jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Comp isn't a reward for good behaviour unless you are a prisoner begging guards for privileges or an animal doing tricks for treats - it's earned from value.

Comp is a retention mechanism that’s determined by supply and demand. Not a single reasonable company will be willing to pay you more that’s bare minimum to keep you to stay. Hiring isn’t about rewarding workers based on the value they provide, it’s about optimizing costs so you can maximize profits.

While location based term is a BS term, it is very real market mechanism. In your local market there’s less non remote companies than in high cost of living areas, that are willing to compete for you, so your price point is lower.
I'm a total lay person here, but my understanding is that designing a new processor is very challenging these days because of the patent situation. That is, so much in hardware design is patented that you're bound to run into problems if you don't know what you're doing.

Is this true, and is it of relevance here?
You're right to call this false equivalence.

I think it's a mistake to argue the specifics. The parent comment here is arguing in bad faith.
1. seems unlikely. I don't think there's any mainstream browser that presents http://myrandomsite.whatever/ as an SSL error, in the same way as, say https://google.com/ having an invalid certificate, nor is there ever likely to be.
Perhaps we should leave up ISIS recruitment videos, so users in liberal echo chambers can hear that differing opinion as well. /s

This is not a new or exciting phenomenon. Censorship and “cancel culture” have rich histories on all sides of the American political spectrum.
A judge providing an opinion is not adjudication. And "presenting in court" is not the same as "the judge read the complaint and here's what they think about it before dismissing it for non-meritorious reasons".
Really? Every place I have worked with more than about 50 employees has used full drive encryption, so a laptop being stolen is not an infosec risk at all.
how hard is <window key> + L to lock your screen?
Go figure: he's the CEO of a marketing company.

He--of all people--might know a thing or two about spinning negative PR.
>If Paul can figure out a way to filter in the great developers while filtering out those that are only coming to make money, then I'd be completely behind his plan to let them all in.

You are implying that all (most) of the American programmers are exceptional. That is not the case. If you have a good team, you had to do it yourself, weed out fakes from real ones, didn't you? The onus is on the company/manager who is hiring to pick the right ones whether they are already on H1 or before company files H1 for them.
From the comments on that:

> No one should use global scope of Julia for calculations: [...] which is said that takes 35 seconds.
> If you wrap it in a function and not had a type instability, You'd get 4.704 seconds...

Half-decently written Julia ought not to be much slower than C.

But it does also allow you to write quick and dirty scripts with no care for speed, which is also useful. It would be nice if people wouldn't benchmark the latter. The manual has a pretty helpful section for avoiding this: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/performance-tips/
> All the major Bitcoin exchanges have been built outside of the US

Is Coinbase not considered a major Bitcoin exchange?
Life expectancy for the poor in the US has gone down. That should not happen regardless of technological advance.
I have to agree. Why waste space on the front page with paywalled content? I have no inclination to ever subscribe to this. I appreciate that others may have different sentiment, but this feels wasted on the majority of us.
Either can be done to excess. I find most anime these days so coated in kawaii that i must either walk away or risk barfing rainbows. I really miss the days of OVAs...
A quick search of Dr. Nardi reveals that he has a financial interest in the MBTI, being the author and/or publisher of many "educational" works on type (see, e.g., here: http://www.radiancehouse.com/psych.htm ).

I did not see any peer reviewed journal articles by him on personality in a Google Scholar author search for his name, only books and a single conference paper.

Finally, looking at the most recent CV I saw -- http://www.darionardi.com/webcv.html -- only one of the papers in the "personality" section is actually from a journal, and it is, lo and behold, a Type-centric journal. And half of the conference papers are for the Association for Psychological Type International.

As appeals to authority go, he is a poor one.
In caloric reduction research, there is indication that fasting can be similarly effective to caloric reduction, and may be easier to achieve for many people than a sustained calorie reduction (the amount of calorie reduction thought to be required for effectiveness is thought to be quite challenging to live with longterm...leading to feeling hungry pretty much all the time). Feeling really hungry one day a week may be easier than feeling a little hungry 24/7 every day for the rest of your life.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I think there are still plenty of questions unanswered about this issue. But, I've seen enough evidence, from disparate enough peer-reviewed sources, to think fasting is worth integrating into my life.
Absolutely, freedom must include the right to dissent or disagree.
Sadly Marx seems to have talked himself in circles, and those trying to make sense of his writings went off on a tangent.

Marx seems to have started out with the basis of a "energy theory of value" but then talked himself into the idea that only labor was the source of excess value (more value out than needed for continued operation). Thus we ended up with the whole "labor theory of value".

Never mind that he seemed more interested in a cooperative system of industry (workers owning the factories the work in) than the state run system that the soviet union produced.

He considered the idea of Russia going right to socialism to be crazy, as it was still mostly agrarian.

