skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> making the move of quitting my fulltime job

> How was it going to sleep knowing that you probably not going to have an income in the next upcoming weeks/months?

Do you need to quit your job to start working on a startup?

When I started my company at 23, I spent a full year working long nights/weekends and then quit my day job only after the company had some momentum.

If you can manage a day job and a side hustle, I'd very much recommend that. Although if your current day job expects more than a 40 hour work week from you, that could be a problem.
auto can be dangerous in that it can introduce unexpected copies, i.e. auto vs auto&. You could just use auto&& and be correct most of the time (unless you actually want to make a copy).

Herb Sutter's Almost Always Auto advice was not good, in my opinion. I still find I actually need to find out the actual type so when I use it it's only typically when the RHS of the assigment mentions the type, static_cast, make_unqiue etc.

I find it saves on typing but not so much for readability. There are different rules if you're writing an STL algorithm versus a final concrete program.
Would anyone really assume these systems wouldn't be left in place by an advertising monster?
In what way is the "counter-social autonomy" that led to religious freedom, democracy, and the end of slavery a blind alley?

The social structures of antiquity (European or otherwise) were horrible. We should be grateful to the people who had the courage to defy those social norms.
> Downside of covering your MacBook camera:
"If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances. Covering the built-in camera might also interfere with the ambient light sensor and prevent features like automatic brightness and True Tone from working."

Upside: a square of post-it or similar stuck over the camera gives you peace of mind assurance that this particular lens of the digital panopticon isn't watching you.
Original study is from here: https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/

You can read test methodology here: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
Make a small db with a subset of your data and give them a simplified report to make. Have them do it as homework.

If they do a great job, hire them. Don’t bring them in for a day long interview and try to prove they can’t code. (True story)
I think the only way we’ll get people to really care about free software is to build functionality that really only works if the software is free. For example: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2006/10/29/the-view-source-...
Mercure 0.10 (Event Sourcing, Presence API and More)
I believe free speech does not cover "true threats". I don't think a consumer complaint threatening to not do business is going to be considered a "true threat" against a company.
This is barking at the wrong tree.

Brazil has tons of structural economic problems since its inception ever since the Portuguese came over. Saying the labor laws are to blame is completely wrong.
Surprised this article didn't even mention roborosewater https://twitter.com/roborosewater?lang=en
Top soil depletion, nutrient deficiencies in crops, watershed damage from excess fertilizer run-off, insect population decline from overuse of pesticides; these are all real issue. I'm accurate in hating the effect... the cause is ignorance and shortsightedness.
I moved from Australia to Cambodia to Germany over the last couple of years. Australia does its best to cover vast areas of bush, driving costs up. Cambodia doesn't bother outside the major cities, where mobile data is good and ridiculously cheap. Germany feels more "normal" - you can get access most places, but it's not cheap.

But as you point out, the difference in actual cost is not as huge. In Cambodia it was $1USD per week for 80Gb of data, because of the insane deals all the providers were doing. But a decent middle-class wage for a Cambodian is around $500/month (so roughly 1% average salary). In Australia the average wage is around $4000USD/month, but data costs you somewhere around $30/month for a monthly plan (roughly the same 1% of salary, but for a lot less data). Not sure what the average salary for Germany is, but I'm paying $12USD (approx) per month for an 8Gb plan. It feels about 1% of average salary considering all the other costs.
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If you are interested for a language that does something like that then check out https://archive.is/Op8Mf or the other words by Stephen Dolan
There's a table down below if you scroll down. Also, this study was taken from here: https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/

You can read test methodology here: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
Small nit: Guido left Dropbox in 2019, he is now retired.
That's correct, but it's not why I have a cover on my camera. I really like the peace of mind of knowing that my camera really is off during a meeting. I guess it's the same for many people, especially working from home without a dedicated office.
I've always found Open/Libre Office unpleasantly heavy-weight and fragile. On Linux I use lighter stand-alone programs (which are... fine, kinda, for lack of anything better) and on Mac, the bundled Apple office programs, which I love—they open almost instantly and I can leave them on in the background and forget they're there, no crashes, no noticeable effect on system responsiveness even on very old Macs, nothing bad at all, plus they interoperate pretty well.
LibreOffice Calc absolutely chugs when it comes to recalculating. Entire sections of the economy run on large, complicated Excel sheets; porting them over would not only be slow, cumbersome, and time-consuming, but would require hardware that does not yet exist to run them on.

THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR EXCEL in the financial sector. Part of the reason why is because Excel has customers -- big, rich, important customers, and lots of them -- and so it is supported and updated as if by an entity that wants to please its customers.
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> The thing that bothers me is how they lease out public lands essentially for free to stockmen who proceed to destroy the landscape.

They are all just giving the consumer what they want - low cost meat - which requires a ton of land both for grazing and for growing animal feed.

Asking them to raise the price on the stockmen is also to ask them to raise prices on consumers. I don't necessarily disagree with that idea, but (pun intended), the consumer has long been the holy cow of American politics.
> allow Guido to do his thing

Guido van Rossum? He retired.

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido
That would be a very effective way to achieve herd immunity quickly. Typically the swab is stored in a liquid viral transport medium. You perform a RNA extraction on this liquid, pool the product and run RT-PCR on it.
Eventually you program enough FP, and then imperative starts to hurt your brain. Programming is much like a muscle. As your program in one paradigm, you brain starts to reason that way, then switch paradigms and you're suddenly struck with a bunch of programming atrophy.
I doubt there's anything engineering products do better. More likely, the reason is that there's a lot of competition in engineering tools, because engineers love to scratch their own itch. Another reason is that if you build a product for engineers, many of your users will be able to contribute.
Maybe the situation is different on the server side or I've just been extremely unlucky, but I keep getting my packages broken. Just a few days ago I was installing Wireguard on a Stretch system (added unstable repo, lowest priority, pinned packages) and APT got tangled up to the point where I couldn't install almost anything because one package was too new, but trying to remove it went down the dependency tree all the way to `util-linux` and I had to do surgery with `dpkg -r --force-depends` to fix it.
I certainly don't favor mob rule. And I don't agree that cancellation and mob rule are in any way comparable. If you want to make claims like that, much like your claims that "cancellation is authoritarianism", you're going to need to support them.

Large groups of people taking action you dislike isn't mob rule. Mob rule is characterized by violence. Is large groups of people expressing their disagreement with you violence now?

The danger of "mob rule" is that it endangers minority groups. It's really, really difficult for me to square movements that are often minority lead and exist to hold the relatively powerful accountable as being dangerous mobs in the classic sense.

Again, you're welcome to actually support that assertion, but drawing the metaphor without backing it up appears to be more of a veiled attack at my morals than any attempt to discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of these movements.
For sure, I was attempting to say that my opinion isn't up-to-date on LibreOffice. I tried it many times back in the day, and it never impressed. Like others have said, it's fine. I just wouldn't call it good, and I'd rather use something else. I have the same opinion of GIMP, and have used it much more frequently and recently.
Australia seems like a good point of comparison. Huge area/low population density, pretty high median income, and they're listed at $0.68
Talking about the things that really matter is critical for product and company success.

People will naturally talk about the easiest problems and the lowest stake decisions unless you actively combat against it. I have found using collaborative meeting agendas helps a lot.

I wrote about this a month or so back here: https://productsolving.substack.com/p/bike-shed-effect
As a layman I assumed that was the case. But I understand the bigger issue now is that both soil and crop nutrients are dropping in farms due to soil depletion[0].

0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
> Why is it different when it's done by a mob instead?

Because the "mob" isn't firing people, people in positions of power are doing that. Ordinary folks are powerless outside of their voice. So, they're complaining, sending messages, signing petitions, taking a stance, etc. and social media now lets their voices be heard.

You don't have to agree with it, but to describe folks you don't agree with as a "mob", or claim that they're using "groupthink", etc. seems like you might be quickly dismissing them.

Political parties engage in groupthink and flood the news and social media with their viewpoints. Are they "mobs"? They try to get their opponents fired and blacklisted.

I totally understand being against someone being fired. But being against a group of people who are outraged and speaking their minds seems anti-Free speech to me. It's the "cancel bosses" that we should be focused on, who are actually affecting people's lives, not ordinary people that are exercising their rights to free speech.
The CCP and Xi Jinping(have we forgotten president for LIFE?) poses an existential threat to all liberal democracies.

This has been true for a quite a while but there was money to be made and China was keeping a very low profile. In recent years however they have been making extensive soft and hard power plays externally. They were busted infiltrating Australian government, running a propaganda news paper out of New Zealand, and controlling their citizens abroad through means such as the Confucius Institutes. They have been getting countries in Africa under their control by dumping money into them in the form of loans they can't hope to pay back.

Members of the intelligence community have been warning for years that China is the largest national security threat. Governments and businesses are waking up to the fact that it's simply not possible to continue business with China while ignoring the CCP.

