skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By motivated, do you mean working for less than I was worth, or perhaps a time when I added more value than I was paid for?

When I couldn’t accurately value my options in my total comp, I realized that was the point. The only time I have been motivated was when I was on or working with a great team. The very best were indie consultants who were all paid consultant dollars. The next was doing startup consulting to prove a concept.

Equity that isn’t measured in a percentage of the company with transparency on prefs is at best, %99.9 of the time just a tax liability. It’s negative compensation.

Ask yourself, is what you do so magical that someone would give up partial control of their company for you to perform it? If you are not a cofounder, not an investor, not the key customer rainmaker what do you do? More so, if they don’t have the money to pay you, consider the long tail of clowns who do get funding , then why there isn’t money or why aren’t you worth it.

Most people take options because they are just happy to get the job and it makes spousal conversations easier. This latter reason I suspect is the most valuable one of all.
Note that CTAP and WebAuthn are newer and although they contain U2F for backwards compatibility reasons U2F doesn't contain CTAP2 and WebAuthn. U2F is also surprisingly simple protocol (two specs on FIDO site).
Having worked with math/research folks in the past, this isn't surprising. That said, from a software engineering perspective, where a typical code review would identify this, it is immediately noticeable.
They have about 150M customers, so about $0.38 each.
It's also a lot like an announcement of any other tool of great importance: a new programming language, a new rocket engine, a new alloy, a new psychological principle - or any other discovery of import. It's profoundly interesting to watch, understand, and organize those discoveries (as news) - precisely so the more pragmatic downstream affects can be achieved.

Those who can put those various discoveries together are those that will be the ones that use those tools in conjunction in order to benefit everyone. But how are they to know about them if the discoveries themselves 'are not news'?
Detection of a Strange Particle
It occurs to us, but doing tech work remote is much more lucrative and reliable. Also, are you sure people want it? If so why do these stores close?
It’s Time to Break Up Disney: Part One
They've added https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-xl
“QC issues” are not a variable I want to consider In climbing gear.
Anyone that tells you to pull all of your money out of stocks and into another asset is an idiot. Bonds have outperformed stocks in the past few years. You missed the ride, just average down if stocks suffer any serious correction.
I also use privacy.com and it’s great. The only problem is that sometimes merchants don’t accept prepaid debit cards (that’s what privacy.com cards are under the hood).

So far I’ve had cards rejected by Patreon and AT&T.

I still recommend privacy.com though.
Unless the second is defined on a Hubble flow co-moving observer, it's ill-defined enough to be ambiguous by at least 2 years out of 4 billion.
Whoa Dang, you've got a hot one here! Glad to see the site guidelines being applied equally, as other times I've felt you were a bit too lenient with the left leaning comments (perhaps that's just my own bias).
> Not many, because their urban planning is better.

I don't disagree, but I think it's easy to overstate how "planned" the differences between the population distribution in Europe and the United States are -- and I honestly think it can be easy for Europeans to underestimate how dramatic the population density difference is. The EU has over 50% more people in under half the square kilometers, giving Europe a density of ~118 people/km^2 and the US a density of 33.6/km^2 -- and there's almost certainly a wider variance in density over here.

Doing the numbers just now, over three-quarters of the US population lives in states that are less dense than Europe, and over a third lives in states half as dense or less. Car culture is not a "fundamental invariant of reality for getting a job," but for a lot of America, not having a car is simply not a realistic option.
Any real, day-to-day usage feedback on the PineBook Pro? I've looked around on their forum + reddit, and outside of a couple of reviews (mainly only a day or so into ownership), I haven't found much. This one seems to be the most in-depth so far: http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html
Just to be clear, the VTOL in this article appears to be a light-sport aircraft (LSA) with a canard wing configuration. I assume it can glide like a normal LSA, though I won't swear to it. It is not an oversized quad-copter.

That said, if it is an LSA, at least in the US, it would have to meet the normal LSA or E-LSA regulations. Including the service schedule, which is less onerous and non-LSA general aviation, but still far more than a car.
Some parts of C++20 are really good, like most of what is stated in the article.

But C++ would not be C++ if it had no shenanigans coming. Unless they have changed things within some months the new calendar/datetime library is hilarious.

It has features like being able to write a date like: 1/2/2000y. ooh fancy operatoe overloading. Which one is month? The first one ofcourse as it they didn’t standardize on any of the existing ISO standards, or allow you to choose, but selected ”Customary US way” as the Only True C++ Way(tm).

