skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All your theory is correct, but in practice it works in the opposite way.

Owners get pais last, not first. Sure you make enough income to pay yourself first, then you hire. Time passes, there's a bad month or 3, employees still get paid, owners start accumulating loan accounts.

LLC's and other structures are designed to limit downside, but some creditors will end-run this with personal sureties. This is really common with leases, but also other forms of credit. Inexperienced business owners may not push back against these as hard as they should (you can push back, but most starting out don't know that they can...)[1]

Building a business from scratch is hard work, and most fail within 5 years because failing is really really easy, and success requires someone to do a lot of different tasks well, and almost always some "luck" [2] as well.

[1] most bootstrappers try once, and are thus inexperienced. The folk they are dealing with (landlords and suppliers) are very experienced. This imbalance leads to contracts that are very often one sided.

[2] the best luck is advice from an experienced bootstrapper, ideally for free. They can help you avoid the most common mistakes. Of course you'll ignore some of their advice because "experience doesn't work like that".
Isn't that more about drifting meaning of the language? "You might be right" is a common way of actually meaning to say "I reluctantly agree that you're definitely right".
Isn’t it just option plus right arrow?
This is all really great stuff! Thank you so much for all the help! I really appreciate it :))
So _you_ run the bridge, not them?

But then _you_ need to make sure it's available 100% of the time?
I think it's just the idea of endorsing prophylactic medicine. Since anyone could be a potential victim of a virus, everyone should consider vaccination. And while it's not compulsory, the suggestion that it be widely advocated sets the conspiracy folks on edge. They seem to pin their identity on { I'm not like the others + mistrust of authority }. So it's really easy to accept a message that the too-trusting have all fallen into a trap that they're too smart for. If it's not tracking, it's greed, or some other motive driving evildoers to vaccinate the world.

Hydroxychloroquine was attractive because it was available before the vaccine and you would only need to administer it to the infected. Of course, a few did try to take it prophylactically and at least one OD'd.

Trump is so purely and consistently self serving. He didn't promote the vaccine enough because he feared his successor would get the credit and he (rightly) feared his base would hold it against him. And he only promoted it when he realized that his supporters were dropping like flies and millions of the kids in the next generation will turn eighteen before the next presidential election.

The vaccines are a triumph of humanity that should be celebrated. They were produced, tested and distributed very rapidly (among the wealthiest countries). We could stand to improve significantly at how well it was distributed to poorer nations. But IMO a positive story overall. And antivaxxers might have had reason to be cautious at first, but now it's so widely distributed that it doesn't make much sense to fear it anymore. the long term consequences of the infection are likely much much worse than the long term consequences of vaccination.
I thought this was a pretty good book despite the seeming brevity to it. Anyways to really expand for those who haven't read it, Dethmer talks about an internal mindset dial between judgementalness vs curiosity. There are other dials like victim vs agency, emotional acceptance vs denial, etc.
They don't use GCP data whatsoever for ads. Thinking they'd peep into cloud customer data for the advertising boost (besides the small data point 'visited hostname console.cloud.google.com') is just as irrational as thinking Amazon would leverage AWS to look into Walmarts' suppliers' data to gain a competitive advantage.
It's not really broken because fraud gets discovered eventually.

When I was working on my PhD, different lab were known to have different rigor. If a new discovery was made, skepticism was the norm. Until reproduced and proven, a new discovery was suspect.

I mean it's clear that there is benefit to stamping out fraud just because it's inefficient, but in the end, the scientific method filters it out.
No kidding. What's even more amazing is that the Bluetooth is still that reliable today, more than 5 years after support ended, communicating with new devices with new Bluetooth chips and new OS versions. Every time I get a new phone or upgrade my version of Android I expect it to break, and somehow it never does.
This is due to an international agreement post world war two (the 1944 Chicago Convention on Aviation) that agreed that fuel and maintenance parts necessary for _international air travel_ would be exempt from tarrifs and all taxes, barring a specific agreement between those to nations.

Domestic use is taxed, and at rather steep rates (look at the US!); however, because most flights in the EU are international, it would require both nations ok'ing a tax on flights between them. No one has gone through with this, and it's doubtful any one ever will, for a variety of reasons.
I thought the two-tower embedding model was now the go-to approach for building real-time recommendation engines?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personalized-recommendations-...
I don’t know why Fox gets all the credit. I distinctly remember watching MSNBC in the early 2000s during the Bush era and it was surprisingly… centrist. Most of the stuff that passes for news today would have been considered radical.
Correct. You cannot use “ramework” as an argument to “-f”. Instead use two dashes and it is unambiguous.
What was your first elixir project?

