skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your intention seems honorable, and I am glad you are passionate about keeping your employees jobs. But if I was an investor in your company, I would be concerned that your first focus is not to keep the business afloat. What good are giving employees jobs if you have no business?

Also I think it's a tad naive to think one can possibly know the enumerable circumstances that would force your hand. Suppose you are a company dependent on logistics. Bam, Iraq war. The price of a barrel of oil skyrockets. Your shipping costs have quadrupled. You can keep to your principles and vow to not lay off a single employee, because as you said, this would "demonstrate failure", or you can keep your business and regrettably let go of a few workers in order to keep up with costs. You can try rising your prices, but pretty much a forgone conclusion that a 4x price increase will net you a significant decrease in customers, unless you are a rare unicorn, some good or service one cannot simply be without.

(the above scenario is basically what happened to my father's small business in 2005. Could not keep up with the rise in transportation costs, and cheaper, less quality competitors moved in. Consumers went with the cheaper option. It happens.)
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You're jumping from describing observable results to a state of mind or motive which you can't observe.

> Then the worry was Blogrolls might be considered link farms so they slowly started to be phased out. Then the biggie: when Google deliberately filtered out all the free hosted sites from the SERP’s...

That's all observable fact.

Why? Because they were taking up space in the first 20 organic returns knocking out corporate and commercial sites and the sites likely to become paying customers were complaining.

I think the more reasonable, less diabolical motive was that the blogs and free hosted sites were largely link farms that no one wanted to visit.

It sucks for the few legitimate pages on those platforms, but when most of the legitimate page is the rare gem in a minefield of automated copies of other blogs, just with SEO links and ads inserted.

It's like a comments section: without moderation or captchas or both, a "thriving local community" on, say, a small town news site can be overwhelmed by automated pharmaceuticals spam. Then the newspaper kills the comment section, not out of any malice towards the original community but because they don't want to deal with the spam.

And yeah, dealing with spam and black hat SEO does take resources. If you (or worse, your chosen blog host) don't keep the weeds down, soon your pasture will be overrun and burned off.
Can you link a source to this? It sounds incredibly cool.
Understood, thanks :)
it'd be great to have an issue on GitHub I could subscribe to for notifying me when your auto FFI generation tool is ready, it would give me a greater incentive to try Muon ;)
Commando VM – Windows-based penetration testing virtual machine distribution
On the other hand, letting people use the project forums to vent, or to attack others users, or attempting to hoard the devs' attention, will create its own set of problems.

I'd say 1 or 2 polite warnings are due (everyone can have a bad day). If the misbehavior continues, take out the banhammer. Use it judiciously but decisively.
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Using Nature to Understand Nurture
To be fair, your example is of a social network which lives and dies by widespread usage and growth. Yes certain niches enjoyed G+ but it seems their aim was to compete with the likes of Facebook which explains why they believe they failed their goal to achieve widespread usage.

I'm skeptical too, we can only wait and see. I'm essentially just hoping they understood the market they're entering but hey it's Google.

I'd also imagine they'd have service contracts for X years though? I can't imagine a health network wanting to use their service without guaranteed support for 5/10+ years. (Heck I imagine it'd take a year or two to even develop applications that use it)
I find this argument similar to: regulating the construction of buildings will just lead to seasteading.

The issue isn't really about silencing people, but removing their access to a mainstream audience.
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Sort of related: my Sony TV, circa 2013, ALWAYS has this opening message (even if there's been no power outage that I've noticed): "Power outage. Time needs to be reset." I've been ignoring it since 2014 because it takes about 5 minutes and a half-dozen menus correctly sequenced (but only after multiple FAILs) to reset correctly.
Or Vices as the Victorians would call them.
I don't know, it seems like platforms have learned to adapt without causing mass emigration. Basically, their shittiness to their userbase has to be gradual at a rate that they gain new users faster than they lose old ones.

And the turn to being shitty is often caused by the need to appease investors as you go for your next round of funding. But it seems that the patronage model is now offering substantial pro-consumer alternatives to the VC-backed model (growth at all costs, choke all competition with deep pockets).
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> (no-kidding) tree house in Costa Rica.

Assuming there is only 1 tree house AirBnB listed in Costa Rica, we've stayed in the same place. Super cool design!
I find it extremely helpful for collecting inspiration for my art / gamedev projects. I also often hire artists and animators and being able to put together a references board for them is extremely helpful and efficient for communicating my vision. [0]

[0] https://www.pinterest.com/thehideoutgames/
I don't know. I think this is what they WANT you to think, honestly. This may have been the case 5 years ago, but from my anecdotal evidence of just asking around friends, family, co-workers, etc. this isn't really the reality anymore. Most of who I have talked about this with find it old, dated, and full of re-posts/spam. I would be curious to see their actual numbers on ACTIVE users, minus their terrible dark patterns to "get" users.
Can you provide an example of a Google Cloud product that was discontinued?
I wonder if I can use this to send ZFS snapshots over WebRTC
The idea of exceptions is to catch them where you would handle them. If your code is catching to re-throw, catching to add a header and then rethrow, or catching to revert back to rcode-style error handling, then you aren't using try/catch to its most practical potential.

