skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Rackspace from 2010 to 2014, and left on very good terms. I know many people who stayed well after I did. Private Equity killed Rackspace. They had a great product, a great team, a healthy war chest, and a good business with good margins.

They were purchased by Private Equity which took a $5B company and turned it into a $1B company, after laying off all the US-based staff, sending all the support jobs to India, destroying the brand, ruining their most innovative product offers, and loading the company up with unnecessary debt.

I saw the writing on the wall, which is why I left just a few scant months prior to the buy-out. I still wish it hadn't happened. Rackspace (of that era) was the best place I ever worked in my entire career, and I still remain close friends with many of my former coworkers. I grew immensely as a technologist and a person through my time at Rackspace, and I learned to love customers and love supporting customers in a way I never thought possible having done my time earlier in my life in retail. Rackspace was something really unique and it's sad to see what's happened to it due to greed and stupidity from the shareholders and the PE firm that bought it.

One of the coolest things that happened to me was being on third-shift near the end of my shift the same morning that Lanham appeared on a talk show as he did sometimes. As he always would, he'd get them to live-dial Rackspace Support from the number on the website. At the time, Rackspace did not use phone trees or first-line, everyone was in the queue to take calls off the main number and transfer if needed. I picked up the phone on the 2nd ring (he always said, and it was true, you'd get a /real person/ with /real knowledge/ in less than 3 rings) and suddenly was talking to the CEO on air. Was super cool and a good way to the end the shift.

To go from that level of support, to get an extremely senior sys-admin (I was one of several people at Rackspace that was a "double L3" during my time there, reaching seniority in both Windows & Linux systems administration), within 3 rings, who can just solve your problem, even at 2AM, to what they have now getting stuck in phone-tree hell before being transferred to a time-waster with a script in India who'll eventually hang up on you is truly horribly sad. Private Equity has ruined SO MUCH value in the American economy, and it isn't a new phenomenon.
This is a totally reasonable point.

Interestingly, so is its inversion: "How thoughtful of the grown ups to prevent harm to other people, even knowing it won't save themselves."
This is exactly what happened at Mt Gox almost a decade ago.
Too bad smoking cigarettes gives you way more than the nicotine you so crave.
You can spoof also with TCP, don't you?
> Dumb ideas will always be scorned. That is the correct result.

So the founders had dumb ideas?

Or is it the idea of a Constitutional Republic that's dumb? Because it was designed specifically to reduce the threats posed by raw democracy.

It was only about 100 years ago that Senate elections were changed to a popular vote (17th amendment). Prior to that they were assigned by the state legislature.

Discussing the weaknesses of Democracy is dumb?

You must be much smarter than most philosophers, political science scholars and the founders themselves then.
Would you be fine with it if it worked with DANE/TLSA?

I agree that centralizing on CAs is not great, but I think encrypting DNS is in general a good thing.
> HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City

This is a good way to get subpoanaed, sued, and see every one of your start-ups fined for each and every violating post.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Jerks (2014)
It's acceptable to me.

Is there an obligation in the law to list salary range at every recruiting reference?

If not, is HN now obligated to monitor every official posting for salary range?

If you have a problem with the company, report the company.
Yes TCP DNS has been a thing since forever. All the main DNS providers support it. But as it’s unencrypted it’s still subject to MITM attacks.
This has nothing to do with screens. With books or e-readers, you just end up in your own head instead of social media. It's common for me to have to re-read the first dozen or so pages of a book several times before I finally get hooked on enough not to drift away.

However, at that point it becomes hard to do anything else before finishing that book...
It's also worth point out, if you're interested in seeing punitive justice, that you're going to steeper punishments for defrauding investors than patients. If Holmes were nailed on defrauding patients, that would add something like $100 worth of fraud for sentencing guidelines, which is nothing. But an investor who was defrauded of $100 million... that's $100 million of fraud.

