skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my first day at Intel. A guy was putting his stuff in a cardboard box, never to be seen again. It was during a downsizing, and my boss reminded me how lucky I was to be an intern. "The only guy with job security."

Remarkably he's still there, and I still have other friends there, nearly two decades later. One of them writes on FB over and over about how pointless the meetings are, and complains about the stock price.

When I left, I managed to get myself an offer for the management track, via a friend on the same track. I turned it down thinking I'd probably regret it, but I decided during the internship that there was something about this apparent elevator to the C-suite that didn't quite seem right to me. The ease of being at what at the time was an unassailable monopoly perhaps seemed both too good to be true and probably hiding issues down the line, both for the business and in terms of internal competition climbing the greasy pole.

But also changing jobs every now and again has had other liberating effects. I have a lot more confidence that it can be done (since it's been done lol) but also there's a variety in seeing various businesses and people that's hard to get if you stay put. The fact that new jobs generally means more money is a big bonus on top of that. I suppose a lot of firms get a huge saving from people who don't look around much.
This Can’t Go On
What Was the Real Relationship Between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates?
Midnight can be confusing. Some folks work around that by stating "12:01 AM on <date>..." instead of midnight.

12 PM = noon is something I remember learning in kindergarden, and should be common knowledge for most adults in the US.
Thank you for the examples. But, none of those examples illustrate your point that boom bust cycles were more frequent with a gold standard or even related to a gold standard. All of those examples resulted from government meddling in the economy.

Black Friday 1869 - This one is funny. A return to a gold standard to restore the economy and pay off Civil War debt combined with a conspiracy of a few individuals to corner the gold market. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869)#History)

Panic of 1873 - result of government subsidizing railroad expansion that speculators jumped on to make a buck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873#Factors)

Panic of 1893 - The economic policies of President Benjamin Harrison have been characterized as a contributing factor to the depression. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893#Causes)

Great Depression 1929 - Many hypothesis of cause. One of which is the 1920s expansion of money supply and 1928 contraction of money supply. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Causes)

In all of these cases people were trying to get out of paper and into gold to protect their wealth. That is until Roosevelt used the 1929 Depression as an excuse to steal the wealth of Americans.
> If you’re okay with every request having the latency all the way to your origin, you can have the CDN revalidate its cache on every request.

It's also worth mentioning that even when revalidating on every request (or not caching at all), routing through a CDN can still improve overall latency because the TLS can be terminated at a local origin server, significantly shortening the TLS handshake.
This is not one of those things:
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-common-for-a-software-engineer-t...
The case of partial hydration (with Next and Preact) (2019)
Does glyphosate poison insects at all? It targets a pathway specific to plants, and generally is non-toxic to everything else.

Farmers (and gardeners and homeowners) use a whole lot of other pesticides to kill insects, which will affect non-targeted species. Slug baits sometimes are mixed with other broad-spectrum insectisides, and Raid is persistent (part of it's design is to kill the wasps that return to the nest later!)
Yep... but the book will sell :)
This is hilarious. It was literally "loading" for a good few seconds and then "processing" the request for even longer. What in the world...
It took six hours and 400k images to shoot this timelapse of solar activity
There's laws like this on both sides of union laws in the US. Certain things that are protected activities, and then there's things that unions can't do, too. It's not like this is a one-sided thing. Unions have protections like this, but also limits in US law.
I've always found the reports of his behind the scenes behavior and its stark contrast with his public persona to be incredibly disturbing, because it paints a picture of someone with psychopathic tendencies.

I suspect there's something really dark with him that originates in his childhood (suffered through horrific bullying and a hellishly awful father).
Apparently people drowning don't actually flail their arms (never seen anyone drowning though).
> I think it's clear that the union wants a do-over and is looking for any technicality that might give them another chance.

Well, what do you expect?

If Amazon was innocent here they could just let people vote whenever they want and people would most likely not vote for union (because they would not have reason).

Instead they chose to fight against the vote which is not exactly inspiring confidence in their innocence, especially when they bend and break the law in the process.
This is the same kind of "moral compass" that scammers use to scam senior citizens out of their life citizens. The targets are rich Americans (every American being rich compared to where they live), so does it really matter if they lose several thousand dollars?

They outright admit that they see the targets primarily as money bags, and that they are making the economy better in exactly the same way that breaking windows makes the economy better, and your opinion is that it's ethically blurry?
Love it when companies do the smallest things right. A bit sad that a dollar worth of additional components incure 200-300% of the final price markup (comparing Apple vs Samsung chargers)
You're both wrong. There won't be much motion at all because drowning people don't splash.
This also exists on IOS.
Anyway they were specifically designed to attack humans, and to operate in a human-rich environment; and when there aren't any, to wait around for one to come along and stick his face in just the right place.

