skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anytime there is talk of suicide in this community I’ve always remembered heartbreaking final words of Bill Zeller. Didn’t know him personally, but I would consider his act a rational one. I do think suicide can be irrational, which comes down to heat of the moment. I’ve had a few friends commit suicide, and it’s a horrible thing to endure, but I understand. A persons choice to in their life should be theirs completely, but I hope it’s one that is done with a rational thought out purpose. Not a spur of the moment thing.

https://gizmodo.com/the-agonizing-last-words-of-programmer-b...
KDE is to Linux what 7 was to Windows
That’s just bananas.
This is the feature that drives me to Sublime. It’s easily half of what I use it for.
Slack never went after schools during Covid - Microsoft did. My guess is that their markets are different and that's why the user count is so different.

Of course, Teams is free when you have Office365, so.... there's that.
There is no shortage of fresh water in the US. The water is simply not near where the farms are because we're unbelievably irresponsible with where we do farming.
I wonder who the person is who saw python and was like "You know what this needs? INTEL."
I like terraform as a tool but in AWS I would much rather see this using Cloud Formation since that is native to the platform.
"hoh"?
> "only a 112 KB Grammarly-check.js script"

Just that requires 112KB? Seems easily an order of magnitude bigger than it ought to be.
For 60 Years, Indigenous Alaskans Have Hosted Their Own Olympics
Oh right, that makes sense in the context of this thread :)
You started out by claiming "they don't compete with Walmart" because "Walmart almost doubled Amazon's revenue last year". But since that's not true you've moved the goal post and now you're claiming "Walmart eating Amazon's lunch this decade" is the most likely scenario because Amazon has a counterfeit product problem and Walmart has political connections.

I don't think you understand just how insignificant the counterfeit issue is. Amazon reports it as 0.01% of sales, but even they're off by a factor of 100 that's just 1%. And 1% of their .com revenue is still less than 0.5% of their overall revenue because most of Amazon's profits come from AWS.

> Amazon solves brick and mortar

What is there to solve? Amazon has a logistics infrastructure that Walmart can't touch. If they decided to open a big box store do you really thing the counterfeit issues in their affiliate program would harm them? It's not like they'd put affiliate merchandise on the floor. I feel like they could figure out how to unload trucks to retail shelves and do in person payment processing at least as well as Walmart.

> Walmart solves online sales.

Walmart has been competing with Amazon in online sales for a decade, how's that going? Walmart has nothing to compete with Amazon's Audible, Echo, Ring, Blink, or Prime offerings. Sure they have free shipping with Walmart+ and an affiliate program but is that enough? They've tried countless times to compete against Amazon and failed, most recently they sold Vudo off. At the same time Amazon has launched countless brands and new products with great success.

Amazon.com's tone deaf Billionaire founder and their treatment of their workers are a far greater risk to them than Walmart. But bad reputation and consumer dislike aren't going to kill Amazon anymore than they've done so with Walmart who has infamy for destroying both small town America and America's manufacturing infrastructure.

Honestly I'm not sure why you'd want either of these companies to succeed.
>Now I'm looking for ways to make money off the failure of these companies

short them and/or buy puts. it's risky though. the market can remain irrational longer than you can involve solvent, and as the recent meme stocks have shown, the market can be very irrational.
It really doesn't cost them nothing - it makes them the target to offensive operations of other states. I'd be very, very surprised if NSO itself isn't hacked.
> From what I heard from Argentineans bribing is very common, but they somehow think people taking the bribes are corrupt but not people bribing, or avoiding taxes.
Wait this isn't the case everywhere. I thought this how corruption laws are made.
I don't know details but in general the portfolio would be managed by a trustee, probably with a certain goal specified in advance (preservation of capital, growth, blended, etc.) the key is that the owner of the assets has no control over or knowledge of the specific investments once the trust is formed.

I don't know if a rollover into a blind trust has to involve a complete liquidation to cash to start off. That would make sense, since then there could be no assumptions about which securities the trust held.
"Don't ever give Atlas money."

Atlas works fine and it's reliable, on the consultant thing I can't comment, but MongoDB as it is today is a good DB.
"But our customers have to tell us who they target! It's in the signed contract! And I'm sure the people who lured a journalist into an embassy and murdered him are totally honorable people who would always disclose this to us!"

This isn't even subtle. Their logic is so flawed that they should be embarrassed to hide behind it.
hmm.. "yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations"
Do they not pay payroll taxes for the nearly 100k people they employ?
vim: https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-autosave
Even specific to this case, the reality of surrounding circumstances and events is significant.

We very recently had country-wide protests on the topic of police brutality with very minimal consequnce.

Those surrounding circumstances almost certainly informed this man's decision to own a firearm and his decision to brandish that firearm while figuring out what was happening on his property.

The assumption here is that the stress of the situation was the cause of his heart attack, and ultimately his death.