You have to specifically prove every instance fraud in a criminal case, so harm that is spread very widely but very shallowly (millions of people who lost $10) doesn't scale up for a fraud case, but harm that is narrow but deep (an investor who lost millions) can be easily done.
Thanks for sharing that link. I do wish people who share tweets from the "far-right mob" would share more context. These looks like bots with zero reach that could've easily been created by 4chan dipshits trying to build a case _against_ Musk, as was the case shortly after Musk took over and we saw a surge in hate speech.

TheNoticing1: Joined November 2022

SoCallFreedom09: Joined November 2022

Ajinkya: Joined April 2017, 20 followers

alec51100718: account suspended

FarCue13%: Joined June 2022

DualityofHan: account suspended

I'm in no way defending what Musk did to Roth and find it despicable. Roth was not promoting pedophilia, and Musk insinuated he was.
Keep in mind many of the salary transparency laws have minimum employee counts before they come into effect, and iirc, the new york one requires an existing employee being located there before it comes into effect.

I'm firmly on the side of salary transparency, even if a company technically doesn't have to because of its size - but I suspect many of the YC companies in question here are small enough to not be affected by some of these laws.
once the SPR cannot be drained to manipulate gasoline costs, things will get interesting.
The actual way this happens is that there is a severe recession or depression, there is no more discretionary income for most families, and all savings has been depleted.

Then, people start working for less money because they have to. Prices drop, and it creates a positive feedback loop because anybody that does have money is going to hold onto it while its buying power increases daily.
Really it depends on why you didn’t / couldn’t.
This was said about Holmes, too. It matters what he actually ends up convicted of. Early speculation always runs high.
If the plan was to do something short term while a better, longer term fix, is put into place, that sounds reasonable.
posting a number can help confident people but hurts others

example, developer makes 100k, has imposter syndrome, sees a great job that has an internal range of 150k-200k. if the dev knew the range they’d think no way they would qualify for THAT much money. the company would happily pay at bottom range for them, but instead they don’t even see the developer.

ranges select for confident people.
My solution was to use Sonarr, Radar, Bazarr, and Plex. Others are using Jellyfin.

This setup eliminated 99% of the time I spent on all media management.
Mostly! (At the moment, it doesn't fully fix the slowdown associated with storing large binary files, but reduces it by 90-99%. We're working on improving to closer to 100% that by moving even the Merkle Tree storage outside the git repo contents.)

As for why git can't show you an accurate progress bar while fetching (specifically when using an extension like git-lfs or git-xet), this has to do with the way git extensions work -- each file gets "cleaned" by the extension through a Unix pipe, and the protocol for that is too simple to reflect progress information back to the user. In git-xet, we do write a percent-complete to stdout so you get some more info (but a real progress bar would be nice).
Google Postpones Chrome Changes
Minor nit, it takes far too many clicks to see what the language looks like.
The forfeiture in rem ones are my favorite, for instance “United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Article_Con...
Although I think it is hard to get firm numbers on this, a lot of other drugs are being cut with Fentanyl or outright substituted, including comparatively benign drugs like Xanax. There is a growing movement to classify a lot of fentanyl drug deaths as poisoning since it wasn't that the person took too much, it was that they were unaware that they were taking it at all. (Source: lost a daughter to what she thought was Xanax that was pure Fentanyl)
Fail to decarbonize? The EU will tax you.
> Getting one of two culpable people to testify against the other and let them off the hook seems a dreadfully lazy approach to prosecution.

You think there are only took culpable parties here?
> Hope AMD figures out a fix for the very high idle (>100 W) consumption when more than one monitor is connected (idle with a single monitor is also bad, but not quite as egregious).

100 W just the card or the whole system? In Linux? Because I've seen ~20W windows numbers for just the card for AMD. Mind, less powerful cards.

