skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of learning I’m the exact opposite. I like to start with theory, then apply it into practice to affirm that the theory is correct (or that it isn’t, and then make my own improvements). Not starting with theory feels too much like being directionless to me, or creating your own theory/mental model of what happened, which could be and is often wrong.

In any case, all knowledge needs to be elevated to some level of theory because a correct theory guarantees the repetition of correct application.
I think we’re generally in agreement. Another consideration is that capital creation is controlled by the federal reserve or equivalent so supply is only as scarce as they say it is.
I have never seen anyone in America keep their butter on counter and not in the fridge. I have lived in 7 states in both coasts and upper Midwest.

Generally, I assumed if it’s in the refrigerator in grocery store (which butter is) then it goes in refrigerator at home.
> NURBS usually requires relatively specialized libraries[0], which don't exist (at high enough quality) in the open source community.

There is fully opensource cross-platform NURBS modeler — Ayam[0], but it looks not NOT user friendly (as for me).

Also there is FreeShip Plus[1] which is truly NURBS 3D CAD.

[0] http://ayam.sourceforge.net/

[1] https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus
I guess it depends on a plant, but it's not only about roots. Top layer of soil has highest concentration of organic matter and it builds up over time when plants and possibly animal excrements decompose. By tiling you kill fertility a bit, that's why most farms have to use fertilisers.
Thanks, but the article loses me at what this "elevated world" is. It doesn't even try to explain what it is and quickly goes over to F# syntax, which I don't understand.
Why is there no explanation in the terms of English, math, and any common programming language?
If Functors and Monads are real concepts, they should be describable in the terms listed above, if they are only describably in terms of functional languages, I would consider them a pure artifact of those languages :)
I guess it depends on a plant, but it's not only about roots. Top layer of soil has highest concentration of organic matter and it builds up over time when plants and possibly animal excrements decompose. By tiling you kill fertility a bit, that's why most farms have to use fertilizers.
I don't think it took me that long. I said this elsewhere but to me that is mostly a documentation problem, not anything to do with the underlying technology or the package format.
Casey is still going?

My god...
Index funds are pretty low effort. Certainly nothing like Working 9-5 and more for 40+ years.
A failed Jedi mind trick?
(The excerpt contains the story in its entirety. It's excerpted from a book that consists of multiple stories.)
Thank you, it's the most depressing thing I've read in a week . However, I find it wildly optimistic this won't be our world before the 30s are over.
None of the messengers except Signal give any confidence in being really private.

And when comparing Telegram and Whatsapp shady-wise, only one of them has obvious many reasons to track you as much as technically and legally possible.

And when it comes to app performance, UX and ease of use - Telegram beats all others with a huge margin.
It’s not advice, it’s just explaining the strategy.
This might be helpful.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

It is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's 'vscode' repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.
To the apps's source code? I guess the best list is on my blog [1] but each app in the play store should have the corresponding link

[1] https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/p/apps.html
Skype has a little known feature called private conversations. This uses the Signal protocol and even lets you delete the metadata afterwards.

I don't think many people noticed at the time, that BillG took being prosecuted by the government very hard indeed. William H Gates III "Trey"to his oldest friends, is American establishment : daddy was Nixon's attorney and mom sat on the board of IBM.

Neither do I remember many people who ostensibly cared a great deal about the Microsoft anti trust case, following the actual litigation when it was happening. I read every word and watched as much as I could of the trial. Gates was a disaster on the witness box but nothing least because the allegations - charges and basis of charges - were so universally preposterous in their formation. The New Old Thing blog basically tells you what Justice should have found out in their discovery process and consequently narrowed the case to something other than a massive spite bomb. Reportedly Gates underwent a nervous breakdown of some serious nature midway through his epic examination on the stand. Microsoft were the last I looked the only major not to have backed away from a agreement to enforce the minimum of legality requirements for LEO access to personal information and accounts and Microsoft was spending close to one billion dollars annually merely to reject ludicrous illicit and unfounded demands for access to accounts. I don't know any other cloud computing company who will let me hold the only hardware key to my infrastructure across their cloud and using the same infrastructure and integrations (Thales, a major French defence contractor is the supplier and the solutions pretty good in my experience). At least I'm not surprised that few hail Microsoft for their efforts - advertising flipping fingers at the most self righteous authority establishment for generations isn't probably the best idea.

Here's the pdf description of Skype Private Conversations:

https://az705183.vo.msecnd.net/onlinesupportmedia/onlinesupp...
It won't be free, it will just be subsidized - the exact amount the unnecessary hardware cost.
Ohh, that is amazing!

So you become rich but never use your money and then become the richest guy in the cemetery. That kind of rich is not rich at all, just "paper rich".

