skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised I was able to get this url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troy

Love how slick everything is. Although couple things:

- Register page just hung with the spinning icon. Got the activation email but not sure what happened on registration. Guessing it errored. I have adblock so maybe theres something there?

- Would be nice to change the amount down to just a buck (hey I'm a cheap date).

- Would also be nice to change coffee to something else, as in my case I love tacos ;)

- When donating, how are you tracking if I've already donated to someone to show updates? If I don't have an account Im just guessing its cookie based and I'd have to give again if it goes away?

Really love just how fast and low friction everything is though.
Hi, just created an account: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ims

Two questions:
1. I'm not clear how exactly do I send (or give access to) bonus content to my supporters?
2. Do you plan to add "podcasts" as a category? And how do I select the category in the first place?

Cheers!
(not snark). Could you state your definition of "uneducated"? Is it the normal meaning (lacking a formal education), or do you have a higher bar for calling someone educated?

I ask because I have several family members that do Amway (and have been doing so for years), and a subset also loves President Trump. They aren't close to uneducated in it's regular meaning, however.
OP never said anything about race or incarceration statistics -- he just said the prison system is a mechanism to recreate slavery. To Americans, the word "slave" has a very, very particular meaning -- revolving around the nature and history of black people in our country.

But it should not, and can not, not be divorced from the abstract concept of what slavery is. Slavery is about power, and slaves come in many forms and fashions. And if you forget that, you'll be made a slave yourself. You don't have to be in chains to be one. This is what OP is referring to -- not that prisons and their systems seek to reintroduce "black american slavery", but to reintroduce, and normalize, the abstract concept of 'slavery' in society, all on its own. That's much more dangerous.

You see it in a lot of places where people talk about the lives prisoners lived, during and after release -- go check the comments on any news article. You'll see how many people think it is "just" that said convict has their entire being and life crushed. That it's good, good that they're a slave, in return for the crimes they committed.

This isn't really very different from what you're saying, in a sense -- that everyone is set back when we lose track of these things. But the difference between "slave" meaning "black american slaves" and "slave as a concept" is an important distinction to draw. There's an important ontological gap, there.

Frederick Douglass took note of this well over 150 years ago:

> The power of the antebellum slaveholding class, after all, resided not only in its direct domination of black slaves, but in its ability to divide and exploit an even larger multiracial working class. Douglass knew how well this system worked from bitter personal experience: As a hired slave in Baltimore, he was assaulted by white dockworkers with bricks and handspikes. Yet he remained clearheaded about who benefited from this racial violence. As he wrote in 1855: “The slaveholders, with a craftiness peculiar to themselves, by encouraging the enmity of the poor, laboring white man against the blacks, succeeds in making the said white man almost as much a slave as the black slave himself…. Both are plundered, and by the same plunderers.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-enduring-struggle/
A predictive model isn’t always trying to predict the future. It can also be used to predict the present—to find hidden connections in (perhaps maliciously) incomplete data.

In this case, that’s to say: if an unnamed gang member committed a crime, but all the known members of said gang have alibis... maybe you should be looking for an unknown member of said gang. And who’s likely to be secretly in a gang? Well, someone whose friends are all in said gang would be a good first guess.
First, just to make sure we are on the same page, are you in agreement that this wasn't politics, but perhaps a disagreement in the roles and responsibilities of a manager and an engineer and what an engineer is expected to do at google? I just want to make sure we're on the same page on that, which was the crux of my point.

But as to your point, on the roles and responsibilities of managers and engineers, I mostly agree with your comment about the role of a manager, which as I said before should be responsible for working with the engineer both to show their impact, but also making sure they're actually doing impactful work.

I disagree that if it's your job as an engineer to show what your impact is that you'll come up with creative ways of doing this. You can try to come up with creative ways of showing impact, and maybe a promotion panel will agree with you, but maybe they won't and you'll be left without recognition (I've seen this happen before).

To your last comment about competent engineers, I don't know what company you work at, but at mine, shipping projects on time, and under budget, especially when they are large in scope and involve complex technologies or large teams that you've led, and especially when those projects have impact on the company's bottom line, those project are considered major impact and and those engineers are amply rewarded.
There may be some community colleges that can give you a good remedial course in reading with understanding.

What I wrote is a good explanation for people to understand the OP. A lot of people won't understand the OP and need a good explanation.

More generally, high end US academics is not widely understood, instead is usually seriously misunderstood.

