skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You understand that two Muslims planned and filmed a beheading of a Hindu man and then uploaded it to social media and proudly claimed responsibility and the majority of the Muslim community supported the action in India and overseas and you blame Modi?

What have we come to that a woman quoting the Hadeeth causes riots and then a man who said she supported the woman who quoted the Hadeeth is beheaded and you blame the Prime Minister of India.

Do you understand that millions of people have viewed a beheading video of a man who basically liked the comments of a debater on a national news show.

The PM of India did not write the Quran or the Hadeeth that making any discussion of the acts of the prophet punishable by beheading. The sheer hypocrisy, blame the victim and simultaneous donning of the mantle of victimhood is incredible.
My feeling is that if you're going out of your way to promote an ideology/cultural value domestically (Happy Pride Month!, flags everywhere, etc), then yes you need to stick to your guns and not bow to the opposite influence.

If you're strictly in the business of making money, then by all means conduct your business but stfu about it.
As someone that used to work for a camera company that got absolutely clobbered by smartphones, I can report that they are, indeed, a huge disruptor.

But I also don't think they are all bad.

I spent most of my career in hardware-oriented companies, and was constantly discouraged by hardware people disparaging, and, sometimes, outright sabotaging, efforts to improve software and software-driven UX.

A lot of hardware people did it to themselves. Even though I was often the recipient of a great deal of fairly abusive behavior, on the part of hardware folks, I have absolutely no schadenfreude, at all. It's really fairly heartbreaking. These folks loved their jobs, they loved the products they made, and they sincerely wanted to do the best. Even though they were wrong, they really thought they were doing the right thing.

One thing that Apple has done right, is meld hardware and software/firmware into a cohesive unit. Each of their products reflects a really good result of tight-knit collaboration between hard and soft. There's lots of physics and science involved. I know someone that reverse-engineers Apple products (electron microscope-level reverse engineering), and they report that Apple really does badass work. This comes from someone that would rather they didn't.

I feel that smartphones are almost ideal "control panels," or dashboards, for devices. Some manufacturers are grokking that fairly well; others, not so much.
John Carmack's .plan on creating Doom RPG.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-ar...
This was the Masayoshi Son/Adam Neumann playbook for WeWork... growth above all
No it would still require username/password. This was only verifying the email address was correct.
I'm sorry but the Russia invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions aren't what have been driving inflation or gas price hikes, at least in the US. It's poor domestic policies being blame shifted to Putin. We're finally feeling the inflation from global lockdowns and gas prices have been steadily increasing since 2020, before Putin's invasion.

These issues are not going to be short term either, as the current administration is celebrating the increased prices as a means of accelerating a transition to green energy, all while having no plan to really implement more green energy via increased nuclear capacity.

So we have an administration that is unwilling to increase gas production and can't get an audience with OPEC to increase imports.

Just be ready for the shock this fall when meat prices skyrocket. As Union Pacific has been restricting fertilizer shipments specifically during the critical planting season, and farming is highly dependent on Diesel usage. But at least we're subsidizing more ethanol in our gas...a less efficient fuel source than.. actual gas.

In summation, my pessimism is off the charts. What we are going to see is going to destroy large parts of the middle class, poor people, especially children in America(doubly so for less wealthy countries that depend on America's economy) will starve, and any tech industries targeting middle class consumers are going to shrink. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and I welcome any perspectives that alleviate this pessimism.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fertilizer-maker-faults-un...

“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said during a press conference in Japan following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
To people who have seen the term thrown around online, that second heading and the article cited in it are probably especially of interest.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hoc...
"You may not copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, sell, lease, or sublicense any of our software or services"

This seems to make it pretty clear they don't want you to create 3rd-party clients for their service.
I am:
a) a dev myself
b) head of a small dev/SAAS company/team
c) Atlassian Marketplace vendor

Jira is fine. Atlassian will be around for quite a bit, imho. They have a somewhat decent ecosystem, which helps a lot with the stickiness.

Jira could see a lot of improvement product wise, but at least it has been getting faster in the last year (still slow, though, but not as bad). Their new stuff seems to be a hit or miss, but I especially like their new Jira thing (Jira Product Management), mostly because it comes very opinionated.

I think Jira/Atlassian would benefit a lot from actually providing more guidance on how to properly use their product(s) depending on team size (e.g. moving from 5 to 50 to 500 person teams). Most other tools don't do this as well, but I think that would improve the experience for everyone, dev & mgmt alike..
> so they can afford to dump endless investment in making them better.

Which is so necessary when your product is very reliant on integrations because maintaining that kind of software gets so cumbersome over time. The testing alone can sink a team's productivity.

