skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it entertaining, if not a bit off-puting, how the blog article follows a similar sales tactics as the slide deck itself.

The mythical mentorship lunch imparts knowledge over sauce-stained notes leading to the biggest deal ever. Oooh... ahhh...

It’s sad that our primate brains respond so well to it. As an engineer I even hate it a little bit. But if you’re customer facing you have to embrace storytelling, and that requires finding the thesis statement about why the world needs your product. And you won’t find that in your Feature list.

Actually the thing that really amazes me is that you can only basically tell people ONE thing. Try to communicate two things and they hear neither. I don’t care how many slides, or how many salespeople, or how many people work in your marketing department. The difficulty level of successfully communicating one single idea to your prospective customers is just way higher than you would ever think is reasonably possible.

I think that’s why pitches that just constantly reinforce a single simple concept: “THIS is how you need to do business now” are more likely to reach the target audience and make an impression.
Exactly. Not to mention they've been found guilty of corruption and bribery in the past. Naturally allowed to continue to operate devices critical to democracy.
> This is a bold assumption that needs backing, because it would suggest that Germans or Britons would be paying 2 orders of magnitude more on sending paper mail than Singaporeans. It also presupposes that private corporations must absolutely turn a profit on every piece of mail that they deliver to every destination, but that’s not how most enterprises work — there can be sustainable loss leaders. It also presupposes that we ought to subsidize rural paper mail delivery rather than charge the true price, which is also debatable.

No, it’s not. Singapore and the US are both an order of magnitude outside the range of the other 3 countries. I would imagine delivery is cheaper and/or more profitable in Singapore, considering it’s a densely urbanized city-state comprised of multi-tenant housing. Germany, UK, and Japan are all roughly similar in density, and I bet it costs a bit more to mail a letter in Germany than Japan. I also bet it’s profitable in that population density range. It clearly is, since they’re operating private companies!

The US is also vastly larger than any of the referenced countries, and has some huge areas with extremely low density. The population density of all of the land area of the US excluding the Northeast region has a population density of 50/sq mi or less (excluding islands). The US has unique geographical and size challenges that none of the countries listed that have privatized their post offices have.

Clothing, food, and housing haven’t been strictly government provided services ever. This is not a good analogy or argument, sorry.

Also, 55 cents is a not a regressive pricing scheme against the urban poor. 55 cents to mail a letter isn’t going to inconvenience anyone. You’re getting disingenuous here, I’m going to disengage.

One last thing, USPS ends up doing last mile delivery for a lot of rural address UPS and Fedex packages. You’re not arguing in good faith, I’m done.
It's a good story, but the whole premise seems to be based on a couple of anonymous reddit comments..
Ask HN: How to deal with vendors who run outdated TLS?
Someone I know uses a custom point-of-sale system that is tied to their business. It does not only order management, but it also processes transactions and handles customer information.

Today I get a frantic message from this person that their browser says the site is insecure and refuses to load it. They cannot access their order information or process payments.

This person is runs a small (franchised) business. But they are worried about the security of the system that they are using.

I put in the URL for the POS system into the ssllabs.com tests and sure enough, it scores an "F", runs TLS 1.0, etc.

What makes matters more complicated is that there has been some chargeback fraud happening. It is probably unrelated to this, but it makes one wonder.

Given that there are PCI considerations, is there any recourse as a franchisee to something like this? They could refuse to use the system, but are afraid of losing orders or being accused of some franchise agreement breach.

My advice so far has been to yell as loud as possible, provide documentation, make as much noise as possible, and use cash/check/PayPal to process payments until the provider get the issue resolved. The provider was frustrated that this person wouldn't just use Internet Explorer, since that's what they suggest everyone else to do.

Any advice here? What would you do?
What if it's a good question?
Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (2018)
This is the best suggestion I see.

For myself, I see high inflation coming from governments printing money. I am heavily levered into real estate, and have put options on 2 year out TLT puts.
and taxation is lawful.

And that notion is what many of us reject.

To argue otherwise requires a fundamental rejection of the legitimacy of the state

Not exactly, although plenty of Libertarians do reject the legitimacy of the State out of hand. I find the issue to be more nuanced than that. If you hold, as Bastiat did, that "the law" (aka "the State") can be something like - but no more than - the "collective extension to our individual right to self defense" and that no mere aggregation of individuals can have a right to do anything that a single individual doesn't have a right to do, then you can conceptualize a State that does things like, say, protecting private property, but which can't lawfully require payment of taxes.

