skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was fortunate and got licensed through a club that had a healthy mix of students, people in industry, and retirees. Some of the stuff that we were doing was amazing. Some of the stuff that we talked about was even more so.

Just after the turn of the century we had a fully functional station for long distance terrestrial communications (HF) and satellite communications (including amateur satellites and the ISS). Much of the station could be disassembled and relocated for operations in the field, specifically Field Day. Members had various technical projects ranging from building the station (antennas, feed lines, and radios), to software defined radio. Other people had tangential interests which fit in well with the group. In other words, there was a lot of experimentation.

Amateur radio is a lot like computers: there are those who build the tools and those who use the tools. Both groups serve a purpose (many of the users are involved in community service and emergency communications). What you choose to do largely depends upon what you are interested in.
Good question. My wife was a teacher and they like getting off early. Hard to change something that’s entrenched.
Great source of inspiration also to make your own one!
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> 80% of Googlers in NYC will probably have lower lifetime earnings than firefighters or cops once you factor in pensions

No way. How much do you think Google entry level fresh graduate engineers earn in total compensation?
I created an application which can help people invest:

https://projectpiglet.com/

It's really just a demo of platform which creates a knowledge graph in any network: https://metacortex.me/

I can't technically say a lot of things due to myself not being a registered financial advisor. However, what I can do is post my stories and predictions (which I used to do regularly on Reddit).

I managed to get around 100 highly engaged users (many lesser engaged) to help me develop the system. I did this by offering 1 month free every time they provide feedback. I then manually wrote a response and implemented a fix for each suggestion (plus provided one month free).

The users that didn't provide feedback ended up paying for the service. Everyone else helped find bugs in the platform, which helped a ton.
A signature does not have to look similar to previous signatures to be legally effective.

You could start signing with an "X" and that first X would have legal force. Might confuse or annoy some bureaucrats though.
Is this backed up by data?
Samsung hops on the notched display bandwagon
NYC is arguably the largest global center for the entire services sector/post industrial economy. It can become a tech hub far larger what exists today in the bay area, and still not become a monoculture. The only monocultural aspect that happens to exist in NYC is that it's an incredibly expensive place full of very ambitious and financially successful people (400,000 millionaires live in manhattan alone).
How much do you think a firefighter pulls in AFTER retiring?

Most public employees with pensions will probably pull in well over a million after they retire and before they die.

Tech workers are still young as a group so pension envy is still not a thing....but will be

Run the numbers...tech jobs in a tier 1 real estate market isn't that great of a deal. Most likely a nice rental and a slightly underfunded 401k

And don't forget tech is like Logan's Run...have fun looking for work at 50 (when most public employees have started their retirement countdown)
Granted its an exceptional case, but the query loads we saw at Datadog were poorly served by off-the-shelf solutions.

Maybe things are different now, but I doubt it. You can spend a fortune to get good performance, or you can deal with slow performance, or you can invest a lot of engineering effort and get both, but there's not a ready-to-use solution that will magically replace an entire engineering team for real scale.

But almost no one ever hits that scale, so maybe it's better to adopt this line as a rule of thumb anyway...
I'm not naive enough to expect this data to remain private .. but considering Americans are being verbally harassed and physically assaulted in public for attending public talks in universities held by student groups of mainstream parties, or wearing a hat in support of the president elected by of 48% of voters in the country, its not hard to see how people could be targeted with this information.

It happens online too, people are getting banned from video game forums merely for expressing support for particular elected officials and their entire administrations [1]. We're well beyond the era where extremism / hate get you banned, the bar is being lowered and lowered to the point of speaking positively about a political group = banning.

[1] https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?835849-New-Ban-Do-Not-P...
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We’ve exhausted growth via globalization, professionalization, and IT. Most of the arbitrage is gone. What’s left is an innovative edge. Take Monsanto which bought Climate for $1b when it had $30m in revenue. People thought it was crazy at the time but along comes Bayer (and Monsanto’s digital assets and the optionality and future proofing this brings) command a $5b - $10b premium. Companies are no longer able to (or unwilling to) do internal innovation and so you need to outsource that — and those R&D budgets represent hundreds of billions of dollars, but even better you only pay for the winners. We’re going to look back in 10 years and realize we could have been investing a lot more in venture capital. Yes, the asset class has lagged but there’s a whole universe of offline companies that are just now coming into the market. Every company will need to be a tech company and companies just don’t have the DNA to do it themselves. As long as CAC << NPV(LTV) then yes you should spend.
“No video on the iPod” was my thought.
If any sort of monitors were looking at this election it wouldn't be considered legitimate.

