skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The job of an employee at a for-profit company is to create business value. This is often lost on engineers and other technically focused startup employees. Working on a project that you consider interesting or of technical merit is a waste of time if it's not creating business value.

The wrinkle here is that it's not always obvious what projects will create business value. Unfortunately, if you're not in an organization with deep pockets and a long time horizon for projects to succeed, it's almost always a better business decision to work on projects that have a direct link to creating business value.

2. Using a technology because [insert large successful company or startup here] uses it well at scale is almost always the wrong decision for a startup. What works for Google, Meta, Uber, etc. will likely not work for your startup until you reach a certain critical level of scale.

3. Headcount is vanity metric. If a company is proud that they have a large team, you should probably run. Employees cost money and employee salaries count toward OPEX vs. CAPEX. What matters is revenue per employee, but many startups are pre-revenue.

4. Scaling your organization or technical stack before you have product market fit is a waste of time. Silicon Valley history is littered with dead startups you've never heard of that burned through their runway building over-engineered systems designed to scale to meet the demand of users that never came. The same is true of startups that built out massive sales departments before they had a product that people wanted to buy.
Samsung has a 'protect battery' checkbox that limits the maximum to 85%. I use that and just leave it unless I am going to have a travel-heavy day.
Great argument for using the 24h clock ;-)
The states all signed the Constitution, which requires a "republican" form of government. Such a thing was described (I think by Hamilton) as one where "the people choose their own rulers." There could be many implementations of this law, worthy of debate, but gerrymandering is not plausibly one of them.

I doubt that the concept of "laws" is a single coherent concept, but supports many different views, such as the conditions under which people are ethically obligated to obey them.
Author here.

This is a TL;DR version for readers who only read discussions. The link is a summary of my short book, which you can read online at the same address.

What the book does is expose an accounting chicanery that underpins the fossil fuel narrative for climate change. In a nutshell, the carbon accounting framework separates land-based emissions from other emissions like fossil fuel, and builds on the idea that you can't do much about the former. This is actually false, as evidenced by forestry research, and it provides cover for land theft and ecofascism in developing countries. The book goes on to provide a soil-based explanation for the carbon hockey stick and its global desertification ramifications. Lastly, it puts bottom-up solutions in front of the problem that communities can implement now without depending on governments.
Look around, we're surrounded by defective products. Not just in software either. That doesn't seem to stop them being sold.
Sure it's the same if you ignore literally everything else about the two conflicts.
> > 3. What makes you think #2 is true even today?

> Because I live in EU and everywhere else I look the situation is far worse.

"It's worse other places" doesn't answer the question. The EU's government isn't perfect and I don't see any safeguards in this proposal. It's ripe for abuse.

> Funny that guns are abused daily in US

Whataboutism nonsense, nobody is talking about guns except you.

> If the filter has to be used for CSAM content, it can't be used for anything else.

Utterly fanciful. Once this exists and is in place, it can and will be expanded to other things. Eventually a government you don't like will be elected in your country, and they'll be able to expand this.

This tool in the hands of an authoritarian government is as dangerous as any firearm because it would allow them to track dissent.
Not quite the same thing. This phenomenon is how meddling managers like to make a decision simply so they feel useful, not for any material gain.

What you’re describing is “taking credit”.
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>Or maybe the better analogue is, how do you fulfill your end of the deal as a short seller and return the shares owed to your counterparty if the company disbands in the meantime?

If you're short a company and the company goes properly bankrupt then the shares are literally worthless paper, you just throw them away.

I've been in this situation with interactive brokers and the position just disappears. (You get the profit as though you closed the position at a price of zero.) Shares of something that doesn't exist similarly don't exist. They just vanish.
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Yes, I believe every variable is implicitly volatile in nogil Python.

That said, I am not a good source for truth on this. But it feels like so much code would break if this weren't true that I don't think it would have gotten to this stage.

FWIW, here's the primary description of how it works - https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD... .
UK was never in Schengen; as an EU citizen, I had to go through ID check all the time. The only difference now is that I have to show passport, national ID is not enough anymore.

Guns were never allowed to circulate freely; even in Schengen countries, you need both export and import permit from both countries to bring it into another country. Fun when you attend competitive events ;). You could argue that you could do it lawlessly, without permit, but then, you could own gun lawlessly, without permit too; the criminals won't bother, only the lawful citizens, who is targeted by the regulation, will.

