skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that this is missing a lot of nuances. Just because you have a safety net doesn’t automatically make you more risk-averse.

Going to a relatively poor school where teachers were literally getting beat up and then heading to Berkeley it was sort of a shock psychological. Furthermore, having to pay myself through college with no social safety net was one thing but the feelings of being an outsider, having constant imposter syndrome to having a good job, and feeling somewhat removed from other founders in that regard sticks with you.

It is also hard to really think about startup and yourself when you may be the lifeline for your parents if they need money. A safe job does provides that. This may be the biggest challenge I had to overcome to going on my own. When a person from a comfortable upbringing decides to strike on their own they are really not beholden to others, someone who is poorer has a whole social net that they may have to consider before going out. Furthermore, try getting a loan with no one else underwriting you, it is next to impossible.

So the answer is, no, having $10k in the bank doesn’t automatically make you more likely to start a company because there is both a psychological and sociological aspect of poverty that lingers long after one has left it.
You know what it's caled when a bunch of people put up capital or labor in exchange for a portion of the retrun from coordinated activity. It's called buying a share -- from adventurers to publicly traded corporations.

Lyft isn't ride sharing because people aren't dividing up cars to rides, not because money is involved. Car2Go/Flexcar are car sharing. Carpooling is ride-sharing.
The dot-cab bubble?
That's a problem too, but existence of other problems doesn't excuse this one
Serious question: how do you meet people at a bar? It has never been clear to me how that actually works.
The FBI is primarily a domestic agency, but it can and does investigate abroad. The CIA/NSA are prohibited from acting in the US.
google.com/search?q=buy+a+share+of+a+cow
Everything can be learned, and everybody can culture a plant but only a few can culture any plant. Maybe you need just some orientation.
The Quiet Power of Sound Design
> PLT Redex is a domain-specific language designed for specifying and debugging operational semantics. [1]

[1] https://redex.racket-lang.org/index.html
> Or do they all give in to a more tamper-resistant algorithm and keep driving at regular rates?

I wonder if they will change the algorithm to just tell the drivers what they want to hear. To wit - Introduce a new multiplier for drivers based on their behavior. This will factor into the final price, but be obfuscated. Then Lyft can tell the drivers they are receiving a greater surge than what the rider sees, and pays.
It evades the collision by going in the ditch.
You are defining a "safety net" that tacitly assumes a privileged middle class life, which makes the problem artificially simple.

For someone that genuinely comes from an impoverished background, creating a safety net can be substantially more complicated because it involves considerably more than just having a bit of money saved. Many poor people have no family whatsoever in any meaningful sense, which makes building a "safety net" more complicated -- there is more to a safety net than money. Most poor people have the social class equivalent of "technical debt" which requires a lot of time and money to eliminate, which is something most people from a middle class background are oblivious to because they've never had to worry about it.

Poor people are not middle class people without money. There is a ton of other baggage correlated with being poor that they have to contend with.
Personally I think Tesla business would get crushed if someone made really well designed plug-in hybrids. Most trips people take are under 30 miles. No need for a 70kWh, 350kg huge battery. Plug-in hybrids could be operated as full electric during short trips and the internal combustion engine could charge the battery when necessary.

No doubt someone will immediately reply with a question: why would you want to change mechanical power, into electric, store it in battery, then change it into mechanic power again, when you can use ICE directly, or go full electric. I'll tell you why. Hybrids allow you all the same advantages as full electric car for short trips, and they are significantly more fuel efficient than normal ICE cars for long trips. All this in a package that can achieve 400+ miles of range and 5 minute recharge in a package that weights less than half of a comparable battery,it doesn't need to waste energy to be kept warm in winter and cold in summer nor it slowly deteriorates whether you use it or not.

We have to have an honest conversation about disadvantages of battery powered electric cars. Everything that makes those cars cool - great torque of electric motors, mechanical simplicity, user interface can be replicated in a plug-in hybrid(sacrificing some of the simplicity as a hybrid needs either a fuel cell or an ICE to recharge). Then imagine buying a 10 year old Tesla model 3 economy, in a climate with -20deg C winters? Lets say you're left with 60% battery capacity, then you don't want to kill it completely so you don't let it go to complete 0 and you don't charge it to full capacity leaving you with perhaps 40%? Is this enough? To go to work and back, maybe, but what if you want to, or have to travel further once in a while? You can't using that car.
I don't think their record is exactly perfect. They release plenty of information that is damaging to individuals. From Wikipedia:

> WikiLeaks has, for instance, revealed Social Security numbers, medical information, credit card numbers and details of suicide attempts.