Also do not forget the abuse of operator overloading like in the good 90’s when misusing it was the recommended thing.
The definition of embedded progressively loosens. RPi is a desktop that fits in your pocket. Very luxurious.
The end result in the real world is killdozer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
I guess we have to order some Marquette Backcountry Skis now...
Slight correction, I believe they're referring to the rock climbing hardware, not cameras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-loaded_camming_device
Sure, that might be necessary, but I don't see why AT&T couldn't explicitly say "after 20GB, you're bumped down to a lower speed". Surely, AT&T engineers are smart enough to know how much bandwidth they can afford to give out, and if they can't afford to provide the service that they advertise, they should be in trouble, and they should stop advertising it.
If you borrow money knowing you can't or won't pay it back then yes, it's fraud. But it's more complicated in this case, because the dude could argue he expected major gains and believed there was no way he could lose.
According to:

https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/how-much-does-arweave-cost (June)

cost is $0.18 for 3MB, the maximum amount for a single stored item.
How does a developer who is new to C++ learn just the modern idiomatic style? Is there a "C++, the good parts"?
If somebody could tell you when, they would be able to massively profit from this. Current thought from finance industry are leaning towards a crash next year, but I don't think anyone would bet the farm on it.
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That's by design. Cryptocurrencies are meant to be used like cash. Cash doesn't have consumer protection mechanisms.
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As always, depends on your appetite for risk and your timeframe for using the money.

Personally, I don't see much upside left in equities for next year or two, but I'm a perma-bear and have been wrong many times before :D

Plus there's not a lot of easy places to stuff money at the moment, hence big investors sitting on piles of cash.
What are some of these "dark" "evil" "bad ideas" you believe are infecting, festering, and mutating in minds thanks to the internet?
I haven't read it yet, but No Starch published "C++ crash course" a month ago, which teaches C++17 and looks appropriate for what you ask.

https://nostarch.com/cppcrashcourse
> If you're right about the cost of electricity "staying the same" — by which I assume you mean that, in the US, it increases in line with the BLS CPI?

Yes I meant real price, not nominal.

US electricity is somewhere around a third from coal.

I would be interested in a study showing a 15-30x increase in similar-quality construction materials.

The fixation on gold makes no sense to me. It's just a commodity, not a super useful one either. Gold's price floats wildly based on people's fears. It's not like everything became 4x more expensive between 2000 and 2015.
An illustrative discussion of the death of small dairy : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368542
And I've seen reports of significant data corruption that are much more recent than 3 years ago. Also:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg81293.html
I bought some gold today. Unrelated to this but I have recently decided to have 10% of my portfolio in gold as a safe guard.
There isn't a single ramen restaurant in this town. Nor is there any donut or ice cream shop that isn't a chain like Dunkin' Donuts or Cold Stone. The only outdoor store is a hunting store Gander Mountain or a sports oriented store like Dick's Sporting Goods. The only decent kitchen store is a Bed Bath and Beyond. The only "boutique" store I've found that I've found reason to go back to is a grill store, but even they didn't have something pretty basic like a flat burger press. Maybe Cedar Rapids, IA isn't a small market, but it doesn't feel like there are very many local options at all.
What? Light rail is really crap. 45 minutes from Sunnyvale to San Jose. It's slower than biking. It's covering like 6 miles in that time. 9 miles an hour? Really?
IME the discussion is almost immediately rekindled if you have actual perf numbers to back it up, or a specific 10 second fix to turn O(scary) code into O(1) code.

Over the years I have wasted a lot of time reviewing or discussing "optimizations" that didn't help - or even hurt - performance. Micro-optimizing some once-off init function instead of tackling major per-frame overhead and stuttering. Creating a nice lean core site and then burdening it with a billion third party scripts requested by marketing.

30MB matters for a website, or keyboard firmware.

On the other hand, my gamedev workloads often crash on 32GB machines. I measure useful SSD sizes in TB. In that context, 30MB is line noise. A rounding error. You could spend a lifetime optimizing more important performance issues, and still never turn your attention to that 30MB as something useful to spend time reducing further.
Men Who Still Love Fight Club
Not just google but there's a significant market across silicon valley for employees who don't have so many ethical dilemmas, if any. For instance,there are employers partnering with specific coding bootcamps that develop a complete personality/IQ overview on each of their students before they graduate which can be used later by employers. It also helps bootcamps predict which of their potential graduates will be more likely to remain employed and kick out students who are likely to have problems obtaining or holding jobs BEFORE they graduate and affect their job placement statistics.
I don't know why you excluded PhDs but their code aren't any better necessarily. Hiring straight from school doesn't necessarily mean bad S/W engineering skills. But generally the research code is either made hastily during exploration or by people not having enough Software Engineering background.