As entrepreneur myself, it is not that easy to become rich, it is not that easy to make consistently 3% over inflation(specially when official inflation is not real like has happened for the last 20 years) and it is not that easy not to pay taxes. On the contrary in places like most of Europe the tax system is Hell for entrepreneurs, the System taking from 50 to 70% of your income.

In my life as entrepreneur I have seen many friends starting a business and losing 20.000-300.000 euros on their ideas before quitting and returning to their original jobs. In year 2021 with COVID I have seen people losing millions of dollars, their entire life's savings and business. The Government is giving them peanuts.

If you want to be rich, become a banker or Politian and be close to the printing money machine. They are the main beneficiaries from inflation, they create it, and extract a 3-9% of the economy's absolute wealth every single year doing nothing.
Oh, come on.

Everyone thought "glass". The whole project, from the grocery store point of view, was about testing an alternative to glass doors.
Yuri is definitely not beginner stuff. Intermediate to advanced I'd say.
All assets within estate tax exemption limit $11.5M ($23M for married) receive a step-up basis on death. This means that cost basis resets to market value on the day you die, and your heirs can sell at market price the amount of money required to pay off the accumulated debt and start the cycle anew.

It's a bit similar to tax gain harvesting, which is when if you live in a no state income tax state and anticipate making very little income this year, but have some appreciated stocks, what you can do is harvest the tax gains by selling the stocks in order to reset to the higher cost basis and immediately buying them back. Since you have little income, you can get away paying $0 tax until $38.6k ($77.2k if married).
Well, that's one thing I now point out often to American people (I was born and raised in China), American nationalism is not same as Chinese one. To some degree, Chinese nationalism went beyond the narrow view point already in the Mao era. Chinese people nowadays are very sensitive to nationalism topics, but they are also rational. I never saw Chinese people disapprove facts for national pride. It's that Chinese people have a conviction that they can do whatever other people can do, and probably can do some better. That's one benefit of tight propaganda control, as the CCP knows very well how powerful and uncontrollable the nationalism can be. So they are relatively adept in managing the sentiment.
Ask HN: Support ticket software for customers to report bugs/requests?
Hello HN!

The company I work at recently started adding hosting services for software that we wrote for clients. So instead of writing the software and letting the client host it themselves, we offer the option of also hosting it for them in the cloud. These clients can be different companies.

We want to make it easy for those customers to use a system to report bugs/issues/feature requests to us. We can then easily work on them and reply back. Company 1 should not be able to see tickets from Company 2.

We use Azure Devops and it would be cool if it could integrate with this, but it is not a hard requirement.

I know services like Zendesk exist for this. But my experiences with these kind of services have not been great. They are slow or cumbersome.

It should be easy to use for end users and it would be nice if it would be a bit tech-focused.

I wonder if some of you have experiences or recommendations. Perhaps you also have recommendations of what not to use?
The point being, the converse of ‘parsing is validation’ is not true.
Thanks, I hate it (or love all the dark patterns in one place :) ). On mobile I have tried to go through the first form and rage quit after 3 minutes. How do you close that hurry up modal? You could only expand or lock it, but did not see how to close it.
> It's Hamas wanting to kill every Jew it can

You bet. Jews immigrated en masse to Palestine, then used their leverage at the UN to have half of the country assigned to themselves alone, then proceeded to ethnic cleanse as many Arab villages as possible. In the decades Israel has used every possible excuse to occupy more land, in violation of all laws and agreements, and install their population, while harassing, persecuting, and killing the indigenous population.

You bet that Hamas wants to kill them! It's because they're vicious anti-semite? No.

(By the way, jokes apart: no, Hamas doesn't want to kill all the Jews and has officially said so: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full )
In this case I took it to be poking some fun at the two conflicting 'intuitive' explanations for a wing producing lift: one being that air strikes the bottom of the wing as it moves forward, pushing upward on it, and the other being that air moves faster under the flat underside of the wing than over the curved upper side, causing a pressure differential. Of course reality is more complex than either simple answer, and the real answer is something more like, "The wing behaves approximately as described by this equation."
But their bosses, being much older, are still using Skype. See my comment above
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That's all very understandable. I also would hate to maintain multiple app stores

But with side-loading, all you would need is the website you likely already have. You could offer direct downloads. No need to integrate IAPs with different API calls. Just use Stripe or Paypal everywhere. Things could be a lot simpler. The sole idea of an app store adds unnecessary friction. When we're talking a 1 and mandatory app store, then this friction is clearly there for a purpose, and it feels so wrong. I soo dislike being told what I can and cannot say in MY app. All in the name of "protection" /s

>>When there’s a opportunity for innovation that is not possible on iOS because of this, it will happen on Android.