I work for a Confluence competitor and we've based our go-to-market strategy around executing one problem very well as opposed to trying to build a set of products to sell as a suite and it's worked relatively well so far. Business people love the idea of integrations and some of them do act as a force-multiplier in productivity. But they also create tons of headaches for end users and can be very expensive.
Option 3: Buy the upstart a la Instagram.
Yw. Took us ages to figure out
The answer is BOTH. And sometimes neither.

Because this is literally about the time-domain solution to heat conduction and fluid dynamics (convention) with different initial conditions and boundary conditions (shape of vessel, temperatures at boundaries, etc.).

For example if there isn't uniformity of initial temperature, if there isn't uniformed of the applied cold sink, if there isn't uniformity of heat flux capacity due to conductivity of the interfacing boundary conditions, etc. There's even questions about the water purity or contaminants which definitely would change the answer.

These are not and often can not be controlled. And in practice at home, you will never duplicate even what the answer is in a control lab experiment.

It is the norm to have a range solutions that entirely depend upon initial conditions and boundary conditions. And there's also uncertainty of even knowing the values of these conditions.

Expecting a simplistic yes/no answer to many problems ESPECIALLY those involving heat transfer and fluid dynamics is like asking for a specific date for your date from your date of birth or your childhood medical history.

See also climate change - we DO NOT KNOW there is a specific date when things "tip" and ANYONE claiming there is a date let alone timeframe is a liar or so ignorant they can't possibly be right! The error of any model is larger than the estimate value itself.

You'd think people would have learned something from the 20th century about the FACT that we do not live in a 19th clock-work universe with complete predictability. We know how it can never be predictable especially if fluid dynamics is involved - you know, mathematical chaos and all.
GitLab issues are better for all but very large projects. Jira will win on features, of course, but unless you have 50+ people working on the same thing, multiple dedicated PMs, etc. you’re almost certainly not seeing enough value to be worth the frictional cost and temptation to divert time away from the product to build Potemkin project plans in Jira.

(This is the same failure mode as many Agile-as-practiced projects have: once the incentive structure is decoupled from results, someone will have a full time job moving tickets around in a way which is considered productive even if the project is foundering.)
I'm not sure, I didn't set up our Jira account but it looks like default behavior based on this screenshot: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id...

That "Issue Type" dropdown box is what I changed a value for and it cleared the description below it (also seen in the screenshot).

Our set up might be pretty basic because the A to B from my original comment was "New Feature" to "Improvement" which is included in that screenshot.
Oh yeah, I've noticed that as well. Mainstream media loves talking about the general chip shortage and investment into 5nm and 3nm fabs in the same article, whether it is Intel or TSMC. The media (and the general population) seems to be fully convinced that a chip is a chip.
Compared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.
No they are the exception. Most of these layoffs are happening primarily in funded startups, not big companies.
> no-free option

Perhaps Wolfram Alpha is a "free option" for the once-in-a-blue-moon use case.

But you might lose any work at any moment, if Wolfram decides to turn it off.
> a price point that means a significant portion of my peers will also pay for Mathematica without too much hesitation

A perpetual license for Office Professional 2021 costs low double digits (depends on locale). They also don't really enforce checks for non-commercial use. As a result, almost every office uses Excel. It still doesn't replace python/C++ for deployment.
> a fanbase that will defend them regardless.

If you grew up playing Nintendo games, the best games on the market at the time, you'll excuse and forgive a lot. Nintendo was the toy in the house, even surpassing LEGO.
Common lisp and a handful of other scheme/lisp variants, for example, if we talk about high-level general purpose languages.

Lush was a lispy open-source language - implemented in C - that deserved a better outcome.

And of course there were other scripting languages around like Perl, Tcl and Lua. Torch was built on top of the latter, by the way.
$22M/y sounds like it could easily pay for over a hundred software engineers.
chibicc is great and also a very useful tool to do different kinds of C source code analysis and processing, such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/c2obx/
Slide Rule, 5-Inch, Pickett N600-ES, Apollo 13
*and crappy

Forgot that part
One impressive thing RBR did was staying competitive after switching to Honda engines. Anyone remember the ridicule Honda got when they supplied McLaren?
After Credentials (2008)
> If I had to bet on who's getting hacked, I wouldn't bet on Facebook

The bigger the company, the bigger the payoff.
It's not just the lack of evidence, the air around your wife is saturated with electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths and powers, so unless you live far away from civilization or in a sheltered room or bunker than it is probably not radiation sensitivity, otherwise she would have suffered all the time.
264kB of RAM? so you can't run linux on this, I guess?
Should I Invest in Qualified Retirement Accounts or Non-Retirement Accounts
I stumbled upon your vi post a few days ago, really like the style. Keep it up!
Corpus Query Processor at Lancaster: tools for language research on corpuses
If you don't fill the thermos to the top, we can also add the small temperature impact of Helmholtz resonance from the wind blowing across the lip to make this more complicated. (Now I wonder how loud a sound needs to be to boil water...)
Who is liable when AI kills?
"The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons." - https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Rules_of_the_Game
> Would knowing if the creator of a product is like me or fully fledged organisation affect your likelihood of using any software they create?

