skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the lawyers at my company would eat you alive for using an OS that has systemd
I think getting listed before the uncertainty of the election might have something to do with it?
I've seen a theory that companies are trying to get IPO'd now, in anticipation of a weaker market in the future.

I think this theory tends to be based on the idea that the current state of the stock market does not reflect reality for many businesses (and the economy as a whole), nor their future prospects, and that a correction is imminent.

Obviously this is speculation, but it's interesting because someone probably does know - there's probably some overlap in the advisory banks for these IPOs, and they must have some idea of the thinking of the executive teams of these companies.
Something is definitely moving in the market. A lot of these IPOs (Unity, Palantir, AirBnB, etc.) were highly anticipated months back already.
There was a good thread yesterday that covers some possible reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265456

One explanation that was offered was that there are a ton of IPOs all the time: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos

These just made it on to HN as there were some big names in the mix (Asana, AirBnB, Unity, SumoLogic, Snowflake, Palantir, etc). Now, its not clear to me why all of these larger tech companies are going for it this week however...
Not a lawyer. What % of the body of text for a S-1 is standardized and copy pasted from a template? Just curious.
Definitely seems like these companies are trying to cash in before the coming crash.
No, the tech claims were wrong but since remaking bundles is proven cheap and easy then the bundles can quickly be modified to have malicious payload (for some definition of malicious)
Here's another one I submitted 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217477
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216111
Don't expect to find anything beyond a correlation between VitD levels and any serious disease. In any study that such is found, the substitution had no effect.
To what end? You want your card to be internet addressable?

Also, I'm not enthusiastic about trying to communicate an IPv6 address over the phone to the wage slave working at the pizza joint. You'd have to implement one of those address-to-word setups, which would make for some amusing card "numbers". How would you like getting a card with "chinky challis uta ablow wiry rehaul a carotin" on the front?

Something like: http://jubei.ceyah.org/cgi-bin/ipv6toenglish
A founders' sales pattern and how to fix it
SUrely, there's some inefficiency in how numbers are used... 10 quadrillion for 7.5 billion people isn't enough?
Something not clear from the article: The tech already supports longer numbers. Diners, Discover, UnionPay cards already allow up to 19 digits officially. The problem could be in the custom forms which think 4x4 is the right format, but the back-end should "just work" with them.

What I really don't understand is why the article makes it seem like a national problem given the prefix is assigned to the companies, rather than countries as such. (Although companies will get ranges and then assign specific IINs countries normally)

It seems that IINs are undergoing changes anyway and April 2022 is a deadline for everyone to support 8-digit prefixes correctly.
If you want to make a PB&B that uses the entire banana, simply peel the banana, coat the flesh in PB, tear up your bread slices and adhere them to the banana.

This method is not guaranteed to use all the bread.
Google running the DNS resolver wouldn’t fix this problem; due to the nature of the requests that Chrome is making, the lookups would have to hit the root server because they wouldn’t be cached anywhere else.
There's a lot of filings nearly every week nearly all the time. What has changed is the composition, that is there's far more "tech".

Do you recognize even half of those? And this is just one exchange in one country.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos
Fennec had support for XUL extensions. I did add-ons review for some time and it's... interesting what some people try to slip through, and how they react when caught red handed.
Except the developer Apple wanted to ban was Epic and their Unreal engine. That is an entirely different legal entity and developer than Fortnite the game developers on the app store. It also says so in the ruling. So what Apply did was punish X for what Y did. They might as well have banned Microsoft for siding with Epic.
In principle, in case of extreme urgency on a level of national emergency, they can, but this will also mean that it will be Intel who will have to redesign, and adapt the mask. Some military IP is so old, that it isn't even digitised, or is a non-syntheszed, hand drawn IP. Some of it will likely be completely unworkable on a new CMOS process because of dependency on some, now exotic, high speed CML logic.

And we are only talking about digital chips. Analog chips case will likely be hopeless without a specialty analog foundry.

In the peacetime, it is very, very unlikely they will be able to "reorient" to make defence chips, as it will seriously disrupt the company.

And in the end, it may not matter at all if the supply chain for materials will go down in case of a military conflict.
>There's nothing luxurious about getting tear gassed for 3 months straight

Why are you being tear gassed so often? I've been in US many times, for many months, I have never been tear gassed by police.
The irony is actually Google ignores/bends standards all the time because they can get away with it.
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Yeah: I (still) live in a college town, and the idea that someone doesn't use Venmo feels very alien.
Unfortunately, I've cleared a few of those family houses (my family that is, it isn't my job).

