skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the time it's how do you keep from having a new business idea every day, and why would you want to?

I'm just not in the SaaS business because those are not the kind of ideas that occur naturally all the time to me.

Sorry I couldn't be more help but I'm not a software developer anyway even though I've programmed computers off and on for years. For decades I made a living even into the 21st century using my own code, but it was not wares of any kind since it was not for sale (or rent). I just used the programs exactly as I saw fit to the extreme advantage of clients.

Mainly to bring them valuable results from chemistry lab advances which I pioneered, which is where I have always been making a living from my own technology whether employed or in business for myself.

Science-as-a-Service are us and it was also interesting when I had products in worldwide distribution, but they were emerging physical products. No software involved although the potential was there, it was too early in the PC generation and things were OK as it was.

All I could say is stick to where the ideas are overwhelmingly abundant, and pick from the best.
Enlightenment is when you realize that is the view from both sides.
Levine’s take is based on how Musk’s previous encounters with court orders have gone.
I own a System 76 laptop (the Oryx) and ultimately bought a MacBook Air m1 to replace it. I'm not sure how many people know this, but S76 doesn't make their own hardware and instead uses repackaged Clevo laptops. These machines are cheap, ugly, and heavy. Nothing about them feels particularly high quality. They charge a premium price so I'd expected more and was disappointed. Knowing what I know now, I would have gotten a Framework laptop for a first class linux experience.

All that said, PopOS is my distro of choice. They really got a lot right there IMO. If they can get it together on the hardware front, might be worth another look in the future.
I've been in the field for many years and I see the EU on the forefront of public chemical safety, both in terms of legislation and enforcement.
ECHA is transparent about glyphosate [1]. It is not even labelled as CMR on REACH Annex III [2], and that's saying a lot.
If you follow the developments, you will find that there is no way to prove a chemical as "safe". All it takes is one bloke on record to develop any health condition which can be linked to a chemical, and it will be scrutinized six ways to Sundays. Often leading to the introduction or decrease of an OEL, or a classification of this substance. As new humans are born all of the time, and diagnostics and analysis methods are still being improved, the likelihood of any given chemical to be "harmless" asymptotically approaches zero.
1 in 2 people develop cancer during their lives [3]. There are currently > 23000 chemicals on the EEA market at >= 1 t/a [4].

1 https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/glyphosate
2 https://www.echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals/annex-ii...
3 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/
4 https://echa.europa.eu/registration-statistics
Reminds me of the similarly simple toy I had for the 1981 board game "DarkTower". It was a plastic tower with a few light bulbs and some buttons that you pressed at various times during your turn to encounter adversaries and fight battles. It took my young mind a while to figure out that it didn't actually know where you were on the board or even in the game and was just some very simple logic.
Ye, we really don’t want a “HN Royalty” clique that are immune to moderation. You see that on Reddit and it does not tend to elevate the conversation.
Most of the complexity of React components is in the business logic (validation, interactivity, accessibility, data fetching, etc.). It seems like this isn't going to help you with that and indeed will make it harder since it's probably generating some cluttered HTML. Or what if you want a consistent set of styles for multiple components? You probably have to recreate everything from scratch at that point.

It seems fine for simple mocks/POC type stuff.
That seems like an enormous amount of risk to take on just to sell stock that he actually owns and avoiding "looking like a hypocrite". It's not just plausible but somewhat likely that he'll be forced into an 11-figure settlement with Twitter to avoid the actual worst case outcome of being forced to take custody of and actually operate Twitter until he can unload it on someone else.
we're a bit past this point by now. Most people npm install some package, use webpack/minify to bundle it up, and poof no copyright or attribution. Even though both MIT and BSD (the most common licenses) require this. Even if you do the magical incantation to retain comments in your bundle, many packages don't include copyright in the comments. They include it in a LICENSE or README file.

Once upon a time devs cared about this sort of thing. Living through the '90s and then now... where devs just pick the default license (MIT?) that github puts on a repo is crazy. There is this cultural assumption today that everything is just a public domain free-for-all.
> The cases that worries me most is however debilitating chronic illnesses (where antibiotics is used as a stop gap until medical science find a cure)

Which debilitating, non-bacterial chronic illnesses are treated with antibiotics as a stopgap measure?
Thanks, now iHerb.
Musk wasn't pretending to buy Twitter, the article is using a sort of simpleton interpretation of Musk's behavior. That's the interpretation someone would take if they dislike Musk and get overly emotional about his behavior.

Musk is x y z. Oh my god, did you see the tweet he sent out!?! I just hate Musk, blah blah blah. He's such a terrible human. This one time he called a person a really bad name. - That's the type of person that reads Musk's Twitter acquisition attempt the way the article is.

I don't care much about Musk one way or another, but this is not a complicated context and the author is plain wrong.

