skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Created 2 companies in US, 3 in France - in US forming an LLC is not sufficient for you to be compliant and do business. You need statuses, a bank account, cap table, proof of capital deposit, registration in your state, city, a healthcare and dental provider, 401k, worker's compensation, payroll provider, insurance, accountant / attorney.

In France, I do it alone, in 1 afternoon. 184 euros filing fee. A couple of online forms. I can fill my sales tax declaration, and payroll when it's just me and partners. Healthcare, worker's compensation are built in the tax system, so declaring your revenue is sufficient to get all of that. My professional bank offer includes a basic insurance that is sufficient to rent and run the business.
I find it way more fluid in France.
https://www.amazon.in/Lifelong-Inferno-LLIC30-Induction-Cook...

this one costs around US$15. me and many millions of consumers in india use devices costing around this $12-$20 priced induction cookers because that's the only thing being available...

everyone has a soft button interface which sucks but because of the relatively cheap capital cost, you are able to buy a new one if the old one breaks. with good care i've used a machine not different from above for 4-5 years nonstop
I really liked it, it was fun and left me feeling very optimistic about the future.
That's correct about Japan already having this technology. It was quite necessary given their use of some of the highest-speed trains in the world. These trains will stop immediately upon getting the signal from the early warning system.

Japanese researchers found that there are 'P-waves' that precede the more damaging waves, which they used to create this early warning system, made up of thousands of seismometers placed throughout the country. Chile hopes to use this same technology for their own public safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japa...
The Lithium Market Is Hotter Than Ever and Traders Are Moving In
> OSS funding is a hard problem. OSS was best when it wasn't funded at all.

“Best” is subjective yet I don’t disagree. But what you don’t mention, which I think is important to mention here, is the proliferation of OSS that other vital, closed source software (often monetized) depends upon. OSS has always powered vital software, I’m just making the point that it’s increasingly, alarmingly common.

“Alarming” because the OSS developers often feel they should be compensated if their work is monetized and/or powers other vital software. There is a license for this, but it’s difficulty and complicated to enforce. And it’s not surprising for someone to license their work as “do whatever you want with it” at first, only to change their mind later when they see it used in FAANG products. But then it’s too late, and bitterness and anger creep in.

Take the anger and bitterness of a generation+ of OSS developers and you have our current predicament :(
I'm more worried about the GMO "roundup ready" seeds they sell, and the crops that result.

Those contain alterations that (I hypothesize) are partially responsible for increased allergies in the US population.
"If you choose a license like AGPL then this will exclude most corps", period. It is nicknamed Anxiety GPL for a reason... the discussion of what other parts of your system are a 'derivative work', and would require licensing under AGPL, hasn't been settled and depends on individual lawyers' or judges' interpretation.
Accelerated acceleration or your company is a failure. I wish my company had the problem of only 24% growth.
It wasn't clear to me why so many sources describing this as an "Android" feature. It felt like a PR push, but maybe I'm wrong. This article caused me to pick that apart a little bit.

* The data comes from ShakeAlert (USGS).

* The alerts can be sent to your Android or iOS phone via the MyShake app

* According to Wikipedia, 3 apps are licensed to work with USGS ShakeAlert: "QuakeAlertUSA", "MyShake", and "SD Emergency" (San Diego). [1]

What's the reason Android keeps getting such a plug here?

Best I can see:

* Android has built-in functionality to alert users, so they don't have to take the proactive step of downloading an app. Presumably any system that's opt-in is going to be far less valuable (I imagine not even 5% of iOS users have an earthquake alerting app, even in CA, let alone nationwide/worldwide).

* Android phones are auto-participating in uploading data to the ShakeAlert system (somehow), when plugged in and locked. I think this is really neat tech and has a ton of promise, although it's unclear to me if it is of great value to ShakeAlert in a state that's presumably well-instrumented by precision sensors already.

Great use cases:

* More people being notified is more value. Most people don't bother to download an earthquake app, particularly if elderly, or traveling from a non-quake-prone region to a quake-prone region.

* Detection in more sparsely populated areas or areas not well-covered by precision instruments.

Concerns:

* Being auto-opted-in. Today: Earthquakes. Tomorrow: Shotspotter (gunshot location). Next year: protests against our tech overlords.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShakeAlert#MyShake
The amount of sensationalistic fake information coming out of the media — clamoring to deposition Twitter and Musk as part of their obsession with controlling the tech industry — is incredible to behold.
Is "cardiac arrest" in Korea code for "dead", the way it is in Japan? There people can only legally be declared dead at hospitals, so people are reported to be "in cardiac arrest" even if they've been (say) decapitated.
Whenever I am in a big crowd I have an exit plan, if my exit options diminish to one or two options I get out. I've been in a crush before, it's terrifying, especially being 5'3".
"Importing more migrant workers isn’t a popular idea..." well there you have it.
> You have to look at a longer timescale to see the adaptations take hold.

