skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the acronym comes from stock markets, when FAANG were hot tech stocks. Microsoft already was old and boring at that point, so didn't count.
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Except that the web is a completely different landscape than it was during the prime of IE6. If IE6 had been standards compliant like Chrome, no one would have bothered with Microsoft bundling it with Windows because you'd been able to switch browsers without every 2nd website telling you to use IE6.

Firefox and later Chrome continued to rise because they were faster, extendable and more open, not because Microsoft has to offer a browser selection in some markets.
The self checkout lines in walmart and target have a HD camera right in your face. I have always found these disturbing, they aren't even looking at what I'm buying. Do you guys think they are using facial recognition on these streams?
Gurdjieff and the Women of ‘The Rope’ (1997)
I agree with you completely; I opt out of the scanners at the airport every time on that very principle alone. But, I would also assert that most people would not agree that "we have to hide".
That China needs to put in that much effort to be competitive with the US isn't a particularly good sign.

Work smarter, not harder.
I went and visited their office in SZ last summer to buy one of these motherboards.

I was amazed that it seemed like a 5-7 person operation and they designed a modern laptop motherboard. Maybe they contracted out some work and the office was mostly just operational people, but it was really cool to talk to a bunch of retro thinkpad enthusiasts making what they love.
For me, the line is what is legal in your area of operation. Not what is acceptable to potential advertisers.
Out of everything in that list, I’d say GCP doesn’t belong. AWS is the beast in that space, with GCP running third at best.
Again, yes, you may rear end someone, but this is not the correct analogy here. In this situation, the car rear ends someone while you are fully breaking because you didn't pay for the automatic breaking upgrade. This is a fail.
I think this has become outdated. From my experience FAANGs are largely filled with people who are risk-adverse, which is why it makes sense to me that the next gen of startups will come from alumni of successful unicorns given the risk-seeking attitude you had to have in the first place to join one of those cos earlier on.

I mean how many ex—Amazon founders do you see? Probably not at all in proportion to the number of alumni relative to all VC funded cos.
Hello, Reddit!
Waffle House Index (2018)
But actually a breach of contract in most places - you know "gross misconduct" as HR call it.
The amount of users really makes a difference. While I'd like to use OpenBSD on my hobby server, tools just don't work like they used to on Linux or that prebuilt binaries aren't available and you have to complile from sources but since the author hasn't tested on OpenBSD, you can get errors and without decent patience, you may need to give up on a few things you used to have.

FreeBSD, I feel it mostly works like Linux if you can absorb some minor differences.

I wish OpenBSD drop supporting desktop and focus on stuff that matters that are server based usage to fix all the little edge cases.
'Exerting property rights' = preventing others from building on their property.

'Exerting voting rights' = zone newcomers, poor people, and apartment dwellers out of existence so they can't vote in our local elections.
Investing in Romanian infra is primarily something that Romania is responsible for itself, but there is some funding from the EU level. One can browse projects here: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/atlas/romania/
This may be downvoted to oblivion, but here goes:

I think part of the problem with our current framing of what is "anti-competitive" or "monopolistic" focuses on consumers. A classical monopolist artificially limits supply and drives up prices to maximize profits (see, for example, the business practices of Standard Oil). That's completely orthogonal to Google's business model for two reasons:

1) For consumers, most products have no downward mobility in price from competition. The search is already free (ie. literally the lowest price possible). How can something be bad for consumers if it's free? Similar things can be said of gmail, maps, etc.
2) Google doesn't limit supply of its products within reasonable use (when's the last time you got a communication from Google demanding you do fewer searches?)

I think the question you should perhaps ask is "when we consider regulating behavior of large firms, is regulation that's good for consumers actually good for society?"
Yeah, this is just like any other thing you call out by putting on your resume.

Nobody is a expert in everything, of course, but if you specifically put "TCP/IP" or "OOP" on your resume, you better be able to explain TCP vs UDP or class vs interface (both real examples from real phone screens I've done).
"Not polarimeter safe" is probably a reliable indication of an inferior product.

Polarimeters aren't dangerous; they must want something to complain about when someone uses one to prove their product is inferior.
> For example, in some styles you tend to gather around in a circle and everyone is doing simple moves to mark time, then one person or maybe a small group goes into the middle to do something more impressive, then they step out and let someone else take a turn.

