skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hire consultants.
You paid them a million, you also made a million on the product they produced that year.

So they were not really 'researchers', working out on unknown with high risk probabilities, instead they were building an asset that made you money the same year.

You would deduct the payment to these consultants as expense. they pay their own taxes on their salaries.

You are left with an asset that you can make money on, year after year.

That's, I think what they are thinking.

But a) you were not prepared to turn your salaried employees into consultants
b) the asset requires extensive up-keep, that costs as much as money as it was to 'create it'
c) the asset value without the up-keep can become zero in year
d) the asset itself is very risky and may not have value later on.

So I overall agree with your sentiment.

The gov does not want to classify software dev as 'research', but yet -- they have not established how to fairly classify it.

This is a clustferfuck.
Yes. He owes a specific amount, and the "25-30%" showing up in articles comes from a quote of Bowser himself, where he's referring to wage garnishment.
He could always do a startup and apply for yc, ofc.
Similarly, the Danish terms are »styrbord« and »bagbord«, respectively. »Bagbord« comes from »bag« (back) meaning the backside of the sailor steering the boat, because they would be facing the steering side (»styrbord«; »styr« still means to steer today).
I don’t believe criminal judgments ever are.
Back when i had sailing lessons, the skipper told us this story about the sailors coming home to harbour after weeks of sailing the oceans.
They returned to their loved ones who they kept in their HEART which is RED and LEFT and since they were sailing towards the port, the RED lights are to be kept left from the ship.

It stuck.
On the topic of “thinking is analogy”, the book “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson is an excellent and foundational read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By
If it is based on an LLM trained on the internet then it is probably outputing "gib moar srvrs plz" every twenty seconds.
> make sure you're good at what you do and you won't have to worry about the market

No... make sure you strive to do the best you can in whatever you do. It's not about being "good enough". If you care about your work (whatever it may be), be a good human, and put in effort to learn and do the best you can at your given job - you will succeed.

Don't be afraid to take chances when you're young.

Being good at what you do is a side effect of caring about what you do and putting in the effort to learn about your job, your industry and the people around you.
I was looking at the docs and kept seeing a lot of similarities with Auth0. Looks very promising and fully featured. Perhaps I missed it, but I was looking at the .NET SDK and didn't see much plumbing for verifying JWT with Kinde (in the context of a web API request). Is this not baked into the SDK?
I think that argument about patent law is weakened by juxtaposing it with a complaint that someone who made a business of video game piracy got smacked for it.
JLC will give you 5 pieces of 52mm x 52mm 8-layer boards with VIP, 3.5mil trace/3.5mil spacing for $2, no need to violate any constraints. +$20 to get much smaller vias/holes.

Anecdote: I've routed a 900 pin 30x30 P=1mm/B=0.6mm FPGA with no issue on this.

Use board-to-board connectors if needed to add more "layers." P=0.65mm is definitely going to make differential pairs difficult if not impossible at this trace width.
Some medical terms become hugely helpful when receiving a massage: "more medial, more lateral"
Reddit users pay lot, considering just how many ads Reddit has on every page, as well as the arranged content promotions that regularly pop up "naturally".
Worth mentioning that harbour signal lights are not the same the world over

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/69030/why-does-t...
I’m with you. Powershell is a jarring experience for someone not used to it. Heck, it’s still jarring for me and I’ve been working at Microsoft for over 5 years. I truly dislike writing it.

That said, it’s so much more “usable” than any other shell or scripting language. It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t used it, but I even reach for Powershell over Python in my daily work.
Probably the same thing going on inside Google with user feedback on search results and ads.

At some point, after years of clicking the almost invisible [x] on the top of "hot singles near you" and ads for mail order brides from various countries and patiently telling Google it wasn't relevant, I got fed up, tilted, clicked the ad, found the contact address and explained in sufficient detail how Google scammed them by including me and others who absolutely weren't interested at all.

