skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just two days before the tournament's first match in the Muslim nation, officials made the surprise announcement that fans won't be allowed to drink beer at the country's eight World Cup stadiums — a reversal of a previously announced policy.

I wish FIFA would make a surprise announcement that they'd actually be holding the World Cup in a free country, in a reversal of their previously announced decision.
> As we have all come to understand in recent years, CHAIRS can HAVE WHEEL, but CHAIRS can also HAVE LEGS . They can have a BACK, or they can lack them. They can be WELL BUILT or they can be WEAK . They can be strong or they can be weak. They can be short or they can be tall. What does the word CHAIR mean? It seems like a word that doesn't mean anything at all?

You sit on it (butt don't take it with you).

Next question, please.
I only spectate on Twitter. Much more so since Russia invaded Ukraine. You know what all those accounts that are focused on the war are doing? They're tweeting like nothing has happened.

They're tweeting away and millions are following and commenting and retweeting, completely indifferent to Musk and the takeover.

I'm sincerely happy Mastodon is seeing some growth. But I think that growth is coming from a minority of users and that the bulk of Twitter users simply don't care.
US Coast Guard has ~13 Billion USD in budget, operates across the globe (there are USCG cutters both on Japan Sea and Black Sea) and is 5th or 6th strongest navy in the world:

https://www.uscg.mil/budget/
That’s the same with all electric cars, even BMW SUV that’s assembled in North America
fyi, Molly White is the creator of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
The question was what is the framework to do the cost benefit analysis? (I’d say giving access to essential services, basic social participation for >10% of the population is pretty easy to justify, but very expensive).
They just tell the bankers "I'm a YC Founder" and the vault doors open, money spills out.

Probably by applying for a mortgage like everyone else. Outside the clique of so-called Founders the title means next to nothing. How does any business owner get a mortgage? Same as everyone else: down payment and good credit.
No problem. Maybe the easiest first step would be to just set up uMurmur since it can do both voice and text and password protected channels and uses next to no ram. This may be a safer way to handle business, financial and otherwise sensitive discussions.

The one downside is that there is no chat persistence so once people log out the text chat is gone.

The upside is that there is no chat persistence so when your discussion is done, the data is gone and harder for malware distributors to grab anything sensitive. There is also no way for chat platforms to quietly safe voice-to-text transcriptions in the background without your knowledge since you are hosting the server. This may also be a useful fallback in the rare occasions that Discord is offline.

Save sensitive data in an encrypted ledger, password manager like keypassxc or encrypted archive and of course back it up to multiple encrypted external ssd drives. Sharing of the encrypted files is best done on SFTP on your own VM or physical server. There are GUI applications for people not comfortable with the command line. One can set up a cron job to either move files to a place outside of the chroot SFTP or set them immutable with the chattr +i command or make some directories append-only so that malware and ransomware can not destroy your data. There are documents on the web for how to set up a chroot sftp-only server.

but at the expense of convenience

Some may complain at first, but once they realize they have a silo'd platform that has as little censorship or no censorship based on whatever rules you create, they may find it quite refreshing.
That's a real bold assumption. PSA announcements injected into streaming services? Like Netflix, Disney+, HBO whatever? I doubt it and will need a source to change my mind.
Why doesn’t it stand up? The best supported theory (like theory of gravity theory) is that one’s gender is innate and unchangeable. Since we’re on a programming forum it’s read-only human firmware.

So Elliot Page was born a man but assigned female at birth. Eventually he realized that the pain and wrongness he’d been feeling his whole life was dysphoria. So he changed his name to something that suited him better.

Okay, so why then don’t we say that Elliot Page was in Inception but back then he went by Ellen? Why the rewriting history? We don’t do that for changing last names in marriage. Well because it’s a kindnesses for trans people. A huge number of them have extremely painful and negative associations with their deadname and so we backdate it so they can experience their past in a way that doesn’t bring up trauma. It’s similar to why when taking to a trans person you would probably edit a quotation you’re relaying that misgenders them.
> English has a right to a word that means, "those who can get pregnant". Moreover, that word is women.

Does someone stop being a woman if they have a hysterectomy or go through menopause? If someone is born infertile, can they never be a woman?
It's still up to the manager to choose what to do about it.

A reasonable manager would accept the occasional smoke break, but do something about hour long naps.
I would totally want to deploy on the prod environment. If the tools have their symbols resolved properly, they should run on any reasonable environment.