Devs don't bother doing things that can't be cross-platform these days. I definitely don't want my users to tell each other "you need to have an android phone for this app".
I’ve turned to using text editor and then paper too, mainly for its simplicity. “Running out of battery” was never a problem for me, but maintenance and getting used to the complex UI of today’s task / knowledge management systems definitely was a painful experience.

Like many others, I have decided to create something new. A tool which would be simple to use just like a text editor / paper but functional like a full fledged app. It’s a hard problem. Though I feel like new approaches are needed, especially because the way the alternative tools are designed today seems a bit obsolete. The 21st century deserves something better..

happy to share the access https://acreom.com/ and receive some feedback.
What about taxing lenders when they take loans against non physical collateral? i.e. something that's not a house, car or otherwise utilitarian infrastructure. Let them pass the tax on in rate hikes until it equals the capital gains tax. Just a spitball idea.
bla I couldn't find any acceptable password......
Interesting piece! Thanks for sharing.
Nitpick if you are the OP: while I appreciate the distinctive style, the font really made it hard for me to read
> If the item either can't or won't be done, cross out the - to make it into a *.

How about put a circle around the - to make it a "stop" sign?
>You mean shady subscription business models right? Because Microsoft is certainly not alone.

so what that Microsoft isn't alone, their (poster) experience allows them to know unequivocally that Microsoft and the employees that work there make decisions that don't align with their personal ethics -- so they take out their anger on Microsoft.

the statement '...but we all lost a little bit of faith in shady subscription business models ' makes no sense -- the shady ones don't self identify, and it's not the methodology that is generally despised, it's the entities that that employ such methodologies against the public.
A certain very well known movie actress has an otherwise well known father who shares the same name as me. He's not a serial killer thankfully, and nor am I (also thankfully), but there was a while where googling "our" name would result in a little Google info block with his information, adorned with my significantly younger face pic.

They fixed it eventually. There are occasional periods where someone messes up the gmail address, and I get a flood of hotel reminders and trade show invites that are actually meant for my more famous namesake. We are in completely different industries, so thankfully it's easy to tell when that happens. He's retired now, so it's stopped lately.

I like to think every time I upload another video on YouTube or whatever, he thinks, "Oh, hell no!" and gets stuck having to defend his taste in music with the family.
How much law do we take with us? See marslegalcode.org
He also is looking at his arrowhead like it is a smartphone and he’s posing for a selfie. Does anyone, when working or inspecting their work, strike poses?
> I am saying that the findings of the report make aliens a more likely explanation.

> I don't know what evidence you would expect to see if alien technology was operating in our atmosphere, but the described observations seem consistent with that conclusion.

Could also be angels.

Or IMHO, what I want it to be is visitors from a parallel Earth where the dinosaurs never died out and instead developed a hyper-advanced civilisation. They're now crossing the multiverse (temporarily, that's why they vanish again) and looking at us in complete bemusement, much as we would look at a world where humanity dies out in a nuclear war, and rats evolve and civilise roughly to the level of ancient Egypt or Sumer.

The problem with "you cant rule it out", and "the facts fit the conclusion" thinking about such nebulous phenomena is that there are a vast or infinite number of things that "you can't rule out" and also "fit". It's true but it's a far weaker claim than it seems. What "I want" is just wishful: Your chosen scenario is vanishingly unlikely among them, and assembled out of scraps of pop culture anyway. That's why previous generations say witches, demons, angel's etc. Apophenia describes the person's inner world, as much as the external one. Isn't it convenient that its still such a such a nebulous phenomena?

This is why the burden of proof falls squarely on ruling it _in_.
Yes, it is possible. Think of total assets as annuity, annual loan as payment from annuity, and interest as management fee charged by annuity administrator.

Back of the napkin calculations:

Total assets $100 million

Annual Expenses as Annual Income

Annual withdrawal = $4 million
Assuming 40% tax, tax due = $1 million
Asset liquidated = $5 million
Remaining asset = $95 million
End of Year asset @ 4% growth = 98.8 million

Annual Expenses as Loan

Annual withdrawal as loan = $4 million
1% interest on annual loan = $40,000
Asset liquidated to pay loan interest and taxes on liquidated assets = $60,000
Remaining assets = $99.940 million
EOY asset = $103.937 million - $4 million
I have tried it, yes. You can add constraints to any parametric CAD software, like FreeCAD, OnShape, Solidworks, Fusion, etc.
Elephants Solve Problems with Personality
The thing about spiralling out of control is that it's both awful and awesome. RIP John Mcafee, one of the rare people who have the balls to really live.
You are right. I forgot that. I guess that is not end-to-end encrypted in regular chats.
I only use paper to capture the 3-5 most important things du jour. All the other notes go into Bear.app — Tried all-paper a gazillion times but if you work a lot with links, visual inspirations, code snippets, etc. it just doesn't make sense — no matter how much I love sharpening that Blackwing pencil.
Yes that's a great point, I was trying to remember when it happened and I think I was about 23 which would make it 21 years ago.

