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The vast vast vast majority of companies do not sell a product below-cost.

And if the customers are not willing to pay more, it sounds like they're actually happy with the current offering and that's not an area that your fellow humans would find useful for you to work on.

Yes, one of the responsibilities of a founder is fundraising. If you can't sell people on investing in your vision that is...a somewhat bad sign.
Still better than the 4/0.5 Mbps DSL provided in my area in Germany.
I actually loved Fall From Heaven II[0] as a Civ mod because of the latter civ style handling of archers and such. Somehow Civ 5 onwards utilized that style, but didn't really bring over all the tactical complexity of FFH2. Sadly there has been no other mods that caught my attention the same way FFH did.

[0] https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Fall_from_Heaven_(Civ4)
Not an accepted definition. The one used by the government (for projects) and the public includes revenue and amount of employees. Ownership by a family is not a factor at all.
Depends on the kind of abuse. Acting as if CloudFlare is providing bullet-proof hosting and carrier services would be insincere. I have had CloudFlare suspend accounts within 18 hours of reporting.
> They're very successful, but, unless they change their ethos, they never will have success on the scale of a tech giant.

Exactly why they're still great. It takes courage and conviction to not grow.
Aren't you attempting to disconnect something that is not disconnected?
The second you say something like that first sentence you have already lost the argument.

Which is annoying as the US is going to face some serious consequences from Trumps idiocy, phrasing it the way you did, is handing the future to Trump and his kind.
This arguement on whether LaLiga or Cloudflare are the biggest dicks is kinda dumb.

Yeah, CF has stepped in it from to time and yeah, maybe they have ego-ish proclivities. What Behemoth online service doesn't?

But at the core of this debate is about LaLiga and it's peripheral relationships dragging a lot of innocent folks along with the genuine targets of their focus.
It's like those Drift Netters
who have demonstrated they care not for the unindended species they catch. A bit of a labored metaphore but, there you have it.
I believe Russia signed a border demarcation treaty with Ukraine pretty recently like 2010-12
Also breaking the law to growth-hack happens all the time, see Uber.
Hsieh also had a famous musician pleading with him near his end, though for a different reason.
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> I don't expect anyone without an account already to post, but my target audience largely already has such accounts

This is a ridiculous expectation. Virtually nobody uses Mastodon, especially since BlueSky now is the open platform of choice.

But even without this, Twitter-like websites for me and a lot of other people have absolutely no usecase, despite being in the audience who could read your blog. Expecting all your visitors to have an account in nonsensical.
I tried with month names and it doesn't work, it only show the English word. Too bad because month names in other languages are sometimes interesting.
Yes, but what if the big-software type economy isn't actually that useful?

Maybe you can grow it to 30% of GDP if you start doing a bunch of bad stuff, but if it can be replaced by open source local stuff-- if it's possible to simply kill facebook, Microsoft etc. and replace them with Linux together with a couple of not incredibly expensive software packages developed to provide a substitute, then why should we have a big-software economy?

I think this is more the idea. The interesting thing isn't to build a European Facebook or an EU SaaS economy, it's to kill the whole concept, globally.
Sure it's blunt. But I guess it will be rather effective in getting Cloudflare to urgently revise their policy on copyright violation.
Is there no vetting of people who either hold office or senior government positions in the US now? One of the most basic things you do when doing a security clearance is checking that you don't have any bad things in your closet. Substance abuse, debt to shady people, gambling habit, mistresses, ... anything and everything that could be used to blackmail you would be a big fat no on your security clearance. Their 4chan accounts and every gaming chat since 1998 should be scanned for weird comments.

I get that it's hard to do for top elected officials - they are elected with flaws and all after all, and it's the job of the people to try to guess and judge whether someone, say, has had unknown extramarital affairs or holds bad debt, that could lead to them being compromised.

Not saying Musk would insta-fail his security clearance process but he sure wouldn't have a good time being questioned about what he said in a 4chan post or game chat in 2004, or being asked about every pill he took since 2000.
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No, especially considering that they open sourced everything. (not OP)

Also, they could have outsourced the computation to a subsidiary company in the US, I suppose.
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How many of the companies you mentioned have even one reusable flight to show for, much less a proven track record?

Catching up to SpaceX is something even us Europeans haven't accomplished.
> EU executives have been detained for days at the border on suspicions of terrorism to coerce them into selling US assets

You're going to need a citation on that sort of thing, because I'd expect it to be a much bigger deal.
It isn't about obligations, it is about the best interest of the US. Which is very clearly not handing everything to Russia for no good reason, and for nothing at all in return.
This is how I've been using my blog for years - writing about something I did to process and solidify that knowledge, even if I think it's something silly that most other people already know or won't find interesting. I end up getting emails from people who found some random post useful sometimes, which is a fun bonus. And sometimes when I am googling something my own blog comes up and then I remember I've done or thought about that thing before.
Responses like this remind me in moments of doubt that science has still got it.

Thank you.
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It doesn’t justify bypassing safety regulation checks
If after betraying South Vietnam, the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan there is any trust in US left, leaving Europe to help Ukraine instead of US would hardly diminish it either.
Recently I've built a job site for UK contractors, Outside IR35 contracts only. Quite niche, but I needed it myself so now it exists: https://outsideir35.com/
Show HN: New desktop app for Python notebooks, for beginners in data science
I would like to share with you a project that I was working for a while. It is a desktop application for creating Python notebooks. It is called MLJAR Studio.

What is unique about it:

- it offers one-click Python installation on the first run, so you don't have to worry about your environment.

- Variable Inspector: easily inspect and view variables in your code - great for learning.

- Package Manager: manage your Python packages with GUI, making it simple to install and update libraries.

- Interactive Code Recipes: A collection of interactive code recipes that provide a GUI to help you create and run code. I created GUI for Pandas, scikit-learn, LightGBM, MLJAR AutoML, OpenAI api, Ollama api.

- AI Assistant powered by GPT-4 to assist with coding, debugging, and answering your programming questions.

It was designed to make the flow of creating Python notebook very easy. You can use GUI or AI assistant to create code snippets. The approach with interactive code recipes might be a good alternative for drag-and-drop interface of data science platforms.

Code for app is available at https://github.com/mljar/studio

You can download app binary at https://platform.mljar.com

Documentation https://mljar.com/docs/

I'd love to hear feedback from you. Thank you :)
Shower thought: `<a href="..." target="_mobile">` should transfer a link in a desktop into my phone. Same goes for `target="_desktop"` but in the opposite direction.
> I've always held dang in pretty high regard seeing his answers on controversial topics,

He's probably one of the best moderators on the internet. Thoughtful, patient, level-headed - determined to keep controversy to a minimum here, no matter what the controversy is.

Tech companies aiding genocide? US torture chiefs given top positions in the tech field? Post-adolescent racist ex-hackers given physical access to federal systems managing trillions of dollars? Too controversial. Maybe let one post a month slip through, maybe not.

The effect of suppressing this discussion, in dang's view, is to save HN from becoming a toxic flamewar wasteland like everywhere else on the internet.

There is another effect though - to whitewash techbro crimes, like aiding torture, genocide, and treason. That these crimes just happen to be making tech billionaires a lot of money (contracts, tax cuts, hush money, back scratching deals etc) is not relevant to dang's stated goal of creating a safe space where people can discuss number theory and computer games without too much reality creeping in.

You can see some of the many flagged DOGE stories in my favorites. Any that appear unflagged in there were only unflagged after hours of being suppressed, by which time the algorithm puts them on page 5 or 6.

And you can see dang's response to my request for a dedicated thread on this topic here [0]. That's the level of debate, and dang doesn't make any attempt to hide it. Posts requesting a discussion on all the false flags lately get some initial traction, and are then flagged within minutes.

> Do you actually have to provide a reason for flagging a post?

Nope. It's an incredibly easy system to game; and this is explicitly by design to keep HN nice and anodyne, ie, inoffensive and utterly ineffectual against any group that is motivated enough to make a few legit looking HN accounts.

Is this sufficient in a time where you can verbally ask an AI to start a few HN accounts and make them look real? Dang says, shut up, Hacker News isn't a place for discussing hackers taking over federal systems. And we want that, apparently, despite all evidence to the contrary.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058574
Fair point. However, officially announcing the end of the project is not too much to ask.
To me, vanity is only tangential to the purchasing of clothes, particularly fast fashion, where 'it looks good on the model' is often enough to part with money, not 'will it look good on me', or 'do I need it', which are often never even considered, surprisingly. The individual thinking they will look good is actually not always a factor; it can be a kind of addiction. Source comes from my previous employer (fast fashion related industry).

This app doesn't directly answer those questions, but it gives the data needed to stop and think about the answer (quickly). I don't consider myself a vain person, but I consider myself a person who makes poor decisions with their disposable income (fashion).

The main selling point would be this: You could avoid buying 2 shirts that will be unused then thrown away every year, for the cost of 1 shirt. Save money, and textile waste.

But also, why must everything be profitable? I most I could ever hope for is that the hosting costs are paid for.
You know how in the first half of 20th century there was this big scare about overpopulation? There were books, films, studies, and lot of that leaked into the medical profession, often with a eugenics involved. Lot of experts, and highly educated people, believed that it is necessary to stem the number of births, in interest of the ignorant masses. This included Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood in US.[1]

To make things worse. Supreme court legalized forced sterilization with Buck v. Bell in 1927.[2] All in line with consensus of medical professionals. It didn't really get overturned by the way, just sort of overridden by later laws.

Add some racism into this mix, and guess who will get hurt the hardest?
This didn't just happen in America. Entire world embraced this, because it was seen as modern and progressive.[3] And medical professionals, trained to believe it, performed procedures for decades, even after the mores have changed, basically out of habit.

And it's still happening today, in UK for example, it's still perfectly legal for state to enforce sterilization.[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Eugenics

[2] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

[3] https://www.ochrance.cz/uploads-import/ENGLISH/Sterilisation...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31128969

Edit: I forgot to add article specifically about native americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_Americ...
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I don't think that's the case, one of my frustrations with HN is the top comment is nearly always some plausible sounding, probably wrong and negative comment. Look at the top comment on this post for instance.
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The problem with many digital offerings nowadays, in particular those that dominate the end user market, is that the user isn’t the customer, but is the product (i.e., directly, or indirectly, ads). Another problem is oligopolies, like Android vs. iOS.
Congress will be lucky if they can patch together a CR and not default on the national debt. Have you seen these guys?
Finding the shortest expression with 4 2's for a given integer would be a more interesting challenge
What about just faking speed limit signs? If it's in The Netherlands, everybody should respect traffic signs, whether they are fake or not.
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Compilers have a huge advantage over other programs: they are fully deterministic since they depend only on input files, command line arguments and few environment variables. It makes bugs easier to reproduce and fix compared to interactive applications, programs with networking, multi-threading...
The title of the post isn't asking HN users a question
The attitude isn’t changing, I can assure you. Few people see what’s happening for real in the country. The other ones are living in the delusional small nice Germany preparing for 1972 Olympics. If you ask about limiting uncontrolled immigration you’re already Hitler’s son. If you ask about basic product improvement, that makes production cheaper you shouldn’t rock the boat, because it was always done that way. Example from last week: we have here a trainee in the field of electronics. Electrical
check of the office equipment is due for many years. My proposition: buy the trainee a device, that does these tests automatically, send the trainee through the office to conduct tests and save 15000€ not hiring external company with the same 1500€ tester. No, can’t be done. The trainee is bored to death toying with some cables and circuit breakers. The lack of flexibility will kill the country.

The thing is that now many countries can process metal precise enough to satisfy customers. Maybe it’s only 75% of German quality, but at 40% of the price it’s unbeatable. Looks like, that German companies are sabotaging themselves. Volkswagen and defeat device. Bayer and Monsanto acquisitions. I have no explanation for this. Maybe as you say German arrogance.
FWIW, I never heard of the frameset tag, while I did use frames back then.
But that's just floats with extra steps? Floats have two parts in their binary representation: mantissa and exponent (and sign), which correspond exactly to your "entire number" and "precision", only in base 2 instead of 10.
They want cloudflare deal with pirated issue for them
The proposal is definitely not that. The route to more housing for locals is definitely by "problematizing" empty flats build for store of wealth by foreign investors, that I see locally.
That would be a pid namespace but was passed over for compatibility reasons I guess.

Addressing a SIGKILL'd parent specifically, what about daemonizing the cleanup process but instead of fork use clone with the CLONE_VM flag?
The issue is that he is doing actual damage because it turns out that what was thought to be an aspirational goal (going to Mars) is the actually only goal. That means all the uses this new capability has become superfluous until that goal is achieved.

To me it became clear he is actually a moron and there is no deeper plan when the aspirational starship concept wasn't paired with him pointing out the other advantages it has.

For example:

* the estimated useable m³ capacity makes a special variant of a starship the equivalent to the ISS in capacity - now imagine docking 4 of those to a HUB. And that is without reusing the wet-workshop concept of space-lab.

* for the same reason nobody point out that it makes zero sense to use a starship as a landing system and not turn it into an instant moon base. The wet workshop concept applies here as well.

That is just two ways starship could be used as soon as it is orbit capable - Neither would need atmospheric re-entry
The US did bad things in the past... So that excuses them doing more bad things now?
“Every scam comes from Cloudflare” is an asinine metric.

“Every one of those scams” are also on the internet, use email, DNS, whatever.

The metric that matters is how much of Cloudflare is a scam, and can the rate of scamming on Cloudflare be reduced without significantly impacting legitimate uses of it, and how.

Let's get ISPs to instablock IPs shared by thousands of sites immediately, making the internet an excruciating experience on weekends, because we may be loosing some football euros on our way to charge as much as the market will bear is just indefensible. If for no other reason, because IPs are a scarce resource.

Yes, piracy will take advantage of privacy technology (EDNS in this case). If we're cautious of violating privacy to catch child abusers, again, cry me a river about LaLiga not being able to fund the next hundred million euro transfer.
You mean like Modular?
I think a good chunk of services I receive from small businesses are underpriced due to people not realising the business they're starting has an upside similar to being an employee but with much greater personal financial risk and working stress. There's really not that much scalability to something without franchise potential.
They've added https://hexdocs.pm/file_streams/0.6.0/ for this purpose.

There's a bit of ceremony but similar to how you can interface with Java libraries from Clojure you can pull in Erlang when Gleam isn't enough.

You can do some code shortening with use, https://erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam, but it will likely always be rather chatty and won't support metaprogramming: https://lpil.uk/blog/how-to-add-metaprogramming-to-gleam/
So far only one of those two has invaded neighboring countries.
I'd love for the Mittelstand way to work, but having read https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch it seems they only survive by luck and the fact that there is still some friction in the world.
> What (other than greed) can possibly justify blocking hundreds of different services, with little to no oversight?

In this case? A court order: https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/esta-nueva-sentencia-autoriz... which is a pretty heavyweight oversight mechanism.

Personally I'm broadly pro-piracy and anti-big-sports-organisation. But alas the legal system disagrees.
From the article you linked
> We’re all for saving lives—we aren’t saying that we should stop self-driving cars so we can preserve a source of organ donation. But we also need to start thinking now about how to address this coming problem.
> And if the customers are not willing to pay more, it sounds like they're actually happy with the current offering and that's not an area that your fellow humans would find useful for you to work on.

People would need to have perfect information about all the products they buy in order to truly know if they're happy with them. If they knew and saw first hand all the effects that a product has (poor working conditions, poor pay, environmental destruction, effects on health, etc) they might not actually be happy with these products. It's impossible to research all of these things on everything you buy, and therefore the market does not "care" about any of these things, only about the immediate effects that the buyer can feel.
>Have you read the article?

From the site guidelines:

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article."
> The ideal outcome is the collapse of the federal bureaucracy so that the lords of capital can scoop things up and create their little kingdoms.

This is, of course, the model for Russian oligarchs.
Most streaming platforms actually put a lot of effort into combating live soccer broadcast piracy, more than a lot of other types of content. European soccer in is massively popular globally, as is the World Cup. Thus piracy of it is massive and global as well, and it gives the big leagues and competitions a lot of leverage. Most platforms try hard to counter soccer piracy, generally without waiting for a complaint or takedown request, and often using active methods like doing automated content detection on livestreams. The platforms simply have more to lose by poor enforcement of a huge soccer event than most anything else, including anything from Hollywood.
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Why is H1B even a thing in this market ?
still better than appointing a non national witch doctor as his number two.
> If Europeans can’t figure out new valuable areas where they can contribute to the world, than their system isn’t as clever or morally righteous or fantastic as they think it is.

I don't think it follows that unprofitable things are by definition not clever, righteous, or fantastic. This seems like a blinkered, American-capitalist viewpoint.
Looks like its easy to wipe and flash the bios chip by CH341A plus a couple diodes to get voltage down to 1.8V, likely without desoldering it too; yet finding the bios image seems to be somewhat impossible due to byte rot (adding extra steps to dump the image with the CH341A, locate the start of data blocks, wipe them).
> And Ukraine is Europe's not US problem anyway.

It actually is a problem of the US just as much as it is a problem of Europe. Russia has been financing and steering terrorist organisations across the world, most notably the entire MENA clusterfuck via its proxy Iran, and if Russia isn't stopped in Ukraine, they will escalate in other parts of the world.
Significant amounts of US power and respect comes from its position as a benevolent dictator since ww2.

That position is currently being thrown away, and will have consequences. I suspect many Americans don't even realise the benefit they have from such global soft-power, and won't for another decade. 2025 isn't a turning point, the hearts and minds have been on the wane since 2003, but it's likely to be an inflection point.