skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| And heck, why not implement a process by which all private contracts are approved by a company-wide vote?

Wait, what? How would this work? Who would take a Google bid seriously if, after awarding them the contract, they turn around and have to ask the employee population for permission to proceed?

The big issue I see with a lot of discussion around this issue is not a lot of thought is put into the practicality of running a large business concern. Stuff that works when it's two guys and a server does not (can not) fly when you have a large group of people to manage.
link is down, anyone have an alternative link?
I get your point, but for what it's worth, I moved a service from AWS Lambda to a Digital Ocean Dokku box and the amount of complexity I had to deal with went down dramatically and hosting costs dropped (I was getting enough traffic to break out of the free tier).
>Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy

If you seek an answer to that question, you don't have to venture very far from Google, who birthed this creation.
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yes, I did, and I feel that this revert behavior was more hazing/article control than substantive in all cases but one, and that one I dont personally agree.
It is usually some combination of consultants using bogus logic, and other executives trying to bump their own pay by hiring very expensive colleagues.

I have never been convinced it is worth paying these kind of numbers. I have looked at all kinds of businesses, I have looked at businesses where productivity is power-law distributed (i.e. one good employee can be worth 10,000+ bad ones) and it never adds up...again, even if you look at situations where productivity is very unequal (which it isn't in almost every business, and very much isn't at Amazon)...it doesn't work.

One particularly toxic part of Amazon is that they pride themselves on only hiring the "elite". Well, if your market cap is hundreds of billions and you hire tens of thousands people a year...you aren't hiring the "elite" (genuinely, there are only three or four CEOs over the past five decades who are truly proven execs). So you have this awful culture where everyone views themselves as this unbelievably valuable "alpha dog". Inevitably, this results in them lighting huge stacks of other people's cash on fire (the real danger isn't hiring the 80 IQ guy, it is the guy with a 110 IQ who thinks he is a 160 IQ guy).
Or a barebones box from Vultr or Linode then log errors out to stdout, slap an email address on the page and there's your logging and error system.

AWS is massively overcomplicated for an indie SaaS business, and it costs way, way too much.

You can have a box with plenty of room for $5 - $10 / month and it takes about 25 seconds to launch it.

I had 20k concurrent users with a $5 server and Cloudflare. Other people are using serverless solutions, which drive the price even lower.

The author stated as much: keep it simple and boring. He thought he was going boring for a SaaS, but he went way too exciting for what an indie SaaS needs.
I'm just saying that it's 90% visual and 10% effectual (and I think I'm being generous), and likely makes the average person think good strides have been taken towards the problem of line tracking, which I don't think it really helps. It's the perfect level of highly visible and almost useless that it may in fact be counter-productive.
That might be a bit strong, but they should be severely limited. They way it is today, frequently it seems like the "Secrets" are really just secrets from the citizenry. When you look at something like the U2 the "enemy" knew more about it than the American people. Same thing today, do you really think the Chinese can't figure out the capabilities of our spy sats?

Most of these secrets should have a defined and quite short timeframe. AKA if the CIA/NSA/FBI feels the need to investigate someone, then sure its a "secret" up until they decide to file charges, or drop the case. At that point everything should be public. Oh, and they should have a max of 3-5 years to do one or the other instead of just leaving the investigation open forever.

Same basic idea for "technology", with maybe a slightly longer timeframe (10 years?), none of this stuff is science fiction enough to warrant keeping it secret forever despite claims that newer stuff might build on the older.
At 105 F, Australia had it's hottest day ever recorded
*coked
Sure. But ultimately, spending it is what it's for.
>But if you want to build a SaaS business, keep focused on building the _business_. The app, it turns out, is the easy part.

This. The crux of his issue is focusing too much on tech and not enough on the end user along with the other "Big Design Up Front™" pitfalls.
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this is a strawman and you should be ashamed of yourself. You cannot find any posts by me on this forum in which I've advocated banning Cobalt all together.

Find a better response.
>Because the Fed is the Fed, it's almost alway going to be the cheapest counterparty to borrow from.

Wrong. It used to be this way but they switched it up in 2003.[1]

The Fed is considered the "lender of last resort" and they manipulate the interest rates to keep it that way.

They used to target the Fed Funds rate to be higher than the discount rate. But that didn't make sense if you think about the system the government wanted (for a while it was thought that embarrassment/the risk of increased oversight was enough of a barrier that the lower rate was OK).

1. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0jhQV/4/
Never, ever, ever, ever worry about anyone copying your stuff. Depend on your unique insight. No one can copy that. If in the extremely rare circumstance that someone copies you, be thrilled! That means you are building something valuable (which is extremely rare).
The "office empires" make perfect sense at the size of FAANGs. When you need to hire that many people every year, many of them who have never worked in "the real world" before, how do you do the best to ensure they all have access to knowledge, resources, support, and oversight? Not everyone is good at self directed work from home. That doesn't mean they can't be an outstanding employee. Hiring is expensive and if you can avoid having major churn in employees you'll save quite a bit of money.

On top of that, being a major employer in a city gives your company sizable clout when it comes to lobbying the local government. Don't like the new tax plan? It will probably work out in your favor to let the city know that it would really hurt hiring and salaries at the biggest employer in the city. Heck if it hurts enough, you might even have to move to that nearby competitor city who is offering all those sweet tax breaks. You don't want to but it's the only responsible thing to do for all of your employees. It would be a shame to see a bunch of those employees leave the city and cause housing prices to drop for all the rest of the citizens. What's that? You're reconsidering that tax bill? I knew you'd make the right choice for your constituents.
Ask HN: How to handle a pivot and fundraising or merger after cofounders left?
I started a business with a few cofounders who ended up leaving to get jobs at large tech companies. Initially our goal was to avoid fundraising and try to bootstrap our way to a small profitable B2B business. We wasted 2-3 years doing what amounts to consulting work to get by, with most of the work making its way into our product.

I'm now the only person left and am stuck managing what looks like a lifestyle business. Our customers are happy with the product but it takes a long time to sell and integrate it so I'm spending most of my time doing consulting and support type work.

In the process of working on this I've come across a few larger opportunities that would require me to raise funding to pursue. All of them are adjacent to what we were working on and I could reuse a lot of the things that we built for these new ideas. I also made a lot of connections through our business that would make selling and validating this new product a lot easier.

The opportunities include partnerships with our existing customers (or acquihire), starting a new venture with other well connected cofounders who has venture money lined up or going out on my own and attempting to raise money (potentially from some of our larger customers who showed interest in doing that).

I'd like to see the business survive because our customers depend on it and I don't want to screw over my cofounders. Given all of that, I'm not sure what's a good way to handle any of those options with 3 dead bodies on the cap table.
On the importance of giving people a sense of control
I would expect them to send search the query if and when I search for something and send exactly nothing when I don't
It's well known there are risks, and not all investments work out.
> 1. Nukes shouldn't even be a thing anymore, we should have disarmed long ago.

MAD is a thing for a reason so nukes should definitely not be disarmed
"What you cited as the whole idea of capitalism is actually the whole idea of trade, which existed long before capitalism."

Trade and property are what people usually mean by 'capitalism'. I mean, yes, Marx popularized the term to refer to specific things he saw in the economies of Europe in his time, but when people refer to 'capitalism' today they mostly aren't referring to those things. They are referring to an economy built on private property and free markets.
HTTP is stateless so, no.
Having worked on commercially-resold Apache projects, can't say I argue with Wikipedia a whole lot on this. It seems to me it should be let in, but it's a bit silly to go and call them out like this on a corporate blog, IMO.

Dremio does benefit from Apache Arrow publicity and notoriety, even if they don't profit directly. Having a de-facto standard data format and open-source engines is a selling point for some. That's why Dremio explicitly calls it out on their own website. It also never hurts in the recruiting department. (edit: there's a reason the article was submitted by someone working in marketing & strategy)

>> I’m wondering if Wikipedia can continue to be considered a reliable source of information for technical folks who want to learn more about the vast system of Apache open source software projects.

Sign up for the Olympics, because that's a hell of a leap. You didn't get your page in, it's really not much of a reflection on the rest of Wikipedia. It's an open-source project. It should have it's own freely available documentation that fills much the same purpose anyway. If I want to learn about Apache X, I go straight to x.apache.org. They concede that it's not an end-user product anyway, so I'd think their key audience knows how to find an open-source project website. Lower the bar too far the other way, and there are plenty of semi-open-source project's marketing departments would be all over using Wikipedia to their own ends - I've seen my own former employer do this for their Apache projects.
> Secret WhatsApp groups are the future of social networking

That would also mean super-broad discoverability, and a likely change in employment law permitting employers to check employees' personal phones for such groups. Particularly in compliance regimes.
An actual speculation barrier (SB) instruction was added in later releases of ARMv8.0:

- https://cpu.fyi/d/047#G6.11222648

- https://cpu.fyi/d/047#E9.CHDHDDBE

along with the Consumption of Speculative Data Barrier (CSDB): https://cpu.fyi/d/047#G9.10257993

But, as noted elsewhere in this thread, the canonical choice in most systems is DSB/ISB. Just one or the other isn't sufficient because they synchronize different things.

The canonical barriers on other platforms are LFENCE (x86) and SYNC (PowerPC).

