skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every industry has this where the juniors are doing the deep grunt work that required focus and hours of manual work, while the seniors manage the overall strategy, deal with business relationships, and oversee/mentor the juniors.
Doesn't stand good to ask a doctor
nice. Looking forward to his Moderna results blog post.

Oxford/AstraZeneca paper being published tomorrow too in Lancet I think.

Fingers crossed one of these will pan out quick! Winter wave would be ruthless
How did Dream11 become India's first gaming unicorn?
Can it be used a monitor/peripheral? Like a cheap Cintik, maybe?

Can it be used as a stand alone device with no other hardware?

I really miss sharing a big whiteboard with coworkers. Any chance this can replace that experience?
Blow for EU as Apple wins fight against $15B tax order
It's part of telling the story. You have to picture this is a very fancy condo, and that it had keyed elevator access directly into his apartment. This implies he likely knew and let the killer into his place. It's part of the visualization.
It depends where you are. Certainly some mobile providers here got in trouble claiming that "Unlimited" was just the name of the package.
Advice for Entrepreneurs Entering “Small Business Puberty”
Many young, small businesses try to cast as wide a net as possible across markets--making it easy to forget the original mission. It's called "small business puberty," and this entrepreneur offers advice for coming out on the other side better than you went in.
I have it turned off on a laptop I use for red teaming because you don't want to be accidentally noisy on the network, but other than that it's turned on.
I see it as "My mob should be judged by the most moderate and thoughtful of us, your mob should be judged by the worst of you"
Well, the idea is less financial gain and more punishment/retribution. You don't disappear/kill people in such a manner unless you want to send a message of some sort.

It's possible that he might have taken an investment from someone that does not take failure/underdelivery as an answer. Or that Gokada's continued existence pissed off someone that intended the company to go under. It could also possibly be much more personal than that - there are many people who are wealthy enough to order such a hit with relative impunity (as long as they remain in Nigeria - our justice system and infrastructure is frankly not the greatest). It could also have nothing to do with Nigeria at all; he had business ventures and personal affairs elsewhere.

It's all speculation at this point and I just hope whatever it is doesn't crush the company. Gokada employs a thousand riders but beyond that it's helped so many small businesses grow and thrive especially during this period; there's a huge informal vendor culture in Lagos that's enabled by companies like this.
Seems like a puzzle worth understanding. If the budgets & class sizes are similar, and the teacher salaries are lower in tough schools, then what is the rest spent on?

In some countries I would guess that the budget is being pocketed along the way, but I doubt that's the case here.

Is there sufficient extra off-the-books spending in rich areas to explain the difference? e.g. a volunteer donating to fix the AC? While I'm sure there are anecdotes I'm dubious this could add up to enough.

I thought that in fact teacher salaries were higher in tough schools (and that, when they got sick of it, teachers would take a pay cut to teach in a nice suburb instead) but this was from conversations, and looking for data, it does look like average salaries are higher in rich areas (although for more senior teachers), and class sizes a little smaller, although I haven't dug very deep.
> Inside the man's living room, sources say it appeared the killer worked hard to cover their tracks, but was perhaps interrupted or got spooked before getting rid of the evidence.

Uh, those luxury apartments have cameras everywhere. Why would they think they could cover anything?
Please forward the list of acceptable books to discuss on HN so I can comply with it! I'm guessing Elad Gil, Peter Thiel... what else?
We should discuss the most important reason people have children. A way to make their genetic material immortal. At least half of it. There is no other way to continue living after ceasing to exist.

The joy of children, the company, the pain of loneliness being childless etc are emotions that is like malicious code that hacks the human psyche in order to replicate some other lines of code on to the next generation.
It makes sense: if a service asks politely and does not use dark patterns, it's a signal that they take your privacy seriously. So it feels good to reward them and give the permission.
Many hotels have started charging resort/amenity fees for guests as well. Traditionally commissions were only calculated on base room rate, so making up a mandatory fee and shifting some of the rate over acted as a super handy "tax dodge", artificially lowering the commission owed to all their booking partners. The same applies to pre-negotiated corporate and event-block rates – they can win business with an artificially low price, then pad the actual margin of stays via an ambiguously defined and undisclosed but "industry standard" destination/resort/amenity/urban fee.

Between that too-easy-to-pass-up profit optimization, and the marketing benefits of deceptively low list price, it's become pretty pervasive. And isn't limited to actual resorts – I've had bog-standard business hotels in the suburbs tack on a $30/night non-waivable "destination fee". Luckily it got to a ridiculous level recently, triggering a lot of media backlash and class action lawsuits last year[1][2].

