skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today the startup CEO wants you to "give away your legos".

Tomorrow he would like to quickly "fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more" [0].

Double-edged sword indeed.
To be fair to the OP, they seem to be writing from the position inside the FAANG, and there it's a much safer proposition.

[0] https://paygo.ghost.io/why-did-i-leave-google-or-why-did-i-s...
I’m in Vancouver and get multiple recruiters contacting from Amazon weekly it seems? I’ve engaged a couple times out of curiosity and their offers were always hilariously low.
Well, it's not the vaccines that protect you (because no vaccine is 100% efficacious) but it's the vaccination. Good luck!
Rumours about a politicians daughter trigger push for Big Tech regulation in Oz
Honestly, at large companies things work similarly to what you're used to, just at a different scale. But that means that you're usually focusing on issues that are affecting thousands of users - something like what is described in the blog post probably doesn't happen very frequently, so it might not be noticed.

One thing that the author never mentioned is whether or not he used the "Enable Flagging" option that is in one of the screenshots - that would actually be one of the best options, especially if he could then provide the specific correlation IDs in support requests.
I looked more into it - you are correct, Navigo sounds like it still won't replace a physical card.

My understanding is that do to patent royalties wanted by the underlying Calypso system, it was not merged into ISO 14443 and deviates in a few ways.

Apple has historically implemented more of their NFC stack in hardware than other implementations, so there may be limitations as a result of the with communication with a card reader.
That's not a positive.

Giving the previous investors an option to be in/out doesn't get anything for the founder.

If they 'want in' well, then they 'want in' and presumably, they'd 'want in' with or without the pro-rata.

What this means is that their position is guaranteed. If they 'wanted in' without the pro-rate, then the founder has more leverage.

Imagine you were trading options. Someone giving away options for free doesn't gain anything. The receiver of the options gains some material value, just in the option even if the strike price was the same as the current value i.e. options even.

You'd never just arbitrarily give away options on your company.

Now - there might be something to be gained in the relationship. It might just work out better with a fund, etc. to have that on the table.

But technically, no.

What would be interesting here is for someone to chime in on what the value of that option would be were it to be sold on the free market because we have methods for calculating those things.
No different from what could be done and was done before with debit cards, credit cards and standard wire transfers.

Don't give fuel to the FUD.
I think it is a moot point because there are 5 position constellations now days (US, EU, China, Russia, Japan) and many popular consumer chipsets can use multiple if not all of them.
The guy is 65, has a net worth of $2bn. I genuinely don't think he gives a crap about bad mouthing bitcoin to save himself. He's won the game. At this point he's just trying to be credible and honest. There are crypto lovers who hear what he says, it hurts their emotions, so they rationalize his words as some sort of nefarious plot to subvert public opinion! But the explanation is simpler, it's just what he thinks.
> I'm just saying they will all require proof of vaccination for covid to be allowed in.

And again, I'm just saying that this doesn't stop the introduction of the virus into the population, which is ostensibly the primary reason for requiring vaccination.

And what constitutes "vaccination"? 2 jabs? 3? 4? How are you going to verify vaccination records when most people are just getting cards that can easily be forged? What about people who have been vaccinated with a vaccine not approved for use in your country?

SARS-CoV-2 is well on its way to becoming endemic. There's likely to be a temporary phase where quarantines and/or proof of vaccination are required but this isn't going to be permanent.
Big co manager api from aws sounds fantastic! You send promo request, they send that less than stellar feedback from 360 review three years ago and your “consistently exceeds (needs more impact)” response.
I wonder if China will fall for the trap being set (to take military action). China absolutely should wait another 50 years before making a move when they are squarely #1 in power and have settled differences with neighbors (who are all mad at them right now).
When the option to provide a cover letter exists, I usually share a PDF “pitch deck” that showcases my value proposition. This typically includes a tailored visualization of my experience and skillset, a competitive overview, strategic business analysis/SWOT, 30-60-90 day plan, etc. Of course this takes some time to develop, but I’m often doing the supporting research as part of my planned interview prep anyway. This approach has yielded a 100% response rate with hiring managers over the past 5 or so years, but I’m outside of the usual HN crowd where talent demand isn’t as high (commercial pharma). I also believe this method has directly led to more attractive compensation packages.

