skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that feature on the list and immediately thought "I bet that improves more code than it harms"
I'm happy with Thunderbird as it is. It would be nice if they preserve the current design and have an option to select it.
Show me where this has happened? You present a theoretical against an actual. I know more people who have been enabled via patents than have been squashed (I know of zero squashed who were actually doing something new/novel).
> That single church lasted for almost 700 years before splitting in two.

It…didn’t, though; there was a schism (Macedonian) within 7 years, not 700, of Nicaea, and there were even schisms that created separate long-lasting Churches on the side rejecting the view of the part of the Church that survived in union until the Catholic/Orthodox split much sooner than 700 years (e.g., the Nestorian schism in 431 and the Church of the East which survives to this day; the Chalcedonian/Monophysite schism in 451, from which the Oriental Orthodox churches still survive, etc.)
Have you ever sold anything in a retail channel such as Walmart or Target? Do you know how much they charge to put your product on their shelves?

Welcome to the world of retail!

If Apple tried to make it so that you couldn't make an app and offer it both on Android and Apple, i.e. it had to be an Apple exclusive, then I'd say you have a point. The regulators aren't concerned with the 30%. Their concern is with the fact you can't go to another store and shop for a better price. THAT is what they're trying to fix. Watch out though - deregulation and market competition all-too-often leads to higher prices. People always act surprised by this.
Which is interesting because the whole purpose of setting up Alphabet was to diversity revenue streams. But I don't think any of those efforts have generated significant revenue relative to their core business.
Based on what, exactly?

I haven’t made any statements that can be easily proven false with the quickest of glances. That was you.

At the end of the day, show me how AliExpress prevents fake reviews, ensures that each of those buyers is real, and that the seller is authorized to sell the product and offers a full warranty. Buying from Framework ensures that because they’re officially reselling the products from the supplier.

You know, the most basic of requirements to be considered a “retail channel”.
Not to get on the merits of Rust or Elixir, but while you are absolutely entitled to your preferences I should suggest that perhaps you may miss out something important by ditching languages based purely on the format of sigils.
I don't know, people have been lamenting the poor quality of Apple software and how much better it was in the old days since I got my first Mac in 2007, at least that's when I became aware of the complaints. If it was really on a substantial continual down trend from then, by now nothing would work at all. Apple continues to invest massively in software, that means a ton of new code, which means a ton of new bugs. You can't develop new software and not have quality issues.

Apple continues to make extremely long term highly strategic investments. You don't get to develop a highly original, industry leading SOC architecture without long term investment in technology. Bankrolling new process node development and thereby locking in capacity in strategic contracts doesn't happen by accident or on a whim. Development and implementation of the Apple watch happened entirely in the post-Jobs era.

So I just don't see it, they continue to commit to heavy long term investment in capital intensive technology projects and innovative new products. Not everything works out. The touch bar and butterfly keyboards were notable misses. But then that's always been true. I look at the phones, desktops, laptops, watch, Airpods, iPads, etc. They're the most Apple-y products Apple has ever produced, and not a single one of them is a me-to product slapped together to ride a trend.
Seattle doesn't have nearly enough density to have that many high schools. Given the ever falling birth rate, it likely never will. The density would need to be obscenely high.

Figure high schools have 4x the number of students that elementary schools do, and we'd need 2x the elementary schools to make them all walkable, that means Seattle would have to have 8x the number of students in high school than it currently does to justify building enough high schools to make them all walkable.

Not to mention Seattle couldn't really afford to build that many schools, as the city can't even maintain the current schools to basic levels of safety (ongoing lead water pipe issues...)
Life-Size Lego Technic Version of the Bugatti Chiron (2018) [video]
Manager should deliver on time and budget in order to keep their job. It is easier to do having performing team. Performing team consists of performing ICs. Easy as that.
I consider this a feature. XML specifies a data exchange format. How this is loaded into memory depends on your use case, language etc. You can use a DOM if this is appropriate or serialize into custom or native data structures. A browser rendering a web page will use different data structures than a crawler indexing a document.
This isn't true for a myriad of reasons. Smaller organizations are usually inherently more compliant, their smaller scale makes it far easier and cheaper for them to become compliant, and enforcement agencies are less interested in investing significantly in enforcement actions against them.
While everyone I know moved away from Eclipse years ago, if you look at the stats it is still a very widely used IDE.

Maybe universities still get students to use it?
What if the farmer was trying to clear the land with roundup and the accidental gmo modified crops prevented him from doing so. Could he sue for damages?
Please do not take the following as criticism, just observations based on my own experience and hopefully guidance for others wishing to venture in this direction.

First, to state the obvious: Hardware is hard. I have been doing hardware for forty years. I know. The cash requirements to build and sustain a hardware business can be brutally painful if you are bootstrapping.

