skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you get hired to a company and someone who has worked there longer, under you, has equity awards. Lots of them. Should you be paid more? Should they be paid less? Should we fire them? Or are you only referring to base salary? What if they are a critical person with great ability to push the product forward, and you are just a simple line manager? There are so many holes in your thinking.

Generally, a manager is a force-multiplier and should get compensated for making everyone better. This generally means that managers get paid more, and directors more, and c-suite even more. This is just a generality though. It falls apart all over the place.

> How can you be the boss of someone who is defacto more valuable then you (even as they lack the responsibility you bare)

Easily? Your role as a manager is to enable your direct reports to do their best work. That is orthogonal to pay differentials. I've seen business founders work on teams under a manager. Strange power differential there! And the pay difference was insane - the founder _owns_ the business and can be worth millions. But it works. It is the same reason why a younger person can manage an older person, or someone less skilled in programming can manage a programmer.
>>> Recently I began adapting an unofficial Ray-Tracing extension for Dawn, which is the WebGPU implementation for Chromium

Wow, very impressive! I believe this is only available for MacOS Chrome Canary, with enable-unsafe-webgpu flags toggled on. But we are starting to see more example code.

https://github.com/tsherif/webgpu-examples

This is the first specific RTX target engine I've seen so far though. Starting to feel like the future with full time real-time hardware rendering capabilities in the browser ;)

Do you mind my asking what you plan to build with it?
IMO that just makes more opportunity for indies. I didn't really start exploring indie games actively until I started hating the AAA games that were coming out.
Oregon's UGB allows cities to grow, just in a controlled way.

Absent that, and maintaining subsidies for driving, you get Houston or Phoenix like sprawl.

HB 2001 allows up to 4-plexes in many cities.

You could actually get a lot of housing out of that kind of development, it turns out: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/add-housing-by-allowing...

Which makes sense, as most places in Europe are way more land-constrained than the US and manage to house people by growing up and in, rather than only out.
Pelican (Bootstrap3), cheap 512MB VPS, GoatAccess for analytical , and Github for update:uploading. Total cost 39.00/year.
Or sharing kickbacks to consumers to increase their buying power, which isn't extortion or illegal.
What was genocide if the idiots went to live in computer 'heaven' with catgirl maids and whatever other narcissistic fantasies they cooked up?

You're saying like we build a plane to go to mars and then once in space the computer discovers it needs air to move and now we're fucked... why does your first posit on magic petaflops not translate into effective reading of the brain and how it works?
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You continue to strawman, lets just end it here.
why is that good? you're paying for it.
"It becomes a job" doesn't really satisfy me as a description for what occurs when you strike out on your own. Running your own business is much more intense and engaging than having a job. Now, it's important that you see it as multiple jobs, and not just one job. Whatever your day job is you're going to have to wear multiple hats in a startup and it's going to challenge you in different ways than a corporate job will. In a corporate engineering job, it's likely that you're working on a small subset of features of a broader product and of a broader organization. As a founder of a company, you'll be coding, promoting, designing, innovating, QA, customer service, sales, and more.
Yes if it's that it's not even particularly computationally expensive. I hope that's not the crux of the flaw.

edit: seems to be this bug letting attacker specify params https://twitter.com/thracky/status/1217175743316348929
It for some weird reason is not the norm in a large part of the world (the individual credit lines for every little store thing, not the debt-based finance system in general) where it has been totally the norm to bring cash into stores for those everyday purchases. You had cash on you anyway, because people have always owned wallets, and it's not that much of a burden to carry a wallet with you.

It seems to me that this store credit thing has been very much a US thing, and it probably is the reason why credit-based electronic payment systems took over the US while at the same time debit-based systems accomplishing the exact same goal became dominant in many European countries.

Funny thing: when it comes to gasoline, the roles are reversed. In the US, you get no gas if you don't first go into that store and prepay or provide a credit card that guarantees a payment. In most of Europe, you just drive up to the gas pump and fill up, and then you go into that little store in order to pay.
This pagoda and rock are nigh-unbelievable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaiktiyo_Pagoda I am amazed that, despite all the traffic and building, the rock has not moved.
American banks are targeted by fraud more than most banks based in other countries, so they have to have more protections against fraud.
How do unrealistic expectations take root, could it be the gap between reality and advertising? That said, they weren't saying that the knowledge can't help.
I think the reality is a bit more grim. At each step up from abject poverty the castes population decreases and their control of resources and the means of resource creation or refinement increases.

Each person with a shred of control over resources or the refinement thereof depends on these controls for their livelihood. At the absolute highest levels people like (bezos, gates, zuck, buffet) are insulated from these effects. Most everyone else is not and is thus dependent on their control of their assets to maintain their lot.

