10s of dollars per year in shirt sales though.
I tried both. In through nose out through mouth is easier and could be a good step before going only nose.
I memorize what I need to type into google to get the correct Rails API documentation page. Maybe one day I'll memorize the API, but I don't care. APIs change. My productivity limitation is never how quickly I can type the code correctly.

You don't need to know every English word to be a good English speaker.
Stalin and Mao were autocrats. Autocracy and leftism/communism are not the same thing -- there have been just as many right-wing/fascist autocrats (if not more given the US' propensity to prop them up past their expiration dates) who have genocided their own people. I would argue that it's the consolidation of power that leads to bad outcomes regardless of political ideology.

What I would call "ultra-left" are militant anarcho-communists who believe in abolishing strong systems of centralized control in favor of community rule. So no nations, only self-governed communities of some arbitrarily small size. This jives with "ultra-left" in areas with leftist militia uprisings. Not saying it's practical, but there are well-established schools of leftist thought at play that predate Stalin and Mao.

Liberalism is a center-right ideology that tries to marry right-wing capital control economies with left-wing social values. Many on the left regard liberalism (and neo-liberalism) as a failed project, because with any clash between economics and social values, the economics tend to win out. I'm not saying communism is the answer, but a move away from a scarcity-based economy would be a good start.
There's a short Wikipedia write-up on the Mad "Fold-in" that Al Jaffee is renown for [0]. A few are also floating around the web [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in

[1] https://13thdimension.com/13-mad-fold-ins-an-al-jaffee-celeb...
The hand tool / spacebar panning has been broken for literally years now. It's disgraceful. Adobe can metaphorically go die in a fire.
However you frame it, compile times are going to be longer the more static guarantees you need to check, and the longer the more dependencies a particular code change affects.

Making your code low-coupling if equally beneficial for the compiler and for the human to reason about the code. Hence modularization, limiting the visibility of parts, etc.

OTOH there are situations when you have to have a common interface which is used across the board. Imagine Java's `List` or `CharSequence`. If you touch it, you have to recompile all the innumerable uses of it. So the more pervasive the dependency is, the smaller and simpler and more fine-grained it should be. Java's `List` does not do a hugely good job in the compactness department; it's pretty stable, though. You want the same trait from your most foundational interfaces.
how did you find a manufacturer and the right number of SKUs?
> “In short run, without sounding Nietzschean, will matters. Patreon’s is weak or corrupt. Ours is not“

What is he, a ‘Silicon Valley’ character?
Depends where you’re moving from. Seems like most of the comments are comparing to the USA tech scene in a FAANG company and only the financial aspect ... nothing will compare to it if it is what you’re looking for.

However not everyone is looking to work in a FAANG or to live in the USA.

Canadá has a thriving tech scene and you will have a better quality of life and pay than about everywhere else in the world that isn’t a FAANG in the USA
A thread having nothing to do with nice. Oh lets see if I can squeeze some silly propaganda into it. You could have just as easily made your point without the old trite propaganda about china. The propaganda gets boring and ineffective after a while. Why not try something different?
In human relations a kind of Kolmogorov complexity measure in which we communicate the most information in the least symbols or words --- well illustrated with your 'wanna get dinner' --- I think is adjacent to directness and openness. That is, why was it a guy can't spit it out? I like you and wanna get dinner with you? Fear, feeling, and self-esteem issues more likely. Now, it's probably not street smart to have that out with the potential invitee, however, being open about those feelings with a good friend in a hear-to-heart so that it enables one to move forward more directly to me seems like a win.
what’s TiVo and how do you find products to review now? do you just look up the most recent trends on the news?
Pulumi does not require JavaScript at all - it is one of a range of options, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, C# and F# (currently).

Disclaimer: I worked on Terraform at HashiCorp and am a contributor to Pulumi also.
Hate it when people do this. Have you actually even tried it ?
It just shows the referral link suggestion at the top, it doesn't hijack the link you typed in. You're still free to open the original link.
Of course the twitter post cleverly hides this by hiding the list of suggestions.
Now we have this long flaming thread for something that's totally normal and perfectly acceptable.
PayPal does allow the "+" suffix for the user part, so you could do yourmail+suffix@domain.com and the mails they send will end up at yourmail@domain.com (it's part of RFC 2822, and it works for Yahoo, GMail (I've tried both), apparently outlook.com, and maybe others: https://www.ghacks.net/2013/09/17/can-now-use-email-aliases-... ).

