skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazilian E85 is made from sugar cane, not corn. It’s significantly less carbon-intensive.
You can change that in that you rise awareness that the "outrage" is infantile to a large degree. People can learn and most people don't believe PR statements anyway. The rules of PR are based on culture and aren't written into stone.
Makers of Magic the Gathering Threaten DAO with Lawsuit over IP
I think the feds might get to him first because the unfortunate reality is that the world is full of arseholes. One of those arseholes will surely use this system to distribute malware, and that malware will be signed with this guy's certificate. Which will lead the cops back to this guy.

I have a feeling that apple will have to wait their turn on this one. It's only a matter of time before the inevitable happens.
This is correct: an uncorrected return stream that underperforms market beta is often still highly desirable / sought after.
Agreed. The best example for this is Hallway usability testing: give the app/website to someone random walking the hallway and watch them try to navigate the interface and analyze what they easily do and what they can't understand.

When we develop products we (all the team) tend to get used to knowing where is each functionality and how to use them, but someone unfamiliar might just not find what we "simply" find.
Even then, just send person B to the contract signing. As long as the process is sufficiently impersonal, they might not notice.
India's two domain per person policy for India's ccTLD
I worked at a startup whose product wasn’t that great but the CEO aggressively networked and marketed and he made it work. It’s so important.
> The users don't care if you wrote it in C++ or fortran

Web site users don't care if a site's written with NodeJS or assembly; but that would make a huge difference to bugginess, development speed, feature set, etc.

Firefox is getting bogged-down in some areas due to its C++ codebase; especially trying to introduce concurrency (in a way which doesn't break everything, or cause unforeseen security implications, which is often the case in C/C++)
Software development is basically an exercise in problem solving... Which can give you a good sense of achievement. Being paid well without having to go down the management route is a bonus. Being in high demand, and job flexibility, and as others have said it's no big deal if you want to just quit and join another team... No one in software development is irreplaceable.
Make the package management more Cargo-like and I'd probably adopt it wholesale; whenever I've tried Julia in the past the user experience of just getting started has been the off-putting part.
> Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext

Now it’s not. Markdown was intend to be legible in plain text but visually emulate rendered text. The rendering stuff came later but even then it still had an emphasis on plain text readability.

There is a reason it was chosen for README, INSTALL etc documents in project repositories that are (or, at least until relatively recently in computing history, were) traditionally read in the command line.
There are few to no compelling use cases for consumers creating a true network of internet connected things, because they don't have distributed physical things. If all your stuff is nearby, and isn't in large quantities, then the internet, or computer networking in general, is not the path of least resistance to control/monitor/utilize it to some greater application. Controlling X with your phone is novel at first, but its nearly always an incremental improvement on controlling X with physical interfaces. Its not a killer app by any definition. It's businesses that have lots of stuff in lots of places to track and control. In these scenarios, a microcontroller with a radio is not just an incrementally better solution competing with an existing alternative, but the only feasible solution.
Explicitly dividing people into groups of decreasing priority is the one thing that feels the most uncomfortable. But I also understand there is an implicit hierarchy in your head anyway.

We've started planning a wedding recently and started drafting a guest list, which basically means making that hierarchy explicit on a spreadsheet (to filter out guests), only for two people at once instead. To my brain, which always wants to please everybody, it's a painful process.
Can you explain "somewhat" reluctant? The forum seems to suggest you write an email to support. If that works (I haven't tried) it's not too bad. You have to register at many vendor sites to download something.

You also give a github link, but that's shared probably just same random github user, not by Microtik so there is even less evidence that it's complete.and correct.
What can they do with the DNA other than checking crimes or mapping genomes?
I agree, in principle, but I think not only was he a good leader, he also was lucky to have good team members (which probably also became better team members from the trust and respect that his leadership got them). But a large percentage of people simply don't function when they are trusted and left alone, so it's up to someone to make a leap of faith, and not take the "safer" path of command and control. And when your livelihood is on the line, most people don't want to take any risk.
Why would I reinvent it when I can buy it for $13 from Walmart?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/FR-4-2-Pin-Style-Power-Connector-...

Edit: this one has three prongs, for safety :)

https://www.amazon.com/Linmunster-%EF%BC%8CDouble-Extension-...
Of course no one “wants” that. But let’s rewind 20 years ago and ask: “do we really want our telephones squirreling info back to the manufacturer about our personal habits?” Sounds equally absurd.
I'm not sure someone who did this could be fired in sweden, not without rock solid proof that someone else impersonated them for the interview, and even then it would be a long long process.
> Because Tcl (unlike Java or C or Forth or Lisp) is context-sensitive -- the only way to know if a Tcl program uses its syntax correctly is to run it!

