skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm unfamiliar with how bankruptcy works.

I'm not a specialist in the area, but here's my explanation as a financial professional.

When a company goes bankrupt, it's assets and liabilities are summarized by an administrator who is hired. Typically a well known firm with lots of experience, and they will do things like find out where the assets are, possibly liquidating some of them. You may have seen that FTX has a new CEO. They are in fact empowered to run the company.

There's then something called the capital structure, basically an order in which liabilities are paid to creditors.

First of all, you want the admin to want to bother doing the work. So they come first in the queue of people.

There's then the tax man (actually, which comes first, admin or tax? Might depend on where you are).

Then there are secured creditors. For instance you might have a factory with equipment, and some loan was made against the equipment. Or you have property and a mortgage against it.

Then there are unsecured creditors, like employees owed final payments.

Depending on how complicated the firm is, the whole credit part of the capital can get super complicated, basically tranches where each junior tranche is only paid if senior tranches are fully paid.

It's unusual, but if somehow the assets exceed the liabilities, the equity holders will get the rest. Don't count on that, because it's unusual for such a firm to go bankrupt.

Now with high profile bankruptcies there are sometimes investors who will buy your position in the queue. If you get an offer the gamble is basically that it's worth your while to get out immediately and let the bankruptcy speculator deal with all the BS as well as the waiting time to get the money eventually. A friend of mine got offered this from Lehman, turned it down, got paid pretty reasonably, eventually.
Sony to supply Apple with advanced image sensor for next iPhone
In Georgia, where weather conditions are optimal for kudzu nearly year round, it is an unstoppable menace. After society falls it will envelop everything we have built.

Haven't seen The Walking Dead, did they get that right?
Yes, I meant my comment in an absolute sense. It was not intended to be a comparison with China, just that I feel that the US is not a good example of a liberal democracy.

I like the US constitutional amendment preventing the government from making laws abridging freedom of speech though. It's, at least in part, stronger than what we have in Europe, so there are ways in which the US has very good laws democracy-wise, but I'm not sure it's quite enough.
Thanks for sharing! That's tremendously helpful. What you describe sounds exactly like the system I want to build up over time. I'll look into Zwave and Zigbee options.

I've actually stumbled on the images of that "CO₂ Buddy" a day or two ago, but dismissed it because I thought it's fundamentally designed around the LEDs, which I don't want.
Love it! Thanks for sharing. I'll check that out later.
First, most cows are not grass fed. They are largely fed things that have bioavailable calories for humans, like soy. Likewise, chickens mainly consume corn.

Second, farm animals are not 100% efficient in absorbing calories and converting them to meat calories, so the 25x going from grass to beef is meaningless, assuming you were attempting o make some connection to my 25x figure on beef production efficiency.

Third, agricultural land is not all used for meat, and I'd need a source for that 2/3 being marginal figure. Looking it up I see ~2/3 (60%) of ag land is used for beef, but it is not all marginal. Beef is the main cause of Amazon deforestation for example.

Forth, if we just go by land use to globally consumed calories, cows, despite using 60% of ag land, only make up 2% of consumed calories. If we make an absurd assumption that 50% of all calories come from non-farmed sources, that still leaves 40% of ag land producing 48% of the world's calories in comparison, which would include non-beef meat as well.

Finally, just because the land wouldn't have much use to humans if we didn't use it for cows, doesn't mean it wouldn't benefit the planet, and us, if we stopped using it for such.
We have to fight censorship, not introduce a new attack vector that will result in a whole new class of scams targeted at hundreds of millions of people.

Tumblr, Twitter, TikTok - ok, let's focus on preserving access to these apps if you feel this is important. Allowing users to install any unverified app is a massive problem. Just look at what we use our phones for: banking, health, investment, personal info, 2FA, and more.
I am curious what credibility FDA has so that people listen to what they say? Did anybody actually reviewed their methodology on making these assessments? How do they determine that it’s safe to eat?
Not necessarily. If Elon wishes, he can go after (or at least credibly threaten to go after) Apple's core iPhone business with a Tesla Phone. There a lot of conflicts of interests with Twitter, but a phone is a great product for Tesla considered on its own merits.

