skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minority shareholders including employees should get similar protections as investors often get in shareholder agreements - e.g. in this particular case it would have helped to have 'tag-along rights' which would have legally required them to be able to sell at the same conditions as those executives.

Not particularly likely to happen, but perhaps we can push towards this somehow? Because otherwise that stock loses much of its worth as compensation.
Because they don't need to be strong. I like to establish basic Quality habits. This is one.

I declare object references as weak (or, sometimes -quite rarely, unowned) by default. If they need to be strong, either the compiler will let me know, when I try assigning to it, or the runtime will let me know with a bad access crash. Much quicker debugging than chasing reference loops. Crashes are actually good. I find the cause fairly quickly. I usually don't declare local scope variables weak; only ones that escape the scope.

I have found that I seldom need to switch to strong.

I also do other "useless" things, like setting the constant before the variable, in comparisons:

"Good Grief" == whatCharlieSays

I also tend to "in-name" incoming arguments, like so:

func compare(thisValue inThisValue: Int, toThisValue inThatValue: Int) -> Int

I also write @IBOutlets as explicit optionals, like so:

@IBOutlet weak var someLabel: UILabel?

as opposed to the default:

@IBOutlet weak var someLabel: UILabel!

This forces me to unwrap everywhere. I avoid implicit optionals like the plague. I use a lot of guards. I will unwrap implicit optionals in system-provided resources, even though it isn't necessary.

I don't really care whether or not they are "necessary," or what others think of me. Every little bit helps. I'm very conscientious about the code I write.

I write it very quickly, too. Once something becomes habit, it moves rapidly.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit"

- Incorrectly attributed to Aristotle
They are saying you should have just posted the link in the top/original post itself rather than as a comment. That's usually how it goes on HN so that people don't have to search for your specific comment with the link, they can just go to the post and see it there.
Perhaps get into someone else's early growth business and learn from their mistakes, I mean help them grow, and then take those lessons to your own next thing
This is a difficult problem in many SaaS verticals, I call it the “Oooh problem” because your target audience on social media is always saying “Oooh” to every new product and feature they come across and it’s one of the reasons that software gets so bloated, full of checkbox features.

As an entrepreneur it takes an enormous amount of patience and discipline to not get sucked into building for Oooh People.
Something tells me you are doing something wrong.
We are using Kinesis. It’s fine. Great actually. We still need to store user logs and generated data persistently. Cold storage is also not an option. This is data that needs to be accessible the moment the event that generates the data happened. Don’t want to push my product too much but I run a synthetic monitoring comopany. Check my bio and you’ll get a gist of the type of workloads.
Comments like this are always tough because on the one hand, (a) 20 years of experience is a lot and there are lots of interesting things to share out of that, and (b) denouncing entire cultures is internet flamebait for sure, and the kind of thing we routinely ask people not to do here. No doubt (b) is why users flagged your comment.

This comes up a lot in other cases too, e.g. "My spouse is from $country and I've learned that they $foo, $bar, and $baz as much as they can." Or: "I'm from $country so I get to say bad things about them."

In general, the "eschew flamebait" rule (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) has to take precedence because preserving the forum is more important than any specific discussion, and we're constantly trying to prevent this place from drowning in flames. It's really easy to understand how a comment like yours would land with someone else from $country (in this case Argentina), someone living there, someone having family from there, etc.

I don't have a great suggestion for how to rewrite a comment like this, except to say: reduce the generalization, be less judgmental, and instead emphasize your particular experience.
It was quite clear what I was saying; the study of science is better at improving our ability to see the world "as it is" than things like alchemy or prophecy, and yet Newton pursued the latter two things much more, despite being a brilliant person. In other words, there is considerable evidence that he did not see the world "as it is".

>Understanding and contemplating on both creates a Wisdom. Intelligence can only take you so far, the world is way bigger than science could ever be capable of containing.

If you believe that, say, trying to create gold by mixing crushed rubies with distilled water while Saturn is in the seventh house of the moon demonstrates that someone sees the world "as it is", then the onus is entirely on you to show that. In the meantime, I have no problem declaring you wrong. Moreover, the above comment is full of platitudes that aren't really relevant to the discussion of whether or not very smart people see the world "as it is". I'd rather not digress any further, so I won't reply again.
At the end of your day: your cell phone will be stolen.

My cell phone: will be returned by my neighbor.

I'll take the "bias" in the numbers all day lol
He's amazing!
There's an open-source platform called Appsmith that may be worth taking a look at: https://www.appsmith.com/
You mean inducing FOMO on others?