Many research scientist I've seen at large tech companies don't have good CS background and write code that's either unreadable, unscalable, unmaintainable, or buggy at times. They often have good ideas but don't do much software design.

Having been both at infrastructure teams and research teams, there are certain individuals in research orgs joining straight from school who think they are responsible with coming with a new and sexy thing and other engineers are responsible to run in production. It's like computing eigenvectors in Matlab or Python over a toy dataset and thinking you've done the bulk of the work of computing PageRank in production and should receive all the credit for a full search engine.

That attitude is a red flag to me.
Apple got away with stealing the name OS9 from Microware so they were not really a position to sue others over similar names without getting their own court testimony from the earlier trial thrown back at them.
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Can you expound on this? I recently applied some classic signal processing techniques to help reconcile my personal tax accounting by tracking coherence. This sorta works if you consider double-entry accounting as reverb in a linear time-invariant chamber (or echoes with unknown delay). I would love hear about any non-traditional applications of DSP.
".. since it was using a systemd timer unit, that error output went to the journal and was effectively invisible to us, lost within a flood of messages". One a side note - the comments section of the article contains an example of why some people are just so toxic these days
From xxx at 2019-11-05 12:25:37:
dozzie: It doesn't require knowing systemd inside and out because it is on the Arch Wiki. You are just bad.
Outside of tracking error and expense fees, there is a more fundamental issue. When the market goes down X%, you need it to go back up Y = 1/(1-x)-1 to break even. So the market goes down 10.0% one day and then up 11.1% the next, an investor in the normal 1x is back to where they started. A 2x investor is still down and a 3x investor is down even more. So the average daily noise of the market kills you.
This attack method should be dubbed the "Mysteron Attack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs13rCqfH9k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Scarlet_and_the_Myster...
It takes only 50 customers like the guy above to loose their money to some ill-conceived put option.
Money quote (ok, paragraph) for me:

Yet another consequence of Disney Plus is that it will erode the basic foundations of capitalism. in his book, Iger notes had to find ways to compensate Disney division heads with arbitrary metrics to get them to put their stuff on Disney Plus, and this was hard, because they were used to hitting revenue targets. The division heads have a point. Capitalism is premised on selling final goods for more than it costs for the initial inputs, otherwise you are destroying wealth. By selling below cost, which is what Disney may be doing, the corporation is reducing aggregate wealth to acquire market power. It’s simply impossible to compete with someone who is willing to gain revenue by paying a dollar for fifty cents. Disney may or may not be doing that with its low Disney Plus price, but the fact that Disney Plus makes it impossible to measure value coming out of each division shows that the breakdown of the price system and potential below cost pricing is likely eroding value.
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Drop the /s and you’re right! We can’t fix people’s desire to murder other people. We punish harshly as a deterrent but unfortunately someone who’s in a place where they’ll murder someone usually isn’t weighing the risk or making a list of pros and cons. So people get murdered. It’s inevitable and there’s very little we can do to prevent it in general.
Fuckin garbage, like most people lately, if studies are to be believed...genuinely thanks for asking.
Or, the regulatory obstructions and general enmity towards anything crypto would make it impossible to launch a permissionless one. Actually, several govts have been explicit that even the permissioned is ex ante banned
You incentivize this by attacking the problem directly - which is to realize that the cost of education is not rising due to scarcity, its rising because of misguided administrative practices and budget allocations.

Quality educational materials are certainly not more scarce today than they were 50 years ago, or somehow astronomically more expensive today.

Quality educators are not astronomically expensive and costing students more. In fact, educators are being chased from the classroom because we treat professors and teachers as a cost center and have systematically eliminated long-term confidence in career stability by replacing career professors with graduate students and adjuncts.
People do "technical analysis" on a daily basis, only to be wrong 50% of times.

The paper is quite filled with terms unclear to a non-finance 3rd party, but here is what I gathered from reading it diagonally and your explanation:

Their only argument about Tether in question not being cash backed is that it is infused exactly at the moments when Bitcoin goes down, and that is "not consistent" with what investors generally do.

