skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech manager is an apt analogy for me because I am currently working on hiring a new boss for (myself and) a team of programmers, high performance computing consultants and geographic information systems specialists. Each applicant has different levels of experience in these areas, but I think its safe to say that there are few people in the country that have good GIS and HPC experience.

Different groups need different managers/leaders. I could argue that I need a manager that understands my work so that they can guide me appropriately choosing techniques/languages/architectures. I could also argue that we have a diverse team of experts that self-manage well, and that we need a manager who is a good advocate for the group and good at dealing with the politics of university management, who won't micro-manage, and can deal with all of the admin requirements so that our team can program, make maps and support HPC customers. I agree that they should probably have some kind of a tech background, but I don't think you need to have been a professional programmer to manage me.

* Hopefully no one from HR, and none of the candidates read this.

* * Actually if a job candidate gets an advantage by reading a HN comment then I would consider that in-bounds for their interview prep in this case :)
BBR is just an algorithm that tries to figure out the best sending rate of TCP packets. So you don't have to wait for every ACK after a PSH. it was added the the linux kernel a couple of years ago, good to see it in RHEL.
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The craziest part to me was that they wanted to discredit their protestors via both:
1. anti-Semitism (claiming the protestors were working for Soros)
2. anti-anti-Semitism (claiming the protesters hated Jews)

I feel like there's an incredulity limit to what a company can do before the general populace starts revolting against them, and attempting to combine these two tactics may severely strain it, if not blow past it altogether.
The Kochs have given lots of money to non-self serving causes, from gay rights to stem cell research to black scholarships to PBS.
The overwhelming majority of migration into Europe is not due to any war or terror. It is economic migration primarily from sub-Saharan Africa which is why you comparatively see so few women and children among the migrants.
As a detoxing right-winger, this is deeply evil and deeply effective.
Depends if you trust Brietbart to do any reporting.
On of Soros' think tanks is funding the migrant caravan.

https://fdik.org/soros.dcleaks.com/download/index.html%3Ff=%...
In 2018, there are plenty of people who don't own a computer and have no real experience using one (other than their phone). And they are employable, because there are jobs (other than digging ditches) that don't revolve around computers. But when they apply to a sizable company, they are told that they need to come in to the employment office to fill out their application on a computer there. So I think it's pretty hard to avoid computers entirely because most things are paperless.
Just like the last election, they literally played both sides of this. For thoose of you who don't know, Soros is a the Koch boogyman of the alt-right, and the frequent conspiracy charges against him start with the fact that he is Jewish.

"Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.

In Washington, allies of Facebook, including Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, intervened on its behalf. And Ms. Sandberg wooed or cajoled hostile lawmakers, while trying to dispel Facebook’s reputation as a bastion of Bay Area liberalism."

In other words, they hired someone to make racist claims, and then hired someone to call anyone who criticized facebook racists. Then they got engaged with political groups on both sides, to play into stereotypes.

This is literally the tactics that Putin used in the last election. I wonder who he got it from
It depends really. Personally, I find that explaining/reading doesn't work for me until I experience it. So, if you tell "sugar is bad", I don't get it. But then once I experience I will come back to you for advice.

So, most of the time I tend to save these article (pocket archive) and refer it back once the realization hits. And it most of the times it happens within a week.
Though you can try to substitute #2 for #1. It works... sort of... for a little while.
I feel like at this point, anyone using Facebook still is using it because of their addiction or for business purposes.
Yup.

It's one-line config in NixOS (`services.tlp.enable = true;`).
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One third is next to impossible. Anecdotally, startup survival rate should be around 5-10%. However, that should still yield better results than distributing the money amongst SAP and Deutsche Telekom.
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Comet is really an underrated technology.

Because, it's not a separate technology. It's worked in browsers for years, and is compatible with any HTTP server toolkit/framework that lets you stream a response (so basically all of them).

That said....who would use Comet for long polling? You'd use Comet to avoid the difficulties of long polling.
Try SimplyPiano app for ios or android.
That's... obtuse. They held that Gawker should not exist anymore because they became insolvent/ bankrupt due to this.

Not because of the quality/moral fiber (or lack thereof) of their business model.
Most teenagers who work part time and live in middle class families aren’t really doing it for the money, by the time you take into account car insurance and another car payment, the parents could just give the kids money.

Most of the time the teenager is either getting a hand me down car from the parents and the parents buy a new car or they buy their kid a cheap car.

