skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are they now in violation of the license?

Maybe they are. But not doing that would have killed the company, so the uncertainty was likely considered acceptable.

The punishment for violating a Microsoft license is paying Microsoft more money. The cost of not doing that would have likely been more.

The punishment for building your SaaS on AGPL code and having court decide on the virality on a non-favorable way is much more severe, and cannot in general be immediately solved with a little extra money transferred between two companies.

It's all risk management.
So what was the underlying story? Progress not as rapid as they had put out as plan, and direct reports to Swan afraid to break the bad news early?
I had the same idea once, with the same sort of diagrams, except without the colours.
Thanks! Bloomberg has become one of my favorite sources for real news.
Yes, totally. But the topic is “regulating technology”. In general this space is evolving far faster than oil or building codes, and regulating innovation is much harder than regulating established standards.
Do you mean throwing public money at a private company? How is that even doable in a capitalist country and why are Intel shareholders the ones blessed to receive free capital influx?
Ok, changed to that from https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/27/cloudflare-launches-worker.... Thanks!
Not an accountant or a mathematician, pt 4 reminded me of an issue I had dealing with numbers in a table. The annoying thing that happens with SUBTRACTION (i.e. the process that generates negative numbers) is 2 milion - 2 million and 2 - 2 both give the same result. What is lost, is whether a big change has happened or a small change.

And sometimes when change happened I didn't want to loose that info so I used addition instead and put it in a "special" column.
Most of the answers are so useless or plainly bad. That's why I try as much as possible to answer questions for products I've bought.
There is a great podcast about how double entry accounting was a foundational invention of our modern society.[0]

If you agree with that assessment, it's interesting to think of blockchain as "triple entry accounting".

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gq
It's not in China, Germany, Japan, or South Korea. They still have a huge manufcaturing presence. Samsung builds its products in South Korea. Everything has to get manufactured somewhere and, in my view, the US has made a mistake by outsourcing this capacity more than other countries.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, chip manufacturing is a special category as well, and Intel has the only US-based fabrication that is competitive with the state of the art.

It should be as important to protect that capacity as other industrial sectors, like Boeing.
Qualcomm was and still is kicking Intel's ass at making modem chips, and I'd imagine that's why this hire was made. At that time, Apple was having Intel attempt to build modem chips for iPhones so that Apple could have an option other than Qualcomm. That didn't pan out.
Seeing as how Starlink doesn't have this capability, it would probably be better to study any other instance of free-space optics, many of which exist.
Here is is bio page from intel:

> Renduchintala has spent a substantial part of his career in the SoC, mobile and internet of things areas. Prior to joining Intel, he was executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and co-president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, where he led its semiconductor business in the computing and mobile segments. He joined Qualcomm in 2004 from Skyworks Solutions Inc./Conexant Systems Inc., where he was vice president and general manager of the company’s Cellular Systems Division. Prior to Skyworks, he spent a decade with Philips Electronics, where he progressed to become vice president of engineering for its consumer communications business.

https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/dr-murthy-renduchintala...
It goes deeper. Last time I checked I found previous uploads or deleted images in two different Picasa interfaces, one had YouTube and profile related images, even wallpapers from Gmail. The other had some of my Google Photos. I don't have an account to confirm but it's probably still there.
Pretty sure that's renewable. I think renewable just means we can replace it/make more of it, which isn't the case with oil. You can renew the supply.
As a lisp fan, I second this proposal.

https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/
The operation performed by debit/credit depends on the classification of the accounts. Accounts are listed traditionally with Assets on the left, and Liabilities and Equity on the right. A debit to a Liability account is a minus, and a credit is a plus, but it's the other way around on the asset side, where a debit is a plus, and a credit is a minus. (This kind of thing happens when English mugs other languages - Italian in this case - for its vocabulary).

The easy way to remember this is just to think that the right hand side is what you think it should be, and the left hand side isn't.

Double entry book keeping is under appreciated - it's one of the earliest examples of error correction and detection coding kicking around.
Did you look at the article I linked? It's not really focused on the jobs aspect, on which the data is clear, but rather on the accounting, and in particular your graph which is always cited in these discussions. I would need to quote too long of an excerpt to make a full reply. Here's where the discussion starts though.

> Real gross domestic product is GDP adjusted for inflation, which allows us to better measure and compare growth over time. If you're measuring and comparing different industries' shares of GDP over time, it's not immediately obvious why you would need to do such an inflation adjustment. The very act of dividing manufacturing's contribution to GDP in 1960 by overall GDP in 1960 does the inflation adjustment for you, given that both amounts are in 1960 dollars.

> The BEA's remedy to the problem is to put up warnings against doing share-of-real-GDP calculations all over its website.

