skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone think Lady Gaga (or Bach), any tech development, any real research, making Star Wars, putting on a Broadway Musical isn't 'work'?

> There is no way out. Life requires a modicum of effort, point blank.

If I understand the author, you’re conflating effort with your own definition of work. People do, regularly, pour 10,000 hours into their hobby like music or sports or art or writing. Yes, there’s some market for all of those things, but most people are introduced to those outside the context of that market. [Some] People are driven. We crave mastery. Directed effort can be incredibly rewarding for the mind and body, ever the more so when you truly get to focus it at your wim (play) instead of according to someone else’s wants (I.e. the market; work).
Sure, if node didn’t exist, you’d be close to right.

If you check GitHub JavaScript and typescript are outstripping Java.
are you suggesting that the 'genetic lottery' should be heavily taxed and those who are born from positive eugenics(arranged marriages also come to mind. and soon in the future..what i like to call 'gattaca babies') should be penalised?

doesnt child rearing by responsible parenting have no role in your universe?
From the definitions section of the bill as linked above:

> the term ‘digital transmission service’ means a service that has the primary purpose of publicly performing works by digital transmission;

So it probably makes less of a difference than we might hope.
I recently watched 3615 code Père Noël, a film where Minitel had a small but key role [0]. It's from 1989, when Minitel was still very much ubiquitous. I've also heard mention of it on Archer [1].

I didn't realize the French got free Minitel terminals. I wonder if there were subscription fees associated with it, like you get the 1000 hours free AOL disk, but eventually you'll have to pay for the service and you gotta pay for the phone time regardless...

0 - https://filmxposure.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/3615-code-pc...

1 - http://www.tzr.io/yarn-clip/217d0345-4b02-4b05-8d57-77536015...
If you think that rewriting huge legacy software that's powering most of the world in a current hot language is a solution to security issues, you clearly have no idea about software security.
> I have personally spoken with scores of people who will (for example) express displeasure over Ubisoft's culture of sexual abuse, and not blink an eye when it came time to purchase Assassain's Creed: Valhalla. Or of Rockstar's culture of abusive crunch and equally abusive Twitter presence while buying premium versions of TLOU2.

You say this as if these people are being inconsistent. I'd argue they are not. Any individual sale of a mass market good has as-close-to-zero-as-possible impact on the publisher's bottom line. But it increases the quality of life of the purchaser who is then better equipped to make a difference through advocacy.

> And sadly even bad games won't dent their reputation that much, especially if followed up by a good game again.

People buy individual games not reputation. Sometimes people buy nostalgia, but often regret it. Giving money to a company based on reputation is a donation. I think it's important to keep in mind that buying and donating are separate things with separate motivations.
Yeah there's a million ways to do this already with JS frameworks or even combining them with Rails.

It's trying to standardize a fullstack approach to it I presume.
I assumed everyone would be using a GoPro or something similar as their webcam if they needed a good webcam?
discord and twitter, everything is just a messy ocean of piss imo, discord is not an iteration on reddit, maybe some people prefer discord to reddit but it is far from a replacement. It's a big JS-heavy chatroom (almost like new reddit...).
I'm curious how this is different from Turbolinks, which was been available since rails 3.
Belt is used already for the radiation belts, and I think this is referring to the equatorial toroid where those aren't.
While obviously crystals are not alive, they satisfy more careless definitions of life that were sometimes encountered, i.e., when put in a "nutritive" solution, they are able to grow and reproduce themselves.
I've used scores of different hardware readers (zebra, motorola, star, el-cheapo, etc). All of them read 2d faster than they read 1d. And we get a higher first-try success on 2d. IIRC 1d was like 80% and 2d was over 95%
This doesn’t really sound like SCRUM. One of the key notions is that teams work at a sustainable pace; if there’s not enough time to deal with tech debt and people are burning out then this pace is by definition unsustainable. The working conditions you describe also sound like they have no slack whatsoever (not a SCRUM requirement but not a bad idea either).

There shouldn’t be deadlines every two weeks, instead you should be working towards a sprint goal. If the goal is not achieved then you can use that knowledge in the next sprint to reduce the amount of scope you try to complete. There are no deadlines per se, because deadlines try to fix scope and time, whereas a sprint only fixes time. The process of estimation and story pointing is where things become more art than science, but provided you are consistent in your approaches this mechanism prevents our inherent lack of foresight from becoming a catastrophic prediction failure.

Meetings like stand ups, retros, and backlog refinement can be super effective tools but they have to be run properly and tightly, otherwise they become worse than nothing.

I guess in this hypothetical team the thing to do would be to raise with the Scrum Master that you’re exhausted, raise in the retro that there are deficiencies in the process etc. and get back to a more sane baseline.
The beauty of the reasoning in your comment is that you can apply it to literally any white person who doesn’t fall in line with the narrative that whites are an oppressive, racist majority in tech.

