skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know of any current planes that go above Mach 3. I'm not even sure if the F-22 goes above Mach 2. Outside of experimental unmanned craft, nothing goes "substantially" faster than Mach 3.
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> It's a tricky problem to really make sense of though just because investors are so diverse

Are you suggesting that traditional VCs and traditional tech leaders are less rapey than the list above? That seems like wishful thinking!

Meta: these downvotes are wild. -4 at present. Someone makes a bullshit, hand wringing, concern trolling comment about how this is a "tricky problem" and that it cannot be pinned on VCs and tech leaders because of schlocky retired doctors and bitcoin barons. The statistics don't back that up as cited by a sibling commenter. What's funny about downvotes like this is that it's not even a social deterrent. I can get +4 for a one word comment as long as it's funny, but if I callout someone for getting the vapors and saying "not all men" I get wild downvotes
This doesn't change the fact much. Moreover, later it turned out she misunderstood the part about forking. Which leads to the question: do we accept the world in which someone can be fired because of a false accusation? Can we really call it “progressive”?
Yes, looks like someone removed it. It's still in the source on the wayback machine cached copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181015143110/https://semiengin...

That cached copy also seems to show the site was hacked for a while. Search the source for strings like "provigil free trial coupon".

Edit: It's still hacked. See https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asemiengineering.com+v... Clicking on any of the results takes you through a redirect to a shady pharma site.
The solution is to disable communication by default. Nobody can post anything to any feed on anyone's profile, nor send any private message, unless they are in the list of approved users.

To get linked, you initiate a the "add me to your group" request. This request is just a flag which asserts "X is interested in linking with Y". It cannot be repeatedly asserted, and no text or images may be attached to it. (If someone wants to harass you with these contact requests, they will have to keep creating new profiles, and fill those profiles themselves with hateful content targeting you.)

The system could use Bayesian filtering on profile content to determine which kinds of accounts you don't like linking with.
it is different, because if you have 100 processes all talking to the database, they can safely all have an application-local connection pool holding onto a dozen connections in a pool that are probably largely idle, but are ready in a flash. context switches aren't necessarily a problem because the database probably sees 5-10% of these connection receiving queries at a given moment. Also, mariadb has a thread-pool feature (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/thread-pool-in-mariadb/) that allows a significant reduction in threads for a given number of connections.

Contrast to Postgresql, where none of the above is an option, every connection is a process and you don't want thousands of those piled up.
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Thanks! We'd love to have a new print edition at some point in the future, but the details of this are yet to be determined.
You say that Zizek purveys nonsense, then say that what I've said is obvious. So either you're referring to some writings of Zizek which are irrelevant to this discussion (and implying my point is worth less consideration because Zizek is wrong in some areas which are irrelevant to this discussion), or you're saying that Zizek is wrong here (but without explaining how or rebutting his point).

Your advocation of your belief system lies entirely in characterising any other position as "crazy ideological zealotry". I omitted the "crazy zealotry" part because they don't have very much substance (other than appealing to what you consider to be rational and reasonable), so I focused on the "ideology" part.
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If troops are agents of war, and you don't support war, why would you support troops?
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I knew someone was going to be like "That stuff is observational and therefore empirical!" If that's the case then the humanities is a science because we're doing empirical research on books. Often empirical research on individual sentences!
I hope Tesla succeeds, but I cant deny I'd love to pick up a 3 on the super cheap because Tesla went belly up.
I feel the same way about the 16+ ways to say 'the' in German.

(And before you retort with 'but those are grammatically important!' Let me say yes, I agree, they are, and because you live within the language, you implicitly understand why. Let's just say that as an English speaker, I feel the same way about English's tendency to have a million synonyms for everything. Each one has its own, distinct flavor, and such aggressive vocabulary theft* is a fundamental part of English's charm.)

* “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

― James D. Nicoll
CGNAT tables can become saturated, making new IPv4 connections flaky while v6 remains reliable. Thus you would improve user experience.
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Warcraft 3 modding is what got me interested in programming in the first place. I made a handful of somewhat popular custom maps, and having a forum where players could report bugs or suggestions gave me great insight into understanding the user perspective.
> I am aware of a handful of examples of people being fired (or pushed out) for violating progressive mores.

