skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jack Welch pioneered stack ranking. Anyone trying to emulate him should be looked at dimly by the workers. It is a disaster to employee culture due to its nature of backstabbing and dirty tricks to get the best "score" to keep your job. Being on an "amazing team" becomes a bad idea, because even if everyone is amazing, someone's gotta get fired still.

Jack Welch ended GE as a company that symbolized good products and turned it into a financial company. Jack Welch represents American job loss.
Resource hog != lag.

The reason Chrome doesn't lag is probably due to the fact that it uses so much RAM. I personally use Safari because of the OS integration but for some sites I do have to fire up Chrome just for performance.
How about a charter, or compact :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes%E2%80%93Saint_Lawr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Charter
(Using figures cited in the article) Assuming that most of the time only 20 machines are responsible for ID generation, and ~50% of tweets use the first available sequence number for a given millisecond (so half the time machines only process one new tweet per millisecond), can we estimate Twitter's new tweet QPS average to be 20,000?

Edit: actually this is an upper bound for the 50% because it assumes that every machine processes a tweet every millisecond, which may not be the case
It's more likely that most of the "critical thinkers" you speak of write JavaScript for money everyday. Even on HN the amount of JS blockers is tiny but it seems higher because they always have to mention they block JS.
A great presentation, but he has omitted a huge area where improvements can be made, if not necessarily directly through software; agriculture.

A large factor in the current ecological crisis is our agricultural footprint, and I think there is a lot of scope to innovate there.

For example one of his sidebar statistics shows that fully 50% of US land is devoted to agriculture. That seems huge, and something to be addressed in itself. I think we should be aiming to return land to nature as far as possible.

Growing rice on floating platforms at sea? Lab meat? underground or tall-tower hydroponic salad farms? Etc, etc.
This is a weak-ass postulate. Where to even start?

Individualism wasn't responsible for the poverty, lack of land for newborns, depressions, war and political oppression that caused Europeans to move to the U.S.

Not to mention the 'agents' of U.S. companies looking for workers who were sent to Europe to promise the 'individualists' anything. Or the Homestead Act ... it's pretty hard to get more socialistic than more-or-less giving away a quarter-acre of land to all comers in return for a weak promise.
I would appreciate better naming on the variables. Some of this is hard to read through with single letter names
"Shifting" from cheap to expensive could be nefarious for sure... that said, I have a $150 Global chef knife and don't regret it one bit! (Bought on a recommendation from a culinary friend, not Wirecutter...)
Steering wheel controls are less cognitive load than fumbling on your dash, even if you keep your eyes on the road you're still distracted.
You need about 8 figures generating passive income by most estimates.
There's also this 2017 LWN article on eBPF [1] which I find very interesting.

[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/
Why not? Small business can lose significant money from a few hours of downtime and support that's onsite within an hour is quite expensive.

I'm not thinking cluster for performance, just for HA.

For small business why not 3 x Raspberry Pi to enable as much functionality as possible without network and/or power? A cheap UPS would likely run a few Pi for days. Chick-fil-a (3 NUC in a k8s cluster) seems pretty proud of their setup, why not something similar for any similar size restaurant? 3x Pi for smaller businesses seems like a good fit.

Oh, and a Pi cluster isn't going to need any more AC than a human, even if it's uncomfortable. I have one in my attic and it regularly gets above 110 in the summer, no problems so far.

If the network is out, have the Pi fall over to WAN, this is pretty common these days. Some consumer routers support this (insert a sim car), and it's fairly common for raspberry Pis used for home security to support similar. Handling credit card transactions over WAN is reasonably practical... even falling over to a modem+POTS could do for an emergency.

So between UPS (even UPS + solar + battery would be reasonable for a Pi) and fallover to WAN or modem a 3 way cluster could help keep business up during power outages, storms, earthquakes, fires, and of course node failures.

Question is can the right combination of hardware standardization, software standardization, support, and application store get together to enable chick-fil-a like functionality at a price point acceptable to small businesses?
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Worth remembering that France hasn't fared very well in rail competition lately: the French-Government-controlled Eurostar chose the Velaro train sets from German Siemens to replace the existing TGV-derived train sets.

It sparked a national outrage (because a company controlled by the French government should, in their opinion, only buy French) and a lawsuit from Alston (who makes the TGV).
I've actually run into what seems like a dozen startups who are, in various ways, attempting to build a better Meetup.com. The technology doesn't seem to be the hard part -- it's the business model and mindshare.

Go for it as well if you like, but rest assured that there are already several talented people already trying to figure this out.
Does Gab hold a strong position on free speech, or freedom for a particular form of speech?

