skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are plenty of independent SaaS businesses that make it past $200K ARR per person with teams of <10

Which is great for companies aiming to stay small and self-bootstrapped. There's nothing wrong with this model for founders who want to stay independent.

The VC alternative allows companies to grow faster than organic revenue growth might allow. It can take a long time for a 10-person company with $2mm ARR to grow to $2.2mm ARR so they can hire the next person they need. Alternatively, they can take VC money and hire the next 100 people they need without waiting for revenue to get there first.

One model isn't inherently better than the other. The important thing is for founders to decide which type of company they want to be and stick to it. A founder who wants to grow organically is going to have a bad time if they take money from investors who want growth. A founder who wants to grow as fast as possible is going to have a bad time if they're constantly stuck waiting for organic growth to let them make the next hire.
> It's time to ban cryptocurrencies

Translation: 'I actually have no idea what cryptocurrencies are, or what I am talking about'! Ban them all anyway!

Still waiting for your grandmaster plan on banning every. single. cryptocurrency.

Good luck. /s
.io comes from I/O. .ly (Libya) fits as a better example.
I wouldn't count on it. Skytrain's [0] been a thing for a couple decades now, but hasn't been emulated everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)
PDO was slower, the interface - critically - tons of examples still either made prepared statements a side note or actively encouraged string concatenation, and it preserved the flaws of the previous interfaces like ignoring errors and warnings (silent is no longer the default in PHP 8).

I no longer consider myself part of the PHP community (started around 1999), in part due to the low priority reliability and security had. It was exhausting having to vet code so frequently because even experienced developers forgot all of the rakes in the grass.
This is the realization I had the other day. It's an abstraction of the "their are no winners in war" paradox.

Racism does bad things. So then we try and fix the negative effects of racism. We practice a new form of "good racism." But it's still racism. And all it does is create more racism, despite our good intentions to roll back the negative effects of racism.

We do the same with sexism. And agism. And any other form of differentiationism.

And those that benefit not from one state or the other, but rather the flux of transitioning from one state to the other, flock to, and encourage the correctionism.
Interesting, I was about to ask how it compared to JellyFin. Didn't think about simply running both at the same time.
Those trucks rust like crazy if they are driven where salt is used in the winter. I owned an 87 Toyota truck and it perforated with rust by the mid 1990s.

If you're in California or southern US they probably last a lot longer. The 22RE engine is very good.
I was frequently walking my dogs at night when they made the switch in my town. I noticed I my visibility was greatly reduced because the LED lights were less diffuse. Anything under the lights I could see just fine but a few feet away was under the vale of darkness.
Because the age selectivity has changed with the new variants.

Young people are getting much sicker with the new variants.

And, by not giving the vaccine to younger people, we are preferentially creating a subgroup which the virus will more likely evolve to infect. So, the longer the young group remains unvaccinated, the more likely that a variant that does real damage to younger people pops up.
Wow! That low a ratio?
There's a pervasive sense of stagnant wages, unaffordable homes, etc in first world and developing countries. In China, it's tangping. In America, it's my step sibling having 0 desire to move out of our parents home (e.g., "Millennials kill X" headlines).

Your options are to try very hard, and maybe secure a barely conventional middle class life, or not try. And for people who aren't a fit for the knowledge economy, the second is the optimal choice.
It’s not apples to apples, a domain name is an asset and a Dropbox account isn’t an asset. However the logic is the same, Dropbox extracts value once they have a reasonable belief I am so invested into their service I would be more likely to pay to upgrade than migrate my data to another freemium service.

Also in my opinion Freenom makes very clear disclosures about the differences in the paid and unpaid features and rights. Just like Dropbox.

To say Freenom is defrauding people would be more on par with saying GoDaddy is defrauding customers when they offer a discount on the 1st year registration and then they “extract more money” subsequent years after I have invested in the domain and have something to lose.

The complaints against Freenom are clearly manufactured as well, and my guess is people like you calling it fraud haven’t used their service or customer service.
A physical catalyst for the electrosynthesis of nitrogen to ammonia (2018)
Like I said, the original post I replied to seemed to say they couldn't imagine the dishes getting done without money: "He wants everyone to suddenly stop using money. If that happened, who would wash the dishes?"

I'm fairly certain the Iroquois didn't need to trade wampum with other bands to get the dishes washed? Just like you said you don't need to pay someone in your family to do the dishes, families (and friends, and Iroquois villages, etc) help each other without needing money.

I didn't say that one can construct a modern economy without money, just that the dishes could still get washed, like a lot of other small scale transactions, in response to someone who may have thought that such things are not possible.

