skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a couple other replies have mentioned, determining insolvency and when to file bankruptcy is a bit more complicated than this simple comparison. A quick counterpoint - you start a company on Day 1 and put $1 into the company; on Day 2, you borrow $10, but with the costs associated with borrowing, you only net $8 cash; at that point, you have outstanding debt (liabilities) of $10, but cash (assets) of $9; your new company is not insolvent, however - you can take that $9 and generate additional cash flows that allow you to repay the $10 debt in the future. While certainly not common, there are plenty of companies operating that have negative equity - it certainly is an indicator of a company having some challenges, but not an absolute that the company should be dissolved.
> "In the repair cafes we see a lot of devices that broke shortly after the warranty expired,"

It'd be interesting to see actual stats rather than an anecdote. I think the devices listed in this article already last 10 years unless you're unlucky.

There may be a bias in their impression: If a device is under guarantee obviously people won't visit a 'repair cafe'. But I'm thinking that if the device is old they may not bother either, so I'm suspecting that a fault in the year or two after the guarantee expires is the period people will try to have the device repaired (they are gutted that it's just out of guarantee and it's still new enough that they don't want to throw it away) even if that event is rare overall.

In general, if a repair is needed a big issue is the cost. Sure it is easier (or simply indeed just doable) to repair if the device can be taken apart and spare parts are available, but the cost of labour (callout, plus investigation, plus sourcing part, plus actual repair) quickly adds up to a point where people may simply choose not to bother and buy a new device.

I'm willing to spend £500 to repair a boiler that would cost me £1500+ to replace, but a £30 hairdryer stops working and I'll just get another one off Amazon without even considering to have it repaired. Appliances like fridges and washers fall in between.

So I think we need to wait and see if this 'right to repair' makes much difference in practice. It may also push prices up.
Next step: SSH automatically paste password from Keychain/OnePass/LastPass after Touch ID.
I love this project. In high school I started a group in my school district to collect or buy the remotes and install these in teacher's classrooms. We installed over 200 of them! Back then there was a healthy community online of people porting the software and building and selling the infrared pens. I learned to solder for the first time turning dollar store plastic pointers into infrared pens. The best setup was to use a 3D printed clip to mount the remote to the drop ceilings in the classrooms- this made it more difficult for a student or teacher to obstruct the camera while using the board and made it harder for someone to accidentally knock the remote which would then require the teacher to recalibrate (a process involving tapping targets at the boundaries of the projected screen).
As I said before, I am deeply troubled by what is happening in HK. I don't like China one bit and I would be so incredibly happy if it became a democracy.

If you look at this through the lens of morality, it is obvious that there should be a tougher stance on what is happening in Hong Kong, and not just Hong Kong.

I was replying to the original post directly, where the wording was "I can't believe the world watched as a democratic city turned into totalitarianism".

Hong Kong is a region in China, whether we want it or not, regardless of its history and the feelings of its people. China did not invade some independent nation and started to push totalitarianism down its throat, they just did it in their own country. Whether we like it or not, the world is divided into countries and those countries govern as they please.
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I have an idea how to educate kids to scale: don't.

Unfortunately, the American genius is for replacing labor with machinery. When we encounter a field in which that simply doesn't work, we are thrown for a loss.
I feel like all these urban-Japan examples are more "only in the most densely populated places" rather than "even". If demand is high enough then you can absolutely support multiple competing routes: they all get enough passengers to survive, and the denser coverage is beneficial. It's when you get a bit further out and into smaller or less dense areas that it starts to get tricky -- different private railways end up complementary to each other as they serve different suburbs but are the only railway for most of the places they serve.
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As a side note, there's also the wonderful pam_yubiko module that allows you to require touching your yubikey to sudo or login.
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yeah we do not push an etl pipeline through json unless we have to (and generally cannot), most etl-scale data engineering we do is almost all arrow/parquet/orc/protobuf etc, and slow legacy, odbc/json, which is streams that we turn into typed and compact data. I think json fine for command/metadata layers though, esp early on, but pretty core to what I look for an etl/streaming tool is out-of-the-box foundations for the data plane

the good news is the implicitly typed json examples look arrow friendly, so users can to/from_json if they don't care about data speed/quality like when prototyping and not think about it. there may be other data-engineering-friendly formats that'd work too.

prefect, dask, and friends solve it by abstracting over it. you can send whatever you want.. and it happens to be friendly to dataframes (pydata) / compact & typed data. but there projects seem to be more about source/sink, so encouraging structure by default would be helpful...
Fully agree but this will not happen and it's also too late building nuclear plants takes decades and the know how to construct them is also gone in Germany. We will try to shut off coal plants until we get a huge blackout then we go back to coal.
Tesla shares are being driven more by Reddit posts rather than fundamentals
> Since functional languages are based on the mathematical idea of function application, this is a weird request.

