skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if you mark your corporation as a “close” corporation (limited to 35 employees). The entity type does not matter (C, S, LLC).

“Abbreviated governance - shareholders may agree in writing to treat the corporation as a partnership, operate without a board of directors, dispense with annual meetings, and make a shareholder agreement.

Advantages

• Limited liability - the law says shareholders don’t have personal liability even though they relax corporate formalities in operations.

• Ease of operation - operates without pomp and circumstance required in regular corporations where hundreds of shareholders must receive information and vote.

• Cost of operation - relaxed corporate governance means lower legal, accounting and administrative fees for lower total costs of operation.

• Deadlock prevention - provides access to court when shareholders are deadlocked and harm could befall the corporation through lack of action.

• Buy-out provisions - shareholders may buy out a deceased shareholder’s interest according to shareholder agreements”

https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Publications/ChoiceIsYours.pdf

Many of the disadvantages listed are no different than for other corporate entities.
Docker doesnt need systemd
ColorForth has a very interesting idea that I think deserves more attention, that of adding markup to source code that directly sets a few mode bits (comment, literal, immediate). Often we do a lot of things that clutter up source code, like doc strings, that really could be separate layers.

Metamine was an experimental system that combined declarative as well as the normal imperative code. You had a "magical equals" that kept the left side updated as the conditions on the right changed (like a formula in excel). It allowed for some very interesting things. It got pulled from the internet, though.
A lot of businesses these days aren't registered with BBB, which makes them ineffectual. That's more of a past thing, as I'm finding out. Mostly older businesses, or businesses run by older people are the ones participating.
In the spirit of category theory...

Except the marketplace of marketplaces?

For instance, Amazon is widely reviled, but maybe Walmart and Target will eat Amazon's customer order flows as a result?
Well what's really the difference between this and going to a movie vs a play? There's value to being in a big crowd with like-minded fans, even if just to watch a recording.

Don't get me wrong, I love live shows, but when the crowds are huge for megastars, the intimacy between the crowd and the band already suffers. A digital performance might even be an upgrade if it is well done.
This kind of thing could be done in Unix as well.

In FreeBSD, libxo[0] is integrated into a lot of it's utilities, allowing this same type of power.

For example:

ps aux --libxo json

Or:

ps aux --libxo xml

At this point you still have plain text, but it now has a well-defined structure that can be interpreted by other utilities. With JSON output you can use a tool like `jq` to slice and dice the data. With XML output you could run it through an XSLT to transform it into whatever you want - this definitely moves outside the realm of simple though.

This is definitely not on the same level as what PowerShell does, but it shows how something similar could exist in the Unix world.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libxo&sektion=3
I remember when I worked at an Alphabet company and they offered the option of using your personal phone to sign in to work stuff. (It wasn't Slack, it was one of the seventeen different chat systems they had going at the time.)

There was a teensy-weensy little caveat: Google IT could wipe your personal device at any time!

No thanks.
An alternative is some type of Corp providing basic housing, education, medical care and part time work. A bit like a branch of the military but lower key (and obviously not for defense).
that might be obvious to me and you, but i don’t think the author knew
Agree. This is just a price drop from the expensive initial price.
“The network is reliable” is also the title of a relatively famous collaboration between Kyle Kingsbury and Peter Bailis which generated a long list of counter-examples.

* https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/9/177925-the-network-is-...

Discussions here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820245

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8162720
If you won't click through it, then why do you want the browser to let you click through it?
You hear about that tidal generator that blew up and contaminated 1000 Sq km of land? Ya, I didn't either.
You mean the NHR? That’s only for 10 years though. Many countries have a similar system (including Spain [0]), either for personal or your company or both.

[0] https://www.europeantax.blog/post/102h41p/thinking-of-moving...
> anyone who can get close enough (physically or digitally) to one for it to matter isn't going to be hindered by some pesky firmware lock.

I mean, being unable to modify secure embedded systems by getting close to them "digitally" is the whole positive point of the much-reviled-in-personal-computing Trusted Computing Base paradigm. If Intel CPUs can cryptographically verify that microcode updates come only from Intel, and that the bootloader ROM is signed by the manufacturer key stored in the CPU's own TPM, then the microcontrollers in critical systems like these should be doing no less. "Unlocking" such a system to free modification by the installation IT administrator really does lose you some quite-powerful security advantages vs. having an end-to-end-secure logistical pipeline for updates direct from the manufacturer to your microcontroller, that not even the site admin can tamper with.

