skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To protect freedom"? That is the US catch-all argument and doesn't really say much. Whose freedom, from / for what, and what about other factors?

To me from Western Europe the state and corporations are... comparable to families and sports clubs. Nobody would want to merge them for tons of reasons including personal freedom (here: separation of public and private spheres), effectiveness, responsiveness, avoidance of conflicts of interest etc. But coordination makes sense.

Something I have noticed about large Asian companies is that there is much less in-fighting between parts of the organization, which can make up for other disadvantages they may have. In large Western corporations it seems to be everyone against everyone in mid-level management. At the lowest level it mostly looks like inexplicable inefficiencies and stupidities.
You're thinking of mass shooting 2019/247, not mass shooting 2019/248. (Yes, we're up to more than one a day on average now)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...
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It's better for large numbers since the asymptotic property dominates. It's questionable for small numbers since then the effect of the initial condition dominates. For example, the tweet's argument works the same way for the Fibonacci sequence that goes 1,3,4,7,11,... but obviously that gives different numbers.
It's a thin line.
Why x2?
Legally I hope those 2 statements are independent of each other. ;-)
Socialism is the only answer to the future of work if we want that a majority of people have a good life.
that doesn't solve the fragmentation subscription problem, it just makes it easier to check which subscription service has content.

the point here is that there are too many subscriptions. You're not solving that.
In Lebanese Arabic, the expression is: "Am I speaking Karshuni [1]?" Chinese, Turkish, and Kurdish are also used.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garshuni
Lots. They operate all over Europe.

They were called mytaxi until a couple of months ago, and absorbed Hailo and many other ride hailing services over the past few years.
That's not how decriminalization works.
Drugs are not legal in Portugal. What decriminalization means is that you don't go to jail if you use or abuse them; AFAIK the government has rehab programs and actively helps you to get rid of these drugs.

It's not like in Portugal you go and buy cocaine and the government expects you to self-regulate; that just doesn't work. Libertarianism works well for perfectly rational individuals, but rationality can't coexist with addictive drugs. Individuals need help breaking from destructive forces that are greater than themselves.

The idea here is not to punish people for using social media, but to punish social media companies for making their apps addictive. Just like in Portugal you can't get jail time if you're addicted, but you certainly do go to jail for dealing.
Maybe, but you can say that about anything that is not in-person face-to-face communication along with physically handing over the passport for inspection. I think the process was pretty rigorous for the current state of the art, and infinitely better than the normal approach of mailing around PDFs into which I have pasted a scan of my signature.
Communist innovation ends when you run out of other people's intellectual property.
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Thanks for the advice. Never heard that before. I'll try it out!
I did that for a while but its not worth the hassle because often I Want to watch something that isn't on any of the services i have and dont want to wait.

Piracy will make a comeback and thats a logical conclusion from this fragmentation.
I think taht Picasso is actually an APU (CPU+graphics) and before Ryzen/Zen they never supported ECC. So, I think that ECC is for PRO APUs is an improvement.
"like pouring the foundation for global HQ before the first customer has even signed"

I think this is a bad paradigm for early-stage software. It's premature over-engineering. It's taking a fundamentally sequential process, and busting it up into a nest of messages and concurrent LWPs that "fail fast" when all of that could be easily foregone by just staying lean and handling the errors.

I also think this is a bad paradigm for large-scale software--jamming all of the pieces into one dynamically typed language/VM with its own bespoke distributed protocol and monitoring tools. Common standards like HTTP/RPC/GraphQL/etc are far more flexible at connecting the nodes, and BEAM has a long road ahead to catch-up to existing OS tooling.
Perfect example: Aircraft carrier operations.

The US has painfully acquired the expertise and skills over half century. Thousands of aviators and sailors have died over decades until the current level of expertise has been reached.

Chinese have studied and copied everything. They translated USN carrier vessel flight deck manuals into Chinese and adopted it almost verbatim. Even the colors are the same. That's really smart thing to do. Trying to innovate and do your own thing starting from scratch because you have the false sense of pride and need be different would be stupid.
Their losses of about $1bn/yr are fairly small compared to their market cap of about $43bn at the moment implying they could finance things for quite a while. Though as you say things can change.
Unless you are working with wold and the measurements are all nonlinear lies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#Dimensional_lumber
Also consider wealth difference. Wealthier spend more money than poor people, so even if just a tiny fraction of every dollar is passed back as dividends, the accumulative effect is to distribute wealth towards the poor.
Dutch: we use Chinese and Spanish to me as well, but it doesn't mean that something doesn't seem quite right. It typically means that you don't understand something. Looking in a dictionary, it is mentioned for Chinese, but not for Spanish, so maybe it's because I grew up close to the German border that the local dialect uses Spanish and thereby the people might also say Spanish in normal Dutch.

