skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alt-right vs. "SJW" left posts get flagged around here. Usually I agree and one of the reasons I hang around here is to stay away from that whole scorpion fight.

Personally I view both as two sides of the same coin. Both the alt-right and the social justice left are totalitarian, intolerant, and intellectually shallow. I find their argumentative styles, emotional reactivity, and style of engagement with the larger culture to be strikingly similar to the point that I see them as different manifestations of some underlying social or psychological disorder.

I actually used "vouch" on this one, which I rarely do, because it's interesting and a bit more substantial than the usual fare.
Where do you get that? Ripple seems to really have a few dozen banks as clients. The main issue with it is that the XRP token is not what actually powers their banking products, but an additional (possibly slightly cheaper) system which may not have any value after all.

Shitcoins are the ones that put up a fancy website, a babble-filled whitepaper, maybe have an ICO, but their economic model makes no sense (blockchain for dentists anyone?), or they have no product at all and just clicked a few buttons to generate an Ethereum/Waves/etc token. Thus their ‘currency’ is likely to have zero utility. They still go up on wild speculation, because why not.
Do you think the people researching the chemical formulas, or the CEO of the company, actually believe the marketing slogans?

Startups do often seem to have an unusual percentage of people drinking their own marketing kool-aid.

If you want to avoid it, I'd suggest working at a startup in an unsexy-to-tech-people industry like marketing or advertising. But then you may have other issues, in terms of how you feel about your work.
Tuskegee Truth Teller
The difference between critical theory (and postmodernism generally) and social justice is the belief in universal values. Believers in postmodernism don't accept universal values. They see every conflict as a power struggle, devoid of moral truth.

Broadly speaking, social justice advocates, or at least those described in the article, and caricatured by the Channel 4 interview, do have a universal value, namely equality of outcome.

The truly destructive force, again shown in that interview, is that logic is not universally valued. If equality of outcome can be obtained while posturing and arguing strawmen, then go for it.
Sadly, it's not!
A knowledgeable crypto friend of mine says that the primary factor is the extent of the pre-mining.
I bet this shit wouldn't happen if the local government were filled with Libertarians...
Do you have the evidence to cash the checks your mouth is writing?

Until you do, you're also making a fallacious appeal to conspiracy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
I dunno, if you look at specifically this kind of intelligence cooperation with "dirty" states' intelligence agencies (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, etc.), I've found people in "conservative" rural areas to be almost uniformly against it, even if you wouldn't be able to tell that from how their political representatives vote. I mean, to be fair, most people I've met in any location of any politics aren't really happy with it, which contrasts with how we seem to have a bipartisan consensus in favor. But the minority of people who will actually argue in favor have almost uniformly been in "liberal", urban areas. I've had a few infuriating arguments with California liberals defending Dianne Feinstein's views on intelligence cooperation, while I've never run into someone in a conservative part of Texas who really wants to convince me that CIA-Saudi connections are Actually Very Good. At most, they might fall back on "well, Clinton is even worse" in defending a GOP politician's votes, but I've never personally met rural conservatives who want to own that position. (Admittedly, I don't know any conservatives from more of a Donald Rumsfeld demographic, who I know exist and I assume are probably also on board with that kind of thing.)
Do you work there and can elaborate on what you're seeing? I'd like to see if there's a widespread trend people are reporting here, not just a washed-over retread of a few high-profile he-said/she-said incidents.

The screenshot in that twitter link is woefully free of context. There are several contexts I could imagine where it would be harmless (e.g. discussion of ways to get a more diverse representation in a discussion already centered around that), several other where it would be very bad (e.g. direct unsolicited managerial behavior advice). To me it sounds more like the former from the limited context and tone. I'd be more likely to take offense at the implication that as a non-Googler I'm cheesy and unimportant than the "white" part.

The people I know at Google claim it isn't accurate to say there's a culture of harassment or discrimination or anything. So... in absence of video recordings, etc, from either side, I believe the people I know personally.
Hi, Dang. You've been banning me for years. I feel like we have a pretty solid relationship.

You see, my resume is so solid that it gets me into any tech company I want for at least an interview or a tour. I make it a point to get onto their corporate inter/intranet and make a HackerNews account and post a valid contrarian position that you're guaranteed to always find a way to distort as a violation of guidelines. I repeat the process until your systems automatically ban/shadowban the entire IP/network from creating new accounts. And when I'm not doing this, the people I've trained to do this are out there doing the same. There's a whole lot of people who really don't like the colonial intentions of HackerNews moderation and censorship.

You don't even know how many opinions of potentially "correct people" you've preemptively stifled because of my efforts. :D

I've been doing this for years. The more overtly activist Silicon Valley gets, the more effective I become at disguising myself as a socialist, the more network access I get to the "correct people" with "correct opinions", the more networks your system automatically prevents from creating new accounts.

