skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I remember when I cancelled mine, it is about a year ago, but during the chat session, I had to be very stern in my wording, multiple times, before the person decided to do as I told.
I saw several of these attempted at Google. They never went anywhere. Probably the most public was Google Wave.

Here's the problem: you can't create the same environment without the same risks and rewards. Google employees get compensated very well, better than all but the luckiest startup employees. If the "startup" fails, no biggie. You just move to another project.

At the same time, the "startup" needs to retain talent so you're competing with other projects. So what happens? The "startup" creates an incentive structure that rewards mediocrity that has nothing to do with the original goals.

This happened with Wave and it happened with Waymo.
I would think the atmosphere is too light to support a balloon.
Who's lamenting. Do whatever you want with them.
But the heat still needs to leak into the environment, and a thin atmosphere means little convection, so it's still just radiation - same problem as in a vacuum.
I believe the major US panic about "stranger danger" arose in the 1980s and early 1990s—in particular, there were a couple of high-profile cases of children going missing in the early '90s that were sensationalized far beyond what made any sense. As a child growing up in the '80s, I was allowed to poke around the neighborhood unsupervised, but by the time I was a teenager, I was already hearing about children being strictly watched at all times as "the norm".
Reward being tied to risk is only for the little people. One can point at numberous executive compensation packages where they have plenty of exposure to upside, and almost no risk (or even negative risk: a golden parachute if you get pushed out).
It is difficult to unlearn once you learn it incorrectly.

I have learned to touchtype about 80WPM in my teens, over 2 decades ago and I still have hard time not bottoming out or using right shift key.

I have been successful in re-learning to use dvorak instead of qwerty and to type in a tempo (ie. with equal intervals, using metronome), but the bottoming dynamic is much more basic than that, I think.
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A few weeks ago I discovered a Python library called Vaex. It can be used for loading large datasets. IIRC, you can see a similar visualization in this video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGjY4cds3Q
Agree. Older-than-40 here, I learned to type primarily on electric typewriters and old-school terminal keyboards, where the switches would trigger around half-way down the travel of the key. When I use a mechanical keyboard, I do the same- the Cherry MX Clear switches in my keyboard act in a similar way- you don't need to "bottom out" a switch for it to activate.

Manual typewriters, though, had a /huge/ amount of travel, and since the travel provides the force to strike the type on to the paper, you really had to hammer on them.
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I based my comment on Jens Gustedt's article [1] about adding a "defer" mechanism in standard C.

Clearly, the C committee works hard on improving the language and they are in the process to standardize important features, such as lambda functions, auto, typeof (like C++'s decltype more or less), and so forth.

In my humble opinion, "defer" can mild the buffer / memory overflow, but of course not permanently remedied it 100%; to me though it's better to have such mechanism than have nothing at all to protect you.

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-f...
What sort of thing is SAFe? Is it some sort of unsuccessful corporate pantomime of a successful practice?
> 'Everything is about food.'
> 'Well, an iPhone isn't food.'

That's just absurd, of course an iPhone is not food...

However,

- You can use your iPhone to take pictures of your food

- You can look up how to cook food

- You can order food

- You can use it in jobs, that help you earn money to buy food

- The people in china who assemble them do it, so they can buy food
- etc...

Everything is about food, just like sex, because those two are among the most important things for survival of an individual and the species.
> Who is going to walk a away with my fridge?

People would steal your wallet, your jewelry... There's a lot more value to be extracted from a stolen credit card than from a "smart" phone.

> It's great that you have a niche use case, but that doesn't make your case the priority over the main use cases.

You're taking it the other way around. The common use case for first-world software developers is the niche use case for the rest of the world. In the rest of the world (i.e. the vast majority), who can't afford buying new luxury devices, people are more concerned with getting locked out after forgetting their password (or after their kids changed it) or about acquiring a second-hand device, than about "protecting" their device from thieves.

Because this "protection" doesn't protect anything. Once your iPhone is stolen, it's gone. No iCloud lock is going to bring it back, so why prevent other, less-privileged folks from using it when you can't use it? That type of "mine or noone else's" capitalist mentality is actively harming users and destroying the environment

https://www.ifixit.com/News/34072/apples-activation-lock-wil...
I know. that changes nothign btw.
It's my experience when applying for a job that people are very judgmental. I've learned to take that judgmental frame, if I wouldn't then I would never be invited for an interview.

The only places that don't have these judgmental frames are a subset of startups.

Just my experience, YMMV.
That's true, but it also seem thats there's some options to navigate around it, like using proxy companies such as twinova. I'm curious whether there are some living people who accomplished this in any way.
Yes, it is really bad.

