jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert on this stuff, but taken at face value, hyper-racism is the idea that humanity will evolve into eloi and morlocks, and is explicitly not about "black people are inferior" or anything like that.

What seem to me to be the key quotes [1]:

> The most prominent model of such a filter is found in the theory of assortative mating. [...] It is assortative mating on the basis of [socio-economic status] that has lifted it to prominence, both because it seems unquestionably to be happening, and because the implications of its happening are extreme.

> Assortative mating tends to genetic diversification. This is neither the preserved diversity of ordinary racism, still less the idealized genetic pooling of the anti-racists, but a class-structured mechanism for population diremption, on a vector towards neo-speciation. It implies the disintegration of the human species, along largely unprecedented lines, with intrinsic hierarchical consequence.

> The genetically self-filtering elite is not merely different — and becoming ever more different — it is explicitly superior according to the established criteria that allocate social status.

> That it is a consummate nightmare for anti-racism goes without question, but it is also trans-racial, infra-racial, and hyper-racial in ways that leave ‘race politics’ as a gibbering ruin in its wake.

Whilst it is clumsily reinventing ideas that have been done better a million times already in science fiction, it doesn't seem very neonazi.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternativ...
Not particularly, oh internet stranger. I do not care for your "help" or armchair psychoanalysis.

Your theory is that I have trauma. Here is mine.

Mathematicians are fairly evenly divided between whether they prefer algebra or analysis. Ask any mathematician and they know exactly which side of this divide they stand on. It is a pretty fundamental difference in what interests them, and what they pay attention to.

Enthusiasm for category theory only exists on the algebra side of the divide. I've yet to meet anyone on the analysis side who particularly likes category theory.

My theory is that I just happen to be on the analysis side.
> This is the reason for the tenure system, to give true freedom to explore novel and future oriented work. Things that won't pay off for decades, if ever

A long time ago, I heard the opposite view. Researchers only establish tenure once they've spent a long time on a specific path, and empirically, later-career don't suddenly throw out their decades of commitment to one path to explore ground once they're protected by tenure. This rings pretty true to me, based on everything I know about the scientific establishment (and my model of human psychology). There's a reason "science advances one funeral at a time" is such an old saw.
Blekko had a sizeable index of their own. Most successful meta-search engines (like DuckDuckGo) keep their own index because there's not a lot they can get from a Yandex api call.
> When you were a child, would any of you have believed that one day in the early 21st century, you would wake up in a world where your own government spies on each and every single citizen, plus whoever is connected to them in another country, where they send agents to newspapers to oppress the freedom of the press?

Yes. But I was living in the Soviet Union ;-)
I realize this is a nitpick, but the use of "is" after the various types is very counter intuitive.

Suppose I'm thinking, "hmm, is this text?" or "is this a number?"

To do this with the API you have looks like this:

a.text.is(myVariable); // to check if myVariable is text
a.num.is(myVariable); // to check if myVariable is a number

But just reading the code makes is backwards with respect to the phrase it represents (my bias). A more intuitive API call might be:

a.is.text(myVariable); // reads like the phrase
a.is.num(myVariable); // reads like the phrase

Even better might be:

is(myVariable).text(); // nearly self documenting this way
is(myVariable).num(); // ditto

Just some thoughts. Reading the API calls the way they are keeps sounding wrong in my head (clearly a bias).
Of course, I want those things, that's the whole reason for trying to switch from vi. I just want those things to actually work smoothly and together, rather than being a mess of plugins that sorta work sometimes but have lots of ugly warts and don't play nicely together,
Hmm. That might work. But I'm skeptical, for the following reason: the main problem seems to be that most people who have done tech interviews and who don't excel at them have already been "traumatized" by prior interviews that their adrenaline is pumping and almost no amount of sane approaches can lower that tension in an hour or two. Maybe if you spent a half-day doing non-stressful activities and meeting people, and established some modicum of trust, that approach might work. But in an hour or two, there's no way for a stressed candidate to dial-down their anxiety.

It's funny, for years, I was always the one who relaxed and excelled at interviews, because in my current profession, interviews are fundamentally social affairs where you talk about your accomplishments, publications, etc. So as you can imagine, I went into my first tech interview entirely unprepared for the confrontational puzzle-fest that was to ensue. I found the whole experience so jarring that I still am hesitating to pick up the phone and try to schedule an interview for a company I know I would enjoy working for, and for whom I could do great work. I think I require some sort of Zen experience that rids me of my ego entirely before I can approach an interview with the same equanimity that I used to have.
LE will generally create mirrored copies of your data before trying to access it and they'll decrypt it on another system that eliminates the risk of self destruction.
A bit off topic, but I noticed that the title that was originally submitted for this story is the HTML title of the linked article. It was then changed to the article's <h1> title. When submitting articles to HN, which title is actually the preferred one to submit?
Sigh, I remain concerned that if you want to light off a bubble in Tech this is the way to do it. Time will tell of course.

