skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's why most people go to VCs or look for angel investors, although it's better to start your business with your own money.
Check your birth cert and passport. I believe some nationalities put blood type in these.
The solution for me was buying cheap houses in Detroit. For $30K you can buy a house that nets you $500 a month ($800/month rent minus expenses) so for example if you save $150K from your job that buys 5 houses yielding $2500 a month (or if you had $300K savings, $5K a month). That was the way I was able to replace at least part of my income and venture off to the land of not having a salary to free up time to pursue other projects.
Even with video game consoles and their walled gardens, consumers don’t totally lose out because consoles are sold nearly at cost (at least when first launched), sometimes even below cost.

Meanwhile Apple wants you to buy their $1000 phones AND wants you to pay an extra 30% for all software and digital services.
Those engineers enabled this outcome.

It is perfectly reasonable to ask why they facilitated immoral actions.

There is a code of ethics all computing professionals should use to consider their actions.

https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics#:~:text=The%20Code%20incl....
> How do we know this is safe from bad actors?

You don't. You never will. This is the case not just for Mozilla but for all VPN services.

Until there's some kind of hardware-level attestation that verifies a server is running a particular software installation, that's going to remain the case.

> VPN's are the only way of protecting what should be protected speech.

No, if you want safety, a VPN is not the solution. VPN providers have invested a lot of marketing in trying to tell you otherwise but it's simply not true.

All a VPN does is move what little trust you're forced to have in your ISP to a different, often less-regulated ISP.

The solution if you want privacy and/or anonymity is a technology built for that purpose, like Tor or I2P.
I know that this joke isn't exactly what's happening. I just feel like it's a good way to explain the _idea_ of Docker to people who have no idea what it is.
Are DMCA letters still a thing?

It seems like Torrenting died out significantly over the last 5 years.
>> The best tactic at work is to be really competent in the main job and push all energy into furthering the skills and experience and recognition in that and dodging all the crap work by appearing badly suited to them.

You can just say "no" and avoid all this. I figured that out as a junior programmer, when a middle manager asked me to create a graphic on a day when everyone else, including all the design team, was in a hackathon (I was stuck working because junior programmer).

It wasn't even a thing I had to think very much about. I was so annoyed to be asked to do work nobody hired me to do that there was no doubt in my mind about the correct response. I dont' think it even crossed my mind to do the job but bodge it. That would mean I'd actually have to, you know, do the job.

So while I recognise the situation, that once you pick up a task you're stuck with it forever, like it or not, I disagree with your tactic. Spending time doing work you don't want to do but badly is just wasting your time and it should be avoided.
Honestly, it's many years since I read these books so my memory is a bit hazy, but from what I remember Boukreev's book was a response to what he saw as Krakauer's criticism of his actions as a climbing leader during the fatal 1996 Everest disaster.

Roberts is more like a historian with the perspective that Herzog perhaps wasn't so heroic after all but instead, despite poor leadership and reckless decision-making, was saved by his companions that were the true unsung heroes of the expedition.

The first book is a rebuttal, the second is trying to reveal what really happened many years ago.
IMHO ProtonVPN (and Mail) are the perfect honeypots
Believe me, finances is the metric of success for 95% of people and for the 5% where it isn’t they are either independently wealthy already or so delusional that failure is guaranteed.
Back when I was a contractor I often wondered if it would be OK to bill a few hours a day reading the 20 page legal documents required to hit OK on lol.
Thank you. This is a much clearer explanation than I was likely to give.

I'll add that there was some also implied humour in my comment, and perhaps also in Wells's remarks to Joyce. Humour is the great leveller, before which we all have to confront our failures and fallibilities, and laugh.
Is glass dust sintering really so special? Hasn't SLS printing been done for a while now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering
> nothing from [2] or [3] guarantees American military intervention

This was never the goalpost. The original comment contrasted the legal flimsiness of the joint communiqué with the Acts underlying the U.S.-Taiwan relationship.

> solidified the status of Taiwan as 'not a full sovereign'

Not really. The Acts give deference to the executive branch.

Usually, the U.S. can't sell fighter jets to non-sovereign customers. The Acts created exceptions for Taiwan, so the President could continue paying lip service to Beijing while treating Taiwan like a sovereign nation.
could you share the details, which type of business
Oh crap, thanks for the heads up!
In theory, yes.

But you know about theory vs practice.
> At Mozilla, we are working hard to build products to help you control of your privacy and stay safe online.

> We know that we are on the right path to building a VPN that makes your online experience safer

Commercial VPNs are good for censorship circumvention or location spoofing. It is irresponsible to market VPNs as something which “protects” you online. In reality, they do nothing to improve security, and very little to improve privacy.

