skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically a human realizes that smart contract X is broken, and tries to enlist others to fix it. However, given the decentralized and generally shady nature of crypto, the process of disclosure also means a bad actor could get wind of the bug before it's addressed, and use the exploit to steal all of the money.

Thus, you have white hats racing to siphon money out of a buggy, immutable contract which also happens to be worth millions of real dollars. It'd be funny if there wasn't so much real money involved.
It wouldn't necessarily be done for because you can't steal coins with a 51% attack. You can double spend and block transactions, which is not the end of the world.
It’s kinda lame all competing streaming services are launching in same market.
You "just" have to train a huge network first, which is the downside.
What's worse is that a lot of these people are terribly hypocritical and I don't think they realize it.

Censorship bad for this issue. Censorship good for what I don't agree with.

Discrimination bad in this case. Discrimination good for the sake of diversity!

Racism bad. But wait, positive racism is totally different and good!

Diversity is what we want! Except when it results in things I disagree with.
Just to be clear, my point was that reasonable people can disagree on these issues. Do you think that reasonable people can disagree on these issues or not?

But I'll also address some of the counterpoints raised above:

-The supreme court ruled in 2018 on some aspects of detention hearings and of course their ruling is being followed by ICE[1]. So to say that its unconstitutional seems at the very least up for debate, and at the most already settled affirmatively.

-Medical care. I read this article[2], and my reading of it is that ICE generally provides decent care with the exceptions noted in the report/article. These stories seem to be most similar to the stories we heard coming out of the VA hospitals a few years ago - aka due to large government orgs being incompetent not evil.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennings_v._Rodriguez

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/ice-detainees-hea...
You put your gold in a box and stuck it in the ground in a ranch in the middle of nowhere. No one knows there is gold in a box in the ground so it's safe. But people know that other people but gold in boxes and stick it in the ground.

One day you go to get it so you load up your pickup with gold digging equipment and drive to the ranch. On the way are spotters. They see your truck has gold digging equipment. They see that the road you're going down leads to the ranch. It's obvious what you're going to do.

They load up their faster Ford Ranger and blaze down the road. You can't catch up. They have a faster car. You get there. They have taken your gold.

If you hadn't gone there, the gold was relatively safe. Maybe some day someone happens on it but realistically probably not.

But you went. By looking for it you revealed you were looking and you revealed where you were looking.
The ACLU was founded to protect the rights of Communists after World War I to say what they want. The ACLU fought to defend the free speech of KKK members and Nazis. The phrase "I disagree with you but I defend to the death your right to say it" is unique to America and was actually something fought for until recently when even the ACLU caved.

>spreading blatant viral lies on social media

You even admit this is arguable. You're assuming people are morons who need big brother to help them out - you don't really believe in democratic principles if this is your stance. The enforcement of punishing such lies is inconsistent as well. One needs only to look at the blatant left wing bias of Twitter and Facebook, where conservatives are banned for expressing opinions whereas lies told by media outlets (with small corrections added days later) are left up and not punished at all.
It's not the copyright claims that they had a problem with (or else they'd go after any of the other false copyright claims), it's using their platform for extortion. The "I'm going to file false copyright claims unless you pay me" thing.
> You’ll be competing with multi-billion dollar corporations who have exclusive content and nobody will bother with your store.

What does me building a store have anything to do with its adoption? I build lots of low/no-adoption software for fun or for small/personal use. This line of thinking, that if you can't be a top-level player in a competitive market, you can't build anything is foolish. You shouldn't confuse the building and marketing concepts, especially not to support disallowing the former.
This was a great post. I think it is tilted more toward engineers in larger orgs, where there are many teams, but I still appreciated all of it.

The preening and snacking advice was spot on.

However, the last paragraph was a bit jarring. You'll be judged by:

> your prestige, the prestige of the titles you’ve had and companies you’ve worked at, your backchannel reputation, and how you present in your interview process.

But only the third one (backchannel reputation) is affected by all the other advice. You can be a preener at Uber or Google and you'll probably have a better chance of being hired at a FANG than someone like me who has worked for smaller companies most of his career.

That said, my goal after two decades is to find a company where I'm happy rather than clawing after the most prestige, so perhaps I'm misreading what he's saying.
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> And these people were never known for their friendliness

They were the founders of Jamba, a notorious company specialized in selling ringtone subscriptions for 3 to 5 Euro per month (called "Jamba Sparabo"). This may have well been the most hated company in Germany in the early 2000s.
Postgres is fantastic. But let's be honest about how it compares to commercial offerings.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/hqnafk/postgres...

