skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So if the team lead is 35 with 10 years eng
> experience, they will probably be worried about
> a 45 y/o with 25 years eng experience who will
> challenge their authority and possibly prevent
> them from leading the whole team the way they want.

This was a huge factor at my last job, with myself and other engineers who were much more experienced than the people who were (inexplicably) placed in charge.

We had a VP who was so green that he didn't know what he didn't know.

He was still in that phase of life where he knew 10% of everything, and since he didn't know the other 90% even existed... he thought his knowledge was 100%. Very difficult to work with, much less for.

(And that's even without a "power struggle" happening. Us 40-ish types were explicitly disinterested in becoming management. Nobody wanted to undermine him; we literally just wanted to do our jobs without his incompetent micromanagement)
Did anyone watch it live ?
Seems like a parent shard can cause arbitrary forks in the child shard by sending messages to blocks that are not on the main chain there?
For what it's worth, I think I significantly prefer "sorry, I know we've met before, but I've forgotten your name" (with bonus points for 'I remember you from [x]'), rather than "hi... [wrong name]?"

The first is just straightforwardly honest (and forgetting my name is completely understandable), whereas the second can feel a bit disrespectful, though it's hard for me to analyse exactly why. It's not a big deal, and I've done it myself, but personally I wouldn't recommend guessing unless you're reasonably confident you'll get it right.

Mostly I think remembering the person is much more important than remembering the name, anyway. If someone forgets me entirely, that can be hurtful if I remember having an interesting interaction with them. Even if they remember my name, that doesn't mean very much if it soon becomes clear that they don't remember anything from our last conversation. But if you remember me, I don't much care whether you remember my name.
> For me, the main effect of cocaine is wanting more cocaine.

From my limited exposure, that's pretty much a given.

> It's not even an enjoyable high outside of a purely how-much-dopamine-is-in-my-brain definition.

Is that a note on your views on cocaine in general, or as a difference to what is generally available (non-pure)?
I'm in my mid 20's, and while I remember people from my past, I frequently forget where I knew them from.

I will talk to high school friends and mention people I knew in college, and they will say, "Who?" I'll do the same thing with college friends, mentioning high school friends, forgetting that I knew them from separate places.

And after a year or so goes by of me not having seen someone, I pretty much have to re-meet them.
I think it can come across as a bit forced, depending on context. But if it's natural for you, that will shine through.
I'm quite confident that church mice are still poor, though they may be richer than street mice. :D
I almost always hijack to introduce myself. People often mis-hear my name so introducing myself gives me an opportunity to state it multiple times and give them a mnemonic device to help them remember.
The thing about money is that you don't need to be successful if you have enough of it. The job of a heir(ess) is to live long enough to inherit and not get disowned.

Granted there are a few cases where even money can't save someone. A severe schizophrenic for instance could have poor quality of life even if they receive top quality care and have a trust fund. Technically they are better off than if they were poor and had it but the good is greatly reduced.
string c++

The human mind is far greater than the sum of the algorithms - when we allow it to be.
Plenty of talented software engineers didn't go to college. I've got a few close friends who fall into this category. I went to college for something entirely unrelated and self-taught with side projects years after. Not sure where you are, but I've found the industry in the US (my experience is mostly NYC/SF specifically) incredibly receptive to people who are very smart, hardworking, and humble regardless of pedigree.

Curious what your experience is that makes you skeptical.
Their grad math program is pretty good.
It works both ways. Society would be better off if some of the people who have no interest in networking accepted it as a necessary evil and learned how to do it.
I'm told that the strippers in Vegas now have Bitcoin QR tattoos. What a time to be alive
This is kind of off topic, but is anyone surprised/confused by people's reaction to this?

The Saudis have been bombing Yemen for the last ~3 years and nothing really happened. Then they assassinate a journalist and all hell breaks loose?
I'm also curious. Strong claims like that require strong evidence.

I'm not just going to take that comment at face value and neither should anyone else.
At my former job, you could always tell who'd get the promotions by who smoked with who. It sucked, as a non-smoker, but I eventually fell into the habit of going out with them while they smoked and just talking.
College is already overpriced because of government subsidies. Your plan would make it worse.
“The idea that engagement drives performance is backward logic that doesn’t make a bit of sense.”

I think a more accurate assessment is, trying to increase on a broad scale levels for the the typical employee with measurable bottom line impact is questionable.

Employee engagement is huge if it’s authentic and high powered. Take the top 5% at any company. Likely no software product made them that way, it’s just who they are.

Separately, that these companies don’t charge by impact to the bottom line is not really fair. Many companies don’t work that way. I don’t think McKinsey will give you strategy advice and then take a cut, unless it was a pretty binary scenario.
I do not see inheritance as a problem. My motivation for accumulating wealth is largely driven by a desire to provide for my future family members.

