skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, you seem to lack knowledge here. Your example of a grocery store is B2C with no knowledge of the customers. The pipeline is B2B with legal contracts in place and use invoices.

You can order dozens of types of oil through the pipeline. With travel distances of thousands of miles, many destinations, and the need for product segregation, the pipeline knows where all the oil is going.

If they couldn’t track segregation and destinations in the pipeline, that is a good reason to shut down. If they were just going to be delayed in sending out invoices or had to input some items into the system manually after recovery, they most definitely should not have shut down.
Org Mode was the reason why I switched to Emacs and my only regret is I did not do it sooner. Personal diary, organizer, knowledge base with literate programming blocks, many, many other things - everything is in one tool, crosslinked, in plain text, version controlled. It is the tool I have been looking for my whole life, I've no idea how I missed it earlier, it could have made me a better organized person long time ago.

Emacs learning curve is steep, obviously, but it worth the time and effort. There are configuration frameworks that make the initial steps somewhat easier (i.e. Doom Emacs). Also, Emacs community is awesome and super friendly.
I've never, in any other conflict, witnessed a public opinion on the side of the aggressor. I've never, in any other conflict, seen an army that's not fighting overseas, but is desperately trying to prevent massive loss of life in it's own population, accused of "disproportionate" response — even though it would take measures to prevent any casualties that are completely unprecedented in world practices and makes achieving it's goals (see above) significantly harder. I've never in my life seen calls for genocide of entire nation (that's exactly what "from the river to the sea" means, if you're not aware) widely supported through out the world.

Every time this conflict happens again, I can't help but realise that if it was not for IDF, my family would have long have been brutally killed, and all those first-world liberals who're so busy fighting for their causes wouldn't even mind.
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I bought two expensive ones. Read all about how to look after them. Despite many efforts over ages I couldn’t get it right and finally threw them in the trash. I’d rather have a subscription to inexpensive non stick pans.

I don’t want to season pans. I want to eat dinner.
But who would put it into context how much faster it needs to happen? The quickest numbers I found are that total renewables energy production is about 7000TWh/year. Whereas global primary energy consumption is 160,000TWh/year. So a lot more needs to happen a lot faster.
I think you've touched on something really important. There are definitely times where my emotional reaction to something doesn't line up with how I'd ideally feel. Most of the time I can moderate my response, sometimes not. But I think getting better at this comes with practise, and without inviting those kinds of conversations, I'll never get better.

> They say this to appear strong, but if you take them up to their word and actually tell them the truth, they either get upset or completely shut you down. I have had many experiences of this, and one again pretty recently.

Are these people you'd consider yourself very close with?
Not entirely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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An invoice would say “you owe $x for y gallons of gas” not “hey pay us some money for that gas you got”
> alcohol in and of it’s self can be deadly but it’s not nearly as bad as these comparisons generally suggest.

This is such a weird view.

Alcohol is addictive, causes a huge variety of mental health issues and can kill through both chronic and acute exposure.

It's not just that use is widespread, and if it is abused, that's part of the issue, that people are prone to abuse it!
And talking of interesting spelling, it's "Philips", not "Phillips".
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It's not enabled by default, but unfortunately I've seen many SSH config related articles that advocate some scary stuff like setting ForwardAgent yes for Host * combined with ssh-add <every-key> in .zshrc/.bashrc
Some rate dependent number of customers and employees in the that country. Also assets held in that country and capital gains made in that country.
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> Would you bet millions of dollars on the goodness of the typical person?

This is about business to business, not business to consumer. I suggest to talk to a financial/accounting person in a big company. Often enough there are mistakes in payments that are only noticed by the other business. This despite all the various layers that should've prevented the entire problem.

I don't mean small mistakes either, I mean where someone wanted to enter something like 1234.56 (two decimals), but it ended up as 1234560.00. Basically a mixup between the decimal and thousand separator; such mistakes happen way more often than you'd think. I've heard various stories of a vendor notifying the company that they've been overpaid, e.g. the 1000 times what it should've been, but also various other kinds of mistakes.

Some companies have been working together for various decades. Employees might've switched between the companies, people know each other. It really isn't uncommon to have quite a bit of trust between companies. Obviously, this does depend on the country. In some parts of the world there's more trust than other parts.
>or it's easier in your mind because you've seen it more

I think the point OP is making is that if you need to use your mind at all with <2 seconds left you're going to lose. Pre moving safe legal moves without hitting a stalemate is definitely easier without a queen.
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From my experience, a lot of buses in Africa and East Asia are run by private companies or individuals, not municipalities. So the number could very well be correct.
Digital IDs might sound like a good idea but could be a privacy nightmare
That matches with my recollection too. I remember getting a specific model of a LiteOn drive specifically to ensure that I had the ability to do this, both for data recovery and because some forms of copy protection abused disc read errors and made reading your own CDs a (kernel blocking) pain under linux. I think the source of `cdparanoia` [1] has some good examples.