My son won’t be going to an expensive college. He will be going to a two year state school close to home, living at home and then transferring. We will be paying cash.
Good initiative but unfortunately far too late to the game.
That’s quite an amazing theory. Is there any fundamental law of economics that describes such a profound relationship?
UK is 400v phase-phase and 230v phase-neutral. The distribution transformers are three-phase out and the LV main serving a street is 3 phase wires and a neutral, each house is fed from one of the phases and connected to the neutral.

My understanding of the standard US system is that the distribution transformer is fed with one phase, the secondary side of the transformer has a centre-tap neutral and two live phases which have 120v to neutral and 240v phase-phase.
A BCH network split and hash war is starting in about 20 minutes. It's a bit late to get out from under it but many people are lining up on one side or the other.
and another one:

there are always at least two bugs still present in the code.
A "hash war" on the bitcoin block chain is beginning any moment now, between a faction led by CEO of Bitmain Jihan Wu and a faction led by alleged con artist / alleged Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Steven Wright.
If they leave, they'll just be replaced by others who are willing to do what they weren't. The allure of wealth and status is powerful, especially in a time when people are divided into a small group that does extremely well and a much larger one that has to work harder every day just to get by.

The solution for Facebook employees is not to leave, it's to organize. If Facebook employees were organized they'd have power, and then they could use that power to force management to stop running the company in ways that make them ashamed to tell people they work there.
I'm no fan of the right, but saying that Shapiro's arguments are facile is being intentionally blind to reality. There are not many who are better at debate and making strong arguments. He's one of the best and probably the best on the right.

At his events he asks the audience to disagree with him. He gets excited when a guest disagrees with him. He'll also call them out when they say something that can't be backed up. He's constantly sharpening his positions.

If you can make better arguments, then you should start doing so. Seriously. Because not many can.
The size of the network also increases the number of their paying consumers, so I don't think that's a good excuse for them. Two Californias side by side would have half the mean time between fires, but also twice the budget to prevent them better.
Is this orthogonal approach to GitHub, etc ?

On GitHub you navigate to project(repo), then drill down to sub section provides specific piece of functionality (repo, commits, issues, wiki..)

Here you navigate to app then drill down to project..
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State channels will never be part of the core Ethereum protocol. The idea has always been for projects like that to be built independently on top.
The same happens here, on HN. 2-3 years ago there were mostly articles about programming, computing and information technology (as originally intended), but now it mostly consists of mainstream news, politics and depressing stories about the end of the world.
(It's better than half year ago, though, now only 80% BBCs and nytimes, not 100%)
This might get downvoted for being political, but I find it completely fascinating that 2 polar opposites, both Trump and Zuckerberg, seem to be employing the exact same tactics. They both are very divisive when there is controversy and both link people they are battling against to Soros.
Sure, but they are smart at the industries of the past. Will bureaucratic Germany be able to adapt? I don't think so. Take electric cars for instance. Much simpler than traditional cars. Will devastate the Mittelstand.
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Slate and ceramic tile roofs are good options - they are not combustable and will not melt. I'm not sure they would hold up to a 15 meter log landing on them, but they really do reduce the chance of your house burning.
>Monopolies are predominantly, in anti-trust law, judged by market (pricing) power, not raw market percentage.

In theory sure. In practice, explain the Whole Foods/Wild Oats case, in which Trader Joe's/Albertson's/etc could start carrying the goods overnight.

>This directly relates to whether there is effective competition in the market—which may be slightly different than your question of whether buyers can switch to an alternative; it is more whether the alternative(s) are empirically substitutes rather than parallel non-substituting markets, whether or not buyers are able to switch.

My point is that there can be "effective competition" even if there are zero competitors at the moment; what matters is whether someone could come online and compete away the excessive profits, so you can't just look at the current competitors.

That's the point of toy example: there is zero alternative to me for SilasX-labor. You should not thereby conclude that there is "ineffective competition".
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Pretty cool. Works here too: https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_c_compiler
I wish there are more articles like this. Seeing how performance characteristics (specificity/sensitivity) effect business outcomes is really insightful! It would be cool if you can improve the performance metric of this model, how much money/impact that would make on a business.
Why do you think trump and Zuckerberg are opposites? Zuckerberg has been a colossal asshole since before he started Facebook.
The great thing about triathlon training is that if you have a minor running injury you can just stop running for a few weeks to let it heal and focus on swimming, cycling, and resistance training instead. It's totally possible to endure hard training until you're >80.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_Buder#Triathlon_career
What "mistake" are you referring to? It's hard for me to see the mistake. She joined a startup, enjoyed wild success, likely was rewarded well monetarily, and left to go do new things.
Is this just not an network effects and lock-in?
Both are billionaires. Maybe they have more in common than many think.

