jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Races to the bottom can be described in game theory by the prisoner's dilemma game. This is an exercise where the optimal outcome for the entire group of participants results from cooperation of the participants, but is put in danger by the fact that the optimal outcome for each individual is to not cooperate while the others do cooperate.
An economic example of racing to the bottom is tax competition between governments. Each government may benefit from higher tax revenues by having a high tax on corporate profits.

However, governments can benefit individually with a lower corporate tax rate relative to the other governments in order to attract businesses away from the jurisdictions of other governments. This action would hurt all governments except the one that undercut the others. In order to maintain the equilibrium, each of the other governments would have to lower their corporate tax rates to match the "defector" (the government that first lowered the tax rate). The end result is that each government adopts a lower corporate tax rate and thus collects less revenue overall. The optimal option for all governments would be an agreement to maintain tax harmonization" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom).

As an aside, Robert Axelrod's famous and fascinating book "The Evolution of Cooperation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation) on game theory and the "prisoner's dilemma" presents an algorithm called "Tit for Tat" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat) that describes an approach to interaction that promotes generosity and forgiveness while not to being exploitable, and it so simple that it can be understood by everyone (which is to say, it's easy for others to understand your actions and adapt theirs to yours so that you both get the most benefits).
In one post you're predicting/hyping $5-$10 BTC/USD and in another you're discussing what should happen to encourage commerce? Is it a case of you not realizing how diametrically opposed those two goals are, or simply one where you assume readers won't note the contradiction?
Oops. I entirely missed the "By Organizations" bit down the scroll. My apologies.
Actually, the median of the medians is used to find the real median
Still on chrome and playing with ff4. I do agree the recovery since the test releases is pretty amazing !
Was gooncon as horrifying in real life as it appeared to someone looking at the photos? I'm talking about the first one or two, I stopped reading SA just after that.

Thinking about it, weren't there only two? Didn't lowtax say something like, "let us never speak of this again"?
Yes:

iojs

llvm

clang

ghc

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react

meteor

Mac OS X
So sitting at starbucks with my laptop -- what do i do? I am not aware of an option to have SSH run over UDP, although I do know that some VPNs allow you to use UDP instead of TCP.

Unless there is a relatively simple way of getting an encrypted tunnel for my HTTP traffic using tools like ssh and netcat and other things I'm likely to already have installed, I disagree with the notion that it's never a good idea.
I think the reason NYTimes columnists sound so stupid is this: to become a NYTimes columnist, you need to impress a whole string of gatekeepers, professors, editors etc. The biggest problem in their world caused by gender bias is these gatekeepers not letting women through. Much of the world works in a similar way, but tech does not, and journalists have not seemed to realize this.

So when critiquing the valley, they look for the gatekeepers, which is why they think - "aha! there must be no female founders because VCs aren't letting them in!"

This baffles SV insiders, who can better understand the relative importance of a VC's opinion. Being rejected? Why that happened to Google 63 times! Unfortunately, this is the point where they conclude that gender bias is a nonsense problem invented by poorly informed arts graduates.

The same thing is happening when journalists complain tech firms don't hire enough women. It would be a very serious problem for women in journalism if their employers were institutionally sexist institution (which I'm sure it is not, of course) but for women in tech, less so. We have far greater "exit rights", due to the liquidity of the market and the relative ease of starting our own companies.

This isn't to say gender bias doesn't exist, or that it isn't a problem, merely that it manifests itself in wildly different ways than a journalist may expect.
If you rebased master into the feature branch, then what you said makes sense. I realize it may look like semantics, but you rebase your feature branch onto the master branch. This means something completely different.

I am curious what you use as an alternative.
Having an upstream can be useful for CI testing and for deployments with tools like Capistrano. Plus it allows you to pull down your code from other environments if needed and acts as a additional backup, so there are potentially lots of reasons to have one.
"Going to voting station, standing in queue and voting is a painful process and most of us don't take the trouble."

Not exactly cupcakes and candy in America either. But I suspect the voting process is easier here. But our numbers are also very low. In 2014 I think 36% of the voting population voted? Which means, the current government doesn't represent the American people.

But whose fault is that? Well ours (Americans), of course. Most don't take the time (or care too) too vote. But man, when it comes time to bitch about issues everyone steps to the front.
Nor are the actual Intel or AMD chip designs overall.
I think the growing disenchantment that pops up towards makers like this from time to time is most closely related to a certain smugness that accompanies the presentation of the thing. A certain sense that maker culture is onto something special, that they are the seeds of some sort of movement.

I more or less agree with the sentiment others have expressed that maker culture is nothing new, and has existed in all socioeconomic strata of many -- yes, mostly male -- groups of societies for a long time.

