skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around 20 years ago, I registered my account on a web based simulation game by putting a check in the mail. Around 7 years ago I verified an account by putting a dollar in an envelope and putting it in the mail. I am not sure why no one is putting their snail mail address on the site any more because this can still work.
ETL was actually a new acronym for me: Extract, Transform, Load.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
> Was Silicon Valley a deliberate government led initiative (beyond partnership and funding)?

SV was the West Coast electronic warfare base for the US military after WW2, hence many early electronics pioneers started there. Stanford U. was the center.

Some time after that, private investors became active, which was the start of civilian developments.

I think startup parks could succeed, but not when headed by career bureaucrats. Something along the lines of how YC functions.
I don't think the argument "I've seen it happen around me" means that it is necessarily routine or common throughout society. If I'm a basketball player and most of the people around me can dunk a basketball, while it may be common in my circle, it certainly is not common throughout the American or global population.
If you use fugacity can’t you rescale and collapse all gas properties into basically universal curves?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressibility_factor
Which laws were this Netflix exec's crimes an impossible "side effect" of?
Not the same at all. Paying for people to attend your event versus paying them directly as income are worlds apart.
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Make them provide you a machine. Don’t do any other work on the machine they provide.
Did people ask you for bribes, did you say no, did you miss the hints, or did you just not know that you needed to do this?
Here's a perl one that is actively maintained. https://www.jwz.org/hacks/#youtubedown

Edit: my browser cached the page so I didn't see the special version lol. Try a private window or https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwz...
While normal business travel can have a bit of a boondoggle aspect to it (and your example would probably not be OK for US government employees), it's not generally considered a personal payment or gift as a kickback would be. So, no, it's not the same thing in the manner that paying for someone's personal vacation week on a tropical island would be.

Companies pick up at least some expenses for customers, partners, journalists, analysts, etc. to attend business events all the time. And everyone involved is very clear about the difference between that and handing them a stack of bills under the table.

(And speaking for myself, I can think of a lot of places that I'd rather be than Las Vegas for re:Invent.)
> I had a "senior" dev...

Ftfy.
It seems rather disingenuous to talk about severely outdated features without mentioning the fact that said practices are multiple decades out of date.

Let me put it another way, it doesn't strike me as the best possible example to use.
This a weak response.

It reminds me of a fellow student at Wharton. Whatever the question was in classes (ethics, economics) his answer was ALWAYS "I really feel strongly both ways".
My friends and I even gave him a price for his answers/behavior at the end.

Years later he was a CEO of major corporations. That served him well to never take the stand.

Life is full of people who "really feel strongly both ways". It seems that Purdue is taking that route. We have seen that with other Universities: cheating on exams? Don't do that again (=we need to keep the money flowing).

This is awful. President Daniels should resign. Or the Board should advise him to step down "in the interest of the University".
That is not really close to what these charges are.

Kail received money and stock directly, not as part of a business or sales exchange. Being flown to a conference where you'll be told the merits of your potential purchase is obviously very different.

Even if Kail had innocently owned stock in a company being evaluated it likely would have been a conflict of interest and they should have stepped away from the evaluation. This happens all the time. As a CEO I can tell you I've had people stop a call partway through because they realize they're conflicted out of the discussion and I'll have to talk to a neutral party.
Organizationally he was given free reign to do whatever he wanted, and that lead to the entire teams downfall. He canceled code reviews... for himself. Well, he actually stated, all code reviews go through him, thus he "code reviewed" his own code. I remember he was once a few weeks late on delivering a basic landing page, and when it finally got to QA at 9pm on a Friday, our entire team was forced to work the weekend and QA gave me a TFS export of more than 200 defects I had to fix because he was unreachable. Needless to say, our entire team was upset we all got laid off, but also relieved because we all ended up in better jobs. At least everyone I've talked to, which is everyone but him, as he has never responded to a single text message or email since he quit after the layoff (he refused severance, and just walked out), all his socials went off line, and any record of his name has disappeared from the internet. I'm fairly certain he was a conman, but I have no way of finding out.
No it wasn’t. This is completely false.

Just because someone who had a public job was also a KKK member doesn’t mean it was part of the state.
I literally only brought up masks in the context of people harassing strangers in public about them, from the responses I'm getting here you'd think I'd posted some sort of anti-mask polemic. It's not masks I was criticising, I'm criticising the kind of profoundly obnoxious person who goes up to strangers in public to shriek at them about masks and then acts like a victim when they (quite reasonably) are told to mind their own business. It's never acceptable to harrass people in public like that regardless of how scared you are of COVID in my opinion.

