skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes Satoshi discusses such things under a nym tied to his real name or IP.

I have a suite of nyms I created over Tor, and exclusively use via Tor, which I use to discuss certain topics.

It's hard to do a stylometric analysis when you don't have anything to compare to. Professional writing is very different from informal conversation.

If someone doesn't have a Facebook, gmail, twitter, etc it would be very difficult to find that person through stylometric analysis IMHO.
"However, when you ask tech leaders’ colleagues for their assessment of the leaders’ growth orientation, they tell a different story...." I enjoyed this piece for how it highlights our blind spots. No one wants to see themselves as stubborn, haha!
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Without min wage laws, the most disadvantaged person (low skill etc) has more OPTIONS to choose from. Wanna "take a break"? Sure, she can try choosing that. Wanna work below min wage? Sure, its their choice.

You are saying its "better for them" if we take options out of them. Now, how is that even possible..?

ps. I won't point you at anything, but try looking for historical reasons behind min wage imposition. They simply wanted to exterminate those "disadvantaged persons" (because most of them were blacks, and those who imposed this law were racists).
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An internal combustion engine relies more on the heat from the chemical reaction than the heat of the engine block. And the hot gasses are just blown out the exhaust pipe. It isn't a closed cycle.

Bolting a heat engine to the internal combustion means that the excess heat from the engine block and the exhaust gases can do some work before convecting, diffusing, or radiating away. The usual problem is not the additional weight of the heat engine part, but the enormous radiator you would need to maintain a proper cold well. This would likely be a ribbed (finned) aluminum plate covering the entire underside of the car, with scoops and fans to ensure sufficient airflow across it.

The combustion engine part could then be redesigned to produce higher temperatures, as the heat engine portion can be actively driven if necessary to cool the engine block--or to warm it, as might be needed for diesel startup.
The modern Xoloitzcuintle appears to be a result of a mixture of the aboriginal, pre-Columbian Xoloitzcuintle, itself a descendant of a domesticated dog that came with the ancestors of indigenous Americans from Asia, with one or more southern European herding dog breeds during the Columbian Exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Hairless_Dog
> Correctness comes first.

Not always. Have you ever used a SNES emulator? There is one emulator that is more correct than all others combined - it's called BSNES and it's the most true to the original SNES hardware of all the available emulators. Yet it is horrifically memory/cpu hungry - that correctness comes at a huge cost.

So no, correctness does not always come first, especially if you value other things like user experience.
The deployment is /way/ more simple, especially if you already have a python environment (even more so with conda), which is one of the main attractions for me. The other is that the API is way richer - spark dataframes tie your hands down in so many ways and require you to write tons of custom code for routine stuff, while pandas (and dask) has builtins for almost everything imaginable these days.

The tradeoff is that spark and hadoop in general have invested /serious/ efforts into resilience, while dask only really provides protection against worker failure, but not really scheduler failure. In practice is this really an issue? shrug it depends. "Works for me". How many tasks do you run in parallel? If you're doing ad-hoc analysis on a very large dataset, dask might be a great fit. If you have a data warehouse use case and have tons of people running analytics queries, then you have uptime requirements, and spark might be a better fit. That's where I ended up.
I'm not very familiar with the subject, but I've been hearing about academic work on optical integrated circuits for a few years now. Is this work being commercialized yet? Are there photonic ICs in use in industry?
Performance in most non-trivial software, and especially infrastructure software, is architectural. In many cases an architecture that will allow your software to be performant requires a commitment to a very substantial amount of software complexity upfront to ensure adding performance is much simpler (or even possible) later. There are also rarer cases where correctness is not simple, so there is no trivial path between the simple implementation and a rigorously correct one. While "simple" is easier for the software engineer, customers pay for "correct" and "fast".

In my own area of work (database engines), the common mistake is that inexperienced designers do focus on simplicity first, instead of correctness and performance, not understanding that it is at best difficult and sometimes impossible to add correctness and especially performance later. The fast win of "simple" can turn into nearly insurmountable technical debt when you are asked to deliver scale and performance. People often grossly underestimate the minimum amount of initial implementation complexity required for good architecture.

There are many types of software where "simple, correct, fast" is sound advice but it is far from universal.
Fun post!
Tourniquet use should be one of your basic first aid skills
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"unlike yesterday's titans, the newest of generation billionaires don’t have histories likely to assuage popular resentment."

Basically sums up the article. It's just another class warfare screed, full of half truths and misdirection.
Interesting.

