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>Every single time poll restrictions have been proposed, it’s been for racist causes,” wrote one user, in response to a commenter with the username rokosbasilisk, who...

This is why I don't read hacker news, unexpectedly you will get an existential nightmare. (Lucky for those who never heard of LessWrong
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A good test to see if a topic make sense to discuss on HN is if people are willing to calmly discuss the merits of it.

The author says they are interested in the humanities and like to see articles focus on structural barriers faced by women in the workplace. I doubt however they want to see article discussing the merits of the topic, i.e. if women does face barriers in the work place. The result is that anyone who does not share the same perspective is not welcome in the discussion and the environment from that confrontation produce the opposite of thoughtful and substantive discussion.

Political discussion does not need to end like that and many topics which does not have the above property do pop up in HN.
Well, I guess it's like Java : you can make a responsive Java GUI, but I only know a few examples...
If their intention is to support AMD or reward their competitive technological investment, yet they don't need a new processor, then it would be more appropriate to buy AMD stock.
Ignoring who is "winning" - it's always good when new viable competition enters a previously dominated market. In this case both companies will be providing to increase performance and lower cost, which AMD has done a great job at - this forces intel to lower prices or improve features to stay competitive.

Win-Win for consumers either way. And for the last what almost 10 years Intel has been ahead in many use cases - and their new offerings are rather stale IMO.
That's awfully cynical
they've been waaaaaaaaay longer than CS/SE

Nah, this isn’t really true. Consider all the technology that came out of WW2: digital computers are contemporaneous with jet engines for example.
1% acceptance rate of new hires — they have to compensate those they hire for making it through the gauntlet, because if the process works, they’ve just hired the best of the best and the best of the best would qualify for some ridiculous salaries given their likely high opportunity costs (one would think a duo or trio of Google engineers would make for a compelling startup team potentially worth millions so paying high figure salaries as guaranteed income could be a good compromise).
I despise the start-stop nonsense. Let me use the pedals to start and stop.

What's this in regard to? Hybrid engines starting and stopping?
Forget how the saying goes, but it's something along the lines of:

If you are worth $100M then your goal is to grow that to $1B. If you are worth $1B then your goal is now to lose it.

At some point capital has diminishing returns.
"Innovation" is increasingly newspeak for "regression."
The median salary at google is 246,804. It has about 100k employees. That means 50% make more than that which is about 50k people. I guess they have 700 employee who make about 581k. It seems the are on the right side of the curve.
Kolmogorov complexity?
This is actually my sole complaint with HN. I love the community and I understand where the moderators are coming from, but I feel that it's important to point out that the position of "keep politics out of $X" is the purest expression of privilege, and in general is an attitude that embraces the status quo, no matter how horrifying it might be for the unprivileged.

I'm not saying HN should allow ALL political discussion, but when technological issues inevitably and undeniably involve politics, either by influencing or being influenced, it seems a little cowardly that the general attitude of HN is "just don't discuss it" when the it in that case is core to the issue at hand, even if it happens to be political.
This includes benefits, retirement, etc. According to levels.fyi, not far off from other Bay Area tech companies.
Averages are a generally poor salary metric. The median would be much more revealing and interesting.
Probably but there’s likely a lot of truth in it. What else does Google have other than search ads?
I remember when AMD's stock was a running joke on WallStreetBets. Doesn't seem like much of a joke now.
Wouldn't say that. With something like Segment it's easy to shovel data from the backend to any analytics provider you can think of. The majority of analytics providers have a REST api of some sort.
Past tense need not be used. You are not forced to give all your data to others, even today.

It's just less than trivial to get it running yourself.

Reminds me I need to check in on https://Sandstorm.io and see how they're doing. I've tried to install it a couple of times and bounced off of it a couple times, not always due to things that are their fault (i.e., they do sensible things with DNS but my managed DNS provider won't let me set up the requisite records in their "easy" interface, and I'm not quite motivated to go all the way back to running my own bind).
> Gackle is drawn to healing workshops; Bell, to Indian philosophy. They seem, at times, to be applying old, humanist techniques to a culture obsessed with the future.

I wouldn't have guessed that. What's next though is even more interesting:

> “Something that’s deeply interesting, I think, to both of us,” Gackle said, “is the way in which one can arrive at a nonviolent reaction to somebody by having greater awareness of the—” He paused. “I’ll say violence in oneself. By which I mean the kind of agitation and activation that is causing people, including ourselves, to react in a kind of fight-or-flight way that leads to misunderstanding, conflict, and, ultimately, Internet flame wars. This seemingly trivial stuff, about people getting mad at other people on the Internet, is actually tied to this much deeper and more fascinating process of what goes on between people and what goes on in oneself.”

