skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I really feel for Hunt because the process surely is exhausting for anyone, let alone a sole business owner. But I have to wonder what he expected when he started to go down this path. It sounds like KPMG may not have adequately prepared him for this, or (based on my experience with consultants similar to KPMG) they probably assumed that he knew what he was getting himself into (he apparently did not).

That said, I don't put all of the blame on KPMG. It takes only a few minutes searching on the internet or speaking with advisors to learn that shopping for a buyout is a long, extremely hard process. In particular, I couldn't help but audibly laugh at Hunt's seeming incredulity at the request for "Documentation of the Company's technical operations". Hunt is trying to sell a tech company whose primary business value comes from the technical infrastructure, operations, and data. I don't want to sound too blunt, but...no fucking shit the buyers are going to want to know about his technical processes and infrastructure. Did he seriously think someone would even think about buying HIBP without investigating exactly what technical stack and data they are buying? Even for companies where the value isn't as based in the tech processes, nobody wants to buy a pile of steaming spaghetti code.

It should be common sense that this is the type of information that buyers would ask for. This list of tech processes and documentation of infrastructure is something that should have been put together first thing before Hunt even started shopping around.
You’re correct about Zoom Technologies though ZM is the proper ticker for the record
I'd personally file it under the entertainment budget too. It's fun!
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> That's what insurance company are (perhaps) for: what are they covered for? That's what you tax them at.

There's also this idea, which could be useful for discouraging undervaluing assets for a wealth tax: the owner puts a value on the asset, and the tax authority has the option of purchasing it for that price. If someone tries to cheat the system by severely undervaluing their assets, their bluff can be quickly called.
A key reason why BeyondCorp actually works is hardly anybody needs to SSH to prod, and people who do need it, need it rarely. Everything at Google has rich RPC control surfaces and the tools are installed on users' workstations to invoke the RPCs. Status of everything is available via HTTP, in your browser. No need to SSH to a server to read logs or restart a process. Need to collect hardware PMU counters in prod? There's an RPC service for that. Not only do these rich interfaces enable BeyondCorp, they also cut down on insider risk because it's no longer considered "normal" to get an interactive shell session in production.
How many billions of dollars have been spent on self-driving ai tech? How many self-driving cars do we have? How many execs have said we would have self-driving cars in <insert past year here>?
I think that the oration of these poems might be akin to jazz playing, where a musician knows the broad, basic structure of a work and fills it in with improvisation.
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That’s dumb because it taxes people for sentimental value. My home may only be worth 200k on the open market but I absolutely do not want to be forced to sell it for that (or anywhere near that) because of how disruptive that is to my life.
I read some of the classic epics before learning about their mode of delivery and memorization, and was a bit perplexed at some of the repetitions and formulae.

Then I learned that, for example, some characters would have multiple epithets (grey-eyed, neat-ankled, all-seeing, etc) that in Greek would be selected essentially not because they were the best descriptor, but because they were the ones that would complete the line within the meter! So if there were two extra syllables, the reciter would use one of these, but if there were three extra, they could use one of the other two.

There are a bunch of these formulaic sayings, lines, or even entire little episodes, that could be recited to gain a little time to remember the next part, or speed up the action if the audience was flagging, and so on. The entire form was structured around live performance and improvisation. That was really revelatory for me.

Naturally they lose something in being recorded in static form - retaining other forms of natural beauty and (as hnaa points out in another comment) their symmetry, symbolism and meta-construction. Still such a pleasure to read!
i’m going to presume they followed through on their promise to drop support for it:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/270902-apple-defends-k...
From what I understand, not the "return" on labor but just economic growth via productivity increase of labor. [1]

And a world in which the return on capital is equal to, or less than, economic growth is simply one where capital gains are taxed more -- enough so that they're less than economic growth.