With this philosophy in mind I've never been overburdened by try/catch littering my code.
In theory yes in reality no. In cases of both China and the USA. Please cite any exceptions of where anything as such went to court. The reason being that it's very difficult to prove that your secrets were stolen. Sure you can sue companies for copying your products, and you can also prevent US and Europe from importing goods from China which have been copied even if you can't get a Chinese court to decide wrongdoing in your favor.
YouTube uses multiple algos and signals, and yet spam still gets through. In some ways social media spamming techniques are reminiscent of the early days of the Web -- when the Web was overrun with "SEO" spam from junk sites attempting to manipulate the Google algo in the late 90s / early 00s. Google eventually solved the problem of Web and Gmail spam for the most part, but social media spam is a somewhat different beast.

HN has been having to deal with the in-authenticity problem too, maybe even moreso as of late. Solving it may require a concerted effort from all of us -- a vigilant watch by those who can see through -- those who not only take the time to flag inauthentic activity as they see it, but also educate others by calling it out and pulling back the curtain in a way that reveals its nature so more may become aware and learn to see it too. Discernment is a skill that can be learned when we are cognizant and vigilant and conscientious about paying attention.
Capitalism, Cultural Disintegration, and Buzzfeed [video]
I'm going to second what achenatx said.

- Having smart locks means I don't have to give out keys, and I can change lock codes remotely.

- Having a smart thermostat means not only can I change it remotely (once they've checked or to prepare it before checking in), but I also get notified of when the HVAC isn't working. (For example, the ecobee will email you if it's been heating for a couple of hours and the temperature has dropped). This is absolutely necessary in climates with periods of extreme cold as that can cause burst pipes, which then damage everything.

- Smart smoke detectors, CO2 detectors can notify you of problems that you won't otherwise find out about in a timely manner, given you're not at the location.

- Sensors that detect flooding. We have a condo that has been flooded by upstairs tenants. Putting a moisture detector between the walls means we get notified of a small problem before it becomes a huge problem.

I think having a smart home is even more important for a property that you don't live at then one where you do.

Actively telling guests "We don't have hidden cameras" has got to be extremely off-putting. There is not a huge problem with hidden cameras. Just fine/arrest/ban the hosts who actually do it, given evidence that it is them doing it.
It's very natural in a three-dimensional space that the force tapers off by r^2 as the area it has to cover increases by that.

But Newton didn't take that for granted, he examined other laws and proved that there were no stable elliptical orbits under them.
As an Aussie that’s moved to Norway. I was shocked that the government here in Norway did the smart thing and monopolised the whole industry. Taxes are the same here in Norway as is in Australia, but it’s such a richer country. Everyone treats the oil money with such respect. We know that it came to us, and was temporary and instead of squandering this opportunity, it was done correctly.
P.S. There are still several factors pushing prices up, too.
I'm surprised he doesn't mention torrenting directly. I have no stats to back this up, but I would assume the vast majority of people who get VPNs do so for torrenting. I agree that the current advertising riding the wave of the facebook hate/privacy "awareness" is scummy, but nothing in the article seems to say VPNs aren't effective from hiding your TPB traffic from your ISP, which if I had to guess is the real most popular use-case.
Startups Discover the Allure of the ‘C Corporation’
Along these lines, does anyone have any good references for the best way to setup an authentication architecture for a product that is both multi-tenant SaaS and installed on premises? (Think GitHub + GitHub enterprise).

Would it be a good idea to use LDAP even internally (on the equivalent of GitHub.com) so that implementing on-prem is just a matter of swapping a config value? Or would it be better to maintain your own auth system in a relational database and sync it with LDAP if necessary?
>83% of US women 25-54 for example

Can you clarify what you mean by this stat? Surely not 83% of US women aged 24-54 use Pinterest?
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Regardless which vendor you go to, you can't just assume that thing won't change or cancelled. Especially in tech world where things change quickly.
This isn’t actually the title of the article. Should this be renamed?
given that every corporate player gets displaced by another one that operates with the same incentives and structures, and plays by the same rules.

as a counterexample: in this case, r/piracy (and reddit more generally) could (in theory, and increasingly in practice) be replaced by p2p tech, which would simply not be controllable, nor have any incentive to appease advertisers.

a different example: you could say the same about healthcare providers. a medical startup could displace an established provider, then turn around and push the same rent extraction BS on their customers. Socialized healthcare (while it has its own problems for sure) will not follow the same rules.