Seems petty? Perhaps I could be more efficient? Why am I even doing this? I'm sure you could conjure up a myriad of reasons that make sense to you, so there's no need to give you anything more beyond that. You're a smart guy, you'll invent something. In fact, I'm relying on that amazing capacity to defer to that self-healing moral plasticity you bathe your ego in.

You'll never see how you are part of the toxic tech culture. I have absolutely no interest in ever making you see this or changing your mind. The only interest I have is exploiting your moral plasticity.

Thanks for building and maintaining those censorship tools over the years. I can't wait to hijack the psychology behind these tools and steer it against the people you claim you're protecting. And I'm truly looking forward to how your moral plasticity justifies it.

Don't forget to leak the IP address, psychographic signatures, and behavioral profile of this account to your "secret" network of resistance collaborators. My honeypots are waiting to map your support system. <3 <3 <3
> So you punish those who have/want one? Ouch, I wouldn't want to live in your world.

No. Cars have negative externalities to society, so you tax them to account for those externalities.

This is the same reason why governments subsidize infrastructure and education, as those generate positive externalities to society, and most of the value generated is in those externalities, you need a negative tax on those items to incentivize them.

Or the same reason why governments subsidize electric cars.

> Except that the wealthy person just buys a cheaper car. They still have a car, and you have not accomplished your goal.

Sure, but you're providing the same economic disincentive as you are for a poor person (in relative utility), which is a fairer way to do it.

> Your mistake is you taxed spending, without even checking income.

You don't seem to understand the concept of positive and negative externalities.

I'm not proposing to tax spending, I'm proposing to tax a good so that its price accurately reflects the negative impact on society it causes.
Cute, but times like this I wish HN had a downvote button.
> Yes but in a certain sense for many digital health companies this is already true, because they’re 510(k) exempt and FDA’s oversight occurs retroactively via QMS auditing

Yeah fair enough; it's true that there has been a large regulatory shift with the appearance of general wellness and enforcement discretion and the resulting erosion of class 1 and somewhat of class 2.

> The near term challenge for digital health, until precert comes online, is that there are a limited number of software experts at FDA. To the Agency’s credit, they have recognized this and are trying to remedy it. But the big problem we see with software submissions is that things get overlooked, and in such a way that speaks to an overworked reviewers. This of course leads to delays, which is why it’s very important for software submissions to be buttoned up. This is one the things we’re tryijg to make happen with our QMS, which generates more reports that clearly map from requirement->code->test.

I totally agree with this. If you could create a software submission which efficiently communicated traceability, verification and validation info, and the other key metrics the FDA wanted to see, that would be pretty huge in terms of submission turnaround time. Best of luck guys.
And in the USA, it'll probably turn a 10-15k procedure into a 125+k scenario.
I hope my scenario has never happened, but nothing about it is implausible. The point though is to illustrate that there are moments where pragmatism must trump laws and values. If you look, there are many times throughout history where such tradeoffs have been made.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture/

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists a real life example along the lines of my hypothetical one. In this example, a child is stuck in a hot car that is parked in a spot known only to the in custody car thief who is refusing to talk. The police proceed to beat the thief until he talks and save the child's life. This is straightforward example of when pragmatism must overrule idealism.
There’s a reason why it’s not generally done: there are no good tools for doing this in Node, nor is JavaScript particularly conducive to it.

The state of the art in such matters is Rust with its type system-assisted fearless concurrency; my favourite demonstration of how it can work is Rayon, where introducing data parallelism is typically as simple as replacing a .iter() with a .par_iter(). I’d love it if something like Rayon could be ported to Node, somehow.

(By virtue of being excellent at the low-level and having zero-cost abstractions, Rust actually ends up being a really good high-level language.)

In Node, if you want to process a zillion files in the same way, there are no good solutions. I recently needed to improve the performance of a manually-crafted, Node-centred build process; in Rust, it would have been a matter of: add Rayon, replace a .iter() with .par_iter() and we’re done—and what’s more, it’ll only flex its parallelism muscles where it’s worthwhile. But in Node it took a several hours of trouble (after research, I settled on using worker-farm to help) to produce a strictly inferior result.

Rayon: https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon
worker-farm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/worker-farm
The problem is that the most effective way to defend your value proposition seems to be buying laws that protect you against new competition. Entrenched players might compete with each other, but they can all agree to crush the new guy together.
A Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico–and ended up losing his faith
Aha, makes sense. (Now I see that at http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/articles/tutorial_native...) Doesn't this make it very painful to do unusual operations on matrices? For example, solving linear systems Ax=b where A is of the form

[ 1 ]
[ a_2 b_1 1 ]
[ a_3 b_1 a_3 b_2 1 ]
[ ... ... ... ... ]
[ a_n b_1 a_n b_2 a_n b_3 ... a_n b_{n-1} 1 ].
what is the package manager used by tiny core? i think this is what's used by boot2docker
Which city under consideration is densely built?
Have you ever actually audited exactly what logs your enterprise is keeping? Most people haven't.

