skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a CTO in a 20 man startup and have been through the ringer on several different projects through my career.

This is a difficult situation as positive founders that you can build a company with are hard to come by (been there) and outsourcing is a minefield. I would suggest not to engage with an offshore outsourcing company, I have had terrible experiences here (they may tell u they are under NDA so cannot share any of their ‘successful’ projects, of which there are probably none), and if they know you don’t know tech, it’s a free for all. The other issue is they will try to bleed you up front and most startups are based on iteration, but you will probably have no cash left to incorporate the feedback into another version. Also, the quality will be terrible and they will not care about your project. What could
Work, to get you started, is to find a single engineer you can work with (and pay) to get an MVP up and running, this could be a young guy or an off shore engineer but someone who will to work with you. This can keep your costs reasonable. The only issue here is that you have to think about how to move that MVP into a real product so you are really kicking the can down the road, but this can get you started.

In summary, avoid out sourcing like the corona virus.
Do you think a bigger problem is the press and possibly hype among groups of people labeling any person some sort of oracle? After coronavirus hit, there were claims of “oracles”. Same with any other big event.

Not going to get into DHH specific issues that you are referencing which I don’t disagree with lol.
Erlang has features for this baked in. What's more, if initialization of any subcomponent fails (say one of its dependencies hadn't completed booting yet due to race condition), if the author made it throw, the dependent subcomponent will automatically restart itself and try again. There are also one line strategies for trying again later, etc, so you don't even have to worry about blocking to prevent those race conditions.

> Kind of surprised python doesn’t as this sort of pattern is common in applications dealing with concurrency

Well yeah, python was not designed for that.
You can't speak truth on HN -- too many here are infected with Chinese money. Kevin Mayer at TikTok, Neil Bush supporting Chinese aerospace companies -- it's just standard business. But wait, they can justify their "globalization" with authoritarian powers because 1) it makes them rich and 2) they don't believe in principles like classical liberalism.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/28/neil-bush-china-agreement...
>As for Tik-tok, I'd ban it just for the degenerate social impact it's having on a large section of our youth population. Ditto for gang-glorifying, misogynistic rap music.

Multi billion dollar porn industry with no barrier to entry as far as viewer age where the youth are concerned but a dance app is worrying. I suspect you sound like your out-of-touch parents did when you were a kid.
> Or should it be more like the criminal justice system, innocent until proven guilty including after an appeal.

In the criminal justice system, jail or restrictive bail conditions pending outcome of trial is common.
More in-depth analysis by Rob Mauer:

- Part 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8PNPBkaWc
- Part 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v-FFbdd_VM
Well, I don’t live in SF. Salaries are relative.

Those grads haven’t been offloading overvalued investment properties bought in the 2010s. That paid off much cheaper properties from the mid-00s, which are much closer into the urban hub. Curious to see how much they’ll be worth as the move to rebuild the urban area as live/work/retail structures replace the houses there now. Even if this bubble bursts, they’re paid off (as well as the house I live in).

I don’t make as much salary, but did mention I’ve been their stock. FAANG is making me rich otherwise.

Given my more “midwestern” cost of living, I could probably retire. But again like I said I’ve been coding since I was a kid. It’s like speaking English and making a PB&J for me. I’d be doing it anyway. It’s like free money without the Silicon Valley bullshitshow.
> A completely new solution was inevitable because there was nothing more that could be done with Xorg.

I see no evidence behind this assertion. What specifically would have prevented the further evolution of Xorg?

> All of the complexity that mattered had moved into the WM, Compositor or Client.

Good. So that means that Xorg didn't have to change very much. All Xorg had to do is provide mechanism, not policy, and let WM, compositor, and client cooperate as they've been doing for decades.

But instead the Xorg maintainers got bored and decided to make a big ball of mud with no separation of concerns.
I feel for you.

Having lost two friends in their 30s and 40s to breast cancer in the last decade, I have to say that the system seems incredibly incapable of dealing well with the aggressive cancers that younger people (mostly women) get. There's a lot of bias during critical diagnosis stage that causes these cancers to often ignored until too late because the patient is young and "healthy" (not obese, or whatever) and active. And because these women were younger and still had fairly high metabolisms the cancer grew like wildfire.

I'm in Canada, so different scenario around costs and insurance and the like, but definitely some commonality in health care system dysfunction. In the same period I also lost my still fairly young mother in law to lymphoma that was misdiagnosed as a slow growing mostly-harmless folicular lymphoma.
Depends on your threat model. I expect the NSA can easily associate my real identity with my HN account. I don't expect most HR departments to have the ability or inclination.
What if China stalls and the US administration changes in a few months.
Yes, it's possible. Keep your normal public activities boring and straight. For everything else use TOR/VPN/Proxies/etc.
If you take a permanent magnet, heat it above the Curie point, then cool it again, it’s no longer magnetized. So you would have a one-use rice cooker.

