skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's market cap was not tied to the number of cars it was shipping at any specific point but rather how much confidence investors had in their ability to execute on their plans and scale up in the future. When you look at Rivain's team + product + funding I think it's not unreasonable to have a high level of confidence in their ability to execute.
Does HN do AMAs? I would REALLY like to hear from people who cashed out early and stopped working. What is your life like?
Crossing Career Chasms
Re your first claim it just takes time.

Re your second claim, that’s a common misconception. The price of bitcoin would skyrocket against USDT but pancake against USD.

Who in their right mind would sell their (actually worth USD) Bitcoin for your worthless Bahamian IOUs? Absolutely nobody. So you’ll see a massive skyrocket against USDT and as soon as people realize what’s going on, it’ll go no-bid. RIP.

Then the ensuing panic will cause selling on USD markets, arb bots will turn off, and that selling will be accelerated by the few who got BTC from their USDT piles as they run for the exit. Then exchanges will go down for “maintenance.”

You don’t need to believe me, this happens with every exchange insolvency. It happened at Gox and it happened at Quadriga.
> The Dutch investigation into whether Apple's practices amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position was launched in 2019 but later reduced in scope to focus primarily on dating market apps.

Apple might just remove dating apps from the app store for the Netherlands. Problem solved.
The article literately links to a Japanese study.
How many school shootings this week?
Of course it is. There are no rules on HN commenting -- aside from the GENERAL rules -- just because it's a Wikipedia link. I'm not sure where you get that idea from. Open discussion is open discussion.
Honestly, what a great way to start _that_ conversation haha
I haven't heard this music in about twenty years!

I first heard that in an english-course CD-rom and always thought it belonged to that course and was thus lost forever!

Thank you for letting me re-discover this thing!!!
We agree in that we wish Firefox prioritized each user's privacy and agency more. But what I'm saying is that users' demand for ubiquitous and frictionless media consumption is something that will always be abused, and to try to satisfy that need and also not become corrupt or destroyed by your competitors seems pretty impossible at the moment. I want there to be a space for a browser that doesn't need millions or billions to maintain.
Yeah, but you gotta admit, this is cool. It may not be the most practical or useful thing, but it is cool that someone made Git in AWK.
Deep dive into Ethiopia's GERD dam
It's a horizon several factors longer than they would be able to make course corrections.

If you planned what lunch you would eat on January 15th, 2022, I'd also say that you were planning far into the future, even though it's only a tiny fraction of the time between now and the sun swallowing the Earth.
I reduced my salary to signal our investor

I mean, "HARDER DADDY" is indeed a signal.
Self directed IRAs are commonly used with a wholly owned single member LLC to invest IRA funds into real estate related investments such as rental properties or many other types of private investments. The new proposed tax bill seems to remove the ability of the IRA owner to manage that LLC and effectively end the use of checkbook control IRAs.
And likely far more by now, had it become the PC instruction set architecture. The x86 instruction set was also simpler back in the late 70s, in the 8086 era when the Motorola 68000 was first released, than it is now.

Back then it only had the one register width (16-bit, e.g. "ax"), whereas now it has the 32-bit series (e.g. "eax") series and the 64-bit series (e.g. "rax"). It also now has SIMD, SSE/AVX, virtualization support, and other technologies. Back then it just had one operating mode (real mode), whereas now it has protected mode, long mode, system management mode, and a few other intermediate modes (e.g. "unreal mode").

So a lot of the complexity that x86 has now was introduced after that decision was made. It's definitely conceivable that the 68000 line would have developed similarly had it been chosen instead of x86 for the PC.
Original article presented in the divulgation: Beyond Cholinesterase Inhibition: Developmental Neurotoxicity of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardants and Plasticizers, https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP9285

> To date, the toxicity of organophosphate esters has primarily been studied regarding their use as pesticides and their effects on the neurotransmitter acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Currently, flame retardants and plasticizers are the two largest market segments for organophosphate esters and they are found in a wide variety of products, including electronics, building materials, vehicles, furniture, car seats, plastics, and textiles. [...] OPEs can alter neurodevelopmental processes by interfering with noncholinergic pathways at environmentally relevant doses

The background is that OPEs were known as toxic as pesticides (action on AChE) but were considered having avoided such toxicity in the products used as flame retardants and plasticizers: new paths of toxicity were found also in these other OPE based products («perturbation of glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid and disruption of the endocrine system»).
(c) I'm thrifty where it doesn't matter

Exactly, it absolutely does not matter as much as this person thinks. Investors don't value money the same way you do. This a nice gesture that will be quickly forgotten, an oddity.
As long you don't mind a cheeky production release to get new words urgently added once the next bot wave hits.
I created this, but it felt wrong to call it a Show HN.
A founder and CEO should scarifice their salary if it comes to making payroll.

