skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t mind but our bureaucracy organ does :(. Whilst technically it is only moving the markdown files and CIconfig from our private gitlab to a public one, the bureaucracy involved with it prevents me from doing it today. I would have to pull a part of our source code which is under strict regulation, and I try to only start that process when I absolutely must do so (subsidiary projects mostly).

The contents are free to describe though. Essentially you would find a large number of pages on all language concepts for our main languages. So “how to document a method”, “how to document a property”, classes, namespaces, you get the idea.

Next, we have a very clear setup in our documentation pages. All pages and sections on pages have permalinks. The idea is that you can redirect people to the exact information they have to read. Every section always starts with three examples. The examples are different enough to be applicable to say 80% of the cases. This means most of time a developer does not need to read more than the examples, c/p one and adjust to his specific case.

After the example cases the different aspects are discussed that should be in. This includes rules like “use the 3rd person when writing descriptions”, “use present tense”, “start with active verb” but also “include minimally one example in the format above” and “never use the name of X in the description”. (I.e SetSomeCrypticThingOnlyWeUnderstand() // sets the cryptic thing << not helpful). Basically a checklist. Typically we have DO, Don’t, and AVOID listings.

After that (bullet/checklist) usually a paragraph describing the rationale for documenting like this as well as other information not captured in the examples or bullets.

Sometimes after this there is a section of “also consider” where we capture issues of the past. E.g “when documenting X that uses units, specify the units.”. I.e if you have a property Angle document it is degrees or radians. That same page would probably have a paragraph on should you name “Angle” or AngleInRadians or some info on avoiding ambiguous naming of properties.

I’d say the biggest game changers are the permalinks, good golden samples at the start of each section and in some cases bullet lists. The description paragraph is optional.

All our pages are markdown pages served on Gitlab Pages (on premise deployment) as static site built with MkDocs and Material theme (slightly customized) [1]. All pages include an “edit on gitlab” button so users can edit the pages in their browser without downloading any tooling. A CI setup will auto redeploy on commit/push. If clone the repo and you download MkDocs locally you can of course write with live reload etc on a local server (MkDocs serve).

O, and have a great search functionality and decent responsive website that is easy to read (good font, colors, syntax highlighting etc).

[1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
I think a simpler and better claim would be that:

When managers are faced with stack ranking employees, they will often decide based on factors not purely related to the productivity or value of the employee.

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That, and as an employee in a stack-ranked organization, you know you need to be competitive. Not in terms of productivity but in terms of "in the eyes of your manager"-- Perception is more important than performance.

Studies have shown that men compete more aggressively than women, on average. So it's certainly plausible that men enjoy a gender-driven advantage that isn't purely due to gender-discrimination. Rather, it is the system that is biased.

This reminds me of that "racist algorithm" debacle.
I think in this case the linear graph does a better job of showing the 'holy crap this exploded' better than a logarithmic graph would. That it is exponential is more of a neat aside.
> I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++.

You must be new here.
Command words don't rull full analytics I would think. My command word "Computer" on my echo is triggered by unrelated words that in hindsight have the same inflections etc or high match %. A lot time while listening to music softly I it triggers and I hear it volume down.
I can regular play with my dog and say things like get the ball or some such and get it to trigger.
It does not take a lot of buildings to get into the 1MW range.

A 20 story apartment complex with say 400 apartments needs ~1MW. Power companies are used to rolling out these kinds of connections and large ones do it on a weekly if not daily basis.
Pretty clever. Also, they have $1500 paper clip [0] and $9000 Ball of Yarn [1]. Other than that, they actually have rather likable and varied collection of 'Everyday Things' [2].

[0] http://www.tiffany.com/accessories/mens-accessories/everyday...

[1] http://www.tiffany.com/accessories/everyday-objects/everyday...

[2] http://www.tiffany.com/search/Everyday-Objects/sort-relevanc...
Gene Therapy Creates New Skin to Save a Dying Child
And is about as good as building network on GRE tunnel, because its
homebrew cryptography is written by a dilettante.
> Part of the problem is that the inequality leads to behavior that protects the inequality.

I do agree with you, but I think it's worth nitpicking the examples. Is the Disney case an inequality problem? I'm not sure that it is. Suppose we waved a magic wand, and suddenly all of Disney's employees and shareholders were middle class people. Would that change Disney Inc's incentives around IP lobbying?

