skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is technically possible to use Cadence instead of Piper/Airflow. The reason the Piper/Airflow is used is mostly historical. It was around for quite a time and Cadence is a relatively new project.
They need to pay about ~2000 employees including multiple hundred engineers who regularly yap about another JS/Electron stunt they pulled today.
You are free to leave until they detain you.
> This does assume every hour spent on engineering is equal, and that's not even close to true. In most companies about 50% of the hours account for 99% of the revenue.

Yeah, the other 50% is interviewing. :P
Changing Up Your Look with Hair Segmentation on Android
This "all the poor people cant afford to live there anymore" doesn't apply to latin america, most (only chile misses this) the countries have free education at every level, the budget for a school is the same no matter if its a poor or a rich area.
This is great. At the same time, WTF...it took this long to bring a bookstore to the BX?? Living in Harlem in the mid 2000's I always wondered why there were no B&N around. What's strange is that Starbucks wasn't around either but then they opened up 2 on 125th and they were always packed, so I really don't buy the bogus argument that "there just isn't enough demand". I usually don't indulge in Schadenfreude, but I can't say I'm unhappy with the b&n closings and amazon beating them to a pulp (pun intended).
imagine thinking this
As I said on an earlier thread, I was able to file freely on turbo tax. It didn’t require any special effort or searching. I’m not sure I believe this claim.

I was being bombarded by ads for free TurboTax all over the place and... it was free, so great?
Not coincidentally, the oldest extant distro (Slackware) is also the one most often praised for being the most "BSD-like".
Can. Possibly.

Your mileage on this may vary, as I went something like 9 years over three kids without having significantly undisturbed sleep.
Did they give you 5% interest on the amount you overpaid?

Because that's what they take from you if you underpay (by accident or not).

Living in the US is like: "oh you were born and live in the US? We're forcing you to give us a huge chunk of your earnings for your entire working life, make it close to impossible to determine the exact amounts and then fine you 5% interest if you happen to underpay, but we'll never give you interest if you overpay.".

Edit: Well, as mentioned the tax system is super complex here and I obviously don't know the rules for every case. It seems in SOME cases you do get interest when the IRS owes you money but personally I've never seen this, where as I've always had to pay x% interest if I ever owed anything.
IRC’s main issue is not working well with phones or multiple devices I think? (Yes, IRCCloud is a thing but if you’re going with a SaaS already, you may very well just go with a proprietary solution).
United is putting little stickers on those cameras
And since 2005 they've been rising.
Um... Duh? Any significant technology company, especially one dealing with communications, could be a potential target for malicious actors. How is this even news? Can't wait for "Banks warn customers they're potential target for robbers." This is straight up FUD from vice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_union_federation
Well, some people are cautious when they are working with assets provided by someone else... where and how they share it. I wouldn't just assume I can put IP provided by someone else on my portfolio without written consent.
If it were that easy, everyone would be IPOing their Slackalikes right now.
this is basically equivalent to pretending that as long as no one says "this is my evil plan" before doing something, it's not evil. which even google doesn't bother to try to do anymore.
It's Tough Building an App for Job Seekers in Tech
I agree completely with everything you said.

It's too bad that Google has no incentive to allow a premium/ad-free experience as that implies having ads is a negative thing, which basically undermines their entire business model.
Zooming out from this specific town and article, it's kind of interesting to look at regional differences in cancer incidence. Like, I get that people live very different lives in different places, and that states have different resources to bring to public health problems, but the areas of red in the midwest, northeast and gulf coast are quite striking.

https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.withimage.php...
At one point their T&S explicitly said that tether had no obligation to buy back tether at any price at any time. They then changed it to be more opaque.
The solution to tether existing is for the US government to release a fiat convertible cryptocurrency pegged to $1 with all of the compliance of traditional banking. Financial institutions would use it, the government could tax it, and all of the kyc/aml could be enforced. It’s not even hard to do.

Until that happens, there’s a rational economic narrative for companies of all shapes and sizes to offer these kinds of synthetic dollar-like instruments (and it will also remain rational for regulators to be interested in these enterprises).

It’s an interesting time to observe this market (I guess crypto will be interesting for a while).

Edit: I guess it's impossible to have a nuanced discussion about cryptocurrency on HackerNews right now. For those of us who have participated in these markets from an institutional level, there are obvious reasons why these synthetic instruments exist beyond evading regulatory controls (which is why Coinbase, who is the most regulatory compliant entity in the industry has a synthetic dollar instrument). There are real technical advantages to having a synthetic instrument that go far beyond regulatory evasion, just ask anyone who operates a regulatory compliant entity in this industry.
> The real mystery to me is why rational traders continue to buy Tether at $0.9926, less than 1% from parity with USD. Why wouldn't people sell?

They are. Take a look at the BTC spread between USD and USDT exchanges. (almost $300 atm) [1]

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/btc/markets/USD
Someone needs to explain to me what is gender neutral typography:

https://visme.co/blog/feminine-design-masculine-design/
Ask HN: Will a per issue based crowdfunding platform be useful?
I often find myself submit issues on Github but get no response, either maintainer of the repo does not care or too busy because too many people filing too many issues, but not enough people fixing them. So I built https://www.issuereward.com/ and a Github bot https://github.com/apps/issue-reward-beta to go with it. Allowing people to crowdfund on a specific issue. Do you think this is useful? Could this extend to other areas? How should I promote this? I tried several things, not working very well.
dictatorship of capital
Somewhere in between real-time chat and email. I'm not sure how threads would help keep track of things though—they're unnamed and you have to scroll through them at an absolute glacial speed, and there's no way to bulk unfollow, so with about six hours of normal use a conversation is lost to the sands of time forever.

Slack just sucks for anything you need to find again, IMHO, it should be treated like it's ephemeral. The logs are worth keeping as leverage against employees of course.
In high rent areas of the country, like New York, don't count on proving anything about the independent bookstore model that has been bankrupt for 20 years. Maybe first focus on the things you can control, like not chasing the world's largest book seller out of your city. Maybe start with that. With 25,000 more techies walking around, I'm sure the local market demand for books would increase not decrease.
The police have machines that can unlock an iPhone. I believe they are called greykey machines. They use an exploit to override the limits on password attempts and the rate limit on attempts which allows them to brute force the password. The only way to protect yourself is to use a very strong password. The password on my iPhone would take a few million years for greykey to guess.

I really like the combination of a strong password and biometrics. I use biometrics for unlocking most of the time. But if I’m getting pulled over, I press the lock button five times and now my iPhone is totally useless to the police even if they have a greykey. I also lock it when I go to sleep.

I’m really looking forward to the day that I’m in an interrogation room and they ask for my phone. I refuse to give the password and they smugly tell me that they have “other ways.” To which I will respond “good luck with that!”
I expected bad execution and missed confounders here. I also expected an impossibly-high effect size, the same way random priming effects were claimed to override basically all other factors in our lives.

I didn't expect outright gibberish.
Foreign suspicion is hemming in China Inc’s global rise
To me, the obvious reading of this was always pretty simple: they wanted to rip off the Obama for America branding, to capitalize on a massive youth movement, and created this doc as a kind of “parallel reconstruction” of how they got there.
Yeah, my prior is also weighted towards thinking JASON itself is going to be a better group than the NAS was when Feynman made his comment and is able to make fair membership decisions. I didn't intend to accuse just to bring it up as one of several reasons why I have meta-uncertainty about my prior since reading about those interesting bits (and another quip of membership being "predominated by theoretical physicists") reminded me of Feynman's story, and also I like sharing Feynman stories. :)

I would agree too that DARPA is a shadow of its former self, though on the other hand that position adds its own uncertainties for me since I hold at minimum the strong possibility of the same being true for the likes of JASON, the NSA's crypto groups, NASA, Lockheed's Skunk Works, or any other US-government-intertwined entities that nevertheless had or still have great respect. Decline is everywhere if you look for it.
If my hypothesis is correct and it loses ground in benchmarks due to overhead of calling js dom methods, then I would expect native bindings to improve performance. I'm not an expert or anything in this field though, so maybe someone closer to the issue can chime in.
My uncle who grew up and in his Kate years moved back to a tiny town right next to waycross. He also died of a strange, quick and rare cancer.

I wonder how much of these findings are liability protection for large lobbying corporations that operate in these towns.
You don't need to take lessons to rap, you "learn it on the streets", you don't need an instrument.

Same goes for basketball, all you need is a Ball and a basket and some 5x5 space, football can be the next cheapest sport but it kinda needs alot of spaces plus alot of maintance to the field (expensive)

I would say, these are just the cheapest options.
You are a PM, you may “theoretically” care when you see something in HN or some other social media, but the number of people having problems with your product are magnitudes larger than that. Everything is completely filtered out by customer support, even for companies that have good customer support unlike Google, and never reaches your ears.

I am not taking a stab at you personally. I truly believe that you care when you read the story here. But if you really cared enough there would be no story to be reported here.
I've tried hiring artists for video games, and the quotes from Upwork/Freelancer.com were about double the going rates (I understand that the platform fee of 20% contributes to part of that). I've had much better success with free, community-run forums instead:

https://polycount.com/categories/artist-looking-for-work

https://www.gamejobforum.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/
> we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.

And there's the problem. The only effective way for OP to contact someone who likely has the ability to fix it was to write an article, post it on HN, get upvotes, and hope you happen upon it.

