skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have a very narrow view of "the workplace".

On the contrary, I have a very broad view of the workplace. Yes to all your questions. I don't work in tech, and there are no subsidised bars or alcohol at conferences. We got subsidised gym memberships and tea at the conferences I'm used to. If you want to drink, your money, your time, after work. If you want to get tipsy with colleagues in your own time, it is not in any way endorsed by the company.

My personal guess is the tech industry _will_ eventually ban alcohol at all such things as the link between drinking, uninhibited men and sexual harassment is bought up again and again. The bad apples will spoil the whole barrel.

> I propose that we ban coffee in the workplace because we should all be at 100% all the time and coffee obviously shows you aren't turning up ready to work.

Well, I don't agree with you. But if you have evidence, sure. My understanding is coffee is a mild stimulant, so it should be linked to a very mild improvement in work performance - so I doubt you have evidence.

People do turn up to work unprepared. We can't really stop that - maybe they just get a bad nights sleep. But alcohol is going to have a pretty strictly negative effect, so employees shouldn't be drinking it in company hours or before work.
Ask HN: What're your startup negotiation tips?
Say you've found a startup you really like. Looks like lots of fun and you're excited to join.

What're your tips to get a reasonable compensation package so you can enjoy the work without feeling underpaid?
I met John Collison and Courtland Allen today – this is what I learned
Hey everyone :)

I really want to share with you something amazing that happened today!

There was an Indie Hackers meetup in Dublin, Ireland. I'm from a city called Cork that is about 3 hours drive from Dublin. As soon as I heard Courtland was interviewing John Collison at this meetup, I decided to travel up from Cork to Dublin!

And it was amazing. I learned so much during the interview, and took loads of notes! I even got to speak to John about some of my ideas. I also spoke with Courtlands +1 Cloey about becoming an ambassador for Indie Hacker events in my city!

Here are some of the things that the interview covered:

1) Core attributes of a promising founder worth following:
- Progress/trajectory over time
- How well they lead a team &
- Make the vision happen
- Most impressed when someone is way ahead of where you thought they would be when you check up/see them a few months later.

2) Indie Makers have such a benefit of being small, fast, nimble workers in comparison to big companies.

We can easily pivot and vastly change a project of ours. We can change as we learn more about our users.

Big companies can take months/years for even the smallest of pivots.

3) Before you find a product market you can pivot your project as many times as necessary until you find something that works.

Then you only have one thing to do: scale, scale, scale.

4) Be obsessed with the little details.
- listen to every single person who uses your product
- reply to every single person who emails you about your product
- ask them what they like and do not like
- iterate your product, make changes, pivot if necessary

Well, you get the idea! John & Courtland had many interesting things to say. So much valuable information in such a short amount of time. I can hardly believe it.

You can read more about it here
https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous/status/1060681217216036864
I mean CBP deserves way more shit than it's getting, but I don't really think hating ICE is that weird.
Samples?
What percentage of the population in the US are Mongolian or Eskimo?

Given that black people make up about 15% of the US population, wouldn’t one in 7 be roughly expected in the absence of both discrimination and factors that systematically disadvantage black people?
Yep: e.g. the hardback vs paperback versions of https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/computer-systems-a-programmers... - note the different ISBNs.
#GoogleWalkout update: Collective action works, but we need to keep working
Then you should probably just walk.
Presumably the #ProtectMueller protests going on in many cities right now. I had to Google as well.

https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-e...
The most common example I see is the password requirement that it must be between 8 and 16 characters... The 16 character limit is the main issue there... You know it has to do with the wya the data is stored.
Just as the data offered by this article, the best choice for the practical job right now should be Golang and OCaml.

if you don't love the two, just try C/C++.
What I find most fascinating about this story is the "I'm certain I came up with this" notion, given the last several emails on that webpage. Memory is a terribly imprecise thing. We seem to fill in gaps with other memories that are shaped to fit the gap, or we logically reason it out without telling ourselves that we are using logic not memory. I personally have very detailed provably false memories.
This already happens, spinbots and speedhacks aren’t a thing anymore.

The current hacks are aim triggers, aim lock, aim/spray assist, and some close proximity wallhack.

The cheats calculate the recoil spread and auto lock to enemy heads. It’s obviously not as a bad as before with client side bullets, but it is still a problem.
Tharu Community Nepal
> It's not up to the company to protect civil rights through limiting the use of their product -- that's the job of the government.

...and the employees, and the members of the board, and shareholders.
China's AI news anchor vows to 'work tirelessly to keep you informed'
Disney Launches Netflix Competitor: Disney+
I don't believe I asserted that the employer is wrong in being unwilling to train or pay market rates for labour. There are many valid reasons to be so unwilling.
> Note that all economic systems are concerned with distribution of resources so the idea of distributing capital is not unique to a "welfare state".

