skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really have a good technical reason. Mainly just curiosity.

Over the course of the years of me tinkering, I seem to keep trimming my tools to slimmer and slimmer things that I feel I can grok fully. This has me at the point where I think of an OS as "just" a thin layer on top of the kernel syscall API.

So curiosity now has me asking about implementation details of the syscalls and all that jazz. I have the linux source tree on my machine and do poke around, but the sheer size is somewhat daunting.

So my reason for asking about a micro-kernel in particular comes from a combination of liking "minimality", wanting to see different approaches to kernel design, and wanting to grok the "full stack".

Anyway. Thanks for the pointer to ChrysaLisp. Looks interesting!
True, you could have the passenger making "shoo" noises :D
The problem isn't taxation. The problem is Orwellian control over yet another major part of everyday life.
That's not apples to apples. Nazism is deadly, as it obesity (neither universally). Accepting people regardless of weight seems safer, and reaching out to people with questionable beliefs strikes me as productive.
Also personality. Good salespeople are... Good salespeople. They apply their craft when negotiating compensation. What am I going to do, make a single page app about why I should be paid more?

...actually that's not a bad idea.
The price seems to have gone up considerably in the last 5 years. We used to eat kangaroo steaks and burgers regularly, but now we only consider it if it's on sale.
To borrow the spirit of your impassioned comment - could someone point to a criticism of Sowell's work/ideas?
"Shadow profiles" is the term that made it into the news: https://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-shadow-profiles-priva...
Books like that mostly just narrow their vision to exclude anything that's not in harmony with the libertarian view. More woefully incomplete than wrong.
I don't find any paradox or trouble in celebrating great scientists. Physics is often taught alongside a brief motivating history of who and what had occurred before.

Was there some element of luck that let them succeed first over their contemporaries? Would the same things have been discovered just several years later? Probably but the class of people who could have been substituted for Einstein is small enough and unique enough that celebrating Einstein, Maxwell, Plank, Newton, etc, seems the same as celebrating that class of people as a whole.
I know "correlation/causation" feels like a dead horse, but I would want far better evidence that there's an actual link and not just confounding factors (ex. diet).
Privacy Loss in Apple's Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12
Also for governments themselves.
Apple researching whether Apple Watch can detect common heart conditions
1. Delete Facebook
2. Get banned from HN
3. Be super productive

I'm pretty much in an FB and HN dopamine loop all day.

-_-

Not sure if I'm ready to pull the trigger.
I find Wikipedia a useful jumping off point in general to get a sense of common criticisms on a variety of topics. In this case, I'd start in the Reception section of Sowell's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Reception
Part of it is that even the name of the crime Identity Theft insidiously paints it as something purely between the thief and the end consumer, whose identity was "stolen". Alice stole Bill's identity! But where is the company she stole it from? Where is the bank where she fraudulently used this information? These corporations' lack of accountability is built directly into the name we use for the crime! It's as if they are bystanders, peripheral to the crime.

We need to bury this nebulous "Identity Theft" and call out more clearly the two specific crimes that happened: 1. negligence (the entity that gave up the info) and 2. bank fraud. When you use these terms, the companies don't get a free pass. Just change the words and they're part of the mess.
Are there any examples of competitive sales organizations that don't pay commission of some kind?
More email harvesting garbage.
For my friends, the only reason they use Venmo is because the lender can send in the ticket. For any of the ones you mentioned, the sender has to be the one being responsible. People don't like reminding their peers to pay them back via personal communication
In California small claims court, you can sue an out-of-state corporation in the county where you reside. It's one of the options on the form: where the plaintiff was injured. You don't have to go to Sacramento yourself, just serve the papers to their agent of service there. The clerk of court will even serve them by certified mail for you so you don't have to hire a process server.
More or less yea. I've been recently discovering that a lot of entities I had perviously thought of as trust-worthy are usually spreading propaganda and misinformation under the guise of "spreading awareness".

This particular blog fits into that pattern, which immediately triggered my skepticism.
>why should typical cash businesses like hairdressers get huge tax benefits from being cash only over the business next door?

'Why should that person over there benefit from free speech while I am censored? We should go censor that person too.'

Do you really think a society where the government and corporations have complete control over your wealth will turn out ok over the long haul? What if you are born into a political system that you want to take no part of and wish to exit from it? Too bad, your Commune-Dollars are just 'leased' to you and not really your property, please read the terms of service you signed up for by being born in this country. Oh, suddenly you don't want to leave the country because we own your entire life? That's great -- Add another citizen lock in.
Seems like LinkedIn does this for me. I guess the difference is Linkedin is upfront and proud of it's creepiness.
Incredible title. Story:

"state your name and address and it generates eight pages of lawsuit documentation in PDF form for you to print and file"

"Filing and winning a small claims case takes more than just filling in a form."

