skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, Spain has already started on regulating to handle this. An english-language writeup: https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-06-26/f...

In short, for remote working employees (any employee that spends >30% of their time working outside an employer-designated office/client site/etc over 3+ months), all employers must have a written contract with the employee, that must:

* Define the tools & workspace necessary to provide a sufficient & safe workspace, for which the employer must cover any costs

* Define working hours (with some requirements on flexibility)

* Be voluntary, in both directions (employers can't fire people who don't want to change to remote work, employees aren't entitled to remote work if employers don't agree)

* Detail how, if at all, the employee's productivity might be monitored, and do so with reasonable regard to privacy and ability to disconnect from work

* Ensure equal treatment of on-site & remote employees, including pay, job stability, promotions, etc.

There's some caveats in there for force majeure, such that this doesn't immediately apply for the unavoidable remote setups created by COVID, but will apply for ongoing remote work where that continues in future.
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> Technically it would be trivial to just have a lid to install new ones.

Lids ruin waterproof designs. Not so trivial.
No. Microjet printers use a binder (like a glue/epoxy) with powders (usually ceramic) and sometimes add colors as well to achieve the end product. SLS uses a laser to melt together (sinter) the powder (in this case nylon, but could also be metal). They are both powder-based, but the method of turning the powder into the end result is quite different.
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Firstly, thanks for taking my comment in the manner it was intended. I was slightly concerned it might have gone down badly.

I take your point but I think you are brave to rely on the common sense of the entire world to protect you from false or misleading claims against you. Having seen a friend being roasted in the "mainstream media" with a story which was heavily biased against her, and seeing the venomous messages sent to her in the aftermath, I think I'm ok with some limits on free speech.
I'd never even consider paying for an IDE I need for work. Why would a company not buy me software that has a direct and immediate impact on my productivity? Huge red flag.
Don't forget the Ministry of Truth.
Hi HN! In case it's not obvious, the key feature of this project is that it creates sound effects dynamically at runtime, without any samples or static audio files.

So if you twiddle the GUI and find a sound you like, you can then copy the code at the bottom to play that sound in whatever other web project. And since it's just code you can add whatever amount of variation to the sound effects without any extra file size.

Thanks for having a look!
This is ignoring all the high-speed cameras and lab equipment for characterizing the electrical and rheological properties of the ink you shoot through it...
I’m not sure it’s about growth. Based on YCharts, it seems like Tesla’s revenue growth stalled after Sep 2018. https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/revenues
Is it based on Ubuntu?
>>Windows 10 needs at least 8GB physical memory to run the operating system properly

Define "properly" - I'm running Win 10 2004 on 1GB of ram and it's absolutely fine. Maybe the author is confusing "need" with "will use all available ram to prefetch".
> the fastest way to solution it

I've never heard "solution" used as a verb before. It reads rather odd to me, but the product seems interesting :)
Most code written for government use is not written by government employees, but by contractors. Here's the second paragraph from the section you linked:

"However, when a US federal government agency uses contractors to develop software, that is a different situation. The contract can require the contractor to release it under the GNU GPL. (GNU Ada was developed in this way.) Or the contract can assign the copyright to the government agency, which can then release the software under the GNU GPL."
Have you SEEN the way most people drive?
Think of them as standard earbuds in a form factor that makes them compatible with earrings.
The stock market price != value of the company. Stock market price == PERCEIVED value of a company. All the stock market does is try and find a equilibrium between parties that want to sell a stock and parties that want to buy a stock. That is it. It doesn't do anything more. You could have a company that is bleeding money month-after-month, is foretasted to never make a profit ever, but if there are more parties (for whatever reason) that want to buy the stock than those who want to sell then the price will go up. The actual financial health of a company is utterly meaningless, the only thing that matters is what investors think of company.
The US does not print inflationary dollars. It prints borrowed dollars. This is a subtle but important distinction and is why we don't see substantial inflation now, and won't in the future.
Older Sid's games that I like: Civ I, II, Colonization and Alpha Centauri.

FreeCiv and FreeCol are closer to the original games than their modern succesors.
maybe the author is one of the last people to switch from Windows to Linux as Microsoft embraces Linux
You should take an intro flight lesson at a flight school. There's no way the majority of people could safely fly a personal aircraft in all weather conditions. Flying cars will have to be 100% dependent on a really good autopilot which hasn't been developed yet (which I guess is sort of the point you're trying to make).
Have you never heard an inexperienced developer incorrectly blame the platform or the tools for their own bugs?
Stripe is live in dozens of countries. Not sure why you think they're waiting.
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Agree. YouTube has some great content on it. Channels that I regularly follow include Technology Connections[1] (despite not being that much into electronics), Summoning Salt[2] (despite not playing video games), PBS Eons[3]. There is also some good political content there (including Lindsey Ellis[4] and vlogbrothers[5]).

