skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN! We are Stan and Ricky from ContraForce (https://www.contraforce.com). ContraForce is a cybersecurity platform that simplifies the integration of your security tools, security analytics, and incident response workflow in one place. How Rippling made HR a simple one stop shop for your HR needs, we are aiming to do the same for IT and security teams.

The current problem in the cybersecurity industry is that there are too many solutions that don’t work cohesively with each other to share security alert information. This causes months of implementation time, and to effectively to understand how to detect threats requires knowledge of specific query languages. It’s why the cybersecurity consulting and service market will reach over $72B globally this year. It currently takes on average 280 days for a breach to be contained and a company to be brought back to a normal healthy state. Our platform looks to reduce the need of security engineering, and other expense security experts in order to help companies reduce alert noise by 90% and reduce the time to remediate to minutes.

We have over 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity space. Working with thousands of customers, we saw they struggled with successful implementation consistently and lacked effective measures to detect most threats and to pivot to stopping the spread of an attack in their environments quickly. We are on a mission to democratize security operations for any size company, and we believe we can up-level even IT operators to become skilled security talent. We look forward to your feedback!
Hey HN, we are Pierre, Jose Carlos and Antoine, co-founders of Palenca (https://www.palenca.com/). We make it easy for companies in LatAm to verify employment data and identity, enabling them to run background checks and provide financial services.

In emerging markets it’s extremely hard to validate income, identity and behavior as most of the worker's data is fragmented and inaccessible. As a consequence, countries like Mexico encounter poor credit penetration (20%) and high levels of fraud (2x the global level). Moreover, 80% of the transactions in LatAm are in cash. As soon as workers are paid, they are withdrawing all the money out of the ATM to spend it in cash. This means the vast majority of financial and employee information can not be accessed through the bank accounts.

We were previously building a lending company and had a hard time validating earnings and behavior that we needed to underwrite credit. We tried to do it first with bank accounts, but the information we were getting was either incomplete or inexistent. To solve that we built integrations with other platforms. Later we realized that the infrastructure we built to get access to the data was way more valuable than the lending business we had before.

We integrate directly with payroll systems to provide access to any worker account via our API. We already cover 90% of the Gig Economy in LatAm (e.g: Uber, Rappi, Didi). We are currently expanding to other payroll systems (e.g: Starbucks, Walmart). We are providing 4 types of information: Personal Information (e.g. Full Name, Tax ID, Photo), Profile (e.g. Rating, Acceptance Rate, Lifetime Trips), Earnings and Events (e.g: Trips, Delivery)

Our product works the same way as open banking. The end-user provides his credentials and his consent. We get his data on his behalf, and we pass it on to the company that is providing the service (e.g: Lending, Insurance, Recruitment). Right now, our main use cases are lending (cars, motorcycle, unsecured loans), direct deposit switch (change the account in which the users receive their money) background checks (validating quickly the data of a Uber Driver for a new marketplace, checking that they're not fraudulent, already experienced) and insurance (pay per km, check if the driver was taking a trip when an accident occurs).

You can check out the demo here: https://www.palenca.com/demo
Hi HN! I’m Arnaud, founder of Echoes HQ (https://echoeshq.com). We build dashboards on the activity of engineering teams, focusing on the value of engineering work.

I’m passionate about developer empowerment and building engineering organizations. This is what got me into engineering management in the first place, and why I later joined Docker to lead the core team. Throughout my career I’ve come to realize that organizations are often held back not by a lack of developer productivity or talent, but by the lack of proper context to achieving good results (a theme commonly discussed here in comments).

To help companies solve this, we surface why engineers are doing what they do in the simplest way we could think of. You define within Echoes what you’re investing efforts into (e.g., the categories of work, ongoing initiatives, or OKRs relevant to your organization), which Echoes publishes across all of your GitHub or GitLab repositories as labels. Applying these labels on pull requests is all it takes to surface how teams are truly allocating their efforts over time. You can later connect intents to external measurements, showing you whether efforts are actually making a difference.

Engineering managers can use this data to inform decisions on priorities, confront the plans to the reality, and communicate on the activity to their CEO / bosses / business partners with the right level of detail. One of the first use case we're using to illustrate what Echoes can do is the very common challenge of balancing the amount of efforts that should go into features versus technical work (https://www.echoeshq.com/recipes/managing-technical-debt).

If you'd like to learn more: we have a two-minute demo video (https://youtu.be/3ZRGdZq7v24), or I'd be happy to discuss and run you through a live demo (https://calendly.com/arnaudp/echoes-demo). We look forward to hearing your feedback and answering your questions!
Hey HN! We're Richie and Eni, the founders of Clarity (https://clarity.so/).

Clarity is a SaaS product for distributed teams to track tasks, plan projects, and build long-term knowledge in one place. Instead of consulting multiple tools or maintaining a bespoke system, teams have a single weekly doc that pulls together their projects, tasks, and notes.