NVidia does do better for multimonitor desktops tho.
The simplest answer is that it discourages spending because people don’t want to buy anything today if it will be cheaper tomorrow. People not buying things is a quick way to stall the economy.
This is not what is happening here, the USDC peg to the dollar has nothing to do with this.
The problem is that Binance converts every stablecoin you deposit there to BUSD, and so if you want to withdraw say USDC or USDT even they’d have to convert them, which is apparently what they’re having trouble to do.
I'm kind of one of those streamers (went into it more in my other comment).

While I would love to have a decent number of people following me (assuming I get back into the habit of doing it regularly), if no one does, it's really no big deal, I have a well-paying full-time job anyway, I don't need to earn a single cent from it.
> more-powerful and better-informed entity

With many of these roles, it’s unclear who has the advantage: the seed-stage start-up or the key employee.
You can't in the same way, right? It seems all DNS amplification attacks use UDP.
Also pumping the price of a token without putting in actual money. When you can issue unlimited number of casino chips, you can sell an imaginary asset using as many chips as you want. Better still, get all casinos to accept each others chips to buy and sell those imaginary worthless tokens to lend credibility to chips and tokens.
Longer proteins for longer lifespan?
Because rich people like to make more money, not less
Sometimes a lawsuit is justified. There was a water slide in KCK that decapitated a kid in 2016. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt#Fatal_incident
I'd go back to Linux if the community managed to solve problems with graphics and monitor support. Having read the thread from the other day about desktop environments, it definitely doesn't sound like Linux has made any meaningful progress in the last 10 years. Apparently supporting HDPI is still problematic, only some monitors and resolutions work properly, and horizontal tearing is still a thing. I couldn't tell you how Wayland has made anything better, because people seem to be reporting the same annoying problems that made me leave Linux behind a decade ago.

This isn't to say that Linux can't work for some people. I'm at a point where I find life to be way too short to configure a Linux setup to temporarily work the way I want before an update inevitably breaks things or features are removed because someone didn't feel like supporting them. So far, my Mac has managed to do everything I've wanted without any deal breakers, and I have no reason to move away from it yet.
XetHub Co-founder here. Yes, we use the same Git extension mechanism as Git LFS (clean/smudge filters) and we store pointer files in the git repository. Unlike Git LFS we do block-level deduplication (Git LFS does file-level deduplication) and this can result in a significant savings in storage and bandwidth.

As an example, a Unity game repo reduced in size by 41% using our block-level deduplication vs Git LFS. Raw repo was 48.9GB, Git LFS was 48.2GB, and with XetHub was 28.7GB.

Why do you think using a Git-based solution is a hack compared to p4? What part of the p4 workflow feels more natural to you?
Also some time shows Ignore.
Tesla Investors Voice Concern over Elon Musk’s Focus on Twitter
Good news, she see up to ~5800 which means humanity will not blow everything up with 85% accuracy
If you had to keep it plugged in, then it wouldn't be very mobile, would it?
What does it do if your device is off or somewhere inaccessible? (sounds frustrating)
I get disappointed that I can't get interest in stories like

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-Light-team...

Fusion has the strong advantage (and disadvantage) that it is a powerful neutron source. Even a very low performance reactor can be useful as a neutron source

https://ats-fns.fi/images/files/2019/syp2019/presentations/T...

Fusion might be useful for making isotopes long before it is competitive as an energy source. In the 1980s I know scientists were looking to hybrid systems that convert ²³²Th to ²³³U and ²³⁸U to ²³⁹Pu as fusion reactors produce so many high energy neutrons that they could be better than fast breeders for manufacturing fuel for thermal fission reactors. In fact, it is very possible a fusion reactor could be used to make fuel for nuclear weapons.
Yeah, this isn’t correct. All things being equal, the first to post a number is at a big advantage. As another commenter pointed out, this is called anchoring. Think about a house being sold in a normal market, the price is always well above its market value to anchor the numbers high.