I think that rather than an inequality problem, cases like Disney are something like a "concentrated interests" problem. Even if every individual person had exactly the same amount of money in the bank, they wouldn't all be equally invested in the exact same things, and competing interests would still emerge. Disney's incentives follow just from the fact that it has shareholders, regardless of how much wealth those shareholders have. And for what it's worth, as a society, this is definitely the problem we want! Concentrated interests solve huge problems, like how to make a $100 million movie that everyone wants to see, but that no one person could fund on their own.
How the BBC switched to HTTP2
One partial alternative is 360-degree performance reviews where each employee's performance is subjectively evaluated not just by one manager but rather by a collection of other employees they work with spread out across all levels of the org chart. Of course that's not perfect either but at least it provides more data points and can reduce the impact of some biases.
This piece on the apology includes a response from Ms. Wu making similar points: https://thenextweb.com/asia/2017/11/07/make-magazine-founder...
The Fake News Fallacy
It used to be much higher: https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Free_Resources/Federal-Inco...

If companies want access to the best market in the world, they need to pay to be there.
Is #4 test firing a full size Raptor a possibility?
Many of my friends have stopped using Uber in favor of Lyft. Is this a real trend, or just something I see in Silicon Valley tech circles?
> Your last paragraph frankly makes your first nonsensical.

How?

> You're trying to have it both ways.

No. I'm explaining why all governments and all propaganda organizations want to control social media.

It's why china banned facebook and why they are building their own internal/national social media platforms. The same thing with russia.

> The fact that manipulating media for control and influence is undertaken is very widely recognised, and has been for millennia.

I know. That's my point.
Ask HN: What do you care about most when looking for a new job?
wow, I totally overestimated people's ability to get sarcasm.
Can you give a citation on "bipartisan support among economists"? All I have read seems to indicate economists are all in support for the other direction - that lowering corporate taxes at this moment is bad economics.

[1] http://larrysummers.com/2017/10/22/one-last-time-on-who-bene...

[2] https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/corporate-rate-cut...

[3] http://microeconomicinsights.org/benefits-corporate-tax-cuts...
You'll never get funding with that pitch, though. Hyper-modular microservice blockchain bus is what investors want to hear.

They read on the internet that the only way to survive FB levels of users is webscaling, and they won't make a bet unless they think you'll be FB sized in three years.
I think that searching for Bitcoin is causally related to market demand for Bitcoin(i.e. the price).

Because if you want anything(like cheese or furnace filters), you'll then search for it on Google.
Equifax, Yahoo fail to answer the most basic questions during Senate hearing
Range blocking is the last resort, and we've only done it after alerting Hetzner and getting no response.

In any case, we only block for a few hours.... and yes, you definitely risk losing clients. I know Hetzner is not only DE based and many user cases for IPs originating are possible, but luckily DE is not our market.
It'll still need someone to turn it into a product if "normies" are going to get into it. Literally any amount of DIY or even DIY-adjacent work is too much.
Implementing a key-value store, part 2: Linear Hashing implementation in Rust
I guess this is one of the merits of proof-of-work: force miners to mine on one chain only, and if the token on the fork is worth less compared to their relative increase in hash rate on the fork, they lose money.

In my opinion, the financial motive of miners played a big role in this decision, and that’s exactly what proof-of-work is supposed to achieve: consensus through selfish miners.

Has anyone done the math on the profitability of Bitcoin Cash miners versus regular Bitcoin miners?
I'd say strictly the reverse. Use log scale to hide differences between your results.
Related: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1162:_Log_Scale
I think they updated the story with that information since the initial publish.

I'm trying to figure out what assets DirecTV owns that are competitive to Turner Broadcasting assets... Any thoughts?
Part 1 is here: https://samrat.me/posts/2017-11-04-kvstore-linear-hashing/
> How do you know you are optimally utilizing the hardware you do have?

That's probably one better to answer for actual ops people. However what we generally do is looking at our metrics to see where we see room for improvement. Two obvious cases we identified and resolved through improving our approaches have been JavaScript sourcemap processing and debug symbol handling.

There we knew we were slow based on how far p95 timing was from the average and median. We looked specifically at what problematic event types looked like and what we can do to handle them better. We now use just better approaches to dealing with this data, multiple layers of more intelligent caches and that cut down out event processing time and with it the amount of actual hardware we need.

So the answer at least as far as event processing goes: for some cases we spent time on we were CPU bound and knew we can do better and did. I wrote a bit about what we did on our blog where we moved sourcemap processing from Python to Rust. The latests big wins in the processing department have been a rewrite of our dSYM handling where we now use a custom library to preprocess DWARF files and various symbol tables into a more compact format so we can do much faster lookups for precisely the data we are about.

