skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to pay it back if you don't stay for at least 6 months or a 1 year, so there's not an issue of people leaving day 1.

It's also been most common for new grads I think. Presumably, to help them get a jump start on student loans and get set up comfortably coming out of college, which is of course a bigger problem in the US than anywhere else.

But it seems to be becoming more common for mid-level and senior engineers as well, in these cases I think it's basically a loophole to make up for the fact that bay area engineering positions are continuing to get more competitive to fill, and for whatever reason companies don't fully want to acknowledge this and increase their official pay bands faster.
Vaguely related...SIM Swap crime is rampant in South Africa - in the Bank acc 2FA context.

Interestingly enough (academically) neither party is accepting blame, resulting in consumer taking the hit given organised syndicates.

Bank - not my problem if password and 2FA gets compromised

Cell provider - I never promised you bank grade security or safety of funds

...consumer...FML
I probably could have worded that better--it's ambiguous. What I meant is that a lot of the things which the US government did were harmful to US Citizens, and a lot of those same things that the government did, contributed nothing to the fight against Soviet totalitarianism.

Many of the mkultra experiments are a good example: the US government drove a bunch of US citizens insane for projects which ultimately resulted in no useable weaponry.

My point being: simply waving your hands and saying "the cold war!" isn't a valid defense of US government organizations.
I see. I was googling it a bit and found this on wikipedia:

"The collapse made the old 7 World Trade Center the first tall building known to have collapsed primarily due to uncontrolled fires,[7] and at the time, the only steel skyscraper in the world to have collapsed due to fire.[8]"

[FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center]

The phrasing "the first, at the time the only ..." seems to suggest that there have been other steel-skyscrapers which collapsed because of fire AFTER that. But as far as I can tell this wikipedia article does not name them.
Oh this situation is more understandable. I suggested not disclosing your pay because it's not required, actually in NYC I think it's illegal to ask now. But it's common for companies to anchor the offer on your current pay, most people I know who were underpaid fell victim to that.

If you are comfortable earning what you earn because of the work you do I get it. I looked into working for research universities in the past like UPenn because I'd be working in say cancer research, etc. I get it.
Why equity though? Could you please elaborate why you don't like bonds.

Because for me stocks look like a hot potato game. Literally the whole reasoning behind price is you can sell it higher to someone later.

The price is not supported by anything (book value is 10 to 100 times lower) and you don't get anything because liabilities come first on overvalued assets.
Most feature phones can also easily run a TOTP application (and have/do). There are J2ME TOTP applications that will run on hardware far back into the ancient past. There are all sorts of fun TOTP apps in the AdaFruit, Arduino, RPi hacking worlds.

The algorithm is rather straightforward. The "hardest" part is the SHA1 hashing algorithm and people have written versions of that for just about every hardware under the sun, including 6502 assembly. (Hmm, an old Game Boy would make an amusing TOTP device. I should add that to my list of possible future hack project ideas.)
Reproducing "A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality"
Think of everything you would have to do to avoid being surveilled today. Heck, think about everything you would have had to do even 40-50 years ago. I think the issue is not wether or not you can avoid being surveilled. I think that debate is largely settled. So the next logical question is, what are the rules governing access to that data? At what point do you need consent and from whom do you need consent? I think the fear, sadly, is that even if we come up with rules there is the challenge of how to apply them retroactively or in a backwards-compatible way. It's quite possible that we now we significant portions of the economy relying on companies having unfettered access to their data. I see parallels between this and the shift to renewable energy. Revenue from oil companies is tightly woven into the fabric of the US economy in many ways.
I just can't believe that even the moderately level headed people can tolerate the monotonously repetitive assertions by the Apple team - 'The best ever!, 'The fastest ever!', 'It's gorgeous!', 'It's so impressive!', blah blah blah and applause that follows. Sometimes I'm scared that some of us have forgotten that we have a choice not to watch or applause at this grotesque display of self stroking speak that comes out from apple twice a year.
It works for me. I am using Linux.

$ gcc clambda2.c && ./a.out
Running sum=6.282000
Running sum=18.322001
Running sum=102.321999
Running sum=103.722000
25.930500
Running sum=1.047000
Running sum=3.053667
Running sum=17.053667
Running sum=17.287001
4.321750
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 9.1.0
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Meetup Closes My Group but Keeps My Money
> This is why I don't understand why people take gig jobs. Think of the opportunity costs. First off, Uber drivers don't make that much.

It must be nice to sit in air conditioned office on $800 chair, sipping kombucha, looking at 2x 28" 4k monitors pontificating "Why would anyone want to be driving for uber?"

