skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also for off-road recreational use, e.g. in sand dunes.
In that case, whats the value of the system?

99% of the time an address is just a “unique” opaque identifier. You ingest the address, then you print it on the parcel. You avoid manipulating or trying to interpret it too much.

A system that attempts to codify address to a standard that can’t express all addresses (including their nuance) is useful. You can’t trust any analytics created from it, because by its nature, address that can’t be interpreted will appear in geographic clusters, and thus skew all your stats.

You can however collect address as opaque strings, and optionally request extra data of a know format (like zipcode or postal code) which is generally considered part of the address. You can then produce stats only on those well know identifiers, and ignore the rest.

But doing that doesn’t require a complicated address type, or supporting address manipulations or any other crap like that. It just requires a free text box, and a separate postal code box.

The most important thing to recognise is that any arbitrary address will fit many different address conventions, but each of those conventions will result in a different location. It practically impossible to definitively interpret an arbitrary address correctly, without significant amounts of additional local context. So its best not to bother, and let the postal workers figure it out using their local knowledge.
I don't think that's what the parent post had in mind. Those are more like state-sponsored news. Technically non-profit, but usually considered a different category.
It's a way to avoid the scrutiny of most paths to take a company public. See also the billion dollar deli.
I have to use Windows once in a while (circumstances).

Best way to forget about the existence of spyware (aka telemetry) that I found is to not connect a Windows box directly to internet. I configured my router to give it a gateway and DNS IPs which don't exist in the network. Eat that, Microsoft. And I can still connect to internet by manually setting a SOCKSv5a proxy to the router in Firefox and other software that I trust (make sure there is no automatic proxy discovery mechanism in the router).
Finding bugs in database systems via query partitioning
The Deng -> Zhao -> Jiang -> Hu years weren't very clean, and did have military involvement and civilian deaths.
Do you think that enthusiastically egging on the nuclear holocaust of tens of million of people for ultimately no good reason (and that's the best case scenario of his proposal, it could have been even worse as he seriously underestimated the Soviet Union) is not a bad thing?

Had he managed to convince the president, he would have been one of the people with the worst impact on humanity (and science incidentally) of all history, perhaps even dooming us all.
That narrative is contradictory to mainstream science. Herd immunity is naturally occurring. Follow the money.
I deleted my FB probably 10 years ago and never looked back, but most people I know who still have it act like it's some vital part of life which can't be left behind. It's integrated into how people interact with the other people in their life so much they can't get rid of it.

It's not so much an addiction as a lifestyle. Telling most people to quit their FB is like telling folks in the US to sell their car and never use a personal vehicle again... they're whole life is structured around that fundamental fact, they can't just leave it behind.
Yes, you seem to have it. I believe they also have to supercool the water before running it through the cooling pipes.
From what I understand people were willing to go through this for Brexit to happen. Supply chain issues were pretty much a given.
Its not magic. Its windows update happening in the background

I went from perfect system health , progressively into blue screen death, it got so bad that it happened every 2 hours after spiking my i7 to 100% cpu use. The decline happened within a month of a win10 update back in Aug/Sept.

A couple of MS support tickets and a windows reinstall later, I finally gave up had to do a complete fresh PC install to fix.

No issues since but i still get the occasional 100% cpu clock.

Ive also turned on windows10 selective update download.
Too bad the interview process is such a nightmare. It's literally given me PTSD at this point. I'd love to try out a new opportunity, but the thought of that nightmare process leaves me grateful and content where I'm at.

I've also noticed a lot of rising credentialism in the industry. BS CS is now listed on practically every job posting. With the massive rise in CS grads in the US I truly don't know how a self taught dev like myself could even get a shot at a junior role anymore.
Physician in internal medicine with a background in computer science, math, and genetics. Got hooked on HN in college after searching for a like-minded community sharing more relevant news to me than the vast majority of other websites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_history
> It was super easy to move here due to the UK being in the EU at the time. Brexit didn’t change anything for me personally but has made me more keen to get citizenship here to get back in to Europe.

I'm don't quite follow what you are saying here - Iceland wasn't (isn't) in the EU? So I imagine Brexit or not would have made zero difference to your situation.
>Something similar _almost_ happened a couple of years later in another project (due to miscommunication by someone doing requirements gathering) and this time we caught it early.

Right on. Requirements gathering and problem scoping is refined conversation.

We were in a meeting with someone who wanted us to predict an event that caused losses in the 9 figures 48 hours before it happens and trigger an alert.

48 hours sounded round and arbitrary, so I used "negative framing" and asked "At what point would an alert be useless. At what point is it too late to inform you?"

He said "It's never too late. Even if you predict it two minutes before, we can do things. We have procedures".

Effectively reducing from 48 hours to 2 minutes. This changes the whole thing.

