skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: Odeo. It got sold to some guys who tried to roll it up with other small acquisitions. It's dead now.

Re: regret. People misunderstand the regret of not continuing to have stock. Twitter was nothing when we left. I didn't even bother to exercise my options. Then Odeo's CEO bought out all the investors and that return on their money was way more than whatever Twitter was worth at the time. Those investors were all using Twitter, so they knew what they were getting bought out of. But it was still basically nothing at that point, a few hundred users.

The things that made Twitter valuable were what happened after Odeo. Evan Williams bought the whole thing back and then relaunched it as a new company with funding from him and a new equity structure. Imagine if Jack & Biz had "co-founded" Twitter but had to stay on their existing Odeo option grants which were probably less than 0.5%. So just that alone was big.

Twitter had a solid year of grinding where it looked and felt just like every other nascent startup, i.e. worth continuing but not at all a sure thing. To me, the game changer was the way Biz managed to start making Twitter part of the media landscape and something everyone heard about on every half hour segment of cable news. Twitter basically became a core part of the internet at that point.

So Odeo people probably all have some amount of regret (I quit and then refused an offer to come back). But I don't think anyone really feels like they were entitled to the money or credit.
I remember the first one I ever saw. It was a bunch of porcupines standing around looking at a mattress with a porcupine lying on it. I didn't see another for months. I am embarrassed at how long it took me to get it, but it stuck with me until I did. I haven't seen it in any of the books.

The article should have mentioned the Thagomizer ("after the late Thag Simmons"). Hmm, another obscure mattress reference I never noticed before this moment, 35 years later...
Get a retainer and start work when check clears. Invoice client against the retainer. When the retainer low, ask for more money. When the retainer is spent, stop work until additional funds are deposited.
Great so you are both posting worthless junk
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Creating a privilege level the user of the computer doesn't have access to sounds user-hostile to me. I'm all for security, but it's my computer. (I know you can reboot/turn it off etc., but come on, I shouldn't need to reboot my computer into some sort of recovery mode to remove an attribute on a file because I dragged a file. What if I was dragging it somewhere else and my hand slipped off the trackpad?).
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This is really good advice that I wish I had gotten while still in school.
grandstanding is when you say or do something for no other purpose than how it looks to others.
Maybe, but he is one of the best American poets, and will remain so.
Swedish Government Invests $175K from Inheritance Fund for Drag Queen Story Time
it has to read and parse 1 million lines, just reading the file with wc takes 22ms with

wc big.py

so 5ms is way underestimating the job
Force them to figure it out or start impounding goods? Impound their goods if you can't, for any reason, gain access to inspect any part of their declared supply chain for occasional surprise inspections to verify it is as they say it is, until such time as they switch to recently-inspected suppliers or gain you access?

I don't really get how this is much harder or less practical for the state or states implementing the law than most laws governing corporate behavior, and particularly laws governing imports. Yes a law would have to be drafted, passed, and enforced. I don't think any part of that's particularly less reasonable or more unlikely than in the case of any similar law.

In short, you punish companies for either using conflict minerals or if you're unable to determine to a reasonable level of satisfaction that they are not using conflict minerals. Likely they'll want to make sure you can determine such, and will pressure their suppliers to make it happen, in the usual ways markets do things (suppliers that make it easy and do it right and develop a reputation for having few fine-inducing screw-ups can charge more, those that fail miserably at it may just go out of business and be replaced by others who aren't terrible at their job, pretty soon everything's a little more expensive but we have a decent idea of what comes from where)
Why not? What are you going to do with them?

It requires nation-state level resources to even attempt to build them. Even states dedicated to developing them against the wishes of the international community (i.e. North Korea) have been barely successful.
I wonder if Nuro will be swept up in all this...it seems like a legit opportunity but left wondering with the SB investment.
1. Nukes shouldn't even be a thing anymore, we should have disarmed long ago.