Did you have any trouble skipping Erlang and going straight to elixir?
Yeah I just found it. The hard map of Jira project to a Team makes it tough. We currently do 1 Org (hundreds of people) = 1 Jira project. Teams are mapped to Jira Components. I think without some level of customization on the sync we wouldn't be able to incrementally adopt. Everyone uses Jira differently unfortunately.
add me to the list. i would have a mini today if it had three cameras and the promotion display. absolutely hate large phones.
Airlines seem to be a bad business in the long run.

I recall a figure from MIT's microeconomics textbook (Pindyck et al.) where they showed the aggregate profits of all industry since its inception were negative.

In EU, subsidies to airlines are an indirect subsidy to the tourism industry.
"Also, unlike Windows or Linux, you can’t “maximize” a window using the green “zoom” button, it will only make the current window fullscreen (and again, on its own desktop)."

Just hold option when you click on the "zoom" button.

Your other complaint, about Alt-Tab, is just a preference. I actually prefer this behavior over Windows.
Some corporate IT security policies just don't make sense. Why is he allowed to install random software from homebrew but not signed apps from a developer who has a contractual relationship with Apple? Even the economics are broken - hackers are going to refine and commercialize security exploits against widely used apps like Slack because of its large and ubiquitous deployment. They are not likely to spend resources targeting power user Mac apps that change the appearance of the alt-tab menu.
I read the entire article and didn't really get it until I read this paragraph:

> The problem is with "avoided emissions" offsets. Suppose X and Y are both emitting greenhouse gases, and X pays Y to stop. That's a half solution, but it is often treated as a complete solution: X looks good because they bought an offset, and Y looks good because they're no longer emitting anything. That's the shell game.

Incredibly well put.

So, effectively, one actor's emissions can be made to count for twice its effect through the accounting trick that involves one actor paying the other for having reduced their emissions.

However -- is this really a bad thing? Sure, it's not the full solution, but it's effectively a privately sponsored economic bonus for those actors that do choose to reduce their emissions.

Sure, it should probably be rebranded so it's clear this is actually what happens. "Carbon-reduction contingent donation" or something.
So is one of those Harrison MixBus? It would be nice to hear that worked out. What's the other? (or both if I'm wrong on the first count)
I'd recommend removing the chat feature to make this demo (much) more safe-for-work.

Edit: Or, restrict it to pre-built messages.
I am a pretty big advocate for good faith communication and think the article is right that it is necessary. The thing that disheartens me though, is the asymmetric nature of the problem: good faith communication is hard. It takes time and patience. Bad faith communication is easy. You can write 20 bad faith drive by comments in the time it takes to post one thoughtful reply. And due to the wide open nature of most of these platforms you're rarely interacting with the same person twice. So it's hard not to feel that that effort is entirely going to waste.
> who defines what the goal is?

The person doing the communication. So if that's you, you ask yourself the self-reflection question. If it's the other person, you have to try to figure out what their goal is in communicating with you: are they trying to achieve mutual understanding, or are they trying to get you to do what they want by hook or by crook?

Of course any actual conversation is two-way, so you need to ask both questions.
You'll be called much much worse than that. IME, you'll be lumped into the "other side" as defined by each of the bad faith participants. And if you point out their bad faith intent and rhetorical games, the level of ad hominem attacks increases exponentially.
"Known evil company treats its workers like crap"

Not really surprised. Both Intuit and MailChimp have been carcinogenic to their customers, vendors and employees for ages now. People should strike and/or complain to their local authorities especially when stuff like this is usually put out black and white in their employment contracts. It will be far more effective than just lashing out on Twitter.
April fools! Ha, they really got you didn't they?
command+backtick is the key he was looking for :)
W boson particle finding contradicts understanding of how universe works
This is my experience as well. I am a 25-year PC user. Got my first MacBook last summer. The gestures just make the whole OS experience fantastic. But I can never leave my PC behind. Without gestures the Mac os is lackluster IMO.
It's a bit bulky, but here's a setup which will work universally, but mind you, there will be some loss in resolution:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144500108815?hash=item21a4e0ae0f:g:...

Check that out - RCA plugs, but as well a coax output, and another adapter to go coax > rabbit ears.

The only use case missing is getting RF out to an RCA connector.

...And of course the tripod.
I’m gonna buy some land in the metaverse so I can not grow at scale.
Oh good, a non-geopolitical question :-) I think there are a few reasons why the shift registers aren't all next to each other. First, there are 6 shift registers (6 bits), but they interact with two 4-bit multiplexers. So you have blocks of three chips to position. Also, the top bit of the shift register is modified for the cursor, so additional chips are required for that shift register. So it's not as easy as putting the shift registers together, since there are other chips involved.

But why are they at opposite sides of the board? I think that is because the shift registers are very simple chips as far as connections, just 6 pins in use. So it is a lot easier to put them at the edges than a chip that has 16 pins in use, since there are only a few lines to route.

