skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but one part of this is the cost of wealth redistribution. There is less social inequality in france than in the US. Healthcare and welfare are comfortable here. You have less problems of social inequality in general.

In france, another problem is that some medium/higher social classes tend to capture publicly paid jobs. That's another problem too that needs to be tackled.

In my view, it's a choice of how a country decides to allocate its resources: not letting people live in awful conditions and work 3 jobs, or having trillion dollar companies make money on the technology developed on the back of DARPA something like 50 years ago.

It's easy to criticize an entire country for its "policy on tech", but it's important to not forget about tax optimization, which is another part of the problem. France does have a lot of good scientists too, build aircraft and is a nuclear power. I'm sorry to say that generally, the silicon valley VC aura is VERY OFTEN filled with libertarians who have zero clues about how poor people are "managed", and the reality of social inequality. It's a entirely different culture. France saw a socialist president in the 70s through the 80s, who had tough words against capitalism. You cannot dismiss political history.

Just my 50 cents, I really wanted to bring some nuance. All countries have their own political problems.

And to be clear: I'm poor and live in a 18 square meters, and would love to be silicon valley rich and make 80k per year. But I would also take resources from other people who don't have the education I have.
"Hey, could you get rid of that annoying bot that's distracting people with its spam?"
I know it's not open to the public. I'm trying to estimate the costs of running/inference based on what we know about the computation costs of transformers and scaling them to 175 billion params
Neuralink’s Technology Is Impressive. Is It Ethical?
In Ireland you can incorporate a company in three days for about €30. You're only expected to start filing taxes when revenue crosses some reasonable threshold like €10k. Taxes are low and there are many grants available from the gov if you plan on hiring.

Ireland constantly pokes the tops of indexes that rank the ease of doing business across the world.

Current problems include the unattractiveness of using equity as a payment tool -- this only affects startups though.
An acquaintance of mine introduced his friend in India, who was supposedly working for a contractor whose job is to harass companies pirating Adobe products into buying a contract; He proudly claimed that "he reported his Ex-employer to Adobe due to bad blood and harassed them to pay several several lakh rupees".

I've heard earlier that such agencies work for Microsoft, Adobe in India but that was the first time I've heard in-person from someone working for them. Adobe has every right to stop piracy of its products, but I wonder the legality of harassing the pirate instead of making a legal complaint. I presume it doesn't happen in US?
Hmm, I could be in the market for a new bank a bit later, but what isn't clear on your website is whether the app is mandatory, or the functionality is available trough the web browser? (PWA or WASM binary would be OK, I guess?).

I'm using N26 right now, but I have since stoped using closed-source software altogether on my phone, and will likely switch full-time to a pinephone. One of the things that irks me is that multiple services require 2FA trough their proprietary app or SMS rather than TOTP or FIDO/Webauthn/other security-token based tech. Not sure if that's for legal reasons? In any case, that's my number one usability issue with other banks.
Sure, but there's no link between large tech company surveillance and public health measures like mask wearing. Just because there are forces that are pushing us towards a surveillance state does not mean you can lump anything onto that pile.
You're right, with the caveat that France as a country with a strong social safety net and the best healthcare system in the world© is also a thing of the past. We're on our way to become more like the US each passing day, make of that what you will.
I think this speaks mostly to the kinds of people you have interacted with in the USA. White teeth are very much a status symbol since you have to be at least upper middle class to have them, so people go out of their way to have teeth whitening procedures done as sign of high social status. But if you went on a tour through an amazon packing plant you’d see a lot of people with missing or crooked or yellow teeth. Our working class is almost invisible; if you’re well off you might not interact with them much at all, but they exist.
Roblox is more like LambdaMOO than a MUD. LambdaMOO and its succesors were 100% programmed in a prototype based object-oriented programming language with only minimal world-support in the C portion of the server itself. The entire world was composed using the programming language and most users ended up being at least builders if not programmers in it. The focus was authoring, not RPG. Some people (including myself) wrote up some RPGs in MOO but they never really caught on.
> In short, an object would come to thermal equilibrium in space at the 3K CMB temperature only if the CMB were the only radiation source in the object's sky. But in actual fact it never will be.

I still don't see if this answer my question, assuming CMB is the only source, but the photon density has diminished significantly, would there be enough CMB photons to keep the object from going lower than 3K from emitting blackbody radiation?

