skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these programs are great, and the formerly incarcerated do need more of these types of opportunities otherwise it will only continue the cycle of recidivism.

On the other hand, I also wish some of these types of opportunities could also be offered to some of us that aren't part of the big tech companies currently but have talent and drive too, but might have a poor or limiting work environment that they can't easily withdraw from.

I'm sure many people with coding experience outside of the tech industry that are interested in breaking into the "tech companies" in the Bay Area would appreciate getting that opportunity to demonstrate their skills, but if one's background is not appreciated and you can't even get to that point to show a company what you're made of then that also seems like wasted opportunity for companies that are missing out on good potential talent.

This past year I've been very much interested in joining a fully remote/distributed company but I would very much appreciate getting that opportunity to work with a team and start showing what I'm capable of, than harping on the fact that I haven't been resolutely focused on the latest language, framework, or specific tech these past few years (it doesn't mean I'm not aware of most of them, or have dabbled with each of them to a small degree...just not enough where I can tell you with confidence I'm an expert...plus any new role I would jump into would likely require it's own specialty that I could acquire within a short time of starting.

Got to give us "normies" an opportunity too ;-).
Their hilarious pranks are linked to them receiving many billions of dollars from the government. Perhaps one of the largest dollar amount frauds out there today.
I don't disagree with most of what you're saying. The Nth engineer at a startup rarely looks with admiration at decisions made by the (N/10)th engineer – but it was those decisions which helped the company grow to its current size. Likewise, I think most of us will be happy if the company 10x's again. Then some super-duper-senior engineer can look at the decisions we're making now – they're not perfect, but we're doing the best we can with our current knowledge and resources – and gripe about them. The circle of life goes on.

FWIW, I don't believe Node was chosen specifically for its concurrency – it was just the language chosen for the entire stack by the company's founding engineers, and lives on in just this one service.
I'd be more concerned about it getting caught on camera.
U-Net ConvNet for CT-Scan Segmentation
If it's late at night then you need something to keep you awake and focused. I stumbled across this on cmd.fm and then found it on soundcloud. When I need to stay awake and blast through some work and really make some progress, I go straight for a featurecast mix. The one below is relentless (in a good way).

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For what it is worth this should be fixed now.

The version now available at https://www.fatpick.com/downloads/FATpick-mac-latest.dmg is fully notarized by Apple and should not have this problem.

Release notes here: https://www.fatpick.com/blog/release-notes-fatpick-v1-4-2
If this tool exists and allows ads to be viewed with the same visibility as their normal targeting then why are they bothering with targeted ads anymore?
Make sure nobody takes a photo of you showing your qr code I guess.
Difficult question.

First you have to learn to say "no".

It is not your problem, it is your companys problem.

Often they ask just the people for a job beause it is easy (yes yes I'll do it) or because they do it better than others .. so even it is not really your job, they ask you because you do the job better then the people who really should do the job.

Just keep in your mind, you work out of your free will in your company.

If you have several projects all on the same time, it does need a bit self discipline. Do finish a real task on a project and not start on each project something.
Check out Star Citizen, it's all terrible glitches and it's also unlikely to ever be a finished, playable game.
Thanks for your answer and for your suggestions. We'll try to find a place to clarify the privacy policy (we don't do anything externally facing with it, but might use it to track down performance issues), and I like your wording regarding attribution.

I agree that we have a marketing problem (letting people know about our services). However, even if we to solve that, I want to understand what it would take for someone who is aware of our services to actually convert. Hence, I appreciate your answer and hope others chime in as well.

Thanks again.
Yes, and not only that but current hunter gatherers are restricted to the most marginal environments so they are the worst case.
They can get to a "downed" state, but they cannot die.

Depending on how early they realized it was limited to companions on the ship, with a specific state (the source is not clear on how early they determined that to be) they could log events that damage a player when in that specific state.

That would have gotten them to fall damage, at which point they might be able to make the leap to ladders. If not, they could then focus their logging around changes in elevation when in that state.

But that's backward reasoning from the already known end state, so it's not fair to apply in hindsight. It's also not clear how much log data they can ingest, whether end-user telemetry was feasible, etc...
I use a password generator (30 characters, numbers, upper/lower case, special chars, ...) and upon being forced to generate a new one it somehow ran afoul of $corporate-policy, probably not exactly the right mix of special characters. After several tries I gave up and just incremented the old one.

I could have looked up the exact policy and adjusted the generator. But if the policy rejects passwords with more entropy than most people memorize then I am not particularly motivated to play along.

The same corporate policy also forbids bcrypt password hashing and suggests using SHA2 instead because bcrypt is not "industry standard". Offering to use scrypt or argon2 instead so far has been met with silence.

