skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the alternatives?

Two of the commercial products listed (Quicken, Quickbooks) are from Intuit. One of the worst software companies out there. Aside from their "Free" Turbo Tax fiasco (easy to find via web search), Quicken was the most infuriating program I ever used.

I now use MoneyDance (no affiliation, customer for 5+ years).

It's a Java program. It just works. It looks the same after every update. Updates are free for a couple of years. Then I pay for the update, because I like them and want them to succeed.

They have a user forum where problems are solved.

I no longer swear about my finances, unless it's about my finances. The software I use is now invisible.
I do not, thanks for sending this my way!
Right, which is what I was talking about in the original post.

You don't need ultra-low latency to put in that $9.98 order to keep the market moving. If you were serious about providing liquidity you'd have tons of bids and offers open all the time. You would be holding tons of stock at the end of the day by the nature of the business.

HFT firms tell you that they are making life easier for traditional investors by providing liquidity, but that doesn't make much sense given how they operate.
That was my point. Free speech is not absolute. It has limitations everywhere. I think people have conflated three problems - 1) Tech monopoly on the internet and 2) Whether free speech is absolute and 3) Does free speech apply to tech companies. In a vacuum, there are different solutions for each. For example, you would break up tech monopoly, but that has nothing to do with free speech. But rather because it prevents competition. For free speech and its applicability, it is ok to legislate and define what it is, like Germany does. But I don't really hear a call for that
I remember reading that hieroglyphs work that way with a neat idea of changing the facing of the characters depending on which way to read it.
Threads are currently paginated for performance reasons (yes we're working on it) so you need to click More at the bottom of the thread to get to the rest of the comments—or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747659&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747659&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747659&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747659&p=5
as a former citizen of Huntington Beach CA during the 1997 El Nino storms, i'd take the snow.

I have the newspaper clipping of my grandmother being rescued from her home via dinghy by city rescue workers. Everyone I knew had their house ruined in hours after weeks of shoveling sandbags fruitlessly in front of the neighborhoods and homes.

And that was just the flood damage and personal effect , itself.

Untold amounts of environmental and biological damage occurred when sea-levels were temporarily higher than any of the sanitation and oil-recollection facilities that were in town.

That said , snow sucks, but i'd rather sweep it off my roof and winterize my plumbing than attempting to figure out the physics behind flood-proofing acres of land (almost always fruitlessly) and having to surf in sewage for years past the event.
I think a better analogy in the US would be universities with an academic focus vs universities with a practical focus. It's not a codified difference and the degrees you get are the same, but it exists somewhat informally.

As an example, in San Diego, the two top universities are UCSD and SDSU. UCSD is much more prestigious but SDSU teaches more practical skills, for example while SDSU biology students have 3 years of laboratory experience, UCSD students will have 2/3rds of one year of laboratory experience. Actually labs will not even consider UCSD students when hiring because they have so little practical knowledge. UCSD students are expected to go on to get professional degrees or higher academic degrees.

In general, in California, "University of California" schools are known to be academic while "California State Universities" are known to be practical. This was somewhat codified in the California Master Plan for Higher Education, where the top eighth of students would go to the UC schools and the top third would go to CSU schools[0].

I don't know if other states are the same.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Hig...
Thanks! I guess I should keep blogging then :)
Vitalik Buterin on Free Speech and Mass Deplatforming
>the chat system actually becomes sort of like a wiki

That sounds horrible and very fragile.
> I thought the typical goal of hackers and startups was to "change the world" and "make a difference"

I care so little about "changing the world" or "making a difference". Those things don't pay the rent.
I've been through 1.5 IPOs and 1 acquisition.

In only one of those cases, did I join the company expecting an imminent-ish liquidity event. One hit me out of nowhere. Regardless of what you're planning on, and even if the dollar amount isn't that great, it's a huge rush, a lot of thinking about the possibilities. It would suck, at the very least, on an emotional level, to have that fall apart.
Important to note that there is no break-up fee that Visa (or Plaid) will pay.

