skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VATMOSS would seem to be the way to go, note that you may not have visibility on all of the transactions of a party so you won't be able to determine when they cross the limit for VAT liability for their country.
The future of micropayments will be the Lightning network. It's still under heavy development, but people use it to stream instant sub-cent payments all the time.

Check out stacker.news as a live example.
The easiest first step is to start installing white roofs in urban areas. This should be national policy by now. It’s been four years since this policy was recommended and nothing has been done.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/urban-heat-can-white-roofs-he...
> syntax highlighting [on a monochrome eink]

I'm not sure how many tones this eink screen has, but there certainly is a variety of monochrome editor themes. You could make your own if not.
The sad thing is that it’s a joke that many people don’t seem to be in on.

You get all these defenders coming out of the woodwork when people wonder what the hell all the programmers at say, Twitter, are doing. Supposedly you puny mind can’t comprehend the challenges of developing a website “at scale”

The real answer is, almost nothing. People are being paid very high salaries to do nothing.
Ask HN: Is There any guide for raising pre-seed?
A couple years ago I was toying with the idea of using an e-ink display instead of an active one. I wondered about the same thing, how is coding without syntax highlighting?

Not too bad it turns out. You still have bold, italic, underline and gray. You can do an inverse text, which is good for headers (e.g. magit sections). I guess with a GUI editor, you can do things like boxes around tokens etc. -- I'm in an emacs over ssh most of the time, so I haven't looked into that.

I actually ended up liking this and have been using it since then, on a LED display.
I'd love to hear more details about your setup, if you're willing to share. Especially the part about using the Kindle as a secondary screen.
> Once the paperwork is done, the founders will move all assets to the new company and align the imprint accordingly.

Make sure that you deal with IP rights very carefully in that situation.

Also, the GP is right, you do need that impressum page.
If anything, Zig is over-represented on Hacker News with posts and positive mentions, particularly when you compare it to other newer languages. To include the other newer languages getting ignored, bashed, or trolled. Where with Zig, it doesn't get that kind of "heat". But just because Zig might be a "darling" of Hacker News, doesn't mean that's the case in general.

For these newer languages, they need to distinguish themselves, in terms of reasons why people would turn to them. In a world of established languages like C, Rust, Golang, Object Pascal, etc... Why use Zig? The argument to use it over what they already know, might not be there for a lot of people.
I don't understand the recent push to ascribe consciousness to trees. An anesthetized human being has many more allostatic and homeostasic mechanisms than a tree, and yet we don't ascribe consciousness to anesthetized humans...
Candlelit Console patch set to the OpenBSD framebuffer console
Average commute in London is 74 minutes. Average commute in the world is 40 minutes.
> Mozilla does the same thing with C++.

To be fair, C++ is the epitome of a language you only adopt after consciously picking a very specific subset of features, or explicitly marking features as verboten. Template metaprogramming and exceptions are perhaps two of the most popular features that are routinely banished from C++ projects.
Astonishing to me that someone with 20 years' experience in any industry could have so little perspective. Obviously there are inefficiencies with big companies, but complaining about needing to do documentation, or basic project management?

The writing is smug and shows no self awareness - it seems to me that the author cannot recognise that there may be other priorities than exactly what is in front of them and therefore everyone who disagrees with him must be wrong.

It is good that the author has found something that suits them better.
I imagine the line in the sand is the same as whether you enjoy all-inclusive resorts or pay as you go?
Nah, most people feel some guilt at doing nothing when they're paid well, so my guess is lots of internal projects that don't go anywhere and that we never hear about. That's quite different to nothing at all.
I disagree.

In most of the large companies I worked for there was zero documentation (+1000 employees, +100 engineers) or very very little or only in a few projects. When people were leaving, someone else was getting hit with a shitty undocumented project, they would spend some time learning it - and that was it.
In the worst case a doomed-to-fail-rewrite started and troubled the team for a couple of years.

I think the main issue is that:
- People are given tasks from the board of directors (trickling down layers and layers of management), they don't feel like it's their problem
- There is little accountability, tracking performance is very hard; tons of companies don't bother, but some of them do (after HR intervention, CTO being in trouble justifying the costs) and they can't find decent metrics to use for performance, so the bosses are basically flying blind / trusting middle managers.
- No high growth stocks that will make you rich
- Middle managers feeling like they need to prove they're doing something imposing weird and useless rituals: meetings, presentations, etc

These factors allow people to slack off as much as they can and take as long as they can to do anything.

