skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the makers. You can view the full set of data points at https://www.comp.fyi

There is a caveat that this is Bay Area comp for the most part but if you ask engineers that recently got offers at these companies, you'll find similar numbers. I personally have friends that have even gotten these types of offers.
Having just finished recruiting for new grad positions in SV with my peers, I can say that the new grad list here has approximately consistent numbers with what we’ve been seeing
> who to do business with and don’t like that race...

Although not the historical reason, a far simpler one is: you can change your mind and ideas but can't change your race.

In addition, it is that behavior and not that belief that gets the racist removed from the premises. You can choose to be quiet about your ideas where they are not welcome, but you can't choose to not be your race where it is not welcome.
> the company blatantly tells its investors that its competitors aren’t just other streaming platforms, but rather literally anything viewers do in their leisure time that is not watching Netflix—quite literally including “going out to dinner with friends or enjoying a glass of wine with their partner, just to name a few.”

Why optimize for screen time? They get payed through monthly subscriptions not per minute. Shouldn’t they optimize for user satisfaction, or lock in then?
Well aside from implying that they want people to become violent: https://twitter.com/RevLeftRadio/status/909456034527371264

They also openly call for violence, including executions, of people that they don't like (although those tweets seem to have been deleted now): https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/12/13/patreon-al...

(Please excuse that source, like I said they have deleted the most offensive tweets recently. Originally this was part of a discussion surrounding Sam Harris leaving patreon, which is where I read about it.)
You can't run an Electron app on the web without changing code either, seeing as it's a browser AND a webserver combo.

You also don't take a webapp and separate server and just drop the two into a folder and run it as an Electron app without changing code
Perhaps I'm naive, but you're saying that without your grossly overpowered military the USA would be overtaken by... Mexico? Canada?

This is textbook naive. China/Russia, to begin with.

Plus: there doesn't need to be a imminent invasion danger. Without the US protection of commercial sea routes, global economy would suffer a serious blow, which would affect Asian and South American countries way more than the US.
From my perspective, it's the opposite. I think that "If they're smart and fun to implement a Christmas hat on the icon, they're possibly nice guys, and won't do something sinister".

This is coming from my 20+ years of experience with computers and applications. I've seen that programs with easter eggs may have some stupid bugs, but won't have something sinister inside them. OTOH, applications with some very serious and no-nonsense attitude has the most advanced "phone home" mechanisms.

This is my experience though. I'd happily stand corrected if I'm wrong.
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Do not confuse getchar(3) with read(2). From the manual page for read(2) (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/read.2.html):

On success, the number of bytes read is returned (zero indicates end
of file), and the file position is advanced by this number. [...]

On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. In this
case, it is left unspecified whether the file position (if any)
changes.
That's exactly what I thought. You just include what you use. Either developer does it on a confijguration screen, a tool does it with analysis on what code reaches what other code, or both. It would also help if Chrome is designed to make this easier.

eCos is prior work on OS side that made me always think of designing systems for easy stripping.

http://ecos.sourceware.org/about.html
You're probably thinking of this: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral.html
Circle Trade and Cumberland do OTC trades of large amounts. Nothing is magical about this. https://www.circle.com/en/trade
This seems as if its pointed at me. I will say that I find it sad that modern discourse has reached such a sad state that we suspect everyone who has a nonconformist opinion of being a bot/robot/astroturfer.

All I will say is that I am no lover of China. Chinese civilization, like Western civilization has exhibited anti-black tendencies and attitudes. The Chinese are great lovers of African markets, but not African people.

I do encourage you though to try to understand the African perspective on this issue, as well as other related issues that you may not generally understand before you try to characterize it as propaganda. Modern Africa is in a state of flux and deeply in need of infrastructure. There are many who say there are heavy costs to Chinese built infrastructure in Africa, Those same analysts will not reflect on the severe costs currently to Africa of its lack of infrastructures. The absence of intra-regional rail, highways, of connected electricity grids, of pipes and pipelines. If the West is truly concerned about African welfare, they can always step to the fore with their own expansive infrastructure agenda, but they largely won't, and we all know the reason why.
Apologies for not reading through these links, but does this fix just the caller-id issue, or the routing issue - i.e. routing an SMS to a bad actor?
Someone like Jordan Paterson is absolutely not like Stormfront. Refusing to support a best selling author and professor because some vocal activists have launched a smear campaign against him is not some sort of proxy for morality.