For the train station, we don't have something that means the same that I can think of right now, but a similar one is "my name is Haas". You can say it when you suspect someone just pretends not to know anything about it, but about yourself it can be used either way. Seems to be a purely Dutch thing, I looked up the Wikipedia and discovered that it does not have anything to do with the animal "haas" (hare). Somewhat unsurprisingly, it comes from a story about a German:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mijn_naam_is_haas

Paraphrased in English: The saying probably stems from an event in 1855, where a German student wanted to flee to France. To cross the border, he needed an identity card, which he got from a classmate, Victor von Hase. Von Hase then claimed he lost his ID, but it was later found in France, where the murderer had lost it. The real Von Hase had to appear in court and that is where he spoke the words millions would come to speak after him: "Mein Name ist Hase [...] ich weiß von nichts." (My name is "hare", I don't know anything about this.)
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What's interesting about that number?
That was a comment I read some time ago coming from Umberto Eco. He has a very big library and he occasionally gets asked by visitors to his home if he read all or most of them? His answer was long your lines. Of course he had not read most of it at all - because what was the point of keeping a library mostly consisting of books you already read? Your library should be the exact opposite to be useful, i.e. mostly consisting of books you had not yet read. Unfortunately I forgot where I read that.
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Eh, if an attacker has filesystem access you're already pwned.
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Have you visited China? It doesn't feel as dystopian as you may think. I don't mean to say that everything is fine, but on the other hand regular people don't seem to live in fear of their friends or children spying on them for the secret police like they were in the GDR.
Not quite. In the USA the corporations own the people. In China the state owns the people (there is not much government to speak of).
Hungarian: It's "full chinese" for me
I want to point out the insanity of filtering on an interview question that has a low success rate.

Presumably your candidate has a bachelor's degree. By this point in their life they've answered thousands and thousands of questions. They taken countless exams, and there is solid aggregate data which summarizes their performance (GPA, standardized tests, certificates, etc).

By filtering on a few challenging questions, the interviewer is throwing these statistics in the trash and rolling the dice to disambiguate the best and worst candidates. What do you think the variance is on a five question exam? Not great.

Rather than try to assess decades of expertise with five questions, I think you are better served by asking questions which pull in orthogonal information.

Do the candidates career goals align with the companies? Do they seem pleasant to be around (also high variance, but orthogonal). Are they enthusiastic about the position?
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The cost of holidays in Italy has gone up a lot in comparison to real wages in the last decades (also because the expectations for a holiday are on average much higher now).
Nobody can be certain that it would completely prevent something like that, and world doesn't deal with absolute. However, it would make it harder to perpetrate, make potential abuser more fearful, and, on average, would make it much less probable, this I'm sure of.
>2. Each candidate on the ballot gets to choose 5 multiple choice questions. The questions must be directly relevant to the powers of the office.

The rest of point 2 is just defining valid questions in a way that is very hard to game and legally unambiguous enough for a judge to enforce fairly.
When I am on vacation my work phone is off and so I have no way to be contacted or to read work emails. My team know they have to manage things by themselves and when they are on vacation I know I can't contact them.

For me it is not a vacation if I must be reacheble all the time.
I was referring to making the part “How many services do these people realistically expect me to check” easier. Fully agree on the fragmentation issue.
Just in the last days I built a new web site (a list of children's books, so many identical types of boxes).

I thought it would be a nice opportunity to finally learn a bit of Flexbox or CSS Grid.

I failed with both. Until I realized I could use both, lay out the grid of boxes and then have the content of the boxes flex. I'm sure everyone does that, but the introductory articles I've read never mentioned that it's not either-or.
Having worked with both, Azure’s documentation tends to be very well maintained.
Another similar project: https://cvdazzle.com/
I built an escape room in San Francisco! It's a loving parody of startup culture (Startup Escape), and while I built it because it seemed like a fun challenge, it's also bringing in a good amount of business still.

If you're in SF and build it custom, you can make some money. If you are in a random place with low rent and you buy an off the shelf game, you can make a ton.

If anyone is interested in building one and has questions, ask away!
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What's interesting to me is, even with this construct in place, the government can still intervene if they'd like. So, isn't it just a facade ? At least with china, I clearly know what I'm getting into (albeit not a good thing).
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10*X km is Y-base-16 miles, for single digit numbers.
While using only additions and shifts (if we generalize) without floating point or multiplication should appeal to HN, this method uses a lookup table and calculating values needs a lot of memory accesses e.g. f(7) => f(4) + f(3) => (f(3) + f(5)) >> 2 + f(3) .

The Human Mk1 processing units are also capable of small multiplication/divisions, especially on bases 2 and 10, but bad at lookups - who thought manufacturing units with such slow memory access was a good idea??