Obviously the haves will increasingly fight any attempts to "take" that which they feel they have "earned" regardless of their actual culpability or the overarching societal benefit of their companies. I've seen the haves in my city block everything from increases in public transportation, to public housing, to higher density housing, to bike lanes, wider roads, ed funding increases, sports funding decreases, interstate/highway extensions, and the list goes on. For each example there's a handful of vested interests that lobby until they're redder than tomatoes and screaming bloody murder of infants. Conveniently they always get plenty of airtime on the nightly news and in the local papers whereas their opponents get smeared, their arguments misrepresented, or outright ignored completely.

These problems would be far easier to solve if people weren't lying en masse at every step.
You certainly have a point about "private". As you say, with a service provider. Or with family, friends and associates.

But none of that is relevant for "private diary". There, it's privacy between you and your diary.
I'll really miss it, the visual way of seeing how a flight is split up and how long the layovers are was better than all the other aggregators. Also with their sorting by "agony" feature was great and it was always easy to see the type of the airplane.

I don't know any other aggregator who does it this well.
Do you know if WireGuard supports DHCP yet? I can only find wg-dynamic[0] but it doesn't look like it's functional.

[0] https://github.com/WireGuard/wg-dynamic/blob/master/docs/ide...
> I’ve never understood how branches can be profitable. My theory after this week is that some unknown force is sabotaging successful self-serve systems.

If the Wells Fargo clusterfuck of several years ago is any indication, that "unknown" is very well known: upsell opportunities (or, in the case of WF, just surreptitiously adding services and hoping the customer doesn't read anything when they sign)
> The United States prides itself by having high-value functions like design, while offshoring manufacturing.

And looking at the meteoric rise of Huawei, Xiaomi, and Mediatek, I have no doubt that the US will lose that lead sooner than we think.
Is this the same people as that terrible oath consent-wall?
Sometimes you can get caught up in a 'grass is always greener' syndrome. That is, imagining that your life would have been so much better had you done X instead of Y.

Chances are, in an alternate reality, you'd just be stressing about a different set of things.
Force, Order, and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV (1993)
I came across this on IndieHackers a while back, seems like it's doing a similar thing but is free https://serverauth.com
That would be ideal. But building non-leaky abstractions over banking infrastructure is extremely difficult.

This due to the simple fact that banking infrastructure is a super complicated pot of badly combined standards created before the internet really existed, and equally complicated regulatory requirements that don’t map well onto the technical standards.
There's plenty of affordable housing in America where people do want to live as well:

"According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, lightly-regulated Houston has seen its civilian labor force grow by 20 percent in the last decade, compared to the San Francisco metro area's 16 percent. Some 21 Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in Houston. What's more, for every job the Houston metro area has added, it's also permitted another unit of housing. As a result, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $841, and home prices are below the national average."

From here :

https://reason.com/2019/11/05/bernie-sanders-blames-apple-fo...

It's not rocket science. If you want affordable housing make it easy for people to build and increase supply. It's remarkable how Silicon Valley is all about solving big problems for the world but demonstrates with Bay Area housing that some problems don't need technology, they just need reasonable government and if you don't have that, well, things don't work.

To be fair, this problem is global. Many places that are doing well that haven't allowed enough construction like London, Sydney, Stockholm, Melbourne, Paris and other places demonstrate the same failure to enable enough housing construction.
Taiwan built “Medicare for all” and gave everyone health insurance
To note, Taxi Medalions server a good purpose, but are also corrupt.

There should be NO ABILITY TO TRANSFER a medallion AND requiring proof that it is actively being used. You shouldn't be able to sell it.

Taxi medallions actually keep city streets clear of massive cabs, which is exactly the problem that happened in nyc once uber/lyft moved in.
What Is Next After Bitcoin Has Just Reached Its 2 Months High at $8.8K?
To look for brain tumors, most US doctors will use a CT scan, which can cause brain cancer. Meanwhile, MRIs don't cause cancer and can be used to look for everything CT scans can be used for.
Thank you for your work, I hope I didn't offend you and I really wish you luck at improving (for obvious reasons).

The problem with being way too philosophical is that it restricts discussion to sharing opinions, which is totally ok, but the problem with opinions is that every single person on the planet has an opinion, but it's way more rare thing to have some knowledge. So, it may be really interesting to hear somebody's opinion about something, but as far as learning goes, I don't really gain anything from them: the more abstract and complicated the question, the less difference from asking a random person on the street. But when you have somebody in front of you, who has some knowledge that your audience (or you) doesn't have (be it technical, or an experience of making a wildly successful infotainment youtube channel, or anything else), you can learn so much more from every single conversation.
Thank you for the kind words. Some people love the philosophy, some the technical details. I try to mix it up, and have fun with it. But it's good to know that people have more patience for technical depth than I realized. So I'll try to do more of it in the future.
> That Python 2 and 3 can't co-exist in an app is pretty bad in comparison.

You're mistaken. I have python3 binaries and python2 binaries that share dependencies.

You're correct that fully automatic transpilation is impossible, but that doesn't mean that there can't be shared source. It does however mean that things like per-file flags or whatnot aren't possible. Python became a better language with text vs. bytes support, but that support couldn't be done in a backwards compatible way. Oh well.

