skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the same time I have some sympathy for the BaFin people, there are way too few of them and the opposition was very well versed in showing one face whilst actually being something completely different, the length to which these characters would go to show a good face was beyond anything that I would have normally imagined.

I mean, they weren't versed enough to fool many Wirecard shorts or financial journalists, who had a lot less authority and power to investigate the inner workings of the company. Maybe in the absence of these warnings they could be excused for missing it. But when you get it handed to you on a silver platter?
>"Anyway, I guess ... to be receptive to."

In other words, developing your communication skills can have good impact.
Pretty easy to look up the cost of living in different places and do the math. Housing and transportation costs are good proxies. State and local income and sales taxes can make a significant difference.
Gridiron: Physics-based football game from husband/wife team an early access hit
It seems that this kind of weakness in tenant isolation is something that's hard to avoid in a public cloud environment, yet really critical to get right, to preserve confidence in it.

Yet given the nature of SPF and DMARC, they're inherently going to be pretty open to other tenants in the absence of IP-based isolation.

Perhaps each tenant could use a unique outbound IPv6 in future (if it reaches traction on servers), and have a small pool of such personal IPv6s allocated exclusively for their own email, across the other fallback systems?

DKIM is better as it uses cryptographic keys, but you need to give a cloud email host be access to these, or realistically load its own DKIM key into your DNS.

Any other ideas on ways to stop these kinds of cross tenant issues when designing cloud services? I'm assuming nobody will provision infrastructure per tenant due to scale and cost, but this is quite a serious issue underlining the risk of relying on a tenant account with public cloud providers when it comes to isolation.
I found this article very interesting, and a bell went off when I was reading the bit about the backgrounds of the board members. Ms. Tanikawa seemed to be the most militant in her beliefs, but think her strong opposition to the magnet-school system deserves a second look. While the US officially classifies many different ethnicities as “Asian” that doesn’t really account for the strained relationships and bigotry that exists between different cultural and ethnic groups.Based on the location of the school district/board, it’s pretty clear that the lower and middle class immigrant families that are using the magnet school system as a means of upward mobility are mostly Chinese and Korean. If we hold Ms. Tanikawa to the same level of scrutiny that she subjected Mr. Maron to, it’s fair to say that her own biases could be informing her own position as well. I have noticed that some of the most vehement
“Anti-racists” have employed this ideology to paradoxically advocate for ideas and policies that are, in the most basic and obvious way, racist.
> By picking your companies wisely, you can run circles around any index.

Proof? Warren Buffet couldn't do it. The vast majority of hedge funds, who's _job_ is to beat index funds can't do it. Of those that do, lose to index funds anyway because of fees. And these are all businesses that have several orders of magnitude advantage over an individual investor.
Yes, but in that context, ∞ is a number. We often interpret "NaN" to mean "infinity," but it only means "not a number." Maybe I'm being pedantic, but if we want a token representing infinity as a number, it ought not be called "not a number."
The Green Line (opened 1995) was originally supposed to have a real LAX station

...until the FAA intervened and said the Metro couldn't build all the way out to the airport, due to the potential danger from crossing existing flight paths. (In a nutshell: the Green Line would have crossed perpendicularly to the existing runways, which would be fine normally but a huge risk in the event a plane overshoots or undershoots the runway.)
many things are worse for apple users.

You cannot know what your apps are doing.

You cannot know when they are running.

You cannot know what communications are taking place in the background.

"content blockers" are opt-out. When combined with the above, how can you possibly opt-out?

Apple promotes "privacy" as a marketing term, yet actively creates systems to degrade your privacy (ibeacon bluetooth beacons, deep links, preview links, advertising identifiers) and prevents systems from helping your privacy (little snitch for ios? adblockers?)
Asterix and Obelix got it just right though.
Thousands of Baby Chicks Have Been Dying in the U.S. Mail
You are right,but they've just recently stopped doing that.

https://www.axios.com/amazon-price-practice-antitrust-elizab...
Teams like that are built and grown, not found according to some criteria. You’re asking about personalities and team dynamics, and company culture, which vary according to circumstances and over time.

Companies tend to optimize for profit, not for the comfort of programmers.
A small minority in both broke into violence (someone was murdered at Charlottesville).
Yes, you can set one up in <5 mins with any credit or debit card.
Cannot overstate how much better hotels are than Airbnb. Airbnb is more expensive, less consistent, more restrictive, less flexible.
I can only pity the poor chap who made the mistake. But then I would also assume such large sums would require multiple signatures/ approvals at Citibank which makes it strange why the error happened.
I don't use VS Code, and I'm not going to switch IDEs for code sharing. I am more likely to try GitDuck since my colleagues who use VS Code can also use it.
I'm thinking the parent commenter meant to say "not absorbed"?
DARPA AlphaDogfight: Heron Systems won championship, also beat human F-16 pilot
That looks like 28 cores, and I think Phi went to 72 cores (or 144 with HT). Of course, the Phi was clocked much lower. The AMD is definitely more comparable.
We can probably force this to be true, to some degree, by defining "adapted" differentially... but otherwise this smells more like a "possibility frontier" situation than a strict spectrum.
> I think it’s way harder coming up with complex algorithms in the first place.

