skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What e2e encryption does do is make messages nearly impossible to be intercepted in transit or on a massive scale by anyone without the cooperation of the company.

No, this is a non-standard definition of "e2e encryption" that I've never heard of. In fact, it's exactly counter to the whole point of e2e encryption. The reason "end" and "end" are specified is because it precludes anyone in the middle from getting the plain text of the message. End to end encryption is supposed to assume "cooperation of the company" as a threat model!
> In the last year, YC companies raised over $945mm across 95 Series As. That’s an increase of 50% over the prior year in terms of rounds done, and 71% in dollars raised

Anyone know if the batches were of similar size in terms of the number of companies? It would be nice to have relative statistics (YC companies are on average raising As more often and at higher amounts) than absolute ones which could be just due to batch size.
Lol yeah, incredibly unfortunate you have much more access to fast and often luxurious personalized transit than anytime in history.

Also you really want gas to be a dollar a mile and make all of your things expensive? This whole comment is ridiculous to me.
I can see the appeal of congestion fees now that seamless tolls are so easy to collect (using RFID, License Plate Readers, etc).

But apart from that, just needlessly taxing gasoline everywhere seems silly when you're trying to just reduce congestion in cities.
The assumption that an employer deserves information from me as an employee is rather bold unless it was specifically put into my contract. I was hired for a specific task, and while many people accept being data-mined as "just part of the job", I'm not being paid for it.

Put it another way, it's not my job to be polite. It's nice, and helpful, and might help me do my job. But that isn't the job itself. All employment is transactional. Period.

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He explicitly said in the iPhone launch that the intended way to create apps for the iPhone was to make a website:

> The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, they can send an email, they can look up a location on Google Maps.

> And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today.

I remember a lot of jokes in the Mac developer community at the time about what a "sweet story" this was. It seemed like the public SDK was a response to jailbreak apps being more popular than the intended "iPhone Web apps."
Which isn't a lot of work now that WhatsApp doesn't support the userbase that supported them in the beginning (all the crappy old hardware and twenty different platforms). The network effect is what makes WhatsApp worth billions instead of thousands. The software can be reproduced in a few weeks.
I know what you mean, not I can't think of any other way I would fully trust. What committee would l trust? I suppose the only thing we can do is to require more transparency.
> That means they don't perform period, ICE don't magically avoid aerodynamic drag.

It has more to do with the transmission. Most EVs are more aerodynamic than ICEVs but still suffer at high speeds because they lack a transmission and thus require more power to maintain high engine RPMs. An ICE in comparison has a transmission to reduce the RPMs at high speeds.

> Every ICE I've driven was able to achieve around that level.

That's fine but not everyone needs that range. On a daily basis most people do not travel more than 100 miles. Even the slowest L1 charger can put 60 miles of range on an EV overnight plugged into a regular outlet. An L2 charger using a 30a outlet, found in most laundry rooms, can do ~20 miles an hour.

Every two car family where one person has a commute of less than 100 miles round trip would be just fine with an EV equivalent to a Nissan Leaf.
Interesting. I've always heard that $100k MRR is the minimum metric for an A but I guess that only applies to SaaS companies. Looking forward to hearing about YCA
What the PR piece doesn't show is that during winter (4-6 months a year), very few ride bicycles around. In winter most people don't stay outside a lot, the weather is harsh (people do ski, but not inside the cities). They have installed play and outside work areas, which are mostly empty during winter, and require maintenance to get them in shape again for the next summer. A lot of shops are moving or closing down. Young people sporting bicycles in summer surely looks good. It doesn't look quite as good with 5-6 shopping bags with groceries for the kids. It's an interesting experiment for sure. Hopefully the single kids have enough money to keep the city thriving, because families are moving out to be able to have a car. Parents in Norway also spend a lot of time caring for their children, which includes driving them around to various activities. Most people who say raising kids in Norway without a car if fine usually haven't had any kids yet.
To call Oslo flat is a great understatment. Parts of the city are located with 1000ft+ height differences. Just the very center is the flat part. Oslo is very different from Copenhagen or Amsterdam in this regard. It’s probably quite close to Seattle in elevation change considering relatively few people live in the flat parts.

http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/Oslo-1311779/

http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-353207...
> informing your boss that you're quitting is a reasonably easy thing to do which could help real people at that company and seems like common decency to me

Decency and respect in general is a two-way street. If your boss is an asshole and the company doesn't give a single lonely shit you don't owe it "common decency".

It's not like that sort of company puts a single dime in "common decency" when time comes for layoffs or firing people, instead they get company security and their stuff shoved in a cardboard box.