[1] https://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html
The group of 5 checkboxes doesn't appear to show up on firefox 88.01/linux.
That's not in any way similar. The Colonial Pipeline was not shut down because they ran out of petroleum to distribute.
I wrote a basic static site generator [1] using Python (and Jinja) to spit out pages for my personal site [2].

1: https://github.com/RonitRay/ecstatic

2: https://ronitray.xyz/

I didn't know Ruby (for Jekyll) or Go (for Hugo) and while you may not need to know them to get started, I didn't want the learning curve or bulky dependencies to cause friction in the workflow. Also, I just didn't like any of the standard templates and didn't want to think about how I would edit them to suit my needs.
For good reasons, unfortunately. The intensity of renewable energy land usage is staggering in some places.
Honestly I think myself and Chris (@scarybeast) would like to know too...! We've been learning as we go along.

Certainly I'd like to make contact with other people who are working in this area and compare notes... if anyone doing so is reading this, please do make contact. I'm on Twitter under the same username, Chris is @scarybeasts.

If you prefer email you can stick "@gmail.com" at the end of my HN username to get that :)

At the moment I'm working on cleaning up the remains of the DiscFerret project, and turning the project website into a general retrocomputing data recovery wiki.
the difference is that e.g lol constantly changes and you'd have to relearn significant part of game every iirc 2 weeks

also those games are waaaaaaaaay more complex than e.g chess

I guess we'd need giant advance in computational power in order to analyze hundreds of thousands of matches
You might want to consider that lots african governments and legal cultures are awful, completely disconnected from the colour of their citizens skin!
How India is fighting with coronavirus?
A thought just occurred to me.

In ancient civilizations as in Cuba, there's a state (church, pharaoh, etc) monopoly on marketing. All the power now dispersed to sneaker sellers, political lobbyists and SEOs was concentrated. "Everyone should believe, want or object to X" was an achievable goal. That may be what made pyramids possible.

Cornerstone of civilization.
There is always a balance between convenience and security. Marketing tends to hate forcing 2FA as it hurts conversions for example.

I think we can do a lot by thinking about only storing the data that is needed and for only the time that is needed. I think GDPR has been a first step in the right direction and it also adds fines for abusers.
Putting on my cynical hat, I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of police K9 handlers (the ones who understand animal training and are capable of this) intentionally train their dogs to alert to some surreptitious signal (in addition to drugs). That way they can get "probable cause" to search whenever they want to, without having the dog alert 100% of the time.
True, but still: a lot of (big) businesses are still quite unhappy if they didn't pay what they should've paid. It also creates an uncertainty for them, there's often various years where the money can be requested back. Plus as far as I know, if you notice an error there's various financial rules you need to follow. You cannot just treat it as "cost saved". As a result, it is way easier to notify the other party and get a mistake fixed.
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Better not turn into another major service disruption or else I'll have to reset the counter.
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They might block ads, but they'll also blur out nudity.
There are some restrictions on when the utilities can shut off your power, water, electricity, etc. Whether gasoline should be regulated like a utility is an interesting question. Given how dependent on cars most Americans are, seems like a reasonable conversation to have.
Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
I'll be starting to work on a new project from next month and I've been reading all but good news about Elixir. I have talked to people in real life, most of the devs had positive things to say about it. Does anyone have any arguments against selecting Elixir? Question coming from RoR developer.
Many of these are purely subjective. A 2pt line separator is not more "correct" than a 0.5pt one. Rounded box corners are not more "correct" than square ones. We are just trying to guess the author's own design preference.

I did enjoy the parts which were clearly about identifying errors or inconsistencies in design.
Night shift work in factories is also accompanied by unrealistic expectations. It's expected to work as efficient as during daylight shifts and personally I wasn't able to achieve that. A couple of people did that, but I don't think that anything of this is healthy or good for the worker.

Sleeping during the morning isn't that great, you need really good blinds and sometimes ear protection because it's loud out there.

If we were build to work during the night, we would have headlights instead of eyes was a pretty good union slogan during my time.

I'm happy I moved on but would think it would be better for everyone to not work during the night as during the day.
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I was in a fast-food restaurant when their credit card processor went down. They continued to take orders and if the customer didn't have cash the food was free. The cost of poor service and losing repeat customers was greater than the reduction in profit.