That's also popular in swing/blues scenes. I guess they're all rooted in the same environment in the end so that makes sense.
Nice gatekeeping
Musk: Osborning His Model 3
Yes but it shouldn't. Sharing some bad videos is considered bad, like child porn or NZ shooting. Sharing others is fine, like beheadings, other terror attacks, war footage. Making violent videogames is fine (see most FPS), but if they are a little more out of the norm they're bad (see a game called "Postal"). I'd like to know who decides on these arbitrary things.
Would "a law of the nature" be the right name for an event without randomness?
I have a non-ssd Asus u36sd from 2011 running Windows 7 that still has around 5 hours of battery life with moderate screen brightness, a Jetbrains IDE running alongside a vagrant VM, Firefox, music etc, so I think you should or could do better.

My more recent Macbook pro at work is basically worst though, not sure why.
TIL world only consists of SF, and not cities like Toronto, NYC, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, etc....
Boeing's customers demanded a plane that they could deploy without significantly retraining their pilots. The only way to do that in the current regulatory framework was to produce an aircraft with the same type rating.
Power Budgets at 3nm and Beyond
Yet Gmail gained momentum really fast. I wonder why that was, the 'others' complete failure to filter spam perhaps?
As soon as an auto safety feature is proven effective for 5+ years, it’s made mandatory.
Kind of how Mixpanel used to sell single sign on security at an extra price and free users didn’t get it.

Then they got hacked and shit blew up on their face.

Safety and security aren’t add-ons. It seems that in the name of making a bit of $$$, Boeing cut corners and led to loss of life.
I read it, but I don't know what you are trying to convey. Please elaborate. Thank you.
Without reading the article sleeping is part of learning [0]. One idea of lucid dreaming is to "learn" during sleep.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181017190008/https://www.super...
Nice site, a lot prettier than most coding problem sites. I'm also digging that JS is the language of choice! Some quick feedback:

- For the landing page, I'm not sure where my attention should be going. There's the daily challenge, but do you want me to sign up? Or to go through the challenge? The scrolling navigation is a bit unintuitive, it made a lot more sense when I opened the full page.

- The code editor is decent but I had no idea how to run code. Cmd+Enter isn't really a default shortcut anywhere for executing code (more so for line breaks).

Congrats on shipping!
Is it production ready or a research filesystem?
Totally agree with the second paragraph (I'm a current grad student). My advisor is excellent, and while I've often had to push myself to the limit of what I can get done, I've also had a tremendous amount of freedom on how to get things done. And when things aren't as busy, I have more time to explore things in a self-motivated way. If I didn't have such a great PI and team, I would have strongly considered dropping out with the masters.

What concerns me most about continuing in academia is the extreme uncertainty in living situation and funding. That seems draining both emotionally and professionally.
If you forget about the question of why is it that someone's parents are rich, parental socioeconomic status has comparable power in explaining children success as the child's IQ has. Reference paper: "Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research", Tarmo Strenze.
After Christchurch, Reddit bans subs infamous for sharing graphic videos
1984 has zero celebrities - they don't and can't exist in that world.

The only figure with a face is big brother, and he didn't exist. I think Goldstein had no face?

If the proles (85% of the population) had celebrities, they would not be actual people : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolefeed

"Below that come the dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as 'the proles', numbering perhaps 85 per cent of the population."

"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect."

"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means"
EQT buying SUSE was announced before IBM buying Red Hat was announced. So it can't have been a reason at the time. Though I suspect it's a happy circumstance now for EQT/SUSE.
When it first came out, gmail was significantly better than the competition, for the following reasons:

1. _much_ better spam filtering

2. _much_ better searching

3. a _lot_ of storage (no need to delete old emails)
Reddit has been systematically removing subs over the last few years that make it difficult to acquire big ad accounts
It's been awhile since I've done anything resembling C/C++, and have put off looking too much into Rust for the moment, but I was surprised at how readable the examples on CSV processing were: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/encoding/c...
Unix as IDE (2012)
It is weird, though, that this was not caught in simulations (not training simulations, but in design simulations.) I would assume that running simulations to see how the design behaves when sensors fail would be an absolutely standard thing to do. I don't work on airplanes, but we routinely simulate sensor failures and their effect on software systems and you'd think this would not be optional for passenger aircraft certification.
> real-time collaboration also doesn’t hurt

No, that's not the icing on the cake. That's the primary reason for why design teams are switching to Figma. This changes so much, you wouldn't believe: primarily because it means effectively side-stepping version control pains.
With Sketch you either have to use external software (Abstract, Plant etc.) or resort to manual “check-outs” while working in design team. With Figma this problem simply doesn't exist.
I disagree. Comparing returns to labor productivity along a particular dimension (programming labor) is a useful framework for explaining that it’s clearly not a meritocracy.