That's not a viable solution for everyone who runs a mail server Gmail falsely identifies as a source of spam. You don't have a good way to hear about issues like this.
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> It’s “backed”, but it is a meaningless idea

Let's assume that it's impossible to sell Tethers for dollars. I don't think that's completely true, but that's the "steel man" argument.

Even if you can't sell for dollars, you definitely can sell for BTC, ETH, XRP, etc. Why don't people liquidate their Tether to buy other cryptocurrency?

You would know this was happening if the price of Tether dropped far below $1.00, or if the supply of Tether contracted as Tethers were destroyed on redemption.

The fact that we don't see either of these things tells me that the backing isn't actually "meaningless". Rational traders with their own capital at stake don't appear to be selling.
When the government wants to destroy a company they have a mechanism for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution

Edit: Arthur Andersen, for instance, was convicted of a crime and had to surrender its CPA license, putting the company out of business.

Fines are just supposed to change behavior. $3 billion is a lot of money regardless, and it’s likely Facebook will invest additional resources in the future to help avoid future such fines.
Yah this won't work. The only reason people want crypto currency (especially of the tether type) is that it's based in a non-extradition territory, with no US government oversight and taxation. The lure of Tether is all the (fake) value with none of the taxes or the governmental stuff.
> I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. Certainly, Microsoft seems to do a great job of marketing it to the sorts of giant Windows-and-Office companies that might not want to sign on for a standard AWS package.

I work at what has been all-in Windows-.Net-Office enterprise, and despite an existing investment in Azure AD that we’re staying with for now, the experience with trying to work with Azure has been such that our comprehensive cloud transition effort is centered around AWS (which seems like it is going to have a side effect of making us less of a Windows and .NET shop, as well.)
There’s an “operational understanding” that companies should rarely be prosecuted or fined substantially because it can easily bankrupt them. I find this mindset ridiculously offensive.
> The real mystery to me is why rational traders continue to buy Tether at $0.9926

Unless there is reason to believe otherwise that I'm not aware of, shouldn't we assume that this is just Tether buying up the supply to keep the peg? Isn't that how a stablecoin is supposed to work?
the next step of analysis is that they behave this way to capture more growth and market share, which they must do under capitalism or lose out to any more ruthless company.
I think you're looking for 'bad rap' instead of 'bad rep', by the way.
Regarding the issue with mailing lists for open source projects this isn't just an issue regarding Gmail. DKIM and DMARC cause no end of problems for mailing lists and it effects mail delivery to all major providers.

Mailman, which most open source projects use for mailing lists, have developed work arounds to address some of the issues. Unfortunately my experience is that many projects run older versions that don't have these work arounds or if running newer versions they have not been enabled. Most likely because no one has revisited the configuration since initial deployment on an older version. After all they didn't start the project to spend their time being mailing list admins.
Software having basically zero marginal cost is a game changer. There's a reason why the big tech companies are the belle of the ball right now, they all print money, and they're still growing. Some things are worth the risk for that kind of payout.
Thanks for explaining! Is the hope then that a stablecoin is the last step before cash out or that stablecoins would be the more widely accepted for use in the "real world" than Ethereum, Bitcoin, etc? As in, stablecoin could actually be more stable if it were deemed acceptable for normal transactions (i.e. don't buy pizza with Bitcoin, buy it with stablecoin X).
Ask HN: What are great resources for SRE / Linux interviews?
Are there any resources out there like InterviewCamp for learning Linux? Any amazing books?

My background is in CS, but I'd like to learn about the kernel, file structures, signals, file descriptors, etc. in more depth before interviewing.
If it is a properly trained attack dog (command words) and not just trained to attack everything, they may take on the task of retraining it. To do this they have to have a high confidence they know the commands to give the dogs to make them attack. This is something frequently not divulged by the owner who is probably claiming the dog "just went off".
If they are not actually backed by dollar numbers, but with volatile assets (like real estate, stock, metals, or bitcoin, etc.), their holdings are not correct.
I've had similar experiences on HN, and funnily enough the last time was for a comment that was fairly supportive of Microsoft. I got absolutely roasted in the comments, but received a ton of upvotes from the silent majority.

There are three areas I'd disagree with you though.

The first is Microsoft's Surface line of tablets and laptops. I literally cannot find a kind word to say about the (very expensive) Surface Book devices we bought en masse about 18 months ago. They are awful[1] and we are already starting to phase them out as a result. It makes no sense because Microsoft can clearly do hardware well: for example, I have no complaints about my Xbox One X - it's all round great.

The second may substantially be connected to the first, and that's Windows 10. I increasingly hate using it because I find it slow, finicky, and unresponsive/a serious resource hog. So much of the time my laptop is running hot and draining its battery because Windows is doing something or other not related to what I'm working on.

