skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno if this is management 101 but someone mentioned casually the relationship between responsibility and authority. A mismatch between those two creates tension (employee dissatisfaction).

I have not found the comment or literature on the subject. Experiences at my day job tell me this is key to org/role design and management in general.
You might want to read the one-to-three-star reviews before ordering. If they are to be believed, Moondust is less about the astronauts and more about Andrew Smith.
I also really liked the book. My review of it (on Amazon)

Scott Adams tells the story of his life, and describes his philosophies for how to succeed. There were four ideas in the book that really stood out for me.

1). Use systems, not goals. A goal could be complete a marathon. However, once you reach the goal, there is nothing to keep you going (unless you immediately set a new goal). A better way is to have a system. For example, the system can be to always run four times a week. A system lets you feel good every time you follow it, whereas a goal only makes you feel good when you reach it (but then its motivating power also disappears).
Another example of goal versus system is on how to find your next job. If you are constantly on the lookout for a better job (even when you have one), you are much likelier to keep finding good ones than if you only look for another job when you have to.

2) Combination of skills. One way of becoming successful is to extremely good at one thing. But that is also extremely difficult. However, if you can be good (say top 20%) in more than one domain, then that combination of skills can be enough to make you very sought after. An example given in the book is for professionals in California. If you are good at your profession, and also speak Spanish fluently, you have a much better chance of succeeding. As Scott writes in the book, every skill you acquire doubles your chance of success. Put another way: good + good > excellent.

3) What all adults should know. On the subject of adding skills, Scott has a list of skills he thinks all adults should have. Some of those skills are: public speaking, psychology, business writing, accounting, design, and conversations. Chapter 21 goes through all of these (and more), and give advice on how to acquire them.

4) Learning from failures. This is a theme throughout the book. Each failure can teach you something. If you attempt something and fail, you at least gained experience. This experience will be useful for your next project.

These were the main takeaways for me. But there is other good stuff as well. The six filters for truth in the introduction are also good. How can you know if an idea works – make sure at least two of these agree: personal experience, experience of people you know, experts, scientific studies, common sense, pattern recognition. I also like his advice on how to say no to something effectively - say “I am not interested”. And the powerful story of the importance of praise: after a really bad presentation by a very shy student, the instructor did not scold the student. Instead he said “Wow, that was brave”.
In summary, many good ideas worth discovering in here.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R3BWIBLLW7XJC7
That problem doesn’t exist in Washington State.
i wonder if the new sds100 is built around this chip. timing is right.
Did you read the article? I believe it highlights the difference it makes.
I read about it about a year ago. It was about a small program with 4 letters and someone posted 2 blog posts about it in a weeks time abusing the tool to see what it can come up with. The tool or program seemed to have an exploitative nature and seemed to be used in the security field. It worked with, I think binary files, but I recall it also allowed other programs to be ran on it. You provided an exit state and an input state and the program it needs to work with and tried all sorts of things within the provided program to reach the provided exit state. The blog post abused it to optimise to something interesting which I can't recall anymore. The writer of the blog post had more experience with it and already liked to toy around with it. It's not angr.

Iirc it 2as called something like nmap or jobn. Something with 4 letters and not the most straightforward name.

Please help me out.
True. Interestingly, from what I've read, people often rate dental pain worse than other kinds when asked "How much pain are you in, from 1 to 10?" Nasty toothaches and kidney stones are just about the worst pain someone can experience. Maybe the data on losing limbs isn't good because the question gets asked at the wrong time.

Also, a large portion of the opioids prescribed are for dental pain. At least historically.
I wasn’t really talking about Europeans as the people who love it. More like China, India, Latin America.
I bought it for Kindle from Sweden, and it doesn't look unavailable to buy for me now.
So, are you arguing that violence is acceptable in cases like BLM?
Some commits are much better than others, but they're all commits.
Really well done! Though for me this also underlines how ambiguous terms like "ruler" can be. For example, at the very end, it shows "Willem Alexander" as the "ruler" of the Netherlands. He's the ceremonial king with virtually no political power. Yet, Germany is shown to be ruled by Angela Merkel, the political leader of the federal government. Yet, despite not being a monarchy, Germany has a person with a role very similar to Willem-Alexander: President Steinmeier. Unless you're German, you have probably never heard of him, for good reason. The video should've probably either replaced Merkel with Steinmeier, or Willem-Alexander with the Merkel of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte.

