skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a B-school prof, I followed a few consulting opportunities. Results:

(1) Not always easy to get paid.

(2) Medicine and some fields of engineering are recognized and accepted professions where both the professional and the customer know something about what to expect. Less so for applied math. In simple terms, so far applied math is not yet much of a profession.

(3) Really, all the business came via the B-school. But the academic, research university culture of the B-school regarded any consulting or applied work as neglect of research or teaching.

(4) Somewhere have to get past the norm that a pure/applied math Ph.D. should not make money enough to buy a house and support a family. A lot of people with no graduate degrees, in nice houses, with late model cars, doing well supporting a family, are laughing at how smart math Ph.D.'s are. And, if business person X meets a pure/applied math Ph.D., e.g., in just a business meeting, person X can resent that the Ph.D. may know some technical material they, person X, does not know and that might be important for the business of X. A person with cancer does not resent the knowledge about cancer held by an MD treating that person for their cancer.

(5) Broadly, a medical school is clinical, sees patients, and the profs, MDs, are expected to continue to practice their profession, that is, continue to see patients. Again, the usual research university math/science culture would regard the clinical work as neglect of research or teaching, but, really, medicine is one of the most active and productive fields for research.

(6) At times there are opportunities, with eager, well funded customers, for computing with some applied math in US national security around DC. To be blunt, pure/applied math in the research universities gets funded nearly only by the US federal government and for basically one reason, US national security, and because of some of history, cryptography and The Bomb, with some respect for applications of antenna theory.

(7) My view is that some guy in a big truck/little truck business -- buy from a few big trucks, sell from lots of little trucks -- is right: That is, have a business, an actual business, with products and/or services, customers, revenue, and earnings. For more, now, there may be good businesses based on computing and the Internet, for more than just Intel, AMD, Cisco, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. And some pure/applied math somewhere in such a business, likely programmed and buried somewhere in the infrastructure, might be a crucial advantage.

Else, what are we racing toward, a few really big companies making robots and everyone else with nothing to do?
That’s a great idea. Although key management might be a problem. Also, you might have conflicts if you try to push from one device after having previously pushed from another device.
These are great. I love the one of Emmanuel Macron.
Not for the rankings, but I do mention them in the footnotes.

Rationale at https://legiblenews.com/speed/methodology toward the bottom.
> But not being able to get a bank account gets them into very difficult situations and pushes them to shady people (which was exactly what the legalisation was avoiding).

It's the same situation for dispensaries or other legal cannabis companies operating legally in states where it is approved, yet because of the federal status, banks will not accept them either.
> Open carrying similarly can directly lead to gun thefts.

Ok? So we agree?

> Its not the governments responsibility to secure your guns either way.

Ok? But that’s not been argued. It is also the government’s responsibility to not endanger the lives of citizens.

> If anything more public detailed information about who owns guns is better so that people can properly avoid dangerous gun owners

This list contains the names and employment details of judges and corrections officers (and their families) who are at risk of revenge. It may also contain the name of survivors of assault who wish to protect themselves from their abusers.
Why do those people have access to my credit card records?
Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
>I seriously think you mischaracterised your audience.

I never thought most people here would use Photoshop enough to pay for it. The point was that tools exist that are worth paying form despite the poster some level up implying open source is always the answer. Being able to realize others have their tools, and you have yours, helps understand why people do pay for things you may not.

>I'll gladly pay $$$ for a work-related tool I use 8 hours per day.

And that is exactly the point that led into this thread. You choose your tool. Some choose Photoshop. Some choose SolidWorks. Open source is rarely the best choice for most professionals using software to do their work. It's ok for certain software developers, which is a tiny part of all professional workers using software.

>And no, the poster wasn't dissing people who buy Photoshop; a good key to someone talking about themselves is the word "I"

The poster wrote "Photoshop is not better, because paying in perpetuity is unacceptable" before the paragraph starting with "I". That sure looks like he's implying this choice should fit all. And before that the thread had many people claiming GIMP and Photoshop were on parity at this or that time, or under this or that condition. Those also were not "I" statements.
If you want taxes, just fund the IRS. Allow and enable them to legally update and automate their systems off of 70's level technology and staffing levels which have persisted into the *2020's. Raise salaries. Improve image. Regulate tax preparers more so that not just any idiot with a PTIN can do a $20 million dollar company's return and put whatever they're told to on the return. It's not trucking rocket science.
You can blame Linux distros as a whole, for being obsessed with dynamic linking shared libraries.

The Linux kernel itself has a well publicized policy of not breaking user space and binary compatibility, but pretty much all distros regularly break binary compatibility, they require software to dynamically link to os provided shared libraries, and they don't allow statically linked programs to be distributed using their package managers.

