skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My father died in July of 2015 from alcohol

My adoptive father also died of alcohol abuse. I am Much older than you are though. He served in WWII, also most of his friends drank heavily--I suspect it was due to combat war related PTSD; but that is merely a guess.

I am very careful about how much I drink, and I do have an addictive personality. I just had a talk, tonight in fact, with my 20 year old about drugs--and was surprised to hear that coke is big again at my child's University. My kid drinks a bit, but has a 4.0 average as Bio major looking to get into Med School. No guarantee of a drug free life but my point is talk to your son about it when he's older.

Sorry for loss.

Congratulations on the birth of your son!
Sadly it's very common to hear from many reasonably serious potential acquirers before something is consummated. 10 is not unusual I think. It's best to always focus on your business and growing it, assume the acquisition isn't going to close and not getting distracted by it. Avoid any legal or other costs until it's basically negotiated/closed and they're putting some non-refundable closing money down.
> the citizen at least knows they're being censored

Since your argument revolve around this, do you know if this is correct? As in, people in China does not know they're being censored?
and people also dont need to go to the artisanal grocery store for food, doesnt mean there isnt a market

The point is that the only reason Casper is “controversial” here is because IPOs have been elevated to a coveted version of success when it has nothing to do with anything aside from being unnecessarily rare.

Casper is just a vertically integrated mattress seller accessing the public markets now
This is the only reality based, sensible comment in this whole thread. Well done.
You're advising people to play poker (guess intentions face to face), but only have your side put chips on the table?
Yes, that is exactly what I want. Life should be much more difficult without the TOTP and backup codes, so much that it takes a great deal of resources to get around it, if at all possible. Maybe even providing heavy documentation such as a Facetime call with various proof so that fraudulent actors are sufficiently deterred.
"Of any country I've visisted[sic], Uber is the least necessary in Colombia. The taxi system is extremely fair and safe, albeit cash only right now. It's highly regulated and you can count on predictable, transparent, fair rates."

This is only because of Uber. They were terrible before Uber appeared.

This is the problem I see. Now taxis have no reason to be fair and safe anymore.

A common trick is a button behind the wheel, that can be activated without the passenger noticing, and it just makes the meter jump up. Well timed use can make the rate double of what it should be, without suspicion.

Very interesting anecdote about Uber drivers in Medellin. I guess it is the right strategy to avoid another Uber car burned by angry taxi owners.
Usually not at the LOI stage, no. The ones you quote a post purchase agreements I believe.
> avoiding was a non starter so the "escape plan" was I committed to leave, akwardly as it may be, before i picked up a drink.

> aka if someobdy was pressuring me to drink to the point i felt i had to i would say "ok get me a beer i have to go to the bathroom" and then disappear and blame it on an upset stomach

I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I don't understand -- why was pretending to get sick easier than telling the truth -- "I can't, I've quit drinking", or a softened version, "I'm not drinking tonight", etc.? Or did you start off with that and they'd continue to pressure you? I don't think I know anyone who'd be that much of an a-hole, unless they were already very drunk themselves.
I did an insane amount of research when buying my mattress a couple years back, there are _so_ many bed-in-a-box companies now. Decided on Helix Sleep because they offer a level of customisation, and their customer support is rated incredibly highly (which I decided very important if you're going to buy a mattress without trying it).

I love my Helix so much so that I convinced my parents to buy one. They didn't love theirs and sure enough, customer service was hassle-free with the return. So my n=2 recommendation: Helix is the way to go

That said those Glow Lights do seem pretty awesome
Serendipity+zeitgeist

Serendeitgeist
I’ll admit that doppler radar, noise canceling headphones, RSA cryptography and GPS might all be “trendy”, but they’re only a few of the many, many inventions that came out of MIT, mostly bankrolled by military funding.
They are similar, but also quite dissimilar. Withdrawal from cigarettes or junk food don’t send you into a 72 hour coma. Smoking and junk food don’t have the huge impacts to how you treat those around you that being drunk all the time does. Saying these things are similar is trivializing the actual physical and psychological effects of alcoholism.
> I think it is a bad idea to say this about him without providing a concrete example on how he made you uncomfortable.