Well, imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine, but they look nothing like one.
TIL US actually turns off your water if you don't pay. More used to flow restrictions. i.e. You'll have water to keep you alive but good luck showering with 10% the normal pressure.
If you are interested in learning Haskell, do not start with Snoyman's blogs. They are good, but not something a true beginner should be bothered with.

I can recommend the https://haskellbook.com as an introducing resource.

If you want to dabble with something simpler/cleaner than Haskell, try Elm. It is just for browser apps, but extremely powerful and beginner friendly. You do not even have to install anything when you use this online tool: https://ellie-app.com/new
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> The point is that not all integers over `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` can be represented. Some can, of course.

Right. This contradicts the article.

> 2^53 - 1 comes from the 64-Bit floating point representation JS uses

Right.
* I suppose, though, that if people are chasing lucrative scholarships to college lightweight teams that might be an incentive...*

Scholarships for men's rowing largely don't exist. There are a few schools with full varsity programs, but not many.

Women's rowing, as a scholarship activity, is a largely new thing - there was a massive increase in women's rowing in the 1990s in order to comply with federal regulations. The men's football (American, not soccer) team has 85 scholarships available - rowing is an easy way to add 20+ women's scholarships.

As for lightweights in high school, I was one. If there was no lightweight program, I likely would have stuck to XC running. No way I could compete against the typical 180lb+ heavyweight at 140lbs.
> You are also more or less forced to learn to do mechanic work.

You are forced to do all your own work, unless the landlord will help. I am no longer poor and broke, but I spent roughly my first three decades there. I recall a colleague saying they were redoing their walk way; it blew my mind they paid someone to do it — the concept of paying someone to do something for you is not something I experienced growing up. I now can afford contractors and it still is not my first (or second or third) thought when I need work done.
> Car crashes...because they are rushing to the scene of a crime? Chasing a dangerous criminal?

Mostly because they drive a lot.

> Heart attacks...because they push themselves beyond their own limits for the safety of the public?

Sure it's stressful, but heart attacks are one of the leading causes of death in America.

> And in what world does "It's not in the X most dangerous jobs category" mean

It means that the rhetoric coming from their unions and their own training is overblown. IT is obviously a dangerous job, but for example working as a roofer or cab driver are far more dangerous. It's about perspective. And in most parts of the country it isn't a dangerous job at all. I don't think it should be controversial to talk about these things in context and to make use of factual information.
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I spent a few years working for a small environmental advocacy group in small-town USA. One thing you could do is branch out your skills and learn GIS, then offer that to small groups who are doing environmental advocacy.

These groups are crazy desperate for more people who know how to use GIS software, because there are needs for good mapping in almost every single aspect of the work they do. The issue is that anyone who is good enough at GIS to be useful can get a job elsewhere making 2-3x more money. Maybe they don't get to go help release a rehabbed sea turtle back into the ocean during their lunch break at that other job, but cash is king I guess. At my org we had an ex-high school history teacher working part time learning to use ArcGIS from youtube so we could present results of a bicycle infrastructure plan to local city councilpeople. For another project we paid a shit ton of money (like, more money than was responsible to spend for an org. of our size) for an architectural firm to basically come in with their intern who knows GIS and create maps with overlays of how much money the city would save with new stormwater infrastructure in key places.
Awesome, congrats.

I'm curious how one enters such contract. Did you bill hourly?
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Yeah, it used to work well in mobile browser, then only in desktop mode in mobile browser, then not at all. Now it only "kinda sorta" works in desktop browser on ridiculously overpowered PC.
Gotta keep the walls tight in that private garden.
I second this statement. I find that my code across different paradigms (imperative/OO/FP) has become a lot cleaner as a result of learning a purely functional language that makes it impossible[0] to call an impure function from a pure one, among other things.

Also, since Haskell has a lot of advanced type system features, whatever feature that gains traction in other languages (traits in Rust and Swift, optional chaining, async/await) I find much easier to learn as they are usually specializations of more general concepts in Haskell.

And as someone who also studies mathematics, the connections between functional programming and areas like logic, order theory and category theory run deep—programs can too become objects of mathematical study, with their correctness proved and refactoring sound.

