skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is a false dichotomy in the real world anyway. At almost every agency I have worked for we have had both types of clients, and a spread inbetween.

Some are on retainers for ad-hoc support, some are under constant feature development as that is what the business demands, and some we put together and handover to the client complete per a spec.

We don't even use scrum/agile on every project, some just have really light weight agile scaffolding, some we do waterfall if it's small and the client doesn't want to participate in the goings on. It isn't one size fits all in software dev, clients have various situations and expectations you have to meet.
Well, a CGI script isn't really a web server.
If there was enough CAFOs wouldn’t exist to the extant they do now. If there was enough the world’s rainforests wouldn’t be getting razed to support more livestock. Stay delusional.
Weird criticism but o.k.

Edit: Unless I missed something, the author never argued that Twitter should be hosted on one machine and therefore criticizing the “fun stunt” like this makes no sense to me
> Could ireland or italy pass laws giving 3rd generation Immigrants citizenship, and then send them all a tax bill?

Here's the kicker: when you are born to US parents, you are automatically a US citizen, even if USA doesn't know about you. So you may have been born abroad and never set foot in the US, and theoretically, you should have been filling tax reports. I wonder if you owe backtaxes if you decide to inform USA about yourself later in your life...
Galway for sure!
I said he wasn't an influential philosopher.
> Then why should we give it back to you when you come back?

Because it's in the constitution, and changing that is very hard. That's the answer.
> You certainly could build server applications that way. But it feels like there's something fundamental to how service businesses operate that pushes away from that kind of hyperoptimized model.

That "fundamental" thing is the cultural expectation that SaaS offerings constantly grow in features, rather than in reliability or performance. As your example from the world of video games demonstrates, there is no industry-wide belief that things must be able to do ever-more, forever. It's really mostly SaaS and desktop software that has this weird and unreasonable culture around it. That's why your word processor can now send emails, and your email provider now does translations as well.
Start with changing the name. Anti-trust evokes a negative vibe, pushing back on success, politics of envy etc.

In reality the policies we talk about are the proactive nurturing of a healthy economy. Systems thinking instead of systemic capture. Diversification as a fundamental risk management strategy. Keeping them small to keep them honest. Fostering competition that will unleash creativity. Etc.

I have a strong (but hard to prove) feeling that had the past decades in tech not been so dominated by a tiny number of conglomerates, the contribution of tech to society would have been materially much more impactful.
I took pictures the other day with my birthday cake in the dark with lit candles using an iPhone 13. All the otherwise nice pictures have ghostly green upside down candle flames floating in the middle of the shot.

This isn't a new problem (I've since learned), and there's been attempted fixes (I guess they didn't work for me). But it's a great example of just one of the image quality problems that affect iPhone (and other phone) cameras. Phone cameras can't make it, for various reasons for various scenarios, so they fake it. Faking it has problems too, and now we're stuck between two bad options.

I'm glad people are talking about the frustration here, hopefully we'll see powerful options for wielding post-processing tech. When I looked up my problem there were a lot of people saying "this happens on every camera/phone, it's a law of physics and there's no solution".

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252134950

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-may-fi...
Every time I've been involved in a design process that involves choosing a GUI framework, QT is brought up, and ruled out due to licensing confusion. I love working with QT, but it's a tough sell when other frameworks check all the requirements boxes (at least on desktop, web, and mobile). I usually check in once in a while to see if it's gotten any better, but looks like it may be going the other direction.
To be fair, you might have had an easier time if you were pulling apart scientific equipment. Audio quality is so subjective that the circuits quickly become relatively counterintuitive as designers experiment with all manner of hacks to decrease part count and change the sound.
It should be free. Not aware of any charge in the UK or Canada.
> It wasn't until I learned C that I realized you might even program in this fashion (somewhat to my horror) where passing variables to functions could mutate them

If you pass an array to a function in JavaScript, then any changes you make to it will mutate the version the caller has.
> I think cursive is still taught for a year or two in elementary school but after that it's not required and most kids just print or develop their own personal blend of printing/cursive handwriting.

This is the natural result of teaching kids unnaturally and gratuitously ornate cursive forms for the sake of it, divorced from the utility that cursive writing is supposed to have. Handwriting forms serve two roles: to be written, and to be read. The point of cursive, outside of the immediate class, is that it optimizes for write time. If you teach people a cursive form that isn't faster to write than bespoke chicken-scratch, well, then it's no surprise they're not going to use it.
Same. No doubt, Berstein's work has broad and lasting implications for technology and hacker culture, for someone to post it. Can anyone enlighten me?
Not exactly, you still have rules and expectations should you return that are not imposed on non-citizen visitors. They also may choose to, in the future, impose restrictions on you but these are (unless you're Uncle Sam) very difficult to enforce on expats.
I think this article's fundamental premise is wrong. To quote:

"The core reason that companies generally, and tech companies more specifically become the very sort of corporation that they once hated and took on with vigor is the need to keep growing, forever."