Obviously, as nearly any reader would grant, there are other dimensions like business acumen, network connections, market timing, etc., that matter hugely in the specific story of Bill Gates, and clearly the article does not have as a goal a desire to discuss all those different dimensions as much as discussing labor productivity.

And that’s fine.

Some essays may focus on one of these aspects or another. This one happens to be among the subset that focus on labor productivity, which is a valid and worthwhile subset of factors to spend an essay focusing on.
I would treat child porn and specific threats against individuals just the same as I'd treat a shooting video.

Arrest the shooter, the child porn producer (unless victim==perpetrator), and the person making the threat. It is fine for others to keep and share the video, photos, text, etc.
Flight Data from Doomed Jet Shows Similarities to Indonesian Flight That Crashed
See here: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004915268

It's possible, but sorta hidden.
Ask HN: How should a bootcamp grad start their job search?
What is eye-opening here is that: Aviation industry insurers base their calculations on the deaths per journey statistic while the aviation industry itself generally uses the deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Transport_comp...

So, insurers don't wanna use this death per distance.
Been using vim for 'years' and I am not using it 'perfectly'. What I have noticed is that like with i3wm with vim you create your own way of working with it. You just find the way that works for you.
From another perspective Romania is on the right track. They haven't over built roads that suit individuals, rather they are focusing on mass transit.

This is just a wasteful stunt. The only shame is on himself.
The main buildings are just big blocks, maybe nothing to show. But they must contain all these restaurants etc, not just rooms -- so guests will probably only walk through the lobby a few times. Have a drink there, I guess.

Still, it's really great that they kept the building. Super hard to imagine this being the right scale for an airport, where would you put the endless snaking queue for the x-ray machines?
All of this stems from a pointy-haired marketing decision to push the MAX as an upgrade to current technology requiring no new training for airlines. If they had made the ethical decision to seek a new type rating and force every pilot to be trained in the MCAS system, 400 people would still be alive. Those executives have blood on their hands, and they know it.
It’s geopolitics. “Not become friends with Russia” is what Bucharest has achieved with €bns.
"Hey, Bob, we need you to write the software for this system. It's based on one, non-redundant sensor and can move the elevator trim to an extreme position. Sound good?"

"Sure, no skin off my nose."

Isn't software engineering a wonderful field to be in?
> The start-up world projects a meritocratic image, but in reality, it is a small, tightknit club where success typically hinges on whom you know.

This is...so not true. My co-founder and I had hardly any network in SV. We applied to YC through the website, raised seed money after demo day. We ran on seed + revenue up to about 60 employees and we recently did a series A.

If you don’t have a network, don’t be dissuaded. Silicon Valley is the least credentialist, most open community I’ve ever been a part of.
Data was from here which includes several underground stations. https://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-... But, they are counting only long distance rail.

Anyway, 80 billion passenger kilometres, per year is very good relative to 327.1 billion miles driven.
> Vim is inefficient for editing

I learned vim a bit more than 20 years ago and can tell you it’s a very efficient tool.
Fair enough if I was doing most of my coding in a single language it might be worthwhile to learn a different IDE. You’re welcome to use a different tool that better fits your needs. And hope that you find it at your next workplace or the legacy server that you are asked to fix.
Very much the case, and you can thank/blame Robert Bork for this.

Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18436387#18436772

I'm liking Lina Kahn's take:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
The quote is great (added it into my collection), but what is the cat in the context of this discussion?
Yes, those rights. If you’re a newcomer, buy where the community aligns with your development and density desires. Otherwise, go elsewhere. Don’t expect the community to change for you because you think your ideas are “better”.

This isn’t meant to sound combative, these are just facts.
Fits right into the Wall-E universe!
Ones and zeroes in my own property are not influencing anything in the "real world". If I use them and they are a virus and damage computer systems, that is a crime. If I made the virus just to learn about hacking, that should be perfectly fine.

Childrens' safety is not a digital thing in a computer, and AFAIK nothing suggests childrens' safety is more at risk right now than from other forms of violence that seem to be perfectly tolerated and celebrated in books, movies, music.

