skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Everyone else does it” is an interesting defense.

Personally I don’t think they charge too much, but i still dream of a world where you can sideload apps on iOS with 0 fuss.

I think the bigger argument against the App Store isn’t about the cut Apple takes but the process. The human review process is nice because it helps control the amount of abject garbage on the App Store compared to the Play Store but Apple plays fast and loose with letting certain apps/companies use Private APIs that they’re not supposed to.

Unequal enforcement of their policies is a bigger argument for abuse of their monopoly position than that it’s too expensive.

I assume that they know very little of the arguments against it is centered around the 30% cut but this is a bit strange to see.
Haters gonna hate. John Martinis at Google did a very good job for silencing those deniers.
> Without subresource integrity they can push up a fix and propagate it to all clients immediately.

In reality, no you cannot.

You have multiple layers of cache between the S3 bucket and rendering, unless you disable caching entirely at a massive increased cost. Some of these caches are poorly behaving (e.g. intermediary caching).

The correct way of doing this ALREADY is to increment the version number in the URL (e.g. /3.1.0/My.Lib.js to /3.1.1/My.Lib.js) and to re-point the pages to use the updated library. This is reliably cache breaking, and will assure end users are getting the bug fixed version faster (or ever in some cases).

Once you're already doing it correctly, Subresource Integrity is a freebie. There's a reason why "sdk-latest.js" is largely dead concept from a bygone era: it is a huge anti-pattern and anti-feature.

Heck allowing upstream to blindly push you changes without being informed is nuts regardless. This argument is essentially: "I'm doing it wrong, and Subresource Integrity would stop that, so it is a non-starter." Without considering that what you're doing is bad practice before Subresource Integrity joined the party.
Blue you get from a chest. Pretty easy in the Act 3 since it's likely the alternative relic is trash by that point. Green is the buffed elite. Again pretty easy in Act 3 because if you can't stomp it you're definitely not beating the heart anyway. Red is forgo a rest stop, which can be done anytime but I usually do it before the boss, especially if the boss is Hexaghost, because why both resting just to buff the boss?
A lean deck can be very good by the end of the game, but the problem is getting to that point. On the harder difficulties it's often better to focus on choosing strong cards that help you now rather than worrying too much much about thinness.

So it's a good strategy still, it's just that most of the time you can improve your deck faster by adding good cards than by removing bad ones.
It is criminal, especially the child porn. But you have to catch them first.
> the only-case scenario is that all the sites you have pulling from that CDN break until you recompute the hash

Until you recompute the hash and communicate that new hash to them and they implement it on their site. It’s not nothing from an implementation point of view.
> Mathematics may be unique in that a proof is often just as valuable an asset (and sometimes more so) than the "fact" that it proves.

This is the HoTT point of view: a 'fact' is just a 0-truncated (or maybe I've got my indexing off) type, where all we know is whether it's inhabited (proveable) or uninhabited (unproveable). We get much more information from considering not just the bare fact itself, and not just even one particular proof of it, but the space of all possible proofs.

Also, is math really unique here? Maybe it is in the sense of having absolute proofs; but I'd imagine that, in disciplines where reproducible experiment is the substitute for absolute proof, it is also true that the experiment is often as valuable as what it establishes, and that, the more kinds of experiments (not just the more trials of the same experiment) there are to establish the same thing, the better.
You can put over 500 people Mattermost for $5/mo. And it's easy to get tightly integrated to your corporate environment - and even allow clients as temp-guest accounts for support.

Coding the custom solution around Mattermost cost less than one year of Slack and in year three we're still happy with it
Poland had HR issues?
Computer scientists are not developers. They are mathematicians. Some of them write software, but many do not.
“For example, Sam L. Savage was convinced he could use statistics to accurately predict fruit prices, which was undoubtedly unwise. He hired a commodities trading company, but lost $300 million in a matter of weeks.”

I’m not familiar with that story. Is it the same person who wrote this book?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0096CT4VY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Surprise discoveries in Mexico cave may double time of peopling of the Americas
That is not a design doc, that is a format specification. It jumps directly to the implementation details without discussing the motivation. The reader has no way to evaluate the utility of the example JSON because the doc has not stated any use cases.
That sounds attractive until one starts to delve into the implementation details. How would you implement it?
I think that your premise is that the knowledge that the doctor would have to pass to the patient in order for the latter to make enlightened choices would require squarely a long and tedious medical training.

To which I would suggest that

1/ no, the knowledge to have for this particular test results, likely (and less likely) prognoses, and the associated possible medical acts and risks, is not equivalent to a full medical training, as it is a tiny bit of one specialty. But I acknowledge that it may require quite some time.

