skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a lovely data driven answer, if you are looking in the US and are willing to use political data as a proxy for 'thriving intellectual community':

https://beta.observablehq.com/@jake-low/how-well-does-popula...
Against Waldenponding
Individuals don't care about efficiency, they care about price. This is partially why the government had to step in to create labor laws. Unless they're directly impacted by it right now, the average consumer does not care. The American meat industry is downright terrible in some cases, and people are buying more meat than ever.

If you halved the price of the iPhone by introducing slave labor in some faraway land, you would still sell a boatload of iPhones.

This is one of the ways that I believe government should intervene because individuals are very bad at deciding based on long-term impacts.
If you're thinking about long term, 10 to 20+ years into the future, you need to look at the state's debt, namely unfunded defined benefit pension obligations. IL is the worst, and that's using rosy assumptions:

https://graphics.wsj.com/table/Connecticut_102015

Combined with the fact that the rest of IL isn't burgeoning, and that Chicago is the main source of income, it would be prudent to expect ever increasing taxes and reduced services. Other states also have problems, but there are a few states whose problems are in another league.

Personally, I would need a big discount to consider Chicago, as being outdoors is a big part of my life.
It's not really certain if they fixed any security related issues with this 9th gen.
Thank you for sharing your story
Yup. Oh wow, Intel you have an 8 core 16 thread chip for $488. Which probably has the same security flaws as their current chips, so say goodbye to the hyperthreading, since that should be disabled. Or I can get the Ryzen 7 2700X for $320. Gee, which one should I choose?
Big Oil Should Be Worried About Amazon’s Battery Play
Windows not running on 8GB of memory isn't non-usual. (Yes, 32 was an exaggeration.)

I see Windows using the entire IO capacity of my work computer every working day, 1/3 to 1/2 the time.

Windows update destroying your configuration isn't even news anymore. It restarting when people don't want is a widely known fact, and more than 1/4 of the times I have a half-hour meeting at work the computer stays there updating for 1 hour or more.

Windows software installation is a worst in class experience on nearly any dimension. It's not something that happens once in a while.

I don't know what you call "cherry-picking". Those "ultimate worst experiences" happen every day.
> Function calls from WASM to JS don't seem to have improved so much.

Yeah, Wasm => JS calls used to be reasonably fast because we had optimized that before. The work described here made that path much nicer, though (a more unified stack layout for JIT/Wasm frames) and also a bit faster still.

JS => Wasm calls being slow was one of the big performance cliffs in SpiderMonkey and I'm really glad that's fixed now.
As someone who lost my spouse in the middle of March, 2018, a lot of this resonates. You never really think about what life could or would be like without them. And then (in some cases) you wake up one morning, and they're gone.

It never gets better. It never hurts any less. You just get better at dealing with the hurt.
I've been reading (and watching) content on both sides of this to gain a better perspective.

Firemen definitely do also have a mentality of no unecessary risks -- which, yes, is a little different. But there is a mentality of 'I want to go home tonight.'

Cops risk assesment is a different situation than rescue -- it's a matter of intent. In a rescue situation, there's uncertaintiy in the physical environment. In law enforcement, the risk is that the subject actively wants to hurt you.

Also, society in general has become more risk averse.

One thing I have a better appreciation for now is how fast a situation can turn bad for a cop. There's an ex-cop who has a youtube channel under the name Donut Operator who breaks down cop videos. It has opened my eyes to why cops react certain ways in certain situations. It has helped me understand better when a shooting is justified -- or unjustified.

Still, I think as a society we've swung too far into moving the risk onto the citizens -- and the most vulnerable take the brunt of it.
Stoicism helps a little bit in regards to valuing what you have right now. Be careful you don't dive too deep into the imagination though. It's about taking stock of your blessings, not falling into a hole.
Usually it is sociological, and has not much to do with good or bad architectures. The more surprising blockers tend to happen when someone on another team can act as a gatekeeper to a resource you need, like permission to make a change, and uses this blocking for some political purpose.

It can cause bang-simple engineering tasks to take weeks, during which time you never know how much longer you’ll need to wait, and depending on political capital of the entity blocking you, you may not even be allowed to publicly explain they are blocking you, and you are forced to absorb the negative externalities of their choice to block you.
Choice

The ability to use existing non-JS code

The ability to write loops involving non-trivial computations without spamming a hundred million heap objects

etc.
Maybe:

1. There really was a supply chain attack, but Apple and AWS did not detect it.

2. Trump Administration staff worked with Bloomberg reporters on an domestic propaganda piece to expose the attack in a public way amid China-US trade war.

