skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also don't get to dictate the suppliers response to stretching them. If you keep stretching me, one day I'm going to be fed up and not send a shipment until you've paid. If you're truly running it tight like many are, you may have been relying on selling that stock to pay for it, shoot that's a bad spot to be in.

As I've said in other comments though, keep people in the loop and you'll have a much better time. Communicate first and make decisions based on the outcomes of that. Maybe the outcomes the same, and you don't get sent the goods, that's fine at least you know ahead of time and can react.
The problem is that you can only later tell what made sense long-term, who was able to handle autonomy etc.

I work for a company (as a contractor) that doesn't monitor hours worked for their employees and the team is incredibly unproductive. It feels like some have a second job while others are playing games. I'm sure you could get rid of 75% if the remaining people worked full-time for their full-time salaries.
Per https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... and other studies, an estimated 40% of infections are asymptotic. So, for anyone who hasn’t had symptoms, by far the most likely explanation is that they had an asymptomatic case.

If this study’s estimate that 6% haven’t been infected, then it’s about 8 times more likely you’ve had COVID and didn’t know it.
Or we would be best bud with an appeased Russia, who knows in political fiction...

But your point stands: it does something, it serves a purpose, it produces output, a far cry from what the guy you responded to claimed. It's not a job program, far from it.
You're assuming things about the people using these companies for this. What if this is for some essential item (fridge? Smartphone? nice clothes for interview? etc.)

Who is the moral arbiter of what kind of debt is/isn't valid. Everyone on here is pretending like people are perfectly informed about how these companies collect on their debts, but the nature of this article suggests there's more behind the scenes from these companies.

If I open up "xracy's murder tools" am I responsible for people who buy things from me to murder people? Surely not, surely it's only on the people who didn't read the terms and conditions in my store that explicitly state you can't use my tool's to murder people.

These companies are offering people one-off credit cards without actually stating that. That's shady business at best, and actively misleading at worst. Surely they're to blame for misleading promises. I would bet dollars to donuts also that in the next few years it'll come out they have other shady practices too...
Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.
You should let Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart and similar know this. Their union busting tactics are widely documented (including shutting down locations starting to form a union).
Thanks for sharing Biscuit, I was collecting examples of authentication policy languages.

Datalog is also the basis for Open Policy Agent https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/ , more specifically it's Rego language which is also implemented in go https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/tree/main/rego
It is if stopping to work is equivalent with getting deported though. Great system the US created with h-1b
Does anybody know of plugins for code editors like Eclipse, Intellij ect where I could type in latex eq into function comments and it gets rendered into a proper math form? If not directly in the editor windows, but Let's say on mouse hover over, like a tool tip?
> urban sprawl may be a factor

To put it mildly. It's well known by urban planners that sprawl, food deserts, large malls and car culture destroy local communities.
Don’t disagree.
I use these (depending on the needs):

- xterm

- urxvt

- sakura

- terminator
My mom grew up in a tiny village complete with religious conservatism.
She got the hell out of Dodge and moved to the big city when she was 16.
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Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity
Everyone here is taking a single example from the article and assuming it applies to all people who use these services. I think the comparison, albeit a bit extreme, is fair given that everyone presupposes there's no good reason to use these services and everyone knew what they were getting themselves into off of one anecdote.

Mostly because it's at least drawing people to consider there is another side to this.
I haven't seen Go's hit larger than 25% in our production.

Usually that means we have to keep average CPU load below 70%. (Since GC cames once in several minutes, it is usually not seen in per-minute averages)

That is ok for us, since Go significantly boosts development compared to stricter language.

It is "marketplace" thing, so we have enough money to spend on additional 50% servers compared to "extremely efficient No-GC" solutions.

It all depends.
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This same sort of thing was all taught on my degree course (Manchester, UK). Implement an ARM core (with a reduced instruction set), run on FPGA, write a compiler in the compilers course etc etc.

It set me up well - I've written a few emulators as a hobbyist.
> Not really, you can just add more and more control points to a Bézier and it will be possible to describe a curve to a greater accuracy.

The more control points you add to your curve the more computationally expensive it becomes, though.

