skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is technically true, but as a solo founder, you're even less equipped than a large company with a legal and compliance team to determine what's actually a legal requirement and what's not - and what legal requirements are imposed by industry groups like PCI instead of the government but are no less binding in practice if you want to run a certain sort of business, and what sorts of things are in the grey area of "the law only speaks about this broadly, but nobody chooses a specific implementation other than X in practice, so in theory you could innovate but you're on your own," and what sorts of things aren't legal requirements on their own but do save you if you get into legal trouble for other reasons, and so forth.

Remember that solo founders are widely encouraged to incorporate in Delaware just because it's the least legal risk. One state! Out of fifty, and several non-state entities! There's no legal requirement, and you can absolutely incorporate in your home state or many other places, but the advice is that if you want to focus on what your business does best, don't spend time thinking about any states' corporate law other than Delaware's, which is well-explored. If that's the bar, basically all other forms of compliance are well above it.

I get that good hackers have an instinct to ask "Why?" or "Really?" at every step and to understand the whole system, and I have it too, but one thing I've learned with experience is you need to train yourself to put a stopping point on "Why?" if you want to get anything done at your current level of descent. You absolutely can go arbitrarily deep, nobody is goin to stop you, and there are all sorts of fences that have no reason for existing, but you have a limited amount of time to do whatever work you want to do and show results. Do you want to build the next great social network, or the next great form of corporate structure? You can absolutely do either - you can't do both.

(One caveat: there are a few things that are legal requirements or near enough thereto that only apply when you have more than a few employees. If you're a solo founder, you presumably can't create a hostile work environment for yourself, for instance. However, if you're a solo founder pursuing B2B deals and having meetings with companies, it might be worth being aware of what sorts of things your target companies consider hostile work environments and would cause them to not invite you back for the sake of their legal risk - and that's even more about the standard corporate view of the law than the law itself. So, you may not be able to get away ignoring these conventions even as a solo founder, after all.)
Or started a hot new trend!
It's the interaction between the dispenser and the car. I've driven a few vehicles that would have trouble at some dispensers. With my vehicles, I was able to make it usually work by holding the handle up a little and avoiding stations with dispensers that didn't get along with my vehicle.

It seemed to me that sometimes the angles would mean the gas splashed off the filler tube in the wrong way and confused the dispenser. There's a bunch of different ways to run a filler tube, and different dispenser handles, so I adapt.

In my case, my first vehicle was older than me, so you don't exactly complain to the manufacturer that it has trouble filling at some stations. When newer vehicles acted the same way, I already knew how to jiggle the handle to fill up, so I just wouldn't get to wash my windows at the same time as I filled up, if I went to the wrong station. I wasn't ever one to buy stuff inside while the vehicle was filling, so not a big loss of functionality.
What I am about to write here is similar to third hand information.
I do not have first hand experience.

I looked into putting an audio loop into a venue. I asked an audiologist
about the prevalence of T-coil equipped hearing aids. She told me most
users prefer small and rechargeable. There is not much space in the unit
and rechargeable would likely be selected. So, the T-coil does not get
included. She thought T-coil units were common in Europe.

There are special amplifiers to drive the audio loop. The makers don't
tell us much about them. I think we would call those transconductance
amplifiers. Reading the subject article is encouraging. Perhaps we
will just try this after the virus is not such a threat.
I work for Keck as a software engineer. What do you want to know? It's not all upside, working for pure science like this. We like to "fly the prototype", so to speak. Despite the challenges of it being a 25 year old pair of telescopes that are constantly climbing the far wall of the bathtub curve, it's a damn cool place to work at.
Bending over backwards for the enrionment at the cost of living life is paperclip maximizing - the point of maintaining the environment is to keep it sustainable for our wants and needs.
Amazon’s Pandemic Conspiracy Thriller Utopia Is the Wrong Show at the Wrong Time
I have done instrumentation work in US HEP. It is fun to do stuff nobody else (or very few) people are doing, in labs with very cool stuff, working with extremely smart people.

However there will be a few extremely smart jerks, and leadership seems to spend a lot of time applying/fighting for funding. I definitely got the sense that there was a pecking order. The PhDs are at the top, engineers and technicians don't get as much respect. Also in these days I hear that US national labs are moving to a more "flexible" model. In days past an engineer might be assigned to an experiment for the duration, but now leadership wants to be able to assign resources on a more fine-grained basis. (Though I think this is becoming more the case in industry too.)

All that said, if I was in a position to not mind a pay cut, I'd definitely consider going back to pure research.
Fuel filters should prevent damage to the engine, but if you got a ton of gunk in the filter you might suddenly find yourself with a dead car on the side of the highway because your fuel line is clogged.
I never saw the point of getting a real tube amp unless you play exclusively in a studio or rehearsal room.

