skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've just released endpoints.dev ..."

This is a very interesting tool and I can think of some ways it would be useful to me, personally ...

If you'd like a free rsync.net account, as a thank-you, just email. Thank you for making this available.
This is why like me, you're not a cryptographer. AES256 is a cipher, its one component of a cryptosystem. Analysing cryptosystems is a complex area that does not involve vetting software for buzzwords.

I can take AES256 and make it output the image here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...

That's not supposed to happen. The part where homebrew diverges from cryptography is that the former involves engineers like us connecting buzzwords together to produce images like the Wikipedia article, the latter involves complex math and rigorous peer review.
Know that the actual laws relating to this concept depend entirely on what US state you work in.
GoDaddy – “unauthorized individual” had access to login info
One thing I find amusing is that Stripe's CEO's webpage is a lot closer to Sourcehut in design than Stripe: https://patrickcollison.com/
While Airbnb is clearly going through a rough patch right now, there is a clear bull-case argument for why Airbnb will emerge stronger than it's ever been after this:

- Airbnb has sufficient cash in the bank to survive the crisis.

- A significant % of hotels and budget chains will not survive the crisis --> decreased competitor supply

- People will be looking for budget options when traveling --> increased demand for Airbnb

- People will seek to make extra income to make ends meet --> increased supply for Airbnb
Just to spell it out: herd immunity depends on sustained immunity postinfection. It seems possible, perhaps probable, that covid19 "immunity" may have an unusually short duration or attenuated response, resulting in an effective herd population that is a fraction of the theoretical herd population. I.e. if 60% of Americans have been infected and recovered after 12 months, but antibody levels drop 25% after 12 months, the true number of immune americans comprising the herd will be less than 60%.

If so, we may need to consider pursuing a relatively slow and steady relaxation of lockdown to tune the rate of new infections such that herd immunity is kept as stable as possible - i.e. flatten curve into truly flat-but-nonzero line
There are other factors at play. Most employers offering options don't pay as much in total as those employers offering straight up RSUs.
What you describe is a Libertarian fantasy. I used to believe in that too. But the real world doesn't work that way.
"We can write a compiler as a set of macros." -- Peter Norvig
"In many countries, the severance pay is a lump sum that
increases with the employee’s tenure in the company
and their wage level.

In the Czech Republic, Denmark,
Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and
Spain, employees with service of up to one year are
entitled to severance pay (in most cases one month’s
pay), while in Luxembourg employees have to have a
minimum of five years within the organisation before
receiving severance pay.

In France and Slovenia, employees with up to five years’ tenure are entitled to severance pay amounting to a maximum of one month’s pay; in Spain, the entitlement is 100 days’ pay for the same tenure."

AirBnB is giving laid off workers around 3 months of severance pay. How is that less competitive than what's given in Europe?
Ackchyually...

The IEEE-754 has a lot of redundant representation. Not where you would expect though.

Caveat: Those features are invaluable for some niche applications, but not for the average joe.

To start. Every IEEE-754 float has two zero representation: one for positive zero and another negative negative zero (sic).

The special numbers are another source of redundancy. The the double format, have about 9,007,199,254,740,992 different combination to encode three different states that a production ready software shouldn't reach: NaN, +inf and -inf.

Other than the redundancy, the double have many rarely used combination. For instance, the subnormals representation. Unless you are compiling your program with -O0 or with some exotic compiler, they are disabled by default. One subnormal operation can take over a hundread of cycles to complete. Therefore, more 9,007,199,254,740,992 wasted combination.

If that wasn't bad enough, since the magnitude of the numbers follows a normal distribution (someone whose name I forgot's law), the most significant bits of the exponent field are very rarely used. The IEEE-754 encoding is suboptimal.

The posit floating point address all those issues. It uses an tapered encoding for the exponent field.
A lot of tech companies have relied on BPO (business process outsourcing) like TaskUs for call center workers.

They try to take on fresh college graduates as employees in the Philippines for about $400/salary + benefits and try to resell them to companies as outsourced talent for about $1800/month.
>Honestly, you have pretty little real leverage. Warehouse workers are going to have to form a union and threaten to really shut down amazon's profits

The way that unions fought capital in the early 20th was they went on strike and remained on strike until capital conceded to demands or they were shutdown by "detective agencies" ie strike breakers. Staying on strike cost money - food, rent for strikers. National unions like the wobblies and AFL-CIO would funnel national dues to locals. Are there even really national unions anymore? Personally I would donate money to Amazon workers striking if there were a call for it even though I wouldn't be in their hypothetical union.

Edit: lol downvotes from shareholders triggered by the word "strike"
Hopefully they have cash to cover the exercise and the taxes!

