skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writers can write under a pseudonym. But someone whether a publisher or their PoD service like Amazon know their real name/their company name so they can be mailed a check if nothing else.

It all comes down to what you mean by anonymous/pseudonymous. Do you mean that a determined investigator/the government couldn't track you down? Or do you mean that a casual user doesn't know your real name? The latter is pretty easy. The former is almost certainly quite a bit harder (and more expensive) depending on jurisdiction--and may not even be possible if the government in particular is serious enough.
Every time I re-read the foundation series, I feel like you could take most of the characters, flip a coin to assign a gender and nothing would change.
> Dollars do not provide utility [...] people with guns might show up at your house if you do not pay them in dollars

Avoiding people with guns coming to your house is a valuable utility, in my opinion. I can't comment on the other part.
> ”can't afford to be taxes (sic) more than they currently are”

This is such a weird take. You get taxed on profits. If you don’t turn a profit you pay zero tax.

Oh, and payroll is not profit.
> Do you need to own a mac to develop flutter desktop apps?

No. [0]

[0] https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/de...
One important reason is that the archaeologists excavating this site are by-and-large the direct ethnic descendants (and cultural inheritors) of the Anglo-Saxons, which is likely not the case for excavations in North America.
Yep. I especially found the article's complaint that a starting business might not have that much money saved weird... If a business cannot afford 5k to register, how will it stay afloat?
Thanks a lot for taking a look at the dependencies! I'm gonna be honest and say that I haven't spent much time "optimizing" anything, I haven't even arrived at a "first" version yet with Ditzes. But with that said, you have some good points :)

> How come you pull in both isahc and reqwest? On the surface, don't they fill the same role? Similar for rustls and openssl.

Yes indeed. I started with using reqwest, but it's no longer used and only isahc is used, so reqwest can be removed from the list.

Same with openssl/rustls. Started with rustls, but not longer used, so can also be removed.

Simply forgot to remove them at one point I guess.

> If you upgrade your readability dependency, you will only pull in reqwest once instead of twice. Might be useful to run `cargo tree -d`.

Ah, that's good to know. I'll do that once I put in some other changes, thanks!

> I'm not familiar with savefile? What does that get you over serde_json which you also pull in?

Rust savefile persists structs as binary data on disk, and also have versioning. Started out persisting everything as JSON, but loading thousands of posts (or even hundreds) from disk and deserializing them from JSON turned out to be quite slow. So using savefile mainly for performance, but I like the versioning/migration aspect of it as well, although I haven't used it yet with Ditzes.

serde_json is mainly used to parse responses from the HN API and to output JSON from the HTTP API, if I recall correctly.
> I don't think what I've said is blatantly wrong.

Nobody accused you to do so. I wrote "also" in both sentences to add nuance to what you wrote and finesse it.
I think the idea is to treat employees you pay as if they where doing it for free. Say you give a boring task that’s not meaningful to a volunteer they’ll just up and leave as they won’t gain anything from it.
Name inspired by Stargate?
What sneering are you referring to? I can't see any in this thread
I aint'd dead.
Really? What about quark stars/planets, long bursts?

-Telescopes gives us lot of confirmations, but also they, especially largest, constantly feed us data about new, unknown things.
The first link in the article is to a PDF that covers the issue with much more specific information.

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busine...
Not exactly what you're looking for, but to help populate the thread, in the mid 00s I had a big chunk of accidental income that I didn't want to talk about at the time, but can now.

I put Adsense on my blog early on and I'd make maybe $10-20 a day with no shenanigans. I wrote a post recommending a route planner I'd found (pre Google Maps). A month later my income jumped to $100-200 a day and it turned out to be due to the route planner post being #1 or #2 for the route planner's name! I assume people were clicking on my blog post, then clicking on to the real site via the ad. This state of affairs lasted for several months until the algo improved and put the real site on top for good. I can't remember the exact total but I had a good $20-40k out of it and it paid for my wedding.
1) “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'”

2) Maybe govts should waive the fees in favor of taking equity as payment. e: And a broader point: there are many more options for removing barriers than removing the regulations themselves. So, this focus on the regulations themselves is fishy. We could fund them with taxes, put businesses on payment plans, and most importantly, consolidate this administrative work (e.g. this is unrealistic, but imagine the efficiencies you could find, regulating all businesses in the US at the federal level. You might be able to get it all done with 1 form!)

3) Currently, being born into this mortal coil has burdensome[0] startup costs of >= $HospitalBill. I’d be down with achieving _that_ Right to Start.