But in my short life thus far, at least in the circles I travel in, maker culture has lately achieved a certain mainstreaming, which looks to me at least somewhat more inclusive and generally accessible than I recall from my youth. The internet has something to do with this. It looks to me to be on balance a net plus for society.

The reaction of the author is natural swing of the pendulum, reminding others that there are other important things besides simple creation, material or otherwise. She also draws important attention to a natural side effect of capitalism, which is that things that generate capital are highly prized, sometimes out of proportion to what they actually deserved, when society is looked at as a whole.
I've had some Dell and HP laptops (and a super old thinkpad, but that one worked alright given it couldn't really do much), and have had extremely bad driver issues. The big one has been the graphics card, but also flaky wifi, and even sound card issues! Battery life was always an issue (I would have 4 hours on windows, only an hour and change on linux), but I think that was linked to graphics card issues.

Having issues with a sound card gives me flashback to windows 95.
Speaking of Chicago based startups, Reverb.com is hiring :)

http://reverb.com/page/jobs

Check out our engineering blog at: http://product.reverb.com
When segmentation etc is handled by the hardware why do you care about the MSS?

Because of Ethernet's mandatory minimum inter-packet spacing.
What about the scenario where you're bought for less than $100m after 5 years? I don't think most companies IPO.
I would give up equity, possibly as much as $100,000 worth. But I would not pay very much cash ($15k tops).

Most importantly, I wouldn't spend more than 1-2 days on the negotiation, because "The Killer Domain" is one of the less important issues that a 6 month old consumer startup faces.
> Why do we have to have ssl cert providers?

Because the web has a broken security model.

By default, the only way that a web browser can know that the site gave it the right cert (as opposed to someone intercepting the connection with their own cert), is if it's signed by one of a couple hundred "trusted" providers who are supposed to be careful to not give certs to the wrong people.

Something like [Perspectives](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/) should be much more secure and can be more decentralized, but unfortunately isn't included with any default browser installs. It can't provide the same link to a meatspace identity, but you very rarely care about that (basically just for ecommerce) and it could be used in conjunction with a CA-based system for that anyway.
Don’t lose sight of user delight.

- Mark Pincus (@markpinc)

http://startupquote.com/post/1614904607
I think the Compass docs rock: http://compass-style.org/docs/reference/compass/

(But if I remember correctly, they don't rock in all browsers.)
https://archive.is/2021.04.05-180259/https://www.readthegene...
I don't follow your conclusion here. So... you don't think that there are systemic problems worth correcting? Or you think there are, but you don't want to because the disadvantaged should just be resilient instead?

It's one thing to say that there are alternative therapies to pulling down statues and burning shit in the street. It's rather another to reject the goals of a movement because you don't like their tactics.
The 'agency' in this case is the National Labor Relations Board, and 'settling' in this case doesn't just mean paying money, it also means changing their practices. It basically means accepting the findings and taking remedial steps, instead of denying the findings and trying to fight them.

This isn't like a law firm threatening to sue if they don't settle.
Can't you make a half baked album and then refine it later ?

Music is just an hobby for me, but I love making as many rough drafts as I can and then coming back later to them.
Uber is company with over 15 employees. As such it must follow the law. So in the end it has to find some driver who is willing to transport customer. But on other hand all drivers as independent contractors can refuse. It's catch-22. But court can reasonably expect Uber being able to pay enough for someone to take the job...
Nextdns blocks the dns request so it works with Firefox too. I haven’t seen an ad on ff iOS in ages.
Your comment again makes no sense. Land is NOT depreciable and neither is stock. Depreciation is not an exemption of taxes. You must realize that selling something that has been depreciated results in you selling it for a profit and thus is taxable. Depreciation reduces the cost basis. I’m not sure if at this point you are trolling by your comments always saying the opposite of the actual tax laws.
I always thought nocebo was a belief that the medicine would have not therapeutic effect, which is then borne out in reality. But the amplified side effects dovetail with my understanding.

As an anecdotal data point, I'm a redhead with a periodic liver condition and a fast metabolism, and I don't metabolize medications normally. I take an antispasmodic for pain relief in doses that leave some people catatonic and it has little to no negative effects on me, over a decade of use. I've tried low doses of muscle relaxants that leave me reeling drunk for hours. Had two awful experiences on SSRIs, I will never try those again should I ever have the need of an antidepressant. I suspect there are sub-populations of people like me who are statistical outliers.
> They're doing their best to police a giant platform that everyone in the world wants to use and abuse.

There are many citations to the contrary.

This is just one

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51391981

They didn't just go and delete millions of videos for the fun of it.

It's because they let their platform turn into a cesspool of illegal content.
You've got it backwards the law allows companies certain things they can forbid people from doing not an explicit list of things employees are allowed to say [0]. Companies can only prevent employees from speaking about specific things like trade secrets or other confidential things.

