skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recently discussed Quantum Terra AG has its HQ in CH even only 3 out of the claimed 80 people are based in CH. It seems companies think that the location-reputation will rub off on the product. Also ProtonMail is another company which until today benefits from having a letter-box presence so they can profit from the "data-center inside the Swiss mountain meme".

Security made in <foo> is always a PR stunt. Deutsche Telecom, 1&1 and others tried it by pouring huge sums into an "Email made in Germany" campaign that only benefited a particular consulting company. It utterly failed because their geo-fencing idea was technically unenforcable.

CH is more dangerous because the same idiotic ideas brought to Switzerland will often take off. Most EU security companies I know would not easily consider CH as a great location unless it has something to do with business strategy: 1) tax, 2) location of a holding company see #1, or 3) sell into the CH market.

On the other hand many non EU based security start-up CEO's often talk about it as it had some security benefit. But as you say this is a huge lie since data protection has nothing to do with banking secrecy and even when the latter is in question a New Mexico LLC is a much more secretive vehicle than a Swiss GmbH/Srl

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail_made_in_Germany

[1] https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/d...
The Poor Angel Investor – Part 1
It was reported, yes. See page 23 here. [1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021...
Seriously. Reminds me of those local news segments of old restaurants closing down and everyone being interviewed are sad and are reminiscing about when they used to go to it "as a kid".
> The calls for revolution just seem like role-play to me. I just don't hear this sort of rhetoric being voiced by people actually doing the work of advancing progressive political causes.

That’s sort of how I felt as well before the BLM riots and various antifa violence (no, not all antifa or BLM protesters are violent). To be honest I think I’m more concerned about the people who implicitly or explicitly condoned the violence than the violence itself. Indeed, I think that suggested to the Capitol Hill rioters that political violence was no longer out-of-bounds; rather, it was legitimate and necessary.

> Maybe it's easier for me to dismiss the illiberalism on the left because I genuinely am not exposed to that much of it.

I am sympathetic to this. With cable news and now social media we’re all being “bubbled” according to what Twitter et al thinks will keep us most engaged, and it’s hard to know how skewed our information stream really is. I’m certainly concerned about my own bubble, and I try to limit the threat of bias by subscribing to a diverse stream of content rather than letting the likes of Twitter curate for me.

> I feel the same way about the behavior of the right in recent months.

I agree. I think the right followed the left’s lead after the media, the academy, silicon valley, Hollywood, and virtually every other prominent cultural institution either condoned or ignored the violence over the summer. It often feels like the left makes/changes the rules and the right reacts/follows suit—with respect to moral relativism, epistemological relativism, in civility, and most recently political violence. I think it’s this perception that the left “leads” the cycle (by way of dominance over the aforementioned influential institutions) that draws my criticism leftward (although I take care to avoid being unduly lenient to the right).

> Yeah pretty much. I believe fascism is gaining political traction. I'm concerned about the increasing militancy of white nationalist groups and the significant number of people in the US who think the election was stolen.

I sympathize and to an extent I agree. The critical difference I think is that I see the rise of the extreme right as a direct consequence of the rise of the extreme left. I don’t think we’ll have much success re-marginalizing the right so long as we continue to condone and tolerate bad behavior on the left. I think we need to reestablish non-partisan norms of honesty, civility, and non-violence and consistently enforce breaches of those ethics whether from the right or the left. I think our double-standard is a powerful driver of the radicalization of the right, and until we correct it, I fear socially censuring the right will only fuel their persecution narrative and bolster their ranks. This is a long-winded way of saying that reigning in the far left feels like a prerequisite to reigning in the far-right. Of course, I remain vigilant to the possibility that I’m wrong.
Because I'd only benefit as a consumer if companies and persons were forced to contribute back their published changes, and even release their stack if its AGPL. I win nothing if Sony makes playstation OS from freebsd but for no reason at all, I can't run games on freebsd. Can you imagine if you could just run all modern games on freebsd? Windows would have been long extinct.
Companies have no family and making a good life for themselves means externalizing as many costs as possible on society. You might enjoy skimming this very long essay https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TxcRbCYHaeL59aY7E/meditation...
The only solution is to roll your own everything. Happy coding! :)
I'd like to add... That guy seems to be ignoring the point of view of somebody that is not the boss/former-owner of the startup that got acquired.
This is more directed to those who tend to lead in every social situation.

You might be perceived more favourably than you feel yourself. Try asking people for feedback on your approach.

The environment is infinitely more powerful in most normal cases.
The Internet does not work any more
Just keep cursing. It's not a big deal.
If I could turn back time? When my wife and I first found out about bitcoin, a single full BTC was about $20 (Australian) when the official GUI came out for it. That was 2013 or 2014. I don't remember exactly.