[0] Souls sitting in Earth’s pre-game lobby remain there when their investors (parents) don’t have the capital to front them :-(
The name of the complete system is called Ares, and Helios is a small component of that. Essentially, to most people, it's an implementation detail/internal codename that will not really see much use for marketing efforts.

It does not look like the other Helios project is going anywhere, so I'm not too concerned with the naming conflict right now.
The OP starts to make clear why my home cooking is so much cheaper than restaurant food: The ingredients in my version of pizza cost less than $1 per pizza. For pork BBQ, that's about 25 cents per ounce, final, cooked, lean, ready to eat, with a meaty sandwich having 3 ounces.

So, I save on the money that otherwise has to go to paper shuffling, city bureaucrats, likely also lawyers, etc., all before hiring any workers to get the food ready for customers.

I like to think of current progress in computing and the Internet technology as keys to greater economic productivity, but tough to see easy applications of this technology to the context of the OP, other restaurants, many small businesses, etc.
Everything described in the post can be done by one engineer.
I can only offer speculation. During those visits you mentioned, combat was taking place far (for some definition of distance) away from the place of visit, which sets the base risk. I understand that NATO has fairly good intelligence on all troop movements in the area which further quantifies the actual risk. Lastly: a prominent casualty might sway public support further in Ukraine's favour which probably isn't in Russia's interest.
It better be time and money consuming opening a place with public health implications.
I mean, that sounds bad, but that report is from a libertarian organisation with an agenda, so they have a reason to paint it in a bad light. I wonder how many of these steps are incidental, and how many are really justified.

If I think about what it would take to open a restaurant here in Germany (a country which also has a reputation for bureaucracy to be fair) I think there are a lot of unavoidable steps:

Register a business, register with the chamber of commerce, and the tax office. Maybe also with town hall. Check if the restaurant is in accordance with the development plan. Apply for any exemptions/licenses if needed. You need certifications from the health department. You need to take steps to proove you don't have unreported employees. There are fire safety checks. You need toilets, but fortunately not parking spots (usually). And this is just scratching the surface.

But I think, unfortunately, many of these make sense and are unavoidable. And honestly, you can get help for many steps, and the time and money expended is not too big compared with, I don't know, the current rent for a restaurant in a good location.
The .NET debugging tools in VS code are proprietary. If you get the OSS build from your distro and try to debug a .NET program it'll fail with an error. (Telling you it's only available with proprietary VS code from MS)
For other languages this might be a minor pain. For C# it kills one of its best features, it's debugging support.
Long Covid Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
Kind of a click bait title from Google, which is disappointing. This is really about characteristics of effective leaders, and has little to do with effective entrepreneurship, sales, hiring, engineering, etc. The points they suggest are also pretty generically applicable (and have been recommended for decades) to managers in general, so it’s not clear to me what’s different about founders specifically here.
UCHealth’s app does this, and clearly knowingly because it’s spelled out in the Privacy Policy page
None of that matters. If there's a major war with, let's say China, it's all going to be over one way or another before any conscripts could be drafted and trained to a useful level. And even if they could be trained, there aren't enough stockpiles of advanced weapons systems for them to use.
Also, it seems like the author might not be aware that the FT of a Gaussian is another Gaussian. I implemented this method (Timmer and Konig) a few months ago, and I think there are some other statistical tricks that work out nice for Gaussians.
+1. I agree with your point and I think you are absolutely right but your answer seems to fall into the trap the parent was warning about.

Having controls does not mean that they must be inefficient. In fact, bureaucracy and inefficiencies are the enemies of the end goal because they tend to devalue the work of government agencies (or whoever enforce those controls). And then you end up with a libertarian outlet like Institute for Justice telling you that you need half a century to open a donut store.
You can also use a similar algorithm for smoothing, but it's rarely used because how simple it is to write a axis separated Gaussian.
I’m talking about linux responding to the comment about it.
Unfortunately a majority of voters in this country reject single-payer coverage on the grounds that it is "socialist"
I had a long quote here, but the report linked in the article [1] answers a lot of my gripes with the article itself.

The five categories of businesses they are focused on are:

- Restaurants

- Retail bookstores

- Food trucks

- Barbershops

- Home-based tutoring

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[1] https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busine...
You can open an offshore company: https://www.expatica.com/working/self-employment/offshore-co...
> The biggest drawback is that it only supports a subset of Web APIs, even the DOM APIs

Even bigger drawback is that it ain't Free, honestly.
Sure, the licence allows you to use it if the users install the sciter runtime separately, but that ain't really am option beyond development imo.
It should be zero step as in Ronald Swanson’s “how ‘bout them apples?”
It requires a license to be a barber but not a software developer…
Asking for a date of birth (2013)
Nope. It's possible to not even realize you were dating until after the fact.
Nvidia doesn't provide compatibility with the technology used in sway, so yeah it's really not going to go well for you with that hardware.

