skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any specific context on this company so won't comment on their offering compared to that of Segment, but I do find the "collect everything" approach to be generally bad and undesirable.

What I want, past any sort of reasonable business scale, is a constrained set of specific events that I have explicitly decided that I want to track. I then want those events to be well documented and well QA'd. The approach of "here we tracked everything for you, now just sort through it" is great if you only want to serve small companies who just don't want to do the work to be more intentional about their data, but at any sort of reasonable scale of people touching data this becomes a recipe for disaster.
Fire risk batteries being harmful, for but one example, is hardly "subjective".

Apparently in your world, it's perfectly okay for Joe Johnson to create an Amazon merchant account called "Apple" and sell me and sell me defective products under the Apple label.
> you're attempting to evade the central point by changing the argument to a typical Republican/Democratic slugfest.

I wasn't intending to.

> I don't care about the merits of Congressional prerogatives here, which is an entirely secondary point. The point is that the Founding Fathers believed that Congress would defend its own prerogatives against the executive. This has been proven false.... Congress is driven by the needs of the political parties who happen to be running it at the time, not as an institution in itself.

Got it, this is a better explanation and I think I agree with it.
> Reason still hasn't had its async story ironed out,

Reason's async story is pretty simple: use promises until the let-syntax (like generalized do-notation) lands, then use that.

> "ReasonML strings are encoded as UTF-8 and not compatible with JavaScript’s UTF-16 strings"

Unfortunately this is inaccurate, and you left out a significant detail from the article. Let's go point by point here:

- Reason strings are not encoded as UTF-8, in fact they aren't encoded at all.

- But, when targeting JavaScript using the BuckleScript compiler, strings can contain Unicode characters and use the JavaScript runtime's support for Unicode.

- This is not a short-term workaround, but the intended solution.
Hell, plenty examples exists from when the general economy was just fine. Startups are startups.
There is hardware that is there only to support v86-mode and v86 mode extensions though. V86 mode really really should go away...
It depends a lot on your origin and destination. In my 6 years, I’ve found the optimal corridor to be Downtown Brooklyn to Midtown, with a slight bias for west manhattan over east. Anything outside that corridor has a high potential to be the Wild West (the G, L, JZM, etc) with kafkaesque reroutes and delays and express running local and no trains after 9pm on random 5 days every 9 weeks.
While you may not agree, you can surely recognise that others may appreciate the heads-up. I can easily imagine some people may be pleased to work on fusion, but not on drones.

Your parent merely notified us that more than one type of product is in development at that company and one that is not fusion is specifically designed to kill people.
In OO, autocomplete can be driven by type information, which makes it that much more reliable and relevant.
I used and like typescript-axios
Your original comment is talking about how the politeness of some post didn't matter at all because it was right, and that critics were wrong to consider the politeness level because it was right. That's what I was arguing against. I mentioned a hypothetical post with a bunch of expletives as just a more extreme example of where it would be more obviously right to consider the politeness of a post.

I had actually previously read the post you linked to, and while I agreed with its point, I also agreed with the critics of its tone. I don't think that post would be convincing to people who didn't already agree with it. I think your original post here is overly dismissive to that criticism.
Sim-cloning is a very popular technique for this, but it is far from being the only commonly used technique to get around SMS-based 2FA.

2FA through SMS isn't safe, and while it is better than no 2FA at all, it is just barely better than none. If you are curious to find more info, there is a lot of writing that has been done on this topic. I am very impartial to Brian's writing on security topics, and he has at least one post regarding SMS-based 2FA [0].

0. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights...
I've always prioritized living close to work and making my commute a 10mn walk. It's such a quality of life improvement, but I understand it can't be done by everyone.

Since I lived and NYC and London, living near work often meant living in busy and noisy city areas, but it's a compromise I've generally been happy with.
My favourite anecdote from that era is this slogan that a small town came up with.

"Reagan - enemy number one of the Tutrakan village system!"
It doesn't matter because that's NOT the reason why spam is commonly not autodeleted. The reason is because of false positives. If you could be 100% certain of never falsely flagging an email as spam, you would be totally OK with autodeleting them unless you're either just curious or specifically doing something with spam messages.
> Comcast pays for ingress traffic into their network

Actually, in some cases, Comcast gets paid FOR it.

https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...
Vacancies from Tech Startups
You realize the market is highly regulated and fully captured by the insurance companies? Not to mention the doctors guild that limits practitioners. The current system is not a free market. It is highly distorted and gamed.
The ones making that much money would certainly be able to find other jobs making similar amounts, elsewhere; and it would be good that they had this safety net, hopefully with medicare for all too.
Ah Uk car insurance. Crazy variance in premiums between providers when I was there. Like I don’t hunk I ever took the renewal offer.
> If you're getting a heavy discount, from a sketchy source, then maybe there's a reason for it.

