skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then, all of a sudden, some small startup "cuts corners", doesn't fill out the paperwork, kind of ignores all this "compliance" a bit, and somehow...out-executes you with 1/10th the staff, at half the price.

I'd quibble with your word choice and replace "and somehow..." with "because of this". It's apparent to me that you can work faster and do it cheaper when you're cutting corners, which is where some of the value in startups lie (in addition to the actual innovation).

Acquiring companies do a lot of heavy lifting to ensure compliance in all their markets. As a startup, front end devs could push out a feature in half a day; bur that was in (American) English only, with no review of the copy by Legal, and didn't comply with EU accessibility standards on minimum contrast ratio, nor did they check to see of it works with screen readers. Each of these things could cause legal/regulatory/reputation problems for large companies, but all the former-startup engineer sees is bureaucracy - because they are now working at a scale they are not familiar with.

A startup may ignore colorblind users, with no consequences, but the DMV should not. For large societal problems, MVPs do not cut it.
You'd want automobile safety standards to be set such that the majority of new cars are able to achieve the highest rating? Why?
tp-link is pretty solid but i recently went back to asus for their mesh and UI, its just incredibly better with more features. I never saw hidden networks on my tp-link ax 3000, what i did see is lack of firmware updates, it seems like my model was abandoned.
Didn't someone get away with a fake Starbucks because they were parodying parody law not Starbucks?
Sure. So while Sarbanes Oxley doesn’t contain anything like “thou shalt not commit to a repo”, it’s pretty clear about separation of duties. This means that the person who commits code cannot be the same as the person who deploys (or has access to deploy) the code.

There’s many ways to implement separation of duties that are all valid, but the compliance industry has settled on the concept of least privilege as a framework to enforce this requirement. So if a person external to a dev team wants to write to their code base, the hard rule of least privilege keeps the regulatory train on the rails, so to speak. Keeping that wall between external teams reduces risk in the company, at the cost of increased friction and reduced agility. Consider it a part of the price to pay for investor money.

If you have any other questions I’d be happy to answer!
So Dune itself was not prescient but Children of Dune was, however that was probably written at nearly the same time.

That said, what purpose did the sandtrout serve in that other place it was introduced from, I guess the early settlers weren't looking at the planet and thinking "nice place, but too wet."
Yelp is shady af.
I think that depends on utility. If the senescent cells are functionally useless, then culling them should have few consequences (although your liver and kidneys might object to having that many cells being cleaned up at once). But if they are still sort of functioning in their primary or secondary functions (eg, structural integrity) then disappearing them all at once becomes a problem.
How is Olive Gardens allowing this? They may choose to let it get them some free PR and then shut it down. Also, this doesn't make any sense. The whole thing is completely meaningless.
It's just amazing how big a knee in the demand curve there was. I ordered mine in April and got it in eight weeks, which seemed like an impossible wait at the time. Now I feel like an old timer.

And it's not like production got stymied, Tesla's producing 70% more cars now than they were a year ago and they're still sold out for 6-12 months.
Yes. I deliberately tried not to touch on this too much, and wanted to just concentrate on the price-gauging laws.

Some regulations are useful, some are insane. But going with a fine toothed comb over which is which would be too much for a short comment.

The core argument that I was addressing was that somehow the private sector wouldn't be able to provide peak capacity, ergo the government would by default do a better job.

Your further example of dropping the certification requirements to something sensible, perhaps at the simplest even by just allowing nurses to do more of what only doctors are allowed to do at the moment, would apply about equally well in a government hospital as in a privately run one.

Similar actually for how to organise stand-by/peak duty, even down to how you pay your personnel. Main difference is that I would assume that privately run outfits would (have to) pass on the extra cost at peak into 'gauged' prices, and governments would just make the tax payer swallow the pill. (Or more likely, would also just accept doing a bad job and having a bad system in place. Especially if they ban the competition.)
Dogebonk kids just trying to eat their crayons and make the next 1000x dog shitcoin.

And they have to deal with this kind of stupidity.
I'm not a lawyer but I'm fairly certain this wouldn't be covered by fair use laws because the site is a commercial entity directly selling something with a trademarked name for profit. I think you'd have a hard time arguing this one in court.
> This is a limitation of the OS though.

And the form factor. It’s hard to do any serious work on a phone.
> Yet I will never be a couch potato.

Chronic injuries make liars of us all. Take care of what you've got, while you've got it.
Explain "shut it down"?
I get it. I understand that argument and it is a good utilitarian argument. What I'm saying is Tesla has proven they aren't the company to bring about that future.

Tesla as an organization has demonstrated a level of corporate sociopathy that tells me they don't take safety seriously as a culture. Surely, they tout safety as a selling point but their actions tell me they are far more interested in getting driverless cars on the street quickly than doing so safely.

