skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the movie White Knights (1985), where a dancer who had defected from Russia was on an airline that had to make an emergency landing in Russia. As the plane is making an emergency descent, he runs to the bathroom and starts tearing up his passport and flushing it. The plane crash lands and he wakes up in the hospital with a nice Russian agent who dumps his torn up passport on his lap and says "Welcome home". Ah, movies from the cold war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpKeRSLnF8
That's a basic instinct of a HN reader. Since it's a blackbox, you have to assume the worst scenario.
We've had a few coffee shops in our area drop the delivery/mobile purchase (Ritual) apps, perhaps due to this. Or, just the logistics may have been unbearable for them.

Sometimes, I do enjoy walking into a coffee shop and ordering like a human.
The establishment press is panicking because they can no longer effectively perform the role of narrative gatekeepers. Information will simply route around them via internet services. Hence their current hypocritical attacks on all alternative media outlets and failure to champion the cause of real journalism (eg. Assange). In 2003 they helped launch an illegal and murderous invasion of Iraq, but these days any narrative they try to push will be obliterated by the internet in days.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
Right. Why not add a ATECC608A?
> people who are incapable of seeing the value of a diverse workplace.

I assume you're referring to employees of daycare centers and hair salons?

Edit: flagged. For pointing out two industries with extreme gender discrimination. Replying to a comment about gender discrimination.
You're talking about people already in the US (citizens/residents). If you're trying to get a US visa from your country and you have a DUI on your record, it makes it much more difficult to get approved.

FYI, a US citizen with a DUI will likely get denied entry into Canada -- you usually need to be deemed "rehabilitated" or be granted a temporary stay visa before allowed in.

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/402/~/entering-...
Maybe it an anomaly and maybe it isn't (I can't predict the future), but I know the growth was real. If I bought stock 5 years ago and sold it today, I could pocket those gains.

That is the problem with looking at private company valuations and trying to decide if they are good investments or not. You don't know how the story is going to end for the common shareholders and what the overall return is going to look like. I'm not saying the upside wont be there, it very will could be, but the level of risk is still much much higher than the big public tech companies.
Just make sure your build server's lava lamp is green.
Backend: C#/Go/Python, Docker, Kubernetes

Frontend: Asp.net/Javascript/Ext.Net/CSS
The past few hundred years are littered with the dead and dying of megacorps.... US Steel, IBM, Sears, Dutch East Indies Company... where are they all now? IBM is still relevant... sort of...
Walmart and Others Offer Workers Payday Loan Alternative
It’s not really directly relevant to their valuation but if I can prevent someone else from that experience: DoorDash will happily let you pass your phone around a group browsing and adding things but it’s only during the actual payment attempt that they’ll deny it and inform you that you can’t order more than $50 worth of food. It was (at least at the time) documented nowhere. The app didn’t prevent you from adding more than that amount and their FAQ said nothing. Uber Eats (for better or worse) didn’t have any of those issues.
I went through the Netflix hiring process in the summer of 2012. I can assure you that at that time, the hiring process was identical to nearly every tech company I’ve ever talked to.

If anything, the interview process for my first job in finance was the most intense and went on for about six months from introduction to offer.

The truth is that this article is more marketing and self-promotion than anything else.
I said nothing about matching engineering's gender distribution to the user base's. Please don't put words in my mouth.

The thread-parent's comment made it clear that, in his situation, it made things better. Is it going to in every case? No. But using edge cases to argue against the median is even more specious than the argument you assert I was trying to sneak in.
This is probably the first non-currency use of block chain that actually made my stop and reconsider the eye-roll I had locked and loaded.

I like the idea of votes essentially sitting in a public ledger. They can be independently tallied by anyone.

You walk into a voting booth and get IDd. They hand you a random QR code token, pre-printed, not tied to your identity.

You place your vote. It can publically write your state/county maybe city information, vote, keyed by your QR token.

I can take my QR to any third party to verify my vote was correct and got tallied.
> The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

-- Hannah Arendt

You don't cease to be come a person responsible for what you say and do, fail to say and do, just because you pretend "you're a company". They don' thave the right to "just make money", and you don't have the right to excuse them.

How you can think you are in any way still connected to intellectual or moral tradition is not beyond me at all, but that being wrong, the fact that you shat on any and all of the greats of the last 100 years, as well as millions of murdered people -- that seems utterly beyond you. You think you know them; they no longer know you.
This is a click-bait title.

This 32 minute talk is about:

what came before systemd (e.g. init)?

what is systemd trying to solve?

Lennart Poettering is misunderstood and shouldn't
be getting death threats

what can systemd teach FreeBSD people?

how can systemd inspire improvements to FreeBSD?
Did any of you, back in the 90s, build a parallel port DAC to use with Linux's PC Speaker driver?