> Is the network card saturated?

In other cases that has been an issue, but that's less of a problem on the actual workers which are relevant to that number we are discussing here. In particular as far as the load balancers goes there is a ton more data coming in but not all will make it to the system. A non uncommon case is someone deploys our code into a mobile app SDK and then stops paying. The apps will still spam us, but we want to block this off before it hits the expensive parts of the system etc.

> Is the database the bottleneck?

When is a database not a concern ;)

What we are tracking is a ton, how we are tracking is a lot of datadog.
Krugman and keynesians think that all (aggregate) demand is equal. Austrian school adherants understand that bubbles are fuelled by central planning and malinvestment.
Whenever you leverage things outside of a field to become well known/get recognition within a field, people are going to push back on it and call it inauthentic. Those other traits could be sex appeal, it could be celebrity in another area, it could be wealth, whatever.

Of course having those other traits doesn't mean that you are necessarily incapable or inauthentic in that space. It doesn't "prove" anything. I doubt that Sexy Cyborg would be as well known without the sexual aspect, but fame doesn't correspond perfectly to competence either.

To me it's leveraging those traits to gain recognition that stirs people up - which, with a name like "SexyCyborg", she's pretty clearly doing. I don't mind it myself, don't think it says anything about her competence on its own.
There are no real technical arguments against increasing to 2MB, only political.

The main actors against a block size increase are Core developers who are also part of a company called Blockstream. Blockstream's business model is about selling side chains. But why use side chains if you can use on chain transactions instead? Well if you limit on chain scaling users would be forced on to your side chains...

The movement against the Segwit2x upgrade was so fierce precisely because it threatened to offset Core as the de facto Bitcoin client, making them loose their power.

They profit heavily from censorship on the bitcoin mailing list, the "bitcoin" subreddit and bitcoin.org. Their consistent propaganda and abuse has now caused the miners and businesses to back down on the Segwit2x upgrade, which would have been a certainty with 95% hashpower and business support.

Keep these things in mind and you should get a better picture.
It's the tech circles.

Most people who use ridesharing see it only as a cheaper, easier option, which it is.
What is interesting is that the BTC price went up on the email announcement and it started going down an hour later when coindesk released the news. I guess different type of investors/speculators read different news source ...
The headline is as exists on the article, but is misleading: "Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV" must be sold, not CNN. I'm guessing they are pushing the "CNN" angle because then they can bring up "questions" as to whether Trump is being vindictive against the news organization he dislikes.
>If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question. Doing the same to a woman isn't some sexist conspiracy.

And you would be wrong to do so. You could call their fashion sense into doubt, but questioning their competency in unrelated areas is falling prey to the ad hominem fallacy. Picking one undesirable trait and generalizing outwards from that is the definition of ad hominem.

@realsexycyborg might have a nontraditional taste in style but this literally has nothing to do with her skills as a maker or ability as an engineer. To conflate the two is bias and reflects the core problem here.
From your other posts, your main problem was that you didn't want to / couldn't move to where jobs were, not that low level gamedev code is no longer being written - VR and AR are testifying to that.

How is this client side rewrite every few months fundamentally different from the broken window fallacy? as in, unsustainable because it adds no value overall?
This article reads like the cars my friends and I would "design" when we were in third grade.

Oh yeah? Mine is gonna have 800 horsepower and will be amphibious and have wings like the batmobile!
> What a sad, sad world we live in where a corporation can come in and use legislation to be obviously anti-competitive

This is always a risk with any government. The problem is voters keep voting for these same people passing these laws (or worse yet, don't even vote claiming "nothing will change anyways."
Started as an internal tool, at least according to medium & other blog posts.
Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
DMV is run by the state, not the city. Municipal level organizations are police and fire, which can be run very efficiently.
This is one possible explanation. For example, You'd be surprised how many people run intrusion attacks from Kaperskys VPN service....

You see Kaperskys IPS on your logs and wonder...
Give It Another Century and We’ll See How It Goes
And yet even the poorest in the US still have TVs and refrigerators. I don't dismiss that life is difficult for many, ...

The example you gave here suggests you don't know what a difficult life is like.
They don’t need to run it better than the DMV to beat Comcast.
For all the talk about democracy, freedom, diversity and dissent the country seems extremely uncomfortable and insecure in the face of diversity and dissent it has no control over, unlike tightly controlled narratives in traditional media and is now seeing gremlins everywhere. This is paranoia.

This is a new form of McCarthyism and its a double edged sword. Other countries can use the exact same logic to ban hollywood and western media for propaganda and you can't then lecture them on free press or accuse them of authoritarianism.

