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Agree! There's TAM, TAC, and Churn at play here. Total Addressable Market, Traffic Acquisition Costs, and "Churn".

TAM - How many people can you serve "all people getting married || just planners"

TAC - How costly is it to make a sale your TAM? "word-of-mouth-individuals || trade-magazine-planners"

Churn - How many people will still be using your software one month or one year from now? "0% || 75%"

The numbers on the right hand side are soooo much better for a healthy business than on the left hand side.

Target this to party planners, wedding planners, event planners (at hotels, eg: Mariott, etc).

Assume you are the back-office magician for the "group events" manager at an all-inclusive hotel. You need to have super-on-point branding so that all GUESTS know to ask for "super-seating-chart-9000", which is only available to "party planning professionals", and has the appropriate QR codes, logos, URL's, etc.

Make sure that you have both paper and digital "intake forms" (99% of events managers will want to send them a spreadsheet, or copy/paste from a spreadsheet)... make sure that you have appropriate branding, etc (eg: a google sheets template with instructions on the first tab, etc.)

Your TAM for individuals is "everyone getting married this year" or "sometimes a conference or family reunion". Your TAM for planners is like 1/100000th and your TAC is higher (you have to convince them to spend a monthly retainer fee and/or pass along charges to the happy couple as if you were a vendor, eg: $50 seating chart fee invoice)... buuuuut each planner that you acquire is effectively recurring revenue (or recurring usage) compared to working directly with individuals, so your churn is much much lower.

The business you'd be getting into is kindof "fake back office support for luxury hotel event planners", which means do you branch out to also be kindof a vendor portal (eg: digital photo booths, printable/shippable table stands, digital name tags printing, etc.).

As a matter of fact, look around at conference/convention software (especially name tags!) as I remember hearing that's a surprisingly complicated market that no one really specializes in. Getting a foothold there would be helpful. Super-agree with parent comment "bruce" w.r.t. dietary restrictions, tagging/attributes, managing some sort of digital RSVP (live w/ the google sheet?) would be really helpful.
You can't just assert the link without some kind of breakdown.

But I agree that people are being squeezed. Energy and housing are becoming crippling costs. The social fabric is fraying. Attempts to blame it all on foreigners are running out of steam, but managing to promote violence along the way. Liz Truss finally broke something the middle class would notice: interest rates. We're due a Labour government which might start to address some of these things.

Not surveillance, though. New Labour were very keen on it too.
Agreed.

I don't really get why some employees push for permissive licenses. As an employee, my code belongs to my company, not to me. If I somehow have to depend on e.g. a GPLv2 project, then suddenly my code gets higher chances of getting public, which is better for me as an employee.

Say my company allows me to open source my code, then copyleft is (again) better for me as an employee, because I force other companies (those who would use my code) to publish more of their code.
It took me a second to realize you were intentionally using a vacuous truth (any statement is true about all members of an empty set) rather than accidentally inverting "was" as "wasn't".
That’s interesting… does anyone know if it is possible today to hail a self driving taxi and put a duffle bag in the back seat instead of a person?
>People would rather lurch even further right for answers

God forbid we have an even more "far right" government than the one that has overseen a full decade of all-time-high immigration, has utterly failed to stop the years-long exponential increase in illegal boat border crossings, has swept under the rug the revelations of rape gangs operating in towns and cities all throughout England, has rolled out the red carpet for agitative gender and race activist groups to take root in every institution from museums to universities to primary schools to the civil service, ....
Destroy the cameras.
I didn't even notice the style. I first read the verbal description of the algorithm, got angry that it's incomplete and I lack context of what this is trying to achieve. Then I skipped to reading Python code. Then got back to verbal desc to confirm. Concluded it's not that bad but still incomplete. Then I looked at the performance graphs and concluded I might use it if I ever need something like that.

Why do you guys read prose at all when it's obviously just a filler?
Looks very interesting. I'll have a look
Congrats jerpint!

How many people are attending? Please feel free to use this tool if it happens to work for you. Would love to hear if you actually do use this.

But get some rest, and enjoy tomorrow!
That's a bold assertion. You can't just claim that random things a person allegedly says is racist just because he said it (much like the moral panic about the "OK" signal regularly used by divers).
Ashford International, one end of the HS1 line is pretty well served:

https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/A/...

or the other end of HS1, St Pancras:

https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/S/...

And yet, we've more or less cancelled HS2. Oh well.
Or worst case even MPLv2!
Maybe they can develop their own high-tech fabrication technology to catch up, but I wonder how they will manage and accelerate the progress.

The West has IP laws to incentivise R&D by the free market. In China, IP law enforcement is hit-and-miss. Small entities risk having their research getting used by others for free so it would be up to big entities that are well-connected to the centers of power to do the R&D. Research done by a few big entities in a centralized manner may not foster much innovation.