The PDF is not overwhelming - 7 or so slides max with a focus on visualizations over heavy text. It is worth the extra effort if you’re passionate about a specific role or organization.
Yes, I know. That's why I pointed out that zipped HTML was available, but that's not quite a native web copy! Especially given how the zipped HTML in the epub format is usually presented (a million tiny HTML files in a single directory).
What do you use it for other than investing?
I’m also taken aback at how easy it was for people to readily accept and encourage further restrictions, interventions, and punishments for non-compliance.
As an Australian I respectfully disagree with you and agree with the article - most Australians just don't care. I've consistently mentioned this to my Australian friends, colleagues, family members for about 10 years now and it's always met with complacency. Most people don't care, some people care but won't do anything about it, and some people think that "If i'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about". Most Australians trust the government will do the right thing.
It's not just that, it's a deliberate dig against the current trend of farm equipment mired in opaque binaries, DRM, and OEM sensors, that require an OEM service tech to fix. Not for any mechanical reason, but because they restrict the diagnostic software.
I had all of that prior to covid, and and i still miss the office. It was another environment in which I could meet interesting people and bring them into my life.

You might want to consider whether being at home was the thing that made you wander, or if just being in an unfamiliar state of being forced you to wander. I would reckon it's the latter because I can attribute my varied life to the fact that I'm an immigrant, and the immigration forcing me to think outside of the box to do all those things.
There's also ProtonDB cataloguing the playability of games thru the Proton compatibility layer (built into Steam on Linux).

https://www.protondb.com/
It takes on the order of a thousand steps to build them, each of those steps is supported by million dollar equipment, hence the cost.
Thank you, that was an ear-opening video--I had no idea.

I do remember this Awl article from a while back:

Some men shoot tigers. Some men love bears. Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Major in the Yeomanry, Conservative MP for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, heir to one of the greatest banking fortunes in history, and collector of the largest zoological collection ever amassed in private hands, had a specific and incurable addiction to cassowaries. He bred them. He stuffed them. He gathered living representatives of every known species and sub-species at his parents’ manor house in Hertfordshire. Bewitched by their beautiful and highly variable neck wattles, he identified new species where there were none. He wrote a book, A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius, about them and made excuses for them, and he could never get enough.

https://www.theawl.com/2016/04/a-natural-history-of-walter-r...
In Matrix (element.io here), you can click on one button in any room and start a video chat, and then after one more click screen share. The rooms aren't dedicated to voice/video but it definitely is very easy to do that.

It is implemented using Jitsi at a protocol level but the end-user doesn't usually notice that.
Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images with Buildroot
As someone who dislikes boomboxes in public, I have to say bikes are the one place where I think playing loud(ish) music makes sense.

Unlike cars, bikes are very quiet and if a pedestrian comes out jaywalking from between parked cars, the biker might not have enough time to react and ring their bell.

By the time a bell rings, the collision is imminent. Music can be heard from far enough that a jaywalker can avoid the collision path preemptively.
That would be the "Telecommunication and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018": https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00148
Likely Amish are not obese and death rates would be expected to be lower.
There's something sad to me about how rivers, especially in cities, have been changed to a set course, with reinforced banks. I know there are massive benefits, and "natural" rivers with changing banks cause plenty of problems, but it makes them feel overly manmade, as if we just dug a canal where a river used to be.
You can write about the code you wrote in your cover letter.
Your office friends will forget you from the very moment either of you switch jobs.
So this freaked me out! A week ago I went passwordless with my Microsoft account; which required setting up Microsoft Authenticator. While I was there, I re-evaluated my entire MFA setup:

* I had already setup Authy OTP codes, which I was actively using. So I left that alone.

* I had already setup an external email. So I left that alone.

* I setup Microsoft Authenticator for the first time.

* I added a pair of FIDO U2F YubiKeys.

* I generated and backed up an account recovery code.

* I REMOVED my cell phone number because SMS is not secure.

* I did NOT look at my aliases because I wasn't aware that was even a thing. It's not part of the Security Dashboard.

Here's what worked: I've been able to sign in with Microsoft Authenticator on my phone, the YubiKeys on supported browsers, and receive codes at my external email if neither of aforementioned devices are available. I have noticed that, even though the Authy OTP code is still listed on my Security Dashboard, I can't trigger a prompt for that code. This isn't a huge deal, since both Authy and Microsoft Authenticator are on my phone.

In reaction to your post, I went and checked out my aliases. My phone number was NOT in there. The only alias I have is my primary Microsoft email. I don't know if my phone number ever was in there. Perhaps it was, and when I deleted my number from the Security Dashboard it also deleted from the aliases? I don't know. I do know that there is no phone number listed under my Account Info or Security Dashboard.

Thanks for this post. It reminds me just how vested we are on certain accounts; accounts that can disappear in an instant. I hope you get your issues resolved!
Isn't using J1939 just an example of them embracing an industry standard? That stuff is everywhere now, right?
> K&R is a good example of this.

I don't see how K&R can be a good example (or a bad one or any kind of example at all) in the context of computer science education. Its purpose is to teach the C language to experienced programmers. It has no aspirations of teaching computer science.