Tough choice to make right when you just lost your job. The tax bill could be tens of thousands of dollars or more.
I wonder how will the revenue drop be distributed globally. which countries, places will see the worst revenue drops. In such places there will be highest probability than some Airbnb landlords start selling off their properties - can be a good time for people who want to buy a place for themselves!
"In many countries, the severance pay is a lump sum that increases with the employee’s tenure in the company and their wage level.
In the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain, employees with service of up to one year are entitled to severance pay (in most cases one month’s pay), while in Luxembourg employees have to have a minimum of five years within the organisation before receiving severance pay.

In France and Slovenia, employees with up to five years’ tenure are entitled to severance pay amounting to a maximum of one month’s pay; in Spain, the entitlement is 100 days’ pay for the same tenure."

AirBnB is giving laid off workers around 3 months of severance pay. How is that less competitive than what's given in Europe?
> The 7502p is better in situations ... (such as in a server deployment or a fanless case).

There are almost no cooling solutions that can passively dissipate the heat from a 180W TDP CPU. I am not aware of any commercially available at present. Fanless is not really in the cards for any of these CPUs.
Most startups are an unintentional scam by unwitting founders.
can be taken to be.

Consider the alternatives moveJesus or moveMohammad
ThinkPad speakers are terrible to the point of being basically unusable even in a quiet room for most video calls.

I can live without the trackpad (once you learn to love the trackpoint you'll never go back to a trackpad) but the speakers and display are the two lacking points. Even though it's a 1440p display, it just doesn't look as nice as a "retina" display and getting a 4k display on a 13" laptop is in my mind an absurd waste of battery and money.
Some private companies offer RSU grants. I've been offered them.
It is remarkable how iconic the Stripe marketing design has become over the past 10 years and how often it has been copied. I don't see it aging super well, it's not gonna be a design classic by any means -- but it really, really resonates with the Zeitgeist.
Don't be a schmuck, fight for their rights!
If you started working at Boeing exactly a year ago and were leaving today, would you rather have been granted RSUs at a notional initial value of $371.60/sh or been granted options at a strike price of $371.60/sh?
> I'm shocked that 2020 revenues will come in only 50% below 2019

This is a fair point, but it also suggests strongly that a significant minority of their business is month to month rentals, possibly in place of leasing.

And hey, being frank, I wouldn't mind considering going somewhere else for a few months now that I can work remotely for a while.
What if you're twitter? Which this person is.

I agree that if you can keep it simple, it's easier to do it. But sometimes you need distributed services. Saying only Google has that problem is a little reductive.
Nice one PB
RadioLab did an episode about this that ran through an example of a police officer murdered in an ambush in Juarez, Mexico.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...
I mean it’s just a forecast. I don’t think it will bounce back as quickly as they are forecasting, though.
For example, people who should get screened will be able to get screened and treated, and presumably lives will be saved. The UK paper I mentioned thought it would be a lot of people. (no link, but it surfaced recently, so you can probably find it)
Dropping the cliff period for new employees is pretty much useless. The equity/ESOPs new employees will be exercising will be of the last valuation price which would be already high, and after Covid-19, with the struggles of tourism industry as such the notional value would have fallen a lot. So if you exercise those significantly expensive options now, you would probably need to hold it for a long time and really believe that AirBnB can be where it was.
You seem to be purposefully obtuse in your thinking. The author's argument, as they have come here to even further clarify, although it's very clear in the article, is that MOST tech workers, specifically developers/coders/makers whatever, absolutely have the privilege of choice.

That's one of the side effects of a strong hiring field in technology. You can, in fact, in most cases, put your butt in a seat that aligns with your values. To act like that isn't the reality for most individuals involved in the tech industry, especially in SV, is disingenuous at best.

Source/reasoning for my views: I am not in a position that I can move jobs based on values. Luckily, 75% of my values align with my institution.
Show HN: A Cinco de Mayo website
Discussed back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10706228
> Please avoid calling arguments emotional / irrational just because you disagree.

I wasn't.

> people are forced into bad situations by contingencies that aren't facts of nature but human policy choices.

What human policy choices are forcing ride-sharing companies to provide jobs to people that HN commenters think are substandard but 100% of people do willfully?
Simple, yes. Without purchasing hardware and testing, no.
afaik in some countries its not required (switzerland?) and in others it depends on the number of years the person worked in company. i think it depends on the country.
UHaul publishes top growth cities and states based on their data. Here's the list of top growth states for 2019: https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/19965/U-Haul-Names-Top-...
Sounds like an interesting book. Not sure if I agree with the first point though. If the task is smaller than the creator no potential is being explored, no boundary being tested, no growth attained. It is going to feel like an unsatisfying chore.
I don't see it neither. Try submitting it again.

