skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, but I thought that the linked "shields down" article about what triggers an employee to leave a company was equally insightful:

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/

In my experience, that's happened at most jobs that I've held, and with most people who left. I find it kind of sad that with all of the work that goes into building a company, and all of the resources and expertise available at their disposal, that managers and employees can't really talk about what's really going on. Most interactions at a company are a delicate dance to preserve the thin veil of hope that makes capitalism possible.

In the end, it really truly is just business. So I've found it helpful to treat it as such, and not get too wrapped up in the emotion of it. Something that really helped me was watching the entire Mad Men series, to get an idea of how this all works. I know that's old news today, but that show arguably had as much effect on my career as stuff like The Secret, manifesting things, The Pick Up Guide about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) that circulated in the late 90s, and moving furniture (which taught me that all manual labor is exploitive because the lion's share of profit always goes to the people held in high esteem not the people who do the most work).

That said, I'm a highly emotional person who wears my heart on my sleeve. YMMV.
Yes, and lightning does the same. The other bitcoin nodes that route your messages are not a trusted third party, no more than the bitcoin nodes that relay your transaction when you transmit it any time you use Bitcoin.

Wrights comments on topology are technobabble and largely meaningless, so it's difficult to say something about them... however, to the extent that we can assign any meaning at all to them don't you notice that saying your transactions need to go through particular nodes sounds an awful lot like the property you're using to argue that lightning is not peer to peer?
I had really bad skin in high-school and college. Unfortunately, my parents had me take antibiotics for years instead of just going through with a treatment of Acutaine. To be frank, I'm stunned that I don't have more severe acne scarring, fortunately my minor scarring is covered entirely by my beard.

In my last two years of college or so my skin started to improve but was still incredibly dry and I continued to have dark circles under my eyes (which I've pretty much had permanently since childhood).

I stopped drinking as often for about a year prior to completely stopping drinking, so I'm not sure how useful my experience will be to you, however I'd say about 4 months in I really started to notice how vibrant my skin was. Zits would clear within 1-3 days and my skin seemed to need less moisturizer and have a healthy "oily" texture.

As someone who used to really enjoy drinking, I have no clue how or why people keep up drinking habits just to bend to social "norms".
Do you have any source or examples of this?
> what matters is the charging network that exists, not the one you theoretically might like to exist.

No, you're still trapped in this closed network mindset. What matters is that multiple, interoperable networks exist, which they do. The Internet is better than AOL.

Tesla's just not a team player. It's profoundly lame. It's fascinating that people defend it.
I think the evidence is circumstantial but sufficient to warrant further investigation. CA harvested illegal data, used it in the Cruz campaign, lied about removing it and were then very involved in the presidential election, all within the span of a couple of years.

Parscape's denial is not in itself evidence, but I do agree with rsynnott that it's neither here nor there.
Another news, Nubank buys Plataformatec (José Valim's company).

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-informati...
> What barriers to entry do you foresee coming out of a union?

You can just look at what unions have done to other industries to see.

As it relates to tech workers, there could be senority rules, qualification requirements (such as degrees, ect), and retaliation against people who are precieved as not having "paid their dues" yet (iE, they might try to stop the bootcampers from entering the industry).
Reading Groklaw when it was updating was amazing. I remember it as clear and concise writing that always seemed to illuminate the facts and angles to best grasp the topic/issue with. I wrote a thank you email to the author for all of the great articles when it was shutting down.

I still occasional think about it and wish it was around to illuminate contemporary issues.

If you have recommendations for a similar source of writing/insight please let me know.
The real funny thing is that for most people (not OP) it would still be used mainly for word processing, email, and occasionally casual gaming - and it would still be slow to run and boot.

The amount of processing power we each carry in our pockets (even the cheapest throw-away smart phones) would have been almost unthinkable 30 years ago; it's akin to the difference of an Altair of the 1970s vs what was available just 10-20 years prior. What took up a room now sat on a desk and could be purchased for the price of a car.

Now, what took up a room now sits in your pocket, and almost could be given away in a box of cereal its so cheap.

Heck - think about what's available in the embedded computing realm for pennies (or just a few dollars in single quantities) - it's mind boggling to an extent.
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This represents the democratization of propaganda. Before okey large state actors (Pravda, BBC Empire Service, Voice of America, Radio France International etc).

Now it’s available retail.

Spam fighting has not caught up.
It's nice at a large enough away distance, but not so great if you zoom in.

