skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see nothing hypocritical about good people taking payment from evil people. “Payment” means that the resources of the payer go down, and the resources of the payee go up. Now Facebook have less money that they can use to influence the world in stupid/evil ways, and the WhatsApp founders have more money they can use to influence the world in good ways.

And, in exchange, since Facebook now owns the service of WhatsApp, they have the adopted duty of popularizing it—a service that inherently resists the kind of centralized analytical approaches Facebook uses to make money, and steals users away from Facebook in ways that makes it harder for Facebook to track those same isers. Win/win for the WhatsApp founders’ perspective; lose/lose from Facebook’s perspective. It’s a wonder they went for it. (It’s sort of like if Google were to acquire Brave: all they’d get is a browser that steals Chrome users and inherently prevents Google from tracking them, that nobody would accept if it was turned into not-that, because that’s its whole thing.)
Other way around. You pay more in the flat rate if you have a big lawn.
Do you have evidence for that or are you guessing? (I have nothing against guessing, but I'd like to know when that's what people are doing)
Yes. I doubt they understand the mindset of somebody who strive to write secure communications and then sold out to an avowed 'privacy is dead' company. A mindset I also fail to understand entirely but I suspect differently to the paper.
Researchers measure near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors
What If You Can’t Afford “A Room of One’s Own”?
I installed signal, only three of my contacts use it. One is a journalist, one is an artist/designer who does a lot in the crypto space and the last is a fellow enterprise architect. The first two are also active WhatsApp users.

I’m as concerned about Facebook as everyone else, but you can’t seem to get around the fact that it’s the modern yellow pages. It’s the only platform,l everyone has, and it’s just incredible hard to get around that.
Better article on the same topic from 3 days ago:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/whatsapp-brian-...
What they do with the money would be interesting. I suspect some of it will go back into things I value in secure crypto and interpersonal communications. Or open source. Even Andreessen did some good with his filthy lucre.
How a small code change made Netflix run with ~10k extra AWS instances overnight
Well, get back working on that, then! JK, you're doing great work, keep it up.
My 0.02 c

Youtube has (imo) two functions - an independent hosting platform (which can argue it is not appropriate for it to censor content) and a search engine which implies a recommendation algorithm. This second part is inescapably making editorial decisions.

I don't think Santa Clara principles are sufficient at this point - it's basically assuming Facebook et al run a "town square".

I am not sure the "town square" defence is useful if you cannot exclude certain content reliably and effectively (definitely an unproven point)

I know this is heading down the Warren route - but Inwoukd be grateful for other thoughts

Final note: I cannot conceive what twisted neurons male gunning unarmed people as a good idea, let alone livestreaming it but I will be unsurprised to find that the killer has live-streamed previous sick rubbish and got lots of likes and comments.

Doing that in a normal town square would not have built a bubble of morons who laugh at a guy pretend killing muslims till the guy actually goes and does it - it would have built horrified approbium of a normal town. It's not a town square if the rest of the town does not see you.
It's not. This is just a reblog without attribution of news that had been circulating for 3 days now. The Stanford event where he said that appears to have occurred on Wednesday.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/whatsapp-brian-...
An ex gf introduced me to WH and I got the appeal right away. We don’t have them in the Northeast so when I can get to one I usually do.
I use signal with far more people. and I continue to suggest my WhatsApp relationships to move over but I also use WhatsApp because of weight of numbers. But for lasting interpersonal comunications I would like to use signal more.

Their model makes it harder to have multiple devices in one account id as "me" and seem to make it hard to recruit non SIM enabled tablets and laptops.
I won't lie, it sounds like an interesting process and I wouldn't mind participating once if I'm qualified. I wonder if you could answer some more questions about it. Sorry, I know it's asking a lot, I understand if you don't answer:

1. What if you want to hire a primarily Python-writing programmer to write Ruby or C#? They're not going to be super-productive on day 1 - maybe they'll struggle to run gem install or whatever. Even though they'd have made a perfectly fine employee given a week's worth of ramp-up, they may end up flunking the interview (Maybe it's a less of a problem in games because everything is C++? I don't know). How do you calibrate these performance variances due to lack of familiarity with the specific tech?

2. How do you ensure that the odd toxic candidate doesn't ruin the team dynamic? It's hardly fair to reject everyone if they'd have done well without the one asshole.

3. It seems odd to expect people to collaborate in a situation where (for all they know) they are actually competing for the same position(s). What if you don't actually have enough open positions to hire everyone?