People eventually pass, it is a fact.

The vast majority of things eventually depreciate, regardless of initial value.

It took a while, but I've really tried to focus on retaining what has value to me (not just in general).

We kept a lot of things from relatives early on because they owned them.

We've pivoted more to:

1) Things we know for a fact need to be kept (historical records, important documents for closing estates, etc)

2) Things that continue to have value in the present, they are either functional (hey, I have a ladder now!) or sentimental and worth the operational cost (hey, I have a curio!).

I type this in a room with a handful of things, it is a mix of new (computer desk chair) and functional family items (stereo, storage cabinet).

If I can find a use for a family item, that's great, but I'm not going to invent one unless it fits in the above 2 points.

That was long, but I'd say the estate sales aren't necessarily sad. You don't know what was kept and why.
Looks like they’re trying to capitalize on the COVID bump. Only 250 customers? They’re at the mercy of probably 5 of them.
Reminds me of Nantucket's airport
Not to take anything away from Bill, but why isn't Melinda mentioned just as much in these types of conversations?
The issuers doing S-1's are just of public interest and in the same circuit of companies that many people on HN consider joining or use the tools of. As such, many people have been interested in their shares being publicly traded for a long time.

IPOs have become less common due to regulations as well as adequate growth of the private secondary market following more coordination by accredited investors, but they used to be 3x more common and at much lower valuations.
In that style, there is nothing too dramatic. ;)
Well I guess I'm not alone: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/firefox_android_updat...
In your agenda to expose my agenda in linking a Firefox blog post, you have missed that this isn't even about captive portal detection. Captive portals are easily detected by trying to load a known response page; captive portals don't fake that because they want to be detected so that the browser redirects you to their portal.

This is about malicious DNS resolvers that don't return NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains but instead send you to an ISP advertisement page. This messes with the omnibox. For all other domains, they resolve just fine. These resolvers are inclined to evade detection, e.g. if browsers checked a static list of domains, they would just return NXDOMAIN for only those.
One to remove UTM tracking from all URLs.
One to redirect amp to normal web pages.
I'm not upgrading Firefox until the new one supports both of those.
> To the point where UPS or FedEX rates start looking attractive for normal letter mail?

That can't actually happen, because if UPS or FedEx delivers first-class mail they have to pay the USPS the normal price for the delivery on top of their own costs (39 U.S.C. §601). Ergo, UPS or FedEx will always be the more expensive option for letters. The only bright point is that physical letters are becoming increasingly obsolete with most communications taking place electronically. Now if we could just do something about all the physical junk mail…
2022: "Taking Palantir private for $420 a share. Funding secured."
Yes. Thank you. It's really awful. I was afraid I was the only one whose workflow they completely broke. Apparently I'm not, so there is hope yet.

Also gone: offline reader mode pages.

I'm in the beta channel, I cannot believe they released it on the regular channel in this state.

I'm now trying out other Android browsers after having used Firefox pretty much ever since it's available for Android. Brave has offline pages, but the adblocker is much worse than ubo. And the vendor lockin is real, Firefox Sync is nice to have.
Port knocking is not really “just a bad password”, as long as you are using it in conjunction with another secure service like SSH.

However, you can get the same effect as port knocking with none of the drawbacks using single packet authorization like fwknop if you don’t want to go full VPN.
Trying to get out for the payday before the economy totally tanks (T-1 months)
Y Combinator CEO Faces the Crisis and His Critics
enlighten yourself by typing "<any_body_part>" in the search bar of your favorite adult site
JPMorgan will have staff cycle between office and remote work
look at the stock market - never in history have we ever reached new all time highs that keep getting smashed every day during a recession. the Federal Reserve printed trillions over last 5 months to save the markets.

now we just have to wait and see what the “cost” of it all is because we’re all treating it as a free lunch
College Humor did an amazing take on the public feed "social networking" feature of Venmo.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY
S-1 is the new Show NH
As expected scientists never talk about the actual taste. You probably want ripeness and the peanut butter/banana sugar ratio to make sure banana flavour doesn’t overwhelm the entire taste profile.
250 customers and hundreds of millions in losses.
That's what someone suggested on one of yesterday's IPO listings. A massive stock crash seems, uh, reasonable to expect. If owners are cashing out before things go south seems reasonable. Also depressing.