As soon as you start utilizing a data structure or calling another function, understanding the asymptotic behavior of each call can be super helpful. For example:

public void f(List a, List b) {
for(Object o : a) {
if(b.contains(a)) {
b.remove(a);
}
}
}

This might look like O(a), but is O(a*b), because `contains` and `remove` are O(n). I've come across code at work that was quadratic or much worse because of things like this. Whether or not this matters is more of a wash; if these lists only have 10 elements, meh

Big O can also be misleading; modern computers may execute some optimal algorithm slower than a less optimal one, because of cache performance or whatever.
For what it's worth, and I'm no lawyer, it doesn't look like he's facing anything near 5 years.

For the misprision offense (18 USC 4), the guidelines are based on the underlying felony, less 9 levels, capped at 19. Assuming CFAA/wire fraud, a 2B.1 offense, that's:

6
+8 for the >$95,000 loss
+2 if involved harvesting email addresses (not charged?)
+2 for evasion across jurisdictions
+2 for exfiltrating trade secrets overseas
+2 for intent to exfiltrate customer PII

That reads to me a worst-case underlying level of 24, or a 15 for the misprision, which is 18-24 months; remove any of those constraints and it's a "Zone C" offense that doesn't require imprisonment at all.

The more painful charge appears to be the Obstruction (18 USC 1505), for which the guidelines appear to go:

14
+3 for substantial interference to an investigation
+2 for extensive planning

That worst-cases to 19, 30-37 months. Still not close to 5 years, though, and I'd assume (please correct me!) that these sentences group, since the underlying conduct is the same.

(I assume this case settles?)
Ask HN: Can startups lower option strike prices for current employees only?
Shortly after a massive layoff the startup sent an announcement to current employees that due to a new valuation the company was worth significantly less. The company lowered all current employee's strike prices by ~80%.

Do the former employees have any right to know?
Ironically, according to their SEC filings, CA (and specifically SF/Bay Area and LA/OC) was one of Uber's few profitable markets, pre-COVID.
The desk is still there, as confirmed by outside observers. If you are blind, is everything you touch non-existent?
what is the advantage over something more standard like JSON?
I've been using vendor selected software repositories since before apple called them an app store and started charging everyone to use theirs. Linux has had them for years and years.
>Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down."

Its not a headache, it's basically a money grab at this point, 30% of sales of a digital-only product. They're laughing all the way to the bank.

>And my second question: Who do you think customers will blame when someone uses an alternative payment approach to steal from customers? Google/Apple? The app provider? Themselves?

>Third question: What's a customers recourse once they are the victims of fraud or simply want a refund for whatever reason? How easy will it be for them to reason about what to do?

There are many ways to build payment platforms without letting Apple rob 30% of your sales. For e.g. Paypal has consumer protection polices. Buyers can dispute transactions/services, etc.
The variance is on cost-side

* cost of rent/purchase

* cost of transport: public transport vs car+park vs walk

* cost of goods: city prices are less than country prices!

Its highly city specific. The variance for NY or SF is not the same as the variance for Philly or Buffalo.

Arguably, (as a non US resident so this is theoretical) the HMO and associated costs might vary because of provider choice. Also, if you have a family, there are associated costs of schooling and recreation for kids.

You cannot realistically set financial value on "quality of life" directly from others. Its innately subjective. I place a very high value on quality of life: I prefer inner city and I would demand a premium to have to work rural, but I know people with exactly the opposite drives and motivations!
> You know who's best at handling this because you know they handled it last time. You ask your boss to ask his boss to get on the line with Chou Jih-Haw and ask for some of his best people. They're an allied nation with close ties who want even closer ties. They will gladly help.

You think that's Fauci's call? That's Trump's call. You're blaming healthcare professional's for doing what was best given the knowledge and resource they had available. I've made it pretty clear that the politicians failed us, and you've just pointed out another way.

> And this isn't news. People were saying this in February, in March, in April. People whose full time job is other things knew this.

All this does presuppose they have any actual help they could provide. It's unlikely they were willing to ship us a few tens (or hundreds!) of millions of N95 masks.

> The real problem is that American public health institutions have NIH (haha, a pun!) syndrome.

The problem is that they are beholden to the politicians, and even more so now, where appointees that speak out using their experience but contradict the party line are replaced.