Essentially, the task of Dan and Scott is akin to the task of a (good) teacher. A communication teacher, perhaps?
It is clear what the vulnerability is. A lot of these remotes are susceptible to relay attacks. The car's challenge is being relayed into the house so the fob can respond. This response is relayed back to the car. The door just opens and you can start it and drive away.

It is also trivial to be this attack by adding an accelerometer to the fob. If the fob isn't moving, don't respond to the broadcast from the car. You could also be more extreme and have the car check constantly. If fob disappears, kill the engine.
This is the third time I've seen the "was email a mistake" title in the past week, from different publications too, if I recall correctly. What a silly thing to ask.
The piece reads like a Unix pastor's pulpit preaching

"Great nutritious technologies to use: Make, Emacs, Lisp, CLI"

"Bad unwholesome technologies to use: JavaScript, Ruby, IDEs, Graphical User Interfaces"

I personally hate Make, it's burned me too many times. Now I use CMake, and I haven't been burned in years.

And is it candy or an olive that I like VSCode and not Emacs (not that I've ever tried Emacs, I just don't feel like investing in that ecosystem)?

I agree the front end web framework churn is out of control; hopefully it will stabilize over time. But come on, don't just rip on random scripting languages that have been around for 25 years
This is the problem:

"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."

...and this culture comes from the top.
Don't forget that the IPCC report concerns itself not only with preventing climate change, but also with adapting to it. What's more, changes in land management can be part of a solution for GHG sequestration, so it's not just about reducing emissions. All the more reasons to put significant effort on land management, and therefore diets and forests.

That being said, the IPCC never said that transportation, electricity production and industry must be ignored.
What exactly is the contrast with Facebook and Uber here?
Not really, professional sports salaries often work the same way- teams who have a superstar can't afford to have the star play for the competition even if they could win without the star playing for their team.
In other words, stop using abstract digital tools to interact with people, and just interact with people.

Presumably the people I'm interacting with now won't be annoyed by my use of digital tools to do so.
The Mercedes double click is specifically mentioned in the article, where someone claims a theft occurred after using it.

Two questions that immediately come to mind are 1) Is there feedback that the double-click was executed correctly? 2) If so, do you still get that feedback if the mechanism for disabling the keyless feature is interfered with in some way, e.g. by jamming?
I really couldn’t agree more with your sentiment, bravo.

Out of all the potential progress that needs to be made, this can come last.
Yes I’m aware, didn’t intend to imply otherwise
Are you suggesting that the moderators should make decisions about what is objectively wrong or right? Because that would be a lot of work for them and they would probably get it wrong.

When it comes to the content, we (the commenters) are the ones responsible for holding each other accountable.
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>Thats why a terrorist/psychotic killer/.. can get shot.

Yes thats the argument I was making.

>When there is someone mass killing "innocents" and the fastest way to stop it, is a bullet, then what would you propose instead?

In my comment I propose preventative measures rather than reactionary measures. I do this because reactionary measures are a reaction and measured by the thing they are reacting too. Rights are not reactionary they are fundamental and you cant base a fundamental right on a reaction, thats the point.
What are the alternatives for HackerOne for hosting a bug bounty program? My company is looking to set one up and H1 was way too expensive and tried to push all their extra features.

All we want is a place to host a bug bounty page and allow us to pay rewards through it. The only reason I'd prefer hosting that on a platform rather than just making a bug bounty page on our own site is that I feel bounty hunters would trust it more, since it's not just some random page on a company website they've never heard of before.
Seems you are one of the few who understands what I'm trying to say. Over time greed and corruption take over.

I live in Hong Kong, which is the most extreme example of this.

And I've also witnessed how this whole process is accelerated in China, since greed and corruption are more prevalent.
"sometimes" from what I've heard elsewhere it should read "nearly all of the time, to benefit financially".
flights, photos, maps, shopping, and a dozen other things?
I know it sounds unbelievable, but plenty of web developers ignore that whole show. It just doesn't seem the "upgrade" is worth it until something better comes along.
> new Intel chip features for machine learning tasks and new Intel memory technology being with customers such as German software firm SAP SE (SAPG.DE) could give Intel an advantage in those areas.

I hope AMD turns their attention to machine learning tasks soon not just against Intel but NVIDIA also. The new Titan RTX GPUs with their extra memory and Nvlink allow for some really awesome tricks to speed up training dramatically but they nerfed it by only selling without a blower style fan making it useless for multi-GPU setups. So the only option is to get Titan RTX rebranded as a Quadro RTX 6000 with a blower style fan for $2,000 markup. $2000 for a fan.

The only way to stop things like this will be competition in the space.
I don't understand why this is news, or on the front page here. Google pays highly skilled, highly technical people a lot of money. End of story.
It doesn't take money to join protests. It doesn't take money to volunteer, even if it's just maintaining a newsletter or occasionally seeking donations for your local org.

