skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the xi editor use a JSON transport layer for all syscalls though?

Low-friction interfaces for developers are great but I'm not sure I agree with the comparison here.
It's super easy to fake KYC because the kind of KYC that players in the crypto space are doing is child's play.
Aren't a lot of open source communities based around IRC channels or is that old hat now?

I remember back in the day IRC was the place to be for Debian. Ditto for when I was doing stuff with Perl.
I am surprised that you've only mentioned npm. The current complexity of webpack and the number of frameworks, the language going over multiple ES revisions and type-safe alternatives to the language makes it seem like the eventual complexity is almost unavoidable and simplicity is a marketing fad.
Why is it fair to subsidize people to live in high cost of living locations?
> Citizenship is a job requirement.

Do you do disassembly for government?
Is there something filthy on your junk? Better get it clean than keep dirtying your hands
I'm in that movement because of extremely high rate of errors.
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https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-...
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I could try to do that, or I could just run software that doesn't let me be tracked to the extent possible, signaling to the market participants that I don't want to take part in their panopticon. I fail to see why the latter is so bad.
As JumpCrisscross said, this is very common. Shortcuts the process considerably and there are a fair amount of failing B/Ds out there.
Generally the authority in the country in which you are established is responsible for you and communication will happen with them, same applies when you designate a representative in the union.
It does seem a little insane that we don't adopt the part of the Roman professional military system that was arguably one of the most effective.
Is a law prohibiting me from secretly giving an elected official a briefcase full of one million dollars constitutional? If so, why is it not the same if there's a law that says I can't secretly provide $1,000,000 in services to the same elected official in the form of political advertising?

The authors of the U.S. Constitution had some pretty strong ideas on the idea of bribery; in fact, it's explicitly listed in Article 2, Section 4 as an impeachable offense. The public has a right to know when its politicians and government officials are receiving money (or goods and services) from outside entities.
Undoubtedly, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is a great place to start: https://dataintensive.net/

It’s not as purely distilled as the 12 factor app by any means, but amongst all the details about B trees and such, a number of very solid principles around storing data creep out.
You're factually mistaken. The extreme majority of his activity the last 15 years has not been taking advantage of weak companies and lending his reputation. He lent several massive financial entities money and his reputation during the fallout from the great recession, which helped those companies a lot and he made money, a great win for both parties.

Bank of America and Goldman Sachs came out of it in stellar condition. Both are printing record profits. Like I said, a win all around.

Uber isn't in a desperate position, thus they turned Buffett down. They're loaded with immense amounts of cash, and have no problem raising more.

So your sole examples to claim an outsized pattern of behavior, come from the great recession.

Otherwise, we have: the acquisition of Precision Cast Parts for $37 billion, buying Pilot Flying J, buying out Iscar, acquiring Duracell, acquiring Van Tuyl, acquiring NV Energy, funding the merger of Kraft Heinz and holding a huge position, Lubrizol for $9.7 billion, and Burlington Northern (2009).

A hundred billion dollars worth of acquisitions over a decade.

On the investment side: a massive investment into Apple, on a bet that they're a strong company and will continue to spit off vast profits for a long time to come. A large investment into IBM (sold). Investments into Southwest Airlines and other airlines. And so on, without another single example of your premise.
Also worth checking out: Fedora's minimalistic git forge.

https://pagure.io/pagure
Cool, will do that!
People are upset now days on all the things even people doing shit.

"Any individual can’t single handedly fix what’s wrong with this industry but if we don’t each do our small part, how can we expect the cultural change this industry needs?"

Now he is blaming whole industry for this.

Please stop making issues at everything and do some good with your time.
You should try the new BitBucket, it's awesome.
I speed thru the video and didn’t see how it needed AI to do any of that
I was given a short intro to GDB, +1 for PEDA making it a lot easier to understand (or at least, giving you enough context to know what's happening at a particular moment)
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Good to get clueless investor money or users that think AI really does make it better
Sir, it's quite possible this economy is not entire stable.

Not entirely stable!? Well, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things. Chewy, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
Uncharitable explanation is that someone read about half of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, thought that it was the definitive philosophy of everyone in Open Source, thought that they understood what it was talking about, and were wrong on both counts.

Still trying to come up with the charitable explanation, this article makes almost zero sense to me.
Considering Google has over 2000 plus open source projects I find it hard to believe how Microsoft is doing a better job of doing open source than Google.

Additionally, I find it comical that you would even suggest that a company that has sued other companies for using open source software is even in the conversation with companies that have championed open source software since their inception.