It’s possible for that to be true in a global or more high level context, e.g., “the tech industry as a whole,” and at the same time be far from the truth, say, at Google. And it’s reasonable and appropriate—and not at all a sign of white insecurity—to point that out.

For my part, the worst sort of person in this discussion is the white person who puts on a facade of wokeness or racial sensitivity without admitting the possibility that the world isn’t, as it were, black and white.
It's not just that things are too complicated... the JS being sent to browsers is large and a lot of work. That requires more bandwidth, processing, and power usage on client devices. This eats phone, tablet, and laptop batteries.
...which is featured on the front page of Hacker News right now, literally right above this story, regarding a pending SEC lawsuit.
The link at the bottom of the phys.org article didn't work for me, but I've found this (published today; abstract available but full .pdf download is paid/subscription):

Kirigami Engineering—Nanoscale Structures Exhibiting a Range of Controllable 3D Configurations

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202005275
> Even if I didn't work, I still have to do things that I don't want to do in order to keep my life at the level that I want. I need to clean where I live, keep myself clean, keep my body healthy by eating healthy food and exercising.

How all these things you mentioned are different from having a job: You do not have regular meetings with managers who evaluate your perceived performance against your competitors. No daily standups. Crossfit or not -- your choice. Paleo or not -- your choice. You can take a day off whenever you want to. You don't have to exercise in open space.
I personally wouldn't want to start in this market, because by the time anything could reasonably ship the COVID vaccine has been distributed enough and most people won't care that much anymore.
This can be a useful idea, requiring a checkbox on password managers, e.g., "[ ] Pause for additional input".

No one ever answers how often security breaks are from: passwords being guessed, brute forced, or shared; client side compromise from malware, keyloggers, and first-hop IP session takeover; or server side compromise from poor custom code and poor infrastructure choices. Anecdotally, the chart leans to the server side security breaches.

In the absence of knowledge, we get two security talks repeated over and over. This is the first: do a better job with passwords. The second is "You are irrovacably insecure because of [some issue], but update your passwords regularly."

Security has not developed a reputation for being a craft or science.
Frankly this has more in common with a 2FA approach with one factor being the password manager and the other your horcrux. I wouldn't call my phone authenticator app a client-side pepper.
I'll start with that I am all for the idea of intellectual privacy and the need for safe guards, but even I could only make it part way through this article (and if these are the people who are supposed to be leading the charge for ethics in AI, we are, surely, screwed).

This perspective (and there are many like it), firstly, tries to tie the problem to capitalism as if it's the engine that corrupts, and, secondly, tries to equate whats going on to surveillance since we presumably can all agree that surveillance is bad.

If you are to make an ass out of yourself or expose something private about yourself in public, its not surveillance if people form opinions about you or gather that information (the lifelock guy and his SSN come to mind - no one would argue his personal information was hacked). I think part of this stems from a bad mental model of what being on the internet is: if Facebook/Twitter/other social media are the new town halls or pubic fora, it's difficult to consider you can be in public from the privacy of your own home.

It is also not some unavoidable aspect of capitalism for your data to be used for potentially nefarious purposes. Consumers are just poorly informed of the transaction that is taking place. To label it "surveillance capitalism" implies that removing the profit motive would mean no one would ever "spy" on you or collect your data. Even a cursory overview of the 20th century or modern China shows how dishonest that implication is.

For a quick perspective on the economics of your data, Google reported $160B in revenue on 1B active monthly users in 2019. If google charged each user $13/month for access to all it's services, it would make the same amount of money. This is on par with a Netflix or Spotify subscription.

Should companies be forced to offer some sort of paid tier where your data is not collected? Perhaps. Should consumers be made aware of what they are giving up when they use a certain "free" service? Sure. There are many problems with our current system and our current understanding of things, but one problem that we do not have is being subjugating to the predations of a "late-stage" "surveillance" capitalist machine.
Great point. Through observations and field work in multiple institutions, over an extended period of time (years).
In general, I would say yes. I think there is a realization that a counter insurgency will struggle if low ranking troops are not thinking clearly. A single bad decision from a Lance Corporal can erode months/years of effort or escalate into an international incident.

Actually, I believe the Marines have the lowest intellectual bar of entry and the highest physical one for any branch. To your point, they do push small unit leadership to a lower level, which may be why they try to advocate a leadership mindset at low levels.
(Family or Friends) + Work? sounds good until it's not

I tend to avoid working with people that I know
Ask HN: How Electronic Signatures Work
Hello, I've come across various applications where I am needed to sign electronically: I am given a tablet or mobile phone and put in my signature (or something that resembles it at least) in a specific placeholder using either a stylus or even my finger! This is common in not-so-important things like couriers but recently I've also be instructed to sign like this in banks (!)