So, how would you explain the seeming dilemma in the OP?
Where I work we are big on peer review. So in theory helping others should have value. It's still not perfect. For example, a junior may not be able to asses the value of your help, or anything else for that matter. People will still tend to rank their friends higher. While your boss doesn't rank you whether he promotes your work to others has a big influence on how they view you.

In a previous company we had a better mix of peer reviews and input from technical leads (that were not your bosses). This was by far the best system I've seen to date for a company of that size.

In small companies there is typically good visibility into what everyone is doing. If you have good management then things tend to work very well. If you have bad management it can be worse than large companies.

One thing I've come to learn is that this sort of stuff, call it culture, has to be a priority for the company's leadership, they have to keep inspecting it and fixing it. They need to talk to people and understand their concerns. Otherwise it always drifts the wrong way. The Google system from what I read here sounds terrible.

EDIT: Having people try to optimize to play the system, just like the article describes, is inevitable so you must ensure the incentives are aligned. Make sure you find ways to look at the stuff that really matters and make sure you're not antagonizing your employees with your review system.
At 8 hrs outage/month, Slack would be completely free.

And that's a great way to test that you have backup comms systems working.
I wouldn’t worry about the clock, but the rest scares me too. Russia sending SU-57’s to Syria for example, to paraphrase Hugo Rifkind, reminds me of how WWIII starts in all of those crap novels I read as a teenager.
This person probably DID ask more specific questions. They were just describing the gist if the interaction. Not a literal copy paste of the exact messages.
Did you try contacting them? A divorced friend's daughter only lives with him at weekends, got cancelled from the family plan. He wrote them and got her added back.

I work away from home in another city weekdays and still in the family plan. If your brother never visits, I understand their rationale though.
Do Not Disturb mode is my saviour. Going deep into the engineering trenches? Flip it on. Answering emails/doing less important things? Turn it off.
Thanks Howard Jarvis
Unsound is what you want.

Sound type systems are pretty much unusable.
I want to add that I do think google has a _culture_ that allows great people more visibility. You don't see [as] many blogs by say Apple engineers :)
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Completely agree that they should understand what’s going on however:

It’s sometimes easy to forget that there are various reasons people are less informed. For people early in the career for example, reading security advice on HN and believing it is not unheard of especially when you have real experts on here who know what they’re talking about.

Something that is “all there is to it” for you is not necessarily the same for someone else. I’m not saying it’s anyones job to inform them; just that it’s better not to speak in absolutes.

If security folks say something, I assume there’s a good reason until I become a security folk myself - it’s one of those fields where being sceptical about everything third-party helps.

My point really wasn’t about the MITM but a there’s always a possibility that a proxy on a public/compromised network can intervene between you and a “secured” website.

Binaries can be verified with checksums to make sure that the artifact hosted on the repository is indeed what you received.
You are 100% correct that you are still trusting the code from the third party developer though!
Thinking about it, I think I understand their insight now. The idea is that, even if you got triplebyte-d, the startups will pass you through their interviewing process - let's be realistic for a sec. So triblebyte is not about getting you hired, I mean, not directly. It's about something else.

Thing is, a startup cant do like amazon and actually dive into every random applicant. It's too big of a work. So, a startup is limited and can only use recommendations in order to even think about interviewing someone.

Now, what if a company would do the grunt work and select a few of those random applicants and submit them to the companies. That would bring a shitload of value because now startups would have a new source of relevant applications to tap in.

I think triplebyte is actually a good investment.
Subpoenas Signal S.E.C. Crackdown on Initial Coin Offerings
Looks good, and thanks for waiving the fees - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/acute

My only concern is when I linked my Stripe account it says "buy me a coffee will have access to your data" - no, I assume it doesn't have full access to ALL the stripe data, so that could be clarified.

Or at least make it clear that you cant empty my Stripe account :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style

"soft lead"
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But it was! It was excluding you! Your lack of performance made everyone else look more productive.
Vernacular Intentet in India
Why is it no longer valid?
Is it spelled "Peace" deliberately or is that a typo?
Google certainly called it Google Chat: https://support.google.com/chat
Especially when software was not developed by a hardware manufacturer.
What about promoting technology that could ultimately harm the communities they're allegedly benefiting?
Pacem == Peace, the main lyrics are Dona Nobis Pacem
All the more reason to use a regular scripting language for building, then, since there are several that are plenty cross-platform.
Ask HN: Successful methods for building a marketplace. What have you done?
I'm very curious to see how people got their marketplaces moving.