It's literally that simple. I'm curious what you're having trouble envisioning about such higher tax rates? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with utopia or even socialism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
That's misleading:

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Isn’t that trivial to refute then by showing the huge portion of millionaires/billionaires that aren’t generational?
They're coming, but there really isn't enough data to extrapolate a good trend yet. Except for Japan. That exponential curve fit perfect.
This wouldn't be a "prank," it would just be a lie. And it's not the sort of thing your average rational smart person would lie about either
Those disengagements are not representative of all the disengagements the vehicle makes. Basically, the company gets to decide for itself whether or not an incident is severe enough it needs to be reported.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-02/safety...
Yes, I'm sure there are some, maybe many offices that have redundant power, but I've worked for 20 person companies and 20,000 person companies, and they all sent people home when the power went out. Even when I briefly worked in a colocation center, I got sent home during a regional power failure as they wanted to give my desk to a large customer that needed a place to work from to keep their business running.

At one company, I was in charge of IT and finally got signoff to run emergency power from the generator to the data center and IDF's to keep the network online in a power failure. Facilities put an end to that plan when they said that without HVAC, the building would quickly become uninhabitable in the summer or winter. We ended up powering the main datacenter to keep servers online, but not the rest of the network.
I would take Go over Python, any day. It is productive, especially if your program is a relatively typical network service: get request, poke here and there, transform this into that, return a result. It looses steam when the code is abstract logic or generics/macros heavy. Also, I personally loose quite a bit of time on debugging these couple of pesky issues that I always get introduced by `nil`, lack of sum types, some Go gotchas etc.

In practice the most important things for general productivity are always: what is your team familiar with, what are you familiar with, and are the types of libraries that you need available. Quite often these are skewed in Go's favor.
Yep, all of the "wine-dark sea"s and "rosy-fingered dawn"s might have worked as filler while the poet was queueing up the next part of the narrative.
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> At any point in time, anyone can force the sale of said commodity

So you start a company. In addition to all the risks of a start-up, you have to deal with having to fire selling the shop if someone questions your assessed value? What do you think would happen when a powerful entity and a less-powerful entity disagree?
> hybrid model exists in Germany which mandates that workers are representative by half of the board of directors.

That doesn’t make sense, the board doesn’t own the company.
> Obviously this is a convoluted scenario, but for me, it seems this example punches a huge logical hole in the r vs g thing. Inequality seems to have more to do with personal savings rate than r>g. And note - its WEALTH inequality that rises, not consumption inequality (in that case, does it even matter?).

Consider the person who makes 50K a year. Or the person with 10M capital.

It should be increasingly clear that "personal savings rate" alone is going to have an exceptionally hard time to overcome those starting points. Especially if the wealthier people don't dramatically fuck up and spend >100% of income...

But even in your initial situation, yes, the difference between wealth inequality and consumption inequality is crucial. Person A has limited options to maintain that lifestyle. Maybe their boss is abusive but they haven't gotten any other job offers that pay the same. Maybe they have to commute 2 hours a day and can't spend time with their kids. And so, then, is the difference in time inequality. You have one person who's working full time to make their living, and other who is not working at all.
So then, “the” canonical version of eg the Iliad is just one version that was recorded, and it would have actually varied across the different retellings?
The robinhood thread has made me laugh all day:

> 5QxjKb7SI2j1d9Zs3jcs · 809 points · 11 hours ago

> As a proud cuck, not gonna lie I get off on being locked out of my account while it gets pummeled and I can do nothing but watch.

> BippityBoppityZop · 156 points · 10 hours ago

> Don’t stop I’m almost there

> SensualKoala · 47 points · 9 hours ago

> "Oh yeah FUCK my savings harder"

> TRAIN_WRECK_0 · 84 points · 9 hours ago

> Anyone feel like barfing? It's almost like my wife's boyfriend stopped fucking her and starting fucking me, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.