There seems to be some secret occult on how such solutions work. I understand they get a bpm/jpg (or whatever) with my scribble; then what? Also, I am really not sure if such solutions are legally binding! What would happen if tomorrow I say to my courier that I didn't receive the package and that ain't my signature there?

Thanks for any help!
Somewhere along the way Mythical Man Month was turned from a cautionary tale into a competition, and it only ever seems to happen once VC gets their mitts on a company.

Does it really take a team of 800 engineers to maintain your fancy todo list app, rather than your focussed team of 10 or 20? What are all of those people doing except piling on organisational cruft so the business has no choice but to over-encumber itself with talent? Most of them aren't working on the product, that's for sure.
How do they intent to not have "Send massive files without using other apps" being abused? Isn't this one of the key reasons to use a separated system.

I can see this becoming a big problem on their ecosystem if it starts to scale it'll start to be very costly.
do you think sweden has diversity? sweden was mostly homogenous until they started taking in refugees that increased it's diversity. and leading to more conflicts than earlier. this is how i see it from the outside as a non-swede.
Note that I am speaking of "competence", and you're mentioning "knowledge" and "sense of understanding". Not really the same thing.

Separately, "the stack" is inherently polyglot, and even aggressively pruning the selection wherever possible and eliding many formats, tools, and protocols still gives you an absolutely minimal set like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTPS, TCP/IP, SQL, C/C++, Assembly, & VHDL.
If someone robs your house, will you avoid legal challenges against them?
It sounds like you and the investor together control more than 1/2 the shares. Is the investor a friend of your cofounder or more neutral?

If they're a neutral party, it might make sense to get them involved, or at least threaten to get them involved. You and your investor could potentially vote out your other cofounder, and knowing that might make your cofounder change their tune.

On the flip side, if the investor is a friend of your cofounder, be aware that they have a lot of leverage here and could vote you out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel

> In 1987 at 19, while dropping out from school, he successfully created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services.

I suppose some backup of these services still exists today, I'd really like to see them published some day on https://archive.org/
I wish they'd document how to write tests for this stuff. Also, I wish they'd provide an example with multiple moving parts.
For those who are now WHF and absolutely cannot be without a physical whiteboard, white boardpaint (a.k.a., dry drase paint) is a super flexible solution. You can basically make any size whiteboard(s) to fit your limited space.
Fallout 4 on xbox one actually is a turd, it crashes every hour. It's buggy as hell and will never be patched. Bethesda doesn't care.
I use archive.is as a mirror at times for exactly that: https://archive.is/DHKhl
The problem is they're fixing one thing and breaking another. While Android 10 might have sort of "fixed" the Wifi scanning issue, it started enforcing the half-baked Scoped Storage implementation, which creates its own share of problems.

I think things have become a bit more saner with Android 11 in that regard (though there might still be some pain points left), but instead the next random thing Google has broken is that you can no longer replace the default camera app - unless whatever random app you might be using specifically whitelists your favourite third-party camera app, you can no longer use it other than in standalone mode (i.e. if I understood things correctly, the same hare-brained situation you were in until very recently on iOS with regards to the default browser or other default apps).
I'd like to apologize for simply not using the phrase "non-consenting." Including the word "democratic" in my point is probably far too convoluted. The definition of a legitimate regime (going back to Locke's treatise on government) is one that has consent of the people. Democracy (as a whole system in its many diverse forms) and elections (as part of that system to sample the people directly), and self-government itself: where you and your ordinary civilian neighbors are physically involved in the governance of your locality, rather than cadres sent from the central government -- the confluence of all of this is legitimacy.
Don't forget that they are one of few companies defending hardware region locks, cannot do a simple online services for their products and are basically selling overpriced crap in low quantities to boost sales with artificial scarcity.(nes mini craze etc.).

It is one of most anti-consumer corporations in the console market and they are loved. I seriously do not get it.
Could you suggest a small home router? I've been trying to find an 5Ghz / 802.11ax Wifi router with such features.
EDIT: After looking into it, it seems like Spark calls both things predicate pushdowns (eliminating unnecessary row group reads via the statistics AND pushing the predicates down to the lowest possible level). You're right, I'm wrong!

>Parquet files contain min/max metadata for all columns. When possible, entire files are skipped, but this is relatively rare. This is called predicate pushdown filtering.