This is just the law of spline demand.
imho structurally this downturn is much more serious than the dot.com bust. that one was a classic and contained speculative bust in a nascent domain. what we have now is a very different type of challenge. a fully developed tech universe, with demonstrable revenue streams but the sustainability and even legitimacy of those streams being questioned in fundamental ways. this is coupled with an apparent innovation fatigue and alternative growth options like the metaverse feeling completely bonkers.

most importantly, digital tech has become too important: both within countries (democracy, privacy, competition etc) and between countries (security, supply chain political control, trade advantage etc). this does not mean we should expect a wipeout, there is significant inertia in consumer, corporate and government choices, but I would not expect another boom cycle to materialize before global geopolitical stars align towards some sort of consensus of how tech is to be deployed and controlled
I’ll raise you a Gonzales v Raich, wherein the cultivation of 6 marijuana plants in a backyard for personal use is interstate commerce.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZS.html
I am a bit confused. The intro seems to suggest there is a problem with book keeping, i.e. accounting for assets and expenses. That's kind of a problem. But then most of the article is about programmes being over budget.

When dealing with a large project, whether it is a new plane, a big infrastructure, anything large and unique, you should take any budget with a big pinch of salt, there is no way anyone can predict precisely how a complex project, that involves a lot of research, millions of moving pieces, is going to cost from the outset. A ship programme being 10% over budget doesn't seem particularly problematic to me. F35 is a different story.
FWIW, your guess is incorrect. From sshd_config(5): "For each keyword, the first obtained value will be used."

Still, if you cannot explain how that second line got in there, it is probably prudent to reinstall (perhaps even reflash BIOS).
The issue is that without the US there wouldn't be NATO, and Europe wouldn't have replaced it with anything effective. The closest attempt at an equivalent is the EU army which has never got off the ground, and if it did would be structured in ways optimal for the EU's political goals rather than what makes sense militarily. Think dozens of smaller forces that don't speak each other's languages very well. US DoD has similar issues with congressional pork but it's still one organization and one military under one government.
Given how poor their search engine performs as of late, it's no surprise they can't seem to be original; they obviously can't find anything that already exists.
Does seem a bit odd at second glance, seems like hitting the back button undos scrolling instead of navigating back to HN, depending on how much I scrolled. Maybe it's a feature though. Firefox for Android 107.1.0 with uBO.
Hey listen, namin things is really hard
Ask HN: How to build out a startup in the medtech space?
Hi HN! Giving this another try after my first post went under[1]

During my Master's I have built a working prototype for clinical documentation that could be universally used in multiple clinical areas. However I have very little experience in founding a company or talking to investors. I am based in Germany. And since the startup scene here still lacks a lot of funding I wonder what my next steps should be.
The university hubs are not an option, since they require you to hand over up to 45% of the company for only 100.000€-500.000€ funding. Given the regulations in the medtech market this money would not give that much runway. And looking in the future with multiple investment rounds I would end up with very little stake in the company.

I talked to my family and could collect 35.000€ in total myself.

I think the issue here is that this company would most likely not be a unicorn, or a fast growing startup that most investors look for. However, the profit margins are very large and the solution is very easy to scale. Thus the worldwide market is open at relatively little cost, compared to other solutions.

I already did market analysis, tested the solution with multiple clinicians, and my solution would cut the costs of clinical procedures (depending on the type of procedure performed) by up to 20%. I also have very positive feedback by the four clinicians that tried out the solution so far.

Four doesn't sound like much but it is very hard to get in touch with a clinical expert as a single student without funding.

I could really use some advice on my situation here. I am also looking for co-founder advice. How much stake should a co-founder be offered? I really do not want to end up only owning a fraction of the company in 10-15 years.

My personal goal with this company is to grow old with it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733854
That is https://versoly.com/

1) Non-technical people can get setup without a developer

2) VS Code is built into the platform

3) Export as a static site if required

I tried 5+ website builders for my last company in 2017/18 and in 2019 decided I could do better.
You are making a logical error. Seydor pointed out that low density harms communities, which is true.

High density is a required condition for building communities, but not sufficient.
I am a Nigerian Prince, and I'm about to come into some wealth, but in order to access these millions of dollars, I need you to give me a small amount. ($10k) If you do, in exchange for your kindness and help unlocking my assets, I will immediately pay back your investment at 10x ($100k).

People consent to giving people their money all the time, and it is still illegal and immoral if the person offering deceived them. OR maybe you're a phisher and you think there's nothing wrong with phishing...
To be fair, the proprietary format is very transparent. It's a folder with a bunch of (IMO very readable and self-explanatory) XML with your writing stored as a RTF files further down the folder hierarchy.

If I ever wanted to abandon scrivener, I think I could whip up a python script to convert it to a folder of markdown or LaTeX files per section pretty quickly. I have no concerns about losing my data to bit rot or the software no longer functioning on future computers.

As for DropBox, yeah... that sucks; it's the only thing I use DropBox for nowadays too.
> What are the incentives for Twitter’s best to stay, other than second-hand exposure to the Musk aura?

Fun, maybe? I'm not smart enough to work on those kinds of problems, but I do love a challenge. If I was an actual CS person with relevant experience, I could totally see myself working at that kind of company.