It's very easy to throw stones from afar when you've never been in the trenches. Those who don't do often make unreasonable demands because they have no connection to the reality of the situation of actually getting a thing done.
We know their names because they told us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856 (pg leaves dang in charge of moderation) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675 (dang introduces sctb)

Both those posts mention them already being involved in moderation before officially being declared moderators; you can do that too if you want! Just write email to hn@ycombinator.com if you see anything that you believe requires moderator intervention and they'll consider it.
> You're the runtime state of the software that's running in your brain.

Unless you can stop being in your body this is a moot point.

> If you keep avoiding a problem, you'll be unprepared when you're suddenly forced to confront it head-on.

I argued for preventative measures not reactionary measures.

You keep talking about reactionary things but rights are not reactionary thats the point you are missing.
> Even though FOSS ate the world, we didn't win software freedom, we just enabled a bunch of new tech giants to put us into consumer roles with little to no freedom once again.

I think one of the dominant causes of this is the fact that hackers and tinkerers became viewed by many/most FOSS products not as key users, but as mild annoyances or even outright pests (and the process has been going on for a long time, at least 10 years). As FOSS projects fought with proprietary and limited use options they worked to provide convenience that mass users needed to switch. Then to gain wider acceptance they added polish -- "plug and play", "no configuration needed" that mom and pop users wanted.

There is nothing sinister there, but this step puts projects a stone's throw from corporate IT that offers a lot of support / development money, but wants to lock everything to a few "approved" configurations (because crypto, corporate policy or something else). Project remains open source, everyone can fork it (but good luck making sense of it), but from this point tinkerers become persona non grata. What they want (freedom to change things) is against the payer's desire for a locked setup. And from this point on, the system is free only in name.

If you want your software to stay FOSS in spirit, do not drive away tinkerers as your system matures. Leave enough hooks for them to access low level capabilities, enough knobs for them to do "what no sane user would want" and do not see them as a threat even when they stand between you and that $50k support contract from some megacorp. My 2c.

Just my 2c.
The Matrix rebooted: do we want to go down the rabbit hole again?
You can now play these games online from your mobile device
https://www.itavli.com/forum/topic/mobile-version-4-8-3/#pos...
Do you have an example of that actually happening? I follow sports pretty closely and can't think of any.
I don't disagree, but when so many public websites are unloading megabytes of Javascript for simple tasks, it feels like that attitude is the core problem. I'm not opposed to using frameworks when they're needed, I just have a problem with people using them to shorten up already short and very easy code because they can't be bothered to Google for a few minutes.
> On all the Windows systems at home, everybody else

Ok, in that scenario it is true, but multi-user desktops in the age of smartphones and tablets are a vanishingly small niche. My experience in corporate environments suggests they are also almost entirely 1:1 as well.
I am curious why you think it will not work as well as last time. It is not as if law enforcement is more active now. Generally law enforcement at the moment is forbidden to touch the big fish, since the biggest fish sets policy.
I've had my share of suspicions of "downvote brigades" and the like but from the point of view of an ordinary user they are indistinguishable from uncoordinated users expressing their disapproval so I guess it is best to just assume good faith.

It is actually fascinating to know how much of this type of behaviour is visible to the moderators and how big of a problem it is (and of course they too can't see the full extent of it).
you mean the same facebook which created react.js? If you think any of those companies is not betting heavily on JS, you're out of touch :)
One thing I try to always do is smile and/or wave at babies/young children if they make eye contact with you.

In a world where there is a lot of negativity being broadcast on the news 24/7 and click bait headlines, it is good to instill a sense of happiness in the youth of today by being friendly.

Walking places a lot of people are distracted by their phones and hardly make eye contact anymore of if they do they make eye contact and turn away. (Maybe I'm just butt ugly I dunno).

Kid however all seem to enjoy a quick smile/eye contact.
I would rather see a Mel Brooks spoof of The Matrix than a reboot.
I could be that founding CTO you're talking about, but, being aware of my shortcomings, I decided to put my trust in hired engineers and then in a relatively expensive CTO. It was the worst decision I've ever made as a founder and I spent a couple of years cleaning up the mess they've made.

As a founder, if you decide to delegate any Cxx role, you'd better be lucky.
Opteron was crushing it back in the day. I think Tech is just cyclical. It seemed like AMD was in a lull for a while which basically made intel not really compete. Hopefully this forces Intel to step its game up. Competition is always good for the consumer.
Sure. But that's not premature.

Bear in mind that the given quote is only the most memorable part of Knuth's longer statement:

> We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

> Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

FWIW, I've read that Knuth attributes it to Hoare, and Hoare attributes it to Knuth.