Packaging and distributing software for windows or macOS is really easy.
Doing the same for Linux, particularly desktop applications, is a huge pain.

It's a point that Linus Torvalds has often bemoaned[0][1].

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whs8QZf3YnifdLv57+FhBi5_W...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8379139
The issue I have is, if I understand correctly, you need to go to the server for everything. Their sauce is of course that server is close, maybe 10ms away. But it needs to be online, and so do you.

If most things interactive on your site need a round trip BEFORE the interactivity (e.g. a Like button) then this is OK.

However if you are writing a web app which does a lot of stuff offline and there is no reason for it to not work offline then this is an issue.

Where it is a bit sucky is something like clicking an expand button, and needing a network request for basically setting a {display:'block'} style on an element.

I might be strawman-ing a bit there because you would probably chuck in a tiny JS script to do that one job and not religiously follow "no JS".

But I am sure there are good examples of wanting offline capability.

However this is not a showstopper: This model is great for some things, bad for others. It is a welcome new choice in the palette of web dev options.

I imagine it might be premature optimization for many sites though, given that it is a trade off.

If you care about minimal JS to the client, another approach might be to use https://svelte.dev/. I have not tried it, but I am curious.
Sorry, I meant the impersonal “you” (anyone reading the comment), not you specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Evolution

Believe there are libraries available as well.
The stress of not knowing what to do under stress damages your brain more.

I am glad they use checklists at the doctor's office and in the airline cockpit.

I sure like having a checklist for a build procedure that I use every month because it frees me up to think about adding features and fixing bugs.
Another fun art installation would be a camera system attempting to recognize people and logos and items in real time and send those string of converted text items to Dalle.
User has no business in learning anything about file systems. This is basic UX error and one of many cuts, which are keeping Desktop Linux on its 1% market share.
Ah, awesome. Totally reasonable explanation.
No bugs have ever been found in CompCert and seL4. The NSA gave up trying to hack seL4. The first time that has ever happened. So yes there might in theory still be bugs in the specs for CompCert and seL4. However the results speak for themselves.
It's annoying to have the extra subscription, but Beonex's Owl works well, and is recommended by by university IT department.
Because they'll invest heavily in technical areas nobody cares about commercially. So their stuff will sometimes be surprisingly advanced.
So do I wget the big green Free Download link instead of click on it? Do I then cd to my Downloads folder and tar xf on the file? And then I cd into the extracted directory and ./thunderbird?

...

We see the usability problems here.
What does it tell you? Obviously the houthis are supported by Iran, and I don't even have any particular love for the houthis themselves. But I don't blame them for getting Iranian support, just like I don't blame ukraine from getting foreign support. You take what you can get in those situations.

Not that it matters but I'm sunni muslim, so my outlook is not even sectarian imo.
This is a war carried out against a neighboring country for territorial and security reasons. It's wrong for all the reasons aggressive wars are always wrong, but I don't see it as genocidal in the "now we kill all the Ukrainians" way. There certainly have been genocidal policies by Russians against Ukraine in the past, but I don't see it here.
Oil-impulse driver for the best of both worlds.
Sure, I’d be fine with any standard. It’s just insane how just about every distro has its own sporadically updated repo instead of sharing common packages. Projects that need to be patched and rebuilt should be the exception, not the rule.

Scroll down and you’ll see people arguing about supported features because they’re running an ancient version of Thunderbird supplied by their distro.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return
I’m not sure if breaking the previous record set by the same plane (same model anyway) should be considered such an achievement?
That’s kinda my point.
You just brought a random memory from uni where a small group of people wanted to get others interested in cybersecurity and did a weekly session on teaching others.. First meeting had a huge turnout and I expected future meetings to consist of learning through teaching us concepts with some practical tasks, except it became a session of just a few people talking to each other using security terminology that no one understood because it was meant to be introductory.
There's DavMail ( http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ ) - which you can use with Thunderbird or any other client.
I believe that, although Perl is a bit confusing. (I sometimes use awk, although awk lacks some features.)
Why do this at all when websites such as https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en already exist?

Available for anyone to take and utilize. I have a (hidden) suspicion that a greater proportion of LinkedIn's reported "active users" are, in fact, a group of people with these profile images and fraudulent profiles.
Ask HN: Why has nobody disrupted the process of booking a mover
Moving companies have derivative names (Safeway, Safe Way, Safe Way Systems), copy-paste reviews, wildly varying quotes, unclear ownership, and almost universally negative reviews.