Requirements that are polluted by client's solutions should always be explored further for the actual job to be done, and the actual problem to be solved.
Ok, semantics.
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Holders of a PhD are considered as "capable of assessing the state of the art" by Tax authorities. Having PhDs in the committee which decides of grants thus reduces to legal risk of later seing tax cuts being cancelled by Tax authorities.

Regarding projects which receive a grant, holding a PhD does not matter.
You can ask about liquidation preferences as well. Anything above 1X is above market and, again, a red flag.
(Incidentally, thank you for the pleasant conversation.)

> … which no one actually has the resources for…

That webpage references "JSMeter: Characterizing Real-World Behavior of JavaScript Programs".

iirc they instrumented a web browser to collect "real-world" data and demontrated that wasn't like the behavior of benchmark code.

That webpage references "A comparison of three programming languages for a full-fledged next-generation sequencing tool" — "reimplemented … in all three languages and benchmarked their runtime performance and memory use."

That's in-practice.

> … you don't need to write everything in Rust if using Ruby…

Performance doesn't matter until it matters.

As-in the home page quote and reference — "It's important to be realistic: most people don't care about program performance most of the time."

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
I think bootstrapping is overly romanticized. In many cases those entrepreneurs aren’t good at taking feedback or telling their story or have a lousy idea to begin with. Not to say that it’s not going to work or not admirable, but getting VC money is a very early kind of “product market fit” in the sense that you need to sell people your vision in return for money.

I did both bootstrap and VC paths. You can get it wrong in each, but I know that my previous insistence on not taking external money was somewhat rooted in arrogance.
I think this fits the mood. The old telephone system was entirely analogue. It remained so well into the 1980s, even when they were carrying tens of thousands of conversations in parallel on a single wire or antenna.

When I was a kid, you could hear the white noise stack successively louder on a long-distance call, as it went through each additional link. And sometimes you could hear the hum of it all, just below the threshold of intelligibility. In hindsight it's amazing how well it all worked.

But sometimes it didn't work so well: https://vocaroo.com/1oCxkWyNDusp

Maybe a filter was slightly out of tune on that day. Recorded mid-1970s New York. The electronic beeps are in-band call establishment tones. (Yes, the same ones phone phreaks exploited. The recording was in fact made by one of those phreaks who has gone back and narrated some of his old recordings http://www.evan-doorbell.com/ )
I don't see anyone in this comment thread implying that he's inhuman or a supreme being. It seems like you may be projecting the insecurities of your own background into the discussion. I'm occasionally envious of people with great achievements who had a "privileged" background, but it's certainly not the first thing I point out when their names are brought up.
For some of us (me), tools like this are the difference between no privacy oversight and some oversight. I aspire to be a privacy-aware person rocking Linux, but in the meantime...
Omitting AMT's effect on exercising in a post about equity is pretty much blogging malpractice.

Other than that, very good post.
Often? I agree that liquidation preferences are often overlooked by startup employees but I wouldn't say 3x is common or generally acceptable.

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) benchmarks[1] show that over 95% of term sheets across all funding rounds include a 1x liquidation preference.

[1]https://nvca.org/model-legal-documents/
(it's in the Enhanced Model Term Sheet v2.0)
Hey, that’s awesome! I’ve been working as a software engineer in various companies for years now doing mostly Go development these days. I’m very interested in switching my career to cancer research and doing a PhD, potentially on immunotherapy. May I ask what you’re using Go for? Also, I’d be curious to learn more about your research work.
Thank you for that very informative comment.
Haha true! Compared to that i never seen a glowing person ;)
Journalism is the art of converting abysmal ignorance into execrable prose.
He died in his apartment.
That is what I would expect considering the time period and nationality of your story. But, the material that exploded in that one port was there because a Russian businessman abandoned his crew. It is sad, shows there is some deterioration of social fabric in Russia. The good news is the legal system of their home country is functioning enough they were not punished for it.

If you have crew from the middle east it is possible they will be tried in a kangaroo court for some weird theft charges related to abandoning the ship.
Not entirely. AIDS is only the name for the final stage of the disease, when your immune system is rendered totally unable to defend your body. It usually takes years from an HIV infection until AIDS develops. In the first viremic phase of HIV you can even have fever but often people don't notice it or put it off as some innocent cold. COVID-19 however is used however to refer to all stages and forms of the disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Acquired_immunodefici...
No that is a picture of him going into the courthouse in Reykjavík. But prison cells in Iceland are pretty nice though, here is an image of a cell in the new prison Hólmsheiði: https://axis.is/wp-content/gallery/holmsheidi/IMG_1081.jpg

But Litla-Hraun is an older building so the cells are not as nice there.
“If RSUs are off the table, then you can try asking the company to pay the [early] exercise price for you as a signing bonus.”

This is excellent advice, especially given the risk you described in (2).
For those stuck with Java 8, yes they can be slow to start.

For everyone else that has moved on, there are JIT caches and AOT compilers, no longer something only available to consumers from commercial JDKs.
> That seems awfully contextual and ad-hoc.

Yup, but that’s never stopped someone from relying on a method in the past. The vast majority of addresses aren't written by engineers. If you sent a letter using an address once, and it worked, then most people will just assume it'll always work. How would they know any better?

> It's a nice thing if it sometimes succeeds even when it shouldn't, but that's not something you can rely on.

Have you seen the internet? Or even just HTML? The entire world relies on things working when they shouldn’t. We can talk all day about the merits of that approach, but it wont change reality.

> Considering that this was presumably a problem with an address written on a physical item as a linear text

The text was printed perfectly if thats what your saying. It was just wrong. Some system somewhere had attempted to manipulate it, and ended up misinterpreting the original address, and produced something completely wrong as a result.

> I'm trying to solve for my own application which needs to process physical addresses of objects

That’s slightly different, and presumably you own far more of the process thats producing and interpreting these addresses. I’ve worked in systems that had to deal with addresses created by normal people, and let me tell you, normal people have a very diverse view on how to write addresses.
Have you looked at the prices of HEPA filter machines?

Check out the cost of IQAir units.
It's pretty obvious tbh
Isn't this just a way of saying "work exclusively for public companies if you value equity"? You will not be able to sell private company shares on the market.
With a modern JVM, you can work around that expensive startup by making use of JIT caches.
This is great!
https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/tree/master... looks like the raw data (yaml) for all these commands, including commands for macOS. With that, it’s at least plausible to audit these commands.

I probably still won’t trust it on a critical system without a reputable audit though, I think I’d still prefer to either trust Microsoft or Apple or go run OpenBSD or Linux instead.
So is lack of sleep. If people are working more, they may be sleeping less.
> I had that experience in the USA.

Me too! It feels like the UK is following that lead (but thankfully we don't have so many guns).

> Honestly I think the UK has a lot going for it

Sure, but the differential is pointing the wrong way, especially on corruption and the NHS (which is being chocked - I have family working in it and have worked with some trusts so I know exactly what is going on).

> Do you mean you had a European registration plate?

Yup.
> ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future

Well one thing webmasters can do is place wrap an image in an <A> element and the URL is some affiliate link that they control. Good luck blocking that since the image is the first party domain. It's a tactic I've been using for years now, and I've gotten thousands of referrals and confirmed purchases of products.
So some of the towers are still in AT&T's ownership but a ton of them got sold off to American Tower for resale and leasing space.

People do everything from run cellular on them, run datacenters in the nuclear hardened bunker sites, etc. Even though they're old as heck and look like something out of a sci-fi many structures are still solid and some of the sites have things like diversified utilities.

Then finally, there's the EPA... these towers can be a nightmare for EPA - specifically the ones with backup generator fuel tanks that were buried. I'm guessing AT&T didn't want to deal with the complex logistics of digging those up, horn removal, etc. and just sold many of the properties off.
I was a late joiner at a near-IPO startup, and did better than I’ve ever done at an early stage one. Even then, I’ve done way better with post-IPO RSU refreshers than with the pre-IPO options. It took years for our publicly traded price to hit what management delusionally (or dishonestly) messaged us as our options’ worth pre-IPO.

I remember a conversation when we got new ISO grants, that they might be worth $X, based on blah-blah-blah, but they’ll be worth at least $2X soon because we’re growing, so really you’re getting $2X! Which doesn’t even make sense to me if we’re going to view today’s price as a discounted future cashflow. Anyways, we’re finally trading at $X today, years and years after IPO.

Moral of the story is that the people budgeting how much to pay you will engage with incredibly wishful thinking when deciding how much to pay you if they can. “Sure, Z shares seems super generous, right? We’re a rocket ship!” But when the market decides how much a share is really worth, they can’t screw you by pretending they’re paying out more.

I’m only working for public companies from here out. And none of those 1 year grants that seem to be popping up.
Mexico ——> US

Commuted across the Tijuana-San Diego border for a few years then relocated definitely for GC

Path was TN, H1B, GC then citizenship

There was no plan, just getting to the next stage and figuring things out - very lucky it all worked out

Grew up on the border with US culture so close, getting a job, moving, daily life has not been difficult at all, feels like home.

We have a house in each country. Although I love visiting Mexico I can’t see myself ever moving back due to violence

My work is in the US, but all our family is in Mexico, so it feels like I still have one foot on each side.