2. You say this as if any rando could build a nuke in their garage if they just had the plans.

3. You say this as if any large enough private weapons contractor couldn't figure out how to build a nuke.

So yes. They should.
I haven't noticed but it might be because some find it off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This seems to me something they might cover on the news.
Actual link:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90331449/how-to-find-hidden-came...
The only things that are eligible for the Fed repo operations are Treasury securities, agency direct obligations (i.e. other US Govt debt that's not in the form of a Treasury) and mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/etc.
They send each keypress in a search to a remote service who is able to log it.
Facebook Owns the Four Most Downloaded Apps of the Decade
> If I wasn't alone I'd love to protest

You are never alone. Find like-minded people and go ahead. (I am not saying whether I find it a good idea or not).
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

"But wait, isn't that statement itself abs-"

"ONLY a Sith, you hear me? NOBODY. ELSE."
Because "the cloud" has horrible applications, tracks you, owns your data, is intermittently unreachable and terminates your account with using sketchy algorithms with no explanation or recourse.
Then why not force apple to start selling iPhones for dirt cheap if owning a cellphone is a human right? Surely they are even more of a violator of human rights because their phones are so prohibitively expensive and they operate in fewer markets than Google?

Even accepting your ridiculous premises, none of this makes sense.
Yea but writing code that is unrelated to your industry is not an issue, like writing a book unrelated to your industry is not an issue. I don't see where the problem is here, you learn to code in language X and make an unrelated project in language X, there is no conflict there is no issue.
I disagree regarding software upgrades.

On the one hand, it is true that unless you have customers, what you have is just a hobby, and you should refrain from stuff that distracts you from solving the core business problem.

On the other hand, certain things become a lot harder and a lot more complicated once you have users, because the stakes are higher. So there is value in making sure you're fully upgraded and patched up before you cross the Rubicon, so to speak.
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It's a workaround for the new permissions system in Catalina being a complete mess from the get go. Previously, the Terminal in Catalina would pop up a dialogue asking for permission to access the file you'd just dragged in.

Good security or not, this entire system should not have been rolled out unless/until Apple had a sane UI for handing it. They don't.
Are the scientists going out and rioting as well, or just asking others to do it on their behalf?
Agreed. Especially since there is no explanation why the permission is needed and what it does in detail. I am a very experienced Windows dev but on my MacBook I have no idea what the exact implications are when an app requires access to “accessibility”. I am pretty sure the regular user doesn’t even have the foggiest idea but just does what he is told to do to make the app work.

There is also no log what tells how the app uses the permission. It would be nice if there was a log of each use of the granted permission.
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> So while yeah, there may be other issues with mental health, gun training, domestic violence etc, you can significantly reduce deaths and injuries by removing guns - which people often have because they think having a gun will reduce those.

The thing about statistics is that they have causes. More people having guns causes more criminals to be shot (or, better yet, deterred), but also more accidents. But those are two different things, one good and one bad, so why don't we work to reduce the bad and keep the good instead of losing both?

We know that much of the bad is caused by poor safety training and by teenagers, so why not add firearms safety training to the school curriculum? How many accidental deaths would be prevented by a semester of "always assume it's loaded and don't point the barrel at anything you wouldn't want to shoot"?

We know that gun safes and range practice reduce accidents, so why not institute some tax incentives? These things may cost less than requiring additional law enforcement and much less than accidental shootings.

And soon you have a net positive instead of a net negative. (Though your original claim did fail to account for the deterrent effect on crime. Which is hard to measure since it's area-wide rather than per-household given that criminals know local culture but not which individual households are armed, but just measuring the households with firearms against those without fails to account for it at all.)
Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
Podman supports pods, hence the name. It follows the k8s approach, and it’s nowhere close to a drop-in replacement for docker-compose, but managing multiple related containers is supported as a core feature.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/15/podman-managin...
There's a really good museum that includes info from this period in Montgomery, Alabama. I'd definitely recommend visiting if this is something you're interested in. I wouldn't bring small children since there is a tonne of text and some, entirely optional, graphic imagery.

https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
sadly, I can jump in on the "Wikipedia fails" train here, also. In about five attempts to really change an article (different ones) in about five years, every single change was rejected, as far as I know. The changes were different, one was writing style and order of facts on a public historical event in this century; one was adding a lot of detail to the description of a popular fantasy fiction series; one was removing a controversial and provocative one-liner at the top of a page about people at the edge of (western) society; and another .. hmm I forget now, because I just gave up !

My aging colleague tells me, just keep doing the changes, they cant stop everything. However, my direct (and limited) experience is.. they do stop everything (that I try). I was logged in twice and used anonymous three times, and added citation a bit, too.

