skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not convinced that would amount to anything useful. Their engineering culture does not seem to be up to the challenge, judging from the quality their products have for many years now. They would probably only produce an equally bloated piece of software, that does not work properly on all major browsers and gaslights you about your choice of browser, because they were not able to stick to standards.
sure, it's a corporation but in the end a bunch of people have to make the call and implement these filters.

My guess is the blame gets dilluted and people are really good at rationalising their work by hiding behind the corporation image, or "someone else will do it anyway", or "yeah, but look at what happens in X", etc
Yes I do know that parking money is a different ballpark of cost from spending money.

> Moreover PoS can require that the tokens be spent permanently (not just deposited somewhere).

Is that really a "stake"?
I've wanted to get a PS5 since it came out, and I still haven't been able to get one. Mainly because I don't want to pay any markup.

I measure PS5 availability by looking at what the current markup is. Earlier this year, it was at 1300 SGD, and it has slowly gone down with the current cheapest price on Shopee 939 SGD.

At this rate, I doubt we'll see it available at list price this year.
Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
Firms comply with the laws of the countries in which they operate. The Gulf states have evil and primitive laws on this and many other issues but everyone who operates there complies with them.
The functionality of Jira is great because it's basically turing complete at this point. A dedicated enough force of middle managers can warp it however they want to.
To me, the problem with many of Atlassian's products is that they aren't tools. They are platforms on which you can build the tool you need. They are way too configurable and flexible and as a result, you spend a lot of time managing the tool or organizing the information and configuration within it. Tools should serve a specific usage, behave predictably, help you use them correctly, then get out of the way.
Speaking as someone who worked in the reputation management sector, this kind of behaviour has been around since the early 20th century.

I think people often mistaken "region based marketing" for genuine political statements. If promoting pride yields a net positive increase in reputation and revenue in Western countries, one would be foolish not to jump on that bandwagon.
I'll bite too.

If you don't have superbowl ads money, or already have a huge following, data and A/B testing is probably the only way to be profitable while doing e-commerce on your own website

Those are tools designed to market products, not handle super sensitive data, it's kind of like using hotjar to record sessions on your (super confidential) website to find pain points and bugs, only to whine that hotjar stores data about your users actions, that's the entire reason why you're a customer.

I really don't get the fuss.

I don't even get the point of advertising pharmacies, you don't need medicines to be advertised to you, it's even crazier that a part of the price of your meds would be "facebook ads budget"

And tbh I have more trust in the reliability of the infrastructure behind FB ads than in the spaghetti PHP code written in 2005 by a contractor for those pharmacies, or in the windows XP/vista computers that their employees use.

If I had to bet on who's getting hacked, I wouldn't bet on Facebook.
Good riddance to bad software
Thats the only measure of real profitability - GAAP.

Free cash flow includes stock based compensation. Thats a real expanse and turns negative cashflow to positive. But it dilutes existing shareholders, you would like to see positive cashflow EXCLUDING stock based compensation
A macOS Sticker App I Made
You can do the same with:

zargs -- **/*(m+7) -- rm

I updated my answer above accordingly.
Some of my favorite websites about cycling were created by now deceased webmasters. Luckily they are mirrored, but I’m very thankful that they used regular old HTML and images and aren’t rotting after a mere 11 years.
Even if 90% would say no, there is at least 10% that would say yes and that would result in a lot of people.

The reality is probably that most people don't think about if the product they're using is made by a solo dev or not. They only care if it solves their problem in an easy and nice way.
Regardless, in aggregate it means the effective rate was lower.

If the subway costs $1 and 50% of the jump the turn-style 50% of the time the cost to ride the subway in aggregate is $0.75

Sure, if you take some asinine ideological hard line about the goodness or badness of taxation you'll probably get your panties in a knot but if you look at it from the perspective of who's spending money in the economy a little bit of broadly applied fraud and a little bit of tax reduction are the same thing because they shuffle money around in the same manner.
Tangential: I recently started work with an architect to look at completing a residential addition. He says he still drafts on paper and AutoCAD, and has a person on staff to input his plans into Revit.

I feel this speaks more about someone that’s at ease with the tools he knows, rather than someone that’s enamoured with new tools.
Ask HN: A script to delete public Discord messages
Discord isn't compatible with Europe's protection laws; we cannot report or denounce it without leaking personal information. I'm searching for a Mac or Dev Tools script to check and delete (my own) Discord messages on public servers in a fast way, with supervision.
It is about perception. There are unicorns that started as solo.
But, eventually they grew out of it.
Weird though, there are so many shops out there run by solo people. They cook our food, they make critical stuff for us, but we don't scruitanize it. We let them into our homes :)

So, this is just optics. Land and expand, for example, is a way to force their arm. If you are already there then they can cry about it or buy the enterprise plan :)
‘White gold’: why shrimp aquaculture is a solution that caused a problem
Do they sleep well at night? Why not...

Do they feel good about themselves?...They don't have to do that...I bet most people don't even feel "good" about their corporate jobs.

Basically, Amazon had two options; Tell the UAE to pound sand and risk being kicked out of the country or cave in to their demands. Should we really expect another response from a soul-less, union-busting corporate overlord company like Amazon?
Same for Amazon.
Sure, but the defi space has now replicated that structure with a collection of shadow banks and "hedge funds", which has a significant impact on the bitcoin price.
IBM PC for $4,000ish:
Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz with 256 KB of motherboard memory on some models

Raspberry Pi Pico W for $5ish:
two Arm Cortex-M0+ cores @ 133MHz with 264kB of on-chip SRAM

Nearly 25 times the computing power (per core! So really 50 something times the computing power total) for 800 times less the price.

Absolutely staggering how much our computing hardware capabilities have progressed!

(And how we waste said hardware with our bloated proglangs. Anyone have book recommendations for RTL design patterns, design thinking?)
Actually, Merkel was not elected by the poulace but rather her party was. You see, it's layers all the way down and with each layer democracy gets thinner and the opportunities for corruption get bigger.
I have never tried the JetBrains' alternatives (Youtrack, Space, etc) but considering everything from JetBrains is usually very good, I'd like to hear from someone who has.
Does it keep tigers away?
Solo devs are great for independent direct to customer apps. The kind of apps that should be a feature of the parent software or OS, or require an idealistic principle held in place to make it appealing for the audience.

Once you factor in "survival of the tribe" or ultra-massive corps, the benefits of solo development can be overridden.
It is all just virtue singling. And in different places virtues are different... Cynical but truthful take. After all on scale these firms operate having someone update their logo with different colour scheme is probably cheaper than being attacked for not doing it.
+1 on cooperations

if you have friends with established companies, you could ask them if they could be your “service partner”

i’ve done this with my friends for ever now

also note, that just like individual developers companies don’t provide any guarantees unless there’s a SLA in place
This could end up on the pile of complaints.

https://ifuckinghatejira.com/
Just for reference, 36,000 tons of CO2 is like the ~950th most polluting plant in the US (https://findenergy.com/power-plants/ for reference).
Noooooo! I have been following the new GR86s for a while. Hearing this makes me actually reconsider whether I really want one.
I'm probably missing something here, but it seems to me that it's just a summary of the command plus a few examples?

I usually just man the command and / my way either to the Examples section, or search for whatever other question I may have.

But I'm on OpenBSD, where man pages are worth the time you spend reading them.

Other than that, although I always intend to add useful stuff to my ~/txt/scratch, in the end it's either Ctrl-R or history | grep.
The polls said the same for the British population before the referendum process started. The population changed its mind before the vote.

Actually, you have to be careful with polls. Polling showed a very clear and strong majority of the British population did not like the EU and were basically opposed to it, but a significant chunk of those people were scared of the threatened economic and tax consequences (which were in the end a lie - there was no emergency tax hike and no recession). If they had not been threatened with ruin then the Leave vote would have been much higher.

The EU has demonstrated it is willing to create essentially unlimited amounts of disruption in order to stop countries leaving. It won't play nice, or respect the wishes of the electorate. It will fight them. Inevitably that scares people, it did in the UK too. This does not mean that those people actually like their situation.
That Alexandria burned is fairly uncontrovertial. It seems to have done so multiple times.

That it was deliberate, a single act, or independent of a long-term secular decline of the collection is far less well established.

The historiography of ancient literature gives far stronger credence to the notion of having multiple copies in independent locations to avoid similar erasures.

Other notable examples being the burning of books and burying of scholars in Qin Dynasty China, 213 BCE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_o...), or Diego de Landa who destroyed virtually all written Mayan works (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa#Suppression_o...).

Wikipedia has a listing of destroyed libraries:

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

The several fires within the Library of Congress collection had a tremendous impact on the design and materials used in the Jefferson Building of the current US Library of Congress, in which stone, iron, and steel are principle materials to reduce the risks of fire. This is noted multiple times in the 19th century series of Librarian's reports to Congress.
As far as I know, that really only helps wit the "bulk data" in the middle. If one of the corners or borders is obstructed, you're screwed.
You've missed my main one, which is really hard to copy and paste issue numbers.

Normally have to ctrl+click to open an issue in a new window, then select the key from the browser's URL field.
But thats just... yknow, how democracies work. More voters = less power/vote.

Are you just unhappy the electorate is so large? What would the appropriate size be? Mayoral? Households? That'd really maximize the power of your vote.

But then, how would we organize at the level beyond that? Warring tribes? Go back to when Germany and France were constantly at war?

I don't love vdL either. I think the EU is in need of reform. But I still think it's fundamentally a good idea and I think vote dilution is just inherent to a large democracy.
I feel like the only benefit of Confluence over any other wiki-like product is the ability to tag users and link to Jira issues.
For your typical solo founder in their 30s, their odds of dying at any point over the next 10 years is something like 0.2%. And short of them dying, their business isn't going anywhere because keeping a SaaS startup online doesn't cost anything -- if you have the skills to do it yourself.

Whereas the odds of a venture backed startup shutting down at any point over the next ten years is something like 30%.

So from a risk perspective, it's literally over 100x more risky to use a software product made by a venture backed company than one from a solo founder.

On all of my sales calls, I tell people that I'm bootstrapped and that I'm going to charge them extra so that I can reduce the risk to their business by staying bootstrapped, and I have yet to run into anyone who doesn't seem satisfied by that pricing strategy.
> The point here is that productivity in old Microsoft was far higher

That sounds virtually impossible to prove between unequal situations, and especially "far" makes it seem like an exaggeration / tall order (productivity between people isn't like wealth or popularity: some things change by multiple orders of magnitude, but how hard you can work doesn't, especially when averaged across thousands of employees), but to be fair I didn't read the whole fourteen thousand word source you added so I suppose I can't say for sure.
> Not decentralized exchanges, like Uniswap and Sushi, where you can see everything in real-time

None of these trade BTC/USD spot. Referencing them just punts the question to the legitimacy of UNI and ETH spot.
> Confluence is actually fine

My main problem with confluence is that it doesn't know what kind of text editor it wants to be. Sometimes its markdown (or rather its own undocumented flavour of markdown), sometimes its a rich-text editor, sometimes its just plain text, and you kind of figure out on the fly what to do. Also the codes boxes are absolutely massive and a bit of a pain to work with (which, like all of these problems, could be solved with just normal markdown).

In the grand scheme of things though, its a minor annoyance.
I just really want the offical clients to become native. I understand why they're not native but it really sucks.
What is their fault is how slow it is.
Developing something of value, even if it’s only a convincing prototype is relatively cheap these days.

I think that if there’s some traction on the market fit, a solo developer can build out enough of a value proposition to attract colleagues and investors to the point that institutional credibility kicks in.

Would I bet my Fortune 500 company on a product that goes down if someone gets COVID? No.

Would I be both personally interested and floating it past reputable angels if one person could live-demo something new?

Bet your ass.
I consider myself pretty experienced at shell-fu and capable of doing most things I set out to achieve in either bash scripts or fearless one-liners. However, my awk is rudimentary at best, I think mostly because it's such an unforgiving environment to experiment in.

These books you've written are great for a bit of first principles insight and then quickly building up to functional usage. I will have no hesitation in referring colleagues to them!

Do you have a patreon or something similar? Do you accept pull requests for collaboration?

Thanks for creating such great free material!
All issues mentioned in this anonymous attack blog have already been fixed.

It'd be much faster for the author to submit a couple of github issues, they are fixed very quickly.

The state of the language is anything but immature, all claimed features on the website are very carefully worded, and are all achieved already.
> bad configuration

I briefly worked at a company with 1,000+ devs. They all used a single locked down Jira configuration.

It had something like 30 columns - it was almost totally unreadable.
Yes, that is what I would hope would happen.
Ugh, you’re so right, but they’re so right too!
> SEC just needs to make sure it's clear what they're buying and the market for the ETF works as expected

Which APs can’t do if the spot price is untrustworthy.
In the UK people vote for parties and not individuals almost all of the time, so the whip system is there to ensure people get what they actually voted for. A good example of where this disastrously failed is just after Brexit where a lot of MPs campaigned on a platform of respecting the vote, then did a 180 degree turn and refused to do so once in power. They all lost the whip and were kicked out of the party but then refused to call by-elections to let the voters re-decide. Eventually, Boris was able to call an election and every single one of those MPs lost their seats.

"Look at Brexit, it has caused economic harm to the UK, and this has caused support for it to drop"

Economic harm?! The impact of Brexit, if any exists at all, is unmeasurable because it's lost in the noise compared to lockdowns and trying to fight COVID.

What we can say for sure is that the people who claimed voting to leave would trigger an immediate recession were wrong. The economy grew in the years after the vote. Actual implementation was largely put on hold just months after leaving due to COVID and little has changed since.
I’m not speculating, I have read some Shakespeare.
> Should we really expect another response from a soul-less, union-busting corporate overlord company like Amazon?