The reason I am concerned is that the last tech bubble was fueled by retail investors who got to buy stock in companies that IPO'd (but shouldn't have). A lot of people invested their savings into companies they were not prepared to evaluate reasonably. Relying instead on "trusted advisors" who often were financially invested in the stocks they advised going up.

No doubt there are some really honest and worthwhile crowd investing companies, just like there were honest and worthwhile financial advisers in the 90's and honest and worthwhile Mortgage brokers in the naughts. But their existence will not deter nor mitigate their dishonest counterparts who will ruthlessly, and with all the tools available to them (legal and otherwise), separate people from their money under the guise of "getting in on the ground floor of the next Google or Facebook." I want with all my being to be wrong about this, and would love for people five years from now to be able to see this comment and say "Gee what a cynic, he really didn't get it did he?" But that future is not the one I expect.
> The government had to physically go to their house and arrest them to get to their funds

Would be the same with cash
Pretty much this:

https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/08/technology-recruit...
I think you are proving dang's point. Instead of challenging assumptions and conclusions, all you've done is call the post "peurile", "irrational", etc.

I didn't particularly like the use of "anti-immigration people," but there is certainly a way to charitably interpret it. You would interpret it as just so - a phrase he's using to refer to people opposing loosened immigration policies, which unintentionally is a poor choice of words. Rather than uncharitably interpreting it as an an intentional attempt at putting down these people.
More important than official lines on hours worked or dressing down by colleagues for working late is how realistic the company is about what's expected of you and the resources you are given to achieve it.

If you are assigned more work than you can achive in 40 hours, yet only given 40 hours to do it in, you are either being set up for failure, or the company really does want you to work as many hours as it takes, but just not be so open about it.
Sending their first email as a connection request on LinkedIn
I find this resistance to the Smalltalk environment a bit puzzling. It's really fundamentally no different from modern IDEs and virtual machine runtimes such as JVM. The key differentiator is the fact that every object in the Smalltalk environment is "live" and can be examined and altered at will. One of the great benefits from this fallout is the powerful debugger.

Rather than whining about how Smalltalk doesn't play well with existing file-based tooling, we should focus on improving and extending the tooling for the Smalltalk environment. We have an opportunity here to define the future. Smalltalk is a break from the traditional way of doing things (the use of files and folders is positively antediluvian!). It's truly innovative.

The transition may incur some cost and pain now, but positive change is never free. If you argue we should wait for a more opportune time, the question is, "If not now, then when?" What exactly are we waiting for?

If you argue we should never change, files and folders are perfect forever and ever, then I say we are stuck in a rut. Software engineering is off the rails.
Are they really deleting the tweets and data, or are they just hiding them from plain view?

It seems that deleting any old data is a negative for the company. Data is the new oil, right.
Slide 3. Paper https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/Google-consumer-worklo...

Still, this doesn't sound right. Screen should be dominant.
Welcome to market reporting ... the S&P 500 has dropped about 5% in the last month. And in my newsfeed I find "up 2%" from a dozen places.

Now this is not a lie. That particular day the S&P was up 2% (and it does indeed mention that the days before it was down 3% and 1%), but the point I'm making is there was little mention of downward market movement the days before.

It's weird. In every other reporting it's bad news that sells, and you have trouble finding good news. In market news only upward (or very large downward) movements get mentioned.
As a non-bitcoin user, it seems to me that the value of the system as a medium of anonymous transaction is mostly irrelevant to the current price. As long as its stable enough for that, the only "problem" with the bitcoin price crashing is for speculators...
This may be a problem better fixed by a business model than a technical change. Do you make a profit directly from the videos? If so, a change in pricing might solve most of the problem.
Honestly the rules are not well spelled out. On one project we linked to other users content and displayed all of the ads associated which YouTube wanted to add, but when the aggregate amount of content delivered became too high our ip's were blocked. When we asked them they said we were out of the terms of use. There was no way to fix it. This was in 2014, by the way, so quite recently.

There is a substantial cost to video delivery. If you try to push this onto a service to take the cost for you, it really will backfire eventually.
Well, before Mt. Gox, bitcoins were about $80/coin. Its initial upward trajectory from $100 seems almost assuredly Mt. Gox pumping up the value. Who knows why Karpeles did it, but it probably had some kind of avalanche effect which he had no idea would peak at $1,100/coin. Since then, the price has been slowly resetting to pre-Mt. Gox levels.

By pre-Mt. Gox," I of course mean "pre-manipulation."

That's my working theory. If true, the fact that bitcoin has slowly been resetting to pre-manipulated levels would be the first example of the market ever being rational that I'm aware of. (Besides, you know, the fact that insider manipulation of the market was successful in increasing the price, which is rational by definition. Just not in an open happy way that people normally associate with the phrase "market rationality.")