Now, this was a semi-independent franchise owned by a local family. Across the street, the chain big-box store had the same thing happen and they put a sign on the door saying "cash only".
I once tried using a cheap wok pan to cook some rice and veggies, but due to how hot its bottom got (didn't have another pan), I ended up having to scrub it for about 30 minutes. Certainly taught me a thing or two.

Counterpoint: not everyone wants the cognitive load of having to pay constant attention to what they're doing and neither should they.
Or shadow offset. Or kerning. Gave up in the the "hard" section because it became "spot the Apple defaults".
I just can't fathom how anyone thought it was a good idea to keep changing viruses in a lab with the sole purpose of making them capable of infecting humans. This kind of research needs to be banned. And people who allowed it to happen (in the US and in China) need to be held accountable.
Basing a business on the availability of roads and traffics regulation (lights, etc.), payed by the public and not paying money for it shows us lots of the psychology of the decision makers: "We are not the stupid, tax paying public, we are something better."
Very welcome. It is nice it can provided 31KHz+ output.

If I find something's missing and could likely be easily added, it'd be a digital (e.g. HDMI) output. It'd save many people the step of having to run the output through an OSSC.
>Do you think tax compliance is higher in small local businesses than large mega corps?

I can't speak for anywhere but the UK, but yes 100%. Small businesses overall tax burden is much higher than large multinationals.
Ask HN: Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice
My background is software development but I spent my COVID year creating a brand of skincare products for climbers.

In terms of product dev we did great: we have at least one product that could revolutionize climbing & climbers really like our whole line-up. Our IG, brand & message is well-received.

BUT: I feel like I can’t SELL if my life depended on it. Talking to people, let alone selling, turns out to be extremely hard for me.

I am DESPERATELY looking for advice on transitioning from development to traditional sales. I LOVE what we built but my lack of sales acumen is slowly killing the brand. Any advice from the HN community?

The brand is http://www.chalkrebels.com
I assume the companies then just passed the risk onto the consumer (or ate it to grow their user base), I find it hard to believe they just continued operating on the honor system.
To some extent this is true. It is easier to slide cash under the table to the owner, that said, most cafes where I live are not "mom and pop only" shops. They have employees, even if only a few, and thus tend to have POS etc. It is _very_ uncommon in The Netherlands to not have a POS in except in some market stalls. Almost everyone accepts PIN, and increasingly few people carry cash at all.

The main point is that even if you are only paying (eg 35%) tax on ~70% of your income, you are still paying more than some of these multi-nationals that are paying 0% on 100% of the income.

UK story, but similar concept applies in The Netherlands: https://www.channel4.com/news/starbucks-coffee-income-tax-uk

Specifically:
> Its nearest UK rival, Costa, recorded £377m sales last year, compared to Starbucks’s £398m in 2011, and its tax bill came to £15m, or 31 per cent of profits.

Costa is 100% not a mom and pop shop, they are a massive chain, like Starbucks.
Piping and redirects seem to just work, command substitution is always just parentheses with no $ in front. Process substitution is not magic syntax like in sh, it's just a command that reads from stdin, writes to a temporary file, and outputs the path to that file:

vim (ls -lh | psub)
At the age of 18 I got the idea to learn every piece of knowledge in the world. At 25 I figured maybe I could master two or three fields. Starting from 30 I thought I could focus on two hobbies. Now I think I can keep at most one hobby and work on it a couple of times per week.

Key take: focus on what you really really enjoy (if you are not obssessed to it like water or air for 50% of the days then it's at most a hobby and you can drop the priority). And don't have kids. Kids are big time and energy sinkers. You get a kid and you can kiss goodbye to a lot of your old buddies.
Just a counter suggestion.

I find seeds so cheap to buy, that I just buy a bunch of different packets (for a season), put em in a bowl, then just throw them everywhere in my garden. Then just rely on luck to see what I get.

When working with new garden beds, it let's me quickly find what seems to like that area of the garden. (I think the Japanese have some similar technique)

I'm a really lazy gardener though, my yields could be better but I don't want to put any work in aha
Imagine taking off glasses being considered creepy
The shorter borrows the stock to immediately sell (typically at the “buying” price of the spread). This creates immediate down pressure on the price, which is meant to be balanced by eventual up pressure when they have to buy shares to cover.

If you add up the effect on the price lending all retail stocks has on the market, it won’t be insignificant.

Looking at it the other way, if you can generate “less risk” income off it, you have to be aware that the people borrowing the stocks are earning more than they are parting with.