3. They blundered coordination of their strategic communications, not expecting companies to question the story.

This allows us to consistently believe that:

a. There was a supply chain attack.

b. The companies mentioned were not those who detected it.

c. Intelligence and Tech have different perspectives/stories.

d. All actors/parties are acting in a way consistent with their missions, objectives, and incentives.
This is true. When I was more junior I arrogantly believed that project managers and marketing people and business development and customer liaisons and all those various other support staff were overhead—baggage that only cost the company money and slowed down development. I believed that software would just leap from my fingertips onto store shelves, without help from any of this administration. Only after trying one of these roles did I realize how much would grind to a halt without this overhead. I know the view sounds self-serving but these folks really are the grease that moves projects along and the duct tape that holds everything together as they move.
Likely not. I have a strong feeling they will have to do a redesign from the ground up, which they haven't done here, to fix there security issues.
> "Private by design"

Lol

It's me, the company that hoards your personal data and just got hacked in a huge way, please put a camera in your house that I control which I _swear_ won't be used to spy on you.

Sort of hilariously tone deaf that they launch this right after they just got hacked.
Almost, that will set the foundation for fully using the DOM APIs. The host bindings proposal mentioned at the end of the article should close the gap.
In the linked article the police knew he was unarmed, and I'll, and had been told by neighbours that he was not violent, and they saw that he was not violent, but despite that the police helped him so hard he died.
Speaking of which, time for a new gaming rig...

I had the same thought coming into this thread-what a great time to be in the market for a new machine. I welcome this competition, I want AMD to get better in the CPU game, but will gladly scavenge the spoils of this.
Very interessting edge case. Legally no. Personnaly I would say no as well, morally it would be absolutely unexceptable. But then the loop-hole is the issue and not the use of it, right? Same goes for the Toyota example montioned above. The optimized for an existing test, fair enough. Testing changed, so Toyota has to adopt (if they didn't already). Again not really cheating.
Not just normal, essential to the character of the city, and the freedom and human dignity of the people living in it. The Tenderloin’s status quo is vigorously protected by a large and passionate activist community.
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
Orlando: Plenty to do, plenty to see, lots of universities, lots of conventions and a thriving startup scene. There's even an incubator or two.
Then maybe they shouldn't shoot first and ask questions later.
Seasons are definitely a catalyst for evolution.
Hemingway talks about similar mustache-relates social strife occurring in the 1920s, in _A Movable Feast_, his memoirs of his life as a young man in Paris.

The conversation is set at the Cafe Lilas (which is still open today, though mostly as a tourist trap), with Evan Shipman, a fellow American writer and journalist.

“He’s in trouble already,” Evan said.

“How?”

“They’re changing the management,” Evan said. “The new
owners want to have a different clientele that will spend
some money and they are going to put in an American bar.
The waiters are going to be in white jackets, Hem, and
they have been ordered to be ready to shave off their
mustaches.”

“They can’t do that to André and Jean.”

“They shouldn’t be able to, but they will.”

“Jean has had a mustache all his life. That’s a dragoon’s
mustache. He served in a cavalry regiment.”

“He’s going to have to cut it off.”

I drank the last of the whisky.

“Another whisky, Monsieur?” Jean asked. “A whisky,
Monsieur Shipman?” His heavy drooping mustache was a part
of his thin, kind face, and the bald top of his head
glistened under the strands of hair that were slicked
across it.

“Don’t do it, Jean,” I said. “Don’t take a chance.”

“There is no chance,” he said, softly to us. “There is
much confusion. Many are leaving. Entendu, Messieurs,” he
said aloud. He went into the café and came out carrying
the bottle of whisky, two large glasses, two ten-franc
gold-rimmed saucers and a seltzer bottle.

“No, Jean,” I said.

He put the glasses down on the saucers and filled them
almost to the brim with whisky and took the remains of the
bottle back into the café. Evan and I squirted a little
seltzer into the glasses.

“It was a good thing Dostoyevsky didn’t know Jean,” Evan
said. “He might have died of drink.”

“What are we going to do with these?”

“Drink them,” Evan said. “It’s a protest. It’s direct action.”

On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work
in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup
of beef extract and water. He was short and blond and
where his stubby mustache had been, his lip was as bare as
a priest’s. He was wearing a white American barman’s coat.
They also express it that "now we've got N+1 victims we have to rescue, and one less helper."
I didn't read the article because of the paywall.

Gwynne Shotwell is much, much more than a steadying force at SpaceX. She is brilliant and an amazing leader and has been pivotal in the success of SpaceX... as in: if you replaced her with someone else, I doubt SpaceX would be where they are today.

It is sad that her amazing accomplishments are often glossed over and/or overshadowed. I hope she is properly recognized in time. I think she is adversely affected by bias in the press (gender, etc.)