"Before I start, a disclaimer: I Postgres, I’ve been a PG Applicative DBA for the better part of the last decade, and as a programmer I absolutely love the PG code base. . . It should also be said that Oracle’s products are insanely expensive, and yes, their business practices have been called into question quite a few times in the past.

Having said all that, and coming from many years of experience as both an Oracle DBA and PG DBA - comparing Oracle Database to Postgresql is almost like comparing a Cessna to an F-22. Only the F-22 can also transform into a Super Hercules and a helicopter.

Putting aside the usual issues of bugs and related incidents (both have had their fair share), the Oracle Database is a technological marvel. I can list off of the top of my head a number of capabilities Oracle has had for almost 20 years that PG either doesn’t have or just might have in the near future:

1. On commit fast-refresh materialized views,
2. Query Rewrite to Materialized Views,
3. Direct and asynchronous I/O,
4. Parallel Query Execution,
5. Oracle RAC - Multi Master without Replication,
6. Zero downtime upgrade,
7. No autovacuums,
8. Flashback,
9. Integrated In-Memory Database,
10. Autonomous Indexing,
"
etc.

The Reddit post is a good summary and worth a read, imho.
I find this odd because I think historically most people haven't purchased entertainment. Libraries have always been common for books, more people listen to a song on the radio then on a CD they own, people watched TV on broadcast or cable before Netflix, and most movies are watched in the theaters or rented then on a DVD they own.
Games have been weird for being something you have to buy.
A little lower down in the section "Beta-carotene":

Sunless-tanning pills often contain β-carotene.

or the section "Canthaxanthin":

As a tanning agent, however, much larger quantities are used. After canthaxanthin is consumed, it is deposited throughout the body, including in the layer of fat below the skin, which turns an orange-brown color.
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Not very. It was 2 custom controls. The OS came out with built in ones that did the same thing but fit the tooling better and had a few extra things my code didnt. Great learning exp on writing custom controls though! It brought forth my 3 rules of windows programming. Always read the docs (then re-read them). If MS has a bit of GUI that does something there is usually a control in there to do it. For every function in windows there is usually an 'anti' function, they are to be called FILO.
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A major contribution by the billionaire class against journalism was the murder of Kashoggi. The unsolved car bomb that killed the Panama papers journalist was probably also sponsored by someone very well off.
At Google at least, L5 (Senior) is considered a "terminal" level, in that once you reach L5 you can generally settle into your IC duties without fear of being fired, as long as you continue to perform at that level. L3-4 you're expected to get promoted every 2-3 years or else eventually get cut. L6+ (generally management levels) is assumed to be only for those who are somewhat ambitious and want additional responsibility.

These levels are probably not coincidental: L5 is when you're expected to be able to work independently and have the organizational context to make good decisions and contribute usefully with minimal manager support. Before that level you usually cost more in management overhead than you contribute in output.
> Edit: I guess this phrasing (for each conspiracy) actually would be satisfied by the existence of any classified information about each topic, even classified information that wouldn't materially change the public's impression of the event. It's almost certainly true that "the government is concealing what they know about" the 9/11 attacks and the JFK assassination, for example, because there are some files and documents related to those matters that the government won't release publicly, which isn't the same as saying that those files and documents would change anyone's assessment of who is responsible for those events.

That's my problem with the way the Chapman survey was worded. The prompt was overly broad. Answering "yes" for some of those "conspiracies" is reasonable, not an indication of conspiratorial thinking. It does, however, provide an upper bound for such thinking since a person who believes in conspiracies about those things (or are just general "black helicopter" types) are not going to answer in the negative (unless they think the poll is part of a secret government plot to out them...).
It doesn’t matter if the employee acted in good faith. The former employer can still lawyer up and create a problem. And there is a reasonable probability that no one with executive authority signed off on the code repository simply because of the way software development happens and the standards In industry.

To put it another way, the legality matters less than the relationship. A lawyer can communicate with the former employer in a way that mitigates potential problems. Or say it is unlikely to be a problem.
> Developers would be forced to support any store that had more than a few percent of customers.