That may be true, but doing it well certainly does imply a welfare state.
Harnessing the Power of the Sun to Turn Apples into Art
The comparisons by GFlops was more or less a lark. Especially the ones comparing energy efficiency with a supercomputer from the 90s. This 96 core rig produces 1 GFlop per Watt, compare that to an i9-9900k (250GFlop), z390 chipset and 1 stick of DDR4 (95W + 7W + 2.5W = 104.5W) which does ~2.3 GFlop per Watt.*

* this is back of napkin, real world results will vary
There's no doubt EtherDelta's system addressed many of the reasons traditional markets required regulation but EtherDelta is still a clear violation of the Exchange Act. All securities exchanges must be registered, most tokens are securities and EtherDelta was running an unregistered exchange selling those securities.

That being said, this is a classic example of the law failing to keep pace with technology. Up until a few years ago it was a given that exchanges required a neutral third party to facilitate transactions and that, in the interest of fairness and full disclosure, those market makers needed to be registered and regulated. The law simply does not contemplate a self-regulated exchange governed by smart contracts and a decentralized ledger.

U.S. regulators also tend to focus on compliance with black-letter law without giving much credence to compliance with the spirit of the law. In my opinion, this all-or-nothing approach stymies innovation because regulators and innovators become adversaries when they could and should be allies.
Even reputations are hotly debated in this climate. I think a good habit is to read from as many sources as possible, including controversial ones, and making a private determination as to how to weight reporting.
I wonder if this applies to other stores that check receipts as you leave? I know Fry's does it, for example, and Wal-Mart does it every once in awhile.
`Marshal.load` was already always unsafe -- what this changes is the difficulty of writing a malicious payload.

Previously (for Marshal anyways, not sure about pickle), you would need to know a least a little bit about how the input is being used, so that you could monkeypatch one of the methods eventually used by it. This makes it possible to get RCE without any knowledge of the codebase.
The Intricacies of the Pursuit of Higher Self-Control
I wonder if there is any consideration for high quantities of LEO satellites affecting ground based telescope operations? I guess one question would be "how many LEO objects are up there that are the size of say more than 1 cubic meter in size right now?".. if SpaceX would be doubling the total number up there right now that does sound concerning.. I personally love the idea of the global internet constellation they are working on.. just worry that there could be other ramifications..
> The concern about racial diversity tends to focus on the idea that white hiring managers are subconsciously selective against non-white applicants.

The concern is far more nuanced than that. It includes concerns about the the rates of representation all through the pipeline, from hiring back through University CS programs to differences in access to high quality primary and secondary education.

The problems are largely understood as being systemic, arising from unequal opportunity and different social signaling to different groups, not solely from the decisions of hiring managers.
It didn't secretly average inputs. The plane gave alerts both visual and audible (DUAL INPUT) that the pilots were providing conflicting inputs. I agree that the force feedback of the Boeing FBW system is better, but the pilots should have understood the alerts provided, and either communicated or made use of their override switches.

Solving the problem by ignoring one of the pilots would be an interesting engineering problem. How do you choose?
It is similar to the auto generated random terrains. See for example https://blog.habrador.com/2013/02/how-to-generate-random-ter... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196154 (95 points | Feb 10, 2013 | 27 comments)

In this blog, the terrain is generated at random, but there are other variants that has a coarse version of the map as input and complete them deterministically (for example using a fixed seed).

There are a few more posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=random%20terrain&sort=byPopula...
Anything that hits the front page of nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com for example. Opinion pieces are a different ballgame, obviously.
I can give you something close to that. In a thread from 1995[1] some users were skeptical and not buying the C++ hype:

> A typical programmer uses FORTRAN, COBOL, C or if they believe the hype, C++. Typical programmers don't use functional languages.

From quite a few posts I saw I gathered that a lot of people thought C++ was not going to gain any real adoption, and an OO C was stupid. Which, looking at it from today’s point of view is hilarious. Makes you wander what new thing we’ll all think is just a trend but will become ubiquitous in 20 years.

[1] http://computer-programming-forum.com/23-functional/b8bd46e4...
Macau is by far more dense, has a large petrol scooter population, and almost no e-scooters. Petrol scooters are far more flexible at this point in terms of speed, torque, gross weight carried; and announce themselves much better in the many twisty / blind streets and alleys.

It also rains a lot. Do people ride e-scooters in the rain in SF?
Don't be stoned out of your mind
I bought a /20 in 2015 for $6.00/address. I am feeling very lucky.
I am so sorry to share my opinion with such smart people:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/american-state-bigger...
Talk to me when they have a concept at a car show.