The gist of my question is: Will there ever be a time where there are not enough CMB to heat the blackbody? Just like solar photons at 5500K, there are not enough of them to heat stuff at Earth to the same temp.
I think a link to your MUD would be on topic in this thread.
You mean this avatar? https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/8266075?s=460&u=60d...
A Step-by-Step Retro Video Filter Using FFmpeg Only
Realme C12 vs. Realme C15 side by comparison
We look at the differences betwene the devices from the Realme company. So similar yet so different
I guess this is just semantics but can you really say a product is great if no one wants to buy it and it doesn't get people's attention?
So, let's say you're bootstrapping a new business and earning 1500€/month as a solo operator with no employees. How much does the overhead of the endeavor cost you?

The costs are minimal in every country I've worked in so far, but I know it's different in others.

Would you at least be able to get started for under 500€ and live off of your income in France as long as you lived in a low cost area and didn't have family or medical expenses?
I came to the same conclusion some time ago. There are of course things I find less than ideal about the Kernel, and Wayland, but overall they are adequate and would be a lot of work to replace. Pretty much everything else has to go though.

I've made some notes about how I'd build such a thing, but the truth is I have neither the time nor the skill set necessary to do all the work myself. Worse yet, when I talk to people about what I think a desktop should be like I often find that while we agree on some subset of ideas, we disagree significantly on others in irreconcilable ways. Either I haven't found the right community yet, or it doesn't exist.

There is Probonopd's (of AppImage fame) Hello[0], but unfortunately that also doesn't seem to have a lot of interest.

[0] https://github.com/probonopd/hello
I'd like to buy their v2.0 model but I was turned away by their up sell tactics. You want a pen that can also erase? - Of course you do and it doesn't cost them anything extra. Another 50 bucks please (marked down from 100 so you think its a deal). The default cover it comes with is comically inadequate because a quarter of the device sticks out. Want a cover that covers the entire screen? 80 bucks please.
> Aren’t you just repeating some stereotypes you heard elsewhere? If France were as hostile as you pictured it, how would it have such a dense startup ecosystem and even (God forbids!) some very successful ones?

Where are they? Cause as a French, I've been living on the startup scene for 10 years, and I don't see those anywhere. There are successful companies, but startup?

I hear about a 1000 more US ones than french ones, while I'm literally living next to an incubator.
Also if you're interested, see how many anime avatars are present in the contributors chart: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/665e81f281b143b7da3909716...
FWIW, I worked at a trading firm that had a very tidy and long-lived ESB that I found to be a joy to work with.

-but-

My experience there 100% confirms what you say about it not being something that scales well.

It was a relatively modestly sized firm by headcount, as trading firms go, and there was a corporate culture of absolutely intense inter-team and inter-departmental communication. One absolutely would not dream of subscribing to an event stream without first talking to the team that maintained the program that published it. Any changes to the event stream - both the grotty little details about what was being published and how, and the grotty little details about what was being consumed and how - would be preceded by a discussion among all the people who were working with it, to make sure that everyone involved continued to have a complete picture of the interactions involving it.

That level of communication, which I do believe was essential to the bus's long term success, just wouldn't scale to a large company. Nor could it have been maintained at a company that had a more relaxed attitude in general. Nor could it have been maintained at a company where programmers are allowed to believe that most of their time at the office can be spent with hands on a keyboard.
Seems like the wrong choice to me too. I was running System V/386 at around that time, it wasn't very difficult to port X11 to a new platform but hard to add a network stack to a binary only operating system.
The Yangtze is notorious for overflowing and the geography does not help. If you visit towns along its course you are struck by the huge safety margin between the level of the water (on a normal day) and the height of the first buildings, and with the size of the protective dikes.

I'm sure that this has been considered when they built the Dam.
The “Oh Shoot” Moment
Seeing Adobe's problem with a release erasing content for a significant group of users made me think about the developers/engineers in the background. Did they have the "oh shoot" moment? I've had mine for much smaller issues. My heart raced, my mind raced with theories on what I missed, and I started to sweat.

What are your own "Oh shoot" moments? Did you suffer any consequences from management or anyone else in your organization?
Since PEP 3131 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/) Python supports unicode in names, but only letters, not emoji. I have occasionally used variable names like ϕ when transcribing a formula in toy code.

The unicode is normalized. That can be used for trickery in rare circumstances. "global" is a keyword, but "𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥" isn't, so you can use that if you absolutely require an attribute called "global".
Equity 101 Part 1: Startup employee stock options
Lockdowns seem to be the most effective tool we have at reversing infection rate. They also don't need to take forever if combined with contact tracing. What other tools is the US willing to consider? Apparently virtually nothing.
Unless you had the young people on some kind of campus, away from their family for months.
> He's either a troll, an idiot, or a saboteur.

