skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In the past, mispricing this badly would lead to recriminations for the underwriters, including lawsuits and lost business.

For some reason, the financiers were able to convince the gullible tech founders that giving up 50% or more of the IPO to the financier's best buddies was a good thing. And in their greed, the founders gladly went along, screwing themselves and their employees in the process.

(Theoretically, the underwriters are granted a pop because of the risk they theoretically undertake. But by the time the IPO occurs, the underwriter has already lined up sufficient buyers and there is no longer much if any risk, certainly not a level of risk justifying most of the gains of the IPO).
That's interesting, I didn't know that. So in this case MasterCard is really sort of joining an established bloc among their peers? Though I guess they're not saying "no more porn" right out, just this one vendor it sounds like.
No boiling required. Enough plastic bottles and a sunny day works too.

Even if heating with gas/electricity, aiming for boiling is hard to screw up, but an overshoot of what’a required.

This is only good for bacteria/viruses.
A quick Google reveals it to be a real problem on Facebook, their properties and their messenger services. 12 million images removed last year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/11/13/facebook-inst... - but it hasn't stopped people advertising on FB.

Surely here it's a case of people rolling the two into one - "people who look at/work with porn must be sleazy" - rather than objectively seeing PH as a business that doesn't want illegal content on its platform anymore than FB does?
I clicked the learn section after, like what you said, learning nothing from the landing page.

After reading through the learn section, it looks like a clone of facebook or instagram's story feature or whatever that will appear on google search results.

At least from the info they've provided.

I've always disliked those...it's the one thing on facebook that shows the other person who looks at it at when. Something I've always been secretly terrified facebook does with everything.
Whonix [1] attempts to achieve this, if I am understanding what you are saying correctly. The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a "Workstation" and a Tor "Gateway", running Debian GNU/Linux. All communications are forced through the Tor network to accomplish this.

[1] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/About
That would make a lot of sense too!
> Should they also comply with $pick_a_dictatorship_you_find_reprehensible ‘s laws?

To be fair, MindGeek has an office in the US. Now, if they closed that office, the argument that they were subject to US law would be weaker.
Mirror: https://archive.vn/Ygn2f
> Well I don't know how accurate this is, but in 2019 Stackoverflow survey, Clojure practitioners averaged the highest pay of any languages.

Well I didn't believe it, but wow: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#top-paying-te...

I'm not sure if I should conclude that I'm incredibly ignorant of the engineering market, or that Stack Overflow's survey is not representative.

It makes me suspicious that Clojure is shown as the most highly paid language at $90k. Basically any non-new grad developer in a high cost of living area earns more than that, regardless of the language. I'm also suspicious that only 1.4% of survey respondents use Clojure, which may show a bit of a base rate fallacy here.

What would be the explanatory thesis for Clojure programmers being the most highly paid? None of the most highly paid roles I'm personally familiar with in big tech or finance use Clojure, and people who work in those roles earn well into the six (and sometimes seven) figures.
Same here, hope it's just a coincidence and not indicative of a larger outage.
> It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life.

I would take this with a pinch of salt. Socializing by the pool after the talks isn't hard work. Also, most people only listen to some of the talks. It's not uncommon to see the room half empty the last days of the conference. There are also various social events and so on...

While it's true that some professors/researchers are hard-working and driven, it's not the case for all of them, and it varies throughout their career. Their job is also typically not very stressful.

Same thing for software engineers. Some people do meaningful work for a few hours a day, and slack the rest of the time and still have good performance reviews.

Among the professionals who work a lot, I can think of doctors. My family doctor works very long hours, and he's certainly not slacking.
> I think Apple should either charge considerably less than they do for distribution via their App Stores

The biggest problem for many people is not the %, but the rules and limitations of the platform that comes from Apple being the intermediary between devs and users.

For example, game streaming services should exist on the app store. It is preposterous that apple rejects these apps. They are actively harming thier own platform, making it less featureful by doing this.

Being this intermediary is both a pro and a con for both devs and users, but they disallow anyone else to innovate on the platform. If Apple is so confident that their IAP is what users prefer, then they should give users (and developers) the choice and let the market speak!
> London was the EU's only truly global city.

Finance is just one criteria.

Most city rankings place Paris pretty close to London.