You can't achieve sweeping victories in safety without intentionality. Tesla may claim that safety is a priority for them, but if that were true they wouldn't lie to their customers about the capabilities of their own products. They wouldn't eschew industry best practices as far has hardware is concerned. They wouldn't beta test unproven software on their customers and charge them for it, leading to bodily harm of their customers and others. They would fully investigate problems as they occur and definitively fix them instead of allowing concerning issues to persist for half a decade now (running into large stationary objects). There are many organizations working on driverless cars, and yet Tesla is the only one that behaves this way.

I really hope we as a community have grown past the idea that simply throwing technology into the world will have positive net benefits as long as there are good or good-adjacent intentions behind them. In fact, it takes planning and execution to ensure good outcomes. Simply doing something that can be cast as a boon for safety does not guarantee a boon for safety if safety isn't a top goal. And by top I mean it has to be #1 or #2, because any lower and other priorities eat into it.
The alternative is no pay, not higher pay. If the employer thinks that you don't meet all the qualifications that they'd like, there are two reasonable outcomes:

1. The most likely => you don't get any offer.

2. You mutually agree to take a lower offer. It's a lower offer, but it's also much, much greater than zero. You got your foot in the door, can develop your skills, earn an income, and make progress in your career instead of continuing to interview.
Haha it even keeps going

> This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your complaint to: Pope, Cathedral Saint-Peter of Roma, Vatican.
Apparently yes, I guess its no different from selling a home:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/personaluseproperty.asp....

"KEY TAKEAWAYS
Personal use property is used for personal enjoyment as opposed to business or investment purposes.
These may include personally-owned cars, homes, appliances, apparel, food items, and so on."

"Technically, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers personal use property a capital asset and treats it differently than other types of property or assets.2 Taxpayers cannot deduct losses on the sale of personal use property, while a gain on the sale of such property is subject to taxation.3"
There might be, although I would not be surprised if it was slower than the one for the link to the first because the link to the latest is dynamic. A two-step "shortcut" is to use Lua with the proxy to retrieve the link to the latest then follow that link.

To get the link to the latest, can use memento. For example,

usage: echo example.com|1.sh

#! /bin/sh
read x;
curl -A "" https://web.archive.org/web/$(curl -A "" -s "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=$x&fl=timestamp,original&limit=-1"|tr \\40 /)
The images themselves are typically hosted on IPFS or another Blockchain file store so they too can't be removed
hmm... reading western news for a while you would think china is the only one that has back doors.
I've been in this situation (acquisition 2, below). You will eventually move on to another small company.

Acquisition 1: This was a quite insane dotcom acquisition. The VP Marketing loved us and bought us. The VP Engineering hated us, and dumped all our software first chance she got. Oh, by the way, those two VPs were married to each other.

Acquisition 2: Much smoother. I stayed around for a few years, enjoying coasting after the intensity of the startup. I continued to tinker on the product, and add incremental improvements, but the days of innovation were over. I also enjoyed the huge money they threw at us (raises, bonuses) to keep people around. They really needed to do that because interesting work ceased, and the amount of stupid process and politics was off the charts. (Example: they issued us windows laptops. We promptly wiped them and installed Linux. If service was required, we would have to reinstall windows, get the laptop repaired, and then again wipe and install windows.) I eventually left for another startup.
Chose another window with the mouse to change the MRU order, then test the key combos again?
Tesla's increasing production rapidly, actually. This is absolutely a demand thing, supply is growing.
They must be becoming mainstream now. I bought my 2019 by walking in off the street when I saw a batch show up at the local showroom. Same day, had to wait for prep but picked it up that afternoon like three hours after I put the order in online.
This is a blatant scam. The clue? "NFTs for sale". Not sure how this survived HN submission and made it to the front page.

If I set up a page begging for $20 donations for a DB entry in my postgresql DB and submit to HN should it be upvoted?

EDIT:

It has a link to opensea where you can buy the NFT. So I can pay the website money for nothing in return.
Typical traffic calming techniques, such as those outlined in this brief Not Just Bikes video, would be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGOBOw9s-QM
Note that it is trivial to split the real and imaginary parts into two separate real-numbers and write quantum mechanics that way with only real numbers. Instead of i you get a 90 degree rotation matrix, instead of individual numbers you get a 2-element vector, etc.

Lacking "numbers" with the right arithmetic properties for other things in quantum mechanics, we indeed use matrices and vectors for other stuff all the time. Dirac figured he needed some 4×4 matrices in order to be able to take the square root of some operator at some point, which is how his equation predicted the existence of antimatter (because it implied the wavefunction had to be a vector with more components - some of the other components turned out to be antimatter).

