skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about this too. My impression is studies show high-level CEO salary don't correlate at all with company performance. Surely there are folks who have run small businesses that have just as many stress, meetings, communication, and forethought as running a large business. There might be a bit of a learning curve, but there's that for anything. Basically we need a Money-Ball approach to CEOs...
Not at all joking, rather.
Or at least try to. Imgur's mobile experience is lacking a lot.
Unless Murphy's law has anything to say about it then it should be a lot more progress in the same amount of time, right?
They buried the lede. It doesn't seem to fully realize it, but this is an article about the decay and collapse of Esalen.
They are our real users. But some of them copy pasted comments, when we asked to leave a review :P
I see people crying about high quality fakes, and I interpret it as the initial problem with the luxury goods market: they’re bullshit and overvalued. If your product can easily be replaced by a much lower price knock off, what you’ve made is something of no actual value, and you get what you deserve.
To extend this:

digiconomist [0] estimates that current etherum mining cost is 1.3 billion a year, or 3.6 million a day, or 151,000 an hour, or 2,500 a minute.

Multiply by 5 for cloud on demand premiums and you could dominate the etherum network for an entire day for 18 million. You could also do it for free if you can manage do to it with stolen credit cards.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
Oh, it's a fraudulent premise and an empty soundbyte?

It seems like you're quoting an article in the washington post, and similar articles from similarly reputable sources point it out (see http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thri... for example).

Just saying, it's a pretty convincing soundbyte that happens to cite its (verifiable) claims.
It seems like the author bought in to a specific family structure without considering other alternatives and now, having discovered it's not her cup of tea, wants to blame it for humanity's misery. It's not the reason we're all miserable, but it might be the reason you are.

Many families live with grandparents, many have one or three children, some have a single mom, a single dad, or two dads and they're all getting along fine. Some of these families are even on the West coast!

I am currently acting as a stay at home dad in what would otherwise be a standard American Atomic Family on the West coast of the United States. I am not depressed and suicidal, in fact I am perhaps more content than I have ever been. I don't mind doing "women's work" and when I go to the park near where I live there are almost always other people there. My wife does have to sometimes rush home from work to get our daughter from preschool, but she doesn't have to cook dinner because that's something I enjoy doing.

You can, and should, find the lifestyle and family structure that works for you and your family.
ffmpg/libav - even VLC itself uses it.
How is Maven (or Gradle, but I prefer Maven) bad? I've never used npm, but I quite like Maven's use of XML for defining project dependencies etc. with clear structure.
Huh, I'm using SublimeText with a UK keyboard and Ctrl+` shows the console (Ctrl+' just types a ')

That's on Linux though, what are you on, Windows?
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US corporations will finally be more competitive on their effective income tax rates, with such nations as: Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Canada, China, Switzerland, Czech, Taiwan, Egypt, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, South Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Vietnam, Thailand and so on.

All of those nations have significantly lower effective rates.
There are two points.

One is that having just one thread access the data structure gives optimal cache locality.

The other is that locking causes full serialization: if 8 threads want to access a data structure protected by a lock at the same time, you need 8 full cache coherency round-trips. Locking also causes lots of ping-pong on the cache line that contains the lock. This scheme does away with the serialization by allowing batching of operations. If 8 threads need to access a data structure at the same time, their requests can be handled in a single round-trip. It does away with the ping-pong by making every single cache-line have just one writer. (I think it doesn't need locks or atomic ops, just TSO.)

Which isn't to say it's a free lunch. Two probable downsides:

You need to care about whether you have the right mix of threads doing real work and threads that are just thin shims on some data structure.

I bet that the data structure threads have to be polling for requests in a busy-loop for this scheme to have good performance. This would be a major problem for most applications.
The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.

A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."
My experience with Haskell for a webserver is that, yes, it's finnicky to get going. However, type checking from URL router to database [0], with esqueleto, is wonderful. With stack and docker the setup has gotten better.

[0] https://www.yesodweb.com/book/persistent
> Uber and Lyft have billed themselves as complements to transit, but in Metro’s case, gains by the apps have coincided with service declines that have sent tens of thousands of commuters seeking more reliable alternatives.

Still, data compiled from several studies in multiple cities suggests that among customers hailing rides instead of using another form of transportation, 15 percent to 30 percent would have used mass transit if not for the apps

That's not good.
This is very true.

There was a recent incident in France in which people protested outside an Apple store for them to "pay their taxes."