I never did, but was tempted. In the end I just splurged the 80 GBP for a SoundBlaster 16.

It's amazing what people can do with great software and just a little hardware. (See bottom of page: http://linux-audio.com/Sound-HOWTO-3.html)
> He watched on. Now that he had changed sides to the SS, he admired the strength of Fritz and the police man even more. He finally had left the camp of those who were wretched enough to let themselves be bludgeoned like that. He was glad to have made his choice. He did no longer have to fear the suspicion of the masters. He was on the side of good. The beatings the men received hardened his consciousness to embody good. One cannot receive beatings and be right, one cannot be dirty, eat garbage and be right.

-- Robert Antelme, "The human race"
What about ceramic, glass, or heat activated?
Thank you, I’ll fix it later tonight. Can you confirm your resolution? I mostly tested it on small screens, I wasn’t expecting the front page.
Neat, I hadn't heard of ring signatures before -- but unfortunately it sounds like it involves (A) a predefined and fixed set of users and (B) all of them already having public keys.

If so, then you can't really use a ring-per-company, because you'd first need an authoritative list of all current employees (whether they have an account or not) and their public keys, and you can't easily add (or drop) employees without creating a new ring.
In short, the free market has found a very lucrative cash cow for all involved. A select group of people are getting fabulously rich off this broken system, and since they control it there is no incentive to stop. Of course, someone is getting shafted. The students, in this case.
Global Entry also lets you access the Canadian domestic trusted traveler lines, FWIW.
Amit always produces such great content. I can't even count the number of times I've landed on his site... such a useful resource!

A* was probably one of the most fun projects I did back in school a few years ago. If anyone is interested, last winter I ported an old C#/Unity A* implementation of mine to Rust and compiled it to WebAssembly for a small demo. It was my first time trying out wasm and really getting into Rust.

Repo: https://github.com/jakedeichert/wasm-astar

Live demo: https://jakedeichert.github.io/wasm-astar/
Programming languages are more powerful than SQL, so it might make sense for "research" stuff.
I've often thought that I missed a calling as a lawyer.
> But the earnings aren't all salaries either. As I understand it, doctors earn salaries from employers, but as I understand it, they are also leading investors in provider systems and in the malpractice insurance system.

Your understanding is very, very gravely mistaken. Most doctors do not have any of the kids of investment stakes you describe.
> With appropriate software, the VCA could respond to voice commands, function as a voice-controlled keyboard, record and play back digital audio, synthesize speech from text, detect and produce dialing signals, and function as a 1,200 baud modem. All that in 1985.

This is very similar to the Novation Apple-CAT II which was available by 1981 or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

https://web.archive.org/web/20160508112704/http://www.jammed...

Ironically, Novation was wiped out when they retooled to produce a card for the PCjr.
I suppose an easier way to rephrase this criticism is that blockchain is usually seen as the solution to the 'trust problem' (handwaving what specifically isn't trusted, or why, or why you can't find a third party to trust).

In this case, the issue with (to the best of my knowledge) supply chain is that the wrong product is delivered, a substitute product is delivered or a product is not delivered. Broadly, that the customer doesn't trust the supplier. How does a blockchain solve this problem? If you can't trust your supplier to deliver the right product, or to pick trusted suppliers, how can you trust them to enter the correct data into a distributed ledger? Any ledger? Data entered into the blockchain can just as easily be falsified or wrong. It just can't be changed. Why can't this data just be stored in a database? What value does a blockchain provide here?

The blockchain doesn't solve a problem in this case, unless I'm missing something. It's just a database but harder.
I think it’s impossible to know, but 50 years later and there’s no Lennon. If you don’t care about art or beauty being uniquely special,it doesn’t matter.
Bryan Cantrill: The Summer of RUST [90 min]
Do you know if Nextcloud supports any form of 2fa?
I don't deny your experience, but it doesn't match mine. I am able to confirm 15 orders over the last two years higher than $50, the highest landing at $73.

Unless we're to believe the app is detecting multiple users surreptitiously and has an opinion on them, group orders / a phone being passed around seems irrelevant, but also not within my personal experience.

(Zip: 94086, and I love Indian leftovers from Ulavacharu, usually individual orders)
> (I'm open to new clients btw)

I am not meaning to be offensive, but I really wish I could master the art of sales. I have some trouble adding in a sales pitch in an informative or casual setting. So you have any resources you would recommend for learning how to sell yourself?

[Sorry if this does not make much sense I am still learning English]
We hired -- and kept -- a couple of outstanding people who would probably not have worked there for long in the previous, less welcoming environment.

