skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A transactional relationship is fine if the employee is not integral and will remain not integral throughout their employment at the company. But if a founder is hiring the first few engineers, or executives, or anyone of importance-- he or she should be thinking about their futures: in particular, how they might feel about being low-balled vis-a-vis their peers.

"If I pay this smart, black, female engineer less than every other male engineer, just because she doesn't have a college degree, how would that look if everyone found out?" [1]

"Adversarial" is expected in a negotiation. Short-sightedness is not. "Bragging" about stiffing staff isn't just a a bad look, it's a sign that the dealmaker is an animal in human skin.

I'm sure 10% of OI's users have good intentions. The rest are living examples for why hiring collusion is outlawed and subject to prosecution.

[1] Yes, I worked for a startup that did exactly that, and was surprised when the engineers started quitting weeks after the truth came out.
> stops pretending that paying money to a CA means that you're a morally upright website.

The rest of this is correct, but nobody is asserting EV means you're good, just that it means you are whoever you're verified to be.

I.e. your cert has an Organisation field of 'Verified Org Inc' rather than a blank item like a DV cert has.

DigiCert still very much supports EV, they just don't like how CASC is planning to do silly things like require you to be in business 3 years before getting verified.
Here in Bangkok the size of the (already legendary) traffic jams is certainly a great proxy for the economy as a whole.
Your point about recession is interesting. As we came out of the previous recession after the crash in 07/08, I noticed commute times increasing in the DC metro area.

My argument is and has been that highway lane miles have never met demand. More lanes bring more cars simply because the other routes we're equally congested/slow before and now there's a slightly better option with the new mega highway.
Nope, they had a spider-crawler and a full engine along with the human-curated Directory.
Google's certs are OV (verified organisation but no visible sign), GitHub's and Apple's are EV (verified organisation and visible), your blog is probably DV (only proves you have a domain).
To be fair to Google, they do have a pretty-well-staffed portion of the company that works on giving you trustworthy URLs to the first visit to a website. :-)

But seriously, I think that's the actual answer. The only way you find websites is by receiving a URL from somewhere - whether that's from a search engine, or from a link on some other website, or from non-web means like a paper advertisement or a billboard. And the PKI does solve the problem of bootstrapping trust from a textual URL. (And to be actually fair to Google, they've HSTS-preloaded the top-level domain .app, so any website inside .app gets HSTS from first use onwards - which seems like the right way to solve the problem of URLs communicated aurally.)

To solve the problem of "Am I on the right website," the concept of "right website" has to be well-defined - which generally means you have to already know of the existence of some right website. The UX problem in security is how to take advantage of that knowledge, e.g., not let a Bank of America customer click a link in a phishing email that doesn't actually go to the website they previously signed up with.

The alternative is that some committee like the CASC determines which sites are morally upright and worth anyone visiting, and which ones aren't. That solution works okay for physical sites, more or less, but applying it to the internet generally doesn't produce good outcomes.
Amusing that this type of person goes unnoticed when many of us tell people what we do. I fall into this category as I was describing in another thread. What she misses is many of us aren’t rich or the work sustainable: many people in lower to middle classes sacrificing money or status to do deep research and development in a field that interests them and/or they find necessary. They might also not like the priorities of commercial or government funding groups.

For instance, I thought figuring out how to make computers that don’t fail or get hacked was a thing we desperately needed. I believed both livelihoods and lives were at stake. That we had access to them was a social good that neither the markets nor FOSS were really serving. It was also an interesting, deep, rabbit hole of a problem crossing many sub-fields of IT, economics, and psychology. That she misses people without money doing it altruistically surprises me more given she wrote the report on FOSS developers working with little to no money or contributions on critical stuff that mattered to them. Same kind of thing I think with different work output.

Still a good write-up that will draw attention to the concept. We might get more people doing it or publishing what they’re doing. I think most of us don’t publish enough. We should accept some of the troubles of that since the ideas get out there more. I also like this quote focusing on the obsessive nature of deep, independent research:

“I understand, then, why researchers flock to the safety of institutions. Imagine studying something that nobody else is studying, for reasons you can’t really articulate, without knowing what the outcome of your work will be. For the truly obsessed person, the need for validation isn’t about ego; it’s about sanity. You want to know there’s some meaning behind the dizzying mental labyrinth that you simultaneously can’t escape and also never want to leave.”

Edit: I also noted it gets even lower-end in response to a comment elsewhere saying you just need money to live and basic, computing equipment. That's true but maybe not what people picture.