Look at the Amazon Appstore for Android and you'll see an anemic limited app marketplace that while subpar, doesn't seem to be doing anything particularly nefarious to consumers nor developers alike. And it's precisely anemic and limited because it contains far fewer apps than the Play Store. We have the entire Android ecosystem to use as a case study to see why competing iOS app stores wouldn't be a threat to either to the App Store's prominence nor to the livelihoods of developers.

> Acquiring customers can be done without giving good terms to most developers. All you need is a small number of exclusives.

Which does not obviate the ability of the vast majority of non-FANMG affiliated developers to stay on the App Store as they please, or only join the specific app stores that they wish to live on out of desire and not necessity.

> There is no reason these stores would need the long tail of apps as long as they had a few very popular ones, and that would reduce exposure for the long tail that did remain in the Apple store.

You seem to be operating under the misunderstanding that the existence of alternative app stores creates lock-in.

> Your point about standardization of store rules isn’t obvious - what industry do you think this compares with?

I'm saying any industry that involves multiple players will see the standardization of norms and operating conventions, much like how UX patterns across different apps standardizes over time. (Take the adoption of the "hamburger button" to mean menu back in the '10s). If there are multiple entrants into the app store space, standard business practices will arise as a new and exciting place for entrepreneurs is created.

> There is no reason to think that this would do anything to democratize the industry, indeed it would be likely to have the opposite effect, of increasing barriers to entry for smaller developers.

And there's no reason to think that the existing situation is any more democratic than the hypothetical you're spinning.

> It is the obvious extrapolation of the behaviors of current players.

And is it being borne out on Android? There's no Facebook nor Microsoft Play store there. There doesn't even seem to be interest in that direction. Yes, comparing the iOS and Android ecosystems (especially in the service of delineating a hypothetical open iOS ecosystem) is imprecise, but it's useful for the sake of this discussion.

> An extreme position would be the emergency of a utopia of developer centric stores all bending over themselves to make things better for the little guy.

Which isn't what I'm arguing for, either. I think there's the potential for that. Certainly more than in the status quo.
Agreed. Analogies are like trying to draw attention to traffic signage by decorating them with scantily-clad people.
I'm surprised by the level of discussion around whether or not this is "justified." The purpose of a corporation is to maximize the utility function of its stakeholders. That doesn't have to be profit, and political/social justification isn't a necessary component of utility, but it is a valid one. If you found a company and are willing to make less money to have a more leisurely lifestyle with less day to day work, your utility function is not maximized if you take on more contracts to try and make more money. In Hootsuite, employees felt that working with ICE was not what they wanted, and they had the necessary market power and influence as stakeholders in the organization to change the organization's behavior. Why would a company be obligated to serve a foreign country's government agency? You shouldn't need to 'justify" your utility function by applying somebody else's normative standard. They don't want to serve ICE, so they don't. Companies should have the right to refuse service to customers they don't want to serve, and the barrier to entry to found competing companies to serve those customers should be low. The company created a product that ICE wants, they built the power to serve the government agency, and they should have the right to exercise it as they see fit. It would be different if they were a utility granted a monopoly by the state, in which case there should be significant regulations and oversight because it's not a new service they created.

Basically, what I'm saying is, if you think that ICE should be able to get the services Hootsuite provides, then go ahead and start (or invest in) a competitor that will service ICE. We have a (reasonably) free market - use it.
Maybe they could sell it to North Korea if it turns out not being popular in american homes
This is funny because it is true :D
This is public postmortem levels of bad. It will be interesting to see what the root cause was.
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With this technology they have invented... remote control cows! I love it!
From Wikipedia's entry on Standard Oil [0]:

> Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through horizontal integration in the refining sector, then, in later years vertical integration; the company was an innovator in the development of the business trust.

Horizontal then vertical integration is exactly what Epic is doing, by first getting onto a bunch of platforms and app stores, then creating their own app stores and auxiliary purchasable items. Apple has always been vertically integrating, when have they horizontally integrated? AFAIK they've always been a platform into which other companies, like Microsoft with their original Office suite, have horizontally integrated.

> The Standard Oil trust streamlined production and logistics, lowered costs, and undercut competitors.

The group of companies coming together to form this advocacy group is a trust. Apple is not.