As long as they can come up something for standup, it's all good.
Flutter- For cross platform app
Firebase- Fast go to market backend
NextJS- Build modern state rich web apps.
NodeJS, Algolia, Heroku
They are backed by Y Combinator so that might be why they get extremely decent exposure on HN.
Here you have some answers to who'd use a laptop like this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31394866

> A separated device to write my blog or some short stories would be a godsend to me.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395049

> I'd love to use this for programming, or writing.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31394890

> I would buy this indeed. I like working outside and it's not very good at the moment.
This is the sixth article on building a bounding volume hierarchy on the CPU, completing the original planned series.
Two more articles are now planned, taking this to the GPU, but still without using RTX.
Interesting. I think I've seen it once in a 20-year career.
> Proof-of-work requires, by design, that the electricity value expended on mining is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin.

I'd amend that to read: Proof-of-work requires, by design, that the money wasted on electricity and electro waste is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin times the mining reward (currently 6.25 BTC per block).
Agreed, UK entry was not particularly interesting or original, both song and performance, the Ukrainian did had something more to it

Also strange Germany getting 0 points from jury
> The sad thing is that it’s a joke that many people don’t seem to be in on.

On each of my job in my early career, I spent considerable effort weeding out people who got too used to such mode of work.

There are software developers with vastly different prior work experience, and expectations. People who do 30 minutes of actual coding a day, and ones who do 11 hours in coding sweatshops.

People who spent their entire career on 30 minutes of coding a day jobs, and think of themselves too much once they rise in seniority are the worst, and are the biggest source of dumpster fire/death march projects.

My third serious job in Canada: work in a consumer electronics trading company, upgrading their shipping system to get shipment status from DHL API, and submitting new ones. My predecessor, and ex-unit head wasted close to $1m, and more than a year, got SAP involved, invited many consultants, change managers, a project management contractor, and just been in the process of "fixing deficiencies" of his work by buying "enterprise SOA solution."

23 year old me called this bullshit on the second week, fought to have a serious talk with the company owner, rewrote a 10 years old steaming pile of PERL, and BASH scripts to Python, Postgres, and JS frontend in under one week, showed it working, and countered "You don't understand SOA!" protests of the unit head in front of the boss. He gets fired, I get a bonus the size of my annual salary.

Since then, my bosses always threw me as a "firefighter" on projects in crisis.

------------

We now have 2 major trends in the industry:

1. More, and more non-IT companies are trying to do software

2. A giant amount of newcomers to the industry who would've normally went working for banks, and management consulting companies eroding big IT companies as later grew with little regard to quality of hires.
> near-zero fees and realtime settlement

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not a thing. Bitcoin transactions can easily cost tens of dollars each, and Lightning balances are ultimately settled via Bitcoin.
This is indeed a popular theory in the running community, and many runners have made an effort to transition to landing on their forefoot rather than their heel. However, there does not appear to be a scientific consensus whether runners with forefoot strike patterns are faster and/or less injury prone [1]. There are also professional runners that heel strike.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189005/
I got similar feelings as the OP though. It's not just about notifications popping up or having a browser at hand. I feel the epaper display puts me in a different frame of mind. A "Not sitting at the computer" state, in which I think differently. So I always wondered if writing on an epaper display would not feel entirely different than looking at an empty page in a word processor. I certainly feel the difference when reading a book an my ereader vs. my phone/tablet.
I think rather frequently the impact of such a "rare" event could indeed be company-breakingly critical, depending on which part of the company that team was running. As a thought experiment, if all DBAs left tomorrow and the database fell over the next day, how much time would the next-most-capable person need to figure out the backup policies and scripts, restore the db and bring everything back up? I've personally seen this sink a company outright. It's only anecdotal evidence ofc, but it is still something that happens.

Worse, people leaving a team are not independent events. People leaving a certain team is often highly correlated to other people leaving the same team, because there is some common cause like a toxic manager.
Don't you think "filling some market" makes the world a better place (in most cases)? Without companies there would be no products, services, food, ...
I tend to think most of engineering is rather mundane but potentially very rewarding. I hate meetings and overly complicated project coordination just as much the next person but there is also danger in wanting to do ‘cool stuff’ - imagine a dentist who is passionate about pulling teeth out.

A project that I quite enjoyed involved months of investigation work, finally solved by tweaking a single software parameter that dictated how far a release mechanism moved. The number of internal/external meetings I had to demonstrate that this can indeed fix the problem could have seemed silly but it was also very reasonable given the risks involved.
>It's a cool open-hardware and open-source project.

this is very disingenuous. it's a product being developed by a company. this isn't some github repo with a few images of an open source e-ink reader made by some hacker guy, this is a proper thing that is being designed, developed and maybe pushed to the market.

and to me, if you're a company developing a product you should at least make sure its basic existence is justified. nobody has yet told me why this product has any real use.
There's one reason alone that I'd be interested, but it's a pretty big one: to work outside in the sunshine without a washed-out screen. For this purpose all I'd need is Emacs to run, and I'd be golden.