It would be "cooperation", if there was a consent of the governed. Now it is just diktat. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHVcvJdWIs is not so funny when you realize, how true it is.
Not the saddest; just the most recurring "just ship it" story ever.
>Government can't blackmail citizen

Why not?

>Do you really believe that in Europe governments are in control of everything like it happens in Russia or in North Korea?

Wait you think Russia is in control of it's citizen? Oh man, western propaganda seams to work even better then the russian counterpart.
Absolutely brilliant series, and highly recommended. Available on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-AdamCurtis
I've been annoyed at this but some of the changes are based on focus groups and other data suggesting that it will appeal to a larger portion of the local public when changed.
AFAIK most sight issues with screen are not caused by the usage of it, but the lack of sun light.
I don't know what you're trying to get at with that comment.
> There are still dozens of families who have yet to be reimbursed for this mistake

that has nothing to do with the matter at hand, it's completely OT and, frankly, who cares?

It is not EU fault, it's Netherlands's fault.

EU doesn't control Netherlands.
Hey, have you considered doing therapy?
At this point I would never send nor have nude photos with my kids (whom I don't have, but hypothetically speaking) on my phone or on any other electronic device, doing otherwise is just asking for trouble. Maybe it's not the perfect situation for parents who want to share said photos with the kid's grandparents thousands of kilometres away but it is what it is.
My "local" representative at the state level is a several hour drive to another city which has nothing in common with the city I live in.
> It would be useful to explain what "shorting the pound sterling" actually means

This article (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/08/greatest-curr...) talks about going short, going long, strangle and straddle, it also talks about a couple of illustrative events, including Soros v. British Pound.
From first principles:

Some sized and equipped military force is required for a credible NATO defense from Russia.

The origins of that force's components is a zero sum game. If they don't come from one country, they must come from another.

The US currently spends ~3.5% of GDP on its military. The EU (in total) spends ~1.6%. I believe the UK is at ~2.5%. The NATO target is 2% of GDP. See specifically, graphs 2-4: https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2021/6/pd...

If the US spent less, it's possible Europeans would not choose to make up the difference. But if they didn't, they'd certainly be less secure.

It's a complicated topic, but the idea that the US is paying for more European defense than Europeans is well-supported.
What does that have to do with the core claim that NATO protects Russian neighbours?

NATO can be a vile alliance of war criminals, AND an alliance that protects Russian neighbours against invasion.
Don't "play house" -

Many founders start applying methodologies and hiring for roles they know from other companies, even though they're not at a scale that justifies it.
It's not clear to me what you're referring to as "extremists" or by "transgender movement", because at this point that could mean a lot of things that almost don't even exist or it could just mean "anything I don't like".

But even if it did refer to actually existing extremism, presuming a trans person should know about a sub-category of extremists that happen to be trans and make unprompted verbal attacks against them just to signal some kind of virtue at is a pretty weird demand of compelled speech on your part.

This kind of shameless bigotry and stereotyping is pretty transparent.
For people wanting to have a bit of fun and handle things that feel like weapons, I'd highly recommend searching out a contemporary Wushu (Kung Fu) school. It's the modern sport martial art of China, is sort of a combination of traditional Chinese Martial Arts, Kickboxing, and Gymnastics and weapons are a very big component. It's very close to becoming an Olympic sport even though it's not incredibly well known.

For reference, it's what movie actor Jet Li was trained in and performed when he came to the White House in the 70s as part of the U.S.-China opening up.
I'm not sure about 'Q', but he comes up a lot because he is where the 'far left' side of the democrats get most of their funding. He dumps large sums of money into local elections across the US to elect officials who will be soft on crime.

edit - this is why left wing groups try to shut down all discussion of him by screaming antisemitism, and why right wing groups are convinced he is the root of all evil.
So you're willing to take your chances because the bully beat up someone else first?
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In Swedish: https://www.presidentti.fi/sv/pressmeddelande/gemensamt-utta...
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So this adds swimlines like they were for a long time in https://wekan.github.io/ ?
How does burning over 100 MWh of electricity provide backing for a minted coin, yet directly burning currency doesn't?

What's the difference, besides the pollution?
Another well-known person of letters who started to learn Hungarian was Edmund Wilson (died 1972). I learned of the backstory to this in the late Frederick Exley’s memoir. He was obsessed with Wilson and interviewed his assistant, a Hungarian woman many years his junior who apparently made a huge impression on Wilson.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/08/missionary-2
Well not completely, in the sense that they seem to be exchanging USDT for USD at a 1:1 ratio if you show up with 100k or more. There have been no reports of people that tried to get that and didn't get it.