Inheritance tax is theft.
Code reviews for bugs is very different than security reviews to look for malicious tampering. Apple may have bugs that linger for years, but I'm not aware of any documented case of someone managing to slip a backdoor into Apple software via an open source package.

> Spotting a tiny chip sitting on the SPI bus that looks identical to a bunch of other chips? That doesn't do anything unless it's tickled in just the right way? If you believe Amazon and Apple are even remotely capable of protecting against that....

Why not? X-raying every board, inspecting every single component, making sure it matches up with the documented specs and perhaps with a proven-good board... if you're replacing a component with a different one, or adding a component that wasn't there before (which is the case in this alleged attack), even if the component looks harmless and even if it's tiny, it can still be revealed by a detailed comparison of the board against specs. A component that's the size of a grain of rice is still a component that can be detected.
You are the same person claiming to have used "pure cocaine" because it was in Colombia. Your product was cut, which is why it was so cheap. Pure cocaine easily turns into an oil so socially consumable amounts almost have to be cut to use efficiently.
Probably a combination of internships and paid work while in high school
Reminds me of the one stereotype with HR - they'll do anything to try to motivate employees except spending money on them.
I am confused about taxes. When a person gives their family member a gift, why do you feel entitled to a portion of this private exchange of wealth?
"murgia, the hills where I grew up (Apulia, Italy)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1lbWtiTw4o&t=2m24s
Would you be alright if the game publishers can publish guidelines for what is acceptable?

Much like StarCraft, I think there would be interesting competitions and challenges for people to develop AI for the game. There could also be challenges for games in developing better interfaces, helpers, and plugins.
Also, even if you are not famous or in the spotlight too often: I can think of many occasions in the public where I rather look at my phone to unlock it, then enter a complex number/password.
What theories of economics tell us is that favoring one party over the other for reasons that aren't utility or value derived is being inefficient with your allocation of resources, compared to a market only allocates based on how much utility is derived (a free competitive market or globally scoped decision making, I'm not sure if "free market" is even how economists view the market anymore). So the argument is that Nepotism, Nationalism, or anything that favors parties for reasons other than value / merit is seen as inefficient.

To understand this, consider this - if you're bill gates, would you rather live in a society where your just your kids are well educated, smart contributors to making the life of all humanity better, or a society where EVERYONE that has potential is well educated and smart contributors to society. If you have $100 bucks, you'd think - my limited resources is not able to do the latter, even though its better both for me and humanity as a whole to invest in everyone, so let me stick to the former. But a rational actor with infinite resources who cares about their own well being will realize that their society is only as good as everyone in it, and would push for the latter kind of resource distribution.

Of course, your goal doesn't have to be acting efficiently in a global market. It's not morally wrong to act inefficiently (although some would have you think it is).
This is incredible. Know if any research that’s booked farther in here?
I wondered why they used TZCNT instead of BSF. If their algorithm has correctly located the word with the jth bit set, the output of PDEP shouldn't be zero, and these should be equivalent (but BSF doesn't require a dependency on BMI1 support, though if you already require BMI2 for PDEP, maybe this doesn't matter).

But then I found <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50168>.
They do all this work, and then choose possibly the most confusing name they could?
40 dead Yemeni kids doesn't meet Branson's profit criteria though
I think the point is that if you can hand down a lot of wealth to your kids, they are already on a different playing field than other kids. it's fine to transfer wealth, but the way things are today means that that wealth can be used to buy a better education.
I've found the biggest issue for me to be finding places to network. I'm currently an educator (want to shift careers) and don't live in a city, which means my options are limited. I love going out and meeting new people and learning about them, though, so I wish I could find a place to do this.
For every silver spoon who flies through higher-ed to the gilded cage at the end of the rainbow, there are several more left back home--still living under daddy's shadow--duking it out with the others for a bigger share of the corpse.

Sometimes, we need adversity. Not so much for our bank accounts as for our souls.
The starving children in Yemen weren't enough?
Could society benefit if more people had these opportunities?
What's wrong with having a fight? It actually shows that he didn't grow up in some sterile middle class suburb but actually was exposed to all walks of life. I was in a fight when I was 19, didn't affect my life at all, what kind of person are you to even think a fight in your teenage years suppose to mean anything?
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I can't take any discussion of cash/payment-networks seriously unless there is also a discussion of fraud, it's prevalence, and impact.
It would have been nice to see them throw some charges and see what sticks.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206868
There's also good money in most medical professions... does that make medicine bad?