Quite a predatory kind of marketing, but I can believe it makes companies give you more money on the short term.
Yes, we're building that capability. With 2.0 we made our protocol stateless and can tunnel it through HTTP now, allowing access to full APIs of our clients. (Although EdgeDB also exposes a REST endpoint that you can access with any HTTP client from any language).

We'll be working on tightening and adding the necessary security mechanisms to allow exposing the DB directly to web in 3.0 and onward.
The same could be said about half of America in regards to Jan 6th. Doesn't necessarily say anything about my or Plato's beliefs.
That would imply a whole lot of foresight, though.

Related: one of the coolest monsters I've seen in recent fantasy is Cthaeh from the Kingkiller Chronicles. He's an evil, omniscient being with near-perfect foresight, but he's stuck in a tree. Speaking with him is terribly dangerous because whatever he says to you is guided by a.) his perfect knowledge of all possible futures, and b.) his desire to maximize harm.

The elves did what was probably the most sensible thing they could: wall off the area around the tree and kill anybody who interacts with it in order to minimize its ability to affect the world.
It always depends on the use case. A good example for an application being better because it is web-based is vscode. With code-server the possibilities are almost endless.
This was revolutionary for me as a developer.
Nursing homes use lawsuits to demand friends and family pay off medical debts
So you argument essentially is that economic conditions dictate that within a few decade, there will be no restaurants in major cities.
Kind of. Proper word is decimation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

Romans knew what they are doing!
Our society isn't incapable. The United States of America is, for reasons plainly explained in TFA: the federal law enforcement in the US (where only 3.x% of humans live) is not constrained by the law, and they regularly and routinely break the law and suffer no consequences, as documented in painstaking detail in this instance.

The problem isn't "our society"; the problem is the FBI being lawless and the DoJ refusing to hold them to account because they regard them as the "same team".

Somehow, our news media still reports FBI statements as implicitly true, and the media-consuming public takes it all at face value. This is astounding to me.
I’m not sure what “social engineering” means in this context, i think i would just call it “talking to people”
I’m not the most extrovert of people, but give me a beer or four, i start talking to people, sometimes i end up in places i don’t expect to be, but i call that being social
I think the heirs should read the article ;)
Why does an executive deserve to de-risk more than other employees? If anything, that's backwards. Who the hell doesn't want to de-risk? Why is that option only given to certain people, as opposed to offering everyone at the company a chance to sell 10% of their shares?

I'm sure it's legal, but it absolutely is fucking the employees over. Saying "the employees could have negotiated better" is kinda just playing the thunderdome card. Employees can't reasonably prevent company insiders from fucking them over with stock shenanigans. That's part of what makes the practice so insidious, and why public stock markets are so highly regulated.
You are incorrect. Swift's standard library is named "Swift" – and it is automatically imported. You can refer to something in the standard library implicitly `let x = Array<Int>()` or by specifying the standard library's module `let x = Swift.Array<Swift.Int>()`.
This.

If a device I own (even if just nominally) does something I've instructed it to, and nothing more - that's fine by me. Computers doing their job, honestly.

If a device is programmed to report on me to someone and I haven't explicitly asked it for this - that's not fine, no matter the intent.
Any differential privacy experts care to weigh in? Is there a differential privacy method that can introduce a specific amount of noise in voting results in order to not fully hide nor fully reveal specific representative voting records?
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Oh a 2050 plan, wonderful. How many more oil spills until then?

Do you think that BP deserves the same rating as an EV company?

Do you really think that Tesla deserves an average rating in the automobile industry?

The same score or lower than the automobile companies who were cheating on emissions tests!

Turns out you can just say you have a plan 30 years in the future and be good.
If you read this and think it is serious I suggest you read it thinking about it as an elaborate joke, which is how it comes across to me.
> AeroVironment and their history of developing light-weight long-endurance aircraft. Beginning with the Gossamer Albatros

Before the Albatross there was the Gossamer Condor, which is the one that won the £50K prize mentioned in the article. For some reason the name of the aircraft wasn't given.

I remember when this prize was won. I was taking Unified (MIT aero-astro department requirement) and this achievement astonished me.
Safe deposit boxes in the USA are not safe.
> So this seems to buck the trend of needing enormous models, by being smarter about taking into account the output from running the AI-generated program on test cases.

i'd be curious if it finds degenerate solutions and what they look like when the test cases aren't conceptually complete...
We will never ever, ever see an audit of military spending.

A few years ago the Admiral who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs shocked me by publicly throwing out the number (if I remember correctly) of $7 trillion that the DoD couldn’t account for. That would buy a lot of lunches for hungry children in our country. Anyway I was shocked by his admission, although I think his estimate is too low.

What our country needs is more patriotic people like that Admiral who at least occasionally inform the public.
I disagree.

