skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most banks I've run into have adopted Zelle. The problem with Zelle are that the UX is shit, and there are strict limits on how much you can transfer, which severely hampers its usefulness.
Norman Bourlag is the guy mostly responsible for the huge increases in agricultural productivity in the 20th century and he gave most of his stuff away.
In the US, usually most established companies want a $1 million pro liability insurance policy, which should only cost a few hundred dollars a year (certainly we’ll under $1k).

Startups..vary quite a bit.
That is the point of this project.

"Enc is a CLI tool for encryption, a modern and friendly alternative to GnuPG. It is easy to use, secure by default and can encrypt and decrypt files using password or encryption keys, manage and download keys, and sign data."

If you read further you discover it is using a go implementation of openpgp to do it's job.
>Patents are still being used to protect smaller companies from much larger corporations. Allowing these large corporations to legally ignore patents will only make things worse for the rest of us.

why? why does it have to be only larger companies? if its a free for all, i copy your product, you copy mine. how is that not free market? people will choose so let them.

you could decide to not publicly release a product but you risk your competitor "inventing" the same thing in their own way so you can only either release it first or make the biggest noise.
From near the end:

"Actually, I think the same thing about Paxlovid treatment. In that case, the worry is the rise of mutated forms of the coronavirus that are also Paxlovid-resistant. That’s more or less inevitable, but we should not accelerate it by handing out the drug to populations where it won’t make much difference."

We have a real mismatch of incentives here. In order for Paxlovid to remain effective, it would need to not be used very often (so that a resistance to it doesn't constitute a big advantage for that variant). This is ok, if we only give it to elderly or otherwise high-risk populations. But how high-risk?

Many individuals want to consider themselves "high-risk" in order to get a prescription, but would be better off if everybody else besides themselves is not considered high-risk. It's a classic Prisoner's Dilemma.

Add to that the fact that the makers of Paxlovid (or Molnupiravir, for that matter) have an incentive to want it to be prescribed as much as possible, and we have both individuals and corporations pressuring the system to do exactly what it should not do, which is hand out the anti-viral to way more people than it should.

This cannot be fixed without changing the system (e.g. paying drug developers by a bounty system rather than with a patent).
> Have you heard of California’s AB5? Essentially destroyed the freelancer/contractor market in CA.

AB5 (2019) added a bunch of exceptions allowing contractor designations to rules restricting designation of employees as “contractors” resulting from the California Supreme Court’s application of pre-existing law; either the court decision “destroyed the freelance/contractor market” or nothing did, since what AB5 did was loosen the rules.
Using Git Gracefully
Yeah, from what others have said, entire teams are being cut.
In NYC it’s more a combination of lack of suitable lot sizes, and rent per sq ft. Supermarket buildings easily require 10,000 sq ft.

There is also very heavy competition from more traditional markets, like those found in Chinatown with very cheap meat and produce prices.
No: Cristianism, in that sense, only tells you that this life is not all. Not simply that “there is a better one”.

As a matter of fact, redeeming the time means precisely making the most of it.
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At almost every place I've ever worked, there were about 10-20% of employees who were unproductive. Sometimes it's because they were bad hires, or they were just working on projects that added no value.

I was at a series B startup that did 15% layoffs during the first pandemic wave. The result: we moved faster, code quality went up, morale increased over time. Some layoffs are driven by necessity, and some are opportunistic ways for companies to retool and mass-fire low performers.

This applies at higher levels of abstractions too. When google did their layoffs, multiple entire unprofitable teams and business units were eliminated. It doesn't matter if "they could pay for it". They had an opportune excuse to remove some ugly looking lines from the balance sheet all at once and they took it.

It's impractical for them to try to differentiate high and low individual performers at that scale. No matter how talented you are, you were contributing to a loss-making part of the company.

Apple seems to have been better at not having useless teams and divisions. Tim Cook is a disciplined guy, so I'm not surprised.
Where I grew up we had the kind of huge parking lot stores you are talking about - where I live in Seattle now those dont exist. Some places have parking lots but none of them are big enough for a rousing game of hide and go seek.
Arbitrary code execution in Ocarina Of Time (2022) [video]
I spent 9 years building domain expertise in a traditional engineering field and have many ideas for startups that would 100% be successful if I had the time/capital/grit/etc... not just me, anyone with my experience would be able to do it. It is incredible how absolutely awful most engineering software is. Meaning software for mechanical, civil, chemical engineers, etc... The business logic backends are basically all ancient codebases written in C++ or Fortran. CI/CD? Testing? Clean code? Yeah, no. You're having spaghetti code for dinner. And the greybeard who wrote that line of code 25 years ago and is still hanging out in a back office is reverting your changes if you touch "his" code. Imagine what someone could do using a language like Julia or Python/Numpy with modern software engineering practices could build. You would be able to iterate and add new features so quickly, none of the current players who all basically built their stuff in the 90s would be able to compete. I applied for a job at one of these companies and they earnestly asked me if I knew how to code in Delphi... um, no, have you guys heard of React or Electron?
Good scrum masters help the team protect themselves and help the team (safely) push themselves.

Where they work well is when there is some disconnect between the product (and the product owner) and the team. If that isn't a problem you have (which is brilliant if not) then this should mean one SM can support multiple teams, as there isn't a lot them to do.

They should also be there to take some management effort from the team, and ensure that high quality stories are coming in, that the team are effectively communicating, and that changes to process are made (where they can add value for the team). The ultimate goal for a good SM, is that the team does not need them, and that they can step away.

I believe Scrum can be useful for teams - but scrum/agile is not a hammer to hit all teams with. You need to know/communicate how you think it will improve the team, how you will measure it and most importantly you need to bring the team along with you on the journey. It sounds like that might be an issue here?
Common person doesn't need to be sold, just told to follow the rule and as long as the food drink gasoline keeps coming they'll follow the orders.
Modern direct injection diesels still use OHC, even though they run at really low RPM, so valve float can't be the only reason virtually all modern engines use it. I think this is because it allows for larger and better positioned valves, or even more valves (e.g. DOHC/4 valves per cylinder), making the engine breath better. I imagine the advantages of that would be even greater at altitude.
You could account for your inventory as an asset and then expense it once sold. That would make you much more profitable on paper right away! :)
I think you’re underestimating the arrogance of American power. I did miss your point, because I couldn’t conceive that anyone would still be making the argument that Russia would blow up its own pipeline. Quibbling over how direct Biden’s threat was in terms of foreshadowing a kinetic attack— not even worth discussing at this point. Good day.
It does need to be compared to something - 72dB is "loud" in a quiet room

It's pretty "quiet" in other contexts
A bad one at that. Not the worst (which would be yaml), but certainly not great.
...their smaller scale makes it far easier and cheaper for them to become compliant...

This is often somewhat true. However, as I have observed in several USA contexts, large organizations are often exempted (whether explicitly or not) from pesky new regulations, citing this very point. For example, I personally attended a California PUC meeting in which VZN and SBC were exempted from "lifeline" regulations that continued to be imposed (with nonzero costs) on the small CLEC that employed me. Large organizations have to keep lawyers and lobbyists employed, so they might as well keep them busy. Creating regulations and exempting themselves is common practice.

Perhaps things work differently in Europe.
The article pastes "questions" by current-day editors to "answers" clipped from a 1979 article by deceased author
Wendell Berry (so Berry can't argue or disagree with the editors). The article is just the kind of thing Berry warns against. At the same time it is a hit piece against Donald Trump so, if you've got TDS you may want to read the article.

So not only a "self-referential" document but a "self-revoking" document in spirit.

WTF were they thinking? Maybe poorly-disguised blogspam for Berry's writings/books?
But most joiners will be the ones that will use it the most, trying to leapfrog their lack of experience with AI - which will provide the biggest issue imho
I used it as glue for a monthly job, last week, processing ~1B event records, juggling them a bit and pushing them as 2M parquet segment files to S3.

Mixed experience, would definitely not put it in a system that isn’t ok crashing frequently.

It segfaults on Alpine (argh, C++!), and force exits the whole NodeJS process when it gets unexpected HTTP responses from S3.

In an archive run of 2M pushes it’ll crash the process 4-5 times.

Overall still really, really like it, but learned to not trust it
Oh, and I get a small amount of interest too. And money back on bills. Still not sure having my money sitting on a blockchain is better.
Arithmetic coding?
>How much speed?

See my example: "highway speed"
California will give $2000 if owners convert their ICE cars to EV
Not only is the answer "no, the defendant always files a motion to dismiss," it's a good strategy because it forces the plaintiff to say something on the record.
If you haven't, give your congresspeople & city representatives a ring about the TCB :)
What pjc50 is correct, but might help to be more specific. If you literally mean its had 0 revenue and 0 expenses, then its basically a dormant company and you can file so.

However, if you've ran the company in previous years, even if you've taken a year off and had 0 incoming revenue, you may have other taxes to pay. There wouldnt be any corporation tax as theres no profit, but you may have some very small expenses like bank fees, maintenance of servers, subscriptions, etc that might be left over. So you wouldnt be dormant, you'd be a loss making company, but still active.

If you had a big chunk of money in the biz bank account and still paid yourself, there would be taxes on that, both on the company and personal side depending on how you paid yourself.