If I had to work with a pair or a team, as an introvert, I would find myself subtly withdrawing from active participation. I like live-coding, and I like active-listening (the latter is absorbing, hoping to understand and the former is testing/verifying/correcting/practicing your understanding, but I like absorbing or total-immersion personal practice. Group exercises get in the way of that (for me - again - I'm probably weird).

So, (and I'm thinking about this as I type), I think that I am active, but in my own particular ways. Because I grew up in odd remote/rural circumstances, maybe these habits were habituated because I did not get socialized with normal folk well until my mid-to-late- teens. But, maybe it's genetic? I notice one of my two sons has the same tendencies, and he's lived in an urban/public environment his whole life.

What I'm pondering is (beyond the scope of your Scala classes), is whether there are ways to actively engage multiple "types" of people? I'm not just talking about what they call "visual learners" vs "audio learners" (which has largely been debunked?), but ... IDK. I'm trying to assemble a platform for programs that get people to/through their GED, as various states put work requirements on government benefit recipients, and a major hiring block is simply not having a high-school degree. I'd like to make everything as warm and fuzzy and low-friction for everyone as I can - but I don't know how - because (obviously) not everyone is me! :-)
Works today, but tomorrow the complex solution does not do what is needed and presents a barrier to delivering what is needed now. In a static environment you are right, but static environments are vanishingly rare for software, by definition (because with stops after one iteration!)
Completely agree that what is lacking here is the regulations. I have tried to argue (often unsuccessfully) that VW did not commit fraud, that the numbers reported by the tests were 100% accurate. The problem being that the way the car is tested is not even remotely similar to how people drive. The clear fix to me is to simply give normal people free leases for a short period of time and generate something similar to http://www.fuelly.com/ . The only way to cheat that is to convince people to drive more efficiently, seems like a win.
How rigorous are Japan's laws/punishments expected to be for this? Relative to the Volkswagen emissions scandal which, correct me if I'm wrong, led to decently harsh punishments for those involved at the top level.
I disagree about the direction of cause and effect here. The distrust comes first, then people go for nutty "alternative fact" stuff.

We have many reasons to distrust our institutions. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. For starters in my life span I've watched us be consciously lied into one major $1T+ war, a series of bank bailouts that enriched those responsible for a financial crisis at the expense of the general public, the largest financial fraudster in recent memory (Bernie Madoff) being short-listed for SEC director prior to his scam collapsing, and countless cases of "science for hire" (nutritional science is the worst) being used to sell stuff.

I feel like our authorities are harping on "fake news" and related things to evade their own responsibility for this mess.
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Not having health insurance is different from not being able to access healthcare. Everyone in the US is entitled to healthcare regardless of their ability to pay. I don't really know if that's the best policy or not, but it simply isn't true that people don't have access to healthcare.
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Marketing is dead. Long live Product
The fact that so many young smart people from non-wealthy families become millionaires just disproves that it's getting harder to be billionaire. The biggest difference may be that social skills are less important as we all have internet access.
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I flagged the post.
Could be a graphic asset that is being used out of context.
Do you have any links to something I could read about the way the regulations are being implemented? It is relevant to my interests.
>The simple answer is...because they're all geeks who just got lucky.

I reached out to someone that is easily a peer of these types once and asked for advice, wanting to know what their secret was. Their reply was indeed that they were afraid it was was mostly luck.

That said, that individual is far more interesting than most of their peers (even those that are more successful financially).
> Just above them on the list in age is Sean Parker, now 38, who took up programming early and interned at Zynga while he was still in high school.

Well done Bloomberg.
>Can you explain a bit what you mean here?

Any time you have something reference a global it becomes tied to that global whether it's a function, component or something else. If I want to take that component and move it to another project then I have to take that global and move it along with the component. That is a form of broken modularity.

Passing a closure or global channel from parent to child is not modular. It ties the parent to the child.

Observe function composition, lets say I want to build a function that adds 3 to a number and then adds 2 to a number. I have a base function called f defined as:

f(n) = n + 1

now I create two functions through composition:

g(n) = f . f . f

h(n) = f . f

by composing f 3 times then 2 times I have thus created the equivalent:

g(n) = f(f(f(n))) = n + 3

h(n) = f(f(n)) = n + 2

the final function d(n):

d(n) = g . h = g(h(n)) = n + 3 + 2

Every aspect of my created function is modular and I have maximized code reuse. Vue or React components do not have this property. If I build a UI from vue components, the majority of those components can never be reused while on the other hand my d(n) function is the reuse of a single function composed 5 times. The main reason is because data from the child must be sent back to the parent this either makes the child tied to the parent or the parent tied to the child.