Despite this YouTube really needs to wake up to the fact that some of it’s content is really toxic and potentially dangerous, and that it potentially suggests this toxic content to an unsuspecting audience. Optimally it wouldn’t do that, while still suggesting some of the great content there.

1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w

2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q

3: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA

4: https://www.youtube.com/user/chezapoctube

5: https://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers
As a former equity analyst, I would say that it's probably better just to ignore this analysis then read too much into it.

The performance of company's stock isn't based solely on whether the company reported a net income it's previous year; it's based on (imo) an ever fluctuating list of metrics, both controlled by the company (i.e. Return on Capital Invested, which net income is a component of) and not controlled by the company (i.e. cost for banks to borrow capital, future growth expectations, current market valuation).
Cuban also owns Three Commas[0] and Hanneman makes it very clear how proud he is of being in the "Three Comma Club" [1].

[0] https://threecommas.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzMUrB-Um1Y
The printers also need to get less fiddly for the average person. Things like setting the bed temperature, print head temp, fan speed, etc and watching the first couple layers to make sure they don't curl up on you. And those settings change with different brands of filament, and it is hard to tell which one to change and in which direction.
Maybe the people who did the theming stuff aren't the ones that would working on compatibility issues.

Thats usually the case in company driven projects but not necessarily in community driven open source projects.

If you would be the project lead and a person comes to you and tells you that he would like to create a newer modern theme. If you tell him/her no and that he/she should work on something completely different i wouldn't be surprised if you would never see him/her again.
Using CUPS on my Linux machines has always been an exercise in frustration. Installing the proprietary brother drivers using their shell script always just works. I wish they had drivers for ARM though so I could use a raspberry pi for sharing the printer instead of my Intel server.
_My first computer was a Pentium II one and it had Windows 98 installed when I purchased it in 2008_

I think this must be a typo. 2008 seems quite a late time to buy a Pentium II, I had my Pentium II in 1998ish.
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Sounds like Telegram needs to implement a "message canary" where every message has a note attached saying something to the effect of; "Apple hasn't asked us to remove this message".
Alfred is just creepy. They offer it in my apartment building here in Manhattan. They'll do stuff like come and unload your dishwasher or fold your laundry.
70 years ago we had RADAR.
Isn’t that exactly what the article is claiming they should do? Investing in sales and marketing now to drive future annuities isn’t the same strategy as reinvesting profits to dodge taxes as the OP claims
There are many open source pen plotters. Welcome back to the 80s!
For our mvp we just went with the standard firmware.
apparently microsoft isn't actually switching to linux
> For a meaningful analysis, you would need to dig into the winning stocks specifically and ask why they're up so much.

IMHO rationalization of this is very random at best. Why is Zoom (up >600% YTD) really worth it?

Most of the big tech cos. can replace Zoom overnight. I use Google Meet daily without the trivial bells-n-whistles that Zoom offers. Absolutely no adjustments needed!

Jio in India (where I am from) would eat Zoom very quickly (https://bit.ly/3nSBuRy)

I don't mean to dampen the euphoria but seriously without $ backing, many of these companies are simply difficult to justify. (Valuations will revert to DCF over the long term. But then, in the long term there is no one really alive :-) ... dance along while the music is playing is the mantra ... )

I'd be happy to receive opposing views that are well explained.
American public already knows Hunter Biden has serious drug problem. Adding some real stuff into the mix to make the rest more credible is standard tactic in disinformation operations.
"So the fear-mongering about companies with huge losses driving the stock market is misplaced"

Um... no. It would be great if you would come back to this article in 2 years time and run the same analysis on the same companies. I suspect the statement above will be rather invalid.
Well, if it is false, then they are performing the stated goal of stopping the spread of “fake news”, which need not discriminate on whether the entity pushing it is associated with a government or not. Whether or not I want Twitter to be an arbiter of truth, some very basic research does seem to make it seem this story is a bit on the order of a conspiracy theory.
> It’s an open door to nearly every connected system on the planet, which is powerful and terrifying.

That is it's purpose. It's not 'terrifying'.
Perhaps we should first try to teach the difference to more people, before we try to teach it to an AI.
It has been found that some were defaced to deface the predecessor and take their glory. The son of the greatest female pharoh destroyed a lot of her stuff and had a lot changed to reflect him.
> I like the ReactOS idea, but I think it will take decades to be compatible enough - and I'm even talking about enough.