I can't imagine most of this information is necessary in "uncovering government and corporate secrets" and quite irresponsible of Wikileaks.
exactly, its a different matter when that risk isnt "oh ill lose a bit of my buffer" but "if this doesnt work im on the streets"

you may have a fantastic idea but if youre working for min wage theres a good chance youre little more than one missed pay cheque from being in serious trouble

but those from privilidged backgrounds see it differently, many of them have never been "broke" and i mean truly broke so i guess they simply dont understand what theyre saying, theyve never taken an actual risk in their lives
We Redesigned Our App's UI in 3 Months
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Response to the Huawei ban?
At UMD, a good but normal state school, that figure is a little above $85k.

I would be surprised if the $57k figure was accurate for people living in major cities.

I would also be surprised if the average CS graduate is competitive enough for roles in major cities. The most desirable roles are only going to be realistic for the most qualified candidates.
> You say "HN has a ..." but I use Discord for fun and have no problem with it.

See comments to every mention of Slack, or other modern chat software. you will see a lot of people saying that IRC/XMPP was better and suggesting open protocols and IRCCloud :)
Well, just excuse my philosophical stance of not liking my computers breaking by a new random cause every couple of months.
Because Apple report their Smartphone ASP, ( at least in iPhone X era ) And you will need to look up even the worst of iPhone X estimate shipment figures.

No one, me or the previous one who replied said anything about P20 not selling. Nor the P30. It is simply not leading premium Smartphone, where Smartphone here is inclusive of iOS. Not by commonly used matrix, where the word leading would directly referred to market ASP and not leading as in technically. And I said this again, it would be correct if the sentence was leading premium Android Smartphone. Or Leading Smartphone ( Excluding Android ) or Leading Android would also be correct.

And I am out.
Both the Rust Programming Language Community Server and the Rust Programming Language server are pretty nice.
> This lawyer is grasping at straws.

The lawyer is doing his job, and is mainly referring to the unprecedented case of Ecuador just handing over personal possessions to the US -- a country that is trying to extradite him on the most tenuous of claims.

> There's no way that having security cameras in your own embassy is an "illicit operation"

If they're focused on and used for recording an individual granted asylum, how can that possibly be compatible with even the vaguest principles of privacy?
But they failed to bring one story: the emails of the GOP. What they did with the hacked emails from the Democrats is disgusting. Even if they are still not under the influence of Russia, they let the GOP/Russia use them as a vehicle to influence that election. And now it bites them in the ass, as if nobody could foresee that Trump would go after Assange after all.
Most successful startup founders are in their 30s and 40s.

Providing a link: https://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2009/04/educati...
Well systemd service files are great and represent a nice improvement. But I detest journalctl with its arcane query commands and binary storage; much prefer ability to use standard unix tools and my favorite editor for adhoc inspection at least. It's still is an annoyance on a pretty regular basis.
From the perspective of Lyft it is fraudulent.
The moment Tesla cares more about the software experience of existing owners, than things they can brag about to reporters and observers (who don't actually own/drive their cars everyday), that will hopefully change. When that'll happen, I have no idea.

Tesla does try to produce a better experience, in theory, than everyone else. It's the small details and bugs that you'd likely only notice as an owner, which they seem to struggle with (or simply not care about).
That's probably a bigger effect.

People have a huge trouble accepting that their wonderful science is a social process.
Not everybody uses JavaScript. There are many language-specific task runners (e.g. Rake, Mage etc.). Oya is aiming to be language agnostic and lightweight (not require a ton of dependencies).
Huawei would hope this could be used. Definitely.
Something I've wondered- does this allow you to totally forego Google's web APIs? I.e., sending any data to Google at all? Or is it just that the local code is open source?
> silicon valley has 0 clue how to run support, and as a result their user experience is awful.

It seems kind of systemic: defer support requests until exit/IPO, not your problem any more.
The existence of other options implies a more elastic supply curve, but implies nothing about demand.

That passengers suffer from a price surge does not assume an inelastic demand, or even a downward-sloping one. If you pay a higher price, you're suffering more, even if somehow it leads you to buy more of that thing.
It's many miles farther -- but I then don't get stuck at the airport for two hours Friday night. Also, DCA is great when you're inside while IAD is the usual huge-airport security nightmare.
The real last Samurai lol
LE is a different spec and behaves completely different from traditional Bluetooth. People assume Bluetooth 4+ is LE but it's not. If you're pairing with a device in the traditional Bluetooth sense, it's not LE.
Looks like we'll never learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Systemd has a historic of refusing to fill CVEs, even for incredibly bad vulnerabilities.
No. But it's a very valuable question; it shows we clearly have a problem with making it clear.
It's best balanced with the feedback of people that have the opposite opinion. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Being a hero is ingrained into our culture, and I think comic book culture is a net win for society, but if you hate comic books and seeing the term hero bandied about, that's fine. To each their own. But I will never be annoyed by it.
I don't think there's so much activity left after so many years
It doesn't. After expenses/taxes deducted, they're making less than minimum wage. To me this just shows how much financially illiterate many Americans are; zero foresight beyond the amount in their bank account at any given moment.
It seems like this system doesn’t/didn’t encrypt 1 channel differently from any other.
Nope, this is quite an old and mature project. Maybe it'll grow more in response to that.
Maybe in the boonies. Adding a carpool lane on 10 miles of the 405 cost 1.1 billion and construction was a shit show. Then we need to add sensors and whatever else into the road surface so private companies can get their profit margins? We can't even maintain our existing road surfaces. We have the lanes already, remove a car lane on every road over 1 lane wide and make it bus only; same grade separating benefits of a subway but requiring zero investment beyond retiming lights and buying plastic bollards and maybe a few more busses to pick up demand. The insurmountable difficulty is in not letting emotional NIMBYs kill the bill.