And don't forget that a good chunk of London's financial prowess is for it serving as turntable between the US and the EU.
Anyone else came here expecting a Haskell post?
Could you be a bit more specific and demonstrate how to get a 10-day forecast out of that URL?
Finding file experts on Git repositories
I'm an ardent supporter of executable config languages, especially for the infrastructure-as-code space (the only thing special about this space is that configs tend to be very large, so you're more likely to run into reuse issues), which markets itself as "it's just YAML!" but inevitably all of that copy/pasted YAML becomes unwieldy and you want reusability. At that point, you have a few distinct options:

1. Build an AST on top of YAML a la CloudFormation. Now you're programming in YAML, hurray!

2. Extend your static language with executable features a la Terraform/HCL, basically reinventing (and very badly, at that) more traditional language features

3. Use text templates, a la Helm--now you can generate syntactically invalid configuration! (and absolutely trivially, at that)

4. Use an expression language (familiar, ergonomics) a la Pulumi, Starlark, Nix, Nickel, Dhall, etc

Note that in these conversations, someone inevitably shouts "use the simplest tool for the job!" ignoring that static configuration languages (and options 1-3 above) are strictly more complex for the reusability use cases outlined above.

EDIT: Pulumi isn't an expression language; rather, it lets you use real languages to generate configuration, and these languages often include powerful expression features. AWS's CDK is also in this category.
If the answer is "you have a dollar limit set of GCS GETs, GCS PUTs, etc." I guess I could see this working, but hot damn that'll be a horrific interface.

The other issue is that many large customers pay different prices, so billing and quota aren't really tied to each other, and it wouldn't be easy to reconcile this.

As for the button... having been on the product side of building this button, there is no right answer: people will say they never got the email (or it went to the wrong inbox, or their dog ate their phone...) or that they never checked the box to "shut down the site" ("I didn't think it would do X that made my app not work").
This looks really similar to Open Policy Agent[0], wonder how they compare.

[0]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/
I don't think hardware VP9 decoding, and therefore 4K, is available on a Mac.
Did Clojure made you unemployed?
Once API calls are locked you can open the console, disable all the things that caused you to hit your budget, and then raise the budget a bit to get access to the storage APIs again and manage your storage. Or, the console's storage browser should let you browse and delete files as well. And again, there should be an option to delete all storage immediately for a hard cap on your budget if you really want that.
Title is wrong, visa have not responded to a request for comment.
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

Game streaming services do not exist on iOS. This is a harm.

You cannot sign up for Netlifx on iOS. This is a harm.
Yes, if a company gains significantly (or drops significantly) in an IPO, the underwriter royally fucked up.

In the old days, there would have been recriminations. These days, people just shrug and think it's acceptable that the financiers lock up most of the gains for economic value created (or, depending on your thoughts of Airbnb's business model, acquired) by others.

It's one of the reasons Wall Street has fought so hard to prevent become fiduciaries again. If they were fiduciaries they couldn't get away with crap like this.
That guy completely relied on the financial support of his girlfriend for years. I think he did some odd jobs here and there, but mostly he was just working on the game not making any income. Obviously for that game it paid off in spades, as they were millionaires pretty much overnight once it was released, but that won't be the case for every game, or in fact most games, and it's not something you should ask of your significant other most times.

I've worked on eight titles professionally working for game companies that never made the money spent developing them. It's a hit driven industry and there's no guarantees, unless you hit on an untapped market with a lot of pent up demand for something (like Natsume had been dropping the ball and releasing garbage Harvest Moon sequels for over a decade at that point, Stardew Valley came along and showed them what the fans actually wanted). Even then it's still not a guarantee.

I'm out of the video game industry now, but still work on my own games, but it's only a few hours a week here and there. I've had some success over the years, but not enough to justify asking my wife to let me quit my job and do it full time.
idk but the gunnar glasses I had years ago for gaming that reduce the blue light were fantastic for eye fatigue. Get blue light reduction lenses even with no prescription, it makes a hell of a difference
Why would letting another app store be installable on an iphone make your mom not able to just use App Store the same way she does it now? It’s simply not an either or question. It could be hidden the same way as developer options are in Android so your mon - with all due respect - will never accidentally enable side-loading, while I can actually use my phone for whatever I want.
I dunno, beyond Pornhub there seem to be a dozen other similar sites. Unless they all ban uploading, it will just continue there.
considering some of the things that facebook has been used for it should be very careful about what it does with VR/AR and the potential for use as a HUD facilitating an attacker and providing them with a support team
It's like apple got set on a course...

And they're on it...

following it...

and optimizing everything along the way...

they're going to converge off the edge of a cliff and into the abyss.
PG is rewriting history here. The story that "Airbnb was on its last legs... They’d try this Y Combinator thing, and if the company still didn’t take off, they’d give up" isn't exactly true.