The third is Microsoft Teams. The functionality it offers is good and, for VOIP and video calls, it's probably second only to Zoom so does get a thumbs up from me there. However, it's painfully slow to switch views, doesn't support multiple windows (so you can't sensibly look at chat and wiki at the same time), takes an age to start up, and behaves like an absolute moron when it comes to switching networks or losing and regaining network connectivity (usually requires a restart of the app).

[1] Underpowered, overpriced, poor battery life, run very hot, ropey WiFi, poor speakers that are insufficiently loud, crappy trackpad, only a single display port built in, poorly designed/laid out ports, unreliable (and often weirdly slow) charging, drains battery within 12 - 18 hours whilst asleep, I could go on (and on). In short: DO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU HATE YOURSELF!
FUD?
This fine-as-tax trend is worrying. I propose crypto burn instead. It hurts the wrongdoer while not creating bad incentive for regulators. Win-Win.
A hijacked listing for one of L.A.’s most expensive homes led to a $60M lawsuit
What's the use case for that? If that was acceptable to any user, wouldn't they just use regular electronic money?
I agree with a few of your points...My attitude towards MS has certainly improved - I can track it to happening around shortly after Satya Nadella began steering the ship - and this shift in my attitude was not something I expected to happen if I'm honest.

As to the value of office 365 - while philosophically i don't like this cloud subscription model (So, if i stop paying, i lose "license" to use software? Pfft)...i have to agree the price is very fair. I mean, even if I were to only pay for the onedrive storage (without Word, Ecel, etc.), that onedrive alone is worth $100/year. My only disappointment here is that i wish MS would pump out a native, official onedrive client for linux already. Except for my dayjob forcing me to use a windows machine for work, Linux is my personal daily driver (and for side hustles I develop only on linux)...So I totally can understand - from a capitalist perspective - why MS would not distribute the full office 365 suite for linux...but why not at least just onedrive? I'm pretty sure that many people like us who use linux would gladly use a native onedrive client. (And, while i give much props to existing onedrive clients [1][2], sorry, but i need official support from MS.)

I have not used Azure yet in any meaningful capacity, so can't say MS is doing better or worse here...but the fact that they quickly focus on supporting linux, and their pricing isn't bad is inspiring.

You didn't mention MS' recent privacy/data control issues related to windows 10 telemetry - this is a big annoyance for me...but hey, no one is perfect. And, i mean, this is the same company whose previous leader considered linux a cancer...so, even with the little disappointments that i feel about MS, i still have to give them big kudos for their positive change regardless of what wall street thinks that they're worth.

[1] = https://github.com/skilion/onedrive

[2] = https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive
Tether exists at all because exchanges don't want to follow regulations around USD. A government-approved fiat convertible cryptocurrency wouldn't change that.
>Even if you can't sell for dollars, you definitely can sell for BTC, ETH, XRP, etc. Why don't people liquidate their Tether to buy other cryptocurrency?

They (or at least some) are. BTC crashed about 10% yesterday.
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> Why wouldn't people sell?

Tether could be intervening in the markets and propping it up with reserves, similar to how banks prop up a stock for a while after IPO.

Or it could be that Tether market is still irrational. Everyone in the crypto space really wants
a stablecoin that trades for a dollar. The number of people who trade and desire to have such a coin could outnumber the more rational market participants who say it's worthless.
Indeed. Driving a getaway car is a crime, even if arguably, you claimed you just picked up your friend outside a bank to drive him home. And perhaps he paid you for your trouble.

Though arguably, it's the intent there that matters, not the act. (If your friend called you for a ride home from a bank and you didn't know he robbed it, it wouldn't be a crime to do so.) Was the parrot aware it was aiding a criminal act?
They are worse than parking tickets. A parking ticket is a loss in most all circumstances. It may be small, but the incentive is there to avoid the ticket. In these business cases, they are a net gain. The company does something illegal, makes a bunch of money off of it, and gets a fine for less than they made. They earn more by breaking the law and are incentivized to do so.
> In September 2018, the Company completed its acquisition of all issued and outstanding shares of Astro Technology Inc. (“Astro”), a pre-revenue start-up company that provides artificial-intelligence (AI) enhanced communications solutions, for a total purchase price of $43.3 million in cash.

Anyone care to explain how a pre-revenue company can be valued at $43mm? I know the argument can be made Google paid much more for Deepmind, but Google's market cap is 51x more than Slack's on the secondary market right now.
1- They're not charging the bird with anything.
2- They were trying to see if the bird would randomly spit out more clues on the owner (imagine the bird repeating "Call sally, call sally").
3- I'm sure the bird has Charlie Kelly on retainer, and personally respect him for not being a stool pigeon.
"Mama, advogado!"
Fiber-guided atoms preserve quantum states–clocks, sensors to come