The volume required to crank and get the best of it sounds it makes it too loud for almost any residential area.

One of the best features of modeling amps is that you can get the sound of a cranked amp set at a high volume, with low/moderate real volume or even with head-phones.

Even in a rehearsal room, real amps are too loud and make the band members start competing for volume. Low stage volume and in-ear-monitoring allows me to play better.
AJAX is the default now, so no one talks about it.
If the restocking fee is low enough, people would just consider it a rental fee. You'd need to make it close to 50% fee to discourage the massive returns
I personally prefer eBook formats to PDF because of the opportunity to adjust the font size that makes it easier to read esp. on a phone.

Also I think pandoc or even edge browser would allow you to open the eBook format and print/convert to PDF for free and without too much hassle
how does this compare to elite tooling like https://SHAKTI.COM ?
What's wrong with redistribution? You make it sound like a sin.

The last forty years has been redistributing profits from labour to capital.

There is nothing at all wrong with reversing that.
Sorry? What do you mean? What's the relevance of the galaxy note 7?
low-middle income people making ends meet? just like storm troopers in Star Wars
> I should note that the data is sourced from Poland, but if you’re hoping for the situation to be any better in the U.S., unfortunately it isn’t. Over 23 percent of cars last year in the US were white and another 23 percent were black, while purple languishes, unloved, as the least popular.

I'd be interested to see the US-based figures, and I wonder if the above stats include sales to car rental companies, which I'd guess skew in favor of boring colors.

EDIT: here's some US data from CarMax https://www.carmax.com/articles/car-color-popularity
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I used Katex on my GatsbyJS blog and it worked nicely. Felt like doing latex but less confusing.
Do you care to expand, your reply hasn't given me any insight into the exception you have made to my comment.
To further clarify, the average street car is designed to run on the ethanol which is sold everywhere, but some engine configurations need a higher octane fuel in order to combust the fuel completely. I had a buddy who rebuilt an engine with a compression ratio that required 91 octane, or he'd get knocking. This was during the late 80's, and more than one station around these parts had pumps selling 95 octane (it might have even been 100) for the real hot-rods.
I guess, but I am the epitome of someone who doesn't give a crap about their car, and I would have chosen a fun color if one were available. The options I had were white, gray, and another gray.

I'm wondering if cars are boring colors for the same reason task #1 after buying a house is always to paint the walls a color that's slightly less awful than Sell-My-House Taupe. Data-driven decisionmaking favors the boring.
Too bad you can't use automatic carwashes with it.
The thing is to have someone who isn't involved in making the product at all doing the demo. When you make something, or you're close to those who are, you're deep in that product's underlying assumptions. You may not even remember what the world was like before it existed.

The best demos I've seen were given by people who, in another timeline, could be among those hearing the demo.

A smaller item, one widely counterintuitive to me and that I am not modeling right now, is that you want to focus on your best 1-3 points to the complete exclusion of everything else. Every new idea is a chance to lose someone, if they want the laundry list they'll ask for it.
More info on senior and junior water rights in California.

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/faqs.h...

Do you have any sources on that specific 1/20th water usage claim?
I don't know about the gut microbiome conclusions the article reaches, but if you're type 2 diabetic you're generally overweight and people generally become overweight because they overconsume carbs, which don't satiate you as much as fats and proteins (i.e., you consume more and more carbs in order to feel full/not hungry).

If you start dropping weight you start feeling better because you are fueling your body better, you have more energy, you have a sense of accomplishment from dropping weight, etc. It's not exactly rocket science. I don't think it's a coincidence that high levels of obesity and depression are both extremely high in the United States.

If people lifted weights, engaged in cardiovascular activities, and tracked the calories they consumed depression levels would fall off a cliff. You wouldn't put sugar water into your high performance car, but apparently we have no problem consuming absolutely gnarly things regularly.
And end of 20th century is much more likely to be this. And very likely it has already happened. As the digital storage formats in both physical and digital sense were much less standardised...
Stories of medias not being readable any more because of lost or outdated readers or computers are not uncommon. Not to even mention obscure fileformats...
On other hand now everything is in cloud and simpler to move around and it's hopefully replicated to some degree...

Still question we might have moved to is the amount of data. There is likely already way too much digital information like video out there to sanely replicated. Even the important parts. Just think if Youtube were to go down and no one were there to pickup atleast some of the important bits... Not unlikely scenario if anti-trust stances harden and there really isn't sustainable model...
I see english is not your first language. If it were, you would know that "similar" and "identical" are not synonyms.