[0] This would have some pretty obvious 1A implications.
Actually it's hard to obey them all. And C makes it so easy to create pitfalls.
Is there a language specially designed for secure programming?
Both are valid perspectives. I think we are using each other, which might be common to most social interactions.
I didn't include those specifically because they're much harder to find:

>Pluripotent adult stem cells are rare and generally small in number but can be found in a number of tissues including umbilical cord blood.

Though I'm not sure if that has changed. I've generally gotten the impression that, while they can literally be found in every tissue, they're much harder to actually find, separate, and stimulate in usable quantities than the ones I listed. Umbilical cord blood is probably worth including though, yes, I think I've heard that's fairly high density. Though that's not what I'd consider to be "adult"; nearly anything to do with growing babies has stem cells.
Thank you for that. Can someone post a fix here, if any, for whatever OS they know? I couldn't detect one in that monster of a post...
so they're not evil?
The garbage collector isn't the only issue. Compiled Obj-C code does not retain sufficient metadata (i.e. variadic methods, enums, and such) to do certain "ruby"-ish things. Currently, this is resolved using BridgeSupport, which is also not currently available on iOS...
They're certainly available -- at least, in Mozilla -- but usability is poor. The most obvious issue is that there's no obvious way to copy a client-side certificate to another machine, making it incredibly awkward for users who use multiple computers (or, worse, who only have access to shared computers).
4116 release price was $1002
5115 release price was $1221

For "just a few hundred more dollars", you got two less cores, but notably better AVX-512 scaling.

5118 release price was $1273, https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold/5118. That keeps you in the 12 core range, still only a hundred dollars more than the option they went with.

Also bare in mind those are RRPs, which Cloudflare likely isn't paying, especially at the scales they're operating at.

The crux of the point was that they were apparently surprised when a chip that wasn't designed for the kind of workload they decided to use it for, didn't perform well.

It's like buying small car and then being surprised that it doesn't have the same hauling power as a truck.

Frustratingly, everyone has taken it as gospel that it means AVX-512 is entirely crap and just going to hurt you.

It definitely has made optimising a bit more complicated. You could certainly argue that you might need to have the runtime profiling the code to figure out if using AVX-512 is harmful or not.
>>We are many, many decades away from this being even close to a reality.

If there aren't companies like SpaceX (or governments doing similar work) we'll never be any closer to that reality. Mines on the moon and O'Neill cylinders in space aren't going to pop into existence in 2098 or something, they're going to be built on top of the foundations being laid by SpaceX (and others) today.

Maybe SpaceX will last long enough to profit from it, maybe they won't. It's still a better use of $1 billion of Google's money than another social network or whatever.
In Germany JUG are all about enterprise.
Some people probably thought the same about Rosa Parks. I'm not saying you're racist, just that you're wrong. It is his right to speak. "Instigating trouble" is one way to change things, and the front-line TSOs _are_ implementing this policy, much like the bus drivers in Montgomery who were just doing their jobs.
Thank you for releasing this! Last time I needed an SDRAM controller, I had trouble finding anything that was open source, readable, under a permissive license, and published on GitHub. I ended up using this one by Matthew Hagerty in 2014: http://codehackcreate.com/archives/444

The notes on getting the clocking right are also very much appreciated; that's always tricky with SDRAM.
By human beings. And he did not contribute to AI capable of contemplating human research like a human does, because no such AI exists yet. When it does exist (if ever), it will surely not consider this person or his hundred lab workers to have contributed to AI. It will consider them to have contributed to applied statistics.

Edit: I realized these comments might be very mean to you (assuming you're the lab director with the hundred workers). I should disclaim that what I say is something I assume is true about most people who gloat about their citation counts, but it's certainly not true about all such people, and might not be true about you. Myself, I'm a bit resentful because I'm so bad at the whole academic game, so that probably makes me quite biased.
I'm not a lawyer, and there are a lot of little facets to these rules so I could be wrong.

This looks basically like a "legal costs insurance", so the company pays into a fund that then pays the lawyers. I assume the company has no control over the money once it is in the insurance fund. So long as the lawyer doesn't represent the company directly in other dealings then yes they should be able to represent you in an employment dispute.