Sometime after that it suddenly stopped and now I only get irrelevant ads, not disgusting, embarrassing or insulting ones.

I can't say if what I did made the difference or not, but I can say that years of telling Google did change nothing. (Or to be fair: when I said I didn't want Russian mail order brides they would admittedly show me some other nationality next time).

Also today I have almost completely[1] given up Google and I don't feel I break an unspoken contract by blocking ads anymore.

[1]: Visited Google the other day and noticed they had brought back a working context menu with a working "view cached result" option, but it would take 200 more such fixes, many of them much bigger, to restore Google.
> The British system is, indeed, fundamentally insane, from a technical perspective.

The best is the unwritten rules. Which are ironclad and “part of the constitution of this country”, except when they aren’t and get just ignored because it’s convenient. But hey, every couple of years journalists can play fun what-if games tracking down ancient customs and speculate whether a 300 years old precedent could be used to behead the PM or some other nonsense.
I often think it usually goes the other way. If a regulation is too specifically defined, it often ends up having gaping holes and other issues.

Most of our longest standing torts and crimes have subjectivity right at their core, and I'd argue that's not a coincidence but survivorship bias.

The world just isn't black and white, and attempts to legislatively render it so inevitably cause problems (though, obviously too much subjectivity and something because uselessly vague; it's a tricky balancing act for sure).
I honestly do that. If I have an idea that I know will be near-impossible to get through the internal politics and that likely nobody will really care about (like the saving 50k example), I put the idea on my CV as if I actually implemented it. I get asked about it at interviews and just fantasize about what would have happened had I done it. People tend to be mighty impressed. I tend to choose under-the-radar things that my boss wouldn't necessarily know about.
SQLite is so very extremely popular that I don’t think you have to worry about corruption under Wine—if it was broken, a lot of software would be broken.
I was once driving along fine in the left lane and my female friend in the passenger seat suddenly yelled "TURN RIGHT HERE. RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!!!"

So I cut across two lanes, avoided several oncoming motorists and made a hasty but decent emergency right turn into the parking lot.

She looked disgusted and said "Why did you do that? The place is RIGHT over there" and pointed to an area on the other side of the street on the left of where I'd been. "Why didn't you turn left RIGHT THERE WHEN I TOLD YOU TO!".

Ah, I loved that girl (platonicly). She hit me with a shoe one time, but I still feel bad for who she married.
I was way too focused on how slow this is running on my phone, sometimes skipping two seconds even. So I had no chance to actually think about what I'm seeing in a deeper way.
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
- Oceanic temperatures and pH
- Quantities in PFAS in the environment
- Opiate deaths (and other deaths of despair) per capita
- Percentage of children and teenagers with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation or have attempted suicide
- Per-capita income in Africa and South America over the last two decades
- School shootings per capita and firearms related deaths in children within America

The Internet is pretty rad, we've improved a number of health outcomes for a number of communities, and we're closing to making humanity a truly space-faring species; but for every statistic we can provide indicating progress there's usually a handful of related numbers that paint a grimmer picture.
It's not harassment. It's just there is some set of managers of various levels tasked with increasing the % of people using the online account in Windows. They have a metric, and they work towards it. There is no one in the company who can decide to not do this nagging - either a person doesn't have the authority, or it requires negotiating with too many owners, or this metric is very high-level, or it's the CEO who doesn't care about such low-level things because he uses the online account and doesn't see it. It's always like that in all modern corporations.
Wow, you guys made it work — my company zalter.com didn't reach this level of Kinde as of yet. What's a marketing strategy you made it work? You do B2B outreach?
Problems we are solving

- Most of Amazon's Price History tools focus on price & failed to differentiate on data whether the price shown is regular price or after any deal such as a lighting deal, price exclusive deal, etc... we display regular selling prices & special offers separately.

- Amazon Coupon Discount: most of the time there is a coupon on many Amazon product but these tracker does not give value to coupon discount. We not only auto-calculate all lightning deals & coupon discounts but also help in your selection of the right seller providing at the lowest cost to you.