The property of composition is achievable with a single source of truth cascading data down to stateless components that only display the data. Modularity breaks on the feedback loop. Is there a category we can invent that will fit the UI mold?
> Today, Zuckerberg is a moral leader—a family man, and a donor to noble causes.

Facebook has a magic PR team.
oh no I think we maxed out the API calls.
"Sorry, we are running out of queries to the weather service at the moment.
Here is the weather report for the default city (just to show you, how it looks like).
We will get new queries as soon as possible."
I've played with that. I like the smallness but it actually adds either extra steps or cognitive overhead for me. It doesn't get simpler than turning on the screen (I don't have a lock screen) and tapping the icon I need. Everything I need easily fits on a single screen so I don't gain much from search.

OpenLuncher gets me what I want but it's big and can waste a bit of battery I've noticed. I'd like a launcher just as small and efficient as KISS but has a single page home screen (no need for widget support) and a full app list menu with a search bar.
Getting rid of a few microwatts is never a problem. If these things behave like Peltier elements, they'll simply float their voltage up to a design maximum then stop extracting energy as the electric field balances the energy of the electrons they're trying to extract from.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't American constitution apply only to US' citizens? Even in the ideal case, were it to perfectly protect Americans from three-letter agencies' weaseling, it offers absolutely zero guarantees for non-citizens, which is 95% of world population or so. Americans could pressure USG to stop spying on foreigners, but why would they? I don't see any incentive for an average John Doe to do so.

So, overall, there's not that much of a difference for most of the world. One might even argue that for outsiders Chinese relatively stable direction and autocracy is marginally better than American flipping every 8 years, since it allows you to better assess threat profile.

Edit: added a bit about assessing threat.
Would have been nice to see what scale these people were running.

Also, if they are only polling developers are these actually production loads ?

Are the developers now doing operational tasks ?
I am all for shaming the auto manufacturers that get caught cheating. The regulations are aimed at reducing pollution and I think that is a good thing!
The US has more than 6. There's a big difference between Denver and Phoenix, even though they're both "Mountain Time". Grouping them together would be overly simplistic. Things like "weekdays at 10 A.M." mean different things half the year.
That was my first thought as well but then I realized that by correctness the author means "no bug", which is quite more ambitious than just making it "work".

I think the author implicitly assumes the software basically works right from the beginning of the article.
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I can not be sure the code was bug free. It was an anecdote in a book, the focus of which was more about the psychology of those who wrote the code. But it worked, and the first program did not work. The non working code's author took pride in the speed of his code.
My firm is an investor in Embark (https://embarkvet.com/), whichh is basically 23 & Me for Mastiffs. If you want to understand the delightful world of doggy DNA, there is no better destination.
Meh, it's a concise description of a median and it only uses builtin functions. People take "brute" too literally and think it means you should be writing a lot of code: It's about the performance.
You’re forgetting the C and C++ for the OS and other binaries. Throw in some python to bring this all together and some Go for a bit of spice.

I get your point, but they probably asked “what language do you develop with”.
Owning an iPhone or iPad is the top way of knowing if you’re rich or not
I'd believe you if it weren't for the TSA, rich/poor divide (and subsequent access to education, healthcare, and employment), and daily police shootings of unarmed citizens.
The anodyne personas of young billionaires is probably bought, trained and presented by sophisticated handlers. I'll bet the private lives of these people are very different to the public image, which is really important in a very puritanical and judgmental western world.
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Vim keyboard bindings offer nowhere near the capabilities of a real Vim. They only offer the basics and never advanced vim features. Vim is so much more then just keybindings, it is more of a text manipulation language. There is only one exception to that and that is Emacs Evil mode.

The other way around is much more likely: Vim plugins offer all those IDE features and integrate them seamless into vim and its way of manipulating text.

Honestly, after learning and modifying vim for myself I found IDEs to be limited, bloated and slow.
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"/cgi-bin/ Rides Again" was left on the cutting-room floor.
Who cares about their boring pasts? I'm more concerned about their boring present. Say what you want about Elon Musk, but at least he's up to something. What's the point of having a billion dollars if not to develop wild ideas?

These guys are all like Samir in Office Space: "You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities…"

As Michael responds, this is kind of missing the point.

