skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask? If you dont know what the meeting agenda is, its a waste of time. If they're not sure tell them what you want out of it. If you really dont care about anything like career progression or finding out about the organization I'm sure the manager would be glad to stop having one, but its your chance to shine and/or find out what you want.
The article specifically uses "Shelob" as an example of a desirable name. The comment you are replying to is not a straw man.
I got into infosec consulting perfectly cleanly, as did most of my peers. Sure some of them were involved in shenanigans in the distant past, but that is a very broad brush to paint with and seems out of place here given zero specific knowledge about Mudge and what he may or may not have done just because he is in an industry where some people occasionally did some questionable things in the past.
Yeah it's not easy with alcohol either. Many people have almost no impact on their cognitive abilities or reaction times with a BAC of .08, while others could be legal to drive with a .06 but shouldn't be.
no need for active radar. just have your guys at base watch your flight path and route you safely.
this way you can deactivate your transponder and still be not of danger to anyone around you.
I’d imagine this is how they to it
Unity has also gotten a bit intimidating to newcomers these days.
Memory leak because of console.log? Wow, news to me. Not that I really ever use it for much since I believe in writing unit tests over outputting logs to the console. But I can see how others might get bitten by this for sure.
Any reasonably sensible adversary can also just run their own ADS-B receiver. In fact, literally anybody can do this.

Shutting down the twitter bots will help absolutely nothing, just hide the problem.
None, that's how I survived them ;)

I worked in an industry that's highly cyclical and had major consolidation over the last decade (HDD/SSD storage). We bought several companies and they would do layoffs roughly every 18 months or so.
That's the benefit of Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

Air power is of little use if your forces don't have access to the relevant area. The Baltic states are surrounded by Russian bases and air defenses, while NATO bases are far away. Right now, Kaliningrad is effectively a fortress that separates the Baltic states from the rest of NATO. Sweden and Finland give NATO air forces the option to bypass Kaliningrad and operate from bases that are closer to the Baltic states.
Military aircraft frequently operate with ADS-B off even here in the US. The whole premise is nonsense. If a military aircraft is being seen on ADS-B it's because they want to be seen. I think the author is trying to make a point about tracking movements to and from foreign nations, overseas bases, etc. but sometimes the point is to let them know you're coming.
Constant interruptions, forced socialization, and unhealthy food definitely don't help.
Turkey are an important member of NATO and they know it. They’re also hosting US nuclear missiles.
This is cool. It would be interesting to see some stats like how many separate requests are needed for a single SELECT statement, since S3 charges per GET, even on a small range, I believe. Obviously that would depend on the query and various DB settings like page_size, etc. Also wondering if this does aggressive local caching for the same reason.
What I'm wondering is why an alternative social network has not gained more wide spread adoption, at least in the nerd community(looking at you, HN reader).

It seems to me social media is ripe for disruption.
The character controls and animation feel satisfying
How exactly do game engines monetize, can anyone shed any light? Is it via additional support in using the engine for large companies? A freemium model like Unity's? But didn't even Unity succumb eventually to supplementing monetization via ads?
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean you should criticize his opinion.

I'd just like to understand better on what mathematical basis he is basing his opinion.
I wish they had not gone with uint32_t for storing mtimes, since they now have to deal with the 2038 problem, sometime in the future.

I am surprised they didn't directly use time_t, so that they wouldn't have to deal with this (since some platforms have already gone to 64 bit time_t)
As simple as hitting a button on any decent BT headset.
G.E.B is hegelian philosophy without one mention to Hegel and more mechanic than organic

Anyone read the Phenomenology of Spirit and notice the same ideas?
What I remember is that something happened to Larry Niven (did he have a health problem like Heinlein did?) and then whenever there was a Niven book it was always a Niven-Pournelle book which wasn't as good as a Niven book. Pournelle was also known for his right-wing politics.
I'm guessing this is the Twitter link you meant: https://twitter.com/TizzyEnt/status/1569439160561442817
Depends on the use-case.

You're probably thinking of home use (where, if you're buying a Mac, you're probably also thinking ahead and investing into something to move its files around); or maybe university lab use.

I bet the GP, meanwhile, is thinking about (pre-university) educational use-cases. Public-school computer labs were a big part of Apple's market share from the late '80s until the early '00s.

When I was small (late '80s), we had a single Apple II per classroom. Those machines has no networking or storage, other than the 5.25" drive. Usually we weren't saving anything, just using stateless educational software/games; but every once in a while, we'd all be run through some program, which would save our work to a single shared classroom "state" floppy.