If the company is decent and you're quitting because you've found a great job or you think you deserve a raise and they don't agree, sure put in your two weeks and everything. The article specifically talks about bad bosses though, so that probably ain't the subject.
When I used to work at Microsoft, my manager (pretty high level person, not a middle-manager) used to tell me: Dave Cutler is one of the biggest assholes in the company and most people don’t like him but the company has to put up with him because the cost of losing him to another competitor (like Google) would be too much from competition standpoint.

Given the fact that Dave Cutler would basically be peers with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat who had key contributions to multiple fields in the computer science, this makes sense.

Instead of hearing a story by a random Microsoft press corp reporter, or his management (like Steve Ballmer), I actually would like to hear stories about Dave Cutler from his subordinates.
Yes, I agree. It's really crappy. I'd be in deep trouble if I went this long without getting paid, so I can relate very well. But do note that I was responding to this:

> US government shutdowns ... are rare events

not making an argument that people should have expected this (because I don't believe that. In fact I specifically agreed with that portion of the OP)

There are also resources available for people that can't go this long without a paycheck, that should help somewhat alleviate the pain [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/here-are-the-banks-and-credi...
> I would if I had the information about which % of that money went to actual equipment and patient services

Money is fungible.
Nobody is average.

OK, that's too short to really mean anything, so I'll elaborate. If you take the average characteristics of everyone in the world (wealth, skin tone, intelligence, BMI, height, gender, etc.), and turned that into a single person, then you would have a new, unique person. In other words, it would not "represent" anyone, and so should definitely be seen as controversial. There are a myriad of engineering stories about this discovery (one size doesn't fit all).

If anything, I would have loved to see more diversity, or at the very least a prominent message on how to achieve it. Color might be the easiest change to make, but I didn't see any old or fat people on there, or how to make those variations.

I like the overall idea of the project, though.
Walking. That’s how you get around quickly. It’s quicker to walk in downtown SF than take a car for a good portion of the day.

Also maybe you don’t need to get around so quickly. That’s kind of my point about how much damage the car has done to society.
Not mentioned in the article is another aspect of this: 1 in 10 American workers is now an independent contractor or works for a contract labor firm [1]. When monopsony starts to creep into buyers of contract labor, bargaining power drops and wages stagnate or fall as well [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617863204/one-in-10-workers-a...

[2] https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/409876-the-hidden-culpri...
This article is unconvincing--the author doesn't even attempt to justify the claims made throughout. I.e.:

> Notice how we treat the endpoints as special cases, complicating the simple rule “sum both neighbors of every element.” A better approach is to first transform the input so the special cases vanish, leaving only the general case.

Why is that a better approach? The author never deigns to share their reasoning.
Case for kubectl plugin management
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The only real problem with it is that some people don't realize how small the world can be sometimes, and how easy it is to unexpectedly encounter a previously burned bridge. This is especially true in specialized professions.

There's nothing wrong with ghosting acquaintances or colleagues, especially those that have slighted you in some way, but it's definitely not polite to do it to friends or family, which you're connected to at a deeper level. Just know that there's a potential trade-off in that it may come back to bite you someday, such as when the person they just hired to be your new boss turns out to be your old boss.
That’s what we need, plus lots of incoming webhooks and bot interface. We don’t even use Slack’s video/voice call — It simply doesn’t work very well.
> Keep in mind that some infrastructure has to stay in place to allow for things like supply vehicles or emergency services.

There are designated time slots for suply vehicles in the core pedestrian zone, and the pedestrian friendly streets support these without issue. The two outer zones are the shared spaces where cars may drive at any time, which is a mistake in my opinion. Should be the same as the center. Pedestrian only, except for designated time slots for supply vehicles.

> The "losing business because you can't park right in front of it" is BS in most big western European city centers where you either go to a paid parking or to a spot on the street 10-15 minutes away from your intended destination sometimes.

Yes, that argument appeared often and it never made sense because there never was any available parking space before, except for nearby parking houses that are still available. So pretty much nothing changed, except that some neighbours lost a few parking spaces.
I could get on board with $1/mile. I bet it would really ease up congestion on the roads and my commute would be more pleasant.
Sometimes they're in a playlist, but sometimes I'm not watching via the playlist. Like if I know that episode 19 is the next one I need to watch, I go in search and find "Super cool series episode 19", and then I watch it.

I don't search for the playlist, then go to the playlist and scroll through to the episode I want, then pick it.