Care to name any examples? The only ones I can think of are well deserved (e.g. someone making racist comments and/or descriminating based on race, gender, etc)..
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Not really. When I had a "product manager" title, I had to do plenty of "project management".
How many interviews did you go on? All of your interviews went that way?

I like to think I'm pretty clever, and I've been tripped up in interviews before. The content of an interview is based on usually one or two people. Sometimes they think they're smarter than everyone else, and ask obscure or difficult questions within a limited time frame. They are looking for people at least as knowledgable and clever as themselves, but have a tendency to overlook other skill sets. You built something yourself, you know how to make decisions. Those are valuable skills to have.

I just don't want to see you get discouraged because of 1 or 2 interviews. I've been tripped up myself, I have a CS degree. There are some places where I've fallen short. Make notes from each interview, what you need to improve upon. However each interview is unique, you can't expect to learn lessons from one interview and get identical questions in the next.

Don't get discouraged. I have faith in you. Seriously, there are a lot of pretentious people making decisions on what gets asked in an interview. Not succeeding is not necessarily a reflection on you and your skill set.
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who's goals are more aligned with yours? neighbors to the south who you share a lot in common with or a totalitarian government on the other side of the planet.
The CEO has shown willingness to fund Tesla Motors and SpaceX with almost all his personal funds. If I remember correctly, he is worth more than Tesla's debt, and unless he is somehow unable to liquidate enough assets to cover that debt, it won't be the end of Tesla.
China is in fact not moving away from fossil fuels, they're aggressively expanding their fossil fuel use. They're adding a minority of renewable energy into the mix of their new energy demand, while building a very large number of new coal plants. They're very openly lying about their environmental efforts. They're also aggressively using their state companies to build coal plants external of their borders.

This is the same tactic they use on trade. They're hyper protectionist about access to their economy, and then claim they're free traders.

"China's leading role in financing a wave of new coal plants across Asia is drawing fresh scrutiny as the world’s top climate scientists weigh calling for much deeper cuts in emissions. China, India, Japan and the Philippines rank among the biggest investors in the 1,380 coal plants under construction or development worldwide, according to a study by the German pressure group Urgewald released Thursday."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/china-s-f...

"The research, carried out by green campaigners CoalSwarm, suggests that 259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development in China. The authors say this is the same capacity to produce electricity as the entire US coal fleet. The report says that at present China has 993 gigawatts of coal power capacity, but the approved new plants would increase this by 25%."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45640706

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/climate/china-energy-comp...

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/6/17427030...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/china-is-massively-betting-o...
How dare you fact-check an article? ;)
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I remember making a dota precursor game on Warcraft 3 after playing some tower defense games... I created waves of enemies spawning in opposite directions, but you had 2 teams trying to build towers. The problem I had was that once spawned, building lots of towers messed up the patching. I abandoned the game after only a couple if tests, but I think it has been original at the time.
All the time. I often get vendor support through Facebook because there’s no hold time.

Emails go into the ether with lots of vendors.

the vendor cares more about people that could bash them to all their friends without typing a new URL.

Recent examples: i’ve Dealt with an airline and a post service over Facebook messenger, complete with ticket information, name, phone numbers and addresses.
There is a lot of confusion created when we start pushing Lean Startup for non-startup situations. It isn't meant to be a universal/one-size-fits-all approach to building a business.

A startup is "an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty" (quoting the insider cover of Eric Reis's The Lean Startup). If there isn't extreme uncertainty, then it isn't a great fit as an overall strategy.

On the other hand, the LS counterpoint would be that you'll miss considerable insights if you rely on existing knowledge/research (Ford's classic "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse" quote....)
I've been around long enough that I'm realizing we're closer to the end than the beginning. The late 90s were so bright we had to wear shades - then the whole thing came crashing down and set progress back about a decade in the 2000s. Innovation happened by forcing us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, not by cultivating our potential.

Now here we are again, having caught up to where we were in 1999: VR and AI are taking off (it was 3D gaming and online support then), billions of dollars of VC money are being thrown at mundane ideas that a couple teenagers could pull off in their parents' basement (if they weren't stuck working 40 hours a week at call centers), and vacuous claims are made daily by people who won the internet lottery.

