skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a company drops out of the index, the fund sells all its shares in it and buys shares of the new company that took its place.
Reminds me of that episode of futurama where they almost become rich from being acquired by Mom. "I suddently have an opinion about the capital gains tax!"

The tax bill paid by new grads for their rsus is usually their first experience with non-income tax flavored taxes, and I think we have an incentive to ask for cash in leiu of rsus for that exact reason. Of course, not going to complain too mich.
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Do you think high-paying healthcare sector and patent R&D in the US creates more incentive for research and development of new medicine & healthcare technology?
It’s very hard to manage your time as a nights and weekends project. You should consider it a skill of equal importance as coding/design/marketing.

I’ve written about it here:
https://blog.cronitor.io/the-jit-startup-bb1a13381b0

The main takeaway:

"If you’re a software developer it’s especially tempting to justify spending more time on your software. You’ve worked with tangled messes of code in the past and suffered through others’ poor product choices. This is your chance to “do it right” from the beginning, but that’s a trap! Never write a line of code today that can be put off until tomorrow. Focus exclusively on the essentials, and handle everything else over a support channel."
I don’t understand why everyone moved away from directly smoking the flowers so readily. I hated the idea of shatter/resin when I first heard it and there is no way I would use a vape pen.
At one point about 10 years ago the entry for Atlasssian was deleted for not being notable.
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> This is also why if you access a website with a self-signed certificate, the browser will not give you a “yes” button to go through. You have to jump through a few hoops somewhere else (depending on browser) to accept the self-signed certificate, and then you can see the site.

The button doesn't say "yes", but at least on FF there's a way to bypass the warning with one or two clicks from the error page itself. I think you might be confusing this with HSTS, where a certificate failure on an HSTS-enabled website will not let users bypass the warning (and for good reason).
The press likes to single out tech companies lately... but it's well-known every industry is doing the same. Walmart, Exxon and Pfizer are just a few companies that tax-dodge just as much as Google. It's estimated $700 billion in taxes are dodged yearly[1] so singling out "Silicon Valley" seems strange.

[1] https://americansfortaxfairness.org/corporate-tax-chartbook-...
You think the Roku version of MLB is significantly better than, say, the Apple TV version of MLB? Why?
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There are ways to track location outside of the operating system.

For example, even Facebook says (and the comment you replied to noted) it uses photo tagging and what wifi network you're connected to in order to determine location.
I'm definitely not trying to blame weed, if people can use it responsibly I say great! The problem is people who have conditions like anxiety who become dependent on it to get by. Some people become alcoholics because they have stuff going on that they can't deal with, and that doesn't mean I think alcohol should be illegal. But just like them, I wish the drug wasn't a numbing agent that prevents them from dealing with the underlying problem.
Observables are a powerful abstraction, but with great power comes great complexity (so use them only when you expect/require updates)

An observable can be created from an event and have several transformations applied to that event (see https://www.learnrxjs.io/). These transformations functions are powerful because they can be composed to create the observable and can also be shared and reused.

They are not "just superior in every way", they are just suited to listening and emitting events to/from various components in your system. A simple object is perfect if no events are needed.
OS can block access to location, but they can still have a coarse location from your IP, tagged photos, checked-in locations, message content and so on. Disabling location tracking in FB should also disable this on the FB server side.
As a strategy for getting Dremio on the front page of HN and thus on the radar of a large group of tech people (i.e. Dremio's prospects), this is article is very clever.

As a critique of Wikipedia, not so much.
This was a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised if Unix usage started declining. I work at a University, and most incoming freshmen (for CS) don't understand what a filesystem is. Their primary computing device is their phone or a tablet, both of which don't require them to use files.
Real estate is tricky because you're usually gambling with someone else's money (ie a mortgage) and your access to that is dependent on many factors like provable income and credit rating.
I do use Tor. Which gives me three hops for clearnet sites, and seven hops for onion services. But I don't trust Tor enough to connect directly to it. Given the risk of malicious relays, and of 0days like "relay early" that increase their effectiveness. And then there's the likelihood that TLAs track all connections to the Tor network.

So the nested VPN chains isolate me from Tor entry guards. If Tor circuits get deanonymized, an adversary just learns a VPN exit. Or at least, an adversary that isn't doing global traffic analysis.

But as Mirimir, I don't need all that. I really don't need anonymity at all, except to protect my professional reputation. And being retired, that doesn't matter any more.