All arguments I have seen that math are universal are in my opinion circular or using assumptions that are specific to our species or even to our western culture.

For example communication with alien, by assuming that math is universal, has been proposed by sending string of prime numbers that represent 2D pictures with this algorithm:
(https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/extraterrestrial.pdf)

1* Create a rectangle

=> Assumes a 2D picture has the same meaning for aliens, even for some humans it is not true.

https://theconversation.com/blind-in-the-mind-why-some-peopl...

2* Divide it into units, such that each side has the length of a certain prime number.

=> Again this is a very visual way to think, even insects would have problems with that.

=> We have an interest in prime numbers which may not be shared. Factorization of prime numbers considers couples of numbers --typically 2D mindset-- what if aliens are more interested in factorization of triplets? After all it would be more logical to send graphic information

=> We have also a way to understand numbers and operators which might not be universal, for example "zero" is a weird number with some properties different from other numbers. Even IEEE had to invent NaN (Not A Number) which is not a mathematic concept in our culture. Aliens might see zero as a null operator (instead of a number) that could be composed with multiplication and division operators.

3* Encode images into the rectangular grid by making each square black or white (or a dot or a dash).

=> Again this is a very visual way to operate

4* Take apart the image row-by-row or column-by-column and make it into one long pattern.

=> Again a very visual way to operate, in addition more symbols will be needed to mark the end-of-line and end-of-picture. This is not told as the whole idea is to transmit symbols through math, so the need for extra mathematical symbols ruins the full concept. Indeed if there are end-of-line and end-of-picture, there is no need for the factorization of prime numbers trick

5* Transmit the message.
Maybe I should run all the bills through the wash, a new form of money laundering.
> Also C# is not traditionally a game development language. It has automatic garbage management for which game development happens to be on of the few areas where that is not exactly ideal.

Are you forgetting about the now decades worth of games made with Unity? C# works perfectly fine for games, GC behavior can be optimized, it can be transpiled to native code, it has a huge ecosystem and is very easy to pick up. .NET 6 or 7 are faster than ever, while Unity is stuck on an old version of Mono, too.

It's certainly easier for devs coming from C++ or Java than "weird python-like scripting language that we had to invent and are now stuck with".
DataRobot is unusual in that the "money off the table" was geared for non-founder executives.

But the "secondary's for founders" is not that unusual - it's typically used as a tool by VCs who are in competition with other corporate development opportunities.

AKA Clubhouse had several suitors for acquisition (including Twitter it's rumored) but Andreesen added a few million bucks of liquidity for the founders to bridge the gap between "guaranteed liquidity" vs "non guaranteed but potentially greater upside" (1)

But then of course you have all sorts of eggregious examples over the past several years of Johnny Boufarhat @ Hoping taking $100m+ out or infamous Adam Neumann pulling out $700m+ from WeWork(2)

(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/05/15/andreesse...

(2) https://sifted.eu/articles/secondaries-taboo/
WebAssembly impact on the future of programming languages
Those stateless app servers are the easy part. But you need to be replicating the data, with all the cost and complexity decisions that comes with it.
VCs who signed up for this deal are idiots. Now their DataRobot investment is practically worthless, because CEO cashed out and most important product people are going to leave the company.

VCs who sign up for these deals should think more than one step ahead.
Yeah the data stores are the ones that I would always keep multi AZ no matter what. Everything else is stateless and can be moved quickly.
Aurora can replicate the data but doesn't have to keep a hot standby AFAIUI. You can then start a new instance in a different az but the process is semi manual.
My opinion, I tried to make a quick side project, not for money,just to help someone. So the idea is what is the tool that takes me less of my free time and works for doing the job, fuck look and feel I need buttons and test only, I am also on Linux but the app needs to be cross platform and I will not buy Apple shit or Windows to do this, I done the project in Electron , I don't love it, I think is kind of a shit architecture, a duck-taped thing but it does the job for me.(also I personally prefer GC languages over c/c++ and Python syntax is not for me).
But if you pay me tons of money I would build you native apps, on my free time and money I will use a shitty toolkit that does the work it suppose to do. IF Microsoft would not be an evil and stupid company maybe we could all have been now making cross platform C# apps but the bastards really wanted it to be Windows only, nice job MS.
Or, the redundancy actually causes a failure, so not only have you spent more money but you’ve reduced your availability doing so.

(Or worse, the redundancy causes a subtle failure like data loss.)
I barely ever used Postgres, but I’m curious - does Postgres support some sort of extensibility, so that something like EdgeDB could be just another plug-in that you could package into Postgres?
>I tend to think it was circulating in rural Hubei, probably coinfecting domestic animals and people, getting better and better at infecting people until the market event happened which was where it found a densely packed human population where it spread with R0 significantly greater than 1 and took off.

