skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slavery and debt have this in common:
You work and you don't get products for your labor.
In slavery, you don't get money.
In debt, you get money which goes away before you can spend it.

I think nepotism is less bad than slavery. I had debt with no degree, nothing to show for it. I had to work and not get to keep the money. I felt like a slave. I don't want other people to be in debt slavery.

Nepotism only would affect me via envy. Debt affected me daily, mentally, harshly. There were days when I could think of nothing else, miserable at my situation. Nepotism is nothing compared to being in debt slavery. Who cares what other people are doing. Am I free?
That's pretty hypothetical but even if it were true, wouldn't not being in life crippling debt be worth some criticism from ignorant individuals? Personal responsibility isn't always easy and often you have to think for yourself and go against what other people are telling you to do.
Using the wrench solution just doesn't make sense when Chinese people care about privacy in general even less than American people.
The search could use some tweaking (relevance sorting, specifically): searching "banana" gets me a bunch of baby food results with actual bananas being on the second page.
It's just the wrong audience altogether.
Is Bill Gates a “philanthropist, and Humanitarian”?
what has been windows o.s. for the world? "philanthropist, and humanitarian"?
First, the negatives. This space is enormously difficult. You have low margin, low technology clients with physical infrastructure. You have to get approval from operations, IT, and legal. Once you're up and running the data becomes stale fast and you have to produce insights like move this shelf here. Then you have to wait for them to do that, if they ever do, and demonstrate that the client is now seeing a ROI from that change. And prove it was you and not the new ad campaign they just ran or the better staff they have in place now that is making them slightly more money. I've been working in this area for years, also with a computer vision research background, also read Prayas's post several years ago and dismissed it, also started with specialty retail and focused on ease of install, also dismissed RetailNext for using their own hardware, etc.

Phew. Now, the positives! I do believe that someone will crack this at some point. There are several promising trends including a massive jump in the share of IP camera installs, massive drop in the price/performance ratio of GPUs, and steady increase in commercial broadband. And everybody loves data. Those trends, plus a pivot to optimizing physical business processes, are why I'm still working on camera software at my company, Perceive (www.perceiveinc.com). We got an interview at YC several years ago for this idea but were rejected.

So Jonathon and team, despite how this post started, I really do wish you guys the best. Your tech looks really good. I would love to talk.
People like you have existed for a while. They want to tie internet use to verified ID offline.

And that is great; there are clearly good things that will come.

But there are also bad things will come with that.

Ignoring that second part makes your post seem shallow and not very well thought out.
The badging at Apple and what you're allowed to do on the basis of your badge color, is the second-worst that I've ever personally experienced.

The worst was when I was a government civilian, working in the Pentagon, and I had a security clearance. The badges made it very clear who had what level of security clearance, and that governed where they could go and what they could do.

But at least the US Government had a pretty good reason for the way they treated people in that way.
I was born in the bottom 20% and rose to around the top 20%. In order to do so, I had to sacrifice my personal health and risk financial ruin multiple times. I'm likely to need a full set of dentures by the time I'm 35-40ish.

Would I wish that upon anyone? Absolutely not. Which is why I believe in fixing things by removing the huge wealth disparity and actually providing a proper safety net for people. The culture I inherited required me to make many sacrifices which I'm sure other, far smarter people have made. The difference is that I was lucky enough to not be killed by them.
Not exactly. Newer powerplants are more efficient and have got better at handling emissions. So even if it is replacement it could be a strict improvement on the existing option.
The market populations are not so bifurcated as you are laying out here. In the knock off market, Some consumers will continue to buy the name brand good. But many others (dare I say most) who are less affluent or care less will move over to the knockoff. Since the knockoff isn’t means tested or restricted, the risk of losing customers is very real.
Funny how Apple got out of the router game...
Automatically differentiating between bug fixes and backwards-incompatible changes is, I believe, impossible.
I'm sure one _can_, I only meant to hint that '30% more' isn't obviously better. 30% more than base (and nothing more) would not be a good deal for a lot of people.
Makes sense, thanks. In a few companies I was involved with early in my career, a B.S. in Xyz was required to even get an interview. Until we fix that problem (which I believe is cultural) the trade school won't be widely acceptable.
A key aspect of Gadgetbahns is they are always Not Trains™ and the reason for that is because trains are old tech that is hard to hype, but moreso because hard data already exists for how expensive trains are to build and Gadgetbahn advocates would rather have the luxury of pulling numbers out of their ass.
The upper palate has a direct line into the brain to facilitate smelling neurons. It is conceivable that a surgical operation on the upper teeth might cross contaminate patients.
Funny you mentioned Mercedes/BMW being rampant in Seoul, because Doug Demuro thought it was hilarious S. Korea had no Mercedes/BMW but only Hyundai/Kia. And only in black/gray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZD2pBeXY6Q

I have to say, drawing a rather sweeping conclusion of a nation of 51 million after a month long visit to a small area (albeit much of the nation's population living there) is maybe worth some reconsideration.