Probably don't want to post to social or mention it increasing your skin in the game until the light is visible though.
I stand corrected. At least it wasn't the policyholder's name.
Interestingly enough I believe this is partially why there was a "wages for housework" movement[0]

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_housework
Is there any reason to use openoffice instead of libreoffice these days?
+1 for Sceptre. So much nicer for stack orchestration.
It's a real shame that Huxley's final novel Island, written after his first exposure to actual psychedelics, gets so little press compared to Brave New World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)

But apparently the world wasn't ready for a utopia of Tantric sex and drugs where people are genuinely happy.
Show HN: OSS linked JSON knowledge graph
Ha! Michael Walthius was one of my primary inspirations when I was trying to make my own midi arrangements. I was just a kid trying to self-teach music theory and composition.
If people were forced to walk through Disneyland to get to work or live their daily lives, your analogy would be more apt.
I've allocated both these things on the heap and Rust simply won't let me store them both together. I don't know about you but this is an extremely common pattern in almost all languages, you just don't think about it in the gc languages and in C++ storing pointers is no issue. The popularity of crates like rental also shows that it's not as easily avoidable as you suggest.
Exactly, everything else you listed about Apple's behavior is also anticompetitive and will hopefully be addressed in the future. But lets start with payments.
Java has good to great FP, making most objects immutable is also trivial. Mypy is good to get strict typing enforced but, but I still prefer the native and slightly wonky typesystem to a tacked on one that builds on trust.
Yes, I don't have the pricing nailed down, so I thought I'd start with 9%. How it works is you set a price for your digital book, and when a printable version is ordered we add the cost of printing and shipping on top of the cost of the digital book. We take 9% of the price of the digital book, so your profit remains the same.

Generating Ebooks (PDF, EPUB, MOBI and Online Versions) is the main core of the product, we would generate beautiful typeset ebooks from your draft text.

Although now the only import option is copy and paste, we are working on rebuilding the editor and once that is finished we would have import from word document, since that is the most common formats among authors.
The way it's supposed to work is you then fall back on the intrinsic value of the copper. That's the 'coin' part of what the 'Mint' does.
They also, on the last update, prompted some color scheme adjustments "for a limited time" - what? That isn't something you tend to see in open source software. I wonder if they think it will increase engagement with the browser?
Do you hate your subscriptions that much? And love Apple like your mother?

This is like Jeff Bezos is sending you letters asking which small business you'd like to deny rent money to this month.

He's cackling in the background knowing you're paying him and that it makes his ecosystem stronger to rope everyone into it and pit them all in evolutionary battles to the death.
Just in case the webdev's here, the link to the Mac App Store appears to be fatfingered:

> ... href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1306893526?pt=20288..." target=...
> scheduling on a calendar is not scaleable

> hyper scheduling

Um.. what?

I was a lot more interested in this product until I started reading the marketing copy. To me it reads like the worst of breed of Silicon Valley “solution looking for a problem speak”.
Seems odd there’s only Apple calendar sync, and no direct google calendar sync.
It's the biggest repository of knowledge in history. It facilitates communication and trade on an unprecedented scale.

Despite all the negative externalities that it also causes, I fail to see how they could outdo its positive aspects.
I'm not used to REPL-Driven development, but I took a course on a image-based language, Pharo, that follows the tradition of instant feedback and deep introspection from Smalltalk IDEs, said to share many properties with REPLs. At work I do my programming mostly in Python, and always miss the things enabled by the Pharo environment. I wonder if it's possible, and how hard it would be, to build a similar image-based workflow around Python. At least it seems some people managed to do that for TCL. See http://www.xdobry.de/tclsqueak/
Many people in here are not even clicking on the article and seem to just want to talk about how retirement can be good or bad for some men depending on if they sit around and do nothing or if they have some type of hobbies/work to keep them busy.

All I have to say is I know a lot of retired men who get very very into woodworking. Me and the nice handmade end-tables I have are not complaining.
They are genuinely miserable. They are grumpy, irritable, and micromanage everything they can get their hands on. The only thing that keeps them happy is renovating stuff or travelling, and it's hard to do both constantly.
>I'm not in the business of selling apps, but I enjoy writing books. The best way to sell books, is to build a mailing list of fans so that you can reach them when you have another book ready.

No thanks. That's what I use book stores (either physical or electronic for)
I’d say that’s just a bad seller who would have spammed you no matter what payment processor you would have gone through.

Until now, I’ve used Stripe, Paypal, Paddle and some local Romanian company and all of them provided me the email of the customer where it was available.

It’s up to the seller to abide by the rules, the platform isn’t at fault here.
Docker and Kubernetes basically.
Thats a clear fallacy.