I'm not sure why it has to be one of those. I mean maybe slightly an idiot because what he is saying is likely not good for him politically, but not entirely wrong. You make it sound like the USPS doesn't have any issues.
Could you explain to me the logic linking racism as scientifically unsound today and the conclusion that gender studies will be considered scientifically unsound later on?
A "put e-mail address here, and something might happen at some point" page without info is not appropriate for Show HN. (Also, "testimonial" by yourself, really?)
Crimea was Ukrainian for last 20 years and before that it was Soviet for 70 years.

And you're wrong about resistance as well.
People exist who are uncomfortable blatantly lying even if they can easily get away with it, and they tend to be good employees compared to the alternative, depending on the job specifics. Real gig work as a resume filling removes their disadvantage.
Oh I see lol.
Good forever Armeria!
Sorry about that! I just tested with the same DBeaver version and was unable to reproduce the bug. If you email support@splitgraph.com with your username, we can check the logs and figure out the problem for you.

In general, some clients will have issues with introspection queries (which they use to show the list of available schemas). And even when introspection works, we can't show you all 40k datasets or it might break your client. So we just show "featured" datasets, and for a more exhaustive list you can go to the website to find a dataset.

But, you can still query any dataset on Splitgraph regardless of what shows in your client's schema list. You can go to https://www.splitgraph.com/explore to find datasets, and from each dataset's repo page, you can click "tables" or "query SQL" to get a sample SQL query to run.
I'm sorry, what. If you can't query that, why should I work for you? ;)
You should have chargebacked. Unless it was 100% unambiguous that you entered into such a contract, the credit card company will side with you.

Edit: I've only had to chargeback once, in a situation that I tried to work out with a vendor. Other times, I've had to threaten a chargeback to vendors who didn't deliver promised goods.
Lambda School raises $74M for code school where you pay tuition after you get a
2FA: Your Password Needs a Friend
Thank you for the mention, it looks worth reading. I'm not into SciFi - but the concept seems a relative given outcome of the future of humanity.
> everyone how great your desktop is and that they should all use it

I don't know which part I am telling you to use what I am using it. The point I tried to make the whole time is (a) there are so many different alternatives that are free and open source that it is increasingly hard to believe that going to a proprietary OS is the only viable solution and (b) those people that are still not being fulfilled by free alternatives should contribute to the development of a free alternative, or they will be SOL when the company screws them over or denies them freedoms.

> it doesn't work for a lot of others, like myself, because it doesn't fit those needs well.

You try to justify your avoidance of Linux by complaining of extremely low-level stuff (init stuff, networking, event notification systems, etc) and now you are talking about higher level "user needs". I link to an article about how people using FreeBSD are also successfully using it as a daily desktop and how the shortcomings are known-yet-solvable. Your answer then is that "you do things that others don't do" (yet, people using Windows do it?)

So what is it? What is your use case that requires you to be nit-picky about the low-level and at the same frustrates you at the high-level? What are the "different things that you do" that can only work on a proprietary OS? In a world with so many different-yet-imperfect ecosystem of different desktop systems, what is it with Windows (aside from convenience and familiarity) that "works with you, instead of against you"?

> most frustrating assholes I've ever had to deal with in computing.

All of my frustrating asshole preaching boils down to convenience and familiarity should never be an excuse to accept giving away your freedoms.

I put the FreeBSD link as way of saying "Ok, if you really don't like the Linux userland and if you still want to support Free alternatives go take a look at FreeBSD". Your reaction is to double down on the idea that I am here to defend "the Linux community" or that this is "my identity".

If me saying convenience and familiarity should never be an excuse to accept giving away your freedoms while refusing to accept your justifications and rationalizations to keep using a proprietary OS makes me a frustrating asshole, then tough luck.

However, if I were you I'd also consider the possibility this frustration you are feeling is due to the sad realization that you are trading away your freedoms for convenience and familiarity and that some dude on the internet is making you face that.
That is the beauty of deflate! It was fast on hardware many decades ago and it does well on today’s hardware as well. It has found a real sweet spot between execution time and memory consumption. You can pick up a few extra percent here and there but often requiring massive increases in one and/or the other, or specific knowledge of what your compressing (images, audio, assembker output, etc)
> Is this really that different than what humans do?

Yes, we have built in mechanism that react to situations we never encountered before. You will never be able to simply sit calmly while something is damaging you for example.
French Talent Passport has streams for employees as well as founders. Does anyone know what happens if you use the employee stream and then lose your job, e.g. because the company who hired you has gone under? Do you have to leave France immediately, or is there a grace period for you to find another job?

Also, does France have similar to Permanent Residency in other countries? How long do you need to live in France before you can obtain a status that allows you to stay, live, and switch employers in France and does not depend on keeping your job?
>Seems like you know more about the legal code than I do.