Read: if something seems sucky yet inevitable, you're probably not questioning enough of your assumptions.
ISIS probably wouldn't have been able to exist without ___:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/blowback-isi...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-15/weapons-went-cia-i...
Did you apply any mud to smooth the surface before you painted the apartment?
America is founded on the idea that personal determination and defending individual liberators are paramount to a moral society

I wonder what US citizen Anwar Al Awlaki would have said to that argument. The truth is that political free speech has limits, even for the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-lessons-of-a...
> Political arguments that differ from the mainstream

That is a polite way of describing anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon.
> We're not running out of oil, we never have been

I mean, there are various ways to define what that means, but oil is getting increasingly expensive to get, alternatives are getting better, we may soon not have much oil left worth getting.

and of course we can bicker about what soon means.
> In the U.S.

The US has never been under fascist or communist governments so their definitions of said movements don't really matter. Hitler and Mussolini were fascists, Trump is just right wing with disputable opinions. Stalin and Mao were communists, AOC isn't even moderate left by communists standards.

Saying that Trump is fascist and AOC a communist is plain ridiculous.

Yes, fascism and communism do have, at least in the way they were implemented so far, things in common, but they're diametrically opposed.
It's like saying you're a man AND a woman because men and women have 2 legs/arms and you do too.
I've seen this with companies and non-profits in countries like France as well. Instead of attempting to navigate the complex dismissal laws and regulations, they simply close the shop completely and reopen it elsewhere under a different name.
Copyright and the distributed peer-to-peer web
Just because most people feel something does not make it a fact.
My currently open Outlook is holding onto 125 MB of RAM. I have at least 12 spreadsheets open in Excel for 112 MB.

IMHO you are wildly overestimating the RAM use of those programs, aside from the others, as they normally run (sure - I can get Excel over a GB running scripts or manipulating a large file).
It's a well written blog post. People like reading well written stuff. So it gets upvoted. It speaks for HN that anonymous articles get upvoted as well, not just PR pieces from well known folks.
Nice one bro... or even more terrifying: windows is forming around Linux... :OO
Perhaps we should just learn to live with being watched. The corollary is we have to learn to accept others normal human behaviours, so that images of us scratching our arse and then sniffing our fingernails don't really seem remarkable and aren't limiting in job prospects and such ...

Only half joking.

There's a aphorism "if life gives you storms, learn to dance in the rain". If life gives you voyeurs learn to dance naked and not care???
It wasn't a BBC Micro but this is actually pretty similar to what we had in the US in the 1980s... I'm 41, mid 1980s we had one Apple IIe that got wheeled around on a trolley.

There were a handful of us who had parents who worked in the computer/tech/software industry, it was hilarious cause some of us were already ahead of the teachers by 10 or 11. I had taken my first BASIC class in 4th grade at a local college.

The teachers were reading from a script teaching us about how to switch between insert and delete mode on the keyboard and giving us assignments that amounted to writing out a sentence and then editing it in a word processor and there were a handful of us kids ready to do BASIC, etc..
I will never again get annoyed because my $140 Garmin Forerunner 35 watch takes up to a minute to lock onto GPS. That it does so at all is the real wonder, a là Samuel Johnson's remark about the dog that walked poorly on its hind legs.
now you have your own blog and full control, just remove the github/twitter/facebook and especally linkin logo :)
Or maybe there is an x-ray source in the cellar and a detector in the roof
He's right about the scummy advertising, but I think he goes a little too hard-core contrarian in the end by basically suggesting the only reason to have a VPN is for airport/starbucks wifi.
> The reason for the low number bits in week number is simple, it's broadcast on a very low bit rate (50 bits per second) and every frame has the week number in it. So you get faster fixes if you don't pad out with useless zeros.

It should be noted that the coders could have used data windowing and pivot dates to make certain assumptions:

> When ntpd(8) receives an unresolved timestamp from an upstream server, that timestamp could be based in any era prior to the current wall-clock date - but by definition we may not know the wall-clock date with confidence yet (not having achieved sync).

> To resolve this ambiguity, NTP also uses an internal pivot date. It chooses the era that would minimize the absolute value of the time difference between the resolved timestamp and its internal pivot date.

> This resolution technique is part of the NTP specification. It will normally resolve to the current era, but may in cases where the pivot is within a half-cycle of a rollover time resolve to either the previous or the next era.

> An ntpd(8) instance’s pivot date will be the date it was compiled and built.

> It is fairly easy to see that this guarantees correct resolution if the pivot dates of the communicating ntpds are within a half-cycle (88 years) of each other, even if there is a rollover between the pivot dates.