I've been really reminded of the Big Short, housing market shot up before the big crash so others would be left holding the bag... musical chairs isn't just for preschoolers I guess.
Here is USPS's "Universal Service Obligation"
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...
The identifier is hidden from the user so if it's huge and complex that is no problem. My point is that we're talking about putting a lot of effort into overhauling the system to support a scheme that is arguably already obsolete. If we're putting in the effort we should just remove the old insecure digits entirely and focus on a cleaner modern solution.
You are saying that you've had bad experiences with courses trying to teach those things. Those things might not be easy to teach. But that doesn't mean they are useless or that they shouldn't be taught. To me, it means the methods of teaching those things, in the workshops you took, should be improved.
THE BANKS ARE ROSY AND THE MARKETS DOING FINE

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Also Palantir specializes in security right? Societies collapsing so arms dealers, network security, surveillance companies are making a killing right now. Home depots doing good too now that everyone's building their own tombs- I mean uh.. bunkers.
Holy cow. They lost a net of $579M last year.
> Information want to be free.

You're welcome to let all of your private information out for everyone to see if that's what you believe. But people like me who do not want to do that should not be forced to.

> The sooner we adapt with the life where all surveillance records is public the better.

I strongly disagree.
I wonder how this became a problem. Your CC number is not just 16 digits long. It's 16, plus expiration, plus the 3-4 extra security digits, plus your name, plus your zip code. That's quite a lot of entropy.
Yeah some of remember working for startups back when the rule of thumb was that you didn't IPO until you had had 5 profitable quarters - the the whole dotcom bubble happened and sort of broke sanity
The real "complaint" is that Google broke the ISPs ability to highjack your DNS. With that real goal in mind, they will still "complain" if Google wrap DNS on https and send to 8.8.8.8

The ISPs now will have a series of PR articles about how Google wants to own the internet, track all your web DNS, monopolize the access, and evil blah blah.

We should read these articles with the mindset that they are PR pieces, not a solution request.

Opinions are my own.
It's a weasel word if they want to get rid of the police.

It's clickbait if they want to shift budgets.

I honestly have no idea whether it's primarily one vs the other.
Palantir is basically a private arm of multiple levels of governments.
Ars Technica were the ones who reported the story first:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/new-p...
Calibre already generates better Kindle books than Amazon's tool ever did. And it runs cross-platform, including Linux. This is a case where the community support is better than the company.
Apparently there are ~20% more IPO's than last year. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/2020-list/

So if there are more IPOs and more tech IPOs that's kinda weird on weird.
Mystery seeds arrive in Australia from Asia, prompting fears of biosecurity risk
The credit card number space is not running out of numbers. Also, credit card numbers aren't random; they have a structure[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_card_number#Structure
Nicely done! And a great way to benchmark your own SaaS product quickly.
> Why is this a use-case that I as a web user should care about?

If you block ads, then my work will have no effect on you. If you do not block ads, then my work decreases bandwidth usage and makes it harder for ads to deface each other.

> I don't find it very comforting that an article raises privacy concerns, and an engineer working on ads at Google responds with...

The article describes privacy concerns, but those concerns are based on a misunderstanding of what WebBundles make easier. Specifically, they're concerned about URL randomization, which is no easier with bundles.
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I know that HN demographics is biased to using and getting info about IT, but I believe that people that use Firefox on Android are not common and most have some kind of interest on IT. It wonders me how they could not hear about the new Firefox for Android, it's been ~a year since Mozilla announced it, and news about how it's development was going on (and that Firefox Fenix was the Stable version somewhere a month ago).
Get an MBA become a product owner / have success that pushes the company to another level would help.
I think you just described genius. Hope you're using it for good.
> The result would be that sensitive personal information would be very unlikely to be collected.

I don't think so; I think the result would be that people who had the power would simply bend the rules behind the scenes to make sure any information they didn't want revealed wasn't revealed, much as they do now.
Where do Harvard and Yale claim that?

This is thread reads like a Donald Trump speech. AstralStorm claims science doesn't exist, when there are whole conferences. rhino369 fakes up some numbers. And now, you come in making fake claims about Harvard and Yale admissions.