Later, we had computer labs full of Macs (Color Classic IIs, if I recall), but still no computer network — nor assigned seating in the lab — so saving data on the lab computers themselves was pointless/untenable. Instead, we were expected to bring a 3.5" floppy disk to school with us to save our work on. It was a school supply!

And that's basically how computing in schools continued to work, riiiiight up until the iMac era. Which is both when there began to be no economical data storage medium you could expect every five-year-old's parents to easily purchase as a school supply (flash drives were "pay a premium for portability" products in 1998, not the commodities they are now); and also when computer local-networking stacks began to really be standardized (no more AppleTalk, only Ethernet), lowering the barriers to schools building IT competence, and so enabling even elementary schools to start setting up computer networks, with user directories, roaming user accounts, and central file storage.

But despite now having a place to save things at school that didn't require any disks, you were suddenly put in a tough spot if you wanted to bring work home with you. If you weren't one of the rich kids with a USB stick, then email was pretty much the only solution! (Not necessarily actually sending email; I recall people opening webmail, attaching documents, and then saving the message as a Draft.)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/

Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him in that country.
There is a old prayer that goes something like:

May God grant me the courage to change things that I can,
the patience to endure the things that I can't,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
I always use the third option: broadcast fake data
The Kings Road
Would you tell us more how that training translates in business/management? Are there good training materials we could look at online?
That's there now:

https://bazel.build/build/bzlmod
Patreon probably feared pressure from the Apple App Store.
It's a winning model.

Who would have thought that paying for something is correlated with positive expectation of outcome?

Someone should formalise this business model.

I'm just spitballing, but I might call it: Doing business.

I'm not sure what's going on with internet ads.

I've blocked them everywhere I can.
You're textbook correct, I think, but in general I never really understand the CEO who makes a statement about trying to do everything they could to prevent this from happening but there was no possible other situation than laying off X amount of people who were significantly contributing to the company.

Not that this was said in this particular case so directly. This is just a general thought.

How is funding so tight that cutting the 1% of money going to these people is going to make all the difference? It's not even a total 1% gain, there will be some lost productivity making it somewhat difficult to measure.

If you truly tried everything, couldn't the CEO or other executives take a tiny cut? Not that I expect them to, I'm just saying if they truly did everything within their power to prevent it, like is often said.

I mean, sometimes I give a significant amount of my salary, like 10% as donations / tips / handouts and expect nothing back. These aren't even people I did something bad to, like forgot to pick up when I said I would, or felt guilty for spilling food on their carpet.

Surely in situation where I messed up and caused a problem for someone, I would do whatever it takes to make it right. I wouldn't just say "Well, that's what you get in this system of inviting friends over. I'm not technically required to do anything. I guess there's nothing I can do (including picking up the mess I caused or paying to have it cleaned)"

I've seen similar large donations from people who truly struggle to pay for rent and food even be similarly generous. Sometimes people will live on limited food or delay getting an apartment if it means helping out an acquaintance.

If you make millions of dollars, you don't need to worry about these basics. You'd think it'd be easier to take a personal hit which probably will have actually 0 impact on your life (literally no change-- keep on golfing, vacations, etc), rather than supposedly living with the guilt, as is frequently said, of people struggling to survive because you wanted to save 1% of your company's money for a few months (before realizing you need to hire and retrain people from scratch.)
> Accounts are eligible to receive interest on balances. The interest rate is the Federal Funds Target Rate less 50 basis points with a floor of 0%.

Target rate right now is 2.25-2.50%, so i'm guessing that you are subtracting 50 BP from the lower end, so that's 1.75%. That's actually pretty good for a bank right now (not the highest, but certainly on the higher end.

One thing that's unclear... is this a checking account, savings, etc.?
And it's also precisely what helped such people the most. Abolition, and other pertinent topics, were regularly and vigorously discussed and debated in America. This was happening at the same time that in Britain calling for the end of the monarchy was punishable by death, later converted to merely life in prison. And incidentally, that is still the law in the UK [1]. Quite a relevant aside since while it was ostensibly not actively enforced, police are currently being quite heavy handed with protesters against the royal accession process, and that law gives them every legal right to do so.

The point there is that had we lived in a country where censoring speech was legal, there's every reason to believe even speaking of e.g. abolition could have landed you in jail, or worse. Would this have deterred change? Maybe, maybe not. But the one thing is for sure is that it'd have made the country a far less free place for everybody.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_Felony_Act_1848
The garbage area at a lot of retail stores is fenced off behind a padlock. Those places live in constant fear of someone making use of their trash for reasons other than making the trash problem worse.
Youtube is a traiwreck anymore. Thankfully when this came up here a few weeks ago a users pointed out that the subscriptions tab is there to just show you what you're subscribed to.
I made a similar sqlite vfs in Go[1]. I really love the VFS api. HTTP range queries is about the most mild thing you can do with it. The VFS implementations that use non-traditional backing stores are more fun. Like say, using DynamoDB as a read/write backing store for your sqlite database[2].