There's been a lot of talk about how Trump is eroding people's faith in government and institutions, and here we have a prime example of that, where the institutions were clearly dysfunctional for obvious reasons that have to do with the executive branch, and we still have people shooting the messengers.
What I want to know is how we can incorporate some of the innovations that they used (such as cantilvers for the foundation) into traditionally built houses. Also, how we tweak building codes to allow for these new innovations so that the houses pass inspection without having to have days long classes to explain to inspectors that yes, they really are safe?
https://usefathom.com/
curl | grep
Uber's CEO is referring to COVID-era percentages.

Pre-CVOID, according to their SEC filings, SF, LA, and NY were Uber's only profitable markets.
"I was so poor I starved to death."

fixed that for you to make the two sentences equal. Making prostitution illegal doesn't prevent the men and women who sell their bodies from starving to death after they lost their source of income. I'm all for social programs preventing people from starving to death though, that seems like a much better solution than banning prostution.
It wasn't a bug bounty submission. He used the bug bounty program as a slush fund to pay off criminals so they wouldn't disclose that Uber customers personal data had been stolen.
Well, the people not going into the trades don't have an $80k office job option. They're alternative is a $30k retail job and they still don't want to go into the trades.

It's more than just money.
Cloud run is one of my favorite cloud services. It’s so easy to use and cheap for low traffic things. I set one up last year. GCP bills me 5 cents a month (they have no shame billing in cents)

https://issoseva.org hasn’t ever gone down.
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> ...many developers... simply do not have the mathematical background... for reasons which are usually out of their control...

> ...sleep-walked through their calc/analysis courses...

I think you both identified the problem and shot down your argument in one breath here. Self taught developers can probably be forgiven for not knowing what big O is, right up until the point where someone asks them about it, and they say "what's big O?" After that, nothing prevents anybody from cracking a book or going on the internet to figure it out.
We use a change management process. Pretty much a jira ticket that outlines the change that needs to happen. Affected systems need to have someone review the plan. It has a rollout and rollback process and instructions should be written in a way that anyone on the team could run it.

Ideally, all steps are scripts that have been code reviewed and tested in a staging or dev environment.

When it comes to DB migrations, the code is updated to work with the old and the new. The db migration happens and is ran by a script that is start/stoppable and has logs. The code is then updated to not need the old db stuffs.
It's common outside the startup world, too. I think it's more to do with a disinclination to touch anything "legacy". New and shiny good, otherwise bad.
> I'm not sure that "we listened to the experts" is how we got to anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.

Sure it is, as long as you cherry-pick the expert or use expertise in another area as a substitute.
“We kind of want to fill the void and publish results that are the opposite of that —unsurprising, weaker, statistically insignificant, not conclusive and so on.”

These are at least 5 Distinct categories, hope they make a distinction...
Beware that in JavaScript, the language that this tweet is about, the sort function sorts alphabetically by default.

[100, 10, 11].sort()[1] === 100
Pluto does not orbit in the same plane - it is about 17° off. HOWEVER! Pluto is no longer considered a planet, making this science fact true. (It is now considered a dwarf planet instead).
For a really good background reading on D language landscape, check this paper by its authors:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
> Your comment assumes the entire purpose of a (nearly) sealed mask is to protect the wearer from incoming droplets or particles

It doesn’t just assume it. It’s the whole point of the masks.

If your aim is just to prevent making people sick, a surgical mask is just fine (exhibit A, normal doctors).

If your aim is to prevent getting sick yourself, a N95 respirator is a better choice (exhibit B, doctors treating COVID patients).

An inhalation valve does less to protect other people, because the expelled air still has to go somewhere, and will just blow out of the sides of the mask. It could theoretically go through the mask material if it was thin enough, but there’s probably too much pressure inside and it’ll burst out the sides.

That in reverse is the whole idea for masks with an exhalation valve. Breathing in creates negative pressure inside the mask, so air gets pulled inside through the mask. When breathing out the valve opens and releases the extra pressure without blowing out the sides (not really a problem per-se, but would compromise your protection).
I think your premise is wrong. You may be able to save yourself, but you are much less likely to be able to save the project.

Red flags:

- Lack of a clear goal. If nobody knows what you're trying to do, the odds are high that you won't do anything. And eventually some upper-level manager will realize that you're not doing anything, and will kill the project.

- Lack of reality in management. Reality has been defined as "that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away". That's true of management too. They may not believe that changing the scope requires changing the schedule... but it does. They may believe that the team can work double hours for months... but they can't. They may believe that they can dictate both scope and schedule... but they can't. When you see management acting without regard to reality - worse, with no awareness of reality - the project is doomed, because reality is going to win.
I don't believe it's all that common. Most mortgages can't even have prepayment penalties, or can only have them during the first few years of the contract.
I’d rather my cost go up and tipping disappear (leaving the total the same) if it means I don’t have a societal obligation to tip. Then I can actually use tips for what they’re supposed to be for: above and beyond service.
Well, I wouldn't really say Banks wrote Hard SciFi, but the authors you mentioned are great.
But in most cases, you aren't buying a car just to drive for Uber (more than half drive between 1 and 15 hours a week [0]), you're doing it on the side. Your per mile costs for driving for Uber are the marginal costs (costs of additional insurance, fuel, marginal wear and tear, etc).