Just because an entirely different government entity (the EC) enforced a practice that has different outcome than expected, does not, in any way, predict how this private entity (a local market-watch and local court) will work.
Not the same starting point but I was making decent wage here at my previous jobs. Some logistics management and startups. I don't started to feel dissonance heavily and after the last startup was running out of runway we agreed it was best for me to go. I wasn't a founder either.

But I spent awhile trying to figure out what I want to do and my wasn't able. I only managed to figure out what the hell I don't want to do.

I was also fortunate enough to be able to afford a year of this downtime. At some point I mentioned that I might actually start working again but have no idea where to go and my friend told, as a joke I o dead sure, that come work with us. We need good guys.

So by pure chance I ended up working with disabled kids at a school with a four month trial contract. And loved every bloody second of it.

During my downtime I had experienced with my routines and gotten rid of alcohol, meat and car. Also basically decided not to buy anything I don't need, the only luxurious stuff being something odd for my kid.

And I realized my life is so much better this way, with shitty salary and simplistic lifestyle. The dissonance about burning the planet down with my lifestyle was gone. I can handle the mortgage alright and can save some for bad days.

I don't miss a damn thing from the past that was supposedly way cooler than current life.

Life's much more than only money. At least when you get by alright. And "the things you own end up owning you".
I answered that already.

If you search for "hotels", they'll show you things related to "hotels".

That doesn't require access to your browsing history - it's right there in the search term.
I reduced my salary to force myself to focus on what makes the most sense strategically for the product.

You know that sentence is completely incoherent, right? The man running the company suddenly having a bunch of personal financial distractions is bad. You thinking that having less money will make you more focused is a red flag big enough to go in a car dealership parking lot.
Correct. Privacy policies constrict the rights of the site posting the policies. They never expand those rights.
Have you seen the web lately? I'll take the small, vetted, fan crafted internet of the late 90s over this SEO written content mill garbage mountain we have now.
Multiple ex-employees showed up. Read the thread.
The problem with that is that you see all that because you already have a working knowledge of fluid mechanics. Someone reading this from the intended audience, ie someone looking for a gentle introduction, will not realize that absolute statements like “The incompressibility of fluids is the reason why those beautiful curls pop up in fluid bodies.” or “A substance that can not be compressed, can not have areas of higher and lower pressure” are simply and plainly wrong.

The result simply is, as I stated, that the interested reader will not have learned anything physical about fluids, and will not even know the vocabulary to dive deeper afterwards.

Note also, that the “naive” way still requires you to understand the divergence of a vectorfield, at which point the whole approach collapses and I wonder why they don’t simply give us the equations and then we can see for ourselves.
More accurate then actual AI under-trained on insufficient data.
The average user doesn't read those or know what they contain. Nor are they written simply enough or succinctly enough to expect that the average user comprehends them.

You also may have agreed to them in college with zero kids, so you skipped that part.

They also morph over the years and you may not have read the updates.

ToS are user-hostile by design.
Because the 99$/year are for the dev platform and the 15%/30% cut are for using the infrastructure needed for in app purchases.
Things[1] has had this feature as long as I can remember. Just mentioning it since Sorted seems to be Mac/iOS only too and the title mentions this as its main feature.

[1] https://culturedcode.com/things/
Link to the interop lib for Clojure you're referring to for people who don't know it: https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj

Really a remarkable feat of engineering. Here's its author giving a talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPW16_jixs
Seeing all of the ancillary legal fallout from the Epic Games trial is convincing me that the EU learned the wrong lesson from the US' dealings with Microsoft in the 90's.

The OEM model (at least for computing platforms) is how the world works. Fragmenting it helps no one, save for perhaps the software freedom crowd.

They continue to fight the old war and at some point, it just might come back to bite them.
The first thing when they heard of the disaster was not to go see if they could help anyone, but how can they publish a story

A bit off topic, but with all the current debate on the nature of social media and its affect on mental health, I've been wondering if this tendency to want to tell horrid stories is some deep rooted part of human nature? Because even today, you see it all around the world when we whip out our cell phones to livestream instead of going to help anyone when a calamity happens. It never fails, people on scene will almost universally record instead of rendering aid. From the smallest calamity such as a subway argument or fight, right on up to a building collapse.

Are we just drawn to calamity? It's weird.
This is worded like a contradiction or a correction, but that is in fact exactly my point. On offer is the implicit suggestion that Mozilla needs half a billion a year to maintain its current position. But Mozilla's numbers are so low and Barksdale's maxim is well-founded enough that you don't have to take a huge leap in logic to see that that argument doesn't hold up. That it would be possible for a nobody to appear and get the same results means that Mozilla's costs aren't justified.
Would your bank really act any differently if the government came knocking?