It's a story about a form.
Inside Hong Kong's Chaotic and Lawless Kowloon Walled City
I wonder if that's how Glassdoor was started.
Even roaming, it is free to receive SMSes for my plan and most plans in Australia.

If you need to receive an 2FA token, well, you need to receive an 2FA token.
You have to remap the data though, from the examples:

Alibaba: 93.89{40,27,69,58,44,42,52,39,27,8,40,45,33,37,24,20,30,36,36,29,40,60,50,40,50,63,87,100}152.11

Brexit: 5562{4,27,48,37,60,40,56,54,59,62,37,63,30,59,75,68,50,40,47,30,5,9,50,74,59,75,100,92}7501

It only accepts numbers in the range 0-10 (for a sparkline) or 0-100 (for the bar or dot plot), and because it performs no vertical normalisation, you have to remap to that. Making either your data gibberish, or your sparkline oddly offset and scaled (e.g. if you put in the brexit FTSE data / 100).
Square Cash lets you request money from people, if that's what you mean.
not what i was looking for. I was looking for building the kernel, not analyzing it. But useful link nevertheless
Fascinating stuff:

http://cityofdarkness.co.uk/category/the_people/
> How does that work? Is it for worry about pests, or insecticide use? I thought the US Constitution prevents a state from banning products from another state.

I have no idea, but this is at least the guidance. https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/factsheets/BringingFruitsVeggi...

That said, I'd like to be clear in not knocking all laws of this sort, for example laws about citrus are obviously informed by: https://californiacitrusthreat.org/

> I looked in the online California Code at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml but found no mention of "housecoat" or "house coat". I also found nothing relevant for "robe" or "robes". Could you point out the relevant law?

I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that I could not find it. I've seen it printed in so many places that I started to believe it without seeing the exact wording of the law. In fact, the only code referencing 'woman' in the Vehicle Code is about ownership.
I wonder how quickly / ably they could scale that. What if every US-based HN reader filed a suit?

Even better, what if every US HN user filed a small claims court case? I believe companies cannot hire lawyers to represent them there, they would need to send employees.
sweden will be the first european country facing gov. negative interest rate. Mr. Draghi already wanted to introduce it for regular people and cash was the only reason he wasn't able to do this.
Best advice I've ever heard on this subject is never hire just one. Sales teams need competition to thrive so it is to be at least two people.
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Australia is going along this path also. It's not quite as far as here, but ability to pay with card including contactless even for small transactions at smaller merchants is pretty common. Day to day I probably use cash about once a month on average.
Putting prediction hat on before reading article: "because your competitors pay commission"

> Company A pays commissions and, if you do what you know you can do, you will earn $1M/year. Company B refuses to pay commissions for “cultural reasons” and offers $200K/year. Which job would you take? Now imagine that you are a horrible sales person who would be lucky to sell anything and will get fired in a performance-based commission culture, but may survive in a low-pressure, non-commission culture. Which job would you take?

There it is.
I deleted it during the run-up to last year's elections, and I've been happier. Also, my phone battery lasts literally forever.

The thing with optimizing for engagement is that the numbers will tell you to do things that eventually burn out your users. The more thoughtful people leave first, and the community becomes dominated by addicts, and the news feed increasingly dominated by oversharers who spend several hours a day facebooking. That infinite slurry of crappy content rots your brain faster than watching daytime TV.
Their contribution to revenue is so direct that this kind of bonus can be incentivized in a very valid way.

Engineers at Google get 'bonuses' as well, all of them, so you could very well ask 'why are they paid bonuses'.

If Engineers could be incentivized so directly, I'd imagine they would be.
What are the best sources of news and information about cryptocurrency?
I'd appreciate guidance regarding the best sources of information about the various currencies (apart from obviously white papers and their own websites).
> Most of their meat is not for the western taste buds

I live in Australia. Kangaroo is very common and popular. It has been for farmers since the settler days andin my generation its made its way to the city. Fun fact there used ro be a breed of dog (never made official) for hunting kangaroos. Also many supermarkets have a camel option or 2.

And as far as I know the only endangered kangaroos are tree kangaroos. These are super rare and look like a cross between a possum and kangaroo. Others maybe someone can add?

I think the biggest issue is if they opened up hunting again would be to make sure people know the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo.
Would it really be the people getting on the judges nerves or the corporation at fault?
Hard to AB test and convince MBA types of #showMeTheKPIs
GDPR means Facebook can face fines in the billions for not deleting data when you delete your account
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As someone who grew up on rural prime production properties and now lives in the city, I find this assessment to be spot on.

