skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former founder who now works at Stripe...

I am glad to see we are now explicitly mentioning the aspects of Stripe culture that make it founder friendly.

- Huge transparency
- Management optimizes for autonomy & distributed decision-making
- Upwards review processes > downwards decision-making
- Level obfuscation
- Shipping culture
- People who are of the quality you'd normally only find by hiring them yourself (and frequently better)

My 3rd week at Stripe (around 7 months ago) Patrick just sat down next to me at lunch, knew my name, and started talking about what my team was working on in great detail. Asked me many direct, important questions and really listened.

As a former CEO of a VC-backed company, I knew he was 100% on his game -- and around you at work you can see that pretty much everyone trusts the execs to be insanely competent, because they are. My only wish is that they don't take as many solo plane rides, haha. :)
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The one advantage of living a reasonable distance from our families is that we get to use "we have to get it in the car" as an excuse for people buying us less. It at least tends to keep the size to a reasonable level.
Fines for GDPR transgressions are administered by the 28 national government's data privacy regulators. The money also goes into the countries' coffers, not the European Union. See for example https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/.

But GDPR is mostly not about fines, but about the rights of citizen (/consumers) to get information, request deletion, etc. Citizen can file lawsuits in their local courts. It's somewhat improbable (as in: it has never happened) for the EU to disregard a judgement, just like the US government complies with adverse judgements by the Supreme Court.
All hail the absurd joy of Eurovision (2018)
Agreed, super bad title.

As an engineer I'm always impressed by a 9X speed-up from state-of-the-art, but I'm guessing that "9X" would make tech-illiterate shareholders unhappy and cause them to short the stock?

Would love a Chrome plugin that "fixes" numbers like this on pages based on crowd-sourced human understanding. People flag incorrect numbers they see on websites; new visitors start to see corrected numbers after enough people flag it with the corrected number.

The same would be useful for e.g. scooters advertising 30 miles range (s/30/10/), laptop battery life of 10 hours (s/10/5/), hardware companies announcing "availability of" a certain product when it's actually not yet for sale (s/availability/unavailability/), etc.
What is the most frustrating thing about building financial models?
What is the most frustrating thing about building financial models?
One definition: A developer who joins a team, builds out a product, and then leaves for a new job after a couple years. They don't stick around long enough to see their code become legacy, and then get replaced.
It was more than worth it, I am happy to say, but we didn't have the greatest experience overall in Romania, but it was very enlightening and interesting, very interesting indeed. I was amazed to see so many people still with a horse and cart, then BMW X6s come past. The difference between rich and poor was vast for an EU country. I came away thinking how hard the EU's job was to reconcile countries as far away as Romania and the UK, both geographically and culturally, and whether it was even possible. I was also told that the region of Romania has been punished by governments for various uprisings and protests. Shamefully, I have not dug down much further into these stories, but I am reminded to now.
In Italy we have 4 types of police: 1 for traffic, 1 for financial, and 2 are for more generic crime.

I read a while ago about a fight between two cars of the latter two types, at the end of which they gave each other a ticket and left.
After Public Outcry, a Rewritten Photo Policy for Hudson Yards’ ‘Vessel’
Books. IMO, Books is the best way of aquiring knowledge.

It’s dense and visual. It’s also more carefully crafted and corrected through time then say blog posts, online videos or podcasts. Compared to a coach or a teacher, you also are getting the actual root of the information and not a distilled and approximate version of it. Even when the person teaching is the one who actually wrote the book!
> A manager a level above my manager would rub his hands together and say things like "really looking forward to reading that shipped email!" whenever I told him about what I was working on.

That doesn't sound optional at all.

From my point of view, making things fun isn't fun. Watching a comedy routine is fun. Writing one isn't.
Apple thinks there are 5: 2 ipad pros, the new air and mini and the pencil/crayon supporting ipad.
I'm not sure why this comment is downvoted. The behavior of PostgreSQL on workloads that require vacuuming of large tables -- and especially the default behavior in that case -- is hugely problematic. There's a major project ongoing to build a new storage engine to address this:
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2018/01/do-or-undo-there-is-no-vac...

Like you, I've long wished I could pay a performance penalty on queries to collect garbage immediately rather than batching up this debt to pay all at once some time later.
[edited: I'd pay that cost on all queries, not just writes, if the performance were more consistent over time.]
Stackoverflow. No joke. I'm not saying look up stuff on stack. I'm saying literally ask your expert level questions on the site. The wealth of experts willing to answer obscure questions is incredible.
Not mine. Still selfhosting anybody nowadays?

Maybe you could try to resurrect a cached repo in your clouded CI-provider to reown your repo today.