2/ there is no need to apply the same policy to every patient, and you can choose to only allow tests to the patients who went through the basics training evoked in 1/.

In the end, if somebody wants to go through the process to get the knowledge to be able to deal with the information, why to deny it?

Plus, that would make a nice incentive to get people to know better their own body.
As I said it depends, do you pass in js the Math object around because you assume that in future you want to replace the Math.abs function with something different ?

Sure I seen the issues you mentioned too and many other issues where the initial requirements or assumptions changed.
Indeed, best advice I can give for people having trouble is: do anything you need to do to survive Act 1 and kill 2-3 elites. After that you've got a lot more flexibility.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23915700
I hate my job so much that I would love to retire at 55. I've already had to give up or greatly scale back my hobbies when I got married and had a kid. I also had to give up my career advancement (watching the kid means I can't work 50-60 hr/week, which is expected in IT).
Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios
The Osprey is not and has never been used by (EDIT: 'operated by', for the pedants out there) the coast guard, as far as I can tell. From LEGO's own statement in the article:

>While the set clearly depicts how a rescue version of the plane might look, the aircraft is only used by the military.
I think by "life" the parent was talking about microbes on Mars or waterbears on comets or something. Technology developing life is a different thing entirely. If we find primitive life nearby, then there probably is primitive life everywhere, and very little technology developing life (because of the "filter").
This all makes sense, but at some point you have to consider that startups are a privilege, not a right. Those that tailor their lives to be able to consume risk make tradeoffs like moving to a remote location, living single, minimizing expenses, forgoing healthcare, choosing to spend less time with friends, not getting that dog you always wanted, not having children, not getting married, not buying a house, etc. Narrowing your life for success takes tremendous sacrifices. It sounds like you want the benefits of having made those sacrifices without incurring any of their costs.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to have a family and raising kids, but that is a choice. No matter what conditions are set, the person who makes the necessary tradeoffs is going to be in a better position to succeed and YC as a business entity can do nothing to level the field for people who are willing to go all-in versus people who prioritize a comfortable home life.

Again, startups are privilege that form out of the security of societal infrastructure and excess of wealth. Nowhere in society is it prescribed that everyone should be able to forego having a job and drain their savings to gamble at a chance at massive wealth. How is it reasonable that we've come to expect this as some sort of entitlement?

The top comment makes a dismissive remark about "rich white men," and YC being against inclusivity and diversity. The natural response to this is that YC is not racially exclusive, but that they exclude based on those who can assume risk. Yes, but white people are rich so they can consume risk and black people are poor, therefore YC is in reality discriminative against blacks. The simplification of this kind of argument and its decontextualization from reality should be self-evident. Unfortunately, it's emblematic of the kind of emotionally reflexive and broadly appealing arguments we see thrown around instead of practicing any form of intellectual sophistication or nuance. It's far easier to make a glib side-remark suggestive of racial privilege. It's even easier when this is politically and socially trendy, even expected, and the individual making the remarks is protected from backlash by the insulation of a particular ideology.
Experiments in Homemade Composite Tooling
An intern at a Fortune 500 makes 3-4x what the lowest paid college instructor makes, and doesn't pull the "poor us, we're underfunded" card all the time.
A thread like this is not likely to help much. Think of it this way, how many of the people getting "stupid rich" do you think would credit their success to starting a thread asking other people how to get rich?

Some valuable pieces of advice I've heard:

1) Owning your work is important.

2) Because few people succeed the very first time, waiting for The Good Idea (TM) to come to you before getting started is foolish. The more effective strategy is to keep trying different things that play to your strengths and learn as much as you can from repeated failure.

3) Try to develop an internal motivation to complete projects and avoid talking to others about your projects for validation. The very act of mentioning your next Thing to your friends can have a powerful demotivating effect, because it tricks your brain into a dopamine response as if you actually already did the Thing [1]

[1] https://berkeleysciencereview.com/2013/04/when-telling-other...
Ads drive analytics / analytics feed ads.
Would you be willing to highlight the problems they were solving?
>> "original" charts I have created which have already been named and studied

thank you! I am slightly embarrassed to say, I thought I had personally invented a certain version of the BoxPlot, and after vacation presented it our Department Head, whose wife has a Masters Degree in Statistics! I told a story about what I wanted to solve, and how I intended to solve it, and the BoxPlot part was buried in there.. so it wasnt that bad. Only I (and now you, the reader) noticed my internal error.
Unofficial worked solutions are available here https://github.com/goropikari/SolutionQCQINielsenChuang
Another disadvantage you should consider if you're international wanting to work in the US is that it's hard to qualify for the H1-B visa if you don't have a degree. The alternative to a degree requires work experience, but the equivalence is to the tune of 3 years of work experience for each year of CS education.
Perhaps search through https://dribbble.com/ - this style is currently very popular. Perhaps search for "isometric".
We'll move it.
Idea: find some feature that's part of a software suite, like the ability to zoom on Windows. Build a business around just that feature, like sell a zoom tool for Windows. If the business flounders start an anti-trust lawsuit because Microsoft includes that feature for free in Windows.
We moved it.
So you are claiming that QAnon, "a thing" that started in October 2017 is somehow responsible for attack in 2016? Could you explain your reasoning?