If the company was just providing direct access to their in-house counsel then no, that'd be a conflict of interest.
Making it also respect dark mode in alerts would be nice.
It's funny how we're all so brainwashed by advertising and corporate logo placement, we don't even see it as brainwashing any more...
I hate the everpresence of these images.
Is anyone maintaining a sensible autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg on GitHub?
I wonder if this is a copy of the open source version https://github.com/aogrcs/qnx-opensource
I think there are rural routes were battery capacity becomes an issue.
It is rare, but sometimes a video embedded in a web page has no option to make it full screen. I can click the PIP button in Firefox, then I can double-click it to make it full screen. Nice workaround for those moments.
> we just cant build cool shit anymore

JPL just landed Perseverance, and we have had weekly SpaceX launches with successful stage recoveries (thought to be impossible), Falcon Heavy sent a 1st Gen Tesla Roadster which is orbiting Mars as we speak... Thiel's windmill powered Bitcoin operation in Texas, which likely froze last week, is another example of how absurd his statement is. I think Thiel is not liked because he uses hyperbole to make blanket statements that are clearly not true. And his business acumen much like his actual tech skills, are dubious at best despite being immensely wealthy.

The US will always be a leader in innovation in the World, I'd argue this is the larges concentration of talent the World has ever seen, including Florence during the enlightenment.

What we have a problem with is an absurd amount of useless bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, Industries that get in the way and all want their slice of the pie for nothing more than being a middleman and ultimately pay no taxes to re-invest in the education of said future talent, all while the entrepreneurs and talented labour take all the risk and get little to no reward for their efforts due to a depreciating fiat currency and ever increasing taxes and more and more diminishing social mobility due the aforementioned concentration of wealth.

CRISPR is not going to solve much if any of your problems, maybe your kid's but not yours. If you think the US cannot build amazing things, and is somehow not a leader in this the problem is with you and, I guess Thiel.
Nothing comes to mind - and any crime his farther farther committed was paid for in a court of law. Was there something specific I'm missing?

Maybe of more interest
https://investors.palantir.com/governance/board-of-directors...
The party whip has that power; the threat is to lose access to committee appointments, cabinet positions, or to even be kicked from the party. Or simply to have the party not adequately fund your re-election campaign.
I am never really sure how this feature is helpful, I don't know if I'm being obtuse about the functionality that people give it.

In the JetBrains software I use it all the time but only cause it's clickable.
I’ve been using IntelliJ since version 2. :-) My favorite developer tool of all. Cheers!
Its already happened in my country. Web developers are hired on minimum wage.
Looking forward to the AMB guys ripping into this article next week.
Apparently the extension made it to the "open sea" of torrents ;)
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/255130489/fb-exporter?tab...

I have been waiting for this extension for soooo long. I can finally quit!

hashes of file fb-exporter.crx:
MD5 d2ae04feae8df535025e572a8030a3ee
sha1 ccc0a1213b6427cb019b36dbfacdc7770c6bec23
Simple solution is to wear it under another shirt, like a button-down long sleeve.

I agree that it would be better if it were non-visible to the naked eye though.
It ought to be fascinating to find out if such vocal characteristics changes over time with upper body strength in the same person (for instance, putting them through a six month strength training program). Or if this is somehow set at puberty, and people's relative strength remained the same over most of their lives. I would imagine most people don't suddenly acquire an urge to become stronger after they reach their thirties. Or at least they didn't while humans were evolving.
The distinction Apple makes is that iAds don't "track" you because they don't use cross-site or cross-app tracking in third party services the same way Facebook or Google do.

Apple is of course still performing data collection for targeted iAds, but that's the reason they don't call it "tracking."

If you go to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising on iOS it tells you so:

"The Apple advertising platform does not track you. It is designed to protect your privacy and does not follow you across apps and websites owned by other companies. You have control over how Apple uses your information."

Note that I'm not necessarily agreeing that what Apple does doesn't fall under the description of "tracking." Just pointing out why Apple calls what Facebook does "tracking" but not their own iAds.
It’s an unwarranted assumption that people given a question to answer always understand what it’s asking and answer truthfully. Another possibility is that many users won’t understand or care much and will just click at random to make the dialog go away. Or they might use default rules like saying “no” to anything they don’t understand.

Since we can’t ask users what they meant, it’s not something we can know.

For more skepticism about the over-interpretation of survey results:
https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/
They are extremely cheap for something that is so labor intensive. Even with all of those ways of hiding the cost, the driver is often barely making minimum wage after paying their expenses and the delivery company is often losing money on the hope that they will eventually grow enough to make it back.
I had that impression too, but I just read the guidelines and can't find anything to that effect. They do say that we shouldn't be commenting about the voting though ;).
> With prop 13, the burden of paying for infrastructure and services provided to you and your neighbors falls to new generation of owners who pay 5 times in property taxes than their neighbors.

Not as much as you seem to think. California’s nominal property tax rates are low (also due to Prop 13), so property taxes start low when you buy and get lower over time. The things that most people pay property taxes for in other places are paid for out of other local taxes, or redistribution of state taxes (e.g., sales tax) revenue to local governments.

> Most other states regularly reassess the property of your home for taxation purposes

So does California, annually; it just limits the annual increase of the assessed value.