I mean, yes, no one is arguing that the admissions regime isn't there to reify class privilege, but if you're going to try to fix the problem, you can't start with falsehoods, half-truths, or sloppy thinking.
> More of a 9-6, butt-in-chair mentality than at other tech jobs I've worked. There's some flexibility about the 9-6 thing (and 9-6 can be pretty optimistic at times), but they're limited by the nature of the markets. At the time and for me, anyway, there was zero possibility of ever doing any work at home. COVID may have changed this.

This sort of thing precisely. My perception of these companies is that they are not as understanding about work-life balance, PTO, working from home, and ultimately trusting you to be independent.

There is also a more corporate image that these companies have in my eyes, one thing that would likely exemplify this is the dress code. Does Jane Street empower you to be your true self or do they prefer that everyone is the same kind of suit-wearing professional that banking institutions often want?

In general, all of this together gives me the perception that working at such a company would be far more intense. Working at a FAANG is sometimes stressful enough, knowing that there is a flexible and (what I at least consider) a progressive culture backing the company makes the stress easier to manage in some ways.
Gotta cash out before the fall/winter wave of covid lets everyone know that the economy is not actually back to normal.
Epic actually does have separate accounts; in fact, they not only had separate accounts, but they have entirely separate corporate entities! Apple decided to cancel every account they could find that was even remotely associated with Epic, which the judge thought might be retaliatory and might be "piercing the corporate veil". Apple argues that Epic is essentially trying to use the moral equivalent of sock puppets to let them avoid consequences.
"The first six digits represent the country, brand, and the type of card issuer and other elements". The last digit is a check digit so it's actually only 1 billion.
The first digits are a header identifying the type of the card, (visa, mastercard...) and probably other characteristics.

The main problem is that in Japan everybody has like 5 credit cards, because every big company has its own financial branch and issues cards (maybe to profit from a "reservoir" effect of the accounts?). So you have a credit card linked to your clothes shop, one from your supermarket, one from Rakuten (Japan's Amazon), etc. You get points when you buy things from the company linked to your card. I don't know how it is in US, but it certainly isn't like that in France for example.
I have the opposite sentiment. Things have been going extremely right for a single person to be able to go out and destroy issues that literately thousands upon thousands of people are affected by. Since governments of the developed world are mostly democratic no action to fix those issues in other countries is taken. This would have not otherwise been possible.
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The government not only incentivizes bad loans, they also exempt college debt from the bankruptcy process. And these are loans people are supposed to agree to when they are 17-18 years old. It's an insane system if you ask me.

As a side-note, lately I've been curious about what's actually been driving the cost of higher education. I know it's often cited as "administrative costs", but what does that actually mean? Where does the money actually go?
>You're welcome to let all of your private information out for everyone to see if that's what you believe

I don't necessarily want to, I'm just being realistic and pragmatic.

>But people like me who do not want to do that should not be forced to.

No one is forced to but the inconvenience and the cost of keeping thing private will go up and up.
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Our early users love the opportunity to congratulate their friends with the personalized audio of Taylor Swift or prank their family members with the video of Barack Obama endorsing them for the POTUS position. Now, we have 45 voices, and we’re constantly adding new ones.

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Hopefully they keep the :: shortener in there....
My thoughts exactly. I wonder if businesses are looking for or needing funding, and the stock market is the one place that looks fine.
It's a library for web developers... Is it so terrible to return a float instead of a bool?
It's up to 9 now!
> city folk could pay the real cost of having their food grown and delivered to their doors and local stores.

But they do. That's the market price. That and the subsidies.
That’s true in undergrad too.

I had an advisor who just didn’t have a skill in or desire to advise. I didn’t discover this until in my junior year he went on sabbatical and the professor in transitioned to was really amazing. I still communicate with him 20 years later and hear about intern candidates, etc.

It’s one of those areas you need to know about — it never occurred to me to ask about or really look into what an advisor relationship can or should be!
The "network" functionality, whether you use the social/feed aspect of it, does warn you if you attempt to pay someone that you've never paid before and that you have no friends in common with. That's also a good way to make sure you're paying the right person.
How? Personally I'd rather be shown an ad (sponsored stories) than have my data taken.
Why would you assume that a random clerk has the ability to opt you out of junk mail? If you want them to do that, you're going to have to lobby your representatives to ban them from doing so, and offer another source of revenue that makes the USPS sustainable. I agree that this would be a good thing, but you already see how politically difficult it is to keep the USPS running at all. Providing it more funding so it can stop relying on bulk mail seems basically impossible.