skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does anybody tolerate that kind of work environment? Maybe I'm weak but no amount of money could compensate for that kind of stress and misery IMO. I work for a well-known company that's below FAANG tier but is basically the anti-Netflix. It's just so freaking NICE that I never want to leave even though my salary is slightly below market. I never feel guilty taking time off, employees are encouraged to take sick days which are unlimited and don't count towards PTO, people are out of the office at 6 on the dot, benefits are some of the most generous I've ever seen, and almost everyone is just straight up kind and supportive to one another. Even for things like on call schedules it's understood that it's universally unpleasant but everyone handles it with a positive "we're all in this together" attitude. It sounds corny but these things really do make a great workplace. There are a few people who seem to be institutional dead weight because it's not easy to get fired, but dealing with a few underperformers is a small price to pay to feel happy and relaxed at work every day and live life without perpetual fear of the hammer. Thanks for this reminder that the money is always greener on the other side!
I do appreciate it. Your comment definitely advanced the discussion.
i don't like how the yubikey has it's own timeout for passphrases. for example, when i first insert my yubikey, i'm prompted to enter a passphrase to unlock it. it then becomes unlocked until it's removed. this is behavior is not always desired. I'd like the ability to always prompt for a passphrase each time the key is accessed.
I started a business. Sold it for a couple years salary. Glad I did it. Don’t miss it.
We need both competition, and the ability to install platforms where we delegate trust to the platform owner.

Forcing platforms to allow other platforms on top means we can no longer delegate trust.

We might be able to solve this by preventing hardware to be locked to a specific OS. That way we can enable platform completion without removing the ability to delegate trust.
It'd be interesting if they could create some sort of laminated or reinforced plastic by also printing a PLA scaffold. It'd reduce the amount of plastic but also combat some of the brittleness you get with glass.
Which was the right strategy in the circumstances. How much of that capacity was used in the event. How many nightingale hospitals were at full capacity. You say 60000 deaths, based on what evidence, because at the moment we don’t know how many deaths have been misclassified as COVID when they weren’t.
Is anyone else uncomfortable with Github/MS owning more and more of your tool chain? Maybe my lock-in radar is faulty, but the more this happens, the more scared I get.
> Just wanted to let you know that you are discouraging.

It didn't strike me as discouraging at all. Discouraging would be something like "QM is so hard that 80% of people reading this are too stupid to learn it" (which I don't think is true, FWIW, so don't be discouraged by that)

Just because youngsters don't have critical thinking skills does not mean they will read words that aren't even there. If anyone does that, it's on them, the reader, and no psycho-analytical word smithing will fix that.
Do they? Could you provide some examples of this? The only time I've heard of ISPs banning users are in the case of piracy or otherwise illegal activity which isn't capricious at all.
Similarities of Great Sites
Well, they use mullvad.net (I’m a customer), and they seem pretty trustworthy while Nord was always the opposite of trustworthy.
Covid Shield
I think about this most days. The problem is that startups that fail put you very far behind relative to peers and the majority of startups fail.

It's fun, but it's also gambling with your financial future.
FTA: "we are [...] committing to never track your browsing activities"

But based on your comment it seems like you harbor a deep distrust for Mozilla, in which case obviously you shouldn't use their products?
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Experimental physicists journey is similar to startup founder

They have to figure out which "idea" they want to commit for a very long time. They have to convince a rich person/org to fund their expensive experiment. Work hard to get things right. Have patience until you get it right.

Success will give you recognition and money and in some cases probably Nobel (being a unicorn). Failure will get you lot of learnings and probably some recognition too ( for proving something wrong). Unfortunately, there is one more state, being in limbo and not going anywhere.

As long as you are having fun in what you do, it is worth it.

Note: I am not an experimental physicist.
> The bandwidth of the side channel can be dramatically reduced

In the late 90s I read a paper about using page faults to exfiltrate data to a low privilege process on a TCSEC B [1] system. A very low bandwidth, noisy side channel was created by using different amount of memory in a privileged process. The low privilege process received the data by initially allocating a large amount of memory and regularly walking across pages while timing each memory read to detect page faults. It was extremely noisy, but a standard error correction scheme and some clever tuning let them exfiltrate data at "a few hundred bits"/hour.

That might be plenty of bandwidth, if you're trying to send keys, names, ID numbers, etc. As usual, the utility of a very low bandwidth channel depends on your threat model.

> e.g. IP address or browser user agent string)

Or the variations in your OS's IP implementation that allow nmap to guess your OS[2]. Or the various "random" ways[3] different OS generate the TCP ISN (Initial Sequence Number).

Security is hard... ~sigh~

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...