They don't have to justify themselves to you. He saw what he saw, and felt what he felt. if you have any problem with that, that's on you.
My father is also an alcoholic, went to AA for a while, has had two divorces since because of drinking. My sister is an alcoholic, my mother is a prescription drug addict. The way this manifests in me is that I'm obsessed with Not Being An Alcoholic. So I drink. Because it's Not A Problem! Sometimes I drink too much, sometimes it lasts for months. And then I Prove To Myself that I'm not an alcoholic, and I stop for a bit. And start again, but like a Well-Adjusted Person! And sometimes not, and everything is coming apart, and then I do it again, stop drinking for a bit, and I think to myself, "Well, at least I'm not an alcoholic!"

Edit: Let me mention that the guardrails on this have narrowed since my daughter was born.
Cash Cows: Australian universities making billions out of international students
I am afraid to take taxis in Parque de la 93 or Zona Rosa, where the high class dancing clubs are in Bogotá, but using an app or taking a taxi in other parts of the city is not that dangerous.

Being a taxi driver is also dangerous and driving the taxi to certain neighborhoods can be a very bad idea.
We do as low as $1m ARR: discretioncapital.com
Honestly, would like to see more RISC-V offerings instead of 64bit arm. Although the ISA is still relatively new. Also some the extensions like bit manip are not finalized. However, the base instructions are.
Thanks for pointing that one out! I had no idea. I was literally less than a week from purchasing two Casper mattresses - one for my family one for my parents. I bailed. I also told my sister to return hers since she's still in the refund window. She told me it wasn't nearly as comfortable as she thought but they gave her hard time with refund. They asked her to either pay return fees which are north of $300 or find non profit that would accept. I'm taking matters in my hand. Its sad.
Is there any further reading on this in the scientific programming space?
is that a star wars quote???
The rest of the developed world is using a same way to verify a person - by providing your document. ID card or passport.
Basically, there are 3 types of buyers: value PE, growth PE and strategic. Value pays 3-4x, growth 4-7x, strategics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Stripe would be a strategic for Baremetrics.
"2) Will the credit card machine in the taxi always be working?"

I have never seen a taxi with a credit card machine in Bogotá.
When you cut/paste/move around chunks of code, the existence of an unbalanced bracket provides redundancy which is a HUGE blessing in case you mess something up.

Eg: When removing a bunch of lines from an indented python block (with empty lines above and below), you might accidentally un-indent later lines and never realize, or at least forget what was the "correct" indentation! Particularly cases where editors mess up indentation level when you delete part of a line.
A security empire deployed guards with violent pasts across the U.S.
> As a user, I prefer gethostbyname to getaddrinfo

On many systems (e.g. OpenBSD) they're implemented with the exact same code. glibc is something of an outlier given its insanely complex implementations interacting with RedHat's backward compatibility promises. Many of the code paths are the same[1], but getaddrinfo permits stuff like parallel A and AAAA lookups, and minor tweaks in behavior (e.g. timing, record ordering) often break somebody's [broken] application, so I'm not surprised some people have stuck to gethostbyname, which effectively disables or short-circuits alot of the optimization and feature code.

But, yeah, browsers in particular do all sorts of crazy things, even before DoH, that were problematic.

