skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like 3 years of runway is actually quite a lot if you're gunning for extremely fast growth. I think you would have raised a Series B well within 3 years if you're growing as expected.
Or access to information increased?

Or I’ve gotten older and more sour on this type of stuff?

Honestly I feel like the change has been, for me, more awareness and less attachement to the narrative forced down my throat. I also don’t believe it to be (as a native US citizen) a US thing. I see it in a huge swing in many countries towards authoritarianism in many ways and towards many goals. It isn’t so much a left or right thing (although I believe it to be more right leaning) but just a greater willingness to use power structures to control others.
Did you hear anything?
> Do people actually think those who are learning PHP by searching Google for tutorials are going to be creating production ready applications that would be so critical that a simple SQL injection attack would be so catastrophic to?

Yes. I’ve seen this from highly-paid staff and contractors at multiple places in .com, .edu, and .gov. This includes commercial licensed software, big name consulting companies, and ostensible security experts. I’ve also seen them “fix” the problem by looking for the PoC test string and only rejecting that value.

Unsafe defaults make it much easier to get something to “work” without noticing problems because the happy path works and is what most people focus on testing.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that 1 in 500 year events are occuring a bit too often these days too. I believe that the floods in Germany are being described as a 1 in 1000 year event. Some of the buildings we saw being washed away near the river Ahr etc were whitewashed, timber framed - that means they are at least 300 years old.

The thing is that these 1 in n events are no longer static, if indeed they ever were. One thing is for certain, the 1 in n year description thing needs throwing out. A huge number of building/structural standards are complete and utter bollocks.
This is a good rough outline. As the author says, it's not meant to be a perfect target that fits every company. Adjust accordingly.

I like how he limits the number of C-level titles in the early stages to just a CEO and CTO. It's a common mistake for startup founders to hand out too many C-level titles to their cofounders and early hires. This causes problems when the company outgrows some (or most) of those people. If you need to bring in a more experienced CMO, CRO, CSO, or other C-level, your only options are to demote the existing C-level and replace them with a new boss or to arrange their exit from the company. Neither are good looks, and neither make people happy.

Much better to start with Director and VP level titles in the early days. You can either bring in a C-level above them when the time is right, or promote them to C-level if they grow into the role.

That said, most SaaS I've worked with would want more people on backend/devops at the earl stages. Having 3 people total handle combined devops and backend development is a big risk, especially if any of them want to go on vacation or leave for other jobs. Downtime and server outages are not a good look for a growing SaaS, so don't skimp on people who can keep it up and running.
The government understand what patterns lead to criminal behavior. They know which groups of people are currently at risk of crime because of those behaviors. And they have a limited budget. What to do?

Option 1: invest in programs to help prevent those behaviors. After school programs for at risk kids; better social support for single parents; job programs for the unemployed; and so on.

Option 2: invest in a sophisticated tracking system so that when those at risk do commit crimes, they can be caught and punished more easily. Harass them before any crimes have been committed. Bother them at home. Send letters saying that we know you're going to be a criminal. Make them hate the police.

To an outsider, it's not clear why option 2 is the choice made.
> Espionage laws are void (per the first amendment)

Putting aside Internet commenters who aspire to usurp the Supreme Court, no, the laws of this land stand.
Completely irrelevant.

Nobody mentioned anything about 'guarantees', this is a matter of urgency and priorities.

I don't care if this was a 'rare' issue, Signal knew this was open for half a year and what were they doing? Testing cryptocurrency payments.

If security was really that important to Signal, where was the urgency there?

If this was any other app that did this (especially Facebook) you'd rain down on them like a ton of bricks.
> You were selected as a result of an evaluation of your recent criminal behavior using an unbiased, evidence-based risk assessment designed to identify prolific offenders in our community. As a result of this designation, we will go to great efforts to encourage change in your life through enhanced support and increased accountability

The premise seems innocent enough, sadly the total lack of transparency both in terms of selection criteria (and where the recipient is scored), and in terms of what does "support" or "accountability" really mean, besides a page of business cards, and the threat of increased scrutiny (i'm sure that's good for mental health!) completely undermines the execution.

Like many things, it seems the idea is good but half baked, and completely flops in execution. Yes give increased support to those most likely to (re)offend, but also don't make things worse in your attempt to do so...

If I were running this, it would include a brochure/coupon like offer from each support org (like "Free health consultation" or whatever). And it would include an offer of leniency consideration (from a judgment) for voluntarily participating.
In combination with their comments here, they now appear to be a person of integrity who shares mutual interests. Enjoy the life you create for yourself.
Surely the raspi linux distro has that disabled by default?
> Is there any indication that stuff like this happens _more_ than in the past? Or have the world's standards just risen?