@nostromo can't have read very much of that thread. It's one big in-joke.
Stripe is being a good and responsible employer.
It's not fraud, it's just a bad investment. Unless Waymo is saying "we guarantee to have this technology doing this impossible thing and making a trillion dollars in revenue in 5 years" there is nothing illegal about it. Being disingenuous is almost never the same thing as fraud. By simply prefacing each statement with "we hope to" it removes legal liability. It's not illegal to be optimistic.

Staging demos where the cars perform better than average isn't illegal, it's just misleading. Likewise, making projections about revenue isn't illegal, it's just not grounded in reality.

I'm not accusing Waymo of fraud. I'm saying their technology isn't going to be ready anytime soon, and they aren't making any legally binding statements to refute that - so why would it be fraud?
The very sick will present themselves at hospitals and get tested. Form that you can estimate the total number of infected.

>Community spread has now been confirmed in a number of places across the USA.

Yes, but the risk of getting the virus in the US is still low because there are perhaps thousands infected and 340 million people in the country.
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Thanks for bringing this up. I always see only positives when discussing remote work but there’s never any consideration made for those who otherwise whose jobs rely on in-person interaction.
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Sal Khan has a good lecture series about Piketty's theory of capital: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroec...
If you're going to get it, it's defiantly better to get it now because you'll have the best Drs in your city looking after you before the flood of patients come in and they are overwhelmed.
In-car communication is creating an opportunity for new revenue models
Haha these are all amazing, definitely picking up some before they inevitably close it down. How is it possible that a security company makes better socks than many clothing companies? I mean, come on, you don't even have to be a huge tech nerd to appreciate Mr Miyagi's "Socks On Socks Off"
Did scholars really believe that verbal transmission of poetry/religious was rare? It's a well documented trait of tons of Proto-Indo-European cultures such as Celtic, Norse, Germanic, Greek, Iranian, and Indic.
Good VPNs are mutually authenticated. Intentionality is good, but in your example it comes at a cost of complexity. Simplicity is paramount for security.

If intentionality is desired, one can use per-server VPNs.
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I've always found Pathas fascinating-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_chant#Pathas
I was merely asking. But it is not uncommon at all to see marketing drawings like this that have not and have no intention of becoming a reality and so do not go through any kind of safety vetting process.

In other words, in my case, it's not a matter of thinking I know better than some experts. It's that I question whether this has been vetted by any experts at all. It would not be the first time.
Oh, yeah, we don't even have a canonical version of _Hamlet_, let alone for oral poems from the 8th century BC.
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The article isn't relying on method name conflict in the category. It's declaring a new method and swizzling in +load. If you meant the +load method itself conflicts, that's not true because +load on categories is handled specially by the Obj-C runtime. You can have 20 different categories define +load on the same class and the runtime will invoke all of them.
I know how to fix it. Blockchain!
They used to spend more than that on cherry tomatoes every year. I think a few hundred thousand for trying out different seats would be a drop in the bucket.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Textual_history
If the business prioritizes security, getting to https://news.ycombinator.com would not be possible. If you want to get to https://news.ycombinator.com you use a separate PC.

The PC you use with the VPN is never to be directly connected to the internet. It connects to a piece of dedicated VPN hardware. (could be a Raspberry PI with special software or something far more expensive) That PC can use the VPN, and thus get to various computers within the company, but it can't go elsewhere. No other business is reachable.

The company can allocate IP addresses without NAT and without regard for the rest of the world. There just isn't any connection to the rest of the world, so conflicts can't happen.
Well, they now have a single-platform application without all the platform-shared code. It's not like there's no tradeoff.
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MS Teams does when you type into a chat box, but it depends on whether your company is opted out somehow or maybe whether they use EU servers. There's a setting that gets pulled down and overwritten every launch.. had to create a mitmproxy edit to save my own config for the Windows client.
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That’s dumb because it taxes people for sentimental value

yes, that's the point (or rather the other way around). Taxing you for exercising a monopoly over a property that you only like for sentimental value, while someone else might put the property to productive use if they could purchase it at market rate is exactly the desired effect.