I cancelled my Netflix subscriptions for a few months, then tried to renew and cannot because of a bug in their Credit Card process. I have phoned and tweeted and online chatted etc... Their only solutions is for me to buy gift cards, which I won't.

In the meantime, they keep sending me emails every week to beg me to try Netflix again.

So Netflix spends money to promote to me, and to answer my support requests, while they won't do a thing about their broken payment process.
Only time will tell.
I think it's worth noting that what you're referring to - the JVM escapes - are exploited under a completely different threat model where the attacker already has remote code execution.

In this model the attacker already can execute code on the victim's host, but the VM attempts to limit what the attacker can do via restricted APIs. It's just a completely different threat.
IIRC Starlink uses uplinks in the same region - this might change with sat-to-sat laser links. So a users traffic would actually go out to the internet in the same region. This is the main reason service is only offered in some regions right now even though the sats are flying over multiple regions/countries.
Agreed on this feeling within AWS. The product I worked on came out of an engineering brainstorming meeting, we had to get it funded, small team, etc. Felt very much like startups I've worked at before and was part of the reason I stayed at AWS so long.
I'm glad this has been flagged. This is the WOMM of putting dangerous shit in your body.
Isn't it ironic that you provide a quote from Vasilyev, who's not exactly known for being straight edge? Moreover, this is a line from a song about love from first sight, which itself is a specific kind of an altered state of mind.
So, we're commenting what appears to be a comment on another person commenting his career choice.

Just in case, this is the original piece written by Noam Bardin: https://paygo.media/p/25171
I feel like a future version of GPT will easily be able to answer 'What is the home address of ...@gmail.com', given the abundance of data it is trained on and the widespread proliferation of leaked databases.
This matches my experience as well. It’s really hard to break the habit of typing super hard.
The weird thing is that when my partner turned in an old Mac mini to Apple for recycling they wouldn’t do it because her account was still on there and there was a system password.

But we couldn’t figure out what they were talking about, we had reinstalled the OS. It’s embeded in there somewhere deep.
The better solution is to link verified phone numbers in one account. You would need access to both numbers simultaneously of course.

However since this is non-trivial to implement as it requires indirection wherever authentication is performed or identity is asserted, requiring fundamental architectural change for most platforms, the engineering cost vs marketing benefit applies.

So the priority level “MUST” is questionable since almost no one has this problem. It is more likely that the solution will be an ever increasing number of cell companies will have agreements for international roaming.
A lot of minimum wage jobs struggle to hire enough employees. When I worked at Subway as a kid, the schedule was always a mess and many times people didn't show up for a shift or abandoned the job completely. These types of jobs can benefit from hiring disabled people because they are often a lot more consistent. I know of one disabled employee at my local gym who has been there for many years, and he has a much more regular schedule than anyone else there.
Just wanted to say that I read Grindr and I had to do a double take :)
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Imagine how much safer it would be if you got rid of the App Store and weren't allowed to install any third party software.
Ask HN: Best practices of trading via orders? Is Bayes theorem applicable?
When cryptocurrencies has appeared, trading became popular. I do not appreciate margin trading and any technics except market order because these are hard to understand and automate. But I want to grok market order trading for writing a traiding bot which will not lose my money. Any ideas or textbook about that?

Especially I am interested in ways which involves the Bayes theorem before doing any decision. Is there any ways to put information about risk of the next deal in the formula?
From $0 to $35K MRR in 8 months
How do you calculate 60%?
> The longer interest rates stay at zero, the longer this assumption gets baked into the structure of the economy and the more chaos that'll be unleashed when and if they finally go up.

[…]

> If everybody has an incentive for rates to stay low, they will stay low. This ends in hyperinflation.

Japan has had rates ≤1% since April 1995:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRJPM193N

The rate was 0.1% for five years (2001-2005). Japan's inflation:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN
What you're describing is a reliability nightmare.

Human drivers 'depend' on road markings, but if some paint gets scuffed or a stop sign blows down in a storm, things still work okay. For AI cars to be similarly fault-tolerant, they need to be generally capable drivers who don't absolutely need exacting external markers to get around.
It's wild that Douglas Adams' and Infocom's Bureaucracy, an interactive fiction published in 1987, had precisely this sort of thing as more or less its whole subject matter. It's not quite exact to what we see today, of course; for one thing, it traffics in paper forms and mail-in cards, rather than web forms and obstructionist live chats. But its juxtaposition of saccharine platitudes and hostile apathy feels no less evergreen for the intervening decades.