This is not the future we're looking for. Or is, when you think about it. The wool has been pulled over our eyes. The rat race has become a marathon, the fruits of our labors are no longer ours to utilize. AI (especially) will be used to maximize profits rather than free us from labor. And unfortunately I'm not seeing acknowledgements of how badly we've flown off the rails, especially at the highest levels of the tech industry.

My predictions: another crash around 2020, populist policies that do the opposite of what's needed (austerity, tax cuts for the wealthy, suppressing the Other, etc etc), little done to reduce consumption or help the environment as a percentage of GDP or even at a personal level, and a revolutionary reaction to all this in the form of protests and cooperatives that have too little capital to mount a meaningful resistance. Playing out over 1 or 2 more lost decades until the endgame in 2040 when corporations finish merging with AI and human beings have lost all autonomy.

Disclaimer: I may have been watching too much Mr. Robot and Handmaid's Tale..
> A few self-serving white men (there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe) pretending to be messiahs

When I intended to read the article, I was fairly certain identity politics wasn't an axe the author wanted to grind, but he went straight for the jugular!!!

China - which is neither white, and comprises a racial minority in the west, has seen the largest wealth creation in this space. So - the author's statement is technically wrong.

Unlike the Guardian - where an opinion piece isn't approved unless 'White Men' are blamed, the blockchain holds no opinions - you're free to start a feminist-coin without the editor of the Guardian thought policing your piffle into narratives palatable to the Guardian's target audience
That's the thing though: why do we have no exposure to what he actually does inside the company? You would think that Tesla would put in some effort to generate positive PR for their CEO to counter his nonsense. Why aren't they?
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Honestly, I'm using it for it's marketability. I haven't yet found it particularly useful.
This story looks like the exception, though?

The app piggybacking and the initial "View As" stories constituted Facebook handing out data sloppily. But location records, search history, and TFA-only phone numbers are internally held data Facebook wasn't showing to anyone. This moves things from "faulty visibility settings" and "shady data sales", which we've seen before, to "outright security breach".
Never evaluate yourself based on an abstracted metric of a population, without considering inescapable underlying correlated factors in the negative direction. (If all you know is reported salaries from anonymous people, then you don't know how much stress this distribution of people are under, and you don't know what tradeoffs they've had to make that you might not be willing to make, such as enough free time to enjoy the world of literature for instance.)
> Rails makes a ton of assumptions about how tables, models, controllers, and routes all line up together.

Rails assumes some very basic, predictable, and consistent naming conventions by default. Beyond that, it has virtually no assumptions about what data feeds into a particular route or controller.

For instance, if I have a controller named 'dashboard#index', at /dashboard, that controller doesn't care if I have a Dashboard model, or UserDashboard, or if I have a 'dashboards' table in my db, or a collection of 50 other random models that all combine to create a dashboard on the fly. If I have a 'people#update' route, it makes no assumptions that I have a Person or People model or db table. I can put whatever I want into that controller action with zero penalty.

Generally speaking I am going to align my controller, model, and route names, but that's more for readability and maintainability concerns, not for the benefit of the framework.
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Ethanol is a different matter again. I was talking about methanol produced by fossil fuels.

With these fuel it very much depends on a lot of factors.

However a overall police towards use of fuel alcohol would overall be very benefical.

Both in terms of emission and in terms of price competition.
I have carried several kilograms of gold through TSA screening checkpoints a half dozen times. I know that GP pre-edit was talking about $50mm but it is practically quite straightforward and entirely legal to fly domestically in the US with $0.5-1mm in gold. The risk of civil asset forfeiture is another matter but in 6-8 times I have never personally felt at risk from such.
It seems more like the rules of the business world would aid and abet the same kinds of people who would commit sexual harassment. There are a lot of parallels between rape culture and business culture:

- Never take no for an answer

- Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness

- Break the law as long as you get away with it

- The bottom line is about the benefits I can extract from any given situation

A quick search will surface evidence that corporations as a whole are psychopathic and that CEOs skew heavily psychopathic (1 out of 5, similar to prison populations, according to a study - though I can't find the original paper).
From what I understand they lose money from WA. And isn't this why the original founders left? Because of how FB wanted to monetize it?
The author describes himself as a cleantech and blockchain reporter [1].

