skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just the money. If you announce that you are going to found a tech startup people will think that you are just going to play Space Invaders (mind, not COD or FIFA) all day and stop having showers. If there’s a chance in 200 for an American that a relative will give them some money to bootstrap the company, in Europe is even less likely that your partner or family will take you seriously.

In some European countries it is extremely expensive to found companies. In Italy 5-10K€ would maybe cover all your bureaucratic costs for the first year vs 10-20£ in the UK (or 1K£ if you hire an accountant).

In Italy the government may prevent you from selling your company to foreign entities if it is deemed “strategic”, using the so-called “Golden Power”. What is a “strategic” company is so ill-defined, that it could be applied to any company way before it reaches unicorn status or even relevance.
Should have been 1.7% not 2.7%! Fat fingers. Combination of being in band C while living in a small flat that's not worth much.
>but it is utterly fascinating to be able to correspond with people who are both intelligent and insane

tbf sort of sums up most of the internet where I hang out.
I really hope he switches platforms. This serves as a valuable lesson, though: archive everything from YouTube channels you like! Treat it as totally ephemeral. YouTube seem to just take things down at the turn of a hat. I hope Jim also mirrors his content to alternative platforms, instead of just using that as a threat. He has been a huge inspiration to many, as you can clearly see from the amount of 'JCS inspired' videos popping up on the platform.
It would if the intent was to remind Sweden of its vulnerability, as in "it's really unfortunate that a parliamentary majority in your country favors a NATO option".

Cutting electricity in the middle of winter would have catastrophic consequences. Half of single family homes in Sweden are electrically heated, water is delivered by electric pumps, and cash has been almost completely replaced by electronic payments.
Thank you for your interest!
It is true that the tool supports mainly relational database systems.
I don't quite understand what ElasticSearch support could mean? Is ElasticSearch a DBMS at all, or just a search engine?
I'm sorry if this question is stupid, but I've really never had anything to do with ElasticSearch.
So what exactly is the criteria for a country to be called Western or Eastern?

Is there a hard criteria at all?
It is crazy to have private ownership over publicly funded services. The government built the infrastructure that made your plot of land valuable so it is only fair to pay a land value tax. If you don't do that then the rich will become your overlord instead and they charge as much as they can get away with.
This type of comment is getting so old I wonder what can be done about it. Maybe the reason why we don't have "different things" is because users of these so called safe languages are too busy arguing online about how safe their programs are instead of actually writing anything worthwhile. Meanwhile operating systems will continue to be written primarily in C/C++ for the forseeable future
Confirmation/survivorship bias thrives when paired together with the illusion of free will.

If we were talking about a philosophical example of an apple tree in a remote closed garden, people would agree that the presence of the apple tree itself is a factor that plays a role to whether you'll eat an apple. No matter how much you can stretch your hand or climb a ladder, if there's no apple tree to climb there's no way you can eat apples no matter how hard you tried.

But the more we increase the complexity (like putting a store that sells apples close to the garden) the more people are willing to believe that it was their own ability that made them eat an apple, and not the access to the tree or the store.

Now increase that complexity even further and the noise will become high enough to make you think that everyone can get the metaphorical apple if they try, which is so dumb that is baffling to me.

I had an argument with a friend over the role things outside of his control played in getting his first job as a self-taught. We almost made this a political argument for absolutely no reason. He felt offended because I was trying to tell him that the country of birth still plays a role on not only how much money you can potentially make but also the ease of access to entry level jobs (unemployment rates are a thing outside of your control).

People would rather romanticize their self-reliance than adjust it by admitting external circumstances as ONLY A FACTOR to their success, to the point where they will feel offended and rather remove you from their life than admit the role of the environment and timing in everything we do.
Reminds me of Lisperati1000
https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1357029088343506944
(2017) although the only way to tell is by looking the meta tags.
genuinely asking, what sort of tuning do Windows and Linux have that Mac doesn’t? I’m sure it will be obvious once I’m given examples, but for now I don’t get it.

From what you’ve said, gnome and kde is something. From my limited experience with them, the major difference that Mac can’t do is the menu bar or Windows style bottom bar as different options. Mac does stick with the top menu bar as something always there (though you can hide it in newer versions). Most other things can be customized in Mac as well. A lot may require 3rd party apps on Mac to achieve though.

I’ve had multiple Mac users have a hard time using my main Mac because of how I’ve customized it to my liking.
Sirum (YC W15) is hiring developers to help uninsured people afford medicine
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We like to solve tough problems and are determined to improve healthcare access for families who have trouble affording the medications they need to stay healthy.

We are currently hiring for our Atlanta Offices as well as some fully remote roles. We have opportunities for staff/principal software developers and product managers who are ex-developers.