He was looking at heavily industrialized nations like England and Germany to transition instead, having used capitalism to get the required infrastructure and legal framework into place.
Christian writers are called "apologists" and it's not a negative connotation, it's just what they do
Why does one have to focus on being humane/considerate/farsighted instead of being rational, rather than focus on both? We don't have to pick one measuring stick.

I certainly hope you don't think that being irrational will help you to be more humane/considerate/farsighted, or that being humane/considerate/farsighted means that one can't be rational.
The phone itself is not capable of receiving the aircraft broadcasts/transmissions as they are sent at very specific radio frequency. All of what you see is actually being aggregated by a remote server from a number of receivers across the world that are capable of reading such radio frequencies, and transmitted to your device simply using Internet/3G/Network over HTTP/HTTPS.
Luxury. We used to _dream_ of printf debugging when we're doing embedded microcontroller systems! (at least the ones I work on).

There the debugging is toggling a port pin and examining with an oscilloscope. I typically toggle it different numbers of times at different places in the code to see where I've got to.
That's a really repulsive, and disrespectful comment. It adds nothing to the discussion and just serves to make the environment on HN really unpleasant.
I have an online SEO course that hit six-figures in 2014. I wrote a post on it: http://www.clickminded.com/six-figure-side-project/
From previous experiments, any program that stores image data in quad-tree order (or even just tiles, but I hate tiles) should be able to pan around such an image with little effort even if you have only a fraction of the RAM but plenty of swap space. Of course zooming out will require either the full RAM or MIP maps. But IDK a specific app.
Step 1: Encourage everyone to use large centralized social media platforms.

Step 2: Pressure those platforms to ban legal speech.

(Unintended but predictable consequence: People move to less censored platforms.)

Step 3: Pressure the mobile OS duopoly to ban the less censored platforms.

^-- You are here.

Step 4: Ban mobile providers from supporting internet connections on unapproved mobile devices.

Step 5: Ban general purpose computing devices.
> I never compared jumping off cliffs and breaking into Congress.

You’re not a child, I think, so I can’t scare you with made up stories about what happens when you lie. But seriously, it’s not good for you, or those around you.
> even things like allergies and sexualities which one would expect to be more biological in origin.

It doesn't seem to be well-known, but concordance for homosexuality in identical twins is very low (if memory serves, around 40%) compared to concordance for virtually anything else you can measure.

This is pretty unsurprising looking at the biological fundamentals -- a quick naive approach would be to predict "genes will never code for homosexuality, because it is such a crippling failure for the organism" -- but it does tend to undermine the idea that homosexuality is biological in origin.
Often words like "Neolithic" (like Iron Age) are no longer used by experts but they linger on.
Pretending illegitimacy
I think you're right, that this is actually a simple calculus about power and money (as it always has been and always will be). It's really the thing that grinds my gears when I forget myself: The duplicity and virtue signaling. The ad economy having brought back yellow journalism and endless emotional pleas. The internet being used in massive propaganda campaigns and allowing children and non-citizens a voice in forums that people perceive as our civic spaces -- even though they aren't -- because it is actually impossible to "moderate" the massive social media platforms (despite their promises). I like to think that I'm up on classical Stoic philosophy, but I still struggle sometimes to divorce myself from the fervor. It's so human.

My guess is that we are quickly approaching a point in time when culture will start to swing the other way, and the internet will become this thing that people don't take seriously, haha much like it was in the 90s. That, and some combination of that and censorship. And the tech monopolies absolutely will not survive the level of influence they have now, even if they think they are playing it safe by supporting a particular political faction which happens to be popular at the moment. I think things are going to change fairly rapidly in this direction because it turns out being connected constantly is actually pretty awful in most of the ways that count. Thankfully, however, it seems most folks understand this in a kind of unspoken, visceral way. The same sort of "self-policing" feeling you get when you've wasted 12 hours straight playing Skyrim. It just feels dirty.
Actually I believe Chinese propaganda is also allowed on Reddit, atleast without any complaints from the admins
Odds are a Thai curry for dinner isn't going to break the bank assuming it isn't one of the super sweet Americanized places.

I have seen some places that pour on the sugar, I just don't order from those places twice!
This has been litigated many times. That’s still better than polluting the agora, as Reddit found when banning r/fatpeoplehate and others.
Perhaps because non-programmers (aka civilians) don't know what GitHub is, and it's difficult to explain.

Perhaps it's interesting to reframe in a language that affect most people:

"Linux development halted by ciberattack!!!"

That's not completely true and too linkbaity, especially with the three bang sings. Is there another huge mainstream project hosted there?

Another linkbait:

"Hackers break hackers site!!!"