Thankfully around that time we did manage to get 0.001BTC from some really generous person who was giving everyone a taste of what crypto is all about, from a website called the Bitcoin Faucet.

That tiny bitcoin went from 35c back then to $66 today.
His point is a job is not UBI, you supposed to contribute in return and adjust your schedule along other workers (aka a 'workday'). I dunno why is that so controversial.
Why use this and not iCloud Photo Library, for example?
I agree that this announcement is mostly a PR stunt. I find it more likely that the truth is more along the lines that the Quad9 foundation found themselves with a lack of funding from the original founders and SWITCH agreed to provide additional funding but required them to relocate to Switzerland to do so.
'Baghdad Bob' and His Ridiculous, True Predictions (2013)
What does memorialized mean in IRC?
> It is practically impossible to fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more or there is a better person

I found this surprising. I thought this was primarily a problem in union / government positions.
Not giving a fuck.
That's not "logic", that's reality. What you said is pure speculation.
If the only user you can identify for the majority of your day-to-day tasks is "my boss" or "my boss's boss", then there's probably something wrong.

Everyone gets mandates from on high, but that shouldn't be all of one's work.
> The knowledge of the compiler in a statically typed language can be used in a number of ways, and improving performance is one of them. It’s one of the least important, though, and one of the least interesting.

Erm... no. I don't mean to invalidate the whole article from just this quote, but it's this kind of thinking is what makes today's applications slow, from browsers to office suites and web-sites. Wasting computing resources because you can, is a lazy way of thinking about development in my opinion.
he rarely gives a call to action and if possible avoids naming the cryptocurrency in question

He has put the term "bitcoin" in his twitter bio.
Ikea stores are franchises. Part of their operating model is that the store is the warehouse and the warehouse the store. That makes online commerce challenging as there is always a tension between the stakeholders who "owns" the sale.

I went to the Ikea in Brooklyn back in November... in that store because of limited space they actually put up a tent in the parking garage for fulfillment. It just worked awkwardly.

Other than that, the magic of a place like Ikea is they source from a global market and make it magically appear. In 2020/2021, the magic is broken because global supply chains are broken. In my own business, I have about 18 people working on sourcing various commodities, where as in 2019 we had 4 doing the same job.
Banks in 2017-18: speculative frenzy, dangerous, don't buy, it's heavily manipulated. BTC from high of 20K down to below 10 as regulators in the US make noises about investigations and crack down on exchanges. Bloomberg opinion pieces destroying it as tulips.

Banks in 2021: amnesia. Maybe it's worth it as a hedge. Our clients want it. Mainstream adoption. Regulatory interest to make it easier. Price goes to 50K. New funds being set up by hedge funds and banks. Bloomberg talking about it daily.

I never owned any BTC. But that sequence of events makes me very angry.
> Microsoft uses its own database engine

Microsoft is large and software quality varies. For instance look a Skype, they failed to use their own GUI frameworks and are using Electron i.e. Google Chrome to paint a few controls.

> I think JET just isn’t that robust against that.

I think it is, it's mentioned everywhere:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-st...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2369220/126995
How much energy and water goes into recycling? Collecting, sorting, processing?

Trees grown explicitly for paper still require energy to plant, manage, cut and still represents a habitat loss. Europe has absolutely obliterated its forests. Anything that isn't a net gain is a major issue at this point.
There's a pervasive belief by managers that involuntarily working weekends for an extended period of time will increase rather than decrease the total work done, and that engineering output can be measured in "hours", that I find absolutely ridiculous.