Better to test with a WM that's more compatible, even GNOME would work better in your scenario.
Also stiff competition from React native. A lot more JS Devs around today than c#.
I'm not gonna sit here and say the process and expense is at least some theoretical optimal level everywhere that exactly balances public interest with whatever benefits accrue to society from having more restaurants with lower barrier to entry, but this article is presupposing the point with "excessive." That is hard to quantify. It's not like there is no reason for these things.

I actually helped a friend open a restaurant in Long Beach, CA a few decades back and among the reasons for the expense:

- You're serving food, so there has to be some check that you're procuring food that isn't spoiled and you're properly storing and preparing it

- Anything communally served (i.e. buffet style) needs to have safeguards in place to ensure you're not creating disease vectors

- You're generating a bunch of biological waste and need to dispose of that properly

- The cooking process puts out a bunch of waste grease that needs to be trapped and kept out of the normal water disposal system so you're not clogging everyone else's pipes

- A kitchen is quite obviously a fire hazard and needs to comply with codes preventing fires

- If you're not providing your own parking lot, your customers are going to be parking on the street and someone needs to pay for that additional congestion to prevent externalities

There is no way to automate the inspection process, so humans need to do it, and I'm not gonna say these are super high-skill jobs, but code inspectors still need to be paid. What other way is there to do this except paying upfront before you have revenue?

So again, maybe this exact number of steps is excessive, maybe the in-person visits are excessive, maybe the expense is excessive, but simply enumerating them doesn't demonstrate that. What are the steps? What is on the forms? What is the purpose of these visits? How are these fees being spent?
Belgium bank KBC lanches it's own “Kate coin”, based on blockchain
This is a strawman argument. The point of regulation is not to prevent all harm, it is to prevent the worst harms. I see no evidence that allowing the possibility of the worst outcomes is necessary to achieve the best outcomes.

For every foodborne illness prevented or permanent disability from an on the job accident avoided, the community saves a couple million dollars.

If you want less friction, then fund the regulators. We slash city budgets and then wonder why health departments rely on fees and inspectors take weeks.
I think we're getting closer but I still don't understand. What do you mean by "the authority"?
It's an entire industry based on fraud and deception. My wife recently had surgery and we got hit with a $1500 surprise facility fee. It likely won't be covered by insurance due to some fuckery around not reimbursing the fee if the in plan physician owns the facility.

We knew enough to ask about the anesthesiologist and any surgery assistants. But they came up with some new bullshit and got us. When the world gets wise to this nonsense they'll come up with something else. It's a business deeply rooted and based on scamming their customers.
I think there is a fundamental misalignment of incentives between the government and its citizens. Governments as an abstract entity might have an interest in thriving entrepreneurship and economic growth, but the individual bureaucrats they employ do not. And its those Bureaucrats that design and apply processes.

As a result, most western countries now have an ever growing apparatus of bureaucrats who are not accountable to the citizenship and who's sole reason for being is the facilitation of process. In order to increase their relevance and hence influence and paygrade, it is in their best interest to increase the amount of process and the role that process plays in everyday decision making.

What worries me is that I don't see any remedy to this. Germany, a particularly bad offender when it comes to process and red tape has been attempting "Bürokratieabbau" - bureaucracy reduction since 1997. 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.

I'm honestly worried that this might grow to a point of collapse.
You're correct. However, anything that can be disclosed to the US government can always be disclosed to the public, whether by law or by leak[1]. I did say the law makes establishing anonymous LLCs difficult. I didn't say establishing them was impossible.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Heh, I can see how this can be misinterpreted :P

That's the entire Source Control team (of 5 people) today. Among other things, they work on improving Git performance ;)
Thought it would be an actual web crawler from the title, got really disappointed.
I don't see why this is a bad number. It is easy to get on a 0% payment plan for medical procedures, or to contest a medical bill that is "a debt" that will get paid eventually.
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The main fronts are in the east and south, not Kiev. The impression I get is that Russia either lacks the airpower to or doesn't want to conduct the war like the US would, so it hasn't been bombing cities it's not actively trying to take. They've occassionally sent missiles at Kiev as "warnings", though. Maybe they think Zelensky will be under more pressure to negotiate/capitulate if the west remains relatively peaceful?
Mobile operator adds more traffic to existing plans after EU forbade zero-rating
Licensing fees, requirements for X or Y be implemented, etc, etc, that kind of stuff. At the small business level that's the stuff that's really onerous. If it were just taxes on profits far fewer people would be complaining. It's all the shit that kicks you when you're down that really hurts.
28 steps to make my cup of coffee in the morning in you were wondering. (plus a few more to clean up afterwards)
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust

Rust only appears safe when compared to C. Many languages have even better support for writing correct programs (thanks to garbage collection, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, message-passing concurrency, contracts, etc.)
Nah, the assholes are the exception, not the rule. This level of bureaucracy is never for the good of the people.