[edit]:

Here are the alps, quite nicely rendered (kind of reminds me of a Tolkien map of middle earth).

https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#6.31/46.111/10.14

But here's a zoomed in rendering (of Sudtirol / Dolomites), no so great IMO:

https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#10/46.148/11.4086
Alarmists, or extremists on both sides, are never really the best basis for such arguments.

> funded by Big Oil/Koch/right-wingers

I mean, after all, we all know that George Soros is financing climate change activism and protests, right? /s

Better is finding the calm voice. Looking for alarmists and squawking is always going to find polarizing, and often non-defensible, positions.
I see your point. But I think what you're taking for granted (tell me if I'm wrong) is that exploitation is somehow a necessary condition of making the game development industry work, and trying to improve it would destroy it.

If game design as a field can survive a decrease in exploitation, then why wouldn't someone want to follow their passion to game design, but not be exploited? Why wouldn't someone want to change the status quo?
That's gambling with extra steps.
> five dollar Raspberry Pi Zero

They still need an SD card to function. So, that price is going to double at a minimum.
>and where the number of alternative options available to the average worker is low to non-existent.

How many video game designers or programmers do you know? How bustling is that industry, in your opinion? Because I have a slightly different perspective from what I hear.

Also, amount of money made != can't complain about their work or their conditions. Also, FAANG != EA, Activision, etc.
With Namecoin and ENS what's missing are easy to use browser add-ons for Chrome and Firefox (and Safari)
A non-malicious website could activate some alternative UI for giving you news if you disable notifications.
What you you prefer? The year/month based versions that some operating systems use seems like an ok fit.
> One could assume, then, that any Matrix-like universe simulation substrate will have a 512-bit Time Stamp Counter register.

Maybe, though you can bet they don't have to deal with leap years and seconds. Let alone have to adjust the clocks as an earthquake slightly changed the speed of the rotation ever so slightly.

Makes you wonder what they would use as a reference point of time and what units of measure. Pulsars are great, but on the scale of the universe, maybe not that great.
That's interesting, but wouldn't it make more sense to have a compatibility system that would allow Linux drivers to be used? Apparently there's one for Windows drivers: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndisgen&sektion=8
How does this differ from Airflow? https://airflow.apache.org/

Looking at the docs for both, Flyte has similar functionality to Airflow, except less mature and a more functional Task specification syntax. Airflow has the same data ETL operators as well, plus a few more.
Fair enough. I wasn't aware of those possibilities.
I'll probably get downvoted for this, but here goes...

I listened to a podcast with a guy who runs a ring of disinformation sites in the US.

I don't think it's as big of a problem as most people think.

People don't get hit with some disinformation article and then suddenly start supporting another political party. Fake news is mostly just something to make people feel better about their views -- which are already completely set in stone.

Yes, it's fueling a bit of radicalization, which isn't great.

But I think more people are focused on this because they think it's the reason one party is getting more votes than the other. It's just not how fake news works.
The Film Actors Guild?
Oh dear, that's also bad news for joysticks and the red "Joy Button" on the Thinkpad keyboard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757484

(But then again, since when did IBM ever shy away from selling their products to Nazis?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
> What I know from personal experience is that poverty makes one care less about the future.

That's interesting.

What I take from the psychological aspect of poverty is this:

Poverty makes one care a lot about the future. As in worry. Worry about the next meal, the next rent payment, paying that bill, how to socialise without paying for anything, keeping up appearances because you think getting a job (or a better one) depends on appearing successful, being scared to go to the doctor about that lump because you might end up homeless and still can't afford treatment anyway, wanting to not worry your family but not wanting to hide things, etc.

The problem is this occurs continuously - you can't afford a break from thinking about near-future needs, because some of them affect you every day (e.g. skipping meals to save cash, while making sure your coworkers don't notice), and some of them feel like threats every day (e.g. you never know when late rent will turn to an eviction, you don't answer phone calls from unknown numbers because you don't want to acknowledge contact if it's a debt collector).

This is a high, continuous cognitive load and that makes it harder to make good planning decisions. Both because there are more immediate needs, and because simply thinking clearly needs the luxury of a decent stretch of time not worry about other things. It's not even enough to have a short break, as it takes a long time to wind down from a state of perpetual back-of-the-mind worrying and juggling problems.

