skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all the "convenience" of online menus goes away when a waiver has to bring their book of allergens to the table and manually take the order anyway.

Which is silly because an online menu is an amazing opportunity to do extensive dietary restriction support. In fact, it's so accomodative to have a filter to narrow/highlight menu choices that I'm surprised restaurants haven't done that and also made "Paleo" and other diets part of it. Plus every single menu entry could have expansions to show exact ingredients, etc., for extra research.
I mean in the sense that lawyers are a type of human, and some humans are evil, sure.

What would happen if all the food-prep workers disappeared in a blink - probably the world would recover, because its pretty hard to dig for oil while dying of starvation.

What would happen if all the lawyers disappeared? Probably things would get worse. Big bizz only hires lawyers to deal with opposing lawyers. If there were no lawyers they wouldn't have to bother hiring any. For that matter they wouldn't have to comply with any environmental regulation, even the insufficient ones. They wouldn't have to deal with critics, since they can just shoot them (what are you going to do if you don't like them arbitrarily murdering people? Call a lawyer? Oh wait there are none).

This isn't a hypothetical. There really are failed states in the world that effectively do not have lawyers (As we know them). You can go there, and see how the environment is treated. I assure you, you won't like it.

Blaming lawyers for the world's problems is like blaming the writer of the newspaper you read about the problems in for the problems.
He tweeted all sorts of ridiculous nonsense, to include talking about Tesla, long before he bought twitter
I would be sad. Passkeys, built-in OCR, "Sign in with Apple", offline Siri are all from the past three years.

But also.. over the past several years I've grown to regard all new features as "god, _of course_ computers should be able to do that". So from my point of view iOS is neither "feature-complete" nor even "good enough". I'm annoyed that the future is coming much more slowly than it should, but I'm still thankful to Apple that it's coming.

One tiny example: "Lift object from background" seems like a gimmick, but in my head it's more like a completely natural feature that we just didn't have for whatever reason. For me, images are very naturally composed of _things_. All those standalone features like "face recognition", "dog breed recognition", "plant recognition", "lift object from background", "search by location" should just be one feature: the phone should see photos as collections of things in space, and it should know what those things are, because I know what those things are. Eh. One day we'll get there.
Most of the value in pumped hydro storage, as for chemical batteries, is in load-shifting, particularly from daily collection to evening load. You use it every day, so opex should be minimal.

For tertiary, occasional use, efficiency doesn't matter much, and other considerations dominate. Gas and steam turbines need expensive periodic maintenance after operating for some period, so you avoid running them too much. Fuel costs money, too. (Unless you synthesized it yourself; but what you burn you cannot sell.) But storing liquid fuel is cheap. Shipping it, too.

Transmission lines complicate choices, in large part because they go both ways, and because must be scheduled long in advance to maximize usage because they cost a lot to build. The power they carry might be free at the source.
Christianity in practise does not strictly correspond to "what's in the Bible", and I say that as a Christian. Maybe sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. And that's before we even talk about how to interpret something like Genesis 9.

I'd say that mainstream and powerful Christianities do have the effect the parent commenter noticed, especially in America. And to me, it's quite plain that that is a perversion of the message of grace that is central to the Gospel.
Haha, the next layer will be a sweater for pedestrians that tricks computer vision systems into thinking you're a stop sign. Probably wouldn't be that hard even.
Right. But that's a completely different thing from twitter.
Sometimes this does happen - VCs and acquirers behaving badly.

It has been my experience that in the vast majority of the cases, the VCs and the acquirers behave honorably, and do the right thing.

This is due to several factors:
1. They are ethical and/or more concerned about their reputation, esp. for future transactions.
2. The decision makers do not personally gain from such poor behavior (the $ flow to the organization, not to them).
3. The decision makers on the acquiring side are concerned about making enemies with others from the acquired companies.
> The argument of shipping being the only thing that matters can be used to justify editing files in production without version control.

> It seems, then, that using version control would be unnecessary under that logic.

> if shipping is the only thing that matters then why use version control

We're talking about commits here, so there's a given that version control is used. I'm not sure why you are trying to turn it into a debate about the utility of using version control. You're defending what is obviously an overreactive post you made because you chose to interpret the post in bad faith. His values are more product focused than practice focused and there's nothing more.

GL with whatever.
And then lost it!
Have you worked in many environments that have implemented SAFe well? These theoretical benefits seem to be hard to translate into practice.
I wonder if the claims of printed code are true.

Elon is definitely not a luddite when it comes to code, it seems like a very uncharacteristic request.
Oh man. I’d never thought of this.
Why would anyone take him seriously?

