skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was skeptical about the Apple Watch when it was released. No one had made a compelling use case for wearables and it seemed like Apple was set to follow in those footsteps.

People forget but the Apple Watch was originally market as a luxury product in the same way brands like Gucci and Louis Vitton are. I mean Apple hired the former Burberry CEO to head up their retail stores. This wasn't an accident. There was even a $10,000 edition of the first Apple Watch, which was the stupidest thing ever. Luxury watches work because mechanical watches are essentially timeless. Digital rot ensures the Apple Watch will be unusuable in 3-4 years.

I really don't think the Apple Watch was envisioned as a device for health, safety and fitness/activity. Some of that was present early but if you pay attention to the features and the marketing this really switched a few generations in.

It seems like every generation gets a new feature. One got a (certified!) ECG. Now we have temperature sensors and crash protection. This trend will only continue. If someone can figure out how to get the watch to measure blood sugar it will be an absolute game changer for many people.

There is a huge market for these kinds of devices. Lots of people live alone. Particularly old people have these Life Lock devices to help them in case they fall and can't get up.

Is this really "selling fear"? Preventative medicine and emergency protection is a huge market. These things do happen. At some point I'm sure these devices will be able to detect the early signs of heart attacks or strokes. This absolutely provides value.
No, that was more of a straight up closure of startups and tech companies. Like people would go into the office on Monday and all be fired without any idea it was going to happen. The money ran out and the good times immediately stopped. Within weeks the companies would be liquidating assets and going through bankruptcy. This is more of big companies slowly reducing costs because of the uncertainty of profits ahead.
Or they could counteroffer.

Lets say you want $250k. Ask for $500k. They might be relieved, because they thought you would want $800k.
Zig is the new HN clickbait, taking over Rust's spot. That's a good sign for the language, honestly
When Winamp was popular Macs were <5% of the market. I hope they release a version for macos. I don't think the current developers own the IP to Macamp.
Pretty amazing that some people still believe that choice exists rather than submitting to the monopoly. That's a petabyte of files locked into a proprietary format. The smart thing to do is bow down to the monopoly. Only an idiot would try to shift the balance of power back to the users.

Imagine what wiring an office building would be like if all the wires, circuit breakers and tools could only be bought from a single vendor. Boggles the mind.
You seem to be missing the whole point being made — they are unused because of (temporary) changes during prototyping.
Siebel is a meaningful competitor to SAP
there aren't similar tricks for factorials.
Some thoughts as someone who's built software and product security programs in both cash-strapped and cash-rich organizations. I'm going to drastically oversimplify, but bear with me:

▶ The ability to build an all-in-house or largely-in-house program is a luxury where largely every staffer, even staff-aug over time, can have the necessary institutional context to understand whether a threat is being realized. If you can do it comfortably and with a focus on automation, you probably should.

To analogize: a castle has its own moat, its own hard walls, its own defense team, retractable entrances, traps, labrynth layout, etc. etc.

▶ A fully outsourced program doesn't have the necessary institutional context to catch edge cases or even a substantial number of common or uncommon threats and outcomes. Especially when the services used are multi-tenant, which is where a lot of the cost-savings come from for outsourced programs. So for an outsourced program to succeed, you'll probably still need a few hands to add that missing context or to work together with the service providers to help them automatically understand that context.

To analogize: a house in a gated community shares the same security team and light barriers (fence, wall, whichever) as other houses, but that team might not be as well versed on what to look out for. And the house itself may have alarms, but none of this may be all that great at deterring a common smash-and-grab.

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Patreon had what, 1%-ish of their staff doing infosec? I'd venture that a lot of them performed functions such as automating appsec, automating integrations with service providers, etc., understanding privacy and security legislation and obligations, and served the role of contextualizing security between their internal product teams and external security service providers.

Without a dedicated in-house team, no matter how small, I'd bet dollars that they'll be compromised again in short order. And I've advised people relying on Patreon to seek alternate services as a result.
You can clearly see in the original Go announcement, hosted by Pike, that generics were presented as "not yet". Not "never". Let's not invent facts. It was indicated from public day one that it would get them eventually, even by Pike himself.

As we all know, Pike is a bit of a troll, so nobody is surprised that his random musings said that they'll never come. But it also was never his project to decide. He was involved to some degree, and you can recognize his influence, but it's really Ken Thompson's baby. Griesemer was the only founding member young enough to not want to retire after the initial work was done, so it soon became his to oversee. Not to mention that ultimately the project is owned by Google, who is capable of squashing Pike like a bug if he wasn't acting in the interest of the company's assets.

Officially, generics were always on the table and would come once a suitable implementation was found. And, guess what? A suitable implementation, after a lot of flawed tries, was found and generics came. Imagine that.