These are also not alt-right/left wacka-doodle conspiracy theories. There has been a lot of reporting from most credible news sites over the past 5 or so years on the power struggle we(liberal democracies) are engaged in with China: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/627249909/australia-and-new-z... .

Perhaps how you feel about authoritarianism will determine whether you should view the CCP as an "enemy" or not..

PS: Xi "I've read history so I won't make the same mistakes" Jinping, now President for Life(mistake), is making a fool of himself by putting his ego front and center on issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan. He wants desperately to unify China(under fascism, hooray!) which is why China has essentially reneged on the Hong Kong timeline and are now forcing authoritarianism down the throats of a population quite set on democracy.
Just install lein and do lein help new to see available templates. Or lein new myproject to get the framework for your own project. Then Cd into that folder and do lein run
I disagree with you. The way I work is based in realms of OS apps, not browser tabs. Electron is bloated, but for a 'cute' app like this I don't think it's any worse than Slack, or a Qt app. Overall, I'm less likely to use an app on a regular basis if I need to go to a website to use it.
> Get over the garish design non sense and allow Guido to do his thing.

Guido retired last November.
There is almost certainly no perfect solution. I think everyone is in agreement there. "If you want to provide government aid to poor communities then by all means do it" is major progress over complete resignedness.

> Well... aside from letting go of past injustices and instead focusing on some better future.

This is a false dichotomy. I'm not suggesting attempting to change the past, of course. I am proposing we try to improve things in the future and allow ourselves to be informed by the past.
Why do you use the word 'occupied'? I don't see that on the OP, and it seems like an unnecessary step into predictable flamewar to bring that up here instead of reacting to the specific and interesting content that's posted there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Also, apparently the average monthly data usage for a mobile plan in Finland is 34.3 GB

Do the fins constantly watch Youtube or Netflix on their phone? 35GB on Mobile is quite lot. And that is an average number. Or do they basically use the Mobile Network as the Internet and dont use WiFi at home?

The same for Taiwan, 20GB on average. Once you take into account the lower end of the spectrum using sub 1GB per month, the median number would be huge.

Hong Kong Currently uses ~3GB on average per connection. With Unlimited plans at about $40 USD.

Those difference are mind-boggling.
I don't get this - changing the code is not the problem - this is a political / marketing issue.

I have some news - passion is not enough, and there are more than 2% of people working on things they are passionate about - it only 2% get lucky.

I can think of a few instances in my recent career at large monorepo company where I have built something on the scale of "passionate, could improve our working lives"

One died because ... well I gave up, two are used locally by my team and those I could persuade, whilst other solutions built by others for the same fix have gone on to be blessed officially, (ie replaced by grassroots competition) and one was replaced by a fully mandated and funded project that spotted the need and just steamrollered over all the local fixes.

One is still outstanding and I think well worth pushing still.

But I don't dream of the big win where suddenly the Board says "why, without your glasses Miss Moneypenny you look ravishing".

I get paid, I work, and I try and make the world a bit better where I can. I am passionate about it. But i don't write blog posts about how passionate I am.

Maybe I should :-)
TikTok: Amazon tells employees to remove app from phones
You had me until the very end...
I don't want to have to go to a web address to use it.
A sort of "motion picture" if you will.
Who is the Emperor?

If you mean Thiel it's my impression that people regularly talk smack about him around here. He's a really controversial figure to say the least.
I suppose they would know which provider requests the authentification. However in one document I found the process is described as 'ephemeral' which I suppose suggests they don't store these requests.
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Test methodology can be found here (they do touch upon unlimited data aspect): https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.cable.co.uk/mobile...
For that article we selected what we felt was the top resource overall for different types of learners. We’re still working on expanding this.
You're saying the Native Americans should have better border control over their territories?
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In my opinion, yes. This is an enormous security vulnerability. TikTok can exfiltrate any data that the user types into any application: passwords, any kind of sensitive data.
Whatever the kind of thing you're talking about is, I don't see why the companies associated with LibreOffice would be in a good position to do it, how they can see where the puck should be better then anyone else.
Oh great. Good for Guido.
I'm your age :)

I started my current one in college. Since high school I had every intention of making a living starting my own business, so that was the plan all along. I've been on hacker news since my early teens (different accounts) and I've been doing projects about just as long.

I'm working full time on my business. If the times were different, I'd look for a part time job serving coffee or something. I went back to living with my parents after college (probably a mistake), so I don't worry about supporting myself.