Oh, so it is fine to sin against democracy as long as you are not sinning more than in the past?
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What you do is you tell everyone about the issue so they can take the appropriate steps to protect themselves, whatever that might be (don't send sensitive photos, don't use Signal to do it, only use Signal on iOS, etc.); they did not seem to do that.
> That we try not to kill any insects, plants, or animals unless we plan to eat it.

How do you deal with termite infestations?
> But the cost of the effort — and the identities of the influencers — remained undisclosed until now.

This implies the influencers did not disclose that those messages were government-sponsored. Is secret government-funded astroturfing legal?
The Guardian posted this article, claiming WikiLeaks released the entire cache of cables unredacted: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/02/wikileaks-publ...

This was true but revealed in a way that was purposely misleading and to deflect from the Guardian's role in putting intelligence workers at risk. That is, the Guardian's poor OpSec had made all those cables available to anyone without any kind of protections in place. (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20869-assange-why-wik...)

The Guardian does not protect it's sources. The Guardian does not own up to it's mistakes. The Grauniad does not spellcheck.
What do you mean? You can Google php parameterize query and get atleast 2 different methods of doing this. You shouldn't ever touch string concat in any language when doing queries
I was really surprised to find out, as an american, standing with feet on the ground in Manila, near age 30, having grown up in the US and gone to public schools, that the Philippines had been a US Territory off and on, on par with Puerto Rico, for about 50 years starting around 1898. There's even a big obelisk in the center of Union Square in San Francisco commemorating this event, it turns out.

None of this was ever covered in public schools. I realize there's a lot of history to cover and kids can only absorb so much, but when people talk about "only focusing on europe and the middle east" it's good to have a couple of concrete examples. The Philippines actually has a larger english speaking population than the UK. Anyways, it always seemed that the Philippines got conveniently swept under the rug when discussing things like WW2 and American Imperialism.
It seems to come from the MySQL C API: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-str...

The 'real' supposedly alludes to the fact that `mysql_real_escape_string()` accounts for character encoding (if specified correctly) unlike its sibling `mysql_escape_string()`.

So, yeah, I'm afraid 'less funny'. :-/
America Has Lost the Trade War with China
I find myself more sensitive to unnecessary noise as I get older but "fanless" seems to be the Designers Dream while a fan is practical in terms of build cost and utility.

A fan CAN spin up and provide a LOT of cooling if needed. And stay still otherwise. An absence of fan provides no options.

I get a fan for my computer case. But lament service and retail centres with with echoing brick walls, polished concrete floors and hard surface ceilings. It isn't relaxing ambience, it is echoing noise...
Maker of dubious $56K Alzheimer’s drug offers cognitive test no one can pass
In 1980s, where did one go to find code to copy&paste?
Really grateful for your answers and encouragement.

For context, I’m in Canada where the ISP competitive landscape is dire. In the province of Quebec where I am, there are “debates” as to who should manage the government-installed electricity poles and be allowed to run any cable on them.

Actually, it’s the main national telecom giant who ended up managing those poles… Many small towns’ high speed (i.e. dsl) projects are stalled because of this.

I’ll stay on the lookout for an opportunity. :) Thanks
You put it in much better words than I could, thanks haha.

Also, very cool experience at Goldman!
Better is to concatenate question marks and then pass the params as an array.
> A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default.

A browser in 2021 is a full OS, data store, compiler, network API, runtime, virtual machine, application platform, and user environment. It should really be called a Web Operating System.

It's not surprising that Apple, Google, and Mozilla have very different visions of what they want in terms of a Web Operating System.

For example, Apple and Google have opposing interests on iOS. Apple generally benefits from replacing web apps with native apps, while Google generally benefits from replacing native apps with web apps. (Google's own apps might be an exception.)

Web developers may like (Google/Chrome's) PWAs, but they are not aligned with Apple's business interests (or their vision of user interface, responsiveness, power efficiency, privacy, etc.) any more than Flash was in 2010.
To nitpick slightly, most Canadian federal government websites are under .gc.ca, not .gov.ca. For example, pm.gc.ca and travel.gc.ca. But the top-level federal government website is located at Canada.ca (gc.ca actually redirects there).
>This Wikipedia article claims “ there are "around" 5,000 bases total

There are 326 bases in the US. https://militarybase.net/u-s-military-bases/ (see the CSV list at the bottom). The US has a total of 50 states and 6 protectorates (Guam, Puerto Rico, etc...). There's no where near 80 bases per state unless you count National Guard Armories (parking lots with a gym in most cases) and recruiting offices. The US has a big military, yes, but not that big.
> Option 1:

