skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to start a software development agency?
If you have founded a software development agency, what was your first steps like? Would love to hear a story/journey (Especially how did you get the first project? What were the specifics, etc)?
He has a secret chord thats quite pleasing.
Yeah, OP is overly dramatic, Reddit has technical issues all the time.
> it's pretty clear that you are directly harmed if someone takes naked photos of you without your knowledge or consent and then keeps them

Sure. In those cases, there are damages and that creates liability. I'm not sure what damages I've ever faced from any leak of e.g. my SSN.
I've used it to inspect RFID tags and such, but the feature I use most often is the infrared reader and universal remote features.
I do this for “internal” apps but with Tailscale.
one by one, steadily overcoming the social media addiction
60% yes, but 40% no, because there was nothing after "accepted" - so no way to track "in production" and "validated with users", which are the most important states. You could abuse the earlier states to do that, but then you have trouble tracking internal acceptance. Ultimately, reality just has more significant states than Tracker recognised.
I just wanna say I like the idea and I think you're (OP) right on the mark on there being people who prefer communicating by voice in an informal setting instead of using text. Voice may be, in certain situations, a higher bandwidth medium since intonation may be incorporated. On the flipside, I personally feel like I could be exposing more of myself to the world than I'd wish to with voice.. like people with particularly unique voices may fear de-anonymization via voice.

Overall, I think it's a project worth playing around with, and who knows, traction could start building up.
And has sued Amazon for their use of anti-competitive pricing.

This is just what Kahn's FTC does.
There isn't a strong pattern when narrowing to a single voice, but the ElevenLabs voices in general are much more easily mistaken for a human compared to any other provider we're currently using.
See also "The Subaru Brat" https://www.wired.com/2014/12/subaru-brat/
Excellent to see more manufacturers come to the land of the free and home of the brave.
Websphere sounds familiar – do you know if that was the one used for Palm OS (ARM only, I believe) by any chance?
This is an interesting thought!
Live in London is a great representation of how he sounded toward the end of his touring career, and I think it is a great place to start. IMO, there's not a bad track on the album.
Tell your confidantes, particularly technical friends, you don't want to be promoted beyond senior.

Hopefully they ask you why.

Then you can learn what it is you are really thinking (but you have started here, so yay!)
A little hypocritical when it comes from various government organizations all over the western world. Surveillance companies are essential for police to be able to easily gather data when needed fast. It is a happy accident that surveillance is so lucrative for advertising and also so effective for policing.
I get that all dicts are now effectively an `collections.OrderedDict`, but I've never seen practical code that uses the insertion order. You can't do much with that info (no `.pop()`, can't sort a dict without recreating it) beyond maybe helping readability when you print or serialize it.
Anyone who search for medical information online should always use a VPN and a browser that cleans itself before and afterward. Health status is one of the most valuable user data available to data brokers and is heavily collected and sought after.

I also use tor in my work in order to get a third-party perspective on a website, or when inspecting suspicious links.
All of reddit is now down. Maybe new reddit survived a few minutes off of some sort of cache?
Microsoft has been doing various flavors of mobile OS development since LONG before iOS or Android. The first release of Windows CE was back in 1996, roughly contemporary with PalmOS and Apple's NewtonOS.
You might take it as a clear opinion, but I read it as he is just enjoying the show.

Rust-in-kernel project is now years old, it is about time to take a stance. IMO he would actually weigh in with a clear opinion if he would say something like "Rust code goes in, if it improves the kernel! Everybody get out, it's already merged" or "So far Rust brought only more drama in the kernel, show me the code finally or get out!".

But this "meh, I couldn't care less what happens" answer is on one hand disappointing, and on the other hand isn't unexpected, unfortunately.
>If all you’re doing is arguing that Tor shouldn’t be used because it isn’t/was never “safe”, then you might as well not use the Internet at all.

Exactly, and this same form of spurious argument came up in an hn post yesterday about cavity prevention, centering on an argument that a new advance in cavity treatment "cannot guarantee" to end cavities forever. [0]

I feel as though I've never been fooled by these arguments, although surely I have different types of weaknesses that are unique to me. But it seems to stand out as a form of argument that somehow has persuasive power among intelligent types whom I would never expect to fall for other forms of obviously fallacious arguments.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573550
Check again, it's truly broken now.
[dupe]
More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046
I started with I'm Your Man and it's probably still my favorite but there are good reasons why his best known work is on the first few albums.
You also have your LinkedIn CV posted on your profile. ;-)

Anyways, I feel like we've gotten off-track.. Sounds like we both agree that all the brand-builders and influencers on LinkedIn provide dubious value.

But I still think there is other value on LinkedIn from people who just want to connect and discuss work topics with peers or other professionals in their circle.

