skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the actual specific scenario.

Is product A or B an actual liability? Like, is Product A a nuclear energy generation plant built next to a fault line, and Product B is a toothpicks made of dynamite, then perhaps two different companies is good.

but if Product A is a fluffy pillow and Product B is a fluffy cloth toy, then I think one company is the way to go.

Or if you have a lot of expensive shit to produce things, then you don't divide up by products but by category. So, for example, if you own a construction company with a lot of expensive stuff, then you start up Company A for all equipment (trucks, backhoes, etc), Company B for the building that you purchase to work out of, Company C is for all the expensive tools, Company D is for the actual construction company. Company D does NOT own any of what is in A,B, and C, but leases from them. Therefore if the construction company gets sued for construction stuff that goes wrong, Company D is really only has the personnel and that is all. Because the construction is the risky part of it. All the rest of the money from Company D gets funneled into renting stuff from the other companies, so you take money out of the high-risk Company D and put money in the low risk companies, so if the construction company gets sued, there's no money or assets in Company D - or very few of them. Of course, extremely important to do it "for real" otherwise the state can pierce the corporate veil, and it is all an exercise in futility. And that is the very first thing that any lawyer will try to do when suing you, the very first thing, is to try to pierce that veil so that they can get at the money, honey. So very important to keep corporate minutes, have annual meetings, lease agreements, separate bank accouts, etc, for each company and not to slack on that. Otherwise, what's the point?

I sublease my office from a company and they have hundreds of locations around the world - executive suites like WeWork (but not them). Every single location is a separate corporation, I know that. In case something happens at one, it is a completely separate corporation.

I think the real important thing above and beyond all, is to get ONE corporation going, because a corporation separates YOUR assets from the business, and that is most important. Because if you have a sole proprietorship, your home, car, bank accounts, etc are fair game.
What we call time here is sometimes better understood as attention. Attention is the one true currency.
https://github.com/atilaneves/automem
Deconstructed
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The bigger involvement is indirect I think and was also plainly stated in the quote.

Amazon employs humans, which are potential users of this substance. If using this substance significantly reduces the cognitive ability of their workforce, they'd have an issue.
which is why i think it's important for software engineers to have some idea about the current state of machine learning.
For me, it is similar to the doomsday argument[1]. An argument that predicts the likely end of humanity by year 10000, using only statistics. There are 8 rebuttals in the Wikipedia article alone...

The problem in the article is that it tries to predict something with nothing but a single data point.
In which it explicitly argues that you can: you can have an idea about how fast a human can run by clocking a single human (Usain Bolt). However you have absolutely no way of knowing if it is fast or slow for a human, at least not without making assumptions to create artificial data points.

It doesn't mean it is wrong to believe aliens are big, but I think it is wrong to believe anything about how aliens would compare to us using maths alone. Considering that we don't know any aliens, the argument for big aliens have to be somehow backed by observation, physics, chemistry, etc... not just statistics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
Is this better or worse than the OTHER kind of pension system, where people are required to hoard resources over their lifetime and then in their retirement, slowly release those resources back to younger people (who will then hoard them for their own retirement)?
What makes you think quaternions are inevitable, but geometric algebra is not?
Only semi-relevant, but this is possible with SASS’s @extend: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/at-rules/extend
Pollution is by definition a side effect and 'an indirect connection'.
It simply won't be merged.
I scan heavily from academic libraries in order to contribute to LibGen, but even with Scantailor it is very time-consuming. For example, if you are scanning scientific literature from the Eastern Bloc, it was often printed on low-quality, speckled paper, which means Scantailor often identifies too much of the scan as the page block, and then you have to manually tweak the rectangle.
What other compute is in space? Do we have a data centre in a can up there?
> For the rest of us that like a quiet room, the arm CPUs sound like a godsend.

Got an M1 Pro and normal daily use just doesn't trigger the fans. I can do it by, e.g., charging whilst playing Minecraft or running something that uses all 8 cores at full speed for more than two minutes-ish (`wireguard-vanity-address`, Blender render, etc.) but it's an oddity to hear them these days.
Right, step 1 -> get page images, step 2 -> author images into book file. While OCR is obviously useful for search, a rotated phone screen will let you comfortably read a pdf book just fine unless you are talking about something like a textbook, in which case you probably wanted a tablet anyway.