You do not need a VPN.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.h...
> You're going to have a tough time getting a court to agree that Apple is dominant in smartphones in the EU.

No you're not. The definition of dominance in the EU is primarily that you're in a position to materially affect market pricing, which I think is actually pretty easy to demonstrate in Apple's case.

Overwhelming market share isn't required, and there are several cases that have found companies to be "dominant" where they had less than 50% market share in the EU.

(As a good demonstration of this Google's own competition law settlement on Android apps pre-installation in the EU. Google do not approach anything like having a monopoly market share in the EU either, but they still settled because they were going to lose.)
I think that this was the idea behind Norton CrashGuard. Intercept all faults and then try to skip past the faulting instruction. This worked ... sometimes. At least long enough for you to save your work and restart the program. But lots of times you'd get stuck in an endless loop or end up locking up the whole system anyway.
Might be opinionated to support a high quality user experience.

Guard rails can be good depending on your audience.
It goes w/o saying but most if not all the cloud providers map IP to account, so using a VPS may have get your account sanctioned or revoked.

Defiantly don't spin up these VPN/VPSs on an account you don't mind losing.
This is the old model made popular by Visual Basic.

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT
I moved to Germany and apparently they're still very much a thing here. Torrenting popular shows sans VPN is -- at least according to Germans on reddit -- an easy way to get sued, and forced to pay hundreds of euros.

Obviously, I have no interest in testing this out myself, so I take their word for it.
An excellent look at why design matters when building webpages! For start-up companies, these recommendations can matter more than you would expect, since this is how you make a great first impression on your potential customers.
The 1.6M figure is based on a company with 20,000 employees. How many of them have less than 20M in revenue?

Also, your units are wrong. 1.6M is the total amount being risked. There is no realistic risk of losing that much every month unless you think that every employee is going to lose their monitor every month.
I would imagine that burning off the polymer binder in the final processing step leads to significant volume change and porosity, which would be a major challenge in many applications. I'm not seeing any information about how they approach these problems.
i regret working myself into early alcoholism and it costing me my marriage.

i look back on life now and realize that me being a workaholic wasn't necessary. i was making damn good money with the career i had, but always needed MORE. wish the old me could tell the young me that you're rich enough and if you really want to make an impact on this world, be one of the few in your generation to celebrate a 50 year wedding anniversary.

my friend... if you're married, go home and kiss that spouse of yours.
> You lose information such as project structure, names of files, data types, variable names and so on.

You lose half of those by not having debugging symbols and the other half by stripping the binary. This is all lost during compilation already, not due to explicit obfuscation. If you've ever worked with a compiler that is mediocre at generating debug symbols, you'll know it's the compiler doing extra work that provides all these, not obfuscation that removes them.
I think the low cost stocks like F(ford)/ Go pro are given to the users free via Robin hood referral? if that's the case, then its not something they bought it but only got it, so cant derive at an investing pattern with it?
The federal trade commission disagrees with you, and if this is the crux of Apple's defense they are in a bad spot.
Certainly in the EU you are not required to demonstrate a monopoly.
For many, many years there were at the very most 120 dpi monitors, with almost all being 96, and I imagine a lot of enterprise applications have those two values (maybe 72 as well) hard-coded and don't behave properly with anything else.

I know my company's ones do.
Yeah but there's not gonna open that can of worms on a whim whereas if the ATF catches wind of all that fertilizer you bought they're gonna incompetently shoot your dog regardless of the fact that you just want to peacefully break up some boulders into small enough pieces for your tractor to move.
Do you not find value in adding events to your pages so you have user funnels for conversions? Or do you think bots cause too much noise for this?
Simultaneously, they are trying to squeeze as much land as possible from their neighbors. Recently, Chinese soldiers killed 20 Indian soldiers who foiled their land-grabbing attempt.
That sounds more like an argument in favor of having kidneys than anything else...
Privacy Policies are written in juridical terms and are hardly/not-easily understood by an average person or user. That is the main issue with Privacy Policies, in my opinion.
Very odd orbital plane configurations.

5 of the listed inclinations have only one orbital plane, with many thousands of satellites in each.
No. You can start a startup at any time.

What people mean when they regret not doing a startup they mean they typically regret not trying to start one when young, having it become a booming success and then reap the rewards for a larger portion of their lives.

There are better regrets to avoid in life; the regret of a lost love, the regret of not reconciling with your parents, the regret of not having a child, or the regret of not tending to ones health.
You can do whatever you want using Whatsapp (it has a proven solid e2e encryption), the key difference to Telegram is it requires a phone number to use which instantly reveals your real identity to any snoop, snitch or government mole.

