skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do this and leveraged dropbox for syncing. At some point, dropbox limited my number of devices so I self-host bitwarden. So much better now, and my wife actually uses it.
Chrome or firefox. Egregious wastes of my time, 90% inaccessible, untrusted interpreters of untrusted code.
But only one switch for both camera and mic; I am sitting right in front of one. Better than nothing but not always what you want. Same for for bluetooth and wireless which I find even more unpractical.
It would create a small financial (and convenience) pressure to use one identity. Careful design would be needed to ensure that multiple identities are encouraged and accepted.
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To everybody questioning if this matter, you should definitely read philosophy. Of course language matters. Especially in the context of the times.

Wittgenstein says that: "in order to communicate with a tribe, listen to how they communicate with a language.In many cases slang, banter, and jokes are not poorly constructed forms of secondary communication but a coded means of crafting pointed exchanges within a community."

Yall are so resistant to change you don't even care how bad it makes you look.
how about we have a whole range of options so that we can express our full selves via the various venues made available?

sometimes you want (pseudo-)anonymity and sometimes you don't. being able to pick and choose seems to offer the greatest freedom, rather than pigeon-holing everyone into one option.
still, even really productive people (such as the ones sewing your shirt) can't yet have all of the above basic goods (let alone something extra), while yet other people (heirs, investors, ...) are consuming insane amounts of labor in no relation to the outputs of their "work" (if they do any). That's what our economic system is happily covering and it's decidedly not fair in any rational way. And its also leading to societal collapse if you're looking at the US.
They did offer @facebook enails once, and it would integrate with your messages app.

It didn’t really take off though, and I guess was quietly withdrawn.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-messaging/
Yes, but that requires an economic model. UX is often well over 90% of the work for a product and usually includes a ton of work that is not much fun and people have to be paid to do.

Centralized has subscriptions, advertising, and "surveillance capitalism." Decentralized has nothing. I had some hope that cryptocurrency would provide some kind of mechanism, but cryptocurrency was taken over and destroyed by scammers and bad money drives out good.

The lack of an economic model is IMHO why decentralized solutions have not succeeded, not technical challenges.

One possibility would be to abandon the free as in beer part of open source ideology and go back to just charging for software, but licensing and payment add friction and it's very hard to compete with "free" options funded surreptitiously via surveillance.

BTW the fact that cryptocurrency was destroyed by scammers and criminals highlights a second huge issue: it seems to take the efficiency, executive ability, coordination, and direct human guidance of a centralized system to resist bad actors. This is why even the most democratic countries have mechanisms to phase shift into dictatorships during emergency or war. I have yet to see a decentralized system that became popular and was not instantly destroyed by black hats.
Not good, it only serves to increase the precedent for hijacking unrelated concepts for political purposes. Language has meaning, twisting that meaning to ascribe negative connotations to terms is divisive and counterproductive. Calling everything and everyone racist devalues the term 'racist' after which a new term for (the actual concept of) racism needs to be found.
In 1983 or so, the studio I worked at had an Alpha Micro system with a VHS for data backup. I remember you could set the CRC, the cyclic redundancy check level, but don't remember much else other then it was pretty darn creaky although the Alpha Micro itself was great.
This is his bio: http://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm
You can't alter historic data, but you can include or exclude just selected columns from versioning. You can also purge all history by date range, but not apparently just the history for a given record.
Is it possible to add proofs for phone, credit card ?
One of the main reasons for this is a lack of data. The Strava Heatmap (crowdsourced data, based on past frequency of use) is pretty much the best. OSM tagging is insufficient for real good routing, and it doesn't take traffic patterns into account.

Thus, a lot of route creation is dependent on hyperlocal knowledge. Strava Route Builder, with the heatmap, goes fairly far on this, but it too isn't the best.

This is a really hard problem to solve.
However, master/slave aren't the names of companies, they're names of concepts. There is no Slavery, Inc selling digital picture frames and refusing to change their name because they like being associated with Slavery.

This is more like "killing a process" ("but people get killed"), "deleting a file" ("minorities are getting erased", "you aren't even removing anything, you're just changing some bytes, so it isn't even accurate"), "touching a file" etc.

It matters what you read into it, but that's mostly you, not the word. Is MariaDB sexist because it's a software that is expected to silently and flawlessly do things for you for free so of course it was given a female name, or is it a programmer's dedication to his daughter?
Yeah, someone reported a bug on that slide before: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/dc5kky/writing_linux_... That slide is not intended to be debugged production code, certainly. :)

Rust Vecs are, by definition, heap-allocated (just like C++ ones). See my reply to a sibling comment for what I mean by hiding memory allocations.