I'd rather we play to their strengths and multiply by 1.6 (f(X) = X + X/2 + X/10 for all X) requiring only a few memory accesses. This is already as accurate as the other method. We could make it 1.61 (+ X/100) if we must be more accurate. Any floating point error should be too small to matter.
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On Mac: Cmd + Space 5 mi (and you have the answer already)
The first step to learning LISP the right way is to understand what LISP stands for: Lets Insert Some Parentheses :-)

I would be curios if there are a set of guided lessons in Lisp with guided projects. I would like to revisit this language as it is truly an elegant language.
And look how it worked out for him. It's hardly a counterexample to GPs point.
Socialism hasn’t ever worked so far, and has killed over a hundred million people in the attempts.

What’s the basis for your comment?

Why do you believe that a system which doesn’t work — and destroys the countries it’s implemented in — will suddenly work, but none of the models which have worked successfully will continue to work?
US-only, of course.
You saved my life :)
Provided you're in an environment where information from failures can be rapidly fed into improvements, and failures are not terminal: fail early, fail often, fail small.
As far as i know this is only true for APUs. Cpus without a gpu don't have this limitation. Also most mobo manufacturers don't seem to emphasise any ECC features as there are no RGB lights on any of the available DIMMs I assume.
I have no words that let me express my opinion of politicians that are willing to let this go on in a way that doesn't blatantly violate the rules of this site.
I think the parent wanted to point out that it’s fairly trivial to blacklist the plates on these shirts and thus remove the injected data. The number of available plates on the shirts is limited, likely they’re not valid plates either.
So I suppose a "level playing field" is never going to happen.

How are US companies supposed to compete against such state backed corporations?
It reminded me a bit of James Mickens’ writings. Not quite as weird and insane as him, but close.
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The same saying exists in German as well.
It's a realtime service with second-SLAs that needs to know where you are, where the closest 20 drivers are, the map of the area, places of interest and a dozen other things - for millions of users in hundreds of cities

No it doesn’t. For a start there is no overlap between cities, so that’s easy to shard. And secondly that’s not what SLA means - how many 9’s do you think would be in a sub-second SLA? Thirdly Uber offloads it’s payment to third parties, unless I blinked and it’s issuing its own credit cards now.

You seem to be incredibly impressed by Uber’s tech but have you considered that everyone else’s tech works so well that you just take it for granted? No Uber ride comes close to the complexity of sending a package internationally, and orders of magnitude more packages are sent every day than Uber does rides.
How does it work? 1000 miles = 1609.34 km. But 0x1000 = 4096.
>here’s the talk

It's at 36 minute mark
That's also in the thread, posted by Oscar winner and Project Loon developer Dan Piponi, who also has a fantastic technical blog at
blog.sigfpe.com

https://mobile.twitter.com/sigfpe/status/1158465136891269121
Whatever happens, let's hope we never begin encrypting our video games.
> imprisoned for 8 hours

You mentioned this twice, but unless you left out some major details you were never actually imprisoned. If you demand to leave it's almost always a felony to stop you.
And in Spanish we use Chinese.
Anyone ask an algorithm question, I am just going to suggest using quantum bogo sort for everything.. Let the damn program run till the heat death of the universe. Then interrupt them during the next question, and try to find out how bad there backend really is..
Where did you read me writing this?
Total comp for a middle engineer at Uber is $450k.
Do they live in fear of getting shot at grocery stores? I hear the crime rate is dramatically lower than ours.
Nice! I have a couples of questions if that's okay :)

1- Are you making profit? How long did that take you to be profitable?

2- In what do your spend money? Mind sharing a breakdown?

3- Who is your typical customers? Do they come back? How do you reach them?
(Not advice to parent, just generally)

If you want to be more professional about this stuff, build up a Fuck Off Fund. Women in particular have written about fuck off funds in the context of making sure you don't have to nod along when HR says the VP who stuffed his hand down your top was "just fooling around" but - most people need that financial security any time they have to confront the boss. Save to be able to look the big boss in the face and tell them "Fuck Off". "Fuck Off" isn't the response you need when they tell you they want the database authentication disabled "just until Monday, Tuesday at the latest" that's when you want "No". But you need to know you _can_ tell them to "Fuck Off" so you actually say "No". Otherwise you may find yourself agreeing anyway.
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Well growing up in England, that isn't what what we used.

We would say that something was "Double Dutch", not that it was "Greek to me".
Yes, but somehow the government believes that not having access to the phone's data is much more dangerous!

What a load of BS. If anything, it's all the mass surveillance they do that should have prevented him from shooting people up. But of course it doesn't work like that because mass surveillance = real time noise. Mass surveillance, if anything, can be useful only after the fact, because you already know the crime has been committed, it's no longer an algorithm predicting a "chance" of something happened, multiplied by millions of people, giving you thousands of false positives at any moment in time.

