skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically you can do two things: 1) planned incremental improvements, 2) simpler designs.

For 1), write down the entire manual workflow. Start automating pieces that are easy to automate, even if someone has to run the automation manually. Continue to automate the in-between/manual pieces. For this you can use autonomation to fall back to manual work if complete automation is too difficult/risky.

For 2), look at your system's design. See where the design/tools/implementation/etc limit the ability to easily automate. To replace a given workflow section, you can a) replace some part of your system with a functionally-equivalent but easier to automate solution, or b) embed some new functionality/logic into that section of the system that extends and slightly abstracts the functionality, so that you can later easily replace the old system with a simpler one.

To get extra time/resources to spend on the automation, you can do a cost-benefit analysis. Record the manual processes' impact for a month, and compare this to an automated solution scaled out to 12-36 months (and the cost to automate it). Also include "costs" like time to market for deliverables and quality improvements. Business people really like charts, graphs, and cost saving estimates.
That one technically wouldn’t be legal, the pins must drop by coming in contact with the ball or another pin.
No regrets – things were always going to happen as they happened
Does anyone else use this to positive effect to avoid regret in their own life?

Regret is such a useless, negative emotion.

I often encounter feelings of having wasted years of my life, or having lived through the golden age in tech where so much wealth was created from such simple ideas...and yet I did nothing. As a 30+ year old exposed to computers at such a young age, the amount of disruption that my generation saw was immense. These feelings can be crushing.

Yet, I find solace in the thought that I was always going to follow the path I did...and perhaps there is yet someway that I will make an impact in the years to come. This is thanks to ascribing to the philosophy of physical determinism. I often find I must remind myself of this though - it does not seem to come naturally - but I find it the best way to avoid feelings of regret.

I am curious as to whether others use such simple philosophical beliefs to positive mental benefit. ( Or maybe the avoidance of regret is the cause of continued disappointment in life ;) )

I also think this opens up other very interesting ways of looking at the world too worthy of discussion.
wasn't going to watch it. I'm glad I saw your comment
If this company is growing at the rates PG says it is, then the existing investors should be happy to buy more of the stock.
That would take out the "most developed countries" part...
Adobe isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Yes there are alternatives, Affinity, Pixelmator, etc, but all that's being taught in educational institutions is Adobe, and it's what the industry uses.

Private/small business users are a very small part of their business, but one that requires as many (if not more) support resources as large customers, so if anything they're probably happy to see them go elsewhere.

And no, i haven't used Adobe since they introduced subscriptions. I'll subscribe to media and cloud storage just fine, but not pay annual fees for micro software increments that 99% of the time doesn't add anything i need.

If they had something like Jetbrains where your subscription also gives a perpetual usage license for that specific version, then i could subscribe and upgrade when they actually added something i needed, and i'd likely reconsider.
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>> There is a very small chance that people in US would trust a revolutionary product built outside.

Maybe it's not that revolutionary after all?
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Well, I agree only in part. Their biggest feat wasn't doing IRC in a browser with emojis, it was convincing many companies they actually need it. They also managed to somehow convince the geeks saying "look, you can always use IRC gateways" only to kill them once they secured their position.
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The duration an account is spending on editing Wikipedia posts is one clue to determining if it is a question of a person or a team at work. Teams may benefit from using a single account as privileges are tied to accounts, if I understand it correctly.

This user is however the subject of a ban: if it was a team the clever thing to do would have set up a new account to circumvent the ban. So, Philip Cross is probably just a person with a mission. Agree that we can refrain from any further psychiatric diagnosis at this point.
Links have implied costs far greater than a few KB.
Yeah, I've noticed that on HN with some scammy business practices, there is a definite case of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." People would rather this is allowed and it becomes a game of buyer beware, because in many cases they are the sellers and know the average buyer will not beware.
> I know an engineering researcher who uses a shaft position sensor chip that is also widely employed in EVs. They have been out of stock for months. That little chip could have major implications for many industries and communities.

> "For want of a nail..."

I remember reading an article about how production of Apple Macintosh desktop computers in Texas stopped for the want of a specific kind of screw. If I remember correctly, in China they would have been able to resume work within hours in the worst case.