Because of how many different brokers, van lines, and front-store companies there are, even shopping by word of mouth is impossible.
Money supply isn't what matters, it's the flow of cash that represents the economy. Bitcoin ain't got much flow. 264,000 transactions per day is nothing compared to the many billions of transactions per day of fiat.
I like cryptos but LN UX is awful. It makes more sense for some kind L2 that doesn't require to open channels (Arbitrum, Optimism come to mind) and allows to send stablecoins to succeed.
I've known about this. Fascinating history. So St Thomas somehow made it from the middle east to South India.

The way I came to look into this history is interesting. As an Arabic speaker I was curious about the last name "Martoma" which was in the news some years back (for insider trading). It sounds like Mar Touma which is Arabic for St Thomas.

I wonder how many people identify as St Thomas Christians in India?
In pycharm, when using generators and yield and that kind of thing, you get exactly the experience you’re describing. It actually makes for a totally fine debugging experience.
Your forensics buddies, in stereotypical fashion for their industry, are blowing smoke.

The classic trick for removing serial numbers and foil attempts at recovery is to weld over. For guns this gets complicated because you're potentially altering heat treated parts that would need to be re-treated but that's doable. The kind of people who tend to own heat treat ovens tend to be the kind to ask questions but that would cost $$. There are many common and popular guns where the serialized parts are not mechanically significant enough to warrant special heat treating in which case weld away.
This definitely isn't the main usecase; it's mostly used as a spreadsheet application.

But, I use it for a few random tools.

I have an app I made that shows schedules. Rather than using a DB and building out an admin interface myself and giving people access to it, it just pulls from the Airtable DB.

I also often use it to export data to, so having signups or things like that go into Airtable rather than a DB.

I could use a DB for all of these, but Airtable's UI is super nice and makes it really pleasant to edit (vs a crappy form I set up)
I sort of read the OPs message ironically.
The OPs point is that this stuff is broken compared to how a Windows or Mac user would do things.
Windows/Mac users just click download, and double click. Linux could get to the same spot (more or less) by using Flatpak. I think that has to be the answer here. It's absurd to expect a developer to build their app for a dozen different distros.
Except most folks distribute self-extracting archives or an MSI for Windows.
https://archive.ph/6hxos
Gradual Soundness: Lessons from Static Python
That's what extensions are for.
How is the existence of the NRO a counter to "Why is this such a persistent meme that governments always have some crazy tech up their sleeves"? Like why would it matter if it was the Air Force buying satellite or some other agency like the navy or NRO?

> the sensors/mirrors were well ahead of anything NASA, including the Hubble telescope.

Hubble was designed in the 70s and launched in the 90s. So what if the NRO can spend more money and get something slightly better, how is that surprising?
Isn't this exactly what crypto is for?
There is of course a flood of negative comments...

So in the interest of balance I have to say thunderbird is a excellent program. I use it as my daily driver in work and for personal use.

It has so many features that puts me, the user, in control that I totally take them for granted until I have to use outlook for something.

I use it in a multinational, I used it with exchange and now with office 365. People can complain away but there are many like me who rely on it every single day and it has a real, positive impact on our work lives every single day.

Some days are just email client and Web browser, and without thunderbird and Firefox working for me as the user...... I dunno, work would be a lot more frustrating I guess. MASSIVE thanks to all the contributors to thunderbird!
> I recommend learning a bit about how your filesystem works and why it can't find linked files from within an archive. This is essential computing knowledge

Billions of people use computers (most of which are, for historical reasons, called "phones") that require none of this "essential" knowledge, and they do just fine. Don't you think humanity is better off for freeing all these people from having to spend their brief time on Earth from having to learn about archives and filesystems? Sometimes difficulty isn't a mark of virtue but instead just pointless pain.
Childcare. My daughter is 3 and we were able to find a babysitter for a few hours once in her life and that was a fight. The previous generation has decided they don't want to participate in child care like their parents did (I've heard this from friends as well) and as a result my wife and I don't get to go out to dinner together.
I didn’t intend to use engagement metrics in a negative way. We also have to note that the audience has changed. The audience of the early web was very different to the average audience today (almost everyone).
What’s the transcoding experience like? UMS is pretty good at on the fly transcoding of video for older devices like the PS3.
I mean isn't the B in ICBM for ballistic reentry, that's probably about as fast a deorbit from the height of the space station as you would get?
Matrix support while the editor itself is left to rot. I finally switched away from self-hosted to Proton. Buh bye thunderbird!
I have heard that the Atari ST was popular for music production into the 1990s.
Nice short, informative video. But on the point of free electricity, Kathy completely misses the point. Granted, Tesla never spoke about free electricity, but wireless electricity, if developed, would necessarily be free because there would be no way to meter it, which would be a good reason for Edison, Morgan and Westinghouse to ignore it. If, on the other hand, for some reason, they did want to provide free electricity to the world, wireless electricity very well may have been developed on a large scale. The reason wireless electricity wasn't developed wasn't that it couldn't work, but that it couldn't turn a profit because it is impossible to meter. Pointing out that Tesla never spoke of it misses the forest for the trees, because this is irrelevant. What is relevant about wireless electricity is that it can't be metered, thus it can't be a profitable service to base a corporate empire upon.
> Storage beyond a week or two will not be needed, most places.