It's also losing effectiveness, as things like online booking websites start displaying all-inclusive pricing and renegotiate their commission structures to be inclusive of mandatory, non-governmental fees. Between that, all the negative sentiment, the spate of lawsuits and legislation its triggered, the fees are hopefully on their way out.

[1] http://killresortfees.com/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/resort-fees-being-addressed-...
Arch operates like Debian, the package is called `pkgstats` and it's an opt-in to install. The results are public: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/ (like Debian, the results are only as good as those who choose to opt-in)
Yes, but O'Neill is still a professional troll and is definitely not leading anyone to freedom.
Uh wow, I never heard of this company or person, but this is horrible and tragic. However I just read "The Upstarts", the 2017 book about AirBNB and Uber.

It specifically mentions that 2 rideshare leaders felt their lives were threatened by local competition. I believe it was the original founder of Seamless in NYC, and an early executive at Uber, I believe when they were launching in NYC. Apparently it's not uncommon for taxis and limos to be have connections to local crime.

I have no idea if that happened here, but I've also never heard of a story like this in the tech startup world.
You need to learn where these rules apply, not just how to quote them. OP introduced context for the murder. It may not be particularly relevant or it may be spot on, but it's hardly introducing flamebait or ideology into the conversation.
Arson may not be murder, but comparing one violent felony to another doesn't seem too unreasonable to me.
Those numbers are astounding.

Slightly south of half a million kids/teens go missing every year? And 150,000 adults?

How many of these cases are never closed?
Where BigCommerce Fits Among the Big Three Ecommerce Platforms
>that'd be geopolitical suicide

Saudi Arabia seems to be doing fine last I checked.
>For example, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center has 29,114 accounts, and each one includes a full name; rank; police department or agency; email address; home address, ...

So that means that anyone with access to the system can get the home addresses of all their co-workers that also have accounts on the system? Why would all this personal information be associated with an account of this type? This isn't an HR database.
I think most people in the US find it more expedient to use cash for the land, rather than take in-kind compensation. Consider, for instance: where will you live while your apartment is under construction? And, can you actually trust the value that the developer touts, attached to the new apartment? Financing for this sort of up-front buyout will be readily available so there is no major barrier.
I disagree, many people use laptops as replacement desktop these days so having expansion ports is important. My new job gave me an X1 Carbon with only two USB type A ports and this is my workstation now. If I want to use any accessories like a mouse or external keyboard (set the laptop on a stand so it's level with an external monitor), I immediately run into an issue with having enough expansion room.

If you're doing nothing but sitting in meetings and taking notes, the battery life will follow due to the light use. But for many people, a laptop is as much of a computer as they'll ever use, so having the ability to expand is crucial.
It makes fruitful discussion hard. I support socialized healthcare, but for me it's down as the 5th or 6th greatest problem facing the US medical system today, and I think implementing only socialized healthcare without fixing these other problems would create a system destined for failure.

To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.
They're probably using the Facebook SDK /s
... and throw it away, like one of those "skype phones" when it will get obsolete
Well it’s often thought that if you buy expensive real estate that you will be safe in it — low crime areas, good security, etc. that’s why it’s news.
I played CS 1.6 at 120-200 ping... people will manage.
If it had happened we wouldn't be here. This is one thing that takes me an inch closer to believing the quantum suicide hypothesis and maybe even higher powers. We rolled the dice so many times and they kept coming up 7 over and over again.

Such an absurd situation.
Who uses C++ ?

Webscale tech companies (definitely Google plus almost certainly Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, etc.), traditional software companies (like Microsoft), aerospace and defense, finance, robotics and automation, automotive, are a few industries that come to mind off the top of my head.
This article is re-reported – and badly written:

“His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room.

“…

“It remains unclear how the victim died.”

Here’s a more informative, earlier article: https://www.pulse.ng/news/ceo-of-gokada-fahim-saleh-found-de...
I know a couple other products/services named Element already... not that you have to worry about lawyering but it's pretty generic and doesn't sound like a messenger, sadly. Oh well, they are doing great work.
https://gitea.io/en-us/

https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/

https://about.gitlab.com/install/?version=ce
I think that, but then our feedback report include things like "How do I change my outlook password?".

I don't work at Microsoft.
Seeing as it only has one purpose, you could unplug it when its not in use.
Why We Stopped Trusting Experts
Good article.

One thing I would add is that pressure to build scalability into products as frequently comes from programmers as from product managers.

I can't count the number of times I have seen proof of concept demos based on orchestrated containers.