The other way around that we build a dev environment that is different from prod just makes no sense.
Built an e-commerce site in partnership with a close friend and someone he partnered with that sold smoked fish. My friend had actually been paid by his partner in the past and partner claimed to have insider relationships with a Canadian fishery and cannery.

After a couple of months of weekends we launched the site. Third partner was to take care of fulfillment because of their connections.

A couple of months after that, my mother in law contacts me and asks when her shipment will arrive. Turns out she liked what was on offer and wanted to be supportive.

My friend and I got the fish guy on the phone. He said he had to take a day job and was having trouble doing the fulfilling. I said ok, refund my MIL and I’m going to turn all the “add to cart” buttons into “email us” buttons and when you let me know you’ve got a plan to fulfill orders, even if just once a week, let me know and we’ll put the site back online.

My MIL never got her refund. Neither of us have heard from the fish guy again.
I don’t buy this theory mostly because his ego is too big to do so without saying it. Plus given the texts with his friends and partners, it seems like he really really wanted to turn it into something, he just has no idea what.

I think this is just his “emperors got no clothes” moment.

However I do think when it fails, he will about turn and make up an excuse about how it was intentional.

Consider this a billionaire mid life crisis
Several states in Australia don't have technical car inspections, or only have them on change of ownership.
Hyundai requires dealerships to completely re-certify to be an authorized EV repair shop and add Electrify America charging stations at dealership costs. This is all very expensive and many dealerships can't afford the upgrades or don't see a great ROI.
GitHub issues. Post-It notes.
Yes, it's fairly easy for attackers to discover the IP address of the people currently hosting a particular piece of content on IPFS: https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/privacy-and-encryption/#what...

I think the parent comment is asserting that even if you run IPFS over Tor or something, or even if they try and make IPFS more anonymous in the future, it will always still be vulnerable to the "cut off your Internet and see which node in the network goes down" attack.
The design is based off of the Hyundai Pony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Pony

The overall form factor looks a little hatchback? Don’t see the similarity to a Cayenne.
Considering criticism as "anti-Estonia propaganda" is something very Estonian. I guess that when people criticize North Korea, it's just propaganda? No? How about facing the facts?

- The E-id has a lot of tech debt.

- Estonia is very far from being a "high tech country". Bus stops don't tell you the expected wait time, very few businesses are online, it's often complex to interact with the ones that are if you don't use a local bank, as apparently it's too hard to use Stripe. My internet provider doesn't support recurring payments and I can't pay with a credit card.

- Estonian data collection is creepy. For instance, they collected around 10% of the country's inhabitants' dna to make "medecine of the future". In a country where you have to wait > 1 month to get an appointment for a general doctor and where you pay 20% VAT on pharmaceuticals, right.

- Corruption is widespread in some layers of the society. Bribing public servant for school/kindergarten is common (I know many people who did it...). Tallinn's chronic mismanagement is probably due to the fact that town hall officials go work to the companies that deal with the city - Bolt being one of the first that comes to mind. Also, the massive money laundering scheme that got Danske Bank caught was known by every bank in the country, and all took part to it. The country being so small, it's very very easy to corrupt the right people, and it's quite cheap.

- Can we talk about the fact that several government and city officials drive Bolt cabs to make ends meet?

- Estonian tax system is crazy regressive. 20% vat on food! 20% flat income tax! Wtf is wrong with you guys?

Instead of doing ads like this article, the government should maybe work on reducing the sky high preventable disease rates, mental issues in the population, find actual solution for the estonian language problem (as not telling people, "lol just learn Estonian by yourself dude"), stop reducing the spending in education, fund Estonian culture, which is now either a thing for tourists or an source of extractable public funding for the affluent Estonians.

By the way, take care of your monuments - I've seen so many old manors (Mois) falling in ruins, it's a real shame. Maybe that's a better long term investment that another german SUV bought on leasing.
> Is the experience of being a trans man largely that other people don’t even believe you exist?

10000% yes. Once you look for it you can’t unsee the amount of public discourse that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever if you acknowledge that trans men exist.
RGB is not an abstraction. The color-sensing cells in your eyes come in literally three varieties: red, green, and blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell
But unless you're doing all your development on cloud servers that exactly mirror the deployment architecture of your production cloud (I'm assuming we're discussing cloud application development here), then the environments are already different.

Some differences are incidental (e.g. developers using different operating systems) and Docker can help reduce those, for sure. By some differences are essential and desirable (e.g. you don't deploy your compiler).

