skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If, at the moment of formation, the company has a binding agreement with Elon Musk (the founder) requiring their services for a fixed time allocation and at a fixed rate of remuneratin, then yes that contract has value and therefore the company has value. The value will depend on the remuneration to Mr. Musk vs the perceived value of his services. Even so, it would be as one of a small % of outliers with high-value founders amongst the millions of companies incorporated every year. Was Peter Thiel as valued when he started paypal as he is now? No.

More importantly, acknowleding that very few companies may have value at inception due to the value (and commitment) of their founders' time doesn't make it any easier to systematically value that time. To legally enforce this, you would have to have valuation and audit service providers who do this - creating a bureaucratic hurde that every founder - famous or not has to go through - just to start a company.

It is my opinion that the cost of doing this - in reducing or slowing down the number of companies started and the lost taxes as a result - would significanty outweigh any gain in taxes from taxing the notional value of Elon Musks's presence as part of his own company.

All laws that apply to humans, particular compliance related laws, have significant second order effects. The second order effect of taxing the popularity of folks when they start a company is that thousands of less rich, less popular, less privileged, and less confident first time founders will face an additional hurdle when starting a business and they may never start one, never get rich through one. Ultimately, inequality would likely increase and rich established founders like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel would likely be more entrenched and benefit more from this, not less.
Clever, but only useful if your “pre-DB-write” work is cheap. For example, I work at a company where part of what we do is matching riders to drivers. This can be very expensive, and a typical flow is:

1) Read current state of riders/drivers from DB (slightly expensive)

2) Solve a vehicle routing problem with the new rider request added to the current state (can be VERY expensive)

3) If there’s a good new solution, commit the changes that the VRP solutions suggest (this is the DB write, and it’s only slightly expensive)

The approach in this blog post would have us duplicating the most expensive thing our app does (step 2 above), for most requests - not good. Much more load on our system, and these already slow writes would take ~twice as long.

I’d hope Fly also lets you configure the load balancer - i.e. have a way to send certain requests to the “writer” nodes by default, vs. in a retry.
This is a nice solution, although I prefer for my application to be aware of read vs. read-write connections.

Question about fly.io - how strict is the docker image requirement? How easy would it be to deploy a go application + systemd service?
I came here expecting global warming jokes.
Buddy, I don't have time to evaluate all the true information that comes up, let alone all the probably false information.

Not to mention that conspiracy theories and other complex claims are an asymmetric demand on people's time: it takes a nut 10 seconds to say that the towers were hit by missiles, and 10 minutes for you to find video recordings from multiple sources.

Also the goal posts are moved whenever convenient: most conspiracy theorists that I have interacted with are attached to the idea that there is a conspiracy more than any specific conspiracy.
Obviously Microsoft or Apple is a tech company, they sell software and hardware. It's hard to say whether Intuit sells accounting services or whether they sell software.

Is Google a tech company? Probably, but technically they sell advertisements, not software. You could say that they make money by operating ad-selling software. Walmart is a company that makes money by operating purchasing, distribution, and retailing software. An old west General Store owner could, if his records were lost, make a good guess as to what he should by from which big city distributors, when and how much of it to stock, and how much to sell it for, conversely, zero people have a comprehensive understanding of Walmart's product lines, they're just cogs in the software-powered machine that makes the corporation work.

Every large company today is dependent on software. I agree that it's a bit absurd to suggest that this means they're all tech companies.
I'd written a couple of door games and shareware door software myself in Turkey. I had even developed my own door software engine on Turbo Pascal called OpenDoor :) Fun times.
You shouldn’t make assumptions. I’ve been a senior leader at multiple very high profile and successful startups. I’ve also founded several VC backed startups. The problem is founders absolutely read stuff like this then create toxic work environments. I say it’s nonsense because I’ve succeeded without working myself or others to the bone.

> Because jealously?

No. Because I think celebrity culture is toxic. It induces the cargo culting effect I’m talking about. I also don’t think wealth inequality is a good thing for society. I would include myself as someone who should not be worshipped. I accurately attribute a lot of my success to luck (including being born at the right time with the right skills). I think you’d find my attitude more prevalent in the early tech industry. I didn’t invent the term “kill your idols” but it’s a good one. If you succeed enough you cross the line from disruptor to disruptee.
I'm not sure why I'd spend $50k forcing Amazon to spend $250k. They can play that game a lot longer than me.

