skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes. Not sure what that has to do with this discussion.

Because the law seems to be very strict that all software development should be capitalized. So would you suggest to split the revenue recognition depending on the corresponding business model of the product corresponding to the software development?

> If they buy a Big Machine, they don't get to write it off in one year. There's nothing nefarious about amortizing costs over their useful life.

It seems the capitalization of the wage of a software developer is being defended and put equal to the capitalisation of the cost of a Big Machine. I still see an unfair difference made in the reasoning. Let’s take following example

* Software developer has a wage cost in year 1 and builds a SaaS tool in year 1. The developer’s useful life w.r.t. the incurred cost is indeed 1 year and the revenue generating period of the product is 5 years.

* Big machine (crane) has a purchase cost in year 1 and builds a warehouse in year 1. The crane’s useful life w.r.t. the incurred cost is 5 years and the revenue generating period of the product is 30 years.

It’s being claimed that both the software developer's first year wage and the Big Machine purchase cost should be capitalised over 5 years. But that’s comparing apples with pears: either both should be capitalised over their own useful life w.r.t. the incurred cost (1 year vs. 5 years) or both should be capitalised over the revenue generating period of their product (5 year vs. 30 years).

Three other thought experiments:

* You should capitalize a crane when you buy it and you should expense when you (properly w.r.t. accounting principles) rent and use it for a year to build something. But when you rent a software developer (= hire) for a year to build something, that should be capitalized?

* When the crane is being sold or breaks down, you recognise a gain or loss and the capitalization stops. When the software developer leaves the company, is the capitalisation of the developer’s wage still continuing?

* I come work for you for the next five years as a software developer, but you have to pay me my wage immediately for the upcoming five years. Also you have to buy a GPU server that I will use to build my product and that will supposedly last 5 years. Are you capitalising both my cost and the GPU over 5 years? Or will you be capitalising my cost way longer than the GPU, even both I’m gone after 5 years and the GPU broke down?
> Thanks Elon.

And the many many many other people actually conceiving the engines/rockets/&c.
I’ve got no real insight, but my guess would be that a) the goons have both technical and legal competence and b) Mullvad had legal representation show up quickly.
They also had a lot more money (adjusted for inflation) and didn't have to worry about updating their code to the latest version of python.
Report shows millennials are more sick, spend more on health care
Wait, so we gave an acronym to "Making a blog post and then sharing a link to that blog post on Twitter, Facebook, and a Mastodon node?"
> I’m not American, and I can only speak from anecdotal experience from the Danish digitalisation sector, both public and private

This is specifically why I mentioned the American corporate system. The cultures are very different. For an example that you might specifically identify, most American corporate managers would consider anything approaching Janteloven extremely woke and socialist.
Great point. Another thought: prescriptions are often a healthcare provider's sole tool. They can't fix structural societal woes or make you exercise, eat healthy, pursue CBT with a therapist, etc. But taking a daily pill is a reachable stepping stone for many patients.
Or just do drugs by yourself or with friends and not around some stranger who guides you to state approved answers. Also do mushrooms, not this shit. Only reason they're pushing this brain-melting stuff is because they can make a buck.

'actually drugs are good now. Just give us your credit card and insurance info and step right this way'. Fuck off. Do drugs in the woods and sort your shit out like we've been doing for thousands of years. Get out of here nerd.
I'll be more clear:

eshoo's argument is that there are photos of Asian females being beaten generated by Stable Diffusion posted to 4chan and thus the NSA needs to step in and do something to stop Stable Diffusion.

These arguments are ridiculous. These are fake images generated with an algorithm. Real images are more concerning because it means real people were harmed in the real world.

Fake images means someone's ego was hurt and they have a legal battle to attend to if they want the fake images of themselves removed from the internet. Those same fake images could be generated with Photoshop. AI just makes it easier. Banning AI doesn't solve the problem.
The time and resources spent debating and attempting to ban AI should be diverted to real issues. The fear surrounding AI is misplaced and makes people who embrace the fear look weak and foolish. The people sowing the fear have the most to gain from public compliance.

Additionally, you implied that I am exhibiting some sort of Hacker News group think, I am not.
But perhaps this site draws a certain type of personality. I am against government regulation and intervention, and I am VERY against the nanny-statism influence of the UK and others that is being pushed on the US.
It seems the issue was the rocket failed to separate at the designated time.
I hate when major outlets sink to using clickbait headlines that mischaracterize an account of events
Are the supporting facts wrong?
> It isn't fake, it is just created by another user.