It's not what you do forever, but it's totally fun.
Same for me, not sure what’s going on there. Getting timeouts both for this and for web.archive.org
What you’re describing is how IPFS Collaborative Clusters work.

The Internet Archive team would need to host one, and then others could join as “peers” to help seed.

https://collab.ipfscluster.io/
I would guess in a ring roller.

Basically a roller on top pressing down and 2 rollers on the bottom and you wind the metal through tightening the top roller to increase the curve.

Sorry to disappoint you.

If it makes you feel better though, the whales used to set the curves on boats used to be real whales.
In order to get admitted to University of Tokyo, you have to be top on the common national university entrance examination, and then be top on the University of Tokyo entrance examination. So only the best of the best in Japan gets admitted. Highly competitive, as a degree from that University sets you for life.
The relevant population for “was the draft better?” seems to be the people eligible to be drafted not those actually drafted (and, depending on the question, might be everyone who has been or could be eligible)
> She is willing to entertain wormhole discussions which are a figment of Einstein's equations

I think in her recent science news videos she said at one point something to the effect that wormholes are mathematically possible but physically unstable and would decay in a very short time, and since no observation of them has ever been made it doesn't look like they're real. She may be an Einstein groupie, doesn't mean she thinks wormholes are much more real than the multiverse, with the difference that we can probably come with tests for the former, but not for the latter.
I saw that product about a year ago but never tried it.

Looks solid now, will try it out.

Thank you!
Check out the 2022 Congressional Pig Book:

https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book

It identifies $8bn of pork. That’s a lot of money, but if the overall DoD budget is $800bn, then your claim is 1% true by that measure.

Is the DoD inefficient in other ways? Surely yes, but to claim it is “really just” a jobs program is unfair and teleological.
The point I attempted to make was that elixir and your caching needs are orthogonal.

However, to indulge Go vs Elixir in this context (note it was two different systems, companies, and scale referenced above): Elixir has the amazing Ecto query builder and I think poor schema design along with good tooling let folks be productive and build a couple of years of cruft into a tangled knot of table dependencies and access patterns and materialized views.

Go tends to eschew ORM like things and I believe some pressure on the devs to think more about the actual queries being (hand) generated would have exposed schema inefficiencies earlier (instead of Ecto automagically pulling all the data you need, you see the heavy lifting when writing the queries).

And to your point, with a fucked schema and or access patterns, Go vs Elixir or any other language is a moot point. Cheers!
The bonds between layers get stronger when annealed. I don't think it will make much difference in this case since there are no layers in the pin.
That's a good news. Thank you for the useful info :)
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One day, compute requirements will be part of a companies eco-statement.

Eg. Amazon will be forced to say 'For every item purchased from Amazon, 370 grams of CO2 are emitted by our servers and other business operations :-P'
Assume that's true. Ask yourself this question: Is Elon Musk the sort of person who'd fire you just before you vest so he didn't have to pay out?
You === pointedly obtuse
yes! but lot of piracy argument about losses consider installations and distribution totals, not actual usage.
> muppets that are fans of Sabine

... said Stadler to Waldorf.

Her main point to me, which she is quite good at repeating, is roughly that just because the maths works out, doesn't mean it's physically real. I think this is a very healthy caveat which is all too often neglected in popular science reporting.
Issue is that the "we" in your final sentence is really governments and their science agencies. At some point there's a tradeoff between funding particle accelerators or stuff like defense, social care, medical subsidies, welfare, research in other areas. So only politicians can make this tradeoff. But we have a world where politicians aren't allowed to criticize scientists even if they're doing as Hossfelder calls it "ascientific" or even totally unscientific stuff. So the money will just continue flowing towards theoretical castles in the sky.
I see some evidence you can potentially run any language by using your own HTTPD, but I can't speak for the viability. Search for your language with the box and you might find some examples to get you started.
Wow, that's terrible. Imperative instead of declarative, and does not explain the reasons. Perfect for cargo-culting your way to disaster.
They do know this. Many of their tactics are specifically directed at “make the employees not want the union”. Some of those tactics are under-handed, even despicable, but it’s safe to say that they know this and act in accordance.
> I wish I had an assistant who could do the research, find the flights, and book it for me.