Those aren't the same thing, after all. The echo chambers of self-described dissenters often seem little different than those they claim to dissent against.
> Also, please for the love of god, stop lobbying for OSes to faithfully restore your open apps on reboot. The only way to solve a lot of problems is to be able to really reset the state of everything which is not worth trading for your ability to better compulisvely hoard chrome tabs.

Funny enough, someone just posted in the GPU.js thread about how it hard locked his machine, and because the OS restored chrome and chrome restored his tabs after rebooting, he was forced to take extra measures to recover: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19265107&goto=item%3Fi...
In 20 it'll be already in their database as part of a public/private partnership, and they will just send out acceptance letters to people they want, much like the old sweepstakes envelopes of years past.
What is this 'core stack' you speak of, is it special in some way?

I once did an all day on-site pairing interview with Pivotal. The morning was Swift/iOS and afternoon was Java back-end. I didn't have experience in either except some Java desktop GUI from a while back. It was all fine, they wanted to see how I think, what code paths I think of, what tests I choose for coverage. The actual syntax of what's being written wasn't the main point. That translates quickly on the job from experience doing similar tasks in other environments. If on the other hand, you've never written a test, or discussed code with a colleague those are not as easy to pick up from somewhere else.
You have to pair with someone for 8 hours per day?

That would cripple my productivity and drain me like nothing else. I tip my hat to you for returning after a week of that.

> As you are working with a pair there is no pull requests, everything goes straight to master. It makes it hard to keep track of what was done and duplicated code shows up because the pair was not aware that some functionality was already done

WUT? I can't wrap my head around this at all. You push everything straight to main when you're pairing? Is the person you're pairing with going over everything before the push?
What rights have been lost or abridged here? We're in a thread about a site that Gab launched in order to express itself, and they seem to be expressing themselves freely.

And people object to their behavior, specifically their political ideology. I don't think anyone has mentioned "inherent defects," whatever those would be.
My wife unfortunately got involved with LulaRoe. She was a stay-at-home mom for a little while and wanted to help out the family by bringing in some extra income while still keeping the flexibility of being able to stay at home with our child. She loved their clothing and had a few friends who were also starting up selling so she felt some sense of community with them. They also sold her hard on the idea that the market was just starting up and she could get in on the "ground floor" and make a good amount of money if things went well. She'd spent pretty much her entire work life in food service and cafes and she always wanted to run her own business and have that level of independence so that she could "break away" from the service industry.

The reality was she ended up losing a lot of money, working 60-70 hours some week just to keep up with customer requests (most of which was returns and asking if she had a specific print in a specific size), and eventually burnt out with how difficult it was and how much back-and-forth the company was giving her (they had a policy where you could return product, then they totally changed the policy, then they changed it back, then changed it again). They also required that she kept up with inventory purchasing quotas, and if she didn't buy enough inventory within a certain amount of time she was cut off from selling at all and she wouldn't have access to their resources or sales systems.

She's not unintelligent and did realize the risks involved. She was just wanting to help out our family and build something for herself, and that's where I think a lot of these companies come in to feed on that desire for independence and flexibility. It was a difficult lesson for her to learn and really demoralizing.

She now runs her own cafe and is doing quite well at it, so I don't think it was her lack of business acumen that kept her from being successful.
"We Need Chrome No more" appeared on HN five months ago, and there was a comment that confirmed there is interest in an alternative search engine written by djb.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053163

It was obviously a joke as no one serious about text-only browsing would suggest lynx over the alternatives (w3m, links, links2, etc.)
Totally false. Cython allows you to choose whatever subset of the CPython API you want to use, to suit whatever performance tradeoffs you’d like to make in exchange for access to convenience, dynamic attribute access, whatever.

You can write fully no-python C functions, all the way up to straight CPython dynamically typed code relying on the GIL and reference counting, etc.
There was a survey in Silicon Valley some years ago that showed that this kind of fear goes pretty far up, plenty of millionaires fear falling off the gravy train.

I do my family's grocery shopping, and I have several times noticed new clerks at the checkout, men in the 40-65 age range who are a little too well dressed -- very nicely ironed and starched white shirts, fashionable ties and watches. They seldom become fixtures in their new positions; which way they go, IDK.
This explains in part why one of the Hari Kondabolu-inspired jibes against Bobby Jindal on Twitter punched above its seeming weight - “Bobby Jindal is so white he actual(ly) has yogurt in his yogurt containers” - ie, he hadn’t eaten it all or used it for starter and wasn’t using the remaining empty containers for storing leftovers like 99.9999% of South Asian Americans I know.