Well, maybe because he’s the richest man in the world? Or maybe because he’s the CEO of several of the most valuable public or private companies in the world? Maybe because he practically single handedly willed the electric car industry into existence? Or maybe because he’s revolutionized the rocket industry? Or…or…or…

Elon hasn’t whiffed on any business venture in decades. Nothing but net.

But you wouldn’t think that listening to all the “I am very smart” people on this forum. This guy, one of the most successful people in all of human history, is apparently an idiot and no one should take him seriously. He will surely run Twitter into the ground because… because… because reasons.

These takes are outright comedy. Fine if you don’t like the guy, I surely don’t, but good grief you’d think he was pissing into bottles like Howard Hughes.
According to Mozilla, they're not just themes. They make the world a better place.
This makes sense for bugs, which every feature secretly is
This has been driving me nuts for decades: "Smart Quotes" first appeared as the name of a feature of interactive document editing tools, wherein the user would always keyboard the "vertical" single or double quote ASCII character, and the software would look at the context of where that quote character was being inserted, and choose the correct "left-quote" or "right-quote" character to actually insert into the document.

Unfortunately, users (and product managers of competitors) misinterpreted the label in the check-box in the UI that enabled this feature, and thought that "Smart Quotes" meant that the name of the quote characters somehow had the word "smart" in it. But, no, it just meant "turn on the intelligent logic for which quote to insert into the document."

Source: Me, 1988 or so, working on FrameMaker. I don't think there's a reference to the word pair "Smart Quotes" anywhere earlier than the FrameMaker ~2 manual, and certainly not in any book on typography. I'd be happy to learn that I am wrong, if anybody has a pointer.
Happens all the time and the only reason anyone cares about this time is because Musk. If Twitter pays a FMV to Tesla for any resources, and as long as the Tesla board doesn’t care (which they won’t), this is a non-issue. Doesn’t matter what kind of “firm” Tesla is.
Some of those must be disabled with about: config flags.

This must be done after every update, not just once.
And, costs for everything are shifting throughout, with new technologies appearing randomly. The right answer today might be wrong tomorrow.
1) Write commit message.
2) THEN start doing work. If you get up for a spliff break, 1st thing after sitting back down is re-read commit message. Stay on track.
3) Stage files that are kempt, like a mini commit within the commit.
4) Once all files are staged, look at them and look at the message to make sure you have mentioned all that changed, including sometimes _why_.
5) Commit! But don't always push! Only push if you really like what you did.
6) Repeat. Squash similar commits together.
7) Rebase in master or merge in master.
8) Push!
9) Repeat!
10) PR!

Your commits will read like a story of the what and sometimes the why. PRs go smoothly. All is well. Lots of steps but it takes very little extra time.
Given that

'sun|moon'

resulted in

30905 moon
36100 Samsung
44937 sun

my guess is no.
Congratulations! I will say that's it's not "profitable" yet. Just the costs of the courses you bought haven't been paid back yet. Not to mention the ads and paying yourself a salary.
I completely agree. I recommend everyone visiting Sagrada Familia to make a point of visiting the basement and checking out this model. It's almost as mind blowing as the actual church.
This was the first google result for NextDNS CLI -

https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns

looks like it proxies standard DNS traffic to NextDNS via DOH, and does some other fancy stuff including caching, zeroconf discovery, and conditional forwarding.

Dang, this looks like a nice option for my home setup - I may give it a try!!
Indeed cool stuff!
The most bizarre aspect of this was when Twitter engineers were told to print out their code on paper.

There is literally no good reason to do that. At best it is staggering incompetence. At worst it is an intentionally pointless and expensive exercise that serves purely as a loyalty test.
Not really. For my PCs I use wallpaper engine or just make sure the background changes frequently. Hide the taskbar and keep the desktop clean. For TVs I typically don’t keep the screen set on a pause screen and turn it off when I’m done, run the refreshers when it prompts me to, and just do the suggested maintenance.

If burn in happens, which takes an incredible amount of hours with the same elements always on the screen, I’ll probably have gotten a lot of fun out of it anyway and won’t mind upgrading to the new model.
Through experience, I have come to believe that an idea could seem like all of these, but when a team starts to work on it, a lot of additional not-so-pretty aspects of the idea generally get uncovered. They show up weeks, months, and years into development and are very difficult to predict upfront. And whether the idea is good or not seems to depend on what gets uncovered.

To use an example from my industry (video games), a game idea might seem good, implementable, easy to design, marketable and profitable. But in the process of implementing it (even very late sometimes), it might become very obvious to everyone that it's not fun and there's no way to make it fun.