The reason companies don’t want to post a salary number is all things aren’t equal: they have far more information on pay than you do. Vastly more. So they have the luxury of letting your uninformed ask be the anchor point cause they know it’ll probably be low. Plus, if someone asks too high, they can ignore it and move on. They (often but not always) have the luxury of choosing the lowest asks to move forward with.
Has Colorado actually enforced the law?

The major difference with the NY law is that NY is actually expected to enforce it. That being said, the law is deliberately expected to be leniently enforced, starting with warnings, and only after the warning has been issued will fines be enforced.

Also, another big difference is that other major states (CA & WA I believe) are expected to enact similar laws in 2023, so most US companies are pretty much switching over to displaying salary ranges by default nationally.
That's the point. Fewer dollars chasing the same basket of goods. This slows the acceleration of price increases.

Once a certain threshold in the cost of money is reached, malinvestment will dwindle. In many cases, it already has. You're left with a system of dollars chasing legitimate investments.
Not everything works the simplest way. But you'll note that all of those subcontract lots of companies to do their building, cleaning, maintenance, decorating, HR, IT, etc etc.

The things it doesn't work for are very easily defined, and don't interfere with the fact that almost everything does work well like that.
here me out. this needs to be replicated around the world.
This is vaguely reminiscent of Theranos. It doesn't seem like it was an adequate defense for them - 'Our failure to make single prick blood tests is not fraud'. The court disagreed. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
C'mon, you know it's scummy. Obviously the person making the original deserves the audience and not the lazy look-alike.
>> One thing I really would like to have and get working, is a little selfhosted homeserver, instead of putting my websites on someone else's servers (although cheap). It becomes more peer-to-peer this way, and I'm only relying on an internet service provider.

As the cliche goes: "If I can do it, you can too" . If you have multiple sites I have no doubt you could get one up and running without much trouble.

I have a few RPI 3b+ and 1x RPi4B that I use and host from home. Mainly just to dink around with, nothing crazy.

One thing I did was get a cheap VPS ($4/m) to reverse proxy to my home.

My next iteration is I think I'm going to actually host the site on VPS but have my home network push static files to the VPS. My site is mainly for me and this way I can fully disconnect between home and VPS.

We will see, but again, this is why I have what I have so that I can play around and try different things out.

Best of luck to you!
You’re incentivized to avoid spending money.
This is incorrect. He cannot call himself a PE for the purposes of acquiring clients (that's fraud), but he's perfectly free to call himself an engineer otherwise, per the actual ruling and not a press release by a biased party.

You are correct that the ruling partially constrains itself to traffic lights, but that is because that's all Jarlstrom asked for, and this was a preliminary injunction, it didn't even go to trial!

That said, the ruling also makes clear that the Oregon engineering title laws (as opposed to engineering practice laws) "violate the first amendment on their face". And if those statutes are unconstitutional, there's no law for Jarlstrom to violate. And as such, it states " Plaintiff Järlström may describe himself publicly and privately using the
word “engineer." And that Oregon cannot enforce any of the professional engineering registration act against him for doing so.

And Oregon is one of only a few states with such a law, so in most of the US there isn't even a law to strike down, it's just clearly legal.
Do you mean like https://social.coop/, which is a cooperatively-run server? Can you elaborate? :)
On a lighter note, here's United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximate... (the shark fins won)
A really disturbing party?
Well, the first option is always to use cursor up/down and/or page up/down for scrolling. When that doesn't do the job then, yes, I use the scroll bar.

It's because I've been using Logitech Trackballs for maybe 20 years now, starting with a Marble FX and then later switching over to the Trackman Marble when they no longer made the Marble FX. At some point, I just bought five of it, in case one breaks and they stop making that one too, but none ever did break.

I just like the precision-feeling that a trackball gives me that a mouse doesn't.

Scroll bars have been getting smaller and smaller over the years and over these last couple of years I've started to really get into trouble with more and more UIs deciding to turn them off completely. Of course the people who decide to turn off scroll bars also don't give a hoot about the keyboard, which really infuriates me, when it leaves me with no option at all to scroll.