I don't work at SpaceX (used to work for JPL)... so this is just an outsider's opinion. I'm also male, FWIW.
Why wouldn't you buy a Ryzen?
There is another method to support compact membership proofs and have history-independence. Ethereum uses a Patricia-Merkle tree structure to store its state snapshots. I'm not sure if it supports compact non-membership proofs though.
NC really is something special, and not just the triangle either. While it doesn't really have any place with a real big city vibe (and I'm saying that as a Charlotte native), there are awesome small towns and older cities all over and roads to connect to it all. The melting pot thing is true too, almost none of my NC friends have parents from there.

I think the trick is to pick any place with a college (and there are tons in NC) and the weather or lifestyle you prefer. I think Asheville and Boone are amazing for people who love mountains and dont mind colder weather for less humidity, while Greensboro and Winston would give you a lot of bang for your buck with their historic vibe and nearness to other regional hubs, and then there's even Carolina beach near Wilmington for beach fans, which is at least cheaper than some other beaches.
> We, as technologists, certainly knew and understood the dangers of companies like Facebook and Google from early on.

Certainly, Eric Brewer and friends [1] understood these issues and were concerned in 1997. Today, Dr. Brewer is a "vice president of infrastructure" at Google.

Is it money? I'm not sure. We're all human and have our weaknesses. Noting that Brewer was in near tears discussing Inktomi I would guess success and ambition are also driving factors.

[1]: https://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/privacy-compcon97.pdf

[2]: https://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/pet3.pdf
I've never noticed that. I'll have to check next time the right is in power (if it ever happens again)
> I mean, I don't know that I've ever heard a fireman, or a doctor, a rescuer, a lifeguard, etc, say that sort of thing - "my first priority is to go home safely tonight".

I mean, I've definitely heard firemen say that or express a similar sentiment. Much of their training involves not taking risks even to rescue someone because cowboy fireman tend to turn one casualty into two.

I've heard similar things from lifeguards, but it's usually stated that the idea that their goal is for everyone go home safely. Lifeguards typically carry the buoy because they train to save people by giving them that. They train not to swim up and grab someone in distress, but to give them a buoy. That prevents the victim from attacking the lifeguard or clinging to them and drowning both of them (which happens when people panic during a rescue).

Don't get me wrong; I 100% agree that a police need to de-escalate more often instead of immediately resorting to physical or violent responses. I agree that militarization of police only serves to emphasize police vs citizen mentality that leads to escalation. I think they should use better judgement with high speed chases as well as confronting individuals. But to argue that "keep yourself safe" is something that only police teach is complete nonsense.

> I should also probably point out that I think this is a peculiarly US thing.

It's also relatively irrelevant. The US has a lot of peculiarities due to it's culture and history that make it difficult to compare it to the average western European country which is almost universally what this comment means. That's why it's always followed up with some comment about "the developed world" or "the first world." "Why can't you be more like Sweden/England/Germany/France?" Because we're not any of those countries.

Yes, the US has problems with violence. It's not a secret. Our violent crime rates are very high even though our non-violent crime rates are typically much lower than other developed countries. No, we're not happy about it. This is not something we can magically fix by changing a few laws. Crime is a culture problem and an economic problem, and those are both very hard to fix.

Think of it like this. Have you ever seen the streets in China or India? How chaotic and out of control all the drivers seem with no respect for more regimented and safer driving? You don't fix that by copying Germany's driving laws and signage and applying them to the roads. That won't actually change anything. To change that, you have to change the driving culture. You've got to get people to believe that they need to change. That's extremely difficult to do because you've got to get everybody or nearly everybody to do it. It takes a very long time to change culture like this, and the larger the culture, the longer it takes to change. And changing something like driving laws or whether or not you use a recycling program for waste is much easier to change than fixing endemic crime or endemic violence.
Think again. Medical progress means that many 70 year olds will be alive when the SHTF really gets undeniably started 15-20 years from now.
This presentation is from a different college speech and a couple years earlier than when I saw him but he seems to be talking the same general information about SC4. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZh60_CxxJM
That would make for a pretty terrible device. It would mean no web browser. No software that wasn't carefully vetted. Probably no app ecosystem at all. I mean, go for it, but you're serving a very small market at that point.
It's more complex than that. If you have the same basic shape then you can more or less use the same basic process to move that shape through the assemble line. Swapping out a fuel tank for a battery happened because it really is much cheaper for them to keep 90% of the process unchanged.
>Ranting on an internet forum is useless.

You just said that voting can change things. Wouldn't it logically follow that ranting on a public forum, which people can read and be inspired to vote by, is very useful?
Estimates rarely correlate with engineering capacity. Even so, they _are_ treated as commitments any time it’s politically convenient for someone to treat them that way, regardless of how publicly you might have qualified your estimate as not a commitment.