Tesla has manufacturing capabilities and talent that can rival Apple, and crucially a respected brand whose hundreds of millions of fans are even more loyal than Apple. They have a considerable pile of extra cash, which is why a large faction of shareholders has been demanding stock buybacks on a scale of 5-10 billion to pump the stock price. Investing in a smartphone product is probably a better use of cash than pumping the short-term stock price.

Developers will rush to the Tesla Phone if it is a skin over AOSP and compatible with Play Store apps (following the Amazon model) and if Tesla doesn't charge a cut of app revenue.

They don't have to actually build this, just show that it can feasibly displace over $10 billion of Apple's annual revenue. It's probably better to just bypass Tim Cook and go directly to Warren Buffett and other top shareholders, and ask them if they're willing to risk their cash cow for a totally unnecessary war with Twitter.

In the meantime, a pseudonymous hacker called Peorge Potz can release a jailbreak for iOS 16 :)
In the UK you don't lose your voting rights after a conviction.

That is specific to the USA, where you lose a bunch of rights if you are a felon.
This is the correct answer.

I believe VR is a large part of the future, but in the mean time, the GTA franchise has nothing even close to 2nd place to it.
Ask HN: An Ideal Project Task Manager?
I am looking for a project task manager with the following features (example).

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Tasks, Sub Tasks (Graph), Recurring Tasks

- Add notes related to task (TickTick).

- Assign tasks to users or vice versa (ClickUp).

- Automatic addition of tasks to calendar when date is mentioned (Taskade).

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Organization

- Projects

- Lists

- Tags

- etc

* Multiple views for each task list (Taskade).

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Time Tracking

- Recording, Manual Entry (Toggl)

- Reports (Toggl)

- Activity Log (optional)

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Suggest applications that are file-based (offline usage) or self-hosted (open source), AND/OR that provide ANY of the requested features using CalDav (but remain file-based or self-hosted).

Please don't recommend single user linux command line * (like orgmode or taskwarrior).
The world needs more beautiful single-player adventures like the first three Myst series games. I'd make more of them.
> Interestingly the rate is 1 in 200 in women

I was told this is because the responsible gene is on the X chromosome, so having two X reduces considerably the odds of having 2 failing ones.
> The problem is entirely that the vast majority of new car buyers don't want "basic cars."

Mostly, I'd like to buy a basic car, but in the US, you've mostly got to buy off the lot, and basic cars aren't well stocked; maybe they don't sell as fast so dealers don't stock them, maybe they don't make as much margin so dealers don't stock them, either way, they're not there so you can't buy them. You might be able to convince a dealer to order it, but then you're usually not going to get any of the promotions, and it's not worth waiting 2-3 months and paying more so you don't have to get the features you don't want.
This seems like a great way to handle it.
Syncthing is great! I also use it to sync my music files to my phone, among other things.
Aren't there privately owned beaches in Hawaii?
When this technology finally gets there, and I see no reason to think it won't eventually, it will change the world so dramatically. The amount of land and water we won't need to raise animals or food for animals it's staggering. The amount of meat the world consumes will double by the end of the century (will it? I made that up). As the world gets richer, people eat more meat. Combine that with a rising population and the amount of land we need for livestock dwarfs the remaining agricultural land we'll need (again, I made that up, but it could be true.)

We could rewild huge parts of the Earth, returning the habitat to nature.
"beaten and kicked" why such strong words?