All of that said, I didn't come here to write pages and pages on political theory. There are entire books that treat this entire topic much better than I could. I'd refer anybody who is interested in this to The Law [2]by Bastiat, as well as the works of Lysander Spooner[2] among others.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
You are probably an exception: self motivated individual.
The rest of us, which I assume is a big majority: prefer video over text, are more engaged by visual interactions, and still found big parts of this material hard to grasp, not to mention the preference for the free availability of the material.
Virus scanners just treat UPX as a compressed file format and scan the binary inside.
Berlin, New York, London, and Tokyo, and dozens more show that it’s perfectly possible to get the virus under control even in places where public transport is popular.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23845579
This article really rubs me the wrong way. I don't think I would find a Yelp very valuable, and the most important metric for a PhD program isn't job placement numbers. The idea that job placement correlates to PhD quality is just plain wrong. Incredibly intelligent students leave PhD programs through no fault of their own, and people who get nothing out of a PhD program can get a cushy job easily. It's a horrible metric.

I found that the difference between faculty members at the same institution can be immense. This is because faculty have great control over your life due to how doctoral funding works in the United States. If you wish to continue a Biology degree, you must be willing to work with this faculty member, in this area, on this specific problem. Some faculty are rigid about a specific problem, some are not.

Even more complicated is that some students need more guidance than others. Or some students want much less. And the student doesn't necessarily know what they need before entering the program.

This is why I think it's smarter to give doctoral students more freedom and flexibility in switching faculty. The school should be supportive of a student in this process rather than focusing on their job placement numbers.
It’s been done before: http://ebexchange.com/
I'll grant that a speedy misreading of what I wrote could lead someone to a conclusion that was simplistic or even comic. It's been my experience tho that folks on HN tend to carefully consider context and intent - and are less likely to arrive at misguided conclusions.

That is a fine thing and I am grateful for it.
> But that may be outside the realm of possibility to check easily.

It depends. If you type-check your runtime input (e.g. form fields) then it works well.
I wouldn't be able to precisely break down his notation (and I'm guessing it's not intended that way?) but just following his thought process has improved my intuition by seeing some of these ideas I had toyed with before reframed in a more mature way. At the very least, a lot of interesting analogies to consider.
GoodJob 1.0, a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, ActiveJob back end for Rails
Have you looked at Sorbet?

https://sorbet.org/
Perhaps you over studied and need to shift gear and start building. What are you building?
Iverson notation originated from APL, which was itself born out of the horror that Iverson saw when presented with "standard mathematical notation". Its use of strange, otherwise cryptic notation was influenced by two main themes: it was originally designed on a blackboard, so strange glyphs were normal, and a desire to become unmoored from "standard mathematical notation" in order to strengthen principle 1. of OP - Unambiguity. Casting off historic baggage and canonicalizing mathematical notation under the principles of OP was APL's prime goal, and it does a damn good job of it.

I wish they taught it to math majors.

APL's a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down, and J was my eso-lang of choice last year.
It's kind of easy to say "ASLR is not resistant to infoleaks" but it's really quite another thing if the infoleak ends up coming from something like a microarchitectural sidechannel or even an undocumented proprietary processor extension, rather than "hurr durr here is a slid pointer, we hand out these out like candy".
Huh. I think we get 10-15% off iTunes cards sometimes, but not Xbox. I would say the bifurcation into Gamepass vs Xbox Gold may reduce the value of any discount, though.
One major restriction is a prohibition on offering delivery on a regular (daily) schedule. The relevant statutes also call out restrictions on price of postage as a multiple of the going postal rate, as well weight of the parcel. The USPS also has exclusive access to mailboxes.
I have updated the WL(1) implementation to iterate until fixpoint termination, and mentioned the failure case. Thank you for reading carefully!
I would argue that the learning is circular, as exploit development learns from mitigations just as much as mitigation development is informed by exploits ;)
Yeah by the numbers I like it (sum types!), but what put me off is in practice, TS is built for autocomplete. If you aren’t using that, it’s a real pain to guess what type you need to say, and you’re basically digging through code or bad/old docs to find out.

I also found the typing to not really help. Non-null stuff is nice, but without range types, I don’t think the trade off is worth it. It helps about as much as Go’s type system but asks you to do 3x the work, restrict yourself to typed libraries, and setup some pretty tricky tooling.
I’d say that’s about right.
Per the USPS, it looks like there is an opening in law:

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/pub542_ch5_001.ht...

USPS has to get paid the going rate for postage. But given that no private carriers are within a factor of 10 of USPS pricing, that seems like it's not the barrier here. (Also: much easier to make the argument that the $1.00 letter service from FedEx could be $0.45 if Congress would update the relevant law.)

This really looks like the private carriers have carved off the profitable part (rapid delivery) and leave USPS with the hard, unprofitable part (delivery to 100% of addresses, for $0.55).
I don't do anything to my Windows. It's mostly vanilla.