Not so appealing to most people, but you can exploit curiosity. Also, you'll get a lot of complains about the incorrect use of the word "hackers" in both positions.
Ubuntu with ATI 4* perfect here (Fans on in some seconds BTW)

Did you enable the about:flags options? As it says in the page its beta features, so it wouldnt be strange to behave badly in some ocasions/systems
I'll repost what I wrote on a previous discussion of this article on FB:

Most versions of this discussion lament the fact that students come into graduate programs with little idea of what the academic job market is like. One could respond - and many do - that it's a "free market," no one is forcing them to choose this profession over any other. However, this rational-actor reasoning can only be expected to work if effective channels were set up to inform students before they've sunk in too much time, and cost (both in terms of money and lost opportunities). Do such channels exist? While I agree that the responsibility largely lies with faculty, there are few incentives in the system for them to lower the number of PhDs. And any system that depends on the uprightness, or clarity of vision of individuals (even liberal humanities professors) is bound to be leaky at best.

While this essay puts some numbers to the problem - approximately 1 job for every 4 PhDs per year, for example - I think this is one domain where more data and analysis could serve as a wake-up call. Those 1 in 4 odds, I'm sure, are far from evenly distributed. They are heavily skewed towards a handful of elite institutions. Go to school elsewhere and the odds stack up much higher. Consider the applicants who graduated in previous years but have remained in the market and the odds are even more daunting, and made worse during job shortfalls like that after the '08 downturn.

If informing graduate students of the magnitude of the challenge they are taking on is the best approach to the problem, then the profession needs to do better than trust this to individuals and institutions who have no incentive to scare away a large portion of their students. Does a dataset exist that makes this information accessible? I'd expect some resistance from departments to share detailed information, but the MLA should have enough information from their member surveys. When grad students send in their first $23 check to the MLA, perhaps they should receive a dossier with employment data for the last 10 years and a few choice graphs to scare the living daylights out of them!
Those "misspelled" Connection headers (nnCoection, Cneonction, X-Cnection, etc) are used by load balancers (Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP, etc).

IMHO better explanation is available here:
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol...
Then you should'nt have gone public with it in the first place, until those issues had been resolved. I hope I am not being unreasonably critical. Regardless of the fact whether it was legal or not, things like these just leave a bad aftertaste and you would want to avoid that as much as possible.
From Techcrunch:

If we let anonymous mobs have this much power, the world — the real, flesh-and-blood human one, not the virtual one of Tweets, blog posts, comments and LiveJournal feeds– is going to get worse, not better.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/congrats-self-righteous-int...

Already happened!
I found his email address in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716244

I have written to him and will wait for his reply. Thanks for all the feedback.
Pretty much all browser vendors agree SunSpider is a bad benchmark, but yet it keeps getting used and abused. All vendors have tweaked their JS engine for SunSpider itself.

Dromaeo is a much better benchmark suite in that it tests actual DOM things rather than pure language stuff. Kraken (also by Moz) also attempts to focus on webapp usecases rather than doing billions of regexes per second.
For some reason, I immediately pictured a product rewrite gone wrong and causing two versions of the same product appear, because the new one can never catch up to the legacy quirks of first.
The funny thing is: statisticians do know how to program, they just do it in R instead of some hipster language.
This reminds me of OpenStack Barbican (Previously called CloudKeep.. kinda..) initially built by Rackspace. A good intro video at [1].

One of the interesting (and optional) things is does, is provide a agent to run on your instances that require the secrets, the agent implements a FUSE filesystem, and access to this filesytem is controlled by policy. For example - A policy can say "Allow exactly 1 read of /secrets/AWS.json within 120 seconds of boot". Any out of policy access attempts can cause the instance to be blacklisted, preventing any future secret access etc..

[1]: https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-video...
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Uninteresting: "Use my blog platform! It has the power of node!"

Interesting: "I wrote something new in a way or with tools that I had not used before. Here's what worked, here's what didn't, and here's what I learned."

Unfortunately, this is the former. I'd be interested in reading the latter if you wrote something up about your experience with this.
>Everyone involved may have agreed that a 1% chance of failure of the lifetime of the plant was acceptable.

This is the problem. The solution proposed is that they have a bit more skin in the game.
Actually, the todo list is the new blogging engine. Writing a blogging engine as a way to learn a new language has been around since at least the early days of Rails. I remember doing that tutorial back in ~2004.
You just can’t accept that your beloved politicians are crooks.
Black market? Legislators use that info on the stock market. Somebody is going to go Robinhood on defense, construction and pharma stocks with that laptop.
> - what if “society just keeps putting along” only until it stops? I heard somewhere that complex empires historically have a life expectancy of ca. 300 years.

Yup, that's the worry.

> - I also heard somewhere that the Arab Srping revolutions took off in full only when the panicked government shut down social media. True or not, it’s an insteresting “what if”. The “panem et circenses” government should maybe think twice about turning off Twitter (in practice) for these subjects, no?

