skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh good, it wasn't mine!

Edit: maybe I should explain a little. We were a educational software developer and doing multimedia titles. We had a home grown multimedia engine which served us well (at the time there weren't alternatives) but Flash came along and at the time they would license the engine as a C or C++ library, which we could embed. This would get us a capable engine with superb integration with the content creation tools.
> Tell that to the midwestern industrial towns

The towns who are relying on cheaper steel and aluminum imports to build air conditioning units for the rest of America?

Or the ones relying upon cheaper steel and aluminum to build cars? Or Airplanes?

Sure, it sucks to be Pittsburgh when steel imports compete against the steel industry. But its great for literally every other industrial town in the USA. There are far more USERS of steel than there are makers of steel.

Tell me: do you think the 25% price increase on imported steel (helping Pittsburgh, and almost no one else) is worth the Chinese tariff on Pork, Nuts, Wine, and other agricultural products (aka: the majority of rural American's exports)?
The intersection of people that care about high dpi laptop screens, but not about high dpi external screens is very, very small. Also, if you are in that group, why wouldn't you just turn down the resolution on the laptop or even turn it off (since you connected a low dpi external monitor, you don't seem to care about the additional sharpness of high dpi, right?)?

High dpi is important as is low dpi (for a while still at least), mixed dpi is an edge case even if you disagree.
"intrinsic" is a bad word. really we should be saying like "non-speculative" or "utility" value or something. The price as if no one had ever thought to price it to sell to other speculators.

gold's price is some part speculative some part non-speculative. Non-speculative value gives it some kind of price floor, but the price can be way above the floor. For instance, if the price of gold jumps 2x it's not necessarily because gold jewelry became twice as popular in the same time period.
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You know, maybe we'll actually see some legislation on personal information and privacy and how it must be handled over time and in acquisitions sooner than later. I Facebook's problems were promising in this respect, but with the additional disclosures happening so often, and especially in situations like this, we might see some real change for the better soon.

If so, I consider all those that had their Grindr info stolen or even just acquired by individuals that may have less moral qualms about selling it to those that would use it for ill patriots who suffered for us all.
Not GP, but I'd like to share my perspective.

Apple creates their products for a specific customer (which covers most of population looking at its popularity among people, who have enough money to buy their products), but not for me. Using Macs or iThings feels like using devices which aren't design for my workflow.

Macbooks are well-built, but they are optimized for Mac OS. Dells and Lenovos are good enough for me and work nice with Linux. I like physical buttons and keyboards which are... well, hard to say what I don't like in Mac's keyboards, but they are not going well with me.
That's a great comparison, and is a concept bolstered by the coming GDPR rules in the EU.
I think they recently put backs tons of kernel space code back in userspace (in recent versions of 10), probably because the quantity of discovered security vulns started to become really ridiculous.
I also work alone on a Go service and have some complex models. I used Gorm and then for complex selects broke out the raw sql. It works okay, I’m still having to bolt on things like OCC and Versioning to my models. I’m glad I used it though- it gave me a solid foundation to work off and replace the bits that don’t quite work well.
I was interviewed by Xavier a couple months ago and it was a pleasant experience.

I really appreciate this kind of interview because the time investment is symmetrical. Take-home assignments are really awful in this aspect.
> The only OS that still hangs, freezes, and crashes regularly.

Tell that to my Windows 7 box. It crashed last week because I tried to copy a PNG on the desktop into an Outlook e-mail message.

(IT still hasn't cleared Win 10 for company-wide deployment)
> Can anyone do that? That’s literally strong AI territory...

Why wouldn't it be tractable with current AI? I'm assuming they have the brightest minds and some fairly hefty AI software constantly analyzing and running A/B experiments, the result being that the FB experience is gratifying, sticky or even addictive. Now, why not re-purpose some of those resources so that it becomes gratifying for people to expand out of their bubbles? The hardest thing about it is presumably that it doesn't contribute directly to the bottom line.
> Looking forward to checking out the new execpromises in pledge

Interesting that they just changed the interface from `int pledge(const char * promises, const char * paths[]);` to `int pledge(const char * promises, const char * execpromises);`. I guess that is the power they have by being a BSD and integrated system, they do not worry about userland compatibility.
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Agreed. If I wanted to be a web/javascript developer, I would already be doing JavaScript. But I don't want to.
I like Linux better than Mac which I like better than Windows. I don't use Linux for work right now because HiDPI support just isn't there for a lot of Linux software.
You're completely wrong. Facebook's stock has crashed in the past week - perception very much matters. While virality is facebook's USP, there's no evidence that an alternative viral tech option would not have resulted in a similar outcome.

