skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, an LLC is going to protect you from debt that your company owes. So, you won’t lose your personal assets if your company goes out of business. However, it doesn’t protect you from criminal harm, nor does it protect you if you mix business and personal expenses. (e.g. if you personally guarantee a loan for your company, you’re still on the hook)

I’m just someone who has taken law courses in undergrad, not a lawyer, and you really should talk to one if you are seriously considering this. They will have much better feedback for your particular situation and questions like this will not be expensive to have answered.
In the last table for converting d.c. for gold, one gold aureus is about 8 grams of gold, which is about 512 usd in today’s dollars.

I feel gold might be a stable indicator to assess prices over time.
> is the company willing to stay on top of security patches and maintain the underlying software?

It is much worse than that. Even companies willing to stay on top have trouble, can be affected by zero days, data leaks, and eventually stop supporting their hardware.
Nope. Not the same thing. Again, I want them to be in the same binary. Like the example I gave you, have the user input a port number *at runtime*, then use that port to start an asp.net service.

That's just an example. The point is mixing a regular console app with an asp.net service.
Our crony-capitalism index offers a window into Russia’s billionaire wealth
You are seeing this from the wrong perspective.

It's those games that now have to live up to Elden ring standard... Elden Ring is eating all open world alive.

And it doesn't compete with MH at all, mh is not open world and it's made of a series of small, intense boss fights. Elden ring usually is digested in long exploratory sections and days-long boss fights (due to wipes).

No quests? THANK YOU. Elden ring has only a handful of "kinda quests" and due to that, there is no chance for wolf-poop-gathering quests.

The entire focus is on the WORLD, on the environment and its secrets. This is how I expected open world to be a thing, and it never was.

I never liked open world, but elden ring is good.

Thank you fromsoftware, please keep doing this work, maybe AAA studios will wake up now.
SyncedStore is a brilliant Yjs reactive store for SPAs, it’s not a database. It like an automatically distributed real-time reactive redux/vuex for collaborative apps.

The y-IndexedDB you linked to is actually part of the Yjs toolkit, it is a way of persisting a Yjs document in the browser for offline editing in a PWA. It doesn’t provide a way to sync a whole (or subset of a) database like Couch/PouchDB does. It’s a very important part of the Yjs toolkit but doesn’t do what I’m describing (it’s just a key value store).
https://web.archive.org/web/20220310200039/https://www.econo...
> many installed gas stoves/cooktops have a constantly burning pilot light.

Not for many decades surely. I'm 66 and I haven't used a gas stove that had a pilot light for at least forty years, all have had piezo-electric or mains electric ignition. But then again, I live in Norway now and formerly England not the US.
I get what you're talking about but you can actually pick up an induction pan for a bit and shuffle things around and then put it back on the pan.

It's not 100% exactly the same heat distribution but when you pick your pan off of the fire it's also not getting mots of that heat either.

Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong about this (apparently wok cooking "needs the fire"), but like... I dunno, I've done a lot of stir fries and messing around with pots on an induction thing. The "auto-turn-off" thing only happens for me if I really leave it picked up for a couple minutes, otherwise it just re-engages pretty quickly.
We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption
> Why do EVs mostly be charged at night?

Because most people don't drive at night.
I agree with this completely, for what it’s worth. The thing I objected to in the comment above was the ‘we/they just think differently and it’s not knowable’ attitude, which is dehumanizing as fuck. I would hope people are interested in learning why other people act and react the way they do, and understand that there are cultural and historical influences on that. And to the point of not assuming American reactions are right: we’re so screwed up we don’t even realize we’re still reacting to our own colonization even after being colonizers for centuries.
The topic of assassination is very much a live one at the moment. A friend of mine said to me only a week ago: "Where is Brutus when you need him?"
Yes.

> 2.3.4 Previews are a great way for customers to see what your app looks like and what it does. To ensure people understand what they’ll be getting with your app, previews may only use video screen captures of the app itself. Stickers and iMessage extensions may show the user experience in the Messages app. You can add narration and video or textual overlays to help explain anything that isn’t clear from the video alone.

The problem is the inconsistency, most reviewers have no issues but once in a while you get someone who’s strict and get rejected.
Isn't that revisionist too though

The sanctions were to stop Iran from building a bomb.

the actual capabilities of creating one already existed and as you pointed out can be easily ramped up in relatively no time.
The clear suggestion is that it is Russia doing it.

Other than as an f-u, I don’t understand why they would though. If I have an effective weapon (GPS spoofer), surely I don’t want to alert the enemy to it, lest they develop defences. So eg say NATO were overreliant on GPS, incidents of spoofing like this will cause them to rethink and reduce that reliance, or harden the system.
My guess is the scenario they're worried about is neither debts nor criminal harm, but civil liability. Like say the counterparty claims you had an implicit warranty regarding X, but in fact you didn't, and that they suffered damages as a result. Then can they go after your personal funds to recover damages (if they win)?
Keep in mind I've never done ASP.NET (only desktop development):

The old C# stuff is indeed crusty, intermixed with hot nonsense from the Balmer days.