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2021/01/12/vis...
I agree with basically everything you said. However, this would only apply in relatively narrow cases where your workload can be supported by a single
RSM. There is an absolute limit for the sequencing alone from a single leader, even after you apply the tricks mentioned in the paper. Geo optimizations
(US users data stored in US, EU users data stored in EU, etc) for latency while maintaining a single database view also become challenging (impossible?) without sharding. Fault tolerance is also
slightly improved with many shards because you expose a smaller fraction of your database to transient downtime (re-election, catchup) or slowness when the node containing the leader fails or becomes slow.
This Artist Drew Self-portraits on 50 Different Drugs + Photos (2015)
In case anyone was wondering, "Beresheet" means "In the beginning", as in "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth"
We aren't allowed to use VGA because it's vulnerable to being sniffed. Everything has to be hdmi or display port/mini display port
Interesting tone of discussions happening in here compared to the same post in reddit.com/r/programming. The comments in reddit seem to be geared toward how this isn’t a replacement of a CS degree with a hint of elitism. I mean, I agree this is not a replacement for a CS degree but they all seem combative and hostile towards people wanting to learn CS concepts via alternative means
Congratulations, you've discovered the Enterprise Edition (or Enterprise Support).

People think it needs a shitload of extra functionality, when in reality it just needs some minimal perks and a tag with a LARGE price written on it.
You are taking jedberg's comment too literally

> The Supreme Court has already ruled that neither of those apply at the border. Nor does the 4th.
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This is an extremely overbroad generalization.

The supreme court may or may not rule that forcing someone to be surveilled by federal agents in order to travel by plane is unconstitutional, or it may not. And it may be right or wrong. My qualm is legal and moral.
"You voted for A a long time ago over there, who appointed B over here, who supported C up there, who finally backed D - the leader you never heard of - so it's all very democratic!"

Von der Leyen was not elected in any reasonable sense of the term.

Voters went to the polls without knowing who she was, or her platform.

They thought they were effectively voting for someone else.

They were told that the 'deal' was that so-and-so would be the victor - but at the last minute after the election the people with power changed their minds and changed norms, and in a completely untransparent backroom deal - they chose a different leader.

The President of EU Commission is a bad example of positive democracy and it's almost impossible to justify on those terms.

It is what it is unfortunately, I'm not sure what the right answer is, but the current situation isn't near perfect.

As for the statement - it's reasonable that there should be regulations - but the EU leadership shouldn't make such bold edicts: "You cannot do this, you must do as we say" - not a good way to start. They don't have this kind of legitimacy.

They should position it as: "We don't believe corporations should be making these decisions without a framework provided by the people of the EU, so we'd like to work with them to provide some regulatory leadership"
hope you bought some guns and ammo last year with your stimulus money
The average minimum in Madrid in January is +3°C, and -3°C in Molina de Aragón, so no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Madrid

https://www.weather-atlas.com/en/spain/molina-de-aragon-clim...
They wouldn't prevent you from entering. They'd just make you quarantine once you did.
> She was not elected by the voters. The voters were told that the winning party's candidate would be the commission president. Now von der Leyen is. She did not run in the election.

Well, this is true for prime minister posts in most parliamentary democracies. The winner is not the leader of plurality-winning party, but one who can get majority support in parliament.

Usually it is the same person, but EP is too disintegrated for that (many small parties with only token loyality to party blocs), so plurality winner failed to get majority support. Had MEPs forged majority coalition, they would have rejected EC offer and have forced their commission president.
Showing You the Door
> This list does not at all support the thesis that organized BLM protests were intentionally violent.

Are you really claiming there was never any incitement?

This popped up with one search: https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-leader-if-change-doesnt-ha...

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,”
I really like PsyTrance and Goa. Search for „Astrix“ or „Ace Ventura“ (artists) + „ozora“ or „boom“ (festivals) on YouTube. I really like the speed of it and if there are lyrics, they are very repetitive / meditation like. Also the sets are quite long.

If you are in a workplace setting, try to keep the live sets in a background tab, as Goa/PsyTrance Festival recordings might have half naked people in them.

Edit: Or try to find artists in a genre you like, singing in a foreign language. I really like Korpiklaani, as don’t understand and probably never will understand a word of Finnish.
The tardigrades have alrady eaten 25% of the far side of the moon - to avoid being seen...;)
I was in the industry (prop trading at BofA). I am no more ignorant than you. Here is a link to help you.

https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
We use Lattice (https://lattice.com), I do weekly 1:1.

The thing I like is that as I come up with topics I add them to the agenda. During the meeting we go through the topics, check them out and possibly create followup tasks. Lattice auto-add the tasks to the agenda of the next meeting.

Before I was using a single GDoc/person, with <date> and a list of bullet points. Pretty much doing the same thing as Lattice.
then whats the point of going to 4 year college degree in computer science? there is none I bet. what a waste of money college is? and yet I was required to get a college degree ~10 years ago.
Please make your substantive points without posting in the flamewar style. We're trying to avoid the latter here because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for: curious, thoughtful conversation about interesting things.