In order to function well, teams must maintain a shared mental model of their work. This is especially difficult for distributed teams because we don't have a physical space to reinforce context. To solve this, the Weekly is your team's front page throughout the week.

We've both been working remotely since 2014 and we met on a mutual client project in 2018. Clarity started as a side project to help us run our client work. Our clients were happy, but we were running it all manually behind the scenes. Last year we dropped everything to turn that system into a self-serve SaaS product.

What's unique about our approach is the combination of real-time collaboration, a knowledge graph, and a formal project management feature set. With a knowledge graph, teams can capture & retrieve information quickly without the friction & fragility of folder organization. Clarity's project management functionality can leverage the graph to centralize tasks and surface what's important to your work. This creates a high-context workspace without the maintenance overhead.

Distributed work is only becoming more popular. We believe the next decade of the Internet will be more collaborative than the last. As a result, we'll need tools built specifically for collaborative Internet squads to assemble around a project or a cause. We're building the spaces on the Internet where that happens.

Check out our demo video: https://youtu.be/PDKgvD5BEgE.
I think it's far more localised than "city" or "region". It depends on where in the city the place of work is and if there is a car park.

E.g. the 2 biggest employers in Oxford UK are the University, where almost no one would commute by car, and the MINI car factory, where almost everyone would. That's because the University is in the historic part of town, with good bus service, near the main train station, easy cycling and no parking, but the car factory is at the edge of town, with good access to the road network and lots of parking.
Hey HN! We're Ditto and Dito, co-founder of Sirka (http://sirka.io/). Sirka is a subscription-based mobile app that helps customers lose weight by connecting them with dietitians. Think Noom for Southeast Asia.

There are more than 150M people in Southeast Asia struggling with overweight, obesity and diabetes. Sirka cuts through ‘fads’ and low accountability by creating evidence-based plans supported by daily communications with registered dietitians. Our customers love using our product to get daily advice, reminders, and encouragement through their diet journey and on average have 5% weight loss after completing our program.

I have 5+ years of experience in Product and Growth for SEA online consumer services, including Grab, and my co-founder Dito previously worked as the strategy health insurance for Grab. We'd love to speak to any of you that are curious about what we're doing or if you have any ideas/ challenges for us.
The theoretical limit is "to the edge of the Hubble horizon, as long as you don't mind it being a one way trip."

As you approach 'c' time dilation shrinks time for you. Keep accelerating and eventually a million years outside your reference frame is mere days or hours inside the spacecraft. You could travel to the Andromeda galaxy or beyond as long as you were okay never returning to Earth or returning to a different geological epoch than the one you left. Go far enough and the sun might be in its red giant phase when you get back. You may have aged a few years or decades.

This of course requires stupid amounts of energy and theoretical near maximum specific impulse, what I once heard called a "physicists' nightmare propulsion system." Something like a "photon rocket" or a relativistic velocity ion drive (propellant exit velocity near 'c') plus a very efficient fusion or antimatter reactor might be able to get you there. It was called a physicists' nightmare because if containment fails you become a flash of gamma rays in less than a nanosecond.

One of my favorite wild speculations is that hypervelocity massive particles like the "OMG particle" are the jet wash from someone's engine.
Scams by Attorneys: Class Action Lawsuits and ADA Lawsuits
The US being "invaded" is far less likely. Canada is its ally / vassal. Mexico itself isn't terribly strong.

If anyone attempts to springboard via either would serves as early warning for the US and they'd take the battle there.

There are also not a lot of coastal countries, other than Cuba, so last time someone parked some nukes there in response to the US parking nukes in Turkey, the world wondered if it's all over for 13 days.

Contrast that with China, there are more than enough American bases from SK, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Guam. Just from the coast alone.
I have to admit the only real reason I'm on FF is tree style tabs. All the tabs on the left of the screen, with little markers to expand or minimize the tree. No tabs along the top (needs a tiny bit of css), plus I can customize the look. I tried to get Chrome to do this but nothing was satisfying.

Now it's not like FF is inferior in all other ways, it is actually a pretty good experience. But TST is the big one for me, can't live without it.
Maybe he likes living in NYC?
I don't think its necessarily US centric to live in a spread out way. Pretty much anywhere you have the combination of wealth + open space + uncomfortable weather you will see people spread out and drive places- ie Australia, Canada, parts of the Middle East. I personally have been happier living smaller human scale environments but Europe has a lot of natural advantages like milder climate and better social fabric/less crime that lets people live like this. When I lived in Japan people do actually commute in suits in the summer but enduring suffering is kind of a cultural norm there. Where I live people are not willing to be drenched in sweat walking to/from train stations which is what would happen.
Got a little chuckle when I realized their release names were based on anime. I love a good release naming scheme, adds a bit of fun, like Debian.
I used to believe the tech industry was better than other industries.