Looks like he just fine and was just arrested: https://twitter.com/TGTM_Official/status/1596987324822622208
> I think my point is clear enough though: if we consider the design and architecture, rather than compatibility

Is there such a thing as a Unix “design and architecture” though? The architecture of Linux and XNU are quite different. Hurd even more so (as you say, if you count that). Later AIX versions moved to a much more standard architecture, but the original AIX (for the IBM RT-PC) ran on top of a microkernel (VRM) which was allegedly written in a PL/I dialect not C (the microkernel was shared between AIX and PICK OS, and you could run AIX and PICK simultaneously on the same machine, with the microkernel ensuring they didn’t step on each other’s toes). Historically, Unix was mostly about the APIs, not changeable details of how they are implemented internally. AT&T’s early 1980s port of Unix to IBM S/370 mainframes was essentially a compatibility layer running on top of IBM’s TSS/370 time-sharing operating system. That’s a very different architecture from most other Unixes, except maybe z/OS (although TSS and MVS were distinct IBM mainframe OS lines, the former now long discontinued), and Cray UNICOS’ ability to run as a guest under COS. Yet it is both a genetic Unix (based on the original code) and from AT&T themselves, so what sense does it make to say it isn’t “really” Unix? But if it counts, why not z/OS?
NPC as in non-playable character?

One of the first search results reads:

«[…] slang used by millenials to denote people who act as if they are being told by someone to act in a specific manner, although that may not be the case. Using this abbreviation, the commentator or the creator is poking fun at the other person for acting in a certain manner.»
No, but we send people down into deep pits to dig them up with very little regard for their wellbeing.

There's an amount of suffering "required" for the production of both of these things. A diamond itself is not screaming in agony as we prepare it for use, but there's a human cost involved.
> but pointing out how fiat is largely based on fiction as well ("faith" written next to a stone mason eye in a pyramid) is not tolerated.

Or maybe it is just not useful, and acts as a distraction. Getting into another 'why fiat backed by the USA works while monopoly money from the boardgame (or cryptocurrencies) does not' is pointless because no one who makes that argument really cares about the difference, they just want to point out that 'everything is made up'.
You use a cold wallet, that is, a secure element storing your private key. Those chips are physically isolated from the computer and cannot be tempered with.

If you lose your device (which should NEVER happen, it's a safe, not a purse), your keys are still encrypted with your PIN code and the device will self erase after 3 unsuccessful attempts.

You can retrieve your private key from a 24 word sequence (seed key), which you will usually store on a fire proof and water proof medium like a like a billfodl or stamped washers. For added security, the private key will be derived from the seed plus an additional passphrase only known to you (kind of like a salt), so your key doesn't get compromised if someone gets his hands on your seed.

Cold wallets didn't exist by the time of the incident you mention.

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@angelol/cryptocurrency-h...
Just use it everyday and you will grok the basics after few months. If you want to do something in xyz, you do it in pwsh no matter how long it takes initially.

> I have difficulties remembering just the syntax for getting the list of environment variables.

How is that possible. Its simply ls env:
Canada: Keep YouTube Yours (Oct 2022)
Google speaks out against Bill C-11.
I hope you can also do without the QR code, and directly display the URL...

Also, that the basic data can be seen directly on the display.
"Pedestrian" or "human in a natural non-vehicular state" aren't specific enough to our conversation. "Jaywalker" is accurate and everyone understands what jaywalking means.
Question, but where do you get the idea that Rust is not stable or predictable? I understand you were asking for something _more_ stable/predictable than Rust, but Rust is already very stable and very predictable (in fact I can't think of any ways that Rust is "unpredictable").
Hug of death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221101192452/https://macmenuba...
Not gonna change a thing until the fines start with a B
FWIW I have a BES and MSc in geography (focusing on GIS and remote sensing with numerous ecology, geology, climatology course sets to back it all up). My programs offered BA and MA (and MES) and you basically got to pick which you wanted to earn with very minimal (think 1-3 different courses) differences on how far you went towards the "human geography" vs. "physical geography" angles. A lot of similar geography programs in Ontario were also BA degrees despite being plenty heavy in "hard" sciences.

