skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point in economic decline, the business concepts of attendants pumping-gas-aaS and people shining-shoes-aaS become no longer widely distributed and profitable. Customers don't make long term investments in commodity -aaS businesses and when the cost exceeds the value they very quickly leave, and when enough leave the -aaS business folds.

It seems likely we are nearing that point for many business models. Small scale retail, small scale restaurant. Even large scale retail is nearly dead, see the dead mall situation.

It does seem somewhat ridiculous to have an ultra short term relationship with a servant to have them cook assembly line fashion, generally mediocre, food for you at enormous expense with numerous layers of middlemen in between.

Certainly restaurants were an extremely small fraction of total caloric intake for the majority of history; there just wasn't enough excess wealth floating around for nonsense like that. Soon, as permanent economic decline continues, we will go back to generally not having restaurants. As always, people will adapt or perish, and usually they adapt.

The future is always unevenly distributed and Boston may just be a little further along.
Plus, why would an advanced civilization that has already understood the value of energy waste this kind of energy trying to contact us?

- If they are advanced (+civil), then they would have seen a critical development that this became a necessity, rather than preference.

- They may not be civil: not caring what energy they waste. Advanced but not responsible beings.

- They may be doing something for themselves, leaving traces to different directions. We may have stumbled on a construction site. Nothing of value for sending a response. Would you beam a response to reaction site of a supercollider? In case you did, would you get a "message" back? I doubt it.

- Most probably: interference.
Make a side project that helps you determine the best way to choose which side project to work on.

Once you figured that out, make a side project, using the method you discovered, that helps you choose which side project to work on.

Then start working on that side project.
If memory serves, native American groups choose to do what they like with remains. NAGPRA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Graves_Protect... - covers how to handle remains and cultural artefacts in the US.
I created a web app that extracts transaction data from PDF bank statements. I talk about it with friends, but often a lot of people think I'm running some sort of data hoarding scam.
Aside from the value VCs provide in the form of raw cash, I like to think of investors the same way employees should think of stock options. In the majority of cases they won't be very valuable (no matter how valuable they pitch themselves to be), but in rare cases they can be very valuable. It's a gamble.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russia-carries...

Warnings dont kill civilians. Russia runs regular Kalibr missile strikes on Kyiv and Odessa, they have 6 subs in the theatre. Then there are Iskander launches from Belgorod.
I have also suspected that the big conflict here is between Visual Studio and Code. For sure, there is a free version of Visual Studio, but I would bet most for-profit businesses are paying for Visual Studio licenses. I could believe that there's a fear that Code will cannibalize Visual Studio sales.

Is this fear valid? I'm not so sure, the developers that I've worked with that used Visual Studio were not interested in alternatives. But I can easily imagine a new developer choosing to stick with Code 'cause that's what they've been using for their other projects instead of downloading Visual Studio.
It's an opinion piece. Citation implies academic paper. Not quite the same.
Yea, the article would've been more interesting (and probably more convincing?) if it had detailed what some of the steps actually are. I'm generally sympathetic to the idea that inefficient regulation is an issue, but just quoting an opaque number of "steps" seems, if anything, to make the case less convincing by making it feel like they're obfuscating.
Assassinating visiting heads of state would most likely mean war.

Or at least a much higher involvement of their respective countries in the conflict.
This looks interesting. I'ma fan of Go for backend and command line tool dev but haven't been able to find good front-end solutions. I'll have to keep an eye out for v2 of this since it is supposedly nearing release.

In a similar vein: I've been experimenting a lot with Flutter and while I don't like Dart that much, the tooling around it (being able to use the IDE and quickly test my apps in different mobile devices and desktop for instance) is really good.
Right, the rules were put in place to reduce bad behavior. The question is, did the government accurately predict the cost of the rules / red tape itself?

I think the steelman of the GP is that the red tape was not accurately predicted. Most citizens can probably agree "all else equal, we don't want a pub in the middle of a residential district open till 4am with drunkards wandering the streets". But did they also properly opening a local business should be so hard that each business effectively has a local moat, raising prices and reducing restaurant selection?

Also, the opinion that unresponsive bureaucracy needs to exist seems defeatist on the side of government regulation. Why can't we design better permitting processes that both ensure crazy pubs don't open in the middle of a suburb, and yet also make opening most normal businesses a 1-day affair?
Can anyone ELI-CS graduate this vulnerability?

My understanding from reading the page is that modern processors process certain data with higher frequency, and somehow that allows an attacker to know guess private keys.