Does Zuckerberg really think the best thing he could do with his life and $77 billion is to incrementally improve the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook? There's nothing else he can think of to do?
Is there a 5C difference anywhere in the body? Skin temperature to blood temperature, maybe?
From a recent HN thread[0], it sounds like this issue is present across the auto industry:

> One way to reconcile these seemingly contradictory statements is the following.
The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actually already contains these cheating routines. These routines are delivered as a part of the software packages, and can be turned on/off with some flags.

It is up to the auto company how to set these flags.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286697
What about all those Saudi princes and oil heirs. They don't seem boring.

In some ways, it's great to live in the age of the nerd. And it’s tough to mourn the decline of Wall Street-style corporate machismo. But a poor kid growing up today may find it much harder to emulate the life path of someone like Zuckerberg, who coded an instant messaging system before hitting puberty, than that of even Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who grew up in Brooklyn housing projects and at one point served concessions at Yankee Stadium to earn extra money.

Becoming a billionaire is a pretty high bar for success. ..what I think there are only 1000 of them.

Making a few millions is much more doable and till quite successful,. Someone could have bought Facebook stock in 202-2013 and turned $20k into $200k. Or Bitcoin. Stuff like that which does not require a genius IQ to make money . There are opportunities to make money all around.
It's not boilerplate that's my problem. It's modularity and composition. Components do not have it. A bus ties a component to a bus rather than a vuex global.
This article is ridiculous. Do you see many individuals in this wikipedia entry that started from a scrappy poor underclass? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires#200...
I run Emacs, in GUI mode. If the language tool have a debugger and/or an interpreter, there is the IDE. In the rare case that there is not a ready made comint implementation for a language, it's easy to do. Completion, well M-/ is good enough. If I don't know a function's name, I need to read the manual to find it and to learn what it does anyways. If I need snippets, it's easy to define them, even without an Emacs minor mode for snippets. Every part of the system is extensible, every keybinding redefinable, and almost every functionality composable. And almost any programming language with more than ten users has an Emacs major mode already made for it. If I really want semantic completion or on-the-fly error reporting and linting (I don't use these out of preference), it's dead simple to integrate and enable.

Not only, but I can use the same thing to read my mail, maintain my agenda and create and edit documents.

With an IDE, I need another IDE for every language I use. Then I still need a text editor for editing text anyways. Each editor has it's unique method of customisation, and its conventions, its own keybindings, its own behaviour &c, and its own way to store customisations, which are hard to version control, if possible. And substantial customisation that requires custom code is either impossible or very hard to do.

Emacs is an IDE for Emacs Lisp. But it's so naturally extensible that it's become an application platform, basically. If all you do for all your career is to write in one language or two, then go with an IDE, I guess. But I'm glad I can use the same program to edit Perl, Python, Ruby, any sort of text, HTML, C, Assembly, Ada, Cobol, JavaScript, CoffeScript, Clojure, ClojureScript, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Haskel, and so on; and do way more with it than editing source code.
They may be scared and this is completely normal. What is not normal - it's the fact that there is a person placed high enough in the ARM's chain of command, who sanctioned this dumb page - like "oh, that's really nice - it will help us a lot, publish it".
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mostly generalizations based on a handful of examples
Increasingly it feels like we can only "think" anonymously, not speak. Technology like Tor allows me to surf the web untracked, which is good. There are chilling effects from mass surveilance that cause people not read about sensitive topics[1]. It's good people can expose themselves to primary sources unimpeded.

But if a user tries to say anything of substance or simply become part of a community rather than rotate nyms every year or so, they're opening themself up to fingerprinting.

An interesting dynamic, in my opinion.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aekedb/chilling-e...
If anyone can do it and it's just a matter of capitalizing on opportunity, then why did MySpace die while Facebook exploded?
I know a couple of guys that would probably implement isLeap by checking that the lower two bits of the year are not set, then boast about how fast it was, and finally, when told that the logic was incorrect, push back because the additional checks would make it "slower".

In their minds, when things stop being simple, fast trumps correct.
What do you do after this leveling up?
> The general assumption at the time when VW was put under a microscope for these issues is that everyone is cheating, VAG just got caught first.

Well, they do.

Here's a list of some car manufacturers who do or did emissions cheating:

- Volvo
- Volkswagen
- Renault
- Jeep
- Hyundai
- Honda
- Citroen
- Fiat
- Chrysler
- Ford
- General Motors
- Toyota
- Nissan
- Mercedes
- Mitsubishi

(Which pretty much sums up to "all car manufacturers")