When accounts build up a track record of flamewar, snark, political/ideological battle, and other things that break the site guidelines, we ban them. We have to, because otherwise this place will be engulfed by hellfire and then become scorched earth. Those things may be exciting and/or activating for a while, but they're not interesting.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of this site to heart, we'd be grateful. You can still express your views in that spirit, as many other HN users have been showing.
> A week later, the positive test result came back

Which country do you live in that it takes a week for the PCR test to come back? It's around 24 hours here and I thought that was the case in all developed countries.

I hope you recover quickly!
No, just have certain businesses operate just like utility providers do which means they can't decide who they provide service too as long as it's within their service area.

You local electrical company probably can't shut off the power even to a meth lab as long as they are paying their bills, and even if they do not you are usually required to go through a rigorous process before you can take action.

This isn't really about freedom of will, this is about the bottom line and companies trying to score cheap points. If it was pretty darn clear that no amount of pressure that does not go through the courts could make Amazon or Twilio cancel Parler there wouldn't be as much noise about it.

There's a reason why no one is tweeting at the power or water companies to cut off their services to the Trump campaign, it's not because there aren't people that would like to see that happening, but because even the most deranged of them know that it cannot happen.

You already have precedence for this, back when corporate towns were a thing that's where the public square concept emerged despite the entire town technically being corporate property it was deemed that people cannot be silenced on the streets or in the town square.

The issue here is that the Internet isn't treated as a public square but as solely corporate property and yes sadly without a bunch of corporations the internet doesn't actually exists.

You cannot get to the point that you need to essentially become a global Tier 1 ISP before you can put on a service that does not break any laws but that would essentially be immune to being canceled, and if you want to monetize it you probably need to become major payment processor if not an an acquiring and and issuing bank too because as we've seen in the past PayPal/PCI can easily prevent you from taking any payments.

We do not have an open and distributed network a handful of companies can block any content they want at any time, TOR, VPN's or anything else won't save you and won't help you your ISP can block anything it wants with a single line in a config file and if it's not on Google it might as well not be accessible.
Your hosting options today are rather limited especially for a platform that needs to have a global reach and that you couldn't take down with a single 5G connection.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a tiny handful of others are the only ones who can provide you with that infrastructure, if you are going with a smaller or more traditional hosting provider then there are only a handful of CDNs that can provide you with content distribution and DDOS protection/mitigation services.

If you want to grant companies the same freedom you grant to people when it comes to making decisions you need an actual free market for that, but globally the internet isn't a free market and no one can make the argument that it is free yet alone a free market when in order to provide a legal service (regardless of how distasteful it is) without any of the existing market players being able to completely shut you down you have to build a Bank of America, a Visa,a DeepOcean and a Cloudflare first.
I mean, given the opportunity to be nerdy about something...

I have a vague sense that the move through 9 and 10 to 11 speed was pretty quick, and that the moment of effective 11-speed hegemony has been long and really shows no sign of truly fading, but I have only a few points to go on.

The biggest one is that SRAM has kept its 12-speed stuff segregated. They still sell mechanical Red and Force in 11, and the web site still shows Red eTap (the 11-speed electronic groupset). All the 12-speed stuff is at another tier and uses the "AXS" suffix for branding.

Nobody knows yet what Shimano will do. Campy is really on its own in lots of ways (I dunno about you, but in my circles riding Campy is mostly a way to say "I have lots of discretionary income and/or a very understanding spouse").

My neighbor is a bike tinkerer and serious rider. He's moved a couple of his bikes to AXS, but only by doing some wheeling/dealing on eBay & whatnot. It does not appear to have made him materially faster. ;)

I was itching for an upgrade on my bike back in the spring, and found the upgrade price for even Force AXS really offputting. I ended up putting Red eTap on, and have REALLY loved it, especially at < 1/2 the cost. I didn't really even consider the Shimano stuff, as I DRASTICALLY prefer the SRAM cockpit interface -- to say nothing of the simpler install, as eTap is wireless.
I have a sister comment I think is relevant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25754588

But the key in my comment is the precondition the government is truly "of and for the people", and thus any moderation they did benefited "the people", and not the government which likely holds more power than the people.

What happened with Trump was that he convinced his followers that it was OK to only get their information from the places that agreed with him, de facto making anything he says the only trusted source of information. This is the essence of political censorship. By taking away competing sources of information, you can basically write your own rule book, because those that only hear from you couldn't fathom a different reality.