If I think back over the times when I've been most productive, I've had the kind of trusted flexibility that allows me to work 14 hours one day to get a feature in before the big demo, but also leave an hour early the next day to go catch up on all the real life stuff I didn't do. Reading the article, I get the impression the author is praising the 14 hour day while condemning the leaving early, which is failing to see that they're two sides of the same coin. I'm not going to work myself to exhaustion unless my manager helps facilitate it.
Argos sales have been stable at around 4bn gbp a year in recent years as far as I can tell, but finally reported substantial growth after lockdown shifted most of their sales online. I'm not convinced holding on to their catalog as long as they did has done them any favours.
I remember reading about a scandal in the 90's or 00's fashion business where it came out the top modelling and talent agencies were in-effect used as escort agencies by super wealthy clients. The arts have always been seedy, but they have also always been a key path to social mobility, so it's kind of a story as old as time.
It's even worse in my book.
I wonder if there is a bus compatible, FPGA implementation of CP1600?
The IKEA museum has all the (Swedish) catalogues archived here: https://ikeamuseum.com/sv/ikea-kataloger/
My understanding is that the recycling of paper is still quite an intensive chemical process requiring lots of water, bleaching chemicals etc.
Yeah, I need the GUI.
I don't see the advantage. If you use cython then your code becomes quite difficult to use in the rest of the C ecosystem (where your algorithm belongs).
Sick days are compensation?
Yeah, my contract stipulates my working hours are monday to friday. This is what we agreed to when I started working. I will make an exception if the system is on fire (but don't expect me at 9am on Monday after it), but not for a management imposed deadline looking like it will be missed. That just encourages setting tighter deadlines to get more work out of employees.
Sadly as radio goes the way of tv and switches to HD over time, I fear the analog equivalents that you can somewhat easily tune with a simple circuit may not still be around in 20, 30, 40 years.
Commandeer Version 1.7 Released – EBS, ELB, AppSync Query Runner, and More
You should start a thread on twitter, #bttf
I have been in a similar situation in the company I have been working for quite some time now. Instead of sweating on it, I spend my time training new recruits, adding value to other people's work as much as I can, reviewing and trying to resolve bottlenecks I see. In the end, I am adding more value than I used to add by working on the tasks myself.
Not that I'm supporting asexual erasure, but sayings like the quote in GP are usually fairly general. Statistically, there are much much fewer asexual people than not, so in general it may hold but that's not to say it holds for every single person.
> if Jeff Besos would come to you and say: I invest into your startup $100M if I can fuck you into the ass tree times, very high percentage of HN crowd would immediately say yes.

What's the name for this kind of arguments?

Also, why specifically Bezos? Why not the billionaire next door?

Also, why only the HN crowd? Wouldn't a lot of people too?

Do you have a beef with the HN crowd or Bezos?
Hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere here but I can recommend MasterPassword anecdotally, which has a novel approach to cross-device password management.
It needs to support Linux though.
There's also this lovely comment in the "focus" session where he plainly asserted that "privacy has no value to his users".
>I've never really seen this, but you're probably on the right track. In the US, the whole basis of our food system is centered around grains, especially corn. There are a lot of vested interests that want us to keep consuming as much of their product as possible.

I guess even before the keto crotch thing that died quickly. The source of the keto craze was from Australia. Known for the various meat exports, their recommended diet coming from the government literally said dont eat meat because it's cancer. The government was like WTF and investigated. Found that the dieticians of australia were receiving millions of $ from the cereal companies. Clear and obvious conflict of interest. Yet the dieticians said nope they didnt have conflict of interest because this was widely known science.

So the government did a bunch of studies and went further basically testing if they were right. They found the complete opposite was true. That not only were the cereal companies responsible for the mess, they were clearly fabricating science. Thats when they initiated diabetes studies. They selected some smaller towns and targetted people on heavy diabetes meds and put them on high fat keto. They were supposed to go for a year but after like 6 months they practically cured these people's type 2 diabetes. The news of them pushed a huge amount of people follow suit.

Now you have most diabetes organizations recommending keto. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/keto/ https://www.diabetes.ca/nutrition---fitness/meal-planning/7-...

The ironic thing, you can still see the manipulation. They will go about mentioning carbs but American Diabetes Association is still reocmmending heavy carb eaying. Australia diabetes doesnt even have it on their website anymore: https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/low-...

The reality is that we know the fix, but there's a ton of interest in killing keto.

>But honestly, you have to be able to let yourself 'cheat' sometimes. You're not going out to eat to be healthy, it's to be social and have fun. So sometimes you gotta just enjoy yourself. A couple cheat meals a week isn't going to derail the whole diet, and if you are too hard on yourself it can become exhausting.

For me, I'll do the occasional pizza or some noodle meal. My main thing was that I always more or less wanted to eat this way but I took the advice of experts who pushed ultra carbs as healthy. Then I learnt oh wait apparently the food guide has nothing at all to do with healthy eating.
I'm appalled, what kind of a man do you think I am?
I can't speak to a fireplace by itself, but anyone who uses wood as a primary source for heat will have a wood stove or furnace.

Wood stoves and furnaces are pretty advanced these days, some of them have catalytic "converters" (I guess that's the term).