By now, I am pretty good at recognizing what a good idea is, and getting from idea to shipping something. I'm working on my marketing skills and being patient.

You say you're struggling to start, I imagine there is something specific that makes you feel that way:

Do you have an idea yet? How far have you gotten?
Are you afraid to quit your job?
Are you having difficulties putting in the time and effort?
I'm glad that some light snarking is still somewhat tolerated. It's one of the things that makes life bearable for me.

To more seriously address the various possible interpretations of the comment in question... yours is a reasonable interpretation, but I don't think I was unresponsive to that interpretation. Of course ethical people object to MbS's previous evil deeds. Still, those are his deeds. If global opprobrium didn't sway him before, there's no reason to believe it did so more recently. If there is evidence that some electronic communication that appeared to come from MbS contained malware, that evidence should be analyzed in itself. It shouldn't be dismissed by vague unsupported perceptions of MbS's interests and motivations. It's not as though Bezos is universally adored, even among other satanically wealthy reptiles.
No matter what your preference, sabotaging a desktop environment by calling `exit();` is certainly not the way to go: you're only hurting your users.
LibreOffice has certified consultants you can hire[0] for large deployments, seems to be under pretty active development, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, which together make up the vast majority of OSes used on the desktop. It’s been a while since I’ve used it heavily, but I can’t recall it being particularly unstable.

It doesn’t have professional support for individual users, I’ll grant you that.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/
So wonderful. Please let me know if I can be of support.
Let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that the tests are indeed with the false negative rate of 20%. Imagine also that the tests are done to protect a community of 100000 people and that there is simply no more than 10000 test available during some period, and an infrastructure that can never do more than e.g. 1000 tests per day, which all could be valid assumption in real life: the number of tests is limited, the infrastructure is limited etc, that's why pooling is discussed anyway. The first question is "does it make more sense to test everybody once or those regularly exposed and capable to pass to many others more than once."

I believe that the answer to the first question is "test those regularly exposed more than once" (e.g. in the hospitals, it would probably be preferable to test hospital workers regularly if you don't want them to pass the infection to the patients who aren't infected).

The second question is only then "should I pool the tests and perform the tests more often or not pool the tests and perform them infrequently". Again, I believe the answer is "better testing more often" if the tests are done on those without any symptoms.

Because the if goal is to catch those who could transmit without them knowing they are infected, and they are regularly potentially exposed (e.g. workers in hospitals), even if the single test makes a false negative 1 of 5 times, having them 10 times more often significantly increases the chances to catch all those who get infected early enough to minimize their chance to infect a lot of people.

The practice is of course not easy: one has to be able to not depend on e.g. 10 workers at once when only one is potentially infected, until "which one it is" is resolved.

In short, the pooling could work better if the actual prevalence is low, as the papers also recognize.

I guess the main idea is: the reasonable goals for all testings aren't the same, and the logic of "what has sense" for what goal should be adapted correspondingly, and no approach should be immediately declared wrong without carefully considering what is the real goal of the tests.

Another scenario where one wants to use tests is to decide when the already sick people aren't any more capable infecting somebody. There false negative rate is also worrying. Again, what is the goal can change depending on how empty the hospital beds are -- in situations like it was in New York there weren't enough places in hospitals, and "making place for new patients" was priority, which, it was admitted, allowed more people getting infected -- still sick people were dismissed, only to infect others.
Ruqqus cofounder/dev here. We're trying to thread that needle. We've so far dodged the massive racism influx that doomed voat.

Personally I'd suggest "regular", nonpolitical guilds like +Dumpsterfire, +mansbestfriend, and +memes
The problems are very real if you work at any large organisation which has compliance requirements.
Those countries also has a much lower cost of business and living.
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Local variables seems to be the sweet-spot for me, especially when I'm working on a project with others.
Quibi pivots to user generated content and becomes the comeback kid.
>it's a bit slow

+dumpsterfire would like to upvote you
Well, I don't really think the Gnome is being reasonable since they've ditched 2.34 for 3.0 pre-pre-pre-alpha and started to shove their "supremacy" to everyone. I do really think this has nothing to do with normal community open source project but more like being thightly controlled by a corporation that focuses on tickets and changes for sake of doing something because someone (and their managers) has to report and prove being sallary-worthy. So the project is dissolving (itself; the linux "desktop"; and the public view about it; and what is the most important - the at least somehow unified user experience we used to have across major gui toolkits) in a highly-toxic-and-radioactive-"opinionated" egos.
Would you mind providing a link to this talk?