However, I don't understand the connection between those two things. How would an attacker trigger a lot of almost-identical CPU runs without hitting some rate limit somewhere? And how is this different than just guessing the password?
Is it just me or is brave (especially on linux) getting slower and more power hungry than simply using chromium? If anyone has any fixes or tips on how to reduce resource usage they'd be much appreciated.
> Half of U.S. adults don't have the cash to cover an unexpected $500 health care bill

I recognize that this is an important discussion to have to improve US healthcare, so I’m not outright disagreeing with you.

But I think this is a bit editorialized. Paying with cash is so rare in society. I don’t even have the cash to pay for my lunch - I just use a credit card. It shouldn’t be surprising.

Half of U.S. adults said they would pay it immediately.(30% using savings,20% using a credit card they pay off that month)

A further 21% said they would pay with a credit card and pay it off over time. (Anyone who is already in other forms of debt will probably take this option as they, by definition, don’t have the cash for other things.)

Another 5% said they would make a payment plan with a provider / pay overtime.

That’s 76% of the country that is knowledgeable about reasonable ways to pay for the services. Now, 24% using worse off options or not knowing - that’s not good at all. But it’s a far cry from the implication that “half of people can’t pay”

But still this isn’t really a metric on the U.S. healthcare system directly - that would be asking why we have unexpected $500 bills, not which payment method people are using. And alternatively, or even in tandem, why people are not saving and planning ahead.
Vox did a great video on how Hans Zimmmer used this in the Dunkirk soundtrack to create growing suspense and anxiety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVWTQcZbLgY
Sorry I meant centralized intermediaries, which is what is often meant when referring to blockchain tech. Some other examples of centralized intermediaries are banks, ticket resellers like ticketmaster, deed notaries, etc.

And as for sharing keys with family members, perhaps just list them as sub-members of the owning member on the blockchain. When the owner changes, all previous sub-members lose access too. This can probably be done using a smart contract
Pin money in the Bay unfortunately!
An hour in and c-smile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=c-smile) did not invite themselves in a thread about Sciter ? Crazy :D

Sciter isn't exactly a custom browser engine, because it lacks many, many APIs that browsers would use. It just happens to also use HTML & CSS, but it's not Servo-lite or Chromium-lite with V8 slapped on.
There's no such thing as absolute safety. There are only tradeoffs. You don't get safety for free. You have to pay very dearly for it in wasted time, unnavigable bureaucracies, and ultimately lost productivity. Those costs impose a real burden on real people's lives. In some cases that tradeoff is worth it, but you should always be thinking of it as a tradeoff.

A restaurant is one thing, but anybody who has ever hired somebody in the trades to do work on their house knows that the default is not pulling permits at all. If you hire an electrician to add a switch to the light in your closet he's not even going to bother. In many contexts the permitting process is so slow and stupid and inefficient that almost everybody ignores it.

You can't keep upping the ante forever and expect people to go along with it. In the end you might just make things worse.
This is a pretty negative take. Have you done work out of a sense of purpose rather than for just a salary?

It's about treating people like they have personal interest in the mission of the organization and working towards a common purpose. And not to treat them like your personal wage servants.
Curious: at what volume would you consider an individual buying products in bulk and then reselling them individually to be a side business?
If you were smart, you would have already started preparing seeing how Coinbase has been doing.
One of the biggest contributions to medical science was the idea of washing your hands before performing surgery.

Should patients grow a thicker skin to deal with dirty-handed surgeons (perhaps they should stop being so sensitive to broken bones or cancer so they don’t need surgery in the first place?), or should surgeons take on the practise of washing their hands, wearing hair nets and masks and autoclaving their tools?
The one nice thing about LinkedIn is the Easy Apply feature. You can quickly shotgun apply to a bunch of companies and then get on with your day without filling in all the same stuff, and it even tells you if the company looked at your application. I still manually fill in a lot of regular applications, but LinkedIn definitely saves a lot of time.
It's likely going to be a long road to profitability so pick something you're going to stay interested in whether it makes money or not.
Don’t confuse wealth with value. In the described scenario, wealth just goes down.
I'm not saying it's microwave ovens...but it's microwave ovens...
Thanks for posting! I wrote dsnet. Happy to answer any questions.
The lead Wails developer has contributed a good deal of functionality and improvements to go-webview2, a library I wrote for interfacing with Windows WebView2 without needing CGo. While not a whole lot of people use go-webview2 directly (indeed, most people use it via Wails 2,) I am still glad that so many improvements made it upstream for whoever just wants direct bindings rather than a cross platform framework.
Every time you update your LinkedIn page, recruiters throw themselves at you, matching your profile to whatever search keywords they have configured. Some of them turn out to be clueless, some of them turn out to have bad opportunities available, but some of them turn out to be surprisingly savvy and have access to good jobs.

I just recently got a new job that I think it's pretty good, and I didn't have to submit a single "blind" application. All of my interviews came through recruiters via Linkedin.