As a practical example, if you say, own a single home on a large plot of land in the middle of a city that desperately needs denser housing, then this tax imposes a cost on you if you self-assess the value highly / are unwilling to sell.
Agreed. I keep coming back to a comic by Boulet which you might enjoy: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2007/12/11/fuck-peter-pan/

Part 2: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2008/06/19/fuck-peter-pan-part...
> She said the fishers should not be seen as “dolphin killers” and those she had spoken with were unhappy when dolphins became caught in their nets.

Oh that’s okay then.

Fish isn’t a sustainable resource anymore and hasn’t been for a long time. A very easy fix is to quit eating fish. It’ll also save you from ingesting heavy metals and pollution. It’s really not that hard a problem to solve.
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Containers Are Not VMs
The link says “ March 3-4 hiring event applications are close and we...”

Should that be “closeD”? Or is it meant to inform that the event applications are imminent?
If you see the CDC as an authority then you'd also see Stripes policy as overkill since CDC isn't recommending people work from home or cancel travel within the US or restrict visitors to their offices.
>It's simple to make with your standard (deep) frying pan, on your standard cooker.

If you believe that, my friend, then you have not had really good fried rice. Give the article I posted a read of you want more info on why.
Note that while I use/discuses the term racism here, I intend for this argument to apply to prejudice and systemic discrimination more broadly.

I would personally argue against any definition of racism that discounts acts based on intent. Your source seems to start out trying to sort-out a kind of binary (trinary) fallacy, where it's arguing that there must be only a single valid definition of what qualifies as racist that can be used in any/all contexts, rather than just acknowledging that there are multiple ways to be racist, with varying degrees of intent/malice/severity/subtly and contextual applicability. It seems to reach that conclusion in the end though with "Overall We Probably Use A Combination Of All Of These, Weighted In Favor Of Definition By Motives." Beyond that, I’d argue that a more limited definition is dangerous as it allows people to argue/believe that a lack of blatantly malicious intent absolves them of the consequences of their acts.

Broadly speaking, yes this would be accurately termed profiling. That is in no way mutually exclusive with being racist, given either of our definitions of racism. The developer of an AI profiling algorithm must make choices about what data is provided to that system, and others must make a choice to act based on the outputs of that system. The choice to include racial or socioeconomic criteria (or criteria that are proxies for these) as training data for a given model, and act on its outputs in ways that could contribute to systemic racism, could be done without malice or could be driven by blatantly racists motives. We just end up back at the same argument about the definition of racism.

And again, I’d argue that the more limited definition is dangerous as it allows exactly what wlesieutre meant with “we've decided to deflect blame.” Allowing an act that leads to systemic racism to not qualify as racism without a clear blatant intent only serves to excuse those developing/using such systems for the consequences of their choices. Additionally, the narrower definition could actually discourage consideration of such consequences, as acting without any thought or consideration at all is acting without intent. Thus, willful or feigned ignorance becomes a defense against the furtherance of systemic racism.
Drones must be connected to the internet to give Real-Time location data
Ha, yeah, depending on traffic that barely gets you San Diego and LA.
I see the article meant to educate readers in to put in a perspective. I'm not able to grasp it. Would you help me out
Honestly they don't even have to support most roads and road conditions and still build a useful product. Thinks of malls, sports complexes, university complexes, airport etc. where you can have Waymo shuttles to help ferry people from fixed point A and point B.

Having self driving cars plying from airport to nearby transportation hubs alone could be pretty useful.

I also see the potential for building infra that is specifically for automated vehicles (private roads and such).

Waymo can still be 10 years away from a good autonomous vehicle and still deliver value to consumers.
No doubt there will be some downsizing before they get mashed up.

McAfee used to be something in the 1990s, now it is bloatware.
I think you're referring to the deluge, which is interesting, but different to the sea in genesis 1.
I've thought about going to a bootcamp, but I'm not sure I want to double down after a decade. Burnout is a real thing.