I mentioned in my other comment how Lisp and Java are much closer to Tcl than you think they are. But that's true of Forth as well. Forth IMMEDIATE words are equal in power to Common Lisp reader macros, they also allow you to define arbitrary custom syntax – you can even define some custom syntax and then immediately start using it. Just like Common Lisp, it is impossible to know whether a Forth program uses its syntax correctly without running it through a complete Forth runtime environment.
Affirm Fiscal Q2 2022 results: expect the volatility
Consider the exercise and change of location something that you have to do.
I stopped using Strava when they changed it so it doesn't work anymore with the "while using the app" mode.

It's odd that a paid app still wants to stalk you - apparently they think that their people movement data is more valuable than their fitness business. The fitness part is apparently just an elaborate ruse to get you to install their app...

(The fact that Apple lets this fly shows yet again that their App store policies are not for protecting the user, they are just for protecting Apple's revenue stream)
I agree. As a designer, this is the point that makes the most sense to me. Rounded corners allow easy content “attribution”, and provides a natural grouping pattern.

Second would be how rounded corners on buttons or inputs helps distinguish the background and surroundings from the interactive part of the page.
The founder should always lead the sales at the initial stage, even if they are a techie. The founder creates the culture, so it's important to have that influence on that org. Then you hire the right people to replace yourself, and fire them quickly if they deviate from what you want.

Welcome to being a founder. If you don't want to do it, you need a co-founder who will, but they must have the same values you do.

It is easier as a tech person to do the sales yourself than to find a good sales co-founder that mimics your customer-centric values. Both are of course very hard, but relatively speaking doing it yourself initially is easier between the two.

And those who don't want to do that should work for a company where those functions are handled by other people, but if you start a company, expect to do sales.
ARM will IPO well over $32B.
Well that is why for many reasons the hiring manager should be in an interview loop, and many big corps manage to do that just fine.
> Wouldn't it be simpler to just trust Signal not to watch what you are texting to your significant other

This doesn't hold in practice, you simply cannot trust any single entity about this, since it's bound to be abused eventually.

> You know, you could run a $2/month xmpp server that would serve you just fine, and you wouldn't have to worry about any threat of this kind.

So instead of managing my client, I need to manage both my client and a server, and trust this server on top of the client? That's obviously worse, I'm starting to think you're trolling.
I imagine the answer to that is, I've simply never heard of the US government buying from a software vendor with less than 500 employees.

Surely it never happens?
Derives mundane Golang functions that you do not want to maintain
not OP but fwiw.

It sounds planned in hindsight but it was pure luck. None of us had any idea how to do it. The reason luck was in our favor was because it wasn't a 1-man show, our location, aiming our communications not just at customers but always keep in mind our competitors and potential investors will (and should) hear us too.

We started eating our competitors lunch so they did have no choice but to take an interest. First we were an annoyance a few years later we had offers to discuss, then it became once or twice a year. We took every opportunity to engage but only for getting to know them but didn't take it further.

We were very visible because there were 3 of us in 3 different countries "making lot of noise" about our product.

Also timing wasn't good yet (why sell today when you know you'll be worth 5x in 2 years).

We went for ~5 years without considering selling and always positioned ourselves to eventually sell from the day we founded the business. If you think about selling when you're just starting, you end up constantly thinking if the company can be easily understood by an auditor and explained to an interested party.

We (3 partners) were already present in 3 countries/sites from the beginning so there was potential of messy "organic growth". And the only way to fix this do this was with a holding company.

- holding company to keep things simple and easy to explain and audit, e.g.:

- No difference in the contracts with our individual CEO's / sites that have to be negotiated individually when the company is acquired/sold

- an investor that takes over the holding has the keys to the kingdom

- all important negotiations done in the holding

The holding also made sense because it allowed us a presence in a 4th jurisdiction that is known to have a high density of investors and none of us would feel the main site is in one of the 3 jurisdictions that the partners were. So it kept things neutral.

Another thing we did right was never touch things we weren't experts in at least not until we had the first hire to move this forward internally, so we hired one of the big 4 to help with controlling & finance.

We had lots of internal bickering, I hated the idea of all this complexity with the holding, and the whole thing almost went tits-up before we even started. But implementing a holding within the first few months was the single most important decision for us. We might have gotten lucky without but not for the same returns.
This looks pretty amazing. Thank you.
Some background:

I made this site because over the years I've had a lot of experiences where the official Transport for London Tube (metro) statuses were wrong (e.g. ‘Good Service’ when there were delays or ‘Severe Delays’ when it wasn't that bad). I looked into it towards the end of last year and apparently TfL staff set them manually (using guidelines). It isn't really a 21st century way of doing things (it’s at least slow/inexact/inconsistent, and probably prone to truth bending etc.), so I ended up creating TrueTubeStatus.com. It monitors trains across the London Underground (using TfL’s API) and compares live performance with timetables to produce objective statuses.

A few ways it can be useful:

Peace of mind that an official ‘Good Service’ status is backed up by the maths.

When it shows a delay that TfL isn’t reporting you can dodge it (delay your journey, change your route etc.) or at least brace yourself!

You can see recent performance in a color-coded sparkline (mini chart without axes), which tells you how good/bad things are and where they’re headed.

I’ve just put it in open beta and would be very interested to know what people think!
Anyone reading this really needs to take a look at the articles side by side, this is extremely blatant plagiarism. They couldn't even be bothered to pick different objects for the ball and the fork
The principle does very well exclude repercussions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

Of course that does not mean that companies don't violate the principle in favor of PR. But in a dialogue it is seen as a weakness and inability to discuss if you threaten consequences for an opinion. And rightly so.
I think most of us is heavily stuck on the loop of tech and sometimes forget about humans.

Nice to see some personal, heartwarming stories here, which remind us that we're emotional, sentient, human beings.

So if he's reading this: Happy birthday!
I have thought about the same, but over time I've started telling myself that these people (the sellers) just want an exit (e.g. because the market is falling apart), regardless of what reason they give.

I have only looked around in guest mode/logged out and haven't paid or anything to actually speak to the seller and get a fuller picture.

Are you happy with your purchases so far? What advice can you give me as a person that has a similar plan?
Cater to power users. Remove as much bloat as possible Focus on extensibility. Setup stupid simple self hosting for things like bookmarks/pw manager.

Longshot: go all in on bringing mainline Linux to the desktop/mobile. Linux systems are the only place where Mozilla is the default. Hyper focus on high performance with Linux systems. Memory footprint and battery drain are abysmal. The way security controls for extensions are implemented requires stupid amounts of memory.
Excellent point. Some people/media/politicians are so terrified that someone might get money they're not entitled to, that they design paranoid systems that are likely to deny people money that they are entitled to.

Netherland recently had the long-running scandal of the "toeslagenaffaire", where the tax service had a tendency to assume people from foreign ethnicity or double nationality might be committing fraud, and gave them additional checks and hoops to jump through, leading to a lot of people to be treated as criminals and have to pay back money that they did have every right to. Was incredibly poorly handled, government fell over the scandal, but the new government consists of exactly the same parties, with the same PM, and I have no faith at all that this won't happen again.
I tried to integrate a Julia REPL into another application and the example on the website didn’t even compile.
Pondering Agile Principles
It's the EU, so you can just buy/register your car/motorcycle in a country that doesn't care. And there's no problem with a Ferrari, but driving it fast/revving the engine would make too much noise, so it should be driven appropriately. Same with motorcycles, if they drive calmly and slowly most would pass.

Noise pollution from motor vehicles is a terrible issue, so I'm glad something is done.
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Packages for many distros, some I have never heard of. But not for Fedora?
Exactly what's bothering me about this. I think you should get vaccinated. I think most of these truckers probably have very stupid reasons for not wanting to get vaccinated. But how can it not scare you to see the government wield power against demonstrations like this? Next time we're protesting an oil pipeline, what's to stop them from saying that these protests jeopardize Canada's energy security; It's disrupting critical infrastructure. They don't even have to arrest people anymore. Freeze your bank accounts, suspend your phone service, cancel your license. Without legal protections in our modern world, it wouldn't take a week for a government to turn you into a penniless vagrant.
> Following Pareto principles: 80% of tests should be convered with good static typed language and a clean, layered structure.

My experience in dynamically typed language is that it's very rare to see a typing error that doesn't co-habitate with at least one logic error.
> Maybe? My point, though, is that from day 1 it was meant to be rendered as HTML.

No, from day 1 it was meant to be readable as plain text and optionally rendered as HTML

Nobody is disputing that a key requirement of MD is to be machine parseable. What you’re missing is that another key requirement is for it to be human readable in plain text because it needs to be readable even when it hasn’t been rendered. Ie the rendering is an optional step but the format has to support one’s choice whether to render.
It would come with options for the user to select font/size/colors for various well-defined elements like head-lines, new links, previously visit links, external links. It would be easy and convenient for the user to configure their preferred formatting of the text (width, line break behaviour, justification).