But then since I didn't go to the playlist, now YouTube can't recommend the incredibly obvious next video in the series.
I still wouldn't even if I had the money because if you get 500k in donations for equipment and staff salary thats 500k you can take out of your revenue to line the pockets of executives.
Agreed. My employer's handbook calls it abandonment.
Maybe these are test accounts/artists created/used by Spotify developers? I don't know much about their culture but if there was an actual attack with actual consequences and these accounts were removed as a result, they would've said something.
Agreed, even from the costs we can easily calculate it's obviously a massive drag on our economy, let alone the negative (in my opinion) effects on our culture. I think future generations will look on this America like we look at Easter Island now - a sort of inexplicable squandering of wealth and resources.
I like that it seems heavily based on the watch history because it gives me some control.

In general I find the selction on the homepage to be useful, however it does take some work as I regularly remove a lot of random things.

I also open random videos in a private window to keep my watch history more focused.

So it works fairly well for me, bringing up videos from channels I like that I haven't seen before... but it takes effort to get it to work for me. So it is arguably not very good for a typical user.
Yes, and please also remember that it's not polite to tell other employees how much you're being paid, or threaten to leave when asking for a raise.
If anything taxing gasoline favors city trips, vs highway trips.
I'm not trying to insult you but you just generically applied to 1.4 billion people a conclusion based on a data set so small even you can make use of.

No matter what country or a people you belong to someone can find something about them that will "make you proud" and which surely applies because I already have one data point showing it.

And just because you were curious how empires are built but not enough to actually go beyond bigotry, here's an example: [0]. Spoiler alert, it's stealing from the current leaders.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-esp...
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Historically the anti-monopoly laws in America could be deployed to against monopsony or the accumulation of power to act as a monopsony.

However, American Businesses successfully lobbied to change the ways the anti-monopoly laws are used - now the anti-monopoly laws are focused primarily on avoiding consumer price increases and are blind to things like accumulating power to be an abusive monopoly (a la Amazon) or monopsony.
His proposal is "restarting the transaction....a little tricky...there are simple ways to solve this problem that are out of scope for this post."

This is the hard part.
1. In a layoff your boss doesn't fire you, most of the time they don't want to lose anyone. It happens above their level.

2. If you think a corporation gives no-warning layoffs is wrong, then don't reciprocate, take the high road. It's nursery school level life advice: "two wrongs don't make a right"

3. If you are young, the world may seem big. It is not. It is small. There's a good chance you'll run across your boss or a friend of their's in future. Don't burn bridges.

4. It is generally considered polite to offer 2 weeks, offer extra time to ensure an orderly transition, to do as much as possible to make sure there are no difficult loose ends for a successor, and to leave your contact info with an offer to help if any questions come up.

Just be decent and you will live a happier life.
Yes, In my opinion, you're missing the user experience aspect. Two of the three should be rejected - not overridden. - so the users get the feedback they expect, rather than reloading the page and seeing something totally different.

And yes - It's a trivial example, one defined by UX - but there are many examples of needing to reject a transaction that can't simply be overridden (or replayed later like simple addition/subtraction) - and I don't see how the authors proposal replaces two phase commit in something like that.
Shutdown would be over if McConnell was willing to vote.
At the same time as I read this, I’m reading about upset 20 and 30-something Buzzfeed reporters getting laid off after 2-7 years there. I guess it is never great to be involuntarily let go from a company, but if you have the mindset that jobs are fluid (both ways) then getting laid off should not be viewed as the end of the world or something you or others around you should feel sorry about.
Easy. I write based on what I've observed.
You can get these ratios for many charities and nonprofits from the combined federal campaign: https://cfcgiving.opm.gov/offerings

Some really popular charities go well above 25% towards non-cause expenses like administration/advertising.
At a place I worked about 20 years ago, new hire in my group goes out lunch on his first day and never comes back.

It was an amusing non-event but the VP continually gave my boss grief for not taking the new hire out to lunch on his first day, as if that were the cause. I'm pretty sure the guy had another offer and was just sort of trying this one out. But my boss was diligent after that about taking new hires out to lunch on their first day.
The same thing applies even to Mozilla https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101637. Wikipedia is significantly better but still not perfect https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?page=49&title=F....

I honestly believe any company as well as everyone responsible for abusing the term "non-profit" in order to make money for their personal gain should be punished accordingly and be treated as scammers.
I don’t know if research exists for this, but I wonder how much of the influence of people moving from rural or suburban areas in the USA to urban areas in the USA contributes to additional cars in US cities.

I grew up in a suburban area, and even though I live in a dense city now, having a car still seems mandatory to me somewhere deep in my brain, even though I know I could now get by with the occasional zipcar.