[1] As a temporary hack to quickly address a glibc getaddrinfo CVE without having to upgrade (on tens of thousands of deployed systems) the ancient version of glibc in the firmware, I [shamefully] wrote a simple getaddrinfo stub that used glibc's gethostbyname interfaces, and dynamically loaded it as a shared library system wide. It worked because while most of the same code paths were called, the buffer overflow was only reached when using getaddrinfo directly. Hopefully that company has since upgraded the version of glibc in their firmware. But at the time it made sense because the hack was proposed, written, tested, and queued for deployment before the people responsible for maintaining glibc could even schedule a meeting to discuss the process of patching and testing, which wasn't normally included in firmware upgrades and nobody could remember the last time they pushed out rebuilt binaries. glibc was so old because everybody was focused on switching Linux distributions, which of course took years to accomplish rather than months.
How did you arrive at the conclusion that the West is great? Compared to what?
Two Marines two medals! Dan Daley and Smedley Butler!
I have both assetto corsa and iracing and high end equipment (fanatec highest end pedals, fanatec DD2 wheel and fanatec gearbox) and I'm not going to renew iRacing.

I enjoy Asetto Corsa better, regarding the physics, I consider they are about as good, graphics are so much better. The good thing of iRacing is the online competition, which is simply superior on every single aspect, but not worth the subscription model nor the costs.

It may make sense if you run ovals, dirt ovals or rally cross, but since I only run on circuits, it's not worth the money to me.
> Instead he turns up his nose to free food

What is the purpose of this free food?

It cannot be to feed their starving employees. If that was the case they would just stop catering and pay their employees more. They're certainly not feeding homeless people in their office.

This food is not a necessity, most certainly not the snacks. These are creature comforts, pieces of corporate flair for recruiters to lure recruits. They're lotuses, to help you feel more comfortable in a place that is not innately comfortable.

Starting your own company is hard and you need industry experience first. Here, the work-life balance is good, the pay is good, the culture is good. What more could you ask for? Plus, have you tried the queijo?
Python does have warts for sure but surely indentation for conditions isn't unusual? Python forces it but I've never written e.g C or C++ and not indented anyway.
I have a hard time understanding why your first sentence is necessary. Nothing against what you said subsequently (and I think it's totally right), and myself disliking facebook, your first sentence is entirely unnecessary and beside the point.

From what I read, your parent comment sound entirely logical coming from a different POV. I don't see anything illegitimate about it, even if it WAS Facebook PR, the point within are entirely valid.
" Almost all the taxi drivers refuse to use gps and get really angry if you are using gps and showing that they are taking a much longer route."

Totally true some years ago. Last week they asked me: "which route do you prefer?"
Consumer spending is 85% female. https://girlpowermarketing.com/womens-purchasing-power/
The problems you've listed all seem like symptoms of a single ailment: the brutal stratified economy that most Americans now have to navigate. Things like incarceration and suicide are just male-specific facets of a general decline in living standards.

Driveby conservative and liberal punditry regards men as uniquely targeted/at fault for their lots respectively, but I don't think this sex-specific interrogation yields any real solutions. At least not compared to universal class-based politics, which addresses the root of the issue rather than the way the problem manifests for a particular demographic.
I am quite amused by MIT having to make some kind of apology for Jeffrey Epstein, but: the Rad Lab series, unless you count that as curiously good press.
I've struggled with this a lot as well. I think the solution is to work backwards, get automated deployment working first so there's nothing stopping you from shipping, then work from master to force you to ship small changes without getting stuck on never ending feature branches.
Relevant HN discussion and further details about Casper’s relationship with sleepopolis.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321807
I'm in a program in NYC called https://www.venwise.com/, it's a moderated CxO peer group that meets for a long session every month and does exactly this.
China Telecom launches service packages for satellite communications to public
Given your success, I'm surprised that you feel the need to remain anonymous. Is it only social stigma, or do you think that there would be business or professional consequences if people knew that you are an alcoholic in recovery?
So many of my friends have been victims of bogus Credit Card transactions after installing Rappi that I don't want to take that risk yet.
Where did you get that resource industries are able to turn a profit in the park system from the article?