Businesses are doing things because their owners want to punish certain opinions, regardless of how popular they are. Visa and Mastercard are using their monopoly power as payment processors to interfere in elections and punish people who say certain things. And people on Hacker News are fine with this, because muh you should just make your own banking infrastructure! Free Market.
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This doesn't seem like a big mystery. It would not take a smear campaign or some kind of major boycott to cost a company that became too closely associated in the public imagination with alt-right whackjobs.
I've done delphi in the past but I haven't heard about it for a while. How big is the community nowadays? What about libs? Package manager? Dependency-hell? Unit-testing frameworks and other toolings? How easy is it to stop the whole application and inspect everything, evaluate some code in parent stack and see if the issue was resolved so that you know exactly what to do?

It's not only about GUI designer and fast cross-platform compiler.
QtWebEngine embeds Chromium as its web engine, which means it is going to have the same performance and disk size costs as Electron. The circle is now complete and you might as well just use Electron.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen this kind of products at least 10 years ago. I imagine there's a difference, but I don't quite see which one.
Dollar General is not a dollar store. ):
I'd give it a year before they buy someone like Hiya.
Bad way to ask. What else could it be anyway?
Even if it takes a while, it's much more convenient to native compile than cross-compile for linux distro maintainers and those who are compiling ARM packages.

Cross-compilation gives you performance, but a lot of other headaches... and currently using a quad or hex-core ARM takes quite a long time... so this would give a significant performance boost, especially with the 32GB of ram it seems to have.
my point exactly, browsers care what mime type you use and the extension is meaningless. I thought I was pretty clear on this matter?
Because the cylindrical Earth experiment neglects the reaction forces of a sailboat's keel, or the land-boat's
wheels. The propeller shaft would just rotate, you need that cylindrical Earth to have, essentially, a ballscrew spline.

You can't generate the differential with clever aileron wings, either - has to be in a different medium, otherwise the thing would just tumble.
From a fundamentals perspective, blockchain has a bright future:

lending - https://dharma.io

derivatives - https://dydx.exchange

forecasting/gambling - https://www.augur.net

on-chain "US dollars" - https://mkr.tools
Black Monday is the edge case
It doesn't work, and i'm in the UK too. Bad actors simply ditch their LTD Co when they eventually get a small fine and some use it as a whitelist of active numbers to use. IIRC there was an idea about making directors of companies who flout this personally responsible, I wonder if this happened?
It would be interesting if consumer grade parts could hit a low enough price point for server boards without easily serviced parts [integrated CPU, mem, basic storage]. Maybe you could have cheap boards that deliver high reliability in aggregate.
> as long as you could document the source was legit it would probably be ok.

But how many of these ICO's actually did proper KYC/AML stuff? My guess is very, very few, making getting fiat money into a legitimate bank much more difficult.
It’s actually just a mark of bad writing. Lots of books do it too, but it’s less common coz you get a lot of practice before you attempt a book.

First rule of good writing: Start the story as late as you can get away with. Preferably right before the punchline.

Compare:

1) I woke up that morning, showered, put on my shoes, and went on a hike. It was a beautiful day the sun was shining the bees were buzzing. I walked for 30 minutes when I happened upon a bear in the road.

2) Shit, is that a bear!? I was on a hike in the Rocky mountains in the middle of nowhere and there’s this bear rught in front of me. Now what do i do?

Ok I’m not doing these examples justice but think of your favorite stories: Do they start with the action or with the long wind up? In modern storytelling the windup usually comes during/after the action as backstory.

A counter example are horror movies and thrillers where you want to build suspense first.
The USA has a similar solution. See https://www.donotcall.gov/ for details. Until fairly recently, it also worked pretty well. And still does for legitimate companies doing phone solicitation. (Excepting political parties, because they are exempt from the law.)

However spoofers who know that they won't be tracked back to the source don't care about do not call lists.
In germany robocalls are illegal and the caller can get a huge fine.
You could write your own service... some thin agent that runs on your boxes and dumps the files every hour to some storage optimized boxes (your data lake)... where another process picks up those files periodically (or by getting a notification that something new is present) and loads them into a Postgres instance (you actually probably want column oriented).

Running every hour, you won’t get up to the second or minute data points. For more critical sections of code, maybe have your code directly log to an agent on the machine that periodically flushes those calls to some logging service.
my favorite game genre- is RPG fantasy.
in articular an isometric view world exploration is what holds my interest.
In particular, a game that is fluid in its story line is important, even a doom like FPSG is in my tops list if there is a story or underlying world to negotiate.
Hypothesis: most of advertising has always been fake. The subscription numbers of newspapers did not equal the number of people seeing your ad, and even if they did see it they probably didn't pay much attention. The 70's TV-watcher would use the commercial break to go to the restroom. People listening to a 30's radio serial would talk to each other about it during the ad, I bet. Anything driven by ads, is inherently going to be mostly fake, since it is not usually information that the user wants, but you're trying to convince the user that they want it. Which is easier, forcing the user to pay attention to the ad, or convincing the person paying for the ad, that it happened when it did not? The latter will always be easier.
This point has come up a lot in earlier discussions; the short summary of it is that signatures/blockchains/whatever can't provide anything useful in this regard.