If you want to work in healthcare, were going to make a new year's resolution to find mission-driven work, and thrive in a startup environment, then we may be a good fit. If you see a position that you like then apply at https://boards.greenhouse.io/sirum. Even if you don’t see something that’s the right fit right now, email adam -at- sirum.org - we love hearing from folks on hackernews who share our mission.
Both of these sentiments probably deserve the good old "Woody Harrelson drying tears with 100 dollar bills" meme.
A more accurate title would be "Our Position Against Suicide At This Time"
This is long Long long overdue. Fantastic news.
If the police were close to you, the value of that plot would be higher, or at least its associated costs would be.
And how is this ban going to be enforced if they can't even enforce energy bills to be paid?
The following pretty much lays out the mentality behind the cuts:

"The source added that 'the days of state-run TV are over' and praised the growth of US-run companies such as Netflix and YouTube."

Yes, let's run to our algorithmically run and siloed future.
The big private players in Crypto who have invested a lot of money and time would not let US government ban mining.
I don't believe any model that says many small impactors cause more or the same damage than one large impactor. Surface area is higher, drag is higher. V becomes lower. 1/2mv^2 becomes dramatically lower. In every single case that an impactor is split.

Also, in the case of hitting a rock with sufficient kinetic energy it will become atomized. A cloud of fast moving space dust would burn in the upper atmosphere.
BBC Tech salaries are awful, even by UK standards. Good luck for getting more efficient when you're not paying anyone to disrupt workflows.
Sleeping less doesn't mean much if you're born in a remote village in Africa or China where clean water is a luxury, in a toxic family where not being beaten up and having a stable psyche is a requirement if you want to act out your potential at school.

You don't choose whether you're depressed or not. It's absurd to me that in 2022 you're saying that learning that successful people are not depressed is an actionable advice that people can learn from.
All this negativity is fueling the current or upcoming dump run, which in turn will fuel the next pump. Which eventually will expand crypto usage and make some rich cryptobros and sisters even richer.

Unless some actual systemic and global changes happen.
I love minimalist stuff, but I don't really believe this is a good idea. It's not compatible with a lot of things.

Sure it's cool, but the problem will always be the lack of open hardware. Personally I will always be more curious about smartphone OS made from scratch.

The only think I want right now, is to use old smartphones with a lightweight OS.
Kepner-Tregoe ("K-T") is something our IT department was given training in a few years ago. It's not specifically for software/IT though; it's a pretty generic framework. https://kepner-tregoe.com

While searching for it online, I also came across https://www.uapb.edu/sites/www/Uploads/Assessment/webinar/se...

Hope those help.
I still remember the "Got Uranium?" title with the guy raising his eyebrows. Definitely felt weird/awesome to order from a site like that as a kid haha.
Is this OS a fork of SerenityOS (also completely written from scratch in C++)?

I'm amazed how many single person or small team developed operating systems are out there. Another one I like is RedoxOS (written in Rust) and Resea (microkernel written in C). Also, there's KolibriOS (written entirely in Assembler).
The answer is we do plunder the planet like there's no tomorrow, notwithstanding what one ought think.
Good. Currently I'm forced to pay for content I dont consume.
"My mom" is short for you are not alone in your success. How can you describe that in a sane way when you know that just one small variable led to this specific outcome. Tech conferences did not get us Linux, it was just an idea that failed many times before and since.

For me networking has been vital because I've gotten to do so much fun, but it has been a massive waste of time for the most part.
navigation is an easy one, a physical map is as portable and efficient enough.

re. the rest i feel the most important thing is to develop a solid social infrastructure. e.g. know your neighbors and be on good terms with them. know the places where you can get a hold of your friends if you need to. know your community and actively participate in it. that sort of thing. this is your safety net in case something goes awry.
Nothing to do with stuff like this:

Michael Fabricant, the Conservative MP for Lichfield, has said that the BBC has launched a “coup attempt” against Boris Johnson after hearing a news bulletin which criticised the PM over lockdown parties held at No. 10.

Speaking yesterday, Mr Fabricant said: “BBC Radio 4 Bulletin leads this morning with a manufactured story of what some MPs have said to the BBC. This is not news reporting an event. This relentless news creation is a coup attempt against the prime minister”.

It would be like CNN quoting a democrat senator saying that the democrat president is terrible. Yes, that's news.
I like much of what the BBC do and produce, especially BBC news, but the licence fee has always felt like a relic from the past with a bad strategy of enforcement (With their threatening letters and misguiding terminology as to when a license is required). Their actual broadcast service is lacking in some areas too. On BBC One HD I still get a blank place-holder screen for local news, advising to switch to the non-HD channel, which is just bizarre at this point, 10 years after support for HD viewing.

I hope the BBC continues to survive, just with a more modern funding approach.
The Birth of Rusty N Edie's BBS
More info:

They were raided by the FBI[1][2] in 1993 and sued by Playboy[3]. It was later settled in 1998[4].