A nitpick, but I wouldn't call this predicate pushdown, it's partition (or segment) elimination. A predicate being pushed down potentially allows files to be skipped through this process though
I think goal posts will rightly move towards creating a universe. I guess agnostics have already ”given up” with the thought that a creator was needed for biological life. A creator for a universe is a greater question.
I'm also still not sure. Also thought this is satire.
Nonsense. Turkey allied with the United States when Soviet demands post-WWII induced the republic to seek a security guarantee for eastern anatolia. This occurred prior to any formal NATO membership and turkey previously demonstrated its alliance commitments by supporting the united nations in korea. Turkey wouldn't have allowed nuclear weapons to be based on its territory because of 'concessions'(in fact, they protested their removal after the cuban missile crisis).

Since the Bosphorus/black sea region is vulnerable to a blockade traffic to the Mediterranean sea can be easily closed by the US Navy in times of war regardless of the political regime that controls the straits. Turkey was far more geopolitically important when Russia had a Mediterranean ally(france) and control of the mediterranean was contested.
The high end car market is already a walled garden for the most part.
I think it's in ARM's self-interest that Apple doesn't run away with this market. Apple doesn't generate any revenue for ARM or it's a fixed amount, right?

That would mean ARM has a strong incentive to promote non-Apple ARM platforms.
Criminals use VPNs, we know this.

Why would one VPN service be taken down and not others, knowing that VPNs can be used by criminals? In theory, any VPN service carries equal risk of criminal activity.

That's not the VPN's fault, nor their criminal liability. I think there is some information here we aren't being told.
Hmm... a few objective points here:

- If OP keeps 40% and doesn't do work for the company, the company is highly unlikely to succeed. The company needs to be able to dish out equity to future employees and likely investors to succeed, and having 40% locked up in an entity that doesn't do anything for the company is not going to be attractive to those future participants.

- If OP keeps any equity, they should be doing it with the hope that the company succeeds, so that the equity will be worth something. Don't keep equity to spite your co-founder. It's not going to benefit you in any way if that causes the company to fail and your equity ends up being worth $0.

- If OP wants a fully cash deal, it's not realistic if the other co-founder doesn't have a ton of personal cash (most don't). Raising a round to buy out a co-founder at 40% of valuation isn't something ANY investor is going to want to do. That's almost half of an investment thrown in the trash, from their perspective, and they'd probably rather invest in a less complicated competitor.

- It sounds like the human relationship between OP and co-founder is broken and it is not worth pursuing working together, as that alone would likely lead to the failure of the company even if everything else works out.

That said, my thoughts would be:

(a) Stall for a month to get to the cliff so you have slightly more leverage.

(b) Work out a deal where you're not keeping that much equity, but you're keeping an amount such that the company is still bound for success, and that your smaller amount will actually be worth something. Owning 40% of $0 is still $0. Owning maybe 5% of $1 billion is something.
There are some dead comments in this thread about the Swedish party called "Sverigedemokraterna" (which translates to "the Sweden democrats") which is disappointing to see given that the gist of those dead comments is true: Sverigedemokraterna is not an "extreme right-wing" party. The party was started by people with such sympathies but they have either resigned, distanced themselves from the party or have been ousted. The party program is largely comparable to that of the Swedish Social Democratic party in the '60's, plus or minus a few differences. These differences are mostly adjustments to modern times, as such the party can be seen as a spiritual successor to the social democratic party of the Sweden that once was but ceased to be after Olof Palme took control and radically changed the course of the country. Before Palme Sweden was an extremely homogeneous and fairly nationalistic country, something which Palme - with the support of all parties in the parliament (Riksdagen) - wanted to end by changing the constitution to state that Sweden should not have a single dominant culture. This change succeeded but the resulting culture shock led to the rise of Sverigedemokraterna, a party for those who want to put the brakes on what they see as the dissolution of Swedish culture. It is also from the social democratic party that Sverigedemokraterna got the majority of their voters. Either all those people - the party polls between 20% and 25% - are suddenly "right-wing extremists" after having been social democrats for many years, or the narrative upheld by Politico and the referenced Wikipedia article is incorrect.

For those who want to have some more insight into the convoluted history of Swedish politics I recommend reading Aron Flam's "This is a Swedish Tiger" [1], a book which uses a war-time slogan to delve into the history of Swedish nationalism/corporatism.

[1] https://aronflam.com/merchandise/f6onzxj7whzph8klyf0du6iiu80...
> But I could more easily just use my GBP to directly buy Euros, with one less exchange rate and one less transaction in the process.

In this scenario, the transacting bank would need to have (or want) to have GBP for them to sell Euros. While I agree this is a poor example, think of the more obscure conversions. Swedish kronas to South African rands, etc.

Anyway, I won't pretend XRP is a perfect solution. Just seems to me that it solves the edge cases of liquidity while doing so more cost effectively, which in turn benefits the consumer.
But... that's one of the pro's of not having to do the rending cycle on the server. Also caching of framework libraries off CDN's and such.

I don't see much merit in moving back to server side rendering aside from obfuscation & helping SEO ratings (web crawlers have a hard time with SPA)