> Competition for talent is pretty fierce, a good enough reason not to cut someone's salary is that it's likely they can go elsewhere and make what they're making now, plus a signing bonus

I really hope that scenario will happen. IT companies tend to repeat what Google, Amazon, and other tech giants do; so I expect most IT companies will follow Google regarding the topic we are discussing here. I hope am wrong.
I'm relatively extremist on privacy and user autonomy in general. But I hesitate to say that privacy is so fundamental that people shouldn't be _allowed_ to decide they're okay with it.

It's a while since the ruckus about privacy from techie types has penetrated the public discourse, and I think this is a very good thing. The non-tech-savvy people, if anything, overestimate the degree to which their privacy is compromised, convinced that every sound they make within earshot of their phone is scraped for ad targeting.

But not one of the people in my anecdotal dataset change their behavior on this basis, nor even seem to be particularly bothered by it. I don't think you can even chalk this up to technical ignorance. Bush's warrantless wiretapping had something like 40% approval, and that wasn't even transparent or consensual!

It really does appear there are a massive amount of people out there who look at the current cost/benefit tradeoff of compromising their privacy and decide that it's worth it. Awareness is still important, but I don't agree with your suggestion that everyone be effectively coerced into accepting the tradeoffs that you or I accept.
Because other animals don't produce sounds which constitute abstract meaning that can be combined into sentences. Possibly a few birds and dolphins or whales might get close. But there's clearly something more going on in the brain than making sounds which contribute to word formation.
That's a complete non-sequitur. Just because you're using a computer doesn't mean you're "doom-scrolling".
There’s no way Google is going to pay a “world class” developer the same salary in SV as in Ukraine. Not unless everyone in SV takes giant pay cuts.
The big hype was always due to the ability to shed large oracle based data warehouses. When Hadoop was full of hype in 2010 Oracle was charging 150k/cpu core/year for a rac cluster license.

Considering that oracle is not in fact magic, this meant that a large number of firms were spending 7-8 figures annually on oracle licenses. Map reduce/Hadoop was the first accepted alternative that didn’t involve spending outrageous license fees and instead involved outrageous hardware expenditure.
$611M stolen in cross-chain hack
Same. I just knew that "disable proton via a quick config hack" was going away really soon and here we go, no more sane UI for you!
Less the costs of transferring jobs.

The industry has done everything in its power to try and retain people through disincentives (interview processes, on boarding process, expectations of often absurd spinup to productivity times, etc.) while not focusing on the incentives (increased pay, more time off, better work life balance, etc.). All of this, acting as sort of collusion agreement proxy to reduce poaching across the industry, makes it less attractive to jump ship and businesses know that.

Spending the time to update my resume, market it a bit, deal with a mixture of mostly sweatshops with some reasonable employers mixed in, and a few actual good employers hiring processes (recruiter spam, LC gauntlets, full day technical interviews) and often employers expecting you to clairvoyantly know their idiosyncrasies (internal infrastructure, business processes, pre-existing code bases and dozens of arbitrary dependencies they chose and worked with for years)--all of which businesses pretend aren't costs and externalize on employees, makes it less attractive.

Let's add in the mix of normal/traditional job switches: meeting and meshing with new coworkers, changing your commute which may not be insignificant, overhead of switching and moving your benefits packages around, delays for building/taking time off, new uncertainties/risks about stability, etc. and suddenly, that sign-on bonus with the near same package doesn't look so attractive.

Anymore, for me to even consider jumping ship I'd need a pretty hefty sign-on bonus just to deal with the rest that will turn into lost personal time and stress. I really need a significant TC bump and hopefully, better work/life balance and/or a combination of my current employer TC degrading due to increased demand, hours, stress, stagnant growth, etc. otherwise, industry has created so many disincentive barriers that I'll stay where I am.

Maybe it's not as tiresome/costly for some, but it certainly is for me.
What security vulnerabilities?
You can slow down acquisition. I hired about 60 people in the last year, and setup 0 workspaces in my full offices.

Just started procurement activity targeting a buildout to be done Q2/Q3 2022.
> this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish

I've heard bisexuality defined as sexual attraction towards both males and females. If your species is hermaphrodite, you arguably cannot be bisexual because there are neither males not females to be attracted to.
Is that a literal 40x? I haven't used the web version of zoom in a long time and my Thinkpad is always plugged in but I'm genuinely curious about your data. What OS? Plugins?
Every person chooses for themselves.
1. the patch just interjects zip file resolution, it shouldn’t be causing these problems

2. the npm lifecycle changes are very well laid out with many simple remedies see the docs

3. the list of deprecated lifecycle scripts are in the docs and very clear. the reasons are also interesting

4. yeah yarn requires you use process.stdout.write or write a yarn plugin

5. all of the issues you describe can be fixed via the sdk plugin

sounds like the corp stuff is the worst, though we’ve had similar issues with our security scans
The RFC for that has been recently accepted[1] and the implementation is already available in nightly[2].