I had not heard that. I think it's a bit unfair to compare people being oppressed by an actual dictator in a relatively poor country to people who live in one of the richest countries in the world. All these people had the means to pay for transport across this massive country and pay for lodging. If you're really struggling can you afford to buy a round trip plane ticket and a hotel?

Also Twitter hasn't been turned off for the people, just for the leaders and presumably instigators. They're still all gonna be able to freely talk shit about Biden and libtards, they just won't be getting orders from the top.

> - life looks to be getting less comfy, with COVID. A year ago I would feel more at home in the comfy prosperity argument but today that rings hollow

True, COVID has caused a decrease in the QOL. But on a macro level, there is still enough food, shelter, healthcare, and Call of duty to go around. I think it's enough to keep a large chunk of the population from seriously considering taking up arms.

Much of my opinions on this topic come from this video, I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs.
> 70 people died because of the BLM riots and they are not getting deplatformed.

Who is the "they" that should be deplatformed for the actions you describe? Were there particular BLM organizers / leaders that were calling for destruction of property, violence against people, and the overthrowing of legally elected governments?

Certainly there were folks that took advantage of the crowds to do nefarious things, and I don't doubt some actual BLM folks committed acts.

There were also documented false flag operations against BLM:

* https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/07/27/police-richmon...

But were the BLM demonstrations purposefully organized to do these things?
Gravity is NOT controversial and Political Science is all about philosophy.
Makes no sense at all.

Even further, if you're not doing anything that would break the new law then why the need to oppose it?
Socialism or barbarism!

Socialism provides a "yes" to every "no" in this article. Authors critiques are good, but author too lapses into nihilism.

Even cryptocurrency is not beyond rescue, it is only beyond rescue under a capitalist mode of production. Technology is the cause and effect, but we _do_ have agency.
The platform overhead is much higher for those jobs I suspect due to disputes, fraud, etc, etc.
Can't agree more. BBC just tends to play the "self-critical Western" role a bit too much.
I was under the impression that the risk of SIDS isn't the only thing when it comes to bed sharing. Adult beds are softer and have more give, so babies get turned over more easily so that their airway can get blocked in the mattress. There are more things like pillows and blankets that can get block the airway. And then there's of course the parent that's sleeping next to them.

Do all of those risks get clumped into SIDS when it comes to these statistics?
Same with Swedish city Västerås with original name West Aros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ster%C3%A5s
Not so sure this is necessarily a western thing. When I was a kid in Germany in the 90ies, school started at 7:30, and ended at 13:00. Once a week you had afternoon school from 14:30 to 16:00, and my parents wanted me to have piano lessons once a week. But after 13:00, and on weekends, I was generally free to do whatever I wanted. I played computer games excessively and watched a lot of movies, of course, but I also explored the nearby forest, build tree houses, taught myself how to build a computer, BASIC, Delphi, HTML, CSS and JS, and drew a comic series with a friend (of course we were the only readers). Except for math, everything that helped my through university and my professional life so far I learned in this free time, just by playing.
VCs believe what they see as an opportunity to make money and say what the right people want to hear.

Some believe in btc, others don't.
Thanks. So far as I can tell, that site does not address the "use in commerce" question.
It’s a balance.

C players read B players writing about A players.

You want your writing to be A player stuff. When you fall to B player level or less you’re just an unpaid journalist shouting with the masses.

A level stuff takes time. Time you don’t have if you spend it all on just writing.
The MSM is so obsessed with becoming the ultimate authority of what is true that I hardly find it surprising they’d have this reaction to somebody who’s such an effective ambassador for reasonableness.
Shell and C should be fine. To be honest any pure computation should be fine. Your interactive HyperCard stack if you get the right emulators would be ok. MAME, sure. But anything depending on the persistence of networked resources will not work. Other than Phil Greenspun all the endpoints have changed. CGI with no external dependencies or Ajax should work except it got pwned along the line.
Satellite population density is a little different as individual Starlink satellites cover a ~580 mile radius circle. Illinois is only 232 people per square mile and near the Great Lakes so as far as the satellites are concerned, and excluding the core urban areas with high speed internet, the area has a fairly low population density.

The Northeast megalopolis is a larger issue, but again it’s next to the ocean which makes a huge difference. Further including launch costs it’s ~2 million a satellite. Depending on lifespan break even could be below 1,000 customers per satellite which could support a very dense network. Especially if they charge more for aircraft and boat internet access.

PS: Current Satellites are 20GBPs, so if they average ~1000 people per satellite that’s 20 MBps bandwidth per customer. Traditional home internet can be 10x oversubscribed, but assuming they lose a lot of that to low population areas 1-2x ~= 20-40MBPs in high density areas during peak usage periods.