skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
blame the feds, blame CA, blame the natural state of forests in CA... Any way too much blame is on PG&E.
I have a similar, but slightly different pricing structure for my self-hosted analytics app[0]:

- Users can pay a monthly subscription, and while they are subscribed they receive updates and have access to support

- Users can also purchase a lifetime license (cost is about 12-14 months of the monthly subscription) which includes lifetime updates

Initially I only had the lifetime pricing but I recently added the subscription, my reasoning was that by having the subscription:

- It assures potential buyers that product will still be maintained

- They can try the product for a fraction of the normal cost (eg. pay only $7.99 instead of $99, so the risk is a lot lower)

- They can have the option to support me and the development as long as they're using the product

After I added the monthly option (I actually show it as the default one), the sales are about 50%-50% for each option (monthly vs lifetime).

There are also buyers who "hack" the scheme by getting a subscription and cancelling within a month, so they get the product but won't get any updates or support. I did expect this to happen, but I think it is actually a good thing, as most people who do this wouldn't have purchased the lifetime version anyway.

I personally don't like the SaaS pricing in general, especially because it is so over-priced. As a solo developer I am having a hard time finding affordable services to use. For example I use GitBook to publish my docs, their pricing is reasonable at $8/user/month, only that it starts at 5 users and forces you to pay $40/month. I would have gladly paid the $8/month for my usage, but $40/month for hosting a single docs website is absurd. The biggest problem is the so-called subscription fatigue, when you reach one point where paying for all the subscrptions you need adds up to a huge monthly amount. Not only that, but you also get all those monthly invoices that you have to take care of and pay taxes on. Buying a product is so much easier, you pay once, one invoice, you can use it as much as you want without worying about data caps.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
The problem is software engineering discipline is wrought with missing the business context and ROI. Everyone talks about unit testing, clean code, refactoring, tech debt, documentation and whatnot. But no one talks about how much unit tests is appropriate for a project. A front-end for a simple simple CRUD todo list shouldn't have as many unit tests as a safety critical application. Unfortunately no one talks about this.

I have seen a startup where ciritical data processing infrastructure doesn't have any kind of tests because the management doesn't understand technical importance. While the front end team which develops a simple web interface for just showing the data to customers follows TDD, tries to achieve 100% code coverage, every single function has documentation, extensive code reviews and whatever new clean-code techniques you can think of. Not surprisingly the front end team has 6 times more people than the data processing team. Obviously bad management is to blame here. But I can't help but think how much all these tech debt and clean code artciles on the internet is responsible for this. Advising people blindly to follow some development methodologies without the discussion in which contexts these methodlogies are acceptable, what are the costs and what are the trade-offs. There's a lot of resume driven developers out there find these articles and waste business resources to fill in their resumes.
Helm is a full package manager. Kustomize is just a templating mechanism.

They are not comparable.

For example, with Helm you can rollback applications to previous versions
Tried most of them, Bear, DEVONThink, Foam, Quiver, Notion, Obsidian, Org-Mode, Roam, Workflowy, and Zettlr to name a few.
The feature I found to be the best is the "outliner with zoom" from Roam and Workflowy. With that in mind, Dynalist (https://dynalist.io/) is what I'm currently using.
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely something I need to expand on.
I have and blogged about it here

https://zorbash.com/post/building-command-line-applications-...

I'll give bakeware a go and probably update the post with the results.
Federal officials sought 'heat ray' device before clearing Lafayette Square
> This is probably true of every mathematical abstraction in wide usage.

After learning the categorical definition of monads and how they arise in math, I've noticed that programmers tend to have a very operational view of monads, when they are more general than the examples in functional programming.

A good example that came up in a propositional logic class was[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_operator
Printed circuits turn paper into a self-powered keyboard
Not OP but Smithsonian Folkways record label would be, in my mind, the best online source for such recordings. For example:

https://folkways.si.edu/music-of-haiti-vol-2-drums-of-haiti/...

https://folkways.si.edu/rhythms-of-rapture-sacred-musics-of-...
Ed Cheat Sheet: A standard cheat sheet for the standard text editor
https://archive.vn/xshmr
No, the problem is that PG&E was relying on a century-old part of unknown metallurgy to suspend a 115 kV conductor.
AFAICT both, with more of it being federal. I also think it matters (in terms of response) where the fire starts.
Yes, that was the default behavior in Lync/SfB, but could be changed to not go into "Do Not Disturb" status when sharing your screen or presenting slides.
I prefer insanity as an answer.
Did Linux start out better at a lot of server things? My experience was it was just cheaper, and significantly so.

When my employer moved from Mac servers to Debian it was mostly slower performing and less obvious with the lack of a GUI.
> As with any mapping data, security of recorded data is paramount.