There is no undo button. All you can do is be better than what you were. If Microsoft really wants to start doing a better job in the open source community they can start by agreeing to never sue another company for using Linux.
...and timezone differences
I'm going to give Fossil a try, mainly because it is the only thing I've seen that has everything that I currently want. I'm a little bit worried about the Cathedral/Bazaar approach... I really like the idea that every copy of the source code is an implied branch. However, I suspect that I will have few enough collaborators for it to be of any matter.

Their characterisation of GPL vs BSD licensing in the git vs fossil comparison is frustrating though. I wonder if there is a way to convince them to update it because it really reduces their credibility. I'm specifically referring to "the GPL license grants the right to read source code to anyone who promises to give back enhancements". This is just completely incorrect. From the GPL V3: "You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions". In other words, as long as you don't "convey" (distribute) your changes, you can do whatever the heck you want (including reading the source code).
>I’ve found face to face communication effective for resolving contentious disagreements...

I have observed the same. But 9 out of 10 times, it was because the losing party couldn't spend much time thinking about counter arguments.

So again, it cures the symptom, but it benefits only the person with the loudest voice in the room, and not the one with sound reason.

>People seem to understand the other side’s perspective more fully and confusions that can show up in email from things like poor word choice can be resolved...

Don't buy this either. As I said before, the "seem to understand" bit might come from the fact that people often does not express disagreement in face to face communication that often, because they didn't have time to think it through.

EDIT: This is assuming that the both parties in the discussion are more or less on the same level of competence. If the communication is going to be mostly one sided, then face to face communication (Like a teacher in a class room) is fine.
But how is this not ethical?
I think we are talking about how speculating is bad here. buying low have don't have much to do with short/long term investment.

I don't know if Buffet did anything that is considered fraud but I would love to read about it.
Looks nice tho...you could have just made a nice product with AI gimic
Company chugged along like they normally did until being slow to adopt new tech caught up to them. The CEO and his buddy the CFO lined their pockets as you would expect until someone bought the company.

But they were solid earners until then as they had put themselves in a good spot and provided outstanding service (well that was me and my buddies). Stock never did much as wall street was entering the phase of demanding short term growth for no apparent reason all the time.
Not to mention that there are enterprise tools for rolling back version changes including database migrations, and enterprises which enforce their use, so the rollback scripts are essential.
We might see the day when Nat Friedman rises to the top job at Microsoft. Imagine that, a ex MS-intern who made his fortune with an open source support company running the company that was "celebrated" in hate partys (we have a 1997 poster of that at our hackerspace).

GitHub will be the only Microsoft product I use, but I'll give them a chance.
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Ah yes, the ever ethical and humanist market. I don't think it's wise to look for cues on how to be ethical from the market.

You're right about the mechanisms at play though.
It's always funny when they blame the media.

Theranos in particular as if they had what they claimed, the media could poop on them forever and once they put out the product it would have changed the medical industry regardless of the media... but nope.
You are comparing apples to oranges.

I have not followed Theranos closely but from what I have read they had no product at all. This would make Theranos completely false.

Musk may be over promising as to what his company can deliver with regards to number of units but he has a working product. This is something that has happened time and time again in all industries, if he fails than he is just another run of the mill failure.
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You know, face to face communication is good if you are repeating stuff you heard from somewhere or stuff like "Hi there, how was your weekend" type of talk.

When you want productive communication, you want thought backing content and framing of every one of your sentences...
I can believe that it is the best selling watch in the world.

People don't buy many watches, because they last a long time.

Last time I bought a watch was 7 years ago, and it still works fine. It's probably got another 3 years before I need to change the battery.

I think the last time my old man bought a watch was some time in the 80's or 90's.
Yes I have. But like always with social networks it's about the critical mass (GitHub dwarves everything else) and public acceptance (like a company accepting this strange "Bitbucket"... :)).
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> the Altavista or pets.com of the Internet, burning investor money

I'm not sure it's fair to lump Altavista with pets.com.

The latter burned through something like 300 megabucks in just over 2 years.

The former was the first full-text search engine for the web and generated tens of megabucks of revenue, though they couldn't come up with a business model to keep it going (and eventualy lost out to Google on search quality [1], IIRC). I'm not sure we'll ever know how much it cost DEC to build and run it, but it seems credible that they at least came close to breaking even.