To the point of the article, FOSS projects in wikipedia ? hmm maybe there could be a clear category for that ? software projects are proliferating rapidly.. dunno
The public who cares about this have no say in all of the other seats of the house.
But WebAssembly was just made a new standard by W3, which, correct me if I'm wrong, will allow browsers to natively support literally any other language the developers choose.
Yeah, that's a lot of Hofstadter's thesis in Godel, Escher, Bach. In his long, rambling way, he eventually gets into the subtle differences between the different formulations of the Church-Turing thesis and argues that all consciousness is the same kind of epiphenomenon as a computer and thus subject to the same rules.
Difference is the dotcom bubble wasn't rat fucking the rest of the economy.
Everyone in Finland can give up their cars, switch purely to geo or solar, become vegan, and not make a single ounce of difference.

If you're going to propose radical peaceful activism, target it against the companies who can make a difference.
The only problem with not caring about the technology, is if your solution is trivial to replicate then anyone with a bunch of cash can come in with hired gun coders and out advertise you. Hard to replicate technology gives you some kind of a moat to at least slow down copy cats.

edit: Oh, I see, the guy in the article was just throwing together random open source stuff not actually developing anything of value. Never mind.
>When the music stopped, people realized those assets were garbage.

They weren't "garbage"; they were worth less than expected at the time they needed to be liquidated. This caused major problems (obviously), and it's precisely why the Fed stepped in to provide liquidity. Many of those so-called garbage assets turned out to be great investments.
What are these tweaks you speak of?
That's wonderful. It's the most dangerous form of vaping and the most dangerous use of cannabis (aside from DUI), finding popularity with one of the most at-risk demographics.
I mean, I want cookies on lots of sites... like any one that I login to. How else are they supposed to track access to my account?
They aren’t, they’re US Treasuries and US Agency Debt. There are no toxic assets used for collateral in the repo market.
Imagine a book where you wrote a bunch of Javascript implementations without learning Javascript.
There is a reason SICP uses Lisp.
It means you can change how the address bar behaves in a complex fashion without changing the rest of the browser’s code.

Suppose you wanted a deeper change like it to automatically add .com .org etc to the address entered as long as that’s not a phishing website. Now you needed to maintain that patch going forward and reapply it to every new version of the base browser. That’s much safer if the address bar’s code is isolated from the rest of the browser.
I don't think this is new? Applications usually get automatic access to files you drag or copy into them; this is a Powerbox feature that has been around for a while. This presumably just extends the feature to the new restricted directories, using a new xattr instead of the one used previously (com.apple.security.private.scoped-bookmark-key, I think?).
exactly. It's user hostile to correct/undo the action. A 2 second drag-drop mistake requires the following to correct it:
1. realize mistake / stop-everything-you're-doing
2. reboot to recovery mode
3. change SIP setting --> disabled
4. reboot to normal OS
5. delete attribute you never wanted
6. reboot to Recovery again
7. re-enable SIP
8. reboot to normal OS and get back to work if you can remember what you were even doing 20 minutes ago.

That's "user hostile" in my book.
I mean, they are?

http://alexwellerstein.com/atomic_patents/

Atomic bombs are literally 1940s technology; it's not that hard to figure out even if the weren't already published.
We just did something crazy. We dropped the Ember app that was 3/4th's done in favor of plain JQuery and Rails 6.

I'm just done maintaining two apps instead of one and all the hell that involves. And the Javascript ecosystem can keep rolling that Sisyphean upgrade treadmill with deploy dependencies and promises everywhere and I promise to use it as little as possible. Because it is just a giant time suck.
Tut tut if you will, but we are moving twice as fast now.

No one sings of your glorious battles maintaining JS apps in the halls of Valhalla.
I mean, how else do you expect web searches to work?
Thing is, NR theory is almost as far from fundamentals as you can get; loosely speaking, it's a description of how very "far" modulations between triads (and to some extent, scales/keys) can nonetheless be made to work. It's describing a "trick", so to speak. Tymoczko's additions make the approach somewhat more useful, but it's still nowhere near the actual fundamentals of how music is understood in general (which is what one would expect "theory" to be about).
Can anyone downvoting this explain why? To me it seems a balanced argument, well worded, void of emotion, and I can't see a fault in it.
i follow a similar approach. i don't generally mind employers owning copyright for work they pay me for, but i am concerned that i might need to solve a problem that i already solved at a previous job and unintentionally recreate it in a way that it looks like a copy of the old solution.

to avoid this, where possible i ask that all code i write is released under a FOSS license giving me explicit permission to reuse it.
Anyone know if one could easily make a "do no call home" network with participating devices...
This is a discussion about child labor that is resulting in their deaths.
Well think about the supply side - they would rather take 1.5% return(IOER) than loan out at 1.6-8.0% to their peers. If it was low risk why do it? Paying taxes is not considered low risk, you don't really get any return on taxes as a bank.