[0] with exceptionally rare caveats
It still strikes me as weird that Apple went with Touch ID vs Face ID on the Mac. Computer form factors in general, and particularly notebooks and AIOs, should be perfect for Face ID: the user is always at a good distance, in the right position, looking at it, and as you say will frequently have their hands otherwise occupied actually controlling the system. For that matter a Face ID+iPhone-quality camera thing for Macs that could attach to an external monitor would be a pretty useful value-add, and it would equalize things across all Macs meaning it could be depended on more. It's remained really perplexing that year after year when Apple left Touch ID far behind on iOS they haven't installed Face ID where it'd be even better. I assume this is mainly another one of many symptoms of Apple just not being able to multitask very well and the Mac not really getting that much concerted attention.
The SMoM was a useful entity for NATO when it came to the Cold War. Italy was forbidden from operating a large airforce under the settlement terms. The SMoM allowed Italy to field a much larger airforce than it would have otherwise been allowed to.

It is allowed because the Order effectively predates the nation state as we currently know it today, and it is influential with one of the largest and most influential non governmental organisations ever, the Catholic Church.
The last place I rented from took my deposit for damage they knew existed before I started renting. (They literally painted over mold in the kitchen closet.) Then they tried to send me a $1000+ bill over a year later for “damages”.
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Imagine there was an AOL executive in charge of AIM, and that Mark Zuckerberg offered the guy hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Facebook stock to hobble efforts to keep the platform relevant. Sounds like a totally crazy conspiracy theory, right? After all, it would have been totally obviously suspicious if someone made hundreds of millions of dollars by simply jumping from one middle-management role to another, right?
This is just abuse. I've flagged you.
> They toute the safety and maintainability for their choice, claiming it's the language of choice for banking institutions

So is COBOL. Doesn't mean anything, really. Bankers' choices in tech probably has nothing to do with ideological/purity issues in software development.
The thing is that this makes it almost impossible to chat to people over text these days. If you try it, it's an infuriating experience where you wait several minutes for a reply every time. In the old days, you could actually have a text conversation with someone on MSN messenger.
Ah, now I see it the whole point - "reliably representable" not meaning the same as "safe", gotcha.
I believe this overlaps with basic general problem solving. My observation is that many adults are paralyzed by the risk of revealing their lack of skill or knowledge, and therefore avoid situations where they will visibly fail, speak in error, etc. In business meetings, often this necessary “basic questioner” role is left to the “smartest person in the room” who isn’t worried about being seen as deficient because they know they are not.

It’s a powerful, influential position. See also Being There.
Developers probably knew about this, but executives didn't care when getting int monetary calculations.
> I wouldn't recommend a language tie itself to GCC

Okay! I misunderstood you then, sorry. I think one of the hardest parts about this conversation is that there are so many different people with various, but overlapping, opinions. A lot of folks do think this way, and I thought that's what you were saying. My bad.

> Getting it upstreamed is another

You do not need it to be upstreamed in order to build Rust, we build with our own modified LLVM by default, so using it is quite easy.
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Cloud Nine is the name Buckminster Fuller gave to his proposed airborne habitats created from giant geodesic spheres, which might be made to levitate by slightly heating the air inside above the ambient temperature.
nice, I hadn't spotted that. Not much to go on in the screenshot but what is there looks similar to the sample in the linked article
The watch is already used on other parts of the MacOS (anything in System Preferences), I don't think that sudo is much different than allowing kernel extension to run, for example.
Are you referencing someone specific here?
I want a mouse with Touch ID in the button. Or on the side.
I highly recommend messing around with yabasic[0] a bit,
runs on windows and (probably) most unix-likes, and even offers graphics capabilities right out of the box!

I feel like this would've been a great batteries-included environment to start in, back when I started programming.

[0] http://www.yabasic.de/
Regarding the SPAC deal. How does that work? Do the two companies merge into one and then are renamed, while also renaming the ticker from VACQ to RKLB.

Does that mean that VACQ stock owners will become RKLB owners when the deal goes through?
Yep, the US healthcare system basically means you have to be a multimillionaire when you've retired if you want to have any semblance of a comfortable retirement, because any serious injury or health issue (which will happen at some point) will do a damn good job of sucking up most or all of that money away super fast.

If you're younger at least you might get lucky with GoFundMe "insurance", but that requires your story being sad or unusual enough to go viral, or you have a large family and friends network (starting a donation campaign on GoFundMe.com, what just about every American has to rely on for serious health expenses nowadays). If you're old you're probably not going to be pulling at enough heart strings to rely on this, though.
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This varies on a state-by-state basis. In Chicago, rental protections allow for the rentee to sue for beyond the deposit, as well as their lawyer's wages, in the case of a security deposit being wrongly taken. I know because I won back a lot of money from bogus 'damage' claims. Other states have laws that lean towards favoring the renter.