Talk about a perverse incentive. Maybe I should sell fake AirPod Pros for (MSRP-$3). Enough that the price feels right to make you think it's the real deal, and as a reward, I'll make more profit!
My guess would be that under EU protection you can’t deny having willingly provided the money, and ask the bank to take it back just because you don’t feel it was worth it anymore.

The claim would go through the police or a formal fraud complaint, and you’d be basically pursuing the fraudster in small claims.
Today is your lucky day! Have you heard of jsonschema[0]'s hyperschema[1][2]?

[0]: https://json-schema.org

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-handrews-json-schema-...

[2]: https://json-schema.org/implementations.html#hyper-schema
It would have been better to go from CPU to GPU for compression/decompression, as it can get a better result for the same price, but on the other hand it's understandable that the prize wants to be compatible with earlier solutions.
.NET you install either Visual Studio or just the SDK and everything just works. And it's not just the initial setup. It's the best debugging experience available. It has a robust extension system, though honestly, you don't need to engage it and you're still having an amazing experience.

For a while, I grumbled that it had spoiled me for other languages, the "fun" looking stuff that everyone talks about online. But as with all... rustic... experiences, it's only fun for the weekend. I wouldn't want to spend my entire life chopping wood for fuel, either. Even after spending 3 years fully in JavaScript land, getting very comfortable with all of the tools, it never really got "good enough". Years of effort and my dev experience was still worse than a default VS install. So I went back and have been loving life again.
> What are your thoughts about the being an open source extension?

It being open source doesn't guarantee what you see on GitHub is the code that the extension uses.

I'm not saying this author is acting maliciously but a very common attack is to say something is open source, point to the repo but in reality the code running in the extension is unrelated to that repo.

This often happens with packages installed by popular package managers. The home page of the package will be linked to GitHub so it appears to be open source but the package itself has different code because most of these package hosting sites don't pull in code directly from GitHub. The package author can publish code from a private closed source copy of the code sitting on their dev box and no one would ever know unless they looked at the source code after installing the package.

Now, when it comes to Chrome extensions I do believe there's ways to check out the source code of any extension you use, so you could double check it there but then you have to worry about the extension getting updated too.
Its like..imagine flu were twice as likely as it is now but 10x as deadly if you got it, especially if you're over 50. Is it nothing? No. Is it bubonic plague? No. Can you catch it? Not at the moment unless you're in hubei? Its a bit like 90% of it is in hubei, 9% rest of china and 1% rest of the world..

Most of the problem is health systems cant scale for 2x flu in a short time.. But the world has a bit of time for prep since its mostly a chinese problem at the moment..

The rest of it is mostly economic fallout from secondary effects like travel restrictions and large scale quarantines(like the chinese have done). Unless you're in the travel and hospitality industry..theres probably little impact at the moment?

Why are you stressed?
Contracts with ISPs are whatever the ISP wants them to be at any time, because the US court system allows one-sided non-negotiable contracts that include "we can change this contract at any time" clauses. Also, if you want to sue over the changes in the contract... you can't, because the US court system allows those one-sided non-negotiable contracts to include "you can never sue us for anything and instead are required to go to arbitration with an arbitrator of our choosing" clauses.
Your data can't be mutated if you're using immutable data structures. Which is what Clojure defaults to, in fact.
I've come to use more and more Python for tasks I would have used Shell in the past. Because of weird syntax with anything but simple variables or endless fiddling with quoting.

You can get a lot done quite easily and concise in Python 3, for instance with the pathlib module that has methods for recursive globbing and stuff like that.

https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/pathlib.html
Modern computers using millions more is a little misleading, since a lot of that goes to architectural overhead and other things than single bit computations.
Yes, correct, forced wealth redistribution. Similar to tax dollars going to defense contractors, teachers, farmers, the elderly and medicare. The federal government is in the business of forced wealth distribution.
I am using this as a company/boss/role filter and it is fantastic. Some are offended that I think I have any control (literally uncontrolled in their negative response, "how dare you ask that?"). Some seem confused ("but you're supposed to be lying to present an image of the perfect employee, aren't you?"). Others are glad for the request and appreciate my honest straightforwardness and willingness to discard convention to achieve better results. There's been sufficient discussion of this that it no longer counts as innovative but I've always been on the leading edge (sometimes, sadly so) and am obviously willing to take risks.

Always remember that interviews are mutual.
Yes, but they can still be quite stupid about it.

Once I was told, well, we want to give you a raise of X% of your base salary, but money is tight. So here's X-5%, and 5% in stock options. Not stock, options.

So, not only do we have to go public, but we also have to double (triple really, because you know I didn't get that 5% as cash the second year) for me to get the raise you say I deserve. Plus, in order to exercise those options to get compensated, I have to pay you that 5% in cash. Super.