I use Google Pay to email money instantly without fees.
No, it is missing several important information.
I've taken one of those big 5 tests, it's based on self reported answers to survey questions. While I would not call it snake oil, if self reports are not a reliable method of understanding people, it's fancy nonsense. (Like most psychology, it seems it may or may not be B.S.)

I googled the Cambridge thing you mentioned and the first article that came up said it wasn't particularly accurate and was mostly just profiling based on demographics. (Shrug).
Available on Linux/pure webapp?
Doing CTFs is also a way to get intimately familiar with x86 assembly, and they are pretty fun too.
I hope you're right. I think the major tipping point would be a major exchange deciding to no longer accept it.
I speak under correction but I think that's how diving works - high pressure air, with extra nitrogen. So the concentration of oxygen is less but the total amount is the same
Oh I see - the consent screen shown in the blog post is for something different. I stand corrected.
Yea .. I'm not quite sure I get what it does really .. it just looks like a calendar, but in a list?
First principles arguments are crushed by emergent properties at scale. Disneyland has less than a hundred restaurants. The harm to society if Dinseyland has extra control over those restaurants is miniscule. The harm caused by Apple having monopolist control on the majority of mobile phone owner's entire software stack is exponentially larger.
Things does not let you assign durations to tasks, which is Sorted’s whole thing.
The search for meaning and status through interactions with others.
IIRC from SCUBA diving, breathing pressurized normal air can result in nitrogen narcosis, at least while you're still under pressure.

Not sure if there's a lingering effect afterwards, which IIUC is what we're talking about here.
I'm not sure what problem this solves. single-person scheduling is pretty easy already. it seems the main value prop is that you can assign durations, but you can do that with a calendar already.
I would write principled Python with strict coding standards. Make type annotations mandatory and turn up pylint or flake8 to maximum warnings. It really helps avoid a bunch of silly mistakes, while still providing a way out for doing crazy stuff that Python is good at.
TerminusDB co-founder here. In 10.0 (anti-SemVer speaking), we decided to simplify the interface, make the concept of the document more central, make the primary interaction method be through JSON documents and create a schema language that looks like the JSON you hope to build (and feels more like one you might write in a programming language).

It's early days, but internally to the team, the traction has already been noticeable. Many more of us have built complex knowledge graphs using our software.

The possibilities that a document graph could bring to application development has always excited us. We really feel like their day will come. Its part of why we've been involved with implementation of graph databases since 2004.

The object store of yore always felt like a good idea to us, but we were aware of its problems: difficulties with referential integrity, difficulties with concepts of identity etc. These former attempts did not succeed but they gave us great information as to what might succeed in the future.
A high Q machine is expensive. It's by nature a nuclear facility, which adds a few zeroes to the cost. Nuclear fusion machines needs tritium fuel, which is made in exactly one breeder on the planet. In general a fusion machine just being nuclear doesn't add much scientific value.

The plasma physics for making a better (cheaper) reactor has been pushed in smaller machines, as shown by better triple product values and empirical scaling laws. Triple product is a measure of how well the plasma is confined. That's the metric to focus on (when accounting for the fact that the science machines are small with scaling laws). In that regard, we have made excellent progress.

A high Q machine (such as ITER) is valuable because it lets us study burning plasmas. It's an expensive pill to swallow but an essential step towards making a real reactor. Qtotal = 1 is a nothingburher. Qplasma = 1 is also a nothingburger, but at least going past that barrier grants new knowledge.
I'm not disputing that nuclear is better than coal, but that's quite a low bar. Usually nuclear is compared to solar (with storage), wind, and hydro. These don't have the pollution downsides of coal. And while dams can fail catastrophically, I don't think the cleanup costs approach those of a nuclear power plant failure.
It looks nice, but I don’t think it’s caught up with Sunsama yet!
It's a joke, right?
Brave New World has become more than a novel now...it's a symbol in the cultural lexicon. Another example is the use of "orwellian" as an adjective by people that have never read 1984. I agree that his other works demonstrate his skills as an artist much better.
> had they not care about growth, they would not have become a useful public registry that you can use to connect with anyone

Agreed. The uptake was predicated on their excellence and strive to growth.

But I think there's an argument towards making a base layer of shared services non-profit, and then allowing for-profit companies to build on top and capture most of the value (e.g. ICANN).

I think a present where we'd done that might have a healthier (for-profit) Facebook.

> app could be better if they cared less about engagement

The root of Facebook's evil is that their ad revenue model inherently means engagement = $. And so, whatever their ancillary preferences and morals, they will ultimately do whatever increases engagement (to the brink of public outcry).

In a lot of ways, this is like the resource curse of oil, diamonds, etc. Facebook (as a company), as powerful as it is, can't actually make strategic decisions that have a side effect of decreasing engagement.
Whatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.
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