Because for an Uber driver this job could be the best available. One needs to eat and put a roof over one's head.
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I've seen this argument more and more lately, and it's starting to bother me because some places work great with infinite scrolling (twitter, serial comic strip viewers).

This article offers a small disclaimer at the end, but otherwise says things are impossible, when they simply aren't. #1 is easily solved by removing offscreen content once it's been scrolled past, and autoloading in both directions. Numbers 3-4, 8, and 9 (several of which are redundant complaints) are definitely the worst part of infinite scroll websites, but are pretty easily fixable with client-side routing.

The problem is people implement infinite scroll in terms of finite-scrolling documents, when there are a number of other dynamics to take into account. It's like saying "Don't make video games because you can't play them with a remote".
Ditto. Used it for years and was actually confused when it became a normal feature.
> However, not all of them were.

Ok, but many were. Therefore it is a problem.

And spying on Americans is something that many people have a problem with.
Oh, come on! It's the 21st century. "Insulting the Crown", whatever that is, should totally be protected as free speech. Rebellion and sedition sound really backward and dusty too. Yarr, like some pirate-age stuff, man...
Off topic but is your last sentence a nod to Vonnegut by any chance? Just curious
Right, but the point was, day trading isn't a "job" -- a day on the tough job you described would never end with you needing to write a check to your employer.
I understand that Forth is powerful and elegant, and one of the last languages I'd want to take on in a fight when wielded by a master, so let me pretend you were asking about a stripped-down Lisp compared to, say, Pascal, instead:

* The simple syntax of stripped-down Lisp is very amenable to application-specific or domain-specific macros. This turns out to be a convenient way to do things that often the language or compiler alone can't do as well, if you used only functions, data, and conventions.

* That the syntax is so simple, and can also be first-class data that is displayed from the programming environment like it looks in syntax, makes it especially nice for things like intermediate representations that are refined incrementally. For example, you can show a translation series of steps that go from syntax parse, to resolutions, to phases of optimizations, to high-level assembler, to a very low-level target code (still represented with parentheses and "opcodes"), from which you write bytes. This can also be convenient.

In this particular case, they're using Racket (an implementation of a dialect of Scheme) to implement a compiler for a Lisp dialect they invented. Using Racket gives them both a nice general-purpose language for implementing their compiler, and happens to already have a lot of tools for parsing their own stripped-down Lisp and manipulating it.

IIUC, Naughty Dog used Racket for a similar purpose: to implement their own Lisp. For a narrative DSL for some AAA titles.
"the firms who get the contract to do the work and *turn around and subcontract the work to you for pennys on the dollar"

Hmmm, I've never seen that arrangement before. Maybe it's a common thing somewhere though. I can't imagine why anyone would take that kind of job.
Venezuela's largest bank opens up petro cryptocurrency wallet registrations
It's about where the money comes from. It's easier and cheaper to bootstrap or get money for a project with a deliverable and end-date than the funding required for other types of companies.
Some patterns work in some families and don't in others. I don't believe a permissive parenting style is going to work equally well everywhere. A kid choosing to do something bad for them is often just a signal of youth and inexperience.
Also, most providers allow you to setup multiple simultaneous TOTP devices (and those that don't, should). On my personal TODO list is setting up a "safe deposit box" TOTP device sometime.
"That's actually the opposite of good practice"

Good security practice is considering all devices as insecure until proven otherwise. Also, mitigating known unknowns where a general problem happens a lot. Devices snooping on you, misleading you, interdiction, hacks on firmwate, etc. Then, you mitigate it in situations where you're unsure of what's going on just in case. So, long as mitigation isn't too costly.

I used to buy and get rid of WiFi devices and throwaway computers for that reason. Also, buy them in person at random places with cash. You can even turn it into charity by using FDE, wiping them afterwards, and reselling cheap or donating to others that cant afford full price. Put Ubuntu and Firefox on them to spread some other good things.
> How is it not the law people not understanding the web?

They clearly do and got input from technical people.

> “This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.”
That's not quite the problem.

Let's assume you've already decided in advance what "far" means.

Without moving either city from its current location, the same experiment can give you "very far" and "very close" in identical replications.
Incidentally, you'd be crazy not to do this, as having a business, even a sole proprietorship, makes taxes a lot easier.
That's misleading. It wasn't a bait-and-switch. In fine EU tradition there was long drawn-out horse-trading and compromise and settlement on a candidate tolerable enough to be accepted by 28 different countries and the European Parliament. Enough country leaders felt strongly enough that they couldn't accept Weber that they didn't endorse him.

The Spitzenkandidat system isn't law per se - it's a (very new) convention mostly being pushed by the European Parliament. The European Council (that is, the presidents, prime ministers and chancellors of each EU country) has always had to give or withhold an endorsement to whoever the European Parliament proposed to lead the European Commission.
Rights are non-negotiable.
I'm not sure brevity is a benchmark for a good language either.