It's worth reading the whole thing.
I would say that is untrue. In the case of Intel and their issues as of late, some reorganization at this level will go a long way.
I'm really not following Warren's reasoning here.

First of all, with two incomes, if one person loses a job, you still have cash coming in. On average, the drop is from 100% of normal cash flow to 50% of normal. With one income it is from from 100% to 0%. Yes, the other spouse can get a job, but that takes time, maybe days, maybe months.

This seems especially true during a bad economy when unemployment is high and people stay unemployed for long periods of time. With a dual-income family, the two often work in different fields. One might get laid off but the other's job is safe. You'll suffer, maybe even have to sell your house or something, but at least you can feed yourself.

Second, I've seen what happens when a spouse doesn't work outside the home for a long time. This happened to a relative of mine a long time ago. She had a short but perfectly fine career as a teacher for a while before getting married, having children, and being a housewife. Eventually she got divorced and found that, after being out of the job market for 20 years, the only job she could get was near minimum wage data entry. (She eventually got a better job, but it took many years as she was basically starting over.) Anyway, the point is I'm skeptical of Warren's reasoning that in a single-income family, the other spouse can just go out and get a job if needed. Over the long term, the single-income situation tends to damage the career path of the spouse who doesn't work outside the home.
He was also the VP of Qualcomm, which lends some credence to the decision, albeit I would say that may only strengthen your point rather than weaken, given that Qualcomm also outsources their actual chip manufacturing, i.e., is fabless. So maybe this change in direction is to be expected, even if it was not desired, given his background.
Sure, baseline demand exists. But I'm talking about supply. If you have a system that can supply 120GWh at any time then it can also supply 40GWh at all times. If it can't supply 40GWh at all times then it obviously can't supply 120GWh at any time.
They did cite inflation as the reason it was raised, but likely it was too low.
The paper is definitely a worthwhile read; it would be a fun exercise to go through other historical examples of whistleblowing and unmasked conspiracies (e.g. the panama papers, Chelsea Manning's wikileaks disclosures, MKUltra, &c) and see how well the authors' parameter estimates hold up.
I use one-way Syncthing, so my phone automatically backups my pictures to Google Photos (using the Google Photos app) and my computer (using Syncthing). Then I copy them into a folder locally like they existed previously on Google Drive by year.

Then I run rclone sync:

rclone sync --dry-run gphotos:media/by-year /local/storage/path

Then if I delete some pictures from Google Photos, the same sync command will delete them from my local backup.
Nice, I guess. I gave VueScan my money about six months ago. Works flawlessly with my ScanSnap S510Ms.
The US decided to get rid of all manufacturing that employed lots of people, so politically they would destroy the power of unions. Unlike other countries, American politicians have no shame about it.
Would you open a manufacturing plant in a location where people don't agree to anything, not even wearing a mask that is in their own best interest? I would not.
This is too simplistic.

Samsung and Globalfoundires have fabs in the US that are close to leading edge. There are other fabs that are leading edge for other types of chips e.g. Texas Instruments

The fact is that the capital expenditure costs to create a leading edge Fab are insane, and economies of scale form a big moat. The economics do not really support more than a few leading edge fabs, and now that Intel has had internal issues they are behind. Maybe they will catch up- however throwing money at the problem does not seem likely to me to fix the problem. Moore's law is ending and the difference between die shrinks isn't as dramatic as it used to be. It remains to be seen if electron tunnelling can be easily be dealt with... However fabs are sexy and people will chase the money until the process breaks down.
It will never be the latest chips. TSMC will never let their cutting edge fab machines out of Taiwan. If they're on 3nm then Arizona will make 7nm or something.
Can you elaborate more on your invention, and how matrix maths work with that equation?
> “People have prevention fatigue,” Goldman told me. “They’re exhausted by all the information we’re throwing at them. We have to communicate priorities clearly; otherwise, they’ll be overloaded.”

This was the best quote from the article for me. In my experience as a casual news watcher, the messaging about the virus has finally unified into a simple, easy to digest one in the last month (masks help, continue to social distance, etc.). But for the first few months of this all the articles about Covid particles living on every surface for weeks and then the even more nonsensical stories about pets getting Covid thinned out the whole message so much that I empathize with people who didn't take it seriously.
Basically "Inception" alpha version.
I've received a few email notifications for amazon products. They seems to be sent for new questions when you previously purchased the product (not necessarily received it yet).
>- they count biomass as renewable which is not (it is responsible for 230 g CO2 per kWh)

Renewable doesn't mean 0 CO2, it means you can renew the fuel. We know how to turn that CO2 back into biomass, it just takes a field. We historically haven't known how to make large quantities of oil without expending some other non-renewable fuel.
> Manufacturing has gotten way more efficient since the 40s,

It's both yes or no for USA:

1. Fever businesses at all in the sector

2. USA has an extremely strong slant towards expensive capital goods, in very entrenchable industries: aerospace, defence, weapons, medical, industrial vehicles, and machinery

3. All of the above is increasingly made with imported, off the shelf parts

4. USA has "industrial" companies who manage to report giant manufacturing outputs in accounting statements, but known to not have a single running manufacturing plant.
> Assuming people took the sensible leap that private resources equal private IP address, they are not going to then go out of their way to configure their router to route their private resources.