Apple wasn't explicitly breaking the law, however customers are entitled to vote with their wallets, and showing their vote will likely have some effect on the company.
Treating someone badly because of what ethnicity they have is racism, yes, even if they might have reasons for feeling that way.
Do you have any pointers/references for getting started with Software Defined Radios? i.e. the state of the art software, hardware, and common hobbyist applications? Any open source communities?
It's because VLC was written in Europe, in Paris specifically.

It's more multinational now, but still primarily a European project.

Realistically they are not going to fund an American project. I know the Internet makes "country" semi-obsolete (at least when describing software), countries themselves still care a lot about that.
Paywalled, can someone share another link?

EDIT: searched for title and another link worked for me: http://www.cetusnews.com/tech/Apple-Agrees-Deal-With-Ireland...
Why is it shorter? Both MOV and OR have one byte encodings, and with the OR you either have to use an immediate zero (which burns a byte) or materialize zero in some other way. As that email points out, the entire sequence would be shorter using a different addressing mode anyways. And a read-modify-write is definitely slower at runtime.
Turn Any Vive or Rift into an AR Headset
It's pretty much, if we are persecuted, we will take our business somewhere else.
Magnetic Grates
17 million voted out. Some protest with at most 50k ppl, some social network comments, and mainstream media opinion article, asking for a second referendum do not make a majority of the people.

Most people know what they voted for, more control and less United States of Europe.

There are many institutions wanting to pass the wrong brexiteer opinion/motivation so they can at same time talk how bad it is.
The Agile methodology is to argue about the Agile methodology.

PMI style critical path, planning backwards from the release, is the only approach I’ve ever seen that was clear, concrete, actionable, high functioning.
It's pretty much a given that staring at a screen 40+ hours is bad for you. It's bad physically and mentally. I used to take long trips between 6 and 8 weeks for vacation and I always noticed how after a few weeks I started seeing the world around me much clearer than when I work. I think we are losing the ability to take a break.
See generally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
Yeah, it's an empty claim, which is why neither the NY Times nor the Washington Post provides any actual evidence that there's a tax haven occurring onshore in the US. The sole premise they float, is about information cloaking, and then they call it a tax haven arrangement without backing that up.

Where's the hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in tax haven'd capital to support their claims? They don't provide so much as a shred of evidence such a thing exists. It doesn't exist, because the US isn't a tax haven. The IRS is extraordinarily aggressive about such things and has very far reaching powers to hammer entities that attempt to evade taxes in any manner inside the US.

The articles use hilariously absurd things like that states are competing over lowering the cost of establishing LLCs, as evidence. Oh golly gee, that verifies the US as the world's largest tax haven no doubt.

Like this amusing quote: "In some places [in the U.S.], it’s easier to incorporate a company than it is to get a library card"

Oh man, the Washington Post really nailed it there, world's largest tax haven status confirmed.

Just look at the language they use throughout, it's vapid, unsupported, vague, etc. They constantly hint, use suggestive language, proclaim, and never deliver anything real. Such as:

"Too often, however, shell companies are used as a vehicle for criminal activity"

Oh, too often, well that's really spot on. Then they proceed to not actually support the "too often" part in any manner. The NY Times and Washington Post articles are filled with that crap.
We all knowingly support software patents with the businesses we work with.

This is no different.

These brands were there first and did the research and development pursuant to establishing what is a good user experience and most-desirable in a handbag, watch, et cetera.
The most mind blowing thing in my mind is the absolute windfall that landlords have received over the last 10 years while the local communities get zero benefit from it because Prop 13 means property taxes stay flat. If the landlord is from out of state California doesn't even get a cut of their income/corporate taxes. All that insane rent money just gone while our infrastructure crumbles.
It's social science, where theories don't need to be falsifiable and data is only used to support you ideology and adapted to fit your narrative but never used to challenge some sacred a priori believes.
There is the risk that people stops believing and the magic vanishes. The accepted store of value may not be so valuable in the end, like baseball cards in the 80’s or beanie babies in the 90’s.
Being able to afford an army of lawyers is central to Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich. Smaller companies then have to compete on even terms with companies which have the resources this tax avoidance allows.
Author here: hope people find this useful. I've been very quiet on the site lately due to a serious of (mostly good) life upheavals. This update lays the technical groundwork for a bunch of future exercises, so I hope to have a little bit more steady progress in future.
I'm already the lead for an off-shore team. There's nothing special about me being in the US, I'm not local to anyone I work with. If they could find an offshore resource to replace me at a 20-30% cost savings they would do it in a heartbeat.
Underhanded C Contest: Subtly Malicious Code (2014)
Serverless Aurora
I really don’t think so, ASICs are cheap but not that cheap, and they open you up for an arms race.