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone on HNs. Every one of you rocks and are really valuable. Keep kicking ass!
The question was “why can’t you automate it?”.
Your comment reminds me of another of Vi's videos. No music in this one; maybe you'll like it better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IJyRAUxtAQ
I'm more interested in how stochastic computing can do more interesting things such as "quantum computing lite", similar to how some applications of chaos analog computing can do rough approximations of what quantum annealers are capable of.
I'm surprised at the recovery rate. $11.5 billion out of $25-$30 billion (But principle). There's another $5 billion+ sitting around. There was definitely enough money for this have gone on for decades longer.

Lawyer fees have exceeded $1 billion so far, which I suppose is reasonable given the money returned.
I mean if you haven't seen it yet, Wizard of Lies on HBO is a Soprano's-level of quality depiction of the whole Madoff thing.
IQ score and life outcomes Correlation
>your mention of 'CSS' makes me guess this is a web application, in which case you should be able to read the source code and figure out how to build it

pfft. If it's a web app (from 2015-2018) I have even more sympathy for the OP than on any other platform.

Here's an example from last year-ish:

* Get repo from external contractor (let's ignore the 1+ weeks trying to get an install of Git approved)

* Try to get npm working - can't get through our firewall

* Figure out the right chaining proxy to use

* Spend a non-zero amount of time trying to work out all the right bits to flip to turn off ALL SSL verification from npm because interception proxy

* Hit the Windows MAX_PATH limit and have to spend ages trying to delete files that NPM's created (original developer used Linux)

* After npm starts downloading stuff correctly, suddenly it needs a binary dependency (and thus more build tools)

* Give up and check in said binary dependency from elsewhere

* Finally build all the CSS and minified Javascript and check it all into source control with a warning to other devs not to rebuild it unless absolutely necessary
Just a little bit more.
It depends on whether there is equilibrium. If someone founds a club and breaks even for a while while losing weight until they meet their goal, then someone new does the time, the cycle can perpetuate until the rate of newly overweight people drops.
I'm not, because it would bore me. I see shit like that for breakfast when studying transportation. But if you don't do it, I say it's because of your own primal instincts, so you stuff them down...
With N. Korea provoking them for decades, I'm surprised they have kept article 9 of their constitution.

It made sense to defang Japan in the post-war period, but unilateral disarmament is foolhardy --and they know it given they have SDF as a workaround the limitations... so given they are by no means foolish, why keep on being somewhat hamstrung by article 9, specially given N. K's behavior?
Sometimes the person who knew how to make it all work has left. Such is the plight of the maintenance programmer.
Good luck, mate! Really, I believe you've taken the right decision. Even if you fail, that will be much better than continuing the environment you've described!
Nice. I'm also making a language learning application and getting "real" content (websites, tweets?, news, etc) into the app is definitely one of my main targets.
S/he wasn't proposing a protocol, but describing a naturally occurring one.
I would have thought they needed to rewrite their constitution before building these, not a few years after!
Yeah - seems like it's no less valid. And quite possibly more valid.
There's an absurd number of crops that would effectively disappear from American (and probably even global) diets if California started to downsize its agriculture. The Central Valley is very unique in having both fertile soil and year-round reasonably-temperate weather. That's a resource which - if anything - ought to be prioritized and expanded to as high of a degree as possible.

Water is quite literally the only issue, and it's a very recent one. It's also an easy one to solve: follow Israel's lead and build desalinization plants up the wazoo. That, or pray that we mountain folks keep getting decent winters to sustain the summers. Pushing ranching (which is disproportionately-water-intensive) out-of-state is another option, as is figuring out ways to reduce ranching's water impact.

As for the low proportion of California's economy to which agriculture contributes, it's worth remembering that agriculture doesn't exactly have high margins. California's farms in particular are also heavily staffed with undocumented labor (which I reckon will skew a lot of data in all sorts of crazy directions).

Put simply: crops ain't the problem, and scapegoating the "dumb and dirty" farmers was already a tired trope five years ago, let alone now.
It's the seperate nameserver and subdomain that I can't quite get my head around - are you saying you can reply to a challenge for x.y.z.org from a nameserver at a.b.c.org?
Only an MLM that sells accelerating human reproduction shakes can sustain growth in that model.
I suspect this technique will need a lot of refinement before its actually competitive.

