skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are generally honest of course but investing is an adversarial setting essentially by definition, where honesty is hard to come by. Sometimes being more honest than needed might even put you at an unfair disadvantage, and keeping some cards close to your chest is just expected.

And of course, it's not like you have to get VC involved in order to run a successful business. You can self-bootstrap, which lets you focus 110% on efficiency and doing more with less. No BS involved.
I'm not so sure that this type of framing will work so well in the UK. I suspect a lot of the press will jump straight to "it's because Dominic Cummings wants to benefit his mates who do dodgy data mining". Even if that's demonstrably totally untrue, enough people will believe that narrative for it to become mainstream.

The fact that there are plenty of other countries who are content to go with the Google/Apple API will also neutralize a lot of this type of criticism.
Oracle will also use the partitions.
Regarding your other input, thanks, I will have a look.
I don't think the GP's advice is meant for team projects.

> "Don't make enterprise software. [...] Don't accept pull requests. Simply write software for yourself and have fun doing it."
Do you know where the app can be downloaded? I‘m interested in decompiling it.
Sounds like several bad work experiences in a row, but all with companies on a specific spectrum: hot startup -> unicorn -> megacorp. That's a particular flavor of company, and kind of a rough treadmill to walk on.

There are a lot of small to mid-size tech companies that actually make money, though maybe not unholy mountains of it, where work-life balance is great and people just want to make something customers love. There are also many agencies that fit that bill.

This risks sounding too simplistic, but in life I've found that work tends to fall into three categories:

1. People who want to get as rich as they possibly can.
2. People who want to make a living and enjoy life.
3. People who want work to be their passion.

I've learned to avoid #1 and #3.

Re: #1, Many of the best ways to get as rich as possible involve screwing other people over. The people who play that game and enjoy it end up being pretty cutthroat, because that's kind of the point. If that's not you (and it's not me), then it's not fun to be part of.

Re: #3, vocational "passion" is just hard. Sometimes this is because the dream is so big -- end world hunger, or something. Sometimes the dream is so popular -- become a world-famous artist, etc. This is where you'll find the dreamers and the starving artists. The people who thrive here sort of live in their own world where the more mundane concerns of life don't matter to them, otherwise they'd burn out and give up.

A lot of people think they need their work to be either about Riches or Passion (or worst of all, both), and so they go down those paths and find stress, exhaustion, and misery instead of happiness.

Meanwhile, in boring old Path #2, you have a whole lot of people who work from 9-5 and then go home. They think their job is kind of interesting, but they don't think they're "changing the world," and that's okay. The happiest folks here tend to be craftspersons who know how to make some kind of thing, and whatever it is, they make nice ones.

As for me, I spent years that I look back on now as a sad waste of time hunting for #1 and #3, before one day having basically no choice but to take a "kinda okay" job so I could buy groceries. I was badly burned out, and I decided I needed a break, that I'd take six months and just "work a stupid job" to recover and pay off my credit cards after my experiment in running my own business fizzled out. And after six months I realized I was the happiest I'd ever been.

Life is kind of weird. It's not glamorous or sexy to just work a regular job and go home at 5pm. But it can be the foundation of a really happy, satisfying life.

I don't know if that will help you or not, but, I hope some part of that is useful to you. Many people have been where you are now. It'll get better.

Good luck!
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I just don’t think that complaining about a tech company when what you actually dislike is what governments or other organizations are doing is going to impact anything.

But Palantir has been the “tech boogieman” since before I even left in 2014, so it probably always will be. It is admittedly easier to blame a smaller tech company as a scapegoat than try to address the larger governmental or organizational actors that you actually have grievances against.

Just know it won’t do anything. The people who complain online aren’t their target market and never will be. And the paranoia lends way more credence to their dressed up search engine than it really deserves on technical merit alone.

So in a way the people complaining about it are making the issue they’re so upset about worse.
Depression caused by a burn-out, caused by a very sh*tty professional situation. I don't think it's unique to the tech sector but the tech industry _is_ harsh on people.
IANAL but wouldn't most college tuition agreements have a force majeure clause that would render such lawsuits pointless?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure
It baffles me so few programs support these.
> > Pay raises, more time off, better benefits.

> And those are bad because?

They're not bad. But them being good for workers is not an argument for why workers should receive them.
It’s much worse than FUD: reality. Mapping known associates is significantly more invasive than location privacy.
Your third and even fourth paragraphs are pretty interesting. It's a shame that they come after the speculation and jabs in the first two paragraphs.
Step 1, audit everything.

Step 2, have a Red Team that's trying to do sneaky things. Make sure you can catch them.

Is this not obvious?

I mean, it's as obvious to me as "if it's important, back it up," and "if you don't test backups, they're not backups."