Just before entering YC, they had a handshake agreement with an angel investor for their seed round[0]. The YC partners convinced the AirBnBs to back out of that deal and have YC do the full round instead.

[0] https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/
India has more than enough smart people to design and build everything they need. Labor is cheap there too, so they can dig in pipes everywhere cheaply.

The things that need to be done are public knowledge or easy to find out. Most of the west already does it, and has been for one hundred years or so. There is nothing magical about turning bad water into clean drinkable water. All that India is lacking is the will (probably because of money or corruption - both real problems).
Except this will encourage people to take delivery and resell it at a markup, and the victims of this scheme will be the lower income class.

Water should be free upto basic living necessities, and the government should be responsible for maintaining that.
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

When there is no competition the prices are higher. That is one way the consumers are harmed.

> I like the walled garden and have no interest in it going away. I like that my mom can install apps and not worry about them spying on her.

And you can have your walled garden and your mom can still install apps without worrying if they are spaying on them. Just use apples app store, simple as that. This is a non issue.

> I like that developers aren’t allowed to use their own payment processors. I don’t want to input my credit card into your black box payment system that might or might not charge me correctly.

You still have the option of using the apples app store. Again, a non issue for you.
Thanks, and yes, it is totally annoying. There's tons of games I'd love to actually play but just can't.

By the way, I agree with your assessment that some games are simply better suited for a first person perspective. I don't know if I perhaps created a wrong impression before, but I have never said that game devs should change their designs just so folks like myself can play all games under the sun (although jumping through hoops to tailor to small minorities is very much en vogue these days in other fields).

For Cyberpunk 2077 specifically, it's just a bit disappointing for me personally because I am a huge fan of The Witcher, and I'm sure a sci-fi RPG story could have been told using a similar mechanic. But, yes, it would have been a different game -- sadly, one that I could have actually played.

I also liked the old Resident Evil titles, and that series has now turned to first person too. O tempora, o mores!
It may not be enforced, but the Microsoft ToS states "You agree not to use any false, inaccurate or misleading information when signing up for your Microsoft account." (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/servicesagreement/), and the signup flow does require a full name.
They are also scrupulous tax avoiders in the UK. Pay your fair fucking share.
Shocking adaptations discovered in electric fish of Brazil's Amazon
“If someone gave me the key to their front door so I could drop off amazon packages but I actually used it to come in and destroy all their valuables would it really be MY fault?”

Yes.
Amazingly Fauna pricing is even more confusing than DynamoDB's
Interestingly, their status page shows mostly green and "Operational" (albeit along with telltale spikes in backlogs and a drop in requests):

https://www.redditstatus.com/
Im in the same boat, their site performance has seem to just been getting worse over time and it is barely even functional on my phone, however I don't know of anyone else that condenses almost the entirety of a highly detailed 7+ day weather report into such a small and useful little graph with every detail you would want. What would take multiple pages worth of reporting is covered in a small graph the size of my hand.

It was invaluable when I did outdoor work, everyone else was making guesses and extrapolations based on the shitty reports from different local news stations and radar and satellite maps, meanwhile I could tell exactly when a big storm would role through and if rain would be spotty or temperature swings with just a glance for multiple days ahead.
In the US, approximately 50% of smartphones in use are running iOS. It's lower globally, but the US market is the only one that matters when it comes to antitrust in the US.
No, I am currently employed. It's a play on the "from my cold, dead hands" phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands
Tweet storm with a bit more info: https://twitter.com/Endless_WebDev/status/133715064374455910...
I tend to agree, and have always made a point of telling founders that their startup will most likely fail, because that's what startups do. Here's a good thread: https://twitter.com/immad/status/1335669459705458688
I don't get why you think it's insightful to repeatedly quote terrorists at all, spreading their preferred messages for them.

You are only confirming that terrorism allows someone to be powerfully heard.
Well, that would be even worse, as far as why Paul Graham chooses to tell the story this way, even make it the center of the story. I guess that's how he remembers it.

Either way, it's not what it is now, and he's choosing not to mention that, while leaving it at the center of the story...
The point is that the fingerprint identifies you, that's why it's called a fingerprint. A user only sending `Host:` and `Connection:` bought a Nintendo Switch on Site A last week. Another user only sending `Host:` and `Connection:` visited Site B, so we assume it's the same person and show them an ad for Breath of the Wild.