I've personally had some good discussions, much like I've had on here, in comment threads on LinkedIn.. Definitely not as much as HN, but if you're smart about the content you engage with (like any other social network) then it can still be useful and rewarding.
Are you also making sure that nothing on the VPS is actually listening on outside ports? A classic mistake is to setup something similar to what you are describing but not validating that the services are not listening on 0.0.0.0.

I'd also not want to have cloudflare as an extra company to trust, point of failure and configuration to manage.
This is the situation I'm seeing. Didn't occur me that old was down because I just have that as my default setting for www.reddit.com.
> I remember my solution was to painstakingly recreate the memory cleared screen and pulled it up before the proctor came around in hopes that they’d assume they already cleared mine.

Did it work?
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/cjzbd0ksrkqx
Simple questions:

Should ad prices be lower or higher?

Should YouTube be free for everyone, or should it cost money?
This isn't specifically about Vapour, just about what's become the common way to specify types.

I know this is totally bike shedding, semantics, vi vs Emacs, BigEndian vs LittleEndian and it's too late now to affect anything, but to me using a colon after the variable is just wrong!

let x : int = 1

func add(x: int, y: int): int { return x + y }

I see that and it looks like int = 1 and the function's return type is totally lost.

This seems completely backwards to me. Maybe I'm just used to the way C did it, but the variable modifiers should come first.

let int x = 1

func int add(int x, int y) { return x + y }

Why we reversed it and added in the colon just doesn't make much sense to me.
Elon Musk did it with his Giga Factory somewhere in the range of 11 to 14 months in Texas. It’s 5 times the size of the pentagon and they build more than just top of the line Tesla Chips there.

Some states have less regulations than others. He said if he tried that in California, it would take an unlimited and indefinite time to complete (100 years+) due to so many permits and regulations.
Anti-disclaimer: I'm not one of those folks.

However, that's not at all a cognitive dissonance. Fundamentally, there's a difference between governments and private companies, and it is fairly basic to have different rules for them. The government cannot impinge on free speech, but almost all companies do. The government cannot restrict religion, but to some extent, companies can. Etc.

Of course, in this case, it's understandable to argue that neither side should have that much data without consent. But it's also totally understandable to allow only the private company to do so.
Leave U.S. Steel Alone
The gold standard will depend on what rules the school has for the exams.

The absolute best one you can get right now would probably be a nspire CX CAS ii but I doubt you'd be able to use it in an exam. Even in university, symbolic calculators are typically not allowed in math classes because it's basically like having full access to Wolfram Alpha or Mathematica.
tools like this are pretty sweet but I would rather just run it myself.

docker-compose with a load balancer (traefik) is fairly straightforward and awesome. the TLS setup is nice but I wildcard that and just run certgen myself.

The main thing I think that's missing is some sort of authentication or zero trust system, maybe vpn tunnel provisioner. Most services I self host I do not want to be made public due to security concerns.
> at times leave her texts virtually meaning-free.

This statement makes no sense. What is the methodology these reviewers used such that they can determine how much meaning is in a text? And what is the difference between a text that is "virtually" meaning-free and 100% meaning-free with no modifier? What is the threshold for a text to have an epsilon of meaning? I'm sure those reviews came with p-values.

I might say that those reviewers' understanding of continental philosophy is questionable and at times leave their texts virtually meaning-free.
....but don't DRAG the WFH crowd kicking and screaming with RTO....
> It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.

Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.
One of the best things about Kagi search (https://kagi.com) is you can ban domains from search results. Forbes was one of the first I entered!
Not without more data.
I've a few backups but I've only destroyed one of them (somehow fried the board soldering the headphone jack back down).

They're fairly durable other than the headphone jack and the clip from what I've seen
Yep, suppose if you're banking on no one really knowing what it was, fairplay. But in meantime, good luck showing up in any searches for the name.
FWIW, I didn't flag you. Just wanted to say you're accusing me of a straw man, but when I give a particular example that is a concrete example within a general statement, that's not a straw man.

Between the two of us, I am looking at a well-researched and widely understood example of why a disparate outcome doesn't actually imply what we would intuitively think, while you are talking about metaphors of smoke and "taking closer looks" as if those justify angrily jumping to conclusions.

If you have some sort of correlation coefficient to justify jumping to conclusions even mildly, I'd appreciate that contribution. But "something isn't equal" isn't even necessarily reason to look into something further, let alone a reason to presume the cause. Nothing is ever equal. Equality is a fictional concept, and doing deep dives into every example of it would exhaust our collective resources.
Who is old enough to remember when a Billion dollars meant something?
I have some questions that are not answered by the homepage.

1) How does this work with function parameters that are intended to be captured unevaluated with substitute()? Do you type the input as "any" and document separately that the parameter is kept "unevaluated" as a symbol/name or call?