It's a relatively low effort way to have a steady flow of opportunities, one of which might turn out to be good once in a while.
>if the complaint is about the number of pages.

The complaint is obviously not about the number of pages. Printing the booklet in a smaller font is trolling.

'Why did they complain about the number of pages then' argumentation is also trolling.

Semantic argumentation is great for making yourself look clever on the internet but achieves little else.
> Just plugged a secondary monitor into one of my colleagues

Sure. And I had encountered it - from just not registering, it being "there" despite being unplugged. And it randomizing windows on plugging in.

Using Linux always feels like fighting uphill battle with gremlins.

> Don't have an HDR panel, can't say a word about it, but VLC handles HDR-SDR conversion just fine.

Pity, really.

Neither Weyland nor X.org support it. Amazing, another fork in the road.

> My current MacBook Pro bricked after an OS update, because of a bug in an OpenVPN

That's different. This was post install update. Clean machine.

I ran into similar issue that bit Linus from. Linus Tech Tips.

I updated pop_OS! on fresh install and bang! Welcome console my old friend.

I remember Linux 15 years ago and it was even worse. But just because it got better doesn't mean it's good.
That may have been true in the past, but definitely not these days. MS separates Office 365 sales from Azure sales in its reports (e.g. [0]).

[0]
https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-cloud-streng...
Enough with the drama. The vast majority of people with public facing work (whether code, books, etc.) use their real names and don't need to hire security. That's not to say stuff doesn't sometimes happen but it's not the norm.
Here's a question to give you a sense of scale: Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina:

1. A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or

2. The detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?

Applying the physicist rule of thumb suggests that the supernova is brighter. And indeed, it is ... by nine orders of magnitude.

...Sounds like I should buy one of these IoT alarms so that I know to stay away from the window :-)
Or perhaps it's looking towards a future where internet access is more reliable, as it has been getting for the past few decades
It's not a vanity project though.

It's to take load of the existing train lines to enable better (more frequent, faster) local services with longer distance services bypassing these lines.
So people who use Rust will be interested if they were looking for a GUI framework?
All of their transactions are visible in the ledger, not hard to find. The same tools they used still exist today, except with additional privacy enhancements like some chains using zk-SNARKs.

The only weak points are exchanges. The OP can decide how anonymous they want to be - complete anonymity would imply not exchanging to fiat at all.
"Government" is a metaphysical concept.

What people call "The Government", in this case, is the Municipal Corporation of Boston.

This corporation profits from a monopoly control over many aspects of people's lives and special legal privileges within its geographical boundaries.

Like any other human organization it's true "purpose" and "motivation" is the collective desires of the people that run and make up that organization. Which is, mostly, going to be:

Financing the life styles and political ambitions of the people running it. That is how it works once you strip away all the flowery language and idealism.

People get involved in city government because it benefits them. It may be a stepping stone in a career in bigger government. Maybe they are looking for stable income, cheap benefits, and solid pension. Or cushy job they can't get fired from. Or its social status; they enjoy having power over people's lives, they enjoy having their opinions matter and being perceived as a person of importance.

Lots of different motivations. The corporation's motivations are their motivations. Its purpose is their purpose.

> As a result we now have a commission for bureaucracy reduction which manages several operating bodies for bureaucracy reduction, all with their own processes and guidelines.

The first order of business for any bureaucracy is to ensure its own survival.

Nobody wants to eliminate their own well being. Everybody wants security in their job. And everybody wants more money and a promotion, for the most part.

With large very stable organizations like government corporations anybody that wants to make more money (ie: get a promotion) will usually have to wait for the guy above them to retire or quit, which can take years. Sometimes education can open doors, but mostly it's going to be people leaving the organization that have been there longer then you have. Things like seniority ensure there is very little opportunity for growth.

The main opportunity for growth for a government bureaucrat is laterally... Meaning new agencies or bureaucracies need to be created that they can move into and have seniority there.

So once a bureaucracy has secured its own survival the second order of business is to grow new bureaucracies.

Which is exactly the pattern we see in all governments.
I think you're forgetting about Finnegan's Wake.
So the innovation here is instead of doing "User.findOne({name: "Glauber Costa", age: {superiorOrEqual: 40}});" you do what's in my previous comment?
I think, because, in theory at least[1], simple majority in Senate is all that you should need to pass a bill. To the best of my understanding, 60 is just for being filibuster-proof.

Your question is qualified enough to relate specifically to the bill listed by OP, but, again in theory, if the bill wasn't so off-putting that senators decided to filibuster, maybe it would pass.

In other words, 60 is not control; 60 is safety. 50+1 is control albeit minimal.