https://xtown.la/2019/05/02/the-sepulveda-passs-failing-grad...
I saw a shop selling these once: https://www.ecospheres.co.uk/ . They contain small marine shrimp, and "The only care the sphere requires is a source of indirect natural or artificial light" and they "have an average life expectancy of 2-3 years however it is not uncommon for them to survive for 7 to 10 years"[0].

[0] https://www.ecospheres.co.uk/what-is-an-ecosphere/
Highly recommend visiting the Gropius House. It's a wonderful example of what modern residential architecture could, maybe should, be. What I appreciate most about it is the obvious restraint applied to the design and focus on functionality without sacrificing a unique aesthetic. It will certainly influence any structure I may be involved with building for my family.
>The FBI conducting an investigation and the FBI "framing" someone aren't comparable accusations, since one is lawful while the other is unlawful.

According to the article, the FBI lied to the Icelandic government in order to do its "investigation" (of what crime?), so I'm not sure "lawful" describes this activity.
San Francisco's facial recognition ban is the beginning of a national battle
Little Caesars to sell pizza with Impossible’s plant-based sausage
The creator of Upstart, Scott, explicitly said that he thought that systemd was better and that Debian and Ubuntu adopting it was the right decision: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/1xzfv0/ups...
> Minor annoyances are the absence of the pretty good Google Maps

I don't understand. What prevents you from installing Google Maps on your phone? It works perfectly fine on mine. (I'm running the MicroG-infused version of LineageOS. [1])

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/
Wikileaks never published stories. They've focused on some elements of the data they had in order to spread the message about the entire dataset they had.

What's wrong with that approach is that everyone else got his/her private communications released publicly even if they didn't do anything wrong in particular. They were in a now-public database that exposed dirt on someone else, as a collateral damage. Wikileaks hoped that people would find more dirt from looking at the entire datasets, but what we got instead was conspiracy theories (like Pizzagate).

This is the opposite of the Panama/Paradise Papers approach, that only publishes the incriminating parts of the dataset, while guarding everyone else who happened to be a part of the same database.

I agree with the goal of Wikileaks, but not their approach.
The ram and random cpu usage spike on a Mac is too much for me to handle. I’ll never use Franz again after giving it multiple chances.

There’s more native FBM options as well as Slack and Discord combined clients (Ripcord) though the latter might not look or behave the way people want.
And interestingly, Eichler was also about building houses for the common man as well. Ironically, Palo Alto Eichlers seem to be selling at $2.5 million+ these days. Not exactly a “common man” house. But design heavily influenced by the Bauhaus and very beautiful. SoCal has Neutra, we (Bay Area) have Eichler, and they all seem to derive from Bauhaus. There is also Dieter Rams and the influence of Bauhaus on him and product design — which then influenced Ive and Apple which then of course, influenced Samsung. And it all started with one dude in Germany. Fascinating!
"making every part of the system redundant"?

Really? From every account I've read, it depended entirely upon a single flight attitude sensor, and did no sanity checking whatsoever against other data, sensors, or inputs. There was an extra-cost-option for a second AOA sensor and an obscure cockpit light that would tell when the two AOA sensors disagreed, but those were not installed in either of the crashed airplanes.

It seems at the very least, such a critical system should have three primary sensors with full algorithms to check for disagreement, plus checking against the artificial horizon display inputs, airspeed, throttle, etc. to determine if they were actually in the part of the envelope where the MCAS would be useful.

So, unless it there are a number of checks & features that have been written in no account I've read, it's really bad design -- software.

Moreover, they could have decided to NOT design the airframe so that it would have deadly characteristics requiring a software patch to hide.

Again, really bad design - airframe.

Or, they could have decided that this is a potential critical and deadly failure mode which properly required extra training and a new Type Rating for pilots to fly the new aircraft. But instead they decided to try to bury it in the same type and an hour of iPad training, so that their airline customers would see the a lower overall cost of the new model.

Again, really bad design -- process.