Brian Kemp should be in jail for his actions. Actually he never should have been in a position to take these actions. Instead he's going to be governor with no opposition.
Problem is, you're not the general consumer. Most consumers would much rather have a smart tv that has all the simple stuff built in so they dont have to know how to configure anything complicaated
How do you get the standard plan for an open source project? I don't see anything on that page or anywhere else, should we email the team for the bump?
> I also learned how effective logging can be, and have applied that in just about every area of my life.

This statement really piqued my curiosity. Would you mind expanding on it?
Section 4.4 of the rfc[1] makes it clear the cert is sent encrypted.
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446#section-4.4
> I don't think making the school day start later will ever get support from teachers, so it won't be considered for most school districts even if its better for the students.

Package it with pay increases and/or shortening the day (also good for students) so that teachers still get off at the same time, and it'll go over fine.

Even aside from that, teachers aren't the majority of the electoral base for either local school boards or state lawmakers, so if it's important enough to non-teachers, it will get mandated whatever teachers prefer.
Everyone used to have a printed telephone book with almost everyone's name and address. There are lots of public record search sites. Names and addresses are not hard to find. What's the big deal?
Touche. I think perf is becoming less of an issue, it's more about design challenges around touch/pointer UI density, screen real estate (depending on what the range of supported screen sizes should be)
Voter information is already a matter of public record
I see no problem with this. It's public data. If you don't like it, change the law.
Okay but if this shows the reason for absentee voting does this leak sensitive health information? Name and address whatever, but if you have a physical impairment then is this now public record? Has anyone looked through the list?
Look what some others are doing with this publicly available information:

https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-warn-multiple-states-we...
The main benefits for me are: access, control, security, and cost.

access: There are a lot of regions that Coinbase Pro and other exchanges are unable to service. Decentralized exchanges are open to anyone with an internet access.

control: On merkleX you play by the rules of an immutable Smart Contract. The rules of centralized exchanges are subject to change and unexpected downtime. There's been multiple occasions where Coinbase withdraws have been frozen for almost a day due to scaling issues and internal decisions.

security: This is a double edge sword. The rules of merkleX put immutable code in charge. There is no way for a bad actor from the inside or the outside to lie, hide, or steal. The other edge of the sword is if there is a logical or implementation bug in the code that is in charge. Our approach for this is to keep things simple and have really aggressive security audits.

cost: Centralized exchanges have a large ongoing overhead for compliance, security, and bureaucratic process. Once a decentralized exchange becomes established the operating costs become tied to the Ethereum Gas usage. Depending on implementation this can differ dramatically but with the right technology, which we think we have, it is quite low.
Got it, that sounds kinda disappointing. Also, Jet was one of the bigger faces of F# when it comes to big companies using it, so I guess... double disappointment :-( (I'd love to see both F# and Clojure become more popular on the job market).
Do you have any references for this?

It definitely seems plausible and matches my (very limited) experience with a few friends that have joined Google, but I was wondering if you have any links.

I guess you would have to accept joining with a lower salary, and then try to switch to another FANG company to get a fair salary?
I can see the iPad being used like a laptop but the iPhone ... the screen is a little small no - even the largest iPhones.
I think the difference in what the PP was saying is that with CarPlay you can interact with the program while with external video you can only watch.
The company that didn’t even keep a USB-A port on its first laptop with USB-C ports will absolutely never keep an x86 CPU in its first ARM laptop.
Been happening to me for the past month or so, I thought I was just going crazy.
A modern, distributed, relational, column-oriented database will often stress emphatically in the documentation that using timestamps as primary keys is an anti-pattern that's likely to lead to hot tablets: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-design#choosing...
Hopefully some young amateur radio hobbyists will become radio engineers dealing with GPS, 3G, 4G, satalite beams etc.
Detecting an unnatural gait is probably a fairly easy AI task, unfortunately.

Kind of reminds me of Dunes "Walk without rhythm so you don't attract the worm"
Would be crazy if when you work on some kind of open source hosted on github that commits from the deceased have some kind of emblem. A bummer to see but maybe some way to give that anonymous code some kind of immortality.
Thanks. What a lovely nostalgia trip!

Ways of 'downloading' in my childhood, in decreasing order of unreliability:

* Via the television, holding a cassette recorder microphone to the tele speaker, after staying up till after midnight to catch it.

* Buying a magazine with a bendy plastic 45 record stuck to the cover and playing it on a record player, again probably using the microphone because you didn't have the right leads.

* From the radio. Woohoo, straight to the integrated cassette recorder. Although even then I don't think I ever got even that to work. Mind you it was pretty hit and miss loading an 'original' tape on the ZX Spectrum.