It should be taken for granted there is going to be fair share of propaganda and rumour mongering everywhere and always has been in human society.

The only way to 'control' this is to establish a 'ministry of truth'. But given the level of double speak and paranoia I won't be surprised to hear folks advocating a tightly controlled 'ministry of truth' to 'protect' our fragile democracies.
Franken: We must not let Big Tech threaten our security, freedoms and democracy
It's graphed in real time: https://fork.lol/
As my brother-in-law in Maine says, "There's no bad weather, just bad clothing."
This isn't the only article reporting it this way. CNN may be an important part of Turner's portfolio, but it's hardly the only thing in there. The degree of sensationalism in this reporting (amongst other things) only helps to validate the "fake news" moniker that Trump applies so liberally.
Well duh,the top 1% have more that 27% of the wealth...
Which to me is just stupid - like taking 5 min to increase the blocksize is going to take away significant development effort from more novel solutions. Meanwhile, tx fees are stupidly high and bitcoin can't be used as a currency for small-ish transactions.
Im curious as to what the response will be from regulators when these loans start to mature. I'm assuming none of these companies are 'too big to fail', and will be allowed to fall apart. That's the big difference between 2008 and now I think. Will anyone want the assets of Macy's, Kohl's, etc. once commercial retail collapses? It's going to be a real disaster I think, and unfortunately the hardest hit will be the poorest Americans once again. Big winner? Amazon...
I lived in a community with municipal broadband (Brigham City, UT / UTOPIA fiber) and it was extremely well run. There were still private ISPs handling basically everything, it's just that they used city-owned fiber and offered very reasonable rates.
If the founding fathers were concerned about government capture by the elite, why did they limit the right to vote to land owners? They basically decided that only the wealthy could vote.
They can release a version that supports 2.7 much sooner
Hi! Just to let you know, I've decided to add support for stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 speaker layouts in the Web version of Resonance Audio. https://github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio-web-sdk/i... Follow the repo to find out when the work is completed (hopefully soonish :) )
Reposting this as pertinent:

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard
But what if you call it NoScale™?
Good idea at this stage - but it would also be very dangerous.

In Canada, in my youth - the entire telelphone network was socialized - it was a byzantine mess.

You had to buy your telephone from the government (i.e. Bell, state owned).

In Saskatchewan, it's still the same.

Imagine if the networks were run like the DMV.

Even worse - with massive, bloated government subsidies and 'guaranteed revenue stream' through taxation - they can make it impossible to compete.

Pay workers way above market wages (the 'change collectors' on the Toronto Subway often earn more than $100K a year, even though the jobs should not even exist anymore).

So it's probably a good idea right now maybe to force some innovation in the sector ...

But is there any evidence that American wireless carriers are operating in an oligarchic manner?

Here in Canada - we pay through the roof for wireless service due to very powerfully entrenched entities - we envy the US rates, which are relatively competitive.

Anyhow - it's maybe a good move but it needs to be watched both for successful opportunities (if it works well it could be a shake up), but also for creeping and bloated bureaucracy.
> (ok, and outdated concept in itself)

Is it really though? I miss the arcade machines of old. I wonder if anyone has tried bringing some of that concept back...
> What a sad, sad world we live in where a corporation can come in and use legislation to be obviously anti-competitive.

If we actually had reasonable competition among local broadband (e.g. everyone in the country had a choice of at least 2-3 reasonable options, and DSL does not count as "reasonable" anymore), then I'd actually call the introduction of a government-backed option "anti-competitive", because how can any private ISP compete with that? A government-run ISP gives itself inherent anti-competitive boosts that it doesn't give anyone else.

However, in the world we have, where many people don't have enough reasonable choices to allow for actual competition among ISPs, municipal broadband seems like a perfectly reasonable response. In which case, rather than attempting to quash it, I'd rather see communities lay the fiber and then allow private ISPs to be the ones to light it up and provide bandwidth from the nearest meet-me room.
I'm playing Devil's advocate here, but if you believe in a strong free-market with a minimal state then you could argue that the government should not be providing a service that private individuals could provide. Now I think most people are more pragmatic and say "whatever get's the job done," but that's the reason why some people are against many municipal services, including broadband.
> I think that malls could make a huge comeback with a focus on events that naturally draw people in and an emphasis on the kinds of high-touch products that people generally do prefer to buy in person.

Land prices in the cities where malls are developed have inflated past the carrying capacity of the prevailing disposable income in the same areas.