I know peers who get excited when we go for drives outside of the city limits, so they can see a Kangaroo. I get stressed out driving the car out of the city, because if you see a Kangaroo you're likely to run into it at a hundred k's an hour. They are a bit of a pest in the numbers they've expanded to.
Maybe it is lazy not to investigate better models than commission.

But on the other hand, the world of enterprise sales, from software to jet planes to insurance, has worked this way for decades/centuries/millenia.

So trying to find a better way is less "not lazy", and more heroically quixotic.
I always find it somewhat ironic that I spent all this time preparing myself to get a good career in tech when repetitive manual labor seems to be the happiest
Sales people earn commission because their work is "non-deterministic," meaning they could execute a perfect sales strategy to win an account but the opportunity could still fall through for circumstances beyond the rep's control (budget is yanked, project is delayed, etc.)

By comparison, an engineer's work is "deterministic" in that is fully under his or her control to complete the goal.

Sales is a risky job and it's compensated accordingly. It doesn't matter if you crushed your numbers 2 quarters ago. It's the reason why there's a saying that a sales rep is always just 6 months out of a job.
how does "Identification by exploitation" sound.
What is this company making?
Running in a VM is a reasonable idea. Though part of my reason for wanting to run a microkernel is as a quest to run as minimal hardware + software as possibly without cramping usability (for appropriate meanings of "usability"). No good reason for this other than just to learn things along the way.

At this point the Hurd doesn't even have USB or sound, IIRC, so even with virtualization we're a bit upstream without a paddle.

Random question. My experience with virtualization is quite limited. How streamlined is the data sharing stuff between instances (files, clipboard, etc)?
CEOs tell everyone if you want great CEOs you gotta pay them.

If you wanna great salespeople you gotta pay them.

You want great devs. You should put in a ping pong table and give out free soda.

The myth that great developers aren't interested in compensation is terrible for our collective pay.
What will likely happen, at least in California, is that the clerk will schedule all of the Equifax cases for the same day and the judge will hear them all at once, like a little miniature class action.
I'm sure all the parties involved in a reality show are contracted in some way (camera operators) or, more or less, subjects of a documentary or piece of journalism.
For the privacy conscious people, cashless is something I hope is not the norm everywhere. There are still places I am hesitant to use cards.
Not competitive exactly (it's not necessary when you don't have commission) but Pluralsight: https://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/why-sales-commissions-don...
Only if they happen to a) be in the range 0-9 (for the sparkline) or 0-99 (for the dot or bar chart) and b) cover (pretty much) the whole of that range. See the page examples, the data in the sparkline bears no obvious relation to the start and end values.
Sorry. The map you linked is very similar to the map we used for the Houston/Galveston/Orange areas. The people needing rescue were tagged as in your map and useful info about each location was available, in the map we used, on the left sidebar.
having typos in variable names doesn't seem related to being smart though
PRINCE’ STATUE REPLACES THAT OF THE CONTROVERSIAL COLUMBUS IN MINNESOTA
The services provided by Gapps that send data to Google (push messaging, aGPS, crash reporting, app installs, safe browsing, etc.) also exist on iOS with exactly the same privacy policies. The only difference is that you can remove or disable them on Android devices if you are paranoid, while no such remedy exists on iPhones.

By your standards, privacy is achievable with difficulty on Android and not at all on iOS.
If the authorities are out to get you, they can just block your bank accounts in such countries and you are only left with your eyes to cry. Cashless societies take power away from individuals.
They advocate for consumers, not lawyers, and they're a non-profit. Not sure what the conflict of interest there is.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's pretty crappy that you have to show damages in order to nail someone for negligence. Shouldn't it be enough that they engaged in risky behavior? If I go out on the road and drive in a risky manner, I can end up guilty of all sorts of things without hurting anyone or damaging any property. But give up personally identifiable information (which we know leads to bank fraud) and somehow it's "show damages or GTFO".
My family has started eating kangaroo quite a lot recently. We used to eat a lot of lamb back when it was a cheap cut of meat decades ago, but the ever rising price (lamb shanks used to be around $2 each as a throwaway cut, nowadays they are around $10 each in my local supermarket) has made us switch to roo.

I love it in stir fries, an my oldest teenage son who is becoming a gym junky loves eating it because of its low fat content and high protein. I think the secret is getting the marinade right. We tend to douse it in a lot of mediterranean herbs and wine overnight so it has a similar taste to highly spiced lamb yiros meat when cooked up in a pan.

