skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sense the startup is lower cognitive load, because everything is great until it all implodes and then you look for a new startup. A punctuated equilibrium. At a megacorp, everything is vaguely doomed all the time, but never so clearly doomed that it's obvious when to make a move, and you spend a lot of time reading political tea leaves so as not to end up on the wrong project.

The worst thing that most big companies do is continue to employ good people on long death marches.
So this is different from running docker containers on heroku because heroku has 1 to n autoscaling but not 0 to n?

What are the other fundamental differences?
> If both parties agree on something without significant contention, odds are a strong majority of the population also agrees with it.

Not really, even on some highly salient issues. Universal public health care has had majority public support most of the time since the early 1990s, but the Democratic Party has opposed it (in favor of various complex public/private schemes with insurance companies front and center) as has the Republican Party.

It's even less true in issues that are of extreme interest to a narrow group and low public salience.
> I work at a small startup, we have just 100 employees

Is that even a startup anymore? To me, any company of that size is just a normal company, not a startup.
I don't think we disagree that much. I'm more saying that there is no external definition of what we are. Most people are unknown to history. You can get bummed out about that, and it is intimidating.

However, it also means you are not necessarily held to any external definition.

I think this view has serious limits. In large, being in complete control of yourself is a luxury most people don't have. To that end, the views that folks can somewhat legitimately hold of themselves are greatly limited by their circumstances.

To play with both of our views together, the interpretations that you can honestly hold are going to be the responses of the stimuli you are subjected to.

Which is my way of saying to try not to get hung up if you are disappointed with any of the current state. It is, in many ways, fleeting. Keep what you can of what you like. Similarly, though, the fleeting nature of things is also irrelevant. If you liked something, continue to have liked that thing. No reason to change, unless you want to.

This sounds slightly contradictory to my earlier point. However, the things I collected now hold no value. That I collected them, though, I can fondly remember. If that makes sense.
Serfing the internet.
Why not just replace Emacs's embedded elisp interpreter with one written in Common Lisp? CLOCC has a basic elisp interpreter already: https://sourceforge.net/p/clocc/hg/ci/default/tree/src/cllib...

Take that, put a little work into it and one could presumably replace the C core of Emacs with Common Lisp.
>Personally, I view this as a distinct upgrade. Instead of being coerced into lots of interaction with people I may have nothing in common with except vague geographical proximity, I have the option of interacting with people who actually share my interests or concerns or hobbies.

I.e. echo chamber.
Why does something you imagined that wouldn't really add anything worthwhile not being the case take away from it?

Good on them that their careers cannot be hindered for this; not everybody doing what they feel is right has to "sacrifice" something for it, it's much better when it's all throwing off burdens and reaping rewards.

We cannot know what sacrifices they made or didn't make in those 20 years anyway, and what combination of straws broke the camel's back. Maybe they were sick of it for a while, but decided to stick around until retirement for the good people they enjoyed working with and teaching, and then make their statement. I could not blame them for that. And hey, it would have been even more "convenient" to make no statement at all, so there's that.

IMO what matters is the statement, just like the content of a comment matters, not if someone is writing it while parachuting, or from a couch.
This story is incredibly well reported. The lobbying force Google, Facebook and the rest of the surveillance capitalism industry can bring to bear against privacy legislation is incredible. If Apple wants to make a real dent in the universe for privacy, they need to be the opposing force in the same arena. Privacy at a product level is great, but creating a legislative equivalent to GDPR (and their other privacy laws) in the US would be infinitely better.

Loved this line:

>Soltani wryly pointed out that Mactaggart had offered Silicon Valley a take-it-or-leave-it privacy policy — the same kind that Silicon Valley usually offered everyone else.
I'm guessing it's the 7 years of experience that impressed Google, not the two weeks of cramming.
I highly recommend getting a controlpad if you want specially binded keys for macros.

This is what I use personally

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O1ASXKO/ref=oh_aui_sear...

I have it binded on windows, to keys that are not on the keyboard. F13,F14....F24 & modifiers CTRL, SHIFT,ALT etc with my own left-to-right and top-to-down naming convention. This makes it easier to manage what my macros are overall

Then I run a seperate program, if you run macOS, this would be applescript, or something easier like automator / keyboard maestro. Phrase express works as well.

- For windows, I use phrase-express to work off these keys

- Linux IDK what they use here unfortunately

The macropad I linked uses internal memory for saving for what keys you bind to it. Its way better than the alternative xkeys IMO and better cost. One reason why I say this is because genovationPad keys have more of a cherry MXbrown key feel to it, whereas xkeys feels very awkward on my fingers. Xkey's response rate on the key-up process was very slow and tedious IMO.