Small startups and companies don't hate large corporations. If they take on large corporations with vigor, it is only to take on a segment of the market, not the corporation itself. The only purpose of startups is to maximize profit like everyone else is doing, and if they can do that by being bought out or by becoming behemoths, of course they will do it. If anything, people in startups LOVE corporations because when they're bought out, they can retire early with a ton of cash.

The people who dislike large companies and who should favour anti-trust legislation are consumers. But founders of startups? Nah, they operate on the same profit-maximizing principles as the CEOs of big tech. It's all about money.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
Most school expenses come from local property taxes and most of the rest from state taxes. Very little comes from federal taxes.
It’s also happening to dogs. I guess we need to stop telling them about their toxic masculinity too.
> My problem with anti-trust is my problem with taxing the rich. How do you define rich? How can you logically explain why, say, $999,999 per year is not rich but $1,000,000 per year is? Wouldn’t a homeless person say everyone with a roof is rich? It’s simply illogical.

We all put our heads together and say "how much money should you be able to make before you start needing to give a lot of it back?" (or alternately, "how much market share should you be able to get before you're broken up?") and then that's the number. Some people will want that number to be higher, some people will want it to be lower, but ultimately we (mostly) agree that it's better for all of us if we follow these rules around that number.
That argument is completely unpersuasive. Startups might be forced to be in a position to be sold because their huge company competitors might be pressuring their potential customers not to use them (think amazon vs a new startup offering some database capability). If you can bundle your version of something or charge almost nothing, you starve the startup of any market.
The article doesn’t say if you are a small startup you should like anti trust law.

It says if you like small startups you should like anti trust laws.

Those are separate claims.
Literally all I remember is one scene where a bunch of cop cars or vans get dispatched for some reason like someone's about to die or a heist is happening, something of that nature. They all crash and roll over and wipe out on normal traffic roads for absolutely no reason, and the movie isn't even a comedy, just a generic action movie.

I can't remember one single thing other thing about it, not even the plot.

I do remember an urban setting.
Sounds like I triggered an academic. Do us a favor and get the COVID vaccines. It's "safe and effective" like running untested code directly on production.
I believe in freedom and individual rights. It’s so hard to build a company. Very hard. Try it yourself someday if you don’t believe me. Small, medium, large, lifestyle, whatever your endgame is I guarantee it’s 100x harder than you envisioned.

You say you wish more startups operated standalone. Is it possible that the same person who can build a company from zero to 100 people isn’t qualified and / or wanting to take it from 100 to 1000 people? Shouldn’t it be her right to sell her asset, and start something new?

Some people believe that society has some claim on companies, meaning the government should be able to arbitrarily coerce any company of any size to do anything. Less-logical people claim that society has a claim when a company reaches some threshold of size (which makes no sense as no one can explain what that size is except “eh I guess a billion dollars in revenue”).

The only defensible logic is to let the owner do what they want. Otherwise it’s authoritarian.
"I suggest giving Kagi a try. It's a paid search engine"

I dont like the idea of linking my search queries with credit card.
You're not taking into account data, you're only talking about features. What about when the data no longer fits on the one machine? Or processing the data exceeds the capacity of the machine?

Data growth through user growth or just normal day-to-day usage is expected.
The buying process dictates what kind of product you should build and what parts of it you should optimise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SheUYy3Sc8A
It took 5 seconds of googling to find a statement from Errol, Elon's father, that confirms he did own an emerald mine but also claims it collapsed in 1989.
What if they built thousands of smaller lakes?
Yes it probably can be compared to car repairs.
But often the programmers will promise that it will be much better to introduce the new hunken dakser reactivity framework. And this will then continue in the infinite scrum project.
Good point, you could even ask ChatGPT to list the things that could be on the floor and then ask it what if's regarding them.
To be honest, if you’ve never interacted with the US government you can let sleeping dogs lie.

For example if you’re born in a foreign country to a US citizen who can pass down citizenship. You’re a US citizen, but there is no record of it. USCIS doesn’t know, the IRS doesn’t know. Nothing will ever happen if you travel to the US on a foreign passport.

