skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups often have liquidation preferences in the fundraising contracts. This means investors get paid out first in a liquidity event before anyone else.

Imagine the founders raised $20M in exchange for 50% of the company. The founders make precisely zero if they sell the company for less than $20,000,001 because the investors get first claim to their share up to the amount they originally invested.

If the company goes out of business and the brand could be sold off for $50k, it doesn't really benefit anyone to do it. The VCs have better things to do with their time. They probably spent more than $50k researching and securing the initial investment. They are in the game of chasing 100x returns, not trying up their lawyers trying to reclaim peanuts. Plus, they don't want to sell their failed brands to someone who might sully their name by association. The founders would get nothing anyway from a small sale, so they just move on. The assets end up in limbo somewhere and no one cares enough to do anything with them while they wither and die.
The general problem states see is that metropolitan regions are more productive and produce more taxes, so in many cases the state cannot necessarily wash its hands of cities.

The largest municipal fiscal crises in the nation so far have been NYC in the ‘70s and Detroit. There is also the case of Puerto Rico, although one could argue the feds have more culpability there since its status as a non-state subject to federal laws makes a lot of avenues for resolving crises illegal.
I think this works well if you think about sampling traces not logs.

Basically, every log message should be attached to a trace. Then, you might choose to throw away the trace data based on criteria, e.g. throw away 98% of "successful" traces, and 0% of "error" traces.

The (admittedly not particularly hard) challenge then is building the infra that knows how to essentially make one buffer per trace, and keep/discard collections of related logs as required.
I couldn't use HN without this.
Solid point and good example
it also implies paying protection money to be halal, which goes to spread islam in the west
This is a great proposal.

It would have been a good opportunity to leverage the AES-PRF construction (see tosc.v2018.i2.161-191 in addition to the original paper), whose overhead is negligible. But unfortunately, FIPS restrictions is why we can't have nice things.

If FIPS compliance is not a requirement, AEGIS (AEGIS-256 in particular) is a more efficient alternative and on the standard track.

But when only FIPS-approved things can be used, AES-GEM is a nice way to solve a very common problem.
I was laughing too. Yes the legendary typhoons slamming into SF yearly, how could I forget.
I'm thinking that if a range of XML markups can delimit and separate out metadata (e.g. HTML head v body), then heck so can JSON. Maybe not prettily.
Thanks to both. Just the forum announcement wasn't very helpful for people outside the community.
I don't it is true that Windows tries to prevent\warn about the loading of a downloaded dll file and even if it did that wouldn't be a security boundary which is really what want to be relying on. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic...
> local meetups

Pandemic + work-from-home has killed many, many local meetups. It's great that some are still running where you live, but what was a great resource to meet colleagues, learn something useful, hear about open opportunities no longer exists in many places.
I think everyone has to pick a strategy for consuming material that works best for their brain. For me, when I read textbooks, I tend to read them front to back. Only a fraction of it sticks on the first read through, but I accept that. I've tried to go really slow and do all of the exercises to make it all stick, but I usually just run out of steam and give up. I'd rather just get through the whole thing.

Then, in the future, when I find myself needing some concept from the book, I usually remember at least that it is in the book. Then I go back and read that part more carefully. Now that it's relevant to a real problem I have, I tend to remember it much better after the second read through.
Show HN: I built a Screenshot app to transform your old screenshots into mockups
While revamping my website and portfolio, I struggled with outdated project screenshots that didn’t fit current device screens. Many of these screenshots were never used because they looked unappealing.

That's why I built Framex.app: a tool that lets you convert any old screenshot into a polished browser/desktop mockup of any size, or place it directly into a mockup.

Originally, I created this tool for personal use, but it turned out to be incredibly useful for anyone working on websites, brochures, or portfolios.

Check it out: www.framex.app
1.) BRIDGE NETWORK: The default network in Docker, it acts as a virtual switch, creating virtual ethernet interfaces for containers and providing them with IP addresses.
Analogy: A physical network switch that connects multiple devices, allowing them to communicate with each other.
Why It Matters: It provides basic network functionality for containers, but offers limited isolation and requires port exposure for external access.

2.) USER DEFINED BRIDGE: A bridge network that you create manually, providing more control over the network’s configuration and isolation.
Analogy: Creating a separate network segment within your home network for specific devices.
Why It Matters: Offers improved isolation compared to the default bridge, allowing you to define specific networks for groups of containers and control their communication.

and more ...
> So either Americans just don't care much about cozy shops any more, or American commercial real estate rent is too expensive, or some combination of the two are making it unprofitable to have a cozy coffee shop in American cities these days.