But there are all kinds of problems with that theory. It's something so simple that you want to believe it's true. There's no reason why someone else wouldn't also be trying to manipulate the market now, like BTC-e. There's a financial incentive to try to pump up the price, so why is it continuing to fall, or rather why are current attempts at manipulation failing? Could it really be true that Mt. Gox was the only manipulator ever to have had a significant effect on the price? Seems unlikely.

Maybe the true explanation is that there was all this pent-up unknown hype for bitcoin, which Karpeles' manipulation unleashed on the world like a crack that broke a dam, either to his joy at skyrocking the price or his shock and horror at skyrocking the price, and now everyone's resetting back to pre-hype levels.

I still think bitcoin has value. Even after being used and abused, and dragged through a meatgrinder that shred away every ounce of my bitcoin fanboyism. There is true value there, and that is its ability to get money from you to me in seconds, and then my ability to sell those coins on an exchange for fiat that's deposited into my bank account within just a couple days. In that scenario, it doesn't even matter what bitcoin's current price is. All that matters is that the exchange honors the agreement at the time the coins were sold, because the flow is that the coins go from you to me to being sold on an exchange/middleman within a few minutes. So the current price of bitcoin is whatever it is, and I'm still paid however much I was expecting from you.

And it seems like a solid upward trajectory could even be built on that foundation.

But it's going to take patience and time.
Workflowy is basically a exactly this: a tree of nested items. It's more bullet-point style but works for quite well for me.

https://workflowy.com/
Congrats to Adam Kessler for discovering that Bitcoin is volatile.

But how could this sharp minded journalist miss the real silicon valley scandal that nobody writes about?

Coffee is hot, millions of investors get burned every day!
I have Fedora 20 on my 2009 MacBook Pro and it was a pig to install.
I would always take LIRR to Jamaica, then Airtrain. Easy peasy, way faster than the subway and only about $20.
Yes. Contempt of court.
Well, if the theory in the article is correct, then high cholesterol may not be a bad thing.
Right, hence the open question.
After that, we can also make sure politicians are honest and children are well-behaved.
The M1 is fine for a lot of workloads but the current M1 macs are not suitable for heavy work. Regarding niches; video work, audio work, ML, compiling stuff larger than simple projects, etc. The current M1 macs start to break down on a lot of medium sized workloads due a lack of RAM. So in my view, pro machine = >32gb ram, better gpu performance, better multicore performance.
> As we know from our own experience with Microsoft’s Bing search service, access to fresh, broad and deep news coverage is critical to retaining strong user engagement. This means that news content generates significant indirect value for search and social media sites [...] Microsoft’s Bing search service has less than 5% market share in Australia, [<4% it seems...] if we can grow, we are prepared to sign up for the new law’s obligations, including sharing revenue as proposed with news organizations. [...] the obligations described above could easily be written to apply to any search business that has more than 20% market share in Australia. At Microsoft, we are fully prepared to aim for this search share and become subject to the law’s obligations the day we do. [emphasis mine]

So... If you quintuple our Aus market share, making it larger than anywhere else at present, then we'll happily give Murdoch a kickback. But if you just quadruple it, no, that's not enough. Until then, taking money from Google is good.

I wonder if the oft repeated "independent news organizations" was simply misdirection, or code for "not ABC or SBS". Public funding of news organizations is highly contentious in the US. Encouraging the forcing of a US company to fund a foreign public broadcaster... is not pretty optics.
With UBI I always question should it even afford a decent housing in major city. Or is it more reasonable to expect it to pay for decent housing(a flat) and basic living expenses including food, clothing and other necessities in some town with reasonable basic services?
That would help but tracking would still be possible through HTTP layer like resource caching and other headers.
It was a bitcoin copy that changed a few numbers in the code and added some words (much wow!) and some pictures of Shibas. Literally.

It's never going to a dollar. There are 14 million new ones made every day. Btc has a hard cap and its issuance schedule is much smaller -- that's the only reason it has value.
I'm not objecting to UBI, and certainly not to UBI-like experiments. Nor was SV_BubbleTime, AFAICT. But SV_BubbleTime makes a significant and important point, and a legitimate retort to the opinion, "direct cash and housing first models are absolutely the best first approaches for the unhoused".

San Francisco adopted precisely those policies 15 years ago, providing free housing and direct cash payments, and most who live in San Francisco and understand the history of the policies probably have reservations about free housing and direct cash being the "best first approaches". Even Governor Newsom, who was the mayor who did the most to accelerate and materialize those policies (e.g. ~8k housing units for the homeless have been built or converted since 2005) has admitted that those policies were incomplete and naive.

