skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that makes me think the system is broken is how they'll avoid larger raises at all costs even if it means losing great engineers with lots of domain knowledge.

The cost of replacing this is immense to an organisation, even if they can hire a similarly skilled engineer they've:

1. Had to absorb hiring costs
2. Search in a competitive market for talent
3. Distract team members with another round of interviews
4. On-boarding costs whilst the engineer absorbs all the lost domain knowledge. (This is the big one).

Once all that is taken into account it's probably getting close to a full yearly salary of the engineer they just let walk. I still feel it takes a good 3-6 months for an engineer on complex domain projects to really feel comfortable regardless of their seniority.
> You know how FAANG are the only companies actually doing really well on the stock market these days?

Only? No. They've done better than most but all major stocks are up. We are in a mega stock boom at the moment.

> It’s because some of the most talented people in the world work for them. Not just the best Americans.

Most of it is because of americans. Even if h1b visa was shut down, none of the FAANG are going to suffer.

> It’s because some of the most talented people in the world work for them. Not just the best Americans. The best people in the world.

That's my point. Isn't it evil to take "talented people" from part of the world that needs them the most?

> America’s roots is in immigration.

Our roots aren't in immigration. Our roots are in invasion and conquest. I know this is a touchy subject but we aren't a nation of immigrants. This country wasn't created by immigrants. We have exploited immigrants for sure, but I just disagree with the false notion that our roots are in immigration.

The founding fathers were highly anti-immigrant and quite xenophobic. And ever since the founding there have been series of anti-immigration laws. I'd gladly provide sources if you are curious.
That's actually one of the few non-default things on that instance. Because it's a public issue tracker (which few companies outside Atlassian are willing to do to themselves), some comments by employees are hidden to the outside world.

It appears the issue in question was commented on 1 year, 13 weeks ago. But the comment isn't visible to the public, thus the "no comments yet" message.
Ask HN: Are there any Gömbök blueprints?
If somebody doesn't know what a Gömbök is, there is a great article about it [1].

Anyway, they are up for sale, but the minimum price is 150€, which is a hefty sum for a student. I'd like to make one myself, but I can't find anything about Gömböks except for the site I linked and the official store. No DIY videos, no specifications, no blueprints etc. I'm asking here, because I don't know anybody who knows what a Gömbök is, let alone who knows how to build one.

[1] https://plus.maths.org/content/story-goumlmboumlc
According to this patch comment, AMD x86 chips are not affected: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
Advertising is definitely a big part of it. A common angle is to release commercials basically saying, "we shouldn't be spending government money on fiber when we could use that money for [insert emotionally-charged need that could be improved in literally every town in existence]"
I mount my Sony from the ceiling I'll break the ceiling.
Is there a correlation between reproduction and eyebrows? Seems like a simple thing to study. I doubt anyone has. (And, I doubt anyone will.) It's easier to simply conjure up stories about how eyebrows must have had some beneficial effect and then hand-wave while muttering 'millions and millions.' Given the assumed population levels, the timescales involved, and the minuscule statistical effect of something like eyebrow-ness on survival, I expect 'survival of the fittest' had nothing to do with eyebrows. Rather, it's just a random bit of 'noise' in our DNA.
Is it just me or was this post's title changed?
first, do no harm.

First Law: A medicine may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law: A medicine must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law: A medicine must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
No and this may be inherently due to the rotary engines design.
In Fort Collins, 2b was a ballot measure. Most of the money went to advertising. I had a hard time finding direct examples online, but this article (http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/11/01/fact-check-f...) does have a picture of the many mailers received by some voters. (I lived in Longmont when the second vote happened and can confirm many similar mailings as the article)
US blocks sale of Moneygram to Alibaba subsidiary
F7 is my favourite as well. Two of the featured apps on the home page are mine :D
How people find online communities that aren't so terrible that loneliness is preferable is beyond me. Of course, that's also true of meatspace communities, so maybe the problem is just me.
A significant fraction of the time, win10 is indexing files, running antivirus scans, running win update (multiple times a day), etc. This will often pin 1-2 cores. On my dual core i7 laptop from 2016. That’s not good performance. Since I also use ubuntu on a daily basis, I can see the benefits pretty clearly.
...and because it is made beforehand it gets even tastier! I wanna be your costumer.
> Depends if the "tribute" or taxes payed are actually returning to the people in the form of services like roads or schools, fire department all those things.

That's part of it, but you also need to consider whether these are things the taxpayers would have chosen to purchase on their own, at that price. If that were true, however, then there would be no point in making it mandatory; people would purchase these things on their own. Ergo, taxes, if they have any point at all, must only exist to purchase things taxpayers would not choose on their own, at least not at the prices they are forced to pay.