PoW is also more resilient to hostile take over since you can counter it by investing in more miners, while with PoS if some one gets 51% or w/e number is needed to control the consensus it’s game over and there is nothing to do about it.

So while you might think China can just take over all the mining pools it’s true but it’s reversible whilst if the Chinese population would come to own 51% of any currency and China would say comrades would you kindly turn over your ECoins there is nothing you can do about it other than fork over which would devastate the currency.
> but then I heard the argument that if Apple was to behave "ethically" and pay the taxes that technically the law requires that they dont, then the shareholders can sue the company for not acting in their best interest.

I've never considered central banks printing money to acquire majority interests in public companies in order to compel them to pay their taxes while preventing shareholder actions against them for doing so until this comment.
In theory, competitive rate setting for premiums. Hasn't worked out that way in many places though.
It would be nice if there was a modern malloc implementation (with good multi-threaded performance) that optimized for size.
The good thing is that the first time an app does that you can just delete it.

You also don't have to use FaceID for your phone. You can just create an alpha numeric code if you'd like and use that as your password.
I really appreciate that one of the richest (sometimes the richest) humans on the planet takes the time to read about the experience of poverty in depth. Hopefully that continues to influence his philanthropy, and his influence on what other wealthy individuals and other policy makers do.
> Maybe it wasn't racism, maybe she went through hell during the war, lost relatives/parents/kids;

That's not presenting an explanation of how it would not be racism, that's presenting an explanation of the manner in which the racism was formed. And, yes, racism usually forms based on negative experience (either personal or relayed through others, some of which may be intentionally or unintentionally distorting events) of either specific target races or “not-like-me” races generally.

And, it's cyclical, because racism contributes to such experiences in others when it is put into action.
>I’ve been trying to learn more about the forces preventing economic mobility in the U.S., and it helped me understand the role federal policies have played in creating racial segregation in American cities.

Perhaps consider the large-scale consequences of wage-fixing by the tech giants including Microsoft in the early computer industry? Maybe divorcing the compensation workers received totally from the value of the work they were doing (the actual value to the company) and letting annual increases fall so far behind annual efficiency increases had something to do with it?

Around 1980, wages died. Around 1980, computers were introduced to the workplace. Around 1980, average worker productivity stopped going up by 1 or 2% per year but jumped to 10% or 20% a year thanks to those computers. These things are not mere coincidence. To me, they smell a lot like exactly what happened with the rise of industrialized factories that reduced entire families to working 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, children included, just to feed themselves. Everyone said 'the machines do the work, they don't deserve any more money.' And they were reduced to starving. And according to any statistic you care to look at, we are headed directly back to that situation.

Interestingly, social mores around sex originally became extremely restrictive during the Industrial Era due to a need to suppress the birth rate of the lower class.... and we are seeing sexual mores become more restrictive by the day now too, though families literally starving as a result of adolescent workers having babies they couldn't afford to feed is thankfully rare.
Slightly off-topic. Does WASM support function pointers yet?
I don't know, wouldn't be so sure without actual supporting data.

Anecdotally I know many talented people who got "broken" at high school level (due to any number of issues, from poverty to physical and emotional trauma). Having connections, mentors, initial capital, educated family, it all helps a lot.

This is not US-specific either, I made it to the US from a war-torn country across the globe with no money or connections, but I am extremely stubborn. There were definitely people who didn't make it this far who arguably had the pure IQ advantage.
Humble Book Bundle: Network and Security Certification by Wiley
how would they deal with hg extensions written in Python?
As you can see with the tax plan being rammed through, the minority of the wealthiest can ram through whatever they damn well please. We can do the same to them. We outnumber them.

Any yes, we can rationally allocate resources to ensure care is adequately delivered.
This is really a loaded article giving a false dilemma fallacy, and seems like projection from a lonely person.

A nuclear family doesn't inherently make us miserable, nor does it force us to avoid our extended family.
No one is stopping the author from meeting other moms or other people.

In my town, many moms (of many different races too) meet up at the local coffee shop, they trade tips, setup play dates, and sometimes they even go shopping together.

She could visit her extended family, she could make friends, she could try to be part of her community.

This kind of stuff doesn't magically happen even in the asian communities, where we live in extended families. Plus even in extended families we have different griefs, interfamily conflict is a common.

EDIT:
Another comment now dead mentioned suburban nation.
Its a good but biased book.