I follow this topic on real vision with info from some insiders and big name finance people. The whole thing is a mess. Like spaghetti code with thousands of if statements and no comments, and none of the "developers" (in the Fed or in the trading desks) is answering any questions.

The big take from all this is that the most profitable way forward for the banks now is to creatively mess up as much as they can and declare "out of my control" reserve emergency. What finance people find fascinating is there are no leaks to the public. No whistleblowers and no regulator questioning it in general.

The official explanation doesn't make much sense. Both the taxes and the basel 3 provisions were known well in advance and the projections of the profits are within normal ranges. It doesn't make sense that they were caught by surprise.
Civil disobedience ≠ rioting, but yes: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/scientists-to-joi...
Or mostly the same cheap devices manufactured in China but sold through your friendly middlemen.
"LaBrash can’t be certain the reason is AB 5, though he believes it is."

It has been interesting to watch the coverage of this issue over the last few days. It's a good reminder that even so-called "liberal" news organizations are owned by large corporations.

The results are not yet in. But the stories are already piling up about those poor, poor freelancers who can't work anymore.

Oh wait a minute, of course they can work. They just have to be "on the payroll", to quote this article. Imagine the horror of getting stable pay and benefits.

The guy in the beginning of this article is an employed programmer who also freelances as a cartoonist. How many of those are floating around in the market? And even still, how many jobs does he get with that gig per client? Is it really more than 35?

I know HN is a notoriously Libertarian hangout, but can we at least agree that wage slavery is bad? Like it or not, the American system delivers health benefits through employment and the law has to constantly plug the loopholes that companies use to get around paying employees health benefits and living wages. Public risk but privatized reward is not sustainable or fair.
If it doesn't exist yet, we create this. I vote to call it TOR.
Not my experience observing others. Do you by chance live in a state where marijuana is not yet legalized?
Thank goodness someone else understands that banks hitting the big sell button on their pile of Treasuries, daily, would be Bad, thus the repo market.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability - all you need to show is that Apache Arrow has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

So: find conference papers/talks by people not affiliated with Apache or the Apache Arrow project and that discuss Apache Arrow. Figure out how to incorporate the tidbits about Arrow from those papers into the article text. Add sources in footnotes. Done.
18 USC § 2 says:

> (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.

> (b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.

That does give some more leeway to charge people with crimes here, but I don't think it is enough to sustain the claims of 1581 and 1584, since it seems to be meant to be read as "I'm not doing the dirty deed myself, but I'm telling my henchmen to do it."
Those who use heavily in Adolescence can lose something like 6 or 8 IQ points, among other negative effects. Those who start as adults and stop don't seem to have the same effects[1], but it is unclear how much that reflects lower baseline IQ of users vs. the impact of marijuana itself.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
> or build more homes on stilts

Indeed there are a number of houses that are built on stilts for flooding purposes.

Nowadays that's very uncommon; housing developments often built up the ground enough to mitigate the equivalent flooding risk.
Given how often it is said that "build it and they will come" is an untrue trope, you would expect people instinctively know to avoid spending too much time on the build it part. I however am guilty of this myself so I can't really blame the author and think most just tend to get lost in the implementation phase because it's far too comfortable.
Are there common assembly/CPU native ways of partitioning a 64 bit register to store multiple smaller size values and do work on them? (I haven't written assembly since some MIPSs in college.)
It can still be a real community even with the marketing aspects.
That's fine under the EU cookie law, no popup for permission required.
Why is it that the fed has to do overnight loans? I would think if interest rates rise, anyone would want those short term gains and would sell assets to have enough cash to get at the easy fast money of the repo market.
And to be clear -- this is the job of the article author, not the editor who rejects the article without doing a little bit of homework first?
What is the point of this slogan? Are we all supposed to feel guilty for not reverting to disconnected hunter-gatherer tribes? It's not an insightful ethical standard, and I reject it.
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> but come on, I shouldn't need to reboot my computer into some sort of recovery mode to remove an attribute on a file

To be clear: you need to reboot your computer once, and from then on, sudo will always have full permission to do anything. You won't ever have to boot into recovery mode again unless you buy a new computer.

You don't have to like the default, but when it's so darn easy to make your system work the way you'd like, I find it really hard to complain.

Some guides will recommend making SIP-protected changes from within recovery mode as an alternative to disabling SIP permanently. But you absolutely don't have to do that.