[1] https://medium.com/@michaelbarnard_46445
Ok, a little bit of exaggeration. How about a world where a women lie about not giving consent just to eliminate you from the corporate ladder?
And it can now be compiled to machine code (TclQuadCode), an amazing feat which should have further information presented at this year's Tcl conference (already underway).
I’ve said what I’ve said, and I’m no fan of Zizek, to whatever extent I’ve been exposed to him. Take what you want from it, I’m not arguing further.
To be fair, the Internet was a very, very different place 14 years ago...
You have to be sarcastic. Thats just a nonsensical generalization. Far from all mods are broken shit just as far from all DLCs are polished. You have stuff like Enderal when it comes to mods and I hopefully dont have explain to you, how unpolished and simply broken many games are, let alone dlcs. There is a giant list of games which are only playable after years and years of community patches, made surprise surprise mainly by the modding community. But thats if modding is possible. If not you are left with the shitnugget you preordered.
What's your reason for wanting this? Do you want to be higher paid, have more choice in the work you do, be in charge of others, or something else?

Odds are there's a much better way to achieve whatever your goal is.
UX is such a nebulous idea. Practitioners of UX spend half of their time wondering whether what they are doing is actually UX and the other half of their time accusing other practitioners of not doing UX.
I'm not sure that I would call it a black stain on the Chicago Startup history. But I would say that it is one of the weirder startups in Chicago. There needs to be quality journalism on what's been going on. This is definitely something that could be a Ryan Holiday or Michael Lewis level book.
> something is also wrong if men are acting on potentially career destroying impulses

I think the lesson here is that empirically, it's not potentially career destroying - in fact, it's highly likely to have pretty much no consequence.

I'm pretty confident once these actions do become at least plausibly career destroying, that men as a whole will find ways of being able to rein it in. "Consent", as an example, is a straightforward concept.
I have the same problem. I'm actually intentionally underpaid because this way (1) I have less anxiety about getting fired (2) I have less problems with imposter syndrome (3) I worry less about being underpaid since I know I'm underpaid. I know most people will think this is extremely irrational, but I'm paid about 3 times more than I can spend (I live very cheap and am happy this way) so I already save 2/3 of my take home paycheck. At this point, having better mental health and working in a nice company that lets me solve hard software problems is the most important thing, imho.
Product managers are actually not that "senior" in the corporate ladder. They have lots of responsibility without much authority.
Ask HN: How to find the most favorited HN posts and comments?
I see people can favorite posts and comments and it's publically visibile too.

So I was wondering like the HN leaderboard if there is a way to see the top X most favorited posts and comments by year/month/all time?

Any ideas? Is there a URL or algolia like site to see this?
As a Canadian, I've learned to just not worry. I can't compare myself to the creme del la silicon valley crop, and that's ok. And as a millennial "work until I die" seems very natural as well.
summary: expats are renouncing due to the difficulty of filing US taxes abroad. the article doesn't state it directly, but likely these are people who have decided to permanently move abroad, whose lives have changed, and don't want the burden of filing US taxes any longer.

it's a useless article. the fact that there is a "record" is meaningless at these insignificantly small numbers. the fact that tax reform won't change it is just clickbait. congress doesn't and shouldn't care about such a meaninglessly small number of people.
> he is worth more than Tesla's debt

Most of Elon's net worth is in illiquid SpaceX stock and Tesla shares.
"VSCode silently opts you in to data collection"

Sure seems that way. Never had any prompts about it.
PCI-DSS standards require companies to drop support for TLS 1.0 (though the deadline did get extended to June 2018), which will be probably one of the more significant driving factors.

Most people just won't bother to change their configurations, short of some kind of external pressure. Support for new protocols will often be driven by "Is it supported out of the box" on appliances, Apache, Nginx etc. shipped by distributions.

edit: HTTP 2.0 support at 31%? That's higher than I expected, and a good sight to see. Wonder how much of that is driven by cloudflare etc?
Awesome, I just recently bought both the print and eBook editions as I start to dive into DirectX ray tracing, this looks like it will be a great complement!
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