Honestly, all the stories in this thread make me very glad I canceled my Prime subscription. I still use Amazon occasionally, but now most of my purchases go direct. With the exception of books; there I order from my local bookstore.
It's not super easy. A lot of these are apartments that are not easy to retrofit. And a lot of Seattle buildings, houses or apartments, have casement windows that swing out from the bottom to protect the interior from rain, but also are probably the worst type of window to install any type of portable or window AC unit into because they don't swing out very far but the opening is absolutely massive.

There's also the matter of the fact that because Seattle doesn't get very hot or cold, there aren't that many people or companies that do AC installation. Anecdotally I've now heard that they're booked out for months, possibly a year, and with tight local housing and job market that is unlikely to change. You certainly haven't really been able to buy fans or portable units anywhere in the area since May.
The comment you are replying to is not assuming that they know how everyone else thinks, _nor_ are they saying what is "acceptable discourse".

They are, rather, making a statement about strategy and messaging in American politics; a point which has borne out in countless political contests over the past decade alone. There is a reason why Republicans try to say "socialis(t/ism)" as often as possible. It works.

One example off the top of my head is Florida during the most recent presidential election. The Republicans beat the drums of socialism broadly and especially targeted at Cuban-Americans who immediately think of Castro. Voters who might otherwise skew towards Biden went Trump.

Again, that's one example, but the point is about _messaging_ and how the electorate in America broadly (not 100%, everywhere, etc.) responds to "socialism". (Nationalization being, of course, clearly tied to socialism.)
Uh..... no they didn't? The results they showed show they are barely competitive across a wide range of categories.
>> offer US citizenship to Hong Kong era that want it.

> Can someone fill me in on how this would causally improve the prospects for Hong Kong's freedom?

It would improve the prospects for individual Hongkongers' freedom, but it would certainly doom it in Hong Kong itself, and speed its assimilation into mainland China.

Asylum policies seem like a tough call sometimes: you help individuals at the cost tightening the grip of those who oppressed them. Who knows, maybe the PRC could end up democratic in 50 years if enough pro-democracy Hongkongers manage to worm themselves into the PRC political system and find themselves in a position to exploit some future opportunity.
This phenomenon is a subset of the effect "Too much sunlight denatures complex molecules and kills carbon-based life."
We don't provide a university degree as becoming a university will strictly limit our pedagogical approach. Our credibility builds with time as more companies hire our students.
I guess this is hair-splitting semantics, but I think when most people say "perimeter security" in the context of a web production environment, they mean that things like DBs, message queues, and backend services share a private network with the servers that actually terminate user TCP connections.

Obviously with only perimeter security, those servers are soft targets to an attacker who compromises a frontend host. I am all for hardening the interior.

"Don't put stuff on the internet that doesn't need to be, even if you think it's secure, because it's probably complicated enough for you to be mistaken about that." This is a perimeter security philosophy, and also what OP needed. If anything the host-level firewall mishap seems closer to an application-level authz bypass than to a pivot across a "trustworthy" network.
Why I created scrt.link
The demo at https://fly-global-rails.fly.dev/ lets you see replay times.

I'm in SJC (San Jose / Silicon Valley) and https://fly-global-rails.fly.dev/regions/syd shows that my replay time to their region in Sydney Australia is between 25 and 45ms. That's pretty quick!
I don't have the impression AWS even sees it as a war worth fighting.

And I can't blame them.
And yet!
You're assuming that every city refuses to build housing. That is true in California but not in the US as a whole.
I've really enjoyed developing on K3s, would recommend.
Not sure what you mean by goals, because to a degree you don't need dynamic goals (eg. goals that change throughout lifetime of a system) for reactive behavior.
We observed two things from developers when we started working on this:

1. The first thing we did was give them CockroachDB. Modeling data for geo distributed Cockroach is conceptually similar to yugabyte. It's not easy, though, to do that modeling. For read heavy apps most devs didn't want to do the work.

2. We also experimented with cross regions writes at the DB level (both with Postgres and Cockroach). The failure cases on those were bad. Apps are pretty naive about queries, so interleaving writes with >10ms of latency between reads resulted in really slow requests. These were pretty frequent! Most apps broke if the devs didn't carefully optimize that sequence.

The free we're going for here is "free for most developers". Changing a data model or optimizing how an app talks to a database wasn't quite free enough for our purposes, and neither were necessary for the types of workloads most people deal with.

They _definitely_ need to use something that's not-just-postgres to do multi region writes or distribute write heavy workloads. That's why we wrote the whole section on graduating to Cockroach. Graduating from Postgres to yugabyte also works!
Rather than using their suggested "catch writes and throw an exception" mechanism, I would instead write my own fast application logic to identify if something is likely to be a write.