I backup all my genovationPad docs on a dropbox folder. The documentation is not the greatest even with youtube, their website, any docs I could find etc. But I gave them a phone call, and the tech guy over there was super helpful. I gave them feedback too on future improvements and they took it seriously.

Also, printing out my own picture icons on genovationPad was WAY easier to deal with than Xkeys. Its just a microsoft word doc, dump an image, print it out, slide it in the cap, done. I think they even included this doc right in the CD it came with.

Xkeys required extra accessories as well, I tested both for a good week before returning xkeys

Other things that may interest you - You can look into foot pedals use for racing games as a form of input control. This would be binded on a keyboard key as well IIRC, for windows I use F13

As a side note, I also use my genovationPad as my todo-list stickynote tracker. I just shove a bunch of stickynotes inbetween each row of keys. The rows in the back are low priority, the ones up front that get in the way are high priority.

The only keys I really use on a daily basis on windows are these:

- WIN + ←

- WIN + →

- WIN + ↑

- WIN + ↓

Mostly for resizing things around my triple monitor setup quickly
This study linked the water ph as a factor in kidney cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945589/
so LHC is basically in 大力出奇迹 mode?
> That's really the place where Uber & Co add zero value.

In my opinion, the added value with Uber at an airport is knowing the price up front. That's not always possible with whatever driver is first in line at the taxi stand.
I always assumed it was just “Grindr for straight people”. Thus the similar name.
Depends if you subscribe to the "company just starting out" definition of "startup", or the "burning money for hockey-stick growth" definition.
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That’s like saying a painting has no value because photographs now exist. Artistic value is real value. How an object is designed, makes you feel and how it looks and operates are all part of the experience of an object.

I realize you don’t see artistic value as actual value. But many people do.
Bremont already has a shock-protected rubber movement mount with a floating movement. And of course all mechanical watch movements (except some cheap Chinese ones) have Incabloc shock protection (or some derivative).

Edit: It looks like some Breguet watches use a super-old-school mechanism invented by Breguet in 1790.
Lots of (even quite large) US states have had much more direct democracy than the federal government for quite a long time with paper ballots. Paper ballots don't prevent direct democracy in large polities, nor do they prevent voting systems with more nuance than FPTP.
Sounds like the 70's film classic "Rollerball."
Lexical binding was available starting in Emacs 24.1, and most of the standard library has it enabled.
Intellectual property grants companies essential monopolies over what they create as well as lets them pay very low taxes. No wonder they are doing well.

The trillion dollar question is what is going to happen in the long run. We know that prosperity is largely a factor of how well you spread technology and wealth. Which I don't think many countries, other than arguably China, manages to do when it comes to intellectual property.

And if the last half century was infrastructure and industry this half century is information and intellectual property. So it is essential to get this right since it might determine whether you get to be Norway or Thailand in the next century.
Even better - make it an ASCIInema which gives you all that... and the ability to record from bash and copy and paste commands!
Not sure if it is for temperature contrast or just because the aesthetic but not liking the heat that is insanely wasteful.

There are also some extraordinarily stupid out there doing stuff like opening the windows and turning on the air conditioner on full blast despite explict and clear instructions on to close all of the windows before. Or thinking that rabbit ears tv antennas were illegal - in the later half of the 20th century no less. All adults too young to be suffering dementia too.
It is indeed. They can't stop talking about it in their videos. That said, I used their resources, along with some other online resources to get my AWS Associate SA Certificate and I can say I was pretty pleased with the content.
A woman who started the very first DV shelter in the world, then was ostracized by the entirety of mainstream feminism for stating forbidden truths.

This isn't a debate between 2 equal factions, as you've seemed to cast it: it was a Stalinist style purge of all who didn't hold the correct opinions; with the same people who committed the purge, still in control today.
>But when you compare it to the defined structure of an established company, it just doesn’t compare. Big companies have employee onboarding, management training, goal setting they’ve been doing for years — all of the things that give people guidance and mentorship on what they need to do to be successful.

Goal setting, training, onboarding... these are processes, process doesn't make good management. The problems with startups is many of them are filled with employees who have had little experience outside of that company. Good managers are created with experience. Experiencing good and bad managers and employees in a few different environments is what creates good managers. Not HR policy.

It is a good idea for your career to work in a few places for a few years a piece before starting a new business or joining a small startup. Good managers can't be created with policy and training.
This is a real problem in trying to learn how to scale systems. I love learning about scaling but I've never personally worked on high volume applications, there's only so much you can do by reading stuff or watching tutorials or emulating high volume in your side projects. There's so many x-factors that come into play that you can only learn on the job.
Can your workers run Docker containers?
I consider my self to be a person that's good at a lot of things, especially in tech stuff. But Man do I wish I was great at one thing because I am struggling to find a place for myself and getting started in work. No business seems to like that I'm not an absolute expert in what I know or that I don't specialize in X thing.