I will say I've seen these programs implemented (albeit in canada) and people get really salty about the bill. In Calgary they have a program to house people who are repeat callers on the healthcare system. Apparently the actuarials figured out it's cheaper to house them and let them destroy places than to have them calling 9-11 every day. But then the news gets a whiff that it's costing $100k a year to deal with one of these people and "good tax paying citzens" get salty because their bills and taxes keep going up and they struggle to get by.
I generally reject that in review because it perpetuates thinking of the problem as needing to sprinkle escape calls around rather than using a systemic fix. I’ve seen a number of cases where this resulted in various errors because the escaped value was later manipulated in some way - I don’t believe any of those were exploitable but they caused user reports of broken formatting or crashes.
> All words are a lie.

I'm having a hard time believing that you believe that. e.g. Take the words "All", "words", "are", "a", and "lie"—they are all lies?!

I can't think of a way most of these words could even conceivably be a lie; a lie is most usually a statement or sentence, or built from those. To say that words "are a lie"..well, I think I must misunderstand you, yet reading the rest of your comment, it seems you meant the literal meaning. Although mostly you talk of narratives and fictions.

Also, it seems you are using "a lie" to mean "false", the way people sometimes do, although they are two very different things. "All words are untrue/false" doesn't sound so impressive, I guess, or "No words are true" etc.
You are bending facts to fit your opinion.

How do you explain that, even though significant proportion of populations is already vaccinated, new hospitalizations are almost exclusively people who were not vaccinated?

If vaccines were not effective wouldn't it be true that we should see both vaccinated and unvaccinated in hospitals?

While vaccinated people still can get Covid, they have much lower chance of passing it further. In a vaccinated people the virus cannot multiply as much and with lower and shorter presence of the virus in the organism and much less chance of symptoms that aid spreading the virus (like caughing) there is much less chance you infect other people.

The reality is that Covid is now mostly spreading in circles of unvaccinated people and vaccines are effective at stopping spread of the virus.
Same site, not origin, at least for the domains that aren't on the public suffix list as mentioned below. The origin will always differ.
It’s a free market, so if the bootstrap company can find engineers that meet their compensation parameters, good for them.

Other option is provide equity to your engineers to help make up for compensation gaps.
Lolol. I was hoping for NCSI's "we must hack faster... TWO people on the same keyboard"
Enovix now has a 100% silicon anode battery in actual production. Looks like they will win the race. Former IBM / FormFactor probe card guys. Factory in Fremont California. From last week: https://vimeo.com/575951266
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the legitimate use of violence.

All three words matter: state, monopoly, and legitimate.

That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist;

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious. This is tyranny or unaccountable power.

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition the State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy
Your mistake was taking @chillpenguin at their word when they said "I feel". That was just a hedge, it is factually the case that memory safety eliminates an entire class of bugs. More accurately, it pushes them down to the garbage collector and runtime, where they can be epsilon close to eliminated, instead of rolling fresh ones in each and every program.
There's also ongoing development on "starnix" which aims to run unmodified Linux binaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

.io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory

The point I was trying to make above ("who cares...") is that you can use any domain you want! You don't need to use a specific ccTLD (.ml would be the example I was referencing) in order to insinuate your machine learning applications.
At this point it would be far more effective to just say there is a vaccine shortage. Stop paying people to take it, stop making a big deal about, stop begging.

Just start shipping them to other countries, and declare a shortage here. The remaining people that want it will get it, the people that don’t, they’re lost to you. There aren’t going to get it the bigger deal you make.

Actual FDA approval would help also. But really… on no topic should anyone be taking social media influencer’s medical opinions on anything even this.
Pretty fun and great for a jam.

I'd prefer holding down to repeat keys, plus a button that basically zips the wire back to the other base as I quit around level 11 due to the monotony of backtracing.
Ron DeSantis will be elected president in 2024. You heard it here first.
Probably good idea to use a framework or a database library in PHP. Laravel has Model::whereIn('foo', [a, b, c, ...])
The entire concept of "worse is better" can be more accurately be described as "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Simple, functional solutions are good ideas, and attempt to replace them with perfect ones are likely to fail. In software, that just means writing code using practical languages that are proven to work. It does not need to be written in the ideal language, especially if using the ideal language requires very specialized skills. Furthermore, you do not need software that solves every single corner case. Once you have solve the main problems and most of the minor ones, there's no reason to waste years solving the last few annoying issues.
Know a guys who just sold his Tesla to a dealer for $50k. Same price he paid. He owned for for 2 years and suffered $0 depreciation. Replaced with a cheaper car.
Bootstrapping my old web dev ass after a year of unemployment
Here in Los Angeles, so many people were required to work from home that we stopped street sweeping since street parking was configured for a good portion going to work elsewhere. I'm sure a ton of our drains are full of pine straw and such and with a good rain, we'd be fucked. Not sure if anyone is culpable. It's the reality of a shutdown.
It is often worse than just hypocrisy. If the US hasn’t hand picked a foreign regime and someone wins the democratic election which the US doesn’t agree with the US can just label them a terrorist organization if it is deemed politically necessary.