> Interpreting this as saying that natural gas infrastructure can be repurposed to work with hydrogen makes sense

It absolutely does not make sense. It's a bit of illogic you apparently are not capable of recognizing as a non sequitur.

BTW, the equipment we have for handling hydrogen is not necessarily in pipelines (although the US does have many miles of hydrogen pipeline even today). It's in ammonia synthesis plants. It's in oil refineries. It's in chlor-alkali cells. The world economy makes many millions of tons of hydrogen each year, and that hydrogen is manipulated with equipment that exists. Compressors, pipes, pumps, valves, sensors... all those exist in forms that work with hydrogen.
Buying the latest model every year? Yes

Buying the latest model every 2-3 years? No
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Yes you have more control, it also sounds worse. They have advantages in live reproduction, yet you still see tubes mic'd up in the studio.

And for a small band even if you have a FoH mix, it's going to sound better out of a 40W combo than through whatever PA your vocalist dragged along. But that's just my opinion.

Digital models do a good job in a vacuum (no pun intended). They do a very poor job of modeling how a guitar and FX chain load and drive the preamp of an real tube amplifier (which is really difficult to capture in either white or black box models). That's also a key to getting lush and evocative ranges of tone from a single configuration.

Just speaking as a player, I don't really fiddle with my tube amps all that much. The tone changes come from dynamics of my hands and controls over my pickup volume controls, and it's accentuated by my drive and boost pedals. That kind of play doesn't translate well to modeling amps which don't have the low headroom, lower impedance inputs of a pure tube stage. I don't need 300 different amp models, I need 1 amp model for 300 tones.
That is exactly the reason. I live in PA. NJ has higher income taxes than PA but lower gasoline taxes. This changed in recent years as gasoline taxes in NJ have gone up, eliminating most of the advantage of filling up there from people on the NJ border.
It's not a legal issue, it is a moral issue. An amoral law is not to be followed even if it is your life is on stake, otherwise you will turn into an unvirtuous man.

In this situation, Mr Cook, a man running world's most valuable company, decided to part with virtue, and become a man without honour.
I don't think this is a thing at public institutions for exactly that reason.
this sounds like someone who isn’t thinking about all the edge cases for nuts returning stuff. i would not be surprised if there was a protocol in place for screening against all kinds of things (with emf being the small potatoes)
I feel like Amazon has most successfully fought this consequence of scale.
The Coronavirus Unveiled: Microscopic Images of SARS-CoV-2
In case any of you want to play with this on your mac and need a usb type-c interface to try this out! :) sorry for the plug but it was too relevant. Great job on the plugin!

https://www.effintone.com
Even though they raise some interesting points, there's also a lot of assumptions that don't seem to be backed up by the actual day-glo text

For example the analysis says that they're a bunch of idiots driving around shooting shit because they have no leadership or hierarchy. Then you read the citation, and it's about how one of the terrorists didn't shoot because he asked for permission and was denied
why did you waste the time emailing jeff for that? you’re the reason we can’t have an open line with him.
>The readability of those structures is highly dependent on the language and how it expects serial conditionals to be most efficiently written.

My knowledge is limited only to c# thus c style languages so i am curious how you would write the contrived conditional statements in the article to be more readable in any other language that would make it more readable than guard clauses
Thanks a lot for the tip, will check it out!
Kevin Rudd: Petition for Royal Commission into political bias of news
I surely wish I could buy new seatbelts without also having that update break how my radio works, and prevent my windows from rolling down.
I think you actually can bring wrapped cars through automatic touchless (spray only, no brushes) car washes.
Funny how blaming GIL for being a bottleneck is the least researched/not backed by performance measurement (before/after) part of the article. Everyone loves to hate GIL. maybe there should be T-shirts made for this for the C++ loving folks out there.
Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned from Fresh Prince and West Wing
Yeah I sort of felt a bit jargoned out. But probably a great read if you were there and into music at the time
I noticed a few years ago, that almost all cars you see are white, black or silver/grey, and haven’t been able to figure out when or why this happened. I guess there is some logic to this design language. Cars are after all big hunks of metal so being painted metallic rather than earthy or natural colors somehow makes more sense than trying to disguise their nature as mechanical objects. I wonder if in an increasingly technological, cyberpunk world people subconsciously want their technology items to look “techy” or serious.
Apart from the issue of grant stuffing, I have a strong suspicion that 25% is an extremely low number and even among those grant applications that pass obvious flaws there is still an extremely large variance in quality.

To put it another way, imagine if a strategy for funding software development was to take every piece of software that compiled and then randomly choose among them to fund. This seems like it's ripe for exploitaton and hard to fund meaningful software development (especially coherent ecosystems).