My current dream though is to be able to live in Europe for a couple of years and experience life over there
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Microwave back haul in telecom networks is still very prevalent the difference between what this article describes and modern day is how it is used. Now days the microwave part of the network is usually regional to connect groups of towers in a local area to a central location that has fiber or satellite access into the main network. This older system was doing the job of what fiber does today serving as the main cross country network.
The future of ad blocking is a neural network ad detector that can detect ads, classify them, and replace them with anti-ads for the same products.

McDonald's ad? Replace it with a McD's Roach Sandwich ad. Facebook ad? Replace it with "Zuck causes Genocide".

We can fight back.
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I read it like GP lost faith because the settings were turned on so frequently. Not because the tools don’t work.
Thank you. I was not trying to be inflammatory or rude, but was making (what I thought was) a valid point.
I'll suggest a treatment regimen of chicken soup with lots of garlic, and honey tea (possibly also with garlic per individual taste). This is good for COVID, SARS, Ebola, and all other media communicable diseases. It might not help much, but it won't hurt much, either.

Am I an anti-vaxer now? Or do I need a patent on the treatment first?

The deeper problem of requiring ideological stringency in all thought and speech goes far beyond vaccines and other current "global problems" into the definition of what we consider those problems to be. Thats even more flame-war bait of a debate tho.
I think it's a pretty good idea to automate this sort of software and schedule it to run whenever the OS restarts, or at the same time every day (or multiple times, depending on usage patterns).

I don't think it's possible to (easily) figure out when to run something right after the updates change any settings, but it's a good idea to automate away manual work as much as possible!

The person that you're replying to certainly has a point about having to run the tool manually being a hassle. Sadly, at the moment there are also no ways to automate running the tool (that i know of), since it's GUI only, as opposed to offering CLI functionality or silent launch options.
There are some odd people who get upset by this; that there could be some novel type of weaponry they don’t understand. More strange than the technology itself is the personality that gets upset by it and feels the need to debunk it. I’ve seen it numerous times now so it’s an actual phenomenon and one I think is worthy of study— let’s call it Havana Syndrome Denialism. What causes this I wonder? So curious!
Thank you for this.I am also working in Austria it is the way you describe it.

There's very little exchange of new ideas and new approaches.Once you reach "good enough" it's impossible to question the state of things.Especially if you are not austrian or native german speaker.
>I always found it funny that supposedly cutting edge high tech VC’s wanted you nearby when we had all the tools to base anywhere in the world.

There really was something special about the time and place of San Francisco from the late 2000s up to 2020. The energy that place had was like nothing else I've ever experienced. You can absolutely make great software fully remote. But there's something to be said for being immersed in a culture of likeminded individuals and going to events all over the city every night to share thoughts with them. I'm eternally grateful for having spent the beginning of my career in that environment.
Start doing some freelancing like Upwork and build a resume. Even though it’s a global platform you’re still going to have an advantage as a US based dev if you price yourself in the Eastern European bracket ($40-ish per hour). After a few successful jobs you’d have good credentials to either charge more or just migrate to a full time work.
You're happy enough to take Microsoft products, how much worse can a microsoft gold partner be?
Well, if it’s really bad, perhaps flushing is the better word?
For CLIs, AOT compilation has been available since around 2000 for those whose employers could afford commercial JDKs, or try their luck with gcj.

Nowadays both OpenJDK and OpenJ9 offer free JIT caches with PGO data, GraalVM isn't the only free beer option.
There were so many fantastic, deep dives into the inner workings of operating systems and below in Dr. Dobbs Undocumented Corner.

I also highly recommend Robert R. Collins articles for Dr. Dobbs (they are easy to find), which shed light on, at the time, many undocumented features of the Intel CPUs of the day.
The server could hash again the hashed password sent by the client. Especially if the client use an insecure hash algorithm (no secret salt for example).

I feel like if the client always hash passwords as soon as it is typed (the javascript never sees the unhashed password), no one would notice. (except some with crazy password rules that would disallow a hash-looking password)
Very true. I wasn't very precise in my original comment.
There are plenty of people who misuse the word "exponential", but in this case, assuming much of the period in question was during Moore's Law growth, "doubling every N months for many years on end" is genuinely exponential.
can someone get that page from the paywall please? I would like to read it... but i don't wanna sign up and pay for it since i am never going to use that site agian lol.
This also removes domestic (Chinese) private capital from the possible investors/owners.
None of that is refuting what I am saying. I agree with all of that.
> I expect Tesla will generate all or most of its own electricity

That's a moot point in a disaster scenario where the grid is down and traffic systems and utilities are disabled, etc. Tesla can't generate its own water, and that was one utility that was knocked out for much of Texas during the storm. There's a lot more that goes into keeping a manufacturing operation like that functional than just energy self-sufficiency.