What ever happened to giving someone a phone call to assess the situation?
Use Cases for the Terraform CDK
Funny how history works.

> Did we learn any lessons from WeWork?

EB: No.

MF: For a minute, it really seemed like they did. In 2019, for a while, Masayoshi Son was telling everyone, “Oh, you suddenly have to be profitable.” And then the pendulum has swung back faster than we ever could have anticipated. And it almost feels more extreme in some ways than it was then.

EB: When we started the book, we thought it was the punctuation of an era of, you know, Silicon Valley unicorn insanity. And then the pandemic happened, and the Fed printed money and cash rolled even more into Silicon Valley. And, yeah, it seems to have gone the other way. So WeWork was more of a blip than the end of an era.

These things go in cycles. If you were to be a super charismatic founder out there trying to raise money for a co-working company right now at a $47 billion valuation, it would be extremely difficult. People still do mention WeWork in VC circles. But one of the things that the pendulum has swung so the public markets are kind of where the crazy is right now. So this is a long way of saying we have learned nothing.

---

Maybe the worst is yet to come.
My understanding is that monsoonal patterns are a result of seasonal heat causing a rising air column, which is then replaced by wetter air from over (relatively) nearby oceans. Wikipedia says that's no longer the preferred understanding, but then goes on to describe exactly what I said, so consult your local meteorologist. At any rate, "Monsoon" is a commonly used word in Phoenix understood to mean seasonal rain storms. This is in contrast to just "rain" which is not necessarily monsoonal in nature. We do get rain in the winter, occasionally, but it is not the monsoon.
I don't think that works the way you suggest, but I also admit the guidance is unclear.

Reg. Section 1.461-1(a)(1) provides the following:

If an expenditure results in the creation of an asset having a useful life which extends substantially beyond the close of the taxable year, such an expenditure may not be deductible, or may be deductible only in part, for the taxable year in which made.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.461-1

If you buy 10+ months of AWS credits in December and have a Jan-Dec fiscal year, I'd argue that you bought "an asset having a useful life which extends substantially beyond the close of your taxable year"
This only appears limited to Los Angeles. Uber and Lyft appear to be working as usual in other major cities.
319 Tb/s Transmission over 3,001 km with 4-core optical fiber
It would be extremely energy intensive to push water from sea level to upland farms, basically you'd be running hydro plants in reverse.
1) Oops, thanks for pointing out the mistake. Will fix in a few minutes.
2) The freaky thing is, I'm fairly sure I didn't even see or look at Rayon's official example in README when I came up with that example for my crate I only came up with it because I was _just_ working on root mean square errors in another side-project. That's hell of a coincidence.
I've read about some pretty interesting recent developments in desalination and other water "cleaning" technologies lately, but they're all still "in the lab" as it were. Nothing of the newest and most amazing stuff I've read about has yet progressed to the point of being in any widespread use.

As another reply mentions, existing technologies that are in use tend to be quite expensive (in terms of cost and power/resource usage required to get the job done on any sort of large scale).
Zapmap and carplay/android auto at least in the UK covers this.

Currently, the best chargers in the UK (for convenience, and as much as my limited experience has been) are Instavolt: contactless payment, no app.

Not quite as convenient, but familiar for most people. Parking meters are worse!
re. Modafinil, I heard it mentioned by a reputable programmer on twitter and decided to try it. I used it regularly for several years, and it was extremely useful in helping with focus and staying on task. I feel like it helped me in a breakthrough phase of my career. The problem I found was that I could only tolerate it 2-3 times per week over the long term. Any more than that, and the edgy/anxious/irritable side effects would build up to intolerable levels. Not to mention I was buying from questionable sources online, figuring it would be too difficult to talk a doctor into prescribing me some.

Eventually though I worried about the quality of the batched I was getting online and stopped taking it altogether. But I still really struggled with focus on a daily basis and started to wonder if what I was really doing was self medicating for undiagnosed ADHD. Thinking back on my life it did sort of fit. Though I am a "successful" developer and I'm doing fairly well at life, it has always felt like I had to struggle and fight a lot more than the average person just go get through the day and stay on task. So I talked to a doctor, tried ritalin and adderall and have settled on a low dose adderall routine that really works for me. It helps tremendously with focus and motivation, and if I am diligent about maintaining a good diet/exercise/sleep schedule, the side effects are very manageable with daily use. I still think about the modafinil days, because those were good times, and it was fun to have that all day I'm on fire feeling. Adderall is nice, but I can tell that if I upped my dose to get into the realm of intense focus that Modafinil used to give me, I would also be getting pretty "high" and the comedown side effects would probably be more unpleasant.
No, GAAP solves for this.
I didn’t say “people”, I said “regions”. Indians generally have a large and collaborative communities, which is a concept totally alien to many westerners who don’t even talk to their neighbours.