If that fails, send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they usually answer very fast.
I use my own static blog generator [0] see https://plurrrr.com for the blog. I compose each post in a single text file in which each day consists of Markdown.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
Are you trying to suggest that a ship without BVR comm is in any way, shape, or form an effective warfighting asset? Take away radios, radar, and satcomm and that ship just became nothing more than the USS Target.
As an addendum, it's not like this had to happen, even if Walmart moved in: one possibly politically extreme example is the town government could have mandated Walmart could only sell certain things, or put a price floor on certain items, so as to incentivize people to go to the grocery store for some things and Walmart for others (particularly things the grocery store didn't carry). This could have been a better situation for everybody long term – the grocery store might still be in business, the Walmart could still be there, and the citizens of the town could still be saving money; nobody would be making as much profit or saving as much in purchases as they _could be_, but everyone, not just one entity, still comes out ahead. Of course, in our current winner-take-all society, such an approach would be a nonstarter (and probably even illegal).

Prioritize sustainable growth over short term growth.
College graduates? For call centres?
>>> True is (False is False)
True
>>> True == (False is False)
True
Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense.

It is ironic that the vast majority of these performance issues are caused by render-blocking and CPU-sucking JavaScript, and so the recommended approach is to install yet another client side JS library (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals/), which appears to only work in Chrome, and then use the library to post client side performance data to Google Analytics (though to be fair it could be any analytics).

"How badly are all your JS libraries slowing down your page? Find out with this one weird JS library!"

This seems like one of those things where if you get to the point where you need this, you're already in too deep.
Good engineering culture...?

Airbnb is a simple CRUD app...it’s hardly a shining example of hard deeply technical engineering problems that are fun and interesting to work on.
I also recorded a quick video of how the site was created with Webase here:

https://youtu.be/rtNjLU2WIYQ
curbFlow | REMOTE | Sr. Backend Engineer, Lead ML Engineer, Computer Vision engineer | Full-time | www.curbflow.com

curbFlow's mission is to bring order to the chaos of our city streets, and we're beginning with the most painful part of the passenger and delivery experience: pickups and drop-offs at the curb. Since the advent of on-demand services, demand for the curbside has far outstripped its supply, causing record congestion, unsafe behavior and lack of equity on city curbsides. curbFlow solves this by acting as the air traffic control tower for the city curb, sourcing supply from municipalities and demand from commercial operators, like existing customers UPS and DoorDash.

We’re a remote-first company, though we have small hubs in SF, DC, and NYC for people who prefer an office environment. We primarily develop in python and node.

Sr. Backend Engineer - You’d be working on the backend for our mobile apps, aggregating data from our edge computer vision devices and writing the core logic for our reservation system.

Lead Mobile Engineer - Own our React Native based mobile apps. We're looking for people who have experience making fluid products that delight users.

Computer Vision engineer - Open call for various levels, we’re looking for people with passion and a strong track record of using academic learnings in real-world scenarios.

Please apply through lever: https://jobs.lever.co/curbflow?team=Product%2C%20Design%20%2...
Bc you lose your optionality after leaving the company - terminated employees would need to decide whether or not to exercise their vested options within some post-termination window (typically 30-90 days)
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It sounds like it's saying that Airbnb will pay for COBRA for that duration.
Cutting salaries in half guarantees they lose all the top performers, and probably more than half, instead of the 5 they pick. I don't believe that is the goal.
In parts of countries like Canada, the last part isn't particularly important, but it's not nothing. Typically, white collar employers cover, in part, or in full, medical insurance premiums that every resident is expected to pay. In BC, prior to the recent phase-out, it was ~$900/year. (That money now comes out of income taxes.)

Employers paying for that kind of benefit is either tax-advantaged, or just consistency of policy between their US, and Canadian offices. Not sure which.
If you want to figure it out I recommend using burp and taking a look at the requests.
RSUs are common in late stage startups. The share price at the time of grant is calculated based on an estimated valuation. If I remember correctly, in the year or two leading up to IPO, Uber issued RSUs to employees at a valuation of $49/share so the IPO price of $45 was already below grant price for many that joined late.
Yes, classes are just POCOs (sometimes with some sealed subclasses, to hack sum types) and business logic is static functions in separate classes. Like I said, C# makes this somewhat easier, with things like readonly fields, get-only auto-properties, System.Collections.Immutable, readonly structs, pattern matching, etc. With Java you have to take more care to encapsulate things properly, though I’m excited for records coming into the language.

The most salient problem is the fact that the languages do not distinguish between references and values (aka “mutability by default”) which means that the compiler will not maintain those invariants for you unless you annotate things specifically, and the authors of the libraries you use do the same.