External repo hosting would be the last thing on my mind and enterprise. I just realised that, when reading.
What is the most frustrating thing about excel?
What is the most frustrating thing about excel?
Isn't trusting authority contrary to trusting science? The point of science is that we can verify truths for ourselves without relying on authority.

Hence, if any authority, 'scientific' or otherwise, asserts their authority instead of providing individually verifiable evidence of its claims, then we can say they are being unscientific, regardless of title.
It is pretty stunning, though, and we didn't regret the journey one bit.
> Why? The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death.

This seems like a huge exaggeration to me. There's a chickenpox vaccine nowadays which wasn't widely available when I was a kid. As a result, my siblings and I all contracted chickenpox at one point or another. Chickenpox is only very rarely a serious illness for children.

Even with regard to more serious illnesses that have been made rare by vaccination (measles and mumps), death is quite rare (less than 1% according to wikipedia).

Overall, I find your tone a bit disturbing. I'm very pro-vaccine, but I sometimes wonder if a kinder, gentler approach wouldn't be more effective. When you yell at people, they are much less likely to listen to you. When you use dishonest arguments like you've done here you just provide anti-vaxxers with ammunition.
I tried Piwik but it seemed so cripplingly slow. Trying to load the analytics often took minutes.

Has anybody else experienced this?
XMPP isn't XML. https://about.psyc.eu/XMPP#XMPP_isn.27t_even_proper_XML
Diversity in Tech: How a VC Firm Is Partnering with Historically Black Colleges
By that theory it should have just made it all the simpler for a horse to be inspected and certified.
I think Facebook is pretty evil! I just think Tock is a lot less evil than OpenTable. :)
Thanks a lot. I really prefer the solid feel of my T430u, so I will probably go with trying an X1 for once, or the smaller P51 I believe.
That's "only" for Windows Apps that explicitly use it, which means I'm sure there are easier ways to avoid being tracked by that... and it's probably your least tracking concern if you're online anyway.
I don't know why you are getting voted down for this comment, but it seems that anything that questions vaccine safety, even if completely rational and reasonable is being shut down on social media.
Computer kidney could provide safer tests for new medications
“One year of experience ten times” is shorthand for repeating the same banal tasks over and over and never increasing your skillset. Versus “ten years of experience”, indicatig 10 years of varied tasks, increased responsibility, increasing your skillset etc...
Your right, insurance markets have appeared for many things. I'm not sure why you think that's evidence against my argument. I cited an example where they did not, where the free market did not come up with a solution.

Your argument amounts to an article of faith. "The free market solves all problems, because if we let it, it would find a way." The crux of your comment when given an example where there was no such solution was to repeat your article of faith.
It runs Android AOSP - the open source version of Android without Google services.

Punkt patched many critical bugs in the month after initial release of the MP02 in December. https://www.punkt.ch/en/inspiration/news/s/mp02-software-upd...
> The above approach keeps your main heap from bloating when updates and deletes happen, but it causes transactions which reference the old version of the rows to be slower, as well as slowing down rollbacks.

I think that's consistent the parent's goal (and mine) of allowing ongoing requests to be slower in exchange for not having to pay a major cost later to vacuum.
Google Analytics has a non-free (enterprise) edition which I believe lets you self host. I'd be ok with govts using that tbh.
Now known as Matomo.
You gonna pull a random image into prod and give it access to prod db :)?
There are three ways of learning

1. by doing a job and making mistakes

2. by studying theory

3. by observing how more experienced colleagues do a job that is very similar to yours (design review, code review, pair programming, daily conversations)

You are already using the 1st way.

You definitely can use the 2nd way by reading books (Martin Fowler, Bob Martin, Eric Evans, Kent Beck etc.), watching some video courses, reading code of open source projects, etc.

But in your case it is almost impossible to use the 3rd way. And as for as I know the 3rd way is far more efficient then others. I would propose to quit the job where you can't use the 3rd way.
I wouldn’t call it a man in the middle if the service is intentionally part of your web server infrastructure.
> There's just no good reason to proxy HTTPS traffic over HTTP anymore (if there ever was). Enabling it by default is encouraging awful security practices.

I'm a big fan of end-to-end encryption but I think a statement that broad should include a threat model. Not everyone is saving user credentials, credit card numbers, etc. and if you're primarily concerned about someone hijaacking the local network or untargeted national snooping, having HTTPS between the user and CloudFlare is a really big improvement because far more tampering happens at the edge rather than between the datacenter server serving your content and CloudFlare's network.