- Shipping Charges: Some sellers make fun of the system by playing games in the name of shipping charges. They quote their price to the lowest & Collect an additional amount from the shipping charge. We are here to eliminate this game by comparing all the sellers price+shipping charges so that you can select the lowest always.

- The Amazon Buy Box Game: Amazon selects sellers on Buybox based on its own algorithm. sometimes these buy box sellers' offer is not always the lowest. We came to your rescue so that you can always take informed buying decisions.

- Buying Assitance & Pricing Trend: based on past pricing trends & fluctuations predict whether the current price is the best price to buy or not & also predict trends and expected changes for the next 15 days about product price.
L.A. Startup Aims to Turn Oceans into a CO2 Sponge and ‘Green’ Hydrogen Machine
I'm pretty sure they're doing this because they know a good chunk of their customers don't want this.
>The ESP too small? It's just a partition and filesystem.

I was just relaying what I've read about the reason that the concept of the XBOOTLDR partition was invented in the first place. Eg:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Installation_u...

>A separate /boot partition of type "Linux extended boot" (XBOOTLDR) can be created to keep the kernel and initramfs separate from the ESP. This is particularly helpful to dual boot with Windows with an existing ESP that is too small.

I have no idea why it's not possible to just resize the ESP and move the partitions around. Maybe the Windows install doesn't like being moved? I don't use Windows so I don't know. On all my machines I have full freedom to make the ESP as big as I want and move partitions around as I want.
> East/West roads are numbered even, while North/South roads are numbered odd. None of that exists in Europe.

The E roads of Europe are generally numbered that way too[1], though exceptions exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_E-road_network#N...
probably not very politically correct anymore, but "You Write with your Right"

(also righty tighty, lefty loosey)
Thanks. Can you suggest anything else?
It's the case in Canada right now too.
No problem - we're relaunching the website in the next few months so hopefully that'll be a bit clearer. At this stage the closest comparison would be clerk.dev!
>> jackal ass corporation

I’m pretty sure the history of Nintendo is tied in with brothels, gambling, & mild organized crime…

Their current C-suite carrying on with power hungry practices & greed is not particularly surprising.

Sort of like the fact that despite Disney being “The Happiest Place On Earth”, Walt Disney was not known to be a particularly good person…
Lotus unveils 500kW electric car charger
There are details on this also: https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly#runtime

Generally it should be assumed that actors and their concurrency model is fully supported as that is a part of the core semantics for BEAM languages.
Yeah I've got special logic in place to help find useful good recipes. I'm quite happy with how well it works, despite being extremely basic[1]

[1] https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
Los-cost JLCPCB SMT Assembled ESP32 Development Board
DO NOT USE THIS.

They use OpenAI APIs, which means they're sending your code to a company that doesn't guarantee your privacy.

If you work for almost any real company, you can and should be fired for uploading their code to an untrusted cloud that may regurgitate secrets to other users.
China readies supersonic spy drone unit, leaked document says
Given that CO2 is 0.0421% of our atmosphere, that's a small amount compared to the audacious claim of 4%, 7%, 8% or even 10% claimed by our US congresspeople and in dubious climate change websites.

And human being contribute 3% of that CO2 from their own bodies, yet a few billionaires want us to eat insects and bugs.

But, I am here to tell you about our awesome zero-carbon steady-state base energy sources that gets totally ignored: nuclear, ocean-wave, and hydroelectric.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1647503065...
or playfully, "no, the OTHER right" :)
All sw dev is considered R&E. Soo you have no choice
I wonder if third-party apps can transition to parsing the website instead of using the API. I think that's how NewPipe works with YouTube, at least.
That's exactly because they didn't follow the convention. If they called it the Right Bank, it would always be clear which side that was if you could identify the flow of the river.
The same song with a different name and stock photo artwork 49 times on Spotify
I enjoy my job. I enjoy getting stuff done.
Good to hear. You only really hear the people complaining. With as many customers they have, it's hard to know how representative it is.
data in edgar is usually available next business day after company filed documents.
A little bit but trying to primarily drive growth through referrals from existing customers. If we can continue to build based on their requests and keep them happy, hopefully they talk about us in the future to other people looking for auth
Yup. For the last 12 or so years :-/

I naively like to think they chucked a bunch of tests cases at some level when they introduced Google+ (when they threw out the old plus operator to reuse + for Google+ searches) and never recovered after that.
It's also troubling that it's a crime not to disclose right now.

Disclosing those keys is probably a serious legal decision. The police will copy your entire phone including any nude pics, saucy messages etc.

Given the absurd number of UK police who have gotten in trouble recently for sharing pictures of dead bodies it's understandable you wouldn't want to just give them forever access to that or take a decent period to fully consider.
> The former is narrower than the latter, but both would exclude gifts, which are not considered income from a tax perspective.

The tax perspective is completely irrelevant here. Gifted money would absolutely be considered by the court to be available to repay the debt.
New Galileo service set to deliver 20 cm accuracy
We have had numerous sign ups from people thinking we were Kindle, although a little late for a name change
> In asia you can walk into a clinic and see a doctor in 30m

... If you're rich relative to the general population, then you can go to an expensive private clinic and be seen quickly, yes.

I doubt that's the case for public hospitals and in any case, I've been inside public hospitals in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam (all for other people's needs, nothing major thankfully). Trust me, you do not want to get treated in one of those and as a westerner you'll never even see them unless you friend gets bitten by a monkey in the Cambodian jungle (for example) and there's no private clinics nearby. I always assumed the casual attitude towards hygiene that Asian people have wouldn't extend to hospitals. I was wrong. There were literally blood stains on the wall in the corridor. The toilet was a hole in the ground with a bucket of water and a scoop to wash your hands and ass with. There was no soap. This wasn't a small hospital, it was the main hospital for a city of about 200k people.
Dataset with Vulgar and Offensive California Vanity License Plates
Well that definitely makes him an asshole, but not a prison-and-then-life-of-crushing-debt asshole. Is copyright law really this fucked, that someone was extradited and made an example for selling a ransomware chip?
Defining interfaces in C++ with ‘concepts’ (C++20)
Without building the tool to compare, it's really hard to tell. In my experience of rewriting some Python and Ruby code into compiled versions, you can expect 10-20x improvements. But it's both really dependant on the code itself and on how you're going to reimplement it - most of the time it doesn't make sense to do perfect 1:1 rewrites.
Reddit is doing a good job of killing itself. Ive been a reddit user for at least 15 years and I have watch it turn from a smart, bright and informative community to a over confidently stupid cargo cultish, narcissistic dumpster fire. I rarely visit it anymore because it s just awful.
Oh shit no, I meant the article haha. It just slaps the two sides together with little contextualizing. Your post was :ok_hand:
It's pretty pathetic of the French government to be silent on why exactly they flagged him like this.

And presumably did not arrest him on exit!

But I'm afraid since Brexit the UK gov has fallen over itself backwards to look like it's still able to work with EU agencies. It's more valuable to them to overzealously agree than to resist when we had a secure table at the EU table.
Google to launch its first foldable phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' in June
Well, yes, this is effectively restating my point. Barring the constitution, there was little conceivable way for slavery to be abolished under the Articles of Confederation because there would’ve been insufficient authority to impose that on the states, nor likely the justification to enforce the wholeness of their union.
> I don't think good UX is a universal concept.

There are some more-or-less objective criteria we can apply. From "how many actions it takes to achieve something" to accessibility.
ha-ha. Loving these double-faced stories here and there. “Crawling Reddit, generating value, and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with.” Very well Mr. Huffman, but what about “Posting on Reddit, generating free content which brings multi-hundred-million advertisement profits for the company, and not getting any of that value back is something which your users don't have the slightest problem with.“
The API is just a convenience to get the data, but surely you can get all the data you want without any additional API for free just by using their HTTP API - as any other generic user would do. Of course, filling up an enormous proxy well to avoid various ingenious "protections" could cost you some 10-20 bucks, and solving captchas automatically could cost you another 1$ for 1000, but from there, it's even easier and more enjoying to use than an API. I'm feeling like launching a scrape-it-all service to avoid greedy ip-protocol customs officers could be a profitable venture these days.
The general public absolutely despises software engineers for being able to earn good money with good work-life balance. It's pure jealousy. The general public has been cheering during the tech layoffs.
Ask HN: Examples of discussions on HN leading major companies to change?
I was reading this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614190

And I thought "Surely there are people from Microsoft here on Hacker News?"

Then I wondered if such HN discussions have ever resulted in change - in this case for example, Microsoft deciding it shouldn't shit all over Windows with advertisements and user harassment to turn on features.

Anyone know of any example where HN discussions have actually resulted in meaningful change?
Climate change is an interesting example, because we are obviously making things worse for climate overall for centuries. However, our rate of improvement is dramatically increasing.

The other examples you provide are local. I don't think that everything is improving everywhere obviously, that would be ludicrous. But if you broaden your metrics a bit more fairly - gdp per capita globally, child mortality and life expectancy - our improvement is significant.
I have the expectation that when I enter a store that the store keeper doesn't sic his minions to sniff after me while I browse other stores and for good measure maybe peeks into my bedroom.

Physical stores don't do that and therefore your analogy breaks down.
I have one too, and a 4k UHD disc player.

Some 4k movies are phenomenal - like 2001.

But some are sort of unreal in a different, uncanny valley way. I think it is HDR, or maybe the digital cameras they use. Almost like low contrast.
Interesting idea. A fund like the EFF , to take care of the targets of weaponized corporate copyright law? A safe place for the Aaron Schwartzes of the world, even if it's alongside the Bowsers. I'd pitch in.
Here’s a few thought experiments.

1. Your landlord decides that you needs to pay 5 years rent in advance. Each year you have paid off one year, however you need to pay another year to keep up. When you leave, the landlord will pay you back 1 year rent every year for 4 years. [landlord == government]

2. You develop an exact Facebook clone. The business tanks. How much was the software worth? Facebook’s value is only minimally in the software itself. Facebooks value is mostly in daily user eyeballs and advertising contracts and network effects.

3. You get some VC funding and spend 5 years developing software. You start making a profit, so you can claim the prior losses. However, the losses are not inflation adjusted (nor risk adjusted, nor discount adjusted). Your taxes are not adjusted for inflation, so you earn less than you should fairly.

4. You sell your business. Now you need to decide on the a valuation of the software, since it affects taxable income in the future. Leads to valuation games that have no benefit to anyone.

5. You go bankrupt - software valued at zero. Now do you need to claim those R&E taxes back from the IRS? Does that cause a lump in your personal income that puts you into a higher tax bracket?

6. You spend a year writing v1. Next year you completely rewrite v2 using cleanroom techniques, and deploy it. Do you get to claim 100% depreciation on the now obsolete code?

7. A data analyst writes a one-off query that is never to be used again. Is the time they spent on it R&E?
Blinkers were always on the outside when most cars had manual transmissions, the opposite would be very inconvenient (and still is).
Then somehow Britain didn't challenge the EU regulation that indicators must be on the left regardless of the driving side.
Japanese and Korean cars still supply right-hand indicatored-cars to Japan, Australia and New Zealand, yet left-indicatored to the UK, go figure, European ones don't give a shit, so buyers of BMWs and MBs suffer (or enjoy?) being incompatible with the rest.
Britain’s Inflation Rate Surprises Again Lingering at 10.1%