Are you trying to prove me wrong, that humans cannot possibly organize activities amongst themselves without wampum of some sort? You mentioned families doing things for each other, which might be a better example than I brought up.

(I do appreciate the discussion though, I've learned a couple things along the way. But I'm not sure if we disagree, or are going on tangents.)
But it’s showing up on both sides of the conversation. (Both user’s devices show the same wrong unsent pic.)
I always thought that in SAAS company at least 50% should be in the engineering, instead, out of 50, only 12 (25%) is in the engineering..

Not sure if this is the correct rule of thumb, but one day from Software Engineering I might want to move into management or have my own startup and this would help.
> Fortunately, the doubt against vaccines seems to be largely unfounded and it is easily evidenced by drops in death rates in all countries that implemented vaccinations.

Wrong on both counts. First of all viral epidemics follow a natural progression. Saying that a drop in [COVID] death rates following vaccine rollout proves their efficacy/safety is like saying that a week of heavy rains after doing a rain dance proves the rain dance did it.

This same mistake has been made in associative studies looking at mask mandates, where many shoddy papers were released that showed a drop in mask-mandate counties while neglecting to account for the fact that cases were dropping everywhere. Monica Gandhi (an HIV researcher whose pro-masking papers have been of consistently poor quality yet are fairly widely cited because they produce the “correct” result) published a study to this effect that she and her team had to later retract because cases later went up. They were just measuring the normal viral epidemic curve and convincing themselves, without real evidence, that it must have been the masks.

As to the other point, the efficacy of the vaccines is real but quite limited. The recent data coming out of Israel especially was something like 33% case reduction, but a much better reduction in hospitalization/death (80-90%). That to me demonstrates that the party line position of “the vaccines are amazingly effective” is simply not true. They’re great for reducing personal risk - although I’d note the Guillain-Barré syndrome, myocarditis, and strokes are pretty concerning - but they don’t do much for slowing the spread. Now frankly we never should have been trying to slow the spread of SARS-2 in the general population - it was always destined to be an endemic respiratory virus, and a mild one at that for most healthy people - but I’m just making the point because the whole narrative has been that we had to lock down “until the vaccine” to save people from getting infected when increasingly it’s looking like everyone has to face the virus one way or another.

So go out and get vaccinated if you want better odds against SARS-2 while taking on some risk from possible side effects of making your cells express a bunch of artificial spike protein throughout your body for a few days, but don’t kid yourself into thinking that any concerns about either the safety or efficacy of the vaccines is baseless.
Oh they are downvoting me as well. I guess the topic of happiness is touchy...
Signal typically delay releasing the server source code, so the latest version of the server is not open source. In one case it took them almost a year (no public commits between 20 April 2020 and 6 April 2021).

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...

Among the official reasons given was staying ahead of spammers. In this instance it was also speculated that the payment function which they were building into the server was to remain secret.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...
This comment doesn't make much sense. First off, allowing you to customize the ports on the laptop is strictly better than not allowing you to customize them. If you want to use your USBC-to-whatever dongle, you're still free to do so.

Also, the expansion card design is open source and on GitHub, so that should encourage experimentation, and maybe even smaller for-profit manufacturing operations if FrameWork gets big enough.

If you want something to complain about re: the ports, it should be that you can only have four of them (including the charging port over USBC, I believe).
They were; there's a whole complicated set of namespace reservations for government entities under .us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us#Locality_namespace

However, state governments don't have to use this if they don't want to, and they're allowed to have .gov domains. Different states made whatever decisions for whatever idiosyncratic reasons. I strongly suspect that .gov has better name recognition as "this is definitely the government" among the American public, so that might be a reason why state and local government entities might choose to use it.
I would pretty much agree except that lithium ion keeps being sold as a grid storage solution for some reason. But yes they should obviously be showing superiority to lead acid, pumped hydro, etc. as well.
"The Trump administration did <x>. The Obama administration did <y>"

Why try to shoehorn tribal politics into this? The main argument stands on its own merits. The persecution of Assange spans multiple administrations - has the Biden administration dropped the case?
I've been disappointed with DW for a long time. One of their ostensible goals is to promote the German language (see the Deutsche Welle Act, which governs it). Finding a live stream in German on their site is near impossible. I expect it's due to agreements with US cable companies, but I haven't been able to confirm that. I can't think of another reason for them to display "Es gab ein Problem Zugang zu dem geschützten Inhalt herzustellen" whenever I attempt to view live German content. Fortunately, some of it is available on YouTube.
> There are plenty of independent SaaS businesses that make it past $200K ARR per person with teams of <10

How many of them become billion dollar companies in less than a decade though?

In this case I think the ARR per person is probably more of a proxy for "are you growing fast enough?" rather than the number itself mattering.
> Any non-newb dev will know that you ALWAYS have to sanitize strings for SQL. file names or whatever.

