skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really considering incentives. I think most people will basically spend their whole lives working, even if you take half their money and throw it down a hole -- maybe especially even if you do that.

To increase wealth the lower tax will have to mean more money under the control of the individual. It doesn't guarantee savings and investment but it makes it possible. For the portion that is taxed, you don't control consumption versus savings, you're locked into the same outcome as everyone else.
Universities in the UK are tax funded, and they're pretty independent...
Iirc I got a popup asking about it at every update for a while (which means every month or so), until I eventually gave in.
It sounds like a Java/Mac interation thing. There's a workaround: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JRE-526#focus=streamIte...
It takes a special mind to delve into such topics. This will and has been the case.

Those that understands it becomes responsible to inform other of which settings they should have. While not needing to explaining why. That should apply to most (scientists, networking, philosophy).

I think the above mindset at least helps me out to really dumb it down/skip to the real effects when speaking to others. Well, I try ;) But there's always a shimmer of hope that someone will pick something up and go deeper, but that does not happen regularly.

So what to do? Start an online group with people with the same focus and do the battle. Nobody else will care until it's changed and it starts to affect their daily life.
Now I am curious what you would expect from a robot? As far as I can tell most 'home robots' will be more or less Toys for the coming years at least.
>1. There Wahabi radical islamic movement was largely funded by SA at it's inception. SA continues to be it's largest donor, both in money and security. This movement has brought the world the 9/11 attacks, Al Queda, terrorism world wide, and has radicalised liberal Islamic populations.

True, and for the anecdote. My family suffered from this directly as we had to flee a country for another because of the rise of Saudi funded radicalism.

With that said, all the things you quote (increased radicalization, terrorism etc.) are mostly - and it hurts to say this - spectacular inconveniences in terms of scale.

And I prefaced this to let you know that I don't see the terrorism from a pure Western perspective where there is one such act every now and then. I know that there are many atrocities which we don't hear about (e.g the 2007 Yazidi bombings).

Yet, if you compare all of these punctual tragedies with the damage, violent deaths, and chaos that the second gulf war has brought. You must see that the two process have different magnitudes and inverse shock values for western audiences.

>2. They're brutalistic about Shias - i.e. they refuse Shias (from Syria) refugee status, and continue funding any military action that targets Shias.

True, obviously this goes both ways though. Sectarian disputes have always been ugly in the region.

>3. They play a central role in money laundering of terrorist funds.

See my first point, I think that in the grand scheme of things terrorism does not matter much. It's evil and despicable and spectacular, and that's about it.
Khashoggi Disappearance Spurs Western Walkout of Saudi 'Davos in the Desert'
"Luxury" is a normative term, a qualifier. Utility - how useful it is, it how many problems it solves - gives a more positive, quantative measure.
Sorry to see your downvote. Techno-communists on the prowl.
This should be the tag line for politicians in the UK!
Luckily, there are massively diminishing returns to money's effect on educational outcomes and overall happiness, so a dollar taxed from the rich is worth much less to them than to the poor it is given to.
Absolutely hate open offices, and I find it depressing how every startup, agency and large business nowadays seems to use them. It's even worse when you're on the autistic spectrum, are an introvert or social anxiety, since the open office is basically tailor made to drive such people insane.

Makes me wish remote working was more common in general, as well as that bosses would stop being so obsessed with what's 'trendy' and think of their workers.
Thanks for the lead, I didn't know about it!
My comment was more just trying to address this statement.
>A lot of the things C was trying to cope with have largely died off or been relegated to incredibly niche platforms.

This particular property of C is not uncommon in the embedded space. Especially since the XAP2 is by far the most used in the XAP family and is right behind ARM in volume.

That said I don't know how much it is still being used by Qualcomm as I know they are now using more Xtensa cores alongside ARM.

Xtensa is another major architecture sitting as small co processors in various silicon designs that is not well known, but is highly flexible. LLVM does not support even the cor versions of it. I know the Espressif team is looking to bring some support for it in.
"Do I need to bring a table or just my computer?"

She stared. "What?"

"I have a 21 inch monitor and I can bring a folding table," I said.

Still clearly confused, she asked, "Why would you bring a computer?"

Oh, that kind of networking party. "Never mind."

- a true story from university
Is there a plug-in that pops a big red warning when telemetry is turned on? That's woul be very useful.
I don't necessarily disagree with you but I think there is a second half to the problem. Half the managers are as you describer, but the other half are put in management positions on the basis of only technical ability and actually have no clue how to manage a team and in fact don't really care about doing that at all. Their passion is tech and will always be tech, but they are managing the team for status or career progression or whatever.
Am I the only person who clicked the link hoping to read about the OSI 7 layer model?
Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]
The way you move your career forward is by talking to people about important things and providing some kind of value to the people you are talking to -- if networking with you does not benefit other people, they won't do it!

