skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a huge difference between a 90s Ford style lever position sensor and the BMW stuff. If the computer doesn't do the right gear for what you want you just move it until it does. The BMW will spit error messages at you.

You have missed the point. Yes, in that one particular failure mode if the calibration is off on the shift lever itself you can usually fiddle with it to at least end up in a gear. The point was that the transmission doesn't work unless the computer thinks everything's OK. It's not like a mechanical automatic where you can climb under the car and fiddle some levers to force it in to gear. The computer controls everything, just like in the BMW and just like basically every other automatic transmission from the late '80s/early '90s and beyond.

The fact that the BMW shift lever separates the part deciding what gear you've selected from the part actually controlling the gearbox and connects the two over CAN doesn't seem like a significant difference to me from a functionality or reliability standpoint.

The Ford is more or less a classic "game port" joystick where the BMW is the equivalent of a USB HID joystick.
It's a 2 way street. If a job or contract that seems like a good fit for someone I know, then I pass it on to them. Over time it's mutually beneficial.
> the willingness to take Uber rides I know are subsidized by Saudi money is little (if at all) different from a moral perspective than working directly for a fully Saudi funded entity

What? No! The Uber driver is getting a paycheck; you're getting a ride; and the Saudis are getting ripped off.
There are some ideas about storing energy in lower consumption periods like Pumped-storage hydroelectricity [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Again you can’t buy it with $6 anywhere.
I drove by Copenhagen the other day! Ah well, another time.
The kernel (WolframEngine) was built with c, and some parts like the image processing functions are built using c++. The front end (notebook interface) is c++ and some objective-c. A lot of core functionality is built using wolfram language that is loaded as needed. Similarly, the paclets (plug-ins) can be built using any language that has a WSTP interface available, but largely this is wolfram language and c++ and occasionally java, but that is being phased out. A lot of the functionality now lives in the paclets as they can be updated/fixed easily.
Depends what for, of course. Something that needs 24-hour on call, obviously not - you have to sleep sometime. Realistically though in terms of 'solo' - exactly 1 employee - I won't know unless you tell me. I will be able to tell that you are a small company. I won't be able to tell that you don't have a co-founder. I might guess from linkedin, but not everyone has a linkedin account.

What does make me suspicious are companies which don't identify themselves - no identifiable person or address.

Otherwise it depends on what you are asking me to rely on you to do, and what are my options if you fail.
> I'm paraphrasing here but he essentially said, you're leaving growth on the table. His thesis was growth is more important than profits.

But, you can't grow forever. At some point you hit things like the maximum market size and there's no longer any way to invest your profits back into growth.

Or, to hit a lot closer to home: As a stockholder, your stock won't appreciate in value forever. Software companies very rarely turn into Microsofts and Googles. You need to sell at some point in order to realize the value of your investment. (Unless you're getting dividends.)
Since when are they having concrete plans and shipping windows to sell Mark II?
A few years ago I signed up to be informed when Mark II finally sells. I already had given up.
Though my personal experience with Wikipedia editors has been imperfect, thank you for your commitment to providing accurate information, thank you for your service.
Urbit: Discover the creative possibilities of a unified operating system
If this was a story about blood diamonds and not gay lives, I think the tone / shape of the discussion thread would be different.
Some services ignore global disallow, but will respect rules explicitly targeted at them.
Is it really so obvious that compressing soft wood would produce a better toothpick?
The Magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem
Reddit. They are all on Reddit.
Not how it works.

Authorities will always crack down on upstream simply for the paperwork savings. Easier to investigate and make an example of one guy than 17000.

This is why our manufacturing sector is the primary target for regulatory action. The government can nip activity in the bud by pressuring manufacturers to never "make the problematic thing at scale".

That's why if you stumble on something and are like "why hasn't anyone made this?" and you aren't an industry insider with active links to regulatory authorities, you can end up in precarious legal straits if you aren't careful. Just one more way our system is tilted toward incumbents vs. new entrants.
From site:

Urbit provides foundational primitives at the operating system layer, serving as a better platform for building networked, decentralized applications.
Admittedly I scrolled down to find the obligatory archive link to read this for free, but it's got me wondering now, how do the economist and other online publications make money if we can easily circumvent their paywall (assuming this is their main revenue driver)?
Happens to folks on my team on occasion. Slack crashing. And the whole Electron app crashing too. Linux users.
>The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. The work of our scholars and staff advances ideas rooted in our belief in democracy, free enterprise, American strength and global leadership, solidarity with those at the periphery of our society, and a pluralistic, entrepreneurial culture.

Can we please avoid posting blatant propaganda?
Well, congratulations, you're the odd one out then. It's certainly not logically impossible for a particular human to be less susceptible to false memory than others. It does nothing to dispel the fact that human memory is still fundamentally fallible in the general case. (And how could it not be? It is after all just a lossy encoding of a much larger amount of physical information.)

> But even if I didn't, that's not really the kind of thing I would ever call upon my memory for.

But it's the same type of thing! If a DRM list produces false memories, why should these other situations not? You don't even have to reach for the DRM paradigm; it's well documented that witness reports in courts (i.e. exactly the kind of thing you mention) are unreliable.
Thanks for the suggestion, I added a link to our documentation (https://openfisca.us) to the readme.
That isn't a contradiction. You need domain knowledge to know which problems to prioritize, in order to converse with customers, and generally to not look like an idiot. Customers will not trust the company if its own CEO doesn't understand the space.
I suspect the following is built into valuations of many software companies with subscription revenue models: they can reduce headcount dramatically and keep a relatively tiny headcount of staff around to sustain the existing recurring revenue and be highly profitable even in a slowing economy. For example how many people would MongoDB, with close to a billion dollars of annual revenue, need to keep the lights on, assuming zero new feature development, sales or marketing? The software is already sold and integral to the enterprise projects that use it, and in the enterprise migration to a new vendor is often a considerable project in itself.
To retire you need 39 million dollars? I've determined that I need about 1.5 million. We must live under very different circumstances.
This is cool. I started using your app after reading about it here a few days ago. I guess you want to keep it as simple as possible, but have you considered adding the option to edit the email before it gets sent?
Ask HN: What Happened to Ceylon Language?
I was reading a post about yet another language on HN's front page when I was reminded of Ceylon language which some years back was being promoted as an alternative to Java. I remember seeing it frequently those years but then I stopped following. Now I searched for it and it looks abandoned? The latest news I can find is that it's been donated to Eclipse foundation. What happened?
> Providing governments with a de facto mandatory electronic ID for every citizen is inherently providing the means to surveil, though.

But this suggestion ain't it. Most EU countries already have a de facto mandatory electronic ID for every resident.
> Our prime minister in NL recently got away with using a Nokia 3310 to circumvent SMS retention law

that's not entirely correct but people can read more here for example:

https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/politiek/71fd3bb2-b74b-4f4f-...

in this case the situation is far worse and the whole debate on the lack of transparency on decisions taken to fight sars-cov-2 pandemic in eu is something lots of people are protesting .
I think it depends on what you mean by "profitable".

If that means profits available to, e.g. pay dividends with then sure. But I think it ought to always be the goal to have a profitable operation then you can plough the profits back into the business to push growth (which will mean reporting 0 profits).
See my [other response](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31913649). The claim is certainly you cannot get a DRM-style test "right". Just because someone somewhere gets it right, that doesn't mean you can rely on your memory to be infallible.
Great, US police have weathered a storm like this before! Why is their performance so terrible?
That's great that you don't have an issue checking your phone. I have ADHD and I wish I knew how to just look at a fully loaded smartphone for only 10 minutes per day.

SMS isn't the main distraction: it's the internet connectivity. Turning off notifications is easy, it's compulsively checking whatever my dog brain is curious about at a given moment that is really hard to create effective barriers around.
> But, you can't grow forever. At some point you hit things like the maximum market size and there's no longer any way to invest your profits back into growth.

Atlassian is probably a fair bit away from that. Amazon is much closer to that mark today but they got there after following exactly this strategy since the 90s.
Same company, only recently engaged in direct sales to consumers.
Is dickjesus even pejorative?
There was an interesting take on that stuff in "Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How to Make Money in Crypto"

https://archive.ph/41hMi#selection-3923.0-3923.13

Staking is roughly what he calls putting something in the box in that story
So you're saying you know that an unknown quantity is greater than another unknown quantity.
The inverse may also be true:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118484119

A cold system normally takes longer to warm up than a cool system. Yet recent theoretical studies have suggested that the reverse may sometimes be possible. Here, using a colloidal particle in a heat bath, we present experimental evidence for this inverse Mpemba effect. By carefully choosing the energy landscape, we can make the cold system heat up exponentially faster than the heating rate of cool systems. While similar behavior has been seen in systems that cool down—the Mpemba effect—we find that entropic effects generally make anomalous heating harder to observe than anomalous cooling.
As I understand, they are having much more trouble sourcing components for their Linux ARM machines than for their microcontroller hardware. Hence why they are launching so many Pico things this year - that's what they can get and sell.
Your position is that "most of the world," i.e., more than half of its 7.75 billion people, disapprove of Dobbs?

How did you come to that figure? There's no possible way that's true unless you simply decide that the opinions of non-white people don't count.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/map-a...

And even that map overstates the situation, since, e.g., China's rule is essentially identical to Dobbs: individual provinces have the power to regulate.

https://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/news/china-jiangxi-p...

It's also obviously false that the U.S. has the world view that "detention without trial and major human right abuses" are acceptable. And it's dishonest to compare waging an illegal war with being gay - I mean, seriously, are you saying gay people are literal terrorists? There's no difference in your mind between two men honeymooning on the Persian Gulf and KSM?

Seriously. C'mon man.
The first seems compelling to me, less mass means less over all energy to freeze.

The second less so. Hot water has a bigger surface area, which makes heat loss fast at first. When it gets to cold water's temp it should have the same surface area as the cold water making the advantage disappear.
Reportedly you can implement malloc in C, using mmap().
Not really, no? Plenty of bleeding-edge goes into OpenBSD, most of it never makes it out to the rest of the world before being battle-tested there.
Keep in mind bots don’t always honour robots.txt

If it’s public, and you declare certain content not to be scraped, it will still be scraped in some cases. So don’t rely on it.

It’s a guideline only.
Author here - Yes I am somewhat aware of these issues and I am working on a better output with a runtime to do stuff in a less cursed manner. Note that the freestanding subset of it is just a joke and shouldn't be taken seriously. I hope that the hosted one will be more complete and true to Scratch's official implementation.
> When I worked there, they disclosed all financials in our internal Confluence site.

I worked at Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) in SA 2005–2007 and the CEO at the time, Didier Elzinga, did the same.

But what RSP did went even further. Didier and the CFO did a full disclosure presentation about the company's financials quarterly or bi-annually (can't remember).

It was great. Not least to make everyone understand why they couldn't pay rates that VFX professionals who moved to AUS from the East coast or London where used to – at least at that time (it was early years for RSP then).

RSP remains one of the best workplaces I ever had the luck to be employed at.

Afair Didier was also in some role on the board of Atlassian at the time. Maybe not a coincidence.
It's not about change being hard, it's about doing a reality check on moral highground. You chose to talk about working for a company that cooperates with MBS, and I wanted to point out that it is only a tiny fraction of activities that support MBS.

Choosing an MBS-free activity is all fine and good for personal moral growth. However, in general, I've observed a lot of gloating about moral highground once someone does a few of these choices. Without realizing that the people they're trying to describe as morally corrupt might actually be less corrupt just because they shop less.
Well, I kept pointing out if that wasn't possible to partner with another company that already had such an infrastructure.

There is actually a lot of money to be made with the various suggestions I made. Ignoring that leaves a lot of potential revenue on the table.
The threat model for (2) is really more of a fire thing if I understand correctly. Which does make a lot of sense for most people. I’m pretty confident I will never be burgled. I could see my house burning down.
When business people everywhere start worrying about the state of the economy, they quickly "put on hold" every costly initiative that is not critical to profitability, "until there's less uncertainty."

Naturally, the first thing executives and managers do is review headcount and real estate to figure out which employees can be terminated and which locations can be closed without impacting revenues in the short to medium term. But then, they also:

* put on hold all software development projects, software license upgrades, hardware purchases, and other tech expenditures that are not critical to the business; and

* review all existing recurring expenses, including every SaaS subscription, with a fine-toothed comb, to see which of those expenses can be reduced or eliminated without impacting revenues in the short to medium term.

As a consequence, many startups selling software, hardware, and all kinds of subscriptions see their sales pipeline and a big chunk of their revenues evaporate overnight, seemingly out of the blue. Startups whose customers are mostly other startups suffer the most. It can be very painful.
Yay, another useless 3.3 V microcontroller that needs a level shifter to do basically anything.
When it was the crypto industry laying off employees, I saw a giant wave of responses of screeching, laughing and lots of schadenfreude. But when it is the wider tech industry, now it is 'X is hard' or 'oh dear' and 'this is not looking good'.

The age of free, cheap dump money being thrown around has come to an end with multiple companies still not making any money, with unsustainable amounts of head count now shedding employees. But this comes as to no surprise anyway.

Unless the head count is low and is making tons of money like Binance, FTX, Kraken or the company is insanely profitable in all directions like Google, Apple and Microsoft, then you are certainly going to survive.

Companies like Netflix, Clubhouse, etc on the other hand are going to struggle in the long run.

EDIT: I guess the tech bros at unprofitable startups are upset and can't begin to refute the hard brutal truth in my comment.
Remember, consolidation of corporate power in government is classic fascism

Its been going on for a while
Buy a can of

CRC Precision Electronics Parts Cleaner

Its electronics parts cleaner spray that pretty instantly and cleanly evaporates. Solved my drift problem with one use and have never had another problem.
I think they're just being snarky with the e-waste thing. The way you program a Pico is by plugging it into the USB port on another computer. Once programmed, it can run on battery power.

It's similar to Arduino boards. You can use Arduino or PlatformIO if you like, or alternately Micropython or CircuitPython.
AKA "past exonerative tense".
Sure you can, from the Pi Hut... where it's gonna be sold out in 24 hours and never go on sale again.
I take your point - elsewhere I've said that I come from a place of pragmatism, not ideology. My question about this is that your example search engines, where this article is about Amazon selling products. I think the trade-offs are subtly different.
There is also a C codegen available, still WIP though.
> the government incentivized marriage because it led to both the creation of children

Except this part is false. Because, as I mentioned previously, not every hetero marriage could lead to creating children. There have never been any strong religious restrictions on old people, or people with known infertility getting married in Western society.

> the government can come up with a private partnership, which would easily do everything marriage does without the underlying religious debate and exclusions.

So...marriage? In US law at least, there aren't any religious components to marriage. No religious body needs to be involved to have a marriage be legally valid. You go down to city hall, get a marriage license, and you're done. There's no legal requirement that a religious institution that objects to a marriage, for any reason, has to perform that marriage. Can divorced Catholics remarry in a Catholic church now, without getting a dispensation?

Now if your objection is to the use of the word "marriage" to refer to partnerships that certain religions don't agree with...I don't really know what to say. That's everyday language at work. You can't stop people from using words the way they want. And it's not a real problem that the government should be involved in.
Is it common though? I’m wondering if maybe they just consider it to be a “related product” because 99.9% of the customers are Unity engine users.

I don’t know any actual numbers
> There's nothing in the constitution about oh so many things.

That's exactly the point; and those "oh so many things" are left to the States.

> Perhaps a constitutional amendment that gives people their privacy back is in order?

Perhaps, I'd be supportive of something like that!

> "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

This just means that the absence of an enumerated right doesn't imply that the right is absent by default. The fact that the Constitution doesn't outline a right to drive a car (or consume heroin) doesn't mean that driving a car or consuming heroin is by default illegal; it's just left to the States (and the people) to decide what to do with those things. But (importantly), just because the Constitution doesn't outline a right to consume heroin, the 9th Amendment does not confer a Constitutional right to consume heroin — that would be absurd. It's still something that can be decided upon by the legislatures, and if a legislature decided to outlaw the consumption of heroin, you can't point to the Constitution to invalidate such laws.

> It stands to reason (in Roe) that, unless someone's religion (separation of church and state?) believes a life begins before birth, the right of a woman's privacy and control of her own life and happiness is primary.

I agree with the normative assessment that the right of a woman's privacy and control of her own life/happiness is primary (at least up to a certain point in the pregnancy); I'm pro-choice. That said, the fact that people may use their own religious views to come to a different conclusion and pass laws to that effect is NOT a violation of the separation of church and state. All "separation of church and state" means is that there's no official state religion, and policymaking isn't delegated to the clergy without democratic input — that's it.

To illustrate with an example, it doesn't really matter that (historically) the majority of people derived their beliefs on the morality of assault/murder from the Ten Commandments, the fact that murder is illegal is not a violation of the separation of church and state.

> Any other logic, as in Dobbs, is superseding her right to privacy, life, and happiness, with the religious belief in the life of an unborn child.

Except this belief is not exclusively religious. There are plenty of atheists that are pro-life, and similarly believe that (at least after a certain point of a pregnancy) the right of the unborn child should be balanced with the right of the mother.
> but otherwise obviously makes no sense, it's antithetic to the very idea of a business.

How does it NOT make sense? The purpose of a business like this is not to generate some short term profit. These are winner-take-all markets - they're playing for complete and utter domination of an entire product category.

Their Q1 revenue grew 37% YoY - how on earth would you care about profit over what they doing here? They should keep hitting that as hard as they can.
Saying “hey dingus, add $item to the shopping list” is a killer feature for me. It’s so much easier than adding something manually on your phone (especially if you have your hands full cooking). Reminders and timers are something I use too. It’s also pretty good for playing music when you don’t have something particular in mind: “play some classical music” for example.

It’s definitely something I could live without, but even Apple’s speaker is pretty cheap. Especially so if it’s your main speaker (if you care about audio quality it might be a problem, but I don’t so it’s not).
Maybe you've flewn more times than you lived from 30-40