I maintain a healthy side gig helping companies maintain docker based solutions that they outsourced and now can't internally figure out how to even "open" let alone redeploy.
this isn’t a good source. read the other ones from local nyc papers
Nobody who complains about cancel culture can actually do that cause they'll out what they really mean, which is something like "I want to say racist/sexist shit but can't cause I'll get in trouble now."
Ask HN: Is Chime's (online US bank) 2FA system flawed?
I signed up for a Chime (https://chime.com) account last weekend. The first thing I did was try to find out how to turn on 2FA for my account. Not finding the setting I reached out to the company on Twitter. They replied and said that 2FA is turned on for all accounts by default. (It's SMS based and cannot be configured to be One-Time Password based which is less than ideal but that's not my point here.) I was confused when they told me that it was on for everyone because I was not asked for a 2F code when I logged into my account on my Mac. I reached out again and here's first response I got back:

https://pastebin.com/JbGGXYzN

This was immediately concerning to me and rather confusing. What is the criteria for when it asks and when it doesn't? Will I be lucky enough that when a bad actor obtains my credentials from a security breach that they will be asked to supply a 2F code to access my account? I tried logging in on a few more devices. I cleared cookies and caches on them and even switched to a cellular network on my phone. I was NOT asked for a 2F code on two devices (one being the cell network-connected phone) and WAS asked for a 2F code on two other devices. I replied to the support response and got this as a reply:

https://pastebin.com/BXEGeNbK

Am I crazy or does this completely defeat the purpose of 2FA? In my above scenario where this bad actor already has my credentials it sounds like they have free reign to my account. I practice good password habits (different passwords on every account and changing passwords immediately upon hearing about a breach) but this system still leaves me vulnerable if I don't hear about a breach for a few days.

Please put my mind at ease and tell me that their 2FA system is not as bad as I think it is. If they gave me control to configure it so the system asks _every_ time I log in I wouldn't have as much of a problem. But I don't like this mysterious algorithm that decides when it's going to ask for a 2F code.
They're called pathologists and they usually do autopsies. [0]

[0]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6288235/Saudi-autop...
Pretty common, especially if specs aren’t intended to be part of the buying decision. It doesn’t matter how much onboard RAM it has if it does its one task flawlessly
If you put a referendum to the people tomorrow, saying "should we tax billionaires more than other people, and spend it on you," you'd get an overwhelming yes. The fact we don't have policies like that show the majority aren't deciding that distribution.

But you're also assuming society stays democratic. Why would it, if enough power is aggregated at the top? Who's going to stop them if they decide to form a cabal?
Sorry about the pastebin links. I ran over the character limit.
It could simply have been personal too. Have you ever watched Uncut Gems? I knew someone like the loan shark guy that if he didn't win, he would "win" anyways just to ease his inner cognitive dissonance. Just glad that he didn't have the money to pay for a hitman cause I could be dead too.
On the other hand,

“Do you have Element?”

is less confusing than

“Do you have Signal?”
Thank you for the explanation. I think quite a large number of people would share the view I espoused (EG JK Rowling) and would not readily be categorised as alt-right.
Gotta say, to me it has exactly the opposite effect. I immediately dislike approaches based on buzzwords like this, as my bullshit alert instinctively goes off.
It's because cable modems are standardized with a set of upstream management protocols. They have a looong history of fleet management [1].

If you have cable internet, try going to 192.168.100.1. [2]

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

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2880475/talk-to-your-m....
As "His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room" they do have some idea about the cause of death (e.g. that it's unlikely that he committed suicide or had a sudden heart attack). They don't know the exact mechanism of death yet, but even in the absence of anything else, cutting off the head is usually sufficient. For an investigation the video of the only person entering his apartment is perfectly good probable cause to say that they have a video of the suspected killer.

Convicting the killer requires much more evidence, but that's going to be many months later, currently all the listed claims of the police seem perfectly reasonable for this stage of investigation.
This absolutely!

The interview process is totally broken, as it tests mainly how much someone is willing to prepare for the interview, which might actually show more how little they focus on doing more productive things in their current job, at university or by starting interesting projects. It also scares away people who might actually be better at the job but not as good or interested in interviews - at least this was my experience at Google compared to the usually more interesting people I worked with at university.

It’s just more difficult to test beforehand how someone might actually solve a problem in a good way as you describe. If applicable it’s possible to look at prior work, if you have any other good ways I’d be very interested.

Edit: this is actually a good thread to get some ideas on improving interviews.
The last point has nothing to do with the language really. At least not the shape of the enter key. On Nordic layouts you usually have an extra key left of Z for angle brackets.