Magnets stick well to ferromagnetic materials. If you heat a ferromagnetic object, e.g. a piece of steel, above Tc, it stops being a ferromagnet and magnets will stick to it much less firmly. And, when you cool it, it will once again be ferromagnetic.
> even enough to share its data with the company.

How many people do you think have opted into this with informed consent vs clicking through multiple pages of deliberately obfuscated terms?
I think you’re conflating a “free market” with a “perfectly competitive market”.

By and large, the US is a free market with your obvious government regulations. However, it’s not a perfectly competitive market because of the things you mentioned. Because a true “perfectly competitive market” is almost impossible to achieve, no nation’s economy is, but some are closer to it than others.

Perfect competition benefits the consumers most, while network effects, exclusivity contracts, and monopolies obviously benefit the companies more.

One of the biggest goals of US government economic regulations (at least ideally) is to steer the market as close to a perfectly competitive market as possible. Companies optimize in the other direction, and try to make their market less competitive despite those regulations.

This dynamic doesn’t mean it’s not a free market, it just means that we need regulations to counteract the forces of companies and keep it competitive.

This is why I find it misguided when people want a totally libertarian system with no regulations, because that will inevitably lead to a less competitive/efficient market.
The devkit is already pretty close to something I'd consider acceptable as a primary machine without any work from non-apple developers at all. Firefox and Chrome really need native builds, but the emulation is good enough for most programs even with the devkit having a CPU that's two generations behind what's expected to ship in the real thing.
They criticize and mock the government, yet they do what the govt tells them anyway, because money. Looks like Chinese businessmen are willing to do the same.
I wonder at which point you can be considered a bad person, if you have money and actively work against mankind - which ignoring climate change is IMHO.
Tcl still gets updates despite a small user base. Perl can enjoy the same fate.
That's a reason, for sure. But I would say that I have become very cynical about this type of reasoning for the following reasons:

1) If you are interested in working on interesting technology, and the idea is that a traditional corporation provides only soul crushing but possibly more stable/well paying work, then I would simply say its better to have a side project instead of working at a startup, because they are unstable.

2) If you are interested in doing work that will change the world, be aware that if you aren't the boss of the startup, then you can be gone in a second because of profit reasons. Better to start your own non profit like Watsi
This sounds like the tat in tit-for-tat. Would the tat have happened if the tit didn't?
While many of these are still half baked technologies, they are still better than wrapping up an electron app and calling it a day.
FHE operates under asymmetrical encryption and the one running the software needs the public key to perform the FHE operations on the data. The private key is known to the manufacturer (although there are some cool applications if no one knows the private key, provably) and is part of the logical circuit of the FHE so that it can decrypt and freshen it's state.
Another benefit is it removes a lot of otherwise unneccessary imports.

I think var should be used anywhere where the righthand-side expression is clear. Compare
var str = new String();
to
var waat = HERE.be().dragons("purple");

And with Spring-like classes like 'StaticFactoryBananaMakerBuilder', declaring the class makes it less readable.
I am sorry to hear what you are going through. I have similar stories of loved ones that went through the same thing.

The future is here, but unfortunately not evenly distributed.
Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering
I wonder how much the American TikTok app is based on Musical.ly? 50%? More or less?
100%. The proper measuring of ingredients and timing is all that's required.

Take a look at the first line of the article:

Cooking rice on a stovetop can be fraught. Add too much water and you end up with porridge.

Then take a look at this line shortly afterwards:

These devices can seem all-knowing. So long as you add water and rice in the right proportions, it’s nearly impossible to mess up

So in other words, the device doesn't actually solve the most important problem... The timing isn't particularly important, as long as you remember to turn down the heat as soon as it starts boiling.
This is a very scary situation. It means Google could block your website, not for something bad on your website, but for something bad on another website that you just happen to link to. That's beyond your control! Imagine this happening to a website like wikipedia.org, which as millions of links to external websites. If one of those millions of websites gets hacked, will Google block wikipedia.org? This is like being charged with a crime you didn't commit and being punished immediately without even an initial hearing to respond to the charges! Google and StopBadware.org should not have this power on the internet!
Your insurance company would prefer to cover people who notice the reckless driver then pull over to get out of their path.

You did not do that, so they raise your rates.

Edit: not that you were at fault or did anything wrong.

My point is that the insurance companies strongest incentive is to pay out as little as possible. This includes payments made where their client was not at fault. If it were up to them, everyone would pay all their premiums on time and never drive.
Wait ... Chinese labor is now also too expensive? Give me a fucking break already. What do these people want, slaves?

I leave this here:

https://www.theonion.com/jeff-bezos-tables-latest-breakthrou...
Nvidia has split lines too. But they understand the importance of getting developers on their platform.