You're right that the cyberpunk genre lacks a sufficient dose of this kind of absurdity. I think that derives in large part from its original popularizers - I'm thinking here of Gibson and Stephenson, in particular - being in such deadly earnest about everything. Gibson especially, being a literary author trafficking in genre, I think could fairly be blamed for this; Stephenson at least attempted a sense of humor in his most significant work, and sometimes even succeeded, but in his case I think it's more a flaw of worldbuilding in that the mechanisms of transition from the America of his present, to the micro-balkanized future he depicted, were insufficiently fleshed out and thus failed to capture the mounting absurdity of daily life that any such transition I think necessarily entails.

Perhaps that's a touch presentist of me, in the case of Snow Crash at least; after all, it was written in far less absurd days than these. Nonetheless, I think most who've followed have felt to some degree bound to emulate - not all, though; for example, the brilliant cyberpunk film The Fifth Element does spend deliberate effort to successfully, if briefly, depict the absurdity of life in such a dispensation.

Would that more works in the genre did the same, and in general that they would more broadly update their extrapolation of possible futures to look ahead from today, instead of from thirty or forty years ago. But that kind of work is very hard, so maybe it's not too much a surprise to see it done so rarely.
> Those who know about us have power over us.

I'm not sure about this, those who can change our behavior have power over us. knowing somebody does not necessarily mean I have power over said somebody.

likewise, there are things that have power over us without even having to know us.

however if someone has power over somebody AND knows a lot about said somebody then their power is (indeed) more effective.
The Kinesis also looks perfectly at home in a science-fiction set. It feels OK, the ergonomics are excellent and the looks are unbeatable.
Your wish might become reality soon https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/improve-type-generi...
This seems kind of obvious and does this article stem from someone taking the term startup too literally?

Obviously it's not the same - nobody hears "startup in a big company" and assume start-up things like "paid inequity, on your ass if this fails, barely health insurance, etc.". Those things are part and parcel of a startup life and both create the conditions and attract the kind of people who do that.

Startup within a large company always just meant a fairly independent team that is exploring a new space, and having been "there" a bunch of times I can tell you it's awesome. I am now at a real startup that's awesome as well but different.

Just making the point that to write this scathing article drawing a distinction that is actually just obvious, seems pointless.
> That's so strange, they delivered directly to Europe for me.

they did not for me. I had my purchase cancelled, then I had half-an-argument with a support agent, then I had to buy again and set shipping to an US address (actually a re-shipping company)

edit: they cancelled my order specifically and explicitly because I wanted it delivered to europe. and I had paid the price and shipping their website told me to.

> Compared to my previous mechanical gaming keyboard which used linear switches and other membrane keyboards, I don't typo really at all on any of these keyboards. I think the tactile response is what helps with that for me.

I have a farily low error rate with most of my keyboards, as long as I can get some time for getting acquainted (let's say, 30min). the fact that a keyboard s mechanical (or spring-based, as in the case of the model m/ unicomp) doesn't really adds anything, besides noise.
I think you're right, that is also my take. However, the issue here is they just don't comply with that. I wrote them via contact form, and they replied from a non-reply email address to call them instead (and after that they even had the audacity to send me another mail asking how I liked the customer support).

Of course you could try to sue them, very propably even threatening does the job. But the idea is to have a hassle free cancellation process, and a court case is not really my idea of such a thing.
Countries are based on culture not bloodline. The Netherlands is culturally very distinct from those humorless and dour Germans despite being in the same tribe a few millenia ago and any effort made to reunite by the Nazis was met with despair by both sides.
Except foreign holding of US debt is coming down[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/13618187491044475...
When I was at PowerBI in Microsoft, all the execs hailed it as Startup within Microsoft. Come work here instead of Uber. I worked like a dog, sometimes till 2am in morning. My manager would routinely ask us to come on weekends. I was naive, I thought we are growing customer base, this is what a startup looks like.

The ultimate realization was in a startup you have equity, a decent amount in a good startup. At Microsoft it was a base salary and set amount of stock. What we did moved very little of the top revenue metric. It made little difference if I worked like a dog, or slacked. The promos were very much “buddy buddy” system.

In the end I realized you can’t have startups in big companies (esp as an engineer you don’t have the huge upside if the startup is successful, your upside is capped)

Startups work because you have skin in the game, when you build something people want, you get to reap rewards proportional to it. That correlation and feedback loop is very important.

At big companies you don’t have the the same correlation. Some big shot exec they hired reaps far far more on the work you did.

Equity is what builds wealth.
Are you from a first world country? It sounds like you're from a first world country! There's a legitimate reason to use phone numbers - email hasn't worked in many third world countries such as India. But everyone understands and has a mobile phone already, and thus it becomes perfectly manageable. This is why whatsapp succeeded, they zeroed in on the phone number (and the OTP instead of an account) as a way to authenticate and identify users. If someone's in your contact list, you instantly can connect with them! The level of integration of whatsapp into every aspect of the average indians life is insane and incomparable to what you might see with email or any tech software idea in a place like the US.