Had the open source community wanted generics more perhaps they would have jumped in and helped Taylor where he was struggling to speed up the process, but such is life. Ultimately people don't care, are lazy, and like to make others do the work for them, all while complaining about it the whole way. Google eventually found a domain expert willing to be hired to close the gaps Taylor was struggling with and the rest is history.
Questions you need to answer before you quit your job
I quit my job last year and have been working for myself since then. I've been asked by many people about what should they know/do before they quit their job.

I think these 5 questions can help anyone figure out their path
I find that an exhalar uvular trill can be similarly effective
People are recounting actual real instances of abuse. Both here and youtube creators. And it seems pretty plausible. This is basically enabling online bullying and lynch mobs. You only have to join one negative server to get banned from everything everywhere. I think this would be more forgiveable if it was an autoban from the place you were misbehaving, or if the bans were default limited in length without a detailed appeal process involving the person whose account was being stolen servers could opt out of the ban process so at least you could still play with friends at home.
Marcus Aurelius does not recommend disengagement from the world. He was the last great emperor of Rome, for crying out loud.

Heuristic: it is always possible to write an article “X is not Enough” because, of course, no X embodies all possible nice things. Nevertheless, stoicism helps society go.
Wikipedia is nowhere near faltering: they beg for money because this gets them money which they can use to run interesting things, but the basic work of operating the primary site is very easy to keep funded.

Many non-profits don't need to fundraise publicly because they've lined up some sort of stable funding, but then you're naturally much less aware of their funding situation.
It pisses me off that a person smoking weed and not harming anyone can be thrown in jail, fined for all kinds of things (court costs, etc), and there is no victim to show mercy on them like the store did for these 3 students behaving like thugs. Yet these thugs get off with an apology, a statement, and a promise.

I don't smoke weed, but we sure have our priorities wrong.
more money is traded through bloomberg termimal than the market capitalisation or SAP...
per day
> Are you trying to make the counter point that sugar and highly processed foods are healthy?

Nope, I said absolutely nothing to that effect.
> Transitioning to Python 3 meant getting your house in order where string encodings were concerned.

They renamed "string" to "bytes" and "unicode" to "string".

(And still managed to make file and path encoding broken, and added a few bugs in the process.)

No, nothing about Python 3 is "in order". That was just your Stockholm Syndrome speaking.
> If you have to beg every 2 years for money or you go bankrupt, that is some terrible planning

Its not. Its the legal setting that prevents non-profits from gathering more operating money than a given period.

> their revenue streams are not limited to donations

They aren't. Except it works the same way - they cant gather any kind of financial capital that could make them a viable competitor for for-profit companies. Otherwise non profits would have steamrolled the for-profit companies a long time ago.

> Wikipedia

Picking one example as poster boy does not make the argument. Wikipedia is the product of a well-connected, famous persona, who already had enough connections to start and float any kind of organization at the point he started Wikipedia. Its also the first and practically the only one of its kind with no practical competititon. Even so, it is dependent on fleeting funding from donations and similar revenue sources.

The sole example of Mozilla can prove how fickle this format is. Its also one-of-a-kind, it was also practically the first in its field, and for a time it had no competition for its major product. Now its on shaky grounds, with funding for Thunderbird being cut, Firefox not doing so fine and so on.

Thats the problem with non-profits in the current legal landscape. The landscape is crafted to prevent any threat to for-profit companies and it gimps many things ranging from non-profits to cooperatives for that end.

And that makes it totally risky for anyone to build their livelihood on such a non-profit. You can still be able to pay your rent next month as a creator if Wikipedia goes down. But if your Patreon goes down, you are in knee-deep sh*t. Because its infrastructure by now.

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Im totally for non-profits. Actually, an entire economy that comprises of cooperatives, functioning on the infrastructure provided by the democratically elected government is the ideal economy for me. However the proposition of turning such services like Patreon to non-profit is not viable with the current legal landscape unless its changed drastically.
There is a false feeling of security and absolute safety provided by this service. It is an illusion 99.99% of the times. There is another 0.009% when you are too far to get help in time. Then there is the 0.001 when you get lost in a canyon or harmed at rescue distance without cellular network -- the prominent case of that German family in a Canyon in California in a scorching day.
Last winter we switched from gas to wood for heating - average temperature in flat was around 20°C. And we stay with wood this year and next. It's fun, kids love it. And it's relaxing to stare at fireplace with crackling. And that's it. We are used to be economical with energy.
Historically climate change models have been too optimistic.

The other thing we have to consider is that if the model's range is between "everybody suffers" and "everybody dies" do you want to gamble with that?
>Going into 2022, I would rather governments focus on educating people

Yes, thats what most corporations engaged in abusive or anticompetitive business practices say. Credit card companies rake in the dough from abusive interest rates and then feign an interest in helping "educate" the consumers out of being exploited by them to keep regulators off their back and the senators they purchase do the same.