Being able to work outside would be fantastic for my well-being, and I'd accept quite a lot of compromise to get that.
Azores too. Very nice place and pleasant weather (as least for now) if you can stand rain.
We have a blog that talks about the tech stack, you can check it here
https://blog.peerlist.io/everything-about-our-migration-from...
> You will be asked to write a documentation for some little code you wrote. You will carry out tests. You will argue with your colleagues and supervisor on every decision you make.

imagine thinking this is bad, unironically.
Yeah but "after the first 25" may cover the majority of their customers. I myself am one of them, and at this point I don't care at all what happens after I reach 25 domains.

Essentially it _is_ free.
Source please? I'd like to read more about this.
If YouTube, other videos, or fast-moving games is the source of their distraction, then an e-ink monitor would provide a hardware obstacle rather than a pure software one which can more easily be overcome.
How do I get in on this? For the 10 years I've been in this industry I've never been in a job where I felt like I had it easy. It's always been a rush to get one project done then there's always something else in the pipeline. Whether those projects are actually worth doing is a different question...
Avoiding smart pointers for those reasons is a bad idea.

Smart pointers are unified since C++11 standard with support in all modern compilers for various platform. Invest some time to get familiar with them and you will not regret.
Oh I’m sure that it feels like they are doing something.

But in a badly managed company each person is like a randomly oriented vector.

You sum them together and the end result is something near to zero.
The worth of Luna Tokens crashes awfully
You're incorrect. This is the reason Lightning exists and the problem it solves.

Payment channels are a little complex so it's common for people to not understand them, but they do indeed solve this problem completely.
I think the inflation / funny money being injected doesn't help at reducing fake working.
"should be incredibly rare". Not incredibly, it's rare, but it happens (seen it in two small companies, it killed them; saw it in several ESN/consultancy projects, it killed the contract, but was a manageable event in the whole company; saw it in medium software companies, it killed the projects and sometimes pushed for strategy changes).

It happens enough for many (not all) individuals to have noticed across their career (especially when in management, where a big part of their role is already to manage risk).

It happens enough for any single company to be quite traumatized by it when it happened, and to try to avoid it in the future.

Where some companies do it differently is: they don't overreact, they understand that this is a risk management issue and that you can balance it, and/or they don't setup a "general case" for all projets/teams (depending on the type of the project). This requires quite some serenity and perspective.
Brazil's Pix[1] completely transformed the way we deal with payments day-to-day. It's available 24/7, free of fees and has really good UX. Many small merchants are giving up on credit card and accepting only Pix. And the Central Bank of Brazil keeps pushing Pix's capabilities forward. Last year they launched two features that can be translated something like Pix Withdrawals and Pix Change (Pix Saque and Pix Troco in Portugues). The two features work similarly. Essentially they turn every commercial site into an ATM. You make a Pix to, say, a supermarket and get that money in cash. Or, in the case of Pix Change, you'd pay in Pix more than the total value of the purchase and receive the change in cash.

Pix is not even 2 years old and it's already changed the way people deal with money. It's incredibly reliable and astonishingly fast.

Who would say that the biggest Brazilian fintech revolution of all times would come from the Central Bank?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(electronic_payment_system...
Knowledge Graphs, a Book
I don't think that is a real concern for the Taliban.

I would rather ask: why would they? Are we expecting Taliban to consider giving out registrations? To foreigners?!
What would be their motivation to streamline this in any way at all?

Do we assume that they even care?
I highly recommend you go watch Rick Falkvinge's videos on Lightning Network. They are a little old, but everything in them stands true to this day.
The idea has potential.

It will appeal to people who have to do a lot of reading, writing and thinking; and who are currently distracted by a lot of applications and features on their all-purpose devices.

Theoretically, you can turn off the Wi-Fi, put the writing app in focus mode, turn off notifications and avoid googling and looking at email and twitter. In practice, it is nearly impossible to do so. Which is why there are so many focus apps, pomodoro timers etc. It takes a lot of will power to avoid distractions.

Unlike a Kindle this thing can be used to key in text.

It certainly has a niche. What we don’t know is how big that niche is, and whether it will cause others to adopt non-distractive devices.
>> There is a video from a Swiss TV programme in 1983 here: https://inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-cha... But it “is not available outside of Switzerland”, [...].

> I am able to view it by using a VPN (private internet access in my case). It looks like Lara, however my German is simply not good enough to say for sure...