EDIT: s/15k housing units/8k housing units/. Per https://londonbreed.medium.com/homelessness-recovery-plan-40.... (Google search sucks these days so difficult to find the better sources I originally had in mind.) Note that these are units, not shelter beds. San Francisco has built more permanent housing for the homeless than the entire homeless population when the program started.
I worked for Cray Research in the 1980s. A lot of the CAD software for the Cray 2 ran on a Z80 based CPM machine called the Intertec Suberbrain. Then we got a bunch of PCs from ATT called the ATT 6300 (Actually made by Olivetti). We figured out that if we replaced the 8086 in the ATT 6300 with a NEC V20, we could run all the Z80 software on the ATT 6300 by putting the V20 into Z80 compatibility mode. Saved a lot of work and time for us.
>There are lots of research labs, and researchers aren't about buying software from contractors.

In these DoD research environments (I've worked in them before), researchers typically aren't about building software, either. It's expensive, even if you hire the teams. Not always, but unless your research is technology driven, it tends to be about cutting corners on software and delivering research quality MVPs (semi-working prototypes) while all focus is on the research. You can forget overhead of best practice infrastructure for development/engineering, that's wasted overhead in some of those group's eyes. The more theoretical it is, the easier it is to get away with, the more applied, the less easy it is to handwave away reality.

If you're at a heavily funded technology focused org like NRL (which the description sounds a lot like--neat stuff comes out of NRL), then this can be the case. There are, however, a lot of DoD funded research labs that are dumpster fires in terms of the software--NRL is almost the golden child compared to most of them. Again, in some such labs, a project may only have sufficient budget for 0.05 to 0.1 FTEs worth of software engineers. In such cases, 0.4 FTEs of software engineers can be considered a significant investment for a project, which is beyond laughable.
What a complete turd of a post. Gaming the audience to get sales leads.
I liked the story.

I don't know about other software developers / hacker-types, but personally I'm very grumpy and cynical at times. I get very circumspect when making friends or responding to other people's requests for help.

Maybe this is not related to Hackers, but I get the feeling that software developers can become very anti-social. I blame it on the long hours of work in isolation, or the analytically oriented thinking we are capable of (which I view as a job related problem at times, like burnout, because I can't switch it on and off as much as I'd like to).
Steve Jobs is the best 'Creative Director' ever. You can argue the merits of such a title or how it fits in a corporate structure, but I personally think CD skills trump MBA ones.

If you're looking for the best captain for a ship, the job application should probably focus on abilities that supersede spreadsheet proficiency.
http://www.macstories.net/news/breaking-apple-releases-safar...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_releases...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/07/safari-5/

The authors seem to be updating their posts as this is breaking. Found on good old twitter real-time search:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=safari+5
Human evolution is more like looking at revisions of a single programming language. The basic elements remained consistent, but changed subtly over millions of years in an iterative fashion... if you pick life as a whole though I agree with your analogy, but this is very much a small cautious, iterative improvement and it offers me nothing I can't already get.

I enjoy the rational argument you give here, but I think you went too far by attacking my personality and misconstruing my words. The opposite of many is few, not one, and that was the impetus for my comment - right now "we" all seem to be focused on developing a tiny little area of programming instead of the whole and the effects are obvious if you have to work with it - towering technology stacks of crumbly code that are unstable through bad design and a lack of low-level mentality at the high-level - so bad they give Apple a pretty solid excuse to ban Flash on iPhone.

As for my "adventuresomeness" I'm comfortable with all the major paradigms and languages and work at every level, from encoded instruction bytes up to things like SQL/XSLT with C/Haskell/Fortran/Java/Ruby/Python/whatever inbetween and a wide variety of platforms (phones/games consoles/PDAs/calculators/PCs). I learned three languages in the last month - only two of which were through necessity at work and I am happy to make radical comments which express my opinions and not turn away from them when they clash with flavour of the month/year/decade... and thats just programming. I dunno what you call adventuresome but from your comment, I'd imagine its probably a lot less adventurous than me... but then I might be misconstruing words and attacking your personality then. :P
A new iPhone 3GS costs about $1000 here in Sweden. So I'd personally rather take the $80 battery, but that's just me.
Most importantly, don't let anyone change who you are. Choose a path and follow it doggedly

I've never really gotten this. It's a popular message- you, child, are completely perfect the way you are. Never change, not one iota.

Personally I think it's ridiculous. Life is a journey of self-improvement, and you cannot, all by yourself, craft yourself into the best you can be.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. -- Muhammad Ali
Unless they become a large enough payment provider.

If a sufficient number of businesses integrate coinbase into their sales, it's not just a matter of the paying customer going elsewhere to process the payment: the entity selling the goods also has to move away from coinbase.

Sure, you can still send coins over the network - but given a large enough foothold that doesn't mean you'll be able to pay for the goods you want, at the merchant you want.