Note that the large vertical gap between rows of ICs so there is room for all the horizontal wiring. So I think the board had more capacity for horizontal wiring than vertical wiring. As a result, related circuitry is in the same row. E.g. the display stuff is in the same row (mostly), the CPU, peripheral adapter, and RAM are in the same row, and so forth. I think the video circuitry is in the top row so they can put the output connector at the back.

I'm sure there are more constraints on routing this board that I can only guess at. Even from a quick look, there seem to be a lot of factors.
https://www.systemsapproach.org/books.html
-d is for daemon mode (never default to this)

-p is for PID file

-l is for log file

-v is for version

-L is for verbosity level (e.g.: -L debug)

-c is for config file (where all the other options may be specified instead)

-h is for help

The rest are context-specific.
Most often when I perceive people on "my own side" as engaging in bad faith I sense they've made an "ends justify the means" calculation. I sense that they feel like they are deploying sketchy arguments in service of a greater truth.

I assume that it's the same for "the other side".

There are others who are truly at odds with reality (in fact that's more common), but they don't have the same vibe.
I love Gemini. It's very cosy. Note that Lagrange does non-native UI rendering, and though that's bad for a11y the result is very nice. Everything renders quickly and looks nice, though some minor things feel a little iOSey on the Android port.
Doom Cacowards
I would have said exactly the opposite. Newfangled SV businesses have all that investor cash to pay salaries, whereas bootstrapped need revenue, the sooner the better.

Make no mistake, the only reason a company closes is because they run out of cash. Old-style businesses have been doing that forever. SV businesses do the same when that "next round" fails.

Which leads me to conject that a VC business is just a bootstrapped business, where VCs are the customer...
How did I get to 2022 without having heard of William Gaddis?
For some reason I tend not to trust people who advocate lying.
eero and meraki come to mind.
Sounds like the same thing payment apps do, instead of sending you the money they hold it in a virtual balance. Eg Venmo, PayPal.

Since businesses use this service I assume the balance are an order of magnitude larger and potentially used in some interest or float mechanism.
Expecting good will of Google at this point seems sort of silly given repeating pattern of betrayal of trust.
Yeah, that transition didn't go as smoothly as they might have hoped. Most of us first-world programmers can just shrug and say "don't use unsupported versions," but I've had multiple non-technical clients call me up urgently and ask why a (relatively small, but not insignificant depending on the market, and definitely not in their control) subset of their users were seeing certificate errors.

So I don't recommend LE to my clients anymore. But it's a hassle to buy certificates the old way after having tasted ACME, so I'm always looking for an ACME-compatible alternative. ZeroSSL is backed by a more conservative Sectigo CA, but its ACME endpoints aren't very reliable. If this Google cert becomes widely available, I might just as well switch to it. :)
Win7 taskbar and Win10 taskview was huge improvement. Both basics are based on macOS Dock and Expose but improved. Meanwhile Apple stopped improvement.
Yes. Also for people who insist that you use —-help but won’t accept -h.
I guess another thought, mind you, is that Elementary doesn't need to succeed for hard core audio devs in order for it to succeed as a business - it just needs enough people who think they will succeed. If this turns out to be a great tool for casual or beginner plugin devs, I could see that being a valid market. Witness the explosion of casual Ableton Live plugin devs from Max for Live. I'm sure the vast majority of JUCE licenses don't wind up becoming sustaining businesses too, and the barrier to entry is a lot higher there. Whether those folks will get to the point of paying a license fee is the million dollar question I guess.

Ain't nothing wrong with selling pickaxes to miners and all that....
I would agree on macOS window management it can be pretty painful especially if you are coming from Linux i3 background
> There was a blog I couldn't read, so that's it, I grabbed my AK-47 and went down to Moscow to shoot Putin!!
I'm not sure about exact features of this service (I didn't know about it), but I'm using:

- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

- nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers news.ycombinator.com -p 443

The nmap one works with various non-HTTP protocols, such as IMAPS and FTPS. The Qualys service is much more detailed, including hints about certificate chain problems etc.
And then you encounter some ancient apps without GNU readline support (oracle sqlplus and mysql, I'm looking at both of you). No history support, cursor keys emit characters on the line, literal hell when trying to quickly fix remote database...
Funny you should mention about the forums. There's been a fairly notable Chrome issue intermittently affecting users on MacOS X since late last year and Google seem oblivious to it.

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/135844398/chrome-is...

So, yeah... I don't want to depend on a free Google Cloud account for SSL.
There’s a lot of great non-sequiturs that veer far away from the original conspiracy theory that you can’t support.

> we haven't "won" a war since 1945

To my knowledge, the government that we installed in Iraq is still around and it’s still friendly

> Since then, because they must spend most of their money actually extracting resources, they've been outbid by the armaments manufacturers.