Here's my plan for RCU: https://github.com/fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust/is...
Any idea if it's possible to do this with macOS and 'nix systems?

I've been thinking about giving it a stab myself, and I can't think of any obvious roadblocks.
It could also make things like online voting (like, for winners in a contest or features in software) possible which would otherwise be impossible due to multiple accounts.
Who notarizes the notaries?
It's already well past a bad flu season with only a fraction of the number of typical flu infections. I have never heard of a flu that fills up ERs to past capacity as is now happening in many cities.

People are still repeating that it's just a flu?
I think we are conflating "available credit" and "utilized credit". (Or, rather, I didn't clarify that myself.)

Available credit is something like, "Company X has $100M in annual revenue and a $5M line of credit, which is not presently utilized." Arguably, such a company is better positioned than the same company X without the $5M credit facility. The cost of the annual fee to maintain the credit facility will be miniscule compared to the security provided by having $5M instantly available in a rainy day scenario. This is the way by which I mean some corporate debt (specifically: available revolving credit) is "obviously" a good idea.

You're right that term loans involve more trade-offs: interest, maturity, etc. But those are still trade-offs, not always downsides. Assuming even a modest annual-interest-rate-beating growth rate in the business with a high probability that such growth materializes, the debt can make the business easier to manage and actually increase the probability of sustainable growth. That's the other way in which I believe that debt can be an obvious benefit.

But obviously if you take too large a term loan, it can be disastrous, thus my question about debt ratios. For example, for company X above, it's obvious to me that a $100M term loan would probably be dangerous. But, a $10M term loan vs $5M? Not sure. That's why I am curious about ratios.
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"I predict from prior experience that a bunch of cryptocurrency identity bagholders from 2017 will show up to shill their useless project not realizing it will never catch on and that product's adoption will never buoy their bags even if it did catch on"
Right, and it would be "weird" if I were using one of those, too. You don't run across drivers written in any of those languages on a daily basis.

I didn't mean it with any negative connotation, btw.
Long letters are not dead. I have a short list of old friends whom I communicate via the infrequent long email only. These are old acquaintances with whom I have no regular business with, and they have moved far away in life, so short texting conversations are irrelevant. Usually I initiate these "pen pals" by reaching out on Christmas or Eid, several years after we have lost contact, and I make it clear to them that I want to maintain infrequent long correspondence. Usually they are overjoyed and respond with great enthusiasm, as they may have never received or written a long personal letter before in their life. It often has a powerful effect on people. In terms of content, I try to avoid making the letter too personal, because we have been far separated in time and place, sharing only major milestones in life. The fact that I don't use Facebook or any social media at all helps, because people have NOT seen what I've been up to, nor have I seen what they have been doing. I believe the long letter works better than social media -- you can maintain deep, meaningful relationships, with people far away and long ago, with people of the same and opposite gender, without getting involved in the muck of social media.
The UX isn't the most looming problem, but it's one that needs to be solved. My question is: How in the world would you convince people to use keys to verify their accounts to one unique, anonymous, identity, as the OP suggests? I just don't see it being something people would spend the time to do. Not to mention, getting to a "Login with Google" level of UX, available as universally as "Login with Google", would be extremely hard without a centralized authority.

The bigger problem is convincing people that it's worth switching. Apple is the closest to doing this with "sign in with Apple". "Sign in with Apple" hides your identity from the client site, the value prop is clear for the user, and the process as close to frictionless as possible. But the solution is still "centralized". Apple stores all of the information to make the system as frictionless as it is.
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What a nice work! I wrote my thesis about this approach couple years back. Instead of generating test code, though, I saved queries in a serialized graph which was extended/changed if necessary.
There was a civil war in Albania since 1997 and most other countries had their embassies evacuated. The US Marines cleared the US embassy in Tirana cleared already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Silver_Wake

They were probably prepared to deploy for some time (assuming this was 1998 and not 1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War
In general, if an organization runs more efficiently, it reflects well on the leadership of the organization. Exactly how that benefits a given leader in an organization varies greatly, but if the leader's incentives aren't aligned with the organization's goals, that tends to lead to an unsuccessful organization.

An organization that gets its workers good tools that improve their productivity rather than wasting their time will get more done with the same resources. It will also have an easier time with hiring and retention. Even if there aren't direct pay bonuses or similar incentives, this will likely make life easier for the leadership.