But complex numbers happen to have the right properties that at least we can do without matrices and vectors for the lowest-level quantities in quantum mechanics: the state amplitudes or the values of wavefunctions of spinless, non-relativistic particles. This article is saying that you can't do away with these properties at the lowest level of quantum mechanics, whether or not you actually use complex numbers to represent them.
Ahh the “its not true communism” argument.
Redesigning Etsy's ML Platform
I suspect everyone buying this knows it's a joke but are buying it because owning a unique piece of the joke holds some value to them. Eventually this will be a mark in history, like the Million Dollar Homepage.
On a related note, I was shocked to read in Steven Sinofsky’s (excellent) Substack[1] that Gates in the early ‘90s saw NeXT as the primary rival for Windows in attracting developers. Enough so to have stood up multiple teams “chartered to compete with NeXT”.

[1] https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/009-passwo...
Absolutely. Whole roadmap is hilarious
And I thought this building was where E(vil) Corp was staging paper records to rebuild their database this whole time. Who knew?!
I think the problem is that these are only ‘regional centers’ by virtue of there being absolutely nothing else around.

I don’t think it invalidates the point that you can’t expect to find all amenities if you live in a community that cannot support them.

I’d be willing to bet that 95% of people lives in more populated places, and 90% of the remaining 5% lives so out of the way by choice (e.g. if they _wanted_ to move closer to a more populated place it wouldn’t be an undue financial burden).
I don't think guaranteed revenue is the problem, it's guaranteed employment.

We tried tying money to success in our education system with No Child Left Behind and it was a disaster. When you have an organization that is struggling to make effective use of their budget, the solution is to replace the ineffective leadership, not decimate their budget and expect them to do better.
Many talented engineers do not live, nor want to live, in California
> The future of warfare is coming no matter what we do.

I wonder if they could
have been more tautological
I will give you one breadstick (real)
Every deal is different, 80% of a share in a good company is worth a lot more than 95% of a share in a bad company. If it's an extremely marginal case then the sponsor shrinking their cut might be the difference between the retail investors pulling out or not, so in that case you might see it happen, but most of the time negotiating the acquisition and the PiPE is the hard part, and if you succeed at that then the deal is going to happen.
How on earth did they catch this guy? Curious if the victim was high profile enough to merit some kind of "real" investigation?
The trick is to keep it to a power nap, I set my alarm to no more than 40 mins in the future (extra time in case it takes time to doze off...)
The page I had seen claiming the licenses for close to 4GHz band were sold might have mentioned it wasn't really deployed so far (unfortunately lost the link :/)
I built a small x86 box and installed OPNsense and all my router woes have gone away.
We all need this. I did a DNA test and found I’m mixed European from at least 15 different backgrounds..tired of just being called ‘white’.
I've been programming for years and I still find printfs an extremely useful debugging technique. they let you debug an entire program in parallel, as opposed to the more focused single snapshot debugging you do with a debugger.
Tough to find a partner for an $18bn LBO… maybe SoftBank would be interested
Take a bicycle? Cycling half an hour (or less, can go pretty fast on empty roads) is good for your health.
I watched a presentation on the Apollo Guidance Computer recently. I'd seen one before but this one had a lot more information.

The ROM on the device was just a series of magnets and wires. Magnetic core memory without the extra wires to write the values. Instead the values were 'written' by having someone thread the wires through the right magnets. Thousands of times. It was a very surreal "wait, that's how they did that? ...well of course, how else would they do that?" moment.
You could hire with leverage. I for one would be interested in working with some vested stock. Or just add me to slack. Either way I need a web app (node python next react) job or something in machine learning. The most basic foot-in-the-door role would suffice.
The fact that they were minted for $20, and everything on Opensea right now is minimum $100 highlights the real NFT experience.
It doesn't seem much worse than buying on the first day of an IPO, when the well-connected investors have already bought their shares at the IPO price and enjoyed a "pop" to the price they're selling to you at.
This does not work in practice.
Would there have been a better way to do design beacons? The general problem is a device needing to advertise itself for other devices to connect to, other devices which might not be capable of any faster rate...

Beacons being 350 bytes is pretty stupid though... They could have been 20 bytes long, saying "I'm a device with mac address XXX, plz contact me to know what services I have on offer".
A rope is more quieter, more certain, cheaper, and can be re-used.
In a sense, this move elevates the uncelebrated Gil Amelio to the pantheon of CEOs who made world-changing decisions.
Yes, one way to look at this to get out of the "for family" mindset you've been in is to ask what it would cost them to hire a new developer or firm to build them a replacement, and maintain it. That should guide you in deciding how much to charge, if you want to continue working with them.