Viz. the following comment on the article - https://nyti.ms/2tI0PCZ#permid=30800352
Or Musk thinks picking fights with regulatory authorities is a war he can win.

Or Musk just doesn’t give a damn about the SEC considering they take his tweets more seriously than the deliberate market manipulation practised daily by various publications in concert with big investors.

Maybe Musk feels that spaceflight to Mars is so close that he can afford to thumb his nose at US regulators because he will just move to Mars where they have no reach.
» Finally, reboots are necessary on all major operating systems, even linux. Remember Windows user used to be free to apply updates when they wanted but you, yes you, MS hater of yesteryear kept blaming MS for the large number of unpatched and therefore insecure Windows systems. So they don't give users the freedom to postpone indefinitely and of course it's also not right. So what can they do?

1. The easy stuff.
Show a bright red warning that covers 10%, 20%, and progressively 50% of the primary display asking user to reboot at the next opportunity. However, don't reboot automatically unless the user opts into such behavior.

2. The hard stuff
Take a hard look into what update requires reboot. Strip everything and hide almost all (I'm assuming we will need a kernel) those things from Windows home but keep them available using Windows features for a few years. Enterprise users might need backward compatibility but I think there is a lot of room to simplify Windows for the home.
> I saw polls at the time showing over 50% of smartphone users said they wanted a physical keyboard

The key words being "said they wanted." It's not uncommon for there to be a big divergence between what people say they want, and what it turns out they actually want. Sometimes they just don't know what they really want until they see it. Sometimes they use the wrong words and say they want one thing but really want another. Sometimes they know how to express what they want, but feel it would be socially unacceptable to say it out loud, so they claim to want something else to avoid being the odd one out.

It would therefore not surprise me one bit if lots of people said they wanted a physical keyboard, and then went out and bought an iPhone-alike. Maybe it looked sexier on the sales floor, maybe they tried the touchscreen and found they actually liked it, or maybe just because that's what all their friends had.

If you want to know what people really want, don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.
All of these are true! Except maybe the first one, which is a gross oversimplification.

"The dose makes the poison" is not something I expect an average Google user to have modeled accurately.

Edit: after reviewing other examples in this thread, my opinion of an average Google user has fallen drastically. Was mostly having a laugh at the fact fluoride salts are generally a thing I avoid, which seems to be the intuition represented by your example.
Good thread ;) That deep psychedelic flavor. That Mondo 2000 ethos. Will it make a comeback in 2020s?

Josh Harris tours his company Pseudo.com in Soho NYC circa 1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqBGjCmHyvk
"I miss that kind of clarity" -- Wabash
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Good to see they fixed the remote code execution exploit identified by: https://github.com/jtang613/dcq2018_www
People willing to spend a few hours of their day doing a "homework assignment" will tilt towards the spectrum of people who have a lot of free time which might not intersect that well with the set of people you want to hire.
If sequence ID means what I think it means... then if I reply to a twitter thread that already has 4095 replies... there could be the possibility of a tweet ID collision, possibly causing another tweet made simultaneously to mine to be unretrievable...

After years of waiting fruitlessly for Twitter to implement my feature request, it may finally be possible to delete someone else's tweet.
End users don’t care about protocol updates and errata.
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I know what it means. I was pointing out (charitably) that that's a silly distinction. An electronic oscillator ABSOLUTELY vibrates "physically". Those electrons are "physical things" and have mass. They have momentum. Those things can be measured and have an impact on the circuit.

Even your assumption that the transistor body doesn't move is wrong in practice. Those electric fields absolutely produce strains (that is, real physical forces) on the semiconductor junction, and those strains affect electronic properties and are included in fancy circuit models (or at least I saw a paper about it once, anyway).

The idea of "solid state" machines having "no moving parts" is a lie told to you by your electronics textbooks. It's a useful abstraction. It's not the truth.

And in this regime, it's frankly harmful to your understanding of how things work because it's led you to believe that crystals are doing something fundamentally different than circuits.
A river is made up of those who live along it, a farmer that dumps manure into it is effecting it - similarly the community downstream has certain rights when it comes to their waterway, they may be farmers that purchased access to the waterway with their lands, or residents that purchased their property with an expectation of being able to swim or even a home owner who is pursuing damages against the flood of a river where an insurance company needs to determine if an upstream private party was responsible or the river itself.

