skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do so many quit google after less than five years?

Usually initial stock grants are for four years. If the price goes up enough and then relatively flattens out, it can happen that one’s total compensation begins decreasing after the fourth year. That, and 4-5 years is enough time to build a sufficiently large safety net that one can attempt to strike out on one’s own.
I have a feeling the French would have a thing or two to say about that.
I typed it out by hand, so it's almost certainly my fault. I'm too lazy to confirm, but just assume it's me.
I think instead of a focus on mpg (which electrics make murky anyway), we should restrict weight. Eventually the goal is lightweight cars with reasonable safety features. People who want to drive 5000lb cars should have their danger to others health baked into their insurance premiums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriga_Fintech_Solutions

"Cotten, it turns out, was a serial operator of “exit scams: Ponzis that, after reaching a critical volume, abruptly close up shop.” He ran his first pyramid scheme at age 15. Cotten and his partner in Quadriga, Michael Patryn—an alias!—met on a message board for Ponzi schemers, where they bonded by running Ponzi schemes on each other"
The thing that excites me is using the react component paradigm for non DOM stuff like canvas and webGL.
what do you mean document.write prevents parallelism? Who's using document.write for anything these days?
>Our plan is to live within the spirit of historic practice when it comes to pricing, which means, potentially, annual price increases of up to 10 percent on average – which today would equate to approximately $1 per year.

This is very weasel worded way to say that price would double every 7.27 years... (and this is only "Our plan")
Another problem they will have is that they’re going to have to work really hard to pull in enough content to fill their buffers, but as you go farther afield with Animè, you will find more and more cultural ... oddities ... that are baked into the premises which simply won’t work at all with most western audiences.

And a lot of that will be made according to different cultural norms regarding the depiction of sexual activity or sexual themes.

Crunchyroll only starts to scratch the surface there, but probably > 75% of that would never be seen as acceptable on Netflix.
It seems logical that the chance of you buying their chicken is much lower than someone actually in the US. Why should they pay?
Well, it's entirely possible that he was going to abscond with the money and he just randomly died. Everybody's got to die at least once.
Create custom Lego Technic compatible construction parts for 3D printing
The United States has a traffic related mortality of 12.4 per 100,000 pop compared to the UKs 3.1 and well behind the rest of western Europe [1] Its almost as if there's something wrong with America's road regulations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
You might be technically right but Google is incentivized to charge you. Also, it's probably really hard (technically) to resolve your real identity.
If that's all true, one wonders about his motivation.

Perhaps Griffith just did it to make a point. I don't know what his point might have been. Maybe just that the laws are unjust, contravene freedom, etc, etc.

Sort of like refusing to register vehicles and display plates. Or dealing in "ghost guns" or whatever.

I'm certainly sympathetic. But I can't imagine doing that stuff using my meatspace identity. For Snowden, having worked for the NSA lent credibility to his actions. But I don't see the point for Griffith.
OpenNIC is looking better and better.
https://reactjs.org/docs/concurrent-mode-intro.html
Sequential MapReduce Implementation Example
What is a sequential map reduce implementation? Any resources that can help would be great, i already used hadoop as an implementation for parallel map reduce, what is the sequential version for map reduce?
All that we have is a product of the west, there are arguments about why that is, but the fact remains
I haven’t figured out a way to do this in native Java, so I end up wrapping my Java CLI tools in a bash wrapper (as a self executing JAR). This wrapper’s main purpose is to set a Java property based on the results of the bash test:

if [ -t 0 ]; then
fi

I then use this flag to know if I should do things like export CLI progress bars or other interactive things.
lol what? This is like complaining for the sake of complaining. It's obviously a prototype and i have no doubt that there will be some redesigns.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477842
How to (Mostly) Stop Advertisers from Tracking You Online
How many non-complicit-with-the-government North Koreans do you think have safe, unmonitored access to computers and the internet, and so can safely (or even unsafely) use cryptocoin? If the number is not 0 it is very, very close to 0.

We already know that the North Korean government is using cryptocoin tech to evade international sanctions to fund their missile and nuclear programs.

How many North Korean non government officials do you suppose were permitted to attend this conference?

Actions like this absolutely enable this terrible regime to perpetuate itself and its horrific actions, they do little or nothing to aid any ordinary North Koreans.
Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires
I’m waiting for January where they release their mobile offerings. Hopefully they’ll be able to impress a little more this time around.
Has the weight been officially confirmed anywhere? That and the breakover angle were notable only for their absence in anything I've seen so far.
"stablecoins that always match $1 (google USDC), is another lego in the system"

That's not a building block coming out of crypto, it's the application of traditional finance to make it useful. And when you've solved all of the problems, the core technology ends up being pointless. But I'm convinced it will have an effect in the long run, because it will infect traditional banking and eventually in some unforseen way destabilize it. Just because it's so irrationally attractive.
Downsides first: It's a time sink. By the time you bootstrap webpack, babel, sass, etc. you're often pushed into building an "app" and instead of a web page. So there's a sunk cost just to do something remotely meaningful with react, in practice. The build outputs are colossal, even with tree shaking and codesplitting. The initial build times on a non-trivial app can be minutes. Minutes.