I have no industry knowledge so no idea of this is true though.
Because eTrade doesn’t do partial shares.

“Why does the stock price matter/it’s all the same in the end” is one of the more privileged things I’ve heard here. By that logic any of the following are statements to take without question:

“why does the price of housing matter?”

“Why does the price of food matter?”

“Why does the price of tuition matter”
Nice,

I once had the idea to create a CVE/Bounty platform running on Ethereum:

- wp:https://github.com/0xdefaceme/whitepaper
The video was great but the first 10 seconds of black screen is questionable.

I want all libraries and frameworks to be presented this way
Thanks for that, you are right. I will amend.
Nominet (.UK) is a membership organization, basically anyone registering more than a few domains would be interested in becoming one. There are some 2,000+ members. The voting is determined by number of domains registered but capped at 3% voting power (so large players like GoDaddy have a large voice - and board seat). Nominet has been trying to go from a non profit entity which provides registry services into a startup under the recent management (many of whom were just fired by the members in the latest vote). They also started paying themselves ridiculous amounts of money (see: the complaints https://publicbenefit.uk/)

The campaign proposed a vote (EGM) on removing 5 board members and putting in two well respected veterans (Sir Michael Lyons and Axel Pawlik) to help steward the organization back to its core mission of running a registry and giving profits to charity instead of raising executive salaries and trying to be a tech company (Nominet tried to do things like self-driving cars and spectrum management, which all failed and lost money).

The campaign was a success despite Nominet spending (millions?) spreading FUD about how government would intervene and it would be a disaster. 5 board members were removed including the CEO (who resigned one day before - what a pathetic way to go). The remaining board then decided to put one removed board member as the interim ceo (yeah, wtf? members literally just voted her out). And now they are ignoring the second half of what the whole campaign was about, reforming the organization, they aren't bringing in Sir Michael Lyons and Axel Pahlik, instead they feel capable to recruit their own.

I'd bet a second EGM coming to remove the rest of the board which continues to spit in the face of its members and ignore their wishes.
I guess the next time this will happen, the rain will be acidic.
What if the founder borrows against their stock to pay the wealth tax? Or uses a sale-and-repurchase agreement? That way, they can use the present value of the stock to pay their taxes, while hanging on to the upside.

You need to account for interest in this situation, but that should be less than the growth of the company.

PG's story doesn't even hold water in dollar terms.
But the existing investors are the ones whose wealth is being taken and being put up on the market. :)

So who is going to buy the existing investor's wealth? Are they just going to buy each other's wealth?
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Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352943 (2012) 46 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074080 (2017) 41 comments
I have a feeling that the problem for a lot of middle-class people isn't wealth inequality but lifestyle. It became normal that one has $500/month car payment for life (which cost you around $3,000,000 over 40 years), or a 2500 sqft house for a family of 2 or 3, or credit card debt of $30,000 on a $60,000/year income.
Kurzgesagt is running an ongoing animated series about ants, highly recommend.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_e0CA_nhaE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqECNYmM23A

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3QTAgHlwEg
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I don't know, I wouldn't welcome it either that's for sure. But the github acquisition went pretty OK so far. I don't think it will be disastrous.

I'm referring to the various overtures between MS and Canonical lately, a lot of collaboration going on. https://pulse.microsoft.com/en/transform-en/na/fa2-canonical...

I don't think it would be the end of desktop Linux but it would mean a focus away from the core principles of Linux (which Canonical was not really that good at following anyway).
Looks like the housing problem comes from the fact that average incomes have not been adjusted for inflation... which means the income of the rich have been over adjusted.
American here. Adobe's actions are indefensible.
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We recently interviewed an Azure expert who started at the age of 7 with simple commands.

You might find it an interesting read = https://mindquest.io/blog/news/1900
It is worth noting that this article is from 2017.
Wendy Carlos's album Switched on Bach is also great.
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Couldn't you say the same for traditional stock exchanges? In that space most of the volume also concentrates on a few ones
In Germany if your tax fraud exceeds a million Euros it's prison for you, though it can be on probation.
Oh man, multiple declaration on the single of code is nasty. Passing this kind of advice causes the beginners to develop bad habits.