I really don't want to repeat all of this here, but in essence: (1) you'd need all (and I mean all, not most; so all the currently existing devices need to be replaced) of devices that can capture video (and thus can sign/confirm the thing that they captured) to be fully outside of user control, if 0.01% of devices are jailbroken, it fails; (2) you'd need all the manufacturers of such devices (which put the appropriate secrets in the devices) and all the supply chain in between to be 100% trustworthy, since if a manufacturer gives 100 phones to a spy agency that'll happily sign anything as "unadulterated" then it fails; (3) you'd need to figure out a magic way to prevent the analog loophole, as with specialized expensive optics you could project arbitrary pixels to the camera sensor so that the camera would "believe" that it's seeing the exact pixels in reality.

A blockchain would allow you to securely assert things like "this data was seen and signed by device #1234/(or approved by user id #456) no later than this moment", and not more than that. It can't really prove that this data reflects reality somehow; a physical device that has the technical ability to take a picture of my face and add a "it's unadulterated" tag to it can be used (with appropriate effort) to take a fake AI-generated picture and add the same "it's unadulterated" tag.
This is the opposite of a fine line. One is something you are born with/into. The other is a conscious choice.
Perception is reality in a lot of the bigger orgs. That said, physics and economics still catch up sooner or later, though typically later.

Glad to hear you've moved on. I hope the current 'thing you do all day' isn't quite as easily fooled.
> Social media platforms and the internet generally, substantially weaken the power of culture to regulate speech in the way that it used to.

I fail to see how this is the case. It does absolutely grant the power to regulate speech. What Social media platforms have changes is that the people who are carrying out the informal regulation of speech have shifted to being a very narrow subset of the population, and one that is overwhelmingly made up of one category of culture. Tech, especially in the Bay Area, is effectively a political monoculture. Support for Republicans is often in the single digits[0].

The evidence really does indicate that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Despite the constant concern over Trump's comments on immigrants, for example, support for immigration in the US is at record levels.[1][2] Despite the concern over explicitly fascist rallies at Charlottesville and DC, these rallies actually cased a significant drop in support for far-right.[3] And lastly, while the Republican has become a party of Trump and has adopted much of his rhetoric the result has been largely bad for the party. They lost over a dozen seats in the midterm election - surprising given that the midterms are when the Republicans tend to do well.

Yes, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the data demonstrates it. Ironic, then, that some would want to shield these views that they despise from said disinfectant.

0. https://www.recode.net/2018/10/31/18039528/tech-employees-po...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/immigration-polls-dona...

2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/235793/record-high-americans-sa...

3. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/09/alt-weake...
Let me rephrase. It is mostly hokum with precious little legitimacy and to make matters worse, it is used for important things like deciding the fate of someone's career.
I have given this hypothesis about 2 minutes' thought, so it could be wrong, of course.
Thanks for the tip! I never would have thought of it.
Peterson, Sam Harris and whoever else is involved would probably agree with you, they are now talking about setting up a competitor to Patreon. These people are real financial heavyweights and could probably do it.
I have delayed sleep phase and no amount of sleep hygeine (both valid and crazy hyppie nonsense) has helped. All the suplements in the world didn't help. I've done it all, no screens, special bulbs in my lamps, all of it. My therapist told me my only option was sleep medication or just finding a job that would let me use my natural waking time of 9 am.

I managed the later and my life is amazing. I get a full 8 hours of sleep every night. The best way to explain my sleep schedule is count off 5 hours from sunset, that's about when I start to feel tired. Count off 9 hours from there, that's when I'll probably wake up.

Summer is pretty obnoxious with how late I get to sleep. Winters I can maintain an almost normal schedule.

It probably makes sense that we evolved a variety of offsets (both late sleepers and obnoxiously early risers) for our circadian cycles. It creates a natural subset of tribe members that are alert during some of the natural sleeping hours of the majority. The fact that such owls are more mentally stimulated or creative might be selecting for skills that were productive during the dark hours and furthered survival such as repairing or improving hunting weapons, baskets, and the like.

As we've outgrown most of our survival pressures, it'd make sense for those genetic minorities to be more freely distributed and for the circadian rhythms of the population at large to drift and become more mixed since it no longer matters if a majority of your "tribe" has a suboptimal rhythm.
Have you considered that we see the growing use of Nazi lingo because the amount of violence being committed by neo-nazis is rising?