I think it has some thing to do with the loneliness of having a very customized environment. It's good, but when you work in a mainstream environment, it feels like there is a lot of energy being put by others into the same environment, which (sometimes) will get you high quality defaults and save you some time.
From the example notations that he gives, all three Einstein notations as well as the Penrose notation make the indices explicit in a way where a mismatch or misalignment will stand out.

Another good example is the Liebnitz notation for derivatives. Proper application of the chain rule visually resembles how fractions cancel: dy/dz dz/dx = dy/dx. It's very easy for the eye to follow and make sure that the cancellation is valid. Newton's notation doesn't make that as easy.
Seems like a culture clash between “why would you not use your distro’s shared libraries?” and “containerize all the things!”
I agree. AOL had far more control over the average online user than FB and Twitter do now. The fact we even say "FB and Twitter" indicates this.

In the early AOL era, one couldn't even use it to access the web.
> domain specific languages, while much more efficient are unpopular

JSX seems pretty popular, and when XML was popular similar XML embeddings were, as well. Templating languages are popular.
Heck, the relative popularity of “general purpose” programming languages is not consistent across domains, with domain fit being a factor even for general purpose languages.
Not only is the text segment relocatable, the entire binary is generally compiled as ET_DYN so it is a shared library in a sense.
The New Stability
https://twitter.com/AnnaDeForest/status/1284182312977039367
383 emails, it seems. I am glad when I search my inbox some of those posts will surface.
Right, that's what the debate that is coming to. Are the platforms the townsquare for speech and should we hold them to a standard of free speech that doesn't just mean "no interference from government"?

Also, a difference of degree can be such that it becomes a difference in kind.
Shannon: Communication in the presence of noise (1949) [pdf]
Can you give some examples? Most of the fancy demos I have seen would require complex prompts.
Thank you for an interesting experiment to try. I’m looking forward to doing it myself.

I want to ask, though. Is it correct to call the third filter an obstacle? In the quantum realm, it’s not really an obstacle, is it?
Can you name it, so we can find it ourselves? ;)
That's highly dependent upon what kind of document structure you want to embed inline comments into.

What type of document do you need this for? E.g. Word, Excel, Markdown, plain text, etc?
That's not the fault of VCs or even private equity. That's the fault of decisions made at far higher levels: congress, the executive branch, and the Federal Reserve. These decisions create vast macroeconomic riptides that just drag everyone else along.

One of the things I've come to believe after being around for a while and watching a lot of humans is that we are much more at the mercy of our environment and the forces therein than we think. Individual humans are very very small, and their decisions are largely driven by the socioeconomic context they inhabit. Incentives matter a lot.

Today there is effectively a Cold War between the US, China, and to some extent other nations and nation-blocs over who can print the most money to hep up their economy the most to generate the most GDP growth. All those metrics are financial in nature. You get what you measure. You also get ghost cities (China), crazy asset bubbles (America), predatory leveraged capital (everywhere), and a financial economy increasingly disconnected from value creation, but those things are not being measured so nobody (in the political class) cares.

This creates an incentive structure best parodied in the Silicon Valley TV series: your company's product is not its product. Your company's product is its stock. The goal is to soak up as much of that financial capital as possible, because that's where the money is.
Chrome’s site isolation doesn’t solve the “image from another origin” problem. Those still exist in the containing origin process’s memory. It solves the “frame from another origin” problem, which is the more acute issue but not the only one.
BHL Improves Its Taxonomic Name Finding Services with Gnfinder
Shakespeare's "thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to"
> Germany, UK, and Japan are all roughly similar in density, and I bet it costs a bit more to mail a letter in Germany than Japan. I also bet it’s profitable in that population density range. It clearly is, since they’re operating private companies!

And on what basis are you betting that an operating private company in America can’t achieve the similar pricing outcomes? Is it pure conjecture?

> Also, 55 cents is not a regressive pricing scheme against the urban poor

Sure, and if that’s your argument, then why can’t a private corporation charge the same and maintain a national parcel mail network if it wanted to? There are loads of industries (airlines, payments, ridesharing) where margins are razor thin, but because of high revenues, there is plenty of incentive to serve remote areas.

> One last thing, USPS ends up doing last mile delivery for a lot of UPS and FedEx packages

While that’s true, this services represents the minority of UPS and FedEx’s total footprint. UPS/FedEx/DHL/Amazon still directly deliver the majority of their packages, even to remote addresses.
Some of us tend to ignore what Apple says ;)
No, it's very different.

Your cite says they had to put aside money for all their pension costs over the next 75 years. Including people they haven't even hired yet.