It makes me question the expertise behind any security the company has.
Agreed entirely. "Stalking" would also be an appropriate term.
I don't know if "encapsulation" is the right word, but the "undamageable" state should definitely have included fall damage. No point in having more than one way to reduce health points, damage is damage.
There's a Facebook group for Effective Altruism Volunteering which has some ideas: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1392613437498240/
Hunh - I'm wrong. In my defense, Yang seems to have revised his plan on this - his website used to read "We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year on welfare programs, food stamps, disability and the like. This reduces the cost of Universal Basic Income because people already receiving benefits would have a choice but would be ineligible to receive the full $1,000 in addition to current benefits."

So it looks like they softened this position at some point? But yeah, that's a much better position than the old one.
Hey ladino, just to update you (as requested) this should be fixed now.

The version currently available at https://www.fatpick.com/downloads/FATpick-mac-latest.dmg is fully notarized by Apple and should not have this problem.

Release notes here: https://www.fatpick.com/blog/release-notes-fatpick-v1-4-2

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this new build. You can reach me via the contact form at https://www.fatpick.com/contact-us or you can email me directly at rod@<that-domain>.
The sad, senseless end of Henry Gunther
All complex software has bugs.

In good software, the bugs don't cause user-facing issues. QA teams aim to make software good by finding them.

Speedrunners aren't users or QA. Speedrunners find bugs no matter what. From the developer's perspective it really doesn't matter if you can save 20 hours beating a game by clipping through the wall next to the boss, if that clip is so immensely complicated to perform that no user would ever encounter it naturally. The devs can be surprised, or not surprised, to hear their game was beaten much faster than they anticipated by speedrunners; either way it does not make their game worse or rushed or a product of bad communication.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker came out in 2002 and sold 4.6 million copies. In July of this year, a new bug was discovered by dedicated minds, not randomly but after nearly two decades of hard work, that saved two hours on the speedrun by clipping through a barrier that was supposed to be unpassable. Does it really matter from a quality standpoint if this bug exists or not? Would your original rating of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker be lessened 17 years later because this bug was found by people who perhaps spent more hours trying to find it than you've spent playing video games in your entire life?
I don’t know why they are in the business, but a cheap Lidar camera is very interesting to me from a computer vision/home robotics standpoint. Here’s to hoping for a long life for this product line
It’s stateful for the auth service, stateless for the relying party.
Another trick is using secondary meaning for words in your reputation management posts. So, if you were arrested, you post something like "John Doe Reviews TV Show Arrested Development"

Then, backlinks, and it ranks well for "John Doe Arrest".
So I was going to ask a variant on that question...

How many businesses do you know follow NIST's new password guidelines?
Correct me if i'm wrong but TLH is only good for long term positions (>1 year)?
You could take the first N characters of the password and store that as a secure hash. That would catch people choosing password1, password2, etc (but wouldn't help much with 1password, 2password...)
Reading the article, I'd fully expected a post-mortem at the end, describing how architecture and code review processes were going to be tightened up to ensure a monstrosity like this never happened again - that would have been transparent, interesting, and given me confidence in Plaid's engineering.

Instead, you've peppered this thread with comments that kind-of, sort-of justify the approach taken.

I'm sorry, but this approach cannot be justified - it's overly complex, and far from the simplest or most obvious approach. I'm truely shocked that Plaid has produced an architecture like this, and doubly so that Plaid would try to justify it. My guess here (and given the attempts at justification, this is me being really charitable) is that a junior dev was given too much leeway, and did some resume-driven-development, just so they could say they'd worked with 4k containers.
Advertising has always been discriminatory. Even in the 90s there were multiple billboards, newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations in the world. Advertisers select what, when and where to advertise based on who they think is listening.

The only thing that has changed is how much we know about the "listener" (or page viewer). The nature of advertising is no different today than it was 100 years ago, only the resolution changed.
>Those regulatory concerns should fall onto the purchasers list of responsibilities.

Firearm/drug/financial regulations have already ruined that approach for you sadly.

It has been deemed time and again that the easiest place for regulators to apply pressure is on those producing the thing to be regulated. It is much easier to stop (undesirable thing) when the means of making (undesirable thing) happen are either tightly controlled or otherwise forbidden.

The smaller numbers of major players created by the necessarily high capital investment is much easier to control and surveil than having to keep every Tom, Dick, and Harry honest.

It's weird. I've been getting so disheartened as I branch out and diversify into various regulated fields of activity just to realize how much we have to hamstring ourselves to keep everyone honest; or at least to have a snowball's chance at figuring out what happened when something went wrong in order to ensure it won't happen again.

Half of me wants to chew my shoe over the degree of difficulty and implicit frustration encountered trying to get anything remotely compliant off the ground. The other half of just kind of bows it's head at the fact that the rule ended up coming into existence to solve one problem or another.

