skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"do not use xxx, unless you actually know what you're doing. And be aware that the likelihood that you know what you are doing is basically nil."

I got to use that quote at some point. Pure gold.
Threat actors intelligence server and public API
The tricky part of that is the loading and mapping from the companies representation of the data to the SaaS representation of that data to run whatever analysis the product wants to deliver. That step can be almost as much work as just writing the application from scratch since now you may have 2 copies of the data you need to keep in sync, the actual copy the company uses and the copy used for the SaaS analysis (and often multiple different copies for each SaaS the company is trying to use to substitute for just writing the software themselves).
(Rolling Down) Katamari Drive
It is, but there is also a lot of artificial complexity created for lock-in purposes.

A lot of ERP systems move away from well-trodden programming tools to their own custom stuff. I know of ERP systems have their own source control version control systems. Why? They're often awful to use. The programmers that use them are often business-focused haven't really used stuff outside that ecosystem. So they don't know how bad it is.

Most ERP implementations i've come across make little use of automated testing as well.
What does 10-4 have to do with anything? If you don't have significant equity, putting in more hours on a daily basis just makes you a tool in my opinion. There is more to life..
Less focused on business ideas and more on digital tools, but I wrote something similar a month or so ago:

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/digital-tools/
I love page 117

"You’re going to need a longish runway. Worst case is if you only have blue, since you have, at best, accumulator braking and you’re coming in fast due to lack of flaps. Yellow is better since you have alternate braking, and its mainly about the lack of slats. If you have green, its not really all that bad."
I don't think bitfields are even that portable in C? You end up with a weird mix of bit-endianness and byte-endianness issues. The best approach AFAICT, if you need to model a binary format with arbitrary-sized integers, is to keep the binary structure opaque and have a function to "unpack" it to a record of machine-native types. Modern compilers can easily optimize the resulting code into shifts+bit operations, and it is a reasonably foolproof approach.
This is a much better article with more technical details yet accessibly written: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228681-a-new-battery-c...

Publication link: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaay2757
If you don’t trust MacOS or Windows, why would you trust Linux? With the first two, sure, they could “do something bad” to compromise you, but why would they? With Linux, yes, you have access to the source, but can you absolutely guarantee that someone hasn’t “done something bad” to compromise your system?

It’s not a matter of idealism, it’s a matter of reality. How long would it take a person of the Posters level of paranoia to guarantee they weren’t somehow compromised? And how long would it take to recheck on update?

There’s a point where the fear of bad actors becomes counterproductive.
I remember someone noticing that their Techcrunch Disrupt crowd was very white but they were using real footage.

Although the best commentary probably comes late in the series, and very briefly so it's easy to miss, when a sociopathic (white, male) COO comes to Pied Piper offices and right off the bat comments that the gender balance is quite nice but could use a little colour.
It’s Monash University, not a news website, so doesn’t seem odd to me.
Do social networks have a business case to diversify the connections of people on it? If people are encouraged to adhere to a limited number of affiliations and be firm in that group identity, then doesn’t that make it easier for advertisers to target them?
What makes 70's sci-fi stuff lo-fi are just the recording/production artifacts of the time, the intention was hyper-modern, like you said, a deviation of the mid century modern/flat UI trend.

Remove the lo-fi artifacts and the result is just hyper-modernism, created by designers applying biomorphism while focusing more on shapes and depth.

Biomorphism is all about shapes and depth, and avoiding hard edges. It can come in many forms, for example forms that stem from stones shaped by water over millenia, caves that serve as inspiration for interiors, rounded hexagonal patterns that are inspired honeycombs for example, like in the Dribbble shot in the article.