[1] Though I still miss their richer query language, incuding the NEAR keyword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

I see a lot of comments mentioning how this doesn't need AI. I'd like to remind everyone that the ability to suggest layouts, modify layouts, and the other features probably aren't built with a bunch of 'if' statements...
I see a semblance to their original motivations in building chrome. By making the web as a whole more competitive, it made google's offerings more competitive (more ad surfaces, more gmail users, less OS lockin). Actually winning the browser war isn't necessary.

For a huge number or organizations, the cloud isn't a meaningful option because the switching costs are astronomical. Kubernetes, otoh, means someone that chooses on prem today actually has a migration path later.

Google benefits hugely from that path just existing.
And that's the problem. It's a World Wide Developer Conference. And then, in the keynote and later in news and announcements all they come up with is emoji and dark mode?
Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare
But does it have blockchain?
Eventually, it will diverge back to what you have today.
The Platform State of the Union is the real Keynote and the sessions are the meat of the conference.
I have a 1054Z and use it in a pretty basic manner, but when I want to take screenshots, I find that the Ultrascope software is super crashy. I'm on Win7 64bit. It basically crashes almost every time I run it. I can restart it but it's irritating.

All I need to do is take screenshots, is there a quick way to do that over USB without having to use Ultrascope?
Oh yes there's plenty of free CAD (for example, FreeCAD), but there are some truly excellent but insanely expensive tools out there too.

I would be happy to spend a large sum of money for a copy, but you can't any more. You have to buy a subscription.

If I can buy something excellent and know that I'll be able to use it, even if outdated, in 10 years, there's real value to an investment like that.

If I'm throwing several dollars a day into a hole for something I'll probably only use sometimes, and at that, perhaps taking years between uses, I can't justify the expense.

Something like how I bought the best cordless drill I could find. Not because I use it every day, or even every month, but because I wanted my drilling experience to be good every time I used it.

If you have good tools you're more likely to do things and do them well.

People give the same advice about guitars. Don't buy a cheap guitar if you want to pick up the skill. It will be difficult to tune, it won't keep a tune, and it won't sound great whatever you do. Buy a good guitar and what you do will sound better and encourage you to keep it up and get better.

A lot of free software tools are the same. They can do what they do, but their flaws discourage use and make failure as a beginner a lot more likely.

There is probably an optimum there. Not so refined as to be too expensive to be accessible to most people and not so rudimentary as to turn away people who try with low success.
> Even when someone came back with logical counterpoints I'd stick up for my opinion very aggressively.

I hate this so much. I hate it even more, because it's mostly true that it works. YMMV, and I'm talking of non-technical organisations or organisation where tech is a cost-centre rather than value-add.

Those who don't fully understand it (it being whatever technical disagreement or choice made), which is usually the majority, will side with you. The remainder are usually people who can see that the organisation is structured this way and either give up out of apathy or leave for greener pastures.

If someone literally yells at me, I'm out. Notice in that day, usually within the hour. If the organisation is willing to allow that behaviour, it's usually toxic. If I'm on contract (which I always am now), my opinion within that organisation will no longer be respected. Notice of non-renewal immediately.
It's illegal for it to go faster than 55 knots.

They're certifying this as a Part 103 Ultralight, and under the regulation, it: "Is not capable of more than 55 knots calibrated airspeed at full power in level flight." Since this is a multicopter with ostensibly some sensors, it's quite possible they're limiting this in software, but it is extremely disingenuous to say this can do 100 mph. It cannot, because that's illegal.

Additionally, the previous version of the Kitty Hawk Flyer, basically a decacopter with a seat, weighed 220 pounds, per reports. The new version of the Flyer has significantly more structure, and the weight limit for Part 103 ultralights is 254 pounds. I would hazard a guess that there's more than 34 pounds of chassis and fiberglass on the latest version. It's questionable if the 'floats' count toward that weight, in which case I would like to congratulate the Kitty Hawk team in engineering around the regulations.

But a Part 103 'flying car' is just about the dumbest idea ever. It can't be used to commute; you can call your local FSDO and confirm that yourself. You're also not going to fly it in San Francisco between Hunters Point, Pacifica, and San Mateo; there's an airport in the way. To say this is a 'flying car' is disingenuous and goes along with the SV philosophy of, 'screw laws and regulations, we're innovating'.

I honestly can't believe this got funding. I'm not surprised CNN is lapping it up; they're traditionally terrible with aviation-related news. I would guess that's why they were given the exclusive.
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Yeah, it was a really low content post, for sure. It didn't have much to do with the article at all - or even the same organization, technically.