So, not really alien at all.
Trying to find more photos of this phenomenon [1][2]

[1] https://www.nikoncafe.com/threads/wow-canada-goose-flying-up...
[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/5353933/Goos...
It's a game where you can do the minimum or more and if you do more your boss can pay the minimum or more. If you do the minimumy your boss pays the minimum, it's a zero sum game, if you do more and your boss the minimum, again zero sum because you lost energy and he won more from you but if you both do more then it's a net positive. So the optimal strategy is to do more.

Then like the cops in the prisoners game you are tricking yourself at playing the zero sum game because of trust issues.
Indeed, that's a great idea.
> I honestly believe that interference like this is clearly unlawful and should be criminally punished as such.

It is clearly unlawful, but is it criminally unlawful?
Not just that, but (slave labor aside) a company and its employees are voluntarily associated. Voluntary associations are the kind of thing we (as a society) are usually fine with judging people based on (as opposed to features that are relatively immutable like race).
But they're not killing people. They're extorting foreign business which is not explicitly illegal, and in fact encouraged, in certain countries. They even go above and beyond that with self-imposed restrictions against healthcare and infrastructure to try and minimize harm. I'm not saying I like what they're doing, but it seems hard to outright stop when their own country doesn't care. Same with Chinese businesses engaging in fraud with foreign investment firms. It's effectively accepted practice encouraged by their country. The market is the only real punisher. So if these types of activities are effectively allowed because people can play by the rules and engage in them, then as a society or as a company you have to respond rationally. "Well it's illegal where I live" is not really an answer. Thus my question is, "should companies pay security professionals more to combat the economics of these organizations?". People seem to think companies should pay out bug bounties on a scale much closer to what e.g. ZERODIUM would pay for 0 days to fix the economics. I guess I'm just asking if there's an economic "solution" to these ransomware groups in absence of a legal one?
This is so great. See also https://fly.io/blog/ssh-and-user-mode-ip-wireguard/
> They hi-jacked the browser's `/` key to focus the field, which is something I hate.

You're not the first one to point it out. Please join github.com/mdn/yari to raise your voice. It's an Open Source project after all.

> They should have just had the search field focused automatically

Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a search (e.g. from a Google search) it would be a potential waste.

> Also, I'm confused, I thought https://mdn.dev/ was the new thing because Mozilla was stepping back from MDN. Is it a fork?

That domain is just an alias we don't currently use.
It's still the old MDN from Mozilla. No fork.
OnePlus does the same.
No wonder gene was so insistent on denying what his creep surf mafia friends did --- even going as far as to threaten me with murder

can't let that sweet insider fb DM access for friends of celebrities doing "investigations" be revealed. right, jack?
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The NLRB is the one making the recommendation for a new election, and, since they found that Amazon interfered with the election not just by removing this material, but in a number of other ways, why shouldn't they recommend holding a new election?

What's the alternative? When corporations violate labor law and interfere with union elections, do nothing about it? More broadly, if Amazon trusted the employees to research and vote of their own volition, why interfere (as determined by the NLRB) at all?
It would be cool if they also applied this to the Macbook Air chargers. The tiny charger on the M1 Air makes it a pleasure to travel with, and an even smaller one would be incredible.
>The NLRB’s report on the Bessemer election found that Amazon illegally discouraged labor organizing, in part by pushing post office officials to install a mailbox outside the warehouse where workers were urged to drop their mail-in ballots, which an NLRB officer wrote “destroyed the laboratory conditions and justifies a second election.”

Stupid question: how does getting a new post box discourage organising? I feel like I'm missing some clever trick...
If you have technology that can transfer a rock across the world in seconds then I would be interested in that. Same w/ crypto (with the added benefit of crypto not requiring a centralized entity to do so).

My main point is let's wait and see how this new technology evolves instead of just shooting it down. I don't think everything about traditional finance is perfect. Negative interest rates in some parts of the world are one sign of that.

I think we can iterate on traditional finance as well as explore other potential solutions. The aversion to cryptocurrency as a technology, when Bitcoin has only been around for a bit over a decade, seems premature to me.