This project (and any smart glass for that matter) is a privacy nightmare. But labeling video and audio data as mapping data instead of what it is is disingenuous. And more importantly, even if I'm not a user of this product and don't benefit from it in any way, I have to forego my privacy because of someone else's choice. I wonder at what point will these anti-privacy technology will be banned. How could this work under GDPR?!
Where a park can't be verified, its replaced regularly.

Replacing them every 30 years won't bancrupt anyone.
Hence why I recommend reading the second source, which does the work for you: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...

> If more people are dying by drugs, OxyContin and big Macs does that mean these people dont get access to healthcare/emergency services because they are poor or they are not educated because they are poor?

It’s certainly reasonable conjecture, but there’s little evidence to suggest that lack of access to healthcare/emergency services is the root cause for the opioid epidemic. In fact, we now know the root cause to largely be the Purdue Sackler fraud — doctors were over-prescribing it. It’s ironically a proxy for abundant access to prescription medication.

Big Macs aren’t a necessity, it is more than easy to buy cheap and healthy food at the grocery store. This is especially true when you’re poor, because food stamps are currently prohibited for use at fast food restaurants.

> Isnt that a proxy to signal that people in other developed countries still have a better life compared to Americans?

No, it’s a proxy to signal that there exist a lot of Americans that exhibit poor personal lifestyle, and that America disproportionately allows individuals to live like that. Indeed, the data shows that if you live in America, eat healthy, and avoid drugs, your standard of living is comparable to, if not better than other developed countries.

In fact the median (PPP adjusted) disposable income in the US is among the highest in the developed world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
I’ve been on DDG for at least 3 years and not missed google. DDG is my default engine on all devices. I think it does fine, and I’m a power-user doing hundreds of searches a day (programmer/internet junkie obviously).

If google is any better (I’m sure it is) it is not better enough to matter.

Id still like to see more competition and disruption in the space.
This study is about the usage of monads from the monad transformer library (mtl) across Hackage.
Autodesk Fusion 360 becomes almost useless for hobbyists
Reminds me a lot of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4KnPV5iBY
India mulls crypto ban, again
Semi related: there's a browser plugin[1] available to "de-mainstream" Youtube. It removes from recommendations the well known channels of the big name media brands[2]. You can add more to the list.

--

[1] https://demainstream.com/

[2] https://github.com/miscavage/De-Mainstream-YouTube-Extension...
This seems like it would use a lot of bandwidth?
Six minutes in and nothing for me, for what it's worth. Thanks for sharing though.
How is this any different from say Sublime Text?
You have no idea how consumer packaged goods supply chains work. And Chinese, Indian, and Nigerian policy makers are not going to care at all if we ban plastic soda bottles. And how high would this be on our list diplomatic priorities. Think about this for 4 seconds.
On Browser Tabs
Isn't it also in a desert which would remove all the mould and humidity issues?
If someone joins you within the first 30 days, contributes as much as you do and is taking as much risk as you do then they are an equal co-founder.

If someone joins you later, gets paid from day #1 (and you don't), does a 40 hour work week while you work 80 then they're an employee.

In between you can vary the percentage to reflect the difference.
Thankfully the people who made the vast collection of GOG and Humble Bundle games I own disagreed.
It only became apparent to me yesterday on another forum how much central Europeans, especially Germans, seem to quite dislike von der Leyen!
I am self replying to give everyone an update. I just got another email from my Congressman's office. It said:

> Our office has submitted an inquiry on your behalf to the US Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden which included a letter of support on behalf of Mr. Stenberg. As soon as we receive a response I will update you accordingly.

Obviously by itself that does not resolve the problem, but at least it will trigger some additional review.

As I noted before, I'm sure my congressman did not directly see any of this, but that isn't the point. This is just the usual way in the US federal government to deal with broken processes.

I'm hoping that this will eventually fix the problem. We will see.
Of I personally, knowingly caused this much damage throug negligence, i'd be in jail forever.
As would I, why there isn't a rolling coverage section in the Guardian is beyond me? Obviously the case doesnt make them look good, but it's incredibly important.
What stops you from doing this retro-actively? If you feel that you were wrong, correct it. If not then you are just virtue signalling at zero cost to yourself.
> Sam Raimi is a very accomplished director so you don't notice this unless you look, but the CGI buildings in the movie are actually _much worse_ than the ones in the recent PS4 game. It highlights the adage that there's no such thing as bad CGI, just bad filmmaking.

I think the better question to ask is: What CGI effects from 20 years ago can't be achieved in real time today?
Seems like it's got a lot to do with experience with this kind of house. In Germany most houses have basements, and while yes, some do have problems with wetness as well, that's more of an exception. I currently live in a souterrain flat, that is quite nice.
The problem is that people want cages. They want cages, especially, for their foes (real or perceived): every time you hear someone say, 'there ought to be a law' what he is really saying is, 'I want armed men to use the threat of deadly violence to herd people who do what I don't like or don't do what I like into cages.'