Do people really struggle to understand why acting like that particularly unpleasant brand of judgemental Puritan evangelist might put people off from their message? It's like any discussion around COVID has to come packaged with buckets of tedious moralising or it automatically gets dismissed as conspiratorial.
I like how they added inboard macro keys. It was odd before how the Advantage had all this programming capability but you had to come up with some new keystrokes.

Is it me or the price difference between the two makes the Pro model a no-brainer? Wireless, backlighting, better keycaps, and better programming model for only $40 more?
Ah thanks, that's kind of what I thought. I've read examples of Go but haven't written a line of it myself. the way GP described it made it sound like foo, err = bar() was merely a convention and you could do foo = bar() and drop err. If you have to add ", _" that's fine.
Mate, they got him for numerous counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and more. These are all crimes, not mere violations of corporate policy. If you can't square your understanding of the law with what happened, it's your deficient understanding of the law that is to blame.
> When the US Constitution was written there was hardly even an industry; most firearms were craft built.

You mean at the dawn of the industrial revolution, before which, you know, everything was craft built?
Imagine the money he has to pay in prison for protection
because there are no flat numbers in Germany as far as i know, the house has a number as in randomstreet XY and then it goes by name on the bell and postal box. Your best strategy would be to derail your mail to a Postfach at the postal office and get your packages delivered to Packingstations of the delivery-service of your choice.
I'm working on something similar to the "tracker for every issue of public concern" idea that OP suggests at the end. A news site that doesn't write articles. Instead just organizes links to other peoples articles, and links to original sources, into sagas that unfolded over time.

It's not released yet, and I just talked about it publicly for the first time in another HN comment a few days ago [1]. There I asked people to email me if they were interested in being notified when I had an MVP ready, and I had a great response (33 emails, for context the comment itself only got 46 upvotes), so I guess I'll do the same here. Email is in my profile, sorry for the blatant self promotion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=29552009
> But that doesn’t mean it’s any different than if a bunch of folks from the US were at a French university during the 50’s and someone called the FBI telling them that Bob was saying a lot of scary things about communism and just got a Russian Girlfriend and maybe they should look into it.

I’m sorry, but is this supposed to be a counter point? This kind of behavior would have been ridiculous and unacceptable as well, unless said US citizen had access to state secrets or something of that nature.
Much Nim code is similarly concise.
> There are scenarios where you can compute on encrypted data and produce a result that doesn't leak the entire data.

I believe what you're referring to is homomorphic encryption.
I think I need to do a blog post on this. I get the same kind of reaction from pretty much anyone I talk to about this, and it takes hours of explanations & diagrams to get them to understand. It's a real shame too, because a correct understanding would have a LOT more people putting pressure on implementors to support decimal floats :/
^^^ - This!

You don't 'require' anything on equipment you don't provide. full stop. period.
I remember reading an article on how relatively cheap it is to "buy" politicians, on the order of just a hundred thousand dollars of donations in some cases, for favorable votes on relevant bills and whatnot.

I would assume if normal,everyday citizens started banding together to buy votes the corporations would up the ante and price us out pretty quickly, but as things stand right now there's no point without competition. Power of the free market baby!
Oh no, not the shareholder value! How high up on the org chart do employees have a direct fiduciary duty to the shareholders? Presumably there is some breakpoint below which is becomes mere incompetence.
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Because it's their ToS, their hard drives, their business. Doing it without at least a day prior notice seems to be a very big no-no, but it obviously did not matter to their bottom line. The general public does not care about these issues enough, because there are other issues in society that seem to be more important for the plurality. (Just to name one crazies shooting people.)
Imagine being a Netflix executive and risking years of your life for $700,000
Technically it's not a buffer overflow; it's an integer overflow bug.
> most Americans are significantly worse off since the 1970s

This statement seems obviously false to me and is what I was disagreeing with. This entire conversation was spawned because many people felt the need to defend this statement.
I'm sorry, Google will scan my personal files for hate speech now? When exactly the the first amendment become toilet paper? Certainly feels like it happened in the last 2 years.
I don't think you're an egotist necessarily, but rather misguided. I mean, how do I know that you aren't egotist if your demand is to walk away from any deal on the basis that it is voluntary? If you reject any tool through which I (another party) can force you to follow the contract? You have to admit, it is very suspicious.