This is not to nitpick on this excellent video: it's to illustrate how hard to is to explain, analyze and visualize history. This stuff is nuanced! Pick any random date in the past in this video, and there may well be something similarly "wrong-ish-but-not-entirely" somewhere on there.
how does that sort of regulation actually work? You can obviously have a personal computer. surely you can have a few computers. at what point does the government say you have too many computers?
It uses interesting combination of slavic, latin and german spelling of slavic names. Also very interesting choices of when eg. Bohemia is shown as part of HRE and when it's independent.
That’s not my argument at all, and never has been. I’ve been abundantly clear on this.
That's only federal tax. I don't think Washington has state income tax. And generally only large cities have local income tax.
Whilst that is true, it doesn't have to be that way. If from day one, liability for software bugs lead back to whomever wrote the code, then the world would be a much different place.

For one thing, we would be much more conservative in how we wrote code. Libraries would be vetted, with insurance contracts attached to them. Programming languages would not allow for dynamic data, type coercion, or weak typing. In the 80s, rather than C rising to prominence, Ada would have. Haskell would be our generations Javascript, and XHTML would have won over HTML5 simple because guessing how rendering should work would open up a browser maker to high fines and lawsuits.

We'd have to rewrite our entire software stack from the ground up. It's not impossible, but we'd have to view it as a multi-decade transition like how the chemical industry was slowly forced to not use heavily polluting procedures.
Ask HN: Dealing with website distributing malware disguised as open source?
Our open source project has recently exploded in popularity, and someone registered a very similar domain to ours, using it to distribute malware. We've tried contacting their domain registrar (Namecheap) and host to no avail, and now they've taken ads on Google to appear above the official website.

Does anyone have experience or tips on how to deal with this situation?

Thanks!
I can’t speak for all Americans, but in New England most people would rather spend $5000 on a dishwasher than $4000 on lifetime dishwashing services from a person. I don’t want someone in my house and putting away dishes isn’t so agonizing that I need to avoid it.
Jewish at least had an opportunity to migrate to other places.
European atrocities in South Asia, for example, the engineered famine affected 40 million lives and 5 million dead.
Given the fact that this is a combination of well-known techniques, trivially offers performance benefits, and makes the transformation part of the code testable in isolation from the process or recursion, it's a smart first pass. I think most experienced OO engineers could sit down and write this in one pass.

Calling it overengineered is pretty ridiculous IMO. "Over-engineered" doesn't mean, "Because software training is often inadequate someone might encounter this for the first time in industry rather than in school."
The fact that it is so fucking hard to respond to keystrokes and write some pixels on the screen in modern programming languages is more than a little damning.
Sounds like a fuzzer. Was it American Fuzzy Lop (afl-fuzz)? Doesn't quite meet your 4-letter criteria but sounds like a candidate.
I have been programming professionally for nearly three decades now. I know that some 24 year old code of mine is still running, essentially unmodified, at the company I worked for at the time. And now that you got off my lawn ...

I fail to see what you are trying to say. That a change once in 8 years in a user agent string is too frequent? Because that seems to be what you are saying. And if that is what you are saying, I don't think we have any common ground to base the discussion on.
What about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5641799

In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video] (milkeninstitute.org) 74 points by jordn on May 2, 2013 | 39 comments

The original video link seems dead, I guess it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZbWnIALeE
Utilities; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility .
Why should people who are lucky to live near a hydro plant get cheaper power than some one who doesn't should it not be shared across the nation
I find myself hoping it implodes sooner rather than later. Purely selfish on my part - but I would like to be able to buy a new graphics card some day. I'm already dreading the insane scramble when Nvidia announces their new cards (likely this summer).
Shipping 9 projects in 9 months – all before my 15th birthday
Hypothesis (for which I have zero supporting data): the long term trend towards lower interest rates is the result of the disappearance of a risk premium for lack of liquidity. In other words, you used to have to worry about both losing your money in a long-term way (e.g. the government you loaned it to defaulted, the business you loaned it to went bust) and not having access at the moment you need it (the government/business is solvent, but it's not come due yet, and nobody wants to buy your bond). As financial markets have gotten bigger and more sophisticated, the risk of the latter has diminished. So, eventually the dropping of interest rates will plateau at a non-zero value, reflecting only the risk of outright default, since the risk of nobody wanting to buy just now becomes vanishingly small as the market gets broader and broader (perhaps as broad as the entire planet's saving population).

Again, zero supporting data, just a hypothesis.
The idea that cities would offer themselves up for companies with live off user data is so disturbing. Why not give them a whole cities data, I'm sure they could solve it's problems! This is so emblematic of the current times. Corporate power has run amok and increasingly people are suckered into thinking they'll solve our problems.

There so many things we already have enough data to act on, college debt is going to crush the next generation, middle class wages have been stagnant for 30 years, money is continuing to concentrate to the select few giving them unmatched powers in politics... we can act on any one of those things for the cost of the tax break just passed!