It's not like anyone targets ads to people with specific screen resolutions (and I don't think people would care if they did). The problem is that the data is used to track your activity. The information it contains is "are you the same person as that other visit we tracked".
Maybe they were part of the Internet but not the Web?
As someone who was there, a rewrite was necessary, and with hindsight we should of done it with objective-c. The original obj-c app was built with under 10 iOS engineers in mind, and now Uber had 100s of mobile engineers work on one app in some form or another.

We didn't do a simple build scalability test until we were well into the project. If we did it would of revealed swift's build problems to us. Our swift experience is what slowed down our kotlin migration significantly. Today Uber android is still a majority Java app.

Even very recently the experience of working in swift compared to the old obj-c code base isn't as good. To this day there are debugger issues, xcode responsiveness issues and a slower build time.

Hiring on the other hand would be harder now, because it's getting hard to find people who know Objective-C and it's surface ugliness scares new people away. Swift is a decent language if you don't have to have a very large code base, so most people rightfully so don't have that much Objective-C, and if you were to work in Obj-C, you might as well go work at Facebook then.
Sony’s Camera Firmware Updater Is a Major Security Risk
No need in the case of PH. It's already full of illegal content and getting caught would sabotage KYC regulations for years.
"It just works" was a jingoism from before the iPhone existed.

Do Macs not "work"?
It's not really significant that Apple was able to halve their fees, because the segment of developers for which the halving applies is responsible for a minimal amount of actual profit.
> clone of facebook or instagram's story feature

Which Zuck blatantly copied from Snapchat.

Google's version should be called Gnapchat...

And what do we think? Google Graveyard by 2022, or later?
I saw Stephen Punwasi pull exactly this same trick wrt diamond engagement rings recently. Claimed that if you put $6000 into the market instead (instead of a ring) and got 11% per year you'd have over $1M at your 50th anniversary. Absolutely sure that he picked the unrealistic 11% only because it got the number over a psychologically meaningful threshold (which isn't even that meaningful because he ignored inflation). A more realistic outcome would have been around $69K BTW. This kind of dishonesty is everywhere, which is why we have to stay on our toes.

But back to the case at hand. Yes, the numbers are a bit off, but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea. That's another too-common fallacy. $160K is nothing to sneeze at, and your $43K is just as much a fiction as Ackman's $1M. S&P grew 168% over 20 years despite volatility. It's already factored in. It looks like you're doing the same thing with double-adjusting for inflation too. The fact is that the bond would yield enough to make a significant difference for the people it's meant to help. Your numerology doesn't change that.
It's horrible and unfortunate, but there are a lot of people who actively try and engage in these behaviors and will spend effort to work around and within these systems/moderation efforts. Shutting it down would only cause something else to spring up
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/qr5vky5kwn3r

This is the specific part on their status page for the outage
> I like that my mom can install apps and not worry about them spying on her.

You really think Apple not doing that?
> Did you notice that article is in the opinion section? That implies it's a work of fiction. No fact checking needed.

That is factually untrue (as I also pointed out in the other sub-thread where you made the same claim): they do fact check their opinion section:

The below quote is from a previous NYT Op-ed editor that describes their editorial process. Emphasis is mine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opinion/op-ed-and-you.htm...:

> What happens when your article is accepted? First, you’ll get a contract giving us the right to publish it and laying out some of your responsibilities. The most important ones have to do with originality and truthfulness. You can’t plagiarize yourself, or someone else, and we won’t run something that has appeared in another publication, either print or digital. We request that you disclose anything that might be seen as a conflict of interest, financial or otherwise: Did you invest in a company that you praise in passing? Did you once work with a public official you mention in flattering or critical terms? Could you or an organization or company you represent benefit from the stance you take in an Op-Ed? We need to know. That doesn’t mean we’ll throw out your article on that basis — in most cases it just means disclosing the relationship to the reader. We also need all of the material that supports the facts in your story. That’s the biggest surprise to some people. Yes, we do fact check. Do we do it perfectly? Of course not. Everyone makes mistakes, and when we do we correct them. But the facts in a piece must be supported and validated. You can have any opinion you would like, but you can’t say that a certain battle began on a certain day if it did not.
Flap Hero Code Review
The original statement of the problem talks about a horse. I wonder when it changed into a goat.
Grow your piano skills with each Google search
When I see things like this I laugh and laugh and laugh about the naive view usually presented in HN that the "best minds of our generation" are all in FAANGs. Move over Peter Scholze, Terry Tao and Magnus Carlsen, the Google(TM) kids who just copied TikTok/Instagram have just arrived.