Also, on a tangent — with really-critical embedded systems, there are ways to prevent physical proximity from giving someone the keys to the kingdom as well. For example: making the system a distributed-majority-consensus system run across several secure installations, where you'd need to physically penetrate several installations at once — hopefully all with independently-designed security policies — in order to get the system as a whole to do something else. Where any timing slip-ups would reveal one of the systems as faulty, and prompt an immediate [probably armed] investigation response.
Musk literally believes in the Chinese model of 996 work culture. He does practice what he preaches but has string of failed marriages to show for it and has no problem calling out anyone who doesn't do the same. So providing a counterpoint is good. Frankly I'd prefer to work at a remote company like air bnb.
I've heard that some people objected to his strong focus on "bootstrapping". In some ways, maybe we avoided a repeat of Babbage and his continual push towards something better at the cost of completion. It's hard to know from this perspective where the truth of the matter lies.
To be fair, enough glitter could definitely trigger a litigious person in the US.
Even if this was generally predictable, the exact timing may not be.

I was glad for the information.
Something like this happened at my university a number of years ago. There was a side entrance that was ostensibly for usage by people with bikes (as it was part of the bike storage area), but it was much more convenient than the main entrance and all you had to do to get access was ask at the security desk. So anyway basically everyone on this campus with 10k+ students and more staff had access to the side entrance.

What everyone didn't know was that when you were granted access to this entrance, you were also added to the "bike storage mailing list". Long story short, at some point someone accidentally sent a message to the entire mailing list of ~100k people, which kicked off a long string off people reply-all'ing asking to be taken off said mailing list ("I don't even own a bike why am I on this mailing list"), which caused even more people to reply ("stop reply-all'ing for the love of god!"). I think there were 500 emails in my inbox from that by the end of the day.
That’s a widespread problem. I worked for a dramatically smaller IT firm and it also gave employees the opportunity to register their phones with the company’s Exchange service; when I asked my boss whether we should warn them about the power that gave us, he felt it would just cause unnecessary alarm.
The team is still there, only members can see it.
Unreal engine is source-available with a royalty based license for commercial use. Just to avoid any confusion with "open source" and "Open Source"
I was also wondering about this and it got me thinking - I'd the turbines would be spinning fairly slowly, and I'm picturing some sort of filtering device behind them that could filter plastics or other pollutants to the ocean. In an ideal setup maybe it can filter stuff out and use that to create more energy

Maybe also not what we want, but it could be cool to see if some new ecosystems set up around these structures
I've checked the map. For my location, 6 km from the center of Berlin, I am in the region labeled "fireball".

it really depends on the choice of warhead and in a worst-case scenario I do get to life for a few more days. But I had previously seen data for a Hiroshima-sized bomb and considered my chance of survival to be quite good. Turns out that yield class isn't really part of the discussion anymore.
I am surprised by all the negative experiences with knock-offs and fakes people talk about online. I spend a few grand on Amazon every year, and I've literally never bought something and received a fake instead.
I've read your message but I'll not engage in it, as it seems to be a personal attack. All I'll say is that the countries in Europe are not really interested in saving Ukrainian lives.
Google is doing fine.

Google Search seems to be in decline but that has more to do with the slow death of the open internet than with any sort of internal issues at Google.
Hard agree.
That was sometime in 2015-2016. People still post recipes in big reply-all chains or when cisco-flame gets too heated.
No - it makes putting half the stage on the market. There is a difference.
To access the source code of Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-github
Dealers of Lightening is a book I recommend to anyone who has worked in technology. It's an important story to understand, how you can have all the right people, and all the right technology, and literally be a generation ahead of everyone else, and still fail.

Having technology that can easily be commercialized at a reasonable price is more important that having the best, newest or fastest technology - you can always iterate later.

The Mac was successful not because it was best on a technical level - it wasn't, but it hit the right price point, and the right level of functionality - and at the right time.
> Yes but that’s on top of what GitHub is already sending

When you send at the volume someone like GitHub sends, you will always see peaks and valleys in your sending patterns that are much larger than 400k. It might cause an issue if they were already under peak load, but even then it would just take a bit longer.
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For a while I would return the whole mailing in the prepaid envelope. I think it eventually worked.
I see, one of the challenges I find there is that outlets overlap intentionally and partially and there's no incentive to only refer information to its canonical source.

Maybe it's just FOMO on information .
Can you give an example of sites encountered in regular browsing this helps with?
It’s not just designers. I’ve given up suggesting style improvements because the boss comes back with “no user complained about it yet” when my suggestion is to use less crappy color. Who is going to complain about a color? Smh
Would that happen to be the "wallet" incident? It was slightly before my time, but I also heard legends of it. During my time there, any email thread that looked headed for another reply-all storm had people replying-all to it with simply the word "wallet", apparently in an attempt to deliberately cause chaos.
Actually I have.
Wouldn't you normally need to use "expect" or equivalent for this?
Did the slack warning not tell you the number of people it was going to ping? At least nowadays it says something like "You're going to ping X people in Y timezones".
I keep getting "Error: Credit card expiration date is invalid."
Thanks! Much better link.
Adding that check to every incoming comment in a large scale system and adding the previously nonexistent interactive UI for it is far from “super easy”. This is not a Todo MVC. There must be a thousand higher impact stories that are better targets of engineering time (unless this form of trolling become a new pastime).