I do agree that this should be less and less acceptable as so much of the infrastructure has improved but there are still things like personal blogs and other content sites where you mostly don't want things like hostile ISPs injecting ads or malware onto your pages. That might make a good transition for Flexible SSL — start rebadging the UI to increasingly strongly emphasize that it's not suitable for sites with logins, PII, etc.
EASA and other nations' aviation regulators are also on the hook for not validating this certification as thoroughly as they could have.
Another possibility to consider is carrying a pager. That way you'll at least know when you've got a call or a voice mail, and then you can turn your phone on temporarily to call back or check your voice mail, instead of having to periodically turn on your phone to check for missed calls.
"The imperial powers, especially after Sultan Abdülmecid I (1823–61), saw the cause as a lack of Western-style science. Yet could they import it, and still be faithful Muslims and patriotic citizens? The debate took place at all levels of Ottoman society, from government to popular culture, in novels, plays and even cartoons. When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, declared in 1924 that “the truest guide is knowledge and science”, it was the outcome of an extensive self-examination that amounted to a large-scale humanities education. The debate turned on who the Ottoman people thought they were, and who they wanted to become. The authority of science rested on people, not on tools or methods or charts and data."

And yet, is not Turkey still struggling with that same question, 100 years later?

"[Authority], [Hannah Arendt] thought, is neither innate nor automatic, and facts alone don’t have it. It is possible only thanks to institutions that create what she called public space. Without that, it is possible for people who are not personally accomplished, who pontificate in recycled stock phrases, who polarize situations and who are insatiable braggarts coveting media coverage, to acquire power and influence."

And how often have proponents of science been guilty of those same actions?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19422650.
"Scientific authority" is the source of the genocides of the 20th century, mass sterilization, what we now consider crackpot science, and many social ills. I would say it is actually worse than the religious authority of the past.
Well, if you drink soda, it is soda killing you. If it's the "juice" (er, juice flavored crap) the juice is killing you. Whatever label is used to sugar you up will do you in. Soda is just a name, whats in it, is key.
I've actually switched to an old school "counter" that I wrote myself. I just couldn't find anything that was modern and that I was sure provided privacy. I also don't need much.

I look at the data in Google Sheets.

On the page I want to track I paste a script tag that includes a few lines of JS from my counter site. That JS script hits a PHP script with the URL the user requested. I don't track ANY user details. No browser info, no IP address, no fingerprinting, etc. It would be trivial to track those things though. The PHP script logs the data to a CSV file (which I plan to change to an SQLite DB soon).

I have a Google Sheet setup where the first field of data is '=IMPORTDATA("https://example.com/data.csv")'. Google Sheets automatically fetches that data every time you open the sheet; no API integration required. Then I have a simple bar chart on the data.
TVM deep-learning compiler framework transitions to Apache
What approach would you be going for initially for deduplicating same urls?
Piwik, now called "matomo" ( https://matomo.org ).

Is "matomo" japanese? If yes then the definition is here https://www.nihongomaster.com/dictionary/entry/36221/matomo

Unluckily it cannot give you directly the search string used by people that ended up on your site because search engines don't forward it anymore because of the whole privacy movement that happened some years ago (I am still against it as I don't see why, as website owner selling e.g. clothes, I shouldn't know that a person landed on my website by searching e.g. "yellow pants" => this fake privacy just concentrates all power/knowledge in the search providers, but this is just my personal opinion), but here they sell a plugin ($/year) which apparently can do that: https://plugins.matomo.org/SearchEngineKeywordsPerformance

(I guess that it retrieves directly the search keywords from the search provider, but I did not read the docs nor I tried it out)
It matters because there is a large overlap between the people who need to pay more attention to science and religious people (by both his and my estimate). So needlessly dragging a religious figure completely works against what he's trying to accomplish.

He brings up Ataturk; imagine how Ataturk's modernization plan would have worked if he went out of his way to rail against the prophet Mohammed's perceived science denial.
Ah, indeed. Thanks for correction.
In my last company (ad agency) we were talking to Dopamine Labs[1] (now called boundless.ai[2]) to integrate it into an app we were building. It honestly felt kinda gross but I on the other hand I can understand a company investing thousands (into the hundred thousands) to build an app and wanting people to use it.

Does more engagement equal app usefulness and adoption? I don't know. I have a lot of apps on my phone I don't touch as often but when I go and clean out apps I don't use anymore I still keep some because I still find them useful to have even if I don't engage with that much

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/meet-the-tech-company-that...

[2] https://www.boundless.ai/
A really good book to read on this is "the Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver. Basically, the scientific method requires modeling the system correctly which only works for certain kinds of systems. Systems where the complexity exceeds the available data causes people to see patterns where they don't exist and to be overly confident in their interpretation of the data.

The entire area of nutrition and weight management is a joke. Medicine is problematic and Psychology is questionable.