But the issue is, this after the fact thing is also what makes it much easier to abuse, as the government can just target anyone they feel might upset them at any point in the future, since they already have everyone's data.
The "every tile row looks the same" interface seems like a subpar choice, given the amount of content.

At minimum, bubbling shows I've previously watched that now have a new season up into a differently displayed row would be helpful.
That is funny looking at history where it actually never worked, you can have starving people in North Korea vs China which is a not socilism anymore from market perspective... I come from a post-socialist country, and when growing up in the 90s we and 90% of the society was so poor after 50 years of socialism that my parents could not afford a pair of Nike or Adidas. What me and most mates were wearing was Nice and Adidos... as a pair of oroginal Nike was like 1/3 of my mum or dad salary. So I’ll never say yes to any socialist ideas! As these ruined several countries: Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Poland and at least a dozen of other countries from the other side of the Iron courtain.
No. Simply no.

There is no anti-China agenda. There is however an anti-medieval agenda, it has less to do with China as such and more to do with the mindset of the society and the ruling of the state. Most other societies have been through this already. China will also eventually.
I did read both of them and my opinion did change.

Do you see how meaningless this type of argument is?
I agree it's not worth the hate, but in my opinion SI units are much more convenient.

Using your own example, miles vs kilometers may not feel like a big difference, but the fact that you have proportional units (mm, cm, m, km) for any possible distance has the potential to save you a lot of trouble. Having completely different units for the same thing (land miles / nautical miles for distance), usually not proportional between them, is less practical than the SI at every level. Not only for an engineer but also for home owners and almost everyone of us.

I understand why there are some places in the world where they still use systems other than the SI, mainly for legacy reasons. But I think the practical benefits of a more coherent (and standard) unit system exist not only for the engineer.
Kit is for a T2, but perhaps it would fit a T3 also.
In German: "Das sind für mich böhmische Dörfer" -> Bohemian (~Czech) villages.

But I only ever heard this one in Saxony, which borders the Czech Republic.
tl;dr:

1. laid off 400 "marketing" staff(global)

2. hiring freeze in U.S.(& Canada) for engineering(software) & PMs, due to reaching hiring quota for this year

3. $5.24B net loss(biggest ever)

4. hiring continues for logistics, autonomous-car etc..

Interesting facts indeed.

Why does Uber(& the likes) need to continue hiring engineers/PMs really? Unless they are opening new products every year, can't their existing engineering handle all of the existing products? Given how well they pay(heard info), am curious whether engineers still leave after a while, needing constant replacement every year?

Am not demeaning anything, am really curious. I assumed places like Uber/ABNB/Lyft don't lose staff easily.
My childhood video store had a 5 movies for $5 for 5 days deal. But that's easier with a back-catalog oriented clientele.
Key word “supported”. AMD's consumer chips have ECC enabled but it is not validated.
Yes and no (meaning that we strangely use both Arabic and Turkish in different situations).

If you don't understand, you would say "Mi sembra arabo" (it seems arabic to me) but if you are talking and the other part doesn't understand it is more common "E che parlo, turco?" (what am I speaking, turkish?) than "E che parlo, arabo?" (what am I speaking, arabic?) at least in my experience.

Of course historically "turk" and "arab" were synonyms due to the fall of of Constantinople and the "contacts" with the Ottoman Empire.

And now, risking to quote myself, evidence of the sentence (by a greek) "it's English to me":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484479#20485258
Same goes for memory and virtualization encryption.

They should be standard consumer features. SEM "sort of" is, but I believe it's not enabled by default on many BIOSes, and SEV is reserved to Epyc. In a time that even Windows 10 has Windows Sandbox and Edge App Guard as consumer-centric virtualization features, supporting virtualization encryption is starting to make more sense. And of course there are all the "pro" people that were already playing with VMs on their machines.

Granted, SEV seems kind of broken/insecure, but I'd still like to see an improvement version coming to consumer Ryzen within the next-generation or two. It coming to Zen 3 chips would probably be ideal, because I don't think AMD will be able to show yet another impressive increase in performance with them, as they will remain on a 7nm process, and Zen 3 itself is supposed to be more of an iteration to Zen 2 anyway. This way at least they can lure people with "more security features", as well as other features like AV1 hardware decoding/encoding support.
I believe this question is not quite accurate. Node is happening in the real world, yes. But often companies with a couple of years in the market would have a different stack that isn't that hyped like JavaScript stuff.

They require actual programming skills, not programming language skills. And this I think is the most important part. I'm just not sure if we could ask this from Bootcampers, since their learning process is just sufficient to spit them out to the market.