We built bridges to other departments, providing some technical training and helping them to interact with us more confidently and more effectively, and I made sure that everyone received a strong outreach effort (regardless of gender). Those efforts were of course not gender specific, but the non-tech personnel in the company happened to be disproportionately female. The improved cooperation had an impact on both operations and morale.

And lastly, I would say that my male colleagues felt a sense of contentment -- they had always seen themselves as good people, and the change in our department, which they saw as positive, brought them more in line with that self-image.
The word "quota" appeared, until this comment was posted, all of once in this discussion: in your comment, and none in The Fine Article.

Can you clarify what "trying to fill quotas" has to do with believing in, encouraging, and supporting diversity on a technical team?
In fact it wasn’t until blue LEDs were created and it took over 20 years for the price to come down for economic viability. The scientists that worked on blue LEDs won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work. This came some 70 years after the first LEDs.
Funny how people always jump to conclusions when it comes down to people enforcing their patents. My understanding of this drama is, that APA is a small taiwanese startup that was actually the first company with a RGB LED with integrated driver. There are a bunch of chinese companies that are more or less copying their products and are pushing them on the market at much lower price and more agressive marketing.

It surely looks to me as if they are using patents in their originally intended way. The downside is that they are hitting vendors with a C&D instead of going to the source. But that could rooted in the difficulties surrounding the ability of a taiwanese company to sue a china mainland one...
Exactly what to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
Record companies own music...do they not have stake in the system?
The race is on to dominate quantum computing
I love reading about Systems Theory. It's exciting, and, as other commenter's have mentioned, full of 'aha' moments. But, concretely, what has it done? Where has it gone? I am not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious what concrete benefits, systems, decisions, etcetera, have had 'systems thinking' as the catalyst.

Part of me thinks that many articles and ideas floating around the space are simply over abstractions, like saying the connections between neurons look similar to galaxies, and our universe. It sounds profound, and clearly, there is _some_ pattern there, but then, what does that pattern give us? Is it predictive? Descriptive? Or just simply a pattern with no use outside of increasing 'meaningfulness'.
> with product proven

Sure, but that doesn't mean it has a viable business.

> and economics proven

Says who? Uber still doesn't have positive unit economics and its valued at $60B+

> solid comp, crazy upside.

Base comp? Sure. Options (upside), no. Liquidation preferences wipe these out if the company doesn't meet it's valuation in a liquidity event.

One thing that is (almost) for sure - it looks good on your resume.
Well, considering I can order food and pay practically the same delivery fee/tip that I have to pay for waiter tip + I don't have to pay the ridiculous "alcohol and fountain beverage" since I can drink that at my home that I already purchased: BooHoo. Maybee it is time they reduced their ridiculous "alcohol and fountain beverage" margins.
Rigetti plans to deploy 128 qubit chip Quantum computer
The Large Hidden Costs of Medicare’s Prescription Drug Program
Missed the "cool for deleting facebook" boat by like a good year.
Is there a similar interplay between valuation and friendliness to secondary markets for employee shares.
Mapping the future direction for quantum research
Exactly. This basically makes later stage investments risk-free (nothing is risk free, but you get my point) while pushing all of the risk to the founders and employees.
Clearly, the entire field is sexist and we should use gender quotas to correct this horrible behavior in the name of diversity.
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I have to say, I found his comment that it was a PHP shop funny, but your response asking 'why is that funny' is even more funny
John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
> Can you clarify what "trying to fill quotas" has to do with believing in, encouraging, and supporting diversity on a technical team?

"supporting diversity" means absolutely nothing, it's empty buzz-speak. Either you hire people regardless of their genders/religious group/sexual orientation or you make a conscious choice to reject candidates which are not in your approved list of "diversity" (whatever that means).

In a tech world where you have probably less than 10% women, trying to achieve a "diverse" (whatever that means again) team is just putting quotas in place to reject people not in the approved whitelist of "diversity".
A new artificial quantum material for future high-efficiency computers
Ah I thought you were treating private and federal loans as the same. I'm with you on private loans being treated as regular loans, let them go away in bankruptcy.

For federal loans, the position the US is in with them needs to be unwound. It's not even a choice at this point, it's worse than how inflated the housing crisis happened and if we don't deal with it on our own, it's going to just show up as a surprise.

That's not to say we need to wipe the slate clean at once. We could just do a 10% or 5% haircut on all loans every year and treat it the same way as an entitlement. We will need to fund it of course, and it will not be painless, but that's the position the countries gotten itself into.

Not doing something to cut down the massive amount of debt that is already dealing with large amounts of defaults is just be willfully ignorant of the risks.

>Yeah, no. If you have a guaranteed loan (which apparently you can't get anymore), I say you are on the hook for it for life especially if you start making money later.