Heck, talk to me when they have a rendering and a spec sheet!
Indeed. Also referred to as "Leaky Abstractions"

Spolsky talked about it 16 years ago:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
I always found it fascinating this seems to purposefully (accidentally?) prohibit employees of big companies who are prohibited from open source software development work without jumping through a lot of hoops.
European standard of living is higher on average than American: afordable healthcare, education, housing, good public transportation, social safety net for unemployed, retired... US has some rich elite but other than that it's basically a third-world country.
Google's "secret" adventure game uses the same trick of hijacking the REPL. The game is meant to be played in the debug console, and you can by defining verbs as top level variable names on the global "window" objects the developer made it so that the user can simply type their commands into the debug console.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/1/17922628/google-text-adve...

As a side-effect, every possible command, even solutions to puzzles, show up in the global namespace (the "window" object.) Therefore, to prevent cheating (including inadvertent cheating through autocomplete) the developer added a large number of "wrong" answers to the puzzles to the global namespace as well.
That was really pleasant to set up with the docker image. I just wish it would tell me it stores it’s data in /home/lounge/data so I can create a persistent volume for it.
It's a Turing complete programming language. There are, literally, no programs you can't write in it.
No. Containers on a single node are too fast.

Super-computers have high-latency communications through thick pipes. True, Super Computers have 40Gbit or 100Gbit connections between nodes, but it can take multiple microseconds to send messages around.

A bunch of containers all sitting on the same box would be able to handle communications within dozens of nanoseconds. So its a bad "emulator" for SuperComputers.

Coordinating all your nodes to compute a problem, while achieving high utilization, is tricky. Its not like programming a normal computer where threads share RAM and can communicate in nanoseconds.
Unless they allow the same kind of control a user can get with normal x86 machines or better, I can't see this being taken seriously by developers. I can't see developers jumping on a closed, locked-down platform other than apple's (and even those folks are starting to get tired).
Dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population is an act of madness, doing it twice is is beyond ethical discourse.

We are just 70 years out but these crimes against humanity will haunt for generations to come.
I really don't think Tesla is going to make it out of this one. It's facing it's worst nightmare which is luxury car makers as well as mainstream manufacturers jumping both feet.

They have been building vehicles far far longer and have the experience.

Without Musk, I just don't see how Tesla is going to make it out of this one.
Oops, for some strange reason I read that as "Note 7".

In any case, in terms of what you are capable of doing to your device (e.g. running Linux distros, controlling radios, etc), the Librem smartphone is years ahead of anything else in the market.
The only supercomputer they compare it to is 27 years old, and it uses Gigabit Ethernet as its interconnect. I think they have a much looser definition of 'Supercomputer' than most people.
Crockford base32?
The spirit of my reply is essentially that you can't wait for the government to tell you what is or isn't ethical by enacting laws and regulations. A firm needs to be able to think for itself what kind of company it wants to be, not just blindly maximize shareholder value to the greatest extent the law will allow.

What is or isn't acceptable use of facial recognition tech is not an easy question to answer; I don't have an answer. Those making and using it have a duty to give it serious thought and adjust their actions accordingly.
I have to assume the VW people have thought of that as part of their plans to produce 200,000 vehicles (per year?).
I'd like to believe the journal he submitted his findings to has a rule about publishing papers that used unethical means to obtain data.
can you please elaborate? i didnt ask for random quotes here..
I think there's a great deal of uncertainty about whether lithium ion is the right solution or whether we'll be able to online solid-state batteries or other alternatives. So it's a situation where if lithium ion persists, Tesla gets huge dividends for early investment, and if alternatives come online, others get in on the ground floor and have a fighting shot. I have no idea how feasible non-LI batteries are in the medium future.
While I don't want to back up this terrible buzzfeed tabloid article, your argument holds absolutely no water. If the answer to all company injustices was to "just leave your job" why do we need any worker protections/wage regulations? In the real world many, many, many people don't have that option.
There's no shortage of people who share that same "belief", but would end up writing down a different and conflicting list of people than you, with no loss of accuracy
don't worry. give them time, they'll figure it out. they've been building cars for a long time, far longer than Tesla.
TL;DR, drinking coffee may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. It doesn't matter if it's dark or light roasted.
It's probably too late to change the title in HN, but you should have included "Smalltalk" somewhere. Perhaps use the title of the talk "My Keynote at the Salta Conference - The Marketing of Smalltalk"
Isn't etherDelta an etherium app/token/contract?

How is that different than running an etherium miner? Actually, didn't it run on an etherium miner? can you get a fee from a contract someone else mined because you are the author? well I guess so otherwise why would the creator be being fined? ...etherium is weird.
Anyone know why they phased that out? Seems like a performance benefit and not many downsides I can think about warranting removal.
Could you use git modules? Keep your distinct repos and have a monorepo that updates are PRed into?
Well, a scooter and the Falcon Heavy are both "vehicles", but that doesn't mean the scooter will ever do what the rocket does.
Wow. It's almost freaky what you describe as the path you have taken for your overall career... because I went and did a startup to scratch an itch and that didn't pan out so now I'm back to looking for work and in the process of zooming out and strategizing about how to get where I want to go I feel like the plan I've come up with is essentially a compressed version of that.