When I moved countries, PayPal didn't let me change my country of residency, so now I have a user+[2 letter country code]@domain for the PayPal account in the new country. For IKEA it was a bit more silly because they seem to have several customer-facing systems, and 1 system worked fine but another didn't like this concept (I couldn't log in)...
I think I wrote that sentence a bit weird, what I meant to convey was that the "cultural" reasons were the only ones drilled into.

The claim that non-white cultures are inferior to white culture in some way has historically been a justification for inequality (and for colonialism, slavery, and other systems we'd likely agree are manifestly unjust.) I'm disappointed the author didn't engage with diversity advocates or their claims in a more meaningful way. He acknowledges the well-researched sociological evidence for institutional racism, and I feel like a discussion that starts there is more valuable than one that knocks down this strawman of the person who "weaponizes diversity."

Though to the author's credit, the piece doesn't read like it's intended to dismantle an entire field of study, rather it seems to jump between sharing anecdotes and extrapolating widespread political solutions from those experiences.
Basically Google has actually implemented remote attestation properly (using hardware) so Magisk can't hide unlocked bootloaders anymore unless someone finds a crypto flaw. It's slowly being rolled out to Play Services but I believe cts still passes for now.

https://www.xda-developers.com/magisk-no-longer-hide-bootloa...
Major Covid Drug Study Accused of Replying on Falsified Data
That’s exactly how I feel about it. I’ve never doubted the legality, some pretty shocking things can be defended in TOS, but it just feels dishonest and scammy.
incredible that all these features in combination is what make hackernews great.
Which is fine if that's your only requirement. I also want the ability to root my phone (and update it once the manufacturer support runs out in two years), and since I use T-mobile I want full support for their network (including 600MHz 5G). All achievable individually, but no phone supports all three.
i'm done with brave.
As the climate shifts, a border moves
In my case it's not even a language proper; I was using JavaScript which gives you near-zero static guarantees.

I was fixing an issue in one common library; properly testing changes required rebuilding and restarting a number of containers. Unit tests only tell you so much; you need proper integration tests to see how certain things interact.

If I were used a statically typechecked language (e.g. TypeScript), I could have eliminated 50%, or maybe 75% of the testing, because the compiler would check things for me before runtime. It would be drastically faster to localize and fix the bug even if the compilation increased build times 10x.
Now you've read the manual, time to start coding:

https://bbc.godbolt.org/

Awesome web based emulator. You can load various games too. Loads of them are still really playable. Try: Starport, Commando, Alien8, Inertia...
Two billion years give or take
Firefox Preview runs much better on low end phones than regular Firefox if you don't mind occasional crashes after certain updates.
I totally agree. The experience mirrors what you would be doing at a tech company. Song definitely planned this correctly.
I worked for a Japanese company that was renowned for Quality (with a capital "Q").

In the US, having "Quality" in your title often means that you are in a dead-end job.

In that company, it meant that you were an elite, and that you had considerable power over Engineering.

It also meant that you were a completely anal-retentive S.O.B.

They had spreadsheets with 3,000 rows (each row was a test -usually "monkey" test).

If even one of those rows got a red "X," the whole shooting match would come to a screeching halt, with heads rolling around like foozballs.

It also meant that they double-checked every bug report six ways to Sunday. If they reported a bug, It. Was. A. Bug. No ifs, ands, or buts. If you questioned it, they would get quite huffy; which was not a good thing (see "power," above).

Management kept the QC organization quite separate from Engineering, and they often had an adversarial relationship; which was sometimes encouraged.

This led to engineering departments having some very large testing teams; often outnumbering the engineers. The engineering departments would be penalized for bugs found by the official QC organization, so having large in-house testing teams was worth it.

Their QC doesn't work especially well for software. They would get frowny faces, when I'd suggest automated testing, or process quality best practices.

Quality was always treated separately from construction. I could never quite agree with that, but it also meant that I was "on my own," if I wanted to try using modern quality engineering techniques.

Their [hardware] products are damn good, though. What many companies would consider minor quality issues are treated like Extinction-Level Events, at that company. They've been doing it for 100 years, so it's difficult to argue with them.
That's amazing. I grew up reading Mad, and his name along with artists Sergio Aragones, Antonio Prohia, Don Martin, and Dave Berg became very familiar. It was a great introduction to satire and humor from about ages 8 to 13.