I use good software, that isn't written by bigots and doesn't support bigotry.

I prefer good software from solo or small indie team developers because they tend to not only respond to feedback, but actually incorporate that feedback. I prefer it even more if their income is centered around their software because then making the app awesome and listening to users is core to them having food on the table and a roof on their heads, and that benefits me, the user, a lot.

separately: your Ask HN question title is a _radically_ different question than the one in the body of your post. I trust solo developers exactly as much as i trust any other individual i don't know.
> Them now making a loss I think is more a deliberate choice, not a business failure. They could of continued as they where making $$$ but instead choose to go from 700 people at ipo to near 7k today for pretty much the same product suite.

But this is exactly the kind of thing that makes a market analyst yell "FIRE!" during a bear market. Nobody trading stocks is going to look at a 10x headcount increase without meaningful additions to the product offering as a good thing.
The people paying $00,000s or more for games are not people who are interested in the games, as such. They'll never open them and play them, or even do what the store owner here did and keep them safe, showcase them to interested people. They'll just keep them squirreled away in a safe deposit box, wait a few years and sell on when the games have appreciated some value - i.e. an investment opportunity.
And his voice sounds so realistically popey now!
> If you are small enough that you can run on a free tier, you are too small for me to have confidence that you are sticking around.

There's a lot of truth in this. Particularly since the free tiers on most cloud providers are explicitly designed to suck you in, then raise the rates tremendously as you scale.

A business that might be fine with 100 customers on the cloud could struggle mightily to cover the costs of dealing with 1000 customers on the same stack. The linear revenue growth doesn't match up to the insane cost increase as you go from "hobby project" to "small business" in the cloud.
Shein’s Rise Was Nearly Overnight. The Backlash Came Just as Fast
Internal Combustion Engine Handbook by van Basshuysen and Schafer. My edition is rather old (2004) so there may a newer one with different info as diesel and emission tech has changed a bit in the last 20 years.
A company with no revenue can potentially raise at a higher valuation with a company of $1 of revenue - because now it’s real and investors will start making their mind up about the actual possiblities of the investment
Ripcord isn't a derivative work, both practically and in the legal sense. It's implemented from scratch. Ripcord isn't a resell of their service or a sublicense of their service.
Related, this debate is big news in Portland this week, and in the golf news world in general. These kind of questions are being asked and discussed. A few players have signed lucrative deals to play golf in a Saudi Liv Golf league, tarnishing their legacy in exchange for crazy amounts of money. Other players are rejecting the offers for moral reasons.
Why do I keep being surprised time after time with these seemingly very big head counts... Maybe I just misunderstand what these companies are doing. But 3000 for Unity seems somewhat on high-side.
I interpret that as a problem with the concept of "sentience" -- the closer you examine it, the more holes it has. I feel like I'm sentient, and so does mostly everybody else (I hear). But I have to take their word for it, because there's no way for them to prove it to me -- they could be like the Chinese room for all I know. Asking whether something is sentient starts looking a lot like asking if it "has a soul". It's unanswerable, and therefore, it's the wrong question to ask. Fun to discuss, sure, but I don't find it a useful way to model reality.
Hegel
Thanks for the link, had a quick peruse, looks very comprehensive!
FWIW the abbreviations listed in Wiktionary are f.e. and f.ex.
Those companies ban you because they have insane charge back rates (constant flow of charge backs), high enough to where servicers do not want to deal with them. They ban you in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

I used to sit next to a compliance department at a card servicer and it was Google, Google, Google all day long, every day. Charge backs from the play store. Very costly for servicers to man call centers to process a constant stream of charge back requests from these companies. Nevermind the cost of the actual refund.
I've heard this time and time again in SV circles. It probably is for the right founder who is able to paint a rosy picture and a nice story. I'm not that kind of person, so it's bonkers to me.
The idea that growth is better than profits was in-built into Atlassian's proposition to shareholders, ultimately.

The slow and steady mentality is fine, but we see over and over that it isn't what the market wants. A private company or a high risk growth company, those are the two options for a software company.