I wrote up a guide on the authoring process using FOSS tools for some Digital Humanities folks a couple years ago: https://github.com/wikey/bookscan

It gives some background on the problem and covers a Scantailor (page crop, rotate, deskew), pdfbeads (compression, book metadata) authoring workflow, with pdftk for some general odds and ends.
I used a pair of Adam A5Xs as my main speakers for a long time, and those were perfectly capable of filling my living room with sound, as well as being seriously good and accurate monitors. Obviously the 5" woofers did struggle a bit with bass at high volumes, but so would any hifi speaker with similar-sized drivers. Augmenting them with two 12" active subs took care of that well enough. Replacing them with the larger A7Xs or A8Xs would have been an option as well.

I've since replaced the Adams with a set of Monitor Audio Bronze 2s, because I wanted something with a bit more living room friendly looks. Finding an AVR with outputs for active speakers is surprisingly difficult, so I had to go back to passive speakers, and I compensated a bit by getting the largest practical model I could fit.

Studio monitors are as varied as any other speaker design. There are ones with really small sweet spots and others with extremely huge ones, the JBL LSR series is a great example of the latter, their horn loaded tweeters have really impressive horizontal dispersion.
The thing is, even the performance comes close, injection molded plastics won't have the same characteristics of the tuned fiberglass body with the tuned filling material.

Also, to be able to create the same crossovers in the digital domain, you'd have to go pretty high end again, because, passing through a single DAC at the end of the chain is not same as a DAC -> ADC -> Crossover -> DAC chain at the end of the day.

All in all, you'll come pretty close but you won't be able to create the exact same device at the end. Also, some stuff's (like good drivers built in small numbers) price doesn't come down that easily.

Yes, dedication and tuning of a special room with 8x 500W mono amplifiers requires a hefty sum and these speakers are may not be expensive when all the price is factored in, but throwing in modern plastics and a couple of DSPs cannot replicate all that, all the time.
Actions is entirely on Azure.
i sell outcomes and expertise. for 2.5k a month i promise my client that i will be available whenever there is an issue. last month this client called once (actually he just sent a message), checking if i am available in case something that he was working on would blow up. it didn't blow up and i earned my monthly fee literally just for holding hands. the time i invested is the time it took to respond to his message. there is no hourly rate that can measure that.

clients will not only pay the least that they can get away with, they will pay what it takes to achieve their goals. what my client needs is assurance that problems will be dealt with. so in effect it's like insurance. you pay for insurance but hope that you don't need it.

another way to earn money without an hourly rate is fixed price projects. the goal here is to figure out what is the value of the project is to the client. you may charge 50k to build that custom website, but if the client earns 500k from using it the next year, then it was totally worth it, even if you could have charged less.

the challenge here is to find those clients. the answer is generally reputation and referrals. you won't find them on upwork. at least not at first. finding a niche with little competition can help.

the client i mentioned above i started out with as hourly rate, continually raising the rate each year until i suggested we simplify the process and agree on a fixed monthly rate. i let the client choose the rate. figuring that if the rate was to low for the amount of work, then we'd renegotiate. it wasn't. i even get bonuses if there is a particularly busy month.
When Agile is not enough
Today I want to invert the classical pro-agile drawing. Let’s talk about the devaluation of functionality that occurs in Agile projects and the cases when Agile is not enough.
After researching the topic as a hobby for maybe a decade I think there are no good guys or bad guys, you will find plenty of material to demonize both sides, both sides did some pretty shitty things, and while Israel may seem much stronger than the Palestinians, when you zoom out and realize Israel is in conflict with much of the muslim world and losing support from the West its not that strong at all. It faces challenges few countries need to deal with and its very questionable if the zionist country can keep going many decades into the future.
I like Benny Morris books the most; 1948 and One State Two States. Almost no one is objective on anything but I think Morris does a good job.
Those are all fast(to the extent matters to their marketing)
Because it was 1960 and making large sheet metal stampings in aluminum was still expensive enough to mostly only be justifiable in the aerospace industry or if the stamping were very simple such as canoes/skifs and step vans. All of which you will note are made with riveted construction that would be an extra quirk you don't necessarily want if you're selling an already quirky automobile.
any > WASM?
It’s a huge problem, and only getting worse. It contributes to the problem of non-repeatability in science. Also the inability to fix stuff by throwing money at it was one of the reasons I left research computing.
That's where you're wrong : it does have downsides.

Alcohol is a social lubricant, and consuming alcohol with people is a great way to bond, and form communities.

It's not the only way to bond, but it does provide help regarding sociability, especially for shy/introvert people.
it seems like you are describing Certificate pinning which was a recommended security practice. Although from your situation it sounds like the company had bigger issues like communication gap.
It's unfortunate you are being downvoted because you have a lot valid points.

> If we are to survive climate change we would have to cull all politicians and dirty industry leaders. They have so much power over the world and don;t give a fuck about next generation.