Rectangular shapes in UI's are just a result of other shapes being unfeasible at the moment, but it's still biomorph where possible.
I think there are actually two issues here: where should companies hire, and what should they pay those they do hire. The answer to the first question is unequivocally "somewhere cheaper" even though the cost in terms of cultural change and coordination cost can be non-zero. I think it's valid to pay differently in different markets. If an increment in salary has negligible effect on recruitment or retention in that market, it's wasted money. I don't even believe in "shareholder returns uber alles" but I'd rather see that money spent on hiring more people rather than the same number at higher salary.

In my case my employer couldn't have gotten me for too much less, because I did make clear that being an only remote with frequent travel was a negative. That concern doesn't apply equally to everyone, though, and tends to decrease for all as companies adjust to having remotes on every team.
Look at the following:

- Number of commits.

- Number of open issues.

- Number of closed issues.

- How they respond to issues.

- Are the commit messages descriptive?

- Is the codebase a mess or does it look reasonable?
> Nobody except me seems to see a problem there, despite me being able to point out specific security incidents.

The npm model is a shitshow (multiple versions of one dependency). People defend it for obviously self-interested or lazy reasons.
> this just sounds like normal business

All except Creator. Getting a company to enter into "an exclusive, six-month term sheet" is unusual and shitty.
Is this the same Anna Wiener who wrote the NewYorker hit piece full of general insults when you were interviewed?
But what conclusion will decisionmakers draw? That climate change is something we need to address urgently, or that our population densities have grown and maybe we need to consider that in disaster planning?
> it appears that no-one takes this threat seriously, not even in secure/financial apps.

I think that's pretty standard for our industry, even outside the often comically lazy world of JS.
They should have called it "Route 66", since it's Wifi 6 plus 6 GHz functionality. ;)
Signs of VR Rebound Emerge
0.30 euro / kwh * 80 kwh = 24 euros to drive 220 miles

220 mi / 16 mpg for GLS 550 (similar size?) = 13 gallons * 5.25 euro/gallon = 72 euro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_EQC
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/40761.shtml
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/gasoline_prices
Indeed, 6 month does seem onerous. Definitely a tough lesson learned there.
Ex-Amazon employee here. I started at Amazon right out of college so I definitely learned a lot, but the work itself wasn't really challenging. Most of what I worked on were basic CRUD services and web UI's.

Once the newness of the job wore off, I started getting really depressed because it felt like my work was meaningless, but there were also really high expectations. 90% of the work at FAANG companies is boring, and the really interesting, cutting-edge stuff is only done by a handful of teams.
Bloomberg.com's reputation has yet to recover from The Big Hack non-retraction. Until they speak publicly about it, I consider them the same tier as toilet paper.
I would put financial freedom pretty high on my importance list.

Not talking FU money, but retire and maintain current lifestyle.
Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics could help people with addiction and anxiety
Launching Is Terrifying
If you work for a long time in a broken system and really have something to say, you could write that book.

This author doesn’t have anything to say. It’s the expose equivalent of junk food meant to catch onto some zeitgeisty populism to win fame.

I think part of what makes the author part of the problem is the mixture of lack of experience with myopic delusion that what she has to say matters despite that. It’s the same problem many start-up founders and venture capital have that beget all the very things she’s writing about.
Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice, Once on Accident, Again on Purpose
When I was giving serious thought to moving to Vegas, one thing I thought was super cool was that nobody had lawns, just patches of gravel, some scraggly desert underbrush, and maybe a palm tree or two.

I love single-family houses but hate lawns, so that was one thing I was looking forward to about moving. Alas, it never happened. The main reason I was expecting to have to move evaporated, and I love my city enough that I don't want to move unless I have to, even despite lawns.
Lifelong Washingtonian here, currently living about an hour from these tumbleweeds... this year has been dry (saw something about 50% less rainfall / snowfall than typical for this time of year...) but tumbleweeds like this are not really that unusual. One of my very earliest memories was being caught in a storm just like this one, just before xmas when I was about two. Much of eastern Washington is scrub, where if it can be irrigated, turns into excellent agricultural land.
“ function that dramatically improves lots of people's quality of life. Examples would include eyesight and hearing. For example, many people start to get blurry vision in their 40s, due to a variety of factors including the mix of proteins in the lens of the eye causing hardening and potentially the muscle holding the lens aging. Could a simple approach like rapamycin droplets in the eye reverse aspects of aging and therefore eyesight? ”

Yeah, I’ve heard about the protein buildup problem for twenty years now. Hopefully, someday...