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp

[2]: https://github.com/psanford/donutdb
Guava is an outlier. While they do honor semver, they’re already on version 31.1, meaning they have felt they needed to break backward compatibility dozens of times, and it’s likely your dependencies require conflicting versions just by accident of when they were written. I guess it’s because the maintainers live in a monorepo and just force any changes they need?
Is there any service like this for individuals? Specifically, I want to be able to open and close checking accounts at will with different card numbers, with different spending limits. The purpose would be to serve as an envelope system and budgeting tool.
Ratio?

One example isn't very telling.
> what they did here with the equity, especially the option exercise period, is a nice touch.

But it's not all that great. Patreon is not publicly traded, so it seems likely that exercising any options will require cash up front, plus it will immediately trigger taxable compensation (income tax plus FICA). And how will the FMV be determined, if there is no public market trading? (ans.: usually just some number voted on by the board). It may well be that the options are never worth anything even after the extended period.

It is clear that these are not ISOs (statutory options), because statutory options by law only allow up to 3 months to exercise after employment ends.
Yeah. And resolve QFT + { QG || SQG }
I've asked. The answers are always vague. I don't know what I want out of it. If I want something, I'll have already reached out anyway, so it seems to me that the meeting is really for them.

> its your chance to shine and/or find out what you want.

Except, of course, for all the other communication that happens!
Here's a 2019 California appeal decision that on the most simple face of it would have invalidated convictions based on non consenting collection of DNA. In this particular case the appellant unfortunately for his fortune subsequently voluntarily provided DNA samples. Whether this could theoretically be overturned on lawful search grounds for procedure and investigation leading to arrest is my speculative question.

California v. Marquez:

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2019...
If people are only allowed to have opinions when they meet your equity and other purity standards that's a tyranny.

And yeah, there are only two choices, a) require purity checks for voters and scale their vote arbitrarily by the standards of the current rulers, or b) give everyone an equal vote.
> That doesn't happen without having any skeletons in your closet identified and investigated.

Yup. They would have gone in with a proctoscope, and would not have tossed him an ID card, unless he could completely convince them that he's good for it.

If they are looking for dirt, they won't get it. I assume they are intelligent people, and know that, so maybe they are actually doing what has been suggested; looking for as much accurate information as possible -either way.

NPD is a multibillion-dollar company, because they sell accurate information; not information that people want to hear (how they get that information, well, that's another matter).
How could you tell that Russia was "hard authoritarian" when Putin came to power? I don't think there is a meaningful distinction.

I also think it's immoral to intentionally keep any country poor, whether authoritarian or not. I don't know where you live, but I would certainly not want Czechoslovakia to be intentionally kept poor during communist dictatorship just so that some Western politician could stroke his ego about how is he fighting against communism. I think that's very authoritarian and patronizing idea, to do so. It's just a double whammy for citizens of such countries.
Show HN: A simple app for tapping to count
Tap the squares to count up.

Tap the number (of squares tapped) to count down (usually used when you tapped somewhere you didn't meant to and accidentally incremented).
It's not heavy lifting. It's not hard work. It's turning on a radio receiver.
And Russia has been invaded by most of the European countries in the same time period. Starting from the Intervention and Poland's invasion to the invasion by Germany and its allies.
Even if they could, a hard fork can be made. Thats the beauty of open source! If, by some mystery they were able to do so, someone would continue the work
Patreon has a shit ton of NSFW stuff so I'm not sure if this decision was overturned or if it's just limited to actual live actor pornography.
MacOSX has a great deal of BSD in it. iOS, maybe not, although it is a fair bet that its TCP/IP code originated in BSD 4. But anyway that code did not come from Bell Labs.
Yes, except that is not a market outcome, that is government intervention into the market.

That is substantively different from a government granted monopoly, wherein it is illegal to create a competing business.

The point is that monopolies are a natural market outcome, and are what created Google. Does Google continue to exist as it is because the government has chosen not to do anything? Yes. Welcome to the free market.
I didn't see my question in the FAQ, so asking here: do you have a process to contest accidental inclusion of an IP address?
If you want to see this line of thinking taken to TempleOS levels, https://media.urbit.org/docs/hooncard-2022-04-03.pdf [PDF]
During the dotcom days, when employees had desk phones, some of my coworkers would get unsolicited calls from analysts or other people searching for inside information about our company. They would engage them in conversation, try to become friends with them over months so that they could reveal even the smallest bit of inside information for them.