2) How does this work with existing untyped R code? Does it at least include types for the standard library (or some subset thereof?)

3) Is there any type inference, or does it require explicit type annotation everywhere?

4) How do you propose to handle NA (which can appear "within" any typed vector)? Does the compiler support refinement types? If not, how does checking for and preventing nullability work, when checking for NA values requires a runtime check?

5) How do data frames work? Are they typed like structs?

6) Which object systems does it support, if any? S3, S4, Reference Classes, or the 3rd-party R6?

As much as I like static types, I feel like R is maybe the language where I need or want them the _least_. How often do you really run into a situation where you pass a character vector to a function that requires a numeric vector and it crashes your program?

99% of the time what you really want is known-valid data frames for data processing, and statically-sized arrays for math stuff.
I don't know the percentage so I don't know if it is a small fraction. The basic setup is:

Medicare - federal program for seniors

Medicaid - state program for poor people (there may be some sort of funding by the federal government, but it is run by the states)

Private insurance - this is paid by the individual and/or the company they work for

The laws/regulations regarding what is and isn't allowed with the private insurance is handled mostly by the states, not the federal government. The federal government has pushed for various rules (ACA/Obamacare) but there is a debate about the constitutionality of the federal government getting involved.

There are also specific programs within the governmental systems that focus on children (Insure Kids Now) and provide dental not just medical.

Within Medicare there are additional (supplemental) coverages that provides better benefits called Medigap.

I'm sure there are more programs than just Medicare and Medicaid, but those are the largest ones.
The jets are 23 million light years in length! That's 140 milky way galaxies laid out -- these are sizes I can't even begin to comprehend
Why would you do that? R is a just a tool for doing statistics or research. You need to search for jobs in your subject area like "ecologist", "econometrician", "green energy reseacher", etc.
I agree. Let me tell you about what just happened to me.
After a very public burnout and spiral, a friend rescued me and I took a part time gig helping a credit card processing company.
About 2 months ago, the owner needed something done while I was out, and got their uber driver to send an email. They emailed the entire customer database, including bank accounts, socials, names, addresses, finance data, to a single customer.
When I found out, (was kept hidden from me for 11 days) I said "This is a big deal, here are all the remediations and besides PCI we have 45 days by law to notify affected customers."
The owner said "we aren't going to do that", and thus I had to turn in my resignation and am now unemployed again.

So me trying to do the right thing, am now scrambling for work, while the offender pretends nothing happened while potentially violating the entire customer base, and will likely suffer no penalty unless I report it to PCI, which I would get no reward for.

Why is it everywhere I go management is always doing shady stuff. I just want to do linuxy/datacentery things for someone who's honest... /cry

My mega side project isn't close enough to do a premature launch yet. Despite my entire plan being to forgo VC/investors, I'm now considering compromising.
The same way you can get ticketed for speeding in your car despite not actually hitting anyone or anything.
Holy shit. I'm actually typing this from within Haiku.

I downloaded the iso, flashed it to a usb thumb drive, put it into my T480 and it booted straight up.

Wifi works out of the box, the system is responsive, web browser is good enough for google and hackernews...

It's the year of the haiku desktop. Only thing weird is how the trackpad works :D
Yes it’s 100% going to be compromised if you are an enemy of the US government.

The primary purpose of tor is for their own use, which is why they have developed and funded it. So the underlying principle is secure, but they’ll definitely be paying for enough of the nodes to compromise it for you.
Lots of pictures of diatoms and other microscopic living things:

https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=14
I'm aware of this. The network could, and apparently does, associate single characters with words. It can associate "red" with "rose", and might associate "r" with "straw", and it might even associate some kind of embedding of "two r's" with "berry".
One thing I'll suggest - if you ever want to cut anything metal, you'd probably do well to learn how machining works in general and by that I mean on a manual lathe and mill. The coding part is going to be easy for you (and probably anyone else reading this), but knowing what you want the thing to do is a MUCH different task than being able to tell the machine what to do.

Everything about how you move that tool through the work matters. Materials, workholding, spindle speeds, tooling, tooling coatings, feed rates, plunge speeds, all of these things need to be worked out and they all change when you swap a tool or a part etc. Speeds and feeds are dynamic, you need to learn about conventional-vs-climb milling, you'll need to know about cutter geometries and the materials the cutters are made of, when and how to deploy coolant, the list just never ends.

GCODE is, by far, the easy part for a programmer. It's a very simple language that hasn't changed much in the past several decades. "Knowing machining" is that tougher hill to climb.