[1]http://textfiles.com/bbs/r&estory.txt

[2]https://web.archive.org/web/20050922215812/http://www.pixi.c...

[3]http://www.internetlibrary.com/pdf/Playboy-Russ-Hardenburgh-...

[4]https://ia802900.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.ohnd.43...

Some vintage splash screens:

https://defacto2.net/g/rusty-n-edies-bbs?
In Germany, landlords have to pay a percentage of the cost of roads built around it. In some cases this might be a huge percentage, depending on how much the road is used by the public.
Healthy competition is the best motivator. Challenging each other does work but both parties have to give a shit.

Another great motivator is being told you will never be able to do something, which gives fuel to the motivation in the form of spite.
Yes, hardware support will always be a problem unless there's a large uptake.

Developers should therefore focus on more hardware support instead of adding unnecessary features.
Well religion, yes, absolutely, but behind every religion was a false God. (Dead false God). I'd call that implicitly athiest. By those last two seasons they're basically fighting mediaeval Christians. I don't think you can get much more obvious than that.

There's only one "religion is good" story off the top of my head (when the Asgard are introduced as protectors of the Viking planet), and in that one the religion is meant to be outgrown (there's a test).
Theory says 100%, half is just a realistic target.
Getting rid of the licence fee is long overdue, but strangling the BBC as part of cutbacks is just sad.
Or if you are reusing ids and a glitch happens when the system tries to store the image on the proxy server, the recipient might end up viewing the previous image that happened to use that id. Thankfully nothing embarrassing or incriminating.
"Polishing" is very generous. "Shitting all over it" would be a more appropriate way to describe Microsoft's UI efforts since Windows 7.
Are you going to tax income so landowners become richer at the expense of others?

Do you want landlords to charge for public services that they did not provide?
> desire paths should be paved

This would reduce wear on grass. When it gets muddy I don't stop using the desire path; I just walk on grass next to it.

> In places where parking is costly, people use public transit.

People still drive car for reasons. Right now you avoid some risk of catching the virus.
It is also easier to carry the groceries to your car than all the way home.
Moreover people have children and children have hobbies. Also some people hate living in a big city.

> The response was to happily screw the lightbulbs back in whenever needed and never mention it or appear to be even slightly annoyed about it. I’ve considered motion sensors or timers but probably I should just give up?

If there are no persistent heat sources nearby, a body heat detector could work.

> Let’s also assume that you don’t like drinking oral laxatives and having a doctor run a camera up your butt so, like 31% of Americans aged 50-75, you don’t get screenings. What’s the solution?

Swallowing a small remote camera might work. Taking laxatives is the easy part anyway and fasting might also do the job. (I'm no physician.)
Wait, that doesn't sound right. You can't have multiple Word documents open at the same time in Windows 11?
Many guitar gods use drugs, Walt Disney and Bill Gates did not stay in school, and people like Mike Tyson and Kevin Mitnick were successful after comitting crimes.

There's just too many variables in life that make success more about luck than following general guidelines.
I think Chia makes a pretty good case here — same Nakamoto consensus security guarantees as Bitcoin only using hard drive space instead of processor power so the ongoing energy use is vastly less. There are around ~350k full nodes today (compared to bitcoin's 15k) and it uses about 400x less power: https://chiapower.org/

I farm it completely with old hard drives that I had lying around that weren't being used anyway.
Like it worked well with that whale (now more than) 50 years ago? https://politicalbombshow.com/2020/12/12/funniest-thing-that...
”What if crypto was as convenient as IPv6”
No it doesn’t, because change the ring setting will interrupt the current duty cycle, and terminates it early if it needed. A control system that didn’t do that would be more complicated than one that did, because it would require the control system to persist internal state across duty cycles.
Subject matter aside, the author of the article uses the term URL a few times but doesn't seem to know what it means. Curious for an "internet historian".
Doesn't Windows have a high contrast mode?
I don't need to pay for a license fee because I don't watch TV. I watch Netflix, amazon, apple, disney etc.

I still pay it because I'm listening to radio 2 at the moment, and have the news website in the background. While legally I don't need a license fee for that, it feels wrong to not be contributing.

Unless you're some weird boomer still paying £600 a year for a sky subscription to watch shit TV broken by adverts, I'm not sure why you'd pay a license fee (unless of course you actually watch BBC output)
Rust is an ugly language that is not fun to use. There is one OS written in it (Redox) and it's progress is very slow. It's actually less work to audit C++ code manually to find memory unsafety than it is to use Rust and get that safety "for free". Sorry to say these things out loud.
but none of them had any choice
in how they reacted now did you have a choice in how you reacted since as you pointed out free will is an illusion
Funnily due to the position of power the CEO (or CTO) had anything designed by CEO (or CTO) is often in a bad situation wrt. Critic, changes etc.
I know there's lots of conflicting horror stories online but years ago when I moved house and had no TV at all, I submitted a declaration[1] saying I didn't need one and haven't had any hassle since. After a few months I realised I wasn't missing live TV at all and never went back.

