skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis is a company employs Sociopaths, Losers, and Clueless. The Losers accept whatever quid pro quo they get in their current position. The Clueless struggle to distinguish themselves from Losers. The Sociopaths talk to each other in coded language during conversations that the unwitting Clueless believe they’re participating in. The shared understanding of the Sociopaths, who have a real ability to navigate the corporate structure, keeps the Clueless from advancing. The Losers are smarter than the Clueless because they perceive the Sociopaths’ game is unwinnable and don’t play. It’s all illustrated with characters from The Office. It’s not really instructive, but it’s a great read.
Fake news? No jobs? Prospective journalists soldier on
and editors accept or decline

I think that's the very point @csallen was making.
Aren't there field lines between the anode and cathode in an electrolysis system? You have current moving, so there must be. I wonder how those affect the process.
Aside from trace size, a big problem here is that devices nowadays are just so complicated. There is a ton of cruft and bloat; thanks to computers used in the creation of things, every new car is its own Godel Escher Bach.
I keep my phone in the bedroom, but not near the bed. Reduces the chances of snoozing it and going back to sleep (not that it was common, but even twice in five years was annoying enough).
"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" is a pretty good introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o
Add ~$15K for room and board, though.
My wife grew up in Montreal and paid a laughably small amount at McGill.
Back in 2005, Microsoft published an article about TDD that was wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, completely and utterly wrong. I wrote about it at the time:

https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Microsoft-Gets-TDD-Completel...

The authors of that article described TDD the same way the OP's polemic does: 1) write your tests 2) implement the tests.

But that's not how TDD works.

Every complaint the author has stems from this misunderstanding.

If you're interested in how TDD and related practices actually work, my talk from last month's Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference has been getting a lot of praise on Twitter. The whole thing's worth watching, but the TDD-specific part starts at 15:21.

Whole video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dv4M39Arec

TDD part: https://youtu.be/_Dv4M39Arec?t=921
This is true. Buying a truck is the fastest way to become everyone's friend.
California's top marginal tax rate is 12.3%.

The combined state and federal marginal tax rate does not exceed 50% either.
The article seems to suggest that issues are less the separation than the messaging and expectations created with it. Personally, I think the goal should be to always encourage and challenge all students, and show all students that working diligently and thoughtfully can pay off.

I know from experience that being in a classroom that functions at the level of the lowest common denominator is basically abusive to everyone else. What would you feel like if you had to spend high school English class reading Dick and Jane out loud, for example? That's what a poor combined class is like for "G&T" students (and I had a couple real rough years when things felt like that). But that's also a far from saying "GATE kids" should always be "tracked" or feel like they're stuck in a particular lane and loaded down with ridiculous expectations.
Mass media in general has been profiting off rumors, gossip, and falsehoods for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

The difference here is FB is doing it algorithmically on a much larger scale.
That what brought the price down. But there are huge known fields in the Golf and other places that have major potential, but those are rationed by a cartel.
Only if all bosses are bad :).
I'm a counterexample, and expect I'm not alone.

The level of distress many of my peers are experiencing due to the cost of housing is horrible, and I'd be happy for the value of my house to be cut in half if it would reduce the misery.
NOLA?
> By refusing to stay out of politics, the company is building the case for its own breakup.

Wouldn’t this be an unconstitutional basis for breaking up a company?

A popular jab at Zuck/FB is that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to private corporations, but only to the government.

Once a government decides that Facebook’s maximally permissive view on speech/ads is unacceptable, and goes on to pursue punitive action against it, isn’t that within the realm of the sort of government action that the First Amendment prohibits? How is that any different from the government applying punitive action against CNN or the NYTimes for publishing ads it deems dangerous/unacceptable?
Would more tax money from Apple result in a larger supply of housing or a more affordable housing situation? I'm not clear on how it would.
> everyone will drive military tanks a bit down the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer
There's probably a pretty high risk of some future event involving the Saudis being something they wouldn't want to incorporate in their show.
This limitation is probably the most important thing for me. We need the ability for companies and large orgs to fund projects or GH orgs, not just individuals.

I setup my GH sponsors specifically to raise fund for the projects I work on, but because of the structure it is unclear and difficult for me to feel alright with putting my info on projects I work on with others.

EDIT: adding my link since I guess that is what others are doing in this thread. https://github.com/sponsors/wesleytodd
Career options to consider before doing management consulting
Probably we can think of Tether as a type of lottery
Stanford wants to admit the students who will have the most achievement. Thats very different than measuring the differential achievement of (supposedly comparable) students who were admitted to Stanford and some other school.
I thought this was a homage to Yahoo offering Zuckerberg 1 billion for Facebook early on. To which he replied something along the lines of “I may never have an idea this good ever again”
Stellar Development Foundation Burns 55 Billion Lumens
That's because, as per usual, they buried the lede.