I have also worked in an aviation startup where a software product we built was a good idea and already needed by some clients (govt/military), but there was interest growing in the business market. We developed it, govt started using it (with great feedback), we had enough funding for a few years, and we marketed it enough to start some b2b conversations and see some nice best case scenario financial projections. And it never sold at a price that would have kept the startup in business. We scaled down, founders worked unpaid for a while, and then it was passed on to a university for their students to maintain for experience and to fulfil govt needs. The final earnings from the tech and company sale after all legalese costs: not seven figures, not six, nor five - two. The final verdict for this idea: too ahead of its time for many potential clients who would have probably been late adopters (even if some were extremely eager to adopt immediately).

From my (limited) experience, it takes a lot of time and effort to see flaws with most ideas. I think it's very difficult to evaluate an idea upfront with some kind of rubric, even though many people suggest using theirs. And yours is not a bad rubric - it covers many obvious potential defects with a given idea.
Yes, and even around my mother.
He’s not respected because he can buy twitter. He’s respected because he’s objectively one of the most accomplished businessmen of his generation.
> Why does Twitter need to end?

I use Twitter and I think it needs to end - at least in its current form. It has a very low signal-to-noise ratio and doesn't offer the users adequate control over what they see. As an example, you may not want to see (re)tweets on Baseball from the prominent Web Dev space folk you follow, or the off-topic comments by trolls in replies.

> Twitter is just a social network, it can be used for good or for bad, based on who one follows.

...and the people that interact with them. There need to be more receiver-side controls. Blocking tweets by words is a first step, they should have opt-in filter by subject and raise the bar on replies that ride the coat-tails of authors authority.
>I absolutely have done things like this when acquiring companies - sat with people, asked them to basically interview for their own jobs while showing me the most important thing they wrote in the last quarter.

That a pretty bad method finding the bad apples, more of the opposite.
Someone like Musk who claims to have Asperger's should know this.
I'm repeating myself here, but I'm tired of how non-consensual technology has become. When I got into computer, this sort of behaviour was attributed to malware. Now it's standard practice for the biggest players.

I remember when computers were meant to be a bicycle of the mind.
Show HN: I made a tool to generate tweets famous people could have said
Ya, no, it may not be popular but it isn't illegal and the impact on Tesla will be neglible.

It may be poor options or even poor management but it isn't theft.
Ask HN: My startup is running out of fund. What should I do?
My startup is running out of fund soon. We have no revenue and failed to raise external capital.
Our product development is almost done, but we need a lot of money to launch our product to market (we are in fintech business). We don't have that amount of money, and it is not even close.

So the real question is what to do after the company die? If I keep working on this, the company can stay in zombie mode for years. I honestly think we should shut the company down. My cofounder is telling me if I don't keep working on this startup (using the money out of my cofounder & me's pocket after the company die), then I am being guilty to him, guilty to current investors and guilty to employees, because I am not all in.

What are your guys thought?
A lot of effort to make a funny pointed joke or maybe not? Am i part of some A/B testing here.
Nah paper is still more efficient than computers in quick meetings. You can imagine many seconds being wasted if they were on a laptop and the engineer needs to find his files.

Paper the UX is perfect and instant.
this title makes me roll my eyes. such a blatant attempt at confusing-titleism
To be fair to your pre-caffeinated self, I also thought of twins when reading that post. It’s worded in a way that seems to imply twins, at least at first.
Intel is ^Intel$. The nouns are separated by word boundaries. Feel free to explore the files in the repo
> Technology is famous for inverting the classic boss vs lackey relationship.

If only Elon Musk knew as much as you do about managing engineers!
Interesting. My impression is that SpaceX has delivered some extraordinary results by throwing out a lot of conventional wisdom and starting over from first principles. This anecdote suggests they’re humble enough to re-adopt standard practices when experience shows their value.

Seems like a good approach… if the cost of failure is manageable.
If the UK did do it, it would be more likely a parting gift for the fact that Putin sent military personnel into the UK to assassinate [1] a naturalized Briton living there, not caring about others that might have been involved, and using poison that would definitely be traced back to Russia as a final "fuck you".

I doubt the UK did anything, personally. But Russia is seriously on the UK's shit-list, so if they did, it'd be understandable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
I’ve scanned QR codes just a handful of times in the last decade, and I can’t remember any of them being useful.
Tesla definitely seems like the kind of place where they love hiring HR people who habitually push against powerful higher ups.
Elon Musk to Twitter executives: You’re fired, you may now collect $122 million
Mobile devices is my guess. For example, iOS by default does not use straight ASCII quote, all quotes are "typographically-correct" curly quotes, pretty much in conformance of Apple design-obsessive reputation.
I feel like there is a lot of misinformation here and am compelled to comment, I’ve started and administered two corporations.

What you’re describing as self dealing isn’t illegal, thousands of corporations are run this way every day as long as taxes are paid correctly on the fair value of any transactions between the companies in question. It doesn’t even have to be profitable, Tesla could categorize the work they are doing for Twitter 100 different ways; marketing, R&D, team building, training, whatever.