The motivation may be self-serving, but the outcome is that you help others while you help yourself.
Try the "Citizen Engagement Myth". Without democracy we don't even bother imaging our views will be taken into account by our government

And the less often we vote for people further away the less our vote engages us

What we need are local elections for local bodies with genuine power and spend, and democratic companies.
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Time’s a plenty in an a320
Interesting. Just wondering whats the size of the entire dataset download?
I actually do. My point was that on a spectrum of "apex predator totally tailored for eating meat" and total herbivore able to digest cellulose we are far from both ends.

The gp specifically stated we have "evolved to preferentially run on fatty meat from large game animals" and that is just plain wrong.
I've lived in the Bay Area since before starting kindergarten. No way the average IQ of software engineers here, or anywhere, is close to 130. Software engineering might be one of the only STEM disciplines that gives credibility to the Ortega hypothesis.
Same, I wouldn't have clicked otherwise, kinda proves the article's point :)
Managing PostgreSQL backup and replication for very large databases
That’s probably more due to the fact that the value of an education is less necessary for the wealthy to succeed. Why bother trying when you can be president with a gentleman’s c?
> so Nvidia stepped up with RAPIDS. The result is a more neutral solution

How on earth is anything played in NVidia's yard a "more neutral solution"?
At least they changed the code names, it used to be "telemetry.optIn = true", showing how little they understand the term opt-in.
The great part about RSUs is you still get paid if the stock goes down (as long as it still exists). Sure, it's nice if it goes up a lot, but then you have a feeling of being stuck while you wait for those RSUs with nice gains to vest, and then a feeling of getting less when the next round of RSUs is much smaller. (Unless it keeps going up)
> Should parents be allowed to try to give their children a boost in life?

Like many things in social contract, the answer is - okay to a reasonable degree, but extremes should be discouraged / forbidden.

Some concrete examples: annual limits on gift taxes, inheritance tax beyond a certain estate size etc. Policies which will level the playing field between rich and poor kids:

- very high rate of inheritance tax beyond $1M estate (some reasonable adjustment for inflation)

- no legacy based admissions for any university benefitting from govt money

- funding schools strictly at state level; not allowing local district to fund extra school activities in any way (because that is prone to gaming)

- CA specific: disallowing inheriting tax basis for inherited homes (one of the most stupid aspects of Prop 13 and CA housing policies)
There are not specific people responsible.

There are organizations, financial institutions, executives, investors, businesses, etc. that did not deserve jail, but did deserve to lose financially.

Instead, some lost their sort and others were shielded with $100,000,000,000s of taxpayer money.

The kinds of people that supported this flagrant graft are despicable. Probably not jailable (I mean most politicians and even the president supported bailing out asset holders), but more despicable than Zuckerberg or most of the scapegoats you see in the news.
Microsoft to open up 60,000 patents
How to Improve Your Animations with Top Tips and Hacks
> "good to avoid people that have a tendency to game things"

Sorry, but most employers essentially "game things": they extract as much value as they can out of you in return for the smallest amount of compensation they can get away with giving you. Yet I don't see you being critical of managers and CEOs, just other engineers. Managers love it when engineers getting into pissing matches about "passion", hackathons, which stack is most l33t, etc. (Erik Dietrich's term "carnival cash" comes to mind.) Meanwhile that business major 10 years your junior with a PMP certificate they got online -- and who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag -- just got promoted to senior project manager and gets to tell you what to do.

By 40, to put it in high-level abstract terms, the most important thing is figuring out what you need to be doing so you're earning the compensation you want/need and living the lifestyle you actually want to live. The "game" that other engineers around us in the marketplace are playing, so to speak, is the one having to do with optimizing compensation and quality of life. I can choose to walk onto the court and play a different game -- one with rules I personally feel are more noble, or something -- but that won't change the external reality around me, and nobody will care, except employers looking to take advantage of engineers willing to prioritize "passion" over things like "compensation" or "spending time with my kids" or "adequate health insurance".

Note: I'm riffing somewhat on the ideas David Sirlin presents in the first chapter of his book called "Playing to Win"; worth a read: https://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win

Edit: in fact, I'll just quote from Sirlin:

A scrub is not just a bad player. Everyone needs time to learn a game and get to a point where they know what they're doing. The scrub mentality is to be so shackled by self-imposed handicaps as to never have any hope of being truly good at a game. You can practice forever, but if you can't get over these common hangups, in a sense you've lost before you even started. You've lost before you even picked which game to play. You aren't playing to win.