Information needs to survive the competitive landscape and emerge as valid. Information that isn't put through the wringer should not be trusted.
You spend the 14 days in quarantine either way - land or air. And it's not 'government quarantine' for most people - it's just a hotel room, airbnb or wherever your approved plan says you're going to quarantine.
>> I don’t remember where I read this explanation, but it appears that originally the writing was in both directions: you would get to the edge, and then write the next row backwards under it (in a snakes-and-ladders fashion).

That is "boustrophedon" as in ithkuil's comment.

"Boustrophedon" means "as an ox turns" in Greek and it aludes to the way an ox is directed to walk while tilling a field, tilling one "row" in one direction, then turning around and tilling the next row in the opposite direction, etc. Like this (where the ">" and "<" show the ox starting a new row in a new direction):

->-----------.
,----------<-'
`->----------

And so on. The alternative is to get to the end of one row and then walk without tilling to the start of the next row, but of course that wastes time.
How to fairly distribute startup equity?
How much salary + equity should head of sales/CSO (currently at a high position in a big company) get in a SaaS B2B startup that has a product, initial traction, and is about to raise a seed round?

A bit of background:
- Bootstrapped so far (1 year)
- The founder (me) did sell a few deals (to big enterprise companies) so the idea is to have this person continue work on go to market efforts
- The average annual contract value is about 20.000
- Small team already in place and is working together since the beginning
Is there a reason I'd use this approach over a process mining / log mining system? I feel like it needs me to guess the right question to get an answer.
i should try a more modern intel wifi chip, yes, but in my experience these _client_ wifi chips make really limited access points, with not good range, and most noticably have critical/severe/cripplingly bad performance with multiple clients.

many usb chipsets straight up refuse to allow more than a handful of clients. i think my Alfa wireless usb kit with realtek chipsets refuse more than 7 connections. other kit just has multi-second jitter creep in every now and then, in a relatively un-hostile wifi environment.

it absolutely 100% _should_ be possible & easy & work well to do either of these options. perhaps with current gen modern chipsets things are better. here, alas, things fail again, because it seems many modern wifi chipsets don't have available linux drivers at all, much less competent ap mode drivers. "good silicon with bad drivers is just expensive sand"

go to a reliable respected wifi vendor like rokland[1] and look around: how many of these devices are <2 years old? <3 years old? many of the best sellers are 5+ years old. good wifi is becoming frighteningly scarce.

this is very common advice you've presented, but i've found it to be woefully critically unacceptable. just incredibly bad wifi. we are doing a mis-service to people telling them these are ok options. i've tried real hard to make these work, across years, bought dozens of devices, & it's been unbelievably unsatisfactory. i would strongly recommend against taking @adrian_b's listed options, in emphatic terms. do not do this to yourself.

but please, make this a future we can do. as i begged for, please, we need some folks like Compex putting modern product on the market unbundled. we need some drivers. for modern wifi. that we can use. please. please.

[1] https://store.rokland.com/
do you think your water and energy utilities should be free to decide whether to serve your house or not?
If Solarwinds was distributed as source to hundreds of companies, maybe many would not bother diffing the source from the previous version but it seems plausible that a few would look at these at the least, especially given you are talking corporations who follow deployment procedures.

The build process itself could spit out the diffs at the end, for example.
History itself?

Before the U.S., nobody even thought free speech was possible. England was the closest, but their version of free speech was still subject to government censorship.

It was the writings of the Founding Fathers, and the Bill of Rights in particular, that established the doctrine that is today known as "freedom of speech."
Because the hard core believers show up for Primaries. Trump beat 14 mainstream candidates by going full Kraken in a party that got rid of Super Delegates.
These same areas have also seen increasingly warmer summers in recent times, right?

While it may be hard to speculate short and long term regional changes, does anyone have a recommendations for interactive tools to explore, say, monthly temperatures for a given area for the past however many years?
Some rationale for blocking international travel - preventing the spread of international variants, and preventing the destination country from being overloaded by incoming infections.

Most nations aren't getting the vaccines yet. Vaccination distribution and delivery require complex logistics. Nations that don't have a good public healthcare infrastructure need time to gear up. Vaccinations have just started and are being given in a phased manner. Blocking International Travel (or at least mandating a 14 day quarantine) helps keep variants in check.
Just for the sake of comparison, Detroit gets ~33 inches of snow a year (~84 cm) and takes a number of days to clear out after much of a blizzard. It's not real worth it to have an excess of equipment that really only sees a few days of use a year (or decade!).