I am no fan of the Taliban or Hammas - and US probably correctly labeled them terrorist organizations - but it must also be acknowledge they are also “political parties” that have won democratic elections.
Did it get picked up on any seismometers?
im going to do it
That's mostly because decomposing grass is the source of the methane, not cows. Cows just speed the process. But it's a lot harder to convince people that growing grass is bad for the environment than eating beef.
> I'm just saying that you could simply eat insoluble fiber

We agree, and this is how I eat (factory food: shudder). Just saying this application of PTFE is not bogus IFF you accept modern food production.
> google cloud run (it's actually parallelizing R code so need the docker container infra).

I'm not sure how the docker container support of Google Cloud differs from AWS. But FYI AWS Lambda supports containers as of Dec 2020.[1] The scaling on AWS [2] might be more to your liking.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-containe...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invocation-scal...
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the legitimate use of violence.

That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist;

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious. This is your condition of tyranny (unaccountable power).

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition the State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy
When I was in my early 70s, I thought I'd work up to jogging again. Started easy, walk, jog, walk, jog, etc. This went on for about six months, until I got to about 50%. I was using a minimalist shoe. My knees started to bother me to the point where I finally had to stop.

The pain and stiffness didn't go away. It got to the point where I was picking up my left leg with my hand to get it into the car like some old geezer! I started searching the web and came up with a supplement containing glucosamine and condroitin, along with a small amount of inflammatories to promote healing. Got gradually better, and in six months the stiffness vanished. I stopped using it, and have been fine since. Sometimes I think about a 5K ;-)

A few years ago, my wife developed pain in her hip and knee joints. I suggested she try the same stuff, and, sure enough, the pains went away. She's still using it.

This is all anecdotal, of course. I've never had an actual injury, just joint issues.
Well NR-U is pretty much a Qualcomm technology ( MultiFire ) brought to 3GPP for standardisation. So I expect it to be supported in all 3GPP Rel 16 modem and Qualcomm X60+ modem as well. I dont think Handset support would be a concern unless I am missing something.

I was hoping for some exemption or special arrangement on the patent issues for consumer private 5G Network. WiFI just sucks, comparatively speaking. Including WiFI 6E. And judging from the ways they are doing things I have very little hope for 802.11ay and 802.11be ( WiFi 7 ).
Lack of authenticity. Being marketed at has a distinct feeling of bad-faith cynicism. You aren’t interacting with another human, just a biological advertisement.
by the nickname i'd assume czechia
I think it is fair. Compared to the Dutch, she was an amateur. No coaching and no funding. All of her training was solo. That should have put her at a disadvantage.
I don't think that comment is underestimating it, but rather saying that living off the grid would be impressive because it's hard. Living off of charity or the work of others isn't impressive.
It's interesting to see you victim blaming instead of trying to bridge the gap with folks that could be sympathetic with your viewpoint.

Or did you change positions to at the same time they did? I've noticed a lot of the "big government" "anti police state" (used with maximum sarcasm) folks suddenly start praising the things they spent a decade railing against now that its domestic white religious conservatives instead of foreign brown religious conservatives that are the target.

It might shock you to find out that the lockdowns were a wakeup call to the reality of policing for many of those "quotes" you stereotype.
I played this game on and off for about 16 years. One of the really cool differentiating aspects was that certain kinds of player automation were expected and somewhat encouraged. Basically you would use a client that had a built in Lua API so that you could use regex based logic to do "if so and so casts X spell, then send cast such and such heal spell". Rather than cheapen the combat system it made it far more rich (I thought anyway) because it freed the players to focus on other aspects of the battle.

Watching folks collaborate on building and setting up triggers in the OOP channels was partly what inspired me to learn to code in the first place

Anyway, I have fond memories of this game. The enforced role-playing makes it a very effective immersion experience. There are some truly talented writers among the player base. The community is very special.
WhatsApp CEO calls out Apple regarding NSO malware