At least these are not uninitialised variables.

// Shorthands for multiple declarations:
int i1 = 1, i2 = 2;
float f1 = 1.0, f2 = 2.0;

int b, c;
b = c = 0;

Edited:..
After 1hr of posting my original comment, I noticed that there many opinions here.

I should have added why I think this is bad. Readability and maintenance. I would rather it have one line per declaration like the following..

int i1=2;
int i2=2;

Each variable easier to be changed, and reading it is clearer as there are no ambiguity to its type.

A common error I have see from "the multiple declarations in the single line" construct is that changing the type impacts all the variables whereas the intention was only for the first variable.
We have a real example in the United States called Trump,

Get someone to buy a piece of real estate at allow price who does it anonymously and set it up also to support the valuation of the same piece of real estate at a new inflated price. Tada! You have just laundered some Russian money just by refusing to ask money source questions.

And they real trick is make sure every single piece of real estate is a separate pass-through-LLC as than the IRS is hampered by not having enough audit staff to even examine it.

You think I am joking....not really ask an IRS return examiner.

World-wide one of the easiest ways to launder money still remains the real estate buying and selling.
In startups you get to be wrong only once.
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It might be what part of the industry uses, but they’re steadily losing the rest. E.g. UX design has overwhelmingly moved from Photoshop to Sketch and Figma.
It's the same here in Germany as well, was also the same in Greece and Turkey. I guess the whole Europe is like this, if not everywhere except the US :)
Correction, its not totally black, it says “fwonky intro” xD
If you really want to win as a business with OSS, stop writing OSS. Use it, contribute back to it, support existing projects rather than running your own, donate to important development work. Build your business on it. Don't build your business on the idea that nobody should be able to compete with you using it.
Good, fuck AML laws.
Thank you so much! Man I cannot believe I missed all that drama.
> Russia has a veto voice in the security council. Not really much the UN can do here.

That seems like the kind of problem the UN would have run into and found a solution for within about the first 5 years it existed, instead of leaving it inaddressed for three-quarters of a century.

Oh, that’s because it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assem...
I live in the UK. In the second year, Adobe gave me the same option, don't cancel and get 2 months free, or pay the buyout at full price (I took the 2 months so the cost to me was lower) and set a calendar reminder every day for the month proceeding the end date to make sure I didn't forget to cancel it this time, even if I was busy.
Ah, yes, the timescales may differ. I've always wondered how the estimates of those work for these geological events, as in, how do we estimate the "one-year-damage" curve or something like that. You're most likely right that the K-T may have had a higher peak in this respect.
You cannot browse through a VM locally on iOS.
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12 years ago, a GIF was sold as an app for 1k$ a piece
I agree, but my point was not that armchair economics is wonderful, what I tried to say was that it's often useful to find out precisely where theory and reality diverge and to focus solutions on those gaps, to avoid putting the blame on things that don't matter or suggesting regulation that won't work, like social housing (except as a short term solution), rent control or restrictions on who can buy.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Active Directory is Microsoft's proprietary tech that is a modification of the Kerberos standard, reimplemented most notably in Samba, but client solutions (open and proprietary) also exist.

Group permissions predate AD by decades, PAM by a few years. SSO in today's form is a web phenomenon, so a web-oriented solution makes more sense, and there is a lot of work being done in this direction.
Isn't SELinux supposed to provide exactly this functionality?

The tricky part are the profiles afaik. But this could be solved with some concentrated community effort I guess.

I think AppArmor does something similar (I don't know the differences to SELinux in detail, so if someone like to clarify please go ahead). I remember I've seen some AppArmor related stuff regarding Firefox (and LibreOffice I think) in Ubuntu. So seems not much is missing to have at least an sandboxed web browser out-of-the-box on a Linux desktop.
It's not entirely that simple - if there's a store branded price on the shelf or a sticker, that takes precedence over any MSRP printed on the product itself by the manufacturer. Otherwise people could just rip off store branded stickers and opt out of the store's markup.