4. How do you track contributions by individual candidates? Commits? Observations by the embedded employee?

5. Do you tell candidates upfront they're being graded for co-operation as well as productivity? (and is that how you're actually grading?)
McKinsey tests for something like this through a structured probing of past actions. I always felt we did a reasonably good job of discovering evidence of such skills.
Layouting in plantuml is tricky, but I learned some tricks the hard way, which make larger diagrams more tenable. One core trick is:

upper/left arrow lower/right

So e.g. you write:

upperBlock <-- lowerBlock

instead of:

lowerBlock --> upperBlock

This alone drasticly cuts on the amount of hidden arrows with forced directions you need to use in larger diagrams.

That said, plantuml could use a more explicit way of providing layout hints. E.g. an extra declaration that some objects form a grid. Something like:

grid
Comp1 Comp2 Comp3
Comp4
Comp5 Comp6
endgrid
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Should be pretty concerning coming from an insider. Now could we finally campaign for public authorities and eg. German state TV broadcasters (ZDF) to #deletefacebook?
TL;DR: optimize only for monotonically increasing, vanilla terms for 24 months runway at a time.

As a VC and an entrepreneur, various times over the last 19 years, I will say this to entrepreneurs in good faith:

1. Your core competency is company building, not fundraising. (There are exceptions, but you're not one of them.) Just get enough money to company-build for the next 18-24 months on plan.

2. The primary (only?) thing to optimize for in valuation is "monotonically increasing over time." All of the pain (for founders, early investors, et al.) is when you have flat-to-down rounds. That's when you REALLY get diluted, and I don't mean like "geez 30% sucks" I mean like "let's build in a new 20% option pool because then founders are now down to 5% each" kind of dilution.

3. The other thing to optimize for is keep your overhang (liquidation preferences) manageable. The bigger the prefs, and the bigger the post, the worse your options are for an earlier founder-friendly exit.

4. Finally, as a sandpaper-the-edges kind of thing, remember that terms tend to get more investor-friendly over time, even for good (but not phenomenal) performers. So all in all, choose smaller rounds and lower valuations provided you get vanilla terms (meaning no multiple prefs or strange dividends etc.) because subsequent investors will insist on same-or-better sweeteners, which can bite everyone down the stack.

5. Really finally -- remember that for all of the seeming insider sharkiness of VCs, they all have to see each other in polite company again. Meaning, they're the devil you know. The real rapacious problem terms come from non-VC participants who don't mind slashing and burning -- be most cautious of those.
Wikipedia toxicity and edit wars?
Or no meat at all!
I can't say how much wrong it is to rape cows, steal their kids and after many births kill it. And now someone wants to take them the pleasure to pee whenever they want? WTF is wrong with this guys?
Diary farms are a very bad place already...
Salary growth rate hasn’t been that high in Germany for the last 10 years. Also, 85k€ is pretty decent. Way more than the average salary: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/75731/umfrage...

Although compared to tech jobs in the US, it seems pretty low (but the numbers here are also biased).

In Germany, your best bet apparently is a management position or having your own business. This, of course, takes time. But it’s also very rewarding.
> But at least I would not constantly call out the people I sold it to, as if my words had any meaning at that point.

I can shed some light on this phenomenon. I've been in the situation where we sold half our company to someone who was also active in the same branch as us. When the sale happened we were convinced we were going to do great things together! Take over the world, so to say. As time progressed we (the founders / owners) found out we might have had the same goals but not the same methods. And our methods simply weren't compatible.

In the end it ended with lawyers and we bought back the half of the company we sold.

The above is obviously a very condensed recollection of what happened (ie. There are a whole bunch of nuances omitted).
You mean billions, but yes I agree
Correct.

I am, however, specifically talking about the music that is available on Spotify.
The article is a rant about bad code, not about bad teammates. Maybe they were hired because the manager liked them for having people skills instead of actually being good at their jobs. I agree communication is an important part as well, that does not has much to do with people skills, though. Being a good programmer should be more like 75% of a programmer's job to actually make their temmates life easier.
Law it's really top-14, and it matters a lot. BigLaw recruits almost exclusively out of those schools, and law has a bimodal salary distribution where BigLaw pays $180K out of school while smaller law firms and small-town law practices typically pay just $45-65K.

Many other industries tend to recruit only out of top universities, and getting into them if you didn't go to one is basically impossible. Management consulting, investment banking, hedge funds, philanthropy, many managerial government positions. The way you get into these is through going to a school that places lots of people into those industries, and then work the network.
It's definitely a symbiotic relationship as it is with all platform/developer environments.

But Apple didn't force Microsoft to make their apps for the original Macintosh. Microsoft chose to. It's a critical distinction.
I bank with SoFi. 2.25% APY on a checking (like) account. $1.5M FDIC insured (not that I care/need it). Access to practically ALL ATMs. Beautiful app.

I use Uber Visa Credit Card, which is free, which auto pays itself from my SoFi, with helluva lot benefits: 4x dining, 3x travel.