On the other hand maybe people holding a lot of USDT wouldn't not want to tell anyone else if they were unable to redeem it before they had sold it all on the exchanges...
lol i thought you meant that bizzare c/c++ windows variable naming pattern.

lpwszSomeName
There is so much hate here for the GIL, which is undeserved. You tend to not notice all the nice safety it gives you. If you want to speed up your Python code you could of course try to make it run in parallel: congratulations, you just wasted N times more CPU on slow interpreted code. You could have used an accellerator language like Numba, or write parts of your code in C++ or Rust and get a 10-100 times speedup on a single core!
> The EU's government isn't perfect

Do you know someone or something that is?

I don't.

> I don't see any safeguards in this proposal.

then write one and propose it!

or look better.

>It's ripe for abuse.

BY WHOM EXACTLY?

AND WHY?

> Utterly fanciful. Once this exists and is in place, it can and will be expanded to other things.

Are you from the future or simply doubling down on your opinions, trying to pose them as unequivocal facts?

> This tool in the hands of an authoritarian government

There's no such thing in Europe, the closets thing to it it's Viktor Orban in Hungary.

Who is still more democratic than Trump.
There was discussion about this the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31313779
> the irony is by breaking the UK out of the ERM: Soros enabled brexit

So... Two medals?
e.g., Philosopher's stone -> sorcerer's stone.

Science-fiction and fantasy UK book covers were better too, which is another example of the same weird parochialism of the U.S. publishing industry as it was.

My probably unpopular opinion is that it's a reflection of a more general, largely un-self-aware New York City parochialism, which was where most of the big publishing firms were based, at least until the last decade or so.
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Excellent. But it should be builtin on every Android.

You can check the battery voltage on Termux, but you cannot stop the bloody charging. I have external charger, which can be stopped with Termux Wifi-command.

https://github.com/timonoko/Termux-battery-controller
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Unless the auditors (Grant Thornton, a reputable large company) are lying, they have 1:1

https://www.centre.io/hubfs/PDF/2022%20Circle%20Examination%...
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> In Italy we had 67 different governments since 1946.

Colloquially when Americans say “government” they are referring to the entire state, including not just elected officials but professional civil servants, police, courts, intelligence agencies, etc.

You have definitely not had 67 different governments since 1946 in the sense that I think was meant.
If you sell stable coins for USD and make a loss, you can write it off.
Have you seen how well assange was treated? And yes GB whas then still in the EU.

Hell even nice sweden accused him of rape, even if they knew that it's bogus.

Spain jails you just because you want to be independent, just image that Washington jails a Texan governor for trying to be independent.

Europe is in parts not far away from the Turkish legal system.
Hire sales people 2 at a time. If you hire just 1, they will have an endless list of reasons they aren’t making sales (product doesn’t demo well, not enough marketing, bad leads, etc). sales will always say this, but with more than one, you can tell how real of an impediment to closing deals those actually are
I spent 6 months assessing the options came down to ‘Material for Mkdocs’.
Incest is the massive child abuse elephant in the room, and listening to our communications won't help those millions of children who suffer. Almost 7 million in France (1).

I'm disgusted. I'm pretty sure when they say "one child in 5,6 or 7", it's really incest in 90-99% of cases, not some internet pedophile they claim to catch.

They won't protect children with that law, because it's not the right law to fight child abuse.

[1] https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1231341/nombre-victimes...
That makes sense, and I'm glad to hear they have those strict rules given how terrible we are at making reliable software
During a recent HN discussion on pipes and text versus structured objects to transfer data between programs, I started wondering if CSV wouldn't be a nice middle ground.
seems like the absolute worst time to join NATO. Russia is as close to war with NATO as ever and now they decide it's a good time to join? they may find themselves at war the day after joining. Russia is way more closer to war with NATO than it was with Finland.

on the other hand, they don't have much choice. Finland was not neutral, just not formally in NATO. they were anti-Russia independents. but now things got serious so they run for shelter. basically they waited until the last moment to formally join NATO, but they were always kind of aligned with NATO. same for Sweden. for example, they both sent military aid to Ukraine I believe, so it's clear they are aligned with NATO. might as well sign the paper.
I learned (a local variant of) Hungarian naming convention (also apparently known as Hungarian notation) early on in software development. I'm still not sure it was a good idea, but it was certainly due to a Hungarian.

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

I've also been to Budapest, but despite the above the locals and I still could not communicate with one another except in english.
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Hi, thank you for having a go over it! This is great feedback.