The law notwithstanding, minimizing personally identifiable information in logs actually requires intentional and positive action (meaning additional hours/expense). If you just let all your systems produce what logs they do by default, get backed up if they happen to get backed up, etc. -- you will have quite a bit more logging bits sitting around than you probably realized or intended or needed. Is it more than is "technically necessary"? I am not sure what that phrase means legally or practically. But I doubt that law has actually resulted in companies spending significant additional staff time minimizing logs they didn't really mean to be keeping int the first place. It is not a trivial operation.
Slightly OT, but SaaS vendors without clear upfront pricing are also a no go for me. Oddly, cleanshelf (which got recommended by the OP, perhaps affiliated with?) doesn’t have a pricing page I could find...
>People don't turn off their emotions just because they are getting paid to perform a task !??!

Isn't that what we expect professionals to do? I mean yeah professionals still have feelings and emotions but they learn to detach them from their job. Like how we expect police officers to conduct themselves... Like trained professionals.
This is a nice list, though not all of them take into account what specific features will help a company grow / generate revenue / reduce complexity.

For example, change management and by-use billing and/or monthly billing don't go hand in hand. If you want something like change management, it'll be a serious investment, not a piece of software you pay $50 / month for.
Now that three manual bans have been issued, I'm testing to see if I've been shadowbanned.

If not, I can finally post a Dang-approved Guidelines-compliant opinion that won't get aggressively banned! Hang tight, I'm edit this comment to contain the opinion...
All of you interested in embedded tips might find Jack Ganssle's The Embedded Muse interesting. The current and back issues are here:

http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html

Relevant to tomc1985's comment, Jack surveyed how embedded developers were handling updates with their methods in these two articles:

http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem288.html

http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem289.html
Are we living in a covert totalitarian society?
FYI, the Sentry folks have also written a Rust-based sourcemap decoder:

https://github.com/getsentry/rust-sourcemap
I would put all ponzi scheme "coins" into the shitcoin pile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7r6chx/here...
All you are saying is correct but you can't excuse their billing practices.
Great perspective. And I would add everyone I know; arms length relationships and not involved with their businesses at all, make strong efforts to get as much money out as possible. The saying essentially goes, "every few decades, something cataclysmic happens. Better to protect one's family." Not saying anything is going to happen, but the intelligent have not lost their history lessons and the self-inflicted wounds are never forgotten.
I agree that the interview is awful, but consider what an interview with an advocate of social justice and equality would be like if it were given by one of many popular alt-right Youtubers.

There are some incredibly hot button emotional issues under the surface here. It's very hard for most people to talk about any of this without going nuts.
Just offer to let Trump put his name on a hotel there, or a condo building attractive to Russians wanting to launder some money. Tada, no risk of a US invasion and you may even get better trade deals.
Ok, but for most things you really don't want a three part tariff: rides on uber (SaaS!), gasoline, houses, employee salaries, health insurance, hotel rooms, container shipping. The customer would just be annoyed and go deal with someone else.

So what is the magic slice of products for which 3part is a good idea? All enterprise software? Some enterprise software? Only enterprise software?

The most impressive pricing I've seen is Salesforce.com. The pricing is simple but genius. Per seat pricing, where the cost per seat goes up with functionality. I was boiled like a frog: the cost went from $300 per year to $300K per year, and there was nothing I could do about it. How would a 3-part tariff help them?
tacocat spelt backwards is tacocat
Though Peterson is often characterized as alt-right, I think that's quite unfair. He's often grossly mistaken about things, but doesn't believe in bigotry, nationalism, etc..
Gentrification disproportionately affects communities of color. This is quite exactly what's happening in Seattle.

<< TIL that people own the neighborhoods they live in by virtue of being there first, without any form of payment, deed, title, or record of ownership.

I hear this argument a lot and it's really like saying "only people who own property should be allowed to vote". You're saying that only property owners belong in the community.

That's just sad and wrong - not to mention racist in the context of this discussion - and it truly exemplifies the attitude that myself and many other natives are pushing back against.

This attitude, which I see in so many tech workers, is why Amazon has gotten such a cold reception from many people in Seattle.
There are no arguments or talking points in the interview that are specific to the collectivist alt-right. Peterson is clearly an anti-authoritarian individualist.
In that breakdown, "web developer" very likely includes a large number of designers and marketing specialists. We have firsthand numbers from companies like Google; after years of concerted effort to recruit and retain women, they just hit 20%.
Alright, but how do you determine it isn't a justified belief?
Producing more cars obviously uses resources.