I agree this is the inevitable end of this trajectory. Eventually there will be environmental extreme groups that will target fossil fuel leaders.

Controversially, ignoring the ethical aspects of this, it would be an incentives equalizer to precipitate real climate regulation. Currently there is no incentive to do so, this dynamics would change with a palpable fear of immediate injury/death.
As a Triumph car enthusiast, I've always had my eye on Amphicars since it uses a Triumph engine. But they seemed to languish unloved for many years. It's nice to see them finally noticed as the interesting bit of engineering that they are and their values rise dramatically in the last few years.
If you think of a table as a discrete coordinate system then it's fairly obvious.

You wanted to position things at specific coordinates, and have the browser take care of padding/flowing/etc.

A table is a natural choice.
Why are house prices rising so fast in a pandemic?
Totally. When I quit (or get fired haha), my plan is to take one entire year off to spend with family, travel in SE Asia, and ultimately get bored, then get a low paid/low expectations job just for fun. Might not even be tech.
It does matter, because all the saving and dissaving of the saving-based scheme distorts financial markets and sometimes doesn't work anyway. For example, imagine a system where everyone buys an extra house, then sells it when they retire. Now there are twice as many houses as there need to be. And therefore everyone has to commute 1.41 times farther on average; twice as much lumber is used up; twice as many builders are needed. Now imagine the next generation invests in something other than houses because houses are too expensive because of all this extra demand. Let's say tulips. So the first generation goes to sell their houses to retire and... wait, nobody wants one? They already have one and they don't want to buy a second one for their own retirement savings? Well, then the housing market crashes and all those people lost money on their retirement. (And the third generation will buy up all these cheap houses and say screw the second generation's tulips, we don't want tulips...)
Explain what data? We don't have any data at all on aliens.
WASM code by itself can run at near C speeds, but where you are going to find the challenges is crossing the wasm <-> "rest of our app" divide.

You can call functions living in WASM with integer arguments and WASM can call functions you expose to it. You're host app has access to the WASM memory space though, and with those tools you have to craft your API. For a text editor there are going to be quite a few hoops to jump through and memory copying going on just to let a plugin read the document text.

Platforms like JVM, .Net, and nodejs/Electron have a huge advantage when doing extensions because they are can easily load code at runtime, and pass "platform native" data structures directly into extension code. Compilers exist for many languages which can target these platforms.
Yep, it does!
How do you know your reimplementation isn’t subtly changing data? All research must be reproducible, and that includes the instrument and software chain as well.
Freshwater rust is a non-issue compared to what they put on the road in the winter in some places.
This, TBH. Far too many people think economics is about money. Economics is really about distributing goods and services and work. Money is just one possible means to that end (perhaps the best one).
Salo? Hm... Is this a dog-whistle for fascism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic
> If you have something a lot older than that, it can get more complicated.

Could probably dump it out through the serial port.
That why I specifically mention The Netherlands raising the retirement age. That causes both more labor to be available and reduces the number of people who are retired.

Pensioners don't cash out at once. The number of pensioners grows slowly which many result in gradually lower demand for stock or real estate. No need to expect a crash because of this.

No need to expect anything to happen to food either. Food production is highly efficient and relies on only a tiny fraction of the total labour
> Yes. A V60 dripper is £6 and the filter papers are about 6p each.

There's also the Clever Dripper (CA$ 25) that can use Melitta-style filters instead of 'proprietary' ones. James Hoffman on procedure/technique:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOdennxP24
Is there any advantage to running a node in the ISS?
New China three-child policy sparks tales of 'trauma'
Ask HN: How do you make effective use of the internet to improve your life?
Fujitsu Siemens Notebook not just had a serial and a paralell port, they also had a 3:4 monitor (I think is the way better format for a notebook). So I bought one of the latest models :-).

For industrial use Siemens has a notebook called "Field PG". It has 2xEthernet and even the newest models have a real serial port (and also ProfiBus if you need that).
That Elm comparison is so nice. I felt like half the time I was writing Elm, it was spent on the manual work of the things described in there.
Only if you assume that the growth is expoential / compounding.

I don't know much about the field, but given the vast investments and land needed for country level solar projects I would argue the growth rate is much more likely to be linear, in which case it looks like it won't be overtaking oil this century.

It's relatively easy to make large percentage gains when the current amount is so small.
So if I understand you correctly, digital cash is just a way of escaping the big two, Visa and MasterCard and their fees? Because otherwise, what'd be the essential difference between any govt.-backed digital money and the official one? What would be the exchange rate? Say 1-to-1 with Euro, or with the dollar? Then what's the point of having it in the first place?
> Bitcoin's energy use isn't exponential towards infinity.