It's convenient to blame facebook, and ignore the goverment's actions. And it's convenient to ignore the fact that facebook is infrastructure, like roads and electricity. When bad people use roads and electricity, you do not cut it off for the rest of society, or blame the roads for bad things
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Anyone who tells you why the market went up or down without talking to everyone who bought or sold stock is pulling that wisdom from their rear end.
Nah, that’s fair. However, here’s a neat trick—look at the type of “head”:

∀a. [a] → a

Viewed as a logical formula, it’s not a tautology, so I know it must be partial. Proof:

Given: L(a) = μr. 1 + (a × r)

∀a. L(a) → a
= [definition of L]
∀a. (μr. 1 + (a × r)) → a
= [unroll μ]
∀a. (1 + (a × μr. 1 + (a × r))) → a
= [∀xyz. (x + y) → z ⇔ (x → z) × (y → z)]
∀a. (1 → a) × ((a × μr. 1 + (a × r)) → a)
= [(∀a. 1 → a) = 0]
∀a. 0 × ((a × μr. 1 + (a × r)) → a)
= [∀x. 0 × x = 0]
∀a. 0
=
0

Unfortunately, this is also false if a is false (void/bottom), and all those “→ a”s are actually “→ ¬¬a” because Haskell isn’t a total language—with that pesky intuitionistic double-negative, any function can be partial. But it’s a good rule of thumb for quickly checking whether a function must not return for some (or all) inputs.
In the modern supply chain the distinction makes no sense whatsoever.

I have former colleagues who are working on a project for Ford with a team spread out across the entire globe: From Michigan to Mexico; with developers in the UK; Germany; India and Japan.

Where is this stuff made? Everywhere at once, and all at the same time.
Given the number of times well-meaning do-gooders have been prosecuted or sued after publicly disclosing a breach, I find this approach entirely reasonable.

The caveat, of course, is that the poster should definitely have first attempted to contact Panera. I would not be surprised at all if Panera responded by doing absolutely nothing, which eventually led to this post.
Tools for microarchitectural benchmarking
They mean that the signing bonus is divided into two yearly payouts instead of one. It's a single bonus.

I personally don't see what's wrong with a N/2N/3N... vesting schedule for post-IPO companies. You're buying in long term, that's the deal. Is it sided to favor employee retention for the employer? Sure. The overall comp at AMZN is pretty competitive though. That's the deal.

It makes more sense for a fiscally stable company like Amazon, which actually sees reliable stock growth and a real business model as compared to snap with neither of those things-- but that's not a criticism of the vesting schedule, it's a criticism of snap's true value. That's the thing that would keep me from a company like that, not the length of my RSU vesting periods.

Source: ex AMZN employee
We should look out for suicides. Someone who's given the choice between destroying his family and betraying his country might be pretty likely to off himself.
FB's leak was tied to Trump, whose election has many, many people outraged.

That's the only reason why the media at large cares about FB's data leak right now. That's especially not something to trade over today since the leaky API was fixed in 2014 or something.

Considering all of the leaks/breaches that happen, FB is an outlier and not indicative unless something changes with regulations and the law.
> but maybe you have some actual misogynistic policies

I was talking about rhetoric (where "grab em by the p...y" is sufficient proof of DJT not respecting women, no matter if private or not - but if that is not sufficient, look at the countless allegations of rape or other sexual misconduct), but if you want policy examples, for example take a look at staff pictures. Most old white men. The only 3 women in his cabinet are Chao (Transportation), DeVos (Education) and Nielsen (DHS). Not exactly positions of power.
Go for a walk at lunch. (I do this less than I used to... need to get back to it.)