You could have a process that approves things optimistically and have inspections coming later. You could have some form of certification program that let's you say "It's not my first rodeo. I know what I am doing, please let me do it and I take full responsibility for any shit that might happen if I deviate from the best practices."
Please just read the article if you want to argue about it, it's not that long.

> And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt said they don't expect to ever pay it off.

That's 20 million people.

> About 1 in 7 people with debt said they've been denied access to a hospital, doctor, or other provider because of unpaid bills, according to the poll.

That's 14 million people.

> An even greater share ― about two-thirds ― have put off care they or a family member need because of cost.

That's 66 million people.

> Half of U.S. adults don't have the cash to cover an unexpected $500 health care bill

That's 129 million people.

Again, please read the whole thing, whether or not you want to comment more. This is important information for US residents.
Likely referring to this post: https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/30/bleh.html
I'm not sure which incident you are referring to, but Pepys was not a great human being in many ways. The fact that he revealed himself so deeply makes the diaries quite remarkable.
Citation needed.

There's this saying, "safety regulations are written in blood". The vast majority of regulations are written reactively, after something went wrong. (US regulations forcing minimum lot, yard, house sizes are notable exceptions).

Especially for something as a restaurant, where 1) people eat, so hygiene and etc. is important; 2) people will work; 3) people will visit, so you needs lots of insurance, health, fire etc. checks and OKs.
US has built much of it's reputation around being business friendly. How is "92 Steps, 22 Forms, 17 Office Visits, and $5,554 in 12 Fees" being business friendly?

Is US in the process of becoming a socialist bureaucratic country?
You're suggesting that there are places where the "FB pixel code" should be?
I went in 2021, and I had to fill in social media accounts, they didn't say to which sites so I listed a whole bunch of them.
Bureaucracy is terrible but the only other mainstream option is based on trust and people have a habit of abusing it.

What alternatives? Someone visits the restaurant and says, "yeah that all looks OK"? Then they take a bribe and the system breaks again.

At least a paper trail provides some history and ability to audit certain things, blacklist owners who posioned their customers, make sure they are paying their fees to pay for the inspections etc.
There used to be one called Intuit. I don’t particularly like that they’re essentially lobbying to keep tax laws and processes complicated.

The root cause is at the political level — at all three levels.
The problem is, this kind of practice works against MS in the long run.
I read it as: "Dont pay them the market rate, squeeze them like lemons - and make them earn peanuts, for the grand vision of getting equity later".

Like in those sweatshops in third world countries. (Although sweatshops dont give equity)

So 60-70 hour weeks.

Does this work in Silicon Valley?
It was mentioned elsewhere in the thread that a not too thick layer of gummy bear could fool it, due to light passing through it, but getting reflected back from the back. Not sure how true is it though.
Sorry, my bad, honestly. I probably read it wrong, then. Didn't intend to sound too harsh, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930

(As a link)
The way I see it, even if there’s a war or Covid or whatever, if people don’t have more money to spend, they can’t pay higher prices. Then you get a recession.

If they do have the money (because you printed more) they pay the higher prices. Then you get inflation.
I think this article does a fairly good job of presenting different sides. In particular, I found this criticism very pertinent:

> "you could tell a story where instead of things getting better, what we're seeing is that a lot of what's bad is getting concentrated into unlikely, infrequent but enormously bad events".

It's like a Martingale betting strategy[0] where you turn a system of random wins and losses (like a technological/economic steady state) into one with repeated guarantees wins... until the guarantee fails (e.g. the Singularity, or a global market crash, or nuclear war).

If we're only measuring economic growth and technological capability, and not risk (which is harder to measure, and tempting to underestimate), then we might be running at full speed towards outcomes that even hyperbolic discounting[1] can't justify.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting
I could be wrong, but I think the story was contained here [0], where a chilean programmer was targeted through a LinkedIn face account set by north korean hackers.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...