Latest Framework version is I'd say OK, nothing to write home about, newer stuff is much better (.net 5, 6).

I do think MS SQL Server is a bit, well, bad. But don't worry, irrelevant to the C# stuff - I used to use java servlets to query mssql, while it was better performing than mysql, I wouldn't pick it again.

The anecdote about the React frontend bit is interesting, but ultimately depends on what the UI was doing. JS is certainly good to bang out some quick UI, but if it was shell for the backend, I'd say your app was either mis-designed or just naturally backend heavy.

Again, haven't used (not in web dev right now), but Blazor exists for doing C# web UI, instead of complaining that the backend was bad/hard a better comparison would be between Blazor and React.

Or you could switch architectures and do a non-component-based web UI - faster to put together a mashup of JS junk but it doesn't necessarily perform as well as doing a web client old-style - simple request response works for a lot of use-cases, its not as flashy, but it is fast.
Food is still very, very cheap and people take that for granted.

Oil is 30% of Russia's exports but wheat is a wee 2%. What if it grows to 20%, with tenfold price increase?
Hundreds of dollars per hour over the course of 15 minutes isn’t too bad of a bill.
> I don't think Ukraine was even being seriously considered for NATO until Russia decided to surround the country with its military recently.

NATO, in a statement from the NATO Summit, explicitly indicated last June (so, before the late 2021 encirclement) the intention that Ukraine would join the alliance through the Membership Action Plan.

This reiterated a 2008 policy statement that had effectively been shelved by the Yanukovych governments anti-NATO position, but never formally restated after a more NATO-friendly government had emerged in Ukraine and sought to advance towards membership.
> would love to see an induction stove with a usable UI.

To me, induction with physical knobs and buttons would be the best. Other than the stupid touch things, induction is just so much better than gas for almost anything.
In the US, that's forbidden in residential, so I doubt you'll find many in people's homes. They are common in commercial.
This .net core good, asp.net MVC etc bad.
This trick is probably some form of felony contempt of business model.
Care to comment a bit further about losing data? There are two different persistence methods offered by Redis at the moment. https://redis.io/topics/persistence
Sorry, I have two kids and I'm happily progressing in Elden ring, without any feeling of repetitiveness. What are you doing to find the game repetitive? I struggle to find parts I have already been given how vast it is, surely I can't say it's repetitive
this is dope. what did you use to make the art?
In Europe you can get 4 burner stoves for under €250. IKEA sell a portable single burner for €40. Why are they so expensive in the US?
He did give us a reason, and I'm sure he's correct to a degree, but as a former Uber driver, I don't want you to completely discount the "fuck you, pay me" attitude of Uber's management either.

For instance, collecting a "$1 safe ride fee" per passenger was a very big fuck you to the drivers. We didn't see a penny of that fee. And it wasn't even counted in the calculation of our commission structure, which they bragged about constantly.

The same goes with many of the other payments it collected from passengers. Eventually, after Uber lost a court case, Uber made every driver sign an agreement that the commission structure had nothing to do with the payments given by passengers.
One reason the software industry in America is so successful is because there is no government license required to write software, and software can be shipped without needing approval from the government, and the government doesn't regulate how the software is written.

Yes, I know if you write software for a medical device, the FDA will have to approve it.
This is so great. Thanks for sharing your code and your collections of tilesets etc, as well as where you got them from. I've been wanting to make a learning app into pokemon style quest adventure for quite some time now but I don't know anything about game development/engines out there. Your repo is a great introduction to exactly this kind of thing.

I wanted to do something with javascript/HTML5 that let me switch between this kind of map and little exercises that would switch over to React/DOM stuff. Seems like Phaser 3 would be a good (the best?) tool to do this? Any thoughts or suggestions? I mean like I would love to have a little world just like this you could walk around in but then when I walk up to a certain section in the library it would jump into an exercise which would involve Q&A with the questions and promps using React and the DOM. Then when the person finishes the challenge it would jump back out to this tiled world.

I see people embedding Phaser games inside React apps, but is it possible to embed interactive React DOM components inside Phaser games? Or does everything have to stay in Canvas/WebGL mode?
What would China, India, Pakistan, and the other 30 some countries that abstained from voting on a meaningless non-binding motion gain by voting NO instead?

The signal couldn’t be any clearer as is. Countries that represent over two billion people, higher combined GDP and military spending than the US, aren’t backing the West.