I made some pretty scathing comments about React / SPA apps on HN before. I was insistent I could build an app with django templates + css + js. But in the end I ended up having to use webpack just to build SASS/JS, even if I spurned using a SPA app. So I never found a way to keep it with just jinja/django templates and css and ship a good experience.

If you're making a website that's differentiated enough to be noticed, most likely it'll end up needing the attention to detail a JS app brings. It's just hard to make UX scale without it: template includes are not composable - ES Modules + React components definitely are.

What changed my mind on SPA:

- TypeScript is really the thing that changed the game, because it shores up a very hard-to-scale, disorganized language ecosystem with an amazing type system.

- Webpack and babel getting somewhat stable in their APIs, as well as their extension/plugins

- React Functional Components / Hooks (cleans up a level of indentation and avoids that class cobwebs that can make maintenance a pain)

- Prettier: Excellent formatting tool

- JSX: Ends up making components very "HTML-like" and the formatting with prettier makes it feel like "blocks" where you can get a gist of the depth/hierarchy.

- GraphQL + Relay: The responses are code-generated into types and it automates retrieving data from the server. You can throw redux out. Which leads me to another thing - I consider redux an antipattern on most cases. Not fun at all to work with at scale.

I wish typescript / react / jsx / sass just worked from the browser itself, without all the webpack and babel, and these configuration files. I think maybe, after thousands of hours, I finally comprehend webpack. But in all likelihood I'm mistaken, and webpack 5.x will end up making me have to start over anyway.
laptops are hard for amd due to oem backroom deals with intel, but with the popularity of zen2 that should start to crack i think. once zen2 mobile cpus hit the market we will start to see more amd laptops i think
Does High FPS make you a better gamer?
I live in a single-earner household, with 3 kids and 2 adults in the house.

My oldest son is in college. I really do not see the problem with college expenses, so long as the student abides by a few guidelines:

- In the high school years, the student should recognize that their primary job is to line up scholarships. Nothing beats a good ACT score, and very good study books can be had at GoodWill for $1.

- Once at college, eat at the caf. Every. Single. Meal. College kids have no business eating out.

- Have a summer job, the primary goal is to make money.

- Don't use Spotify, NetFlix, etc. No subscription services.

We fund half of what my son's scholarships don't pay, he pays the rest with summer-job money. It's working so well I expect the other 2 kids to graduate debt-free as well.
ISPs buying in were OpenNIC's stumbling block (as no normal user is changing their default DNS), ultimately that is why OpenNIC never took off.

The only way an alternate DNS could become popular is if Apple, Google or Mozilla (assuming a resurgence in Firefox popularity) were pushing an alternative DNS.
The method is becoming very popular in the oil industry as a robust method of instrumenting oil wells. Fiber can measure temperature and pressure as well as seismic waves. A well can be a harsh environment to place electronic sensors and the wire to power them and receive telemetry. Electronic instrument get in the way of drilling and production. A tiny fiber has none of these problems. Ditto for transport pipelines for trauma and leaks (pressure drops). The limitation is a length of about ten miles- OK for wells, but not pipelines and underseas cables.
This isn't a place where a looking-for-investors post will do well. But you should post your project as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show. See the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you want some advice about how best to do this.
> S.L.A. Marshall was a fraud, and “On Killing” should be read with the knowledge it was written by a fraud.

"On Killing" was not written by S.L.A. Marshall, but by Dave Grossman.

I know a few people have attempted to check this thesis by examining how many historical weapons we have are loaded, or reconstructing battles with laser beams. I'm still skeptical because it's so counterintuitive and old science never replicates, but I don't think "On Killing" has fallen apart yet.
"The Internet Society will receive this as a fund that it will invest as an endowment... This funding is sufficient to provide the Internet Society with broadly equivalent annual earnings we currently receive from PIR. And through responsible, well managed investment, we believe this fund will provide a comparable level of funding to the Internet Society in perpetuity."

Translation: "We sold the Internet to vultures (super-nice vultures! you won't believe how nice they are!) so that we could have... basically the same cash flow that we already had. But now we're going to deal with bankers instead of Afilias."
> Very definition of excess as well, so thanks for proving my point!