If I was a superstar in one thing, I feel like I would have succeed already. If being good at a lot of things makes you a great business manager/boss, that's pretty cool. But how will I get to that if no one wants a peon that's not amazing at something that they want?

Obviously this is a generalization, but I have had this problem for several years now. And this could be applied to multiple aspects (Tech, Skillsets, Experiences, Fitness, etc). I don't know, I just feel like I'm the loser in the end while my friends, who only know one thing well, have past me years ago.
Ok, something is off with the info in that link. I just looked up Florence Italy on Google maps, and it measures about 5.5 miles across. I couldn't find that exact interchange in the article's picture, so I picked the largest one I saw by eyeballing the map of Atlanta (I85 and I20), and it appears to measure about 2000 feet across.
Would it have deprived the world, or would the world have turned its attention to another artist? What reason do we have to think no one else would’ve stepped into Lennon’s niche?
RHEL patches are out. CentOS after delay, presumably. Nothing yet for Debian/Ubuntu.
This is a fairly common tactic in responding to suits, they are endeavoring to make the plaintiff's case seem silly. This is entirely intentional.

You're not their target audience.
> “So we are resigning. We are not retiring, we are resigning,” she wrote. “No parties please.”

I don't know how academia works, but what is the implication of "resigning" vs "retiring"? Does that change what happens with pensions or is it just a semantic difference used for emphasis?
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"A couple of FPGAs in mid-air (probably)"
The problem with this “virtual community” interpretation is that it alters both people’s perception of prevailing opinions and skews their perception of how and whether they ‘need’ to find compromises with people they actually share space with. Somebody can find a ‘community’ online with whom to share very unconventional views and come away with the perception that this unconventional view is actually widespread despite being very rare.
This is _bananas_.

- Unlike previous speculative execution attacks against SGX, this extracts memory "in parallel" to SGX, instead of attacking the code running in SGX directly. It always works: it doesn't require the SGX code to run and it doesn't require it to have any particular speculative execuction vulnerability. This also means existing mitigations like retpolines don't work.

- It lets you extract the sealing key and remote attestation. That's about as bad as it gets. Because SGX is primarily about encrypting RAM, anything that pops L1 cache is game over and this is a stark reminder of that fact.

- The second attack that fell out of this allows you to read arbitrary L1 cache memory, across kernel-userspace or even VM lines.

The good news here is that the mitigation is somewhat straightforward. It's a pure L1d attack: flush L1d (or prevent things from accessing the same L1d via e.g. core pinning) and you're fine.

If there was any doubt left that speculative execution bugs were an entire new class and not just a one-off gimmick...
Its much more of a hassle concern than it is a realistic inability to climb multiple flights of stairs. Manhattan would be a really, really terrible/uncomfortable place to live if you couldn't physically navigate at least a few flights of stairs at once between subway stations, split-level stores and restaurants, residential buildings, etc, etc.

Just thinking anecdotally, myself and many of my neighbors in NYC are probably dealing with a dozen or more flights or stairs up and down on a daily basis (two flights down out of the apartment building, half a flight up to the street level from the sunken entrance, another 2 flights back down into the subway station, 2 flights up on the other end of the train ride, a flight in the grocery store, two flights at the gym, etc, etc, etc). Escalators are often present, but many people walk up those anyways. I'd feel comfortable saying people living here are generally in far, far better stair-climbing-shape than most of the country.
AWS bulletin: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-....

Amazon Linux bulletin: https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2018-1058.html

RHEL patches are out. CentOS after delay, presumably. Nothing yet for Debian/Ubuntu.

TL;DR: AWS is patched. Go update your kernel (especially if you run other people's code).
$3B valuation sounds quite reasonable for Tinder. Even with Tinder Gold "resetting the metrics" with per transaction monetization.

$IAC total revenues last quarter was approx $1B. At market valuation ~$16B. I could be very wrong, but valuing Tinder at $10B seems upper bound optimistic to me. Match probably enjoys 10x engagement.
Ask HN: License to use for an interview project?
I'm in an unusual situation. I'm working on a demo application for a company I'm interviewing with. This has never been an issue before, but in this particular case the scope of the application is closing in on something I would normally build as an mvp or v1 for an internal tool.

Its somewhat surprising to me because the company is rather large and well known, so this isn't a case of the interview app being a way to get free work done.