Perhaps you can point me to some documentation I'm missing here, but this is what I've consistently gathered from the substantial number of articles I've read.
Thanks, I appreciate the honest feedback! We'll try better.
Most of the proprietary Google apps on Android are actually just frontends to their proprietary network services like play, maps, gmail, gms, firebase, etc. Giving a replacement that deserves the name means that you have to re-create the associated network services which is the actually hard part because you won't just get shop owners to upload their opening hours to your service as well as google maps. That's an immense competitive moat that Google has built. It's on the territory where they are strongest, providing network services. And it's part of the reason why they could open source the Android OS in the first place: no competitor manages to replicate all of those network services.
I think it's a little silly that humans are willing to progress against their nature and let women into the workforce on equal standing but not have any additional social rules enforced. Being progressive is more than opening the door and patting yourself on the back for it. No one cares that you voted Clinton if you still talk like you're in a 60s.

It seems like we want social change, but we don't want to accept the risk of ostracism that comes with it. We want to change everyone else.
This is just a local code replacement. It still uses Google services, and it wouldn't work any other way, since many Google APIs that Play Services interacts with connect to Google accounts.

The site does claim that you can more readily monitor and restrict what data is sent to Google with microG compared to Play Services though.
It's pretty appaling to read comments in this thread trying to imply Assange is in all this trouble because of a 'cat'.

What are you trying to convey?
I've sorta reached the conclusion that nuclear energy is the safest form of energy if everyone is well behaved and disciplined about it.

On the other hand, given the wrong incentives, you might just stow nuclear waste where it's cheapest and where you can get away with it, and then not be penalized when the containment mechanism you cheaped out on fails... or maybe you just conveniently forget to do maintenance on it as the responsibility for doing maintenance somehow conveniently evaporates due to some bureaucracy.

I think the debate isn't over whether or not nuclear power itself is safe, it's the debate over whether or not humans under capitalism are to be trusted to behave responsibly with this technology. Nuclear power isn't just the technology in isolation... humans are an intrinsic part of it.
> What I'm not fine with is being forced to use Slack for work-related material. You don't want such sensitive data centralized. You want to host such yourself

and immediately:

> IRCCloud, whatever it is, probably does not have the same amount of users as the previously mentioned two. But if it uses the IRC protocol (which the name suggests), at least that is open

IRCCloud is a centralised, closed-source entity that stores all your chat logs in the cloud. So, no different than Slack/Discord (with the exception of the protocol).

> Which, given that Slack is used for commercial endeavors, is worse for Slack.

How is it worse for Slack? Slack clearly provides value that IRC (and XMPP) don't. I really wish people would try and see why Slack etc. are popular and used (including in commercial settings), and why IRC/XMPP are not.
One of the more frustrating things about infosec is that more and more practices that were once considered bad or malicious later become mainstream.

Used to be, don't publish information about yourself that could be used to impersonate you. Then we got Facebook.

Installing random binaries used to be a bad thing, now it's outright encouraged. "Thanks for using our toilet. Download our app to unlock the door!"

Telemetry/analytics/arbitrary callbacks used to be shady/questionable and require user consent, now it's standard practice to exfiltrate whatever you want from user devices. You've got root/elevated privilege, encryption is easy and your traffic can easily blend into the haystack, so why not.

Opt-in billing used to be the domain of sleazy porn sites, but now you can't buy anything from Amazon without them trying to surreptitiously slip a Prime subscription into your cart during checkout.

Seeing traffic from anonymous VPNs logging into financial accounts used to be an obvious giveaway of something suspicious going on. Devices are now shipping with easy-to-enable "anonymous mode" apps that average users have no legitimate need for and route all of your device's traffic through god knows where, which has the effect of making your traffic indistinguishable from a fraudster's.

Popular email clients, budget analysis and social media platforms will solicit and cache third-party credentials for your employer, your bank, or your life if you provide them. This despite a decade of trying to beat "never give your password to anyone!" into the popular mindset.

Same with algorithmically-generated domains/subdomains, etc.
Worldwide is an unhelpful metric. They're starting up in a specific place, so their wealth should be measured relative to that location.

For example 80K won't get a roof over your head in NYC or Silicon Valley, but could support an entire family in middle-America.
Except he did not steal them.
There are actually plenty of gamers who don't consider $400 to be "cheap". That has led to things like Microsoft releasing a console with a mandatory subscription to their services and letting them pay monthly for the whole thing, instead of paying up-front. And some people choosing that because they couldn't afford to get it otherwise.

These are the gamers that would gladly pay this month to play the newest games on a virtual console, rather than pay up-front.

But Stadia actually interests me for a different reason: I would love to be able to play my games on different devices at different times, especially away from my house. Phone, tablet, laptop, home computer, and Android TV box... I would play those games on those devices at different times.

If my PS4 could stream to them all reliably, especially when I'm at my in-laws house and my PS4 is at home, I'd be doing it.

Stadia is basically promising that.