"Even lower barrier than that: many bright folks that were hackers or makers that I met in rural areas were on food stamps or living with someone unemployed without a car. They could usually get a Wifi-enabled phone or old laptop that they could use at nearby McDonalds or something. Many use data plans, too, just cuz cell service is a necessity to them. At one point, I went lower having no PC, phone, or car. Designed on paper or dirt depending on where we were at.

The reading and practicing like you said is what gave us skill. I think peer review and support is just as important, though. I had lots of it once I got online. There’s quite a few people out there probably stuck on some subjects, reinventing wheels, or chasing dead ends just because they can’t talk to experienced people."
(Just noticed your reply. It's been 5 days - this reply is strictly "for the record" & I don't expect you to notice).

> You are trying to argue that hormone therapy has no therapeutic value [...]

Estrogen therapy has always been a scam without therapeutic value. DES actually gave women's daughters vaginal cancer. Prescription horse piss actually gave women breast cancer. Etc etc etc.

Various other therapies are appropriate to help restore balance to people's (both male and female) hormone systems.

> Urine is gross so obviously the drug is a fraud?

How many women would take Premarin if their doctor said, "I'm going to give you some concentrated horse urine to help with these symptoms you're having." Exactly none. Synthetic Premarin-equivalents give women breast cancer just the same as genuine horse estrogen.

> Mixed in with "big business" conspiracy.

Pharmaceutical companies create "evidence" to justify their product, then the product gets pulled a few years later when it's realized the side effects aren't worth the negligible benefits. The fines are a fraction of their profits. Call it a conspiracy if you want - I prefer "fraud".
That's a flaw (specific to the US, where the same name can be registered in different states) but DigiCert (the subject of the article) is proposing remedies to fix it.
Differences don't necessarily make it hard to move to another language. Many developers moved from Java to Ruby between 2006 and 2010, including me, and Ruby is pretty different.
I worked at Google on search indexing at the time Yahoo switched from their own search engine to using Bing. At the time, by most of Google's own search metrics, Yahoo had a product superior to Bing. If Bing had been spun off as a separate company, or otherwise hadn't had access to Microsoft's deep pockets and default IE search status, it's likely Yahoo would have fared better.
I tend to disagree. Having multiple automated ETL processes running for different projects/clients/colleagues I see that the code does not change as often, as I had anticipated.

Automation here (in my case) is a net win on time.
Medical profiteers broke the health insurance system. Insurance companies encourage profiteering by taking a flat percentage of the total amount spent.
Hitting 5000 Model 3 Units in a single surge week is an anomaly, until it becomes a repeatable and sustainable pattern.

And a pattern that includes low/no rework, because building 5000 units a week is one metric, building 5000 high quality units with no expensive rework is another metric entirely.

Questions:

Why would someone work in a non air conditioned tent under high stress when they could earn the equivalent wage working across the road in an air conditioned McDonalds?

What impact will the major step down in Solar City/Tesla have in commingled Tesla finances?

Why is Bloomberg’s Tesla tracker showing a fast flattening(rather than accelerating) production trend?

Back in 2016 at GSB we were supposed to get 80 minutes with Musk in class, but it turned into possibly the first “sleep at the end of the factory line” narratives.

Am I the only one who things a fancy tent is a modern equivalent of a Potemkin Vilage?

Fast, cheap, good.

Pick one today, maybe two later.

I find Tesla requiring $1000 deposit holders to contribute an additional $2500( for a combined $3500 converted into an advance payment no longer deposit) interesting.

At Amazon in the very early days we had 100% float from publishers for 30-60 days for a 20% gross profit operation.

Tesla’s attempt at the same is 5% float for 3-6 months for a -20% net profit operation.

It’s like using a single dish sponge to absorb a negative cashflow tsunami.

Making stuff is hard. Making stuff at industrial scale is super duper hard.
Can you please link to the podcast or summarize how the deals are structured?
This is a great start: One biology student looking in limited places found bacteria with the right enzyme. She probably read the Japanese research, and that's always the right start for a scientist: read the literature.
The article has a lame explanation of latent demand. Sure some switch from surface streets to the highway. But people also decide to make more trips, commute further, or use public transportation less. So the result is after an adjustment period of about one year there's almost precisely as much traffic per lane as before.
OTOH: your bank, Apple, GitHub, npm, most fintech companies do.

And yes your bank account is a higher value target than your gmail.
Your preference doesn't mean it is not outdated.
Many do, for that exact reason.

If you ever pitch your startup idea to a VC, you're expected to explain how you're going to deal with this risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17437487
Free open source alternative to peer5?
Three problem with locked-down software and hardware is that it is the environment. An immutable environment leaves no room for creativity.

