skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The DOJ sought to prevent the loss of classified information which may or may not have ever existed related to spying programs that may or may not have ever existed. That's well within their responsibilities

Really? Wouldn’t most people think a Department of Justice should be actively hunting down and prosecuting those who illegally spy on US Citizens?

I mean they’re supposed to work for us, uphold our laws and constitution etc. If employees of executive branch agencies conspire to defraud citizens of the United States of their most basic rights (4th amendment?) isn’t that a crime they should be pursuing?

Instead they seem far more interested in suppressing evidence of the crime.
Can you suggest some games of the second category? Enter the Gungeon?
Bob Ross of code? Iñigo Quilez videos.
So where's the Free Software/Open Source car in the year 2022?

Maybe in the U.S. we can build one out of corn?

C'mon, who's with me, "Hackers News"? Let's hack!
Coinbase is a dumpster fire. I moved states and they suddenly disabled my account. Which is fine, but they have now been holding my staked Ethereum hostage with no ability to withdraw.The support team has no capacity, ability nor the company has installed much incentive to help (besides hitting their resolution time metrics) even if they were willing.

I only air this out publicly since, it seems by design that they want to delay or prevent withdrawal of your funds. And there is no other recourse.

Explicitly caution everyone to move your holdings to a hardware wallet, and never stake anything on Coinbase. Not your keys, not your coins.
+1 for INSIDE - super dark, but extremely creative.
Yup - this is a very useful tool. It doesn't have the same status as a binding, legal contract. But it does make it a lot harder for them to wiggle away from what they were initially promising you.
It's much more complicated, with multiple pages and login screens and such. I believe it's maintained by the same folks.
I am toying with various ideas and want to do something similar here in the UK in few years. Would be great if you could share some resources on this?
I think the most important distinction between the various scenarios is who was it that put these alternative approaches in place? Was it a consequence of public backlash and potentially against the will of the political class (which is what would be required in the US and Canada), or was it an initiative started by, or at least supported by, the political class?

Another important aspect: if the public isn't sufficiently intelligent, or isn't interested in such things, how did that state come about? Does the government play any role in setting educational curriculum? Does the media play in any role in what the public focuses on, considers important, etc?
The client has access to the address book and it is hard to verify what the client does in reality. I receive updates of the client every other day and who knows what it brings with it.
I thought the game was designed for two people to share a single controller??
Kudos to Japanese scientists, always pushing the boundaries!
> Fun fact is I now work with DJ.

Would you mind to tell us what you do? I can only imagine legacy or a mix of legacy and highly specialized niches using DJGPP nowadays.
Even if you get these answers as an interview candidate, once you've joined the answers will become outdated … and for most of it, you won't be getting updated information.

While things like successful rounds of funding do get shared, enough information about the health of the company (e.g., revenue vs. expense? over time? runway? how expected projects you're working on either will or do translate to revenue, and how much?) to make a meaningful decision about whether the company is worth investing in or not just isn't ever shared, IME. With no real information, there is only one value that can be assigned to the equity: $0.
It has none of the songs from Kids Learning Tube. https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kids-learning-tube/9933602...

This is not an obscure artist. They have over 1 million subscribers.
I'm sure insurance companies would love that too (as an excuse to deny claims)
Diesel.... Electric Trains. The Engine burns Diesel to run the generator that runs the engine.
Yes! You can watch the first public demo here: https://youtu.be/BQMnlKMFD8M

It required four (I think?) copper pairs to each handset, one for the audio and three for the video. And it was expensive.

Not a huge surprise it didn't catch on. Mostly I was just joking that it's disappointing there isn't a video payphone in space. ;)
Maybe you're searching for, or selecting and purchasing, the wrong items?
On 12th gen they disabled it on the P cores too even with E cores disabled with a microcode update. A lot of newer systems don't have access to the older microcode, and microcode doesn't typically let you downgrade.
unfortunately, this is bad maths.

Open the company anywhere the founder(s) is/are. Just pick a reasonable location if you have many options.

The reasons being that you should never run a business without accounting and legal advice, so you will have someone take care of it for you, and the cost will always cover the risk of doing it yourself poorly.

And when you’re successful, you can always hire more legal/accounting or relocate.

I’ll conclude a bit more harshly: If you’re somehow relying on the costs of operations to balance the success of your company, you might as well just reconsider.
People can and do speculate on collectables. The difference is that there is underlying value in the collectable. There are people who would like to own a Babe Ruth signed baseball just because it is a unique piece of sports history and have no plan to sell the baseball when the price goes up.

Speculation on that asset can make the price go up far above the underlying value. But that comes at a high risk of the price falling down to the underlying value. For crypto this underlying value is basically zero.
A Dyson sphere is just as much fantasy as physics, true of most of today's technology just 50 years ago.