And that's not even getting in to the basic human decency that you should care about other people.
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I've been to China a few times, most recently in late 2018. I traveled overland by train from Beijing to Xian and then to Shanghai. Everything as a non-chinese citizen was just harder than it was when I visited in 2014. Buying train tickets was a massive hassle without a Chinese ID. Paying for anything was difficult because many places no longer take cash and you can't really get a proper WeChat account as a foreigner.

The entire time I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was living in a dystopian future. Security around Tiananmen Square in Beijing was so overdone it would almost have been funny if it wasn't scary. Facial recognition scans on the metro system. In Shanghai they use facial recognition at crosswalks and then put up the name and picture of violators on a huge screen at the intersection (I can only assume they also deduct from their social credit score).

If this is the direction China wants to continue to go in, I no longer want anything to do with it. As long as the CCP is in power I won't be visiting again. And now that includes Hong Kong sadly.
I mentioned AutoLISP to make it clear that the comment is completely unrelated to value proposition, but in hindsight, that may be too obscure.
Absolutely! It would be far from perfect, and, but for the worst-case scenario that the internet currently embodies, not worth pursuing. But there's so much room for improvement today. Just placing a barrier against sock puppet accounts would already be a huge win.
You’re missing oculus and portal for facebook. Hardware stuff.
Then you belong to "they" in this case :D

People working like robots in warehouses and factories are certainly not winning. They have neither more time, nor more money.
Also, re: your question about Apple:

> For example, should Apple, with their huge mountain of cash, have debt? Do they need debt?

Obviously not. Debt is for companies that have already utilized most of their cash, right? Or have future cash flows that they want to access now before the cash actually materializes. Apple, by contrast, should probably become an investor or lender, since it doesn't know what else to do with its excess cash. It certainly serves no purpose being hoarded on their balance sheet.
I work at a company where (many years ago) we built an extension to Postgres (and some helper libs in SQLAlchemy, Go) for implementing decently-performant bitemporal tables (biggest history tables have hundreds of millions of rows). Pretty much our entire company runs on it today.

We implemented the “minimum viable” features (i.e. automatic expiring, non-destructive updates, generated indexes and generated table declarations), but left some of the “harder” ideas up to the application designer (adding semantic versioning on top of temporal versioning, schema migrations).

It’s worked really well for us. I can’t think of anything we’ve done that’s had a higher ROI than this. I’ll really miss it when I leave!
You can do almost everything with a combination of traits (for interface inheritance), simple composition and the Deref trait (to auto-forward unimplemented functions to the contained class). The one feature you're missing compared to actual OOP inheritance is open recursion, which is a big footgun more than anything (see: the "fragile base class" problem).

The Rust docs include an in-depth explanation of how Rust relates to traditional OOP: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-00-oop.html
I'm currently working in my spare time one something similar but with a focus on a water tight box with a solar panel that I can place anywhere: https://jwillmer.de/blog/projects/independent-iot-system-par...
It sure beats fortran77.
Why would I ever trust a notary?

As a person being notarized it sounds like I have to give that business more personal information about myself than I usually have to do to get an online identity, as suggested by your subpoena statement.

As a service trying to verify accounts I now have to trust a third party. Maybe the notary has a business that sells fake IDs in the back that are then used in the notarizing process. Maybe my competition set up a burner notary node in order to flood my service with malicious accounts. It sounds like an attack vector.
Neither are successful and profitable.
Typically there is no issue with running parallel tests against a real database. I just wrap every test case in a transaction and turn the transactions into subtransactions. This way you can just rollback at the end of each test.
By the way I wanted to say I read that blog post a bunch of times while trying to put together that software! OpenStreetMap and GnuSocial may really be everything on the internet now.

I'd almost sign up for a website at this point just to get a chance to use my OID provider...
I would assume bad leadership, even Amazon that has reportedly dubious work life balance has been able to pivot/grow but Bezos is able to lead by example and they have a lot of interesting 'ethos'. Then you have cases like Microsoft and Apple which have been around for way longer and have weathered multiple storms and computing eras. Google and Facebook just have ads, have not worked on their trustworthiness (ironically we even see posts about how real/fake are the ad engagements to this date) therefore they are stuck even if they are able to pay the salaries of the so called 'smartest' engineers (who are willing to join a one trick pony company). Microsoft built that trust by maintaining Office for the whole enterprise world (which granted, is a boring endeavor to be fixing bugs that 2-3 companies that use Excel hit but it pays long term dividends) and Apple built that trust by building easy to use consumer products that just work. Disclaimer, mostly talking about revenue streams and not products.
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I am working on my first SaaS, and definitely need to keep track of some performance metrics and user analytics. Ideally I'd be able to create visualizations with this data. I would build them out as a service of my own but do not want to reinvent the wheel. I would love you to know how you guys approach this.
> Summary: Certain (not all) Amazon warehouses seem to have per-employee injury rates that are significantly higher than the industry average, as in twice as high or more. Apparent reason: It’s not they’re actually dangerous places to work, it’s just that they’ve maximized efficiency and reduced waste to the point where people are picking and packing and shipping every minute they’re working, never stopping. And a certain proportion of human bodies simply can’t manage that. They break down under pressure.