Except you're skipping over the part about running out at 2^64:

> Some customers already have datasets on the order of a petabyte, or 250 bytes. Thus the 64-bit capacity limit of 264 bytes is only 14 doublings away. Moore's Law for storage predicts that capacity will continue to double every 9-12 months, which means we'll start to hit the 64-bit limit in about a decade.

2^64 bits ought to be enough for anybody. -- jsjohnst
The point of the comment you're replying to is that the Cyber Truck doesn't crumple... By design.
This type of behavior allows for a known ad arbitrage strategy. Bing’s PPC network, for instance, use to not have the same geo coverage as AdWords, and when they received traffic from a geo they weren’t serving ads in they would send the search to their US ad network. The strategy then is

1. Buy AdWords ads in countries out of Bing’s coverage,

2. Send these clicks to a page serving your Bing feed’s ads for same/similar keyword search,

3. Realize Bing US CPCs on international AdWords ad buys
as someone who commutes by bike and has been hit by a car i had no such thought.
The full saying:

Life's a bitch and then you die.
So fuck the world and go get high.
Translation: the annual max of 10% price increases are gonna happen.
I found it interesting to see the technical differences and semi-scientific experiments, since I regarded anything over 100Hz as snake oil.

There are still many remarks to be made about the test setup so I do not see this as entirely conclusive, but the results are pretty convincing in that 144+ is clearly distinct from 60. If I remember correctly, there was some research where participants couldn't even tell there was a flash of light in a dark room when it was <100th of a second, so I am fairly surprised that it makes such a big difference in gaming.

Then again, this is not a pure monitors' test, this is about computer speed as well. I definitely noticed the difference when playing OpenArena on 125fps vs 60fps (125 specifically had some physics advantages, hence that number), even though both were displayed on a 60Hz monitor. I wonder if the results still hold up when only the monitor refresh rate changes, it is a proper double-blind test, and the participants are not already used (over thousands of game hours) to certain frame rates.
Having lost a brother to a drunk driving accident, I fully support this idea.

The ramifications would be awesome. Reduced accidents, reduced fatalities, maybe even reduced alcoholism.

Let's get this put in place in the states. Thanks, Canada!
Whenever I hear someone say that they feel so much safer driving SUVs and how they can see traffic better, I always think: yeah, and it comes at my expense.

To my ears, it is like someone exclaiming how it is so much better to stand up in the movie theater because the view is better that way.
My main gripe is that JS is required to view the website. It doesn't work on my mobile phone (which is rather old, I admit), and it takes a huge amount of CPU time to load on my X60.

I really like that I can still use HN on this phone, but it's more and more frequent that I cannot open the links themselves.
"Our mission is to support and promote the development of the Internet around the world — an Internet that is open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy."

Prediction: they will achieve nothing, at all, whatsoever.

Everyone who voted for this should be ashamed of themselves.
Funny.

I have recommended this website (https://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/247/...) to many of my students to help them practice naming alkyl substituted alkanes.

The web-page has an "analyze" button that does a great job showing students how to find the longest carbon chain, which is then used to help determine the molecule's IUPAC name.

I've always wondered who was behind the site that I had recommended, but I was never curious enough to poke around and answer my own question.

When I saw "hack-a-mol" and stolaf.edu, I thought, "okay, must be the same person."

People like this (his name is Bob Hanson: https://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/) are hidden gems. He's probably not super-famous, but he's made many great tools and I can only imagine that his students have benefited tremendously from his passion and skills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws
My guess would be that you're making the assumption that I'm looking to buy chicken. It might be the case that someone is just researching "US chicken market"?
Did you do the KNX setup yourself or did you leave that part to a professional?
"There but for the grace of God go I."

I fully understand your post. I wish I could say I never had the good sense to drive impaired, but it's not true. Thankfully, I've been sober a few decades now.

Your story reached me.. Thanks for posting.
Well, yes. The original story ("Cotten was honest, Quadriga was on the up and up, Cotten just randomly died and weirdly was the only one who had access to the funds") has been disproven ten times over.

So no, no benefit of the doubt here; obviously there was some sort of scam going on. The question is, what? There's a lot of possibilities! And a lot of them would involve Cotten being really, truly dead, so the Globe and Mail investigation, even if accurate, doesn't narrow things down much.
With AGPL you still get eaten, just in a different way. The cloud providers will rewrite your software from scratch while maintaining protocol/API compatibility.
Can you please give us more details or write a post on how you do this. Very cool!
>Cyber Truck doesn't crumple

The point of the comment you are replying to is that it would be rather unreasonable to assume that.
> So again, a reasonable actor would not want that and thus would avoid questionable services like Oxylabs

Right, but, I'm not talking about a situation where you have any say in the matter, but rather where computers are just being infected by this malware no matter what. Posit a variant of this malware that acts as a worm, rather than as a Trojan horse.