A scrub would disagree with this though. They'd say they are trying very hard. The problem is they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever truly competing.
A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
What do YOU want to do? Any reason you are set on a FAANG?

Have you considered embedded firmware development?
I just recently moved and I was astonished at how many superfluous cables and adapters I had. I definitely appreciate not getting more when I can reasonably be expected to have ones already. I have easily a dozen unoccupied USB ports within 10 feet of me.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I use "best society" it is code for the following argument that gets as long and involved as there is time to explain:

Human instincts and morals are really well calibrated to small-village life. I take things like the Dunbar number [1] to indicate that we are optimised for a small circle of close relationships.

"Fairness" has a sister in "equality" that is very powerful force on the local scale and scales horribly, to the point where equality being scaled up is usually a warning sign of an incoming economic breakdown where everyone starves. Unfortunately, people keep trying to scale equality up because they want it in their local relationships.

Talking about "permanent power disparities" touches on the same vein of thinking - we know that permanent power disparities are an inevitable feature of society. The attempts to set up societies where there are no permanent power disparities have resulted in permanent power disparities forming, and frequently going to very nasty despots. Modern western civilisation has done _extremely_ well compared to the competition by dangling systemic advantage as the reward for massively improving the industrial base and consumer access to resources. This has worked a lot better than attempts to suppress inequality under, eg, the communist systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Cocaine is a terrible drug that can severely alter one's personality. Most people turn into self centered twats.

One of the most addictive substances known, legalization, acceptance and wide use could have drastic effects on society.

Apparently some have already forgotten about the crack epidemic of the 90s. Many cities are still dealing with the crack generation offspring and the mentally ill crackheads from that era.
You may want to read the Poseidon's Children trilogy from Alastair Reynolds.
It's quite possible. I'll agree that sometimes, making the client authoritative for some stuff can reduce load on the server, but generally, it's both simpler and less "cheat prone" to make the server authoritative for everything, and have the client just send "here's the player's input" and then apply client side prediction (this is a common cause of "rubber-banding" in multiplayer games: poor client side-prediction)
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18208954
Observations of "cosmic inflation" are not uniformly distributed, so this could very well be true.
I find it very strange that Apple is held as a champion of privacy while simultaneously creating a culture of incredibly poor passwords. Perhaps the problem is that there are “two” privacies - the everyday protections against, say, Facebook, and the more traditional worry of a journalist in a hostile country.

Either way, I think we need to be taking this more seriously - most international borders require you now to take a picture. But forget countries, Disneyland now takes your picture by having an employee point an iPhone at you, a device equipped theoretically with the same technologies to reproduce whatever face data is necessary to get into your phone. To me, the “triumph” of FaceID and TouchID is analogous to Apple having “solved” the password problem by just auto-selecting “123” for everyone. Part of the responsibility of privacy protection is in the culture you build and how you implicitly educate your user through your designs. Apple bends over backwards telling everyone how crazy secure FaceID is, while potentially setting them up to have their data entered into incredibly easily when dealing with the most dangerous adversaries.

There was a great opportunity here to make a great feature that also educated the user: FaceID could have for example been an Apple Wallet feature. Credit Cards are a system built to expect fraud. They are expected to be stolen, and that’s why they build in a system to reverse charges. Telling a user that an Apple Pay charge can be quick and painless with FaceID (and avoid a full phone unlock) since the danger is not permanent would have still been more convenient than before. At the same time, by requiring the user to type a full password to access their data, the user would implicitly be taught that data theft is for some reason more dangerous, and thus begin to build the same intuitions computer-literate users have. In fact, if all the user did was use FaceID for their credit cards and no password for their photos, it would account for most of “normal” people’s security concerns, without also inadvertently confusing the security conversation where activists may not know the proper way to secure their data.
This is gold. Thanks so much for sharing!
Chicago Brick: Google's multi-node video wall software
I'm open to being wrong here, but where can I find a source on this?

I only found this one chart [1], and the mean averages seem to be lower than 130. I have no idea how reliable this is. I can't speak to San Francisco at all, but I can't find the data.

I'd also include "web developer" with software engineer, and everyone with no knowledge of CS theory, just all software developers in my opinion.

[1] http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx
In video games, it's usually the simplest model to apply, and most common (when combined with client side prediction). The main alternatives are p2p, which is for when you don't have a central server, and hybrid, mainly for when you have large open world type MMORPGs (and also well known to be vulnerable to client side hacks...)
I think everyone has bright spots so that gifted is something you discover about you, and maybe anyone can be so, given enough hypothetical time. Being gifted in such a social context means actually finding and working your gift, the latter of which takes time and explains why most people haven't/aren't.