It gives some good explanations of how housing subdivisions, shopping centers, office parks, civic institutions, and roadways affect people.
Hmm, good point; I wasn't considering <1.0h shakes. (I was mentally considering anything worth being called a "shake" as raising and lowering the entire packed column between the top and bottom of the cylinder, such that it would repeatedly bump both the top and bottom.) A 0.5h shake is indeed effectively equivalent to a Newton's-cradle-like bump.
Let’s check back in 10 years, see if you still think refactoring (eg mitigating tech debt) is trivial.

But I could be wrong too. I’m starting to think “devops” just means tech support with continuous rework.
How? That is the question. You can't short bitcoin so you can't arb it.
To corroborate the warranty issue: There's a temporary exhibit at Winterthur in Delaware [0] on the topic of counterfeits. They had a fake Birkin bag next to a genuine article, and apparently the fake had been through an official Hermes cleaning without detection.

[0] http://www.winterthur.org/treasuresontrial
For sure! At best I’ll usually be able to recall the main idea of the book, and a few supporting examples. I still think it seeps into our minds in other ways :)

Sounds like you might enjoy Blinkist. It’s a paid app that gives you the highlights of a book. I tried it and thought it was interesting, however, I actually enjoy reading entire books. So it felt like I was doing CliffsNotes for stuff I enjoyed reading about. Also, you’re depending on the service to pick out what’s important. What resonates with them vs what resonates with you could be two different things.

I think we get too hung up on trying to wring every last drop out of life. If you like reading, read. The important themes you come across in different books will naturally reinforce and connect amongst themselves.
I like Lisp precisely because syntax is too important to be left to programming language designers.

No other language family has true macros. Lisp does, because it takes syntax seriously.
If malicious people can add exploitable bugs and claim a bug bounty later, then they can also add exploitable bugs to actually exploit them. So I'd say that bug bounties also work here: they create an incentive to review the code of open-source projects more closely.
micromanagement at its extreme?
> what about their git code?

Could you elaborate?
> then the shareholders can sue the company for not acting in their best interest.

I hear this argument often with tax avoidance and I'm not buying it. Has this ever happened to any company out there?
DOD innovation insurgents gain footing in Pentagon bureaucracy
eh, no?
Their thriving Git repository says otherwise: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
Looks alive to me:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commits/master
Tokyo Comic Con 2017 – Part 1  – Tokyo, Japan – December 2017
This is obviously just for fun, but it would be interesting to see if a similar approach could be considered for, say, high-school level textbooks, which are notoriously padded with useless content.
Okay so I will play the Devils advocate here. They have good intentions and basically shrug off bad publicity and continue with their project. Then SEC step in shutting them down and bankrupting them before even charges were filled or they had their chance to defend themselves. Now moving forward months/years later they lack of funds or bad publicity made it they are forced to go down. So yeah in such scenario public and SEC will always be correct it was a scam :) every single time - just cut off founders hands, throw a fine, maybe jail time. Im sure its hard to meet potential business partners, make presentations or sales, when you behind bars.
Aluminum was once worth more than gold.

https://gizmodo.com/how-aluminum-cost-more-than-gold-1575564...
13bill is always a lot of money
> Some were listed by local news as the leading rideshare companies.

Did the journalist who wrote that story cite any figures to support that assertion?
The article wouldn't have been as marketable if the title was "Could Not Doing Things With Others Be The Reason We are Lonely?" Yet at the bottom of the article the author explains that she joined a group of other people who were also caring for their children and made friends. That has always been the solution to feeling lonely and isolated.

We could find all kinds of things to blame from television to HVAC systems to larger houses to the Internet. Picking nuclear families as a target seems like quite a stretch. There are plenty of pictures from the time period she mentions that show people outside talking over fences, on their front porches, helping each other, and otherwise interacting with people around them. When we stop doing those types of things, we get lonely. The social unit of nuclear families isn't the reason people feel isolated.
This article is irritating. Let's break apart these powerful and successful companies. We'll put their big moneymaker into its own companies, and let the little pieces die. Google puts search into one company, android into another. everything else would die (cloud say). Let's crush microsoft, put office in one company, consumer in another, os in a 3rd, and let azure die because it would be hard to capitalize otherwise. apple could be 2 companies, phone and computer.

What is needed is a way to incentivize other companies to try these spaces. Without azure, microsoft would be looking doomed - if you split it off, it would be doomed on its own. big companies should be able to reinvent themselves.

I do see the issue of these companies squeezing out smaller competitors.