Depriving others of their property is "criminal behavior" even if the thief provides something the thief considers valuable in return. The key point is not whether you received something in exchange, but rather whether you gave your consent.
> Society is sick, let's face it, and technology is largely to blame.

[ ... ]

> In 1969, at the age of 9, I could be left to play with my friends and wander several miles from home without any sense of danger.

How's technology to blame for helicopter parenting, fear of terrorism and crime in general, the notion there seemingly is a nonce behind every street corner and similarly irrational ideas and behaviours rampant today?

While social media does its share to exacerbate these fears and overly cautious behaviour so does TV and other more traditional media.

The underlying cause isn't technology but what we allow others to do to us with it.
Yep, this is getting blown way out of proportion by all of these tiny scripts that just sit around connecting to themselves. Even pgbench is theoretical and intended for tuning; you're not going to hit your max tps in your Real Code that is doing Real Work.

In the real world, where code is doing real things besides just entering/exiting itself all day, I think it's going to be a stretch to see even a 5% performance impact, let alone 10%.
I'm not too savvy on this stuff, so correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they build out to the nearest internet exchange point? I thought those were typically open for anybody to hook up to.
I think it was meant that a normal application does not utilise the CPU all the time, which can be seen by looking at the task manager CPU usage % = X. Any extra processing needed to fix this bug will have to come out of the remaining 100-X%. This is OK as long as you have enough spare %, and can afford the extra power usage for that processing.
Despite the huge importance of California, this is a global phenomenon. And the lead is in China.
This is generally true for Nash equilibria. If a a player in the equilibrium plays a randomized combination of strategies, then each pure strategy in the combination must have the same expected payoff. Otherwise he could profit by switching to only playing the highest-value one.
I'm not seeing your ads when I search on those terms. Also, is seems like your price is kinda high compared to other chargers. Guess that didn't seem to effect sales?
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Tornados? Drought?
> 5 MTA employees in orange safety vests standing around watching one guy putting safety cones around a puddle.

You are being hyperbolic here, but cones around a puddle warrants a discussion.

There have been cases where I have seen portions of a station cordoned off with tape and perhaps with safety cones; however it is not my experience with NYC subway puddles in general. It feels like almost half the stations have leaky ceilings that you can see dripping during rainy weather. No safety cones. During drier days you can find these spots by stalactites and straws forming on the ceiling and by discoloration and mineral deposits on the platform. Two nights ago I noticed something much more frighting on the south bound Prince Street platform. Drip from the ceiling was freezing on the platform and formed an ice-patch a meter in diameter. There were no cones and the subway platform is not the place where I would want to slip. This is a safety issue especially as the whole platform feels only 3 meters wide.

You and I may see MTA workers milling about and appearing lazy to us, but the example of putting safety cones around a puddle doesn't pass the sniff test to me.
If they really care about peak performance, I don't believe the PTI patch will affect them. If you can change your system in a way that the power-hungry part does not work on untrusted data, you can not with "nopti" and ignore it. Systems which both need lots of maxed-out CPUs and traffic directly from wild internet are pretty rare. They're unlikely to run on a virtualised systems either.
Portland; home of impractical solutions, for anti-problems.

I honestly love portland, but it doesnt want to be an urban area.
Many people do this as well, but mostly for fun.
'Nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, and government entities based in the United States'

US only...
It doesn't have to be aggressive, at all.

"Hey, Tom. ZipCo offered me a great position with a AB% raise. I really like the new role, but I'd prefer to stay here if we can make it work. What can we do to bridge the gap? Oh, by the way, they'd like an answer by Friday, but I'm sure I can put them off for another week."

That makes it clear that you have an offer, but would stay if the current company can match or exceed it without being too "in your face" about it. It's just business, most managers are not going to take it personally.
Gamers like to use PS/2 peripherals because they're interrupt based and thus more responsive than USB peripherals.

Does this mean they could take a hit due to this bug?
Tap water is fine in most cities here but many people just prefer the taste. Not many buy it for drinking at home but it is very common in water coolers at offices.
Basecamp appears to be successfully managing this. If you look at their "About Us"[1] page, you see a lot of people who've been there for quite a while. Their solution appears to be:

1. Pay a lot of money: "Our target is to pay everyone at the company in the 95th percentile, or top 5%, of the market, regardless of their role."[2] Previously that was benchmarked to Chicago prices; as of late 2017, that's benchmarked to San Francisco prices.[3]

2. Offer an excellent benefits package that actually benefits people (i.e. isn't just an unused ping-pong table/game console and the promise of "great culture!").[4] Something specifically noticeable is that they offer the kind of benefits that maybe aren't big selling points when you're younger, but that become increasingly enticing as you get older, and especially if you have kids - a fantastic parental leave policy, good retirement policy, short summer weeks.