My recommendation? Check your local community colleges/trade schools! I took a couple semesters of machining classes as a 40-something grown-ass dude and I learned a huge amount of stuff that would have been expensive or dangerous to learn by trying. You'll get hands-on access to big machines with someone over your shoulder helping to make sure you keep your limbs attached to your body.
Discussion about the breach a few months ago:

Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955693
What I'd give to see their dashboard showing how many users are still using old reddit...
It's not really the underlying software that people care about here.
I wonder how big the market to help students cheat is since just about every student I’ve talked to is using it
This misses the point, the user in question was fully deanonymized. This blog post is saying that those successful techniques are no longer usable.

It's entirely appropriate to pursue a defense in depth strategy while questioning any particular layer.
Sounds like an effective way to generate random numbers.
Brother, I can link you to your own comments.
For example here's your "blood libel" comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067633
I'm actually working, and just logged in to see if I have actually been banned, but I can absolutely go through your own comment history in the last 11 months and pull out each and every example I mentioned.
I used to respect you man, and if you read my responses to you, over these last 11 months, they start off annoyed but charitable, attempting to push you to examine your own position, exactly as you and 'dang and whoever are asking and expecting of commenters to do here, and you just keep posting absurd, racist statements and so they have deteriorated to today. I don't expect you to actually do anything about it at this point, but I want to leave a record on this site that I did what I said I've been doing, and you've been doing what I said you've been doing. Maybe you'll surprise me, I don't know.

EDIT:
I'm actually really really glad I linked this exact comment, because right beneath it is one of the other highest karma posters on this site, who is of Jewish descent, making my point for me in the best way possible, in opposition to you, and you are continuing in the thread to do exactly what it is I've been telling you you are doing; speaking out of your own ignorance and giving it a patina of authority for example here by gesturing at the ADL and saying "just google it" which is absurd.
Sure, but it's all so vacuously ambiguous that it doesn't really matter. I hate advice lists like this because it can essentially be summarized by saying "write good code" and you'd be left with almost exactly as much wisdom.

What does "succinct" mean? Well, it means terse but not too terse. What does "readable" mean? It means I can easily understand it.

How is this helpful?
I like this mentality, truly, makes perfect sense. Check in often to make sure you’re building the right thing. Keep going until it’s done.

However, the client is going to want to know (A) how much it’s going to cost, and (B) how long it’s going to take. These are extremely reasonable questions in most cases/industries. To answer these questions with a shrug is a nonstarter. The client is working with a time budget and a financial budget, and they need to have some sense of the numbers.

If the Waterfall and Agile methods are opposite ends of a spectrum, somewhere in between is where I’ve found an acceptable middle ground for both developers and clients.
>The same thing happens every 3-5 years. [...] Google doesn't really care about discoverability for smaller domains that may have good content.

What's galling is that (ostensibly) they used to care. So much for "organizing the world's information" and "don't be evil".
Ah, yes. Just one day Putin woke up and decided to start it. Nothing before.

But you know, the most funny thing here is what you would never say "USA's regime decided to start a war of invasion in Iraq/Afghanistant/Yugoslavia. It's an initiative from US and US alone, and all consequences are derived from US's actions. There is no way around it."

Makes me wonder why.
I'm very open to hear different narratives, but seems like you aren't exactly willing to hear or share, so not even sure why you commented from the get go.

This is a discussion board, and in more than happy to discuss the topic, there's no need for personal attacks.
and pinterest; scourge of the web
Some RHEL variant of course. I have to work with both, Ubuntu which constantly doesn't work, and Fedora which always works
The particular problem comes in because the amount of data lost tends to be massive when these breaches occur.

It's kind of like the idea of robbing a minute from someone's life. It's not every much to an individual, but across large populations it's a massive theft.
> before anyone asks, "personalized advertisements" is not a good reason

The good reason is growth. Our AI sector is based on, in large part, the fruits of these data. Maybe it's all baloney, I don't know. But those are jobs, investment and taxes that e.g. Europe has skipped out on that America and China are capitalising on.

My point, by the way, isn't pro surveillance. I enjoy my privacy. But blanket labelling personal data as radioactive doesn't seem to have any benefit to it outside emotional comfort. Instead, we need to do a better job of specifying which data are harmful to accumulate and why. SSNs are obviously not an issue. Data that can be used to target e.g. election misinformation are.
> Is the Ti-84 still the gold standard for school calculators?

When I was in high school (1996-2000), most had a TI-83, with some having a TI-85. I got a TI-89 since it was the best calculator that could be used on the SAT. Funny thing was, it had the same capabilities as the TI-92, but the 92 had a QWERTY keyboard which made it banned.
No affiliates, where'd you hear that? Beware disgraced Wikipedia editors bearing false witness.

As for update pings, all browsers automate this to avoid the plague that was IE, layered like sediment from IE6 on across the chart of browsers hitting websites, creating horrendous attack surface that was actively exploited, due to lack of auto-updates.
it's too late for that. once an idea is born, it will be used.