One of the problems I see when reading about solo founders in the hardware domain is that they launch into the business without having 100% of the skills necessary to deliver the product.

When I built my first hardware startup I was able to complete all of the electrical engineering, firmware/software engineering, mechanical and had a pretty solid grounding in manufacturing. In looking at the profit statement for the OP's startup, I see $360K in costs that could have been avoided. That is, payroll, electrical engineering and web design. That's a ton of money.

My guess is the raw materials costs ($330K) likely is high as well. Hard to say without having greater visibility into the design. I'll say this, I would not be surprised if the cost could be cut in half by going to a reputable contract manufacturer in China. That's just reality, sorry.

The first quarter my product went on the market we (I) sold $650K of that product. The website didn't look particularly great, but it worked. I got better at web design over the years and improved it, eventually handing it off to someone else. At that point we were nicely profitable and I had several employees. The point is, if the product solves a problem the website almost doesn't matter. I always think of Craigs List as and example of that.

It looks like the OP devices sell for, rounding it, about $400. Which means 2022's sales amount to about 2,000 units. That's great, but the profits got eaten-up by having to pay people for skills. A device like this can be assembled and delivered 100% without having to hire a single person.

I recently had a case where I had to redesign a board three times due to component availability issues. It cost me nothing to do that work (in terms of cash), just a few nights and weekends of my time. That's the power of being able to do the work yourself.

My take is that solo founders, particularly if bootstrapped, must restrict their venture to whatever their competencies might be. If they don't, they will have to use cash to buy that expertise, which can make the difference between a nice grow path and extended pain and agony.

That said. Good job! Hardware startups can be horribly painful. I am currently helping a hardware startup that has to spend a million or two building prototypes before they can even hope to sell their product. Very different from being able to code-up a web product on a laptop in the dorm where pizza might be your greatest expense. It takes a special kind of personality to endure entrepreneurship in general, hardware entrepreneurs are on a different class altogether (which could mean we are amazing or we are absolutely demented...I think I am demented).
I’m just saying if I bought it by mistake I’d must make it work rather than return it. When all you need is a little tape and cardboard is no big deal. I understand why they have a warning, but even if you miss it you’re nowhere close to screwed.
'Most lifelike’ Lincoln portrait shown in D.C. after years in obscurity
Given @bronkodwana's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34737052

Did you look at cyrusimap? Surely it supports auth via ldap?
You do realize that “Germany” does not exist as a real-life entity, with behavior and agency in a way that assigning blame would make any sense. In fact, it could be argued, that assigning blame to the entire country of Germany, namely after WW I, was the very cause of Hitker coming to power in the first place.
Love to see something my colleague tpuljak wrote shared here.
Was thinking about this too. A 2D distance map doesn't do it justice, really, because it ignores the non-trivial hill in the middle of your route.

The other thing about Seattle is that you can have a grocery store nearby, but still not really have access to it if you're lower income. We have a lot of premium stores, especially in walkable neighborhoods. When I was a student I lived in Wedgwood, and I had 2 grocery stores within a 5-minute walk: the PCC, and the Metropolitan Market, both places where a week's groceries were about 2-3x as expensive as they were at the nearest Safeway, which was more than 15 minutes away.

Not faulting the creator of this article, as it's an okay rule of thumb, and it's hard to include details like that in a model.
Take something perfect and internetlify it. It was basically trained on exactly that data.
I imagine it's less of a pressing issue in the US. In the UK, people who are sole traders/true freelancers don't have to pay the same taxes that employers have to pay on salaries (a class of 'national insurance', essentially a form of payroll tax). In this way, sole traders/freelancers are sometimes painted by the media as "avoiding tax" and the tax authorities much prefer to get people in as employees where possible as they raise more funds. In the US, I believe there is a specific "self employment tax" to cover this problem, so I imagine the IRS doesn't care as much.
For CEOs that thought this would be permanent see Shopify and Amazon. Both have said this publicly and Amazon spent billions on transportation infra. They are not stupid.
In order for someone to be willing to pay you interest they have to have some kind of direction in mind that they expect will return more money than the cost of the interest. If they have a solid plan that is worth investing in, why not pursue it yourself and reap all of the rewards? Management of that might be unrealistic at individual scale, but when you're the size of Google you can go off in all kinds of different directions without much impact.
It’s not irrelevant and could be a conflict of interest if you work for competitors. Where I live I’m pretty sure you can’t have multiple jobs without informing all employers. Also you can’t claim more than a normal day job of hours, so both jobs have to be part time and can’t add on to more than one full time.
Logism is what I learned on and really liked it. Good to learn about alternatives, especially if logism is "complete" and isn't being ported to any newer runtimes.
Fukushima 10 Years On
This is an important point I've also made.