Pax Americana is over.
Indeed, I will never buy a stove without physical knobs. Add to that a stove top that can handle some real usage without breaking up. My circles have had too many reports on cracked induction or ceramic tops. Kettles can get heavy and hands get weak, and especially when you're busy in the kitchen the cooking ware do inevitably bang onto the stove top occasionally.
You get them with knobs:
https://www.smeg.com/cookers/electric

Spilling have to be a gas thing? I experience it maybe once every three months on a induction oven (what I have at home).

I hated the gas oven when I studied in US, impossible to control the temperature accurately and boilover almost every time. Not even any faster.
A large enough quantitative change turns into a qualitative one, when you get only one month away from having a bomb surely people from that general area, like the Israelis, won't be that keen on these syntactic small differences.
Nobody is sitting by these servers, looking at packets as they pass by.

> Not only was the organization so derelict in their affairs that they failed to protect sensitive customer data, they didn't even notice the "crime" had taken place

None of this would reduce the intruders liability. Perhaps the company should be tried separately for their failure to protect customer data, but that’s a different issue.
Right now it's too cold, but I imagine things will start rolling when the snow melts in a couple of months.
In one of the most common use cases with a UEFI Windows PC you have a nominally-hidden ESP (boot) partition or other well-recognized FAT volume containing a /EFI/boot folder with its /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi file which is a UEFI executable.

When you install Windows or run the BCDBOOT command correctly it (over)writes the /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi so it then points to the accompanying /EFI/Microsoft folder which then runs the Windows BCD (multi)bootloader which can boot to any Windows installation you have on any Windows partitions. The built-in Windows multi-boot menu only appears when you have more than one Windows installation on different partitions. Haven't found a way to boot Linux from the Windows UEFI bootmenu though, it was easily done in BIOS, but not native UEFI.

When you install something like Ubuntu it (over)writes the common /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi file so it then points to a new accompanying /EFI/ubuntu folder containing a /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file.

Grubx64.efi then accesses the bootmenu contained on the Linux partition it was associated with during the most recent grub installation and/or grub update (as specified in the /EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg text file).

The grub bootmenu usually is displayed since there are usually more than one alternative boot option with the default being the normal Ubuntu OS boot. Also normally the Ubuntu install will automatically include a reliable grub boot entry for the Windows system which is already in place.

So the Linux UEFI bootloader will ideally load either Windows or Linux from a Linux bootmenu upon startup. Even with Microsoft SecureBoot enabled.

But the Windows bootloader will no longer do either type OS without reverting to MBR-style partitioning and traditional BIOS or CSM booting.
The next development seems easy to predict: users profiling and targeted ads through detection of the passerby's phone Bluetooth BD_ADDR, both at the counter and the fridges.
Why would the fact if Cuba signed a treaty or not matter?
Try stir-frying with a wok, lift the pan to shake it without losing all heat or not having to be gentle when setting it back down because it's metal-on-metal not metal-on-glass.

Or how about my 11" cast iron; the induction only heats the middle 7". Half the pan is useless.
> And in pretty much every country except the US, people wear masks when they're sick.

This isn’t true. Wearing masks when sick has only been common in East Asia since SARS and that’s the only region it was common in. It’s not universal there either. There was an irritated comment in my office Friday about someone sneezing who didn’t never his mouth, never mind wearing a mask.

Possibly wearing a mask will be normalized in Western countries after this is over but I sincerely doubt people in the Congo or Malawi or Guatemala are wearing masks while sick. Lots of people and countries are dirt poor.
Savage, a computer algebra system written in Rust: rust
Why economic sanctions do not work (1997) [pdf]
In your case the specifics should be ironed out for your safety. In the Uber example, you are the rider and you agreed to pay to arrive somewhere but let them decide the route.. and you pay for time/distance.
I don't have mains gas. My gas hob uses propane.
Capitalism vs. communism I guess ...
Maybe it’s because I’m from both cultures and I don’t need Wikipedia pages theorizing kinds of cultures to interact with humans in both. Maybe it’s because I’ve had people literally tell me to my face that my people hate dogs and abuse them, or do all manner of other inhumane things, but they don’t know they’re telling me about me because I’m also white and they don’t think I also come from the culture they’re describing.
Suggesting Russians are playing a rational game here? I think the cover has been pulled on the Russian "master strategy".. it's literally a hierarchy of terror and lies, where everyone will do whatever it takes to please the irrational autocrat.

I have been spamming this lecture everywhere since the war started and again I think anyone who's still questioning the Russian operative reality should watch it:

Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (subtitles) | December 3, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw
The keyword here is used properly.

Now go on to work on codebases with rules that every class must have an interface, there are no news, everything must come over service locators, 3rd APIs aren't accessed directly, rather over wrapper classes,....