If we demand a better response hard enough we can pressure them into being better. So... yes?
How’s that working when Jira is down for almost a week and there is next to no feedback about the outage
Could you please elaborate your argument instead of just doing drive-by insinuations?
Then they ought not operate there.
Paying for native macOS apps is like buying vinyl records. It’s an aesthetic choice, nothing more.
Agree; even if we don't know the distribution or representativeness of the samples we can do some guesstimates, as I just did; it's as good or as bad as what you see on Tiobe or other ranking services; the error is likely to be larger the smaller the population under consideration, which is why I'm rather skeptical about the salary statistics on Clojure.
I don’t know how many cofounders there are for most startups. Unless if I am interested, I wouldn’t even care to be honest. As long as your product helps me do something, why wouldn’t I trust you?
>affect your likelihood of using any software they create?

It depends on the type of software.

"Yes" for utility software of narrow scope. I use scanner utility software called VueScan which was a solo developer (Ed Hamrick) until his son joined.[1] I also used RegexBuddy which I think is a solo dev.[2]

But "No" for critical workflow software that requires proprietary opaque data formats such as a clone for Evernote or similar note-taking tool.

Basically, it's a risk analysis of how much "investment" the user loses if the solo developer quits updating the software or goes bankrupt.

[1] https://www.hamrick.com/about-vuescan.html

[2] https://www.just-great-software.com/aboutjg.html
Manufacturing of a book is really cheap. It's just a little part of overall cost. Nowadays it may cost more becauase of higher prices of paper. Everything else is managed by amazon for their cut. Stop shilling. The author is just greedy.
In JS/TS world, until recently yarn was a de facto tool for monorepos. Recently pnpm looks like getting traction. There are a few other new tools recently getting popular as well, it's a hot topic.
I never write anything in any web interface. I write in notepad and copy and paste. I had many bad surprises ... I can't trust web interfaces.
And I use the Windows clipboard manager too.
How about this theory. The hot water causes the freezer to run its compressor sooner.

This may happen but, in a normal freezer, the action of the compressor is meaningless.

My feezer is 70% full, with probably 30kg of stuff in it. This stuff is mostly at -22C (I have a thermometer), and so, this mass is what cools new things added to the freezer, fast.

(Why -22C instead of -18C? Salt water fish is in there, and I also want a little headroom.)
Maybe the NSA can help? ;)

BTW: netzpolitik.org is probably one of the best and trustworthy sources, they do a great job!!
It has a free version you can use. I am not sure if refunds for software purchases is the norm. Does Microsoft offers Windows or office purchase refunds?
I mean since we are talking Federal income tax the bottom 50% basically doesn't pay that.
I'd be interested to hear more about what sort of challenges you have faced, and if/how you responded to them, if you have the time.

Regardless of the upthread "well, just switch [your company/government/entire friend network] to an open/permissive service" non-answer, I think there's going to be ever-more need for unofficial clients for some of these services, and a big part of that is going to be how to avoid having them shut down immediately by service providers...
I feel as though homophobia is never an acceptable worldview, so if you want me to reword what I said in a way that doesn’t imply that, I won’t.

Some things are simply wrong. This is one of those things. If one’s worldview disagrees, then theirs is simply incorrect on this matter.
Open-sourcing it doesn't seem that attractive as by its nature this would likely lead to a lot of requests for free integration support.

You can always say no. If the community finds it useful people will pick up those requests on your behalf.
I do not defend that LGBTQ should be executed, and nothing I said implies it.

I asked for the attack that one would make against Amazon. And you don't even dare to state that, yes, your worldview excludes UAE ahahahah should they be fixed?

> Because that is the world-view of the UAE.
Yup, would be terrific if humans could be productive and meet the needs you have described. Sorry, humans can't do that.

We can transmit some orders to some robots, have them work for some hours, usually longer, and then transmit the results back to earth. Sorry the speed of light is so slow; ask Congress to do something about that?

The climate on earth is and will remain a total dream land compared with the climate on any place out in space we could reach.
I dont think RBR cheated, but i do think the FIA messed up and removed all sporting competition in order to get a Netflix finale in the can.

Changing the rules on the last few laps of the final race is.... questionable....
I think if you watched 10% of a movie (which streaming platforms can track) and decided you didn't want to watch it, yeah. A good service provider would give you your money back. Would 1% of people take advantage of this and watch 10% of a movie and ask for a refund? Probably, but the good will to the other 99% would pay for that, IMO.
This. Github projects or a tool like linear.app should be more than enough for most teams.