I really appreciate the responses here. Some very useful insights indeed!
Inflation adjusted were the key words.

Even your link admits poor performance during periods of high inflation, and gives several other example periods.

But here was my original source:

http://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500

With your link, if you're just talking about value of the stocks and controlling for inflation, one dollar of stocks in 1969 grows to only $1.03 in December 1991.
Working within systems to change behavior you don't like isn't an invalid approach. In the public sphere we often do it by protesting and voting, not by moving out of the state or country.
Modern TSDB is expected to support tags. This means that every series will have a unique set of tag-value pairs associated with it. E.g. 'host=Foo OS=CentOS arch=amd64 ssdmodel=Intel545 ...'. And in the query you could pinpoint relevant series by this tags thus the tags should be searchable. For instance, I may want to see how specific SSD model performs on specific OS or specific app. If the set of tags is stored as a json in one field such queries wouldn't work efficiently.

About that 1M writes thing. You have two options. 1) Organize data by metric name first, or 2) by timestamp. In case of 2) the updates will be linear but reads will have huge amplification. In case of 1) updates will be random, but reads will be fast.
I don't get why everyone is so riled about Amazon's service. At this stage, the tools to do it are widely available and have been simplified to the point that building a rudimentary facial recognition system is a novice programmer project.

It's too late to put this technology genie back in the bottle. Legislation would be our only salvation.
You pay for all that. In most countries even the lowest wage-earners have an effective tax rate of 60%, once you consider social security taxes, income taxes, VAT. It encourages tax evasion and byzantine corporate and individual accounting measures to minimise it.

When you considering the very low fertility rates of Europe, I would consider this whole system to be unsustainable.

The one thing that the rest of the Western world has right though is healthcare - basic services should be available at low cost to every citizen, and basic healthcare should not be a commercial or profit-driven exercise. I think its reasonable though if you want a hyper-expensive cancer treatment or surgery, you have to pay for that as part of private health insurance.
In some ways civil disobedience is a form of political speech.
I think you are noticing it more. It’s always been a popular source here.
It’s not on that page for the simplest reason in open source: nobody sent in a PR.

I’ll look into it tomorrow, thanks.
How stupid am I for reading the title and thinking they were trying to sell a company for 23k?
Static analysis.
> Imagine you could send an audio or video stream to potentially everyone with internet access in the whole world but would need to pay only for the bandwidth of exactly one stream. That would be very nice for you, or Spotify, or Netflix, but not such a good deal as the current one for your ISP.

This mostly happens with Akamai [1] and Netflix [2] CDN appliances on edge networks though (content caching boxes used to offload transit or peering fabric traffic). I'd argue Multicast didn't take off because of "tragedy of the commons" issues; ISPs don't want to support additional complex network routing technologies (at additional, substantial cost) when existing one to many unicast solutions (mentioned above) are sufficient.

[1] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/akamai/aka...

[2] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
I hope you can see the list of deleted issue #'s, not the content, but just enough to get a feel for if there is an unnecessarily large amount of issue deletion going on.
If we're going to make fun of companies leading with press releases before actual product, we can't ignore the fact that Tesla has been pretending they can make a $35k car, when it has now been several years and their cars are nearly twice as much as that for the cheapest model.
I hate these "new parts available" announcements that are so vague they don't even have part numbers.

Fortunately a search at Micron's website reveals that this is the "Z2BM" with two part numbers, MT29VZZZ7D8DQFSL-046 (containing 2 Z2BM) and MT29VZZZBD9DQKPR-046 (containing 4 Z2BM). No public datasheets (yet), unfortunately, I was curious to read a little more.
Not really, you can continue down that rabbit hole forever with groups and subgroups. What of the under represented people of [skin color][origin][gender] in [profession]?

Maybe it has less to do with bias and more do to with preference and culture and upbringing and other factors. Consider how much asian parents, for example, push their kids in education and toward certain careers. Or the over representation of black people in sports and music. Or the dominance of women in teaching and healthcare. Etc.
Their procedure was carefully documented, including the inclusion criteria and how exactly they categorized the studies. They even had two teams independently search the literature to find studies meeting the criteria: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Literature reviews in meta-analyses are usually conducted like this, with specified lists of search keywords and flow charts of inclusion criteria.
All the stuff you're talking about doesn't really require nanobots. Most of us carry cell phones already.
GM and Ford made EVs in the 90's to satisfy California. It didn't do them much good on the technology front.