EDIT: Grammar
>anti-Semitism (claiming the protestors were working for Soros)

That's not anti-semitism and you do yourself a disservice if you convince yourself it is. It's like claiming everyone mad at the Koch brothers is just racist against Dutch decent.
Is this not the thesis[1] of (and motivation for) the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter? Weird to see this drivel repeated on HN.

1. https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18037580/pittsburgh-shooter-a...

edit: added reference for downvoters.
How much do you think unskilled work is worth? How much should he and his teenage friends get paid to flip burgers and make pizza?

And honestly, if you are competing with a 16 year old for a job, there are larger issues than the minimum wage.

Maybe the real answer is to make it easier for adults to get training for jobs that can’t be done by a 16 year old.
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Maybe. Depends on the facts (what you provided are not exactly facts, just a fact) and the claim for liability.

Questions/issues include:

1. Did you build the wall? Were you negligent in building the wall? Did you breach some professional/industry standard?

2. Did you intend to knock the wall down? Were you negligent in knocking the wall down? Did you know or should you have known if you lean against the wall it will fall?

There are an infinite number of facts one could make up that might change the claim and outcome of liability (also note This is generally about civil liability, but it could possibly extend to criminal liability when talking about death).

There is a pretty famous liability case all Law school students come across early in their torts class, as I recall a driver’s tire blew and he lost control of the vehicle and killed someone. Are the liable? Well come to find out that yes, all drivers have a duty to other drivers to make sure their vehicle is safe for the road and in this case a “reasonable person” (another legal term of art) would have known it was not safe to drive on bald tires and the driver was negligent not maintaining their vehicle safety which was the proximate cause of the death.
Aparently only straight white Christian men are allowed to be advocates for free markets — otherwise you’re called an Uncle Tom.

This is incredibly offensive and is itself racist.
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> ...Raspberry Pis (we really need a better plural)...

Raspberry Tau comes to mind. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_(geometry)#Tau_proposals). It could mean just two Raspberry Pis, or I guess any amount more than one.
> I'm just saying that the "George Soros is only being targeted because he's jewish" argument is a shitty cop out.

You are moving the goalposts. You first asked why only Soros was being targeted and not other liberal, Jewish billionaires. That was proven false (Bloomberg, Steyer also targeted) and now you are trying out a new line of reasoning that is just as thin.
for self hosting, does it support LDAP/AD/etc?
I see it as much more like Linkedin - I have to maintain a presence to communicate with a few people, but I don't spend my free time there.
Interested in learning how folks are approaching data visualization in Python, particularly around reporting of business metrics.

It's possible to do static charts server-side with something like Chartify. Or dump the data into the browser and render client-side with D3.js or similar. I've also seen a hybrid approach with Jupyter notebooks that allow exploration of the data in code.

What have people found success with?
I think the key claim here is that the manager should have intuitive understanding of the core value adding functions of the company. Not of every function. Being intrinsically motivated about the core value adding process should be considered a superpower.

A stereotypical example: Nokia vs Apple. The Nokia leadership - just before Iphonegeddon hit all the incumbents - really weren't enthusiastic about their technology nor of their products. Where as in Apple the CEO was deeply involved at least in an editorial role and sourced key components himself, like the glass.

I really would love to hear a counterexample where the company with the aloof macroeconomist golfer at the helm beat the company managed by domain afficionados.

I presume it would be in the commodities, but I'm hoping to be surprised.
Thanks - so the integrations could also be maintained by the partners. That makes a lot of sense.
This is somewhat tangential, but what exactly does Palantir do? From what I understand, they're a glorified consulting company that does data visualization, so why do they get so much attention?
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Abstinence.
It's true. iirc he's been a giant douche his entire life according to people that have known him.
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Revenue numbers aren't mentioned in the article. Does anyone know about the multiple (valuation/revenue) they've raised at?
Alright, I'm curious, what exactly has the RPi done for "the industry"? As far as I can tell, it's largely used as an overpowered LED blinker or a reasonably-powered media player.
Bitcoin and the crypto market is once again crashing hard
Obviously from the school of thought that amateurs (chaps who know chaps) know best just like Sir Bonar Neville-K

https://twitter.com/sirbonar

And of course the star of SIS Kim

This is a parody account "I hope"
There are two problems. Enforcing good old-fashioned antitrust system has effectively stopped and there is no new solutions to new problems.
+1 this is very important to me, and without it won't be transitioning to 2.0.
News for you: FAANG companies pay garbage salaries in their EU offices (Switzerland is not EU). Source: glassdoor.com
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I don't think you can separate it from age, because having a lot of money and having an elite position are both highly correlated with being near retirement age.