It has been under development for decades. That is more than twice the time it took to develop Windows 95. I've tried ReactOS a few times over the years, and it has never worked for me.

I know of two specific examples of ReactOS code that as of a couple years ago were identical with Windows code. There are likely other instances pointing to a non-clean-room implementation.
> hey also ban you by default, assuming,

I think I had my account banned the last 3 times I created a new ad. None were against their policies. My account go reinstated each time but still.
I guess the site is having HN traffic issues? Deployment takes a very long time and then always fails.
>I don’t know much about the stock market outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund.

You have just answered your own question. If enough people make financial decisions based on a specific metric, rather than their own understanding, of course they will be a whole industry of companies trying to game the KPI and make sure your uninformed dollar ends up in their coffers.
I'd even be happy with a single filament that gets UV cured by a light source on the print head.
Name a high growth company that grew to scale but didn't turn profitable? Uber? That still worked out
Wasn't that done because Islam rejects idol worship and the visual depiction of prophets?
>Electric vehicle penetration will soar from 3% to 20% by 2025. Tesla volumes will soar alongside from 500K to 3.5M.

I think you and parent are actually in agreement

>The value would only be justified if Tesla is essentially expected to monopolice the global car market.
> "A jetpack is a device usually strapped to a person's back, which uses jets of gas or liquid to propel the wearer through the air"

Shoddy reporting. I think the author just looked up "jetpack" on the internet without comprehending anything. This jetpack is powered but sets of air breathing jet engines, the kind traditionally used to power modern passenger aircraft.
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> ad hoc "WFH whenever you feel like it" gets a sort of worst-of-both-worlds situation where you neither get the same kind of flexibility nor the sense of community you typically get from an office

Can you explain what you mean by WFH when you feel like it reducing flexibility?
That would be evidence that people on the internet are predictable, not evidence of manipulation.

Predictability on the internet, which increases both with group size and with the divisiveness of a topic, is also a huge problem for HN [1]. But it's not the problem we've been discussing in this thread, and I think it's important to make clear distinctions between the issues. It's common for people to leap from some other issue to "astroturfing! shill! spy!" explanations, instead of facing the original issue.

[1] Here's why, if anyone wants an explanation. Predictability is the enemy of curiosity. Worse, when discussions are predictable, there isn't anything intellectually interesting in them, and the mind seems to resort to flamewars to amuse itself in the absence of anything better to do (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). So predictability destroys community as well.
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That is pretty much the only thing possible in these scenarios. Anything Debian or Ubuntu or pretty much any "normal" distribution is right out: external vulnerability scanners always seem to go by package version, and `packagename-12.5.1-debian-security-fixes.b` is still the vulnerable version 12.5.1 as far as any scanner is concerned. At this point, we `FROM scratch` when possible, and deploy on AL2 when not.

There's good reasoning against the concept of barebones containers, but unfortunately everything from bricks, knives, and well-reasoned arguments all bounce harmlessly off of regulations and external compliance requirements.
lol at “small”

Tesla has 10x’d from a year and now at a $420B valuation. That makes it one of the largest companies in the world (I believe top 15)

All the companies that fit in this category like Carvana, Wayfair, Overstock etc are now at $10B-$30B valuations.

Point is these are not small by any means.
What will they do, put a gun to consumers’ heads to force them to buy exercise bikes and the latest iPhone models?
I think high school is subjectively difficult due to the stage of life you are at when you go through it. As an adult, you have likely developed coping mechanisms to deal with stressors. You have had multiple relationships, both romantic and social, and have experience in losing people and navigating those relationships and social webs. You know your own mind better and have more experience just understanding yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. You have experience balancing priorities, commitments, and goals; work time, time to recharge, time to socialize.

Going through high school now in my 30s would be trivial to my mental health, but to my underdeveloped teen brain, it was overwhelming and couldn’t have been more serious. Now of course I am not saying that means those problems aren’t important or that we shouldn’t do everything we can to improve them. I think we should specifically because of the unique mentally vulnerable position the teenager is in.
I see, it makes sense. Never thought of that, thanks!
I think that's bs. If it's not, then before anyone can do anything you need a complete list of every bad thing happening and you need to order it in importance and badness and then you need to get everyone to agree on it. That's a recipe to do nothing but argue. That's what we've been doing for 30 years.
For some, WFH means Wait For Help.
I switched to Ubuntu on my main machine a few years ago. This is my second attempt. There are still some annoyances I run into, the biggest being that the dock regularly disappears after sleep. How would I ever set my parents up on something where even the most basic features require fixes like this https://leimao.github.io/blog/Ubuntu-Dock-Disappear/?
Looking at the map, 11km NW of LAX puts you in the middle of Topanga Park?
https://hackaday.com/2012/06/13/turning-an-ibm-selectric-int...
Hey - something I actually have experience in. I worked for a company that made software for casinos to help them optimize the layouts of their floors.