In addition, there are lots of actually malicious skids you can’t stop by asking nicely.
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Right. It just affects other decisions about the language, like the type of static items. In a purely single–threaded program it would be ok if statics weren’t Sync, but it would be a lot of work for the compiler to verify that. And since every program needs tests anyway, it might as well always require them to be Sync and then it doesn’t have to check.
Wallet?
Real estate agents got $3.9B in PPP loans. The housing market boomed
> ...then the microcontrollers in critical systems like these should be doing no less.

Should be, I agree. Though I would doubt that they are. We've seen plenty of malware packages related to industrial control systems over the past decade or so, which mostly rely on "compromising the workstation that programs PLCs and fixes their behavior over the network to meet the attacker's desires."

My goal here certainly isn't to impact industrial control systems, but to generate less ewaste of "Well, we're bored with it, good luck!" end of life devices.
the advertising writes itself:

meet developers 1:1 in your area!

my dayjob is finished - I don't want to socialize, I only want to COLLABORATE!
Rule #1: Always buy from the official brand store on Amazon: e.g., only buy Makita products from the Makita Amazon shop; another example: Cuisinart, or Klein, or Fluke.

Rule #2: Buy books from Powells.com

Rule #3: Only buy things that cost <US$20 from sketch-brand-name, because you get screwed 25% of the time.

Rule #4: Buy less stuff.
I will agree with that. Safety wise though, I think there is more potential for Fusion to adapted widely with no fear from the public.

What is that worth? 50%? 100% premium over fission which not even the environmentalists can get behind???
And that is a problem. I am even thinking if I should flag it.
When I mentioned Send above, I meant Sync. I mix those two up more often in the evenings.
I never understood why you're allowed to just send as much mail as you want to people that didn't ask for it. The particularly egregious letters are labelled as important and with time sensitive information. We already have rules about how things need to be labeled and packaged to be shipped, so I think it could also be useful to have some system around colors or labels to clearly distinguish actually important or personal mail from marketing
Did anyone else open this article to wonder about how you would do archery with an inverted bow?
SimRefinery Recovered (2020)
Hm, what would motivate people who hate any form of marketing to use a browser that mainly depends on ads for revenue?
I commented Dealers in parallel, because of the narrative I'd argue it's one of the best tech histories every written. While Soul of the Machine was better reviewed, Dealers was more compelling.

I did enjoy your book by the way - thank you for writing it.
Luckily we're on it. [1]

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/uranium-from-seawater
Somehow and don't when this happened and still happening - The negative reviews are not getting approved (google, amz, etc.), the number of dislikes on youtube videos stopped showing, and even now if you dislike a video, it won't show (might be there is a bot or a algorithm that's checking some negative words, connotations and then its blocking the review altogether). It might be during the covid some time in 2020/2021 is when this started happening (or during Trump reign).
From the abstract,

“We revalue the stock of New York City commercial office buildings taking into account pandemic-induced cash flow and discount rate effects. We find a 32% decline in office values in 2020 and 28% in the longer-run, the latter representing a $500 billion value destruction.”

Is that value “destroyed”? Is it not unlocked to flow elsewhere? I’m genuinely curious about the dynamics of this.
A professional medical doctor will make more medical mistakes than I will.

Let us try our best to treat them charitably, forgive the mistakes we see, and provide input to help them do their work even better!

I had success working with Design/UX or any other specialists acknowledging that they spent more time thinking about it than I have, and that, of course, they will be the final decision makers on whether to accept or reject any inputs I give, before providing any feedback or ideas I have. Also, taking the attitude, not of "Let me teach you X", but of "Teach me whether you considered X and, if you have, why you haven't tried X yet".
> Now they're in seemingly random order

Oh they aren't random. They're sorted by Amazon profit margin.
Maybe it's just me but this seems like a misuse of GitHub orgs...
In the FreeBSD world, we have libxo[0] which allows utilities to produce structured output.

To use your example, taking the output of ps and finding the process using the most RAM, you could do something like this:

$ ps aux --libxo json|jq '."process-information"."process" | sort_by((.rss)|tonumber) | .[-1]'
{
"user": "root",
"pid": "2372",
"percent-cpu": "0.0",
"percent-memory": "11.4",
"virtual-size": "2149236",
"rss": "1906584",
"terminal-name": "- ",
"state": "SC",
"start-time": "21May22",
"cpu-time": "1307:09.11",
"command": "bhyve: postgresql (bhyve)"
}

It's not pretty, but it does let you get structured data out of most of the base system utilities to make the slicing and dicing easier.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libxo&sektion=3
It will be interesting to see what happens to our cities if WFH stays/becomes the norm. So much of modern city design is built around the office, what happens when that isn't the case?
> so we had better have some contingencies for a second theater.