That isn't the way the wind is blowing though, apparently the only road to better our lives is just surrendering more and more power to corporations who know so much better than us, and whatever tools we elect, how to solve our woes.
The trauma olympics isn't usually a fruitful discussion, but I think it's worth pointing out that Holocaust survivors were from a single generation or two, while slavery in America existed for 240 years, so it might not be a fair comparison. And the level of racism Chinese immigrants faced is still of a much lower intensity than black Americans faced. I mean, even if you don't count the first 240 years of slavery, there's still the next hundred years of weekly extrajudicial executions in public by mobs.
Property is a capital expenditure.
i love reading comments about bitcoin on HN. They are just oozing of bitterness cause they don't understand it and missed the boat lol
Related. I sometimes find a good recipe on Google, but next time I want to do it, it's nowhere to be seen. I often find lost HN posts via Google search though. And I always upvote or favorite post's that I might go back to later.
Yes! Thank you. No wonder I wasn't able to find it as I strongly held my belief that it was 4 letters. Love this place.
I get a humbling feeling watching this video. Every one of those people on the map were super important at a place and time, but everything they did or ruled is now represented by a 1 or 2 second blip in the video among thousands of other fleeting blips.

The author/creator of this video seems pretty humble himself: His "About" entry on YouTube says, "I make maps. Location France." Nothing else.
I don't know exactly how it worked (beyond IIRC that it was a SAR = Synthetic Aperature Radar), but I know for sure that it worked perfectly well.
PyGame is probably the closest I have found to the ease of use of old QBasic, for simple graphics. Almost everything else that you use makes you proxy through some sort of OpenGL-esque abstraction, that makes 2D graphics far harder than they ought to be.
My 7X year over year gains disagree with you ;)
Yea, but a bank of mining rigs are running off of 120 volts. Yes--they use a lot of amps, but so do electric heaters.
Incentive Programming
Don't really understand where your question is coming from. Are you implying that exchanges aren't real? That people never cash out?

Even so, how much wealth in this world is based in "actual, hard currency"? How many developers have unvested options? How much of Musk's wealth is in the bank as opposed to tied up in his businesses? I think you're trying to stand up a strawman.
And terribly expensive rents, at least in big cities like Munich. Many engineers would like to move to US, but it’s much harder than to move to some other less expensive place within EU.
Back pain? Try some placebo surgery (2016)
It's funny how you committed the exact trap they were writing about in their comment... They didn't advocate for or against violence, they only stated that historically, a lot of major movements have had violent elements and we're mislead to believe that they were completely peaceful. The fact that your immediate reaction was assuming they're supporting violence shows you're also guilty of this myopism.
Read the next sentence, you get your answer.
Since the frequency range doesn't match what the chip is capable of then probably not. The chip was released in 2013 so I'm not sure what you mean by timing.
Are we learning a lot from our parents?

I had highly educated parents (university professors) and what I learned from them was a tiny fraction of the total amount of things that I've learned so far (from written material, other people, and life experience).

I think there's merit to what you said, but I don't think the crucial bit is the parents specifically. I think the crucial bit is that without language you can't easily communicate to others what you've learned, at least not complex things. This aspect doesn't depends on life expectancy as much. Instead it depends on two things: how much knowledge there is in society (of octopuses) and how doable it is to communicate that knowledge.
Someone posted here a blog from a guy who had a plan to commit suicide at the age of 50. He wrote a lot of articles explaining the reasoning. It was mostly a fear of declining quality of life with age, and a fear of becoming incapacitated at some point and being unable to follow through with euthanasia if he was suffering. It stuck in my head and I'd like to find it again because I couldn't remember if this was something he went through with or if it was hypothetical.
This is critically important. As a PM, I view it as one of our responsibilities to keep pushing to address the problems - even as we focus on external facing features.
This brings up some good points about why a philosophy of "If you don't like it (certain surveillance technology), just don't use those products" will be increasingly more difficult to rationalize. It's already borderline-impossible as not having things like a cell phone and an Internet connection (which tracks you) would already be a significant burden on anyone just trying to go about the basic needs of a modern adult life in a country like the US or Canada.

This seems like a good place that GDPR could help consumers out - but how far can it be taken? What if I don't consent for the sidewalk to track me, the cars near me to film me and record me so that they can drive autonomously, the CCTV cameras and microphones near every intersection to record me and run facial recognition on me, and so on. It seems the only way to not be tracked is to not exist.