This is also part of the reason COVID is so rampant there.

And yes, I’m aware I’ve now reduced the discussion down to massive generalisations about a massive country with a diverse populous and I’m sorry. Obviously there will be a great many counter examples that disproves my point. But from the perspective of my friends and family who have other friends and family in poorer regions of India (and I do mean poorer by Indian standards not poorer but ours but relatively rich by Indians) what I’ve said is fair and accurate. Im sure what you’ve said is also true by virtue of the size of the country.
> Yes, and it's not particularly unique or well suited to that task over any other protocol.

When the files are on an FTP server it is. And given that there are more than a million anonymous FTP servers on the internet today, there are a lot of files that are on FTP servers.
There aren’t more startups creating languages because it’s hard to go up against established incumbents who give away their product for free. Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust and most other mainstream languages thrive on this model. All of them bend over backwards to make it easier for developers to join the ecosystem. Free tools, free learning materials, easy installation, gentle learning curve (as gentle as possible). More developers leads to a flywheel effect of more libraries, more teams taking advantage of the rich ecosystem, more job opportunities cropping up and therefore more developers flocking to the language.

If you have a “pop out the credit card” moment at any point you slow adoption and end up with a smaller, poorer ecosystem that finds it hard to compete with the Pythons and Gos.

But if your language is targeting a niche where no established FOSS language exists, then a startup would work. Create a language, give it away for free (MIT or Apache ideally), then charge for creating/maintaining niche libraries or other consulting. This is the model chosen by Julia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516298). One of their main competitors is a paid product by MathWorks.

Side note - this flywheel effect determining the long term success of programming languages is why discussions around them can get so contentious. A criticism of “your” language could influence an exodus from the developer community around it, making it die slow death. For a person who’s put years into the language, it could mean throwing away all that knowledge and starting afresh elsewhere. So they respond harshly to the criticism, subconsciously hoping that the language ecosystem stays healthy.
Access to courts is a basic right in the civilized world. How did it get taken away in the first place? Mandatory arbitration clauses should be banned.

Arbitration clauses are very unfair to consumers, as explained here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/business/dealbook/in-arbi...
This is an excellent point. "We're responsible for the good applications, just not the bad ones"
Epsilon3 – the OS for spacecraft and complex operations
What is a good software for electrical/mechanical engineers that does not exist?
I have been doing business software and games for over a decade. I advanced my math the past years and feel capable of making an engineering product with a reasonable scope. What would be useful for engineers that the industry neglects ?
Luna Lang / Enso

is visual programming language start up based in Cracow, Poland and they even had office in SF iirc.

They have shitton of fancy visualisations, it looks really interesting, but I'm personally not the target for Visual Programming

https://enso.org/language
Far beyond limiting what members of congress or other high office holders can invest in while in office, I think the ideal should be that public office holders must play a Rawlsian gamble: when they leave office, we select a random citizen, and their level of wealth is wiped to match that citizen. Excess goes to a fund for public campaign financing.

Not only should politicians not be incentivized to select policies which benefit them specifically, but they should be incentivized to select policies which materially benefit the population overall.
She is one of the most powerful legislators in the country. If she lobbying and pushed for EV credits for instance, it could greatly affect the price of the stock. If she were to put up roadblocks to block inquiries into Tesla safety concerns or issues of the sort, it could prevent massive price changes in the stock.

Just because Elon Musk has more power over the stock does not exonerate her from buying potentially massively lucrative options on a stock that she has power to affect. My understanding is she is not under the same restrictions as a CEO would be when trading that ticker, and she also has entirely different incentives than CEO's do. CEO's have the incentive to make the company perform well because their compensation is tied to the share price. Nancy Pelosi in this case has the incentive to rule favorably for Tesla because her options will benefit from it. Those incentives are very very different.
Bose 700 are pretty comfortable. The noise cancellation is remarkable, but if you don't need it, you can reduce it. They're pretty nice on plane rides too if you don't need headphones you can sleep on. The only cons I've found are the bose apps are not super respectful of privacy and the cost - but I just found a pair for $250 on prime day so I imagine they'll be a good price come black friday too.
> "NSO is a technology company. We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations."

This is an abdication of responsibility and I agree the substance and tone of the response from them is really bad.

Just because you don't have direct customer data access does not mean that you don't hold some responsibility for how the tools you sell can and will be used. This is especially the case when you sell zero day security exploits in very high risk use cases.

This response suggests the culture on the inside is probably as bad as it looks from the outside. Based on this, I'd guess abuse of their tools is lot worse than what's publicly known.

A serious company operating in a high risk space would lead the messaging with and own the high risk issue directly and how they try to contain it in order to do pragmatic good in difficult areas. Instead we see a childish almost petulant, knee-jerk response that the bad things are 'not their fault' because they're just a software company.