So anyway, nested VPN chains are arguably enough for people who aren't juicy targets. They almost certainly aren't as good as Tor, unless Tor is more compromised than it seems.

But what they are is lots faster. There's somewhat less latency than Tor. And bandwidth is much higher.
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The San Francisco FED made a similar analysis, including housing: https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf
My bro-in-law has been quite happily doing piecemeal editing work for at least 15 years after his old job got killed by the internets. If he has to get a "real" job then he'll have to do something he probably won't like as much because the internets -- which is highly likely as he's in California and lives somewhere there aren't a whole lot of jobs.
What makes you think all of those freelancers wanted to be full time employees?

Jason Snell, the former editor of Macworld, quit his full time job to work on his blog and do his podcasts full time. He also does freelance writing on the side. He said that the new law has actually made it harder for him to do freelance work even though that's what he wanted.
Your snarky comment will probably not do to well on a site that services thousands of people who actually just learned to code and vastly improved their circumstances.
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> You can’t trust your users, they don’t know what they are running when they install software.

Big Brother knows what's best?

For decades the Mac has trusted the user, what would be different now other than the company having the largest ever pro user base? Why assume pro users don't know what they are doing?
Even the most left-leaning studies show that the hourly wage, taking into account all expenses (including depreciation) and basic healthcare, is around $9.50 per hour. If you have another job, that number goes up and Uber becomes much more lucrative, because you can target surge pricing in your free time. Other empirical studies show that Uber/Lyft drivers forego wages for the flexibility of Uber. It's a tradeoff that many are clearly willing to make, and Californian politicians are wagging their finger and telling them that they're being fooled.
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My read was that the _companies_ get the tax break. The employees get taxed to shit, but it's still better than not getting the RSUs.
I am. The goal was to create permalinks to specific sections of CPU reference PDFs.

https://github.com/mmdriley/cpu.fyi
As long as you abide by WP:N, WP:NOR and WP:NPOV, writing articles about yourself is perfectly acceptable on Wikipedia and doesn't break the rules.
Being a fan of lightweight activism, I would like Wikimedia to please publish a list of sensitive articles, so that I can look at them occasionally or, better yet, write a browser extension that simulates looking through them that other people can run.

The default state of government is totalitarian dictatorship; democracy is carved out of that rock every time we the people reserve a right for ourselves. Clearly the Judiciary has lost the ability to keep the Executive in check - and no, I don't think we need new laws here. The 4th Amendment is clearly being violated for every American.

What intelligence is, what warfare is, has changed almost beyond recognition since the founding. Ubiquitous, computer mediated relationships, to an intelligence service, are achingly attractive. And yet, such a capability, which is embedded in the basic marble from which better government is carved, should not be used. I would have thought the 4th Amendment was enough, but clearly it is not.

(It is with great sadness I admit that since ~40% of Americans cannot recognize the obvious threat an un-restrained Executive entails, so it seems unlikely that they would recognize this more subtle threat.)
So now you think it was the right thing to do to stop people who may have just wanted some side money from being able to do freelance work?
I agree. It's the other generation's (or multiple other generations's) fault.
When someone says they don't do something for the money, what they mean is that some of the value of doing the work is that you enjoy the work. You might be able to get $15/hour doing something you hate, but doing something you love for $5/hour a few hours a week is worth the $10/hour difference. That doesn't inherently mean it's worth a $15/hour difference.

And even if it is, that doesn't mean you're happy about losing the $5/hour.
Unless you want the OS to spy on the keyboard this is near-impossible to pull off. And even then it's very hard to do well (backspace, tab auto-completion of paths, copy+paste, etc).
doesnt this affect freelancing programmers and consultants as well?
Vox is still free to hire freelancers, but it has to treat them as freelancers the same way every traditional media outlet does. Vox shouldn't get a magic unicorn pass because it's digital.
Everybody's primary goal is to put food on the table!

I meant your goal in choosing to do creative work, obviously.

Not in a hierarchy-of-needs sense.
I have to imagine that Vox Media is not going to allow people to write for them for free for a number of reasons, and the community the website developed is probably a main reason why they wrote there.
That's a 91 year time period, if you were patient enough to wait that long to enjoy the return on investment you'd probably be dead.
If the jobs go away who is doing the work the person was previously doing? Were they being hired unnecessarily because they were cheap, or are they going to make the remaining employees work twice as hard to cover all of the jobs? Or is stuff going to fall through the cracks.