For more references, see:

- https://github.com/google/safeside/blob/5fb6f00f/demos/asm/m...

- https://github.com/google/safeside/blob/5fb6f00f/demos/asm/m...

- https://github.com/google/safeside/blob/5fb6f00f/demos/asm/m...

[disclosure: I work on the Safeside project and wrote cpu.fyi as a side project]
"Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars" is objectively not great news. Subjectively it might be great news if the vaping THC dose was low, but it is not.

There is no technology that makes alcohol 100X stronger for todays teen than what it has been historically. But that's not true for THC products. On a personal note, I lost my hearing in one ear immediately after trying a strong MJ product. I just assumed it was congestion at the time but 10 months later I still have 70% hearing loss. I don't share this story with anyone because speaking ill of THC is heresy these days and a sure way to get downvoted.
When you decide to fork a project, a key concern is: how invasive are your changes going to be? This is a very large component of how easy or hard it will be to merge upstream changes in the future.

In this case, going with Chrome would mean very invade changes to enable exposing things the upstream specifically wants to keep private in their codebase. Firefox instead requires only well-delineated, minimally invasive changes because there is a nice clean boundary between UI code and engine code (which incidentally matches c++/js boundary, the languages themselves don’t matter much), which means their changes can be isolated to the UI layer, which in turn means a much cleaner path to merging upstream changes
In cases where the state has evidence that it can not show the case should proceed as if such evidence does not exist.
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I took music theory in HS and had a really good teacher. Books may work well but nothing beats having an instructor and access to instruments. I'd look into local community colleges possibly.
Oxford English Dictionaries might like a word about your fame assertion... :)
Nope.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1856...
I think it's a bit harder than that. But Apple is already doing it (or claims to be doing it). The latest Supplier Responsibility report claims that 100% of their Cobalt supplies is audited: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2...
And Apple claims to regularly remove suppliers for violations.

Up until a few years ago, Cobalt was specifically called out as being a problematic resource, with incomplete audits and widespread violations. Now, Apple claims to have this under control. Either Apple is lying or misguided, or the initiators of the lawsuit are.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the initiators of the lawsuit were wrong. It seems that Apple often gets lumped in with other tech companies' labor and supply practices, regardless of whether their specific policies are actually more strict than common industry practice (cf Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs")

Disclaimer: I work for Apple, but don't shop for their Cobalt, so I have no firsthand knowledge of the actual situation.
The motivation seems laudable: obviously if I drag a file to the terminal I want it to be able to access it, one less confirmation dialog the better.

But it's the implementation that seems deeply flawed: that there's no obvious way to remove the permission afterwards, or even a record of it where you'd expect to look.

There seems to be a reasonable solution, however: as soon as the terminal window gets closed (and perhaps any background processes ended), the permissions get revoked. And even if your terminal process gets killed without cleanup, permissions would be revoked when your terminal app reboots or your computer restarts.

That could work, right?
Inversion of the yield curve was probably the best signal, but that reversed itself.
The problem with 1M lines of code as a limit, is that some ML tools actually export a hyper-fast executing C (or other language) program that emulates the built/trained model.

I don't know why people would assume that's enough of a limit if there really isn't a need to limit that aspect.
I used it back when it was the Smart cars specifically because they were extremely easy to park anywhere, so the nicer cars were actually negative value for me even before considering the higher rates to use them.
The way around mindless reverts is to first detail the proposed change on the talk page, then wait for anyone interested to object. If no one does, you can make the change live, pointing out that no objections were raised. Even if someone does object, such objections should ultimately be made actionable, i.e. it should be made clear how to address them to the other party's satisfaction.
> I often see people demanding that English be written phonetically. Many of those people seem to be unaware that their own languages also have dialects and that they would be equally unable to write phonetically in a way that would satisfy all users of that language.

Spanish is largely written as it's spoken. Even with its many accents and dialects, holding a spelling bee would be ridiculous because of how easy it is to deduct writing from pronunciation.

That being said, if it was reformed to the point where it absolutely was written as spoken, it would become very ugly.
Another take on this:

1. Setup

1.1 Define / finalize plan and deployment timeline

1.2 Identify community leaders

2. Training

2.1. Define community best practices

2.2. Train community leaders

3. Kickstart community

3.1. Collect seed content with group of community leaders (e.g. repeating topics, questions, anything that resonates and is searched or discussed often)

3.2. Seed community platform with output of 3.1.

3.3. Open site to kickstart users; a cross-section of your target audience but in smaller amounts.

3.4. Let kickstart users expand community, both in content as well as being relaxed with them onboarding new members

3.5. Promote coming community to entire target audience

4. Full launch

4.1. Open site to entire target audience

4.2. continue promotion

5. Grow community

5.1. Monitor community usage, evaluate, expand

5.2. ongoing promotion
Earth's magnetic north pole is heading for Russia and scientists are puzzled
Wooooow.