Maybe it's just not become an issue since the MSRP on most product packaging here is in £ or $ as they just reuse the UK or sometimes US packaging so it's clear that price is not aimed at Irish consumers.
I agree that regret can distract you from happier and productive thoughts, but we are probably evolved to feel regret because (1) regretting doing X reminds you not to do X again (2) you may avoid doing X knowing that will regret it.

Have you read books about philosophers such as Spinoza who thought about free will?
Amazon has no doubt created wealth as well. However, they have also consolidated wealth and put many small companies out of business. The extent to which they have created new wealth and the extent to which they have taken existing wealth can be argued over, but they have certainly done both. This is not exclusive to Amazon either. The same is done by all huge multinationals, and this has been happening for decades.

It is important to realize the effects that this consolidation has in terms of wage stagnation [1]. This is a very real effect that is felt by a very large percentage of the workforce. By consolidating wealth (and power) in the hands of few large companies those companies are able to pay a lot lower salaries to their employees. If your options are (1) work for Walmart for a low wage, (2) work for Amazon for a low wage, or (3) starve, you will accept whatever wage Amazon or Walmart will offer you.

In other words, as a direct consequence of these multinationals and their mode of operation, millions of people are getting lower salaries today than they would have gotten 50 years ago (adjusted for inflation) whereas overall productivity has gone up significantly. The difference is pocketed by executives and wealthy shareholders of these companies. As a result of those lower salaries, those people are now having trouble paying for core necessities (health care, education, housing).

This is the rising wealth inequality that people are talking about, and the rising wealth inequality that people want to fix.

[1] https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/wage-stagna...
Wage theft should be eradicated.

But what is disingenuous in the article is fact that it compares "wealth" I don't care about how wealthy someone is. If I can afford house and food having a better car is just a bonus.

Graphs going down for middle income does not mean that "rich people" are taking homes of middle income people and throwing them to the streets to die.

What Paul Graham is writing about, is that Economic Mobility has improved with internet and computers. Rich got a lot more rich but loads of people are out of poverty.

We all should focus on educating people and getting them out of poverty not about taking down ultra-rich.
I hear this a lot and on the face of it, it sounds plausible but I have worked with a number of startups from before their founders incorporated and I don't think, "setting up dummy companies in 30 min" is a thing.

You need directors and shareholders for all these companies (and nominee directors aren't really a thing anymore because of the obvious risks), you need to provide a lot of UBO paperwork (ultimate beneficial owner) and even more if you ever want to open a bank account (dummy companies without bank accounts are useless after all).

So while you, as a person, may be able to open a bunch of Ltd.s online (e.g. in GB) in an hour, this means that all these would be in your name and all your data publicly available for everybody.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd like to learn more about this...
No they don't.

The guy took an annual license which is cheaper than a monthly one, and paid with monthly payments.

As such, he engaged himself by paying the whole year, not only few months.

Cancelling out means he has to complete the annual payment, which is of course due, according the what he signed for.
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> I run such less trusted programs on other machines.

You could probably use Qubes OS instead.
Adobe isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

DEC, Commodore, Novell, SGI, Cray, Lotus, and Acorn would like you to explain how a computing companies last forever.
congratulations. that truly sounds awful, and i'm glad you've got this far so we can even have this discussion.

without attempting to belittle your story, i'd place a large bet that for every one of you, there are tens - if not hundreds - of people with a better start/more luck in life, that have worked harder than you, and have less than you do.
The risk is you give them the fuel to breed, creating more ants for the future.
Not being a physicist I can only judge the author's LaTeX skills.
The voice you have in a representative democracy is the right to vote for a candidate that acts as a proxy for your personal opinions, combined with the right to start a political campaign/party if none align with you. The foundation for this is fair elections and lack of censorship. Personally I do feel like I'm having my voice heard when I cast a vote at the ballot box.

I'm not going to entertain your tangential whataboutisms. There are a lot of problems in the world today, we can agree on that.
I've seen the stereotypical difference between new and old-rich many times: the first ones tend to show off and overstate their wealth, the latter do the very opposite.
How do you think the US (and allies Japan and South Korea) would react if China PR marches into Taiwan?

More importantly what do you think China PR thinks the US will do if it marches into Taiwan?
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