I hope that we eventually attain some great regulations in this area that really tackle these problems in the areas that are most pressing and difficult to regulate. Would be wonderful to see some progress within the next few years in this area, perhaps GDPR will set the stage here.
Plasma 5.13 – Amazing Tux, How Sweet Plasma
That’s why there are judges.
It’s interesting that you mention 9/11 because one theory I’ve heard is that polygynous societies where there is a surplus of unmarried men breed violent young men (both married and unmarried).
I suggest you check once more around a month from now - 21st June, World Yoga Day, to be precise - from any of the thousands of yoga practitioners that you will find clogging the streets of your city.
Analogue fabs are highly customized. You could probably make some back of the napkin comparisons but you wouldn't be able to actually manufacture it in another fab without a lot more R&D spend.
It is tragic that being "devout hindu" has turned into "Us vs. Them" when in fact hindu religion advocates universality for all living beings (chetana) even non-living (jada) but the profound lessons are conveniently overlooked for sectarian politics. The core message of Bhagvata-Gita and Bhagvata-Purana, two of the most revered scriptures is the "Everything is the Lord, there is nothing besides the Lord" Bhagvada-Gita Chapter 7 Verse 19,

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ

"Vasudevah sarvam iti", everything is the Lord there is nothing besides the Lord.

Jesus Christ said "If you do not love your brother whom you can see, how can you love God whom you cannot see?"

If "devout hindus/christians/etc" realize this message the World could be heaven on earth.

After most hindu prayers there is invocation of "Shanti Shanti Shanti" i.e. Peace Peace Peace to All.

It is most unfortunate that such ancient religion has forgotten its core principle.

[0]https://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/7/19
Did you read the part in the article where server racks set up in apartments not designed for the load are starting electrical fires in residential areas? Kind of a weird definition of “not harming anyone”.
Really good write-up. I haven't finished all the parts of the article but I like it. I will definitely will try to build something with wolkenkit
Sounds like something out of a motivational poster. I say this positively.
The point of zoning laws is different depending on whom you ask. Those most strongly in favor of mixed-use urbanism might even say there's no point. But in the broadest sense, they're supposed to prevent conflicts between land uses. And crypto mining at any useful/profitable scale conflicts with an electrical infrastructure designed for lower residential loads. To allow mining safely, someone has to pay to upgrade that infrastructure. Otherwise you're looking at overloading a circuit, maybe even burning the building down.
My home country exists as the result of an independence war. One of the first salvos was “my side” killing tens of thousands of people of suspected questionable loyalty, followed by a counter-attack from the other side killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Was the violence “acceptable?” To me it’s not a useful question. Violence is one of the ways people interact with each other; any large scale social movement will involve some violence. Was the outcome of self determination worthwhile despite some deaths? Undoubtedly.
To add to this, I imagine chip companies don't look at it as plainly as whether a chip recovers its development costs. If the development costs lead to techniques or designs that can be reused, the next chips will be not only better (due to incremental improvements) but also cheaper.
Nearest neighbour searching and Gaussian filters are everywhere these days - here’s a cool way to use them to simulate fluids. Thought people might like to see the applicability of stuff they use every day in a different context.
This comment applies to any revolutionary technology. Let's substitute cryptocurrencies with "the internet" in 1999:

- people trading 'stocks' in the same way Pokemon / WWF kids trade cards.

- thinking this is actually a long-term 'investment' strategy (well its idiots trading with each other ...)

- to top it off, siphoning off capital and giving a load of shitty excuses 'it could be like Detroit at the beginning of the 20th century.

Many people were left holding pets.com stocks, but others were left holding Amazon stocks.

Most of the things that you point out are truisms that the people that have been in the bitcoin space for a few years also see. I would suggest you make an effort, and try to see through all the bullshit projects or outright scams, and you will see that there is real value in what bitcoin and a handful of other projects are trying to build. If you want to avoid the current noise, read what cypherpunks were writing about in 1998: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1998/12/msg00203.html
> Mining is very peaceful

Until you factor in the risk of fire, environmental impact, and the fact that when bitcoin goes bust which will ultimately happen (nothing lasts forever), the county will be left holding the bag in a similar fashion to other major industries of old.
Hanging over May’s hearing was the fate of the Basin’s last big electrical customer: the Alcoa aluminum smelter, which employed more than 400 workers before it was idled several years ago thanks to competition from cheaper Chinese imports. Cryptocurrency mining won’t replace all those jobs — the process is heavily automated. But backers insist that a local mining sector, if allowed to grow, will attract other ancillary services, such as software development, and ultimately provide the Basin with some of the tech-fueled prosperity that Seattle has enjoyed.

There's a lot to chew on here. The Alcoa plant story is practically a cliche. Yet another instance of what a world overflowing with cheap stuff looks like.

The loss of the Alcoa plant means an ever bigger oversupply of electricity. Chelan County seems to have nothing to fill the gap. Why not sell the surplus to a buyer who will use the power locally?

Who decides that an aluminum manufacturer is any more or less a legitimate business than an Bitcoin miner?