This is the “No true Scotsman” fallacy of programming. There are many people with plenty of experience who haven’t yet learned that lesson memorably and at least an order of magnitude more who know it but don’t exhaustively trace every data flow through the system and assume something already handled validation or escaping, being correct all but a fatal few times. With unsafe defaults an attacker only has to find a mistake once — you have to find them all.
You are on the money here. I guess who reports to whom depends if it's a tech company or not.
Just one eNodeB (the "Radio Access Network," i.e. part that connects to the antennas, sourced from Star Solutions), two antennas (13 dBi sectorial antennas with spatial diversity), and an EPC (the "backend," also from Star Solutions) as a VM on a single server. The goal is serve a detector array of 35 indepedent detectors up to 10 km away from the base station (which is mounted on the roof of the tallest building in the research station, some pictures of both a station and the base station that I happened to have taken are available here: https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDire... ). Each station has an omni 8 dBi LTE antenna mounted at several meters height. I also did put a sim card in my phone and it worked fine though that was not the primary purpose (but it allowed me to video call from the middle of the ice sheet far away from the station WiFi, which was kind of a novelty).

The only feasible alternative was 900 MHz WiFi which would have been similar, but lower throughput and much less available technology, whereas LTE modems are cheap and abundant.

It was deployed about a month ago and so far so good. It's data only, and the server the EPC is on just acts as a gateway.

Due to the conditions, the eNB is indoors. Installation of antennas was done by station carpenters as I was not allowed on the roof without training :). I am a physicist, not a telecom engineer but it was not too complicated.
From linked page:

> Several systems which exhibit all three properties of Zooko's triangle have now been created, including:

> Computer scientist Nick Szabo's paper "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority" illustrated that all three properties can be achieved up to the limits of Byzantine fault tolerance.

> Activist Aaron Swartz described a naming system based on Bitcoin employing Bitcoin's distributed blockchain as a proof-of-work to establish consensus of domain name ownership. These systems remain vulnerable to Sybil attack, but are secure under Byzantine assumptions.

> Several platforms implement refutations of Zooko's conjecture, including: Twister (which use Swartz' system with a bitcoin-like system), Blockstack (separate blockchain), Namecoin (separate blockchain), LBRY (separate blockchain and peer-to-peer file-sharing), Monero OpenAlias and Ethereum Name Service.
Why deal with the hard stuff when you can show a solid record of harassing people based on what the computer told you to do.

It is no secret that police departments like to game their numbers. Not even really specific to police, plenty of professionals in positions of responsibility and life or death do it (Surgeons).
The SD card is another one, the Pi will be logging and constanly reading and writing to the SD card until it eventually fails.
"What do you do?" is the default question for a stranger. Formal paid work is your identity in America. Even leisure activities are usually orientated around consumption and status signaling.
The desk, at its lowest sitting position, still has plenty of clearance for nearly all household pets or unsupervised infants.

My thought was "Save yourself some time/effort and do what I do: set a timer to remind you to stand."
Well incentives matter. The government has its incentives, so do drug makers, so do fda members and so do you. Always consider how incentives impact information you receive. Medical textbooks have optimal incentives if you are trying to learn. Media, government and drug makers maybe not.
How about standby time?
> US is loosing more and more of its standing when it comes to "spreading" democracy. You can't go and try to preach democratic values to, say, Belarus, and then do exactly the same in your own country.

Is there any indication that stuff like this happens _more_ than in the past? Or have the world's standards just risen?
> "You should hopefully be able to think for yourself and be able to evaluate when the story checks out and where it doesn't."

When I was a child, this sort of thinking was taught in grade-school and considered to be an important component of becoming an adult. Ah, how I long for "the good ol' days".
Ok, but they’ve done the opposite- helping linux projects get linux on M1 macs..
Hackers typing out ... well, anything. Or the worst of all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
HAH! But I'm not sure how many people are going to get your joke ... That's pretty specialized jargon. But, Avenue Q had it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs

The only thing he can't make fun of on Twitter is "YouTube Face" ...
Its also spent fighting off other people who want to live on the same very limited natural resources, or you die from starvation. That is the reason we stopped living like that, it hasn't been possible for thousands of years since there simply are too many humans to do it.
Perhaps because I only work at companies where the data is the product but I have a hard time imagining a company without a Data Science Department reporting into the CEO
A take from one of the organizations taking on this issue:

Pasco Predictive Policing: https://ij.org/case/pasco-predictive-policing/

This is one of the reasons why the Institute for Justice is at the top of my contributions list.
> writing tickets for violations like overgrown grass

If I didn't know better I would think this story is from The Onion.
But I/O is SV culturally derived secondary meaning to .io (British Indian Ocean Territory), there is no reason to have ascribed it. At least with .ly people are incorporating the ly as part of the name like when people register a .in (India) for their cryptocoin project [name]co.in
Looking at the picture, it's in close proximity to other horizontal surfaces at similar levels.
> BTW. I was surprised how sensitive this topic is at reddit. They are calling anything and everything gatekeeping. So even telling people how to retain more knowledge will get them to start screaming how you are putting pressure on people and killing the joy of reading. You get 10 downvotes instantly.