I find it really, really hard to take good pictures and even harder to take video. I am getting help with that and I hope the situation will improve.

yes, there is a companion app, should I make that more clear?

The contact page is labelled imprint because that's the law here in Germany... I could have an additional contact page though.

The two privacy policies are because one is for visitors of the website and one is for users of my product. Two totally different contexts, and I was unsure how to fuse them. Probably also something I should get help with.

I cut down on the about us section. But I agree this needs some work still...
Absolutely not. Ableton Live is used much more and I would be suprised if their market share was 40%.
I think this is more of a "different people's minds work differently" thing than an age thing. Some people who grew up in the digital age still find analog clock faces more useful. Here's a short youtube video exploring that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZArBfxaPzD8 . I think Adam's mistake was assuming the preference for analog was universal which was probably wrong even when he first wrote the joke.

I think the argument could be made for a clock face being a pie chart if you think of it the way the host of that video does. The categories are "time left in the hour/day" and "time passed in the hour/day".

All that said I was really happy to finally understand what Adams was trying to say with that joke witch, as a person who finds digital readouts more useful, never landed for me before.
I'm 37 and have a hard time parsing clock faces, I remember having a hard time with it in kindergarten and they basicaly wrote it of as me being a little prick and refusing to do it right
> Even local restaurants seem to be changing - using aggregators as their primary touch-point.

My favourite restaurant has a website.

It's broken because "php couldn't find the necessary mysql extension to use Wordpress".
>I 100% agree and this is something that libertarians and anarchists gloss over completely.

I assure you, libertarians and anarchists, or at least the ones who have actually bothered to go beyond the surface, are not unaware of this. You're wielding those monikers as if anyone to bear them would be a fool by definition. It is clear low trust has adverse effects on growth. What is not clear is that unbounded rapid growth is a desirable state of affairs, or that an equilibrium is so important everyone must bow before a central authority/planner with a hand on a brake.

There is nuance your comment as written completely neglects.
Yes, but I feel this is somewhat of a tautology: of course lots of revenue makes things easier.

But the important part is to diagnose why you have low or declining sales. Sometimes it's because you don't have good sales people. But other times it's because the product you have isn't a good market fit, or it's really buggy, or your salespeople oversold and now your customers are unhappy with the actual functionality of your product.
The idea is you can wear a longer lasting watch on the other wrist.
When my oldest son was still young, I was working on my first Android game: a memory game about recognising letters, words, or anything. With a voice saying the letter, word, etc, so children would learn to match the symbol with the sound. I thought it would help my son learn to read, but before I knew it, he could read already. (At 4 or something. Never had to teach him a thing.) I lost my purpose and stopped working on it.

Years later, we had another child. Deep into his struggles with talking, and later reading, I finally remembered that unfinished app again. Didn't know where it was, didn't want to restart it, and really the ideal moment for my second son to start using it was 2 years ago, so I didn't even bother.
European countries will only spend money on defense when they calculate it as a necessity. During the cold war the Netherlands had a tank division stationed in Germany waiting for the Red Army to invade.

And I want to emphasize DEFENSE. Not "invade other countries in trillion dollar regime change operations".
It was US Congress that signed off on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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I get associations to the AmigaDoc document format.
Most of the time "just intensely search first any competitor" before "start shipping it" works fine.
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> exiting would have been impossible

Actually impossible, or just really bad for everyone’s economies? Because every time I saw the suggestion that Brexit would be bad for the British economy (or indeed anything British), I saw someone dismiss the suggestion as “project fear”, while any suggestion it might be in any way bad for anyone else was met with the response that this was a reason the UK “would get a good deal”.

Sometimes I even witnessed both of these responses from the same person in successive sentences in contexts where it would be illogical for both to be true.
There are individual investors who were misled by institutions and grifters. There are also individual investors on this very forum who laughed, taunted, and turned their noses up whenever someone pointed out the fraudulent nature of the entire ecosystem.

The latter are not financially illiterate; they just thought (incorrectly) that they could time the scam better than the other little guys. I have correspondingly less sympathy for them.
What I found after a few failed businesses:

1. Just because others are making money, doesnt mean you will

2. People like, and show a a very small part of their success. "Oh I just worked 70 hours, helped the community, they gave back to me". Not mentioned will be their friends who secretly helped promote them, their rich daddy who bankrolled them while they worked on the "startup", or the dodgy things they did to get sales.

3. Its hard whatever field you choose, so make sure you choose something you love, else you will quit at the 1st sign of trouble.