Find something you like to do that's active. For me, ultimate frisbee fits the bill. I have a group that I play with. They play almost daily, but I only play once a week because of old legs.
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That works okay at the "notify CDW and Best Buy" level (and to some degree, they probably do), but not at the "notify every non-chain store that is reselling computers" level. And then you're also placing the burden on every reseller to keep track of which PC models (and serials) they sell their customers indefinitely. Which, again, not a big deal at the CDW and Best Buy level, but much less practical for many others.
Trade deficits are good. Europeans love American goods and services!
Adobe for one is making a boatload of money from CC subscriptions, record numbers, so I wouldn't worry too much about that (I imagine MS is equally happy with Office 365 on the desktop).

Besides, there's no Carbon to Cocoa or CodeWarrior to Xcode port, so aside from a very small percentage of optimized assembly code, it shouldn't be nearly as hard.
This is going to be an interesting shift, and I think a lot of startups are going to grow legs because of this.
If I’m selling my company and a Chinese buyer offers me more, I’m not going to turn him down just because he’s Chinese.
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Not at all; if you want to consume a lot and create a little then your thesis is right, but the desktop is king for creators. There are a slew of very mature Windows only software out there serving many fields of endeavour for which there are no competitors in either FOSS or other OSs.
Legitimate question: Who paid for college?

If this business's profits paid for yours and your brother's college education, as well as supported the family while you lived there you need to take that into account. You may also want to take into account that even according to your own version of events, your dad had been running this business since before you created the eStore. Plus there's a huge gap in the middle of your story (college + job + own startup) where you didn't work for the business while your brother and dad did.

I guess what I am trying to say is: You deserve equity but not the 50/50 you seem to believe. According to your own version of events (which paints things in the best possible light for you), your dad still did the majority of the work, took the majority of the risk, and was paying for things for you while doing so.

I think your dad's greed is affecting his judgement, but frankly I think it is affecting yours too. As an exercise go rewrite this story from what you think your dad's perspective is, setting out what he did, and how things will look for him.

Again, you deserve equity, and I have no idea what he already gifted you. 20-30% would be in the ballpark of fair. But in general I think you're seeing green a little and just want more power than your brother for later, which isn't a healthy place to come from.

You could go get lawyers involved but win or lose, you'll lose.
I'd settle for above average returns on what he started off with, plus at least some evidence that thar was connected to skill in the domain it is being attributed to.

> and is a president of the US of A after taking up politics as a hobby 1.5 years before the election

Trump's first Presidential effort, which was quickly abandoned (notionally because he didn't want to be associated with certain other candidates in that race), was in 2000, when he sought the Reform Party nomination. He was involved in politics before that, and had fairly open Presidential aspirations since. So you're off by at least an order of magnitude with that 1.5 years. (Then again, while governing is something else, electoral politics is about 100% brand marketing.)
I did maintain a Linux laptop (Ubuntu) for all my personal and development usage, from 2003-2011. Based on my experience at that time, it is entirely incorrect to claim that the experience with device drivers (wifi, bluetooth) and sleep/suspend/hibernate is better on Linux. Those things basically never worked right, battery experience was terrible, and many times during that era I lost a day's work because something was broken early in the boot sequence, and I couldn't even start X Windows.

In 2011 I switched to macOS due to my job and I have never had to deal with any of that. Ever. Perhaps the Linux laptop experience has improved significantly since then though.

Furthermore, there was no hardware nearly as nice as Apple laptops on which to install linux. (Yeah, other than Apple laptops, but I felt like I didn't have the money to justify that).

However I of course agree with your points regarding Vagrant/Docker and shell scripting. It is a shame that MacOS could not be based on Linux.
The tariffs did not increase the price of steel by 25%, they added a 25% tariff to imported steel. The US imports under 1/3rd of the steel we use (36M mt vs 81M mt), so the majority of our steel will have no tariffs on it.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Business/key-facts-us-steel-aluminum-i...
Consider the source: Cressida Dick, and the Met Police. Look into their history, conduct, competence and attitudes, and you’ll understand why. I’m decidedly not a fan of much social media, but this is the usual deflection you get from the usual sources. Dick is so far to the authoritarian Right that she walks with a limp. She’s definitely not going to say that years of failed social and economic policies have predictably led to a rise in violence, but blaming social media? Oh yes.