K&R is not even about teaching you to code. It says in the preface to the first edition that it assumes you already know concepts like loops and assignment statements. It also says if you're a beginner, you need to supplement the book by seeking the assistance of someone with more experience.
I've been a "bad faith actor" and I will again if I have the chance. As a development manager I have taken credit for the work of others and exploited multiple companies for my own gain. I personally believe it's foolish to not play the game for ones own benefit.
> As a consumer, I'd be hard-pressed to think of a company that can make my life better or deliver better services because of its size.

Please let me know if I'm mis-understanding this sentence, but there are quite a few companies that confer benefits to consumers as a result of their size. Think of Walmart, Amazon, any ride-sharing company, any airline, any carmaker, etc. Those are all examples of business models whose value proposition is predicated on the scale of their operations.

Granted, not every industry or company depends on scale, but plenty of them do. Business is a big tent, and different industries have different requirements for entry. It's exceedingly unlikely that the COVID mRNA vaccine could have been invented by a company with the scale or capitalization of a Basecamp.

Again, let me know if I'm misunderstanding the point you made.
I can’t speak to income levels, but the budget frequently communicated is ~$5k, which covers a 3.8kw inverter and just under 5kw in solar panel modules. Wiring and racking is typically sourced locally.

I will optimize my sourcing for cost. Thank you for the feedback.
Microsoft authentication is the worst I’ve ever seen. I too have had to deal with this via Minecraft and it is so bad and confusing that I almost forbid my kid from playing Minecraft.

The confusion of having a Mojang account and Microsoft account is not the dumbest thing I’be encountered but it is one of the dumbest in my history.

The biggest stupidity was that I gave his real age, which made it impossible for him to connect to multiplayer servers until I selected an option but it was impossible to find.

The so-called security is way over-the-top and doesn’t increase security, it just makes it impossible to use. It’s the worst form of “security” I’ve ever seen in a supposedly high tech company
One thing is that the way Australian political parties work is very different to US. In US although president Biden is a democrat not all the senators from his party approve what he wants, they have some independent positions. So there are people in Democrat party who will speak against some policies. That doesn't usually happen in Australia. If it was then opposition can at least try. The few times that has happened in on personal ideological grounds like same sex marriage etc.
Technically, PGP can already do that using something like [keyoxide](https://keyoxide.org/4AF679D0ABA0ED4B07BF7B6932CA3267C8D187D...). The user experience of creating and managing keys is very bad though.
Only if they admitted to doing it… The Access and Disrupt bill isn’t actually to do with evidence gathering. The way I see it happening is one agency would come up with a cover reason to hack you under that bill, which you or even other parts of the Government like the public prosecutor wouldn’t ever know about (it’s secret and there’s no obligation to inform anybody).

As far as most people would be able to tell, the Federal Police would have just raided you on an anonymous tip, seized your computers and found material you never knew was there…

It’s still heinous misconduct, but they’ve legalised 80% of the process and the level of secrecy around these agencies is so ridiculously high and the accountability so low, so it’s a lot less of a stretch now than it was just months ago - if they really feel you deserve it…
Speaking of Starlink, there was a news story posted here not too long ago about using Starlink satellite signals to determine location (within 8 meters IIRC)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28656566
I don't share this viewpoint.

Politicians and bankers (almost all on the older side) have no clue what they're talking about when it comes to technology, and come to terrible conclusions all the time.
I mean, that's industrial/ag equipment in general. The guards and warning labels tend to come later, after many, many injuries.
Oh god that's so rough, it looks like they're (very poorly) using an angle grinder free-hand and an oxy torch to cut out their plates.

They'd probably find the tooling and jigs they need to do the job properly would be much cheaper and easier if they didn't go way overkill. This little engine does not require a huge 1/2" thick steel plate to mount it on.
My family had a milk cow during my childhood. Best. Milk. Ever.

I had heavy cream on my cereal every morning. We made Ice Cream every week.

Need more butter? Put the cream in a mason jar with a lid and shake it up. Add salt.

That cow gave us 5 gallons of milk a day and we'd separate 2-3 quarts of cream off it, every day.
Okay, so right now I'm prescribed Adderall for ADHD which really truly treats my symptoms and gives me back control over my focus.

Is your thesis that this is a huge mistake and I don't really need it or that I should just be taking meth or other "natural" amphetamines instead? Because I can't really imagine that such a thing would be better for me with fewer side-effects.
Probably the same thing such folks do elsewhere: allowed some very smart people to not step on the rakes quite as often, and be even smarter by providing perspective and advice.
This article was shared with me in an organization that was scaling incredibly quickly; it was extremely helpful. The mantra, "give away your legos" has echoed for me since.
At best it will be a LNP or Labor minority govt. Very hard for Labor to win. Even if they did this issue will get the least priority amongst all things that Australia faces, like economic recovery, climate change, China, anti corruption body etc.
Different Realms, Different TLD's
> What makes discord is the community around it

Which means I could swap clients and still participate in the same community, which seems to be what this project is about.
Freddie only has the one thing to say, but he sure does say it well.
> last month that I was made aware that the project has been discontinued (Why??)

It looks like the main contributor is (or was very recently) a Signal developer [1], but they have not committed to Streisand since 2018 [2].

[1] https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

[2] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand/graphs/contribu...
> i want to make my tool set smaller, not learn more tools.

Ouch. Good luck with that.
We couldn't use seawater for concrete today, again because of the rebar.
I saw this one misreported as 22 minutes in Firefox and Discord. Only 1:43 ? in reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RerbrfVd1nI

> Herbie Hancock on Miles: Don't play the butter notes!
The last time that China's government was instituting economic policies that threatened the trade of the world's premier power (by hoarding silver and holding a monopoly in tea) it was solved by the British government and its agents diversifying tea supply via India and being far more militarily aggressive, which does seem to be mirrored somewhat by recent events.

If Facebook et al are truly addictive then I could make the stretch to that and the exportation of opium over foreign borders, but that's more of a worldwide blight.
You mean like not incorporating formal verification theories? Yeah: fools, all of 'em.
This is a ridiculous situation. Why would you possibly plow more money into a company that is actively adversarial against you?

If a company tries to screw you like this, you have shareholder rights. If you are a big enough fish that you are getting into crazy financing battles like this, then you are not the target audience for this post.
The Econ Nobel we were all waiting for
If war did not end up quickly, all of the trade in the Western Pacific might be blocked. Japan as an upstream manufacturer of semiconductor industry might be affected by this, and needs to seek for a new channel for shipping (maybe Northeast Passage). TSMC-whatever would have raw material shortage.
I didn't say it attempts the same thing, I said it's an example (just one of many) of learning by reading in computer science that long predates 1992.

Pointing to examples (K&R) advocating learning by writing is not evidence that learning by reading was not widely known and used in computer science. That's a logical fallacy.
Data Disruption powers
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/police-get-online-account-tak...
Let me confer my profound hope that providence will triumph over irony.
We've had recruiters send us people who didn't have any experience with the technologies. They coached people on what to say to get hired and gave them answers to some of the questions. We've had to let people go after finding out how incompetent they were because of this.
Yes. Maybe some more concrete examples would help:

1) I built one company infra. At first, I figured out what software, servers, etc there was, documented it, upgraded various software, migrated email, etc. I was fired for some nonsense reason, but anyway, we are still friends.

2) I was doing some coding at some another company. Coding did not progress well, so they fired me. Good, it's OK for me.

3) I built Open Source software for many years. Maintaining, merging pull requests, etc. Adding new features, dependencies, etc. When adding each feature, fixing corner cases, so it all works together, many parts are intendependent of each other. Now I'm thinking which dependencies are not deprecated yet, is it possible to figure out how to upgrade all dependencies and upgrade to newest version of web framework. Or should I just figure out how to take in-use code, figure out what newest dependencies there is available, and rebuild whole stack again.
So, uh, what do the seed-to-seed variance studies look like on a network of this size? Surely someone trained 100 to see the distribution. ducks
Readers should be aware that the Brownstone group publishes lots of misinformation about COVID, they're really an anti-science front organisation.
Tor Links 2021
You may have come across the term dark web and wondered what it is about, really. Here, we talk about what it is and how it differs from the regular internet while also discussing the top tor links plus you needed to visit in 2021.
One option might be to add this explanation to the script so the candidate understands why the process seems so alienating.
Very cool! While the colors serve an obvious purpose, I initially viewed the page in grayscale and I think the maps are even more beautiful that way.
Even tougher powers are coming

"Under Ministerial direction, an operator would be compelled to provide information, take certain actions, or potentially have ASD insert itself into the incident response and provide direct “assistance” to counter the threat."

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/govt-cyber-incident-intervent...
The problem is that when you make protests illegal and meet them with riot police only the most hardened/radical protesters will turn up. Of course there will end up being a little bit of violence.

And to address the wider point of violence in protests is it not sometimes necessary? If you believe your government has become tyrannical and they are willing to use force against you then what other option do you have?
GAFAM is the one usually used for Big Tech, replacing Netflix with Microsoft.

Netflix is not nearly as big as the rest of the group in terms of market cap, but the FAANG term was coined in 2013, in the Ballmer days, when Microsoft was far less cool. The stock hasn't seen considerable growth for over a decade and Microsoft was slowly bleeding away market share on every conceivable front. The company was far from dead, but it wasn't considered a tech leader anymore.