Also, if you're driving for Uber in a new car that gets 17 mi / gal fuel efficiency, you're not making wise moves. There's a reason a lot of Uber drivers are using 5 year old Prius's - this cuts the fuel cost in half, and the depreciation down quite a bit.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/2/17924628/uber-drivers-make-hou...
The racial origins of fat stigma
He is currently the CISO of CloudFlare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-im-joining-cloudflare/

Hopefully eastdakota is preparing a statement about his departure.
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Violence and War is “the continuation of politics by other means.”

- Carl von Clausewitz
No! It means the data is too noisy to make any conclusion.
Hobbiest either used open source or some freeware compilers. The reason I mentioned Java and C# is that is easy to use for simple tools and you can support all OS, around 15 years ago I bought a book about games and c++ it had a CD with a free/gratis version of a c++ compiler (probably from Microsoft) I made some small games and shared them with my friends (I did not had to pay Microsoft a tax or ask approval)
Interesting that the conditions under the floorboards were ideal for keeping the materials well conserved. I wonder whether we (I mean, our archaelogists) can estimate how many of our current objects disposed as "hidden remains" will be in good condition in 500 years.

Are people in 500 years going to find a 2000's flip-phone in good condition in a basement?
You get almost no ownership rights when you purchase something electronic/digital. All the ownership/freedom arguments run counter to DMCA, and I see no possibility of such an argument working in the US. The economic argument is the only one that may work in courts.
This is shorter expressed as "The ends justify the means".
My favourite iOS game from when I was a kid is no longer actively developed and as a result it was removed from the app store because it doesn't work properly on new devices.

Its perfectly understandable why this happens but its a shame there is no way at all to play this game other than finding an old ipad that still has it installed where as old windows games still work fine.
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Where do you think VC funding comes from?

VC's get their money from everyone else: pension funds, college endowments, charitable foundation endowments, and insurance companies.

It quite literally is a case of our children funding this.
Probably all the backend telemetry teams uses.

if you want teams to go through a proxy, they basically say "open all ports tcp and udp to microsoft.com + even more"
I think it might be like 52.0.0.0/8 or something
Is this a landmark forum type of thing you're promoting?
You choose the word "contrary" but a more accurate word is probably "different". The underlying nature that drives input to our senses is absolutely different from our day to day experience of three dimensional objects with distance. The underlying physical nature appears to be one of non-locality, and properties like shape and color are synthesized by your mind rather than inherent aspects of nature.

But even these models of an objective reality that come from quantum physics are not direct, as you had to build them in your mind through information you received through your senses, so this sense of an objective reality outside of your mind is also an illusion.
The same two people that carried out the Uber hack also hit Lynda.com while after using basically the exact same methodology. So, it would seem possible that they had credible evidence of a felony with intent to commit future ones.
I love Bill Burr’s take on this. I can’t find the clip, but the resolution was that after receiving a punch, maybe you’ll reconsider “ehh maybe i was being a bit of a dick back there.”

I never punched anyone, but people who ruin your life as described by the commenter deserve it, maybe they’ll become better people.
It is a lie by obfuscation. Americans do need better public transpiration options. Mentioning the pandemic serves no purpose other then to obfuscate this fact. The fact that the current pandemic is causing some of the existing options to be more limited does in no way take a way from this need.
If you look at most federal cases they start off with 1-2 charges like Obstruction of Justice that are easy to prove to a judge. They always add charges later.
No way they're still doing monoliths? Is there a blog post on that?
You have a page, it says “if you pay using a credit card versus the same exact credit card except you give to Apple earlier, here is a 20% discount,” that is obviously increasing consumer welfare. Apple booted them when they made that page. It sort of doesn’t have to say anything about the commission, because it doesn’t matter.

Epic could have offered 20% off and STILL paid the commission, and if Apple booted them, it would still harm consumer welfare!

That’s why Ben Evans and Stratechery and so many tech takes are wrong, they’re just not informed on the status quo of antitrust. It’s not material where the consumer welfare comes from, it’s not material the goods being sold are imaginary IAP, etc etc.
I have seen web apps that simply can't be deployed anymore because their ruby version includes a rubygems version so old it can't use TLS 1.2. Its probably a good thing and will force upgrades eventually but old web apps can't always be used.
I think you'll find that few, if any, "economic predicates" are universally agreed upon. Certainly, in your original post, you're accepting some premises that allow for your own claims to be true, and which are not universally agreed upon. So why can't he?