I wouldnt recommend setting up a Ltd company to literally do nothing with it though, 0 revenue and 0 expenses, you're not really benefitting for any reason.
Australian Defense Department to remove Chinese-made cameras
So... people are bad at organizing, don't live long enough to endure the slow pace of bureaucracy, and are apathetic anyway? Yeah? Why is this article so long?
> Rx expression grow large very quickly, so for any non-trivial problem, you'll quickly reach the point past which it's less readable than the raw regexp, by virtue of sheer size.

That's not even the case. You can define and compose rx expressions. This allows you to build larger more complex rx expressions from smaller simpler ones in much the same way as you manage the complexity of a large program by building it up from subroutines.
This is a made-up problem that never existed in reality. On practice if you have to deal with a mix of text and elements, it is always deliberate and explicit choice which probably makes sense. In my decades long career I have never seen it, so it must be a rare case.

You ask about API: XML mapping problem has been solved more than 20 years ago and standard cross-platform API exists since then. Have you ever heard of DOM? Have you ever heard of data mappers? XML Schema-based code generation? In modern Java you can even use the same mapping both for JSON and XML.

There are two reasons why JSON dominates in certain applications: easier to write a small structure, browser-friendly. XML still has advantages in large datasets and schema validation.
The original statement was as followed:

"I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want on my field as long as I don't use pesticides or processing that has been banned by law"

And then someone responded to this by saying that someone signed a contract.

And then you responded by going off about something that is refuted by the original statement.

So, you need to agree that the original response about a contract was wrong, and also that your new statement is irrelevant.
First article and already trending on HN
> you don't need any additional assumptions

What you wrote after that is such an assumption. You can't derive asymmetry from nothing, logic or mechanics. The only way to have it, is to assume it in addition to those.
Because I read the article.
True, but misleading. Amazon gives big cash bonuses to new hires in years 1 and 2 in order to compensate for the back-weighted vesting schedule.
They did.

But I still feel this is different. In 2001, there were _loads_ of companies that were started in the mid-late 90s on internet hype, and either had literally no business model apart from ‘drive up engagement and we’ll work it out later’, or had a business model (‘deliver pet food quickly’) that just wasn’t working, and growth charts that should it wouldn’t in the foreseeable future.

They’d all been just hemorrhaging cash for years. Is that as widespread now?

This feels more like an established industry that’s taking the (perhaps ill advised) opportunity to make itself more (on paper, at least) efficient to me.
Above 0 is too much. Could 10% buy you mod spot over a large major subreddit? Maybe get reddit to look the other way for your astroturf campaigns?

Reddit is just as shady with its Overton Window manipulation tactics & strategies as Twitter has been exposed to be. Remember when Ghislaine Maxwell was revealed as a mod of r/Worldnews? I'm convinced any relevant PR company worth its salt has infiltrated moderator teams of every major subreddit. Whats stopping them? Or anyone else for that matter
> yes you are restricted by the laws of physics and human biology

Yeah, you didn’t cite any laws that restrict this future. You’re wrong.

Let’s also not be disingenuous. those “fantasy interfaces” are working prototypes and not just movie CGI. There are also real world products like NReal. You’re not familiar enough with the subject despite being confidently wrong

> VR is a) distinctly different from AR, b) requires bulky headsets, and c) borderline unusable for any extended periods of time

1. There is pass through AR which what Quest headsets and the new Apple headset will support

2. Bulky headsets are the past and present. That isn’t the future, or even the near future
This is why capitalism evolves into socialism, we are in the beginning stages of this. Marx explains all of this better than I can.
That's why it's good to be an inventor for things that people do in America. For example, food processing techniques.
Dumb q: Is authenticated USB-C still USB-C? Does the spec allow it? Provide for it? Not care?
There's an actual book — "Mastering ENVY/Developer"

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

The fun thing is the way people could subvert and ignore the recommended development process because it seemed inconvenient to them.
https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1984_TLC is this the same thing?
I don't know. Market makers for stocks at least have real utility. If I own 10,000 shares of $some_actual_company and want to sell it to buy a house, it's good that there's someone who's constantly pricing the stock.

In small European stock exchanges without HFT actors, buy/sell spreads on individual stocks can get large and daily volume very small, so you need to do more planning around any trade that's larger than "retail nickles". This is not great for attracting investors to these stocks, even if the companies are worthy.

But in crypto, there's no underlying value. There are no worthy companies who deserve more investor attention, no tokens that should be in anyone's long-term portfolio for any reason but FOMO. It's a 24/7 nothingburger outlet.
Ever tried to work for multiple countries with multiple banking systems? Total nightmare. When I was in England invoicing a US client required me to have a US bank account for them to pay (I ended up having to use an umbrella corp to make the payments easier as they had existing infra for a cut). Now I'm in the US when I invoice European clients payments take ages (2-3 days), when I invoice UK companies they tend to want to pay local bank accounts, and when I invoice Asia it's almost always a nightmare. USDC is instant, I can withdraw to my account in minutes, and the fee is lower. I know remittance payments from places like US to Nepal is far easier than trying with normal banking options. Even Wise still takes days instead of minutes for some transactions.
Interacting with accounts in a huge, pseudo-anonymous social media sites based on discussion with voting systems is quite different from interacting with people in real life. For big sites like HN and most subreddits, the users may as well be anonymous. HN goes a step further and deemphasizes usernames a bit by making them lighter in color and smaller compared to the black body text. How do you build a "close in group" on a site this big with not a lot of emphasis on who you are? I've been on smaller message boards where you can actually get to know people and have an avatar and some public info about yourself attached to every post. It's a different experience in that case, for sure.

You wanna talk about how humans work - strangers in real life also don't just walk up to you and start talking about Reddit account security out of the blue! We also don't trust a talking head on TV or on the radio just because they're human. Relationships are built over time & higher trust has to be earned. Even if you're referring to the fact that most of us probably live in a relatively high trust society, that doesn't mean we trust our neighbors' opinions on strong passwords (or whatever) just because we trust them as our neighbor!
On the contrary, I would bet a fair amount that ADM and similar are scrupulous about paying for hybrid seeds from Bayer and similar every year. They may get a better rate for being a very large customer, but that's true in almost every arena.
The problem isn't your adoption of new tech (e.g. google glass) it's that your behavior using new tech engenders blowback from others (they call you a glasshole) and THEY won't adopt the new tech.

Adoption is a key metric that differentiates a successful product vs. failed product.
Thanks. Things are going fine between us. I do have half of his genes, so I can understand what was going through his head.

He's started to realize he can't take it with him.
The part about the Rust evangelists being really toxic mirrors my own experience.

I like the language. I really don't want to deal with their community.
And I think B is especially key for large global products. Most users of common apps like Facebook don't see the advertiser side, for instance, or don't know that some features are built for specific countries due to regulatory or compliance reasons.
Why does eBay need to cut staff?

Have they got massive loans to service or something?
They should do a dutch auction for this kind of stuff.

Enter your bid to convert it and if your in the X cars you get accepted.
Companies don't need to hire people to issue new stock. They can do it anytime.

People forget these days but the entire point of the stock market is to give companies a money-printing machine. More accurately, it's an on-demand way of obtaining investment by sucking up value from the people who hold your shares.
> FCC/CE compliant

How did you go about that? All I know is that start ups just self-certify, based on the fact that components they use are already certified and "it's going to be okay" attitude.
Some start ups do some basic in-house checks (some that have more funding can go for pre-compliance tests), but never heard of any small business actually commissioning full compliance tests.
Something like this probably would require selling both kidneys and a house and made the whole business unprofitable - also considering the fact that sellers in China if they copy a product, don't need to do any compliance checks (in practice, because nobody cares).
Long term technology bootstrapping founder here. Paying yourself is very important. You may need to work for free for a while but when you get your first paying customer pay yourself a little salary. And when you get a second customer, pay yourself some more. Try to get a near market salary before you hire your first employee.
Corporate and your own founder/personal longevity is the path to success.
It is the latter.

Heat pumps are much better for the environment compared to the other sources of heating. Depending on where you live, you still need to heat your place and if so, heat pumps are better than other traditional methods like natural gas, wood, oil, or electricity.

Similar to air conditioning, if you want to minimize your impact on the climate, you could set your temperature lower in the winter and put on a few more layers and/or set the temperature higher in the summer to minimize your usage of heat pump/air conditioner. This puts less pressure on the grid and demand for electricity generation.
Selling things to people might give you domain familiarity, but it won't give you domain expertise.

I think a better approach is getting actual domain expertise in the door one way or another. E.g., a cofounder, an early hire, or a consultant. Thinking about the domain experts I've worked with in the past, I'd look for 10-20 years of work in the industry, hopefully in a few different roles or companies.
Germany had identification record systems before they became totalitarian, when Jews were treated as citizens and decorated veterans of WW1 under the law. A person does not know when their government will become totalitarian and cannot rely on legal solutions to data problems.
Yeah, to be clear my point is not that one is better than the other but simply that you can’t directly compare RAM without adjusting for the fact that they have different designs.
Whatever organization they end up at that doesn't catch cheating during the interview process deserves what they get.
you can also limit step up cost basis, similar to how the "estate tax" is limited (and is high enough that even "normal" rich people aren't event impacted by it. But I'd limit the step up stricter than that. imagine the step up would be limited to 1-2mil of stepped up assets. poor people would still be able to benefit, nominally middle class/well to do upper middle class would also mostly benefit, but the rich would find the benefit effectively go to zero for them as their assets rise.