* https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/rollover.html#ntp_pivots

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
They definitely use a mix, the visual hash is just an easy one to demonstrate and was clearly the primary one used at some point in the past judging from the prevalence of simply reversed/mirrored pirated uploads years ago.
I linked to it this weekend, and it ended up as a top-level post on HN yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19594153
It does.

Until you start redefining "free" with State power, that is.

Either way, you're never conceptually "free" from consequence, official or otherwise.
Maybe your friend is making a mistake betting on this startup, maybe he isn't, either way it's his mistake make.

Sure, it might not be the optimal path to wealth but there are other positive things you get out of running a startup. A failed startup will (most probably) not ruin your friend, and might just set him up for future success. Also, it's at this stage in life that you can take the most risky gambles.

ps. I'm a former student that is happy he founded a startup, eve though it did not succeed.
I think that just shows how narrow your group of acquaintances is and how out of touch you are with a large part of the world.

250 million people use Pinterest every month. That's (approximately, though lower than) the same ballpark as Snapchat and Twitter.

I assume you are capable of Googling their monthly user numbers, just like I did. So I assume your post is just virtue signalling and not actually asking in the spirit of trying to understand others, since it is obvious that yes, people do use Pinterest.
Ask HN: Joining as 3rd co-founder, seeking advice
I am a somewhat specialized engineer, currently working at a leading startup in the field.

A couple of months ago I was approached by an entrepreneur and his protege. They've been working together for a couple of years, and have just started a new startup in the same field.

They've asked me to join as technical co-founder with 20% equity, but are reluctant to give me the third board seat. The entrepreneur will be the chairman of the board, and the protege will be the CEO.

I've tried to start companies in the past; while they were commercially unsuccessful, I did learn a lot about customer discovery and product development. This entrepreneur has previously built a company to nine figures in revenue and IPO, and I think the protege would make a good CEO.

While doing my diligence, however, I happened to speak with the founder of another company that this entrepreneur was involved in at the early stages as an investor. This founder advised me not to work with this person, but wouldn't tell me why.

I'm really excited about building the technology, and I believe they could sell it (they have a large network of potential customers), but I'm a bit worried that something may be amiss.

Therefore, I have the following questions:

1) Does this seem like a fair arrangement?
2) Is there anything that I'm missing and/or that I should be worried about?
3) What other advice can you give me?

Thanks HN!
Interestingly, even though DuckDuckGo finds the post, Bing doesn't seem to.
But then lose access to personal knowledge, making them burning more money when hiring new people.

At my company we have 3 months notice and you can't easily be locked out and set to leave. Some people is also strategically there: if they leave/die, none can replace them as they are the only ones to know some 'secrets'
I agree that this is how it should work. Though in practice issue and feature request templates are usually left there unfilled, and people will find a way to reach out on all of your social media accounts. My experience has been that the lines we draw are regularily disrespected.
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The doc states 2 reasons:

- If the image is fits in 2kb (icons/ui elements) then they can just do a full decode and not have to lazy load these ui items as the page scrolls.

- It allows them to load low resolution versions of progressive image formats rather than stick up a generic placeholder (marked as a future improvement right now).
I don't think your "3-6 years ago" and "forgetting the old web" are incompatible. I've noticed the same - Google seems to gravitate to results from 2014ish, even when newer information is available, or when I'm searching about an event from far before that time.
Oil is a million year resource that's owned by the world.

Restricting access kills people.

I see no unethical reason why a military can't liberate it with force, if they refuse to mine on purely ideological grounds.

Their let them eat cake attitude for the poor should not stand.
I know someone who was offered a leadership role at Pinterest. Didn’t take they half a day to decline.
This happened to me with a boss I had back in 1999. The company was family owned (at the top layers). I tried talking to them, they said they would handle it. It didn't stop.

We didn't have cell phones back then that could record audio easily so I bought a micro-cassette recorder, started wearing hoodies and turned it on before entering his office (he never did it in front of others). This way I could toss it in the front pocket. I carried a notebook in front of me so he didn't see it. I got him on tape a few times being unprofessional. With this the owners had no choice but to deal with the situation and as an apology the "boss" was removed but forced to say why and apologize at a company wide meeting and my tapes were also played at that meeting.

I imagine now-a-days, this may not work but phones can record easily now.

Edit: re-arrange for better clarity.
> Or you could use lights and your eyes..

Assuming there's no thick fog.

Though radar, depending on its resolution (which is determined by array/beam width), is also handy.
Blast: Full text search and indexing server written in Go, on top of Bleve
I'd love to get a TB500 with the single coils and single volume and tone controls, but I don't think EGC makes them right now.
I hope people from internet archive is storing everything.

Until no alternative to unique source of streaming with a single account shows up, I 'm not going to pay for every streaming service