My overall preference is for F#, which is ironically a better object oriented language than C#, by virtue of using ML-like syntax instead of C-like. Nonetheless, C# is a passable functional programming language these days, and the language designers keep adding more functional-inspired features with every release.
He literally wrote "Never been given that"
In real financial data you'll often see departures from the Benford's law. For example, if a company has $50 expense limit for dinner, you'll find a lot of invoices for $49.99.
Same goes with approval limits at different management level.
Not as useful in practice as in theory.
In an effort to keep both the demand and supply sides of its marketplace healthy enough to survive hibernation, Airbnb has allowed users to cancel some reservations without penalty, and provided financial succor to its hosts.

Unsure if this will ring true to most hosts. They were heavily penalized with full cancellations, while Airbnb issued vouchers.

Airbnb will have to make a lot of effort to win hosts' trust back.
The world certainly doesn't need yet another article on the mechanics of regularized linear models. What's lacking is a simple and intuitive explanation for what exactly is going on during regularization. The goal of this article is to explain how regularization behaves visually, dispelling some myths and answering important questions along the way.
The "high severance upon termination" is smart, I never thought about asking for that. I'll definitely try that in the future!
The real world is not as simple as "economy vs lives saved". Most of the businesses that are having problems because of COVID will not recover when the government "opens up". The government can say whatever it wants - people know the virus is out there, and many of those people will not go back to consuming like they did before the pandemic. Most people are not going to go back to dining out at restaurants, going to bars or taking flights all over the place just because the government says that the lockdown is over.

The only way people will go back to consuming like they did before is if the cause of the lockdown is gone. Releasing the lockdown will make the coronavirus spread more, and in turn could very well make the economic effects worse as people get more scared and consume less and travel less for a much longer period of time, as the virus continues to roam free.
Their core business is a marketplace connecting travelers to hosts and their homes/rooms. That marketplace is software. If you're a company selling a service that is completely software based, are you not a tech company?

By the definition you seem to be using, the only companies that can be considered tech are enterprise SaaS.
Many people already do make new games for Gameboy (and NES/Famicom) without these documents.
this is about his baby:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/us/elon-musk-grimes-baby-boy-...
Are you arguing that Amazon workers should not have their working conditions improved or that Czech workers need to unionize too? Or are you arguing that Amazon should move fulfillment centers to Europe?
> Popularity is a B.S. metric of correctness, quality, or pretty much anything other than zeitgeist.

In the case of transformers it's also a measure of money made, which, being incredibly pragmatic here, is also the point of most website people are paid to work on.

I'm not trying to say that all other measures don't have value or anything like that, I'm just trying to be practical in terms of the needs and goals of most modern websites. I'd much prefer every website was made "right", but "right" is nebulous and expensive.
gonna expect 65% of personnel cuts. core strategy focus.
Why not create a mobile app to allow all amazon workers to communicate and organize anonymously.

Could create an amazon-whistleblower subreddit, where people can post and shame managers on reddit, though might break the doxxing rules of reddit. So maybe create your own platform and create subs for different groups w/in amazon.

I'd do it all anonymously or get someone else to do it for you in their name who has no connections to you...

I'm actually wanting to create a platform like this...if I had time/money to do so. Think something like talkyard closer to reddit though w/ nested sub reddits... so you could have like a reddit for Farm Animals and under it Farm Animals > Goats, Farm Animals > Cows, and Farm Animals would show all posts from Farm Animals, Goats, and Cows..and even Goats > Baby Goats.

The goal is to use it for managing unions actually, allowing thought on issues of governance, question/answers, suggestions, and other 'types' of content blocks but I'm one dev, and not the best on frontend tech, though I'm full-stack/vue I always get caught up w/ the minute details.
What's the link to the HN submission (I don't see the post in your submissions)?
They are not OS-native, but they use OS theming information.
My read of that is that AirBnB is paying the premiums for the next 12 months, as regardless of what the company does all employees are eligible to stay on their employee plan and pay their own premiums for 18 months.
From some other comments it sounds like they're RSUs, not options.
Having an ideological preference is not the same thing as being partisan, nor is it evidence thereof. These are different things.

Someone can be partisan and not have an ideological preference. (eg. party employees, pandering politicians)

Someone can have an ideological preference and not be partisan. (eg. religious leaders, philosophers)

If you want to demonstrate that SCOTUS members are partisan, you need demonstrate they voted for the a party's preferences instead of their own ideological preference. If you are instead demonstrating that they voted in line with their own ideological preference, you are simply pointing out that humans have belief systems.
> a significant minority of their business is month to month rentals

I was wondering about that too. My next-door neighbors vacated their place when the lockdown started, but someone else has been living there. Since they often rent their place on Airbnb for weekends, my assumption has been that this is another Airbnb renter. She's been there for over a month now.
Why Nix