Rinse and repeat, feigning concern for "financial literacy" for 30 years with nothing changing because nothing was supposed to. The system was "working".

I say put the regulators on their backs. If a business transaction is bad for the public then f*king prohibit it. End of story. "Educating users" out of avoiding abusive practices isnt meant to work.
ServiceNow is one that comes to mind
If you look at the diving devices with similar functionality, they start at 999$ and go shooting through the roof. There's high margins to be made here as opposed to volume shipping IMO
> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid, however, the process for replacing SAP will be long and close to impossible.

Personally, I rather liked the approach that Oodoo takes: https://www.odoo.com/

It tries to be pretty modular and even the cloud hosted plans can be mixed and matched, in addition to which the apps can be self-hosted for free: https://www.odoo.com/page/all-apps

Of course, attempting to compare it to something like SAP is a bit like comparing OpenProject with Jira or something along those lines: where one of the solutions is way more popular and recognizable, even if the other could be serviceable in certain scenarios. It's pretty clear which one will be picked by most of the enterprises, though.
This argument is hysterical and counterproductive.
Practice will improve the result. Same with whistling. I can whistle quite well on the inhale, now. It took me years to get right, simply because we don't make that motion with our face parts very often at all.
Right! Jira's pretty great. Sure it's clunky sometimes, especially with it's bastardized version of SQL, but whatever, it's non-coder friendly.
It’s not like they said “don’t worry about dying, just stay at home and stare at our device and you’ll be safe”. They’re encouraging people to get outside, go diving, hiking, or running, get fit, take care of their health and mental well being. Devices aren’t the only thing to wonder at anymore, there’s a world out there to explore and wonder at that we’ve been missing due to our screen addictions. We are all craving ways to disconnect and the main appeal of the Apple Watch is that it allows you not have to use your phone or have FOMO. Building products that increase safety while helping people live their best lives is a smart move.
i stand corrected.

though with we make electric cheap enough most of the others are easy to switch, and that is already happening.
If you offered Musk the CEO job of the merged company he would be happy to accept a buy out.
On HN defending the corporation seems to be the default. It looks like an American mindset to me, but I've seen some of my (I'm from Europe) friends do it as well.
True the vote is coded red tribe and the people that found this issue were working with them. That is probably why the FBI investigation started to focus on them.
This does sound a lot like Bluetooth issues which are of course almost impossible to debug.

At this point the only Bluetooth device I use is my mouse and AirPods. The rest I switched back to wires because of how unreliable it is especially in a residential building with lots of wifi access points.
Maybe, but I've never (as in not even once) seen a React "app" that didn't try to re-implement the web platform and didn't fail on many user-facing metrics.
This is the same niche I fell into - building applications to standardize the work happening parallel to SAP because it didn't cover the edge cases, and people created their own workflows using mostly spreadsheets passed around. Which, comically, our client eventually bought another enterprise piece of software to cover our niche. We figured the gig was up...that was 5 years ago. Turns out the new enterprise software covers only a tiny fraction of the edge cases, so ours just keeps chugging along, paying the bills.
Water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas, not C02.
Workday Financials is a meaningful competitor. I used SAP Concur at my last job and "horribly wicked thing" is accurate. It reminds me of that "evil UX" thing that was making the rounds a year or two ago.
Having worked at companies that switched from non-SAP to SAP, I can say with confidence that this statement is false. SAP is successful because the transition is so mind-bogglingly expensive that it is impossible to admit that it was a mistake afterwards.
It's still actively developed just under different name

https://getwacup.com

I think it's my longest used app in desktop already since previous millennium, followed by TCMD and IrfanView.

edit: tried to install new Winamp and unlike WACUP ir requires me to install also Microsoft Visual C++ which also requires computer restart, all of this to use dumb music player? not very user friendly, no other app in desktop missed it
From the perspective that development time is a big constraint in a game jam it's no wonder zig is more popular than rust
> What's your source for that?

This is not Wikipedia.

> Respectfully, the way you affirm such a thing with such certainty gives me the feeling that you might be pretty far left on the Dunning-Kruger graph on this topic right now.

No, writing "Respectfully" at the beginning of your comment doesn't make you respectful. You are just one of those people who want to show they are smarter than anyone else without adding anything useful to the discussion. Hide your insults better next time. Or better, don't insult at all. Or even better, shut the fuck up.
So you would say to set an anchor as high as possible?
Diverse diet including as many types of food as possible (eg. mushrooms, fermented vegetables, seaweed and other 'unusual' foods), aiming for whole foods (eg. raw rice over white rice).