It's like spending a month in Hollywood for a month eating out often, and concluding that every waiter/waitress in US is just working odd jobs while trying to break into the entertainment industry.

Edit: I've also met people who are well off enough that they don't have to work as waiter/waitress, but still moved to LA to get a script made into movie, go to usc for movie (like writing movie script) etc etc.

I'd think unmarried children living with parents until they marry or get a job that requires moving to another city is quite natural in most other countries.
No. I rarely go over 150-160. I'm usually around 100 on waking and am between 70-140 for 90+% of the day. Most common lows are during/after a long run or when I overcorrect for a high.
The page containing the link to this pdf "https://www.agner.org/optimize/" has links to four other pdfs describing other topics on optimization.
I used to see geometric shapes upon waking up if I woke up abruptly in the middle of a very visual dream, but only if the first thing I saw was a sudden bright light (as in having my sleep mask abruptly removed). Hasn't happened to me in a while, but usually the bright light of the real world looks "pixelated" in very weird geometric patterns that for me were morphing, chromatically abberated and animated. These flashes of shapes only lasted 1 second at most but were very trippy to experience.
This is a bad idea, because they could include spyware in future security updates. It's entirely possible for them to backport antifeatures into existing products.
If there was no randomness, there would be no creativity.
Routers can't see URLs now that everything is HTTPS but they could still collect valuable site-level metadata.
Everything is expensive in Alaska as you have to ferry things from mainland USA. More importantly people who will be less willing to work in cold harsh and depressing climate of the winter. Most workers will have 1 month work 1 month paid off. It is not very unusual. (Ditto for Hawaii)
Yeah, it's big business actually.
Having ground stations at the right spot means a lot, but the equipment is expensive (but getting cheaper every year now).
We multi-tenant our assets to provide a cost effective solution and aid in getting those licenses.
From the links others posted you can see that AWS recently launched a service to compete head to head with us. It's certainly interesting to be targeted by them, to say the least.
Not only is that code not produced yet, but the memory isn't allocated yet. The location is thus unknown.
I think the commenter's point is yes you could cash out and move to nowheresville with a cheap house, but there's no point in playing that hypothetical game because it doesn't end (live in the ghetto! Your house is valued at $10k, aren't those low low property taxes sweet??)

They making the probably-fair assumption that these hypothetical people want to live at least close to where they're rooted their lives.
Marco has said plenty of times that you can pay him to do an ad read but not for a personal endorsement if he doesn’t use the product.

Marco Arment is not exactly a starving indie developer and podcaster between the equity he had in Tumblr. Whatever he got from selling Instapaper, running his own successful ad network for Overcast.

On top of that, he was an early investor in Gimlet Media that just got acquired.
Falco can read events via an ebpf program (instead of the falco-probe kernel module).

https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/eBPF

So, falco will work on GKE and COS
Airlines are built around operations and scheduling. Some disruption/reaccommodation software is quite advanced and even takes load factor, cost, status, and customer LTV into account. Being able to reorganize entire schedules onto other planes and other airlines in minutes while still maintaining a 1-3% profit margin is non-trivial.
Hi, Falco developer here. We do have support for running falco with an ebpf program taking the place of the kernel module. You can learn more about ebpf support at https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/eBPF, and you should be able to run falco with ebpf by setting an environment variable SYSDIG_EBPF_PROBE="".
I've recently started getting into watching football. There's a great amount of tactical depth, and I really appreciate that it's one of the few sports where the coach has a very noticeable impact on the outcome of the game.

It's essentially like watching a physical version of chess.

In light of the whole concussion thing, it's somewhat interesting that there are two new football leagues launching in the US soon. The AAF (aaf.com) recently launched this past weekend and is positioning itself as sort of a minor league to the NFL. There's also the XFL, which is a relaunch of sorts (it existed briefly in the early 2000s), and seems to be setting itself up to be a faster version of the NFL. Both of these new leagues do have rule changes that are there to speed up the game, and marginally improve player safety.

Eventually, I would suspect that NFL teams will be able to send some of their practice team players, and players they want to get another look at before cutting, to the AAF for more development.

The AAF seems to have had a moderately successful weekend launch. At least to the extent that there were no catastrophic failures.