Looking at EPA numbers fuel economy improvements in recent years seems to have been minuscule. From 2007 to 2017 the Corolla went from 31mpg to 30, the Focus went from 27mpg to 28, the Highlander saw zero change at 22mpg.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=23549
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/38152.shtml

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/22758.shtml
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/38473.shtml

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/23765.shtml
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/38414.shtml
Stripe offers SEPA in Europe, but I believe it’s still in Beta. We integrated it, but after having some trouble with the equivalent of chargebacks, we measured customer adoption compared to credit cards and PayPal in Europe and didn’t see a big shift. We pulled it out. We’re a B2C though so it could work for B2B more reliably I imagine.
I do not understand what the form of that matrix has to do with java or native heap. This seems to me as a completely orthogonal issue. As for the triangular form, this is supported in Neanderthal, as well as the rest of special structural sparse shapes.
> Good Lord, people truly just don't get it. Hospitals are not evil; they are tasked with saving people's lives. People who nobody else can save. All the worst medical problems in the world--sometimes sudden trauma, sometimes a festering problem left to burst--they all end up on the doorstep of the hospitals, full of doctors, nurses, and technicians who are humans just like you and me. And they work ridiculous hours saving as many of us as they can, dragging bodies back from the footsteps of Death itself. Some of them making great money doing it, but others just because it's not in their nature to do anything but help. And yes, like any organization, hospitals scramble for cash to keep the lights on and keep operations going for a mission they hold sacred. But you show up at an ER, and you will get a minimum standard of care, no questions asked. And that's pretty amazing.

I don't think people are complaining about the doctors and nurses. They're complaining about the institutional billing & pricing practices -- and not just the exorbitant prices. Americans have trouble even getting price quotes for routine procedures [1]... a problem that, as I understand, many other countries simply don't have. How can you completely miss these fundamental problems and then claim "people truly just don't get it"?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hospitals-prices/hospital...
"If you're not making anyone angry, you're not doing anything important."

(Note, however, that the contrapositive is "if you're doing something important, you'll make someone angry", not "if you're making people angry, you're doing something important"!)
The real question is: how would you ever know if it isn't?
> I'd even go and propose that cars over €50k should be taxed at a higher marginal tax rate than lower-priced cars.

> I'm not proposing to tax spending, I'm proposing to tax a good so that its price accurately reflects the negative impact on society it causes.

It seems like you're proposing taxing based on the price of the good, not the cost of the negative externalities. It would make more sense to tax based on some combination of the car's weight, footprint, engine size, fuel efficiency, and emissions metrics, based on use of the vehicle, as well as at purchase time.

A vehicle that's a luxury item, but otherwise comparable in relevant statistics, doesn't necessarily need to be taxed more heavily than a basic version of the same thing.
I'm not sure if he makes the leap, but it's not hard to go from his soft biological determinism to "well then this is the way things should be." For example if women "don't want tough careers" then it follows that claims of discrimination by women can be dismissed as without merit.

I do definitely see him as an apologist for aspects of the status quo. That being said that does not mean I'm a fan of all his detractors. There's a totalitarian strain of liberalism I don't much like either.

Also... his Twitter feed contains enough alt-right material for me to see him as at least sympathetic.
Concur with maj maj maj maj... additionally, the the cynisism ignores the introduction of new competitive forces with a different moral vector in a largley unchecked market, the repurcussions of which are certainly uncertain, for certain.
Generally I find their suite pretty full features and functional. There are occasional conversion snafus with MS formats, but honestly that is less on them and more on MS.

In all honesty, my biggest issue is that Calc can slow to a crawl when a sheet gets even moderately large, especially if using filter/sorting.
Which externalities does an expensive car have that a cheap one doesn't?
As an alternative to this you could use Nim[1] which compiles to C. If you, like myself, dislike C, Nim can be used as a "better C" (you can disable the Nim GC and forget about its standard library, then use Nim as a thin layer over C with modules, generics and other nice goodies)

1 - https://nim-lang.org/
I'm aware of that-- but no one is sure about how the graviton operates. So though the kinetic part might not be very realistic or all that relevant anymore, the other parts still are.
That's certainly true for many hospitals, even most. And for most of their staff. But some of the profit-driven chains are nowhere that idealistic. And some physicians are jerks.[0]

0) http://www.americanpatient.org/drive-by-medicine.html
Shared accounts are an operational and security nightmare. If everyone shares the same credentials its impossible to cut off a former or disgruntled employee without disrupting everyone else's workflow. Its no wonder that SSO solutions like Okta are taking off
I used this tooling: https://github.com/ali1234/rpi-ramdisk

To build a tiny fine-tuned Raspbian for "embedded" Python 3 (a project I dub PiratePython). It uses multistrap/qemu and worked well for me. YMMV.