[2] https://nmap.org/book/man-os-detection.html

[3] https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/oldtcp/tcpseq/print.html
As a side note, I’m always super skeptical when I see links with small numbers of votes sitting on the front page (currently sitting at 12 votes and 0 comments). I always just assume it is the result of a voting ring or someone sharing the link with people to upvote directly instead of natural voting behavior.
Defining Apple as a monopolist on iOS is like calling Ford a monopolist in selling radios in Ford vehicles. No one thinks it’s a violation for Ford to include their own radio (built by a 3rd party like Bose - same as an app) in a Ford truck, and offer you an expensive upgrade to that radio (say also by Olufsen - also like a better App) if you want it. No one demands that Ford allow a different vendor to sell you a compatible radio through a Ford dealer and for Ford to not take a cut of the purchase price. And if Ford says that installing a third party radio without their authorization voids your warranty or otherwise makes it impossible to do so, it’s generally accepted to be OK. This analogy is at the core of Apple’s defense and it was brought up in previous anti trust cases like AA v. Sabre.
Those are not really 'options' because they have existential consequences.

'Missiles'? Really? Anyone can theoretically use 'missiles' to knock out the production capacity of some competitor's fabs.

It would be fatal to China's ambitions in everything because the world's reaction would be quite strong.

China has a lot of people upset around the world, but a lot of voices are muted because of perceived repercussions, but something 'over the top' would encourage all of those voices to come out at once.

Even Russia would have to 'think again' about their relationship.
On the contrary: Docker is currently the best way, bar none, of distributing tools like this one to developers. Kudos to the Super Linter developers for doing this right.

I wrote an article a while ago arguing this point: https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/run-more-stuff-in-doc...
What? No, Asians are definitely not more privileged than Whites (in western society). You're conflating socioeconomics with race. And how do Asians have less historical baggage? Many Asian countries have a history of being colonialized and being exploited.
But isn't it remarkable that Telegram after all of these years still doesn't do E2EE by default, Telegram rolls its own crypto (of which the first version had significant problems) and still Telegram is used so much in Russia?
I don't know what's going on here, I never said that any peer-to-peer software sucks or that the concept is obsolete, in fact I much prefer it if a system is distributed/peer-to-peer.

All I said and cared to stress, to avoid that someone reading this make mistaken assumptions about p2p software (although probably few of this site's users would run the risk), is that ^^^they don't, as you claimed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23554823 , automatically imply "encryption that a middle man cannot decrypt"^^^.

You admitted you don't even know what end-to-end encryption is, and apparently don't know much about encryption, what are you debating?

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> The term the parent comment used was "middle man" not man-in-the-middle

It's the same thing (unless the post author meant "a man of middle age")

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> As for "E2EE", I have never seen djb even use that term

You mean Daniel J. Bernstein with djb? Do you mean that you are actually knowledgeable about encryption? I don't mean to be insulting but it didn't seem so (and there wouldn't be anything bad in that), it's hard to believe that someone with basic familiarity with encryption wouldn't know what end-to-end encryption is.

If with "that term" you meant the E2EE acronym, I indeed wouldn't be surprised if Daniel J. Bernstein never used it, it's the first time I see it myself (but it obviously doesn't mean anything more than "end-to-end encryption").

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I don't know why you took it so personally, maybe I sounded aggressive in saying NO in uppercase, if so I'm sorry, it was just to make it more visible
Evidence of carnivorous dinosaurs discovered in Australia
> How come every time I switch jobs I get a 30-40% raise

Here's something that doesn't get mentioned a lot on HN: That "every time" will eventually come to an end. It will eventually plateau unless you change careers (become a manager or exec or something). I'm a little more than 20 years into my career. My first job change as a fresh grad + 2 years got me about a +50% raise! My next one was about +30%. Every job change I've had since has been less than +10%, and my last job change was pretty much flat +0.5% MAYBE.

This idea that job changes are always/necessarily huge salary increases is largely an artifact of the age demographic here on HN.

EDIT: To put it another way, let's say my first salary as a software engineer in 1998 was $45K (it was!). If I changed jobs every two years and consistently got a +30% raise each time, I'd be making over $800K now, which would put me in what, the top 0.001% of software engineer salaries?
Other apps offer in-app purchases where you have the choice of in-app or external payment.
Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis (2001)
Great point! I wonder if there are things we can do to break the scenario while the user is logged in to simulate operational issues such as OOMKilled, network glitches or disk filled. That might enable a better root cause discussion during interviews
Kroger CLI, automation utility to save on shopping, earn points and more
Did Taiwan become a leader in microchip fabrication out of a strategic or economic interest?

Because it surely has strategic value.
> The Snowden of China would not get his day in court....