Certainly, you'd not want to allow it to be installed on your own personal computer (as, for one thing, it's snooping on you!); but it'd be very good for your presumption of innocence if everyone else had it on their computers—because, if enough people have it on their computers, then it becomes so likely that any random person has it on their computer that prosecution based on only SIGINT-ish evidence would never go forward in the first place, and therefore police forces would stop bothering to even pursue such avenues of investigation.

By analogy: the existence of Photoshop protects you from a variety of criminal accusations. You might not want anyone to photoshop you into a picture of e.g. a KKK rally, but the fact that anyone easily could create such an image out of whole cloth, means that such images don't prove anything. There's a higher evidentiary bar for suspicion of guilt of such crimes in a world where Photoshop exists, than in a world where it doesn't.

And, in a world where the average person couldn't get away from random people hijacking their Internet connection without their consent, there'd be a higher evidentiary bar for suspicion of guilt of cybercrime. Which would be nice.
Sorry to keep hammering on this, but ...

I don't know in what context it would be reasonable even as a simplification to say that block ciphers are semantically insecure like that. Anyone who listed that as a disadvantage to block ciphers should be regarded as confused, not speaking from a big picture perspective.

Furthermore, even if you're going to explain it that way as a result of building up the complexity gradually, you need to explicitly "unring" that bell, e.g. "Earlier I said X, but actually Y...". This author didn't.
Fiber also can be a property surveillance tool. Place a loop around a boundary and listen for interlopers. You quickly discover their location and time too. A seismic DAS loop around the Stanford campus detects lots of traffic. Seismic wavefronts propagate near vertically, while cultural nouse is most horizontal. A clever reader can devise an algorithm to distinguish both cases.
Thanks for the example. I wasn't aware of the use of the term in US politics/journalism. In my defense, I'm not from the US and while I of course follow some of the drama they have going over there, I'm not always familiar with the details.
You've created multiple accounts just to post on this issue. Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, and neither is using the site for political battle, even on an issue where the community is largely in agreement. Could you please take a look at this reply I posted to your other account? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660175

You're certainly welcome to participate as a community member, which means following the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using the site as intended, for intellectual curiosity. But it's not ok to use it as a platform for a cause, no matter how good a cause it may be.

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Bulletproof is a reason that we will see black pr about this truck because many places like Australia/Canada have tried to outlaw these mods due to well known gangsters using them the police are too incompetent to arrest. For example it's illegal to sell bulletproof vests here. Everytime I read some critic of this truck it's from a place that has these laws in place, Musk needs to counter this onslaught of blackPR from 'unfree' countries such as my own who can't arrest known felons so resort to punishing everybody else trying to ban or make illegal these features.
I think there's two ways people look at code: as text to be linearly read, or as a structure to be navigated visually.

I'm on the later camp, and I believe that's why I dislike the "movement" towards getting rid of puntctuation like (in JS land) semicolons, function braces and parens, and the like.

That helps me parse the code visually into its structure, while it must just appear like noise to somebody "reading" code linearly.

Now, for the kicker: Who do you think writes more blog posts about how much they like their languages and code highlighting, people in the "text thinking" camp, or the "visual thinking camp"?
Purchasing citizenship via bribes is against American law. It is illegal for anyone connected to america in any way to make or attempt to make foreign or domestic bribes
Even more Unpopular Opinion: pedestrians and non-motorized traffic should be illegal on road ways
Our own brains have to do this every night to retain a sufficient level of performance capacity. So this shouldn't be too surprising. There is a lot of cross-study knowledge transfer between those who study the brain and those who study computation.

What we need to learn is how our brains sort, prune and store "data." The pruning part is an especially significant feature.
I drove a 500 for years and had a couple of crashes. They absolutely are not as deadly as you describe. I had a motorcycle rear-end me at 55mph and I did not suffer any injuries and the motorcyclist walked away from the crash with mild injuries. I hit a deer at 55 and while it totaled the car, again I suffered no injuries. The 500 very much DOES have crumple zones.

“Basically die instantly” does anyone actually believe that?
I can't make heads or tails of anything you wrote.
What are "comps"? (much less "state-connected comps")?
They may be, but are they prioritizing the safety of their customers above those of other road users? Saftey for the occupants at the expense of other can be used as a marketing factor - get a Tesla truck to reduce your risk of getting killed by a Tesla truck/other truck driver.

A similar situation occurred with bull bars in the UK. They protected the car they were fitted to at the expense of the person you hit. They were banned after public outcry - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bull-bars/bull-ba...
How can I raise funds for my manufacturing unit in Moradabad, India?
Addressing
It's not too late. Eternal vigilance! I fight for the user!
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