I am not clear how you imagine resolving conflicts in your society. That requires some sort of authority, and this authority being based on democratic vote seems to me like a decent solution. Especially if the conflict involves third parties - negative economic externalities for example. I think to try to understand the world (especially society and politics) as a series of two-party interactions is grossly reductionist.

Not to mention the distinction between parties is rather arbitrary. For example, let's say you consider joining a multinational company as an employee, and the company already has unions, but the legal contract you are having is with the local subsidiary of the large mother company. Then on what basis do you recognize who or what really constitutes the other party - the multinational, the local subsidiary, the multinational including the unions, your hiring manager, or some other combination? What about joining a worker cooperative, would you refuse to join on the principle, because it is internally democratic?

And if you, in this case, accept the legal definition of contracting party as the "other party", why do you have a problem accepting a legal concept of democratic constitution? Or any other law or regulation, for that matter?
I hear that R is a good example of domain-specific programming that's largely used by non-programmers
The KKK was not a paramilitary arm of the state.

To claim it was is a lie.

The KKK was a terrorist organization bent on violently oppressing Black Americans. It was never part of the state.
His resumé seemed to back up his claim. Not sure if it was real, though. HR called every one of my past employers and my references, so I figured they would have followed up on his, too.
No its literally about avoiding the morass of legal compliance as best you can, whenever and wherever.
Is this a supply chain attack waiting to happen? The new domain owner can “restore” the site to look like the original but host malicious libraries. If @chaijs.com e-mail addresses were used to register accounts, e.g. on GitHub or package registries, anything belonging to these accounts would be tainted as well because its under control of the new domain owner.
Hi, Adam here, CEO at Drata.

While I don’t know all the details about this specific case, I want to clearly lay out and address some of the concerns and misinformation in your post. We believe trust is the most important aspect of any business, and it’s why we’ve ALWAYS made a point to be very transparent. As a company, we would never develop any software that does what you are claiming. In fact, Drata does just the opposite, by helping companies protect data.

First, we should address the WHY. In order to be SOC 2 compliant, one thing businesses need to do is ensure their employees’ and contractors’ computers are configured securely. The “agent” is one way Drata efficiently does this, especially for teams with remote employees.

Now, let’s look at the HOW:

- The Drata agent is a lightweight, read-only osquery based agent that reads system information such as hard-drive encryption, screen lock timeout, firewall status, etc. Drata collects that information to ensure companies are meeting their security/compliance requirements and so that these companies can prove their SOC2 obligations are being met during audits.

- Regarding the TOS, there is no monitoring or selling of your personal information. That is unequivocally false.

The question you asked Drata about over email was directly related to the TOS, and not the agent (though we’ve explained what the agent does above). As we stated, we don’t sell customer data. We never have and we never will.

I would be happy to chat more to address any concerns you have. You can reach out to me at adam [at] drata.com to chat anytime.
And all that blue blood private schooling, mathematical prowess and MIT education has led you to conclude that the solution to all of humanity’s problems, checks link, is the Bible.
Yes, people have differing opinions. I thought it was a reasonable point though.

If the criterion for a good voting system is that it should provide the same results as plurality, then I guess we should just use plurality. But I don't think that's a very good criterion.
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Closely monitoring former managers as they manufacture license plates seems perfectly reasonable to me. Though some might quibble over the "employee" part...
What it tells me is that the successful corporate lobbying against it is an outlier, meaning that in US it is a problem. No one in their right mind (unless those corrupt who profit from it) would be against such ban.

Lack of understanding the issue could be an exploited factor too. See also articles that point out how asbestos companies knew about problems for decades and hid the facts.
The degree is part of the training of an engineer, not the professional designation itself. The challenge with our current understanding of the title software engineer is that practitioners are not held to the same standards and responsibilities as other engineering fields. It doesn't have anything to do with talent.
I haven't even gotten a new Datadog shirt in years :-(
> paying someone on the side for inside information on competitors

That seems like the proper litmus test for bribery by vendors, as distinct from "shakedown" / "pay to play" i.e. extortion from vendors.

Wonder if really shrewd extortionists try to make victims complicit, by sending them inside info never asked for?
I'd have to imagine that's exceptionally rare though. It would be semi-solved with a second factor to unlock the card.
Even here in Boston I would be pretty surprised if I did that and my wallet were stolen anywhere but the most high-throughput of places like a highway rest stop. A restaurant? I'd be shocked.