Roblox Corporation raised $150M at a $2.5B valuation, in 2018. [1]

That's big enough that they should understand these rules and follow them.

[1] https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/roblox-investor-funding...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16256-y.pdf
We don't have all the context but it's safe to say we have about 80% of it.

End this solipsistic tripe. Or else drive down to your nearest fulfillment center and start interviewing folks.
I have to work with a Windows/Linux laptop and a MacBook Pro. It's very inconvenient when the MBP keyboard doesn't have Home, End, PageUp, PageDown and Delete.
3 healthy meals provided a day for free with someone else cleaning for you is a huge benefit if you're young. Many places have breakfast until 10 and dinner starting at 6, so it's not even a big departure from a normal workday
Thanks for your work on Emacs :)
Right. Like tuning into a digital-cable signal "in the middle"†. You just get bytes of the stream starting from an arbitrary offset, without having seen/processed anything before that (and without even being able to request anything before that), and you need to resynchronize from what you've got.

† I mean, a digital-cable video stream is always "in the middle" unless you're just starting a VOD stream, but still.
Cumulus co-founder and original switchd author here.

Mellanox sells switches with Broadcom silicon, so certainly in the short and medium term there will be no changes there. Long term is harder to say. It is possible that once Mellanox/Nvidia's ASIC portfolio is sufficiently complete they'll stop adding support for newer competitor ASICs, but I have no special insight there.

Thanks for using Cumulus, glad to hear you're having a good experience with it!
Custom Annotations and Expectations for PHPUnit
Fixed Nitrogen Discovered in a Martian Meteorite
> whole lot of workloads clickhouse is much superior.

ClickHouse is a read-only analytics database and overlaps with Oracle in only those areas, otherwise Oracle blows it out of the water.
Sorry about the edit.

The problem with isolating high risk populations is that you have to go round them all up and temporarily house them in quarantined facilities. And since the elderly are sometimes infamous for their unwillingness to be rounded up and forced to leave their homes, you have to either force them anyway or just abandon them to their fate. And that’s without touching the massive logistics of such an effort. (Not rounding them up would be even harder.)

Honestly, if you were gonna try and do that, I think geographical isolation would be a better option. Compartmentalize your state/region/country into separate zones, block all non-essential travel between zones, regularly test essential travelers, and change the lockdown status of each zone based on local conditions.

What will end up happening is occasional breaches between zones where a zone might go from green to red. But it gets us in a position where most people are mostly unrestricted most of the time. It also makes it possible to eradicate the virus without actually infecting most of the population, which is nice. Logistically you’d, at most, just set up checkpoints on roadways and inside airports and train stations to enforce the travel restrictions.

Over time you could even allow travel between green zones.
Number 5 sounds kind of nice, actually.

I worked with Federal briefly. I was at a startup at the time, and we had this integration with the Dept. Homeland Security. I was young and stoked. I was the one who was going to wire everything together. It seemed really big and important. I thought it'd be a gold star on my resume.

Reality was super disappointing. So much "we're working on a document for when we can give a date for a date on another document" kind of bureaucracy. I'm sure down in the deep cores of these agencies there are super bright and talented people. The ones at the edges, though.. the problem seems to be that you have to be more of a politician than an engineer to actually get anything done.
By the way, here's just one great quote from that series:

"Yet Stein found the game to be a harder sell than he’d anticipated. For all that everyone who sat down to play it seemed to have difficulty standing up again, Tetris was just so different from anything else that marketing departments didn’t know quite what to do with it. It was all just so abstract. There was no obvious hook: no starring character, no story line, no explosions. What would they put on the box? Even Brøderbund, home of The Print Shop and Carmen Sandiego, whose instinct for selling software to Middle America was normally unparalleled, took a pass, despite the Tetris Effect taking place right there in their offices. “I don’t think Brøderbund is going to publish it,” wrote Mechner in disgust. “The knaves.” A Brøderbund executive, seeing his programming staff so consumed by the game, had allegedly called it “a game only programmers could like.”"
Soo who is building a UI for caddy servers?
Newspapers Today Has No Front Page, May 4th
Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions
If you are in a position of power, why should you care whether people hate your guts? And only people that don't depend on you or that don't benefit from a good relationship with you will treat you like a monster.

There is quite the discrepancy for example in European history between royals acting like monsters and people treating them as such. Sure, eventually you'll have the people grab the pitchforks and roll out the guillotine, but you might not want to wait that long.

How much true accountability is there for those people making the choices under the banner of the corporations?

In my opinion, big part of what law should be, whoever is in charge of enforcing it, is a set of rules based on societies ethical compass. If someone can get away taking advantage and abusing others, this begs the question if those acts are in fact unethical, or if the the law needs updating.