Either that or they'll be taken over. They're revenue now is just a $2bn, so that "grow grow" mindset from 10 years ago did not work out. In theory, a steady CEO could try to steady at that size with a nice margin. But, actually declaring and pursuing that would mean halving the companies market cap to a "normal" P/E of 20-30X.

At that price (say $20bn) one of the big software companies would just buy them... for their own growth targets.

Moderation has no place in the public markets as a software company. It's remarkable how unstable a stable condition is.
India's top cement maker paying for Russian coal in Chinese yuan
The problem is that choosing to be unprofitable is a strategy that maybe worked (or just was fashionable) the past decade under very specific circumstances (lot of free money chasing higher returns in a context of very low rates), but otherwise obviously makes no sense, it's antithetic to the very idea of a business. It's not to be confused with the sane version that is reinvesting profits for growth instead of distributing them as dividends.
heh, I was once on a dev team that some how got moved into the project management section of a company. The thought was we'd help out and fix the little stuff that the PMs needed done that they couldn't get other teams to prioritize.

Obviously a bonkers idea, but they went for it. It was just jira all the way down. They wanted us to create separate tracking jiras for pages, before we worked the issue in the middle of the night. Nobody was actually doing anything, especially the devs I lasted a couple months before I moved. At the end of the year, everyone that stayed got promoted a level as a dev. I went back though git and couldn't find a single commit from any of them. Just bananas, they all got promoted to a higher level as devs for busy work, but jiras don't lie, right?
Also, their users are probably going to get worse support and might have to switch platforms....
By not providing your services to the people of these countries, you are making their quality of life worse. See heavily sanctioned countries like North Korea and Iran for examples of quite how much worse life is for those citizens.

"I don't want to support Mohammed bin Salman" needs to be traded off against "I don't want to make 34 million people have worse lives".

In my view, in nearly every case, the latter effect outweighs the former.
Why isn’t Bluetooth enabled? Bluetooth gives you a lot more flexibility in consumer provisioning of IoT devices (eg HomeKit, etc).

The whole thing xperience od unpaired devices broadcasting as a WiFi AP and having to join your phone to that SSID is clunky.
"Usage is strongly discouraged, not meant for production" is a clue for "I actually put care into this thing, production use is probably fine"

Garbage-quality projects don't bother putting such warnings. They might even not be aware they are garbage.

(/s)
So you're implying LGBT are fundamentalist that corporations bowed to too.
EU commissioners are not, in fact, voted in by party blocs in the EU parliament - they're picked by the President of the EU, who is selected by an opaque and dubious process behind closed doors. The description of it in the comment chain you're replying to is about right. In fact the winning party bloc in the EU parliament backed someone completely different as President and kinda ran for office on that basis but that didn't matter and van der Leyen got the job despite not being the chosen candidate of any party bloc, with the parliament merely reduced to rubber-stamping that decision.

People get confused about this because her predecessor Juncker supposedly got the job for this reason; in reality this was a ploy by well-connected EU insiders to make Juncker specifically President, and this rule has not been applied previously or since and likely wouldn't have been if some other party bloc backing some other candidate won instead.
This generalizes to whether or not you would be willing to e.g. get an Uber. This money is absolutely everywhere, is there really some moral high ground in measuring how far away you stand as you accept it? What about working for a public company with Saudi shareholders?

For me at least, 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, although I am sure many will attempt to define a spectrum between these two that happens to align well with general conveniences
I'm going to avoid RPI products where I can for right now. All the issues with availability have turned me off on them. Their attempts to get compute modules to businesses using them for products seems to have failed (or at least I have heard nothing from them). And this part in particular seems under specced compared to the competition.
Pico does not have flash Protection/Lock.
This makes impossible to protect the firmware.
Almost every other uC has a feature to
disable reading of flash content.
Any comments on this?
I’ve never seen one on Mac OS Slack
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I have no idea what Jira was like in the beginning. But today Jira is a very bad product (in the opinion of developers), but managers still love Jira because Jira has found a market (managers, CTOS, CPOS, etc). Jira being a very slow and buggy application is not important.

As an example of a tool that found a market in the area of developers is Docker.
I used docker in some companies and my God, Docker is buggy as hell, sometimes I pull new code in git and Docker doesn't see it, I have a lot of network problems, etc.
And have no idea what Docker was like in the beginning, but when I used it, it was horrible experience, and developers continue to use it.
I'm very happy that my current employee does not use Docker.
All that takes coordination and manual labor at both the card servicer and the retailer. That overhead is tremendous. The actual refund is the least concern.