There is no free lunch on the stock market.
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Starbucks doesn't need to resort to fraud to effectively pay 0% tax.
You might find "Three Steps to Yes" by Gene Bedell helpful.

Much of the content is obvious in isolation, but put together it helps orient your outlook.
As soon as I read "In 2019, Uber claimed $4.5 billion in global operating losses ... in reality, it brought in $5.8 billion in operating revenue." I think either whoever wrote this has no idea what they are talking about, or they are trying to trick readers.

"in reality" implies there is a contradiction or fraud, when it's totally possible to have $5.8 billion in operating revenue and still make a $4.5 loss. All this actually says is that Uber spent $10.3 billion in costs (or thereabouts, depending on how they account for other things).

Don't get me wrong. Uber probably are doing something dodgy, with all these shell companies, but this opening remark just shouts "Don't trust this source - they don't know what they are talking about".
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_corporation - not to be confused with "shelf companies" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_corporation) which are structures that have been artificially aged to avoid risk assessments based on how old the company is.
I love the smell of reification in the HN morning.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171100
Does it, though?

The 200-300GW of capacity should translate to 200-600TWh/year of generated energy. That's a 5-10% growth of yearly generated renewable energy. If we can keep it at 5% yoy, it will take 112 years to replace that total energy consumption. At 10% it would take about 60 years.

I don't think it would be smart to bet on a linear-only growth. If course, a 100+ year exponential growth might be too optimistic. But I think we did not see the end of the hocky stick so far.

We also need to consider that we're talking about a global infrastructure project, so timescales of centuries are to be expected. Whoever thinks we could replace our global energy consumption completely within a couple of decades needs to reconsider.
In almost all of these, the use of and definition of “more correct” is troubling at best.

Apart from a few obvious errors most of this is entirely subjective and promoting that as what is “correct” is at best a lie, and at worst full on malicious as the case promoting the less obvious “SKIP” button dark pattern.
What I really need is some system which has as much information as I have about the world & be able to learn things I throw at it. I don't even need it to invent calculus. Just learn what I teach or what books or media can teach then ask doubts & go about it's tasks. Whether it is software or hardware as well I don't care
>Of course they shut down if they couldn't bill?

I know it's a commercial operation but there's strategic reasons to keep it up. The attention it got from the US is evidence of that. Plus, they could have just made an educated guess on billing and resolved it later. Even the US could have made cash flow happen if that was an issue. And anyone who tried to take advantage of that would likely get the US's attention. Not worth it long-term.

But all this was overshadowed by the risk of ransomware possibly attacking the industrial systems which is really why it was shut down.
I am one of those people (and, also, coincidentally, typing this at 3:07 AM local time). There was a period of time in which I was forced by circumstances to go to bed every night at 10 PM (by which, I mean lights out, in bed, ready to fall asleep), and wake up at 6 AM. I did not like it, but, eventually my body adapted to it to the point where when 10 PM rolled around, I would be tired, and automatically wake up at 6 AM.

This all went straight to hell when I ended up working a very long shift one day that extended well past my 10 AM working time. From then on, I was going to sleep more like 12-1AM and waking up at 9-10 AM.
That has been the prevailing wisdom, as far as I was aware of it. But as many have recently been made aware, there are sophisticated ways to continue rolling over your shorts while increasing your short position.
To sell to enterprise you kind of have to have an existing network for introductions. They get tons of cold emails and phone calls everyday.
>Don't trust this source - they don't know what they are talking about".

or at least, outrage of uninformed readers is potentially larger than outrage of the informed.
Why can't just every company do this & make such hacks obsolete?
Based on the response on Reddit, yes, i think they are just confused.
The shell logo dates back to the 19th century, when Shell traded in decorative Japanese seashells. You can read more of the logo history at (Dutch) https://www.shell.nl/over-ons/netherlands/history.html
Are you willing to bet on this?
That's a good question, I was wondering about it as well. I would assume the paper wins easily in terms of CO2, but in terms of human rights abuse I wouldn't be so sure.
But I bought it for my personal gain, not the planet's. The problem is that, rational or not, if I don't have the tablet I feel guilty every time I pick up a piece of paper and it's a detriment to my work. If I have the tablet, the cost is essentially paid in full so the mental cost of a new page is null.
Had to look up

>Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 declared one-way compatible with GNU GPL version 3

>Compatibility means that a person can now take a work they received under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0 and then distribute adaptations of that work under the terms of GPLv3.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/creative-commons-by-sa-4...
Plus that whole page is outright unreadable: tiny, jagged font with terrible contrast ratio.
The answer is clearly “blockchain” /s