My cite says that they had to calculate pension costs payable over the next 75 years that they already incurred. That's a much smaller number and matches the requirements for private companies.
This is fantastic, thank you for bringing this up.
Not to mention that the other dominant ISPs were unlikely to have TOS's that were any less restrictive than AOL's. Hell, Prodigy billed itself as family-friendly, so it was likely more censor-happy than both AOL and CompuServe.
go has //go:noinline for the same effect. I don't think you need these weird trampoline calls and they are probably somewhat fragile since a future compiler might figure out how to inline through them.
> JSX seems pretty popular, and when XML was popular similar XML embeddings were, as well. Templating languages are popular.

I don't think any of these things are popular; in my experience people using them mostly hate them, or at best grudgingly accept that they're the least-bad option.
Not true at all, there are several times I've attempted to read through a textbook only to be stopped by notation because something was introduced prior to being referenced, or notation is overloaded with multiple meanings.

I consistently have run into "perceived or real" confusing mathematical notation as an impediment to learning in a way that programming languages have never, ever caused me.

Does no one else feel this way? I can't be alone, and like the others responding to you have said, your claim does not seem substantiated.
> I found that the difference between faculty members at the same institution can be immense.

Absolutely!

> This is why I think it's smarter to give doctoral students more freedom and flexibility in switching faculty. The school should be supportive of a student in this process.

This is important, but it's not enough. The nature of a PhD means that switching faculty is often not an option. Students 3 years into their thesis work with a budding publication record on a topic often can't realistically just switch to another professor, even if everybody is on board with it. In most cases that means starting over from scratch with a new topic.

So instead students will grind out a final couple (or more) miserable years in order to finally get their degree.
Part 2 (sorry, the order is fouled up here)

Ok, with respect to your views, I think I can narrow it down to a single question. I said that Marxism-Leninism has goals that can be achieved only through a great deal of violence against the population, and as a consequence whenever Marxist-Leninists come to power, this is what they practice.

That means that even if a Marxist-Leninist party came to power that was headed by a basically good person, and was not threatened externally, it would still behave quite oppressively toward its population.

My question is, do you agree that due to the nature of its basic goals, Marxist-Leninist regimes must be so oppressive?
I wouldn't.

Your first line is bristling with defense, you're not going to believe anything else even if the truth was laid out in front of you.
I neither said nor implied that. But yielding to that pressure doesn't show backbone.
It's not particularly rural, but it's the opposite case where my parents live. UPS, FedEx, and various courier services will typically deliver right to their house. However USPS doesn't deliver mail to their address. They have to pick it up themselves from the nearest post office
On Downloading Files
Amazon is America's top advertiser
Does that mean i don't get 960 emails a week now?
That means I can refuse servicing you based on, for example, the clothes you’re wearing, right? Or maybe because I don’t like your hair? As far as I know people with bad hair is not a protected class.

I’m trying to figure out how do you know the basis on which some private enterprise decided to refuse to provide their service to someone. Is it based on their stated reason?
I agree in that I like how sites use different looks as part of their overall aesthetic. For people who don't like that, I'm not sure what's so compelling about using a perpetually probably-always-somewhat-broken tool that requires complex installation and maintenance rather than just use Firefox Reader Mode + maybe some extensions, but power to them if that's how they want to spend their time.
It's one of the reasons I write reviews on goodreads of everything I read. That it may benefit someone else is a secondary consideration. It's mostly for me to think about what I've just read and also something to look back on in the future when I want to see what I thought of a particular book. I always hated English as a subject in school, so I use this for practice.
The links were the prerequisite of Google/page rank, so Google only realizes that value once they had been created. They added value to that labor by making visible and accessible a dimension of this underlying network to others, but then channeled that mostly to themselves and ultimately disrupted, perhaps even destroyed (depending on your perspective), the signaling they observed.

They were not alone in this, but it’s hard to compare their impact on the web to say, various forms of cataloging of works in library networks, and come away seeing them as impartially additive.
Carta’s former marketing VP is suing over gender discrimination
Pycharm also puts a handy play button on it too, which is literally the only reason I do it. (sheer laziness)
I was going to say, this wouldn't explain it because the electric field strength is projected to the polarization axis (with strength 0.707 at 45 degrees) but to match quantum measurement it should be 0.5 strength (0.707 squared). But as the grandparent comment stresses, light intensity is the square of electric field strength... so the measurement matches. Makes sense! I will amend my above comment.
Also if company A is unwilling to supply a white label version, then perhaps company b will instead. Better to make money selling a white label then not make money because you didn’t.
It's just strange to me that the Internet free speech debate is getting so heated after it's been around for as long as the Internet- or at least the Web- has. People are acting like they suddenly realized websites have TOS that include clauses on acceptable content.
Consider that some of the people being let go may be here on employment visas, and this may jeopardize their (and their family's) ability to remain in the country.