There really is no reason to switch between actual physical keyboards to use a different keyboard layout, even if you need to look at the keys(and it would still require you to switch layouts in software). Surely googling a layout cheat sheet is easier than switching keyboards.
Rust can bind to C libraries, as can many other languages.
I'll quote you, "... the person said something that clustered with things said by a lot of silly people. It is rational (in a Bayesian sense) to take that as evidence that the person making the statement is also silly."
for most people tweeting a link to your blog post is going to get WAY fewer eyeballs on the info you want to convey than you would have if you just put the text directly in twitter.

there's a big difference in how they're consumed. There is still value in blog posts, but sometimes a twitter thread is a web better choice if you want people to see / interact with what you have to say.
I'm precisely the type of person this describes:

"...are likely to read only the headings and the first two sentences of a paragraph. If they’re convinced they know what you have to say, they’ll skip to the next paragraph."

It's a testament to the author's ability to follow his own advice that I actually managed to read most of the article without skipping.
I'm a potential customer, and I'd like to treat this as any data storage company- because that's what this is, a genetic data storage company.

One of the things I find annoying about existing companies is that I can't see how my data is doing. For digital data, I can monitor to see how my data is doing, but all I know about existing companies is that they will tell me if something fails.

I'd like to see live monitoring data from your freezers. Is that something you'd share?
$599 sounds steep and I probably wouldn't pay for it. But if you are actually using zoom quite a bit, this isn't a bad deal. For that price, you are getting a very nice sized screen and it seems like the cameras and microphones are better suited to video conferencing than an iPad.

Sure, it's probably overkill for most people. But then again, my laptop is overkill for most people and even for me 90% of the time, but i like having something powerful for that 10%. If i were in meetings all day, or even if I had a few meetings where my role was particularly important (e.g. a professor who is going to be giving lectures via zoom) i'd definitely shell out for something like this (and i bet my employer would too).
"Police source say a business deal gone bad is being investigated as a motive for the killing. There’s no indication that NYPD detective are eyeing past controversies involving PrankDial."

Seems like some other moving pieces in play with his past startup.

"The tech bro found sliced into pieces in his $2.25 million Lower East Side condo made a name for himself by creating a prank phone call app that led to the downfall of a Hudson County, N.J. jail honcho."

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-prankdial-app-hudson...
My company does work for local, state, and federal governments but 90% of our work is private. Should my details be public information? I work on projects paid for with government money.
Maybe it only applies to users from Europe but when I try to book a hotel room in Europe right now it happens.
I have no information about Cisco in particular, but a very common tactic to ensure the device is genuine is with some sort of security chip.

The security chip has a private key embedded in it in such a way that private key can be used to sign stuff, but cannot be extracted directly. The (publically downloadable) software contains matching public key, and on boot, verifies that the known public key matches the private key embedded in security chip. Even if counterfeiters can buy the same kind of security chip, they'd have no private key to program there. And this means counterfeit devices would be detected on boot.

To prevent the software check from being disabled altogether, the vendor adds Secure Boot which is supposed to detect software tampering. But as this article shows, it can be bypassed as well.
Inventing meaningless buzzwords is a very common activity in any community. Using the definition you're proposing, I have heard people say things like "all politics is identity politics." Any definition of a word that makes claims like that reasonable, is a non-definition of a non-word.

Using words like "quantum," "AI," and "blockchain" as examples, in all of those cases you have one community with a meaningful definition and another community with a meaningless definition. In deciding which definition is "better" one would typically go with the way it's defined in the community that uses it to mean something.
The access/opportunity/etc are what is being referred to as privilege, not the quality granting it. In a world where being beautiful doesn't come with advantages, there is no "privilege of beauty", just beauty
Unless someone has Cobalt Bombs in their arsenal.
I watched a documentary about this once, it really started Christian Bale's career.
StatiqCms: Uses your components to remove dependency on engineers for websites
>you don't get these kinds of violent reactions when you disrupt a market

Only in developed countries, in a lot of the world that's actually exactly what you get when you disrupt someone's market.
If you are a father, “the sky.” Otherwise, just repeating “what’s up” or “hey, how are you!?” is fine.
It kills me when I see people downscale their displays to be able to read their text. But I blame the OS developers for this: the display settings should allow you to scale the graphical elements according to your preference.
The counterpoint to that is that international students are a cash cow for universities.

They aren't taking away seats from domestic students. They are subsidizing the ability for more domestic students to study there.
Media guy here. Lots of NYC readers/viewers either live in luxury condos or have a point of view about people who do. For people who do live in such places, the $$$ that they've paid to be there is meant to create a safe and elegant island from all the clatter and chaos of NYC street life.

Murders in such settings instantly trip the "fear alert." Now all of our LC residents need to know how the deed was done and if there's anything about their safe-island assumptions that must be revisited or repaired.

The result: a story that people can't stop talking about. It's fashionable to decry business pressures that force journalists to do this, but the truth is sheer desire for recognition is a sufficient driver, no matter what the business model.
I'm sure it's only difficult the first time.