There have been comparisons of cryptocurrency to the internet, which everyone may not agree with, but what if we just shut down the internet before it really took off? Well, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Something that really helps me at my job is I have 2 primary roles that kind of wax and wane. When I get bored with one, there's always something to do in the other.
Right, your current solution is what I'd classify as an "expedient field hack" if I were the one implementing it, and I do mean that positively :D

I look forwards to comparing notes when that post comes out.
That sounds small but over 40 years that would net a portfolio about a quarter smaller than in a country without one.
moreso, a strong hierarchy can work when constructed meritocratically (the benevolent dictator concept). the (very) hard part is figuring out what's the most meritocratic and how to encourage that construction. most hierarchies end up unmeritocratic due to endless political machinations to subvert that definition and construction.

and to be right, you can slap the puck to where you want to go, or skate to where the puck will be. good leaders do both, and much more, like communicating early and often and using various commitment devices (e.g., cutting off retreat). there's really no trite summation of good leadership.
Yes, in the short term, neither gold nor even gold is a good hedge. Cash will always be superior in the short term unless we're in a hyperinflationary situation. However, on a long enough time scale, gold and bitcoin can function as great inflation hedges. I say this with a little bit of caution especially for bitcoin because it's only a few years old but we know for this short 12 year period that no one has lost money by holding bitcoin for more than 4 years.
As long as you don't talk to your manager ahead of time. I watched a colleague tell our manager that the job wasn't in line with what was explained (colleague was right, he wasn't a fit). Instead of the manager moving him into a new roll, my colleague was PIP'd. When my colleague did try to transfer, the PIP blocked it.

If you have a good manager, maybe its fine. But if your manager needs some headcount to cut.... don't trust them.
For film, I'd go with "cloudy 11" and lose a stop or two of shutter speed, but I haven't shot film in thirty years, so who knows if I'm full of it or not.

(And thank you all for bringing the back half of the joke in such inimitable style!)
Getting accessibility right is hard. We very much care about that. One of the strong reasons for why we're using Downshift.
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996171
The best they can do is not allow you to bring certain items onto premises, but it doesn't mean they can just confiscate it. Not allow means they can tell you you can't enter with the item on your or that you have to leave the item with security to be stored and given back when you leave.

This is standard practice with warehouses like that, they might not want you to bring things that could be mistaken for merchandise or could damage merchandise.
It shouldn't be problematic as long as the exchange stops trading for at least 2 out of 24 hours, since no DST shifts can bridge the gap and cause ambiguity.

24 hour exchanges are hosed though

Where do you work now and what mistakes have they made? :P
> Does anyone really believe that the Amazon employees voted against the union because Amazon removed some union material from the break room one day?

Except that's not the only thing that happened, which is clear in the opening paragraph of the article. Their were multiple infractions, one of which (giving "workers the impression that their organizing activity was being surveilled") would definitely without a question would cause people to vote against a union and be fearful of getting involved or gathering more information. And regardless of how many times it happened, it was illegal.
> Elon said it many times over the years that he rather spend his time on engineering and design over management.

I'm always thrown when public figures who have an obvious incentive to lie are taken at their word in public statements. It happens all the time with politicians and CEOs.

If you look at where Musk seems to add value, it's 100% in the management zone. Well, that and the other CEO duties of representing the company to the public.
> stark contrast with his public persona

What do you mean? He called a person a pedo in public.
I wish they'd make the cable part replaceable.
If you're talking about key backup Microsoft handles that in Active Directory environments by storing a recovery key in the Directory protected by an ACL that limits access.

It would be really nice (If anybody from MSFT is reading this!) if they encrypted that key w/ a public key. At this point at least, they just store it there in plaintext.
Great job! Writing a compiler from scratch is a massively valuable learning experience. I wrote one in BASIC for the 6502, that became self-hosting on April 24th, 1982. I'm going to watch your project with interest and relive old memories.
It's pseudo code. The real code is TypeScript React and looks very different and it wouldn't serve the article to take snippets from that code to explain how it works.
The argument that in the pre-internet area, "for a glimpse of time, these privileged kids experienced a marginalization that the web suddenly made addressable" falls extremely flat to me.

I've never seen anyone - in the tech industry or not - claim that they felt marginalized as a kid because they weren't growing up in NYC or Boston. So the idea that all these ideas popped up and had a market just because of this "geographic marginalization" is a huge reach.

Sometimes there is a demand for something new from a non-marginalized majority group, and that's extremely likely to be the case with new technology, because new tech is definitionally new to both the mainstream and the margins.

The claim that as an industry matures, new growth will start from the edges is not very different from our common use of "disruption" - neither the existing players nor their current customers anticipate the new thing - but it's also not really related to being "data driven" or not.

You can try to serve the mainstream/your existing customer base in a data driven way or in a non-data-driven way.

You can similarly try to find new opportunities with or without being data driven.