Why should I use Point?
No? Most vendors have gotten their online experience in reasonable order at this point. (In some ways, better than Amazon, because many aren't on the "marketplace" model and I don't have to sift a sea of crap).

That is: Free or very low cost shipping and a reasonable UI.

And for those with a brick + mortar presence, free in-store pickup with a pretty quick turnaround time on it.
You can’t be too cynical. If you aren’t already aware, Spark was part of Telecom before the NZ government broke it up. The then CEO controversially described using confusion as a marketing strategy.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
Sounds like you'd be surprised how cheaply politicians are bought.

BTW--"sensible gun reform" has majority support.
If a QR code was used, why would the text length even be relevant?

I don't click on shrouded URLs, myself. Period.
What if the down vote was moved in the UI so the false equivalence was not made visually? What if the down vote algorithms were different to the upvote algorithms?

Things do not always have to come in pairs. Ziploc bags and cable ties and Velcro wraps are entirely logical asymmetric concepts.
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US auto loans have a total of 1.1 trillion outstanding, writing that off wouldn't affect the markets at all or increase the cost of debt?
"Does going to a top 10 law school matter more than graduating from a Top 10 CS program? "

I have both law and software engineering degrees and I can tell you without a doubt that yes, the school you graduate from matters much more in law.
I am from New Zealand. This was a terrible tragedy, and the appropriate response to this horrible video is to not watch, and not share. It's not only glorifying an awful act, but it's potentially traumatic.

However I'm very uncomfortable with sties like liveleak being fully censored on NZ ISPs. I was unable to access liveleak.com at all from the few hours after the event, up to and including now.

It sets a bad precedent and while I hope no one sees that video, the content itself is not illegal and we should not be censoring it as a kneejerk reaction. People who go to LiveLeak know what they're going to get.
Agreed with a caveat (from a VC perspective, mind you).

99% (schematically) of new businesses should indeed optimize for flexibility.

But, if you judge yourself to have a real shot at the >> $100M exit, then optimize for that path and foreclose the flexibility.

There's a real truth to the idea that you will be putting your all into any business, so if you have one that really can create an entire career's worth of wealth at once for you and your whole team, you should optimize for that.

If on the other hand your business doesn't have a realistic shot at that, stay the hell away from VC. Waste of time and cash is king anyhow.
No changes have been made to the intake, it's the aero package. From the horse's mouth:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.f1-rules-and-regu...

"What’s the change: A wider, higher – and much simplified – front wing

Why has it been made: To help chasing drivers follow the car in front more closely - and in turn increase the possibility of overtaking."
Fair enough, especially if you account for the discovery (a form of marketing I guess). Within that scope I agree with you.
Brian has done that with Signal Foundation:

https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/
The build tool is setup for Synopsys VCS. Which costs $$$$. But you should be able to use free as in beer versions of Mentor/Siemens ModelSim.
https://github.com/cbreeden/fxhash is reasonably widely used. It doesn't have the security benefits of SipHash, however they are rather dubious in practice -- 64 bits of state is simply not enough to be secure, no matter the hash function (not to mention, real tables will not use the vast majority of those bits).
The problem of art in a financially reductionist world feels like it's the inherent contradiction between fierce independence of voice, coupled to complete dependence on beneficent sources of money and living. Either arts go back to paid journeymen and women and patrons determine what is made and for whom. Or art is made by the independently wealthy elite.

Traditional and tribal and folk art is embedded in communal culture. You pay art tax to cohere knowledge and appease the gods. Art is done for the self satisfaction of arting.

I have read several versions of 'how do I start being a writer' and a common thread is that if you aren't writing independently of any income or benefit, you're probably asking the wrong question. How do I live off my writing is a better question (the one posed here) and I don't know there is an answer.
I moved to Sweden about 12 years ago from New Mexico. However, I was single. I am married now, to another American, with two small children.

(BTW, I consider myself an immigrant, not an expat.)

The questions you ask are entirely too generic. Moving to a large city like Stockholm is different than moving to a small one like Skurup ("When in Europe, visit Skurup"). Moving to Norway or Denmark is yet different again. Moving as a self-employed person is different than moving as an employee of a large company. Moving as a single person is different than moving as a family.

I will therefore answer generically. I found "Culture Shock: Sweden" to be helpful, though it's 15 years old now and almost certainly dated. There are vlogs on YouTube about people from the US moving to/living in Sweden, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=moving+to+Swede... . Perhaps check them out? There are many other web sites which offer advice for those moving here, including pages hosted at universities for visiting professors.

Regrets? No, not really.

Anxiety or second-thoughts? Yes, absolutely.

My family? My parents lived in Ecuador when I was young. My g'parents from Canada lived in Cuba when my Dad was young. It wasn't a problem.