Basically, I agree with your statement that a river doesn't have personal rights or responsibilities but those people effected by mal-treatment of the river (including, if no one else advocates, a state/local government) should have the right to protect against unrestricted mistreatment.

Nothing that isn't a natural person should be treated like a person, everything outside of an individual should have separately delineated rights afforded to it depending on the type of object it is. We can sanely fix this problem (and citizen's united) by just agreeing to shift some definitions.
The argument is that "information material to Tesla or its stockholders" only applies to information that wasn't already public.

The tweet may have appeared to have nonpublic information, but it didn't actually have any.

Therefore the tweet didn't need approval.

That's the core of the argument. Is that clear enough? I already tried to explain why I think it's reasonable in previous posts, but I can do it again if you want me to.
This x1000. I really wish touchscreen displays were illegal for vehicles. Everything should be done through dedicated buttons and multi-function keys.
They've started doing this in aircraft as well and it's infuriating. Try typing in an airport, squawk code, or frequency on a tiny touchscreen display with moderate turbulence in IMC. Not fun...
Chrome has some great extensions now: Great Suspender is one of the best. Before Chrome killed my computer with too many tabs, now it's fine! Chrome is the best product of Google to me.
> I don’t cate if my garage door opener gets hacked.

Wouldn't that be an easy way for burglars et al to gain entry to your house?
The lack of relentless corporate eavesdropping, and a sense of limitless possibility. The adventure of it, while still a shadow of earlier years, was still real too. The lack of a social media “culture”, the dominance of irc and forums. Fewer people with less to offer and more to say, because even though it wasn’t hard to get online, it wasn’t just mashing a thumb on a phone either. The lack of techies claiming to be “saving the world.”

Above all? The weirdness, yet to be “toned down” in the name of profit.
"the world's largest importer of oil, 43% of it coming from the gulf in big slow tankers."

The Middle-East's oil and the factories in China are all on the same land-mass. They don't need sea transport, that's just more convenient/cheaper for China at present.
The way development works, 95+%, yes math is simply guardrails. But it definitely isn’t always. I would actually say that we as the developer community have done a remarkable job of abstracting the hard math away from needing to be thought of by the average developer by bundling the math so invisibly into libraries.

I highly disagree regarding algorithms. No you don’t need to use the most modern Matrix multiplication algorithm ever but there are lots of situations (at least at large companies or people working with large amounts of data) where you do need to be aware of computational complexity.
Disagree. With regard to fundamental algorithms, I think it's objectively easier to read with single letter variables.
You consent to public policy changes by living in society. In particular, you chose to live in a city with lawmaking bodies that are expected to enact policies to adapt to changing times. If you think the pros of some change outweigh the cons, make the argument, but don’t claim that public policy writ large is illegitimate.
Retirement age is whatever age you want. Probably not under 23-25, though.
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I mean.. it costs money to continue to develop software.

The idea of paying for an OS is different from the idiocy of Windows-forced updates.

I understand people think of an OS as a static thing but when hardware changes you need to rewrite some of the stuff that sits on top, plus security updates.
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No, they’re not. They’re based on open source software.

But by that measure safari is open source because WebKit is open source.
If I were French and our rolling stock were competitive, I’d be upset if the government gave a leg up to the competition given the strong unions and jobs the TGV provides. It may save a buck or two but it also is a blow against local producers.
Will do better in next series.
We are big aws customers at my current employer and have generally had success, and I use amazon products, but that said:

This is totally on amazon for not having vpc-enabled elasticsearch clusters for way too long, AND, not providing an upgrade mechanism to move an existing internet-accessible cluster to a vpc. I was mindblown when I first utilized elasticsearch service and was sure that there would be data leaks for only having public net.
I think you are missing the point. How do I get a pure-python function written by someone else to be "C level" fast when used in the inner loop of your otherwise superfast cython? How do you do that without rewriting it in cython?

Sure, cython is great if you decide to rewrite the library you want to use in cython. Same with scipy.optimize for instance: it can be super fast for everything but ordinary python cost functions.

Here is an easy way to prove me wrong: Find the minimum of a pure python function quickly, with whatever python tool you want, without having to deal with the enormous python function call overhead, without rewriting the function. Imagine this function is deep down in another library and it uses a bunch of 3rd party libraries.
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Where is there Ethiopian in Singapore? When I lived there I had to go up to Bangkok for my fix.
I don't understand why this discussion often turns to the Fed issuing more money, rather than the re-allocation of existing funds. It's pretty clear that the US is already spending more as far as %/GDP/per capita on healthcare than other countries that have socialized medicine. To me that just screams waste and inefficiency, er, I mean... profits!