Cognitive dissonance and I seem to be full-time roommates nowadays, and it's rather exhausting. All part of growing up I suppose.
Root access is orthogonal to the particular incantation you use to invoke the Python file you downloaded from the Internet.
Several of his videos are about doing the same star with 0 A presses using a faster strat, although that might be only for the sake of the people TAS-ing the strats
Should've called this bug "Stairway to Heaven".
A powerful beneficiary of the US empire expresses continued moral support for it, advocating for both his current revenue as well as the future prospect of newly conquered markets. How is this in any way noteworthy?

The people at the pointy end of the stick similarly wish the bombs would stop falling. They just lack the power to get this opinion published by mainstream propaganda rags as if it were profound.
Definitely. Let's spend quite a bit a time to find an extremely useful new image that most people can agree on before we even think about retiring Lena.

"Let's throw out the bath water. Oops, we forgot there was a baby in that."
At my last gig, I maintained a handful of existing, and created some new nodejs things. I had previously done a lot of Java and even hacked on Apache. I had no prior nodejs experience.

The first thing that really bothered me about our use of nodejs was no one could say why stuff would fail in production. So many moving parts. One of my team members figured out some edge case interactions between nodejs and nginx (used for HTTPS), which I would have never figured out on my own. It wouldn't have even occurred to me to look there. But other crashes, caused by apparent leaks, were mystifying.

The second, and bigger, thing that really bothered me about nodejs, and expressjs in particular, was the notion of back pressure is completely missing. If it's in there, I couldn't find it. So our endpoints were still accepting new socket connections without processing responses from backend services (eg redis, other nodejs endpoints, auth services), which would either zombie or ABEND those backends. And no one could figure out why.

I only understood what was happening because I'd already been through all that "architecture" madness a decade earlier with Java services.

I guess what I'm saying is while I LOVE nodejs' closeness to the metal, I didn't like going back in time 10-15 years.

Also, npm is crap.
While I am far more concerned about surveillance by the private sector than I am about surveillance by the (US, anyway) government...

> While there exists potential for misuse

It's not just the potential for misuse that is the problem, it is the reality of misuse that is the problem.

> I am further under the impression that way more checks and balances are in place to make sure that government surveillance does not overstep its boundaries

Those "checks and balances" are rather weak, and growing weaker over time. They don't reassure me as much as they should.

> Government surveillance is not a problem, it is a solution

Government surveillance really is a problem. It is also a solution for some things.
I wonder if "TVC" was intended instead, which stands for "Temp, Vendor, Contractor".

If "TVA" is what was intended, I have no idea. This is the first time ever I've heard "TVA", let alone in relation to Google's unofficial workforce.
You don't have to work for such a company. There are plenty of employers that don't snoop or track. It isn't a part of their business model.
It's misleading because many people will read that and assume that the AI is nigh-unbeatable by players. But that's only the case against players who haven't played against it before.
FYI: $2000/month pay 2+ developers in half of the world.
Hey Justin, just FYI the Rocksmith-style string coloring is now available in FATpick (as of v1.4.2).

Download from here: https://www.fatpick.com/support/downloads

Release notes here: https://www.fatpick.com/blog/release-notes-fatpick-v1-4-2

Thanks for the suggestion.

FWIW, several of your other ideas are also near the top of the development queue but will take a little more time to complete and test.
> many poor families will be unable to claim the UBI but will still pay the tax this making the whole system regressive at low incomes

Disability is one thing (I think that it should stack with disability), but let's not look at the existing welfare system with overly-rosy lenses:

* TANF has been repeatedly cut back and now only 23% of households in poverty are receiving benefits. (universal programs like UBI are more resistant to cuts like this)

* Depending on your state, SNAP and TANF together still don't even get your family to the poverty line

* There are reporting requirements and other administrative hoops to jump through, aid is meant to be "temporary"

https://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/more-sta...

A UBI benefits way more people, and a VAT would end up falling more on the rich (even assuming 100% passthrough (in Europe it's ~50%) you'd have to spend more than $12k a month to offset the UBI).
Misinterpreted in what way? What are you doing that you wouldn’t be comfortable sharing with other people in your own company?
> Common Lisp that compiles to Java

To Java bytecode or to Java code?
I think they're trying to convey a sense of trust across all of the items they offer through their parent 'Brand' which is a bit ironic given the name. Ideally they only offer eco-friendly items and that relieves the consumers of the burden of making that choice for themselves. As noted on other Acacia products, it's a fast-growing renewable wood.

https://brandless.com/products/acacia-wood-cheese-board
So the dephell maintainers should go through the Debian team or similar in order to distribute? Good grief...
navigate to 'Guns' and click play on all of them. Surprisingly realistic battle atmosphere!
Lists of People Who Disappeared
There’s sites like this:

1. https://www.trunkclub.com/

2. https://www.stitchfix.com/

I gave them both a try and had some success but wasn’t that into it, but they’re supposed to kinda build price/style profiles over time. I just decided I wanted more control / I wanted to research things to death (this article hit home).
The QR code would only contain a login challenge, the phone would complete the challenge. Of course that would mean the auth server must be publicly reachable or the phone must be in the same network.
Other companies tries to be like Google, while Google tries to be like other companies.
Samsung started off as a small trading store / company and later became a sugar refinery. Lotte (another Korean conglomerate) started off selling gum during wartime. Even Nike initially started off with Phil Knight simply being the importer for Japanese Onitsuka Tiger shoes.