From actually reading the article, rather than just skimming a line or two. For example:

Then came the decisions to leave the parks open to impacts during the unfortunate government shutdown, illegally misuse entrance fees, open park trails to e-bikes, suppress climate science, kill wolf pups and bear cubs in their dens to enhance “sport hunting”, privatize campgrounds, and issue muzzle memos to park managers. With a waiver of environmental laws, bulldozers are plowing ancient cacti in national parks along the southern border in order to build a wall. Senior career park managers are likely to be replaced with unqualified political hacks.

It doesn't explicitly say that these companies will turn a profit. But since the moves are basically industry-driven - we can take it as a given that that the ultimate intended goal.
My experience is quite the opposite, I think it looks excellent, and the only one which looks better in my experience is project cars 2 (but is inferior on every other aspect).

Sure, the text might be a bit blurry (like on every other game), and the dials look worse than desirable but driving at speed I think the immersion is unmatched.

I have a gtx 1080 and oculus rift s. I haven't tested yet ACC.
> It expressly does consider, but did not get a response from the NSW police.

I read the article twice, I didn't see that. Please provide the exact quote.

> to report numbers before there is evidence to support it is misinformation

The police state "24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires" - they've reported a number of people they've charged. What evidence do you require beyond the official police statement describing how many arrests they made. An audit?
You know, I was thinking to myself what it would take to take Epstein money. How much would count? And the truth is that no amount really works. Most of us middle-class folk would probably say no pretty fast if offered the choice because the best way to stay safe from the mob is to not let it turn its Eye of Sauron on you. The instinct that keeps me far is less morality than self-preservation. Epstein himself had billions and he died in a jail cell. I'd take the deal if I were destitute, though.

Interestingly, lots of these people weren't destitute. But these people (more intelligent than I am) fell for a trick I would have fallen for a hundred times faster: the slow drip. "Come visit my island. I'll fly you there". Of course I say "yes". Then when I'm there, everyone is busy having sex with kids. I'm standing there like gawking like an idiot. I have no sex with kids. I'm the only one who will say that. I'm already screwed. Well played, mob, well played. If I whistle blow the kid-screwing then they'll get in front of me. I'll commit suicide because apparently I had this secret paedophilia. The Internet will say "Well, junba wasn't a trustworthy guy ultimately. They found child porn on his computer". I'm not saying that some of the guys were innocent. I'm saying that given the existence of adversaries bent on information manipulation, no one external can determine if you're innocent or not. Better to stay far from the Eye of Sauron.
I’m the guy who left a case of champagne at the office one weekend, to celebrate an early release.

Thanks for the memories.
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Do you have any sources on that (the specific technique that was used)? Google returned nothing.

AFAIK, they were hacked using plain simple SIM swap/cloning.
The tracking already happens via numerous license plate readers, especially if the road is already tolled.
No, Baremetrics is a Stripe-et-al analytics service.
I don’t see why they would agree to that
oh i see, they do like NVIDIA

they underpower their vehicules so they can justify selling "fake higher end" at a much higher price

that's illegal
Where this style applies the most is with hardcoded assets: initializations and runtime behaviors that require an unknown degree of flexibility.

When someone is trained in OOP, the requirement "flexible behavior" triggers a search for answers through polymorphism, but polymorphism is much more structured than a copy-paste-modify code path. It creates limits to scope and requires more explicit names for things. That is the point, of course. You have write more code and do more complex things to get the same level of flexibility, and it'll be harder to debug since the call stack will have to jump around throughout the layers of abstraction. In a "time from idea to production code" latency analysis, OOP structures lose to copy-paste.