Some background on the recent history of violence in the UK might help too. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42749089

Note that most knife attacks are during the commission of another felony, usually robbery. Unless social media is somehow being used to coordinate robbing people, you can safely dismiss Dick’s claim.
Gotta remember that all these previous ARM chips have been designed in the context of the phone. If you suddenly tell the chip designers they have 10x the power and thermal headroom, theres a lot you could do.
"Established businesses aren't going to put their data in someone else's datacenter."

Established businesses do this all the time.
No worries, this is actually a pretty subtle concept because it's an instance where the properties of the aggregate are different than the properties of the individual.

An individual can put cash into an asset. You can start with $1, then exchange it for BTC, and now you have $0. The amount of dollars in your accounts has gone down and the amount of BTC in your accounts has gone up.

But in aggregate, this is impossible. There is a (mostly[1]) fixed supply of dollars in the world. And there is a (mostly) fixed supply of BTC in the world. When you buy BTC for $1, the $1 just moves from your account to someone else's account. Their BTC moves from their account to your account. In aggregate the amount of dollars is the same before the transaction and after. The amount of BTC is the same before the transaction and after.

The reason for this is that for every buyer, there is always a seller. Every single time someone puts dollars "into" an asset, someone else is taking dollars "out of" the asset on the other side of the trade. No one has ever put dollars "into" BTC on net.

Generally, prices do not go up because dollars go "into" the asset. It is fallacious to say that the stock market has gone up because dollars have gone "into" the stock market. Dollars flow through markets, they don't flow into markets. Prices reflect opinions of people making transactions, they don't reflect a history of dollars that have gone "into" an asset.

To be fair, this issue is kind of pedantic and besides the main point of this thread, but I do think it's a fallacy worth being aware of. Ever since I learned of it, my financial thinking has felt clearer.

[1] let's say fixed with respect to you any buy/sell transactions you may or may not execute (this would have be an asterisk, but it turned all of my text into italics)
Here's an article not behind a paywall:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/02/elon-musk-takes-charge-of-te...
To Facebook, you're only worth around $1.50. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...
If an acquaintance tells me he has AIDS and I tell someone else, am I in violation of HIPAA?
This is true, but fragmenting your platform is an existential threat. Nickel and diming customers just isn’t worth it. The problem is Microsoft thought they were so powerful and had such strong lock in that it didn’t matter. They were wrong, hence the radically simplified SKUs for 10.

But they just can’t bear to actually get it all right, so still try and stiff people to switch off ‘S’ mode.
> explain

Just chart voodoo. Nothing much to see; it's an artform and every TA "expert" is an artist.

> could easily be wrong

You've summarized what it means to be a successful trader very succinctly. No trade idea is guaranteed.
Once you've got to the point of needing to match your production server technology, doesn't it feel like you should be using a VM or docker (assuming you're tied to MacOS as the development environment)?
For everyone speculating that this means a move to ARM and they'll write an emulator for x86 code, it's good to note that the first Windows tablet based on ARM, the $1,000 HP Envy x2, has pretty terrible performance for x86 code when running on a Snapdragon 835. The Celeron N3450 launched almost 2 years ago found in super low end $200 Windows laptops outperforms it by ~50%. And ARM on Windows can only run 32-bit apps (no 64-bit apps, no drivers, no system level utilities).
> Average CS professor at a top school is significantly more well-read in history, ethics, and many other subjects than the "AI Ethics major"

This sounds like the jokes of when a plumber comes in to fix the pipes of a physicist, and the physicist is like "Whats so hard here? It's just basic physics"
Okay, but so is standing near combustion-engine vehicles, cooking, soldering, shopping at stores full of air freshener, and many other things. There are many other common activities that have even higher risk of death/injury.

When walking around town with my 1.5 year old, I commonly see people smoking cigarettes outside freak out and start apologizing, worried that they might blow one puff of smoke in the general direction of a baby. But at that point we are talking about a ridiculous level of concern for a trivial risk.

As they say, the dose makes the poison. We should make public policy based on careful risk analysis, not absolutist reflex.
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