(To be fair AMD has it planned, but it's behind several other priorities to them.)
There are several comments here about the lack of background info or citations.

The authors have a site which includes their letters to the FTC, etc which provide greater detail and references: https://www.representconsumers.org/surveillance-scoring/
How Low Can We Go?
I don’t have the Solutions Architect certification but I do have the AWS Certified Developer certification. I learned quite a bit during the training and it did help me get a job, though it’s hard to quantify how much as I’ve also been in IT/IS for nearly 15 years which includes 10 years of software development experience. I also get contacted fairly regularly by recruiters who see I have the certification listed on LinkedIn.
That's not right. Jasmine rice for instance requires more like 1,5:1 water, at least (you can go up to 1,75 for extra softness). And for what it's worth, it's what is written on the bags I buy.
Just to add to your point - I think almost everyone reading this will have a story like this that they have either experienced firsthand, or had a relative/friend go through. I know I sure do.
JetBrains Darcula (Default Dark) for Emacs
Yes, when the accused is a threat to society or a flight risk. Our website is neither.
you might be right, but there are other reason to announce instead of doing: getting leverage, getting attention, being someone that talks a lot and does much less, not having a brain/mouth filter... probably a mix of trying to get leverage for something probably unrelated and getting some attention (possibly diverting it from something else)
I was forced to dive headlong into understanding cancer therapy 2 1/2 years ago. It was obvious at the time that this was the correct direction to head, developing an entire therapeutic ecosystem to give the body every possible advantage and assail the disease with every possible disadvantage in order to get the desired outcome.

However, what I saw was a rather bizarre and disturbing fetish in the pharmaceutical and medical communities for ‘monotherapies’. I believe I understand the allure, if you find one thing that works, the proverbial silver bullet, that’s the best case scenario for treatment. It’s also quite obviously the best case for shareholders and investors, but let’s set that aside for now.

For the sake of future patients, I do hope that medicine and regulators deprioritize the search for monotherapies and receive the type of analysis represented in this article with open arms. In particular, I hope that the ’standard of care’ is given some flexibility so that doctors are able to adopt low risk adjunct therapies in order to improve outcomes and the amount of data available for continued research and improvement of treatment plans.
You need encrypt(1) + encrypt(2). You would not be sent instructions to add 2. No information about what you are doing is sent, except the operations + and x.

As the comments in the article state, it's actually all done with operations on polynomials with encrypted coefficients. As + and x can be done on polynomials, it all works out.

The maths behind it is of course much more complicated.

As for a simple maths analogy, consider adding 1 + 2.

I'll encrypt your values by multiplying by 3 mod 7. So encrypt(1) = 3x1 mod 7 = 3 mod 7 and encrypt(2) = 3*2 mod 7 = 6 mod 7. Only the encrypted values are sent, along with the operations I want to perform on the values.

Now this scheme is homomorphic, as I can just add the encrypted values, encrypt(1) + encrypt(2) = 3 + 6 mod 7 = 2 mod 7. That is the only computation that would be done before sending back the result.

To decrypt it, I would have to divide by 2 mod 7 by 3, which gives me 3 (you can easily check that encrypt(3) = 2 mod 7). And indeed 1 + 2 = 3. So the decrypted answer is correct.

Of course this scheme is too easy to crack. The FHE scheme is not.
AquilaDB: A Decentralized Neural Information Retrieval System [pdf]
> This persistent bit of FUD really needs to die. [...] I'm sure there are some grey ares that haven't been worked out

Way to contradict yourself.

> but avoiding those is fairly simple.

[Citation needed].

> As much as the Linux kernel's pragmatic approach toward licensing helps make it easier on some hardware manufacturers, sometimes I wish they'd take a hard line and refuse to carve out exceptions for binary drivers, inasmuch as those can sometimes/always be considered derived works.

Maybe this is what needs to happen to force companies to change their mindset, but where I work, lawyers tell us to (1) never contribute to any GPL'ed based code, (2) never distribute GPL'ed code to anybody (e.g. not even a docker container), etc.

Their argument is: a single slip could require us to publish all of your code, and make all of our IP open, and to make sure this doesn't happen, an army of lawyers and software engineers and managers would need to review every single code contribution that has something to do with the GPL. So the risks are very high, the cost of doing this right is very high as well, and the reward is... what exactly ? So in practice this means that we can't touch GPL'ed code with a 10 foot pole, it is not worth the hassle. If I were to ask my manager, it will tell me that it is not worth it. If they ask their manager, they will tell them the same. Etc.