Solar and wind are needed today, but Starship could bring launch costs down enough that some highly optimized space solar panels with microwave power beaming could be viable within a decade.
The problem with tomato sauce is that it's cheap. The sugar is there to mask the poor quality. There are good tomato sauce brands, and they taste much better, but they cost twice as much. I like Rao's personally.
Syberia 1, 2, 3 from the late master Benoît Sokal. Or Spore, come to my mind as some of the most striking examples.
They are noticed in the Parker Solar Probe. At closest approach it get's to 590,000 kilometers per hour (aprox 360,000 mph)

"Parker Solar Probe passing extremely close to the Sun; what relativistic effects will it experience and how large will they be?": https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/348854/parker-so...
> That's why you can solve a single subgame in Two Envelopes game independently of other subgames, even though it's an imperfect-information game.

Obviously the EV of envelope 1 is the contents of envelope 1. If you know the probability of reaching it you can calculate the expected value of that envelope by multiplying by the probability of reaching it. But why are you multiplying by 1/2? Probability is defined in terms of sets. What are the set that makes it 1/2? Does that set contain only the subgames that are part of the subgame you are in?
It seems you are slightly misunderstanding the point of 'unsafe' as a concept.

And no, memory safety is a huge deal, it is just that the borrow checker cannot verify the soundness of certain code, meaning you have to provide the guarantees normally given to you outside 'unsafe' blocks.

Yes, this means that a few data structures require 'unsafe', but you should be creating safe wrappers around these structures;
'unsafe' won't propagate up your code and poison everything.
Why most startups will fail to convince investors (6 min video)
100% agree. I got a new MBP in 2020 and its sound is shockingly good. I had never experienced decent sound from laptop speakers before.
I get a feeling that this is a roundabout way of simply anonymizing the ID in the data when it is collected, as have been done a lot in studies. The problems with this is that our behavior is unique enough that is it often possible to find out who you are (or what demographic you are in for advertising purposes) from your actions, no unique identifier needed.

One example of this is when our national newspaper (NRK) did an investigation[1] on "anonymized" GPS data, and could easily find the identities of the persons they belonged to.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/avslort-av-mobilen-1.14911685
Yeah, it was about ethnic cleansing of Albanians.
The government as a whole is the enemy of the people. It's why the founders put in place provisions to protect the people from the government (protections which the people over the centuries have kept removing).
I think the problem is much harder than we think it is. In my experience, when you "hand build" a model of a codebase, either in your head, in your head plus notes, or in an actual diagram, you make *a lot* of executive decisions: what relationships you focus on, at what level, whether to include implicit or dynamic relationships, etc. None of this is easily automatable, and some might be virtually impossible to.

Compare that to something like a call graph, or a module dependency diagram. The last will be more complete, but will convey *much less* information than the later.

This varies with technology, some will be more friendly than others to this kind of tool, I think that the more dynamic, the worse, but even in very static and consistent language, I would not bet on any tool being better than the brain's parser for a long time.
The cassette tapes and clips in the movie theater were my favorite part of the game (still haven't unlocked them all)
Diligence on the startup so you know what you're getting into. Also prevents early employee churn because people feel duped once they look under the hood.

The greatest frustration is usually around: 1. feeling like your equity cut is not enough once you know what other people are paid; 2. not knowing how much you pay in exercise cost / taxes / exercise window until it's too late

On 1, there's a growing DB of startup comp here: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
They used a gov run mailer and they don't have access to the database.

Would you like to expand on your "initial vibe" and Brave being "sketchy as shit"?
Hear hear! Spotify's UI/ux choices have frustrated me more and more over the years. Do any of their employees use their clients? Why is artist not a column that I can sort. Why such terrible uses of space? What happened to the social features? I'm not on any social platforms but it'd be fun to easily see, share, comment on friends' playlists.
https://www.openmotors.co/download/
VW used slave labor, as did the American plantations. Even today, forced labor is rife in some industries, like shrimp fishery in Asia.
This might interest someone: "Vectorized Operations extension for PostgreSQL"

https://github.com/postgrespro/vops
Nobody joins a blockchain company for the humanity. The whole point of the blockchain economy is to the remove the human element.
Bosniaks -> Albanians. Happy now?
It seems to be a fairly high-performance approach.
I'd love to see the VHS tapes with lessons that teach you C
That's what a severance package is. Good companies pay severance and don't make you come into work.
If you look at what posted that has nothing to do with USPS Direct Mail. I also can't tell you how bad of an idea it is to pay money and register with advertisers who are already sending you unsolicited mail.

> Which Postmaster General did you speak to again?