Similar dynamics would probably be at play for research.
Need more context why it considered it is a waste of time and how she overcame what would make a great story. Instead just apple shining. Sigh. Should be a great story like the one why he kill Pluto.

Something like the first comment here but more. Even the infrared one would be a good story.
For purpose-made hardware, basically never.

If you're doing all of the emulation and signal processing on a general-purpose computer, then sure, you often run into latency problems, and part of the set up process for those software tools is latency calibration. The one that I use when at my desktop, Guitarix, is very conservative with its latency, defaulting to like 500 milliseconds, I turn it down to 20-30 or so and it still functions on my hardware and you can't tell the difference: it's the same time delay as playing through a speaker 20 feet away.
I mixed up two types of politics in the workplace in my other comment.

What I generally understand as "politicization of the workplace" is more around employees talking about issues they care about unrelated to what the company is doing and creating an hostile environment for dissenting views to theirs. If you think an issue unrelated to what you're doing is more important than having a good working environment to work on that shared project, then I still think you should just quit since you're not fulfilling your obligations as an employee.

As for the other kind:

>A little while ago Github employees protested the involvement of their company with the ICE department of the USA government. In that case, could you simply say to the protesting employees, "Well, you must just disagree with the shared goal of the company and so you should quit".

I believe you should tell them exactly that if they voiced their concern to management but they still decided to go forward with the deal. What else are you going to do? Sow a negative/divisive work environment because your political views are more important than the product everyone is working on?

Politics are quite diverse, if every employee were to bring in negativity over every deal they disagree on, you wouldn't have collaboration and your product would not exist.
Thanks for the cool tips, I'll check it out. Hollow Knight seems impossible on the raspberry pi, from brief research, but maybe there's a way if I can find one.
Can anyone make a convincing case for having a good webcam in the era of zoom? No one is going to see a crisp image.
I'm curious what you mean about Microsemi doing everything wrong? I've been pretty happy with my experience with the Polarfire line so far.
85 is functional at elevation, but definitely still not preferable at elevation.

Works best with carbureted engines, which are obviously few and far between these days. You shouldn't put 85 octane in a modern fuel injected engine period.
You’re making the assumption that nondeterministic QM is the right one. There are other interpretations that are deterministic[1].

Even if it is not deterministic, it’s not determined by free will so it’s a nonissue.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory
Of course, if you’re capable of retiring and not working for the rest of your life, you can be very autonomous. You can also be autonomous if you are a lord in feudal Europe, because in these situations you’ve ascended to a position where other people work to satisfy your material needs. Which is really no autonomy at all because you are reliant on the rest of society to continue to literally work for you.

Money abstracts this away, but if you achieve “financial independence”, that just means you have accumulated enough wealth tokens that you can indefinitely have enough to exchange for things that someone actually had to go make. You’re “autonomous” in the sense that you’re utterly dependent on an entire society that agrees with the practice of doing work in exchange for fiat currency. But the Pharoahs were also utterly dependent on a society that agreed with the practice of doing work because if you didn’t, the pharoah’s bureaucrats wouldn’t keep your land irrigated and you would starve to death.

But autonomy as a person who actually does work is another thing entirely. Industrialization introduced time clocks, shift work, Taylorism, and all kinds of stuff that eroded that autonomy.
A better investment will be in lighting. Good lighting makes a HUGE difference in the quality of the image.
Yes, but the vast majority of people who die from heart disease don’t develop it until they are older. Which is why it’s misleading to talk about it being America’s #2 cause of death when discussing evolutionary pressure.
> how do you not allow someone to exist, except by, you know, stopping them from existing, i.e. killing them?

You tell them “you are not who you think you are, you’re wrong about your own life”

> whether people should be compelled to refer to trans people by their preferred pronouns, or whether trans people should be allowed access to their preferred gendered facilities

Those are perfect examples—have you ever had a problem getting someone to refer to you by your preferred pronoun? Have you ever been denied access to your bathroom? For me, such things are unthinkable.

> trans people die or pop out of existence when you refer to them by the wrong pronoun?

Well, their existence as a trans person does, when you reject their own identity and replace it with one you have chosen instead. So: yes, you’re telling the person that you’re talking to that they don’t exist, that someone else, with a different name and gender exists instead.

> even there I think that the problem was that the state presumed to have a say in the definition of marriage to begin with

That’s an odd solution—gay people want to get married also? Well then: nobody can. Making everybody miserable instead of happy is one way to put everybody on the same footing, but not one I don’t think many people would have been happy with. Definitely I’m glad they didn’t go with that.