BSD code ? No problem, we contribute to hundreds of BSD, MIT, Apache, ... licensed open source projects. Management tells us to just focus on those.
So, it's your complaint isn't, as you initially presented it, that you were unfairly listed as a badware site, but instead that you were rightly listed once, asked to be delisted after incompletely dealing with the problem, rightly failed the subsequent review, but this time you really did deal with it?
We've entered an awkward twilight zone where companies can do what they want a la Laissez-faire capitalism, which means they can also do exactly the same thing a government would do at exactly the same scale and with similar levels of authority. It is a grey area that hasn't yet been stopped by laws because sometimes companies are so big they influence the laws themselves.
He hasn't if you give him a world map he can't even figure out most of the countries and he isn't even able to name all your states. Ignorance is bliss.
Tiktok needs to be hooked up to PRISM and all the other NSA programs immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or whoever buys it is compensated with a piece of US intelligence's bottomless pit of money.
When I'm contacted by a recruiter, I still have to go through that system; I've never run into an exception to that, at least not in the last decade.

Also, I did get a job once by applying directly to $BIGCORP and entering data in an applicant tracking system, without being first found by a recruiter. It did not turn out to be the most wonderful place to work though.
I know right? And this saddens me because my whole life the USA was the role model. I was born in a communist country but it changed to be more like USA at my early childhood, so USA is the dream. Now the USA is becoming this thing that values state security in expense of individual freedoms. I am totally not amused.

edit: unfavourable opinions seem to get downvoted into oblivion. I am actually surprised by the jubilance in the tech community towards state intervention. Had no idea that people dreamed of becoming like China where the all knowing government protects them by telling them what apps can use and which website they can visit.
This is a cool idea. In a similar vein, I use Google Colab heavily to induct new students to python. Requires no setup, we can collaboratively edit and the output is instantaneous.
Zimbabwe deteriorated under Robert Mugabe
It's a lot simpler on embedded devices. U-Boot for example is extremely simple and much more robust than GRUB or LILO.
I'm not sure if FHE is valid for any of these use cases, as far as I can understand, FHE machines/evaluators can operate on encrypted data, but can not derive any useful information from that data without the key.

In all of the use cases you have mentioned, FHE machine on the user device, can not perform interactions(IO, etc..) with the outside world (can't connect to a network, can't display things on a screen, etc..) without the key. So for these devices to be useful, the keys will have to be embedded in the IO paths(in which case the device would be hackable) or FHE machine should be implemented as subsystem that does things like DRM(I'm not sure if this would be possible either, but it could be).

I might be completely wrong here, but can someone sketch out how FHE can be used to make an unhackable consumer device?
Much better performance for one. Not having to use Emacs bloat if all you want is vim features + plugins, for the other.
Did anyone allege that sending SMS to 911 was affected?
Crazy that one person controls an app that over 1/4 the US population uses.

Crazy that over 1/4 the population uses one entertainment app. I don't even see how that's possible, even if all tweens/teens/teen-aspirationals use it.
Proposal for Chamath’s climate framework, public and open sourced
I wonder at which point it becomes a self-fulfilling property - at which point decisions based on data-driven pigeonholing actually lock people on the paths "discovered" in the numbers?

E.g. if a young adult gets classified as "disorderly, drunk, unsuitable for reproduction, suitable only for low-skill work" based on their history of college partying, and then consequently denied work and social opportunities (as everyone doing background checks sees that summary), the prediction essentially becomes a sentence.

(The third season of Westworld, despite bad writing and even worse gunfights, was very good at bringing this point up.)
For the real-world performance thing I care about (compiling code), the devkit has comparable per-core performance to the i7-7700K in my 2017 imac.
The US cannot win a war against China. China can ramp up production of military equipment faster than the US can sign a war declaration.
Pivot to the pacific was an Obama initiative that was loooong in the making.

It doesn’t matter who drives the train, the tracks are already laid.
I couldn’t agree more, I’ve been down a road similar to yours and understand the frustration and rage. The headline is complete bullshit, it should read something more like ‘it turns out we have way more tools to fight cancer then we ever bothered to look for, does anyone have the courage to put them into practice?‘
> So you’re okay with Spotify “defending themselves” against artist who want more of a cut?

Yes, there’s no god given right to be paid for your art. Just because I put some tones together and throw it on the Internet doesn’t mean I deserve to paid significant amounts of money. Or indeed any money at all.

> Actually Apple Music pays artists more per stream than Spotify.

That only proves my point, competition is driving up payments to artists, the system works. Not only that but Apple Music may soon be the dominant streaming platform, and if they can do that would resorting to anti-competitive behaviour then is show that artists can make a living, and consumers can continue paying ~$7/month for music.
Not really. Most of the cases are concentrated in the northern regions (Lombardia, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Piemonte, Liguria). The rest of Italy was quite safe, specially in the south and the number of cases was very low. The entire country lockdown was implemented just to protect the soutern regions (that has worst healtcare systems).
China doesn't control Android and iOS App stores in US.
Number of users saved from attack by secure boot: 0
Number of systems bricked by fixes to secure boot vulnerabilities: Many

Sad to see TSA in software form.