Looking now, I see that Knuth also wrote a similar comment in "Computer Programming as an Art", at http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/turning... :

> The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

That was published the same year and month as the first paper, so I don't know which gets priority for any attributions.
1% acceptance rate of new hires — they have to compensate those they hire for making it through the gauntlet

But there are loads of companies, universities, whatever making that claim. If you get 100 applicants and 90 are just spamming their resumes everywhere or are recruiters doing it, 9 go elsewhere or stay put for whatever reason, and you get 1 then you get that 1% but it doesn’t really mean anything.
It isn't just both, it is all four area of them. That is Intel's Design and Fabrication and AMD's Design and Fabrication.

It was basically a perfect storm that is unthinkable few years ago. ( To me it is still very much unreal even with today's announcement. ) Intel 10nm cant be fixed in time ( In fact for 24 months, they just keep lying both publicly and in investor's meeting ) , that is Intel's Fab problem. And Icelake couldn't arrive on time because of 10nm, their Design could not adopt to 14nm or other node, it was stuck with 10nm, compare to Apple and AMD which has adopted the train development method where their Design were less fixated on a Node Schedule.

And AMD managed to execute in perfection. Naples set the tone to the industry, Rome ( Zen 2 ) were a huge leap in performance, the Chiplet design gave AMD the advantage in cost ( Smaller Die, Higher Yield, Mass manufacture in volume ), so while it had a lower price than Intel, they are not hurting their margin to fight this battle. Very important for the long term survival of AMD. Along with TSMC 7nm were running in perfect harmony. Not to mention TSMC were willing to fight and get 7nm capacity for AMD. Along with risking more CapeX and building more Fab.

And to add a fifth thing to all these, Intel had major securities problem just months before AMD's Zen 2 launch.

As if the whole thing were scripted to play the perfect Counter Attack by AMD and TSMC. But No, it is the Hard work and dedication of AMD and TSMC, the will to fight and deliver against all odds, compare this to Intel in the past 4 - 5 years.

So if you loathe Intel, now AMD is not only an alternative, but also possibly the best option on Server.

And if you love Intel, you should buy AMD to teach them a lesson for milking and sitting on their butt not Innovating.
I think that behavioural economics is it's own thing now, but it is heavily inspired by psychology (and, in it's turn, has helped to inspire psychology).

I agree with you on psychology's importance, but that's probably because I am a psychologist :)
okay, what parts are we talking about then? aside from the 3900x, the Intel parts all have the same core count as their amd counterpart at similar price points.
I've never met Scott but I worked with Dan briefly in the early 2000's and he is a disconcerting combination of brilliance and quiet modesty. It doesn't seem possible that someone as smart and broadly knowledgeable should be so balanced and still. 15 years later he's still one of my most persistent professional memories and I'm glad he's found a cause perfectly suited for his skill set and temperament.
>Not really. Those salaries are there to keep these smart people from doing something world-changing

I think it is more due to the fact there is still a relatively few number of people with a decent amount of experience in this field. Didn't OpenAI, a couple of few years ago, poach one of Google's employees for something like a million in compensation over x years?

Edit: yeah:

>Tax filings by the Elon Musk-founded research lab OpenAI revealed that its best researchers are paid top dollar for their expertise. In 2016 alone, OpenAI paid Ilya Sutskever, its top researcher, an impressive salary of $1.9 million.

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-openai-paid-top-research...
Only after RISC-V has gone through the same evolution as x86 and ARM and renamed itself CISC-V. :)
I have the impression that a class action "cost of doing business, and only if you get caught" handslap only emboldens others.

Would the following work to curtail practices like this?... Courts hit one so hard with punitive damages, and perhaps criminal investigation, that the company is wiped out. Then VCs decide it's bad business, and discourage practices like that (including by not funding someone who tries it once and expects to just serial entrepreneur if it fails), and then other companies take notice.
> builtin array module?

It's not for arithmetic but packing large amounts of data in memory efficiently. I've never seen it used, since NumPy usually is easier
This report has a screenshot of one of the domains:

https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousand...
There's a common attack that boosts the wireless signal of proximity fob to trick the vehicle into unlocking & starting. Fob wireless systems should ideally redesigned such that the round trip time is precisely measured of only valid encrypted challenge responses that only the fob can answer.

Spending a bunch of money on a luxury vehicle is usually idiotic and most people who do so usually can't afford it in proportion to their income sheet and balance sheet. Plus, it advertises the owner and the vehicle as targets for all sorts of criminal intrigue.
I don't think that's how these calculations should be done.

Let's assume that all of their estimates are correct, in most European countries the difference between what you cost an employee and what you take home is often more than a factor of two. Now I'm not quite sure about the UK, but I know about France and Italy and in both those cases if you spend 100 your employee takes home around 40.
Very little. Unless you write a compiler, they're both just x64 processors.