How would a virus that's medium good at infecting humans, but not yet amazing at infecting humans, stay in rural Hubei for years without escaping?
> Experts say it’s not that simple, and that establishing a causal relationship between any given variable [i.e., installing ALPRs] and fluctuating crime rates is no easy task

No kidding. I'd rather cops didn't get to use technical or automated surveillance tools without a warrant, and certainly not as an anti-crime dragnet shopping spree, but here we are. ALPRs and red-light cameras may have mixed impact, but so does policing in general.

> Another possibility is that Flock’s license plate readers helped police apprehend a relatively small group of criminals who were responsible for the bulk of the crime in the area.

Splitting hairs between preventing opportunistic and organized crime

> two men [...] were pulled over and handcuffed as police pointed guns at them, after an automatic license-plate reader incorrectly identified their rental car as stolen.

The ALPR correctly scanned the plate, but the hot sheet was out of date. This also happens without ALPRs due to bad policework.
Okay, but are they choosing these people at random?

Your worth should be based on your skills (meritocracy) - not by winning the lottery and how much people will pay to influence you (luck).
It doesn't have to go away entirely to be worth making a change. I get probably 100x more email spam than physical mail
This is a feedback cycle. It's hard to become "responsible" and able to form your own opinions if you hardly ever get the chance.

Too add to that, if those who do express their own, dissenting, views get pilloried for it, who is going to want to start learning to express theirs? The usual answer is the thickest skinned and the most extreme.
I believe I'm in a greedier boat...my roommate is allergic to pineapple so I order it for the same reason. I don't want to threaten them with chemical burns for eating my pizza but if that's what it takes.
I've found that a lot of the recipe sites I use have a button that takes you directly to the recipe (after all I'm told that the life story is for SEO purposes). I just am so used to skipping over the cruft that I skip the button as well.
Everyone works and is productive in different ways.

Would love to include your ideal setup if you’re up for it.
Yeah, makes sense if explicitly stated. Not everything is worth the money.

However, in my experience, the people doing the calculations on that risk have no incentive to cover it. Their bonus has no link to the uptime and they can blame $INFRA for the lost millions and still meet their targets and get promoted / crosshired.

The people who warned them and asked for funding are the ones working late and having conf calls with the true stakeholders.
Write APIs using direct SQL queries with no hassle, let's rethink about SQL
That's actually crazy. It sounds like they're just fundamentally not paying teachers well enough to make the job worth doing...

It's actually crazy because kids are literally our future and educating them seems like such a low priority, but I imagine most of the people who implement these policies have the means to send their kids to private schools, but I fear what the average person will be like in a few generations of severely underfunded education
Mantine v5 – A fully featured React components library
Yes, my point was that it is not complex to setup and maintain, but it is not free.
You need a high level relational projection system that can operate on multiple dimensions simultaneously, shaders or SQL are ideal for taking advantage of parallelism.

Esp if you can operate symbolically, think triple nested loops where the inner loop is some expensive projection, if it is over a regular space, and can be decomposed as a tree. I think this language could be represented as a Wasm DAG of functions, map/pmap/apply/tree_call/reduce

Having a spec and a body of software to run but no test oracles for how that software runs feels contrived. If you have megabytes or gigabytes of code but not even screenshots of how it should it should look when it runs isn't the same as having a book in a dead language and not knowing what it should sound like.

> However, the third cart was a metacircular interpreter, so in some sense it potentially represents a kind of reference implementation — just, one you couldn't use until your UM was running well enough to run it.

This is a great example of a test oracle. Fixed-point correctness.
It's amazing how far you've come since Demo Day! I regret not making time for you then!
FYI, when I sign up with the form at the bottom, the "Thank you! Your submission has been received!" message appears under the white parsnip SVG (`.footer-snippy`) and obscures some of the text. Observed on Firefox v102.

Otherwise, this looks really cool!
knowing the limit is not the same as knowing the WHY
I didn’t read any judgement in the parent comment. It just states that those setups wouldn’t work for them.
A lot of things Charm is doing is pretty neat, but until they're packaged by major distros (my home distro of Debian still has none of these; and for such a niche tooling, I'm not using your third party Debian repo), they're hard to fit into anything I expect to run anywhere.

Also, have you ever considered rolling your own pager that can self file watch and remember scroll position across watch iterations? The Glow markdown reader is neat, but I'd like to use it with vim in a way where :w automatically refreshes Glow running in another tmux pane.
> Why does an executive deserve to de-risk more than other employees?

Yes. The SEC used to prevent insiders from selling stock until two years after the IPO. That ended some time around 2006, I think.