Furthermore, almost no service in India uses passwords, everyone uses OTPs. And initially people were not aware and there were lots of social engineering fraud, but now everyone knows not to share OTPs with others, and frankly this looks like a far more secure method than the password based auth systems prevalent in the western world.

Further there's an even bigger incentive in places like India - easy control of spam. I am not aware of any easy method to procure phone numbers here without linking it to your identity, so it becomes much harder for spam account creation. You could call this draconian but I don't see any problem with this behavior from the company's perspective.
That was already debunked, but thanks for being an example of people believing whatever narrative the media pushes.
No, it doesn't, and I wish the HN gaslighting would stop:

- Operaring certificates keep getting extended, which pushes decommissioning into the future

- there are US laws that distort the insurance market, passing the risk on to tax payers over $13 billion:

https://thebulletin.org/2020/02/the-us-government-insurance-...

Fukushima's cleanup estimate is already at $750 billion plus army resources, and estimates keep climbing.

- US companies can create shell companies that isolate nuclear "divisions" financially.
It's hard to describe other than, the new model m is just better than previous classic and endura pro.

I find them more sturdy, almost no key wiggle (as opposed to having some before), the lettering on the keys are clearer (although that I didn't notice until someone pointed it out and didn't care after, it was something people complained about), the enclosure doesn't creek if you try to flex it etc.

My only complaint is that I had to put white tape on the LED indicators to diffuse the blue LEDs because they're distractingly bright at night otherwise.
>> Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update.

> Again, how is this a deterrent? How many times a day do you have to accept the new changes?

That would be about 10 times a day on average (sometimes 3, sometimes 30) for me. I have 125 apps installed from F-Droid (no google services, two external apps: Signal and the local contact tracing app), it would be a chore to update them without privileged extension, especially as some of these are nightly and get updated everyday.

> We've already established that the official store will always be designed to provide the best experience ootb compared to the 'installed' one.

F-Droid gives me a better experience, except for the bugs. Now, it's intentionally crippled by Google, so you can call Google Play "designed for a better experience" if you want.

I picked the platform due to the features, not due to the store "expericence". I would like to pick that one separately, my best experience is different from yours.

> This is true for all the other platforms where you need manual intervention to install/maintain apps "unofficially".

Not true. On windows, most auto-updaters do not need user confirmation to perform updates. Most platforms have package managers that can auto-update their packages (steam, npm, pip, texlive, nix, aptitude, pacman, apk, flatpak, whatever). Their access to the system isn't artificially restricted.

Granted, a number of these package managers could work on Android today (like a chroot), but that would be a subpar experience.
If your happy with your keyboard, then I'm happy with it. I personally like the way the model-M feels (I'm now using a mechanical keyboard for noise reasons and it is not as good). I don't expect you to feel the same as me, but if you haven't seriously tried the options I expect you to be honest enough to admit that you don't have an opinion.

Good keyboards are not about how long they last. They are about how your primary interface to the computer feels. How long they last is part of value, you might like something really expensive and choose to use something you like less because you don't find the other worse the cost.
Why downvote? Please argue with facts. Although i understand defending vendor lock-in, ecological damage, and forced sales is a hard sell... All the more when trying to protect from criticism a corporation making billions on the backs of exploited children in mines & factories.
That hasn't been my experience in finance. There is zero tech for tech sake at my company. There is a lot of pressure to deliver on schedule and reduce cycle times. They pay ok, but not great.
HN title here ought to include (2013)
I really don't think this is the case anymore unfortunately, at least in my experience.

My anecdote: I worked at a startup for 4 months and I was basically playing it straight, ie, a loser. My CEO constantly kept pushing the idea of releasing a shitty product which just barely worked. His justification was that there were giant foreign competitors that raised millions of $ with admittedly very shitty products. Like I'm talking about forms that barely worked in their shitty React Native mobile apps. Anyway, our product was shitty and our users did not use the damn thing (poor retention). However, there was an easy/cheap way to grow quite quickly due to the nature of the service. It was all too much for me and I quit.

Anyway, it really dawned on me during the last few months that my boss didn't actually care about the product - he was playing the game of growing at all costs, put the nice numbers on a chart, and raise the next round of funds from VCs (a lot of them showed interest from the outside). And to be really frank, if he was honest with me that this was the actual game, that he wanted to get acquired or do an IPO purely based on growth metrics, it would be easier for me to understand. Instead, he kept talking about revolutionizing education with technology and that left a lot of us absolutely baffled.