If anything, people who are reasonably well off and safe economically care less about the future, because they don't have to care, it'll be fine.
> creating more opportunities for young new grads to break in

Just going to point out, everywhere, I have ever heard of a union it generally made it harder for new people to come in, not easier, by increasing the commitment an employer is expected to make to an employee, and by making it harder to remove employees that need to be removed but can't because of their seniority with the union.
I spent much time thinking about this, and planning the process for dating (didn't feel good at it, as I don't intuit social situations quickly but have to think things over more, and have been a jerk before).

But met my now-wife online, and there are things I could have done better (like specific things to be better to people during the process), but these "process" notes I made from study helped me tremendously to have confidence, especially the "document" with its steps (about 1/2-way down): http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854586947.html (a simple site). It has some religious things, but I hope it and the links, if explored, can be useful to anyone. The point is to pursue happiness in things that last, even across our generations.
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I don't think there are many definitions of machine learning that claim the models to be intelligent. Most of them limit the term to models that can be built from data.

Learning is a skill that not necessarily comes with an "intelligent" label attached to it.
It's not about the value of the name, it's about the cost of running a TLD.
It seems that it would. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore
That's a minor portion of their business, mostly to keep the name out there. The current business is in large B2B F/X transactions - friends of mine worked at a boutique firm in the midwest and both coasts (HIGHLY profitable) that was acquired by them in the 2000s.
I've always been curious what avenues you use for advertising / how much you spend on advertising to see results in sales?

Most of my side-businesses have been marketed entirely on forums or by word of mouth.

Overclock.net back in the early 2010's had an insanely deep customer base and industry contacts!
This literally addresses none of my complaints regarding Bluetooth Audio.

Latency needs to be on the order of single-digit milliseconds. LC3 can achieve around 20. One order of magnitude too high.

Audio needs to not sound like it's being played underwater.

And give me 100 feet of range.
Sweet! I must be very incompetent, but how does one get the image to Zazzle to make a mug? I don't see a button anywhere...
Nope, that business insider article had no sources, and according to Musk is false
There's a good chance, knowing Sony, that this car will only be rechargeable with a special charger port only used by Sony.
Maybe they should ditch the baggage and drop the Buzzfeed name then? I'm sure Theranos had an ace marketing department, but you wouldn't use them following the scandal.
Someone here responded[1], that you can just enable "EasyList Cookie" filter in adblock and it should have similar effect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21980909
There’s already a term you can use. “Statistical learning”. There’s even a well known important book with that title: Elements of Statistical Learning.
> my non-FAANG experience

I think this is highly relevant. Traditional companies have a historically inherited structure where the talents to 'do things' are relatively easy to come by, allowing management to accrue larger influences and hence compensation with the organization. The practice has a lot of momentum as you would hire the same managers even for a software business, they'd come from one of these places.

The growth of FAANG and other new tech companies threatens to end this by driving up the scarcity of engineering talents, while creating an entirely new management class that used to be engineers. While they do make more than most engineers in those companies, they take on highly technical decisions that management in traditional industry mostly refrain (drive & initiate vs select from n things).
I've known some (otherwise) vegetarians that ate bivalves, kinds of the same thing.
A common factor between video games, Hollywood, and many other successful unions is that the supply of potential workers outpaces the amount of jobs available. This is the reason why general tech workers are treated better than people doing the exact same thing in the video game industry, because video games are just "cooler" and people are willing to sacrifice to work on them. This shifts the balance of power into the employers favor and allows them to enact policies and standards that are difficult to endure. Unions are a great way to shift that power balance back to neutral or even in favor of the workforce.
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I don't consider them still safe.

That isn't a knowledge claim, though -- I don't know if they're safe or not.

The same is true for pretty much every other online service -- none of us have the means of verifying if a service is well-behaved or not. So, as a (poor) proxy for that, we have to go by reputation.

Since going by reputation has very large error bars from the outset, any hint that a company may be compromised has to be taken very seriously. A service or company being owned by someone who makes their money by leveraging user data is a very large hint!

I can't know if Startpage is OK or not, and in the absence of being able to determine that, the red flag of their ownership must carry a huge amount of weight. Therefore, I must consider Startpage as compromised and risky by default.
I think der Spiegel is still pretty reasonable, and die Zeit remains a weekly go-to for me.

What shocks and saddens me is the complete decay of the French language news, quite sad for such an intensely literate culture.
This sounds weird at first, but it makes perfect sense. Anyone can make an EV. It's not hard. What sets them apart is the battery, and Sony knows LiPo batteries better than almost anyone.
I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top.