Since we're throwing anecdotes out there, I've had my landlords attempt to wrongly and knowingly take money from my security deposit about 30% of the time. The lower-class the apartment is, the more likely the owner is a slumlord, and will try to scam you.
shift Z Z is faster.
Upper middle class know-it-alls sneer at the bad financial decisions of the guy living in the double wide with a brand new corvette in the driveway while the lower middle class looks up to his efficiency and prioritization.

A yacht is the same thing with the decimal moved a couple places. If your income is fat enough to give you 10m in the bank then you can definitely own a yacht so long as you don't mind living in the kind of neighborhood where your neighbors are plumbers instead of surgeons.
Touch ID is awesome, but I semi-regularly use the APFS snapshot rollback feature and it erases my finger prints.

Does anyone know why this happens? I was very happy when I found out APFS is CoW but it kind of sucks that restoring an old snapshot apparently erases the secure enclave in my M1 chip.
> If this cooperative was not the platform, what exactly is the platform being discussed?

The power grid is the platform; I'm not sure how the original poster intended to apply the platform argument to the cooperative.

As far as recreating the cooperative goes: it doesn't need to start large, and I'm reasonably sure it doesn't hold much in assets. My understanding is that this cooperative is simply a collective of buyers who "pool their shopping", so money flows in and back out. A new cooperative may need to work its way back up to bulk pricing, but that should be doable?
That remains to be seen. The world has been trending towards democracy for a few hundred years.
I suspect the main reason is that the face-id camera module is too thick and they'd need to increase the thickness of the display casing. If there's on thing the Mac designers will never allow it's a thicker laptop.
As others have said: same!

In addition to expanding my thinking and making be a better developer in other languages, I think Haskell has made me expect more of programming languages. In a positive way. Things can be better than they are. That doesn't mean things should be Haskell. But they can be better.
there are many such syntax generator websites for simple video conversion like tasks. see:

https://www.mrfdev.com/ffmpeg-command-generator

http://www.mackinger.at/ffmpeg/

https://marceauka.github.io/ffmpeg-generator/#
What would stop someone submitting a PR that updates the workflow trigger to run immediately? It feels like this in more of a fundamental problem with "Putting your CI definition alongside your code".

I seem to remember that a CI run for a PR takes the workflow file from the HEAD of the branch, rather than master. But I'd have to check.
Very location dependant.

In my city the majourity of panhandlers you see have homes, and choose not to work and beg on the street. You can tell who's homeless because they don't bother you, they sit in silence, or in front of a shelter. Or they ask for food rather than money.

People harassing you for money? Panhandlers.

I'm sure it's different in cities that have higher costs of living s.t. a min wage earner can't afford rent anywhere.
The Death of Freedom by Software
I feel like it’s only a matter of time
It's not first time the experts make mistakes in their catastrophic predictions:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e...

And let's not forget our dear Al-Gore saying the ice on the artic would be vanished by 2014 :)
Corporate income tax is too easy to game. I wish it was replaced by an enhanced income tax.

Here is an article with a nice chart:

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-corpo...
Less likely to accidentally fool you into tapping the finger sensor vs fool you into showing your face to the camera
On Ubuntu it is a yearly thing googling how to change DNS settings. There is always another level where the file pointing saying to not change the file and then pointing to the next file that does not should be edited.
> If you're the best hole-digger in the world, and people are constantly trying to hire you to dig holes so that they can fill them in, then you would be highly paid - but would your work be "valuable"?

If people get transcendent joy out of filling in holes, or the filling-in of holes otherwise matters to them, then this is valuable. In a real-world scenario, it's a bullshit job: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/
Make tests a part of your app
Yeah some. Landlord pocketing the interest on it can happen, and if they're nasty they might argue re you can't get it all back cause of a scratch on the floor over there but just straight up refusal is insane
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I think, like majewsky says, it is a bit more complicated than it may initially seem. However, even if we assume that it is trivial, there's other problems. Sure, maybe it would. But who is going to do that work? We're an open source project. Effort is not fungible. On some level, we can only get stuff done when there's a sufficient need for it, and while there have been some folks talking about this in the last week or so, historically, it just hasn't been a massive issue. If it is a massive problem for someone, they should solve it! The Rust project's stance has been open to new platforms, and will continue to be so. But we need experts in those areas to help us help themselves.