Aren't the number of jobs needed more dependent on the demand for your product than the price of hiring employees? It's like the fallacy of supply side economics: people are hired to fill demand, not because it's cheap to hire them. Now more expensive labor can make your end product more expensive which can reduce demand for it and cost jobs, but that's a second order effect and should be muted if everybody is affected by the same laws at once.

The people who really get hurt are the ones competing with sweat shop slave labor in foreign countries, but most of those jobs are already gone and lazy Americans weren't willing to work 100 hour weeks for pennies anyway so competing fairly against them was Quixotic in the first place.
Your first source is a bad one but here is a review: [1] The association is really not strong but the authors do advice against indiscriminate paracetamol use.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29341895
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26930528
Why is that a good thing? Do you feel the same way about engineers and startup founders who help with shows like Silicon Valley and Mr. Robot? Would it be a good thing to get stop them from "cosplaying", and only allow full-time employees?
I see zero lies on the page you posted. What's wrong with it?
When it comes to smart home tech cost-cutting it's all about simplifying the small-but-many pieces. That's where RF 433 Mhz comes in.

Why should I pay $40+ for a zigbee/z-wave/smart-things/wifi-enabled door sensor when I can get a $35 RF Sonoff bridge and get each sensor for around $4-$8 from china.

So you can save a lot of money by using that tactic with door sensors/window sensors/PIR Sensors/Alarm systems/Sirens/Switches etc. because those will add up massively. You can't use that for TV/Speakers/Cameras ofc but you can bring everything together onto home assistant.

As far as I'm concerned, only the community can decide which protocol will win and these big techs should just put their weight behind a protocol built with the community instead of closed-door-consensus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfSbIFIJPuc

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/
But it should be said that the price that the fund manages to sell the shares at could be far lower than the price at the time the company exited the index since many funds and others will be trying to get out at the same time.
>and being able to run static analysis tools against your infrastructure

Is the Pulumi/CDK code too dynamic to support static analysis?
You'd have been better served learning Klingon.
Changing the search engine that powers the omnibox is different than changing the behaviour of the omnibox, which is kind of a lot when it comes to predictive search, predictive completion and a bucket of other things that I wish you could turn off (or can be turned off for a while before Google decides you shouldn't ever need or want to turn it off). It's a target with a huge amount of churn. I agree that Firefox is a more sane target as a developer.
Last weekend I built an S&P returns calculator that exposes similar statistics and adjusts for inflation.

Accounting for inflation reduces the ROI by an order of magnitude, but the result is still impressive! (36,560.12% return)

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/stocks/s-p-500/1928
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I suppose the key is that your hobby satisfies some deeper need your soul wants, like intellectual, artistic or emotional growth and expression.

I know some people say they find growth and meaning through the storylines in video games and I'm not trying to invalidate that, but I find I personally get way more rewards from reading a challenging book or learning an instrument or developing a hobby or something.
Sounds like a pretty big loss for Rebecca Lawson, person of CA.
That woman is very brave, but the threat of death will make many witnesses think twice about coming forward.
> All of the products I can buy may or may not contain this unthetical cobalt. I don't know which, and my personal buying choice doesn't effect anything.

All of the stock these corporations can buy may or may not contain this unethically-sourced cobalt. They don't know which, and their corporate buying choices don't affect anything.

Judging from these comments, the bar seems to be set at "if you can't prove the product doesn't contain unethically-sourced materials, don't buy it". That standard would apply equally well to end users. Of course you can't simply trust that your suppliers aren't lying to you, or that their suppliers aren't lying to them, so you have to be personally involved in auditing the entire process from mining to final production and delivery.

Or we could just be reasonable and agree that it's sufficient to avoid knowing or reckless involvement with unethical suppliers, and hold those who actually endanger their workers or lie about the sources of the materials they're selling responsible for their own crimes.
The press points this out because it's a new phenomenon. It's the new in "news."

Just because Walmart, Exxon and others are bad doesn't mean SV isn't bad. It just means tech companies also get to be called out when they misbehave.
What tax breaks do companies get by offering RSUs instead of cash?
It's hard to imagine how this could be accidental behavior. It is much too specific. The only way I could see it being a bug (or incomplete feature) is if maybe there's supposed to be a prompt asking if you want to grant permission first that isn't working. And maybe some sort of permission manager that lets you add/revoke said permissions without a laborious reboot into a diagnostic tool.
> It's similiar in the programming world but the language wars don't prevent work from getting work done.