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3107-derive-enum-default.ht...

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/86735
If you travel very close to c (relative to everything else) then due to length contraction everything else in the universe is 0 metres away. Likewise time appears stopped on everything else moving close to c relative to you, due to time dilation. (Is this right? I've never thought of it this way before).
Many trade deals contain a catalogue of legal and illegal substances under the deal, often with the requirement to make not-yet-legal ones legal under the deal.
Exactly this. I remember in 2007 being able to process TBs of data on commodity hardware with Hadoop. You got decent throughput, decent fault tolerance out of the box wrapped in Java that many average software developers (yours truly included) were comfortable with. You could scale data and people.

It dramatically reduced the cost of entry for many ad-tech applications.
Save the Children Senior Advisor: We Chose ADA Because Its Backed by the Cardano
Yes, hash collisions definitely occur. There is no such thing as collision-free hashes, and MD5 is definitely broken.

Even though the author says they were 3 million MD5 hashes the second time, the first one he calls them SHA1 and MD5 hashes (even though SHA1 is considered weak too).

I wonder what kind of hashes Apple is planning to use. Will it be whatever is made available to them or will they only accept (what is now considered) secure standards?
One hundred and fifty tabs‽ Pff, that’s nothing. I currently have 400 — after closing ~4000. My problem is that I regularly check HN (and occasionally other sites as well), and I often end up opening ~20 tabs a day from that alone. Of course, I never get around to reading them, and my tabs simply grow and grow.

What eventually worked for me was getting a reference manager (I use Zotero). Every day I try to close a bunch of tabs by going through them and moving them to my reference manager. That way, I still have them listed just in case I want to go back to them later, but they don’t clutter up my browser any more. The most interesting side-effect of this has been that I’ve accumulated resources on a bunch of topics: if I decide one day that I want to learn CSS or graphics programming or electrical engineering or something, I can just go to my reference manager and find a bunch of high-quality resources waiting for me.

(OK, I tell a slight lie: 4000 tabs is too much to categorise one by one, so about half of them ended up just being copied to a text file, one URL to a line. But rest assured, I will eventually add them all to my reference manager, though I suspect it will take automated keyword extraction or something like that.)
I know I drink a lot less coke ever since I saw just how well it works as a rust remover.
ZeroLB, a New Decentralized Pattern for Load Balancing
Nice! They've added support for:

try {
foo();
} catch (e) {
throw new Error("details", {cause: e});
}
> first of all because it lacks GApps

Anything that completely blocks Play services is a win in my book.

Sweden is pretty much a willingly fully cashless society and you can still function normally without banking mobile apps, or with a stay-at-home-usually-off phone that you can use for bank app when needed, though at that point you can just use the website.
I find demos like yours hard to reason about because it is often the case that you can mess around with the prompt to get it to demonstrate understanding of things that it didn't seem to understand before. I wanted to see if it understood that humans and dogs can't have kids, and it does. Prompt is in [], generated text is in {}.

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[This is a question and answer series intended to demonstrate the logical reasoning capabilities of an AI system. The AI can understand ambiguity and will ask for more detail in such cases.

Q: What's the capital of Georgia?
A: That's ambiguous. Do you mean the country or the US state?

Q: If Albert is a pig and all pigs are blue, what colour is Albert?
A: Albert is a blue pig.

Q: If Albert is a pig and all pigs are blue, is Albert happy?
A: There is no logical connection between Albert's happiness and his color.

Q: If Alice is a dog and Bob just finished high school, can they have kids together?
A:]{ No.}

[Q: Why can't they have kids together?
A:]{ Because Alice is a dog and Bob just finished high school.}

[Q: Why is that a problem?
A:]{ Because Alice is a dog.

Q: Why is that a problem?
A: Because dogs can't have kids with humans.

Q: Why can't dogs have kids with humans?
A: Because dogs are animals and humans are humans.

Q: Why are humans different from dogs?}

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So does it understand after all? Or is trying different prompts a form of p-hacking here?
There is no constitutional right to bodily integrity. The legal system is not a mechanism for determining scientific truth. The claim that people with natural immunity don't need vaccination is false. This is just crap. Let's see a more principled lawsuit, please.
I think not; consider pseudosphere, there is no obvious center. Its embedding in 3D space has infinite dimensions but the object itself has finite surface area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudosphere

If you mean object with finite dimensions and negative curvature and no center, there seems to be such a thing, see Fig. n066200e:

https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Negative_curvature,_surf...

EDIT

Rozendorn's idea seems to be still an open question:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/52851/the-geometry-of-nad...