Less obviously, many (perhaps most) people want cages for themselves. They don't trust themselves to make adult decisions, or simply don't want to be responsible for their choices. There is security to three hots & a cot, just as there is security to the iOS App Store. What's missing is not security but liberty.

And folks don't just want cages for their foes and themselves; they want not to be confronted with it. Just note the downvotes any post about the lack of freedom on iOS will get.
Same, I use !g very rarely, and when I do I only get a better result maybe 1/8 times.
Everyday in NA construction companies build underground/below grade without any issues. These folks didn't know what they were doing and afterwards didn't do what they needed to to fix it. Maybe they just didn't have the resources.

I would have never buried concrete without proper waterproofing. A possible fix (least expensive) would have been digging up and uncovering the house to apply a closed cell roofing foam (3 lb Foam). It would have not only insulated their entire house but would have waterproofed it and prevented many of the rodents and bugs from entering. They should have had proper drainage also.

Looks like the franchise they hired to build their house didn't know what they were doing or was more a fly by night operation.
Out of curiosity how are you monetizing? I did a search for ”mortgages” but didn't see any ads.
I understand your pain and can see where you are coming from.

But Helm is just a package manager and not a software delivery platform like you ask.

I mean do you have the same expectations from a Deb or RPM package?

If I give you a deb package that "contains" Jira, won't you have the exact same concerns?
It’s amazing how much astroturfing happens in the comments of these Assange hearing threads.

Within minutes every time, the same tired, false, laughable comments deriding Craig Murray and ignoring the written material show up.

Nobody’s buying this criticism of Craig Murray. This appears by all accounts to be an accurate reflection of what was said, and it’s presented in a way where you can clearly form your own opinions and will not be unduly influenced by any of the writing expressing Murray’s own reaction or take.

I wish the moderators would put a stop to it. Every single one of these comments should be flagged.
I'm not a functional programmer, but I like reading about it to expand my horizon.

Some days I even think "hey functional programming looks fun, I should try it!"

Then I read articles like this and realize that ship has sailed...

I'll be sticking to my procedural code, now with a light sprinkling of functional-ish concepts.
This is not always possible. Founders can be from very diverse backgrounds and some may have costs they can not escape. The way to deal with that is to take these payments as a loan from the company to the founder which will be eventually be paid back or compensated in some other way.
What do you mean by that? Do you seriously think that somebody (who exactly?) is suppressing news about this court? Isn't it _a lot_ more probable that this is simply a highly technical issue that doesn't get a lot of attention?

As somebody who is somewhat invested into EU law but not into patent law I have already heard about it by the way.

I'm always very skeptical about this sort of vague accusation, implying that there is some sort of conspiracy.
Unfortunately, I think this author is far more correct than not. Also unfortunately, we can't just create computer companies that do better; there are too many perverse incentives.
In fairness, they are held to a much higher standard. It's just that the vast majority of products out there are horrible, so when consumers get products like Apple makes they seem heavenly by comparison. And they are, but does that mean they are the best they can be?

Probably also has a bit to do with Apple actually making efforts to improve, whereas others seem to make efforts only to copy Apple. Which doesn't help the situation. For consumers, the ideal, in my opinion, is competition on innovation, not really competition on who can be more "Apple-like".
No, but if the city nearby insisted on building too close than people suffering from radiation (I'm just inventing a story here) is not just my fault.
> Now it’s up to you if you consider that a separate permutation or not. (I don’t)

This isn't really up to you; it's determined by the method you use to count how many permutations there are.

In this case, I strongly suspect that we count 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 and then may or may not say "but 4,096 of those are equivalent for any given coloration pattern, so divide by 4,096". I would bet we don't count 10,559,571,111,936,000. Unless you have a method that yields that result naturally, you should consider the rotated centers to be separate permutations.
I'd rather my bank not loose my money than have a cool website though.
The readme file in the repo mentions a ~500ms start up time. Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't want to wait half a second for a tool to start running. For context most popular Unix tools start up in 1-2ms.
>Yes, some Europeans might think she looks sympathetic

Are we talking about the same Ursula von der Leyen?
>" your thing essentially has to last forever"

Wtf is the role of the private sector then? What are they contributing?
> If I had a dollar for every damn note taking app

There indeed had always been many but I've never seen anything nearly as cool before Roam and Notion arrived.

And we certainly need a free self-hosted alternative to be able to use this at work without uploading company-confidential data to a 3rd-party black-box cloud.
I would not recommend using the YC SAFE note without a thorough understanding of all the implications.
Funny I usually find that googlers are ideological voids that are misguided, thats just my personal experience though.