3. Respect your employees and treat them like adults. Harder to quantify, but if you click around their handbook[5], you see a lot of things that boil down to "We trust you to do the right thing, even in a very independent setting. We won't be looking over your shoulder constantly." I think that's a really scary idea for some people, and a really attractive proposition for others. If you find people who are in that latter group in your hiring process, I suspect it makes it easier to keep them around when most other jobs are not going to involve that level of trust.

The idea of "interesting work keeps good people" - I dunno about that. It's hard to say what's interesting work. It's easy to say "adding new endpoints to a CRUD app" is not interesting, but for some people it might be, or at least it might be "sufficiently interesting" to make a career of it. I have friends in FinTech for whom tracking the market actually brings them joy, and I'm happy for them, but when I try to watch their screen while they tell me about what they're doing, my eyes start to glaze over. I don't know if what Basecamp does counts as "interesting work" for most people, but it seems like it's interesting enough, and the other parts of the company are good enough, for a lot of people to want to stay there for quite some time.

[1]: https://basecamp.com/about/team

[2]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp-f1d...

[3]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-doesnt-employ-anyone-in-...

[4]: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/benefits-an...

[5]: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook
Maybe they are having trouble with their current relationships. It may be an expectation management issue, worthy of discussion with them.

Also if she is young (< 21), this is a phase and it will pass.
Brooklyn and Queens didn't become dense residential areas with relatively painless commutes from the city overnight. It's not like there isn't land for such areas in the bay area, the biggest issue is that they are all separate cities and have separate local governments.
Transit providers are usually _much_ more competitive than last mile.
FWIW, I absolutely love my in-law's unfiltered well water. It's ridiculously hard water (tons of calcium etc.), and tastes very sweet as a consequence. I haven't ever had water that tastes as good, and we always fill up a couple jugs to take back with us.

If I were somehow lose access to that water I'd probably try this at least once just to see if it's close.
This is a perverse incentive. If I'm running an insurance company and my goal is to maximize absolute profit, how do I do that when my profit margin is capped by law in this manner?

Well, I certainly don't have an incentive to reduce healthcare costs; quite the opposite. 20% of a larger cost leaves me with more profit, and most of my customers won't drop my service. It's required by law and subsidized in a lot of cases.
I think 5% is a reasonable guess for a database. Even a well-designed database does have to do a lot of IO, both network and disk. It's just not a "fixable" thing.

But overall, yeah.
https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/948215762438803457
> The company was not given any build-out directive, and it took 18 years to cover 90% of the city, building out in a demand-driven fashion.

A local telco here was wanting to take this approach to provide fiber internet, proposed when the city was wanting to start a municipal broadband project. Their plan was to build out high demand areas first, then expand from there to lower income/more sparse areas. They were raked over the coals as "picking and choosing" who would get internet service.
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The analyses about drug testing reimbursement alluded to earlier in the article is interesting; here's a source that alludes to the original Drose Seeking Alpha analysis, but purports to improve it:

https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/idea/American_Addiction_C...

The nut of it is: treatment centers make more top-line dollars from treatment than testing, but the margins on testing (which takes just minutes to do and scales much better than delivering treatment) are so much better that the bottom line is dominated by testing revenue.

This creates an incentive to test more than is necessary; it's essentially a vector for insurance fraud.

The original argument against AAC was that insurers would crack down on fraudulent testing and put AAC out of business.
> I can't think of any other car model that's done that.

The VW beetle wants to have a talk with you. :)
There is a meeting about this in Boulder next week as well:

https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/Study_Session_Bo...
This is also magnified by the fact that they have buying power in a way Netflix does not. Netflix has had to product a ton of their own content to retain users, I'm increasingly considering leaving Netflix in favor of Hulu simply because they have far more content from traditional TV channels (from my perspective Netflix is just becoming a worse HBO).

Spotify on the other hand, doesn't have the issue of content being removed from it in the same way. Additionally due to the legacy of radio, there is a generally accepted amount that you should pay per play. This continues to the fact that spotify could over time expand into other areas of the music industry such as being a platform for artists to sell merchandise and concert tickets which is the most viable way for small artists to make money.
Having been in construction I question if that obvious thing is really waste.