This is why I think it makes total sense for good early stage investors to invest in people and teams (as opposed to the ideas). The category or industry they're operating in today is just a small taste of what they're capable of.
Oh wow, that's really pretty!

I do wish all the controls were on the page at once.
Probably the best way to take advantage of a private market bubble is to sell into it. In other words, pitch a trendy idea to an angel and raise money. Or if not that, sell something that is consumed a lot by bubble participants. In other words, in a gold rush sell mineral claims or shovels. It's much more feasible to do that then to short private investments.
> changing of something from within is actually a good one.

Politics; yes. Corporations; no. Corporations have specific legal, cultural and practical mechanisms to keep control with the shareholders and board. The major purpose of shareholders and boards is to be the people who decide whether a company changes or not.

If shareholders and the board are happy taking on government work then Google will take on government work. Ditto military projects, ditto Chinese projects, ditto anything really. The workers don't have the right or privilege of influencing what compromises are made. The only influence they do have is to cause profits to go higher than people planned on; because that makes management happy.
> This isn’t anything new

Yep. I first heard about “reputation” firms doing this in 2009.
I pay 23€ a month. I could pay roughly what you pay for gigabit, I just don't need it
Because most people don't go out of their way to view advertising.
That's a terrible objection (and is not the primary one made in the article, hence "tl;dr"). Brutalist architecture is highly machined, and many famous examples are sleek, e.g., The Paulistano Athletic Club Gymnasium.
To think the original Macs flew off the college bookstore shelves at $2K THIRTY-FIVE years ago...

This model cannot last?
Hard pass. I admit the corruption (wasn't the FTC supposed to be about preventing false advertising?), but your alternative is worse.

It won't actually be "democratically planned". It will be as democratic as a "democratic republic". It will be bureaucratically planned (by your salaried people). Historically, that has worked out badly. It hasn't worked out with the consumers being happier. Yeah, I know, "this time will be different, because we'll hire the right people". I'm very skeptical.
Gah, I can't believe you're still trying to justify this madness!

In a parallel universe, a barely-competent engineer would have designed something more far more obvious, simpler, performant - all while using less hours, and not borderline-fraudulently wasting substantial amounts of your VC's money.

If the company 10x's again, it won't be because of poor engineering, it'll be because of marketing and VC's who don't know how you're wasting their money. If the company 0.1x's, it'll likely be because of a security breach because of appalling design.
Apple and Spotify can now play podcasts on your Alexa-enabled devices
One of the reasons I have a membership to CostCo is that I've come to trust their product choices. If they only carry one variation of a product, it's almost certainly perfectly adequate and probably better than I could have selected on my own.
Are you sure you're not comparing liquid vs illiquid assets? I.e. public shares that you can sell at a stock exchange vs. a highly speculative valuation that may pop >10x like WeWork did.

There's also this wonderful disclaimer:

>Summary statistics from the AngelList dataset of 684 nonnegative investments that we consider in this paper.

Given that 90% of startups fail, they are are looking at the top 10% investments. I am pretty certain if you hand-pick the 10% top-performing public stocks, you will also get great numbers. The problem is, this only works in retrospective.
Ah, a serious question as an aside to my last (scathing) comment - does Plaid have architects? What about architecture and/or code reviews?

I'd be very interested in reading about that.
> but are you sure 0.1% isn't a bit low?

It's probably way too high. The reason is parsing is a small, simple, very well defined problem, and only rarely changes. This is quite unlike anything else in the compiler.

Unless, of course, you're talking about the C preprocessor. Prepare to spend an ungodly amount of time on that.
The co-founder relationship is as complex and difficult as a marriage, and it takes conscious effort to sustain it. So if I can give one bit of advice, it's to expect to have to work seriously on the relationship.

Some resources well-regarded by YC founders are https://www.helloinnerspace.org/ and https://www.foundercoach.io/
lol. You are from SoCal or Europe, right? Sorry, not trying to be an asshole. Those are (almost) the only two places where people on hackernews have more than 1.5 internet choices.
Check out https://www.pitneybowes.com/us/data/poi-database.html