skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest on coinmarketcap that are not proof of work:

XRP, EOS, Tether, Stellar, Tron, Cardano.

All with >$1bn cap.
Participating in a social cue...? I just... I don't know.

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally capable of being offended by inane low-content posts on the internet. But I also put some effort into filtering my responses in deference to the recognition of my own biases and insular perspective. I fail a lot, but I try.

Shakna's response seemed to lack any such self awareness. Maybe I'm wrong; maybe i'm speaking from a bubble again. But I do know, and I hate to point out the obvious here, that this is HN -- pretty much the opposite of any sort of health-issue-specific forum. If you post a note regarding a health issue here, you will get advice, likely involving keto nowadays.

I understand Shakna's desire to mold HN into a place better suited to the specific needs of folks like Shakna. Nothing wrong with that. But Shakna's "decade of experience in the nuances of social dynamics in the context of chronic illness" is a lot of weight to expect a random techy internet forum thread to bear, and politely hand-slapping a random dude in a forum replete with dedicated keto experimenters is... well... it clearly risks frustration, right?
all of my experience with McKinsey has been an utter waste. Worked with multiple contractors on multiple backend database projects. They work like a walking ad for AWS services but dont actually know shit. We have a 10+TB dataset (growing by gigs each day) that is spread across a few postgres servers. These servers are decent but foreseen as bottle neck in coming years.

This guys suggestion is to put our data in redis b/c it's fast and in memory. Looking up hosted REDIS solutions, (redislabs, we use for other smaller cache redis things). To put 1 TB of data in standard redis server would be ~50k/month :p
The one thing that personally really angers me is that many institutions are exponentially harder to break into unless you come from a specific, moneyed background. You basically need to go to an elite preschool, to go to an elite primary school (usually private), to go to an elite secondary school, to get into an elite university, to get into an elite company in an elite sector (consulting, investment banking, arguably SV tech more often than not). To this class of people, spending $60k+ a year*, per child is nothing since they have been spending that much since the child was born. I've met more than a handful of these people that I wonder what, if anything, they learned.
I wonder if the industry eventually plans to address In-App Purchase fees, it is always worth it for small companies since it offers payment process, presence at global level, marketing tools, international transactions and some protection against fraud. But if you are a big game development company those benefits don't add-up and you already would have those tools/frameworks already in place.
Treat it like the tool it is. Just because you have one doesn't mean you need to get addicted to it. This is lack of discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85
I actually don't think a study is needed, because it's not a one-size fits all debate, I think which you agree with, too. I could argue either side for different teams, companies, velocity, goals. Just like your example, I'm a believer in dynamic for quick tooling, smaller teams, earlier product life cycle, etc. And static for larger products, with dynamic team composition, and longer life cycles, etc...
The fact that you did not do whatever it is that you did without any modicum of help or luck does not mean you are not self-made. You can take credit for your accomplishments. It's ok. We don't have to live in a binary, all or nothing world. You can acknowledge that you got lucky, while simultaneously acknowledging that you were smart and hard working to achieve whatever it is that you have. Maybe in your case it was entirely due to luck, but I seriously doubt it.
At one previous employer I submitted a feature request for the time tracker that would have saved a lot of time - it was a button that would generate something that was basically "like last week but with some plausible looking random changes".

Now I think about it - should have been a cron job, maybe that was why it was rejected.
If it is Project Stream, Google better announce some serious partnerships alongside the service. Their best bet would probably be to outright buy a major publisher - maybe Ubisoft or Take-two has a price tag?
Yeah but this policy is not that helpful if high quality output is demanded at a fast rate. The same situation that forces someone to work overtime in a 5 day week is still present.
That sure sounds like a day of productive work or a day of doing nothing being covered over with some made up fluff. One or the other.
Sorry! Our anti-clickbait software isn't perfect. I've fixed it above. For the future, you should be able to correct the problem using the 'edit' link after you post.
I like that we keep talking about privilege, no matter how much it irks the hacker news elite. I have a previous comment about this[0], so I will not go into too much detail.

Nobody thinks they are rich or privileged. Now, the Hendersons down the street? THOSE PEOPLE are rich! I feel that people underestimate the huge effect of having a safety net under them.

It is the difference between going to the amazing state school and the local community college.

It is the difference between paying attention and learning in class and sleeping through it because you had to get up at 6 am to work an 8-hour shift.

It is the difference between living in a studio apartment, 45 minutes from school in the bad part of town and living in the beautiful two-bedroom top-floor loft in Logan Square.

It is the difference between a data entry job, and an unpaid research internship with your professors.

It is the difference between sleeping on a couch for 3 months while you look for your first job, and having a place to stay and prepare.

It is the difference between taking the first job you can get, and holding out until you find a better one.

It's the difference between a loan for a house and a loan to your parents to pay off medical debt.

Think about every step, every decision you have made in your life and consider if you would have made the same choices if your life was different.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098317
Here's GCC 8 providing diagnostics (see also -vec-all)

$ g++ -march=haswell -Ofast -fopt-info-vec-missed x.C -c
x.C:8:23: note: interleaved store with gaps
x.C:8:23: note: not vectorized: complicated access pattern.
x.C:8:23: note: bad data access.
x.C:8:23: note: not vectorized: not enough data-refs in basic block.
x.C:12:41: note: not vectorized: no grouped stores in basic block.
x.C:8:23: note: Build SLP failed: unrolling required in basic block SLP
x.C:8:23: note: Build SLP failed: unrolling required in basic block SLP
x.C:14:3: note: not vectorized: not enough data-refs in basic block.

and here's GCC nearly-9:

$ g++ -march=haswell -fopt-info-vec-all -Ofast x.C -c
x.C:8:23: optimized: loop vectorized using 32 byte vectors
x.C:5:8: note: vectorized 1 loops in function.
x.C:12:14: note: ***** Re-trying analysis with vector size 16
x.C:8:23: note: ***** Re-trying analysis with vector size 16

In addition to what others have said, you typically need "restrict" on array args, and -ffast-math, or at least -funsafe-math-optimizations (in -Ofast), for things like reductions. (You need -funsafe-math-optimizations for NEON generally, per GCC docs.) A BLAS-like library still passes its tests with -ffast-math.

I've recently had GCC 8 get about 2/3 the performance on haswell for a generic C optimized DGEMM micro-kernel as the hand-optimized one of similar structure which uses intrinsics/assembler. Without checking, the expert expects the performance difference to be due to prefetch and unrolling, which the generic kernel doesn't leave to the compiler.
Coke does taste differently - the ingredients are different even across Europe. I always look forward to visiting Germany because I always bring a 4-pack back.
One of the interesting (but little-discussed) aspects of the minimum wage debate is how it interacts with automation.

Historically, the cost of building a robot to do someone's job was in most cases effectively infinite (i.e. it could not be done no matter how much money you throw at the problem). Now, it seems like it's potentially in the $20-50/hour range for many industries, by which I mean not currently cost-competitive with existing labor, but getting close.

It would be a fairly significant unintended consequence if setting the national minimum wage to $15 were to actually eliminate entire job categories like fruit picker and burger flipper, due to pushing the minimum cost of labor above the cost of automating the role.

It's very interesting to watch developments like those described in the OP, since they will probably see sigmoid-like adoption; pretty much zero, until someone gets a model that's cost-competitive, and then I'd imagine quite wide adoption within a couple years. I don't think a minimum wage is going to solve the social unrest that this kind of technological change will bring.
If I own box.com can no one else sell boxes? It's just a namespace.
Sure, but lots of people are born rich and don't go anywhere. Yes, it's helpful to have something to fall back on, and yes, successful people from well off backgrounds should acknowledge that fact. But it doesn't mean that their accomplishments aren't their own.
Is this an attack that can be mitigated by a firmware update?
That's the wrong question.

Would Bill Gates have been able to do what he did if he grew up poor, with poor nutrition and poor education? We all owe our success to good fortune and the prosperous society we find ourselves lucky enough to be a part of.
I do think it's a good topic for engineers to discuss, though, because you can tell a lot about various peoples backgrounds, etc. on how dogmatic they are one way or the other, or even if they have more pragmatic attitudes on the topic.
Ayn Rand is back from the dead, and she's posting on HN!

In all seriousness though, the excesses of certain rich people are pretty gross. I once saw a guy spend $20k (of inherited money) on a fancy showerhead. Kids who go into foster care are 3x more likely to go to prison and unlikely to reach higher education. "Equal opportunity" indeed.
With the average cost of wedding in the US being above $35k (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-average-american-...), $45k of downpayment seems to be well within the means of an average family.
Use Yarn Like a Pro
in Poland every ebook i DRM free distributed in epub and mobi formats.
Or the Apache foundation.
> You can see some of that history of what we call some of the different sorts of numbers: e.g. Negative, irrational, and imaginary numbers. Each of these represents a bitter argument about whether a new type of number should be allowed, all of which were eventually won by the people on the side of the new numbers...

Was there ever a proposed type of number that is today not considered a number? Like i=squareroot(-1), was there ever an attempt to do math with something like y=1/0 or another illegal construct?
Try to register through Gandi. They give you options that decrease in price all the way down to ~$16 -- that's the "get it when it GAs" price. If someone scoops it up before you, you're refunded. Otherwise, it's yours.

I managed to get <lastname>.dev, and it's a somewhat common last name, for $133.50 on the "GA" pricing. I expect someone will grab it before then. But if not...
It really takes obsession, you have to be obsessed with what you do to output > 40-50 hour work weeks. <—- this is excluding extremely high pay which can be another motivator albeit a short term motivator
I don't think in this case McKinsey was necessarily bad for it's clients.

It may very well have simply done research on drugs for Valiant as requested. Valiant was making ultra-risky moves in buying up things it shouldn't have.

Even if there were 'insider moves' in the McKinsey fund (which I doubt but maybe it's true in some indirect way), it's easy to see independant investors somewhere else seeing that Valiant is doing some dumb things.

Goldman was involved in helping the Greek government clean up it's balance sheet in order to get into the Euro. It'd seem that in this case, it was the Greek government that likely hired Goldman due to their very prowess in 'doing whatever it takes' to get the job done. In this particular scenario, my hunch is that Goldman probably told Greek officials that the presentation of the information in such and such a way would likely cause problems, but 'the client' did it anyhow.

Also note that McKinsey in particular is not a highly centralized entity, it's almost like a 'franchise brand' with a lot of fairly independant entities that operate differently. Not exactly Subway sandwiches but it's not like Amazon either.

I'm not really defending GS or McKinsey, it's just that these things aren't black and white.

Maybe it's better to think of them as 'consiglieres' for the powers that be.
I took a photography class from this guy! Ohio represent!

On topic: I've experienced exactly what he's talking about in the field of indie game development. The entire gamedev industry is on Twitter. It was an endless treadmill of validation seeking for me. At first it's screaming into the void, then it's strategically following and unfollowing people, then eventually it's one mega tweet that gets retweeted by your childhood hero or one of the cool indie illuminati kids. It's never enough and you're never happy.

There's a super indie hip event in LA called IndieCade that I've probably spent $250 in application fees over the years trying to get my game into. I was devastated every time I got rejected. A couple months ago I got tickets for free, and coming from a fresh perspective outside the industry, it was shockingly underwhelming. There was a dad with 13-year-old daughters showing off a painfully amateur interactive fiction they wrote as a family. I couldn't believe THIS was the thing I had cared about so much.

Whatever industry bubble you're in... it's not that important and no one outside the bubble cares. And when I realized that, it felt like a huge burden lifted. :)
> I think you have it backwards. The moderation came after reddit, youtube, etc became mainstream. It didn't become mainstream because of moderation.

It's just a difference of semantics here... About what the inflection point is for "mainstream". I think there is a reasonable argument that moderation/centralization is needed to protect the "brand" once you get to a certain level of "mainstream".
Yes, that's one thing that's currently a pain. How do you judge if someone is a good fit to take over (or, even harder, co-maintain) someone else's project just by looking at their Github profile?

Currently it's based a lot of "is this person already a maintainer of widely-used OSS libraries", as this is both a good signal and (hopefully) effectively foils malicious people, since, if you wanted to deploy some malicious code, you'd probably do it on the libraries you already have.

If you have any better ideas for how to "interview" maintainers, please let me know!
Org mode for VS Code has timestamps - which I use for keeping a record of when I thought of things rather than time tracking.
A New Book Argues Weakened Communities Threaten Liberal Democracy
What? No, that's not how this works. You have freedom of speech. I have freedom of association. This is why I don't need to host your ramblings. I can choose to tell you to get off my lawn (metaphorically) and go ramble somewhere else.
These plan to operate much higher at 60k feet and won't be tethered to the ground. The additional height will give them better coverage than the radar aerostats you mention. I think removing the tether might be required for them to be used a lot because the tether seems like it'd a) weigh a lot requiring much larger stats and b) if they're dense enough the tethers could pose a danger to air traffic (at the very least you'd have to route planes to avoid them). Both of those get worse as the stat operates higher and the forces on the cable get higher. It may become an issue where the increased strength required increases the cable weight beyond the point where an cabled aerostat becomes viable.
Yann Le Cun Joins $4.5M Round for Algorithmic Music Startup Antescofo
> So while you call the comparison spurious, the fact is that no additional energy would be required to achieve the functions you think are missing.

Really, none at all to, for instance, provide physical cash? A function of current financial systems and in some countries commercial banks?

Interesting.

No more to run mobile phone wallet apps?

No more to run PoS systems?

No offices full of traders?

No helplines, advisors or support for customers?

No teams of developers puttig together trading strategies and algorithms, and building smart contracts?

No datacenters opportunistically precalculating smart-contract outcomes to try to get ahead of the market?

You're once again only looking at a tiny part of a system, and comparing it to something much more complex.
> The whole idea is not sending hker to hell of communists. The struggle of hongkonger for basic human rights are getting worse and worse. Not sure why you get this idea.

I mean, was that ever an option? So I have zero chips in this game and it is plainly obvious to me from 8,000 miles away that the writing has been on the wall since 1997: Hong Kong has autonomy for 50 years.

The various protests are just to ensure that autonomy and mainland interference... until 2047.

These are agreements that have been upheld by the international community, and Hong Kong and mainland China (with evidence of growing propaganda to align HK interests with the CCP). But real interference from mainland China before this agreement ends would be an invasion of which there is no chance of winning or gaining defense from, and they have never done that and upheld the agreement.

I wish to be empathic, as I can see the strong Hong Kong sovereign identity and the people's investment in that, but there's no outcome where that lasts past 2047, barring a new agreement, and there are outcomes where both regions align closer to ideologies.

My understanding is that Hong Kong's autonomy lasts till 2047, but the Basic Law constitution has no expiration date. There is just no framework for the Basic Law to have any weight after being absorbed back into the CCP's umbrella and supreme (but arbitrary) rule of law.

Maybe within Hong Kong it feels different as if there is a chance, but that's an echo chamber. If you want to avoid being absorbed into mainland China then you have to leave like EVERY OTHER Cantonese speaking community has done in waves for the last 200 years.

There is just not a history to support Hong Kong being an exception, it is just tolerated, for now.
That breaks down fast when the pickpocketing victim reports their phone stolen. Police have retrieved stolen phones via the pickpocketing victim running "find my phone" on their property when they realize it is gone.
It's a great idea, and certainly much needed. I wish the name wouldn't imply as much misfortune and this sense of giving all hope up on the part of the original author. They have possibly toiled along for years. Some name that inspires a sense of honor and gratitude might be a lot more attractive to potential code donors.
Israel Accused of RFID Tag Spying on Hezbollah (Photo of RFID Tag)
I totally agree. What I disagree with is the people that want to dismiss Gates success completely because his family had some money. Tens of thousands of kids have the same background that he did, but don't do anything half as incredible as starting Microsoft. While Gates should acknowledge the advantages he's had, I don't think it's unfair or unreasonable for him to feel pretty good about what he's accomplished.
I'm not saying it's an easy job, by any means, but there's not a ton of risk involved in taking an entry level job at an investment bank and trying to work your way up to MD or similar. And that track most certainly pays plenty well, even if you doin't quite get as high as the boardroom.
The great thing about social media sites is that everyone who visits them has a different idea of what the primary content on the site is. ;-)
Shouldn't the hosts file from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts + uBlock Origin + uBlock Origin Extra be the perfect anti-tracking combo?
Unless it's a "premium domain" which has a separate pricing structure, independent of the release phase, and renewal fees that stay higher forever.

Hence, right now kjaegrlkjnfvaf.dev is "$11,500 + $12/year" [0] while hn.dev is "$11,500 + $720/year" [1]

So alex.dev and aj.dev will cost $720/year forever, tim.dev, james.dev and emma.dev are $360/year, tony.dev and grace.dev are $180/year, olivia.dev and harry.dev are $98/year, yusef.dev, oscar.dev and sanjay.dev are $12/year.

Maybe not "prohibitive" but a big premium for the Alexes among us!

[0] https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search?searchTerm=kja...
[1] https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search?searchTerm=hn....
It famously applies to sportsball players as well: if you are an NBA player you pay Canadian taxes on the game check for all games in Toronto, and California taxes on your games in LA/SAC/OAK (and there are extra jock taxes and the like, but we don't need to go into that). A typical NBA player will file over 20 different tax returns for a single season.
Good questions!

1. We started by doing some research, actually - I spent some time finding studies that supported my thesis that productivity would go up (thus making sure our output would stay the same, more or less). Then I discussed with our management team, who thought I was nuts, but was supportive. Then I presented it to our board, who was also supportive. We applied it to everyone at the start, but some teams took a bit longer to get it implemented, as one of our criteria was he had to maintain 5 day coverage for our customers (ie, some have Mondays off, some have Fridays, etc.). To this day we leave the coverage patterns and rotations up to each team/department to decide.

2. In our contracts, we are paying you for 40 hours of work, 5 days a week, but we give you one of them back. Moonlighting meaning working for another company "on the side".
In answer to 2:

Buying all 5 days means that they're employed and getting paid for that fifth day, but they have no work tasks. This is so that employees can't work a second job on that day, which would be 'moonlighting'.
Headline from February of 2021

"Google Announces The End Of Project Stream"

I can't help but think there's a good number of people who just won't use this because it's Google and they will assume it'll be gone in a year or two. I guess the same goes for game developers as well.
Of all industries, you would think software companies would use some of the efficiency gains and insane profit margins to work less?

This is the logic we have at Monograph (hiring engineers btw) and we've had 4 day 32-hour work weeks for over three years now. One engineer on the team likes to take Wednesdays off which we affectionately call the "mid-weekend".

If you have more interest HuffPo and Lynne from Key Values wrote a bit about or working style:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/four-day-working-week-o...

https://www.keyvalues.com/monograph
> However, it's all static HTML

No it isn't. For example EPUB 3 supports all kinds of dynamic content including music and video and javascript.
Reasons to Pick Ionic Framework for Mobile Apps
It was the Strip House. I'm not trying to single out specific places though, more of a general feeling when in the US (and Canada incidentally).
Why would they need to buy a publisher? I'm guessing they would just launch it as a subscription service which gets you access to stream games and then you would have to buy each game individually to play them.