The main trouble with this technique, I suspect, is it doesn't get at the root of where power is really spent. Yes, anything costs power, but is that where all the juice is really going? A famous stat from the P4 days was, 40% of chip power was spent just driving the clocks. I'm sure it's better today, but how much? What about all the leakage in the SRAMs?
You can make a lot of money taking the other side of a big bad bet.
Allo works on Android/iOS/Web.
> I'd suggest prioritizing fixing that

I've already had one upstream patch rejected on account of the additional complexity fixing it introduces, and would rather not indefinitely support my own fork of other people's build setups.

Or if I am going to indefinitely support my own fork, I might as well rewrite the build config to properly integrate with the rest of whatever build system I happen to be using - at least then I'll get unified build/compilation options etc.
Under 1000 lines, too?
Pretty fantastic post, thanks for sharing. I have a love/hate relationship with JS (which I think is normal?) However, this is one of the love moments. Excellent choice on the sample video too, the Director's Series DVDs have also been my test material for various encoding/decoding adventures.
I hope we move towards recruiting being a culture/attitude problem and not really a skills data problem.
Most jobs are repeatative and most engineers adapt. So important is to identify culture and attitude fit.

The problem with raising the bar for interviewing engineers is the work that they end up doing isn't moving at same pace.
With more frameworks, better languages and open source building stuff is getting easier
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Orrin Hatch represents the herbal supplement industry, not the MLM industry. Herbalife happens to be in both.
Direct-to-consumer/business ISPs only have to comply with the State regulations that they choose to operate in.

Sonic.net doesn't have to worry about Floridian regulations, but Comcast has to worry about Californian and Floridian regulations because they have operations in both States. That said, they are also large enough to take on that extra burden and still profit, with no loss of competitive advantage.

I'm not worried about making it easier for ISPs to expand across State lines because I don't live in 50 different States. I live in one, and I want the right package of regulations for the place that I live, not the millions of places I don't, for every ISP in my area, not the hundreds to thousands that aren't.
I'm inclined to believe that measuring performance is fairly subjective. However, in an attempt to put some numbers behind a performance score, you might have some combination of individual weighted scores that involve things like:

(1) length of time employed at the company

(2) some measure of the performance feedback the engineer receives in their annual review - which may include percentage salary increase (possibly subjective, though)

(3) a score compiled by surveying the employees' peers (again, possibly subjective)

(4) the overall TripleByte turnover rate at said company

(5) the market average for any/all of (1)-(4)
A stacked DRAM cache can improve performance of integrated CPU+GPU systems by 2X
That was actually much more interesting and detailed than I was expecting. I didn't know about all the pre-WWII foo usage in comics, popular slang, and cartoons. I also found the bit about the existence of "foo clubs" odd. It's like a meme where we only have scraps of the 7th iteration.
>>The problem is, obviously, that this is an international zero-sum game. The US, Russia, and most EU countries provide all the infrastructure that allowed their citizen to earn the money, but the money leaves those countries as soon as the tax-man rings.

This is a pretty baseless assumption. Most of the wealth is obviously produced in large countries with very significant natural and human resources, but we have no way to know if they would be producing more or less wealth if their tax burdens and governments were smaller.

What evidence that exists suggests government significantly smaller than the norm in the developed world is better for economic development.

If it is indeed the case that low taxes contribute to more global economic growth, then these tax havens are bolstering the world's economy rather than exploiting it in a zero sum way.

>>Those two goals come into conflict once the first is used to brand you an international pariah.

By the sounds of it, there is a concerted push by a large and powerful political faction to make it illegal for any country in the world to have low taxes, on the basis that a country exercising its sovereignty in this way is somehow victimizing and exploiting other countries.
I've experienced a significant improvement listening to Tidal Masters tracks over Spotify. A very enjoyable improvement. Even non-Masters tracks on Tidal sound significantly better. Currently, almost all tracks on Tidal at the HiFi tier are 1411kbps (non-Masters) and still the Spotify desktop app caps out at 320kbps.

Spotify has been streaming 1411kbps for most tracks through their browser player in Chrome and only then I notice little difference between Spotify and Tidal HiFi. The Masters tracks still are noticeably better than the Spotify on Chrome app playing at 1411kbps.

There is an upside to streaming from the Spotify Chrome app for 1411kbps which doesn't incur extra cost but this is all functionality Spotify is not advertising. The downsides are this only currently works in the US (IIRC) and navigation in the Chrome Browser app is very limited compared to the desktop app.

I'm very surprised you were not able to notice a difference with such a great stack as the HD800s + Mojo and suspect it was something else in the chain limiting the potential. I suggest giving even just Spotify direct in the Chrome webapp a try again if not Tidal and ensure you have the chain configured properly.