Hence calling it quits: nature will do what it needs to do until things work well enough, and then calls it quits for that particular feature set until such time where what used to be good enough isn't good enough anymore.
I agree with this. When organizations move their stuff into the cloud, they justify it as driving down complexity and reducing cost -- we don't need to rent space for a data center, hire people to build and maintain that stuff, and so on. But the costing models seem to assume that other burdens like billing and cost management will be handled by the current in-house team.

Except the billing for cloud services is byzantine and entirely unpredictable. So the org hires new specialists to manage this, and then new IT folks to setup and run some kind of CMP, and then they end up in a confused cost spiral that nobody can really explain but it certainly isn't saving anything.

The developers meanwhile really just appreciate all the prebuilt lego bits and relatively simple scaling which they could get in theory and on-prem, avoid the cost spiral, and get way better visibility into what costs what, where, and why.

The cost models get even more wrong when the org tries to go multicloud because its like nobody who builds those models understands egress costs.
I predict he will open-source the recommendation algorithms and allow users to choose their own experience in the UI. He will also allow users to pay to verify their real ID. In the next 5 years, he will work with the blueskyweb.org team to migrate the backend to use the open protocol which will enable his "wechat-style" x.com vision of an app ecosystem bootstrapped off the Twitter social graph. Then he will go after all the other social platforms simultaneously and try to build the most valuable company in the world.
The reason inflation is happening world-wide is because all major governments are following roughly the same policies. They all gave various forms of financial assistance to their citizens to get through the lockdowns. They also all held interest rates down, below their natural levels, to stimulate economic growth during the recovery. Except for Turkey and Russia, most of them are starting to raise rates again now that the U.S. is.

There's a competitive aspect to central bank policy: if the U.S. drops rates but other countries don't, their exports become more expensive and hence relatively uncompetitive in the world market, their manufacturing sector loses jobs, and they get thrown out of office. If the U.S. raises rates but other countries don't, their currency drops in value relative to the USD, their imports become more expensive, this fuels inflation in their home country, and they get thrown out of office. Therefore there's a strong impulse to mimic U.S. monetary policy. This also makes the reaction of other countries a constraint on the actions of the Fed; they cannot make changes willy-nilly without causing severe dislocations to the global economy.

You're right that this is not a Biden vs. Trump issue, and that Trump also pursued policies that were highly inflationary. This is a "humans are predictably irrational" issue. They nearly always pursue policies that fix the problems they have now, even at the expense of causing problems that are highly likely to occur later.
This headline is derived from a report published by for-profit Energy consulting company (IdeaSmiths) that specializes in writing reports to justify big CapEx investments.

From their site-

> Our analytical and due diligence capabilities can provide significant value to early-stage inventors and professional investors and legal firms.

The “article” (and Study) also features BS projections like this:

> The drop in emissions has saved Texans between $10.2 billion and $76.4 billion in healthcare and other environmentally related costs, the report states.

These sorts of reports and headlines are aimed at people that want 3rd party validation rather than objective, unbiased analysis.

It’s even noted on IdeaSmiths LLC’s website as a speciality:

> Technical due diligence for investors vetting new ventures and inventors looking for 3rd party validation

https://www.ideasmiths.net/services-provide/
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly
Pay Google money, and they'll let you do all sorts of things you're not supposed to do.
> > ..ads, which is its primary source of revenue?

> The largest twit accounts, whether they use API or not, should be charged directly by twitter for the value of reaching their many followers

Paid reach is still ads, and narrowing free organic reach so that only the ads people are willing to pay for broad reach for have broad seeming-organic reach drops perceived content quality for consumers directly and reduces the perceived upside for the people creating and developing reach for organic content, getting them to put less effort in on your platform, further reducing consumer-perceived content quality.
>From inside I feel pretty certain that the Republicans will win decisively. The economy, inflation, and general stress levels are just too high right now for the party in power to stay in office. Not the outcome I'm hoping for, but the world is feeling pretty bitey lately.

So lets say the republicans win decisively as you predict. What does that mean, what do you think the populus is telling the democrats?

Is it the people believe the election was stolen? Much akin to republican's clear response in the one link?
Checksums are meant to verify data integrity. Who ever said otherwise?
SEC adopts executive compensation clawback rules
How is the Indian state not Indian lol
"Excess supply at a given price level almost by definition means prices should trend downwards"

Excess capacity to supply doesn't mean there is excess supply. Supply is restrained due to lack of demand.

With excess supply capacity, Firms don't generally run at full output unless there are orders to fulfil. But that doesn't mean they can't then ramp up if the orders come in.

It's when capacity to supply is exhausted that we get price inflation.

"The price of commodities around the world is going up, by definition this cannot be due to a lack of competition - there must be something else at play."

If prices are going up there is a lack of capacity to supply, therefore there is insufficient supply which is why prices are going up - to eliminate demand.

At root the shortage of energy feeds into everything else.

There is no competition. No supplier gets a 'no deal' bid to their offer. They can sell everything they can make at the price they set.
> Always take sides. By not taking a side you are automatically wrong. This doesn’t mean you should engage in identity politics, etc. but when faced with a choice take the time to make an informed decision.

This is a good way to piss away incredible amounts of time on irrelevant things. You are definitely not “wrong” by choosing to ignore an argument about which Kardashian is better looking.
There's a great post[0] by Derek Sivers detailing how to find a good (short) .com

There are still plenty of short ones out there, and a common tactic is for people to work backwards from the domain, and call their brand/product/service the domain name instead of starting with a name and then trying to find a .com for it.

On the other hand, there are spammy/sketchy gTLDs like .cyou[1] which are mostly used by malware authors and spammers.

[0] https://sive.rs/com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cyou
> converting from Pantone to regular RGB/CMYK is a lot more lossy than one would think

From what I briefly read, a large chunk of Pantone doesn't even fit in CMYK:

> About 30% of the Pantone system's 1114 spot colors (as of year 2000) cannot be simulated with CMYK but with 13 base pigments (14 including black) mixed in specified amounts.

These 1114 spot colors are apparently themselves only a part of the total 2161, but still it's 400 colors missing, seemingly without even accounting for texture effects and whatnot.
U.S. Officials Had a Secret Oil Deal with the Saudis. Or So They Thought
Yes because Bihar is run by liberals and intellectuals ?
Also timely

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383494
Salvation Sequence by Peter G Hamilton

A realistic alien invasion hard scifi trilogy set during different periods of time in our future. "Read" in audiobook format, narrated by John Lee who is also great.
> I think that Forth only works with people who've started with assembly programming. Someone who started with a high level language suffered that sort of brain damage that make them unable to feel complexity even when it coils around them and give them a hard time breathing.

What I find interesting about Forth is that it is a language that is simultaneously a high level language and a low level language. It encourages the programmer to write high level programs but if they need to write low level assembly routines for maximal performance, they can (though they may need to write their own Forth interpreter to do so).

I believe that the viral spread of c and unix is possibly the worst thing that ever happened to computing. There is a quote attributed to a physician named Vincent Felitti in the context of addiction: it's hard to get enough of something that almost works. This is the story of c. It is neither a high level language nor a low level language and is thus the worst of both worlds. We've added a staggering amount of complexity to work around the limitations of c, which have also infected most of our other supposedly high level languages, e.g. java, go, rust, etc. To your point though, because we know no other way, we can't even see that much of this complexity is largely unnecessary.

Much of this goes back to Gabriel's observations in the rise of worse is better: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html. What I think Gabriel doesn't fully articulate is that worse is better is an essential feature of market capitalism. The most profitable customers are addicts. Most of the time, you can't just sell them something that is complete garbage. The best thing to sell is something that is almost good enough and that the customer is not empowered to improve themselves. Then they have to keep coming back to you for updates. Why would you sell a customer a complete program that does exactly what it is meant to do and nothing else when you could sell them something incomplete that you can keep repeatedly selling back to them?

This is the water that we swim in, and it sure seems to me that we're all having a hard time breathing.
Part of the problem of these kind of studies is that the allocation of costs between solar+wind vs fossil is difficult when fossil fuels alone can provide all the energy, but solar+wind are intermittent and have to be backstopped by fossil fuel plants. So if you have to use short-term and therefore expensive fossil fuel plants when solar+wind can't supply enough energy, the additional cost over long-term fossile fuel use should be allocated to the renewable side IMO. If you don't do that, you make renewables look cheaper than their real economic cost.

Another way to think about it is if renewables were saving us a lot of money over fossil fuels, shouldn't our fuel billsbe going down? Most utilities are regulated so they are not allowed to keep excess profits. But even before the spike in oil prices related to Ukraine, the places with a higher proportion of renewables have higher energy costs than those without. So where are these so-called savings?

You could make the alternative argument that we need to use renewables despite their greater cost to help the environment, and in the hope that greater use leads us down the learning curve to lower costs in future, but that's clearly not the argument being made by the posted article
Envoy isn't a Hashi product.
It just needs its "killer application". I don't know what it is, but consider. Another constantly failing gimmick until recently was the videophone. "Nobody needs to see somebody while talking" was the standard explanation, and every attempt at a videophone failed for decades. But then the pandemic happened and then the remote work craze and virtual meetings became the killer app for that.
Indeed, this is a loser strategy.

AT&T is also generally a terrible company, however I sure do enjoy the unmetered symmetric fiber gigabit Internet connection for less than $100/month. They've already rolled out 5 gigabit and have plans to offer 25 gig.

All symmetric, my tailscale home-hosted network is blazing fast.

What is Comcast offering?
- Elon Musk biography was interesting (just finished before acquisition) - it’s amazing how close to failure his companies were.

- So good they can’t ignore you — some interesting takeaways

- Atomic habits - only takeaway I remember is habit stacking

- I’m almost finished with Well of Ascension - I think the use of metal is a creative source of super powers
It's just a setting in Google AdWords. The display URL and target URL are not related. You can also play tricks like a "tracking URL template" that is a URL that can be on another domain and receives the "target URL" as a parameter. It is expected to redirect to the correct URL, of course nothing enforces this other than a manual review.

I can't believe that Google allows this but tracking is clearly more important to them than user security.
That part is in the article too.
> Contradicting the corporate politicians is dangerous, because often they have installed dozens of other developers who always agree with them

Or you can fork the project and ignore the politics altogether; FLOSS licenses will always protect your right to do this. Open source is a do-ocracy.
Everybody will be the maintainer of a one-person project.
Remember that "them" above refers to the native population in Hawaii in the post it's taken from. The reason the referendum succeeded was a big decline in the native population combined with large amounts of immigration from the U.S. Today only 6% of the population are native Hawaiians or 21% if we include part-Hawaiians. That population has doubled since Hawaii became a state.
In the 80's we began to export our jobs, unions, and our pollution to the third world. Then, technologic unemployment in the form of personal computers and software killed off not just jobs, but cities and towns, like Detroit MI, Youngstown OH, Buffalo, NY. I argue that what killed inflation was not the Federal Reserve but rather the erasure of the middle class.
I wonder about conflicts / arguments over money.

Gamification of contributions… shoehorning projects into other projects that get funding.

Forks just to try to rake in contributions.

Just free avoids a lot of problems, but certainly isn’t problem free.
Warning: There are potentially dozens of dead bodies visible in this video
Catbird: An experimental Scheme game engine
I read the first book during the pandemic and Barely finished it. It seemed confusing until I realized the plot, but even that plot seemed incoherent. I couldn’t find any reason to pick up the second book. Your comments about the negative/pessimistic finale make it sound unworthy of continuing. Is there any reason to continue reading? Would you advise against it?
> What's the reason Android keeps getting such a plug here?

Maybe Google paid for it.
what the hell is lich if i may ask and yes I know google exists
Yes, but you do not have to go that far to get a fanless desktop.

I have an Intel NUC running Linux (debian).

About 5 years ago I replaced the case with a fanless case (Akasa).
It took very little time, there was just some screws and a cable to attach the USB ports.

The original case with fan was not particularly noisy. But it is just so much more relaxing working or reading without the fan.
Given that your browser history, localStorage, etc. are all stored in sqlite databases: no, why would that even remotely be a problem? Clearly sqlite works for everyone's needs, just expose it via an API. Nothing about that would even remotely require changing sqlite itself.
I don't. Tried it at a friend's house and was like... that's nice but I'd never want to deal with the hassle and low quality games.
With the EEW having been around for a while at that point, it seems obvious that there should have been an automated system to begin a graceful shutdown of the reactor when a nearby quake was detected.

I guess that may not have helped in this case, given that the EEW underestimated the quake. Although, hopefully such a system would have a sensitivity threshold that accounts for that.

Edit: The reactors did shut down automatically at some point, although it’s not clear to me if it happened immediately as a result of the EEW or after damage was detected. At any rate, lack of electricity for cooling was the real problem.
Faster boot was most certainly not a side-effect but instead it was the inspiration and drive behind systemd development. The prime goal of the original developers in parallel initializations was more efficient processing so booting would be fast. If anything, the design was a side-effect of the faster boot agenda, not the other way around.
Finland’s Green Party Chose Nuclear Power
What part of this story do you think is fake?