As for minority shareholders, they have completely arbitrary rights depending on the bylaws, articles of incorporation, etc. If they are lucky, they might be able to periodically vote for board members given the right class of shares. Otherwise they have pretty much 0 input into how a company is run.
> If this is a hobby, then why are you putting your code on GitHub? you should just share it with small communities you enjoy hanging out with. And don't provide any services unless you personally know the requester and like them.

I'm confused. The vast majority of code on github pretty obviously falls into this category.

And quite frankly its pretty condescending. Would you tell someone who enjoys gardening to only do their backyard lest other people see it? For that matter, who are you to tell people who they can and cannot "provide services" to. Do you also object to people acting in local community theater?

> If this is more like art (think music), then you want to make it big, you want to share the code far and wide and for it to become popular, you help out developers from big companies (like record labels) hoping they notice you and pay you some day.

Similarly, how many artists have you met? Some do actually yearn for that sort of thing, but most are not in it to do that.
Why read those news outlets then? I never hear about X person saying Y thing because I don't read general news outlets.
In some countries there might also be a menu on the table for easier browsing. It does away with the frustrating parts of the experience like needing your orders ready at the exact time the waiter asks for it and having to wait for a bill after you finish. So you can just focus on the company of the people you're with, the food and the atmosphere.
No, I am not getting the requirement of oversteering from the original work at all. Oversteering is a basic principle in control theory. There are only very special circumstances -- that of naturally self-correcting processes -- that do not require oversteering. And we have a lot of evidence that inflation tends to be a naturally divergent process, and this is why you need to oversteer. E.g. left to itself, inflation tends to increase as workers demand more wages to respond to rising prices, and other firms mark up prices by even more to match expected price increases, etc. Once this becomes rooted in expectations, everyone tries to get ahead of the curve, so to speak.

There is also the historical record, not reliant at all on theory, that attempts to tame inflation require very drastic interventions and are very painful. Inflation doesn't just die down on it's own, not when you are talking about the persistent, structural inflation we are facing (rather than inflation just from the tail end of an economic boom). Anyone who thinks that a small interest rate increase combined with patience is going to solve this inflation problem is hoping for an ahistorical miracle.
The Oldest Surviving Printed Advertisement in English (2019)
Giraffes? Giraffes! did something similar on a track which I really love but whose name I can't be bothered transcribing: https://youtu.be/bJ50UBCkwl0

And funnily enough I feel similarly about the album art there as you feel about the rock video.
FWIW if it’s really that simple to run your projects, then your dockerfile would probably be just a few lines.
I uae different search engines for different purposes. None is truly better
It's simply disrespectful to not use the tools thats main purpose is to inform others of what's going on. I've seen it before and I don't fuss about it, but it's so arrogant, like "_I_ know what's up, and that's all that matters. Hmph".

Write good commit messages. Use present tense like "Add cats to news feed.". For your "WIP", squash them together once there's something cohesive.

Next on my gripe: A single half sentence email responses!
We need not wonder. Nature has already given us a trial run.

All this brouhaha over unintended consequences are going to ultimately be secondary to the known and catastrophic consequences of runaway global warming.
The fact is that demonstrating one’s values is a human thing.* These people aren’t really against “virtue signaling”**…that’s a rhetorical sleight of hand to avoid saying what’s often more unpopular—that they don’t like the virtue being signaled.

* of course there are always going to be people who are over the top and annoying about it.

** we know this because of how selectively the term is applied.
I think one reason we don’t use those PoS terminals too often in the US is because of tipping culture. There is this insane expectation to tip at least 18%, and in fact most receipts have suggestions for 18, 20, and 22%. Any time a server has brought me one of those portable PoS terminals, it felt really awkward, as they stare at me thinking about how much tip I should give for the half-ass snooty service. I imagine many others feel this way, which is probably why it’s not popular. I spend quite a bit of time in Europe and have seen more of the PoS terminals used there, but it makes way more sense because there’s no expectation of a tip.
I read it as "flash card systems can be low-effort, but the value comes from effort, so taking a low-effort, automated option is not necessarily best".

Maybe the paragraph isn't phrased in the clearest way, but I agree with this interpretation, if that is what they meant.
I lived in Ochils in Scotland up by Stirling way, and we had 2 larders. One full of tins for when we were snowed in, and one for normal use. We used the snowed-in one most years.

It's hard to say it wasn't bloody cold when the snow is 8' up the walls and you can't get out the door.
They open the menu on their own phone and tell the person doing the ordering what they want. An upgrade over physical menus, of which you often get only one copy for your table. I don’t miss passing a physical menu around and wasting five minutes on each person.