You better be super sure you can launch something good in 1 year with a $1,500 / year license.
"... who will have anxiety attacks without it."

Honestly, I've met many daily smokers in my life. Heck, I've been one off and on and tend to like to do it most weekends. I greatly prefer it to alcohol.Most folks can quit quite easily: At most, a few weeks of decreased appetite and trouble falling asleep. The worst effects wear off in the first week. The few folks I've met that have trouble without it have mental health issues, such as anxiety attacks. The worst thing about that situation is that one has to be able to find decent medical care and risk getting anxiety attacks - which I've read are horribly scary - to feel comfortable giving up smoking. And even then they might find that the smoking helps the best with the fewest side effects...unfortunately.

Also, most adults I've met who smoke regularly do all the family stuff just fine. They work, they play with their kids (more happily when a little stoned!), and so on. I mean, sure, it makes you more happy with a slightly messier house and more happy just being, but the other thing with that lowered happiness thresh hold is being happier when going on walks or playing boring kids games. Sure, happier with a slightly messier house but also happier to do the cleaning. Happier to eat more healthily, and so on.
Judge rules Snowden can't profit from book, it wasn't cleared by NSA and CIA
Build better habits in multiple areas (sleep, entertainment distractions, work). Better habits give you more time to spend on productive things.

To build a habit of coding more, try a daily goal:

https://wakatime.com/goals
Ouch. Regular car share user here, sometimes multiple times per day. The sheer number of cars that Car2Go/"Share Now" had (approx 700 here in Vancouver, I think) usually made it my first choice, with Evo a close second.

Did not see this coming. Is it possible this is another rebranding/acquisition exercise (like the Car2Go->ShareNow transition), or is the fleet gone for good?
Obviously no. What it would make it different than another user accessing the same account then?
The point is that they will disappear long before NL and yet here we are discussing the one country that has spent decades preparing for rising sea levels disappearing.
There’s no blame. China is 29% of global CO2 emissions and the Netherlands is 0.47%.

There is literally nothing the Netherlands can do to materially affect global CO2 output at this point. The measures put forth are unserious in the face of real data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
I'm not surprised. They killed off the BMW service across North America a few months ago, as well as the Mercedes/Smart service in a bunch of cities across North America. The writing was on the wall after that.
woops: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/28/18638480/g...
Congress should have oversight over TLAs, but unfortunately the converse is the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-di...
Seems like there might be a market for something like pihole that detects connections to shady IoT servers.
“In 2020, we will move California’s team blogs from our established system with hundreds of contractors to a new one run by a team of new SB Nation employees.”

So in other words, the headline could be "California's AB5 creates better jobs at Vox Media"
Kinda weird they didn't mention which "Las Vegas casino" it was. I didn't read the case, so for all we know it might have been decided the same way without the Google petition.

Still, rather a surprising decision...
>I don't want 10's or 100's of devices on my network that all are talking to servers in China.

I definitely agree, although I'd expand that to "talking to any servers at all anywhere for anything I don't explicitly grant permission for". However for that very reason I prefer WiFi/IP devices, because it makes it very easy and straight forward to apply all the powerful network management tools we have for everything else. All devices can go on their own VLANs for example, with careful management and logging of how they communicate. The real shame is that there aren't better, more consumer friendly tools for managing that more visually/automatically.

Custom radios aren't any inherent defense there, already there have been demonstrations of getting right into Z-wave/Zigbee networks using customized SDRs. They have a purpose from an ultra low energy and meshing point of view, but you should be suspicious of what security practices for such things will actually be. WiFi/IP at least has the benefit of tons of open attention and development for security critical situations already.
A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
It is there on x86-64, not sure about other archs.
Go read the Statue of Liberty.
> But the non-farmer protesters are getting arrested

But you have to be ready to make sacrifices for your ideals. I didn't say it's gonna be easy.
Shame. I used this a lot. Perhaps they're not willing to lose money with the hopes of one day being profitable, like ride sharing companies.
Let's wait for the next election before we call this one.
hey, great job. You've turned a discussion about child exploitation into a discussion about whether some random person on the internet will stop buying electronics.

It's great to see where your priorities are.
I do. I love vanilla JS especially. The way it interacts with the DOM and the way JSON works makes more sense to me than most other languages, and this is coming from a python user and newly lisp user.

Not everyone has the same brain as you. People enjoy things you don't understand.
Always two there are.

NO MORE.

NO LESS.
Z-wave is about as far as you can get from open. Until 2018 when SiLabs acquired it from Sigma, all silicon had to be purchased directly from Sigma.