What happened is the market for hyper overvalued stocks has crashed. He was faced with the scenario of paying double for Twitter vs what it was really worth. Remove the Musk prop and the stock collapses. Next up, the stock is heading south of $30 / share. It might be worth taking over for $20-$25 / share at most.

Musk didn't want to pay $20 billion more for Twitter than he had to, even for him that was a bridge too far. Particularly while his own paper bubble fortune is just as at risk of implosion as the rest.

It was really, really, really dumb timing. That was Musk's actual issue.
I wrote a while back about the difference between "hyperconverged" and "hyperscalar": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688865
It's kind of a moot point; Levine is reading tea leaves about what a judge will think hearing all of this, but the fact is that Musk waived the right to condition the acquisition on Twitter's bot statistics, pretty much in black and white.
Two dead after Tesla drives into back of parked semi at FL rest stop
Just means it's mostly ignored. And yes, it is a great book.
you're missing the point of the rule. the issue with smoking weed isn't really about having impaired judgement, it's that weed is still illegal at the federal level. there are all kinds of low-level crimes that can put your clearance at risk. which kinda makes sense... they want the kind of person who strictly follows the rules for cleared positions.
Ah, I see. If we have to bring HN down for a few minutes, or (more likely) put it into readonly mode for a bit, we can do that–especially if it makes the process simpler and/or less risky.
I didn't know about the anti-view sentiment. I do remember them arguing against any need of foreign keys at all, then after they implemented them poorly arguing about limiting their use as they were just "useless overhead". Full transaction safety (aka ACID) was "for banks" not the rest of us. Silently truncating input was de rigueur, blissfully accepting 'Mary had a little lamb' into an integer column happily stored 0, and handling concurrent transactions with MyISAM? Fuhgeddaboutit.

The gotchas listed here (https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html) have all now been addressed, but I still have a bitter taste from that era and avoid MySQL to this day when I can. I feel the same way about PHP despite the improvements—let's face it—the developers were forced to take. (https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/)

Together they made an unholy alliance whose ecosystem's sole reason for existence seemed to be maximizing the production of high severity CVEs.
Matt Levine is fantastic, highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.
>A simple requirement that no coordinated individual or organization have sway over more than 25% of political seats, and political organizations at the federal and state levels must be separated, would do wonders for decentralization and better representation.

and would be undemocratic
What are your favorite alternatives, particularly if there is one that allows for use of a pin pad for in-person sales?
> And normally I would probably just rely on getting them through a trusted vendor (e.g. my neighborhood grocer/pharamcy/health food store), but if I'm forced to shop online to make sure it has this specific thing in it...I want something I can check to vouch for its quality, yeah?

Oddly enough, with the food/supplement I'm most familiar with, kava, the worst quality you can find is in brick and mortar establishments. The trusted vendors are all online-only and dedicated entirely to the one product instead of just trying to stock their shelves with every supplement on the planet.
> It's time to legally compel platforms above a certain (modest) size

I personally don't agree with "modest" but having two (or more) classes of corporations to divide laws and regulations between seems like an obvious step in the right direction. Right now there seems to be "monopolies" and everything else. Obviously Amazon or Shopify are not the same as a family owned business; treating them as such should be the exception not the norm.
Yeah it's basically an online call with someone knowledgable about the content of those books/topics to answer questions, clarify concepts or help through the excercises.
That might actually hurt Musk's argument, because Google is incredibly lucrative despite the belief that ad clicks are overwhelmingly fake. The rule of thumb Levine (an attorney) gave a few posts ago for MAE's in Delaware courts is "sufficient to cause a 40% drop in profitability". Not stock price, not mDAU numbers, but income statements.
I understand the author’s concern here, but I want to point out a couple of things (both specific to PyPI and more general):

* Package indices have always had opinions about their users’ contributions. Most indices have revocation/yanking policies that are applied to cases of namesquatting, obviously malicious packages (even if the author claims that it’s intended to be a demo), and so forth.

* PyPI has worked exceptionally hard (in my opinion) to minimize the potential disruption here: maintainers are being given free physical security keys, and those who can’t receive them will still be able to use TOTP. The rollout here has also not been enabled, and will not be for some time (to give maintainers plenty of time to enable 2FA on their own schedules); this is merely the announcement for the plan.

* Enabling 2FA on PyPI controls access to PyPI’s web interface, not publishing workflows. In other words: if you’re a maintainer of a critical project, enabling 2FA will not “gate” the releases you publish via CI. All of that will continue to work as it has before.
I installed a new Brother HL-L2370DW laser printer today and was astonished at how easy it was to get it running. Plugged it into power and Ethernet and it just showed up in AirPrint, my Mac, and my spouse's Windows 10 machine.