Ah and no PR ever gets accepted if the rules aren't followed.
The ability to find and get answers on stack overflow is pretty impressive, although that might not be the “community” your looking for. I’ve had decent direct engagements with them framework dev tends on GitHub before as well.
I agree with your sentiment. It's probably a legacy left-over from the .NET Framework days where you had to choose upfront what app you are going to build and where it was going to run and then you had the full IDE experience configured. .NET team has made a lot of right steps to fix this, however they haven't fixed MSBuild. As a long-term .NET developer (not anymore sadly, but still find it the best development experience) I always found MSBuild confusing but it has only become harder to learn because it has too much going on under the hood.

So, if you want to do what you are saying, you should look into learning more MSBuild because .NET certainly allows you to do that without workarounds if you have your build configured correctly.
Two new pledges to reduce food loss and waste at Google
According to this [0] I wouldn’t rely on an LLC to protect me from torts, especially if it’s a single member LLC. It also says that it varies by state, so this is an even better reason to chat with a lawyer about the particular issues you’re concerned about and how your state would treat it.

[0]: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr...
Codebases with rules that every class must have an interface, there are no new in use other than basic stuff like arrays, everything must come over service locators (configurable externally), 3rd APIs aren't accessed directly, rather over wrapper classes,....
Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
Over the past two years there's been smaller regional outbreaks here and there, but they were quickly contained. This current outbreak started about a month ago with cases slowly starting to tick up. About two weeks ago it became clear to me that we would soon be entering lockdown as the omicron cases won't stop increasing, imported as well as local. Last Friday there were about a 1000 new daily cases nationally, higher than at the peak in 2020. Since there is no clear change in policy, and already a lot is being done, there is no reason to believe that infections won't keep increasing exponentially. Today, Sunday, daily new cases reached 2000-3000.

Schools, gym, parks, and most other public venues have closed. Education is being done online, and also adult education is shut down if it is offline.

WFH is pretty much non-existant in China, even after 2020, but from next week we'll work from home as will many offices.

When ordering on Meituan, some select goods are out of stock at some stores , like tomatoes, minced meat. Still, you can get it if you just search it from another store. My neighborhood seems perfectly normal and the supermarket has lots of stock though some beef is sold out. Several supermarkets on Meituan are closed but there's lots still open. I've got food for two months so no issues.

Still, I see this as a good thing because: (1) Hopefully WFH gains acceptance and becomes normalized (2) A new policy will emerge as it is already clear that you can't quarantine and hospitalize people for omicron when it is not dangerous. In fact what I'm worried about is having to be in quarantine hospital or hotel, that's it. There are officials talking about ending the 0-policy but no clear solution yet.

I expect this to last 3 months.

Edit: I'm in Shanghai. Types of lockdown vary between cities and even districts and sub-districts. Here, you may get to stay at home for two days if you're a second degree contact; but if you didn't wear a mask it'll be 14 days. If you're a first degree contact it's quarantine hotel for 14. If you're infected I believe you go to a hospital. In Shenzhen, some communities that are under lockdown are not able to order groceries but only get the type of hotel/airplane food you get in quarantine. So I definitely want to have proper food, which is why I'll WFH for a long time, so as to not come into first or something cond degree contact.
Because it’s clearly OK, but only when NATO does it.
> can't compete with slave labor

Slave labor cannot compete with free labor, that's why it disappeared well over a century ago.

> stolen and unlicensed manufacturing tech

I bet you're right the US would be far more innovative and efficient if patents were done away with entirely.

Or just charge a fee of $1,000,000 to register a patent. That'll end all the stupid frivolous patents and the patent troll industry.
I think you're benchmark may be off. Barbers were something often visited daily, primarily shaving beards.

Plus, those wages seem to be daily and the idea of a general laborer earning $625 a day is pretty nuts. Even assuming 12 hour days that's $50 an hour.
This was the app preview that failed approval:

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1502910292048588800
crazy that they would put a touch screen. Ones in Japan are just like little plus/minus arrows (plus button serving as the per-heat-source on button as well). Built-in timer and everything.

The buttons are those little plastic overlays on simple button, so super easy to clean, usable when dirty... and definitely dirt cheap.

American appliance designers should really try just copying good foreign products one of these days. Y'all are in million dollar homes with appliance setups worse than student appartments in many places
This happens a lot. I can't count how many times I've submitted my app and went perfectly live, and added many versions with bug fixes and improvements, and on another random bugfix update rejected for something that has nothing to do with that update but something that was introduced many versions ago.

Worse, sometimes the issue has usually been solved with whoever was testing the older version, with
written conversation there, and the old reviewer is convinced that our app is perfectly okay. Then someone else tests and I need to explain everything over and over again. (No, they don't usually read the notes either)

I believe App Store reviewers are Apple's worst employees who can't follow basic steps. Of course not all of them, but many of them are like this.