I filed a complaint here:

https://www.uspsoig.gov/form/file-online-complaint

And got a call back around 2015.
Or they are just addressing the hyped up outrage generated by certain people.
Better distract ourselves with the 'one day it will happen' rather than deal with what's on our doorstep now which we are causing and we can control, but won't.

https://explosm.net/comics/the-future#comic
Salt, water, very strong forces, and a lot of things want to stick to it and build up layers of sand and organic material. And getting trained professionals that can operate in that environment is costly, slow and dangerous.

Beyond those, are there any additional problems from the environment?
Honestly, first time I am hearing this concern that a source control system can be a monopoly. This doesn't seem to be a concern for most of the open source projects that I use every day, they are all hosted on github.
Do you mean this: https://topstartups.io/
The title on the cover is "License Information Free and Open Source Software". Is the CD just copies of the licenses or does it also include the source?
I guess one can get a good feel of it by reading. I do think it is a bit dogmatic to say that they need to be seen than read. The really poetic fragments one can better appreciate reading at ones own pace than watching it being performed is my view.
Whether you get answers depends a lot on the size of the company.

Fewer than 10 employees... those interviewing likely know the answers and will share.

Between 10-50 employees... those interviewing may still know the answers and may still be open to sharing them.

Above 50 employees... it is increasingly likely that this information isn't known by more than a few people (those involved in the fundraising, accounts, senior leadership), and that your interviewers do not know it - if they know it at one point in time it's out of date quickly (next raise). It quick becomes something that only a very few people know and the information isn't useful/constructive to those focusing on execution (those who will be interviewing you).

The questions are good... but if you don't get answers and would choose not to take the roles on that basis, then you might want to chat to a lot of people who have been early stage and done well - because very few got answers to those questions.
Not only open the books, but be forthcoming about answering those questions in a way that is very easy for employees to reference without needing to look through detailed cap table info.
Taxes, oil revenue, even private entities...
Reading this thread (and remembering past pains) I posit that things are too complex almost everywhere.

Some innovation-minded billionaire should buy an island - a white spot on the map (not this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand) - and create a new jurisdiction optimized for incubating remote startups.
Recessions are definitionally 2 quarters of consecutive shrinking GDP growth so 1 quarter of shrink can not qualify as a recession
The US is immensely different in terms of culture. Europeans have language differences and they've got old historical stuff, but the difference between Masschusetts and Texas is huge. Including food. This is complicated by large liberal cities falling into pockets of similarity.
> There are legal avenues for whistleblowing through IGs and/or Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal

In this case the legal avenues were followed, yet the Director of National Intelligence decided not to inform Congress of the whistleblower report, despite being legally required. The administration could have squelched the report if Michael Atkinson hadn't informed Congress himself, and of course Atkinson was later fired by the President.

Why should a whistleblower trust the very administration they're ratting out?
This is really strange. A lot of currency exchange points in Istanbul also have USDT signs if you ask them.

There also like 3-4 points close to Grand Bazaar with BTC and USDT ads on them.
I went through the whole Coinbase interview process at the Staff level a few months back - I thought all their interviews were fair and represented what I would have been doing there as my job. There weren’t any LC questions and the algorithm questions were all based around doing crypto related things.
But given how universally the linker is required, it might be worth looking into optimizing.
I helped make Meadow, a non toxic MMO where you basically run around as different animals.

It has maybe around 10 players during the evening in Europe now so it pretty empty (designed for worlds of 50 players max) but it's very calm and wholesome.

You only communicate with emoticons and the story is none unless you count role playing as story.
How would capturing the beamed energy on earth be any easier than capturing sunlight directly?

Maybe illuminate existing solar arrays during nighttime? Any other energy receiver would be so far behind PV on the price / manufacturing learning curve
Yes those are the ones I was thinking of, thanks!
One of my friends recently interviewed with them. He told me about the experience he had and it seems like the worst experience I've ever come across. The interviewers he had were working on their job during the sessions, and one guy wasn't even allowing a quick Google search for some python 3.5 syntax reference.

The questions asked also seemed to be outrageous and silly for a 45 minute session. Felt like their process suits Machines rather than actual engineers lol.

Additionally, the entire process according to him was badly mismanaged by the recruiter so it feels like one of the worst companies to work at.
> including that mailing campaign is exactly what I don't want in software that allegedly puts the user first

I don’t get what the issue is with the mailers. The names being present or not isn’t really important as they just bought distribution lists and mailed stuff to them. Whether they print the name or not, they know them. This seems pretty normal and reasonable for a “growth hack” and still preserved privacy.
And generally PRC citizens don't believe they're living under totalitarianism either. Most drank the koolaid that CCP is whole process democracy that kind of works, and democratic perception index or other surveys consistently reinforce this notion. Sometimes groups of people simply don't see the virtue or recognize charade of multi party indirect elections that allows any incompetent candidate to run. Expanding on "real thoughts", reoccuring theme is PRC diasphora in "democractic" countries with "free elections" are not particularly impressed by what they see in terms of state capcity versus PRC system. Nor the millions of PRC citizens that travel abroad to these countries and returns to China freely.