I don't think you believe in some time travel conspiracy, that would be more of QAnon thing.
First gen immigrants have it more difficult. No doubt, but at the same time, they start businesses more often than their own children and multi-generation natives do in the US: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepofeldt/2013/06/26/first-... . But yes, many first gen immigrants are from relatively well off families in their respective countries. Chances are the immigration policies in the US are more favorable than whatever country they emigrated from. It's perfectly fine that we expect people who come here to work and support themselves otherwise our social programs would get burdened with taking care of anyone who could hop a flight.
I'm not seeing any UX problems here. They configured an S3 access policy incorrectly while troubleshooting, 5 years ago.

FTFA:

> During our incident review, we identified that this path was not initially configured with public write access when it was added in 2015. We implemented a change 5 months later while troubleshooting a problem with one of our build systems and the permissions on that path were not properly reset once the issue had been fixed.

> {
"Sid": "AllowPublicRead",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": ""
},
"Action": [
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:PutObject"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::media.twiliocdn.com/taskrouter/"
}
The Story of Systemd Inside Emacs
> What field do you work in?

Computer science.

> It would just be silly to claim that every other junior author on the paper is working for me

Exactly - the all work for themselves. I'm sure they all have their own research goals and they come together on papers along the way.

But what you need to focus on is the publications you achieve. You achieve them for yourself not your advisor.
And labor is to be exploited, so you're already put into a different class concerning "what can this person do for me?"
You will be surprised at the spectrum of companies that are interested in doing pooling, as were we.
It's not fast, but check out Reddits like r/financialindependence
I’d say that’s not so unique (although few other fields have proofs in the first place!) Proof techniques are tools, and proofs are evidence that the tools that are used, work. Similarly in, say, sciences where experimental physics is a whole field unto itself, and devising and running new experiments has intrinsic value besides the evidence they gather. At least for the experimentalists themselves, the theoreticians might not agree =)
>>> Content hosting platforms I want them to merely do what's legal.

Well, one could argue that's what they're doing. Unless we make it illegal for them to make moral choices over content, they're merely doing what's legal and what they perceive in their best interest.

But, ok, I do kind of get your point and it seems you care just when it comes to content, as you still want them to make moral decisions in other areas (employee compensation). I guess that's what I find different from my expectations (I'm not from the USA btw). I am fine with them making moral decisions on the content hosted in their platforms, even if that means sometimes they may censor my own point of view, it's their platform after all and I can still host my content on my own. I know, is not where "everyone" is, but perhaps that's a good thing, if people is missing that content they can get it elsewhere. Perhaps is that I don't perceive Twitter or Cloudflare as essential as say, ISPs. I'd have an issue with an ISP snooping and making moral choices about what traffic to allow beyond what the law requires because is not like I can build my own internet as an alternative.

>>> So, in 2020, as opposed to 1920 where the public square might have been enough, having access to something like Google or YouTube should be enforced as a legal right unless explicitly cut off by court order (as opposed by corporate whim).

That's a good point and my view is somewhat swayed now, or at least I understand that point of view better. I usually don't pay attention to twitter or facebook which somewhat bias me to deem them as unimportant social noise.

>>> Even economically, if you think about it, think how Google search ranking for example (or lack thereof) could sink companies globally at the whim of Google operators.

Search (content discovery, not content hosting) I do find more inclined to believe should be pretty much impartial (beyond perhaps top results that are clearly marked as "sponsored"), but instead of expecting google doing the right thing, we should push clear legislation about it.
Properly done MIL-STD-498 is a joy to behold.

Operational Concept Description (OCD) - Used to sync with the marketing/sales non technical people.

System/Subsystem Specification (SSS) -
Software/System architect and agile team leads sync here

System/Subsystem Design Description (SSDD) - Developers documents a rough outline of how stuff was done.
Tetris uses very elaborate mechanisms to prevent the player from having a run of bad luck. Maybe techniques like that can be borrowed by other games.
Echo chambers - algorithms are optimized to show you more content related to your personal beliefs and interests. Then monetizes ads related based on your beliefs and interests.
You're esssentially suggesting gambling to someone with money concerns.
Speaking as someone who has to deal with supervised learning models, human beings falsely tag positive examples as negative all the time. Merely having "average" human beings tag examples doesn't guarantee perfect recall.