It is not about shifting blame for behavior onto the law, but how you decide what behavior is blameworthy and should be punished. And I much prefer having a at least a somewhat transparent formalized system for this over Mob justice.
For me, this idea that time invested on your machine is time lost to the void... just doesn't add up. Like, at all. Shouldn't one of the point of honing your craft be to become intimately knowledgeable about the tools that you use every single day?

I have some musician friends. They do that for a living. They've had the same guitars for years, maybe even decades. They know how the guitar works, how to change its strings & pick-ups, how it behaves in different rooms. They notice how it ages, how it breaks, how it _really_ works. When it breaks they get the exact same model. It's a good thing.

For me, the real tradeoff is getting locked-in into an ecosystem that is privately owned, profit driven. That's the real tax right there.
Cyc has taken a few different swings at this kind of thing throughout its history. Its current long-term plan, not mentioned in the article, is to reach a "critical mass" of common sense to where it can "question" the open-web and assimilate new information without help, which is along the same lines.
Do you have a source for how many research labs in China were actively working on bat coronaviruses? From what I can garner in the Western press, WIV is their #1 such research lab.

If a new flu virus, quite more virulent that the usual flu, popped up in Atlanta 10 miles from the BSL4 facility and the closest known relative is endemic in polar bears, yeah, I'd be asking questions. Both about BSL4 and about the zoo. And maybe there are private citizens raising polar bears in Atlanta. I'd ask about them too. Especially if it were already known that polar bear viruses can be quite dangerous, see SARS episode 1.

But then again, these discussions are by now futile. It is obvious that the conversation has been politicized. One side will try its best to dismiss and discredit the slightest mention that there was ongoing bat coronavirus research in Wuhan, including WTF moments like creating chimera viruses for the specific purpose of infecting humans. The other will overhype all the scary innuendo that can possibly be created around WIV, whether it relates even remotely to SARS-CoV-2 or not.

I don't have the energy to elaborate the full decision tree in every post. Have fun!
> News outlets have a huge incentive to report on anti-Amazon facts

You are aware that Bezos owns one of the world's most influential news organizations, right?

Also, no, they don't. There's more money in sponsored puff pieces about how Amazon is tackling this or that recent controversy.
Mostly because it was released very early. And for a country like India, it may prove advantageous in coming months. We do not have any vaccine for Covid19 and can't be in lock-down forever. We have to learn to live with the virus for few months at least. Apps like these can help in contact tracing while allowing many to live normally.

Also I personally think the permissions(location and bluetooth) are fine for an app like this to really function. I have read someone mentioned on HN that these platforms prove their worth when >60% people are using them(I maybe remembering wrong though).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071016
It took me entirely too long to realize XX was Roman Numerals. I was very perplexed why you had written a placeholder for the century.
I'll take 2 coronavirus.
I read this and some of your other posts. As a native English speaker who's read many technical papers, I think your English is totally fine, full stop. Moreover, it's far from being any kind of barrier for technical writing, where the fine points of sentence construction, grammar, flow, etc. are much less important than a clear exposition of ideas.
I worked in tech for 23 years, as an employee, freelancer, consultant, and business owner. I did development, devops, testing, management, sales... and after working my way through burnout several times and seeing the industry change in ways I don't like, I walked away to a new career. While not perfect and nowhere near as intellectually stimulating, it sure beats what I experienced in tech from an emotional and mental standpoint. So while "find your passion" is a little trite, there is something to be said for "find something that doesn't drain you every day, that pays your bills, that you might even enjoy, that enables you to live how you wish."
The Cato Institute, founded as the Charles Koch Foundation, is pro-capital, pro-deregulation, and anti-worker.

Being a noted economist doesn't mean that you aren't full of shit.
This is extremely misleading. The majority of pro-NN comments were also subject to botting and fraud.
Well, if we’re following that logic, then anytime data is moved from a disk to ram, we’re “creating new data.” Well, yes, it wasn’t there before, so it’s “new data,” but it’s also a copy of old data.
Awesome! Emailed you with some questions.
Having any intelligently coordinated response at all?
YMMV. That depends on your workload, how your data is structured and a million other things. I know a few shops with heavy usage that couldn't be happier.

It may require handholding if you are not happy with the plans it is generating. Also the quality of the query planner results will depend a lot on how up to date the statistics are.
P A L A N T I R.

I would treat this app as advanced kleptographic malware after knowing that they're developing this app with the NHS to contact trace millions of people to 'stop the spread' on a centralised server.
Anywhere you can store a dollar bill, I can store a piece of paper with my private key written on it.

Yes, it absolutely is rendered less useful by the fluctuation of exchange rate.
I think for argument's sake it's not really about what the government decides is illegal or not, it's that there are some areas of "illegal" that YouTube ignores, while choosing to punish (through demonetization or sometimes deleting accounts) other perfectly legal areas. It's not strictly a free speech argument (at least for me), but the inconsistency deserves to be highlighted.