I imagine you are also asking yourself if you want this ongoing work. If you don't need or want the work, maybe you can agree on a scope of work to help pass the work off to another developer or firm.

I haven't been in your shoes with family before, but I have done low-cost and pro-bono work for nonprofits in the past. Fortunately those projects all wrapped up with a reasonable outcome, and no need for long-term maintenance. It's expensive to pass off projects to developers and firms that don't have an altruistic interest in a project.
Getting at new legislation
This is a problem with how people understand risk in general. The actual risk of something needs to take into account how many times you take the risk.

Something that only has a 1 in 1000 chance of death might seem like a small risk, but if you take that risk every day you will have a 30% chance of dying within a year
My naive implementation would have been to calculate `now() - signup_date > "10 days"::interval`. That doesn't trip over any year bounds, but if you sign up at 4pm then I wouldn't consider you until 4pm on the 10th day. Which makes total sense, but generally isn't how this is done when a human does it by hand.
It’s a scam in the same sense that “Bought it on eBay” by Weird Al is a scam, I suppose.
same as you, i came away from reading that book much more interested in NeXT (and steve jobs as well)

its a great business case study (especially if you read it knowing what comes later) imo
It's not a scam, it's a joke.
> It’s quite a stretch to say that tor is compromised.

1 in 300 connections were deanonymized at many points throughout this year.

For any given trustworthy VPN, 0 connections were deanonymized this year.

A truly trustworthy VPN is more trustworthy than Tor.
This is pretty typical example of culture change when moving from a small organisation to a large one. The thing that makes this sort of culture change so emotionally challenging is that involves a fairly dramatic change in values. This can lead to a lot of feelings of underappreciation and frustration, which can be overcome only by recognizing that values are not immutable and universal, but are instead highly context dependent.

Massively overgeneralizing of course, we can observe the following tendencies: Small organizations tend to value people who are highly responsive and who can work independently in a fairly unstructured and unconstrained operating environment. They tend to value people who can do "whatever is technically necessary" to rapidly solve problems and move the business forward towards it's goals.

As organizations grow, such forward progress is easily stymied and halted by interruptions and context switches from colleagues, and velocity becomes largely a function of how much such "frictions" can be reduced or eliminated. Behaviours and traits which were highly valued and rewarded in a small-organization context (e.g. highly independent problem solving and proactivity) can, under many circumstances, become liabilities in large organizations if they interfere with the smooth running of established processes, or cause disruption and confusion to large numbers of people. Reliability (and above all predictability) become far more important than responsiveness or (sometimes) raw velocity.

Needless to say, being able to adapt behaviours and attitudes depending on context is an exceedingly useful skill, and just because you were rewarded for acting in a particular way in a small organization does not mean that you will continue to be rewarded for acting in a particular way in a big organization. The two are completely different beasts, and it's the communications structure that drives the shift in values.
Ten years.
Which is also the lifetime of something that only lives for ten years. Such as your files in this solution.
> should it be upvoted

That's up to the readers, isn't it? There is no "should". I enjoyed and thought it was pretty funny
Lack of enforcement, halting border wall building, and publicly stating that America should have a kind heart and basically welcoming illegal immigration with open arms isn’t a policy change?
Filecoin is a mechanism for someone to pay to ensure that data stays available. So if a group of people wanted to ensure that myoldwebsite.com stays available through IPFS and the IA, they could spend Filecoin. The difference between it and paying some central provider with fiat is that anyone can provide the data availability. So if you don't trust IA to be the long-term provider of content or want a more decentralized provider, Filecoin lets you do that. See also Arweave.
As you can see I'm already assigned to that issue, so we've got something in the works.
I don't know anyone personally but I know Bram Cohen is the creator and know someone that runs one of the pools.
Interesting thing I've read today: real estate is becoming really expensive because it is slowly becoming more liquid on the liquid scale. Back then, it was hard to buy and sell a house, but as it's becoming easier and easier people treat it more and more like an investment. I think NFTs are trying to do the same for EVERYTHING. But, big but, not everything can be linked "loosely" to a blockchain. There's a lot of people talking about supply chain on the blockchain but so far I'm not seeing any convincing application. On the other hand art is really just about status and signaling, and it makes sense that they would convert more easily into this world.
I am guessing then that Starbucks would have sued Dumb Starbucks eventually[0] if it didn’t shut down so quickly.

“ Starbucks did not pursue legal action, although it did note to the press that it was "evaluating" the possibility while reinforcing that the "Starbucks" name is a protected trademark. Upon the episode's broadcast, it was acclaimed by television critics.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks
> Sounds to me like essentially every news organization ever.

There is a thing called journalistic integrity, it does exist and is practiced. It is also something Assange completely lacks.