Obviously can't speak for parent's case (and I recognize geography is not geology), who has provided a very nice answer, but I wanted to just throw out there that sometimes it's all kind of... nebulous.
Perhaps you're right, but I saw it as integration.

The ball is falling to earth at Vf=Vo+1/2at^2, the dog integrates to get the velocity Vf and thus position to find the point in space to run/jump and time his catch in mid-air.
Epson stops making laser printers for sustainability reasons
You seem to be expressing a very narrowly defined view of what makes someone "smart". To take the other perspective, Zuck grew a hobby college-dorm project into one of the richest companies in the world, by taking advantage of human psychology. Elon harnessed a cult-of-personality to (until very recently) convince everyone that he was basically Tony Stark.

Maybe they are not engineering-genius smart, but that _are_ smart. I don't think they seem like very moral people, and I don't think we should model ourselves after them. But they are smart.

You can write just as dismissive reviews of Steve Jobs as well. He was a megalomaniac who took existing ideas (MP3 Players, smart phones) and dressed them up to be fashion. People are not all one thing or the other.
> For those people it makes more sense

$80 a year can get you a rental computer for 8 days, and you don't have to worry about its battery — or you get another piece.

> you'll have to buy their subscription for your sport in a few years anyway

My Spyder (from 2001) will be working just fine long after my Apple Watch will become a deadweight. As there is no subscription, no online service, and no monthly payment, it could also survive the bankruptcy of its manufacturer.
My experience with pointers was the inverse of yours. My first programming language was Java, and I spent many hours puzzling out reference types (and how they differed from primitive types). I only managed to understand references after somebody explained them as memory addresses (e.g. the underlying pointer implementation). When I later learned C, I found pointers to be delightfully straightforward. Unlike references in Java, pointers are totally upfront about what they really are!
Here is the model, as I currently understand it:

1) some people are rich and want to get richer

2) Ivy educated VCs invest money for group (1) in start-up companies, while paying themselves handsomely with that same pool of money

3) Ivy educated kids start companies using money from group (2), while paying themselves handsomely with that same pool of money

4) sometimes, through a combo of hard work, skill and luck, things work out and everyone makes more money than was spent

5) sometimes, because they are mostly, actually a bunch of yahoos and/or scammers, things don't work out and group (1) loses their money

There are some oversimplifications here, but in general, this seems to be the way.
> I think it's hypocritical of people who don't own one of those (preferably that they bought new) to complain about lack of basic cars in the USA.

I remember shaking my head in disagreement the last time I saw you bring this up in the thread about the hypothetical "Costco car" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28569886>.

I don't own any of the cars you mention and don't care to. I also, however, don't care to own a luxury brand, or even some mid-level with fully loaded options, or even what you would probably consider to be a reasonably priced modest choice, e.g. Toyota Corolla, for that matter. Why? Because when I think of "great, small, cheap cars", I don't think any of those fit the bill. All the aforementioned cars (including your recommendations) all share one or more qualities with luxury buys that disqualify them from being considered by my rubric as "basic cars". Bezos famously drove a beater. At some point he upgraded to a newer (but still old) Honda Accord that I would probably classify similarly—not basic enough.

I own (and for years drove) a mid-90s Mustang. (Still owned, but no longer driven.) It is/was a great economy car, which crucially by my rubric includes low-cost maintenance, given that it lends itself to easy repair. Still it came with some things outside the bare essentials, including AC, power locks, power windows, a nice stereo, and zero smart features (another pro in my book, not a con). Having never bought and owned one of the cars you recommend, where do I stand, in your book, on being able to complain about the state of access to basic and affordable cars in the US car market?

> Or...Vehicles exist at a high enough price point that price/performance is a key driver of value. Spending more on a larger, more capable vehicle makes sense if you plan to use it for the next 15 years.