If it were that easy to influence Whatsapp, India would not have a real problem with Whatsapp-mobilized lynching mobs.
Would you consider Zoho a "real" competitor?

https://www.zoho.com/
SLS typically works with plastic not glass.
>I'd not suggest doing it on the fear of regret of not doing it

Second this. Don't start a company because you think it's "checking a box". It has to be something you can't imagine not doing, or else you're in for a world of hurt.
What an odd choice from Mozilla and Mullvad to segment this based on geography. Can you use it while traveling outside the US? Why not simply have a wait list? Mullvad already operates globally - what is the reason for the geofence? Is Mozilla not able to accept payment outside the US? (maybe not able to pay taxes?)
Just to clarify my understanding, none of this is free though, right? If I understand correctly, every WASI will have to be maintained to achieve and preserve feature parity as new features are added to the language or, in the worst case, a breaking change is introduced.

This may be a naive question, but this is also only for server-side code, right? Would you be making these kinds of syscalls in code you deploy to the client? Forgive me, I'm not entirely up to speed on webasm.
Wait, first and foremost age is tied to severe Covid-19

Then overall health, how many other pre-existing conditions and ongoing health issues patients already have.

Then there is the dose and the exposure the patient has.

These are by far the largest contributors.

I find it hard to believe that they have successfully disentangled all these confounding factors.

Then and only conditionally perhaps the factors that the director lists. In all, I find the blog a staggering piece of how NOT to communicate, how not to send the wrong message. Most people will read this as: "blood type A is really bad"

GWAS in general is weak stuff, even in the cited paper the odds ratios are 1.5 and 1.77 which does not indicate a particularly strong effect. Statistically may be significant, but in a practical sense not actionable. As far as GWAS studies go most turn out to be nonsense anyway.
I can easily guess that the author and most of the commenters here are from USA. The reason is, to my experience, in "governmentally undeveloped/developing countries"[1] like USA, Russia, Turkey and China, news mostly consist of bad things. However that's not necessarily true for some European countries, especially Northern Europe.

I live in Estonia and most of the news here bear positive news, since we have proper social government and a good social justice here. For an example you can go to https://news.err.ee (English, although less news) and see for yourself. One other thing that are in these countries is that the top news are about politics, entertainment and sports and does not include much culture value.

In a distant past news could be good or bad, but now (in many countries) it feels like it's usually either bad or distraction.

[1]: I just made that up, sorry.
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Minor correction. Telegram does not use its own crypto, it uses well-known cryptographic primitives. (However community criticised telegram for the poor choice of those well-known primitives)
The 88 character limit is just a best effort thing anyway. I find the double-quote coercion more disruptive.
If it makes some people in this thread feel better, Google also acts in many ways that are breaches of competition law, just in different ways!
Yeah, but this is how network effects works.

Accounting uses excel so everyone who interacts with accounting needs excel.

Then those who interact with accounting (HR, Purchasing) use excel so everyone they come into contact with needs excel.

There's is a metric which is called "Cost per head" used in my company, and it goes like;

1 Person:

* 1 Windows license

* 1 Office license

* 1 Visio license

* 1 Swarm license

* 1 Perforce license

* 1 Jetbrains license (optional)

* 1 Slack license

* 1 jira license

* 1 confluence license

* 1 gitlab license

* 1 Terraform Enterprise license (optional)

* 1 headcount in some HR software

and that's just what I can remember.

Controversial hot-take from one of our IT directors:

<user> Just wondering why can't we just use slack and not use Teams at all :thinking_face: Slack seems so much better.

<itDirector> So, just to put this out there, I started this Slack originally. So it's a topic close to my heart.

<itDirector> But ultimately right now, Teams is eating the fuck out of Slack's lunch.

<itDirector> Teams is included within our M365 license, for all users, at a fraction of the price of Slack.

<itDirector> Likewise, all of the integrations, SSO, features, etc., come bundled in the existing license.

<itDirector> For Slack, they continue to push Enterprise Grid licensing costs of over 300 USD per user per year

<itDirector> Additionally, there are more people now starting to push us to formally drop Slack than Teams. Some studios are mandating the usage of Teams over Slack, as well as some projects.

<itDirector> Personally, I see several features still missing before such a conversation can hold weight. Teams will have private channels added in November, and I'm hoping they address file permissions, non-threaded channel chat and lifting of the 250 user limit in individual chats.

<itDirector> But once that happens, it's going to be extremely difficult for Slack to compete.

<itDirector> So, to manage expectations - I would not anticipate a future where Slack is chosen over Teams. It's probably best to start acclimating to that reality now.
Have received DMCA emails from DigitalOcean for torrenting on their boxes. Can confirm.
I am one of the authors of Pijul. It is indeed a semilattice, but not exactly "commutative": the only operations that commute are operations that could be done in parallel. For example, adding a file doesn't commute with editing it.