Here’s an August 2000 article from the NYT that discusses the problem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/health/reading-glasses-as...

Well into the 21st Century, and I must say I’m a little disappointed. After that second DARPA Grand Challenge, I’d have said “no way we don’t have self-driving cars by 2020”
* I'd love to see that as well

* At the same time:

- A LOT of companies are uncomfortable making some of this data SaaS / external. I'm not saying they're right, but it's there

- A LOT of companies are unique, or strongly believe they're unique, and that they need bespoke / highly customized software. I'm not saying they're right... ;)

- I'm a techie, so it's taken me a decade to realize that implementing a new backoffice suite by a consulting company is one third or less technical / IT project; and two thirds or more business process / transformation project. And the actual success / failure of these projects is almost entirely guided by the business transformation part.

And when a company views ERP as a technical/IT project, it is most likely to not end well (small scale example: Sally in accounting refuses to change and insists that the new fancy software, on-prem or SaaS, do things the way she's done them for 2 decades in Excel, because that's "how their company does it"... no matter how inefficient or outdated they are. If you're seen as an IT project, it's your duty to accommodate Sally and now you're building the same thing over and over, compromising any value in your new ERP, SaaS or otherwise. If you're seen as business transformation project, you have some chance to make a difference and make things better...]

- Therefore SaaS would reduce FAR less effort in ERP than many techies (including myself) feel. Basically, you'd still have a consulting company come in to (try) to do business transformation so your internal processes actually accept and match the SaaS processes; build interfaces; and then maintain and support.

Disclosure/example: I'm in consulting part of IBM, and while I'm currently on a legacy ERP project, my colleagues in "Cloud/SaaS" (i.e. "let somebody else host it for you") side are no less busy than before. Mind you, they are on average providing higher value services, so that's a plus :)
What's the "that" in "that's how it works"? 5GHz APs in every room?

I'm not saying that 5GHz doesn't have benefits, just that many of them are hard to exploit when you have real walls.
I agree with your overall point, but in addition to housing I'd also include childcare / private school tuition, and taxes.
Anna Wiener will be talking at some events in SF, NY and other places soon https://twitter.com/annawiener/status/1205176302149484545
If you're open to connecting with new people, it's easier to introduce you to someone who's really into product X and recommends it to all their friends.
Neat! I never knew about poison parsnip until a few years ago when I developed a burn on my arm a few days after flyfishing on a small stream on the 4th of July. It was pretty small all things considered, but very painful and took weeks to heal.
OpenAPI/Swagger specs (and clients for specs) using Javalin and Maven
After reading the article, SV screams "phony," al la Holden Caulfield.
Artificial intelligence analysis of newborns for the prediction of autism
Stadia requirements:

35 megabits per second: 4K, 60 fps, HDR, 5.1 surround sound.

Consumer internet is fine for this in a lot of the developed world.
mind to share which was the topic and publisher of the book ?
Which are great reasons to be responsible and run a large emergency fund, or be responsible and make 450k combined before buying the house. But not reasons to make 900k.
It's unfortunate that Rust is so tied to cargo, and unfortunate that cargo insists on allowing multiple versions of a dependency. If you point out that cargo is poorly designed everyone just yells and you and says you don't understand.
But the issue isn’t bandwidth, really, is it? I would think the ping would be the killing factor. Do they have a plan for that? Server farms no more than 20ms away from anywhere in the US?
"used stolen Facebook data"

Is that factually correct? I was under the impression that facebook gave them API access.
Nice! www.aeroworxglobal.com
True, although btw you can be burned out outside of work as well.
What places pay less for benefits? No relocation, working sub 40 hours a week, greatly increase time off (none of this “unlimited vacation but really it’s just up to your manager” bullshit)?
I don't think it's hard to see why. It's a $67k base price with only a 200 mile range.
total compensation depends A LOT on when you joined and what the stock has been doing, especially a year after that (typical time RSUs start to vest).

A lot of companies had seen their stock more than double, so a 500K grant turns into over a million (typically vested over 4 years). This is before any bonuses and perf grants
Single antenna devices make sense for a lot of small/low power devices. Not to say manufacturers don't just cheap out sometimes though :).

802.11ah (2017) would be your most likely bet for low frequency in the short term. I have a 5 year bet going with another guy in the office that he won't be able to get a client and an AP with it by 2022 (i.e. he thought manufacturers would jump on it, I thought it was going to fizzle and 6/24/60 GHz would have the hardware action). So far it's looking like I'm going to win that lunch. There is also some talk about refreshing the 3.7 GHz space but I'm not sure that'll happen and if it did it'd probably be a ways out before real world impact (if ever).

As far as improving 2.4 all of the roaming standards improvements work in it and Wi-Fi 6 works in it. It's really no different than 5 GHz/6 GHz in that regard it just has a bunch of shitty legacy clients to compete with which is amplified by the fact it penetrates farther.
Elad Gil is a really smart investor (his list of Unicorn investments is probably larger than any other angel), but -- with the exception of (11) and (12) -- this doesn't strike me as a very ambitious list.
I wonder if that's due to the change in the way Apps are composited.

In the pre Windows Vista Era, the operating system handed control over to the App to draw itself on screen. In Vista they moved to a model, like OSX, where each App drew to a buffer and the OS composited those buffers. That's part of the reason why Vista was hot steaming garbage because they were still working that transition out.
“customers get features deemed most valuable by product folk” - perhaps I am misreading the intent here, but this seems like a license for product people to ignore really getting to know the customer problem. Contrary to popular SV wisdom, I believe that most customers really do know what they want, at least most of the time and in broad brushstrokes. Many of the best products I’ve worked on have come from asking customers what they want! See http://brettcvz.com/posts/49-finding-product-ideas-in-new-cu... for a more detailed write up.
> left her job at the software development platform GitHub

What is it about GitHub in particular that attracts these activists?
Whomever changed the headline should change it to something that accurately reflects the content, like it was before.

Nobody who doesn’t already know Anna Weiner or Uncanny Valley would understand the meaning of the headline.
In the late 1970's, high school, I used a Wang 2200, PCS I believe it was. The BASIC was wonderful compared to anything else around (TRS-80 Level II, PET, Apple).

Disks were an out of reach luxury at this time, but Wang's 9-track cassette tape drive was great. Nothing like using an audio cassette recorder on microcomputers of the era. More like using a mainframe tape drive. You could seek for files by name. Back up or skip forward by files at a time. The software controlled the tape drive forward and backward. The 9-track head was across the entire tape, so you could not "flip" the cassette tape over. This was a custom drive, NOT an audio cassette tape drive. And it ran the tape considerably faster than audio drives.

I discovered that it was possible to use inexpensive Radio Shack C-15 tapes (15 minute) because the tape was thick enough. This was vastly cheaper than buying the cassette tapes sold by Wang.

For the couple years I used this in high school, I had lots of fond memories. But soon grew out of it when I used bigger better machines and languages in college.
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They had API access but extracting and using the data in the way they did was against the terms of use IIRC
In the public discourse the possibility of there being an unhealthy level of porn consumption is fairly recent, despite it being pretty accessible for many years. Some consumers are more prone to addiction than others, not just consuming daily but binging at that. Simply recognizing the potential for addiction and aiming to avoid overconsumption is more helpful than recognizing no problem at all, even if we don't choose to eschew porn altogether.