If I'm trying to make a business out of child porn, sure try to prosecute me. I believe selling other peoples' pictures without consent should be illegal in any case, specially if in demeaning circumstances. If I'm just sharing it, though disgusting it may be, the law should not stick it's nose in it. Just like it's legal to share books on how to make bombs and poison people.
As a former recruiter, I just assume all resumes are complete shit. I never saw much of a correlation between a quality resume and a quality candidate. Screening for the stuff one uses on the job is what I prefer to do. It's also nice to focus on the job requirements, too, because it removes any need for someone to impress me with what the have done. When you can walk into an interview with "hey, I really want you to get this job, but we need to find a way for both of us to envision a scenario in which we're working together successfully", it's amazing how well that usually turns out.
Collaboration and version control. With Sketch you either roll other software on top (Abstract or Plant) or painstakingly adhere to manual check-out process. With Figma your design team always has the latest version of the component libraries and can collaborate effortlessly.
I view it more or less that way:

log(success) = S * skill + P * privilege + L * luck

Were the coefficients S, P & L depend on the measure of success.

American dream-like meritocracy says it is almost all S.

For honest "equality of opportunities" (sadly, often it's a euphemism for the above), S, P and L (and want to change it to S and L).

People for "the equality of outcome" believe it is mostly P (and L).

You won't become a top scientist by will low skill. Yet, if raised in an environment with no value on education, and not spotted by anyone - they may not become a scientist at all. Or someone with high S and P, but focusing on a problem that turned out to spend their lives on problems that turned out to be dead ends?

Do you think that say Zuckerberg (given the same skill and drive) would have achieved the same success if he spent their forming years among less privileged environment, e.g. Poland (less mentoring, no-one wanting to invest millions, not that tempting to join a students' network of a not-Ivy league university?)

For executive positions (unlike technical ones), I guess it is much more P & L than most meritocrats would like, vide

"Regardless of intellect, positions at the level director and above seem to be assigned very unpredictably (luck/politics/privilege?)" from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19406432

Also, as a side note and subjective): everything is luck. Your innate skills are a lottery, your environment (for nurturing and networking). This "luck" in the equation is more like "residual luck" (from "I worked on problem X and it turned out to be a game changer/time waste" or "They looked at that moment for a person of my profile").
I suppose that works, except then you could say the same thing about the US president. They are friends too no?
They deserve a better life as they can contribute more to the society, in effect building this better life.
I would disagree that Meritocracy only distinguishes between those with the same opportunities, and argue that a true Meritocracy can only exists when people are afforded generally the same opportunities. If everyone is playing with a different set of options or rules, success is inherently not based on skill, but at best on a combination of skill and the options/rules they were playing by.

It seems to me that if "fewer opportunities doesn't actually change much in the 'what should I do' decision tree" then we are not living in a Meritocracy, as your saying the outcomes depend primary on the set of opportunities you either started with or achieved by chance, and no mater what skill is applied you have a limited "optimal" path and can not achieve more then that.

I actually think I agree with that, while there are Meritocratic elements to the world we live in in that we get to apply skills to our choices, the significant limits to our individual "choice trees" caused by various social and economic factors rule out the possibility that we are living in what could be called a mostly Meritocratic system.
This seems less like “shame” and more like “create a symbol of a public policy desire around which people can gather and signal to politicians in the hopes that the politicians will see construction as a action to get votes.”
Alex Gibney on the Fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes
What kind of historical revisionism is this? Microsoft has always faced competent and well resourced competitors at every step of the way.

Apple, IBM for consumer operating systems. Later on NeXTStep and BeOS. UNIX vendors for Windows Server.

Lotus, WordPerfect for office suites.

Borland, Sun for developer tools.

PalmOS, then Nokia, Apple and Google for Windows Phone.

Gates is being modest. Microsoft beat these companies again and again, and only partly through over-aggressive tactics. Mostly his competitors just didn't invest in the right things at the right times, or got distracted, or couldn't hire the right talent, or made other strategic mistakes. Gates wasn't perfect either but he was smart enough to make plenty of good decisions, and turn on a dime when he realised he'd made mistakes (e.g. the internet pivot).

The idea that Gates isn't a good example of meritocracy is a strange one indeed. I can't help but think this sort of attack on "meritocracy" comes from SJWs who hate the idea that maybe the people at the top look the way they do because that's who deserves to be there!
Soybean production can potentially continue without rainforest destruction, and fish farms are far from being the largest consumers of soya.

Legislation and expenditure to protect forest directly targets the heart of the matter while indirectly stifling all of its causal factors.
Negative Glassdoor review resulted in a cease-and-desist and a 5 hour deposition
While I do not disagree with you altogether, I have a hard time believing it would be possible to come up with some sort system that is inclusive of these externalities. Look at what a crapshow nutrition science is - do we really want government encouraging/discouraging foods more so than it already is? Look at how bad farm subsidies have affected our health in general.