So maybe it boils down to how well they can spy or poach talent or knowledgeable people from Western companies, or maybe reverse-engineer Western products.
Ah but you can't rely on which car gets to where. So the best you can hope for is a to B. Which means both ends are recorded. And likely waymo will look for baggage only trips and report them. Those are trivial to detect with pressure sensors.
We can still wash our cars on a Sunday though?
> More Americans can now get insulin for $35...

So most of them can keep enjoying their addiction to ultra-processed food?
America loves competition as long as it's winning.
And, amazingly, people manage to blame GPL rather than blaming google.
Unrelated note: I notice a lot of people in the UK are angry at inheritance tax going up - Not knowing that it wouldn't impact them and only affects >1millionGBP.

So the lower class is tricked (conspiratorially or otherwise) into fighting for wealth redistribution to NOT happen.
I get a free ~50% slowdown (constant and consistant lag) if playing with low power mode activated (iOS/safari).
Public transport within London has always been both differently managed/funded and also massively better than public transport anywhere else. If you're using London as your only data point you get a very skewed view of the UK public transport situation.

In this case, Transport for London (a public body) has always had much more control over public transport, specifically local political control, and has had the funding and long term planning horizon to set up things like the oyster and contactless payment systems. (And there are also practicalities, like the worst cases fare within the oyster zone being not very large, so it's OK to not take payment immediately but only when the system finds out where you got off, because you're not potentially out hundreds of pounds for a London to Edinburgh fare if it turns out the card being used declines the payment.)
Quite possibly. Maybe the difference then is that holding a coffee mug isn't an activity in itself, but typically combined with other activities whereas driving shouldn't be combined with other activities. It's possible that a sustained "don't use the internet whilst drinking from a mug" campaign could reduce the droppings(!), but it seems like a different class of problem than driving whilst distracted.
"No offense, but <string of personal attacks that completely misunderstood my comment>"
The WebAssembly value proposition is write once, not performance
>>I can't think of any other country (bar the US) that has engaged in a similar war on its own population as Britain did in the past decade.

You mean like uncontrolled immigration and the highest tax burden for 70 years? That certainly does sound like a war on its own population.
This may work in a small visually simple level like this, but imagine this in a complex 3D world like Renegade Ops, with a bit more distance you'd get a horrid distracting pixel soup.
This is very interesting! I really like the emphasis on simplicity in addition to performance - seems easy enough to reason about. I guess for observability’s sake, when implementing this, you’d probably want to record a distribution of distance from the pointer to the evicted item, and match it up with request latencies.
Can anyone explain why there so little traffic to Heathrow? Do most people take the Tube and not the Heathrow express? It also looks like traffic between the Terminals is not shown. IIRC, you have to get a ticket to cross the ticket gate (which is free I think), so they must have the numbers somewhere.
Don't forget the press.

I had occasion to look up Chris Huhne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huhne) as the energy secretary who kicked off the UK new nuclear programme, and right at the top of his wikipedia is .. the phone hacking scandal. Private surveillance by the press, which has been used for a wide variety of malicious gossip purposes rather than any kind of "speaking truth to power".
..."It was established to cultivate a Francophilic loyal class of intellectual and political elites"...

Weird how it's not polite to write about the indoctrination aspect of modern western schooling...

Also astonished at the anglo refusal to acknowledge any other languages and orthographies exist. You are not being cute when you refuse to even try to correctly reproduce "those weird apostrophes and accents" or when you "apologize for butchering the pronunciation!"
>I think the internet and the open source movement had a similar effect, in that if you did not attempt a project that you had some small interest in, it would only be a matter of time before someone else did enough of a similar problem for you to reuse or repurpose their work, and this led to an explosion of (often useful, or at least usable) applications and libraries.

Being developing before when Mac had b&w screen (system 6?). Had so many good ideas just didn't work on them for whatever reason, and eventually someone did them. Maybe it is just tech people run into the same problem, or collective tech unconscious, the longer you have being around, eventually people in the industry will try to solve the problems. These occurrences goes to show me that there are really aren't many true original ideas out there, a lot of it comes down to implementation, PR, funding, geopolitics, your users and luck.
Yes, but, in my opinion, there's an inverse correlation between how useful something is, and how much it is art. This isn't a hard rule, and what is and isn't art is a huge discussion that no two people can agree on, but I've found it useful as a general guideline.
Ironclad: A formally verified Posix-compatible kernel written in Ada
> most MIT licensed projects still generally receive contributions from people using them commercially

My experience working professionally in a permissive open source project is that the vast majority of commercial use is not contributed back (very often it would be very low quality anyway).

> some GPL projects (linux itself suffering from this greatly) still suffer from being fragmented by proprietary patches and forks

I don't see this as an argument in favour of permissive licences: proprietary patches and forks are also happening with permissive licences.
Nothing. It's probably cheaper to swap Euro stable -> USDC on chain than whatever fees your banks charge you.

Additionally, if you're building a legitimate business on chain, then all your cash is already on chain.
Went through the Tetris rabbit hole.
So exactly the same as in the US? For instance the Russians got their assets frozen by a whim of the US government
Probably something that’s left over from childhood. When a baby breaks something it’s almost always an accident. Eventually babies grow up and become adults, and coffee cups turn into multi-ton automobiles.
Rob Holden, who lead HS1, and delivered it under budget said HS2 has been such a disaster, paraphrasing, because HS2 publicly declared its budget for each section, so the Cotswold tunnels, for example had a budget of, say, $10bn. So the contractors bidding to do it, bid... $9.9bn. Whereas HS1 invited bids from contractors who had no idea how much the government was prepared to spend.

Absolute idiocy.

More details in this and the links in the story: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hs2-rishi-sun...
It is just a delaying tactic. ASML is 5-10 years ahead in their technology so it will take a while for China to catch up. Which will grant the USA some extra time to build its own chip industry and not be dependent on two or three other countries.
.mp3 is pretty common
No more blurry fonts in Linux
London is special.

Literally.

Take bus companies. You don't say if you used any buses, but if you did they all work the same in London, they're all painted red, they take Oyster (your Apple Watch will work), the system keeps track and lets you use more than one to get to your destination without special fees. There are a bunch of bus companies in London, but there's no reason you would care about that, they're all the same to you.

Everywhere else in the UK is forbidden from doing that. In my home city for example there were four major bus companies, each painted their buses a different colour, each used separate tickets, each had its own "integrated" travel pass system. If I caught a 20 out of the city, then boarded a U6 that's two separate journeys with two separate companies, and thus two separate charges and the city government is legally prohibited from telling them to knock it off and just charge a single fee like London.
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That’s inappropriate. There are millions out there who are born with Type 1.
The PPE Medpro investigation is proceeding, slowly. A long way off court yet. https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accoun...

Cash-for-peerages has been so normalized that there's not even an investigation.

(The court system largely works against whistleblowing in the UK, because of the very high risk and cost of losing a libel lawsuit even if you're mostly correct)
To add to this... it's not just that they've failed to implement standards: They have actively denied the ability to install alternatives.

It's one thing if Chrome was Chromium and was simply blocked from low level stuff because "reasons"... but that's not where we are.

Chrome, for example, is at its core on the Apple Store a reskinned Safari because alternatives simply aren't allowed.

This isn't a regression and failure to implement standards... this is active activity to lock people into a lesser experience while actively blocking better.

This is worse than IE on Windows as at least with IE on Windows you could install alternatives.
No need to bet on the intent. At least for software in financial services, starting from 2027 all Chinese companies are supposed to use 100% homegrown software. Any use of foreign-supplied software must be explicitly approved by the respective government body.

The mandated fraction of Chinese software vs. other software is already supposed to be >65%, and the floor is being raised every year.
> Entrepreneurs stop immigrating from China/India

I don't think this will happen anytime soon. The developer market in India is really bad and it is still the dream of many young Indians to migrate to EU/US/etc. as soon as possible. Brain drain is something that will unfortunately take a long time to fix.
I love the idea of static recompilation. It is a promising way to make statically linked code more reusable/sustainable!
There's most definitely words which carry connotations with them. However, I cannot think of any particular connotation that comes with "collision" and thus I believe it to be entirely neutral. Can you think of any bias that comes with using "collision"?

What specific part of the guidelines do you think are biased or misleading? The main thrust of the guidelines is to improve accurate reporting. Also, they aim to have consistent reporting so that the type of language used for different road users should be the same. I don't really see how asking for consistency is the same as being biased.
See also:

> An OS built with the Ironclad kernel and GNU tools (github.com/streaksu)

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501683
As Thatcher said in 1975, "Let our children grow tall", in the 1980s it became clear that she meant "Let our children grow tall".
I think the reddit exodus diverted lots of redditors to HN.
> FLAC’s compression algorithm was pretty much garbage when it came out, and is much worse now compared to the state of the art. Even mp3 + gzip residuals would probably compress better.

MP3 is a lossy format so I would practically guarantee that you’d end up with a smaller file but that’s not the purpose of FLAC. Lossless encoding makes a file smaller than WAV while still being the same data.

> e.g. floating point for mastering

I’m 0% sold on floating point for mastering. 32bit yes, but anyone who’s played a video game can tell you about those flickering textures and those are caused not by bad floating point calculations, but by good floating point calculations (the bad part is putting textures “on top” of each other at the same coordinates) . Floating point math is “fast” but not accurate. Why would anyone want that for audio (not trying to bash here, I’m genuinely puzzled and would love some knowledgeable insight)
Quite a few unjustified graphs, sometimes with no axis labels. Putting it on a graph doesn't magically make it true.
Wasn't part of Brexit because they were angry at European governments having too much information. That they didn't like being under their thumb?
> I'm still quite amazed that Microsoft decided this was acceptable

Their customers find it acceptable so it's OK for MS too.

If customers wouldn't find it acceptable they would use something else and we wouldn't be having this conversation. Maybe it helps that it comes with the Office suite and they already paid for it.

By the way, when a customer asks me how I want to do a video chat, almost always with screen sharing, I suggest Meet. If they mandate Teams, OK, I'll do Teams in a browser. Actually the best screen sharing seems to be Skype. It can zoom too. None of them can go full screen with no useless UI around the shared screen, tough luck. None of my customers are using Zoom anymore.
How does the tax authority keep track of who's dodging taxes? The fact you don't have the concept of ID cards is irrelevant if the tax authority still has an incentive to keep tabs on people (which it does in order to detect tax evasion).
Better served pre or post interview?

I'd argue they're better served doing leetcode (given finite time) to land the job, THEN reading this book to become better at their job.
What happened with the car sharing programs in the US? Isn't ZipCar an option anymore?
"Mind the gap" used to be played only at some 19th-century stations built on tight curves, where the gap between the carriage and the platform could be 20 or even 30cm. (The widest is 37.5cm.) That's a safety hazard, especially for blind people, so the announcements have existed for decades.

It's more recent that the pointless announcement has been made at many stations.

http://www.metadyne.co.uk/mind_the_gap.htm
"most would immediately jump" and why is that? because Safari is a subpar experience.

You can try to justify it all you want because "Google Bad" (and not that I disagree at least in spirit) but at the end of the day? Apple is giving users a worse experience as a method to lock them into the App Store and get their 30% cut.
Technologically, it is because you have to establish a chain of trust all the way from the cop, to the radar device, back to the manufacturer, and establish all the way down that nothing was tampered with or miscalibrated.

In the real world that never happens. The judge laughs at you, makes a joke about why you’re wasting your time, and orders you to pay the fine.
It is such a hollow argument.
Anybody using "nothing to hide" arguments, go ahead and post your passwords.

Philosophy Tube episode on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUTX1jurJ4
This is going to be painful to read and you might think I'm being condescending here. I'm going to guess you're British because this is something that my mum says and it's clear she hasn't really looked into it.

The truth is that France did have less incentive to prevent crossings as there was no longer any financial aid for them doing so. To be clear: the UK would definitely not act differently in that situation; though it's reprehensible.

It's also true that France no longer has infrastructure to cope with it's own migration and tougher laws being introduced in French are pushing migrants to tackle the treacherous journey.

However since the deal has been reached France is doing as much as it can to prevent crossings -- that said, it betrays the real problem.

The number of "small boats" making crossings ("Small Boats" being a parroted line) was 29,090 for the year of 2023 (as of December). Which is a reduction from the year prior due to our agreement with France. But that's nothing compared to the net migration figures of 750,000 (largest on record and by a huge margin) and that also precludes the fact that of those migrants crossing on small boats may not be granted asylum (5,284 as of September '23 - 18%) were denied and sent away.

Not exactly an embarrassingly large number in the grand scheme of things, which makes it a bit of a boogeyman.
Surprisingly, B2B marketers don't know as much about cookies as they should, especially with all the changes that are happening in the world of advertising technology.
I think this article is all broscience and no science
To add to what others have said, a big part for me is that you're asking folks to come. For the most part the social expectations of guests are pretty light: watch this quietly, light mingling and chatting, clap when it's time. Sitting down for a meal is unique in that guests must have a sustained social interaction with other guests.
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> My impression that the vast majority of linux users who are thinking about code licensing are using it commercially and so copyleft represents an extra burden on them.

My impression is that it is like wearing a face mask when you are sick. You should wear a mask to protect the others, but people generally don't give a shit.

There is no extra burden in choosing a copyleft license for your project (you still have the copyright, you can do whatever you want with it). What creates extra burden is when you use copyleft dependencies. But that's not your choice.

And as a user, I'm pretty sure you are happier if code that you don't own is open source. All devs should push for copyleft licenses because it benefits them as users. But for some reason many are pushing for whatever is best for companies who employ them.
Thanks for pointing that out, I was completely unaware.
Nowadays those signs are supplemented with "Please don't assault our staff". What a nice country.