It might also be more profitable to operate a location as a kiosk than as a larger cozy shop.
aha no, not like that.
I am searching for a reliable source, especially in baseball and player statistics. Anyone who used anything would be nice to hear if possible.
These are records from 2022. The hack wasn't carried out the second the calls were made. You really need to keep the records that long to do your billing? That's absurd.
Author here. Seeing all of the positive comments about my book is really warming my heart. I appreciate everyone and I'm glad so many people have enjoyed the book. I put a ton of time and love into it and it's gratifying to see it had the effect I'd hoped for.
The project now which is taking the most of my emotional energy is gentling a feral cat which has had me questioning what it means when I say "I love my cat". I know he needs a better space but until I can get him neutered I have to keep him in a smaller room that he can't escape from.

I cried all the way to the bus station one morning because I was so slow to help him and it cleaned out my soul and when I got on the bus I had a "meet cute" right out of a movie.

It was the kind of event that could change the way I spend my spare time and it has reactivated my interest in image making and printing so this weekend I am scanning an old science textbook to print some cards with the Mascot character "Iggy". Here is one pic

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112780705488252948

I have a system for printing cards that have "three sides" in the sense of an image, some documentation on the back, and a QR code that points to a web site. For example

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112345803041544935

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111819415515904907

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111275639588948846

Something changed in the software and that system is in pieces on the floor, I have to put it back together so I can reprint old cards to fill out my portfolio as well as print new cards.
Some people just like to watch the world burn?
I'm pretty excited for this form factor, but that very few of these vendors provide any bios updates is deeply problematic.

Eventually maybe possibly we'll see some with Coreboot support, which would hopefully help. And hopefully AMD will make good on its word & OpenSIL will become a viable replacement for the binary initialization packages. There's already significant progress getting Framework booting on Coreboot, hopefully this can help set the trend. With hope, this would let users maintain these systems & keep them up to date. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Coreboot-WIP https://doc.coreboot.org/soc/amd/family17h.html

I'm crazy excited to see a war for better cooling. USB-PD created such amazing pressure to make chargers better. Ideally we can measure & assess cooling similarly, see market competition for better cooling keep evolving. We need review sites to be measuring thermals & noise closely creating comparison pages to get beyond marketing speak, where we're not really sure what we're getting. Fingers crossed.
Why would it not be? What data is it illegal to view? Other than perhaps CSAM, which I would strongly hope Disney don't host on their Slack.
A little while ago I got a $250 Ryzen 5 laptop with 16GB of ram and a HD display. The keyboard is awful and its not great at gaming but it has a lot for the price.
> you find your notes spread across various files, tools, and services

That is a problem I've experienced too. Therefore I currently write my comments in plain text in the IDE I am using (WebStorm), which saves them as text-files.

I used OneNote for some time but I realized there is a lock-in because it saves its notes in its proprietary format. And now it seems its content can only be saved online on Microsoft servers.

On the other hand if there was a clear rationale as to which type of notes belong to which tool then using multiple tools can actually help you find your note later.

For example: Use your fridge-door for post-it-notes about what food we need more of.

This may have something to do with the "Memory Palace" -techniques. You can remember things better when you can associate a path to finding them. Food? I must write a note about the food. Where should I save it? Preferably close to the fridge, because that is where most food is.

Here's a trick I am using to write my coding-notes: I actually write and save them in files with .js -extension. I can have multiple such files for different aspects of notes. I can write notes about my app specification in one file and code-notes in another file, and what was done and what remains to be done in yet another file.

That means my notes are comments in syntactically valid JavaScript files (which exists only to store such notes).

Now I can use the Expand/Collapse feature of the IDE to collapse all comments to their first line, which is the title of the note.

I can also save real JavaScript functions within the same file and have them syntax-highlighted, so I know the code-examples are valid JavaScript.

I also use a WebStorm macro to generate tags based on current time and/or date. Saving them with the note allows me to refer to that tag from other notes. A bit like hyperlinking, but for text-files.
So this is weird, but I never saw people buried above ground in Amsterdam like in New Orleans. What the diff? Even if cremation is common now, it probably wasn’t a hundred or two years ago?
Weekly Scroll: Humans Are the Problem
The ban* on billboards on Interstate highways was thanks to a famous Texan, Lady Bird Johnson.

* The few you do still see today are legacy billboards that date from when the legislation was passed, around 1965.
That's pretty horrifying. In which country is that? Of course just because your country fucked it up and went all digital for the lulz while dismentaling traditional Infrastrukture, making life impossible without a phone, doesn't mean all counties are doing it so I can't really see this as a threat where I lived before or where I do now or where I'm planning to move to.