For most of the applications I build the HTTP verb is good enough for this - so I would add a tiny piece of Django middleware which looks for a POST to a non-primary region and sends fly-replay straight away at that point.
It really was the best era, and lots that I can relate to in your story there, though I was on the far opposite side of the world in snowy cold Edmonton, Canada.

And re: the principal, here's a great quote from my grade 3 report card which I get a kick out of, and use to help my kids feel better about their report cards:

"XXX's work is very untidy. More work is needed in cursive writing. His journal entries are computer programs."

I wish I could find that teacher today and send her a copy of my job offer from Google from 10 years ago.
Government must have power to reverse crypto transactions
The SEC is useless.

$70M is 0.625% of the conservative value of Robinhood[1] as of a year ago. That means they have over 99.375% of value remaining to work with. How is this not simply treated as "cost of doing business" in the finance world? They should be putting execs in prison when the law is blatantly broken.

Then they expect younger generations to blindly trust the finance system. Time is ripe for millennials to cash in their 401ks and find a new place to put it....where sticky hands can't touch it.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/17/investing/robinhood-tradi...
Ask HN: Open-sources for data on software and related markets?
Doing market research for startups and industries often requires sifting through previews of market reports looking for any firm numbers to compile into a coherent picture. Why the painful, error-prone process? Licenses to view these reports are upwards of $5000 each (e.g. [1-2]).

Are there open sources for this/similar information?

[1] https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/machine-learning-market-102226

[2] https://www.absolutereports.com/global-financial-research-software-market-16951294
We'll accept any container that a Docker registry will; you don't have to use Docker to build your container instance (`flyctl launch` will build an application from a buildpack). You can run systemd in a container.

We don't use Docker to run containers; in fact, we don't run "containers" at all. Instead, we transmogrify OCI containers into root filesystems for Firecracker micro-vms. Your "container" runs as a virtual machine with its own Linux kernel. You can do whatever you'd like with it.

https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
This reminds me of a saying I read on Stratechery: Workers tweet, managers email.

Public discussions are good for, you know, the public. Keeping things private just means the manager is the only one who knows the whole picture.
I feel like this New Yorker piece is almost a non-article given how very, very short it is. All the meat is actually in the original ProPublica article that they link.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

Prior big HN discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432326 (June 8)
That's a great question. I had assumed that the workflow of an ML engineer consisted of managing the data and a relatively high level set of parameters around a search space of layers and connectivity, as the whole shtick of ML is that the hyperparameter space of the tensors themselves is too complex to grok or tweak when generated from training. But I only have a passing knowledge of the subject, pretty much just enough to get myself in trouble in these kinds of discussions.

Any chance some fantastic HNer could chime in there?
It should be Annually Recurring Revenue, somehow the different definition was pasted here. Thanks for making a remark.
>TurboTax's UX is really, really, good

It's really not. It's hard to keep track of where you are in your return and easy to get lost. You can't paste into any credential field for fetching information from your bank or other outside data source.
Note that Hail Mary is much closer in plot and style to Artemis than The Martian. I loved The Martian (9.5/10), but only passably liked Artemis (6/10) and Hail Mary (5/10).
I love such visualizations, nice work! Does this work for any git repository?

Btw. for a visualization of all the git line endings settings, you might find this tool helpful:
https://hediet.github.io/git-line-endings/
(just finished this tool this week)
The fact that it runs without hacks or fiddling with drivers?
How would you know if copilot was used or not?!
Casualties of Perfection
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It's a moving target. The opportunities for kids to get creative and explore are now in emerging technologies, but they are "emerging" only to us old farts. To young people, it's just what's there. I think these things come easy to the inquisitive minds that are not tainted by what you can and can't.

For example, I often read bug bounty write-ups, many of which are obviously written by young teenagers. Some of them are able to find issues that appear to be hiding in plain site. I kind of think that what you're describing is a matter of perspective, but boy do I miss the good old days when everything was easy to exploit.
Honestly I’m not trying to be rude, sorry if it came off like that. That’s cool you like Arc, I’m a lisp fan myself (mainly Clojure).

I’m just pointing out that there was a lot of innovation happening at the time and what pg did wasn’t really lasting or that innovative. I don’t have a problem with it, until he espouses what I consider toxic work habits as advice. Too many people listen to him uncritically, it’s not good for our industry.
I used to agree with that.

I have 50mm and 90mm primes that open wide and take lovely pictures but I get depressed when I carry them around and wind up taking hardly any pictures.

No matter how much I walk around I don't like the composition.