First, they cherry-picked studies. Second, the few studies they referenced addressed overall school performance, not performance of the gifted students.

A perfectly valid way of reading this article is: gifted kids in de-tracked schools do the teachers' jobs for them by helping out the slower kids, which results in better school performance.
Hacker News isn't very accommodating of trite humor in my experience, so I doubt /s would have helped much here.
I agree with what you're saying in general. But hypothetically, if the forgiveness was made retroactive to say 10 years (or however long ago you paid your loans back) and you got all your money back, would your opinion change?
You are literally just spreading a lie over and over again.

CA's top marginal tax rate is 12.3%. If it were >50% no rich person would live in the state.

The combined state and federal rate is not >50% either, and any calculator that claims otherwise is lying. And that's before you even take deductions into account.

If you're paying >50% marginal tax rate in CA, your accountant should be fired. And possibly investigated for embezzling funds from you in the form of "tax payments."
I used to have it in my head that the Voyager probes were about as powerful as an Apple II computer. But it's hard to make a direct comparison as the probes have three computers made of two processors each, running at 1/20th or 1/6th the speed of an Apple. So it's not a one-on-one comparison in any way, but for discussion purposes:

An original Apple II used a MOS 6502 8-bit word CPU clocked at 1.023 MHz and typically had 4Kb to 48Kb of RAM. It ran about 500,000 instructions per second [1].

Computer Command System (CCS) - two 18-bit word interrupt-type processors with 4096 words each of plated wire memory. It ran about 25,000 instructions per second. [2]

Flight Data System (FDS) - two 16-bit word machine with modular memories and 8198 words each of memory. It ran about 25,000 instructions per second. [2]

Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS) - two 18-bit word machines with 4096 words each of memory. The AACS ran about 80,000 instructions per second. [2]

So maybe the total amount of computing power is equal? The total memory on a Voyager was about 32K [3], and since the word sizes were bigger, theoretically they could access larger chunks of memory in a single instruction? What's for sure is that a single CCS is at least an of magnitude less powerful than an Apple II.

More info:

1) http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Refere...

2) http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

3) https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050617/http://voyager.jp...
So we finally have an industry that pays its workers well and often gives them ownership stakes so that the wealth generated doesn't just go to a handful of executives and owners but is distributed across hundreds of thousands of workers, and somehow it's that industry that's doing things wrong?
why do you think right-wing troll farms even exist? because the media is one-sided, backed-up by billionares who love cheap immigration
Instead of NFC, one can use Bluetooth that is present in most phones.
This is the first I've heard of it and it looks absolutely amazing. An EV car with a fully-featured interior, reasonably long range, competitive price, and a design that doesn't look like something out of a circus sideshow. I'm really excited about what the EV market will look like next time I'm in the market for a new car.
I'm not «attacking» anyone, but you wouldn't trust Lenin talking about the Russian history (and you'd be right) and you shouldn't trust a libertarian politician about history either.
> . For example, the "math kids" I grew up with took several classes post-calculus in high school. How can you do that if you're only taking calculus as a junior or possibly senior

What if taking more than Calculus 2 in High school isn’t necessary?

Your school seems incredibly privileged to me, imho.
Unless you can buy both, in which case you should start now and continue with the newer computer.
A very nuanced take, certainly. Thank you.
My GPS receiver works just fine inside, even with the window blinders closed. I suppose it might not in a windowless room.
It's in their interest to make housing as cheap as possible so they can pay their employees less to live in the Bay Area.

While your statement is true, it makes no sense in the context of this topic.
Man the NYT editors must really hate FB to post an article like this every week. It’s not like I like Facebook or anything but this is just exhausting.

They’re a forum with user generated content and ads. They’re undertaking a huge moderation effort already — trying to have their army of underpaid moderators also police facts is just a problem that can’t solved because lies are cheap to spread and expensive to refute.

You could say something snarky like “well FB just shouldn’t exist then” which doesn’t take into account any replacement someone on HN would approve of would have worse moderation than FB.