Most of these bullet points are for table games, which should be more-or-less sensibly layed out and easy to find.

All the "purposefully hard to navigate" bits of a casino are the slot machines, and an unbelievable amount of work goes into physically organizing the floor to manipulate people into playing certain machines over others.

Here, Apple's lumped all of the slot machines into just two bullet-points: "gambling.slotmachine" and "gambling.slotmachine.highlimit"
Several people in this very thread, including the comment almost directly above yours:

"Agreed, but I would go further: we should immediately issue passports for everyone in the world who submits an online application without prejudice."

Yes, this lunacy is a real idea being discussed on Hacker News. We need to hit a big fat reset button on California, I swear.
Author claims the computer had Windows 98 on it so I would assume it is second hand since you couldn't buy a new computer with W98 on it in 2008 either. Or as you say a typo or mistake.
Windows 10 in 1 GB? Can you tell me your experience on browsing the web on that?
The state of the market today isn't the point: It obliterated mobile Java when Google infringed. Your question actually reinforces Oracle's claim that they were irreparably harmed by Google's infringement; there's no way to undo what has been done, and substantial damage compensation is necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors is a really good read for the basic understanding of how fair use should be applied. Factor four is what we're discussing here, which the Supreme Court labeled the "most important" factor.
Sciter is much older than Electron.
> Find one that doesn't have a patent and reverse engineer it

At this point, it would be better to start looking at expired (and about-to-expire) patents. A circa Y2k printer would be a perfectly acceptable design, IMO.
That is true and it requires some educating by the state. Not possible when the state is using it wrong.
> It’s an open door to nearly every connected system on the planet, which is powerful and terrifying.

I guess fearmongering is one way to try and convince people to use your product.
What if we had Local-First Software?
The Mesopotamian wheel, 3500 BC, the oldest known wheel (2016)
Point is store owners want you to wander, discover & buy things you hadn't planned to purchase when you entered the shop.
Regardless of what you think about the veracity of Wikipedia here, the list of references at the end of that article formed a tidy way to link to multiple court case primary sources.
It applies to Canada as well. Claim 25% of your home as a business expense means 25% of any capital gains are taxed, unlike your primary residence which isn’t taxed.

“You may have to report a capital gain if you change your principal residence to a rental or business property, or vice versa.”

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...

However, it looks like there were some changes that may allow you to avoid it (business use was a small fraction and you didn’t take advantage of tax benefits from business use).
> The stock market does price != value of the company. Stock market price == PERCEIVED value of a company.

No it is not, it is the price some investors are willing to buy at, which when the market is rational and there is no bubble is probably the perceived value
Interesting product, pricing and deployment model would be good to understand. (Side note: What are you using for docs website ?)
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My understanding is after you reach a certain height you might as well land on the ground. There’s a reason why even the biggest dives aren’t that high and see hugely dangerous
Yes, so what? It comes back to the other article on HN about YouTube arbitrating truth. Apple should not be able to dictate what goes in my changelog. If I believe it's relevant info for my userbase that I'm working around some Clang compiler bug with some change, I should be able to say it. What kind of dystopian platform is Apple running where police have to look through everything you type about your own product to make sure you haven't written any thoughtcrimes?
> But then people want to go to US not Canada...

What? There are a good 4 billion people that would give up their firstborn to immigrate to Canada.
My current record is a person that had 8 separate names over the course of employment. Some that were valid at the same time. Not really an issue with e-mail, but quite a lot of systems just don't deal well with names. Never mind the idiots that think they can detect fake names.
It is superstition, same here for my Muslim country, people pray at the tombs of dead Imams, though it is shunned by almost all scholars, but ignorance begets superstition.

This is a reason why better education for all is the way forward for humanity.
Conversely, why pay the massive speed penalty for a csprng when you do not need to?

I'd suspect the majority of random numbers generated in the world don't need crypto, they need speed. The world's supercomputers are not doing crpyto, they're doing simulations. Most people are not doing crypto most of the time - and when they're gaming in any manner, no need to pay csprng tax.

The only place one should use a csprng is for adversarial situations.

Use the right tool for the job, correct?
I'm a software engineer and I need to use FTP maybe once a year. Chromium hasn't had SFTP support. So it seems like there really aren't very many people at all that _need_ FTP, and nobody is actually losing access to proper FTP support.

> Internet downloads made software distribution much cheaper.

This seems orthogonal to supporting FTP in a browser.