And that's why, across the bulk of game codebases I've seen, there tends to be a big jump from hardcoded assets straight into data-driven ECS-style approaches. Small games start with the former, and if they get big enough switch to the latter. The ECS approach still exacts a debugging penalty because more bugs will exist in data, where they're harder to analyze with IDE tooling, but more behaviors are encoded as explicit patterns with limited scope, which is good in a team environment, and it's possible to go data-driven in an incremental rewrite: simply find all the truly redundant stuff, replace it with a parameterized pattern, expose the pattern as data. For the stuff that isn't easily parameterized, consider encoding a small state machine interpreter so that an imperative program definition may occur in data. In the entity system, add some notion of dynamic compositions of state and behavior at initialization. Between those three you can cover just about everything, and you never have to do it 100% to ship: it's there to assist the things that benefit from additional structure, which probably isn't all of the game. (rather, in the AAA environment the data-driven approach can tend to get out of hand - it's a move that allows the designers to avoid needing explicit code support for longer and longer periods of time, with the predictable result of enterprise anti-patterns that abuse scripting in a fashion that is much harder to debug than the hardcoded equivalent.)

This distinction is also basically why you don't see Jon Blow, for example, really get excited about discussing the runtime architecture of his game projects: If the bulk of the game is assets all the way down, there's nothing to talk about, and the only part that concievably could be exciting is some of the core algorithms that drive the interactivity.

It's also why so many gamedevs are apologetic about their code: half of them try to escape this reality by finding a magic mix of abstractions(which eventually blows up and causes rewrites once sufficient complex behavior hits the codebase), the other half run with it and stay in the local optimum of inlined, hardcoded, primitive-heavy functions.
Why not use an open TOTP app like AndOTP. I use it all the time for sites that claim to require Google Authenticator, it works, and its easy to backup the secrets as plain text or encrypted with a password. I keep it current on my primary phone and a cheap offline backup, in addition to backing up the encrypted secrets file.
Another good extension for selectively blocking JavaScript, cookies, etc. is uMatrix (from the maker of uBlock Origin). (I've been a happy user of it for many years.)
I shared a Lyft ride with a Facebook employee right after the CA controversy. I asked her what do employees think about it.

She told me that people are really worried about how the controversy affected the stock price. (Facebook stock was down around that time.)

I'm not sure how many employees worry about stock price than the supposed effect of the CA controversy but I was disappointed to hear that from a Facebook employee.
>Raising the cost to drive isn't going to make people stop driving unless they have good alternatives, you're just making their life more expensive.

When I was on a budget, I certainly factored in tolls in my costs to see if I could afford them or not. I don't see why tolls of $10, $20, $50, $100 wouldn't start changing behavior.
Don’t put them in google authenticator.

https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/
It would be nice if the carriers allowed you to specify you wanted to restrict SIM swapping. When I lost my 3 SIM to get the number transferred to a new one I went to a 3 store with my passport. I'd be fine with that being the only method they'd allow.
"They want to grow"

I've never experienced a manager who seemed really in tune with how I think one should treat people. They usually intend well, but effusive over the top praise makes me uncomfortable for several reasons;* the only thing worse than that is demanding contradictory or impossible things.

It seems to me that a leader needs to be a like a coach. I haven't even ever played team sports, but it seems intuitively obvious to me that you reward people by gradually trusting them more as they prove themselves, and continually stretching what is asked of them to find limits and what fits them best. And you shape everything around the good people you can find, rather than trying to get people who are plug and play for a pre-existing approach.

The hard part I think is that it is so easy to ask far less of someone than they are capable in one area, and more than they are capable of in another. Both can lead to demoralization or even disaster.

*If you're continually praising me, it starts to seem as though you had low expectations and you're not raising them fast enough. Or you think I'm easily manipulated.
What about using syncthing? There are decent text editors for mobile.
Great idea. I’ll be back mid May.
it has very little to do with mattress, hot air from your body tends to behave as psychics would dictate and will go through your blanket upwards, or whatever you sleep under. Most reasons for sweating is your AC blowing cold air at you at night when you sleep. When your head is cold the body raises temperature and hence you sweat under blanket.

Last thing to change would be another grand on new mattress.
Isn't that solvable by not requiring 2fa for "registered" devices?