It's much more fun for me to think of that as "in to the 3rd decade", rather than just over 20 years ago.
This thinking only holds if you feel positively about who you currently are and your place in life right now. If you don't, then these "what if" questions can be a lot more appealing.
Hm what are the use-case for boards like these? Industrial?
The way to optimise the process was to reduce the amount of screening.

It points out exactly why broad, indiscriminate screening can not be assumed to be safe, and that "optimizing the process" means moving away from thinking that more screening is automatically better, and towards identifying which groups where the benefits outweigh the dangers.

But the main reason for posting that link was to point out that the idea that testing does not kill is false for some types of testing, and as such you need to understand the risk vs. reward, or you may end up doing harm.

> What I'm advocating for btw, just to make clear, is regularly showing up to a doctor who will recommend all the cost effective non-intrusive tests (like blood work) plus the intrusive testing depending in your particular risk profile. This doesn't seem like a controversial opinion to me - more like a common sense default.

I haven't seen anyone here arguing against that. That's not what's been discussed by those of us here pointing out the dangers of mass-screening.
I've said this a few times, cause I find it interesting.

That subreddit is literally filled with one person's posts. It feels like a blatant pr/propaganda/the positive version of the former two campaign that constantly worms its way to the top of reddit.
I use openSCAD for all of my 3D printing. It is some seriously whacky shit to write. There are a lot of quirks that are best learned by doing. Still, it's powerful enough to make some complicated objects.
I never understood why systems like Spanner use real time rather than a Lamport clock like this ...

Is it simply because they don't want the clients to have to take/give a clock parameter with every request? Or is there some theoretical reason spanner couldn't work with logical clocking?
I haven't laughed this much in a while, well done! (Or... the opposite of that?)

I was just a little disappointed when I clicked the back button and it actually worked instead of the game hijacking it and filling my tab history with garbage.
Well, US official policy is that they do not recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court, or any other international court, over US citizens or the US state. This has been seen with a few trials for war crimes, most notably the trial they lost (and ignored) for mining Nicaragua's ports, a clear violation of the Geneva convention, an explicit war crime.

As an EU citizen, whether I'm kowtowing to Chinese or US imperialism is not all that different. Sure, I'd much rather live in the US than China, but in recent history, US influence outside their borders has been much, much worse for those under their heel than has Chinese influence.
If I was a lawyer, I would start a service for cancelling subscriptions.

I.e., user can cancel subscription on website, system automatically writes cancellation letter, letter is sent to corresponding company address. If cancellation fails, then an official complaint is served to the company, and from there it follows the usual court process.
The word "is" implies an isomorphism.

If you see it differently you are implicitly assuming a non-formalist perspective on what "validation" means. Tell us about it.
Air moves faster on the upper side, creating a pressure differential.
90% of my use is actually just treating it like a whiteboard. The features that help me are the grid, the smoothness of the tools, the ease of export to slack and so on to quickly share.

For example, I drew a diagram of a river to represent the data flow through the client's company, and was able to shade chunks in yellow to represent team pissing into the river with bad quality data and how that affects the major consumers downstream. They got the idea instantly.
There is no Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. There is nothing to solve. There is a country that is slowly expanding in territory it doesn't have a right to, with some resistance from the original population.

This is a crime. Why do they do it? Because it's convenient and nobody stops them. Why nobody stops them? Because they've convinced the world that "there is a conflict", that "it's complicated", that "they're antisemites and they want to kill us all".

That's it. Weapons are just a tool. What enables Israel to keep occupying land and persecute Palestinians is just what people think of the whole thing. As long as people think "it's complicated", "Palestinians are just backwards antisemites", Israel will have a free hand in doing what they're doing. That's why convincing people is fundamental: and Israel knows very well, and that's why they censor as much information as possible.
What a lovely piece of writing. It’s good advice.

Index / record cards and a binder clip work wonders for me. I used to write in a notebook but the anxiety of losing it is real, especially when reaching the end of a notebook filled with precious knowledge.

80% of read-usage was for either the current day or the previous day. Deeper history is very useful but often done at my desk. You can keep a rolling N day history with a binder clip. Having pieces of card is very useful too. Rip em up, fold em, flick em when you need to give an impromptu demonstration of how TCP works*.

Get a Fujitsu ScanSnap too: digitising index cards is much easier than digitising bound notebooks, and it now means you can access your note taking history from any device — essential for all the notes that didn’t get converted into project manager tasks but which need to be referenced, retrospectively.

Paper only works for private task tracking so it won’t work for everything but it’s the best tool for the top of the getting-things-done funnel.

*I am a high school CS teacher, former FAANGSWE.