That works until you have a legitimate need to expose a few of those private IP addresses publicly (which is bound to happen sooner or later). It's a bad idea to rely on the same thing to carry two subtly different meanings - especially when one of them is security-critical.

> As far as “route everything” how is it going to know how to route from a public IP address to your ES server unless you specifically tell it?

The router knows how to reach the ES server (it has to be able to send packets to that server if it's providing that server's connection to the internet). So if someone on the outside does `route add <ES server> via <router>` (or, these days, slightly more sophisticated alternatives) then they have access to the ES server same as if it was just on the internet. A few years back this was a big source of vulnerabilities - organisations assumed that their servers were safe because they didn't have public addresses, but nothing was actually stopping people sending packets to those servers if they figured out (or guessed) what the addresses were.
Others has mentioned text based double entry accounting tools like ledger and hledger. There are other tools e.g. my favorite beancount.

https://plaintextaccounting.org/ is a site listing all of these text based accounting tools out there.
> It's beyond wrong.

How so?

> The developer here is redefining established accounting terms because he doesn't like their inconsistencies.

Yes. What's wrong with fixing inconsistencies? Established accounting terms are from 500 years ago when people had trouble with subtraction.
"It's hard to imagine a cheaper test than this! "

ROTFL. Do you know what a working dog costs? Good luck with that. But you could try to build an artificial nose based on the headspace.
> Dell recently did this to about half a dozen people on my team. 'Q2 Budget Review',

If you put this shit on my calendar, I will never purchase a product from you. I will additionally, at my own discretion, use it as proof that you have had a data breach and are unable to keep your accounts safe since no real company would really do this on purpose.
National security. See Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrupp Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc...
They did in 2008[1], why not again?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...
Way back when I first tried switching to using Open Source alternatives to my previous apps, I wanted a Quicken alternative and tried GnuCash. Opening the help for the first time, I found it hilarious and ever so "open source software" of them that the help document opened with a whole chapter on how double book accounting worked, because of course you'd need to know that if you wanted to use GnuCash well.

Anyway, while it wasn't the best user experience, it was a pretty good introduction to double entry accounting: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-accou...
But we're not talking about a couple people, we're talking about a culture shift to prevent ageism. In that context, the average age definitely increases, which definitely increases the risk and premiums for that pool, what was the parent post's exact point.
AFAIK most dogs can't get Corona (for now). Dogs that have tested positive for corona are rare. There is no report from Dog to human infection.
To be honest, it's probably a third part company.

Funny enough, back when ransomware was simpler and used the same encryption key, we managed to recover one place by using Memory Forensics on a fucked machine.

I wonder if extracting the key, decrypting the files to not pay $100,000 in BTC would be illegal in some way.
Like I said, the US is unique in its mass deindustrialization. Somehow Germany, Japan, and South Korea have avoided it. Last I checked, they are capitalist countries as well.

Directly throwing money at a company isn't the only way for the state to support an industry. I'm not a policy wonk, but there are other ways to do it, and I think the US would be making a mistake if they let this chip fabrication capacity disappear.
You can use an Azure Kinect and one of the example programs to walk around and create a 3d model. This capability has gotten much cheaper, probably profitable while charging $1k per house, maybe less even.
> Not fun when my 9 yo son is on my phone...

Well there's your first problem.
Not really. There may be conflicting demands from customers that have to be dealt with, and conflicts between those customers and the realities of software development, but you generally need to offer the features that customers need to get their job done. In particularly bad cases, the failure to deliver may effectively dictate corporate and government policies. (Yes, I have lived through that.)

At a less dire level, it also affects the ability to acquire and retain customers. If a product does not offer the features a person needs or fails to reflect how they use it, the product becomes more trouble than it is worth. Compare Google's and Microsoft's office productivity applications. There are many things that you simply cannot do with Google's product that are addressed by Microsoft's product, or even in the often criticized LibreOffice.
Your Stripe key might be misconfigured, FYI. Console is showing the following error when I went to the sign up page:

"apiKey should be string. You specified: undefined"
This seems like a much more useful screening method than taking people’s forehead temperature at the door. Plus, you can have a dog wander around performing constant passive screening.
Did I misread something or is this just a well known existing protocol combined with yet another DIY centrifuge?