A lot of the players who like playing football seem to really like playing football (i.e. they had opportunities to go pro (getting paid actual money) or semi-pro (college in the US) in other sports, and still chose football over them), so I don't think it'll go away entirely unless middle and high schools stop offering the game completely.
Wow how much nanny-ing are you getting for $2k a year?
It's great community engagement for certain values of both "community" and "engagement". Personally, I find that (largely as a function of the consensus-manufacturing effects of Reddit) it leads to a distressing loss of diversity in the ways the game is enjoyed. In short, you get a feedback loop. A blob of players vocally supports a particular paradigm of gameplay (call it the PvM/ironman/slayer industrial complex), so they talk about it on Reddit. It helps that this approach is attractive to newcomers and inexperienced returners. The developer notes this and produces content accordingly. More players are attracted/kept around by this additional content, leading to requests for more of the same. Rinse and repeat.

As a result, the more fringe communities (which tend to be correlated both with emergent forms of gameplay and experience with the game; skilling and PvP being the big examples) get starved or actively harmed by the course of development. As a result, those players leave or become less engaged, furthering the cycle and leaving the game a less-interesting place.

Back in the day I never thought I'd whine about Jagex becoming better at listening. I guess it's sort of similar to issues that can be had with A/B testing - when engagement is the name of the game and you have easy access to knobs and feedback, you can end up overfitting. In the terminology of this thread, the bean-counter approach makes you long for the touch of the auteur.

disclaimer: 20k-hour multiply maxed get-off-my-lawn grump with several axes to grind
You're being sarcastic, but I think you'll find the limited use of unsafe in Philipp Oppermann's series informative: https://os.phil-opp.com/
500k/year in your last year is "nothing",

Please. It was perfectly obvious from context that the "nothing" he was referring to was his "new thing". No product, no customers, no brand, no marketing, no customer discovery, etc... that's pretty much "nothing" in terms of starting a business.

It's not like he claimed to be broke, or a destitute, homeless, bum. If anything, I kinda feel like we should give the OP credit for being transparent in a way that most people aren't.
Love using Metabase! As a loyal user, I'm excited for the team!
I have Google Wifi at home and a unifi mesh at my office. Unless you are covering a massive area or have more than 25 clients, I’d have a real hard time recommending unifi. It requires much more configuration and maintenance. Google WiFi you really just forget about it - handles patches automatically, finds you the best channel automatically, tests your uplink daily and logs results.

Unifi’s software is much better than any other enterprise solution, but it still has a lot of rough edges and bugs if you’re doing anything non-standard.
What happens if you add a testcase that passes in 5.3.2 (current) but fails in 5.3.1?
Is this a good or bad thing for the long-term usage of their platform, do you think? My gut instinct says bad, since once they go public they will be under continued pressure by stockholders to keep making more and more money, and so they feel increased pressure to increase their prices and/or reduce featureset for the free version (or start charging for it again). They might be more focused on consumer facing features than bug fixing than they have been in the past, also.

I don't know, just seen this go bad with lots of other companies, that leaves me skeptical about how this will go and nervous about making games using their platform in the future.
One use case is generating contracts. The end users can maintain and author the contract templates because they are in a familiar environment. Then use the API to plug data into the placeholders to create the finished doc.
It is a depressing state of affairs.

To add on to your point about people playing around behind closed doors: something I've found quite surprising is the remarkable skill and effort that is involved in playing around. I know people who are extraordinarily talented at making themselves look busy and/or productive, but in reality are merely a drag on their company and the wider economy.

In one sense, this is a type of fraud the market is supposed to self-correct (i.e. identify and remove). This fraud seems to be increasing.

I'm often reminded of certain types of deceit which increased in the Great Depression. It was not uncommon for a husband, say, to dress up and go off to work in the morning, and return home as if he had had a normal day on the 'job'. In reality, he was unemployed, and either looking for work or wasting his time doing something else. This would go on for 1-3 years as the family savings was gradually depleted to nothing, while neighbors and family members thought everything was fine. Then, when the deceit couldn't be sustained, the husband tried operating a mini-golf business (doomed from the start) out of the front yard.
ISC is a more free license for its users. GPL protects theoretical future users of theoretical derivative software by restricting freedom for its users.

It's important to remember that GNU is Not Unix, but OpenBSD userland is much more so. There isn't much reason to protect future forks if you expect that future software should start from first principles instead of extending software until it becomes a monolith that must be protected from its own developers.
In 2015 they become the first gold contributor to OpenBSD

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-becomes-openbsds-fir...
Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS
I went to LS later in life, at an expensive third tier school, one of my classmates had already amassed $200K in loans at the same school to get her poly-sci undergrad degree.

(I went to school at night/part-time so I could keep my tech salary rolling in to pay for it.)

I can't imagine what her final total was -- I was offered over $80K in loans each year even though I had a $100K+ tech salary included in my "financial contribution" in the financial aid formula. I accepted about 10% of the offered loans.
But does formal verification even help when you're up against side channel attacks on the hardware? Like the branch predictor or DRAM memory access timing.
FWIW, I use Google Wifi, having bought a 3-pack on sale around the holidays. I did not setup any sort of "completely separate backhaul network for client mesh handover". This may be an implementation detail of some sort. The setup experience is pretty much plug-and-play.