"How can we reasonably verify the output and know it is correct? At least when using AI to create code, we can easily test the code to see if it performs according to the desired behavior. However, that is no easy task for most general information. It is unclear at this point how difficult it will be to improve AI in this regard."

from - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Why not just link to the original blog post on the Thunderbird blog... instead of to another news aggregator site's reporting of it?

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbi...
The email provider that account was tied to doesn't exist anymore, and the domain is taken. I didn't notice until after it happened, so I am not putting all the blame on reddit. It's more of a string of unlucky circumstances. Who knows if I could have even changed it without access to the email account, anyway.

Fun fact: Reddit for the longest time didn't require an email address to create accounts.
Waymo has the most promise and I think has always been seen that way.
Great to see this posted here! DuckDB is an integral part of an in-browser data analytics tool that I've been working on. It compiles to WASM and runs in a web worker. Queries against WASM DuckDB regularly run 10x faster than the original JavaScript implementation!
Don't forget homonyms:

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A nice thing you get in return tho is for separate platforms you can disable code just in the language itself; it doesn't need to be a preprocessor or or handled magically in the build system.

It's also not nearly as bad as a dynamically typed language: you might have broken code you won't realize until you try to use it, but you'll always realize at compile-time.

In dynamic languages you refactor and don't notice you broke stuff until runtime!
From the doc linked "Partitioning is done manually.", which seems like a pretty big limitation to me? For static data sure, but for non static data it seems like it would be an operational headache to manage manual partitions, compared to elasticsearch which partitions for you (although IIRC shard count is fixed)
Experimenting with PeerJS
Due diligence is relative to the industry. I agree that having a reasonably up to date and boring kernel, and keeping updated, is the best we can do now. But there’s something defective in the industry, if there wasn’t, then we could apply industry standards to produce a fully understood and certified device that is actually known to be free of defects.
I would encourage everyone to visit here or one of the similar places mentioned in this thread.

I visited the Sedlec Ossuary a couple of years ago and it was the most visceral personal emotional reaction I have ever had to seeing something. There is something mind-shifting about seeing thousands of human skulls in a pile ala Terminator that I cannot describe with words. I can only relate it to visiting the Vietnam War Memorial and realizing how those overwhelming 60,000ish names are a mere footnote in the casualty record of human conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary
> because government wills it so.

And now you make it sound like tax-dodging capitalists have no influence over a government's will. Welcome to the world of Citizens United, lobbying and such.
I don't need this extension. My code already looks like this. LOL
One overlooked factor in these numbers is that the founder now has more levers to pull. For example, they are paying $206k in payroll, and in an emergency situation, could let some staff go and take over those functions themselves.

I've experienced the same thing with my bootstrapped startup; I'm not paying myself any more money than I did 3 years ago, but if I need money, I can double or triple my own salary within a month or two.

The reason the founder isn't doing that now is likely exactly the same reason Uber or other VC startups consistently lose money; they are optimizing for growth, not profit/salary.
Prior to Pandemic, hi-tech worker retention rate was 2.5 years in my area (this is not in Bay Area, Seattle, or New York).

People switch jobs frequently is the norm anyway.
The trinity is the Orthodox belief. The history of Christianity is full of “heretical” beliefs about the Godhead. Also there is solid evidence that first century Christians did not hold a trinitarian position
Wi Flag (2002)
>The other companies are doing the hiring and firing.

And this is evidence they're not so well run? On the contrary...
What an absolute incineration of time, effort and skill
> this quarter and next quarter

Apple Silicon was a decade-long play, largely by Cook. Even if the App Store is threatened, Apple remains plump.
As a freelancer, I want to leverage others (I'm a Laravel dev), and step more into management/pm and agency lead, how do you get to the point of hiring others and using their talent in replacement of your own? I'd like to do full digital agency, and is it better to niche down? Like maybe just target real estate or lawyers or something?

TLDR: Burned out dev, freelancer thinking of moving into either digital agency, or maybe an ai consulting agency (I think this will be big, and i love all the ai stuff going on and am fascinated by it), trying to make the jump from 'just me' to me + subordinates.
Then, without a license, he had no right to exploit the patented technology. The farmer acted in a way that showed a knowing and deliberate exploitation of the patented technology. There seems to be a disconnect here, but I'm not seeing it. Can you help me with what I've missed?
Yep, Nintendo called them circle pads.
Here comes AI threatening to take my job away again.
“Solution is bad when you don’t do it!”
Ask HN: Are Scrum-Masters Useful / Worth a Full-Time Salary?
Our company has gone on a spree of hiring Scrum-Masters for virtually every team, and it seems like this role adds little to no value to the teams or company.