The world is a lot less dangerous than I think a lot of people believe.
The "weaker players" are individual consumers and they do need protection from corporations that deceive and pollute the environment

Its obvious that corporations will put profit above all else including the health of their customers
as long as there is a market for guns another company will just step into its place. Much like as long as there is a market for drugs new dealers step up fast as you can arrest them.
If it's physically possible for the vehicle in front of you to brake so hard you can't avoid hitting them, you are following too closely.
Not sure why HN is downvoting this, because this is 100% how the world works lmao

Here's a nice article on this topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...
I'll simply quote Norman Mailer here: "I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal."
Firefox can be a Chromium fork, too, but they get paid hundreds of millions to maintain a different engine by Google.

Don't go down with that ship...
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for asking a genuine question. The objective is not to deride Nim in any way.
Guns are almost a drug to the fading significance (psychologically, economically, politically) of the middle class white male. It's phallic, it makes you feel powerful and safe, it goes boom, and it is intimately tied to the mythos of the United States of America (well, and the Confederate States of America).

The amount of guns purchased by "gun nuts" reminds me of the stats on alcohol consumption: something like 80% of alcohol is consumed by alcoholics.

So you can mobilize a very rabid base politically.

Also, the gun manufacturers are tied in with the military and the diplomatic powers that be of the US (aka THE power brokers of the US government and the world).
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Kickbacks are a personal payment, an illegal personal incentive to a business transaction.

This guy was soliciting cash and stocks! A crummy sponsored trip to a conference would have been arranged through the employer, and is not the same thing.
The reminder that the library is used in Flask was helpful even if the questioning wasn’t.
The education is probably nothing special but it's more about the social network.
Or even better just build your own NAS. Synology are overpriced for what you get.
>Once people have good education and health, then they should earn everything else (including housing).

How can you possibly have "good health" without also ensuring housing? Isn't it kind of impossible to be truly healthy if you are homeless.
Canada and Finland and very different rules and regulation around ownership and licensing and what you can and cannot do with them.
Also a good lesson for students: avoid trouble when it is easy to do so.
Have a large portion of HN readers never taken grade school biology? Have a large portion of HN readers never seen sperm?

That aside, the baffling part is the author thought himself well enough informed to write the article in the first place, and then that these foolish ramblings made it to the HN front page.
Yeah, although mostly variations on that basic premise.

Airbnb Himeji: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/himeji-a-scalable-cent...
Carta's AuthZ system: https://medium.com/building-carta/authz-cartas-highly-scalab...
Slack's architecture is a bit different, but solves some of the same challenges: https://slack.engineering/role-management-at-slack/

I've also talked to a number of teams who just implemented pattern 3 internally with a custom service. Generally they've determined it's worth it to centralize all authorization data (like roles, groups, etc) into one place and perform ALL permission checks there.

There are also some companies building essentially Zanzibar clones, like Auth0, Authzed, Ory Keto, and a few more.
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I thought the college bribery schemes were mostly illegal because the lowered the price for a guaranteed admission slot too much and, more importantly, cut the university out of the loop by paying the admissions personnel directly.
Most immediately, Hunter x Hunter comes to mind. The main character, Gon, gets excited even when faced with some pretty shocking problems.
We currently are using Airflow for ELTs/ETLs to ingest from different Postgres databases to BigQuery/Google Cloud Storage. Airbyte looks sweet for the same task and would free us from a big effort burden, but its Postgres source only supports SELECT * statements (i.e. you can't deselect columns).

That's kind of a dealbreaker for us, because for security reasons our Postgres users permissions are granularly configured with column-based security. I hope the Airbyte team solves this eventually because the software is looking great.
Though it does more than that,https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Open_With_extension
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> There was a housing shortage in the 1970s too, so the supply side isnt a worthwhile deflection.

Uh, source on the housing shortage in the 1970s being even remotely close to this level?

Because, yeah, demand outstripping the heck out of supply is the "deflection" I'd pick.
Yes. exactly. You are kind of making my point. There is a comment, in another thread on this page saying:
I can't imagine how any of that could have been "soul crushing",... I expect it was the exact opposite feeling, actually.

Yet, do we expect that it wasn't "soul crushing" for those inside Xerox, when Apple pivoted to GUI lite, ?

I would add that, the specifics of what is copied, how it is copied and at what stage it's copied, matters a lot on how it is felt.