Alternatively: we know that people are not rational actors, and car ownership is just one of the many things that people can be observed to be incredibly irrational about (to the point of acting counter to their best interests and/or their own stated interests).
Internet Archive adds online Palm Pilot emulation
Some projects moving AWAY from TypeScript. Reasons: build times, code complexity
The problems with using Linux generally aren't desktop environment issues but more the diskljpinted nature of Linux. XCFE is my preferred Linux desktop though, flexible without a lot of baggage.
+1 to this. I have a lot of problems maintaining relationships of any sort once the "proximity effect" no longer applies. I suspect many people do, which is why most people lose all their school friends after they leave school, for instance.
It is a solved problem, UPSIDE (and I believe one other company) now have animal-component-free medium.
It's not really a conspiracy. Even setting aside all the ads/product placement for SUVs and trucks, you can't really go to a dealership and expect them to have any make/model, like types of jeans at a levi's store. You can only buy what they have for sale, which is big autos with high profit margins. The big 3 automakers in the US simply aren't making smaller cars like they used to.

"“You know, carmakers always say they build what people want. But they never mention the fact that they spend billions to tell them what they want. It wasn’t just that consumers spontaneously desired a truck that was as big as a house. No, that was a gradual process. And it has been pushed by the automakers primarily because bigger equals more profit.”"

https://www.marketplace.org/2018/04/26/business/ford-motor-c...
War puts cleanup of Russia’s radioactive wrecks on ice
Introductory programming courses at the University of Arizona were still taught in C when I was a freshman in 2008
I've been searching for the holy grail of project management software since the '90s. MS Project comes closest. Everything else lags too much for serious consideration. MS Project has an online version -- I haven't used it so can't comment on how it differs from the desktop version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/project/projec...
Maybe some of them do, but Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon didn't care about my education, which is good because I don't have a degree.
Coinbase has a prop desk?
Neither of those are really professional level in the same way something like blender is. Hopefully some day though!
> that actually gets anywhere near that lab tested mileage

Sure, but when VW sold cars that got over lab tested mileage they got in all sorts of trouble. :P
Also, Twitter's mobile web experience is the best among social media platforms. They should immediately stop annoying users with the 'Twitter is better in the app' pop-ups.
Diving with the Apple Watch Ultra and Oceanic+ App: Everything You Need to Know
This was very sad to read. My grandmother was on hospice and her worker was an absolute saint -- she went to bat for my grandmother several times against her nursing home and social worker that were tired of dealing with her decaying mental state. I still send her a Christmas card every year.
Because these are the only two options that exist for software-capable people. Come on.
>Toyota found it was cheaper to engineer/build cars with fewer options, especially one's that everyone chose anyway

It's easy when you're Toyota and the overwhelming majority of your customers are middle class on up consumers.

When you're Nissan or Chrysler and you NEED to offer low MSRP stuff so your customers can just barely qualify for the loan or you're Ford and you NEED to offer base spec stuff for the fleet customers it's not so easy.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Freedom of movement is restricted by housing supply.
Previously (recently) discussed on HN on why not to use c/c++ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905885
I think Japanese Knotweed is a tad worse to eradicate. The roots go deep: https://www.environetuk.com/japanese-knotweed/removal
Yeah...when the paychecks don't show up, that's...superbad. I doubt that there's anyone still at Twitter who might be on the fence, but when the paychecks don't show up, that's god telling you to get another job, ASAP.
Isn’t it a deliriant? I won’t touch those.
I'm a big fan of this project
Trying to keep a population fed vs trying to profit in the international food market are two very different things.

I bet to keep a minimum level of food always available in case of black swans you don't need to grow food the way the Netherlands do.
It can be true that most programmers working in C or C++ are spending most of their time solving real problems that are still most effectively solved by C or C++, and at the same time, that even the absolute top C and C++ programmers regularly misapprehend UB itself or whether their own code contains UB in a way that causes a serious issue for the program.
Isn't there supposed to be an epidemic of loneliness amongst many adults?