The SM's all seem to work a few hours at most a day, most of which is running a 15-minute Daily Standup that typically goes 30 minutes (yeah they're not even running standup right).

Is this common? Am I crazy to think that this is maybe a perfect low-hanging fruit for ChatGPT to essentially replace in the next few years?
Social != friends.
The Virgil compiler will typecheck all code given to it on the command-line and then only compile what is reachable from main() after running initialization in the internal interpreter, both code and data. Unused functions and fields and classes will simply never be visited for codegen.
Some features do both: make it easier to write elegant code, while also making it easier to write unreadable code. Introducing such features is a trade-off and I think they generally choose wisely.
Don't get your hopes too high, you may still have to use a proprietary cable:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/10/iphone-15-usb-c-port-propriet...
Hiring at Apple was limited because they don’t pay competitively and they only get the “true believer” types that are willing to work more hours at a discount.

Source: a low level manager at Apple.
In other words, the home schooling parents need to be trained as teachers.
Long-lost prison letters from Mary, Queen of Scots decrypted by codebreakers
For those who like me didn't know, "feature toggles" means that you implement the feature on trunk, but with some kind of flag that disables the feature until it has been thoroughly tested and is ready for release. It baffles me that we require special terminology to describe what is just common sense. Have we invented so much extra complexity that keeping it obvious and simple is a special case?
Usually people decrying short-termism mean focuses on quarters rather than years. Are you saying Cook’s 10+ years that took the company from $100B/year to $400B/year are the short term, and it is at the expense of the next 90 years?
OpenAI is projected to make 200m in 2023 and 1bn in revenue in 2024. If they can (roughly) keep this YoY growth rate, they will become a money printer in 3–5 years.
Overall pros I've noticed is the stability and attention to detail in the small things we daily use.

1. Reliable performance from the OS: what I mean by this is, small features like auto brightness has worked right for me from day 1 on iphone vs me having to adjust it in android and gps lock on maps is always on point. Small things like this work in both Android and iphone, but in iphone it works right all the time.

2. Apple Wallet: I've used both Gpay and Wallet, my wife still uses Gpay on her android, But Apple wallet has worked without a hassle every single time.

3. Quality of apps in Appstore: When comparing same app released for both iOS and Android, the iOS app feels much stable to use without any crashes and better design. For example, the banking apps like Chase/ Capital one were absolute mess in my android(S20 FE), but in iOS I haven't seen them crash/hang ask for reload etc.

4. Software updates: You get software updates as soon as apple releases it vs Samsung taking months/years to add their bloatware and push it.
Context: This guy founded uberduck
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2...
>Of the 89 neighborhoods considered, only nine are “15-minute neighborhoods” walkable for 90% or more of their residents.

I'd love to see the median rent in those nine compared to elsewhere in the city. Can any Seattle residents here provide some insight?
There's a great podcast/interview with the creator of duckdb. He's pretty clear of thinking of the use case as more or less equivalent to mysql but for aggregated queries. I think trying to use it in place of something like a fully fledged postgres server might get weird, less because of any issues with duckdb and more because that isn't what it's designed for.

Podcast/interview link for anyone interested: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/duckdb-in-process-ola...
I’ve been trying to push students in the direction of fewer, better comments but it is a lonely hill to die on.
I think that’s because of where the city is defined. SF is just SF- it doesn’t extend that far south and doesn’t even include the east bay. NYC on the other hand includes big areas like east Queens and Staten Island that are effectively just suburbs.

I’ve lived in both and if you’re sort of near the core then NYC is much, much more walkable than SF.
It was a very dark era for Apple, but the Power Computing years were the best time to be an Apple fanboy IMO. You had commodity firebreathing PC hardware running OS 8 better than Macs did, more ports and connectivity, the software was best-in-class, and this was the era with no spyware, telemetry and all the BS we face now.

And yes, I was still buying legit Macs and software, and a lot of stock when it was at $11. It was a blast, I tell you.
In philosophy undergrad we used A Concise Introduction to Logic by Hurley. I found it to be very useful.

We also used Symbolic Logic by Klenk, a good text but not as good an introduction and setup as the former.
I think you lack a lot of historic perspective of how software was sold and distributed, and the cuts involved.
Thanks! We're currently using the GPT 3.5 version with some hacks to make it produce good outputs.
It would be great to try this with the ChatGPT as soon as they release a public API
I don't see why that would require them to pay royalties.

The training data is also publicly available, https://pile.eleuther.ai/
Your employers makes you sign some document about your place of residence in order to determine your salary. If you say California there, then I am sure CA-FTB will have standing when they come after you for unpaid taxes. Or, you might be perjuring yourself in some way. (IANAL so won't commit to the exact legal definition of that word).