And in every topic like this, ones about Mozilla's spending (or sometimes Chrome or any other org that has a popular, free product), someone feels the need to say "but why not this one bug that I harp on?" really, really consistently.
What's exciting to me about this is that it could enable trading of these crypto securities outside of typical brokers/exchanges, as well as derivative securities (ie. hold an index of crypto securities, rebalancing from in/out flows from those who buy/trade on the derivatives).

Honestly, I can see an "regulated"[0] crypto securites derivative market being deeper than the underlying crypto securites themselves since they'll trade more OTC.

[0] To the same degree that any government can regulate trade of their currency/debt on global markets.
More like a CAD/CAE to me.
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I doubt we disagree strongly. Also, all I know about this story I know from Carreyrou's book; you might know a lot more than me. Unsurprisingly given my source, I have the impression that Theranos might have survived the FDA stuff, had the WSJ debacle not occurred.
It's a fair enough position, but this discussion happens on every HN discussion of an article with a paywall, yet strangely enough nothing changes!

The question of how journalism can be commercially sustainable is a very important one, but it's separate to the topic at hand :)
It's not even that: Timex probably outsells Apple watches 100:1, but they have a crazy variety of models instead of just 1 or 2.
What was impossible about OnLive? Using the app was an impressively responsive remote desktop experience, and cloud gaming is very much a viable reality as shown by PlayStation Now and GeForce NOW.
It only takes a few countries imprisoning people who trade in tainted coins/tokens before they become untouchable.

Public ledgers are public. If the US IRS, perhaps coordinated with Interpol, publishes a blacklist of coins, those coins are toast.
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Ask HN: How do you negotiate rates as a contractor?
I'm trying to get my first contractor gig, and I set an established rate. The client told me their target is roughly half of what I set. In response, I hoped that at a minimum a retainer would show some good will on their side to get me something in return, but I'm just not sure how to navigate this.

I'm scared I'll screw it up and it'll fall through.

Can someone talk a bit on how to negotiate rates? At the first millimetre they pull, I'm already wanting to give in to their demands.

Thanks!
Agreed. Spring Boot is how you do frameworks right.

It is opinionated and provides libraries and solutions for almost everything you need to do, BUT it always allows you to use your own if required.

I love Spring Boot and I wish there was something even remotely as good and full featured in other languages.
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Right with modern continuously closed accounting systems there's no reason this couldn't be done. Inertia and tradition are the only reason for releasing financial statements on a quarterly basis instead of more frequently.
> BTW, if disassembly is a career interest for you, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208556 for my "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)" comment.

You're doing "God's Work". I wish I was even remotely qualified to do this sorta thing because I'm pretty interested in it, but I'm pretty far removed from it (large scale infrastructure architecture).

Do you mind if I email you some questions as far as good ways to start tracking in that direction? (though you pretty much enumerated them in the transferable skills part)
I went to reply to the parent but you just nailed it. Microsoft isn't after your open source project git user here, they're after the multitude of companies that are heavily invested in what Github offers on top of git.

If I were to tell my team right now we were moving away from Github I'm pretty sure there'd be riots and fire. We rely on the hooks to tell us when things are being merged and we rely on PRs to do code review. Even the wikis are maintained and contain relevant information. No one does that. Corporate wikis are a black hole of shit, and somehow our Github wiki isn't.

The MS sales team is most likely currently engaged in some Defcon 2 sales planning in a war room bunker deep underground. Deals are going to happen, upsells will be sought. Account managers are being dropped from helicopters. Quotas are coalescing off the shoulder of Orion. Contracts are glittering at the Facebook compound gates. All of these deals will be won in time, making it rain.
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Epyc is 4 ryzen 7's. The threadripper (at least the ones shipping today) are two Ryzen 7s.

The memory bandwidth does increase proportionally (it's 2x ryzen for threadripper and 4x ryzen for eypc).

Individual cores do tend to be lower on the threadripper and epyc because of power/heat limitations, so they tend to be lower clocked and tend to have less cache per core.
Closing the books is an anachronism left over from paper accounting. With modern automated accounting the books can be kept continuously closed.
The federal government doesn't make employers have to continue working with unions. Scabs are a real thing. The unions are able to force companies to negotiate anyway because it is difficult to replace a large number of employees at once, especially if they have any skills.

>The laws that regiment employment relationships are decided by a central body, and restrict the contract freedom of millions of people.

By this argument any employment law is central planning. That's hyperbole
Guess who has those "estimates" and slip them to their investors before anyone else?

The problem is one of informational asymmetry to reward the connected/wealthy.
Whoops, my bad. ^^
Guess I wanted to keep it private till it's actually finished.