Because the Snowden of the US did?
It’s already been proven that the NSA also surveils on US citizens via PRISM and so on, I think what he’s trying to say is this should be a bigger concern than some foreigners.
Don't you understand that I am arguing that virtue signaling is real. You saying I am virtue signaling is only agreeing with my point.
The problem with a stressful job is that part of that stress invariably become intertwined with the prospect of losing the said job, hence an expected loss of salary. This means that even if you primarily work for money you'd have priced in the positive environment.

Anecdotally, the place where people are uncertain of their future are highly stressful, even when the work is not heavy.
Can the US actually prevent ASML from selling equipment to China? ASML is not American.

Also, given how obscenely expensive a war would be, couldn't China save money by just hiring the entirety of TSMC's and ASML's technical staff at 10x the market rate for ten years?

Paying a premium to headhunt technical experts is a tried-and-true method of catching up to a front-runner. In fact, both Taiwan and South Korea did this, poaching underpaid Japanese talent.
Re: Terms

I read through a good amount and I think they make sense. The short version helps, but that always worries me from a legal standpoint. If we summarize something in a legally ambiguous way have we undermined the original intent?

There are some inconsistencies with how you present the data that I think would help to smooth out. On your summary table. You start with the description being more of a goal for that section, than sporadically start switching to the "short version" of what your terms are.

For me I was hoping that it would be the short-version so I essentially get a comprehensive cliff-notes kind of view.

Also some minor issues with bolding some headers
4. Project Termination
4. Survival

As well as inconsistently formatting the short version. (I prefer the all bold version to help clearly show where the short part ends)

Privacy policies are much easier for me to wrap my head around. What you store, How you store it, and what you do with it.

This clause was a good idea that I will "borrow":

If our corporate structure or status changes (e.g., if we restructure, are acquired, or go bankrupt), we will notify all users so that you may choose to anonymize or delete your private data before we pass on any data to a successor or affiliate.

My version is here https://www.pritact.com/privacy-policy.html which I think follows along a lot with yours in spirit, but just has less ground to cover because of the nature of my platform.
the privacy grading is a cool idea and i'd love to have that displayed in my address bar for every site i visit, but bundling it with a "tracker blocker" means that the extension needs full access to all my data on every webpage i visit. i think my privacy is better protected by having one fewer extension installed with such broad permissions.
The left includes Piers Morgan...?
Same here exactly!
If one party to a contract cannot reasonably expect (!) that the contract was read by the other party, the contract should be invalid. Period, end of story.

This applies not just to Privacy Policies, but to just about every Terms of Service. You're telling me that when Apple updates the App Store's terms of use, they in good faith expect their customers to spend half their workday rereading the contract before clicking I Agree and downloading that new app? It's completely nonsensical!

Only high-level business software should be able to force its users to sign a contract, because that is the only circumstance in which it will be read.
Maybe this was done to emulate font bleed that happens in the printing process. It's a common problem that latex PDFs look too light, because the build int fonts where copied from mechanical type, which assumed the ink would bleed on the page.
My money is on the virus being an aerosol and badly ventilated indoor events accounting for most of the transmissions.
There is growing evidence for this and also that the amount of virus particles you get into your system determines how sick you get (related to your overall health).

If this is true, social distancing wouldn't help us much but disallowing gatherings of people in badly ventilated areas would.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/coronavirus-super...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-coronavirus-importanc...

https://youtu.be/SnI5ZsvvTrg
Right remote work can increase opportunities, but I should have said the mobility advantages are mostly lost on families.
Hasn't the FSB proven that false? They've been caught poisoning dissenters on foreign soil many times in the past several years.
Essentially their former CEO was/is against gay marriage and donated to some organisation that was campaigning against it.

People found out, some employees weren't happy also some sites put up a message when Firefox users visited.

OkCupid (a dating site) straight up blocked Firefox users saying that they prefer users to use other browsers.

So as Mozilla is a company. They decided to get rid of the CEO. Because he was now bad for business.

However for some people in the tech world. This was an unforgivable sin: an attack on free speech.
What I'm missing is a really good linter and auto-formatter for PostgreSQL or just standard SQL. Haven't found something that seems well established and well made.
Peter Thiel's Advice to Founders
Check out this video I created regarding the Pi Network More videos coming soon
Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.
Black uses a 88 char per line limit. In the course of normal Python coding I rarely hit it.

For public code I do not recommend changing the defaults since it may make PRs a mess.
In high school I was in a computer tech class. In the second semester each of us were assigned one of the labs in the school. I was sent to the journalism room where the school paper was made. It was a fascinating and formative experience.

It was my responsibility to generate the CMYK output and FTP it to the printers. It was an awesome responsibility to be the last pair of eyes on the pages before we released them to the world, regardless of the technology.