Here's [1] the solar electricity production by month in Germany. It's about 6 times higher in the Summer compared to Winter. The situation is the same everywhere on the planet at similar latitudes. It's worse at higher latitudes. Unfortunately, a lot of the world's population lives exactly at those latitudes.

You could say that you supplement with wind, since wind does not have the same seasonality problem. But then why build solar at all? If you build solar, then you will have a winter deficit, and you will need a Summer to Winter storage solution.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/monthly-gener...
The SeRV implementation of RISC-V fits into 200 4-LUTs on an ICE40 FPGA. If your FPGA doesn't have a multiplier, how many 4-LUTs do you need to build a 32x32 multiplier? I'm guessing the answer is comparable to 200.
Sounds like DKIM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
Nice, this is actually very insightful. I’m gunna give this a try for sure!
I don't recall the exact crossover point, but the Mac starting making serious money circa 1987 and the Apple II became irrelevant in terms of bottom line not long after. Steve came back in 1997.
I was confused on that too. It does have "?" for some of those things, not that they say what a question mark is, I read that as untested. Also, I'm not entirely sure what they mean for subtitles, but Plex supports burned in(to the video itself) subtitles, though you end up back in transcode land for that and it took alot of CPU power last time I tried [1]. Plus "instant browsing" is I guess accurate but a weird comparison point, Plex needs to scan files once and periodically scan for updates.

They may mean more specific things for all those things Plex "can't" do, but I can't tell from just the comparison page. Plex has plenty of issues, no need to make up more.

[1] A quote from their page on subtitles: Other formats such as VOBSUB, PGS, etc. may work on some Plex apps but not all. For the majority of apps, both VOBSUB and PGS subtitles will require the video to be transcoded to “burn in” the subtitles for streaming.
That's exactly the island in Fresh does. Use Island for interactivity
Can you post a link to the article? I’m having a hard time understanding the scam based on your comment.
Yer darn tootin'! That's why we don't want it broken.
> On other platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS) it’s fairly common to distribute GUI apps as a single binary so you don’t need an army of package maintainers.

You can do this on Linux, too, be it by compiling a static binary or bundling everything as an AppImage or what have you.
Related material on Linux namespaces and "let's hand-roll our own docker":

https://blog.quarkslab.com/digging-into-linux-namespaces-par...
The fact that EY didn't fire all people on the spot who couldn't pass the ethics portion of the CPA exam without cheating says a lot about the kind of people EY employs.

> Many EY employees knew that their behavior violated the company’s code of conduct, but some still did it because they couldn’t pass on their own, according to the SEC. The firm ultimately disciplined and, in some cases, fired individuals for their actions, according to the SEC, which said it’s investigation is ongoing.
Employers have rules about no guns in the building. Stores post signs asking you not to carry. I wouldn’t even think of carrying into a bank or a police department office.
I think the point is that they sold fairly well compared to other successful machines of that era. They probably also outsold a number of popular game consoles as well such as Atari's 7800.
There is a reason why such kinds of fraud are practically nonexistent in some other countries but are prevalent in the US.

Alas, nearly every problem in the US stems from politics.
A problem which could have been solved easily will keep being a problem for another decade.

Regulators could have solved the problem at its root and make the scams impossible, but no, they would rather shoot the messenger and force money transfer service to do government's job. At the expense of everyone else.
Moving to Snaps gets us to a world of sandboxed applications, defined permissions, and OS version independence. That's the world that exists on mobile, and it's pretty great. Shouldn't desktop learn from mobile's successful experiment in sandboxing?
It blows my mind how many comments here think you are wrong. You are absolutely correct. A new user does not care how great x,y,z feature is if they can't do basic things that are ubiquitous in other operating systems. New users might hear Unix is better, but if it doesn't feel that way, they're going to go back to what they know works when the next deliverable/project/essay/game comes out.
As i said i have members of the family who actually died in that fight, and i don't see anything disrespectful toward them in calling a nazist regime for what it is.
Aggressively pursue and punish producers and distributers through the justice system.

Having providers of financial infrastructure assume the legal risk for its users without due process is not how things should work in a democracy with rule-of-law, because it will adversely affect innocents.