So far as I can tell, you dislike how verbose the Ada "hello world" is, because it supports namespaces, and uses them. That wouldn't be something I'd agree with, especially not when dealing with any program of significant size.
>Then there are others who are in general opposed to this sort of interference in an animal population on ethical grounds.

There are over 250,000 children under the age of 5 that die every year from malaria. In my ethical system, there is very little that can possibly justify trying to prevent something that will save the lives of 250,000 children a year. Anyone who actively tries to delay wiping out malaria causing mosquitoes is classified with climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers.
The nominal dealing on a future's market will be on some paper that entitles the holder to the commodity delivery at a future date. When you buy oil futures, you are NOT buying oil since the oil doesn't exist (well I guess it exists underground somewhere, maybe), you are buying a contract to deliver crude oil and that needs to really exist. If the contracts don't exist that's a Bucket Shop.

It matters when things go badly wrong, because with a Bucket Shop you're left penniless, it was all imaginary anyway. Whereas with a futures market even if the exchange blows up those are real contracts you can sell to somebody who wants the commodity you were trading in, at worst a mild inconvenience and a small haircut to your final profit.
DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?
Not only that, but the Creature was rather intelligent and civilized to an extent, it's actions the result of the abandonment by its creator that it suffered at a critical moment. An abandonment cause by horror at a physical appearance, which in turn caused the Creature to be horrible in actions as well as appearance.

I'm not sure I've ever seen it adequately used as a metaphor that rose above the "Oooh, it's a monster!" level.
Just reached out, but just in case, my direct email is burak at getaether dot net. Happy to answer any questions.
They're doing it because their current business model will no longer be legal and they now have to optimize to a new set of laws. They aren't doing this to be more efficient, this will be less efficient than their existing system. But it very well may be the most efficient way to handle it under the new regulations.
I have always felt read slow helps you make connections intentionally and helps in better retention. Slow reading is an intentional choice. But it is a choice between when to do or not. With so much information around today through various mediums, speed reading/skimming helps to go through information quickly to get an understanding if you have to proceed further or not. I guess we switch between both of these modes time to time based on how important the information we are taking in.
>Create a fly account

...nope!
Thanks for info will check
Well there are some arguments to be made that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are terrible for their users. I am going to assume you are familiar with these arguments because you are on this site. Perhaps infinite scrolling contributes to whatever is so powerfully bad about these sites for their users, if indeed those arguments are correct.

Which I have a strong suspicion they are.
Karma. They should probably target Zuck next.
Just noticed the tab I had opened mentioning 6502 SHA1 hashing was to do it on old Tamagotchi hardware. Forgot that was also a 6502. Wonder if that person ever finished a TOTP Tamagotchi.
So then why do they trade at all then? I'm not arguing for trading, I'm just curious.

It seems like the existence of 'trader' as a job at all of these financial institutions kind of disproves EMH if you have enough market data
*foes, not "does" (autocorrect / missed the edit window)
Yes, there's probably a limit to how small you can make a transistor. But there are far more fundamental limits to computation, such as how efficient it's possible for a boolean operation to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Why are practices like this ok? I would be appalled to know a business I had anything to do with functioned in this way.
I’d say Pax has won this category.
> I wonder how much that was any given person, or just that the availability of such surveillance has increased dramatically.

The UK introduced (public) mass surveillance long before Snowden was on the scene.
Perfecting Battery management and Privacy settings made iOS markedly better for normal person long term usage, something google didnt really resolve until Android 9.

Even if Android had features first, the overall OS was a drag on battery, and apps were an all or nothing allow. Even if those things dont matter to people as a flashy feature, they matter.

My point is, when you are building a foundation, having better windows doesnt make you better. An accomplishment doesnt count fully if you missed the scope of what you were supposed to achieve.
I prefer property. 5% long-term annual returns, and you get a rent cheque every month. Best combination of short-term income and long-term equity that I've seen anywhere. Condos in downtown hubs of major cities are essentially recession-proof.
Yes, the Gell-Mann amnesia effect [1] needs to be made more widely known.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
Hackers Can Be Deadlier Than Nuclear Attacks
The rising nuclear tension shows that for many people the end of humanity is approaching. A forgotten point is that cyber attacks can be much more dangerous. Even though all human beings agree on how dangerous nuclear weapons are, today's nuclear arms race has become remarkable. The United States and Russia, the two countries with the most nuclear weapons in the world, are preparing to abandon one of the most important pacts. North Korea also started nuclear missile trials again. Iran has long been remembered for nuclear weapons. Some people are afraid of a new nuclear arms race.
Although this threat is really frightening, there is another danger that is bigger and less aware. Now the world lives digitally and hackers are a much bigger threat. Even today, even in state-supported hacker attacks, the most 'data has been stolen', it is stated that external interventions can be made to electricity and water infrastructures. US and Russian hackers are mutually providing unauthorized access to each other's infrastructure systems.