These guys are just rationalizing their own bad behavior.

https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html
A Nazi is not the opposite of a communist. Someone doesn't become a Nazi post-WWII because they believe in fascism. They do it because they are motivated by the hateful beliefs of Nazis. Therefore there is a higher barrier to prove that the person has truly changed before they can be forgiven. However there is still a path to forgiveness.
The high barrier to entry for creating dev tools is truly a shame, and something I think about a lot.
Europe uses the Type 2 "mennekes" Connector, which has been standardized as the SAE J3068 for use in big trucks/busses (think the kind of vehicle where only diesel is even an option for the ICE versions).

The main advantage of the Type 2 is that for AC charging it allows for three phase power at up to 480v (50 kw max). (vs 250v single phase maximum for Type 1).

Other than connector shape/size, type 1 is a strict subset of the Type 2 standard, to the point where a simple passive adapter can convert a type 1 charger to a type 2 vehicle just fine.

A single phase type 2 charger of the right voltage range could potentially work with a type 1 vehicle with a simple passive adapter, but this direction is more risky, since it appears that voltage and phase counts are not a negotiated parameter, and that the control signals are not limited to 5v like in the Type 1 connector.
It also doesn't say whether or not they actually had the drone in the air at all.

Maybe those guys just hatched a crazy-ass idea, financed it with their previous marijuana "business" but haven't so far gotten around to actually buying cocaine in Morocco, much less smuggling it with a drone...
"Robert Lowell once said that if humans had access to a button that would kill us instantly and painlessly, we would all press it sooner or later."

They'd push it even sooner if no one they cared about depended on them.

A lot of people stay alive simply out of a sense of responsibility towards others.
Things I Learned Writing the Lockdown Post
(Just finished their M121 course for my newish job).

Their aggregation pipelines are pretty pleasant to use. You basically get a bunch of data transformation code that you can avoid writing and you can work with your data without it going out on the wire.

I would probably be able to do most of that in SQL and I’m sure someone who really knows SQL can do everything it can do but I suspect the query involved will be significantly gnarlier. :)

Not sure about how the two would compare performance wise but I do know that you can’t use “$lookup” (Mongo equivalent of joins) with sharding which strikes be as quite unfortunate for scalability.
Article is about muslims praying/protesting in front of Trump tower in New York and as far as I know there has not been terrorist attack on Trump tower.
Because these same "startups" are much more viable as open-source projects. Sure it doesn't make much money, but monetizing software is an uphill battle anyways.

Plus, you won't get a dime out of me for, say, an AI copilot plugin. Unless it's free, and I can guarantee that I'll have access to it in the future, why would I want to integrate something like this into my workflow? Adding another SAAS into my life is just putting my neck under another sword of Damocles.
It’s the most peculiar war ever, though. Imagine being at war with someone and importing electricity from your foe [1]. Either there’s no war or someone is demented.

1. https://iz.ru/1119009/2021-02-01/ukraina-vozobnovila-import-...
With enough demand to produce 100k units per year, that would amortize well too.

But light aircraft are a hard thing to sell for really practical reasons. They have a lot of real world limitations for small overall improvements in performance vs ground travel.

This might be different for some air taxi services within metropolitan areas.
This was exactly my path to loving BBEdit since it let me be a productive PHP dev (insert joke here) on the 5+ year old PowerMac 7300 I was able to afford at the time with my own money as a young teenager. I remember the HTML capabilities they added around version 5/6 being a really huge deal for a lot of people: http://www.atpm.com/6.10/bbedit.shtml

I don't use a Mac daily any more, but I still can't use anything except ProFont in my editors after growing up spending so many hours staring at bitmap Monaco 9 in BBEdit: https://tobiasjung.name/profont/
> Read the sutras

My teacher was disdainful of the sutras. He would quote from them from time-to-time; but his view was that there is no sutra with a living, breathing lineage. He said there waas no way to check that your understanding of a sutra was correct. He favoured relying on more "modern" texts (i.e. mediaeval!) for which there was a living lineage - at least one living teacher, who could trace his training back to the author of that text.

Trungpa said that the teachings were like bread; they should be consumed fresh and warm.
We're discussing a lawsuit, where the legal setup of the United States is going to be the deciding factor.

(The millennia-long discussions of things like freedom of speech tend to similarly wind up having to balance different conflicting freedoms, too.)
I had the idea a while back to do a parser-generator in the form of Rust macros, which would mean a) you don't have to source-control a giant pile of generated files, and b) you get real-time editor integration without a separate "generate" step. I got out of my depth trying to get the actual macros to process the BNF (it gets very meta because Rust's declarative macros are themselves written in a very BNF-like syntax), but I still think this would be possible and pretty cool
Malicious context removal exposes another truth...

> I completely believe Pegasus has the ability to help with a kidnapping

These tools cut both ways.