I wonder if maybe part of the problem is Wi-Fi. Like the author in mid 2020 we picked up a Canon color inkjet photo printer, which has astonishingly high quality prints for the price, but is fickle with regards to its network connection. One time I tried to print high resolution TIFFs to 11x17 paper and the only way I could actually get it to work was to dig up a USB cable and direct connect. Every time I tried over the network it started to feed and then something would time out and it would just spit out a blank sheet.
The index didn’t force the devs to do anything. The developer can just stop uploading packages.

Years ago software was just distributed by the developers themselves on their own websites, or by Usenet, or even by floppy disks.

It may well be that the developer wants to be on the index and is willing to pay. In that case, OK. Maintaining an index is not free, so if the indexer needs to charge somebody, it could be users, or it could be developers.
> Five or six nines availability

Post is about telecom service that was down for a whole day
I disagree with your interpretation of primarily in regards to my comments. My comments are about a wide range of things, and when in ideological threads (curiously permitted constantly) they are primarily satire. They are also pretty much always in response to another ideological post; I am not creating ideology discussion out of thin air. So I'm just going to make a new account.
I honestly hate that so much, it's a relief to read someone saying the same.

I sort of almost made myself feel a bit better about it by thinking 'no, it's not REST, we have reached the graphql server successfully and got a .. "successful" response from it, it's sort of a "Layer 8" on top of HTTP'. The problem is that none of the bloody tooling is 'Layer 8', so you end up in browser dev tools with all these 200 responses and no idea which ones are errorful. If any.
Ah centrum, np will add it!
I'm not sure if 4 failed for that reason, or if only 2 failed for that reason and then the attempts to restore them from the RAID array failed for a different reason.

2 failures within a few hours is unlikely enough already though, unless there was a common variable (which there clearly was).
I see a similar trajectory as OJ Simpson..
They're not doing business with another company in any meaningful sense. There's multiple companies set up with the same owners so they can pretend the one in the lower tax region makes all of the revenue, often through IP licenses that look like expenses to the entity in the higher tax region. It's financial engineering that doesn't reflect where value is actually being created or revenue captured.

I'm not a CPA, but my understanding is as a US citizen, your closest analog would be setting up an irrevocable trust. But, then you no longer have control of those assets. Owners of these shell corporations are able to effectively control their assets. Naturally, if they were legitimately doing business with a 3rd party company, they'd have no say over what that other company can do with their revenue. That's a key difference between what's a normal business operation and what's a shell game for tax avoidance.
This is politics masquerading as legal analysis. Twitter, by its own admission, lied about their user count for years. Elon will either go without penalty, or take a slap on the wrist. Levine spends a lot of time shilling on bots because he knows that's a weak spot for the Elon haterz club.

https://nairametrics.com/2022/04/28/twitter-says-it-inflated...

edit: Not an Elon fan BTW. Just don't appreciate this Levine's axe-grinding masquerading as impartial legal analysis.
NOTE: this is a sarcastic, but non-fictional, commentary on how law and lawyers make the world a better place, not on who's right about anything contraversial.

> The Texas Department of Transportation says the HOV lane can be used by "a vehicle occupied by two or more people"

The DOT website isn't authoritative of course

The offense would seem to be from the transportation code 452.0613(d)(2):

https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/transportation-code/transp-sect...

452.0613(d)(2) operating a vehicle in or entering a high occupancy vehicle lane operated, managed, or maintained by an authority with fewer than the required number of *occupants*.

"Occupants" is never defined in the transportation code.

The penal code has different definitions of "Person" than the transportation code:

https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-1-07.html

1.07(26) "Individual" means a human being who is alive, including an *unborn child at every stage of gestation* from fertilization until birth.

1.07(38) “Person” means an *individual* or a corporation, association, limited liability company, or other entity or organization governed by the Business Organizations Code.

But that's not relevant to the transportation code. Even if you argue that "occupant" means a "Person riding in the vehicle", and then that "Person" here includes unborn individuals, then it's also just as perfectly reasonable she would be instead guilty of violating 455.412:

https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/transportation-code/transp-sect...

455.412(a) A person commits an offense if the person operates a passenger vehicle, transports a child who is younger than eight years of age, unless the child is taller than four feet, nine inches, and does not keep the child secured during the operation of the vehicle in a child passenger safety seat system according to the instructions of the manufacturer of the safety seat system.

There seems to be no exception for child individuals that are younger than no years of age.

A possible defense could be to claim that the mother's womb was in this case the "child passenger safety seat system" and also, being the manufacturer, she had secured the child in accordance with her own instructions.

I hope she takes this to court, I have a feeling they'd dismiss the ticket rather than have these arguments, but if they do it'd be interesting...
>the court will take his assets to compensate.

How do you seize billions of dollars of stock without affecting share prices?
He can choose to do it the easy way and just take an outage to move it, or possibly go into read only mode while moving.