If cyber attacks are targeted to vital services, deaths will not occur suddenly, such as nuclear weapons, but may cause more people to die in a given process.
In the high atmosphere, a bunch of floating bacteria have figured out physics-- kinetic energy, electromagnetism, momentum, electric potential, etc --but they have no notion of gravity, being high up and feeling the turbulent forces of air with a much greater strength than the pull downward.

Eventually, their astrophysicists say "Look, the cosmos behaves very similarly to how our models predict, except there seems to be an extra force or energy that pulls everything in one direction. If we just add one term to every potential energy equation we have, it all makes sense, but we have no idea where that energy actually comes from."
I find good parallels in how today's "high finance" begins to resemble late Soviet Union's economy.

There was an extreme amount of pointless and doomed enterprises, but given just how much "national capital" was invested, and how much credibility economic planners had at stake for their imagined economic theories, an absolutely ridiculous amount of self-deception was made.

And from that on, lies and economic data falsification went into a downward spiral. The amount of "funny money" being going around state institutes in a convoluted scheme of mutual bailouts, reciprocal investment deals, capital parking arrangements, "kickback backed credits," and LBOs (Yes! The Union had LBOs, at least on paper) began to outnumber the amount of cash going exchanged in the tiny real economy by triple digits.
The answer to this which makes the most sense to me is that the wave function collapses when the information exists that determines the quantum state. In Schrodinger's cat, this would be when the Geiger counter detects the quantum state, but by the time the cat dies/does not die and the researcher opens the box, everything is already in the classical world.

Schrodinger's cat was made to be a thought experiment to show how absurd some of the ideas about the quantum world are. We are unable to prove whether the cat does go into a superposition or does not. Personally, the ideas that superposition is tied to whether consciousness observes it doesn't make sense to me. After reading about some of the stranger experiments such as the quantum eraser experiment, I've gravitated towards information theory being the missing link. If that is true, then the astounding conclusion would be that the fabric of our universe is information!
Folks who do this sometimes say what they produce is liquidity in the markets where they participate in trading.
There's no good way to host your apps without creating an account somewhere!

You can totally use the Docker image in the article without doing that though. And maybe we should figure out how to make "login with your Hacker News" work.
What are the implications of gig workers=employees for companies like Google?
My favorite example I discovered recently is the Coinbase prices page. You can’t get to the links in the footer (or their big “enter your email to learn more” CTA which I’m sure their marketing team works hard on) because it keeps loading new pages when you scroll to the bottom of the page. Presumably they will eventually run out of pages and you’ll be able to see the footer.

https://www.coinbase.com/price
In case you missed it, https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/10/firefoxs-test-pilot...
Samurra Air Battle
I own a copy of My Lunches with Orson and can confirm it's a fantastic read. Not everything Welles says is strictly true, of course -- he was a legendary self-mythologizer, and here what he's saying is getting to us filtered through Jaglom as well -- but he certainly seems like a guy it would have been fun to have lunch with!
There actually appears to be a `gcc` bug here, `gcc` doesn't warn if you return the address of a local function even though it's clearly bogus usage due to it being implemented via a trampoline on the stack.

Interesting note, some quick testing shows that if the local function doesn't require any variables from the outside scope, it will actually be stored in the `.text` segment, which would allow this to work in a defined way. That said, I view this is just an implementation detail that you can't rely on, as the docs don't mention this and only talk about trampolines. It's also super easy to mess up, obviously.
If you're writing Dart targeting Flutter for web (flutter.dev/web) you are able to make calls into JavaScript/TypeScript.

Chris Sells
PM, Flutter developer experience
Money is not the solution to everything. A burden cannot always be overcome with money. Sometimes it's natural to kill something off when it has fulfilled its goal. Sometimes people get tired of their projects and want to move on.
>stable on the order of hundreds of years

Just isn’t something in super high demand. That and density are probably the only major advantages right? And I don’t imagine the equipment to "read" that data will be very compact in the foreseeable future.
By "woo" topic you mean "mind control"?

I like to do a thought experiment. If mind control is possible, will the CIA want to use it? If the CIA uses mind control, will they tell you about it? If they say that the program was a failure and was shut down, are they telling the truth?

I recommend taking a look into a thing called "trauma-based mind control". It may alter your way of thinking. Or it may not.