Or to restate, sites that rely purely on manual moderation of content that breaks rules still has content that breaks rules leak through all the time.
Completely agree -- Mattermost is a great option for anyone. I'm shocked more people haven't adopted it. People need to get real. Slack is absolutely bonkers expensive. It may be the case that SV companies are happy to pay this price but you'll limit your market to SV. Slack is definitely finding it harder to grow -- they'll end up like DropBox.
That's a great point, but I do think there is a legitimate counterpoint - that by shifting most of the risk from the founder (where $25-$100k is a lot of money) to the VC (where it ultimately is very little money) potentially eliminates a filter criteria and could create perverse incentives or lead to a scattershot approach.

"I believe in this idea so much I am willing to gamble my short-term financial future on it" is a great way to find out what people really care about.

The diversity issue is real though. As is the broader issue of wealthy people being able to take on much more risk than normal people, leading to a reinforcement cycle (winners keep winning) and a winner take all outcome.

Which, now that I think about it, pretty much describes US capitalism perfectly.
But that's not the game as constituted. Obviously it could incorporate more non-pseudorandom randomness, but it didn't and doesn't.
It depends on the actual numbers for a given game. If it's possible to prove that 0.001% of games are unwinnable, I don't think that's going to diminish anyone's enjoyment of a game.

At 1% unwinnability, I think that almost nobody would notice the existence of unwinnable games merely by playing, but having the knowledge of the exact percentage of unwinnable games might start to diminish enjoyment.

Solitaire, where 20% of games are provably unwinnable from the start, absolutely suffers from this effect, because even when a player loses a winnable game they will be tempted to blame the game rather than themselves, fostering resentment.

If a game was provably unwinnable 80% of the time, then that would be either a damning indictment of its design or an indication that the value of that game is to be found in some aspect other than winning.
The first points here are absolutely correct. These documents are a way to communicate and get feedback (and iterate) on an idea with a group of people in your organization. Different organizations will communicate differently, and have different needs.
> These kinds of bottom of the barrel places of employment tend to have their policies and procedures tuned to make sure employees do things the way the company wants them done.

Yes, but their hiring pool tends to be "everyone".

Those procedures might not work as well if your hiring pool is explicitly confined to "the people who watch ISIS torture videos for fun". I suspect standard policies and procedures include "fire the people who get off on this stuff".
I just looked at the winter class and I agree a lot of them look like duds. It definitely dilutes the brand if your startup is one of ~150 and almost all the others are just X for Y

From your description, wanting to be the SME, early engineer, substantial equity - maybe you would be better off as a founder?
Why Startup Accelerators Compete with Smart Money
The Bay Area has lost its' soul. I moved here to meet creative people tackling big problems and I've found it's no longer about innovation and risk. Just a big pile of uninspired B2B SaaS companies. SV has become a well oiled money making machine for these kind of companies. If you want to work hard and get rich you come here and follow the grind to get your checks, status, clout, etc...

I've found some creative people tackling big ideas, but they are exceedingly rare and largely unsupported by the community. I've met a lot more people who moved out here with big ambitions and have been railroaded down the route of conformity, which makes the most money for VC's. It leaves them without fulfillment or purpose as they grind on products they care little about. SV will continue to produce billion dollar software companies, but I doubt they will produce real innovation over the next few decades. The bay area has conspired to railroad its' potential for greatness towards profitable mediocracy.
Cancel culture isn’t a recent trend - there are entire websites dedicated to cancel culture on college campuses, such as https://www.thecollegefix.com/. Free thought, free inquiry, and open debate are under attack from those that want only their worldview to prevail. It is a direct threat to a free society and much has been written about it recently from Quillette (https://quillette.com/2020/07/01/on-steve-hsu-and-the-campai...) and Harper’s (https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/) and others. It's become so extreme, that there are now even people trying to cancel Steven Pinker, famed author of bestseller books like "The Better Angels of our Nature" (https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-forehead-slapping...).

I’m not sure how to fight back except to create direct consequences for those pursuing cancellation. Perhaps we need to shame and demand the firing of everyone who signs such letters (those who demand censorship and cancellation of others).
I don't see the appeal in omitting that ceremony. Modern IDEs do it for you. On the other hand, a reader of the code must not replicate the work the autoloader does. If there is a class named Database from the backend module. The concrete class referenced there is highly dependent on the environment, the autoloader has at runtime. For me, this seems to be a source of many non reproducable bugs.
At least in the United States, we have a bankruptcy system that blunts the worst outcomes somewhat. Not sure that applies everywhere.