It's not "just created by another user," it's created by the owners under multiple false names meant to give the impression that it's multiple people (sock-puppeting) and that those people are not the owners (literal shilling.)

It's an obvious fraud, but the law is probably far behind. Who would sue unless there were some financial risk involved, and without financial risk who would even have standing to sue?
As long as you only connect from one IP and only ever access one host, sure! That's not trivial to achieve with most VPN clients and devices/operating systems, though.
Actually the 'fail fast, learn faster' and 'launch often' approach is what the Soviets did. SpaceX is following the same methodology 20 years later but with far better technology and learnings. Though it seems they are again attempting the Soviet N1 rocket attempt of using more than 30 engines in Starship.

It's historically different in US aerospace, but not Soviet aerospace.
People joke about emacs being an operating system, here emacs is the whole userland
See "Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety"

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REQVAR.html

which, practically, means you need to bring different tools to bear for different problems depending on the nature of the problem.

At some phases of some projects almost all the uncertainty involved is around the behavior of the framework you're working inside and you can unit test until you are blue in the face and it won't do you any good.

Some code is straightforward and barely needs tests, other code (say string parsing) involves well defined functions with inputs and outputs that are tricky to implement and starting with test cases is really the way to go. (Get an IDE with a good visual debugger if you don't already have one, tests together with the developer are awesome.)

If an algorithm is tricky at all I will look it up in an algorithm book. I definitely have made formal proofs that an algorithm worked when I wasn't sure.

This book I think makes the best case for unit tests I've ever seen

https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fe...

and particularly emphasizes that unit tests need to be really fast because you're going to run them hundreds or thousands of times.

However there are needs for testing that don't fit that model and you have to fit them in that process. I wrote a multithreaded "service" and also a "super hammer" test that spawned 1000 threads and tried to provoke a race condition for 40 seconds, which is way too long to be part of your ordinary build process. You can spend anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 months training a neural network and you never 100% sure that the model you built is good (able to be put in front of customers) unless you test it. The pros frequently build several models and pick the best. It's not something you can afford to do every time you "mvn install" however, so you have to develop a process that addresses the real problems in front of you and that does not get bogged down trying things inappropriate for your problem.
What do you mean? Lag 2008:717 does not contain any provisions about forcing companies to log or store data.

Rättegångsbalken does have a provision that a prosecutor can order you to preserve information you already have saved for a maximum of 180 days (https://lagen.nu/1942:740#K27P16S1). I can't find anything about what the punishment for ignoring such an order would be, but to say a company could be forced to keep operating seems extraordinarily unfounded.
> The question is whether the library should bear any liability if it declines to act as a fact checker for every book on its shelves.

How is that the question here? There's verifiable fact combined with a court order.

You're talking about a different situation.

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oh sorry my oriignal post said "ask"... i should've said "legally force" then.
Hmm, maybe I’ll give it another go in a few months. I last tried it in January and immediately regretted the upgrade. Probably the most glaring issue for me was that the edit button opened a different item than what you were viewing, and resulted in multiple unintentional password overwrites.
Ask HN: From your experience where is my current work situation headed?
I'm somewhere on the spectrum and workplace seems "off", but I don't know where to put my finger on it and it makes me upset now so I decided to ask HN what you think.

I've been with this company for ~10 years and I foolishly thought there was a path upwards before.

This is a long term company with strong fashion presence, last CTO left and a whole bunch of new CTO/SVP/VP/Directors/Engineers were hired very rapidly in the last years. While I am privileged that I can avoid most interactions with them, I sense hostility in terms of arrogance of "old solutions". The previous environment was glued together and built in realtime over the response to the market for a very old company rooted in retail, of course the implementation was not perfect looking back but at the time it was the best with the knowledge going forward.

There's a bunch of rewrites happening that I think are a disaster, basically the new guys are coming in and building new solutions that I personally think are unscalable and take a very narrow focus to a problem that is much more complex. In short, they seem disrespectful of the actual problem and think it's an easy thing to solve that a bunch of incompetent devs before couldn't do and did a bad job at.

Right now they are also struggling to scale up, and running into their own challenges with the application crashing and developers moving at a slow speed. The new codebase is "clean and modern", but it doesn't solve one of the problems in an "elegant" way in my opinion. It's like if you asked a high schooler to solve a problem and they got it done with a hammer. It works, business is happy, yes it's faster because new tech, but that's also because you handicapped the old tech, didn't upgrade, didn't invest, and now want to use people who did the best they could under impossible standards as punching bags.

I guess this turned into a rant of sorts because this is a company I have given a lot of years for, and I've learned a lot in the world of fashion ecommerce. I just don't know how to take my knowledge I've learned and transfer it elsewhere, or where my future career goes from here. I'm upset that there were such good ways of solving the problem if only the people who had been there long term had been asked. Instead we were all just shuffled to the side and asked to work under a whole bunch of new people. Yes we still have our jobs for now, but I'm not exactly happy after giving this many years to a company. I feel like I played my hand wrong.

EDIT: TO clarify, this was not 10 continuous years at one company. I did work with other smaller companies and other codebases/teams in between.
>"Fail fast" applies to more than just software.

Yes, but let's not take the analogy too far. For people who work in safety-critical design (including software), it takes a different mindset than what is often prevalent in silicon valley. When the stakes are high, you don't really want to "move fast and break things".

You can actually see this in SpaceX. In development when stakes are relatively low (e.g., no payload or passengers), the risk threshold is high. But they start taking a more measured approach when that risk starts to ratchet up. The danger being, advocates of one approach don't always know when/how to transition to the other.
Musk was saying it was a 50% chance the rocket blew up on the launchpad. Their sole hope was that it made it in the air, leaving the launchpad unscathed and quickly usable for future launches.
It was great to see that they seemed unconcerned about 3 engines not lighting on launch. That's the sort of redundancy Starship is going to need to succeed in the way SpaceX are aiming for.
> Any feedback from downstream systems (likes, comments) are not syndicated back whilst at least for comments they can definitely enrich the content. Unless you have some very sophisticated polling mechanism, that content does not syndicate upwards.

The modal indieweb approach is sophisticated internally, but pretty plug-and-play:

brid.gy/

> When using native social networks directly, people often use multiple personas. The standup professional on LinkedIn, but also the toxic gamer dude on Twitter. Same person, different masks. Or even multiple personas within the same network. Very hard to setup with POSSE.

IMO yes/no; "have >1 domain" or two neocities sites or whatever is decently doable for fully separated alt-style stuff. If you want to syndicate from the same source only your toxic gamer stuff to Twitter and your professional stuff to LinkedIn, that... well, that example used to be possible before they killed the Twitter API. I think the technical part here is less difficult than feeling out your own social intent, what you actually want to share in different spaces, rather than letting the product design and app network effects cue you. But maybe anyone this involved in the web should be thinking about it that hard, maybe it'd be better for us to be more reflective, less cued.
What queries did you use?

I haven’t used deviantart for 15+ years but I still remember the site and a small chain of followers dearly.

I looked at search results and didn’t notice any changes in my sample queries (elf, goblin, potato), they looked similar to what I’d expect 15 years ago.
The problem in that case is that HN users commonly don’t read the article to get the full story.

From TFA:

> SpaceX staff still cheered as Starship went down in flames. Successfully lifting the 400-foot-tall rocket off the launch pad is still a big step forward to its ultimate goal of one day ferrying humans to the moon and Mars, the company said.

> "With a test like this, success comes from what we learn," the company said in a tweet. "Today's test will help us improve Starship's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary."
`npx parcel src/index.html` is probably the easiest way to do it.
> Is proper processing free or profitable?

It's included in the price of operation. Is the processing of CO₂ emissions included in coal or gas generation? Of course not, because it's dumped in the atmosphere.

> Nuclear is already unprofitable

French electricity is cheaper than Germany's. Also the government has been taking EDF's money for decades to cover budget shortfalls, so it's not even subsidised, quite the opposite in fact.
Reliably Testing Race Conditions
How do you sync your password manager between computers, out of curiosity? Most people put that file online somewhere they can copy it to other computers. Or is the ad-hoc nature of this usage a defense?

I use KeepassXC though, I'm still not terribly confident that I haven't lost data from forgetting to merge another modified database before overwriting it.
Or the Atlas ones from The Right Stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwi_0DEd_0
> Using multiple usernames on your own website is definitely legal.

I'm sure you can't say this. If I open an ecommerce site and fill it with fake reviews, I'm pretty sure I could end up in legal trouble.
I learned that temperature drops until just before the mesosphere where it starts to increase before dropping again. Wild!
The flight plan was the best case scenario.
(did you ever watch Failsafe, by the way?)
I had the same experience with DICE C. I am not sure I ever managed to get the compiler, linker, the system headers, and my source to live on a single disk.

Once I got a second disk drive some creative tinkering with a small RAM disk allowed me to compile without switching disks. Then I could sit back and watch my custom Mandlebrot generator slowly work its magic.
> NASA has to do everything in the public eye and their process reflects this. Private enterprise is allowed to hide information, which implies they are allowed to massage information.

That would be a good point if we were talking about NASA vs Blue Origin. But SpaceX is arguably building more in the open than NASA.
The launch site is right on the coast and the flight path took it over the ocean, with a strict exclusion zone for boats enacted beforehand.
A car, treated right, will last upwards of 100 years, whereas pets have a more finite lifetime. And all they really need is to be stored and used right, with a little maintenance work. Either case is an irrational idolatry though
The design of their diskless architecture (where everything is provisioned to RAM on boot, and no data needs to be stored at all), and the nature of their service, likely means that they could be even more sensitive, eg, reboot on a minimal acceleration from an internal accelerometer, minor power irregularities, momentary internet outage, etc.
Were the goalposts set arbitrarily low? What did the Apollo program define as success for Saturn V test launches?
It launches on the Texas coast near the Mexican border, going towards the ocean, for this very reason.
Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35640002
I think they're using the Starship to go from Gateway Station to lunar surface. So you could add an escape system, but where would you escape to?
> Success was defined as the rocket leaving the launchpad.

That's not what they said in their mission presentation though. It was supposed to launch, separate, return the booster back, then the rocket was supposed to orbit once around the Earth and then fall into the ocean.

I understand people have their feelings invested into this (for whatever reason), but objectively speaking that was not what "success was defined as".
> than some magic tools that attempts to do everything for me and then fails without observable reason.

Ok, but then what about autoconf/autoreconf, aclocal, and automake used to generate makefiles for what seems like the entire GNU ecosystem?

At least the "magic" tools that are more modern have documentation. You can print debug a cmake build pretty dang easily, and it at least doesn't pull in the entire user environment implicitly.
Sure, but this is for the same exact thing. It's easier to distinguish between proton the online service and proton the runtime, compared to pass the password manager and pass the password manager.
My past experiences with saying anything positive about crypto has being:

- Being downvoted to hell
- Comments attacking crypto disrergading completely my opinion
They accept Cash and also Crypto.
I last tried it in January and I was on the latest of everything - OSes, apps. I said this to the poster above but the straw on the camel’s back for me was when I realized hitting the edit button took me to the wrong entry and that I have unintentionally overwritten a bunch of unrelated passwords on the iOS app. Re: sync, I ran into some issues syncing between the safari extension and the iOS apps that resulted in some sort of reconciliation issue. I was already downgraded by that point though and not in the mood to investigate.

Edit: looks like someone has posted about the issue in their support community although it has devolved a bit into a hot topic. https://1password.community/discussion/138165/edit-jumps-to-...
I doubt it, the size is what makes it economical in the long run. For anything smaller there's F9 or Heavy.
For a billion users that's like 75 cents a person.

they probably made like $1000 per user over the 15 years(total not per year) seems like crime does pay.
I wonder how the upvote ratio would look on HN if someone posted about wanting to decrease taxes on entrepreneurs?

That;s a pretty standard Conservative position that I think would be well received here.
I like how easily television puts the event into a show set seven centuries later. That'd be like including the signing of the Magna Carta in a show about WWI.
That is the measured air temperature, but it isn't used the way we normally think about it. At very high altitudes, the atmosphere is very sparse (i.e. very low pressure). There are not very many molecules of air, but those few do get hit with a lot of ionizing radiation, meaning they have a lot of energy.

It would not feel warm to you though, it would feel basically like space.

This is a poor analogy, but consider the difference between a single drop of water hitting your skin at high speed, versus a slow moving wave of water going over you. The drop has more energy, and if you just measured its 'speed' it would be higher than the wave.
Keeping Track of Affordable Language Models, Cult and More
> This of course also means that China not being a democracy is just convenient to make them the 'bad guys', but is not really the issue and I expect things would be exactly the same if China was a democracy.

That's, frankly, nonsense.

Things most certainly would not "be exactly the same if China was a democracy" and had political values compatible with the US.
Technically Huawei is banned over "threat to national security" [0]

What one thinks it actually means will be a litmus test of how they view the world.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-bans-authorizations-devices...