But unlike in Darcs, where conflicts are messy and not super well-defined in all cases (and not to mention, sometimes cause Darcs to run for a time exponential in the size of the repo's history), two conflicting edits always commute in Pijul.

The main points of Pijul were (1) to solve the soundness issues with conflicts and (2) to fix the exponential problems.
Any chance you could get into a little more detail about this framework? Sounds very interesting. Any reason you developed your framework instead of using a tool like dbt?
Ah as like, a paid person who is there to do that one thing, you mean?

For most startups, it definitely takes a while. The "UX person" is generally one of the hats that one of the first founders needs to wear. I've been in startups where "the design guy" was third into the room after "the inventor/engineer guy" and "the money guy", but I think that's unfortunately rare.

As long as _someone_ has their eye on that ball from the start, it usually works out, and that someone who's keeping it in mind will (hopefully) be able to tell when there's a whole person's worth of job to do just on design, and be able to check if there's a whole person's worth of compensation available for it.
You’re playing a bit loose, here. When you write that 100% of whites are advantaged, you are engaged in exaggeration that erases the practical reality. It is true that our system is structured to advantage whites. It does not necessarily follow that all whites are equally advantaged (other things being equal) or that all whites live a life in which they experience these advantages.
> That produce nothing of value.
What an amazingly naive point of view.

> Complaining about debt is usually a cover for bigotry. People don't want social equity or fairness because leveling the playing field...
This could be a paragraph out of the millenial reactionaries handbook..not only are the concepts of social equity and fairness highly subjective and controversial but debasing majority cultural bias to construct a level playing field is so historically unsuccessful as to make it a philosophical curiosity (aside from with a singularly unsuccessful foray into the real world which ended in despotism and pogroms for all).
"For example, over 70% of early Beta-testers say that the VPN helps them feel empowered, safe, and independent while being online."

What have these "feelings" got to do with anything? This is a measure of successful marketing and has nothing to do with the product or its efficacy.

Personally I use Windscribe and I really like it (I've used PIA & Mullvad in the past). I use it for watching US Netflix and to make it slightly less easy to track me on the net (I know there are many other ways). I also like the idea of not having my IP or the gov't spy on me _as easily_.
Furniture and remodeling (and by that I mean projects as small as painting or installing a paper towel
holder) are a one-time cost while bathrooms (for renters especially) cost money every month.

And while we all use the bathroom multiple times per day, most of the day it sits there unused.

It’s not hard to stagger morning bathroom use with your significant other or family. I’m not saying that a family of six would want to share one bathroom. But when I see people insisting on one person per bathroom plus a powder room, that’s excessive.
A monopoly means you're pretty much the only viable supplier/provider for a particular segment of the market. A dominant player is someone who isn't an outright monopoly, but nonetheless has a sizable market share and can influence pricing, competition, (i.e. by its patent licensing terms and deals with key component OEMs), the ability to set or influence standards etc.
Thanks, it was just a hasty brain dump, but upon review, I think I captured the essence of my observations, informal as they are.
LOL. If you think Dropbox is too much these days then fair enough, but Microsoft as the remedy... whew.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Being introduced to gofmt a few years categorically eliminated a certain class of PR comments allowing PRs to be more focused on actual implications and logic.
Interesting. Yes this is definitely in the direction I was thinking. I'd also say Repl.it is very similar too. Maybe they'll be acquired.
Sure. Just like farms can switch over from supplying restaurants to supplying grocery stores.
I suspect that the glass powder will quickly wear through machining tools and 3d printer nozzles. So I'm not sold on this actually being economical.
Your question answers itself
> "One China" is also ROC ('Taiwan') policy, not just PRC's.

Maybe not so much. The PRC threatens automatic military action if Taiwan repudiates that policy, as it sees it as a move for formal independence. So Taiwan has been forced to pay lip service to that policy whether it truly believes in it or not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Political_status_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taiwan_independen...

The political situation of Taiwan is very weird, as many of the "official" positions are contrary to the actual positions.
Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads that used alleged Nazi symbol
Just go to any popular torrent site and see the number of people in the swarm. A little harder for less popular stuff but nowhere near dying out.
Maybe in the US. Definitely not in ex-USSR. I don't know of any single person who's paying for anything other than Steam games (and that's only because they have prices adjusted to our ridiculous wages.)
I take "on other music players" to mean other devices. If you have an Apple Music account, you can listen to the music on your MacBook, your iPhone, your iPad, and apparently also your Android phone. All of these devices are functioning as music players when you're playing the music you pay for on Apple Music.

The same goes for Netflix. Google does not try to take a cut of Netflix revenue even though you can only watch Netflix shows and movies through the Netflix first party application. You can, however, watch Netflix on many different devices.