Honestly, and along the lines of another responder, a big raise is never as sweet as a modest raise and a little autonomy. If money is tight, a little raise and a little more autonomy can smooth things over pretty well.
> I think employees generally under-value equity,

Do you mean by this that they attache a low value to the early stage equity they are given, or that they should push for a bigger part of the cap table early?

The former I think is really hard to support. After all, it's a common trope (for good reason) that people accept salaries well below market value at a startup on the basis of being convinced to over value the equity they are being offered.
> This is Ireland we're talking about. Not the US.

Perjury being a crime predates the US.

As it so happens, I am Australian.
From my experience working with both Segment and mParticle (and tons of tools they integrate with) this is definitely a need and a great idea!

My only advice would be to focus your primary messaging closer to that primary value prop. I can see how it probably took many iterations to get to “Codelessly connect your site to your stack.” But I’d guess that the concept of ‘codelessly’ won’t be as exciting to people with the problems you’re solving as something like “Capture all data for today’s needs AND tomorrows. It’s like time travel.” Or “A time traveling, no-code analytics tool for the future.”, “The world’s first time traveling analytics tool.”, “Future-proof your analytics with the world’s first time-traveling analytics tool.”

One other customer acquisition idea- many co’s will already have segment/mparticle and if they’re opening communication with you then that likely means they want something better but it takes a surprising amount of work to integrate segment/mparticle with many marketing tools so I’d offer some sort of onboarding assistance if you can otherwise they won’t want to take the risk of embarking on them migration.

Great idea, good luck!
>I'm not saying this author is acting maliciously but a very common attack is to say something is open source, point to the repo but in reality the code running in the extension is unrelated to that repo.

The extension is small enough that you can inspect it yourself. Also, AMO addons are code-inspected by reviewers, unlike the chrome store.

>Now, when it comes to Chrome extensions I do believe there's ways to check out the source code of any extension you use, so you could double check it there but then you have to worry about the extension getting updated too.

That's why I disable addon updates for "uncommon" addons.
And if it comes from an Amazon seller that lists their location as California, but all of their stuff comes from China?
Love to see efforts like this -- if you all build a better java generator (and there's the reference ones to fall back on), the whole community benefits.
I think he meant MOVZX EBX, [RDI] + AND EAX, 0xFFFFFF00 + OR EAX, EBX. The sequence would be equivalent to MOV AL, [RDI].
There are two significant projects for native Reason:

- https://esy.sh/ - a package manager that offers a lockfile, aggressive build caching, and reproducible hermetic builds. So when you come back to a project a few months later, it still builds.

- https://reason-native.com/ - an umbrella for useful Reason-oriented native libraries
Or perhaps I am a mature adult who knows how to engage in discourse without the melodramatic angst of a child.
Allowing corporations to lie to you is not most people's idea of freedom.
What do you mean “just”?

All these anecdotes simply indicate they are getting bolder and more frequent and less concerned about their own opsec of being discovered.

That’s not even the tip of the iceberg.
Much less, but it’s starting to get some uglier stuff in it. Since it doesn’t need to be backwards compatible the task of keeping it reasonable is much easier.
Dangling else comes to mind.
JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
Josh here (one of the authors). Do also feel free to read the latest version of this at https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation

It's the same source as what you can find on GitHub but at Holloway we're working to make long-form docs like this easier to read on the web. PRs or feedback here on the Holloway reader welcome. :)
After reading the article and skimming some of the innumberable references (the article is all references) it seems like the unobtanium part of using laser pondermotive force to accelerate blocks high density plasma from solid state is that the laser "contrast ratio" has to be very high. In the paper it cites many failed replication efforts to use this particular laser pondermotive force due to lack of "contrast ratio".

I have no idea what "contrast ratio" means, it isn't defined, and isn't in the references. Does anyone know what "contrast ratio" means in terms of high power pulsed lasers?

edit: To answer my own question, ref: https://cdn.intechweb.org/pdfs/24813.pdf

> the laser pulse contrast ratio (LPCR) is a crucial parameter to take into consideration. Considering the laser pulse intensity temporal profile, the LPCR is the ratio between its maximum (peak intensity) and any fixed delay before it. A low contrast ratio can greatly modify the dynamics of energy coupling between the laser pulse and the initial target by producing a pre-plasma that can change the interaction mechanism.

It seems to be how fast the laser turns on, the rate of change of intensity.
I'm surprised that Apple allows apps like QEMU... it's not like them. Gives me hope...
I'm surprised people don't bring up GitHub in these conversations more - the most critical piece of modern OSS infrastructure is itself closed-source.