And to be fair, buying stocks for your kids is a pretty niche case in terms of "surviving on society without a phone". Even in person, the bank will want some ID for that. So if you want to do it on your phone of course they'll want some app they control.
> especially considering any such exploit would most certainly hit their bottom line/stock far beyond a few 100k.

This assumption seems misplaced. Can you give an example of a security exploit seriously impacting the finances of a publicly traded company?

This is also on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505 and I really doubt AT&T stock will suffer significantly. Maybe they'll miss Q3 targets, but they'll be fine. All the execs will get their bonuses.
With how big and aggressive Disney is I'd expect it to be under ongoing litigation 24/7/365.
> climate-change induced typhoons here (near the SF Bay Area), and hurricane-force gusts

What the Bay Area has seen is nothing like actual hurricanes.
What happens if the train in front is a passenger train (a passenger pulled the alarm handle) and the train behind is 30 cars loaded with coal, steel beams or diesel fuel?
Who gave PG&E the monopoly in CA?
This is still not nearly enough to reach parity with market prices. Try offering a few million.
I am an American. I have worked with other Americans and with clients in 25 other countries. I have been in business for 25 years.

There is no evidence, from my experience, to support the contention that ANY country "sucks" to work with. Some countries are annoying about taxes, but that's not a cultural issue.

The United Arab Emirates can be tricky to get into. Don't break the law while you are there. But they are used to skilled foreign workers, and treat them well.

I no longer go to China. The Internet situation (and political situation) is not good, there. Also, their English is not good enough, for my needs. But I still wouldn't say they "suck" to deal with.
That brings back some memories... Having just started learning Java I wanted to create my own language. It wasn't that bad, I even managed to implement an operator precedence algorithm without looking it up. It worked by scanning the list of tokens and each time finding the highest priority subexpression. There was no recursion involved, just good old manual pushing and popping on a stack.

The problem was that I didn't really understand parsing so most of the language was implemented using copious amounts of string.split and string.replace, predictably leading to some concepts not being nestable. Really wish I had archived the source code for that.
98% of the world doesn't even know that details like this exist.

They never have the opportunity to question the sensibility of one or the other.
Yeah, the innumeracy is strong in that one.
For someone who has sporadically worked through large parts of the dragon book over time (I'm not sure the dragon book is appropriate to consume from cover to cover), and written a couple of tiny interpreters and compilers for fun -- will committing the time for Crafting Interpreters book be revelatory or more of the same? I've long been curious.
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> Hyperlinks are the best thing about the web

Indeed. Well, hyperlinks and URLs.

URLs are the cornerstone of the web. A precise, universal (hopefully), long-lasting (hopefully) way of referencing articles and other resources. It's always frustrating to see people fail to appreciate their brilliance, e.g. search this on YouTube rather than just pasting a link into a message. Giving a write-up a permanent home on the web can certainly help give it visibility, and help the author avoid writing up the same ideas again.

Related classic essay: Cool URIs don't change. [0][1]

[0] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865484
here you go:

Disruptor, Thompson, Farley, et al 2011

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1....
I am >95% certain is was a joke ..

(but after looking at the comment history, maybe less)
> Find me a list of cases

https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/UNITE...

Emphasis mine:

On whether platform APIs (like those in a web-browser) can be anti-competitive:

> Apple has used one or both mechanisms (control of app distribution or control of APIs) to suppress the following technologies...

[...]

On the need for neutral API access as a tool to increase competition:

> Messaging apps that work equally well across all smartphones can
improve competition among smartphones [...]. Apple makes
third-party messaging apps on the iPhone worse generally and relative to Apple
Messages, Apple’s own messaging app, by prohibiting third-party apps from sending
or receiving carrier-based messages...

[...]

On the suppression of APIs for third-party services:

> By suppressing key functions of third-party smartwatches —including the ability to respond to notifications and messages and to maintain consistent
connections with the iPhone—Apple has denied users access to high performing
smartwatches with preferred styling, better user interfaces and services, or better
batteries, and it has harmed smartwatch developers by decreasing their ability to
innovate and sell products.

[...]

On the use of privacy as an excuse restrict 3rd-party APIs that are not restricted for 1st-party services:

> In the end, Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple’s financial and business interests.

[...]

If you need it stated even more clearly:

> Apple selectively designates APIs as public or private to benefit Apple, limiting the
functionality developers can offer to iPhone users even when the same functionality is available
in Apple’s own apps, or even select third-party apps.