It would not allow client-side execution of any kind, it would not allow any kind of styling of the content, only describe what the content is, not how it should be presented.
In Germany, during probation (the first 6 months) contracts can be terminated by either party without giving a reason with two weeks of notice. In that case I assume the employer would simply fire the employee on day 3 (assuming it takes a while to figure it out and come to the decision), pay two weeks of salary and move on.
Or Canada could just say “you know a trucker without a vaccine really is that big of an issue”

Unless Trudeau does that, and god forbid show some humility, this will not end good for Canada.
"Insights"? When you break an encryption scheme, you get a readable text in a language you understand.

The thing is, the written word as an artifact does not itself contain its meaning. To go from writing to meaning is what's called knowing language. The context needed to do that is in the mind of the reader, it's not in the text. Writing something down is quite simply not the same as encrypting it.

What we have here is a few thousand small inscriptions of less than ten characters each. We assume - but don't know for sure - that the characters correspond to sounds, and, if they do, what kind of sounds - syllables, phonemes, maybe a mixture. And even if you could go to sound, then, in order to understand anything, you have to go from sound to meaning, if indeed there is meaning. Which requires knowing the language. And not only do we not know the language, we don't even know what language it is! It might be related to a language of the region, it might not.
I get a 19% tax credit for any money my business gives to charity. The other 81% is money I could have spent on something else or kept on the balance sheet.
I don't know what libraries you're refering to. But most of the time, they barely document what they do. By barely I mean:

- parameters documentation can be understood only if you actually know the theory behind what the library documents. One may say that it's a good thing in the sense it prevents one to shoot himself in the foot but for discoverability, that's painful. I've done basic stuff such as GLM, LDA, PCA,... For example, there are several ways to do PCA's but which one do you choose ? Not everybody know the theory behind each PCA's formulation...

- examples are usually very limited and don't show what the library can do. For example, plots (the one from the base library) are really not well documented. Examples are really scarce and don't even show the graphics themselves.

- The package federation (not exactly documentation) is really bad : there are lots of library that overlap, that redefines symbols here and there without telling, etc.

So R documentation is so so... It feels like it suffers from lots of math explanation I've seen : a strong will to write the minimum possible which makes everything hard to get into.

I like R but documentation is not a strong point. Ecosystem is.
> Is that the only way, or is there a way to disable ligatures but keep the rest of the font?

It's actually not that easy to use them with for example Emacs where you have to list every combination that you want to 'translate' to a ligature:

https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el
Wonder how feasible is to have an infrastructure server to do the heavy lifting in a place with cheap/reliable computing, and a front-end server that just forwards and maybe does light caching in a country with friendly legislation.

But I guess their issue wasn't technical, but that they are an organization subject to Australian law.
Interestingly in the Netherlands they do express things via taste words. Lekker (meaning tasty) can describe an experience, doing something well and more.

Heerlijk (meaning delicious) can also be used. I found a gravestone with the translation: “we thank you God for your great deliciousness”.
From what I saw, at least 90% of the people can work like that. They don't need to be particularly competent, unless by competent you mean "show up at work and do something". It really is a very flexible system as far as complexity and hand-holding on the tasks can go.

Are you really gonna worry about 10% who are unable to learn to work in such a system? At some point, you will probably have to dismiss them anyway.

I think the key point is to give people enough perspective (and stick to it if possible) so it makes sense for them to learn something in a bit of depth, new skill, new module, etc. (Sometimes "code ownership" can be good too - if you know you're gonna continue working on it in the future, you might as well do a better job now.)

This is what micromanagement doesn't provide, in fact, it gets you used to the expectation of the opposite - there is no need and motivation to learn and study anything a bit deeper than to just accomplish the next small task. Micromanagement is literally motivating people not to grow, and not to think for themselves.
So monero is now centralised?
Pfizer pulls back from plan to expedite review of Covid shots in young kids
And I think it's the other way around - aggressive, sleazy sales culture coincided with western world use of business cards (and thus rolodexes), tainting somewhat accepted earlier "paper relationship management tools" - visiting cards, address books, etc. - which also had the issue of being more accessible only to the wealthier classes.

Personally I can recall both tropes of "well connected person" having all kinds of tools to keep track of contact details and thus being able to "get things done" (which was somewhat neutral on nature of the relationships) and the sleazyball salesman who happened to use similar tools.
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I agree 100%. I think from an investment perspective putting most of your time into marketing yields the highest return.

My biggest struggle so far is: How do I find those people to "sit and talk" to? Any advice on that?
Fair point. But I'd think that a seven-passenger family sedan that out-accelerates every street-legal Ferrari ever sold, at the price of an entry-level Ferrari, would sell even with RMS as CEO.
Any resources you'd recommend for someone trying to get back into the scene after a long hiatus? Looking for nuanced/informative discussions without too much hype.