Terry Crews has spoken about his trouble with it at length, and posted videos about it. Though I'm not sure to what extent his issue could be attributed to his wife having zero tolerance for his consumption.
Negative Latency

https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/10/google-stadia-negative-l...
The Average GDPR Fine in 2019 Was the Same as an Average European Seed Round
1M/4 = 250K vests each year (excluding any refreshers)
I provided exactly one example and that was a comparison between XML and JSON. The follow up was just an additional remark that idiomatic XML would be even shorter.

I am afraid I cannot follow your argument about complexity as any parser worth its money WILL BE ABLE to parse XML without any significant overhead and - as I mentioned numerous times - issues do not stem from how an XML document is built but from the fact that (mostly) Java parsers attempted to implement about each possible OOP pattern instead of going for KISS. The code over-engineering is the issue, not the document structure. I am really not sure what point you are trying to make and why you are diverting from the actual topic I addressed.

I am slightly surprised about your bias remark, as it seems to be you who is strongly biased towards JSON despite my initial comments as well as the "significant benefits" as I never made any such claim, on the contrary it is you once again who seems to make such about JSON. Maybe you can post the "hard data" you referred to.

Bottom line (once again), XML and JSON are extremely similar and saying one is better than the other simply shows lack of experience. Then of course, if you parse 70 kilobyte JSON documents with a lean parser, but parse 12 megabyte XML documents with a typical Java parser, nobody needs to be surprised the latter will perform abysmally compared to the former, but that would be a whole different subject.
Google is thinking globally.

Local conditions (US for example) are not necessary a showstopper in Japan, South Korea or parts of Europe. Low latency extremely high bandwidth is the new playground.
Learning to be an opportunistic word problem solver
>To illustrate this point she highlights public goods or services that are increasingly privatised, like for-profit coding boot camps, which are marketed as an investment or a substitute for a four-year university degree. “The tech industry is trying to provide solutions to crises that they didn’t necessarily create, but that they are now exacerbating.

This is a good example of how lines of thought like the author's that purport to be democratic socialist are actually committed to maintaining the institutions that entrench existing inequalities in cultural, social (and of course, financial) capital.
It did this morning. That’s the power of Hacker News!
The npm dependency model is a nightmare. All the more shameful given that it's backed by a for-profit entity that charges its users.
youd be suprised how alot of people in developed world don't even have access to this
Tail Call Optimization is an optimization done by the compile/vm that replace (in assembly terms) a CALL by a JMP.
Therefore removing a call stack.
Strangely absent from the blog post, or the article on which it is based, is the price of the vehicle. It mentions "numerous Tesla Model 3s", but I suspect that this thing costs more than a Model X.

The other factor, of course, is infrastructure. What is the availability of Mercedes-compatible chargers, compared to Tesla?

Edit: I stand corrected on the price. I don't know about Germany, but pathartl's quoted US price, while quite a bit more than a Model 3, would be less than a Model X.
Automated testing is becoming the norm, but I'd agree that otherwise ERP developers, on average, are either unaware, or simply not able to utilize most of the tools and practices from the wider market.
My spider-senses are tingling: Is this tracking I can't get rid of?
> 1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers.

[Boundless](https://boundlesshq.com/) is a startup that is tackling this exact problem through automating the entire "employe(e/r) of record" process.
I might make a different comparison:

Everyone who has played more than one video game knows that some just feel better than others. In one, your character is fluid and nimble, and in another, slow and clunky.

This is the result of many things, but a large portion comes from input lag and frame rate. More advanced users aren't necessarily more perceptive, they're just better at pinpointing what they're reacting to. (And in some cases, conscious of how an experience could be improved.)

This is similar to the study of any type of art. Whereas a casual observer might look at a painting and say "meh, I don't like it", someone who has studied art pedagogically can describe precisely what isn't working for them.