Of course git itself is an open tool, so the repos are totally interoperable, but the OSS community's dependence on GitHub for issue tracking, PRs, etc. has always made me uncomfortable.
There's no intelligence test required to become a criminal.
Britain’s Last Great Auk (2018)
I look at Intel ARK and use what they say the CPU is rated for. I am a couple generations behind, so not at the bleeding edge. (Haven't used an AMD CPU, but I would find their equivalent if I did.)
US to triple operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity
Dern it, http<->s. I swore I algolia'd first but must not have. Sorry!

Btw, would it be a bother to suggest a tweak to the submit action's link uniqueness check to prevent dupe items differing only in URI scheme?

// Crunchy pseudo-LISP below

(defun flip_scheme (url)
(sed "s/^https/@ttp/;s/^http/@ttps/;s/^@/h/" url)
)

// after sanitization/normalization at the point of checking for dupe items
// instead of
// (has_url url)
(if (has_url url)
(return (redirect 301 "Moved permanently" (item_for_url url))
)
(let flipped (flip_scheme url))
(if (has_url flipped)
(return (redirect 301 "Moved permanently" (item_for_url flipped)))
)
> For every major ISP, if everyone was using their connection at the maximum throughput allowed by their plan 24/7... everything would still work fine

It wouldn't though - at least for most major residential ISP's. They oversubscribe the connections, knowing full well not everybody will use the connection at the same time, and even when they are - they won't be using the maximum at once.

A minor example would be bringing a single 100Mbps connection into a small building and selling 12 x 10Mbps connections. It's one of they ways they can, yes, make a profit and also offer the bandwidth at reasonable costs.

Dedicated bandwidth is expensive. Think of your old-school T1's and your typical business class connection. You pay a lot for having that bandwidth reserved for your use alone. And majority of the time you aren't using it... and when you do use it, you use very little of it at once. Debating on HN doesn't take 1Gbps... so it goes unused. Residential users prefer lower costs vs. dedicated bandwidth.

> The data caps exist solely so they can squeeze people for money beyond what they actually need to maintain the network

Yes and no. You seem to be tip-toeing around the municipality-run ISP argument - which is a fair argument to have (although I'm concerned a city can maintain this network long-term and keep it as good as a for-profit company). There's no problem with an ISP charging customers more for the connection than the ISP pays to provide it. That's the incentive to run the network in the first place - let alone spend millions building it out.

I don't think data caps are bad so long as they don't impact "normal" use. Normal as being defined perhaps by the 95th percentile of use or something. The remaining users should be obligated to pay for their usage so that the ISP isn't forced to spread that costs onto other customers - that's simply not fair.
I am curious, why does the PPO make a difference here? Is it vs the HSA or vs HMO or in network? Is your provider in network?
That's a fair point. The perspective of developers is different from that of a manager with perhaps a longer term view or other knowledge than the people in the trenches.
Last I heard, the Fbi is going after him separately for wire fraud against multiple banks.
What about the converse, giving preference constraints to early/founding employees?

Early founders & execs handle this by a combination of a) large initial stake to survive dilution and b) the ability to cut a deal eventually to counteract impact of liquidity preference etc. ... but you can only extend that to so many people.

I don't think it's insane to structure things in such a way that you are basically saying if anyone makes money off this, these people do in proportion to their relatively small stake.

I suppose the real problems here are that 1) early round investors don't get this protection (but I think they can just accept that) and 2) at some point you get a different class of employee equity which could be hard to judge.
As a lawyer, default judgment for sure, but no one is sending out bounty hunters for small claims court. In fact, the courts tend to not get involved at all. You, the plaintiff, would be given the means to prove the judgment has been entered, but then it's kind of up to you to have it enforced. Luckily, you can generally count on the assistance of a Sheriff's office, but often the approach is some sort of wage garnishment (with a number of restrictions), bank levy (also with a number of restrictions), or real estate liens.

Collecting on these sort of judgments can be difficult, time consuming, and frustrating.
They last a year.
I completely switched to the Adafruit Feather M4 series for my hobby electronics about 5 years ago. Each board might be a little more expensive than a base Arduino, but they are way more powerful and have a lot of great features.
You're very right, what is the chance that this set of circumstances occur anywhere on the web? It seems like the person describing the scenario was just pulling a theory out of thin air in hopes to convince someone how terrible this is...
There are extensive bodies of law that deal with these topics, especially in Trusts law.

Happily I quit law school before getting any good at them.
If I may ask, even without a source to share I'd appreciate hearing anything you can add about this...where you heard it...how you found out, etc. Anything at all that either lends credence or simply explains it as a rumor from some other place. Thanks.
Paypal is not a good solution for secondary markets. I wish someone would start a payment company specifically focused on P2P where you can have escrows and third-party reviews for expensive items. Instead of sending your item directly to a buyer, you send it to a third-party who then signs off on it. I am sure people will gladly pay 5% fee to get that peace of mind.