Besides the humor, one of the other things that set Mad apart from most other magazines was there were no ads. The business was sustained by newsstand sales and subscriptions by loyal readers.
No, they doubled down on the whole Fusion cloud thing.
USB-C should’ve been the premium cable- high power charging and fast data transfer guaranteed. USB-A should’ve been used as the cheap cable for simple connectivity and lower power charging. Devices would naturally sort themselves out over time depending on their price bracket and the volume savings over time of USB-C production.

Instead, the Forum destroyed the entire purpose of USB-C from the getgo by allowing the “universal” cable to be disintegrated for cost-cutting purposes. Now it’s no longer universal. How were they this dumb?
> Errr, to be clear, the reason that phones don’t get stolen is that there are anti-theft measures in place.

Activation lock actually helps to reduce phone theft, but IMEI blacklisting is basically totally worthless. It's way too easy to change a phone's IMEI for it to be useful, and you often don't even have to do that, since just taking the phone to a foreign country is often enough to evade the blacklist.
Is there software that will enumerate ACPI for DLLs?
Pop!_OS
I only use them at work, where I have no expectation of privacy, and our SSO occasionally has issues with FF.

At home? FF all the way, plus the usual bevy of ad blockers and PiHole.
There is already enough noise pollution in the world. We don’t need noise graffiti that indefinitely blasts sound 24/7, even after the perpetrator is long gone.

If you really want to help build a dystopia, you’d probably have a bright future in advertising. Apparently electric car noises were less about safety than branding.

Some of the car manufacturers wanted their cars to blast sound logos all the time, but they were afraid the first movers would be lined up against the wall and shot.

Electric cars were the perfect excuse to do it anyway and blame regulators, so their lobbyists made it happen in the name of safety.
> I want the proprietary app in a container.

People want containers to be magic but they're actually a hard problem. You want the app not to be able to do anything you don't want it to but still be able to do everything you do want it to.

As I see it the problem that containerization in snaps and similar solution is the isolation of system configuration.

I agree that permissions are an hard problem and honestly I am not sure how much they are relevant for snaps, but what is theory is feasible is that installing a snap could be completely and reversible.

I believe that is true of flatpack at least.
Non-AMP link: https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/8/2783807/pintrest-skimming-...
Nice. Weird question but where did you get the privacy policy from? Is it a free one?
I do this kind of browsing on Wikipedia, but totally random is kind of fun. I spotted a character encoding error, visible on Bangladesh, I think UTF-8 may be being interpreted as Latin-1? "Chickenâ€™s Neck"
Have any returned the money yet?

Until then, well, its just more words.
I've seen it around. Pretty sure it's just a joke taken way out of context, or I'm just not aware of it being taken too far. I've seen the amusing memes about ATF only knowing how to shoot dogs, then there's dog whistles for mildly illegal things like hiding their now-outlawed Bump Stocks and describing that as a "boating accident" i.e. "losing" them in a lake.
Alaska’s Rural Fishing Communities Are the Next Front Line of Covid-19
Makes me want to live at Foobar St. 42...
I trade very few stocks, most of the FAANG types.

For example, on Friday I made good money on FB with several 50 cent moves. I buy 500 shares at a time, so a profit target of about $250.

I would use a sequential order to buy at a certain entry point and then it immediately submits a sell order for 50 cents higher when it fills.

My strategy is basically the poor man’s HFT.

The key is picking a good entry point. I generally watch the price action for a bit and try to spot where there’s good support and the price keeps bouncing off of. I then set my orders for that price and get as many wins as I can.

No need to take my word for it, with commission free brokers you can try it out with a single share and see how you do. Avoid paper trading IMO except for learning your trading platform UI. The fills are not realistic.

Also, avoid options. They’re garbage, low liquidity and everything is usually priced in making it more difficult to make profits. If you want to trade with leverage just throw down money in your account and use the margin power your broker gives you. In theory I can trade with up to $500k in borrowed money but I stick to about $110k or so to keep about 77% equity in my account at all times.

One thing I haven’t mastered is how to set useful stop losses. There’s time the price dips and I sell too early but if I had waiting maybe 30 minutes for things to calm down I would have made profit. Not sure what to do, I just use my best judgement. And at the end of the day, worst case I have to hold for a while at least I’m holding stock in a decent company like FB and not some worthless penny stock. That’s why I maintain the 77% equity, to avoid margin calls.