Nothing is. That's kind of the point.

> As soon as it hits real world caps

Do you think that will be before or after every single use of electricity becomes metered? We already lost most free tier trials of any sort of compute (CI, VMs, etc). I'm expecting that hotels will start metering electricity for guests at some point, because some asshole is going to rent rooms for mining rigs.

Someone's going to put a mining rig in the public bathroom. In the curtesy outlets in airports.

There is no "cap", it's a constant escalation of theft. All there is is a place of diminishing returns for the thieves.

> your claim that the convenience and laziness of leaving electronics plugged in justifies wasting energy

What the actual fuck. This is literally the opposite of what I said. Literally the exact words "I'm not justifying it" is what I said.

> Back home (developed nations), the youngest generations struggle to build up wealth. Never before in history have the young owned such small piece of the pie and never before were their debts so high. Middle class seems entirely out of reach for them. That's why it's not surprising that specifically they jump on crypto.

So you agree that it is speculation, not currency?

> there's nothing wrong with them trying to build wealth,

On that level, no. If you rob a bank to do it, yes.

> One you would wildly disagree with, but that's the point of a debate.

Ironically, no it's not. You think the point of debate is to increase disagreement?

But no, I do not disagree with anything you said after that. That's almost the only thing you said that was reasonable.
>>>Russia continues to distract and further sow discontent

Meanwhile, the Chinese hackers and those directing their Information Operations are laughing their asses off that nobody points the finger at China first, despite numerous high-profile incidents of military-industrial-political espionage [1][2][3][4], the buildup of a gigantic blue-water navy, and tacit long-term goal of rivaling the US as the global superpower (and unlike the Russians, they've got the economy and manpower to make that happen). Nope, couldn't possible be them. Must be those dastardly Russians.

[1]https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-ge-engineer-and-chines...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/14/chinese-thief-...

[3](PAYWALLED) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/china-...

[4]https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/12/19/here...
Relativity doesn't really factor into this issue; the core of the issue is false timing signals.

Any introduction of a false timing signal whose time offset from the true signal is greater than the local clock's uncertainty can be flagged as false. Higher-accuracy local clocks reduce the amount of error that can be introduced without detection.

CSACs don't solve the issue, but they do allow for detection of more spoofing signals, and they reduce the amount of error that any successful spoofing signal can introduce.
> USB to serial/paralel adapters are good enough for most hobby projects but aren't suitable for professional or latency critical applications like industrial, audio, arcade retro-emulation and CNC machines.

That doesn't stop their rampant use in those applications, regardless.
Reading the headline "<Business I've never heard of> selling for $<N>bn" is become an increasingly common occurrence for me
Understood. I have noticed before that controversial headlines get changed, pretty curious whether it is lazy editors rubber-stamping journalist submissions, then fixing them, or something a bit more deliberate.
It’s not.

The whole reason is historical, because of Chernobyl, Sellafield, the Fukushima. People have been wary for years. Netflix series Dark reflects this mindset pretty well.

The idea of nuclear energy being clean that we see repeated here in Hacker News is not as widespread as it looks, HN is just another bubble. People are not hearing about it. It will take a while for the population to change their mind, and longer still for the government.
Ah, thanks. That answers this, then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27367181
My reading of the situation is that Merkel went anti-nuke because the greens in Germany were anti-nuke and she needed more support. It was all about electoral politics.
I'll explain my reasoning as someone who would have voted liberal ages 30 years ago and not now.

Gay rights are mainstream in both parties these days and not a concern. That would have been a great factor in shifting me to the left.

While I'm much in favour for complete drug legalisation, between the chance of getting legal drugs + higher taxes and no legal drugs + same or lower taxes, I'd always pick the second one.

After legal drugs are a mainstream topic and given for granted, I would have even less arguments for voting liberal.

Conservatives are not great in social policies, liberals are not great in economic policies.

Moreover liberals became against free speech, against gun rights and pro cancel culture which is ruining their only appeal - freedom in social policies.
They're also pro in a lot of things I find morally abhorrent, like abortion (infringement on the unborn baby's freedom) and transitioning transgender underage kids.
[Reposting a response written above]

Any introduction of a false timing signal whose time offset from the true signal is greater than the local clock's uncertainty can be flagged as false. Higher-accuracy local clocks reduce the amount of error that can be introduced without detection.

CSACs don't solve the issue, but they do allow for detection of more spoofing signals, and they reduce the amount of error that any successful spoofing signal can introduce.
And that 50% seems to do something very different in humans than in bananas