* Typing it in from a magazine. It took an afternoon, but at least you got to correct your mistakes. Unless it was a particularly crashy mistake.

And, wow, out out nowhere I've suddenly recalled having one of my own, a wordsearch solver, published in one of them. My first upload! Those were the days, I'm welling up!
One thing to point out about the NYC metro area is that there is a ton of land surrounding it with reasonably priced homes in safe areas with less than a 45 minute commute by public transit, where in the Bay Area and Seattle, the waterways are far larger, and transportation options more restricted. Within huge portions of nearby suburbs, you can buy a sizable 3+ bedroom house for <400k in a town with a train stop and a good school district that takes you directly to the office.
"Attention units."
Sure, but the vision is that all the information is localized to one device that you own that is on your person at all times. Look at how big Apple is about privacy and security. The goal is to have as few attack vectors as possible while offering a seamless experience to the user.
A lot more incentive now that they're the copyright owner for many TimeWarner productions. It just all becomes part of the big math problem.
I'm also using Zulip for Oil [1] and like it a lot :)

Reddit was OK for awhile... I dislike the redesign because there are bugs with code formatting, and because the latency is worse. And it seems like they couldn't really make up their mind visually.

Actually Zulip is one of the lowest latency web apps I've used in recent memory!

I also have problems following IRC because of the lack of threading.

[1] https://www.oilshell.org
I must've overlooked that part, that doesn't seem too bad actually given that it's about a half mile from the christopher street path stop.
Your definition of "capitalist" does not seem to bear much relation to the ideas of Adam Smith. Also, you added a clause ("for free") to the statement you responded to, then argued against it. This is disingenuous and invalid as a form of argument.

> Given that this is not the scenario now, countries are forced to tax the currently economically productive people to pay for some of these things for those not currently participating in the economy.

It's at least as valid to say that capitalism is incorrect in valuing people only in relation to the value of their labor. We have massive social and financial structures to subsidize students, because we recognize that activity has a great deal of future value to individuals, nations, and the world at large. We provide a great deal of support to mothers, and the elderly, because societies are more than just economic engines.

> There is no country in the world that provides all of these things for free to all citizens because there would be no incentive for anyone to do the work to support all of the basic needs.

Contradicted by studies. People work because they want to, and because they want more than a basic existence. You would also need to show that it's less expensive to have a bunch of homeless and/or sick people, which is not really possible in a democratic society. Not paying for things that are necessary for your fellow citizens to survive usually ends up being the most expensive way possible to pay for things.

I think that you should rethink a great deal of your sociopolitical philosophy.
No, they had legitimate reasons many years ago. There is no such legitimate fear these days.
Yes it is in some places. I'm not concerned about the data being public, more the tarring part being a real thing.
Sometimes I think a lottery system would be better...
This isn't true in the slightest, the only people who will be this way are those who are unwilling to make sacrifices in terms of quality or amount of space within a certain location, in return for the desire to own. The regional home prices in the bay area are more than twice what they are in the greater NYC region.
It looks like this is not a pure Go implementation:

"We originally implemented these functions in pure Go and tried to force reads and writes
through empty C calls as Go does not have the volatile key word or an equivalent for
our needs as far as we know. This resulted in strange behaviour: while initialization
seemed to work, including the corresponding register getters and setters, the program
failed later when the NIC never set flags that were necessary to continue. We invested
a lot of time in this specific problem but could not find a reason for this behaviour.
With the help of cgo, which enables the use of C code in Go programs, we imported
the corresponding functions in device.h alongside log.h of the original C driver and
replaced our go functions. This fixed the aforementioned problem though we never were
able to provide an exact explanation due to limited time constraints."

It's still an interesting effort, and it makes me wonder if we'll ever
see a day when a significant portion of Linux is written in a safer
language.
"Googlers, hardly the gilded class" is a silly argument. SWEs can afford to buy in the Bay, and can in NYC too. $250-300k is enough to afford a $1.5m place.

Yes, many Google employees aren't engineers, and not everyone working there gets paid like one.
You will probably be retired for thirty years. Public employees are getting paid for those years, techies aren't.

I have a relative who is retired CHP. $200k a year total retirement benefits. Show me a rank and file Googler who has that lined up.

Typical techie trajectory will be maximum salary around age forty and then increasing irrelevance

As I tell everyone in tech now - imagine 64. It's coming.
Venture capital can be the driver behind the early demise of a company. Investor goals are rarely, if ever, fully aligned with founder or even company goals.

In the end, VC money seems to benefit very few startups - - and now, even fund investors.