I was single, so not a problem with the rest of the family. My wife moved here after we got married. She misses much more of US foods than here, so uses services like (the currently closed) https://tastyamerica.se/ .

Done differently? That's a hard one. Oh - get a first-hand apartment rental contract early on, rather than second-hand/sublet for a few years. The housing crisis hit hard a couple of years after I moved here.

Housing is very difficult right now in the big cities of Sweden. If you aren't employed by an organization which will help its employees find housing, then start looking now. And fraud is rampant in the online housing offers.

There are also American clubs, like http://awcgothenburg.com . Larger cities have American schools, if your kids are in high school age (for example) and you want them to continue in English, with a US-oriented education.
Pro-rata doesn't mean what you are implying.

Pro-rata is in theory the right (but not the obligation) to buy back in, at the new price, to get back to your prior ownership level.

In practice however, pro-rata is a firmly stated polite request to the next round lead investor to let you do so. The real determinant of whether you get to use the pro-rata right is whether your next round lead investor is OK with it (and whether you want to try to block that next round).
I'm pretty sure Amazon uses AWS. There's probably still legacy applications running on pre-AWS infra though.
More importantly, it pushed the vendor to sign up for Amazon’s Brand Registry enrollment, a program that lets brand owners and licensees submit proof that they are authorized sellers of a brand’s products, which then grants them protection from unauthorized sellers on Amazon. The vendor who received the email is not a brand owner.

This seems to support my earlier conjecture[1] that Amazon's efforts are due to their attempt to mitigate fraud and counterfeits on their site.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392734
Came here to echo this, but for grocery stores ala Amazon's bumbled attempts to optimize Whole Foods stocking.

Your use case and the parent's sound like a good use of JIT Kanban[1], waiting for inventory levels to drop below a threshold to replenish them. However, demand-forecasting[2] may also be useful in the parent's use case, and sometimes both systems are used in a product lifecycle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_forecasting
Ditto. I used it, it looked good, but I never had any useful usecase for it other than pointing clueless managers or coworkers to it. But for them it was a great show, better and simplier than Jira. You will be missed and thanks for the converter. I never actually tried Github projects, will do soon.
Plot to Poem (2017)
What's opaque about the situation you're describing? Everyone understands what happened and why. What other definition of transparent is there?
I've updated the example: https://vlang.io/compare

Got some help :)
Icarus is still around. Stephen Williams has been steadfastly working on it over the years.

http://iverilog.icarus.com/

https://github.com/steveicarus/iverilog

I use it almost daily. It is a really nice Verilog simulator. I also use Verilator, ModelSim and other sims too . All of them find different issues with the code. The linter in Verilator is very nice to use to get rapid feedback.
It's not, I'm just saying that journalists usually look decent to inspire trust, while she has bright red hair and uses "plz" instead of "please" in her tweets.
That's the so many broken links? OK
Yes!

But of course you can already compile for ARM by emitting C.
Hooray! I use signal. So I'm benefiting.
Ice ages triggered by collisions at Earth’s equator, study reveals
That's not the bullet point we were talking about, though.
This is very cool. I really like the style that is the result of retro graphics and then raytracing added on top. I hope it will become a common style in games!
Oh yeah. Sorry, confused the title with War Dogs.

Definitely one of my favorites! (Both movies are)
Ask HN: How to do good (on the internet) without doing much
I'm looking for services or tools that can easily be integrated into your daily life which, in one way or another, do good to others without causing you much effort.

One example: ecosia.org is a Bing-powered search engine which uses its ad money for planting trees. Using this instead of Google doesn't require any effort (okay, set it up once, then forget, so like 1 minute) but does good to others.

Do you know more services like this?
It really doesn't though. Facebook paid for WhatsApp because it was worth more to them than money. Their resources and influence have increased.
I took a quick glance at the spec PDF. From what I can see it is a combined compressor that does:

1. Use pretty standard LZ77 sequence matching to previously seen data.

2. A move to front encoding of the LZ77 references.

3. A canonical Huffman encoding of the MTFed references.

So no new, revolutionary ideas. The MTF part is one of several ways of encoding the references. Given by the OP, the authors have spent time tweaking parameters (like the LZ77 window).

But as far as I understand, the canonical Huffman encoder implies that the compressor can only operate on files, not streams.
Are you sure liveleak was being blocked?
Since a few days before this crime and especially since I get very frequent 503 errors from the site. I can't watch many videos, scroll var through videos, perform search, etc. It seems to be an issue with liveleak, not any blocking on the part of my isp. I'm in Hungary and have not heard anything about any videos being blocked here.
Bonuses, or raises? Not clear.

Seems like this already happened, so there isn't anything to handle. Tell your people that your managers ignored your recommendations and that you're looking for a new job where they don't do that.