The only things we saddle people with life for are prison sentences for murder and rape. Student loan debt shouldn't be at that level of seriousness. Think about it. If you had a debt from the government that followed you _forever_, why even be part of the system anymore? You are incentivized to either not work, or work and hide every bit of income. If you don't give people a path out of an issue, they aren't going to play by the rules anymore
Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
I once told my bookie to delete my account. He said he can't remove it from the db but he can try his best to not accept any wagers from the account. I've since wagered 100 + times that conversation. Maybe fb is the same. Maybe they know sooner or later, some how either through curiosity or some stupid link you click on, you'll be back?
I think most countries would prefer to do it reciprocally as a matter of pride (for example Brazil started fingerprinting US travellers after the US was the first to start doing that to all foreigners), but in some cases they can't afford to put up barriers to tourism dollar inflows, so they make a difficult choice. Plenty of countries won't let Westerners waltz in without a visa -- for example India and China.
It's likely that they picked a size that fit within the entire vending space-- not arcades specifically.

The mechanisms on old games-- like other vending machines-- could be configured with gates to accept different size coins, but they probably topped out at a maximum size smaller than the Eisenhower. So a machine with a big enough opening to take, say, a UK 10p would be able to accept a SBA if you snapped the right gate over it.
That comes across as rather dismissive, black-and-white thinking, about something which people other than you care deeply and find quite nuanced, and tells me we probably have little else to say here.

Have a good evening.
> In a way immigrating is more accessible to them than visiting as a tourist.

Not really. Someone from a developed country can get a working holiday visa to other developed countries very easily and work and travel.

People from third world countries cannot do that, ofcourse I understand why they cannot do that.
Google expanding space in Fulton Market, this time with a flagship store
Oddly, having residency in one of the more developed countries does little to mitigate the ill-fated effects of a weak passport.

I am a Canadian resident with an Indian passport.

A 10-day trip to Iceland involved me having to submit 6 - 12 types of personal and financial documents, and showing hotel bookings for everyday of my visit.

I need to wait for 2 weeks to submit my application (in-person of course). The processing takes 2 - 6 weeks, not including the time they take to actually parcel your application to the embassy.

I am 16 days into waiting and my application tracking status is stuck on the message it showed on the first day. I contacted their support, and their response was, "Oh year we didn't update that. I don't know what stage your application is at, and this is the most information I can give you." I paid more than $100 in visa and courier fees.

I have travelled to over 15 countries and the above experience is, by far, one of the easiest processes I have been through.
A major driving factor in the advancement of lithium-ion batteries for automotive use was the patent issues surrounding large-format NiMH batteries.* Once Chevron got its grubby hands on the NiMH patents, the technology was effectively dead in the water.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...

Interesting that Patent #6969567 expires a week from today. I doubt that will lead to a revival of NiMH technology, though.
Definitely not a free market. If the government didn't guarantee student loans, the banks would have been a lot more conservative in giving out loans. In fact, this is easily the biggest factor in the rapid rise in tuition.
I imagine they must do this to minimize risk for certain accounts based on factors unknown to me. I don't know what your error message said exactly, but perhaps the restaurant themselves placed an upper limit on delivery orders because they don't like that they are missing out on the tip for large orders. This is purely speculation by me of course.

Some of the fancier places will easily be over $25 of food so if you order for two, $50 is not difficult to reach.

Out of curiosity had you ordered from DoorDash multiple times before you attempted that group order?
The parent posts detail the ways the government has distorted the free market, and your takeaway was that this is the free market's fault...? So was the '06 housing bubble was the free market's fault as well?
No, but I think it would be odd and likely sub-optimal to have a team which was exclusively female build that product.
I am sorry if you are not aware of history, but such a comment is very laughable where I am from.
Basketball in someone's free time isn't the issue. Using the term hoops vs basketball is. This can show major cultural differences. Perhap the gap was too wide for Peter.
Overlaps on widths >1500px.

(My recommendation would be to not make this a background image, but simply an image in the markup after the headline.)
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Their app has a ton of bugs in it. A simple bug i came across was by setting an address to a location they don't serve and doing a search. My display left me with

"The operation couldn't be completed. (JSONMapper.MappingError error 2.)"

Displaying an error like that to the end user does not inspire confidence.
That was an incredible read. Such a commitment by the writer to spend this much of his life with them and to share a wider human experience. Thanks for sharing.
They could use Sauce labs or some similar very affordable solution.
The problem is that the average passer by, John/Jane Doe, doesn’t on average care enough about the abstract reasons why they should withhold judgment, they instead react along the line of “well if they are being investigated they are probably guilty” which is results in the public typically judging anyone dragged into the judicial process.

So it’s actually inverted outcomes from what you described, secret is normally good, (with obvious exceptions, such as the case in point) and public is normally bad.