Consider that snuff films are illegal regardless of their method of distribution- nobody is complaining that YouTube (and every other law-abiding distribution method) censors snuff films and nobody is crying about the First Amendment in this case. Nobody complains because there is a clear legal requirement to prohibit this content, superseding any free speech considerations.

Consider a gray area- filming an activity that might be illegal depending on your location or age, such as smoking marijuana. At a federal level in the USA and in a lot of other countries this is illegal, but it's okay in some areas. YouTube is pretty lax about demonetizing or taking down videos about marijuana. Joe Rogan regularly smokes and promotes weed with guests on his podcast, but there is very little pressure on YouTube to do anything about him.

Consider another scenario for comparison- simply talking about guns on your channel. Following Sandy Hook, YouTube started to demonetize channels that just talked about guns but clearly stayed within the legal bounds and did not promote unsafe or illegal behavior, and some channels have been deleted. YouTube is bowing to outside pressure without any legal requirement. And there is a clear discrepancy in who demonetization gets applied to- promoters of gun control get off scot free, but people that promote legal and responsible gun ownership get demonitized.

YouTube arbitrarily deciding to do something about discussing legally owned guns but nothing about promoting a federally illegal drug is not really the hill I want to die on, but I think it illustrates the inconsistency that frustrates some people. A principled and fair censorship policy should definitely allow the gun conversation to happen if you're going to allow the marijuana conversation to happen, and I think the best way to call this out (without writing the several paragraphs above) is to talk about censoring "illegal" content.
You might want to reevaluate that. The words you're using to describe open offices and cubicles is definitely more of an extrovert trend. Very few are 100% one or the other, but the words (isolating, social, enjoyable) show extrovert.
In-house built Data Discovery Platforms
Sharing my blogpost on different data discovery platforms built at different companies.
Well, why getting yourself burned in a startup? Take a reasonable sized company with a traditional business you like but do not love and work there as an employee, best in a country where employee rights mean something.

Being a corporate black matter developer is actually quite good.
Low fees aren't a feature of cryptocurrencies, I'm not sure the big websites even list it as such because:

(1) Fees are irrelevant in the face of overwhelming volatility. Who cares if the fee is a couple of cents on your million dollar transaction when BTC regularly flings up and down 10%, or more? How could you willingly risk $100,000 on a million dollar transaction when your bank would charge you between $25 and $0 depending on your account size for the same transfer?

(2) Fees only appear low because nobody's using it. The minute people start using it, as we've seen, the fees absolutely skyrocket. BTC transaction fees hit $35 last time around.

(3) Fees only appear low because they're being socialized through inflation/dilution. A single BTC transaction consumes 700kWh of power -- enough to drive a Tesla from SF to New York. That's currently being absorbed by the system in the form of inflation/dilution ("block rewards"). But make no mistake, each transaction actually costs about $0.08/kWh in China = $56.

(4) Fees for traditional currency are really low. Really, really low. Cash is free to hand to someone. Checks are free. ACH costs your bank 1/10th of 1 cent per transaction, and often that's passed along free of charge (see Venmo, Square Cash). Even wires are a few pennies in bulk, and often free -- my bank doesn't charge me for wires.

(5) Before you start on international transactions, those are really really cheap too. The cheapest option for small transactions is TransferWise, charging 0% on the USD-INR corridor up to 0.85% or so. Most credit cards charge nothing on forex.

If you're doing big transactions, InteractiveBrokers is a great bet for forex. On monthly transactions under 1,000,000,000 (that's right, a billion dollars) they charge 2/10th of a basis point - 0.002% -- minimum $2. $20 per million. SIPC insured.

There's nothing the traditional BTC/ETH/etc cryptos do better than existing systems except crime. The forex market is $5.1T/year, trust me. It's been optimized.
History of the Modern Passport
can you get tested for the antibodies, that's much earlier than other infections (Nov 1). Of course you could have gotten it in a later infection that wasn't so noteworthy.
Antonioni rejected the song Richard Wright wrote for the film, The Violent Sequence, using a previous Pink Floyd song instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aPn4Waz2FM

It was reworked by the band into “Us and Them” which became the emotional centerpiece of The Dark Side of The Moon.
I'd rather we not help our own government "more effectively" spy on American citizens, thanks.
The Caddy forum[0] would be one place! If you're writing a tutorial, protips, or anything like that, there's a Wiki category just for that.

[0] https://caddy.community/
Voluntary for now
Show HN: Video call app to use while you’re social distancing
A new product is being launched by startup Connect.Club. The app for virtual networking allows users to create their own chat spaces in augmented reality. On this new platform, users can gather useful contacts, find a coach, meet for video chatting with the community, and access private, professional groups.