Well, duh. Maybe it is not consistent with investing in, for example, falling Microsoft stock after some scandal reveals malpractice. But in case of cryptocurrencies, which historically have been very volatile, it makes quite a bit of sense to buy on a downward turn.

I don't see any reasoning in the paper, assigning probabilities to their expectations for investor behavior versus the reality of Tether trading conditioned on both hypothesis. And that assumption is the cornerstone of the claim. 80% of the paper for whatever reason is spent proving an obvious fact, that large Tether infusions are causing the rise of cryptocurrency prices.
It is alarmingly easy to trick image recognition systems
I'm not sure what's going on with Medium, trying to figure it out now.

But in the meantime I uploaded a pdf of the post to Google Drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19MMS6IJ_C4DVuJtlmfNpXmOw5Xl...
I used AI to show Trumpers are more easily fooled by AI fake news
Neteller has both physical and VCCs available for generation via their web portal. You can set a balance for each VCC, but I do not think they automatically expire. They do not offer an API to do it, but it should be possible to curl each endpoint leading to the generation.
It’s very standard ML abbreviations.
Sampling realistic text from large pretrained models is non-trivial. I came across this paper in one of ACL 2019 workshops:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09751.pdf
I have also seen this. My guess is that it highlights more that there are way too many dependencies in the libraries being used and that those dependencies aren't organized well.
Why should everyone have to change to live like you so that we can optimize for making more and more shitloads of people? As far as I'm concerned my consumption ends with me, the real problem is that everyone else insists on having exponential numbers of kids.
I've been upgrading Debian continually since around 2000 (don't remember exactly). It's even the same disk image, migrated to various disks (using mdadm), expanded, converted to ext3 from ext2.

But not without pain, I've almost always needed to manually intervene and fix configuration files. So you need root shell.
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Why not something like Date.of(2000, 2, 1)? Much more sane. Or Date.ofYear(2000).month(2).day(1) for more descriptive usage.
Well, specifically, one that I remember was a solar charger. I couldn't exactly go outside and let it sit in the sun all day to see if it worked before buying. What set me off was when I asked them about it, they said, "hey its hit or miss. Actually we have another one next month, try your luck again!"

So I mean, its minor, and maybe I'm being petty, but it irritated me enough to stop buying gear there. Esp given how much I'd spent on winter camping gear the months before. Started trying to support local shops more where I can, and buying online elsewhere.
If you try to sign up for options (or margin) trading on any brokerage, none of them will let you do it unless you affirmatively confirm that you understand that: not only can you lose your ass trading derivatives, but you can lose asses that you don’t currently have and you can lose asses that you didn't even know exist.

Doesn’t RobinHood have these disclosures and gates?
What are people using C++ for in 2019? Last time I used it was for a Qt desktop application of all things. I would imagine its main usage is in high performance or hardware constrained environments these days, but I'm curious what people are doing with it.

I do a lot of node.js programming, which uses C++ to write extensions, so here's hoping I rememeber it if/when I need to.
Their attempt to modernise their phone platform involved several rounds of effectively throwing away the existing library of developed software. If anything, that shows the value of backwards compatibility.

Google supposedly didn't support windows phone, in part, because they were upset that they couldn't use the wince apps as a base.

IE's backwards compat method was to simply embed the old version of the engine, and use it as necessary. That's not really a factor in the many reasons people mostly use IE to download a better browser for personal browsing, but is a major factor in why it was the corporate browser of choice for decades: it is expected to be able to continue to work the same way on a long term basis.

Windows vs Linux usage rates on servers is mostly a statement of Linux is at least good enough, and a good enough solution with simpler (no) paid licensing is a clear win for ease of use. I haven't seen any Linux vs Windows server performance benchmarks in a long time; I'm assuming they're not that far apart, outside of whatever bits and pieces that either platform is truly bad at.
I know about a small western company acquired by a big Chinese multinational where Linux firmware devs are working on Windows boxes with no internet. Firewalled.

The company policy is to not allow internet on machines connected to the company network. They say that it is very typical on China for companies to try to atract workers from the competition, and these take with them not only know-how, but internal files from the company they leave too. Hence the firewalling.

It's ridiculous because I'm speaking of consumer electronics, not the military. The team morale is super low because they are fighting against the environment, not the problem they want to solve.

Maybe they only want to crash the western subsidiary and get the prestigious brand name(?). Anyways it seems that they are getting a taste of their own medicine.