Never used it, but that sounds like the value proposition of https://flightfox.com/
How is climate change not a national security threat?
So I’m guessing your head has been in the sand for the last decade while Starbucks and Amazon shut down places that attempt to unionize?
“Of Covid” needs some enormous scare quotes there.
I have been in a university with that much competition (except that I enrolled back when the competition was less fierce, and I observed this as a teaching assistant), and it is very frequent that the competition only lasts until the point of matriculation because university curricula are more lenient in those countries. I would not expect most CS students in the U of Tokyo would be able to do the same.
American individualism has existed for a long time, but trends continue and accelerate. Recent trends to increase individualism:

- Influencers, streamers introduced and established 1-n relationships in society, somewhat replacing more organic 1-1 connections. People start mapping classic relationship-type emotions on what Onlyfans gives them.

- High quality smart phone cameras brought the selfie, the concept of frequently broadcasting a high quality picture of myself, rather than a more natural slice of life moment, picture of a group doing something, relying on another person to be available and willing to take a photo.

- continuing decline of newspapers and other general-audience media, replaced by chose-your-own-bubble media

- online dating becoming widespread, making people more selective, less patient to deal with random encounters; more random rejection, ghosting.

- the pandemic

- homeoffice
Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you've faced with SPA JavaScript frameworks?
Every developer has faced some limitations or barriers when using SPA JavaScript frameworks and wished for a new feature to solve their problems.

This is a discussion thread to post limitations you face with JS frameworks/libraries like React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Next, etc. so that we developers can use this information for developing tools that address these problems.
Consider reading on how the Bronze Age ended. That international economy was brought down by local instability that might have been kicked off by migrants from a minor climate event that sent economic effects cascading all over the known world, like dominoes.

The US military is nothing if not students of history, they believe the scientists, they can tell what's happening diplomatically - we're missing our emissions targets.

To me, it is ominous how seriously they are taking it.

And, not for nothing, but the US military facilitates huge amounts of climate research, on the poles and elsewhere. They're a big part of the reason we even know how much trouble we're in.
Barter is what all trade is. Some trade goods are just more versatile than others. We call those "money" (not to be confused with "currency", which is fiat).
If you base everything on pure monetary value we're absolutely rocking it! If you start talking about quality of life, sustainability, mental health, ethics, &c. it's a whole other story.
It's not a hard requirement, but they do make you jump through extra hoops to put them elsewhere.
> historians and so on are super careful in my experience to say “we don’t know”

True, but they are now.

When Evans discovered (and named) the Minoans in Crete, he did not know that they probably made human sacrifices, so in his eyes they were all modern and elegant like "la parisien" *

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Parisienne_(fresco)
Just visit it in the wayback machine...
Ask HN: FFmpeg real-time desktop streaming
Hello HN,
In the university I'm working in, they have asked me to produce a remote desktop stream for students to connect to and watch the professor coding on his desktop. I would like to use FFMPEG with the latest AVI1 capabilities since we have some gpus (it would be great to use them). 'They' would like a native solution (testing me). I'm looking for information where I can learn to do that elegantly.

Thanks HN, much love
70 comments and nobody pointed out that some of the sharpest minds in the tech industries spend their day making social networks and videogames more addictive.
I did find one part of this:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Secure-Boot-Warning

A nice frontend to inform users about secure boot vulnerabilities is needed. I look forward to seeing this in Gnome.
Thank you, I will check it out.
Yeah I think the deadlines are already over, the whole process was quite shady and I did not even realize you can apply, until the deadlines were over.
The classroom theoretical courses we had parallel with practical exercises were more advanced than what 12 year-old me was learning in school. I'm glad: immersion in applied science made me a more interested student. Education should have more of that !
Not an expert on PMs (is anyone?) but my understanding is the value to the business is, as you mentioned, abstracting the need to manage SWEs as value builders and instead as cogs within the Abstract Agile Machine, in this Sick Reality the PM is Programmer Remade and we are reduced to function calls. Software makes a lot of money and plenty of smarter people out there have invented roles to extract some of that (your) wealth without having to touch Vim.

Due to the relative novelty of CS I think we're still going through the early motions of trying to mesh together a web of programmers from bootcamps to MIT into one cohesive corporate apparatus... eventually we'll land on something similar to medicine or other engineering areas where accreditation is prerequisite and individual cogs have a bit more agency due to licensing etc. Hopefully.

My personal, unsubstantiated, take is that we'll come to look back on this odd time, with the glacial pace and grift hierarchy of enterprise software, as quaint. Some startups are coming around to the idea that you don't need 6 person multidisciplinary teams for generic CRUD, pay one competent engineer those 6 people's salaries and you'll get it built unless it's something special - in which case you pay that engineer 60x and their name is Bellard.
12.5 GBP is a laughable sum as a pollution charge. Wonder if work was done to model public health costs as this price. Is it inflation indexed?
When instructors were well motivated and designed the course appropriately, that can surely happen. I'm not sure if this particular course is mandatory though (see my sibling comment).
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