I know a couple people in Canada like this.
https://gov.alaska.gov/supreme-court-decision-forces-biden-a...
> if you like small startups you should like anti trust laws

Small start-ups which cannot grow are not start-ups, they’re small businesses. This article is, if genuine, an anti-growth pitch. It ensconces the status quo.
If you read the article, it says specifically (such as in the quotation I provided), that startups themselves should like anti-trust laws.
In a few countries you are required to provide a service to the community (ie national service) - in a few you need to adhere to the "must vote" requirement.

But in America all we want is your money. In America its _always_ about the money...
Eliza: A basic Rogerian psychotherapist chatbot from 1964
I'm replying to you here because your "Ask HN" post was flagged, can't comment there, but I think your statement about destructive behaviour [edit: was 'last statement'] is the important one. It is to be taken seriously.

There are probably very few people on HN qualified to help you with your situation. Even for those who are, a public forum is not an effective place to do it. No, a therapist won't magically fix anything. But therapists and psychiatrist are the "debugging experts". They have training and experience to help with problems like yours.

In effect, there is a magnifying glass which is making past events loom larger and larger. A therapist can help you get grounded, reversing the glass so to speak. A psychiatrist can help if there is some physical issue, such as OCD, that is feeding in to it.

I'm not qualified to help, but please be assured that many, many of us have experienced similiar situations. That doesn't mean "I know what you're feeling." We don't. You are you, your situations is unique to you (as with all people), and even if we knew exactly what you were experiencing that doesn't get rid of the feelings. But we can empathize and sympathize. You are not alone.

I would like to commend you on trying to handle things "the right way". That speaks well to you character. Please don't give up on it. Get the expert help.
"Add it all up, and the US has around 340 billion square feet of building stock[3]. This is about 12,200 square miles, or 0.00032% of US land area"

Judging by that, you need a negligible increase in the number of locations you can represent to handle everywhere stable and off the ground someone could be. Much less than one bit per person.

If you want to deal with people currently in airplanes then you could give them an extra couple bytes. It's less than a million people so it won't affect your total storage at all.
That is a good point, and I think there is nothing wrong with anti-growth. It should be something we all aspire to.
> Wayland is hard to port to other Unix systems is because most of them are really far behind in kernel APIs compared to Linux. [...] The other kernels really need to be implementing evdev and dri3 to get the full range of support for input and graphics hardware.

Other Unix systems are indeed far behind implementing Linux-specific interfaces. Windows and macOS will likewise have a hard time.

Because portability was never a real concern in the Wayland community, it's entirely unsurprising that most of Wayland ecosystem is Linux-specific. In fact, even the parts of Wayland that could be trivially made more portable, such as adding kqueue support in parallel to epoll, still haven't materialized. (See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/72 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/214)
I think you are advocating for a flat tax, meaning everyone pays the same percent. This is fair and logical to me.

What I don’t understand is progressive taxes, which make you pay more once you hit some arbitrary threshold. Very illogical.
I've checked out your profile and uplause, it looks like you're also making an onlyfans for india? Not sure what the value add is.
p.s. archive snapshot in case the site gets taken down later: https://archive.today/DEzVW
Change the lat/lon on this to yours but if their station isn't nearby accuracy wanes fast.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?FcstType=graphical...

I've become a fan of personal weather stations but of course if you are traveling that doesn't work (unless a startup wants to put a weather station into a phone/watch somehow)
But still you have to be log in with your account that is linked with your credit card.
Agree about the naming of antitrust being problematic. It comes from the trust busting days. I prefer talking about building a “decentralized economy” that stands in contrast to an economy controlled by concentrated corporate power
Now appears to be fixed.

JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/sdtiU
There are many situations, especially as a middle manager, where you are incentivized to play organizational games more than actually deliver.

We (I'm a middle manager myself) Aren't stupid, so we will.

More headcount and influence means more (at least potential) business impact, and often promotions. If the organization encourages us to fight with other managers to get more of that, that's what we'll do instead of running our organizations better.
The administration used news outlets to pump the mandate and companies preemptively executed the order.

OSHA does not yet have any policing powers, this was an attempt to generate them.
Somewhat related, Managarm[0] also attempts to be Linux compatible, but has a microkernel, multiserver design.

0. https://github.com/managarm/managarm
https://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp

Looking at past years it seems to usually go up a bit this time of year. It's going to take much more to get back up to levels of past years. 2019-2022 this time of year had a sharper increase than it has now.
Maybe, but its articles have been replacing my search results.
Does Moines “road diet” results in surprisingly faster speeds
For a little bit of fun history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars
It sounds like you want to ban competition. Surely if I own an ice cream truck, and I want to include a cone with my ice cream, that doesn’t mean I’m damaging the independent cone seller? Why is that fair but bundling a database is not?
Just replace her with another mediocre actress. One with a better attitude than Jolie. I doubt most viewers would mind. It would hurt marketing though.
> there is nothing wrong with anti-growth

Zero growth means zero-sim games. Pre-modernity. Sucks to be poor if you’re born into that world.
According to this article, the source is from an OSHA study. I can’t find the study at the moment.

https://www.hear-it.org/motorcycles-hazardous-to-your-hearin...
Sorry, I'm not a team player.