The format of massive scale public square social media is the reason this happens. And unless you want to tell the world to get off Twitter and eat their vegetables there’s only so much you can do to keep fights from breaking down in a huge public meeting of people who are addicted to arguing and 0 distance away from every conversation.
That's not how it works in real media organizations like the NYT.
Here's a nice example of how AP explains "anonymous sources" to its journalists and readers. It's harder to trick the New York Times than Jacob Wohl and QAnon believers thought:
https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/telling-...
I think it just depended on what you were doing on it, I 'ported' the CELT (Opus predecessor) to it in like.. an afternoon.
Go to community college for a year in the state that you want to go to college to, become a resident, and also complete some pre-reqs for cheap in the meanwhile.
Not for community colleges and regular universities. If you want to go to a top-tier university, sure, but there is tons of room for everyone.
If only it was actually 9 - 5, seems that 7:30 - 6 is a lot more common
REST is a poor choice. Use any popular binary RPC protocol over Bluetooth/USB and don't add unnecessary complexity.
I personally believe that having TJ Miller on the cast after all of the disciplinary stuff he got himself into (calling the bomb hoax on the AMTRAK train / the person whose friend is called "Cunty" revealing that he was a prick to everyone on the set) would have drawn a lot of smack towards the production team. Miller just made things horrible for himself.
lol thank you!
A lot is cached but agree it's still a valid concern.
Ask HN: Are all project managers there to disturb you and ask stupid questions?
English word clusters like “Weapons of Mass Destruction” are similar to German. The way they’re written is different though. It is ‘mashed together.’

Once you get used to picking out German morphemes, it’s not hard to make things out.
International tax law doesn’t seem very relevant to the housing crisis.
Apple is also one of the most notorious tax avoiders in world history.

This is quite a stretch. Apple's effective tax rate is somewhere near 24-26%, which is far above many of its peers.

However when the tax conversation comes up, every level and every jurisdiction has self-serving ideas about how much of that tax should be payable to them. e.g. "Apple made $X worldwide, therefore they owe Cupertino/California/United States N% of $X", etc.
Here is the zero-sig account they transferred the Lumens into: https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/account/GALAXYVOIDAOP...
We have a slight disagreement on what it means to accrue technical debt.

When a schema changes for an all, someone has to migrate it and the data, unless the design is that all incompatible data is dropped. Either that’s the codebase itself or the dev team is punting to the user. Punting to the user just shifts the burden around.

If the R&D team shipped a shitty / incomplete schema to get the software out the door that they need to change later, then yes, that is technical debt - something they’ll eventually need to repay.

If requirements evolve over time and thus the schema needs to, that is not necessarily technical debt in the usual sense, which usually implies a temporary technical compromise for the purposes of expediency / getting something out the door.

I suppose I agree there is a trade off here and a penalty - after many years the migrations get slow to apply etc, and you could say that checkpointing the schema every few versions and preventing upgrades from any prior point is a way of cleaning up the “migration debt”.

But people like to suggest that there’s some other way , ie. the OP saying “ If you get your domain model wrong at the start, it will haunt you forever.”.... I have never seen any system get the domain model perfectly right at the start!
It's worth noting, tax laws don't come out of nowhere. They literally do write the tax laws. They don't sign them in to law, sure, but they do write them.
> it's not bending the shape of the web

Safari for iOS (and Apple in general) is bending the shape of the web. For example the poor support for PWAs.
> Just because we wrote 8 in the MMU mode, we don't quite have the MMU turned on. The reason is because we're in CPU mode #3, which is the machine mode. So, we need to switch to "supervisor"

I'd encourage him to start in Supervisor mode instead and use one of the standard bootloaders (bbl or openSBI) to deal with machine mode. This would be compatible with Linux and be more portable as different platforms will supply platform specific boot loaders.
Seems like par for the course for a startup transitioning to a more established company.

I've lived that a few times, now I know the warning signs and bail as soon as possible.

However, I wouldn't call these "scare tactics". In fact, there globally weren't any scare tactics for developers in any company I've worked for: they're simply too difficult to find, good ones especially.

Scare tactics is when you are a single mom afraid of losing your minimum wage job and knowing unemployment won't cover your expenses because your deadbeat ex isn't paying alimony on your 2 kids. That's when your boss starts touching you...
Agreed. But perhaps it could be bundled with something else, like working remotely as a junior engineer at a startup for min wage < x < SF CS grad comp.
lol timehackers. It made sense when I wrote it \o/
It may be the case that the gifted kids are helping slower kids score better, but not actually learn better. At least, that's what it was like when I was a kid. Teachers would constantly pair up smart kids with dumb kids for group assignments or study, and the smart kids would end up doing all the work. This benefits the teachers when they're evaluated by how well students are scoring.
I'd just hazard to say that the current school system is not very functional.

It puts kids through a lot of unpleasant experiences, requiring to exert a lot of effort and spend a lot of time.
The problem is that not so much of that effort, discomfort, and time is due to learning new and useful stuff.

Instead, some kids waste time bored when they are ahead of the class, some waste time clueless when they are way behind the class. Quite some kids spend effort on fending off bullies, while other kids attain toxic experience of being successful bullies.

Most of the kids also have a very vague idea why are they studying particular stuff, hoping that maybe it will all fall in place when they go to college, or just hope to pass through it all and forget it after graduating.