I have a 70-200mm zoom and a 16-35mm and never have a problem setting up an interesting shot with either one. (With either one I can set up something interesting in the foreground with something interesting in the background and... snap!)

I've thought about setting up a portrait factory at a music festival, complete with a wingman, and for that I will probably pack the 90mm. The kit lens, though, a cheap zoom that straddles 50mm, is garbage in my book.
by margin of victory, do you mean margin in the popular vote? what an INTERESTING way to calculate the winner of a national presidential election.
I wanted to read the article but it's behind a paywall. Is there a way to access it?
Breath of the Wild's weapons are a window into the heart of video games
Bingo. Same as "tiny homes". They're not solving a problem without an existing—possibly even superior—solution. They're just solving it in a way that doesn't offend one's class self-image. Modular homes, prefabs, trailer homes, RVs, all already exist and have for a long time—but they're associated with he wrong sorts of people.
Exactly. We practice this with Mesos. The point is that a central infrastructure team maintains the (regional) clusters and provides an interface for application teams to submit the services. Each application team maintaining its own cluster or dealing directly with the full power of the cluster scheduler ecosystem would defeat the purpose.
I first read the title as "Globally Distributed Progress" and I was like "if an article with this title made it to the front page of HN it must sure be some interesting read.

I am now slightly disappointed.
> If they do maintain claims to the rest of Chinese territory they would have to renounce those before being recognized.

Which is a PRC red line, oddly enough. Taiwan renouncing its claims would be interpreted as rejecting the one China policy.
Yup. One part of any such test has to involve a large load--I wouldn't want to certify something like that without testing it against a load at least as large as anything it's likely to encounter in a production environment.

Long ago I spent *weeks* narrowing down a load-caused fault, then figuring out how to reproduce it with nothing but the operating system. (Cisco, it was completely irrelevant what software was throwing the load at your switch! When I reproduced it from the command line they accepted it was their problem and at that point it was between management and Cisco, I wasn't involved.)
The BBC (News's) tech section isn't aimed at you. Inaccuracies shouldn't be there but often they will dumb down or gloss over stuff for the mainstream audience they are aiming at.

You notice it cos you are in tech, but the same happens in financial news, science and even sport. Go read a tech publication.

For shits and giggle I did once try to get a technical story on how to copy DVD's published - it got very heavily edited! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1987665.stm

(I'm a former + early BBC News website employee)
I'm sure to a lot of people this may not seem like a big deal. However I think this makes a huge difference in lowering the friction to quickly hop in/out of audio. It seems minor but is pretty transformational in how remote communication happens
Yes. It's mostly bait to try to get people to create accounts they can mine.
> as long as humans are more energy-efficient to deploy than robots

Energy efficiency isn't relevant. When switchboard operators were replaced by automatic telephone exchanges, it wasn't to reduce energy consumption.

The question is whether an automated solution can perform satisfactorily while offering upfront and ongoing costs that make them an economically viable replacement for human workers (i.e. paid employees).
Pulumi launches new usage based pricing model
What I learned from personal endeavour about selling is this: "People are not able to sell because they sell!"

Sounds odd, but keeping this in mind makes "selling" easy. I learnt this accidently. I personally don't have any sales background. Few years ago I volunteered for one of my employer's internal volunteering project. The sales team of the company use to conduct every year a volunteering program one month before Christmas to boost company sales. They use to take non-sales people from the company and give them opportunity to sell directly to customers in brick-and-mortar stores. As I had no sales background, I decided to volunteer to understand what sales is really about. We were not given any training and asked to talk to the store manager(s) what they expect from the volunteer. Nothing special was expected. The only brief received was that sell computers and accessories. So I started on the shop floor trying to sell the goods. At the end of the volunteering period I received an award from my employer for selling most computers that year by a volunteer!

So how did I do it? Well, because I did not have sales background, I did the only thing I was good at: inform, educate, guide, redirect and if still interested sell(this was not required on my part because by this time the customer was already willing to pay)! I did not try to sell anything to anyone. I just honestly informed them about the products, educated them about various parts in the product, guided them to different product(s) or to help them with decision making by asking them questions about what they really wanted, even informing them if something was not suitable for them, and if there was no product I could offer, I would redirect them to other stores. This built the credibility and people use to directly walk to me bypassing the regular staff at the stores. I was able to "sell" without any "selling efforts". I just offered them "help" rather than a "product". I couldn't believe myself that I was able to sell 24 computers(few very expensive computers) in just 2 weekends at three different stores in the city!

It was a revelation to me!