[1] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...
I left when the content filter removed some of my (completely non-pornographic) artworks. The article notes that the content filter is still in place, and still aggressive. I can’t see using it as a blogging platform when such capricious content removal is still in place.

I would go back if they announced a change in that area.
Elon, Zuck, Bezos, Jobs all had incredibly privileged backgrounds. Jobs was probably the poorest - which is to say his adopted parents were comfortably middle class - but he also had a mentor who worked at HP and deliberately scouted out smart kids with an interest in electronics.

There's a sweet spot where opportunity, mentoring, and motivation are far more evenly distributed. The ideal growth culture provides a mix of challenges for everyone who can handle them and support - of all kinds - for everyone who shows some evidence of talent and motivation.

Culturally we're nowhere close to that. So instead we have fairytales about super-special people who are incredibly smart and hard working - where in fact they're not outstandingly smart or hard working, but they may be more motivated (not always for good reasons) and possibly more divergent than average. And mostly they're born with extra opportunities which aren't available to most people.

It's debatable if this is inspiring - or at least questionable if it's more inspiring than a much wider range of successes and success stories would be.
> Do you think that it costs the government more to...

These are trick questions, it costs the same amount. The cost to arrest a criminal is the same no matter who they are robbing. Ditto the fire & police protection - those emergency services protect lives that are equally valuable.

And it is obviously cheaper if wealthy people take on private protection - they already pay the vast bulk of government services which are mostly rich -> poor transfer payments. If it were a reasonable option, the billionaires of a country would take their own private army over a government funded one. It would cost them half as much as the taxes they pay if they live in the US (because transfer payments make up around half of US government spending).
How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (2019)
How will taxes improve the environment? They will give politicians more power to oppress, snd since governments are the largest polluters in the world the environment will get worse.

Which they will use as an excuse for more taxes.

See the pattern?

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This comment has two further comments, both of which ask questions. But since this comment is heavily downvoted, I cannot reply to the replies to answer the questions.

In short: no such thing as “negative externalities”, thats just make-believe to whitewash oppression and poverty creation. Taxes are not a market signal by definition. Its interesting how blithely people accept using violence to force others to comply with their wishes.

If you really wanted to reduce CO2 you would support safe clean nuclear. But CO2 isnt causing warming- its historically low, earth started at %100 CO2. Plants evolved to need levels 5 times higher than present. Increased CO2 would improve the environment. We had an ICE AGE at 10 times higher CO2 then now. ETC.

Unfortunately Government propaganda has replace science education.
Data-Centric vs. Model-Centric Approach in Machine Learning
This caused problems for more than just "companies that made so much money off of free software". In fact, I dare say that those companies were least affected, and it was the poor unpaid free software developers who trusted Marak's packages to maintain backwards compatibility that ended up scrambling to do the extra unnecessary work to clean up his mess.
Axyl – Linux distro for tiling window managers
So they took the phrase "science fiction" as what warp drives used to be. Then they just dropped the word "fiction" but that is the noun.

"Are warp drives science?" does not make grammatical sense, as the word "science" was previously describing what type of fiction it was.

The new sentence should read something like "are warp drives science fact now?"

Science is a process, not a thing. The term science fiction describes fictions based around the process, or a faux process that seems realistic or may be in the future.

If we were to take the same meaning of science as ascribed by the author here, my interpretation is they are equating the word "science" with something like "fact, truth, or reality". Following this, if the then ask what the phrase "science fiction" means in this context, we get "truth fiction"? "reality fiction"? These things don't make much sense to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
While I think salaries have gone up in recent years, I'm also going to call BS on 400k for entry level. I just looked at levels.fyi, and I'm not seeing that all. A couple unverified outliers for Citadel doesn't represent the majority of devs. I'm mostly seeing in the 100-200 region for the firms I checked, with Citadel at the top in the 200-300 region.

Also keep in mind bonuses are rarely guaranteed or part of packages, so they are completely speculative for new grads.
When I drink its like I am being transported from a person watching a black-and-white movie into a person living in a colorful movie. Is that normal?
>"The source added that 'the days of state-run TV are over' and praised the growth of US-run companies such as Netflix and YouTube."

I have no problem with the first part of the sentence, may be yes, may be no. I am not a supporter of "state-run" TV ( Edit: To US readers - It is publicly funded, not "State Run" ) . But the second parts somehow reeks. I much rather stick with the current BBC model if I am being forced to choose between the two.

Another part of the stat-run question. Has anyone ever floated the idea of BBC becoming a public company?