I'm starting to think it's best to first reduce the number of differences that matter. E.g. if you're using an interpreteded language, reduce or isolate native dependencies so that most code can just depend on the right runtime version.
I think you win :(.
(Separately from the topic of this thread:) It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological and political battle. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of what ideology they favor or disfavor, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Edit: it looks like this has been a problem for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786872 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23367213 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305113 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263982 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271626 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743552 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428615 (Oct 2017)

Please stop using HN this way and start using it in the intended spirit from now on. Your account is way, way, way over the line here.
I really dislike the guy but I've always thought it was pretty weird you have a bunch of verified mouthpieces of foreign govts allowed on Twitter like China where it's banned for their own people but someone like Trump is deemed more of a concern.
I built a web crawling site ring.nz on polymer/web components. Looking at the marketing of the framework it was an easy way to get material design components but in reality the overuse of shadow Dom and shadow CSS meant it was really difficult to use the components or theme them.
I'm pretty sure the whole polymer project is abandoned now...
The site became too hard/bothersome for me to maintain under its tech debt but is still on my GitHub.

I also regret building some things in C# or Java a long time ago.

The biggest regret money wise is I built a crypto forecasting company that became somewhat profitable BitBank.nz but I built it without enough foresight for cloud costs, was running a forecaster constantly on compute engine as well as filling up a postgres database without offlining data, turned out harder to scale down a database than scale up the memory. Basically things like that and I never had time for it after having kids meant it long term costed more than it made even with paying customers so I shut it down.

Now I run https://text-generator.io still machine learning related but I run it very lean from two GPUs I own at home which is a bit easier
Just. Don't. Go.

If you expected a Western country and a Western lifestyle, you were staggeringly inattentive and naive. It's a strict, religious country that demands respect (and conformity) to its laws and way of life. They made no secret of this. Anybody assuming that FIFA being involved or lots of money being exchanged would change anything was on drugs.

It is what it is. They wish to be what they are, and that should be respected. But it should not be visited unless you are of like mind. But as I've written before, the teams and FIFA don't seem to mind. And we'll see whether the punters mind.
You can run Mastodon in a decentralized manner (everyone running their own instance), but most users do not want the drawbacks of such a setup, hence the current Fediverse having nearly all users on multi-user instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.

Sure, those are federated, but unless your running your own server ala Brier then it's not decentralized.

Most people do not need full decentralization though, a trusted instance run by a competent administration is sufficient. Burning battery and data to run a server on a mobile device is not optimal.
My email is in my profile. If you want to discuss it we can schedule time to video chat. I was not exaggerating when I said that I have explained this concept hundreds of times and I am so tired of it.
"He recommends reading the Emacs Manual" is basic and obvious that a lot of people miss it. I try to do it for all software that I use. I don't need to memorize it, but familiarity is helpful.

Even if I can't remember how to do X I know the piece of software I'm using can do X.
Maybe Procera or sandvine
Countries celebrate first-ever fund for climate damages at COP27
I don't think most crypto is built to obfuscate. It's built to bypass centrally controlled monetary system. With the exception of some specialty crypto created to obfuscate, it's really not nearly as good at hiding transactions as say, cash.
I don't doubt it! I personally spent a long time trying to figure out if I was really a trans woman or simply an effeminate man, and believe me, things would have been easier (though not easy) and a lot less expensive if I were the latter. Also, as someone who experienced bullying in grade school for appearing to be an effeminate cis boy, I'm sure that a more accepting environment benefits everyone.
There’s a serious citation needed on those numbers but even if they are accurate, theseauthors are not slaves. They voluntarily sign contracts rather than give their work away, self-publish, or stop writing. It seems rather self-serving to argue that you are better equipped to make that decision for them and that means you should get something you want without paying for it.
Just one thing, Is it possible to modify the vase "lip"?
The Bolt is one of the cars available through the carshare system in my city, and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked it. The combination of absurd torque and econobox look and feel was just fun.

I probably would have bought one if I didn’t have to street park somewhere where subzero temperatures (°F) aren’t uncommon. Ended up getting a low(er) mileage Ford Fusion Hybrid instead.
> respect of a lab assistant – unless you have a PhD and a postdoc.

This applies to even those with those with Biology backgrounds, as an undergrad that entered the Industry after an expensive and precarious 5 years of University and exiting during the aftermath of the financial crisis with tons of debt I knew I was never going to enjoy or like my time there within the first months.