The profitability of a thing does not necessarily indicate it's ethical value.
Some stores have stopped accepting cash and made receipts opt-in. What's the meaning of legal tender if you can't use it?

On the plus side, stores that refuse cash provide a useful social signal about management. One more reason to support local independents.
> The word 'senior' used to mean someone with grey hair, but now means people around thirty and there just are no words available for 40+. Which doesn't make things easier for recruiters by the way.

Do you mean titles for levels in companies? Isn't staff, senior staff, principal, what gets used now for experienced levels?
Going through a 3rd party is the easy way out. We are highly paid engineers so I don't think our feedback would be that stupid especially if we were informed about other factors like cost. We spend our whole day weighing different trade-offs for our regular work so I think we could do this also for our work environment.
Not actually true, except under very skewed systems and assumptions.
Also, water wet.
We could process transactions for so much cheaper than the credit cards and banks currently do. There is so much regulatory capture to protect the banks though. In the US businesses that process peer to peer payments are categorized as money service businesses (MSBs). MSBs have increased scrutiny applied to their accounts. It is very, very difficult to find a bank that services MSB accounts. It makes sense though, why would a bank want a high risk account that competes with it? The situation sucks though, I almost just want to start a bank to rebuild the payment system.
I haven't used Canadian dollars in years. I keep $100 at home and $20 in change in my car for an emergency, but yeah, I just never find myself needing cash. It's nice getting an email within minutes of every single expenditure. For me that's the killer feature.
I'm with you 100%. Makes me feel more connected to local businesses. Also, I know they get more when I pay cash.

I've carried thousands of dollars around and no one was none the wiser. So while the security argument is true. It's overblown. At most someone will probably steal $100 from me. And that's never happened, thankfully. (I live in a dodgy part of SF)

Note: Copied from dupe.
Not paying taxes is theft from the society that lets you accumulate and keep wealth.
Of course they should be allowed,the only line I would draw is to not let the boosting cripple your child. You would rob the child perseverance and many life lessons if you don't let him/het fight for their share of the figurative pie.
Virginia should jail fewer weed users. I mean, it's going to legalize recreational marijuana within the next 10 years like everyone else; the ship has sailed. What are we arguing about?

What's obvious is that a complicated white-collar fraud case is harder to prosecute than a trivial drug possession case. You don't need to know anything about the criminal justice system to grasp that.
The rich can afford expensive lawyers who require an airtight case to prosecute successfully. They also violate the law in much more convoluted schemes that require a lot of work to be able to piece together a case that a jury will understand and believe.

The poor have a shitty public defender who advises them to plead guilty even if they aren't, and if they committed a crime it's likely something simple and straightforward to explain and prove.
Civilized countries have parental leave, where this is not an issue.
No, you've made up a false debate. This case isn't "too complicated to prosecute"; it's just taking a long time to prosecute. Complex cases always will, because they're complex.
Ask HN: What's your favorite technical interview question?
I'm in the midst of the interview process for several new grad positions, so I've been having fun with algorithmic questions lately
SFO, JFK, SEA, and MCO (Orlando). Orlando is the smallest and also the slowest. Always direct, domestic flights.
Just as a anecdotal point, I’m in the states and I largely only use the touch pay stuff.
The only reason you can accumulate and have wealth, is that the society exists.
Are you advocating that the US government should just charge people with crimes that haven't been investigated and they have perhaps no evidence for, just to see if a jury will convict them?
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There was an article posted here recently about the originator of the term "meritocracy". He wasn't entirely positive about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18179583

From one of my comments: That's the weird part: “I.Q. + effort = merit” sounds pretty positive, right?

But,

"A system of class filtered by meritocracy would, in his view, still be a system of class: it would involve a hierarchy of social respect, granting dignity to those at the top, but denying respect and self-respect to those who did not inherit the talents and the capacity for effort that, combined with proper education, would give them access to the most highly remunerated occupations."

The intended result doesn't sound very appealing. Then there was this quote:

"Young’s vision was decidedly dystopian. As wealth increasingly reflects the innate distribution of natural talent, and the wealthy increasingly marry one another, society sorts into two main classes, in which everyone accepts that they have more or less what they deserve. He imagined a country in which “the eminent know that success is a just reward for their own capacity, their own efforts,” and in which the lower orders know that they have failed every chance they were given. “They are tested again and again…. If they have been labeled ‘dunce’ repeatedly they cannot any longer pretend; their image of themselves is more nearly a true, unflattering reflection.”"

That sounds familiar.

"But one immediate difficulty was that, as Young’s narrator concedes, “nearly all parents are going to try to gain unfair advantages for their offspring.” And when you have inequalities of income, one thing people can do with extra money is to pursue that goal. If the financial status of your parents helped determine your economic rewards, you would no longer be living by the formula that “I.Q. + effort = merit.”"