Interestingly, one of our cats eats nothing but raw kangaroo mince (aside from dry biscuits) and he has grown HUGE (as in huge frame, not fat). Talking to vets and other cat owners, apparently kangaroo meat can do that to a cat...
SoftBank and Uber’s deal talks have advanced under Uber’s new CEO
Anyone have the SMILE representation of their genome?
I guess the price is going to start dropping again once there's too many...
> so heinous as to not even be worth discussing the possibility of merit

Right, so, what's the clear boundary here? If it's specifically mass murder, ok. "Arbitrarily prejudiced mindsets", however, is not well defined, and therefore subject to slippery slope effects.

Almost all prejudices start with some nugget of truth, if only a correlation with the causation backwards. Further, humanity frickin loves lumping people trying to tell the truth with those who build nasty stereotypes on said truth. In fact, there is no sharp line between them. For instance, the guy in this thread getting downvoted to bedrock for pointing out that being fat is bad for you. Is that person being hateful? (I can't tell, but I collapsed the threat so maybe there's real evidence in there I missed) When do you start restricting that sort of thing, just pointing out awkward facts? Good luck coming up with a clear boundary we can all agree on, because oh yeah, you have to get consensus on that or you've solved nothing.
It is difficult to think of a more effective way to centralize and exert authority than complete control of the monetary system. Sure, there are tons of benefits from being entirely cashless. However, what are we willing to trade for this?
This isn't completely relevant to your point, but I'm curious how you're seeing the sales times?
Come to New Zealand, I haven't used cash this year. Everyone takes cards, though contactless isn't popular with merchants due to unregulated interchange fees.
> By comparison, an engineer's work is "deterministic" in that is fully under his or her control to complete the goal.

I hope you don't manage engineers.
There's a simpler explanation: people are afraid of rejection. Sales is difficult because it requires acknowledgement and constant interaction with rejection.

It takes more of a psychological toll than engineering, and some people don't want to deal with it, or do not have the personality to brush off repeated rejections in order to get a sale.
Wouldn't call engineer's work `deterministic` its the least `deterministic` field i've been in.
The article doesn't really argument whether it's just the high-tech cities, like Stockholm, or the whole of Sweden that is ready to become a "cashless economy". How could you write such an article and not examine the situation in the rural areas?
Summary:

Amazon, the Clinton Foundation, and the American Heart Association have partnered to sell high-sugar food to children. And they’re marketing this junk food as if it’s healthy.

The Amazon-Clinton-AHA initiative is called the Healthier Generation Store. It introduces itself as “your one stop shop for Healthier Generation-vetted Smart Snacks and products for students in and out of school.”
Seriously, go to archive.org and read what was actually posted on FPH. Pretty much none if it was "ugh let's all point and laugh at the gross fatty", because that's not funny at all. It was all about making fun of the "culture" and the dumb stuff the fat people bring on themselves.

And so what if fat people know about it? Smokers also know smoking is bad, yet the society does much worse to them - we post pics of sick people and warnings on the product they buy. Do you think the smokers are oppressed and should be another SJW-protected group? Or do you think we should post late stage diabetes pics on cheese?

And why shouldn't we make fun of groups of people, when it is funny? This thought policing has become ridiculous.
Isn't that an argument not to pay based on deals won? Doesn't that make it a random or unpredictable reward structure, and therefore not very effective?
Survivorship bias. If you were wrong you wouldn't have posted :-)
> I'm beginning to wonder if our ability to sympathize only serves to advance the agendas of those who want to make money on us.

Using your adversary's virtues against them is a strategy as old as humanity. With social media it's baked right into the name. Who doesn't want to be social? Who doesn't want to share? Is something wrong with you?
At the end of the day, a salesperson not making quota is going to be fired. The best salesperson in the world could maybe buy themselves an extra year, at best. But eventually, if they're so great, where are the numbers? And their next job search isn't gonna look so great. They can't solve a problem on a whiteboard to make up for the fact that their prior business was a bad fit for the market, or whatever.

A salesperson who is making quota and running way over it into big bonuses is by definition earning their money.

Sometimes people are in the right place at the right time, of course, but in general it's hard to say a sales person is overpaid unless they're completely useless and failing to earn their base pay.
You and GGP are the ones making ridiculous claims without evidence (that the data the OSes collect are unknowable instead of outlined in a privacy policy and that Android collects more data than iOS out of the box).
I have one word for Facebook: Myspace; and it's not a second to early for that bunch of scheming zuckers.
It's not a circular argument to point out that excellent sales people will take the commission job, while bad sales people will take the salaried job. All the things you mention (support, morale, ...) are second-order considerations -- the first order consideration is getting the best people.