I had aspirations to be CLS (you need to be sponsored by a corporation for the training/licensing process) but the truth is the Industry is rife with petty political rivalries where you can get sucked into for no other reason than being assigned to someone's lab that didn't cite them years back--you and your career can easily become collateral damage as result or some other bitter rivalry.

I found most in that Industry to be passive-aggressive cowards who would never confront an issue with anyone or anything and would rather create and foster this toxic atmosphere where it's typical that unless you did a PhD or a Post-doc you might as well be a mindless drone who carries out the edicts of your superiors who graduated in the 70s or 80s.

I will offer this advice: don't enter the Industry unless you get paid extraordinarily more to do so than any other offer you get, and if you love the life/health sciences (as I once did) please find some other outlet because the Industry will quickly steal any passion and leave you without much recourse.

Work in Genomics is promising, as is most Health Sciences in the 21st Century, but it is in DIRE need of a cultural shift (most boomer aged researchers need to die or retire already) and since the best ones are bio-hackers for a reason despite the lack of funding, there are other options albeit not lucrative ones.

> The culture somewhere shifted around 2018-2019

Your experience sounds like the brochure version of what we were sold as an undergrad in the Health Sciences, the ability to have on the job cross-discipline job experience, the reality was way more toxic, we didn't have agile or PM back then but we had Lab Directors and the thumb of corporate which in my view was way more hostile towards such an environment. Anything that deviated from your workload was seen as a unnecessary distraction and misuse of company resources.

I'm glad I made the pivot to tech when I did despite the turmoil to get there, but sadly now that I'm focused on AI/ML in order to come back to tech industry outside of my narrow displine, it's now imploding on itself with mass layoffs or hiring freezes and it seems that the recession will be used a reason to up-end the many reasons why tech was better than the health sciences, where apparently it's already becoming more normal for even a role as an intern for a YC backed company to require a Masters/PhD student!
Cool lesson. Your MIL took one for the team. Best to test supplier capacity before launching.
Ask HN: What Do I Need to Know About Accounting for a Small Business?
I am about to start a small software business, so when I read [1], which says,

> Usually small businesses are terrible at accounting and finance, but even they typically have some idea where their bank accounts are and what is in them

I want to know how to not be terrible at accounting and finance.

This was on an article about FTX's "creative" accounting practices.

Obviously, I have no intention of being creative with the accounting for my future business, so I need to know about accounting. But what do I actually need to know?

Here's what I know this far, thanks to learning about GnuCash and scattering to use it for my family's finances and budget:

* The static accounting equation. [Assets - Liabilities = Equity]

* The dynamic accounting equation. [Assets - Liabilities = Equity + (Income - Expenses)]

* The account types. (The ones in the dynamic account equation.)

* What each account type is used for.

* Credits vs. Debits. (And I use those terms in GnuCash as well.)

* Which account types are decreased or increased with credits and debits. (Well, I use the chart in [2] as a shortcut.)

* The fact that every transaction must have at least one debit and one credit. (That's called "double-entry," correct?)

* The fact that the sum of all credit minus the sum of all debits in one transaction must equal 0.

* The fact that income accounts are for recording the gain of money from outside. (Bad definition, but that's what makes sense to me.)

* The fact that expense accounts are for the recording the loss of money to the outside. (Again, bad definition.)

* That liabilities are unfunded obligations.

* That assets are either money, physical goods, or the promise of payment from someone else, etc.

* That equity is basically the catch-all of everything else I own. (I used it for the opening balances when I started. And yes, that's the worst definition of all.)

* That the movement of money should be tracked in detail. For example, if I pay for something with a credit card, I shouldn't just record the money leaving my bank account; I should have an account for the credit card and record it there, and only when I pay the credit card bill should I record money leaving my bank account.

What else do I need to know? What else would be good to know?

Currently, I'm putting these principles in practice with my family finances, including budgeting, but what other skills should I learn?

Note that I'm not asking about taxes or other country- or location-specific things. This is only about universal accounting, at a level needed for a typical non-fintech small business.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657492

[2]: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-accounting1.html
Lol you have to be joking. This is 2022. No one outside the tech industry knows what RSS feeds are. A large percentage of people don't have TV subscriptions and don't listen to radio.
Rust apps rarely depend on some C dependency directly.

Pretty much any Rust app that does encryption will be relying on a mix of C and assembly. It's one of the stumbling blocks in getting anything that does TLS or SSH ported to WASM or little endian MIPS.

Thing is Rust makes this pretty well invisible to most users because it all works with so little teeth gnashing.