I worked for a crypto startup in ~2017. Our product wrote a decent number of transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain, so when transaction fees went from a dime to $20 it caused a lot of headaches and I ended up dealing with it. When I asked questions online about managing transaction fees, I inadvertently wandered into a holy war and was thoroughly flamed for my trouble. It was the least pleasant experience I've had trying to get help as a dev. How can such a toxic community grow and achieve anything meaningful?
Shame. They're how we were car free in San Diego for a year. Horrendously buggy though and stranded us a few times.
I'm not sure for DHT. But in Firebase the permissions are handled as user access rules written in Javascript, returning boolean true or false if the user has the ability to read/write the node and if the data being written passes a validation check:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules

https://firebase.google.com/docs/rules/rules-language

So Firebase permissions really have more to do with the identity layer than keeping the data secret.

I think that probably everything should be encrypted anyway. This was a largely solved problem even in the 90s, and embedded devices are about as powerful as the 386 and 68030 computers popular then.

We really need a distributed SSL identity layer though. Something like letsencrypt.org except the client's identity would come from the social proof of its peers instead of a central organization. Maybe this is already a solved problem in OpenSSL? I only understand symmetric key encryption, but not the man in the middle protections that SSL certificates provide. To me, p2p identity and encryption should have been a foundational pillar of the internet, not some controversial afterthought like we think of it today.
I was mistaken. I misremembered Pastis' joke as an actual occurrence.
Ok, so this isn't about Tomcat...
The single best interview experience I've seen was given by Oracle when I worked there a few years ago.

The onsite was a panel interview where candidates were given a laptop with a configured IDE and codebase with a specific set of bugs. Their task was to debug the various issues and complete as many as they could with the understanding that it was not expected for them to solve them all or even most of them. There were also tests to help them. And a different section of the interview asked them to right some tests and some code for again brain dead easy coding algorithms like reverse a string.

I thought it was great because it closely resembled what being a dev is like and actually tested for the skills we cared about. No you didn't get to use your own custom vim configuration but I'm not sure how that would have really worked even if they wanted.
True, but you're implying it has something to do with competing. It's not that, it's just about spending less money so they get to keep more.
Many people want to create a better Facebook. Open source software, by itself, won't get you there. A piece of the puzzle is missing.

Forget the article's focus on the PC. I think the real question they're reaching for is this: out of all the ways the Internet could have ended up, we arrived at this broken model for online services. The exploration is interesting, but in the end it seems like a cry for help or a call for action.

We need to make the jump from code based projects to service based projects which are done entirely for the public good and not for financial self-enrichment. In most cases, the basic mechanism which allows you to scale your own service is missing... unless you're willing to bill your customers up-front or help exploit them behind the scenes.

So here are the questions: Can we graduate from code based projects to service based projects? How do we contribute code and operate an online service for the public good, at scale, and without compromising our users in the process? Is it possible to make this an easily repeatable process? Is this a significant cure for much of the quiet exploitation behind many of today's "free" Internet services?
Where's the actual game?!
Too bad, this was really useful in Seattle to get to and from the airport.
They really struggled to keep the cars clean in my experience. Just about every ReachNow/Car2Go/ShareNow I got into reeked of smoke.
> Sorry if I was unclear, I meant a red flag wrt cliqz's intentions.

Fair enough, but to be fair to cliqz, we didn't turn down their API proposal due to privacy or security concerns. The old address bar stack was kind of a mess and hard to extend in a sane way.

> Do you think the address bar rewrite will be able to satisfy cliqz's needs and therefore allow them to unfork/go back to being an add-on?

The rewrite makes it technically possible to provide any APIs they'd need. I think we'd consider patches, as we did before, with a better chance of them getting accepted.
> Wrong. It used to be this way but they switched it up in 2003

There was no "switching up". The relationship between the discount [1] and Fed Funds [2] rates is a lever for tightening and loosening monetary policy. Over the Fed's lifespan, the discount rate has typically been higher than the Fed Funds rate, to dissuade the former's use.

And neither is the topic of discussion, which are the repo reference rates [3].

All that said, yes, when the Fed is tightening one may find market rates cheaper than the Fed's.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/discountrate.h...

[2] https://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/federal-funds-...

[3] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-repo-reference-r...