There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why every other browser refuses to do Chrome like tabs.

Why the continued choice to violate the first rule of UI design which is to keep things in the same place?
Blockchain would also mostly solve the corrupt ICANN issues being discussed on another thread, but people here don't really want to hear it for some reason.
Indeed. Far more reasonable to lick platypus mammary "sweat".

If you think too hard about any kind of food, it can start to get weird.

Like coffee. You're taking the fruit of some tropical plant, ripping off the berry-flesh part that it wants mammals to eat, taking the seed that it wants those mammals to poop out somewhere else, killing it with heat to produce different flavor molecules, crushing it to powder, then passing hot water or steam through the powder to leach out those flavor molecules, including the molecules that the plant uses as a defense against improper eating. On top of that, adding things like the fat skimmed off the mammary secretions of other species, highly processed molecules from a temperate grass modified to produce gigantic seeds full of starch, and crystals from the juice of pulverized stems of tropical grass. This is poured into a vessel formed from huge trees pulverized down to loose cellulose fibers and molecules created using organic reactions from crude petroleum, or maybe just those organic polymers, puffed up with air.

It could be all that insane-sounding stuff, or it could just be a cup of coffee.

It is sort of cool that humans can't digest grass, but they grow grass anyway, so they can feed it to animals that can digest grass and then turn it into proteins and nutrients that humans can harvest from the animal without killing it, and which is tastier and more nutritious than raw grass juice.
Tried this for 2 years and broke even at best. It takes a bit of effort to understand the system and as a techie I found it interesting. It's easy to get the option's premium, that you get to keep , and it even seems like you're going to make a killing but then things turn against you and you lose. The down side is fast and hard so it's easy to lose your gains in no time. Then you're just trying to get even. It not worth the time and money. I don't recommend it to any one.
I think this is the kind of car we will see in the future. Not focused on driving, but on things like decked out entertainment systems - esp be/c of things like autopilot.
Your phrasing is snarky, but you make a reasonable point. Arduino performance is already atrocious with C and it's only going to get worse with a higher-level language.
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Ethereum abandoned ghost because of its amplification of selfish mining. Inclusion of 'uncles' does not increase block selection weight there.
> It has everything to do with block limit because its whole purpose is to make each block more valuable for the miners so that a lot of hashpower competes to mine that block.

Wrong, this assumes it is the only way to make each block more valuable, it is not only not the only way, it is the most stupid way imaginable; an artificial production quota completely unhinged from underlying physical reality.

> Size of mining reward and transaction fees per given amount of kb of transactions is vital thing for miners.

Transaction fees per given data volume is less important than net profit on actual services provided, a chain that has a thousand times the capacity and a hundred times lower costs is still ten times more profitable than the competition.

> Increasing block size would be same as decreasing payout (of tx fees) for each block.

Just as stupid as saying that increasing seats on a train decreases the ticket revenue on that train. Completely false.

> Since transaction fees will eventually become the only reward for the miners tampering with their value would be just as frightening as tampering with the block reward

Tampering with the value of transaction fees is exactly what setting an unjustified artificial production quota does. And yes, this is "frightening" to a certain extent, but if you're still around on BTC by now, nothing is going to frighten you into abandoning it because it's absolutely valueless and idiotically stupid at this point in time, propped up only by the self-admitted unbacked charade that is transparent USDT manipulations.

> It would affect miners. And miners are ultimately who decide with their legs on what version of crypto to secure.

And as a miner, we will mine whatever pays the highest immediate return on invested power, no matter how ridiculously stupid that thing appears to be to us, it still makes sense to do that and immediately sell it and pocket the difference between the nearest sensible competitor to that for those who actually accrue proper genuine working cryptocurrencies with utility or whatever other legitimate financial instrument you care to mention that isn't transparently sabotaged and utterly broken.

> Sure, but if you are not federal reserve and can't invest billions of your own money in your crypto then what bitcoin does is exactly how you get to be the most mined crypto.

On the contrary; if you are the federal reserve, or that clique of financial manipulators (see AXA investment in Blockstream), and you're desperate to protect your collapsing imaginary financial system from genuine auditable competition, taking control of BTC and ploughing money into an avenue anybody with an ounce of sense could tell immediately was a dead end just from the specifications of the chain is how you get to be the most mined crypto whilst maintaining plausible deniability that you're meddling in the process at all.
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