Suburban areas typically require a car since public transportation is nonexistent, and growing up in an environment for 20 years sure can condition someone’s preferences.

I wonder how many people truly like driving? And where’s the line lie between “I am willing to drive” and “I am willing to not drive” ?
Yeah, I think it is unfortunate. I think it’s unfortunate how it’s shaped our lives. I don’t want fast and luxurious personalized travel. I want to be able to walk somewhere nearby and enjoy it.
The highway from from east to west straight though Oslo center is underground since som years now. If you ever go to the Oslo Opera, the highway is below you somewhere.

To call Oslo car free is an oversimplification, but the efforts and results over the last 15 years are tremendous.
Do people actually call for recommendations? Hell I just use a coworker I worked extensively with. I've been asked to be a recommendation by previous co-workers and rarely get a call. It has declined over the past ten years. References seem to be a dead thing. It's a waste of time. Of course they are going to be positive. I can't imagine someone would list a reference where they say "fuck that person"
One driver was the huge popularity of jailbroken apps. I think whether Apple wanted or not that they had to put a official AppStore out. The demand for 3rd party apps was insane.
> I opt for a private doctor

curious. why?
Ah yes, only the rich should be able to drive!
I assume you don’t have children?
This is an article about medical tourism.

Its the same article no matter which country people are traveling to. The fact that it is about Mexico or Latin America at all enables political comparisons for perspective.

Its an irony or tragedy when people can't get care in their host country with stronger infrastructure in other places.
Hey, this course looks really interesting! Although I'm hesitating to take it because I'm not sure what the difference is between Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Can anyone explain?
I managed to get Daft Punk and Level 42 simultaneously stuck in my head.
> the importance of the batch itself

This may be the most profound statement about YC relative to the rest of VC. YC provides founders with a founder community, which is very valuable and fairly inexpensive to offer. Traditional VC resources are variable in quality based on often based on expensive experts.
"Also, the new language provides two range operators, the half-closed (e.g., a . . . b) and closed (e.g., a . . . b) range operators, which are not found in the C language. "
their examples for half-closed and closed are identical. I wonder how many such mistakes are in a patent filing in average and what the effect of such mistakes is.
Maybe I missed something but how do old people get around?
Cities existed before cars, and had horses crapping all over the place.
Why do you need a theory to explain the skin tones? Why does it matter at all? What is so triggering for you about a web page without a depiction of a white person?
Coming from, and only ever having lived in countries that have socialized medical care, I will never understand the general lack of goodwill towards one's fellow countrymen that your country continually rails against it. All to live with a medical industry that is, for all intents and purposes, run by corrupt insurance companies who will bleed you dry sooner than they would cover your bankruptcy inducing medical bills.

I just don't get it.

And now on top of this, having paid an arm and a leg to an insurance company that would just as soon stab me in the back as pay the medical bill my premium is supposed to cover, hospitals want donations? What the fuck is going on?

Sure the medical systems I've lived with aren't perfect, and sure they could be improved. But by and large, knowing that I can go into any medical care facility in the country and walk out fixed, without having to fight for medical care, fight for my right to be treated, fight for my right to have my medical costs taken care of. I would rather have that every day of the week, even knowing that there are others abusing this, than the alternative.
Google’s I/O developer conference will kick off on May 7th
Food stamps run out in March which generally sets a deadline to any shutdown. If it reaches that far the side that relies on the foodstamp vote will end up being forced to agree to practically anything. Even setting pragmatic politics aside, when the food stamps run out you're likely to see urban riots, looting, and so on that would rapidly force a the same concession in any case.

I would be extremely surprised if the shutdown reached February since the closer we get to the March, the more leverage this side loses.
It’s a huge factor contributing to income inequality as well. In a car free city you’d have to have affordable housing because otherwise you’d have no service people, since they wouldn’t be able to commute.
DL is a branch of ML.
All news is local news, unless Reuters reports it.
Depends on the number of plants. Growing up, my mom was a florist and we had an abundance of plants throughout the house. Wouldn't necessarily suggest going to that level, but plants do make for a much less sterile environment. Big green leafy plants are better air scrubbers and much easier to care for than cute dainty flowers.

Examples:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-CA&authuser=0&biw=1345&b...

Depending on choice of pot and soil, most only need to be watered once a week. Even still, there are decorations that hold water to slow release for even extended times between watering. Great for vacations, or the forgetful.
Tip for good service? 20%, 25%, Other:
I have watched a couple (out of hundreds) of magical coding demos, one that comes to mind was Steven Sanderson demo of Knockout.js

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/FRM08

I just felt really old...
The number of frusturating failure modes and possible abuses simply boggles the mind.