You still haven’t been able to prove this assertion. There are only five countries in Africa that buy our arms. Those countries are also some of the most stable nations in Africa.

> "Belt and Road" is investment plus a clumsy marketing campaign. American firms are certainly capable of that.

This veers from the original topic of the conspiracy theory that the US is sowing chaos in Africa to “keep them down”, but the Belt road initiative works because it’s just a slightly different copy of our IMF strategy… both end goals are to secure natural resources and cooperation by keeping those nations forever indebted. Chaos is counter productive because it can’t be controlled like a puppet

> Your preferred justification then is colonial resource extraction?

I am describing both history and current events. Let’s not confuse this for being a proponent of these initiatives.

> Why should the average American care about Chevron's profits?

Because it keeps gas prices down and anything related to gas cheap as well

> Why should we care what currency Libya accepts in exchange for its own oil?

Because it allows the US to keep spending with a deficit. Many American entitlements such as federal student loans, welfare, mortgage tax credits, and social security depend on the US being able to carry a deficit. One of the primary benefits of being the global reserve currency holder is that we can print money for longer before we have a hyperinflation situation like wehrmacht Germany

> Do you suggest that Russia's preference for rubles or even renminbi is a justification for the current mess

No. They prefer rubles because they are locked out of the global financial system. They also prefer it so they don’t have to pay conversion fees. This was also after the fact. Ukraine is Russia’s buffer zone, similar to NOrth Korea being China’s buffer zone. Before climate change melts the Artic, Russia’s main access to the seas is Crimea. They always want access to it.

I highly suggest that you do a lot more reading. It didn’t take much to debunk your unfounded and highly illogical conspiracy theory
Your doc should think of this, but add thyroid to the list. Has to be in line before adjusting any of the others the parent mentions (well, except insulin, but I'm hand-waving here).
Not sure I agree exactly with the poster you are replying to, I am sure there is racism in regards to who gets credit for mathematical discovers.

What I think more people find annoying is that this is another way rich people, sitting in their ivory towers, get to pretend to save the world from racism, without actually doing anything.

It reminds me of America inventing the world Latinx and praising themselves as heros...while Latin America didn't care and didn't ever have an issue with previously used words.
Same. I have a MBP for work, and run Arch Linux on a Dell laptop for personal use. Before that it was Linux on a ThinkPad. The hardware on the MBP may be better, but not in any way I care about, and I'd trade it all to be rid of the touch-bar and have my function keys back. The MBP is fiddly as heck to get it to drive my ultrawide monitor at full resolution, while both Linux laptops "just worked". Personally I just can't find any reason I should prefer the Mac.
Consider this example: Person A, displaying some humility, says : "You might be right, there is a chance politician X is in the wrong". Person A assumes this is interpreted by Person B as: "There is uncertainty about politician X being in the wrong" Person B actually interprets this as: "Person A has admitted, without any doubt, to politician X being completely in the wrong"

I think you intended Person A to be someone with an opposing view. But I read this Person A as a friend that strongly likes Politician X, and in some ways that seemed even more appropriate to what the article is talking about. Especially if "politician X" is something like a controversial issue that is strongly moralized. People often end up outwardly adopting an almost Manichean set of opinions on things, even if our internal beliefs are more nuanced. So we end up saying Politician X is perfect, even if we have more mixed opinions. It's not Bad Faith communication in the same vein as a troll on a forum, we're acting in bad faith to maintain cohesion and membership among our own social group.

The OP articulates this well in a paragraph:

A key feature of escalating extremism is a belief that group membership requires bad faith engagements with out-groups. In these contexts, bad faith behavior is often justified to maintain in-group membership and consensus. The normalization of bad faith communication contributes to the creation of extreme in-group pressures, which can rupture identities and exacerbate mental health crises. Personal instabilities usually lead to a doubling down on the need for group membership, increasing rationalizations and amplifications of bad faith practices.
You just don't engage with them, or engage selectively. If someone wants to engage in bad faith, you politely end the discussion, and introduce distance into the relationship. You're not required to provide any explanation or attempt at rehabilitation, but I find that most people aren't operating in bad faith 100% of the time -- they have trigger topics which are emotionally charged and will put them into that mode. So you can first avoid those topics, and if they keep bringing those topics up, eventually you avoid them.

None of this is a silver bullet fix for the overall problem threatening society, but I doubt there is one, the only solution is for enough people to figure this out and start insisting on a better form of discourse in their own sphere of influence.

The pollution of the public square in recent years has prompted me to put more energy into actively managing my personal network, where I can maintain standards. Participating in social media is like fishing in a polluted river. You might find a good fish, reel them in, and transfer them to your pond. But usually you won't, and overall the ROI of this stuff is pretty low. (In places where it has declined the most, like Facebook, the platform's user engagement is declining too.)