I'd buy them again in a heartbeat, and I'm normally quite hesitant to buy Google products.
Reinforcement learning can be used to improve theorem proving, but it probably needs more research:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07563
Augmented Reality Google Maps is coming, starts testing in private
We need to quit ignoring systemic causes. One primary systemic cause is that people are taking out loans they cannot pay back with their current income. Another systemic cause is that institutions are loaning money to people who could not pay the money back at their current income.

If a four year degree will cost $50K, and you agree to pay that back at 5% over 20 years, you need to be able to afford a $350/month payment. It can't depend on whether you win the lottery or whether you get a better job. It needs to depend on your current history, just like any other loan. If you can't afford to make a $350/month payment, you can't afford a $50K degree. It's that simple.

Ohio State undergrad tuition is < $11000/year. You could replay that at 5% in 10 years for ~$120/month. Working 20 hours/week for $8/hour should cover net around $120/week. That leaves you ~$360/month to pay for food/rent/laundry/bus/whatever. If you can't afford this, you can't afford it. You are not entitled to this. It is not a basic human right. If you can't find an apartment near enough to campus within this price range, this won't work. Don't take out the loan. No matter how much you want the product.

For your second year, if you can't make $240/month payments, don't take out another $11000 loan. Or negotiate a 20 year term for $75/month if you can afford last year's $120/month obligation plus this year's $75/month commitment. If you're still working 20 hours/week at $8/hour, maybe you can't afford a second year.

I know it stinks, but if you can't afford to pay for college, you can't afford college. That's crummy. That's lousy. That's a lot of things. But it is also reality.

Ignoring reality is a big systemic cause.
Cisco? I don't think the NSA has any issues with Nokia, Ericsson or Samsung. It's just the ones based in China that seem suspicious.
I forget who it was but I remember someone commenting along the lines of: They don't need to add back doors they just need poor security. Or, to double paraphrase. Any sufficiently bad firmware is indistinguishable from back doored.
Sorry chief but I don't believe in imaginary property
Wow, good links, thanks. It's interesting to read that PG essay and realize just how drastically things must have changed in the past decade for SV people.

Like this snippet:

> How many times have you read about startup founders who continued to live inexpensively as their companies took off? Who continued to dress in jeans and t-shirts, to drive the old car they had in grad school, and so on?

Maybe it was doable in 2008, but the idea living "inexpensively" anywhere near SV just is laughable. Nobody is going to save more on clothing and cars than you will lose on rent. Even living in Brooklyn would get you significant savings over most places equally close to SFO.

Another interesting factoid he called out also has me wondering about the long-term implications of SV becoming the main magnet for startups:

> The power of an important new technology does eventually convert to money. So by caring more about money and less about power than Silicon Valley, New York is recognizing the same thing, but slower. And in fact it has been losing to Silicon Valley at its own game: the ratio of New York to California residents in the Forbes 400 has decreased from 1.45 (81:56) when the list was first published in 1982 to .83 (73:88) in 2007.

Seems to me like the trend of the extremely wealthy concentrating in California may not necessarily be a positive thing for creating an environment that can sustain ambitious people who need a place they can live cheaply while building things. Though I would be very curious to see what those numbers are looking at today.

All that said, his analysis of why he liked SV seems like it made sense at the time. It just clearly couldn't scale.

This does make me more confident about my decision to move back to Raleigh though. The "eavesdropping" thing he mentions is actually pretty great there, Durham and Raleigh have a very diverse and well-educated populace. People who don't think there are ambitious people around those parts must not run in the same circles as I do. I know more people building their own companies or side projects or just learning and building things for fun there than I could find in Seattle. It's hard to get funding there for sure - not so many super rich people around to hit up and perhaps outsiders misinterpret the more practical aims of local ambition as lack of ambition altogether. But while SV and NY and LA may send the strongest messages about power, money, and fame, I feel better than ever about being in the "Esse Quam Videri"[1] corner of the world instead.

[1] State motto of NC, translates to "To be, rather than to seem".
Wow... Even Gab users are more valuable... ;-)
I would absolutely expect people to give that up, as well as any senior economist student would tell you, the labor preference curve is backward-bending after you start making a certain amount of money.

But a plateau would just mean he quit advancing. This guy didn't stop on a plateau, he stepped off a cliff. That's a pretty big difference.
From what I can tell, they are NOT universal or existential quantifiers, as those symbols are also used in the post. I think they are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coproduct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(mathematics)
And unfortunately it was not. That was the feedback in its entirety. Not an example of how or when I was being emotional nor what they wanted corrected.