It seems to me that the cheap spinny thing part of this is long solved (Paperfuge). What we need is to make the chemistry reliably foolproof. This fool (me) doesn’t even recognize all of the units they use in the paper.
The US does plenty of throwing public money at private companies. Certain industries (banking, airlines, energy, agriculture) seem to show up at the trough on a fairly regular basis for their turn to be bailed out.
Thank you for the help prdonahue
ITAR? Any contract work under an NDA? Sensitive government work? Any code that implements trade secrets? Any custom enterprise software with hard-coded exceptions for controlled data?

You can certainly use open source in regulated industries -- the question is, can they risk the legal possibility of being forced to open source the rest of their stack if the a court determines AGPL requires it.
He is no Adam Curtis and HN readers probably dislike him^1, but Ken Loach's most recent film (2019) is about delivery services and the "gig economy". It is called "Sorry We Missed You".

1. His last film in 2016 won the Palm d'Or at Cannes if that means anything.
> Do you mean throwing public money at a private company? How is that even doable in a capitalist country

Lockheed Martin. Boeing. Raytheon. General Dynamics. Northrop Grumman. Huntington Ingalls. United Technologies.
Poor wording on my part - I meant specifically the controversial 15% rule was in direct response to Perot's success in 1992.
Btw, I dont think the site is terrible. The lagging made it hard for me to learn more about the product. Hope it didnt come off as snarky
Yeah, in the US, there are vague laws that are on the books but will get jury nullified in the real world.
The simplest solution would be to charge a fair price for water since the vast majority of water is used for farming. But since most corporate farms have multi-decade long water contracts, this isn't possible (aka you must legislate, which would also benefit corporate farms).
ah thank you! Haven't actually started collecting payments yet, but that could have caused a snag at some point.

edit: fixed now.
It's pretty likely that architects of the time understood place-based arithmetic and used calculators similar to an abacus, even if society as a whole used Roman numerals. The tools a layman use is sometimes different than what a professional does.

We know that other civilization in the region we adept with arithmetic and geometry. And Rome's straight roads and aqueducts are evidence that their citizens understood the practical applications of such mathematics. So it stands to reason someone in the process understood how to perform arithmetic using a place-based notation. Even if they were only generating calculation tables used by field engineers.

I'm sure people devised clever tools that allowed builders to actually build these structures. Much like a roofer today doesn't need to perform any calculations beyond measurements, because they are taught how to use a speed-square to quickly find the correct angles for cutting rafters.
If we reopen schools, how many teachers and students will die in traffic accidents that could have been avoided by WFH? Should we WFH forever and wrap the kids in bubble wrap to avoid that trauma too?

Also, where did you get those numbers from? I would have expected teachers to be at far higher risk of death than students.
- Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate the thoughtful notes, particularly on the marketing site which is admittedly very barebones right now.

- Also super helpful note on the pricing - honestly hadn't put too much thought into it yet as I'm still validating that it solves a real problem. Agree that I will need to experiment a bit with pricing once the team option is available.

- As for audit compliance - I definitely had that use-case in mind eventually, but I would love to hear more about your specific use-case and requirements
OP's co-author here. This has been my experience in consulting as well. In practice, most consulting projects are led by the partners / seniormost managers in a tribal fashion so this distinction doesn't matter as much.
Just a thought: Could be your window was doublepane for insulation? The airgap would probably act as a buffer.

Regardless, awesome story. I'm glad you found an engineering passion, and kudos to your dad for letting you run with it! :)
Moore's Second Law
People love quoting this, but you’re just cherry picking.

This has quite thoroughly been criticised in the past, repeatedly, for the way the data is adjusted.
Aside from the obvious PayPal, SQ, and Stripe, would you (and other folks) please share some companies one should look into?
> I hope Intel keeps its US-based fabs and continues to upgrade them. It would be a mistake to cede this capacity to outsourcing like so much of our other manufacturing capacity.

Intel is a publicly traded internationally-owned corporation, with no obligations to the long-term welfare of the United States.

If you'd like a chip manufacturer to make decisions based on what is good for the US, I would recommend bribing it, nationalizing it, or starting a government-backed competitor.

Any of those would be more effective at accomplishing this than hope and prayers. The free market itself is not necessarilly going to deliver the results you wish for, just because you wish for them.
> assets + liabilities + equity = 0

So how does this actually work? Say I worked for 8 hours at $25/hr. I get a $200 deposit in my checking account; that increases my assets. How is the sum still zero?
We'll see. Bargains come in many forms, and Taiwan certainly has things they want from the US.