And so does that.
> Should parents be allowed to try to give their children a boost in life?

I'm pretty happy to have been brought up poor. I had to figure things out for myself, and if things went wrong, it was my fault. Emerson's "Self Reliance" became my guiding star. To be "indefatigable" is not something easy to teach if you have options for exits.

As Dylan put it, "helpless, like a rich man's son"

It doesn't make me rich; but it certainly doesn't make me think of wealth as the end all, be all, in life.
I mostly fly direct domestic, so it’s basically impossible to lose my luggage.
I don't want to reply to every single reply here, so I'll clarify here.

I'm not trying to say networking is cold and calculating, or it's bad or whatever. There are 2 points I'm trying to make:

1. Networking isn't inherently about important things, and talking about important things isn't necessarily networking. "What kind of embedded database do you use for that?" can be a great networking question, and maybe it's interesting and relevant to your job, but it isn't necessarily the most important thing to you. Asking "what happens when we die" is generally not a good networking question. I just don't think defining networking as "talking about important things" is correct.

2. People who try very hard at networking to get themselves ahead, with no concern for others, are annoying. Maybe "chronic networkers" is the wrong way to put this, and I don't have a good way to describe it. But sometimes people give off a vibe that they just want to leech off of other people and learn their names so they can ask for a favor later. I'm complaining about the phonies who talk like manipulative car salesmen, not the amicable people who want to meet at coffee shops to chat and talk shop.
Sorry, I have to say this is a poor and unpersuasive case for the architecture.

Performance increases are everything, yet unless I’m missing it there is no way to know what the improvements are.

For example, data on the chart here http://www.betrfs.org/faq.html, is enough information provided to reproduce the results including hardware and configuration? If not, the results are utterly meaningless.

Forward looking, it would strain credibility if you hadn’t tried to get a sense of the real world gains on Intel XPoint storage. I would speculate it will not be many years before there are no new green field deployments of storage that spins around in a circle.
You should now go donate some bucks to Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation for your sins (https://merlintuttlesbatconservation.kindful.com/) ;) since they are by far the coolest mammal. Humans are OK too I guess... I have a really hard time believing any of these echolocation claims by individuals. I can see it maybe coming about if you're visually disabled and over a very long period of time it comes about as your visual cortex atrophies with no stimulation, but otherwise, even if you close your eyes and deeply focus, there are just so many extraneous noises in daily life that would be hard to integrate into a single synthesized whole that is actually meaningful in any kind of physical displacement decisions.

I didn't even know about that trope? Is that even a real expression or did you just make it up? Makes zero sense.
Aside from that bug, it's like you said: might as well use tzcnt from BMI1 if you are already using BMI2 since there are no CPUs implementing the latter but not the former (and IIRC the reverse is even true).

Using tzcnt in principle is faster than bsf in many cases since bsf always has a dependency on the output register (due to the zero input case), but tzcnt doesn't. In practice tzcnt had a false dependency anyways, at least until Skylake where that was fixed (again IIRC, I recall that one of these bit manipulation didn't have their false report fixed, but the rest did).
Microsoft is a very big company and I have absolutely no doubt that the Windows team and the VSCode team hardly ever—if at all—talk.

I also question how 'evil' policies like this could propagate across company divisions to the point where they are actually implemented in code—in today's age where engineers have a lot of agency over what they do and often speak up—without someone leaking said policy.

This is just a conspiracy theory.
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I had to get money out of the ATM the other day. It had been so long that it took me quite a while to remember my PIN.
For nicer numbers, assume the bar is top 10% and you have a budget for 10 new hires.

Looking at 1000 people, there are 70 men and 30 women who are above the bar, from which you can pick 5 men and 5 women.

But these 10 are still not the top 10 within the top 100! This is because the distribution of the top N never changes, assuming men and women are distributed identically. It is still 7 men to 3 women. The 10 you've chosen are not the absolutely best top 10 you could've chosen without considering gender.

You can double the size of the pipeline (e.g., there are now 200 people above your bar) and the argument will not change. The minimum ranking of their incoming class is still lower than just picking the absolute top 10 without considering gender.

I accept that this tradeoff is worth it (and above the bar, the actual performance difference between ranks is negligible). But I hate that people will not agree that is a tradeoff.
I really like the points made about the international payments cartel. Something needs to happen to challenge them, as they really are holding back a tonne of potentially viable businesses, a lot of which could seriously change our world for the better. I don't think companies like Stripe are the answer either, as they sort of pander to the cartel.

It's funny that the electronic payment industry is a direct result of innovation, but because of the stranglehold it now has on society, it's begun to limit the potential for new innovation.