This is why I now spend more time on /r/bookscirclejerk than r/books. The latter wants to discuss anything except reading books.
I have been thinking about how to do a deployment on a farm, using a private 5G network for some sensors and security cameras. I looked at LoraWann but it didn't have the bandwidth for cameras. Would something like this work?
You make good points, but my assertion isn’t necessarily to oppose god and capitalism, nor to say that returning to religion would solve all our problems, I’m just implying we’ve traded “god” for the “market” and that both have affinities insofar as they are both based on founding texts (bible, wealth of nations) that prescribe a belief system more based on faith (saving grace, invisible hand) than reason.
Generally no, the desk is a serious pinch hazard since it is so heavy!

It would be hard to detect a problem going down since the leg could just lift off the ground.
Yep. There's been a recent surge of changing the term "people of color" to "the global majority." I hope the global minority is going to have some rights left when this is over.
You haven't named a single difference. You insist on vaguely insulting me and ignoring me when I ask why they should be treated differently.

They're both delivering packets from a datacenter in a specific spot to anywhere on the planet. They're charged based on different metrics, but it's easy to make a rough translation between those metrics.

I ask if the numbers are wrong, you insult me.

I ask why it's a false equivalence, you insult me.

And you think I'm the one not contributing to this conversation?
People give it too hard of a time.. for those who haven’t watched it they should.. soundtrack is great for sure..
Taken from the original post which is badly worded. It should read, the last digit of n^5 is always equal to the last digit of n
> How can users be assured that this type of issue won't occur again?

Actually, this very type of issue (sending messages to wrong recipients due to stale/invalid database entries) has occured previously.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7909
People experimented with CO2 refrigerant around the end of the 19th century, when refrigeration had just been invented and most other refrigerants hadn't been invented yet; it was called "carbonic acid" and required much heavier machinery due to the high pressures. (Typically over 1000PSI for CO2, compared to 100-200PSI for HC, CFC, and HCFC.)
This is awesome! And also looks like a superset: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Newbie (94 languages, with code and instructions for running them)
And Kevin Jones CEO is making $6,620,458. I bet he didn't decrease his own compensation to give shareholders more value for their shares. No he didn't. But he got rid of the highly paid workforce, got cheaper workforce, in order for the CEO to increase his compensation.

We need a law saying top executives can't make more than 10x (or whatever) than the lowest paid employee. It happens in other countries.

Some may say that it won't attract the best, but it's not like they are going to not work, those type of people are driven not by money, but an internal drive.

And for those who may say my words are awful, don't worry, it will never happen, because of the bribery, aka "lobbying", will prevent that from ever happening.
nobody is intentionally inserting bad code on answers. they are just bad programmers giving what they think is helpful advice.
A few years ago I thought it would be funny to reverse engineer this same desk and add a small wifi board inside the control box. There is even a digital signal which controls the number display

My plan was to slowly move the desk up while keeping the display the same, or something else nefarious like that.
> the LED lights are a hard blue light

The Dark Sky folks recommend <3500K for colour temperature:

* https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-indus...

Another criteria to get their seal is controlling the angle that the light comes out to control for glare and such. Roadway lighting:

* https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-indus...

Street:

* https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-indus...
This is reminiscent of the early days of online shopping. When online shopping started to take off, the risk of having your credit card information stolen was higher than today. This was because credit cards were transmitted using the same means as other information at the time. That is, to say, insecurely. It wasn’t until later on that we began to see standards arise and libraries emerge that addressed the issue. This isn’t to say that the developers of the era didn’t care. They simply didn’t have the means to achieve what was needed. I think that we will see the same with data privacy in the future. Not every developer is a privacy expert and I don’t think that will ever be the case. Someone will come up with a set of tools accessible to every developer that will solve these issues in a standard way. I’ve seen it happen before and I’ll see it again. The old becomes new, history rhymes, etc etc.
It's 3 characters to switch it to read only mode, and just a few more to save the system clock across boots.
"Round up the usual suspects"
Also, if Snowden had only revealed details about ASIO rather than the NSA, he might not have had to flee to Moscow.