Teaching children is what we, as a society, haven't yet figured out well enough.
If I had to guess, this is a trademark issue. First sale doctrine only gives him the right to sell legitimately-marked products, but not to use the Krispy Kreme marks in advertising. His FB page was called “Krispy Kreme Run Minnesota”, which implies an endorsement that doesn’t exist.
This is true. But I’d rather folks be open about the social engineering instead of pretending it doesn’t happen.
>If you compare the share of taxes different groups are paying you also should compare the share of income they are receiving.

If someone pays 30% of income to tax, raising their income only means they're paying more dollars in tax. 30% is a ratio.

The rich also lost bigger chunks during the downturn.

The middle class is shrinking due to more moving up than down. That doesn't fit your narrative so well, but as far as I can tell, it's true, and has been true for some time. So of course their "share" is shrinking and the "rich" share is increasing - but then you might want to see what happened to the underlying people. After all, the set of rich people (and middle class, and poor) is always in flux.

If you really care to look at the numbers, the top 1% earns around 20% of all income, and pays around 37% of all taxes. The bottom 50% made 12% of all income, and paid 3% of all taxes.

So the top is paying almost 2x the share of taxes compared to their income than the average person, and the bottom half pays around 1/4x.

No matter how you slice it, the top do pay a lot in taxes. It's why the US is rated one of the most progressive tax structures in the OECD.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
I mean you can buy ads same as Facebook. It’s hard to SEO the NYT but if anyone could pay to get their posts a bigger organic audience on FB nobody would buy ads.
It Wouldn´t. Tax revenue is not the cause of the housing shortage. If you give more money to a bad manager, he won´t suddenly become a better manager. Same with politicians and their public policy.
My experience is that I never need a truck, because my friends that own one are strangely desperate for excuses to make use of them. I can just ask one of them to help me out.
> California's marginal tax rate is over 50%

It is not. The top tax bracket (income $1m+) is 13.3%[1]. Where are you getting this number from?

1. https://www.tax-brackets.org/californiataxtable
This was in the book Anathem and I agree that it was one of the most intriguing ideas (and there were many in Anathem!).

An earlier comment I made about this very point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592
This article mostly talks about the bay area (and slightly mentions national studies), so it seems that they were mostly studying the case were most students were already meeting a sort of baseline.

From my personal experience, I think that separating kids in lower income areas leads to positive experiences. Before being in the gifted program, my classes were often interrupted by fights and stuff that was more fit on world star.
Auckland, a super city struggling with its own success
It is completely not true that you can "offload" responsibility as described. If you run a website, then you are a "controller" and are responsible for ensuring that processors are also abiding by the GDPR, for example by securing Data Protection Agreements and vetting the processors.

There is definitely risk associated with running third party analytics and not having opt-in associated with that. It is very much not established whether GA's solution is good enough. Having said that, while there is a risk, at this point it seems to be a small risk of getting into GDPR trouble unless you are a very large operation.

That's what I tell my clients. YMMV.
This is a fairly common trope in SciFi settings which have Generation Ships.

Some time after the ship gets launched (centuries, even), FTL gets developed. Then they either arrive and find a civilization at their destination, or they are considered to be off-limits and not to be messed with, depending on the setting.

That assumes such improvements are even possible.

At least for non-magical propulsion, we don't really need "faster" engines. Take whatever engine you want, let's say it can accelerate at a constant 1g. In less than 4 years(from an observer standpoint), you are at 97% of lightspeed. From your point of view, that would take less than two years.

If you can have an engine that can accelerate at a constant 1g for years (fueling it is left as an exercise for the reader), then you are all set. You can go anywhere in the galaxy inside a human lifespan – of course, assuming you don't care for the people left behind.

If you want to accelerate at more than 1g, there may be physiological issues.
This is FUD.

Within 10 blocks of where I live more than 30,000 new units are being constructed (or have finished construction) in a 3 year window.

That doesn't include the dozen residential buildings of 100+ units I see on my daily commute, or the other dozens of buildings being built along public transportation routes in LA.

Long Beach and San Diego have also experienced residential building sprees.

The problem is that California is such a desirable place to live that even with all the undesirables leaving the state for the South, we still can't keep up with the growing demand for new housing.
> By refusing to stay out of politics, NYTimes is building the case for its own breakup.

Now, THAT would be unconstitutional!
But what if all employees are humans. And like humans, they are irrational in their criteria of what makes a boss "good". For example, they want bosses that never demand work from them and let them go home early every day. Even if they get this, their standards will adjust and they will take the same level of issue with smaller things. Being a boss and attempting to be liked by your employees is a lost cause and foolish endeavor.
Mine works fine at 4k
Not really. We had an extremely hard time trying to receive funds in Russia from an Indonesian customer, his native banks just flat out refused to do the transfer. Bitcoin solved the problem easily.