[1]https://www.house.gov/the-house-explained/the-legislative-pr...
> How many people could you make sick by serving them spoiled software?

In the classic case, at least 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
> There is open source debugger from Samsung (https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg/), but it does not see much use.

If you want to debug C# from Emacs, it’s the only choice AFAIK.
This is nonresponsive to the point being made. The costs under discussion are imposed mostly by the government, they are not a thing that merely exists like the weather. Reasonable people can disagree on the amount of bureaucracy required to just sell things.
Simply the fact that it's actually very hard to make an exact copy of the disc. You can make an exact copy of the files, but there are layers underneath the file level that are harder to duplicate correctly, and the copy protection uses idiosyncrasies in that to work out if the media is original.
This does help some, but I am hoping to get some more internal details. The article seems to focus on the number of child processes that Chrome spins off, but multiple processes does not automatically mean bloat. All the major browsers that I am aware of also use a process-per-tab approach, but don't seem to have the memory issues to the same extent as Chrome.

This also kind of hints at my follow up question around Electron. Electron just uses 2 processes, one Chromium and one Nodejs, but still it has memory problems.

edit Oddly enough I just went and looked. Both Slack and VSCode (electron apps) are actually consuming a relatively reasonable amount of memory (on the order of 100s of MBs each) on my Macbook. Maybe some progress has been quietly made in this area, specific to Electron? Or maybe I'm just desensitized to apps taking up 100s of MBs
In high school I made a site to help students view their AP scores early. It ballooned in popularity over the past 8 years. At it’s peak in 2020 and 2021 it was getting over 1.5 million students in 2 hours on the day of release. It was quite profitable for a side project I started in high school. Sadly I was never able to turn it into anything more than an early scores site on the day of score release, but now all AP scores come out at the same time and the site is fading away to being forgotten.
I think VS Code was supposed to be a "gateway drug" to VS. It's not turning out that way. If they can't get the users to go full VS, they probably have an idea they can sell some of the backend stuff, but they can't right now since there is not a way to plug it in. OmniSharp is probably going to remain the default, but MS is betting a number of people will pony up for better(their) backends.
How did paying the city $3,500 help you?
1. There were no important supply side shocks. There were "expected" shocks and a bunch of panic buying. This was converted into an excuse for price rises with concomitant profit increases.

If it were a supply side shock, you'd see profit rates also falling or staying the same, after profiteering is done.

2. US literally tanked every currency of every economy due to fiscal manipulation, economies which were unable to compensate. China and EU mostly managed. (Where Euro is used, that is.) Everyone else got extra smashed.

3. Fed only defrauded other economies, but USA is also pretty hit by the greed.
While there is some decent leadership advice in this article, I can't help but to wonder: all these articles seem to focus on personal leadership qualities, does anyone recommend good articles that focus on other things like socioeconomic status, college/degree level, age, etc? It seems intuitive that @$$hole founders fail, but all things considered equal I intuition also tells me these other factors are equality if not more impactful.

Edit: Couple minor typos.
The line is pretty blurry at times. Some universities have been terrible about meeting NAGPRA requirements to return human remains, for one thing. In the early 20th century, a Catalina Island newspaper described grave robbing as a fun day out for the family. On the other hand, plenty of rich dudes in the 1800's tried to give it more credibility even if they were doing much the same.
Preach the Mission, Not the Pension
I recall using https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client previously, this is basically a managed version. Interesting.
Their browser needs to run on a single platform, their own platform, and only one rendering backend, etc. Thus it is a lot less complex than Chrome or Firefox.
"John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab project, said that even with American ownership, "it’s doubtful that the most elite intelligence services like the CIA, NSA and GCHQ would trust this technology for their most sensitive operations. So where would the big market be? I fear the logical consumers are U.S. police departments. This would be an unprecedented threat to our civil liberties.”"

--last paragraph
Interesting that the authors chose to commit their .vscode directory... given that this project was donated licenses by JetBrains. Maybe it's just a convenience thing.

On another tangent, I love seeing what music the authors were listening to while coding. Some might argue that it has no place in a README but... it's a nice touch.
They're digging them up anyway for the train line, so the archaeology doesn't really cause any additional problem.
Many of these fees are not for a typical situation. For example, digging into the Minneapolis fees, one finds that $8,275.05 of the $13,972.68 total is for the Sewer Availability Charge described as:

> ... a one-time fee that communities pay to Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) when a residence or business connects to the metropolitan disposal system for the first time. [0]

If one started a restaurant in a previously used restaurant space, my sense is that many of these large fees would be essentially zero. Still there is a lot of licensing and inspecting.

[0] https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/business-services/licenses-pe....
Barber schools and license requirements in Rhode Island