We tend to over engineer things as if it’s the end of the world to take a 10 minute outage… and end up causing longer ones because of the added complexity.
Crypto collapse: 3AC, Voyager, Celsius, and other DeFi casualties
The server was up for us before it was up for everybody else.
No, it isn't. It's completely disconnected from reality.

There isn't even one single court imposed fine which he hasn't paid.
It’s not the same to travel standing up (i.e. not having an assigned seat) than to be able to stand up (i.e. have an assigned seat).
Controversially but famously, "chronic Lyme disease" involves course of multiple super strong antibiotics over potentially years. Then things to try to save your organs from antibiotics. Then pills to help you digest those. Taking 50 pills on regular basis is apparently common enough.
There's an entire profession who's job it is to go full scale threat modeling on assets held directly or indirectly by the extremely rich. Seems likely they either didn't account for war sanctions or thought the impacted assets would not be worth putting behind 10 proxy legal owners for the unlikely case of such sanctions. Yachts and planes seem like they'd be particularly hard to turn into assets owned by a local proxy entity, since they move around so much.
Lol missed this comment while writing mine.
How does this happen? Did the driver not realize the vehicle was exiting at a rest stop and not slowing down? Was the driver asleep and relying on autopilot? Did the driver try to stop the car but it malfunctioned?

Do these type of accidents happen much with non-Tesla vehicles? It could just be media reporting bias, or it could be that people don't slam into parked semi trucks on a regular basis.
> The (?xm) notation is a modifier that allows the regular expression to span multiple lines and to use comments.

This is incorrect.

(?xm) enables the VERBOSE (X) and MULTILINE (M) flags.

From the docstring:

M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines (after a newline)
as well as the string.
"$" matches the end of lines (before a newline) as well
as the end of the string.

X VERBOSE Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's.
Alright, someone has to say it. That text-shadow is awful. Makes me feel like I need glasses. As for the content of the article, yeah, sure.
I'm not a lawyer or a smart individual but oh boy that's a red flag, just like several other details you offered. With the information available, it sure seems like that's a dependency that should never be brought into a project.
How to not feel overwhelmed anymore
All I want is multi-window workspaces where I can split out any tab or panel into a new window.

I understand why it was hard to implement five years ago when people started complaining. But five years of not working on the top requested feature for the tool is just embarrassing. I'd even pay for it, if you let me.
Good observation. Posting something and then seeing it show up in the API was one of the things we were testing. It exercises a lot of the code.
Don’t invest in a company ran by a lunatic?
> It’s a ... potential link that needs to be fully explored not dismissed

Sure. Explore/research away but that doesn't justify the comment...

> that's ridiculous it also messes up digestive systems, gluten intolerance.

Anyone making a definitive statement on a causal link between glyphosate and cancer is not being informed by science. There might be a link, I don't really care. If there is, I'd definitely support getting it out of food. I really don't have an opinion on glyphosate/monsanto/miscellanious megacorp/chemical but what I do care about is people not perverting science to do their bidding.

It's further frustrating because these arguments all originate from the same mindset as all the other nonsense that you may or may not believe depending on various cultural influences (anti-vax, homeopathy, chiropracty, global warming, "supplements", etc).
Well I guess my thought process (however incorrect it might be) is that from a food safety perspective--not necessarily a supplement efficacy perspective--there's a greater bar to pass for the FDA to allow something to sit on the shelf at CVS than to get it from some random vendor on Amazon that might not even reside in the US.
I have a lot of sympathy for some of the frustration being expressed here: I do a lot of open source maintenance, and any amount of change to my workflows drives me up the wall!

That being said: the PyPI maintainers are also in this community, also doing largely thankless work to keep one of the world’s biggest package indices healthy (and secure). Their motives are good, and (IMO) the rollout here walks the right line between imposition and changes that are necessary to match the prevailing winds in supply chain security.
I do this and could never explain how I was more productive. I’ve always suspected I had ADHD and now I really want to get tested
$20 says a Qanon did it.
More substance than Elizabeth Holmes at least.
One of the moderation techniques I don’t really understand is the “We detached this subthread” move. I don’t know what it accomplishes, besides narrowly targeting a (sometimes highly-upvoted) subcomment to specifically bury it. It’s harsher than even flagging because it nukes the whole subthread full of replies, too. Often no explanation. Just “We detached this subthread from [url]” and that’s that. Seems like something you'd only want to do to the most heinous of posts.

I recall having a +80 upvote or so reply “detached” in this way, but can’t find the link.
I think it's more about the people who murdered Epstein getting away without consequences or even an investigation than the fact that a rich guy, eventually, after repeatedly sexually abusing and trafficking children for years, finally was facing serious legal risks which he might've evaded.
That reminds me of Jerry Weinberg's principle: whenever you hear the word "should" on a software project, replace it with "isn't".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590075
We have dual internet connections coming into a satellite office and we only want to be alerted if both are down.