It was just a goofy student paper in a small Idaho town. I can only imagine how it would feel to be responsible for the front page of the New York Times!
Your mother will probably know. Mothers and babies are normally typed to avoid risk of this on subsequent pregnancies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_disease
Link the thread?
There was a large related thread, but about CEOs rather than investors, two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540162.
I think the underlying sentiment is that you've bought the device, so you should be able to do whatever you want with it. And there's no technical reason that your choice of device should preclude other stores.

For a more meatspace example let's say you own a car with full self-driving capabilities. Now, the manufacturer of that car also runs a chain of grocery stores. It would be problematic if the car refused to drive too a different store. "If you've already to decided to buy a Walmart car then Walmart is the only store that you can go to."
Tell that to Amazon. It's all just company/leadership culture.
What are the advantages of open-source Rapid Application Development?
How do we know this is safe from bad actors? If it's in the U.S. is it safe from discovery? For example Watchtower tried to use 'copyright Infringement' to force reddit to give a usernames IP and account information. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdgWccrJAy53-jeBxM3Pk_...

VPN's are the only way of protecting what should be protected speech. You have to not keep logs or anything that allows a court to find the identity of a user.
Vertical space is necessary, that's why I choose the Dell U3818DW[1], It has 1600 pixels vertically

[1]: https://www.dell.com/si/business/p/dell-u3818dw-monitor/pd
Bad Math.

These numbers are quite a bit lower, I was reading the CA LAO numbers from 18-19 the other day and didn't really factor in cheaper states.

Even at 135k, the cost to society is 135k + the cost of the car + lost productivity of the individual and the economic drag that has on the immediate community, family/roomates/partners and such. At that price, getting community service is a major cost savings and getting repayment is even better.
Honestly, it was during my deep dive into p2p networking a year back that I started scratching my head and thought "Huh, you could pretty much replace most of the reasons you'd need Kubernetes and gRPC and Consul with this and make coding 10x simpler..."

I only got to finally try it out just two months ago when Mozilla opened up a program for building MVPs that aim to fix problems with the Internet. Big thanks to them for that!
That's good news? I disagree.

The police are not perfect. We need to hold them accountable to some reasonable standards of behavior. But if you defund them entirely, then what do you expect is going to happen? Peace and harmony?

No, what's going to happen is that criminals will still be criminals, and perhaps bolder and more blatant criminals. Drug addicts will continue to be drug addicts, and will do crazy things while they're high, and crazy things in order to get money to get high. Such people will continue to interact with non-criminal non-addict people, who will feel threatened. But now the police won't be there. Now what?

In a country with an armed population, the police probably reduce the number of misbehaving people who are killed, because (for all their flaws) they are still less trigger-happy than a frightened gun-owner who feels threatened by an encounter with some strange-acting person.
Doesn't Spotify pay the labels/rights holders, who then in return pay the artists (discounting self-published stuff)?
I wanted to read the article with an open mind. The basic argument seems to be that the markets in these places are overpriced and will eventually fall, so a potentially buyer should wait for that opportunity. For the two markets where I have some familiarity - Seattle and Portland - there are reasons why they have appreciated quickly outside historic norms, and there aren't indicators that would show these markets (especially Seattle) are going to go into a precipitous decline any time soon. Thus, it's hard for me to really follow their argument - maybe the other cities they list are in a different position?

I'll declare by bias here too: I am a realtor in WA, near the Oregon state line, and I continue to believe that real estate is a fantastic wealth-building activity that should be at least considered when one is evaluating their overall portfolio. I feel blessed (and I don't use that term lightly) to live in an area with a very high % of home ownership, even though local incomes are relatively low. I fear a world where home ownership is consolidated in the hands of investors, as has happened and continues to happen in high-cost areas (which I do not believe is a coincidence).
I use ProtonVPN. Same company as ProtonMail. Highly reputable with a business model around doing privacy and encryption well.
Market Madness in the Pandemic
Great point!

Comparing directly, would you pay for Quibi in addition to your slate of Netflix/HBO/Hulu or would you replace one? Content wise it still feels the least compelling
Parametric polymorphism should probably be very syntactically distinguishable from imperatively looping with "for", though you'd need constraints and multiple types for sure.

The problem from the start with such kind of programming, is that once you start meta-programming, there's always a bunch of stuff you could be missing or adding to the implementation. Just right up to the point where you could be implementing or self-referencing the language in the meta-program itself, or vica versa. But doing this without adding too much complexity for normal everyday use, would either be genius or a failed attempt at keeping things easy.

So I'm sure many are investigating all the use cases what the target should be. Though the end result should still be easy, readable and otherwise clearly distinguishable from other idioms of the programming language.