A fireplace looks nice, but doesn't do much else other than that.
I wouldn't put it that way, but I think you're referring to something real. I'm not musical but I was quite active in theatre from a young age and there seems to be a skill around dissociation that is necessary to perform. There's something incredibly intimate that happens between a performer and the audience, someone comfortable with that kind of intimacy with that many strangers probably couldn't have certain kinds of core values anyway.
What is so special about "Why did I leave Google" posts? Any one else sick of these overlords/ superhuman / apex people outcries?
Show HN: On-demand doubt solving app for K-12 students
I can agree with that last statement. Every house I've seen has had a gas fireplace, but I live in the metro area of a city that (in)famously only owned a single snowplow.
Text and more broadly natural language is actually a stunningly low-bandwidth form of communication. The reason it works so well despite being low-bandwidth is that we humans share an incredible amount of shared experience and common knowledge, and so the limited amount of information in text can refer to a much wider set of knowledge and assumptions and our brains are able to make inferences and use context in a remarkable way to fill in the blanks.

To take an analogy, think of writing text as analogous to compressing data using a Huffman code. Our ideas correspond to the initial uncompressed data, natural language text corresponds to compressions of those source data, while our brains correspond to the Huffman tree that tells you how to decompress. With our brains/context we can recover the initial ideas, just like with the Huffman tree we can recover the uncompressed data. Without the Huffman tree, the compressed data are gibberish.

On the one hand this means that text is really powerful as the author says; we can store an incredible amount of information in a small amount space, and can reconstruct the source idea the text represents efficiently (if with some amount of ambiguity and error).

On the other hand text is very far from universal. Anyone who sees the Twitter logo sees the exact same thing (interpreting it as a bird, of course, requires the prior knowledge of what a bird is and looks like). However, anyone who sees a piece of text not only needs to understand the language it's written in, but also all of the ideas that it refers to. That's why we still have many examples of languages and texts that are undecipherable: we've lost the context they were originally written in. Even Egyptian hieroglyphics were undecipherable until the 1800s when people used the Rosetta stone to provide context to decipher it.

Text has further issues as well, chief among them its ambiguity. Not only is it easy to under-specify things in text, but it's also possible for the same piece of text to mean different things at different times and places.

As a culture these issues may be strengths; poetry and literature derive strength from this openness to interpretation, and many would argue so does law where statutes written centuries ago can be adapted to our time. But from a purely data storage and transmission perspective, these are clear weaknesses.
I'm having trouble defining exactly how to phrase what I'm after.

Basically it's for a large collection of sensors in the field which require data to be routinely manually validated and modified
$900m gaffe: US judge says Citigroup can’t recoup Revlon payout
It makes my wonder, just how prevalent is that in the tech industry? I'm pretty sure it falls somewhere between 0 and music industry, non-inclusively.
> I think it's safe to say that there is no wildlife in Europe, so this is more or less correct.

You don't go out too much, do you? In my municipality we have wolves - at a population density of 214 ppl/km² no less. Since there's no recorded killings of livestock by wolves and they have to eat something, it's save to assume we're OK on boars and deer, too. Not to mention the rabbits, hares, badgers, various songbirds, birds of prey, insects and other critters I encounter on a daily basis when walking the dog. Through the local woods. Which are very much filled with wildlife.

edit: I got the population density wrong - it's actually much lower if the entire area is considered, not just the town :) the correct figure including all land would be ~45 ppl/km².
Pulp production.
Possibly true, but so what? Every little bit helps and this seems like an easy win, ecologically speaking.

I hate to think how much junk mail I receive every year. We use a 14 gallon recycling bin and it's about half full of waste paper mail EVERY WEEK in the USA. Catalogs, flyers, credit card offers, loan offers, etc. It's disgusting and I can't opt out.
To continue the "gardening" analogy: sure. Continuous pruning, weeding (refactoring) and fertilizing (keeping up to date) is needed.

But this is easier and more rewarding in a garden that is well layed out and allows flexibility to move things around.

An old, crumbling shed, in the middle of that garden limits what you can do with it. It is always in the way, always visible and often defines the entire garden, when you really don't find it that important.

A gem, like devise, defines what your users are (it limits your freedom to define the Domain model), how your onboarding flow works (which is probably your most important money-maker) and what features you can implement and what not.

When you started with the garden, it was handy to have a quick and ready place to store your tools. So the first cheap, off-the-shelve shed, is the best solution. But once your garden is defined, you probably want to move it aside, nicely integrated in your garden and well maintained and exactly large enough for your tools, so it leaves as much space for your flowers and trees -the stuff that matters-.
There aren't that many European EV products in the US market that are available. The ID.4 is announced and it can be reserved, but you can't drive one today from what I know.
BBC Radio 4 had a piece about this a couple of weeks ago, although I was listening to it on the way in for a night shift...

I will try and dig it out, apparently it is more common than you’d think.

Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q3r7
I guess somewhat related to this:
"Respectfully dealing with fedizens who are deceased" [0].

[0]: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/respectfully-dealing-w...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic