skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask what kind of work do you usually do for startups?

Are these companies that have minimal funding and no or very few full-time engineers, and you're building them a prototype to help them get off the ground? Or are you doing something very specialized, like setting up a Kubernetes cluster or something and training the team to maintain it after you leave?

Or, are these companies that have existing well-functioning engineering teams, and you basically join the team building product features alongside them but as a consultant?

Just asking because I've worked at a lot of startups but haven't ever been in a situation where we've hired a consultant. So I'm curious what the working relationship is like, I feel like there might be some friction between full-time employees who are often super committed, working long hours, maybe taking a pay cut to work there, and a consultant who's just in for a few months.
This is a good point. At the same time, some of the attorneys I've worked with in tech are wicked smart. It would definitely be good for a more representative set of people to represent citizens in congress (imagine that!), but I think the existing people are smart enough to learn what they need to about the areas that they legislate. The question is whether they take the time to learn, which it looks like they don't.

EDIT: I should clarify that I mean the attorneys I've worked with are smart enough and motivated enough to learn about technical / engineering issues, despite not being engineers.
I saw a documentary on thorium reactors the other day.. largely forgotten since the start of the Nuclear Age (can't make bombs from it)

Now a bit on the uptake by (still few) scientists. Its a no-no subject because of the vested interests in uranium/plutonium fission and (overly) prestigious fusion projects.

Was not a fan of fission, but this is much safer, more maintainable (liquid salt/thorium mix, runs through pipes), and much less waste ('only' 500yr radioactively dangerous).

And the best thing: Thorium is everywhere. All countries have it, so it would democratize nuclear technologies, be a big help in solving the energy crisis!
It wasn't an outcry, it was a bug. Heartbleed happened in OpenSSL, people then realized that the project was massively important so pledged funding.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...
The old “myth of common sense”.

https://youtu.be/D9XF0QOzWM0
In the age of information, Google obviously has disproportionate power. Society must raise awareness about concentration of power, post more about this topic, demand justice and transparency from the rulers. I think Google workers have special ethical responsibility to demand transparency and trust, organize and resist evil orders. We all have responsibility as a society to demand justice if we want a promising future.
>"That's a pretty disingenuous way to phrase Zuckerberg's response to a question of whether Facebook uses cookie tracking for logged-out users."

Except it wasn't a response to a "to a question of whether Facebook uses cookie tracking for logged-out users." It was a response to the question of:

"Facebook has detailed profiles on people who have never signed up for facebook, yes or no?"

See the video here:

https://mashable.com/2018/04/11/zuckerberg-testimony-shadow-...
Haha, I've learned a new word today.
Discord Nitro seems to be doing well, but no info on if it covers their costs.
You say you don't mind sharing information. Do you mind them collecting information about you outside of what you share?
From the article they address your point. https://dasp.co/#item-10

A lot of "hacks" are preventable in hindsight though. I think the real issue is that we are just beginning to secure smart contracts and its more about the process than the person who made a mistake.

The tooling for Solidity is alright but most of the EVM and the languages associated with it are in their infancy. Formal Verification might be a solution here but we also have to consider the developer ergonomics of writing secure smart contract code.
Tesla's terrible response to this and the detrimental effect on its image must be pretty obvious to most of the HN crowd. I have to wonder why they persist. Is their PR spin actually having a positive effect on the public at large?
Raising my hopes. Careful. I know your username.
Nobody is being mislead. This guy told his wife, specifically, that the Tesla was having issues with this barrier and still managed to drive the car straight into that exact barrier. This wasn't being mislead, this was pure unadulterated negligence. I'm not biased. While I like Tesla's I think their autonomy is absolutely the wrong tech and Waymo is on the correct path.

The response here has been absolute in its blaming of Tesla for its marketing. If Tesla really were the problem here we'd have vastly more fatal accidents as a result of people being mislead. We don't have that, entirely because every Tesla owner knows that this isn't autonomous driving.
You won't have brand new homes in $300k in SV because the land itself is worth more than that due to the heavy demand for housing in what is a comparatively small area, though you might get $300k condos in multi-story buildings if the zoning issues in the Bay Area are addressed.

Tokyo isn't a good comparison. The average price for a new home in Tokyo is $600k+ and in the suburbs was almost $400k.(https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/how-much-does-it-cost...)

Houston isn't a good example either. Houston has almost no zoning or building regulations, which was on ample display when entire neighborhoods flooded because developers weren't prevented from building houses in flood basins. (CA allows the construction of residential properties in floodplains, which are flat areas that might get flooded if flood control mechanisms fail. In Houston, houses were built in the flood control mechanism.)

There are also plenty of places in California where houses and residential units are being built. In LA, for example, several ten thousands of new residential units were built in the downtown/downtown-adjacent units in the past few years. In San Bernardino/Riverside counties, they still have housing stock available from the last building boom. It's not that the people of California pulled that ladder up; it's simply basic market forces: too many people want to live in the nice parts of California.
The article describes growth in the number of restaurants (and thus customer demand, more people dining out), so restaurants could increase prices.
I do, because I don't do a lot of physical or online shopping for fun, nor I spend time looking for new products by reading reviews or lifestyle articles. I do prefer to see advertising about things that are a bit related to my interests.

Though I also find intense tracking creepy (but this is more ad stickiness / retargeting / remarketing than pure targeting).

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Marketer speaking now: reducing targeting also means that ads ROI will fall and it will probably reduce the number of companies able to afford media space. Economically speaking I think it is a problem to not leverage the data we have to help new businesses finding an audience.

To speak truth about this, if the point is about "selling data", targeting ads is not about selling data. It is about enabling advertisers to reach a "target". Saying I want people that are female between 20 and 30, does not mean that you will get their profiles in your inbox. They will just see your ads.
To me Digg died with the AACS censorship debacle. In hindsight, I understand Kevin Rose was trying to protect Digg from lawsuits that would effectively destroy the site, but the censorship did the same.
I got to the "and these are the reasons why" section before I really had to give up. The reasons why you remember the NES over every other video game system of the era was that Nintendo were monopolizing bastards at that time, and if you (as a developer) made games for the NES to be released in the USA, you were essentially forfeiting the right to release those games for other systems in the USA.

Honestly, I'm glad Nintendo got knocked down a peg on their last few systems. I'm just not happy about what they taught their competitors.
The Moon in 4k resolution [video]
I very much prefer targeted ads. I don't have time to research the numerous products released each day that target my demographic. Seeing ads that are specific to my interests are important. I don't prefer seeing the same ad every time, a la youtube. I want variety in my ads, but "revisiting" ads over time is good to me. I have fairly broad interests that I actively engage in - gardening, fitness, gadgets - I want to see the latest products in those areas and be reminded of items I've seen advertised before.
Love the NES and love retro gaming, but the article completely contradicts itself. It's not just driven by nostalgia, but...

It says something about the legacy of the NES that most homebrewers continue to make games for the system for reasons other than nostalgia. It’s mostly because they love the NES.

“I’ve always wanted to create NES games, ever since I was a kid. I remember sitting around drawing maps on paper, daydreaming of what my designs would be like to play,” explained Nathan Tolbert, a relatively new figure to the NES homebrew scene who’s already built a couple of titles for the annual NESDEV competition.

So...nostalgia.

One creator, Antione Fantys, wants to bring back some of the elements from retro games that don’t seem to exist in the modern generation. Because the NES is the most iconic of these systems, he enjoys programming with it, citing the limitations of the system as a means to creating the most accurate representation of a retro game as possible.

More nostalgia.

The article pretty much proves these homebrews are the product of nostalgia. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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I've been exposed to this exact attitude in the past. (in fact, from a previous girlfriend. I apparently met her bar for intelligence; she did not meet my bar for caring and empathy) I've given it a fair amount of thought over the years, and I'm always dumbfounded that she didn't stop to consider just how arrogant and one-dimensional this attitude is. There is more to a person than "intelligence," however you choose to measure that.
ADP's privacy policy says this.

>Unless directed by our clients, we do not share employee information provided by our clients with third parties. When directed by our clients, we communicate company employee information to third party service providers such as payroll service bureaus, insurance companies and third party administrators, among others.

According to that, they'll only do it if directed by your employer.
On the other hand, throwing enough p = .05 studies at the world lets you 'learn' all sorts of unintuitive - and untrue - things.

That smiling/happiness result, for example, looks to be another casualty of the replication crisis. [1] Could it be true? Maybe, but at the quality of existing research it's not clear studying it was an improvement on intuition. Checking our instincts with data is a good thing to do, but it's hardly a silver bullet when searching for the truth.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
I'd say that yes, they do.

There's little point in removing the results from google.ca and not google.com.
There's not much to learn from agriculture. People left farms for better jobs in factories. That's not a story of unemployment and displacement.

If a new source of jobs pops up that can employ 50% of the population at higher wages than they are currently earning, no one will complain about it (except maybe for the employers at their current jobs, but they will probably just buy the proverbial tractor).
Are you a software engineer? Surely you’ve been bitten enough by “that’s obviously true” to welcome a revalidation of assumptions in slightly different contexts?
Former and current Microsoft staffers talk about why Windows phones failed
Agreed, this goes for other professions as well such as accountants and real estate agents. There always seems to be some new complexity that requires the profession. That being said I do think it will put a dent in the number of professionals. Sites like homie.com for real estate already seem to he effecting real estate personnel.
I suspect the problem runs deeper than this. There is no shortage of clueful people willing to advise senators for free (I have personally offered to do so, for example). Also I spent 1/2 day in the company of a staffer for one of our senators last year. Based on that experience they are not really short of technology savvy. Somehow their business model depends on appearing to not understand technology.
That’s interesting to hear! Usually game jam culture is very receptive towards themes. What did you find didn’t work?
Yes, I agree. I was just pointing out one reason the current system doesn't control its costs very well. There are lots of potential ways to improve the system, some of which are already implemented in other countries.
Exercise Gives a Big Boost to Sleep
My goodness, you mean the Witcher 1 was worse? I only managed 45 minutes before stopping the first one.
1: How is that easy? If I had a cookie on Amazons domain, how would that enable Amazon to show me personalized ads on FB? I don't keep cookies though. So the targeting must use other types of user identification.

2: I don't have a FB app nor do I use FB on my phone. But I see ads related to the places I went to. So the flow of information must be via other channels. One part is probably Google (I use Android).
Thanks, glad you find it useful! And that's exactly the reason I open sourced it - I thought there was a need for a quite comprehensive but still simple sample app for people to learn :)
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The problem with this reasoning is that doing away with the "dots don't matter" policy would not fix the more general issue of e-mail aliasing. Besides variations in dots, there are also "+labels" (which Netflix must also consider a valid and necessary part of the e-mail address, per the RFCs) and the fact that for every "xyz@gmail.com" address there is an equivalent "xyz@googlemail.com" address. Unlike "dots don't matter", labels are a useful and well-liked feature, supported by many mail servers (though not always using "+" as the delimiter). Removing them would be an extremely unpopular move on Google's part.

No account-related emails (other than e-mail validation) should be sent to the e-mail address on file until it has been validated. Period.
What ever happened with the frozen funds caused by the Parity multi-sig wallet bug? Is there a plan to unfreeze them somehow?
Regarding communities, this was one of the strongest features from Orkut. I remember having lots of fun hunting niches/bizares communities (and not so much fun when I found out some communities I was part of got sold/traded, and then got renamed to something completely different, mostly for advertising purposes).
On the other hand, it is a bit crazy and impressive that OS X/macOS has had to support 32-bit x86 binaries for >12 years because they sold 32-bit Core Duo machines from January 2006 (introduction of Core Duo iMac) until August 2007 (replacement of Core Duo Mac Mini with Core 2 Duo version). 12 years of binary support because they sold 32-bit x86 CPUs for 20 months.
Seems like they should just raise prices on the food to control demand and provide additional capital for paying workers. Basic economics 101. What am I missing here?
That’s not "gray hat", that’s entirely black hat, utterly immoral, and purely malicious.

And honestly, we as society should do anything to eliminate people doing this.
The Challenge of Using C in Safety-Critical Applications [pdf]
"tragedy of the commons"

I as a freelance developer sometimes make releases whose sole purpose is to refactor/slim down/increase performance with no new features. Yeah, some of my users are disappointed I didn't prioritize X feature they wanted, but it helps mitigate tragedy of the commons a little.

Individually the users are well-meaning with their feature wants/needs, but collectively all the different feature requests can turn your app into a bloated monstrosity if you aren't careful.
These are the same authors from this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958366 which was posted a year ago. Really interesting work they are doing.
I was disappointed none of the creative ways included using robots or machines like in Japan.
Better to startup in boulder or amsterdam?
Tech is a lifestyle decoration. We have political and environmental existential threats where we might obliterate ourselves.
I am surprised at PR Silicon Valley companies are doing these days. First it was Facebook and now Tesla. They keep trying to avoid responsibility by blaming someone other than themselves. How hard is to just say "we are looking into it" and do a comprehensive test before making a statement.
If you can't afford to pay enough to retain labor, you need to charge more for your products or give labor equity. If you can't make money doing this (ROI not good enough if equity is diluted or people won't pay more for what you're selling) then you should not be in business.
I'm impressed with the amount of clarity in these posts, including the visual parts.
This may be a local phenomenon caused by bad ownership or management, but the fast food restaurants near me have really been struggling to stay well staffed, resulting in them no longer being "fast". It seems like some of them are propped up by the brand and cheap prices instead of acceptable service. I wonder if there is a reduction in the number of teens and college students seeking out these kinds of jobs. Maybe teens just don't get jobs anymore, and college students don't have time to work for a wage that'll barely cover their living expenses
Flashing a custom ROM I guess. Most are made by enthusiasts, so while amazing, there are no hard guarantees about performance and security.

Despite that, a custom ROM feels like having a modern device again. All the marketing-driven little walls are gone.
Addendum to your creepy quote list:

"I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." from 8/10/10 WSJ interview.
Is this even enforceable?
The new version of securify, which will soon be available at https://securify.ch, catches 7 our of the 9 mentioned issues automatically and is free.

I am one of the tool's authors. We went on to found ChainSecurity (https://chainsecurity.com) in order to deepen our research and understanding of smart contract security. Feel free to ask any questions about securify or ChainSecurity.
Let's say the pilot walks out of the cockpit to pee, doesn't notice the co-pilot is narc'd out for his knee and back pain, and the plane rolls into a banking spiral. Is it the software's fault?

The guy hadn't touched the wheel for six seconds, in traffic. WTF.
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Scaling for Growth with Uber's VP of Core Infrastructure
Linux is under your hood
Something else to consider, a simple experiment you can do at home, with sorry implications. Get some soda, fill a glass with ice, then fill the rest of it with soda, give it a minute to stabilize, then put a thermometer in it. Then watch.

Does the temperature slowly converge to room temperature, in a linear fashion? Not at all. That isn't how phase shift works. The soda in the glass will remain at the same temperature for as long as there is still ice. If you got a heat lamp and put it right next to the glass, you would increase the speed at which the ice cubes are melting, but you would not raise the temperature of the soda. It's only when the ice is almost gone that the temperature rises. And then it rises a lot.

Likewise, global warming is limited so long as we still have ice caps to melt. But once those ice caps are almost gone, the temperature increase will be unrestrained.
Ask HN: What caused the rapid increase of Linux kernel LOC between 2.6 to 3.0?
Saw this posted in another thread: https://www.linuxcounter.net/statistics/kernel

There's a huge increase between 2.6 to 3.0 in lines of code. What caused it? Was it mostly just added drivers?

If I remember correctly, Linux kernel v3 was just an anniversary naming, not like a huge breaking / major release.
You can do log scales in Grafana, but not with this banding thing
It's not impossible for Google to do, it's unjust for one nation to regulate the conduct of a company in every country.
Where did the parent claim the article was saying "dysfunctional"?
That was the original title of the article at the time of submission, after more details came out Bloomberg updated the title.
Thanks for this. As always with big population studies, there's a huge risk of getting your result by failing to control for something. Or, conversely, missing a real relationship by controlling for something else it predicts.

Or for most studies, both. Probably you missed some key confounder, and probably you also controlled away some of the real effects. So "correlation found" ends up meaning "the missed confounders beat out the improper controls".

(Does being a 'night owl' cause depression, which shortens lifespans? It certainly sounds plausible, so controlling for psychological disorders raises an eyebrow. And so on, for a dozen other controls.)
Tesla's new Waze-like real-time traffic system as part of its mapping software update could help handle this. If the autopilot system (engaged or in ghost mode) generates an error signal (either binary or some variable degree of error) that is pushed to the traffic system along with the traffic data, it could easily alert other drivers (and hopefully the autopilot system) of such problems.

Considering they have enough data to do realtime traffic analysis, they easily should have enough data to determine problem areas for the autopilot.
> but those are all quite common and are similar to illusions

No. None of those qualify as brain being cheated.
Carlos Bueno expresses the general problem brilliantly:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/09/priest-guru-nerd-king/

(Excerpts below)

Corporations do not want to legislate, let alone enforce, more of humanity’s behavior than they need to. They have better things to do. The universe isn’t going to dent itself. But because they are outpacing traditional governments in their ability to predict & shape human behavior, they walk right into stupidly impossible situations over and over again. Software isn’t eating the world so much as larping it.

The governance problem is not about dealing with governments as such, but about accidentally adopting or creating arenas of human behavior that you then have to govern, with “externalities” that don’t remain external. Starting a ride-sharing service? Congratulations, you’re now an urban planner. Want to disrupt shipping logistics? Get ready to do your part to curb terrorism and slavery.

The problem of governance arises wherever “move fast and break things” runs right into an older saying: “you broke it, you bought it”.

Sometimes things blow up squarely on your turf. Think about what it takes to enforce a social network “real names” policy across hundreds of cultures. One account per person, one person per account, authentic names as used in real life. Zuck’s buddy Calvin can post pictures of himself holding pounds of weed but he can’t use the name he’s known by, Snoop Dogg.