Also, with these types of estimates, they are basically misleading without some form of error bars, yet nobody ever incorporates that into it. Capacity is not some number, but a whole distribution of possible numbers, for which the mean might not be a relevant value (for example if it has several sharp modes that depend on discrete external events).
I've only deactivated Facebook, not deleted. I'm worried that if I completely delete I have no way left to access the data Facebook has on me. Is anyone aware of how their shadow profiles work? If I deactivate, are they still able to attribute things like someone uploading my number from their contacts back to my profile?

It's this reason that I haven't nuked it entirely yet. I also use Messenger on occasion to communicate with those I haven't spoken to in a long time. I'm ready to make that leap soon. And no, not all of those folks whose numbers or email addresses I lack are not 'friends' necessarily - I have a few former colleagues and bosses on there as well I like to chat with on occasion.
Not really....

Core i9-9900K 8/16 Cores 3.6-.5.0 GHz - $488

Core i7-9700K 8/8 Cores 3.6-.4.9 GHz - $374

Ryzen 7 2700X 8/16 cores 4.3 GHz - $320

Easy pick for me, Intel isn't even a consideration.
If Bangladesh becomes uninhabitable those 150 million or so people will need to move. Four thousand years ago there weren't anywhere near that number of people in the area that is now called Bangladesh. The scale has drastically changed.

It's easier for an individual to move now than in the past. This is clear. But if an entire high population region becomes uninhabitable in a short period of time then it's difficult for that population to shift. The neighboring countries generally won't want to accept the incoming people and often times can't sustain the incoming population.

Look at the problems with a few million people suddenly going to Europe has caused. Imagine if it were 150 million people trying to get into Europe.
How did you come up with 25%? My taxes are almost exactly 40%.
> The FB and Google scenarios were vanishing outliers.

Not my point.

> The remaining 99% of early tech employees for other companies will end up with equity worth a house down payment if they are lucky, worth a few months of rent in the usual case, and often worth nothing.

Agreed. People are disillusioned to believe they'll become one of the "first 1000 have become millionaires". My point is that this a motivating factor, even if incorrectly assumed by most people.

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

> I assume you have not been through a significant tech bear market from your comment

To be clear - wasn't there only one tech bear market that is historically significant? (2001) If so, I would greatly challenge that we will hit another one similar to that anytime soon. Is there a frothy market right now? Yes. However most tech companies today have the discounted future economics to sustain themselves in an downturn. In 2001 that was not the case - you had companies IPO'n with 0 in revenue. A macro economic downturn is absolutely right around the corner, but a "fall out the bottom" bear tech market is very far from us.
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Tutorial has some issues. “from_scratch.migration” should be “from_zero.migration”, and visiting server_ip:7584 gives an invalid address error. This is after downloading the virtual box image, installing Alan connect, doing the build steps, importing the built image and starting it.

Edit: Looks like the Alan connect app needs to be restarted after adding the image. Clicking “advanced” nothing was running, it’s fixed after reloading.
Base clock is meaningless now. HT performance depends on the application (sometimes HT cores mean only a few percents of improvement or performance decrease - it depends on what the "main" core does, as they share resources). The new 9700K is not something I would upgrade to (from 8700K), but it's surely the way to go if you upgrade from an older system and you stick with Intel.
In general I like the goals and most of the techniques of agile, but what management gets out of it that I really don’t like is the ability to keep the engineers nearly permanently off balance.

The constant tempo means the act of stopping to ask these questions has a real and highly visible cost. You essentially have to be a whistleblower to say no to things.

It is, I believe, the ugly reason why management has become so enthusiastic about sprints.
It would be nice to have a simple example application code and demo.

Something like TodoMVC seems like a reasonable place to start.
> most scientists and engineers didn't really care too much about the moral implications of their work

Have you considered that they might care very much about the moral implications of their work — and be proud to contribute to their nation's armed might?
In letter to Congress, Apple sends strongest denial over ‘spy chip’ story
We use https://www.notion.so/ for notes, tasks, wiki and project management. Google Docs for quick stuff or formal writeups.

Occasionally we'll use OneNote online or https://awwapp.com/ which has more freeform drawing if we need it, but otherwise it's usually just typing stuff out in lists.

This is all on peoples computers, no fancy video-conferencing setups. Those are almost always a waste of money and never work well.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18167046
Haskell is not context free – 2012
EZ Ergodox. It's a similar price to the Kinesis advantage with a similar layout, but more customization.
I honestly feel like Prosecuters, Juries, District Attorneys, Judges, Sheriffs, Mayors and Govenors are afraid of their police departments.

The way these investigations and prosecutions go remind me a lot of the mob investigations, where it took the feds to really take them down.

Every municipality is different, and at different points in time, but I think this is an overlooked part of all of this.

I think its greater than just a "blue shield" or sense of camaraderie with officers, I think there is fear. And I've seen circumstances where that's valid, such as when Adrian Schoolcraft was dragged out of his home and thrown in an asylum by fellow police officers just because he showed up late to work that day and they got paranoid he was going to out them.