Unfortunately, legal battles with employers tend to cause that :)

> France's leadership in technology is still poor though

This is the root cause. It's not that France is bad technology wise. It's not that France lacks entrepreneurs. It's not that there's rules and laws. We literally have some of the best engineers in the world. Ask SF companies how happy they are to receive french employees. The level of someone coming out of an engineering school in France is much higher than most of the US.

It's that we have a mix of large companies capturing everything (hello Capgemini) and leaders that have no interest in technology (and helping said large comapnies capture everything).

The good news is, you can just wait for those decision makers to die off and we'll be good. By the time you come out of a DUT/Licence or engineering school if you're heading this way, many will be gone. And more will be gone with time.
This is very insightful. Like, I've been on the other side of this (hoping this experienced new hire will fix up some of the mess I don't have time to do), and have probably never even realized it.

In fairness, if the new person is competent it's usually very clear early on, and they tend to move on to better things fairly quickly.
Whataboutism as usual?
Danny Macaskill, the Ridge
> I think in the future you will have swarm of drones against another swarm of drones

Unless the swarms are easily exploitable like the current "AI"s.
Barbecues are carcinogenic too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/barbecue_cooking_risks
>Uber and Lyft were god sends when I was traveling a lot for work. click button, get in car, arrive at place. None of the adversarial nonsense

At the expense of the security of the drivers serving you. You get convenience, they get a subsistence lifestyle.
>do you remember the mysterious plague of 1020AD where lots of people died of cancer?

I'd love to have a source on this? Particularly in relation to cancer rates at the time? I googled but the only thing I could find was a ref to an outbreak of bubonic plague in germany in 1022AD.
I personally felt pretty happy to pay them more for more functionality. It didn’t feel like upselling to me at all, it felt more like they are a “little guy” doing limited manufacturing of a tablet in a crowded market, and they have to be really careful about not missing monetization opportunities that a lot of their target customers (people for whom the overall price of the device and all the add ons is pretty trivial) would be fine with.

It’s not like they are generating some insane profit margin on these things.
I've just deleted every Adobe app from my phone and tablet.

I'm not going to trust this corporation.
Yeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away.

It's like with ants, they can carry things many times their size, but if ant was the size of an elephant and made with the same materials, it couldn't even support itself.
That's now how wars work. You get time to learn and adapt to the enemy strategy. One plane down doesn't mean anything if you learn how to exploit the enemy's entire fleet of "AI" with 1 casualty.
I'd like to live in a world were instead of developers just breaking an existing api, they leave the existing, in use apis and add new ones. It's ridiculous how often shit just breaks because an api is changed in an update.
The whole thing is fine, but this passage is GOLD:

> We had a really interesting time with part of that, we had one of the machines that we just could not get this thing to boot reliably. You could boot it, turn it off, reboot it and sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't. It turned out, it would boot fine if you left it long enough, but if you didn't turn it off for very long then it didn't reset properly, and this was because the fan on the board was still spinning and the back EMF on the fan was enough power to keep the ARM running. And that's why you've got an ARM in your phone today, it would take no power to keep a 3 micron ARM with 25000 transistors would run for 30 seconds off the energy stored in the fan.
I have been working for 20 years in software dev. for embedded systems. It's all about C.

The only explanation I have for such a high ranking for Python is that they have looked on Github, which probably includes plenty of hobbyist projects for Raspberry Pi and perhaps Arduino.
Everquest was basically a Diku/ROM/Circle/Smaug MUD in 3D.
We have little evidence that they used the dissociation trick. But I think it is not really required anyway. Most of us don't need it to get by with our daily lives. And it's far too simple to demonize the villains just by saying they used this trick. It is simply part of human nature to have empathy for those that we consider our own, and to be cruel to the rest. Similarly, to be able to silence our cognitive dissonance when we find out that the people around us and the system we live in have dark sides to them.
Note that those are specifically the "Egyptological" names. Ancient Egyptian did not write vowels, but it did write several semi-vowels. So those semi-vowels are transcribed as vowels, and the vowel "e" fills in as necessary elsewhere.

The actual written names are "tꜣ-stj" and "nḥsj".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptologica...
> the first word

No.

The answer appears to be yes if you said "the only word", though.
This is great! I especially love the starter packs.

We both opted for "web feeds" over "RSS", which makes me feel better about that choice.

Do you have any sense of whether you've been able to reach new users? It's going to take a lot of effort from us and people like us, I think.
I still shudder when I think of the fact Tim Ferris mentioned, that trouble with thesis advisors is among leading cause of suicide in young men. Had similar trouble myself.