From Wikipedia's entry on US v AT&T [1]:

> [AT&T was] using monopoly profits from its Western Electric subsidiary to subsidize the costs of its network

Companies selling apps on the app store are not subsidiaries of Apple, they are customers of Apple. A company reinvesting profits into itself is not anticompetitive. Maybe you had a different idea of why AT&T relates to Apple, but I don't see it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
no its still broken, different errors now. you should look into adding metrics so you dont have users doing this for you

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Neither Microsoft nor Google are fighting Apple on either the 30% cut nor to open up the App Store. Why would they? They are doing the same thing.

I thought Google was suppose to be a proponent of PWA’s?
If you are building software in a paid capacity then yes it's a small price to pay. But if you aren't getting paid or getting paid somewhat decently (e.g. study, hobby, open-source) then it's a lot.

It's great they have various editions, to address the above, so if those editions are good, then it makes my point moot.

edited: Recognizing different free subscriptions exists
> stop it from happening with proper information.

Well, when the product is mis-information that has been carefully tailored, evolved and tested to counteract proper information...
I believe part of the magic of the FANG process is that it actually doesn't matter where you come from for likelihood of hire. It probably matters because they can level set but for hiring you have to knock out the interviews, which are the same whether you've worked at Google or Billabong Valley Software.
If you wish more competition to enter the market I'd argue for Apple to increase its prices (the higher margins the more competition).

You're arguing they lower their prices, and thats just going to cement their position.
It's much simpler than that. (Also, you appear to have a few concepts mixed up. For instance, one doesn't execute smart contracts, but rather transactions. Smart contracts just sit there until someone sends a transaction to one, at which point it executes that transaction.)

What the bot does is that it checks each transaction that is waiting to be executed and simulates sending that transaction itself on a private blockchain forked from the real network. If the simulation results in a profit, it frontruns that transaction -- i.e., it sends the transaction itself for real, but bidding a higher price than the original sender did, so that its transaction will get executed rather than the the original transaction it's copying.

It doesn't need to perform any sort of vulnerability scan; it just mimics other people exploiting arbitrage or vulnerabilities and pays more to get there first.

Similarly, it doesn't need to adjust any destination addresses. It's just looking for arbitrage opportunities or vulnerabilities that will direct ether to the sender. Smart contracts are entirely capable of getting the address of the message sender, and using that as a destination to send ether to. So the bot doesn't need to adjust the transaction data at all, which would be substantially more complicated.
>I don’t see why Epic couldn’t create their own gaming focussed device, and buy a bunch of exclusive titles including their own content.

Nobody would buy a phone that only plays (a few) games and has very little useful apps. You're not arguing in good faith.
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Hey, I love Scrimba. A few on our team used it to quickly get up to speed with modern React. There is a lot good I have to say about the React course and the platform! I wrote a post about it recently: https://www.exploringreact.com/2020/09/19/need-a-comprehensi... where I recommend your course as THE React course to do for a verity of reasons and many of them are to do with the Platform itself, although Bob Ziroll is excellent too!

No idea you were in YC. Good luck with it!
> 2 of them have normal sized text and 1 has [...]

No, one of them (Wikiwand) has "normal sized text", and the other two have objectively shrunken text. This is not a matter of opinion; this is fact. Both HN and Wikipedia, like I mentioned before, are overriding the text size in their stylesheets to force the main body text to display at a size smaller than the UA preferred size. Wikiwand is using the correct font scaling. If you have a problem with the size of the text on the Wikiwand page, it's because your UA is configured to show text at a size that you have a problem with. It's up to you to deal with that.

For an example of what properly-sized text looks like, have a look at http://cr.yp.to or http://danluu.com. These sites are not sending any "designer" styles to your browser (aside from the 8 lines of CSS for the latter, which don't affect the text size).

Besides that, your criticism of Wikiwand's design is dominated by details about its layout and not its text size. But I didn't say Wikiwand was the best layout in the world; it's not, and I don't even use it. But it's still not worse than Wikipedia's overly-designed Vector skin.
>If everyone has a gun, we aren't all safer

If everyone who is responsible has a gun, we are all safer.
It is more of "free to criticize' vs 'free to destroy livelihood' thing. Some would say both are same or second is just an implementation detail of first.
Ah, the word "nonsense" being thrown around without rationale, reason, or explanation.

These type of fascist comments are what genuinely scare me these days.
> Not the company that ... only further glues them to their screens.

You’re right again, Apple has no part at all in kids being glued to screens.
Very cool. I wonder if one day we'll have neuralink technology down so commonplace that we could just RC animals directly.