Of course if it really is 5 people watching the one guy put of cones that is waste. However most constructions jobs are let the machine work for 10 minutes, then you need 5 people for manual labor for 5 minutes before the machine works again. While it is true you have 5 people standing around watching the machine work 2/3rds of the time, there is nothing else that they could do and be back in 10 minutes so it is most cost effective to pay them to do nothing 2/3rds of the time.
Many wells have higher fluoride content than municipal supplies. So if we are wanting to create a complacent society, would have been better to leave people on well water.
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn about Crypto/Altcoins?
How do you develop your knowledge or keep your self upto date on Cryptos/Altcoins? Please suggest books/blogs/websites/person to follow.
It’s time for a Machine Language reality check
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that someone who fought for their country in the military should not be preferred as a civil servant. It seems like a very strong qualification for these jobs.
Possibility: a cloud vendor who mostly-uses-AMD, versus one that mostly-uses-Intel, just got handed a massive price/performance relative advantage.
That is a fantastic idea. The only caveat might be you becoming a sort of startup guru full of words but lacking real experience pivoting your own career.
This is ludicrous but these guys still manage to change people's purchasing behavior. At work I see a lot of people drinking $2 "Honest Tea" which is just tea with a lot of sugar. On the face of it this is ridiculous but people buy that stuff. In the age of $2 tea and $4+ coffee I can see a big market for overpriced water.
"The Stasi records agency said its attempt to virtually piece together the history of a surveillance state was without a precedent in the world."

ever heard of "five eyes"? shit that's going on as soon as you travel? noticed all the cameras around you at the train station of your choice?

the stasi may have been less subtle. but it's a joke.
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He lives in Canada, though.
A Nash equilibrium says that each player plays optimally given what all the other players do. If one player plays deterministically, it's no longer optimal for the other one to play randomly, so it's not an equilibrium.
They did, but it wasn't worse than modern TVs. The paradoxical thing is because everything went through the image processor,

digital input>processor>analog conversion>screen

was faster than

analog input>digital conversion>image processor>analog conversion>screen

There's a big thread on AVSforum with people whinging about this somewhere. The upside is, they're still nice to play stuff like switch games on

EDIT: the processing of analog sources, like 480p dvds, laserdisc, etc was superior to cheap modern TVs. They designed the scaler very well for older formats and it really did look quite nice. I remember being totally disappointed by my "high end" samsung tv in 2013~ or so in comparison. The colors are handled especially nice even on like, VHS. Artifacting/macroblocking/banding wasn't an issue with however they were handling the effects/processing which was a noticeable advantage over the flat screens of the era and even more recently
Is that me or there is an increase of critical security flaws over the last 5 years?
> accredited educational institutions

Would this also extend to students of said institutions wishing to distribute free apps that they create in, say, an iOS development course?
Funny, most of my worst memories involve friends pushing me out of my comfort zone. Sometimes people are not social for good reason.
I had never heard of SCART before, but it seems to be just a connector. There appear to be cables that would connect SCART to RCA component video.
I consider myself a skeptic in the sense that I won't believe that any part of my personality is _permanent_ unless proven irrefutably.
Linux would not have existed if copyright had been asserted in a similar manner in the 90s
Can you point to what you consider the current best option?
No, but you can use your previously higher vacation time to negotiate for either more money, or more PTO at the new job.

If you have a wedge, use it.
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> it is not ethically sound to intentionally induce leukemia

well, shucks. there goes my startup idea. :\
Same reason people don't move from Amazon to Wal-Mart, or Apple to Android, or Netflix to...I don't even know what. Spotify is objectively better as a service, people love it, and we are creatures of habit. There are other factors like social and all the playlists you've created. Besides, people derive value from things based on more than price alone. You might not see why they have pricing power but the fact is they have over 60 million paying subscribers so they must be doing something right. And is the ~$10/month meaningful for any of those subscribers? Probably not at all. I mean, you're going to tell me that people line up to buy a $1,000 iPhone which costs 25% more than a previous model but perhaps an extra $2/month for Spotify (#12 app on App Store - right in between Gmail app and Uber) is going to cause an exodus? I'll take the other side of that one.
Would the perf hits introduced by the Linux/Windows patches also be paid by kernels of guest VMs? or just the hosts/hypervisors?
Improved security model means not having it be incredibly brittle where the first time there's a zero day or the user gives the wrong response to a prompt they lose all of their data and need to completely wipe their system or buy a new one to recover (note that without full, bug-free firmware signing it's impossible to trust the system after a compromise).

Yes, you may think that you're going to make that call correctly 100% of the time day in and day out but even if that does happen to be true, it's not true for most people. Since Apple's the vendor and they consider trust/privacy a selling point, they're making decisions which are good for the other 99.999% of people using computers.
That's an old issue, fixed many months ago, not related to the 'new' Intel bug. The comment was updated in this patch series, that's it.