Your gut bacteria is an expression of the foods that you consume on a daily basis.
Seasons in Hell by Mike Shopshire paints a similar picture of early 70's middle America. Looking back, I get a sense of how depression era people felt about the 20's. Pages of complaints about constant hangovers gets really childish really fast, especially for middle aged men.
RPA isn't usually needed with SAP. They have an API and scripting support.
Python type hints are Turing complete
> For nowadays standards I consider anything below 500kB and with less than 6 server requests already pretty minimal, yet those are still numbers that can achieve a lot of things and still look so "modern"/"normal" that you'd have to look into the dev console to really appreciate the effort that has been put into these

500kB honestly doesn't require much effort at all. My WordPress blog with a popular theme and a few plugins has each almost every article below 500kB, despite looking like any modern blog and having at least 1 image per post.

Actually, if I remove the Facebook share button, they drop to almost 250kB. Time to remove it I guess.
It's not nitpicking when you're using the term in a completely inapplicable, absurd sense.

A framework used to evaluate corporate investment candidates has nothing to do with social credit score boogaboos. It makes as much sense as saying: "Soon Big Government will be assigning buy/hold/sell ratings to you!"
FWIW - Starlink has IPO plans
See the section under the header "Command line tool websockets"
20 years ago I was a grad assistant for a couple of professors who'd built a pretty incredible JIT supply chain platform. The US Army started using it to manage their uniform orders and it worked so well that two entire warehouses were torn down due to lack of use.

A new general came in and insisted on using SAP. 6 months later, they had to rebuild both warehouses.

EDIT: For some additional context, the system managed to basically eliminate the "bull whip effect" all the way down the supply chain. It's really a fascinating system. Developed by Dr. Bill Kernodle and Dr. Steve Davis from Clemson Apparel Research.
How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?
The truth about quiet quitting
One takeaway from the article is that apparently Patreon not only had a 5-man security team, but also multiple security vendors.
Just to be sure I understand your point. Are you saying they CO2 in as an alternative to having the greenhouse ventilate to the atmosphere?

I guess the reason being that the plants would convert all the CO2 to O2 in the greenhouse and then suffocate without the vent or pumped CO2.

Is that the most economical way to keep the greenhouse warm enough?

There are heat exchangers which are passive devices you can attached to an intake and exhaust to reclaim heat.
From what I have seen and heard, this is a pretty typical result of converting to SAP.
Bigger wild cats like cougars and lynx that have not been domesticated pure just the same.
Tim Cook already hung up on that idea :-)
People who spend inordinate amounts of time indoors on the computer have more time in which to develop computer skills.
If we're going to throw out random theories for the cause like diet and pollution, what about all the volatile chemicals off-gassing from freshly manufactured goods?
Wild non house cats like cougars and lynx that have not been domesticated pure just the same.
Your question is answered on the page
I think I've seen a comic about this.
it is common to say that intervention from governments and central banks "distort" money and makes it impossible for investors to get accurate information from the economy.

Why is it so popular to complain about government intervention distorting the value of money, but is it a faux-pas to talk about banks and stock markets distorting the value of money by hiding unsecured debt behind nebulous contracts or ridiculously overvaluating companies?
Maybe for Starlink as a spun off company. But not SpaceX. That's his passion project. He would want to make sure he's in majority control the entire time.
Judging someone as a person on another platform based on how they profess to play a video game seems a bit misguided.
> user hostile

No, because as a user your React "app" fails to serve my basic needs. Web forms work. (I don't care that they're ugly or don't fit your corporate style.) I also don't care that they made your life difficult as a programmer. Sorry.

P.S. I've done my share of frontend programming too, so I feel your pain. Kind of. But sacrificing user experience for developer experience is not the way of the future.
Yes, but we can't do anything about that. So co2 is the most significant that is due to human activities.
Oh yeah I remember when they brought SAP in at my old work and no-one knew how to search for parts anymore. They distributed an Excel spreadsheet exported from the old system along with the SAP part number so we could find things.

Absolute joke of a UX/UI. And don't tell me it can't be done better. The dated, out of support one we had prior had a better UI.
This article seems to indicate that the current models don’t account for some of it: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-o...

> The impact on the climate may mean an influx of permafrost-derived methane into the atmosphere in the mid-21st century, which is not currently accounted for in climate projections.

(Note this is an unexpected type of abrupt thaw; the models probably do include the impact of more gradual permafrost thawing. Cold comfort though, and polar ice is melting at a faster rate than predicted overall.)
CO2 levels were higher in the past, but the sun was dimmer.

Edit: hey dang. I now delete the last sentence of most of my posts. Thanks for the advice!
It does make sense that it targets a people’s speech though. Even if the circumstances are ridiculous.

This crosses into the territory of defamation though so it’s not merely their progressive political opinions being challenged by the courts.