Maybe you got too accustomed to a search engine that knows everything about you?

> The name is childish and doesn’t inspire confidence either.

Funny I feel the same way about google and its branding, it almost feels like it is marketed to toddlers and intellectually bankrupt liberals and "minorities"...
If you're implying Chase the consumer bank, it's separate from JP Morgan.
You're probably using modern Google-fu if you're anything like I was when I first tried DDG. To get the best results you have to go back to your 2005-10 search skillset I've found.

It's more a plain keyword/phrase search than asking it questions
negative, getting a pop up from an updated driver is bot fair. it is infuriating. i use my computer to do work, pop ups interrupt that. it becomes a growing practical problem as more people believe it is acceptable to this as it happens more often.
I would guess that a clogged membrane is more of a barrier to water flowing into the gravel than flowing out, as reverse-flushing is often a (partially-)effective measure to restore the flow in a clogged filter.
The enthusiasts need to temper their dreams and expectations - EU is doing fine, and doesn't need to always become more powerful or more integrated. Especially not now, when citizens don't want it.
RX12874 Passive Detection System
Silence after direct question would be microagression too, wouldn't it?
Yes, but I think CockroadDB is in also in a position most other people are not: they are a database, so data storage is not only their expertise, it's their reason for existing. They have the people, the expertise, and it's core to their business. Most people don't have that, so they can't justify writing their own storage engine.
Show HN: Totalcloud- Cloud Management Simplified
> People I encounter that argue the results are “not that bad” are 9/10 times ideological purists, or otherwise misguided, that’s purely my personal experience though.

I agree. That is your personal experience. Which is, of course, the whole point of using Google. You share everything in your life with them, and let them monetize your information any way they see fit, and in return they'll provide you with better search results.

I haven't used Google as my main search engine, or email provider, or anything else in ages. I'll take DDG search results over Google any day.
It's pretty horrible, but this adds support for parentheses inside the `full_eval` function:

from itertools import takewhile, dropwhile

def split_paren(expr):
left = ''.join(takewhile(lambda c: c != '(', expr))
right = ''.join(takewhile(lambda c: c != ')', expr[::-1]))[::-1]
inside = ''.join(dropwhile(lambda c: c != ')', ''.join(dropwhile(lambda c: c != '(', expr))[::-1]))[::-1][1:-1]
return left, inside, right

def full_eval(expr):
if '(' in expr:
left, inside, right = split_paren(expr)
return full_eval(left + str(full_eval(inside)) + right)
else:
return calc(expr)
What I find really concerning is that all of this is man-made.

So we have management who wants to maximize profits. I don't really blame them, it's a lot of money involved and a shark tank environment. (I mean I do blame them, but I can see their reasoning).
But then we have engineers who just do as they told in making all this possible, having the craziest ideas, like:

> The Asus EEE PC 900 that I bought had a 4 GB SSD held in place by a screw that was soldered in place. This prevented the SSD from being upgraded.

In the end humanity is its biggest adversary
My thoughts exactly, PG&E are to blame and should be punished but it seems like someone forgot to ask the 5 why's- why did the fire spread so fast ? why didn't people got a warning in time ?
My Samsung and now Nokia have gaslit me into long-term self-doubt if I sleep through alarms. In one near miss, I noticed the volume was lowered without my intention.
Agree. I’m perfectly satisfied with native DDG results most of the time. !g is the exception; I use !w, !hn and !gh much more frequently.
Almost leans some credence to the theory that disinformation agents lurk and astroturf here actively.
Steam is indeed very convenient (though occasionally annoying: like a sibling comment said, I don't need its "social" features and its popups annoy me). Note that before Steam, GOG, etc, when games were sold on discs, piracy was really more convenient. Nowadays the issue is contested, though DRM remains annoying as hell.

I do place Steam in a different category, and I own many of their games.
>At least we're not the only country wanting to violate international agreements at present

Countries do it all the time and there are conflicts because it all the time everywhere. UK is slightly different because EU is much stronger than UK, withdrawal agreement is important to keep food, medicine and skills flowing between borders.

UK government is planning and making first successful steps towards breaking withdrawal agreement before it's even in place. So why would EU even bother continuing wasting time and resources in this stupid game where they won't be the losers?
I will counter that with saying that it makes a huge difference to (1) investors, (2) the press, (3) your bank (try getting a mortgage as a founder), (4) family and friends, (5) your lawyer when talking about your class of shares and (6) the rest of the world.

I'd agree with you if we are talking about C-suite titles in small businesses or early stage start-ups.
That is likely to be non-trivial to develop unless you’re very comfortable with large, complex C++ projects and then you have to convince them to accept and ship ship it. That’s better than not having the option but it’s not for the faint of heart.