There's a point in there about how if you're looking for new opportunities you need to be sophisticated in how you use your data, since you need to look for new insights and things that maybe won't show up in means and medians, but it's buried here in hard-to-support asides trying to exaggerate the business or innovation impact of being marginalized.
It might be a lot of profit, but it takes a lot of cash to hire the type of people who would design such a thing, first.
But they did have a choice and they did choose. Just NOT the USSR, just like all those countless other people over the years all choosing similarly for some crazy reason…
That's only because they're weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear capacity is essentially a step function - you either have it or you don't. Those who have it get to push around those who don't. There are some very strong incentives for the haves to prevent the list of nuclear powers from growing.

Also, unlike software vulnerabilities, nuclear weapons don't have a half-life counted in weeks.
> I literally could not do anything and could not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site.

To be scrupulously fair, the fact that a site can do this, even on purpose, is both a browser bug and a operating system bug (denial-of-service security vulnerability in both).
Then backed down, while doubling down to a journo, if I have the chronology right.
I see, thanks, I missed this detail.
This is what sketches me out so much about electronics like chargers by random brands on Amazon (the trend lately seems to be random characters in all caps) that surely have no oversight or conformance to standards.
Lyft posts “adjusted profit” three months ahead of target as rides rebound
Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses
Whispernet only 'worked' because of the pricing structure they had with their MDN, the amount of books they were selling with it, and trying to break into the market and willing to eat some cost to do so. Also notice they retired it. That means it was not working pricewise.

To put it this way lets say the ODM makes a device for 40 bucks and sells it to you for 50. Their cost to their MDN/carrier is say 1 dollar per month per device. That means at best they can float you for is 10 months before you start costing them money. That does not involve any other services they may have to pay for to make that connection happen (support, VMs/machines, phone lines, datalines, buildings, etc). But if there is an extra ARPU on each unit that time to cost you money is much longer and in some cases never happen.

They way they priced this it looks like they are trying to get people into the ecosystem and are willing to eat some cost on that. Hoping to get a few whale accounts to cover the 'free' bits.

> ensure that your device is certified on a carrier, or get it ptcrb certified - sign up for a carrier contract - acquire/activate the sim - pay a monthly fee per-device (and sometimes also per-fleet) - figure out how to not needlessly pay when devices are broken or end-of-life - and so on

That is exactly what MDNs like this do. They do that carrier abstraction for you. They do however charge for it. Each of the big carriers also do this and have programs for it. They have a list of pre-certified devices and 'try before you buy' style programs.
It's basically the circuit from the L6565 application notes. What sets it apart from the cheap and dangerous ones is those manufacturers start from the reference design and try to throw away things they don't really understand to save 2¢.
> That's because it doesn't make any sense to describe the middle of the day by '12 PM', since 'PM' should mean "after midday".

I think that explanation fails because, IME, people who know that “PM” means “post meridiem” which means “after midday” are more, not less, likely to also know that 12:00 PM is noon than those to whom PM is just an arbitrary marker.
I've used them in the past. All I can say is that the support was (and probably still is) fantastic.
What do you miss about it?
Can you not find what you're looking for?
Yes, I'm using it. I deploy a TypeScript project that runs in a pretty straightforward node Dockerfile. The build just works - and it's smart too. If I don't have a Docker daemon locally, it creates a remote one and does some WireGuard magic. We don't have customers on this yet, but I'm actively sending demos and rely on it.

Hopefully I'll get to keep working on projects that can make use of it because it feels like a polished 2021 version of Heroku era dev experience to me. Also, full disclosure, Kurt tried to get me to use it in YC W20 - but I didn't listen really until over a year later.
FYI in the UK Waitrose mostly don’t use the scale to verify what you’re putting in.

It’s one one the reasons I shop there - quicker to scan, out directly in a bag, and pay.
It seems similar to explaining monads. If you stick to the math and logic, it's quite clear and hard to confuse. But if you succumb to the common temptation to explain it in a more "intuitive" way, it seems you are doomed to tumble down the stairs in the dark.
This article touches on "Request Coalescing" which is a super important concept - I've also seen this called "dog-pile prevention" in the past.

Varnish has this built in - good to see it's easy to configure with NGINX too.

One of my favourite caching proxy tricks is to run a cache with a very short timeout, but with dog-pile prevention baked in.

This can be amazing for protecting against sudden unexpected traffic spikes. Even a cache timeout of 5 seconds will provide robust protection against tens of thousands of hits per second, because request coalescing/dog-pile prevention will ensure that your CDN host only sends a request to the origin a maximum of once ever five seconds.

I've used this on high traffic sites and seen it robustly absorb any amount of unauthenticated (hence no variety on a per-cookie basis) traffic.