This is directly analogous to what Google is doing here. Shipping a by-default extension which takes advantage of a distribution channel (Chrome's list of default extensions) that is not available to 3rd-party developers. That extension grants Google access to a private API that benefits Google while limiting the functionality that third party sites can offer their users, and I quote: "even when the same functionality is available in [Google]'s own apps."

You do not know what you are talking about.

> Have you considered some people actually deal with anti trust on a day to day?

And I hope to God that you're not one of them.
I think it’s also the SI standards pedants who can’t imagine a kilogram might be a different context than a kilobyte.
Firing Myself
Protection from untrusted input is something that has to be considered in any language.

Not yet been a real world concern in my career, outside webforms, which are handled by framework.
You missed non-state political motivations. There are plenty of revolutionaries and so-called terrorists around.

It appears that this is actually the case here, as it's supposedly about artist's rights.
But… Look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You’d never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.
> The statistics agree with our lived experience

The statistics without explanation mean nothing. They are just numbers. You need to show causal link before making any conclusions from that data. Interestingly, the same research you quote includes some information about it with indication that stay-at-home life is dictated by circumstances:

> The recent rise in stay-at-home motherhood is the flip side of a dip in female labor force participation after decades of growth. The causes are debated, but survey data do not indicate the dip will become a plunge, as most mothers say they would like to work, part time or full time.

Apparently, this is the stated preference. Your personal situation is also mentioned there (highly educated and affluent "opt-out" mothers are said to be "relatively few").

>Especially if you restrict to women who are capable of a STEM career? Based on my direct experience with a woman who got her MRS in math, I'd expect that actually they are quite intelligent and self-aware

Sounds pretty much sexist. 99% of population are capable of STEM career, it is only a matter of motivation, education and avoiding prejudice. Intelligent and self-aware women can spot toxic environment faster and make career choices where they can avoid them. Being "opt-out" mother is often such a choice. I have seen examples of it many times.
You are correct about Rust not being mentioned explicitly, but I am yet to see a stream comments about memory safety coming out of say the Java, Python, Go, Haskell, etc. community. Then again, maybe I am wrong?

As for petty. "[B]uilding a new browser in 2024 using an unsafe language is such a facepalm it's hard to take the entire project seriously." sounds pretty darn petty and dismissive to me for a project that is making good progress. We desperately need diversity in terms of web browser implementations and "not taking seriously" a project which could very well become viable within the next few years solely based on their programming language of choice feels wrong to me (even as someone with next to no love for C++).
>really helped me internalize the concepts, and they are useful all over the place, not just in compilers.

Which are some of those places? Parsing data formats could be one, I guess.
What type of notebook?
The truth is that you too can insert your personal biases into Wikipedia. There’s nothing stopping you. The only catch is that it requires insane dedication. You have to be willing to edit and post and comment tens of thousands of times per year. You have to memorize a bunch of dense Wikipedia policy so you can rules lawyer anyone who tries to mess with your plans. Very few of us have that level of dedication. But the people who do will largely get their way. Remember that most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people.

lol this person has clearly not tried this. Wiki is very strict about this stuff. Moderators are automatically notified of edits, which will be quickly reverted and IPs blocked. There is no lawyering: The changes get edited-over ASAP and you are blocked. You will also need a lot of money to buy IPs that are not blocked by wiki. Good luck.
Input MSAs are generated with jackhmmer and HHblits and further processed, if I recall Alphafold’s paper correctly.
perhaps-Saudi-prob-Israel.

(Israel is known to be prolific; many brokers and the whole industry on all sides has a lot of people and entities from Israel. Saudi is publically obv active due to stories like MSB pwning Bezos over Whatsapp)
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They're rich, don't hold civil liberties in high esteem, and don't have a lot of in-house expertise. So, yeah - along with some neighboring states, they're a buyer for tools they use to target journalists, dissidents, etc.

China and Russia are on the same boat, but they are far more capable with in-house tech.
I think you'd have a tough time deliberately putting something like that in at a large company. The cost of failure is losing a very good job.

If you discovered a vulnerability and sat on it for a future payout that would be more likely, yet still risky.

Though it does come down to choosing to do crimes in the face of incentives and disincentives. Nothing unique here - humans break the rules all the time.
You might be the best fit for the opportunity of "spouse" to some amazing, beautiful, intelligent other person out there, but if you refuse to ever show up in person, inevitably, you're going to miss out in favor of someone who will.
Is there also a decent c++ implementation of the disruptor out there?
This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing!