skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upper management pay, oof. I am at a company that went public. I was a very early employee working on the core product as a developer for the better part of a decade. I got a very nice payout (a bit over 1 million before taxes). The head of HR joined several months prior to our IPO and made over 8x what I did in equity. Like, wtf.... I can't complain as I won some start up lotto money, but, man, this head of HR _really_ lucked the f*ck out.
Meanwhile, China and Russia don't give a crap. It's nice to dream of a utopia where weapons of death and destruction aren't necessary, but we don't live in that world. We, the West, have real enemies with real weapons and plenty of money going into R&D and military spending and qualms about killing people if necessary isn't stopping them.
I don't think we need to invoke the Russians - I think an easier explanation is that some people just love being volunteer morality police. It cuts across political or religious ideologies. The justification is always prevention of harm, even though it's not at all clear to other people what specific harm is being prevented.
Where does "doxing" come into play? Why did you just whimsically group those together?

Feels like a bad faith question.
This is where I express my concern that the American government is operating outside of the Constitution and are guilty of violating our rights. Many constitutionists consider these three-letter agencies to be entirely unconstitutional.
> The idea that employees get a vote in what a company does and everything it does can only be expressed one way. Simply resign if you want.

why? why wouldn't it be a preferable situation that an option is presented that will avoid the resignations?

this actually provides options for microsoft to evaluate rather than leaving it with just post-facto realizing it was making (possibly) costly moves.
It may even be that:

* Normal-Person will increase profits by 5% and will dutifully inform the media of those gains

* Super-Exec will increase profits by 5% and will give a charismatic interview leading the market to believe that profits may increase by 10% the next year, which is reflected in an outsized 30% rise in the price of company stock

The board will hire Super-Exec for $50mm/yr because they all hold stock in the company and are thus more interested in the stock price than in the company fundamentals.
Nothing about the cancellation was a "limit". New York has not gone and closed up the gates. (That is illegal with a Constitution that guarantees free movement of labor.)

Amazon is welcome to expand without a deal, and in fact they still are, just not a brand new HQ2.
"we demand a say in how our work is used"

Then go live in some other country instead of freeloading on the protections afforded by this one.
I think this is a thought worth discussing.

It’s a problem larger than the field.

I mean, in an ideal world we could even render doctors redundant in most cases by some incredible Elysium(the film)-like medical bed.

The problem is what do we do with our time instead? It’s a question that can inspire all kinds of hope or dread depending on your outlook.
Two questions:
1) is this site "something of value"?
2) how much did you pay to access it?
I misread your pronoun. Thanks for clarifying!
Congratulations on being too clever for humility. I remember how simple life looked to me too, before I learned to start thinking.
I don't agree with you, and I think your tone is harsher than it should be, but I don't think this comment merits being flagged to [dead].
Forum post detailing how he got there:

http://www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12120
And PowerPoint. Beaucoup powerpoint.
"observable, object-level matters of Presidential performance like competence or policy, Trump is motherfucking godawful by almost everyone's standards"

Your mistake is to assume that almost everyone wants the Camp of Saints and the Bernie free stuff agenda. As someone who will end up paying for that agenda, I'm less enthused.
Humans are natural, and just another species among animals, that's true. But they have a very different responsibility since they completely control the rest of the ecosystem. Every grown-up human individual must be responsible and preserve the complex balance in the ecosystem
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What allows that is multiple copies maintained by separate entities. If you have that, you don’t need a blockchain. If you don’t, a blockchain is just distracting from the problem.
It's worse than that. All code instantly becomes technical debt the moment it's deployed. A development shop is almost entirely composed of technical debt, unless it never shipped anything.
Can't say I disagree - we're in a climate where the "And Twitter Users..." stories are commonplace that I completely understand why people are starting to delete their social media profiles.
Some of us believe that artificial is merely of a subset of natural and saying that they are disjoint is a kind of naturalistic fallacy.
I'll kick things off.

I was first exposed to AWS Lambda when working on a scraper that needed to operate in a few different regions. Its scale was relatively small and it would only need to do its thing when a scraping job was manually submitted by one of the users.

Initially, the Lambdas only interested me because they could easily provide my "scrapers" with a nice and reliable way to access rotating IPs in the several regions I need my script to work in. Shortly, I realized that it could offer me quite a bit more than that: it could abstract away the troubles of creating the architecture needed for running distributed tasks in the background.

Scalability was basically not a concern at all in my case, so Lambdas weren't really adding much value in that regard. However, with the isolation of functions into independent units that could asynchronously be invoked from my code abstracted a lot of infrastructure work. I no longer needed to code a background worker, I didn't need to care about queueing up jobs, and if I ever needed to scale larger - I was already there.

Hooooowever, that's not a complete picture. Yeah, I was kind of able to set up everything in a way that would do all the things I mentioned but it was only after a bunch of cursing and frustration.

The documentation sucked. Packaging dependencies for deployment sucked. The deployment itself sucked. Figuring out how to invoke it in a way that I wanted sucked. In the end, although the service was one of a kind, the unintuitive experience of working with it left me wanting for an alternative that does the same thing... but well.

My experience is definitely biased, I was not looking for something that would solve my scalability issues, I was looking for a solution that could abstract the architectural headaches. In that regard, it failed me.
Oh I know, I was making less than that when I started my career. My point was I'd be willing to be that for most people, a single raise isn't the straw that breaks the camels back when it comes to whether or not they'd stay at Activision Blizzard. From what I've heard from people who worked there (specifically the Activision side) is that it isn't a place I would want to work myself, and $3k wouldn't be enough to convince me otherwise.
I think you're forgetting about Pearl Harbor.
Haha I would like to display replies but obvious privacy concerns!

Was also considering setting up a number that just displayed replies / posted to Twitter. Something you could hand out in a bar to someone pushy. Maybe auto reply with a few pieces of set text like this art project that messages Tinder matches with passages from Lady Chatterlys lover.

http://libbyheaney.co.uk/lady-chatterleys-tinderbot/

You’re right about the blocking. If someone is going to do it, it’s usually after the second message.

I didn’t handle that exception from Twilio when I first wrote it, so when the first person blocked texts it broke delivery for 2 days before I realised.
This honestly sounds like a pretty cool idea, but I’m a little concerned about something you say:

> Most of the content is open source. Some of it’s from places like Freecodecamp, which is available for free. If you have money, you don’t need us.

If you are not offering much value in terms of the educational content (since it’s freely availabe), then aren’t you essentially just loaning people money. They get money now, and they promise to pay you back a higher amount in a while.

Wouldn’t it be simpler and cheaper for someone to just get a 2k loan on their own and study the freely available content on their own?
Why don't they just engage friendlier / smaller companies?

I think there's a coordination issue here. Tech can be intolerant of views that don't align with progressive orthodoxy (doubly so in tech hubs), the DOD needs tech workers who are more aligned with their mission than the progressive techie detractors. Why don't some badthinkers band together and get a DOD contract? I imagine it's because the DOD isn't going to give a new shop it's first chance but has anyone looked into this?
I can't tell what point you imagine you're making. That quote appears to just be a definition of "established place of business".
To be fair, that scene is about a period of time spent in virtually another world. Drinking was what straightened you out when it came to everything they consumed.

HST is a great subject. But really, he was documenting a madman he travelled with more than anything with a few spots of other occurrences in between.

If you haven’t before, I recommend reading the compilations of his letters. He was a much more “normal” person than his literary persona. I distinctly recall letters to his mum about being proud about having paid his credit cards off finally after his... endeavours.
If everything we do is natural, why even have the word?
You will continue to be amazed, kids nowadays have grown up with instant access to an incomprehensible wealth of knowledge via the internet.
An asteroid can hit the earth and do the same thing. Is it not natural either?
The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer might be more useful in this case: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
You have it backwards. Computers, software engineering, networking, cryptography, wireless digital comms, and so on, were made for war. It so happens they turned out to have some good peacetime applications too.
There are plenty of smart germans around. They seem to go with the tradition because it will always pay.

I'd like to change that. IT is hard,. it pays double.
Salaries are determined by market forces. Board pays CEO as much as they value her or him. "Pay gap" between CEOs and proletariat is a meme and as such should not be considered seriously.
Juries favor trolls because patent trolls bribe Marshall, TX (East Texas district). Maybe judges are also swayed by the bribes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-25/the-te...
I have written software that is being used by the military and I didn't find it concerning. I find the anti-military sentiment on this website more concerning.

I'm pretty liberal but I do not think the military is a vestigial organ. Your worldview is not the only worldview. Your morality is not the only morality.
large corporations seem more like corporate aristocratic states. the ceos are frequently so thoroughly divorced from the common plebs in the trenches doing the actual work that enables the company to actually exist. this divorce also seems to show up in how compensation and performance apparently has so limited correlation.
There is also a More in the bottom of the front page. This more and that more.
Don't feel bad -- it's very possible some of the CO2 that you breathe out every day will still be in the same configuration a hundred billion years from now as well.
Stop looking at improvements in a “breakthrough” model that becomes equal parts breathless and mindless with each new toy. Start looking at long term, systematic improvements thst raise standards of living, improve education, and reduce conflict. While people are busy fantasizing that they’re changing the world with their latest scooter or delivery app, there are actually groups and individuals who slave away at the coal face of making the world a better place... usually while the Astro Tellers of the world sneer at them from their rollerblades.

Find something that has a proven track record of yielding to intervention, and then intervene there. It’s not sexy to prevent parasitic worm infections, but it does more good than all of SV combined. It’s not sexy to sit in rooms with a bunch of politicians and diplomats and struggle to make microscopic improvements, but it adds up.

The problem is that people in places like this don’t just want to save the world. They want to save the world in their lifetimes, while getting filthy rich, and in no way compromising their ideals. Nobody wants to sacrifice anything, they want improvements to be universally beneficial and personally gratifying. They don’t talk about carbon taxation or cutting down consumerism, regulation or compromise; it’s talk of self-driving electric cars and fusion plants and living on Mars. The only seriously entertained notions are the ones that somehow make the world a better place without making you miss a beat in your lifestyle.
The responses are also mostly expressing the exact same hollow moral relativism — "Who is to say what is odious?" — so it's not surprising that they're voted similarly.
I couldn't figure out if the first part of the title had anything to do with the latter part of the title. Is Apple closing down its stores because of the recent ruling or was that completely unrelated to why Apple is closing down those stores?
Something I've been wondering for a while (and you may be placed to answer): is firecracker part of the isolation story for Fargate - or is it regular EC2 instances?
I'm not following this. So we have some victim's email that they've linked to Facebook, and we add some fake emails to pad out the minimum number of required emails.

So you have to design a series of ads that are enticing enough to click on, and the victim will click on it. When they realize they clicked on a fake site, they'll exit it. How many people here have clicked on Facebook ads in the last week?

It seems incredibly time consuming, costly, and ineffective. It seems easier just to send some fake emails and check if they opened the email.
The difference being that presumably Modern Labor doesn't require you to pay back the loan if you're not making >$40k after their patronage.

Where as, if you take out a normal loan and don't net a good coding job after your little educational hiatus, you're in a worse financial position than you before (except now you know how to code, yay).
He tells that to a filmographer following him around as well who notes it after a confrontation between the two—in a documentary.

I forget which doc, though. Saw it probably ten years ago.

Something like “you’ve got your film, you do your film. ... I’m the hero of my shit.”
I’ve always wondered: if CEO pay was truly tied to their “creating value” then shouldn’t they lose money if they destroy value?

Not necessarily. They'd be plain-old investors then. CEOs are like options traders who pay for their call options by working 60 hour weeks.
Getting a credit limit of 10k is tougher than 2k but you're right, there are other ways to finance learning. We think there are a couple reasons why more people might like our model: 1) the income share agreement means that they aren't stuck with payments when they can't afford to make them. We find that many students are averse to traditional debt like this, rational or not. 2) we give structure to the learning in a way being on your own in the wild is hard to replicate. Having a defined set of things to do and being paid to accomplish them in the right order, we think and may be wrong, that at scale, this will lead to more people finishing the required steps to learn material.

edit: grammar
> I don't see Apple ending up in the lesser Grapevine Mills or Music City (nee Vista Ridge) malls to serve the area assuming they are within the boundary.

FWIW, Vista Ridge would be out because Lewisville (well, Denton County) is in the Eastern District of Texas.

Grapevine Mills is outside of the district but, upscale or not, Apple won't open a store there because it already has a store at Southlake Town Square, very nearby down highway 114.
Cloud computing... fun times. FWIW, IPSec+IKE can actually be quite simple. For example, here's the lone configuration line from /etc/iked.conf needed to create a VPN tunnel using OpenBSD:

ikev2 "home-to-colo" quick active esp \
from 1.2.3.4 to 0.0.0.0/0 \
peer yournode.cloudvendor.com \
ikesa auth hmac-sha2-256 enc aes-128 prf hmac-sha2-256 group curve25519 \
childsa enc aes-128-gcm group curve25519 \
psk "some password"

That's the whole of it beyond enabling the iked service at startup. The other side of the above tunnel (taken from a working example, names changed to protect privacy) is exactly the same except the flows are reversed (from 0.0.0.0/0 to 1.2.3.4) and its configured for passive mode (waits for someone to connect and claim the flow for 1.2.3.4). The above tunnel is actually used to give my home router a static IP address (1.2.3.4), routed through a vultr VM. vultr let's you add up to 2 additional IP addresses to a $5/month instance.

An X.509-based PKI setup is just as easy, other than generating and signing the certificates.

It's actually easier than using Wireguard, IMHO. Now, if you want to be interoperable with random vendors you have to be mindful of which cipher suites are supported. Few IPSec implementations support curve25519, for example. I manually specify the ikesa and childsa cipher suites in the above to ensure that the negotiated ciphers will be hardware accelerated on my PCEngines APU2, but also to prove that IPSec can use the latest cipher modes like aes-gcm and curve25519. OpenBSD even supports chacha20-poly1305 if you wanted to be really hip. But aes-128 + SHA-256 + one of the ECDSA groups (I forget which one) is supported by all modern BSD, Linux, macOS, Windows, and iPhone implementations, so in 2019 near universal support is actually quite easy to achieve.

Technically you shouldn't need to specify any cipher modes at all as IKE endpoints can negotiate a shared set themselves. But IKE works differently than TLS. Rather than a peer sending all supported ciphers and the other peer selecting one from their shared set as TLS does, the IKE peers go through multiple cycles of proposals and rejections. The problem is that many vendor implementations will give up after 2 or 3 cycles, so you need to constrain the supported cipher suites to ensure they agree on cipher modes within the first few proposal cycles. Easiest thing to do is to just constrain one endpoint to the known best cipher suite.

Alas Android still only supports IKEv1 natively, which means for maximum interoperability you have to rely on IKEv1 + L2TP server side. L2TP is usually implemented as a separate service requiring additional configuration, which adds to the confusion. IKEv2 simultaneously simplified tunnel setup while also obsoleting L2TP. The irony of Android possibly getting native Wireguard before native IKEv2 kills me....

FWIW, Linux IPSec stacks like FreeSwan don't have the concise configuration of OpenBSD's IKE daemon, partly because the Linux ecosystem sucks at polish, partly because OpenBSD's IKE daemon is many years newer and has less baggage. But conceptually it's just as simple.
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"Dual use" in the ITAR sense? A rule of thumb would be if you wouldn't sell it to Iran you shouldn't sell it to the Saudis, and selling it to the US will result in the Saudis having it.
Russia, China, and Iran are right there with ya. They can't wait for good-ole USA to bring home the troops and close up the shop so they can get their world-wars and genocide game going again.
> Everyone is free to be a CEO.

this is such a thoroughly trivial and simplistic observation, that it contains basically zero useful information.
For the price, I'm kind of skeptical that it will outperform a previous-generation GeForce 1060. Which can be purchased from $259 to $299 in various places.

I just got a 1060 that has 3 x displayport 1.4 outputs + 1 x HDMI 2.0 output, it can drive four 4K displays at 60 Hz.

The 1060 is probably somewhat more power hungry and hot under load.
They can make ultra slim butterfly keyboard that feels like Cement when you type on it
Wasn't there a thread the other day about how Utpoia always ends in Dystopia?

It seems the internet is a good example of what humanity actually is, given free reign (-ish) to its individuals. In short, there are the lovers and there are the haters. It seems that our fascination with the latter is enough to add fuel to the fire, despite declaring that we're 'a lover'.
It's interesting that society (especially the conservative side) frowns upon substance abuse, and often thinks of it as a moral failing. Yet so much of our cultural output has relied on substance use/abuse.

Hemingway and Bukowski with alcohol, Philip K Dick with amphetamines, Hunter S Thompson with practically every substance, practically every musician with every substance under the sun.

Art and altered states of mind seem to go hand in hand.
Yea, this is what people on the Left (which I am myself) turn a blind eye. Sure, the US has done plenty of awful shit with our military, but would you prefer the West to not be the dominant block in the world?

That's going to end liberalism way faster. The military / real politik foreign affairs are dirty parts of life that we'd prefer not to have, but we live in a world where we must have them.
Since it looks up a specific day, how about “pastdays”.
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
This is broken... when I put in tomorrow's date, it says it doesn't have that data....
i think -Recap should be on that list, since it really is a recap of what's happening.
>I don't get it.

Google's data centers collectively use more electricity than the state of Rhode Island, or about the same as the entire country of Costa Rica. Their electricity consumption has doubled in the last four years. At average wholesale prices, their annual electricity bill would be about a billion dollars. ARM isn't dramatically more efficient than x86 in most applications, but specialised ASICs can be orders of magnitude more efficient.
Are you sure it's not "this more" and "self more" ?
The Nazis used the latest card punch tech to track people and facilitate the mass killing of people.

Joseph Stalin famously used the telephone in the middle of the night to make calls leading to the mass murder of thousands during his reign.

Churchill and Roosevelt used the first application of spread spectrum technology to securely communicate. This led to the deaths of millions of Axis personnel.

Are all of these equivalent?

I would be actually horrified to find out after the fact that I did not do all I could do to stop monsters such as Hitler, Stalin, or Mao. If something I build could stop someone like that, I'm all for it.
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Gold audio cables are useless, yes? I assume the other two are just as such then, if that is the analogy you are shooting for.