Sure, you can go find an open environment, but when I was growing up, I was already there; and that made all the difference. I didn't need a mentor to introduce me. I was free to stumble into the world of software via my own interests.
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Why? Or more accurately, how?

My government denominates my tax obligations in my government's currency. This includes taxes based on transactions of non-currency goods.

So there's always demand for my local currency so long as my government exists.

What demand is there for a decentralised digital currency? What motivates stable demand for it compared to the currency I can pay my taxes in and which my employer can be legally compelled by the courts to settle debts to me in?
This. He filed false tax returns with stolen identities, I fail to see any activities one would associate with a technical hack. I also have a hard time understanding why someone who is engaging in criminal acts has a reasonable expectation to privacy related to the commission of said crimes.
How did you find this? I looked all over but was unable to find it after declining and going the the plaintext site.

I would love the text-only site... if it worked.
Unless your query leaks private information.

Or a series of unique queries could leak private information.
The problem is that Google and Bing really are duopolistic.

You'd think that a monopoly could just break instantly if all it required was typing in a different URL.

But modern search engines are reliant on machine learning on mind-bogglingly enormous troves of real human interaction data.

If you truly outsmart Google by inventing a better mousetrap, it's worth fuck-all. Your solution will probably require more usage data than you will ever be able to collect, because nobody will use your search engine while it still produces poor results.
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To the contrary, I didn't have a ton of responsibilities at home, some chores but not too many. My parents put a premium on schoolwork and grades.

I did just fine living on campus freshman year (just under four years ago now). I don't think things are inherently that complicated.

Maybe I had more exposure than I think, but in the age of the internet, it's pretty easy to figure things out.
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ok selfish question but I fly into Tokyo on 28 April - Does anyone expect any disruptions around the 30th?
To be fair that is fundamentally what hacking is - noticing a flawed system an exploiting it. "Just scamming" would be convincing people that they need to use him to get tax refunds while he cashes it and takes a cut. Closer to fraud in many ways too really.

Really the term hacking could use more consistent sub-definitions per type. Social engineering is well established but there isn't even a uniform term for quickly conveying the nuance of say cracking DRM offline vs getting in a server.
webtorrent.io
C2Rust basically compiles C into a very low level program in Rust. You've then lost the C idioms. Now you have to decompile the low-level rust with pointer arithmetic into Rust abstractions. That's very hard, probably harder than converting C idioms to Rust idioms, checking to see if the result will be equivalent, and falling back to low-level compilation only when absolutely necessary.

The key to this is figuring out the comparable representation for data. Mostly this is a problem with arrays, since C's array/pointer system lacks size info. All C arrays have a size; it's just that the language doesn't know it. The trick is to figure out how the program is representing the size info. Somewhere, there was probably a "malloc" which set the size, and you may have to track backwards to find it. Then you can replace the C array with a Rust array that carries size information, and maybe eliminate variables which carry now-redundant size info.

That would produce readable Rust. But it requires whole-program analysis. That's OK, that's what gigabytes of RAM are for.
then was all the wall street articles 2 months ago, about missing the 2500 production goal, also irrelevant?

if meeting the 5000 production goal is irrelevant, then missing the old production goals would be just as irrelevant, right?
Online interactions are just different. Yes they are not the same as IRL interactions, but they can be made around a shared interest, particularly something that might be hard to find where you live. So they can be more important.
Not only is it infeasible, but there's so much garbage out there that we have no simple way to filter it out from scratch to the point that anyone could actually use it. Google and Bing have feedback loops with their users that prevent crap from rising to the top of search results. A plain index (or even using something like pagerank) wouldn't have this huge benefit, and you'd never be able to get your search engine off the ground.
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By the way, why do you think the brand is popular if not for their EVs?
I haven't worked with this stuff in a couple years (subpoena'd cell records), but given the date of this stuff, I didn't think cell phone towers could give a precise location. My understanding of them was they each had three sectors, so you could see in what general area they were in. With multiple towers, you might be able to get a more accurate reading, but it makes it sound like StingRay can actually see in real time their position.
Some stores are so large, you can walk several aisles away before finding someone to get help from.
Well say you have a particularly busy 10 mile section of highway. You spend $millions adding lanes. Commuters are no happier because their commute time is unchanged. Riding on public transit drops which is worse for the environment.

Was adding the lanes a win for the city? The commuters? The environment?

It is counter intuitive, but if you think about it. Everyone has a commuting pain threshold that will cause a change in behavior. If a stretch of highway takes 10 minutes less because of additional lanes, then people will start commuting from 10 minutes further away.