I say this as a former wannabe who was forced to bootstrap a SaaS company because I couldn't raise a round. It's been wild to see companies in my space that did raise money and are either no longer in business, were forced to pivot to a business investors liked better, or forced to sell (acquihire) because the pressure from the money they took on.
> chips which power a tablet that has no software ready to use that much speed

I think this comment underestimates the importance of performance to the iPad and Apple's long term vision for it. While "real Photoshop" won't be ready until next year, it's clearly aiming to make the iPad a real solution for compute heavy graphics tasks. More will undoubtably follow. Why not edit video on a film set on the iPad? I can see it happening. Your comment sort of makes it sound like Apple just threw these into the iPad as a PR strategy and the "real plan" is to transition the Mac. But Apple's plan is to make both of these pro product lines as beefy and power efficient as possible and target real professional creative workflows.
> purple dye is placed on a finger to maintain a rudimentary system of tracking who has voted and who hasn't.

It happens in India as well, its to prevent same person voting multiple times.
I mean... what's so special about biology? How about I flip a few base pairs here and there, artificial enough yet? We already routinely genetically engineer mice and other model animals such that particular bits of their brain will either glow or fire in response to laser light, we have the technology today to put make little mice helmets that we can use to steer mice around - just need to do a bit more research to find out what particular bit of the (probably) hippocampus to stimulate. Is that artificial enough?

OK and how about just simulating the universe? There is a legitimate question about computability there - it does seem plausible that aspects of simulating the universe could be uncomputable.

Suppose that this is case - well it's still an open question as to whether or not this spells doom for the simulation route. The uncomputable bits are going to be some quantum this or that, and it's not at all clear that such low-level bits are fundamentally required for human-level intelligence; that the high-level process of intelligence is inseparable from the underlying processes which give rise to human intelligence.

Personally, I find it a highly unlikely that intelligence is inseparable/has no reduced model, for whatever my prognostication is worth.

BUT even if it is inseparable, there's still a strong argument to be made that you could construct AGI through means of so-called 'embodied computation', just like biology does.
Or Best Buy or Walmart want to differentiate commoditized products to consumers who can't tell the difference between two big black screens that look the same.

It's more about feature checklist pissing contests than any real benefit to the average consumer.
all the time. glad I'm not the only one
You also pay for support so that when your senior engineers all pack up and start their own business together you can ring somebody to keep your infrastructure running while you find more people with the right level of knowledge.
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> It's still an interesting effort, and it makes me wonder if we'll ever see a day when a significant portion of Linux is written in a safer language.

I really hope Ada makes a comeback, especially in commercial kernel programming.
Zero chance that is typical
> Today it's a big investment in time to get oneself up to speed, and so making that information more accessible and useful would lower the cost for a citizen to make an informed vote.

And this is why Capitalism is not compatible with Democracy. Especially now that we even call it as 'investment' to be informed to choose who will control our lives. And then there's the fact that it is also an investment to campaign.

However, hopefully, sooner or later, technology will eventually help give the people more information as it did in the past. Pretty sure less centralized medium of information like Twitch or YouTube will eventually replace Fox News or CNN.
The problem is not the résumé. The problem is that nobody is receiving it. I have 3 résumés and I'll make another according to your guidelines. I want only one thing from you.

Email addresses. Please tell me somebody who can give me a job if I do this right. I need somebody who can help. Not somebody who will complain. Somebody who cares. Somebody who can give me food and shelter, a minimum wage. Anything.
Is it really true this A12X is comparable to last year's Macbook Pro?

On that Macbook Pro I could run several VMWare sessions running Windows and Linux (have run 3 at the same time in the past). I can run Handbrake encoding videos across cores while still browsing the net in Chrome with 4 windows open each to different profiles each with 5 to 20 tabs. Have 4 terminal windows open, at list one of them serving a dev webpage. Run VSCode and Unity and Visual Studio and other stuff all at once. I've also done things like compile Chrome from source. Run XCode, run 2-3 iOS simulators.

I get that an A12X can't do those exact tasks as it's not the same instruction set but could it do the equivalent and get similar perf?

That's amazing if true. An iPad Pro weighs 1/4th of my MBP (2014). My MBP's fans spin like crazy when running a high intensity app and the case gets too hot to touch.

I'd love to believe a machine that has no fans and doesn't get hot and weighs 1/4 as much could actually have the same or more perf for real but when I actually use an iPad it rarely feels as fast and given it doesn't multitask well there's no way for me to check that perf is really comparable in real world use cases.

Anyone have any insight? Is it just because the chip was redesigned to be more efficient it can match or exceed the i7 in my MBP? Should Amazon be filling their AWS racks with A12X based machines that get the same per at much less heat and power? (Yea I know they can't by A12X chips buy still). Don't iPhones and say top Samsung phones generally show similar perf?