But, please feel free to provide additional information
Yesterday my wife mentioned she was looking for a book with a summary of Hong Kong history. I asked ChatGPT and it spit out a list of 5 books, authors, and short descriptions. Like much of ChatGPT's output, it appeared authoritative but was complete bunk. The books weren't real. The authors were names of real people, and in some cases actual scholars. But the list was useless.
Honestly, I don't blame you. A genuine news release from a .gov site was not on the first couple pages of search results. However, that is by design.

https://gov.alaska.gov/supreme-court-decision-forces-biden-a...
Nope. His work on the questions of the nature of thought, language, and mind is both extremely influential & deeply philosophical.

Some of his work on linguistics you can argue is not philosophy. Some I think clearly is.
It seems like the world has never gone longer than 100 yrs without a large worldwide conflict. If history holds, we are due for another one. So sad...
The disinhibiting aspect of alcohol at cruise height over time is quite remarkable. The story is gross, but what's concerning is how common problems are in the air caused by stress, booze and time.

I've watched flight crew tell a passenger that they will be disembarked if they continue to drink pre-take off. It was polite, but blunt and direct. Never been gladder they did.
> Perhaps so. Seems a bit odd to me though. And a bit lonely :-)

People communicate in IRC (or a public slack now based on another comment?), in person, or in email. So when needed communication happens, it's just generally back and forth commentary in a bug is not a particularly good or efficient way to discuss implementation of bug fixes, features, etc.

> Well, I think it's worth noting that this is not very helpful to outsiders who are looking at and working with the code of an open source project.

Because it's a bug tracker being used to track bug fixes, not a tool for communicating with arbitrary people not involved in the project? I don't mean to be glib, but for WK at least that's just not what the bug trackers are used for.

> Even in my closed source self owned projects, I like to provide useful context to my future self.

In the bug report or in the code? Generally IME when code does things that are odd the explanation of that oddness is in the code (assuming not self explanatory) not the bug tracker.

It also depends on the bug itself, bug fixes you'd normally be able to see why a change was made (if not obvious from the title/description) is the attached test cases.
You pay for the political, economic and military power that ensures you are somewhat protected when in another country.

Would you rather have a US passport living in UAE or Bali or Australia, or would you prefer to have an Iranian one?

I'm not saying the taxation is "right", as nearly all other nations don't care, just highlighting what folks would argue it's for.
I'm a bit skeptical of this idea of the manager as an immune system protecting the organisation from itself. I believe this is a symptom of something else that has gone wrong, rather than an ideal to strive for.
Industries produce things. "Web3" does not.
>I'm not one of those people who hates on companies in that way. They are all evil in some form of another and life is too short.

I can understand your view but find Facebook uniquely evil. Early on I opted for other VR solutions that were promoted by Valve because I knew they would eventually trample user freedom and privacy in the name of profit seeking.
This is not what it seems.

The exemption amount isn't exactly a windfall level ($120K). Amounts earned over that are taxed in both countries - the US and the foreign country - and the only way to avoid double-taxation on that is if the US has a tax treaty with the country [1]. But that treaty generally means you end up having to pay whichever rate is higher: the US rate or the local rate, in aggregate.

More importantly you're not exempt from filing even if you have no net tax obligation to the US.

These returns are not easy to prepare, and so you may end up spending thousands of dollars per year paying one of the likely very few people with experience filing returns to both countries and properly attributing income and deductions.

It gets much, much worse if you want to start a business in the foreign country in which you live because then you're the owner of what the IRS considers a Controlled Foreign Corporation. The paperwork for this is a waking nightmare and will cost you thousands more per year, if you're even in a position to complete it. [2] Notice in [2] the US definitely on of a CFC is also different than the rest of the world.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/unit...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cfc.asp
Which is not based on article here.
Very useful for techy video calls - folks you're presenting your screen to, should be able to determine which borderless terminal window ends where.

Depends on the screen size and resolution but for the 1080p 14" laptop I'm finding these settings sufficient to do the job and not take much space:

gaps inner 8
gaps outer 3
But if you ever had a reason to immigrate to the US the process could reasonably expose you to tax problems. yay!