Wouldn’t a more parsimonious explanation be that the job previously consisted of a safe part and a dangerous part, and it was easier to automate the safe part, so now more of a human's time on the job is spent doing the dangerous part?

If you imagine the "safe part" of the job as "slack" (i.e. imagine that the employees were previously half working, and half doing nothing—not that they actually were, but it makes the model clearer), then they've effectively just gotten rid of all the slack, and so made the employees do twice as much work per work day. If there's a constant small probability of injury per item packed, then of course doing twice as much work per work day, will lead to twice as many injuries per employee per work day. You'd have gotten the same number of employee-injuries out per items-packed in, no matter what time scale that packing occurred on.
I guess it’s fortunate that isn’t the case here.
I think about it quite differently —- “outrage culture” has always existed. White flight, lynchings of black men suspected of rape, “mob justice”, “community justice”.

Because we saw that this was a dead end, we created institutions whose purpose was justice. Their mission was unfulfilled because the justice was not meted out equally, and this racist backlash in the form of outrage culture fought against it strongly (still does).

A few things have changed though — before 24/7 news we didn’t have constant, unfiltered access to a stream of all that was wrong in the world. People with differing opinions to us ranging from benign to hateful, constant tragedy, etc.

And additionally, due to the rot of our democratic institutions (unions, etc.) and the growing imbalance of power between everyday people and elites, people are starting to turn towards outrage culture as a solution to societal ills again. And so the calls for “community justice” and the sort return as well. The difference this time is that social media has democratized access to a voice. So now anyone and any cause can be fought for, and with minimal effort.

Fixing social media won’t fix outrage culture, it will just mean that the only people with the power utilize it will be financial and racial elites.

If we want to get rid of it entirely, we need to make our society more democratic.
That's more to do with the tech industry's own left wing bias imo, not specifically YC.
This is a nice theoretical answer, but I am looking for something a little more practical. Also, assume that a company has already acquired all its "expensive capital" via venture markets and sale of private shares. Given the current metrics of the business, how should it decide how much "cheap capital" to acquire via the debt markets?
There's a lot of detail and intricacy here (in that you could likely architect a design that didn't really rely on the sort of hierarchy you describe at all), but generally if you wanted something similar to [single] inheritance you could implement std::ops::Deref for the child types. That doesn't necessary cover things like virtual methods, but those could be implemented simply as boxed functions that child instances assign on creation.
China's master plan: sit back and watch.
I don’t even use google For VC anymore because I could never understand what platform I was using.
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This makes tracking slightly more difficult, but does it really make significant difference when you consider all the tools at tracking companies' disposal?

How does it prevent linking those identities with real identities by using tools like browser fingerprinting, tracking preferences and stylometry?

I don't really see a way to keep my commenting (and even browsing to some extent) user friendly and disconnected from my real persona, so I act accordingly.

However, I'd like to be proved wrong.
You're very optimistic :)
They were able to do so because of diplomatic decision making.

They landed a transport plane on an airport. That's not a feat of military might. It's one of having the same blue/yellow emblem somewhere on your plane as on the 10.5 million cartons of infant nutrition you distributed the year before.

Some "shots over their heads" may have been useful in discouraging individual idiots. But the only reason there was anybody left to rescue, and the reason they were allowedd to succeed, is that neither side of the conflict had any actual interest in harming them.
> The original polio vaccine program was dangerous... just less dangerous than the disease.

A great deal less: "Oral polio vaccines cause about three cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis per million doses given.[2] This compares with 5,000 cases per million who are paralysed following a polio infection."

I think "three in a million" is well below what most people would consider "safe" in most circumstances.
Clubhouse is great for large teams, but every project manager who starts will spend their first month bitching that it isn’t Jira.
Totally story time
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Depends on if B leads (via lower wages) to more of B to compete.

For example the government may say that to clean their facility, cleaning companies need to be able to do a, b, c and after that it all comes down to the price. Almost all of them can do a,b,c so they compete on price, on cleaning company is not paying taxes though so can offer lower prices and wins all deals, forcing all other companies to stop paying taxes to survive, and makes the whole trade in that area morally bankrupt.

See also: construction business & tipping.