You're right that the deeper, long-lasting fulfillment is found in community and personal growth, but there's still a distinct feeling that goes together with being really skilled at something and executing well, including social of course.
A few things made me wonder

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18203002

This comment suggests that they discovered the vulnerability and spent two days working out how to fix it, whilst leaving the site live for exploitation.

2) Did they report the breach in a timely manner. That is not clear to me yet

3) Until a detailed analysis is done we don't know if there was anything negligent about this.

4) If in other investigations into Facebook it is found that Facebook were storing data they had no right to, and it transpired that they had lost some in this attack, they would be culpable because they shouldn't have had the data to lose.

So nothing specific, but lots of maybees
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This.

It’s not enough that you’re damn good at your job, you have to be “passionate”!

Dear employers, most of your stuff is mundane and boring. But that’s perfectly fine! If you pay us we will do our jobs very well. However, if you want us to be passionate about integrating the n+1-th tracking library into a website, or writing that ETL script, then be prepared to be lied to.
Ask HN: Funding opportunities for early stage startups in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kindly comment of any funding opportunities that target early stage startups in Sub-Saharan Africa.
My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot
> Pretty obviously because—

It's not. It might seem to be the case to you, me, and others with some understanding of the legal system in the United States, but when we consider the background knowledge of the legal system required to understand how cases are adjudicated, this is objectively quite generally not obvious.

> (Relatively few people are at this point in jail for smoking pot, for whatever that's worth to you).

Compared to what? If Virginia is any indication of trends among non-decriminalized or non-legalized states, it's relatively high. (I'm nitpicking, of course: there's a substantial difference between jail and prison; I'm assuming your definition—innocently, mind you—does not distinguish between the two.) https://ww.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/n...
And spelled plata (money) as plato (dish). Also, was grossly off with prices of cocaine paste sourced from fields (it's actually less than half of reported price of 3k kilo). And about the fact you can easily buy it at the source without running into big issues, as in: almost certain death.
> On the internet, the jerks are winning.

Arguably, it's not just on the internet. But I try to be optimistic.
Yeah, though I'd honestly be more impressed if it was computer vision based....
Cool, added to my cart. Thanks!
Kind of reminds me how in the 50’s everything was supposed to be nuclear. Cars, refrigerators, jukeboxes, etc.

I mean it wasn’t a terrible idea. Couldn’t an iPhone have a few thousand nuclear atoms, and it could be powered without ever charging by their natural decay? I can see why everyone thought stuff like nuclear power would be everywhere.

But obviously we became more aware of the risks and that never wound up happening.

Will this happen with computers? Will one day the computing industry be as in bad shape (and as closely regulated) as the nuclear industry?
> For the most part, people use the internet to do things they were doing anyway.

More than Internet the combination of internet and smartphones. Someone in Africa could get the advice of a doctor in the USA just with the push of a button. People have access to the biggest encyclopedia thanks to a less than a pound item.

The fact we can easily have a calculator, GPS system, access to most information in the world, have an audio and video conference with people from all around the world thanks to some small item we carry in our pockets is now taken for granted but it was missed by most scifi writers until the 90s.
I network all the damn time. I talk to people. I get lunch with new people who I don't know (there's a standing invite in my HN profile for a reason). I don't have some Specific Goal of Moving My Career Forward. I like people, I like meeting people, I like learning about them, and in the future maybe I'll do them a solid or they'll do me one.

It pays off, though. And it's fun.

But I have never started a conversation (at least, not with somebody I didn't already know well, like my boss) with the Specific Goal of Moving My Career Forward.

If that's what you think networking is, you're missing out.
The problem with that is, where would you law draw the line?

My main software is a digital copilot for starcitizen.

It does voice control, screen verlay and eventual screen grabs to load states. It perfrms nothing a skilled pilot cannot do, but makes it so almost anyone can match with those skilled pilots. Is it considered cheating when it makes me a much better pilot, faster reaction speeds and easily performing difficult movements?

What about my testers why are physically challenged in some way? There's no way they could keep up without my software, but I can understand the arguments that a pilot of equal skill vs one with my software will be at a large disadvantage.

It's a difficult thing to codify into law I believe.
ARM has a product though. Just because that product isn't sold directly to consumers doesn't mean that it isn't selling products.

I actually somewhat agree with Timothycquinn. Companies that make all of their money from suing people are, at the very least, suspicious.
Holding the power + volume for couple seconds till it’s double vibrates will also turn off FaceID.