Sure, no one wants to be unfree, but majority prioritize things like wealth or security while actual freedoms have also dramatically increased since the 90s - even accounting for Xi's rollbacks. People bitching about politics online is like par for the course for any system, the very fact that people can bitch including IRL about politics is sign of how free PRC has gotten vs pre 90s. Granted it's lowkey like it's always been, including under Hu. Reality is for most people from develping countries, which PRC still straddles, "freedom" is fine, but other things are finer and worth putting up with autocracy for.
I don't want a severance philosophy, I want a package.
This is where my point about culture being PvP rather than PvE is important to understand. Cultures are in active conflict with other cultures. It's like marketing; do you need $X dollars to inform people about your brand? No, but if you don't spend it, your competitor will, and take you to the cleaners. You can't rely on fixed targets like "supplying a mosquito net for every family" or "delivering 100,000 doses of the MMR vaccine to this region." You are playing an iterative game, and new strategies will be discovered, exploited, countered, and become obsolete. The language of art and how it must engage with people is in constant flux; no one views Shakespeare's plays as low-brow entertainment any more.

Further, art builds on art. Less so now that copyright has strangled the ability of artists to expand on each others' work, but a community of artists working and improving alongside one another does produce better art. Sturgeon's Law is in full effect; 99% of art produced is crap, but it needs to be supported so that the 1% that actually matters ever gets made. And artists often improve best when they have bad examples to analyze; of cinema, it is said that it is easier to understand the rules of film-making from a bad film than a good, because the mistakes are in full view.
France tried years ago.

Incredibly expensive and inefficient.

I love the concept but it just cant compete with Solar , Nuclear or Fossil Fuel...
Maybe because reality is way more complicated than you paint.
“I don't think I follow your point about income level”

it makes sense when you consider that TLAs basic function is to preserve the status quo for wall street. we subvert democracy overseas to preserve corporate profits and have been doing so for many generations a la United Fruit Company, selling weapons to saudi arabia, etc.
Let's see: terse syntax, sigils ($str, @array, %hash), weak typing. Many years ago (like 10+) I used to use it for one off scripts, but I now use Python for those. 20+ years ago, I used it for CGI scripts, but that paradigm is basically totally obsolete.
Ooh, I owe you one beer for this link. :)
This might be Crypto.com's best investment. At least it can be sold off to someone else.
I recently did a round of interviews specifically targeting series A and series B companies and this is a pretty accurate summary. Some interesting things that were offered to me:

- Unlimited nomading or work anywhere in the world for the same pay

- Extremely generous PTO (by USA standards)

- Quite generous WFH equipment stipends
Crypto has been that volatile for years. If they didn't see that coming, they have their heads up their asses.
I have a hard time taking advice from someone who starts with such a broken premise: She's looking for something external like her job to make herself happy before she'll invest deeply in it... rather than realizing it's the other way around. Investing greatly and making progress on something, combined with gratitude will make us happy.
To the moon is one of the two games where I legit shed some tears at the end. That game (and its sequel, Finding paradise) are hands down the best story games I have ever played.
Keep in mind that the Turkish government is planning to heavily regulate the crypto market too. I remember reading that they were going to require a license for companies operating in the crypto market, and forbid transfers outside of licensed operators, which makes the whole idea kinda moot (unless you're in for the speculation), since at that you might as well just keep your money in the bank.

On the other side, I remember seeing one Bitcoin ATM in Istanbul.
You can get all of those things at a non-startup. Having worked at a handful of startups and non-startups, I am skeptical that a startup offers those things at above-average rate the justifies the downsides, which are, from my experience:

* High pressure to work at all hours, because a startup is fragile
* Extreme financial uncertainty
* Many QoL concessions

If you're not accepting a generous equity package in exchange for ensuring that the startup thrives and succeeds, you're missing a huge opportunity for exchanging hard labor for potentially high return. It's like buying a lottery ticket without filling in the numbers.
I recently got a MB and it did brought it, so at least latest models still do on the US.
It was the first thing he tried, and he was blocked by Congress who refused to fund the shutdown operation.
For me, Hades is the clear aesthetic winner among those.
DJ is a well-known compiler developer at Red Hat who is also working on Arm and RISC-V support (https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/). I work at Red Hat on Arm & RISC-V (amongst a few other things).
Talking about consuming in winter the solar energy collected in summer. Which is an important factor the further you are away from the equator. Most energy in homes in Germany, for instance, is being spent on heating - mostly in the form of burning oil, gas, coal and wood.