There was an earlier generation that had secretaries to type things for them, and computer operators were essentially the same thing to them, before or after PCs were invented.

My mother was a computer programmer in the 50s through the 70s, and she started out as an engineering assistant. It was considered a low level position compared to an actual engineer.
1 USB port should be the standard. the 2x2 port connectors are huge.

Is there a mini RJ45 connector yet? That would benefit from shrinking too.
This depends on what you think a manager's job is. If you think it is to "be the boss", to run things, to make decisions, to tell people what to do, then yes, relevant experience matters.

But there's another view of a manager's job, and that is to create an environment where they can get their work done without having to worry about bullshit like schedules, budgets, and politics. For that kind of a role, a non-technical person can be a great fit, possibly better than a technical one.
I haven't used scientific linux since version 6, but it was a very nice centos alternative at the time.
There is a significant genetic component to the effect of salt on blood pressure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144382/
It's unlikely Python is to blame for that, unless they implemented something very CPU bound in it. I wrote wxPython apps in 2000 or so and they were very responsive.
I am not sure which is best. But searx also looks interesting.

https://www.searx.me
> UK is 400v phase-phase and 230v phase-neutral. The distribution transformers are three-phase out and the LV main serving a street is 3 phase wires and a neutral, each house is fed from one of the phases and connected to the neutral.

Good to know.

> My understanding of the standard US system is that the distribution transformer is fed with one phase, the secondary side of the transformer has a centre-tap neutral and two live phases which have 120v to neutral and 240v phase-phase.

yes
I occasionally share kid pics with relatives, and keep in touch with the martial arts school I attend. It's a perfectly fine tool for me, but I see how everyone else uses it and it makes me feel slightly sick each time I open it up.
Those were the golden years. Not that I'm a wrestling expert (quite the opposite), but the WWF was not quite so grandiose - Hogan reported that headlining in Wrestlemania would get you about $150K.

I think the truth lies between. "After rumors of Hulk's infidelity, Linda filed for divorce in 2007. At the time it was revealed that Hogan's personal net worth was $30-40 million."

I don't see it hitting $250M.

And I don't see his future retirement income taking a $50M hit because of the video. He's still entitled to royalties and residuals. His multitude of racist remarks, perhaps, however...
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Intrinsyc makes boards with Snapdragon SoC's, but the prices are a bit eye popping. Here's their Snapdragon 845 based one, which is north of $1000: https://www.intrinsyc.com/snapdragon-embedded-development-ki...
I disagree. The Jewish Chronicle specifically links the use of "globalists" as an anti-Semitic dog whistle term to George Soros.

https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/what-does-the-term-glo...
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Wow, they based on Linux 4.18! Good for them! I was worried they’d pick 4.14 or earlier, which would have been regrettable in terms of keeping the speculation attack mitigations maintainable.
Not in RHEL 8 but I'm working with a student on this. There's a rather general non-technical article here:

https://next.redhat.com/2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-...
> just to have it flagged in a few minutes?

Why do you assume a long, well-referenced comment would be flagged? What has your 1 day of experience on HN shown you to make that assumption?

> They way I've written it is more than enough to convey what I mean.

Maybe in your world, but not for me (and I suspect many others). It seems like you are apprehensive to say what you actually mean for some reason.
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Fraunhofer and MPI will get some of that, so at least some computer scientist will see the money, most of it will end in the pockets of consulting firms and of course surveillance tech.

IT Made in Germany is a disgrace to the brainpower in Germany.
people still consider nouveaux-rich as gaudy and uncultivated.

The extent to which this is still true is complicated. We could go back and forth trading examples of where it is, and is not. My feeling is that the jazz age was the beginning (not strictly the beginning, but a speeding up) of the end of that attitude.

It's hard to call one person gauche when it's stylish for another to own a print of a Campbells soup can. Modern-day haute couture might include a tattered tee shirt emblazened with the word "Urine". There's probably a Youtube video somewhere of Prince William wearing Crocs and "dabbing". There is little agreement over what "is done" these days.

there's a very real classism in both the US and (even more so) the UK for example

Sure. Actually, if you include racism, the US might best the UK. However, while classism exists, it is also taboo. People regard and treat others differently because of class, but they seldom admit it (even to themselves!). So the case still is, in both countries, that the majority profess to hold egalitarian views.