Another problem is that the popular media publishes inconclusive studies because they are click bait. People read them because they are interested in living longer and losing weight and being happy.

Fear also turns studies into clickbait. The latest was the blizzard of articles on if bugs are dying off or not.

Then there is the fact that negative studies tend to be ignored and when the study failed or it introduces data that does not conform to general knowledge.

All this makes people question studies where the data is conclusive.
Date coercion
I've been wondering if you could use a cellular Apple watch like a dumbphone, initially setting it up with a friend/family member's iPhone (restored to get a fresh account, swap SIM and set up watch, then restored back to their backup), and then only using time/alarms and phone. Anyone know if that's possible? Could you update the contacts via icloud.com? Install software updates without an iPhone or Mac/Windows?
I think a lot of it is lowered overall expectations (from parents to schools), promoting kids that didn't complete the actual grade satisfactorily, etc. When I went to school, I knew 2 kids that were held back a grade in elementary school... neither were held back again.
I dunno, whatabout you tell me?
Well, now we know. Boeing has blown a reputation for quality they had for half a century.

The Cormac C919 just got a big boost.
I also have a Nokia 3310. I guess I charge it every other 4-5 days.
>Mobile telecom prices are just a pure licence to print money.The cost base (infrastructure and regulatory costs) is insignificant and the asking price maxed out - depending on the market.

The majority of cost aren't spectrum, ( as a few comment below suggested ) or Infrastructure, ( Payment made to Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, or ZTE ), but rental agreement for all those Base station.

It is not exactly license to print money like Casino, Oil industry. The telecom industry margin are generally quite thin.
"Also other humans now look like phone-zombies everywhere I look."

Just this morning I saw someone take a brief pause while crossing the street to look at her phone unaware that a car was coming. She stopped in the middle! of the street. The car screeched to a halt and missed hitting her by nothing.
2f-dck is my grail currently for a ket-a-like
Leave the company because some engineer wrote log.Printf("%v", req) at the top of some handler function?
Is there an attack vector on the Cloudflare to Server leg?
From what I've gathered and read from OP's comments, it sounds like their analog model makes sense and is precise enough for them to work with. People talk about how much more powerful a "32-core Xeon machine" is and they're not wrong, but just because new technology is available you also have to look at is it worth it to transition over/update it.

I have an example from my daily work. We were hired to update a company's model from 6 years ago. Their model is an Excel VBA model that we're rebuilding in Python with an increase resolution of detail and accuracy. However, for our "more accurate" model to be accepted, we have to also prove the following:

- We have to show that our model's outputs are the same as the VBA's model for the same input/starting condition (makes sense at a higher level, but at a higher resolution this means you have to spend more time looking at why a specific value is in a specific way and can be different from the lower resolution model)

- Train the new users on the new model (knowledge transfer)

- Ability to update and modify the new model wherever they need to change it or understand it

- Understand the limitations and the constraints of the new model

This basically boils down to how much time is needed in training the new model, how much money and time is needed to invest in building a new model, and is it really worth it to build a new model when the old model has worked good enough for now (and you understand the limitations of said model and is within your needs)? There's only so much time in the day and you obviously have a ton of other tasks that also needs your attention, and getting these newer models verified and accepted by the board is great but it's also additional meetings and time that you need to setup with them and get everything OK-ed... doubly hard when everyone else is also super busy.

I'd say modern computational platforms are better when it comes to raw power, but the logic and just resources required to build, verify, accept, and train (human resources-wise) the new model might just not be fully worth it.

Remember, there are also other industries other than tech that uses computer hardware to get jobs done.
What is the problem with running Android here?
A very big problem is that press coverage exaggerate the importance of clickbait articles. Two non political / economical cases:

* Is 'Oumuamua an alien spacehip / solar sail?

* Does the Tabby's star have a alien megastructure / partial Dyson sphere?

You can't blame to Monsanto for them.

The article appears, get a huge press coverage, the authors get interviewed, and somewhere the fact that it's only an improbable weird hypothesis is lost.

A few month later the new evidence refute the paper, and people get the idea that scientific discovers are not reliable.

(And there are batteries breakthrough that increase your battery capacity a 80% before disappearing, nutrition recommendation that get reversed after a few years, ... but these are more motivated for money.)
There's nothing to "screw up" as it's just a different storage system implementation to handle MVCC. There is a project called zheap underway which is designed to do just what you say by doing in-place updates.

It's true though that Postgres still needs work on performance features and optimizations.
Is Ketamine really a party drug? I've no experience but i thought the effect is more like you sit somewhere and won't stand up for a while...
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When someone reports a software bug to you, do you often ask them if the solution is to abandon the entire product? This doesn't seem like a productive methodology.