However, I think I will be more comfortable by including a non-commercial use license with the project. What are some simple licenses I could use? Most searches I've done all return variations of open source ones.
Your arguments aren't wrong, but your phrasing isn't helping them.
It's only a problem linguistically because of jumping levels - context-switching from broad social generalization to specific instances of specific individuals. Frankly, that's the flaw at the heart of 99% of such arguments.
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Having a moped race past you with 50km/h on a bike lane is a pretty terrifying experience and I'd much prefer that they use roads.

Bike lanes are too narrow for motorised vehicles, and some ebikes are pushing the limits as well (eg. Urban Arrow bikes don't make me feel very safe on narrow bike lanes either)
It looks fine other than the graphs being cut off.

Just some quirk of Safari vs Chrome I bet, but I’m surprised they hadn’t noticed/tested that case.
> If you’re seriously considering both options — a traditional company and a startup — here are some points to consider.

There are so many definitions of "startup", but given the common one of "VC funded trying to get big", I'd say there's a third company type between these two I dub a "starting-up". It's an early traditional company that's in the black but is not poised to go through the roof or become bloated with employees or ask a ton of its employees. Almost like a lifestyle business. Maybe it has tiny investment, but definitely not big startup monies. It has half of each including the bad (bad mgmt, unlikely riches, few benefits, etc) and the good (bit more stability, no overwork, etc).

Maybe it's seen as a startup or traditional by most, but I see them as a really comfortable niche. You get to work on side projects, go home (or work from home) with decent hours, and just relax. Often if small/early enough, if they do strike it rich, you're included.
This is not entirely uncommon when it comes to tank watch cases. Indeed, here is an image of the movement from the trope namer, a Cartier Tank:

https://smhttp-ssl-39255.nexcesscdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2...
The Guile VM was deliberately designed to support multiple languages. Guile Emacs was an attempt to run Elisp on Guile's VM, not rewrite Emacs in Scheme. Guile's VM is also written in C FWIW
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I'm confused. Are you also saying that any amount of exposure to this thing is completely fine? How is that fact? That's a claim. It is a mild poison after all.

They are punishing that level of arrogance. If they had a warning around it, they would be in way less trouble.
I see no point in mechanical watches, but I have a Soviet slide rule sitting on my shelf. People often enjoy things that are not particularly useful.
Good and bad news! The bad news is there's way fewer .NET startups out there (most are Ruby/Node/Python). But the good news is that you'll have a lot less competition for jobs!

StackShare has a way to search job listings by language:

https://stackshare.io/match?selectedTools=dot-net&searchOper...
>not wearing proper safety equipment,

Well, that's their problem. Also take a look at how 3 billion people ride their motorcycles and mopeds (often 3-5 at a time) in e.g. China, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. and the complains against ebikes are absolutely nullified...
Yes, the stock phrases are preferred due to having established meaning from case law – interestingly, simple language is less likely to have needed to be tested in court, so this force drives evolution of legalese!
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(1) Drastic increases in gas and car taxes would be highly regressive, and disproportionately affect the poor.

(2) Housing prices are rising in large part due to foreign investment / money sheltering. I doubt that you could plausibly increase gas and car taxes high enough offset this, and it would be outright dystopian if you did.
Who is their target audience?
Somewhere downthread, someone else said that we'd think differently if we lived among "normal people" rather than in the liberal-oriented big cities.

So yeah, speaking of dismissive.
1. Aw shucks - I guess I just ain't as sharp as you :-B

2. Whatever.

3. MW dictionary shows no such definition of privilege. Is it in wide use? Link?

Of course, I agree there's such a thing as "discrimination". When we make value judgements, we discriminate. You like blue better than red? That's discrimination. You like people with hazel eyes best? Discrimination. You like your family better than strangers? Yup - discrimination.

In the context of this thread. racial discrimination is to favor a race (positive discrimination) or devalue another race (negative discrimination).

And FWIW, I begrudgingly accept that the contemporary definition of racism is a superset that includes racial discrimination, racial prejudice, and racial antagonism.

I say begrudgingly because this wasn't the case 20-30 years ago. The words "racism" and "racist" were reserved for the most vile organizations or individuals that actively sought to discriminate/disenfranchise/injure people on the basis of their race or ethnicity. The word "prejudiced" was used to describe thoughtless or inadvertent discriminatory attitudes. The word "bigot" was reserved for people who hurled racial/ethnic epithets and found self-satisfaction from putting/keeping down people based on their race/ethnicity.

So you see - back then people used discrimination to sort these trespasses into a value hierarchy: the prejudiced person was annoying but okay, the bigot was an intolerable asshole, and the racist was vile and physically dangerous scum.
Size and norms.

Big, slow things are not the same as smaller slow things.

Farming vehicles are purpose built and we have a long running understanding about farmers using roads.

These new vehicles present new problems, and or people are still thinking about it all. We have not settled into any solid norms yet.