You can say 'believe whatever you want', but what we've clearly seen is that belief turning into action. This in turn is why platforms are taking action against them.
Right now, any robocall hacker in the world can instantly take over your phone’s screen, knocking you out of your mobile gaming experience, disrupting you as you check out at the store, or breaking your concentration as you try and type out an email.

jesus christ, call james bond, this is a super-villain grade world domination issue
>"Trying to prevent people from arguing for an evil (E) never stops E long term. It should be fought with reason and counter-arguments, not with silencing the speaker. Suppressing the speaker can indicate, especially to those wavering, that there are no reasonable counter-arguments and there must be something true in the message that controlling powers are trying to suppress."

This "marketplace of ideas" and the idea that fascism can be argued away is demonstrably not working. Trying to engage a True Believer in debate simply lets them use the exposure to spread their ideology, they and their adherents simply feed on the controversy.

That's why a large segment of the alt-right run around daring people to "debate" them, because they know all exposure is good exposure, when it comes to the segment they're targeting.

By debating fascists, you implicitly give credence to the notion that their ideology is valid and worthy of civil discourse, when it is in fact the direct opposite of free speech and freedom for all.
> But there aren't. It's an illusion of diversity.

Indeed. A good example is how much trouble Snowden had in finding newspapers willing to publish him. Same goes for Wikileaks.
Some did. Peak births per year happened in 1957, and during the boom, total births were skewed toward the latter end of the 1947 to 1965 period. In 2017 the median retirement age in the USA seems to have been 62, I can only imagine that number will have increased over 2018 and will continue to increase as the markets stagnated. That would put us just now approaching peak retirement rates. Add to that the fact that investment advisors still seem to want to wait most people toward equities for their first few years of retirement (at 60, your investment horizon is still 20 years out these days...) switching fully to more fixed income and few years in, I think that all is a recipe for the rotation just beginning.
I'm not so sure. This is a company that sells sub $100 computers after all.

It depends on the type of ARM core and the manufacturing process. If it has 24 A53 cores then it wouldn't beat a 4 core desktop CPU from 2012. If it has 24 A72 cores but a manufacturing process older than 28nm then it still wouldn't be competitive with anything on 14nm or better.
Not an audiophile either, and only a vague understanding of sbc, aptx, etc ... however the quality issue for me is more around the overall bt audio experience than just the sound reproduction.
Dear Internet Help Desk,
I cannot help myself. Therefore I am asking you to ban everything and everyone who disagrees with me.
I blame everyone. Except me.
Please change them all so I can open my eyes again.
What is the point in that now? It is going to be a similar size as Chromium. You might as well just use Electron.

As a matter of fact, Chromium's/Chrome's engine Blink was forked off from WebKit back in 2013. Current WebKit is Apple's not-quite-as-well-updated version of the engine in old Chrome.
This is already starting to happen. Where's the hellfire?

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/card-payment-gu...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/banks-gun-sales....

https://nypost.com/2018/06/11/gun-businesses-scrambling-afte...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/could-credit-card-companie...
It's also possible to use a propeller sail to go directly upwind in water. You don't need gearing in water if you pick the right pitch on your underwater propeller relative to the pitch of your sail/fan.

http://www.sailwings.net/windspinner.html
When the client of the robocaller who wants to sell something is fined then there are soon no more orders for robocaller.
No I work in telecom and he's not onto anything. It's technically impossible for one, and the ROI wouldn't be there even if it was.

The ROI on spray and pray is high enough. (EDIT: Not as high as like actual legit telecommunications services but it takes a tiny fraction of the expertise.) Literally all the information they need is your phone number. They just spoof the "from" number, often to appear to be a toll-free number or a number in your area code and crank out as many calls as their carriers will let them without shutting them down. The underlying costs are cheap enough where only a teeeeensy percentage of people have to fall for it for it to be worth it.
I definitely agree that parallelism isn’t held back by fundamentally serial work. Even with LZ decompression, most algorithms entropy encode the LZ sequences, and these sequences can be decoded in parallel with the LZ decoder.
> Your statement implies that those two groups of people are somehow differing in temperament such that one has more violent tendencies than the other.

I don't buy that, today many say things like "Men are on average more prone to violence than women" without intending it in an essentialist way. So then why would "Jamaicans are on average more prone to violence than Japanese" have to be essentialist?

The interesting part is that few people take the same stance on both of these statements, people thinking the first is fine rarely accepts the second and vice versa. Seems like this argument is more about each side shutting down ideas they are uncomfortable with.
And what about when the line is you? Will that also be OK?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

-- Martin Niemoeller