USA doesn't have a first theater yet--no troops have been mobilized into Europe.

The $1T/year US military budget is insanely large. Chucking a few $B to Ukraine is not deteriorating anything. Supporting Ukraine is basically a cheap way to tie up Russia and use up old equipment that would have been retired anyway.

US defense industry is known to keep making new stuff and retiring the old in order to keep production lines from dying. There is a very deep reserve for all that stuff. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmXz8Qd9yw

As for Taiwan, after the war started, Biden made removed the ambiguity around US involvement. And Taiwan has been preparing for a Chinese invasion far longer than Ukraine preparing for the Russian invasion (mostly since 2014). At this point, it's clear that if China invaded Taiwan, they'd have to do it entirely themselves. I don't think they're ready to take that risk.
Reviewers can upload pictures.
Tried it, the quality was terribly inconsistency and FaceTime’s use of phone number as AppleID and not needing username/password made it much easier to use.
Agree, also at this point I feel like there are more books/posts/content than useful combinations of words :/

The exception to this is journalism, and maybe the problem is that information/knowledge sharing has been massively approach as if it were journalism.
That's... odd. Was this a long time ago? Because these days Android has work profiles that specifically exist to let you shove work stuff in its own separate space that can be managed separately from the rest of the device, and Google itself not using the feature that they built into the OS to support that exact situation would seem really weird.
> a specific team to access the source for no apparent reason?

it isn't for no apparent reason - it's to accept the terms of the agreement for access to the unreal source code.
Neat. Getting a triangle to render is 99% of the work to getting games running. Only the remaining 99% to go... :)
Well maybe it’s because renting an electric car for a road trip is stupid? Everyone knows that road trips are the worst scenario for electric cars. I do road trips maybe once every 5 years so am fine going all-electric and renting a gas car when I want to do a road trip.
I think we might have merged those usernames a while back.
> Should be, I agree. Though I would doubt that they are.

I think that's mostly to do with the fact that many industrial control systems still in use predate TCB or anything like it. "Why change what works", etc. Contracts for new designs, meanwhile, tend to specify all the security they can think of.
Sweet ass apartments in office buildings I hope.
Where I work, we send over a billion emails a month (blog subscriptions) and 400k is not even a blip.
Sweet ass apartments and communities in office buildings I hope.
The high adoption rate of CarPlay and Android Auto by the car makers leads me to believe they have zero interest in doing this.
Gosh I wish it was possible to use HSP without the lower sound quality wirelessly. I really like bluetooth over a special USB dongle that clogs up one of my USB ports.
To oversimplify, I think the default posture in western society has become "let's not do anything, in case it goes wrong".

People who think like that are seen as serious people who don't foolishly ignore all possible negative consequences.

I, as the reader might guess by now, don't have high hopes for societies that function this way.
Agree! Also even if valuable information were created more frequently eventually we're just repeating ourselves. It'd be ideal an index of canonical info/knowledge for example.
Yeah, it was a while ago, and it's possible that I could be remembering some details wrong. It just struck me as "no, I would rather carry a separate work phone if I have to."
My banks had me sign that my income is not from US. So owning a company in the US that I invoice or that pays dividends or something would not land well.
You'd need to have already been equally* in residential and commercial, which are well siloed throughout all sorts of property-related industries, in order to break even and serve as a conduit for the transfer of value.

*Whatever optimal point.
Creating a team with 400,000 users is antisocial. GitHub teams, and all their inter-related features, are built around a small group of people collaborating together on code. GitHub teams are not intended solely to grant access to source code after signing a EULA. Making a team with 400K users is just a bad idea and this problem was waiting to happen. Unreal needs to find a different solution for what they want.
Given that 50% of the state rents and you would make it illegal for them to continue their current occupancy arrangement? Not going to keep replying.
It's the internet. People can therefore someone will. Increase the likelihood due to the project being game related.
That shouldn't make any difference.
> ... his intentions were probably good ...

Are we looking at the same pull request?

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24/commits/4e531d5c...

That's ... a super crap PR, hovering near trollish behavior territory.
Complex systems collapse faster
> Pictured on the right is the time to access memory in a modern system, on the left the time it takes to do a round trip across the world.

These seem swapped.
Greasy Fork: Safe and useful userscripts
They sell it (access to the source for the engine) under a commercial license. They were going to have _some_ sort of registration system, so that they can make sure everyone who downloads it paid for it. They reused GitHub for both distribution and registration.