The lengths that people will go to get some sort of information edge to make money, even doing illegal things, is incredible.
curl -X "POST" \
--url https://api.increase.com/check_transfers \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${INCREASE_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d $'{
"account_id": "account0",
"address_line1": "33 Liberty Street",
"address_city": "New York",
"address_state": "NY",
"address_zip": "10045",
"amount": 1000,
"message": "Check payment",
"recipient_name": "Ian Crease"
}'

Well it would certainly be nice if I can send a rent check from my command line!
Maybe? I generally agree with you, but playing devils advocate:

What does the generation raised on Minecraft and Roboblox do when they grow up? They spent their adolescence in virtual worlds. Do they grow out of that? Or does it start to bleed into other parts of daily life?

VR still seems clunky as hell, but if the tech gets less obtrusive I can imagine a world where a sizable chunk of daily life is mediated through a headset.
See: https://github.com/litements/s3sqlite#alternatives
> I'm not convinced there is such a thing as natural talent. (there is such a thing as lack of talent)

....That doesn't track.

If there is such a thing as lack of talent, then "talent" is just "not lack of talent".
heya! i'm casually interested in the space, and also have been tracking Column (https://column.com/)

to a distant observer, you look similar, but i'm sure there are real differences between you, so I'd love something like a "top 3 things to note" about Increase vs Column, in a least-getting-you-in-trouble way as possible - its hard to compare because i dont know what I don't know.
Yeah, its pretty out there. I like it though, because besides the awful aesthetics, the attitude feels very "punk" and even a little countercultural. Its not for everyone and I can't blindly recommend it, but I like it for those reasons.
Naming is hard.

I mean, there's a reason the old joke goes:

"There are only two hard problems in computer science; naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors."
Diablo, a Direct-Drive Wheeled-Leg Robot
I don’t understand what this has to do with twitter
dammit, my life is over - goodbye family
I was going to joke that maybe it's being controlled by some underpaid overseas contractor - but then realized that might be true. Are these really fully autonomous?
Considering that the article was written by a General, and posted on USNI, I'm inclined to believe the title is intentionally antagonistic. If the title was more neutral, such as explaining that the data is publicly available, and affects more than just US aircraft, it wouldn't be an issue. Something like, "Publicly Available ADS-B Data Reveals Locations of Military Aircraft". Calling out Twitter is not necessary; It's ADS-B's fault, not Twitter.
I don't think it has anything to do with common sense, from reading their guidelines it sounds like they just ban NSFW stuff all together.
It's a B2B2C product (sold to businesses that are building consumer fintech products). There are a bunch of neobank fintech startups whose offering is "Banking for X", where X is some segment of the population with specific needs that are not well served by traditional banks. (Here for example is X = "Spanish speakers in the US".) [0]

To build a startup like that, you need to build a product layer on top of a banking API, which lets you avoid having to write code that hooks into payment rails, interfaces with credit card manufacturers, stores credit card numbers, etc. Now you can focus on the differentiating aspects of your user base instead of building common banking infra.

There are a bunch of companies that offer banking APIs as a service already. The most popular of these is Galileo, a 20 year old company that was recently acquired by SoFi [1]. The developer experience of Galileo is absolute trash. I haven't used any other companies first hand but I've heard they're not much better. So presumably Increase is trying to provide an actually good developer experience for devs building banking products.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/seis
[1] https://www.sofi.com/press/sofi-to-acquire-galileo
An IPhone 14 base model in Nigeria costs $1,571.57 after taxes, where in the US, the cost is $881.64 ($799 + taxes). Why is the cost in Nigeria so much more? Tariffs? Taxes? Even with a US salary that would be pricy. Japan is the least expensive country, $831.43.
I fear you missed my point.
While I'm not sure it requires "less maturity", DH released a subsequent book titled "I am a strange loop" which is an attempt to condense his ideas from GEB.
Wouldn't that mean if a platform changed time_t formats it would invalidate all their stored files?
Synapse FI (https://synapsefi.com) -- They have been around for awhile.
or is it like a Plaid in the sense that you could build a Robinhood ontop of Plaid... or are you meant to be starting like an "MVNO Bank"... so many questions

honestly i dont think its their fault, this is such an alien space to most of us that we just need more handholding than normal
I remember, in 1999, my friends using a website called imacfloppy.com to transfer files to themselves via the internet. I suppose it was the dropbox of the day.