At some point I added a ShuttleXPress Jog wheel to my "rig" on the left-hand side of my keyboard and I'm having its driver simulate a scroll wheel. But I use it extremely infrequently. (...so I was totally lying when I said I had no way at all to scroll).
Yes -- "DNS uses TCP when the size of the request or the response is greater than a single packet such as with responses that have many records or many IPv6 responses or most DNSSEC responses." [1]

1. https://serverfault.com/questions/404840/when-do-dns-queries...
If the expectation is that everything will be cheaper next month than this month, that creates an incentive for everyone (and every business) to delay purchases as long as possible (because they will save money buying in the future). When everyone slows spending at once, it can lead to severe a recession or depression.
The positive replies in this thread have the biggest "bot army" vibe I think I've ever seen on HN. I could only give the cutesy, scroll-to-activate, Flash-like UX about 10 seconds until I gave up on the endeavor. Maybe it really is just me.
That's because there's no penalty for paying someone outside of the range...so it's mostly posturing bullshit.
Maybe there are ways to intake nicotine that are not as harmful as cigarettes or maybe there are better nootropics out there
The title also mentions IDEs. Haven't things termed "IDEs" always been heavier than Emacs, even back then?
Good thing we had the EVs to more than cancel out this leak
Good news! They are working on that. As a society, we can research more than one thing at a time.

If your position is that we're spending too much money on fusion research, and not enough storage and solar, perhaps you could share what you think we're spending on those things, and propose a better allocation?
I'm not defending Binance in any way, but this is FUD that is getting blown out of the water (arguably, people are on edge these days). It was pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain.

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602510004795367424

It has caused a bit of a bank run and cz says things are processing just fine (along with tons of 3rd party confirmations).

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602676998094069760

I know HN wants to see crypto die in a giant ball of flaming fire, but let's not lower ourselves to the point of just passing on FUD.

Edit: -4 incoming. I'm going to leave this here because it is worth it. I'm not a fan of FUD and neither should you be.
People, entities and states with debts benefit from the money they borrowed last year being worth less than it is today in terms of paying things back, debt to income, etc.

Also by using inflation to deteriorate savings and cash on hand, it encourages people to invest their money into something that won't lose value over time.
They will probably be the only ones who get some of their money back.
It's deeply bizarre to me that there are so many posters on here who think a fund that: 1) invests in, 2) advises, and 3) provides free job advertising to; various startups, has no responsibility to advise them to follow the law when posting those job advertisements on that fund's own job board.

I understand the ones who raise the possibility that some of these aren't, in fact, breaking the law, for one reason or another, but the ones who seem to take offense at the notion that YC might have even a sliver of responsibility here in the first place are really surprising.
I agree!

- Breakthrough: a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development

- Milestone: a significant point in development

This is clearly neither 'sudden' nor 'dramatic' and should NOT be celebrated or acknowledged as a 'breakthrough'. This level of journalistic malpractice is worth noting, and I have contacted the author on Twitter to voice my disapproval.
Well, for start investors put in dollars while customers put in some funny coins... It is hard to defraud someone out of some made up money...
as a non-native speaker, unless requires additional time to parse than "if not"

Also note that unless itself contains another negative ( < medieval onlesse)

It's just easy to see if more than one conditions are evaluated:

if (!ruby_dev && cpp_dev)

vs

unless (ruby_dev && !cpp_dev)
How’s Coinbase holding up?
For US Museums with Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over
Probably because the USDC is being held in a real bank account controlled by some unknown 3rd party who lives in some country without an extradition treaty.

Gives you a warm, fuzzy, secure feeling that everything is perfectly safe doesn't it?
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Is there some reason why this kind of stuff is typed up on a typwriter?
Connections purchased with money only last as long as the money does.