I wrote to ETH Zürich asking about this, and they replied immediately thanking me for telling them as they had not noticed that it could only be watched from Switzerland, and confirming that I would have to ask the TV station that aired it, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fersehen, Swiss Radio and Television.

My email to SRF mentioned that I had noticed they do have a YouTube channel with many other programmes at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd0NmHBRRAq5O-ye7kx_VlQ and asking whether this video too could be made public.

Thew forwarded the question to Telepool Zürich, the agency handling licensing for their archive, which kindly sent a detailed response quoting the price for such custom request, for private use only, of 260 CHF + VAT in DVD or 99 CHF + VAT as a file.

That’s a fair price for a custom request, but I’m not that interested in paying just to watch it.
This is present in a lot of unreal engine games running on mac os x too. Tomb Raider is a great example.
Show HN: SSort – The Python source code sorter
Hi HN - SSort is a tool I've been working on that sorts the contents of python modules in dependency order. It's like isort, but for the rest of the file.

It's starting to get a bit of momentum. We have users across a few different companies and some consistent contributors (thank you, in particular, jgberry). We're reaching a point of stability, and would like to gather some final feedback before hitting the big 1.0.
my favorite - forcing signing "Code of conduct" that pretty much says you gonna try to be a good person (as if you were not beforehand)
I'm pushing more than 15 and feel like the author is right.

What you're missing is that doing soft tasks is a tradeoff and big companies are leaving a lot on the table by having an inflexible culture.

Those same big companies will end up buying startups for 10x their ARR to get some mediocre product with no documentation or tests, cranked by developers on redbulls swearing at each other instead of doing retrospectives and yoga friday.
>Brazil used this phenomenon to their advantage to escape from a monetary hole[1]. ... And then they declared it as their official currency.

You know, looking at their inflation rate (which is in the double digits), they should have kept that dual "currency" system and let people withdraw the inflationary currency as cash and keep the non inflationary currency in bank accounts with negative interest rates.

Why? Because inflation is a lie, you think your money is safe because you don't see it wither away (you do feel it wither away, but by how much? nobody really knows), a negative interest rate is the raw honest and ugly truth.
> I hate meetings and overly complicated project coordination just as much the next person but there is also danger in wanting to do ‘cool stuff’ - imagine a dentist who is passionate about pulling teeth out.

There was a case here were an (employed) dentist was apparently bored and started to drill and fill perfectly healthy teeth. Iirc, criminal charges were filed.

Malpractice because bored (or feeling undervalued/underappreciated etc.) isn't just a problem for SWEs, but actual doctors. Also see: nurses and doctors inducing code blues to get to be the hero saving the patient; firemen becoming arsonists to have a fire to extinguish.
You're assuming "the world" and "society" to be harmonious concepts but in the worldview of the author they're not, and therefore, for him, there is no contradiction.

You will see it in the way he describes working together to meet basic needs at the end of point 6. He says society is a system for meeting needs. The world presents a set of problems and society presents a set of solutions through it's behavioral demands.

The rest of the article is just him rationalizing the demands and the repercussions of not meeting them but the underlying assertions he is making are these:

That humans are not a part of the world. They are just in it and afflicted by the requirements of being there. That society is a social technology which partitions us off and functions to preserve us therein. Therefore any demands it makes or repercussions it inflicts are legitimate and bound up with your survival and that the sooner you get on board, the sooner you will be "a better person".

Another dead give away is the fact that "better" is a completely subjective evaluation, but he kind of buries the lede on that one and goes on to talk about "society" in the singular, probably knowing full well that the reader will just project their own subjective definition.
In effect it's a giant work camp/prison. You look like you're free and you can leave if you manage to get the money and some kind of visa but otherwise your money inflates away to nothing and somehow this doesn't affect the elite who seem to have all the US$. Diamond wealth simply vanishes - $15 billion or something like that? You're basically working for them for nothing.

There are many to blame, not least us Zimbabweans, but special thanks to Henry Kissenger for pushing us into the hands of the Russian and Chinese backed "liberation" movements just 9 years before the Berlin wall came down.
I never understand the argument for less distractions, it is as if one cannot manage to focus themselves, and needs an external entity to behave properly.

Don't want to be distracted by XYZ? Turn it off.
As someone who has negative feelings about YAML: I like TOML.

This is however besides the point. I hate any format if it is misused. TOML is great for config files up to a certain complexity. It is not great for configuration files that should be code. If you feel your configuration file could use a configuration file, you might be doing it wrong.

TOML to me is an successor to INI, with support for lists and other things that can be useful for typical configurations. I have never had any configuration-syntax related issue with any tool that used TOML for configuration — YAML on the other hand...
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