Fortunately it's really easy to exactly quantify trip times, cars per lane, and similar. Quite a few studies have shown short term benefit, but within a year the traffic is within 0.1% of what it started with before adding the lanes.
"You are a product of your environment" --Clement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Another evergreens:

- battery breakthrough

- solar cells efficiency breakthrough

- water electrolysis breakthrough
PC user here, but yeah it was magic. Installing a new ISA or PCI card was like entering a new world. I remember my first sound card, modem, and 3d accelerator vividly.

Upgrading modern PCs is still fun, but it isn't nearly the same as giving your machine a whole new capability it never had before.
While the author explains why the translation doesn't work on all code, he mentions:

>> certain “features” of C that Rust didn’t provide.

Which then links to a markdown document that lists, among other things:

>> bitfields

I've used bitfields to represent demuxers in memory constrained embedded programming and as far as I know, the devices still work today, so I am confused as to why the sarcastic quotes there.
Well it should be self-correcting in itself if there is no rogue plastic lying around to be consumed they will die off.

Although there may be an issue with diversity and horizontal gene transfer - I am uncertain what impact that will actually have - especially given how fast bacteria adapt in the first place in proper conditions.
Paris green has an LD50 of 22 mg/kg, according to Wikipedia. That's one thousandth of the lethality of ricin, one fortieth of the lethality of sarin, half the lethality of sodium cyanide, one two-hundredth the lethality of alpha-amanitin, one fourth of the lethality of nicotine, roughly the same immediate lethality as hydrazine, methamphetamine, tetraethyllead, or aflatoxin B1, and only eight times as lethal as caffeine. It is very dangerous, and you should avoid getting it on you, but it seems unreasonable to describe it as one of the most toxic chemicals known. It is definitely not in the same category of nightmare chemicals as dimethylmercury, chlorine trifluoride, silane, or red fuming nitric acid. I'll admit that outgassing arsine if it gets moldy is pretty nasty, though.
I'm not opposed to interacting with robots but I hate how these are all pushed out the door WAY before they are even at parity with a human. Self-checkout, robot delivery in hospitals, Alexa, etc. are absolute garbage
Taiwan had a similar problem just a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y1C_Problem
The new change streams api resolved a lot of this, since it allows your to utilize the aggregation framework to subscribe to highly filtered/specific queries. The upcoming 4.0 release is expanded further.
It does effect the people who want to watch those videos, because once the humans at youtube are alerted about the problem, the videos are put back up, as in the case of the blender videos. But if it was an intentional human takedown, the videos wouldn't be put back up.

It also has implications on the future of all other videos. If it's actually an intentional plan to take down free videos, then that means we can expect the people who made this decision on blender to continue their plan and take down other free videos. But if it's an algorithm mistake, we don't expect it to become more widespread, and hopefully the algorithm will be tweaked so that it will actually become less widespread.

This thread is about a company (500px) intentionally taking down free content for business purposes to make more money. Saying that youtube is doing the same thing is false.
What you guys are describing is starting to sound more and more like onion routing.
I'll not take offense, nor will I spout off about metaphysics here, but I can't let it pass without noting that Cantor's diagonal argument is in fact constructively valid --- given a function from a set S to its power set 2^S, Cantor constructs an element of 2^S which can't be in the image of f. The subtlety here is that there are statements equivalent to Cantor's theorem in classical settings that are not intuitionistically valid, for instance that there's no injection from 2^S -> S.
Quantum dots and carbon nanotubes.
What is the issue with self-checkout, I found it is actually faster.
> The relevant metrics would be daily/monthly active useres (DAU/MAU) and churn rate.

This metric doesn't really make sense for a (mostly) single player game like Diablo. Once the player has finished the game they're unlikely to return. For a game released six years ago of course we would expect the current active player base to be very small - most of them have since moved on to other games.
In the film _Heist_, Gene Hackman's character is asked how he pulled something off. "I tried to imagine someone smarter than myself and I then I thought: What would he do?"

When I need to pull something off, I ask myself: What would Tim do?
See also this edx course: https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-from-haute-cuisin...
> Cutting to the chase, the frequentist approach (if applied naively) would be to model B as some distribution centered around 2.5%

Why would that be wrong?

> A Bayesian would say that this assumes a uniform prior - but that this is probably a bad prior because it ignores what we know about the historical conversion rate of 2.0%.

What would a Bayesian conclude instead?
This founder struggled with depression, even as her startup was a huge success
That's preposterous and obviously false. We're seeing fast evolution on the scale of thousands or even hundreds of years. See Baujau, for example.
Firefox is great on Linux too.
I am very curious if you had any success baking pizza starting from a cold oven.