> You can add Rust to your app with with rewriting all C++.

It's not as good as you seem to think. It's a nonstarter for a lot of people otherwise interested in adopting rust into existing codebases. Certainly not better than the py2/3 situation.

Kotlin interop also is troublesome, although granted better than rust/cpp or py2/3.

> That Python 2 and 3 can't co-exist in an app is pretty bad in comparison.

That python didn't get replaced by a different language is an incredible testament to the foresight of the python language stewards.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028581
Maxima, the computer algebra system that is still actively maintained, started out as Macsyma in 1968.
I build HTML5 games and I need to use very specific hacks for certain browsers, e.g. use a different offscreen canvas implementation for Safari due to performance. I can't use feature detection since it's not about a missing feature.
At least it's well commented.
>you'll pay fees to get information you can get for free if you integrate directly with the banks

For the data Plaid was providing, this isn't really true at all in the US. Last I checked, the big banks were very guarded in their API access and you either had to have (1) a large payment (2) a high minimum balance and (3) pay for an audit from their auditor of choice.

I think Europe is different in this regard but the US players really had no incentive to do anything Plaid offered.
We will probably see this minor annoyance pop up again every "nice round number" for the next 70 years.

2025, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2060, 2075, 2080, 2090.

Every developer will have picked some random round number that made logical sense to them.
FYI Kayak has a date grid. When selecting a date, click the drop-down menu labeled "exact" and choose "+-3 days" (or whatever).
The big thing at the beginning was the ability to sort by “agony”, i.e. a combination of travel time, number and length of layovers, and carrier quality.

To this day I still find it the best search interface if price is not your only concern. It’s compact and easy to tweak.

Unfortunately, the way they handled payments was too US-centric, which meant I often ended up looking up a flight with them and then actually booking it somewhere else (because you don’t want to book an Euro trip with some unknown US operator who may or may not be accountable if anything goes wrong). Also some of the cheapest airlines were typically not included.
Underneath the cold stare and the suit is possibly some personality and a bit of humor.

I have a close friend who is Russian, and I've found that, at least in his case, there definitely is a sense of humor there, despite the stereotypes. I just find his Russian humor to be very subtle and even after all these years I don't always pick up on when he's joking and when he isn't. From watching your interviews, I get a very similar vibe. I suspect you have a fine sense of humor, but that not all Americans will appreciate or recognize it easily.
> flights are just not that profitable.

Trivago, Kayak, etc would say otherwise. Yes margins are slim, but this is a classic case of why no UI/UX will ever trump mass distribution. OTAs are basically the walmart of the digital world.
This sort of behavior is why people hate the man.
Produce things. Write, compose, code, build, make. Get good at it.
> Anyone can spin up a board with some chips but actually doing all the bringup/drivers/DSP/UI requires a ton of skill and effort.

I disagree. As an embedded software engineer myself, there's a ton of driver work out there that's hacky, low-quality work coming out of cheap areas... and we still rely on it. The niches for high-value software design related to hardware are shrinking rapidly.
Now if only Apple would get off their high horse and allow SPIRV so that the WebGPU standard can go forward.
If some data is wrong and you can't tell which is which, how can you trust just some parts of this book?

That's kind of the same problem that a psychology researcher faces; some of their data is going to be wrong.

The question winds-up being how "robust" your claim is, can you survive having some points being wrong? For Thinking Slow And Fast, the robustness of the claims is kind of a mixed bag imo.
Sec-CH-Mobile ? - please tell me the meaning of this is "user agent changes position, refresh positional data often" (checks the specs)

user agent prefers a "mobile" user experience.

the spec is a tautology using air-quotes :/
Also I’d argue that GOOP and Gwyneth Paltrow are running a kind of confidence scheme.
As a Lisper, I love Clojure and all Rich Hickey does.

However, Haskell and categories seem to offer quite appealing approaches to compositionality:

http://conal.net/talks/compiling-to-categories.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316
This is the answer to nasty crawlers and trackers that are planted away by pretty much all sites like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter etc. etc.

The simplicity of these Containers really amazes me.
I don't buy those arguments because somehow most of the developed world has moved on from the legacy systems still in place in the USA (eg: Europe).
Smalltalk Revival?
I'd be very surprised if you're wrong about that.

I think maybe the smartest thing I've ever heard Michael Dell say was related to pulling the plug on a plan to outsource a tech support unit.

They realized the perverse incentive: if you get paid by the call or incident, and some calls are cheaper than others, you "benefit" if there are more easy calls. Even though it's better for the company if you recommend fixing the root cause of those calls (eg, changing the packaging, documentation, or design of the product so that people don't have to pick up the phone).

Outsourced Fraud seems like it would have some of the same moral hazards.
Poor resumes don't list any tangible accomplishments or lack the proper context to let the reader even figure out if the accomplishment was useful. If you read a job advertisement, that's a list of responsibilities - a resume should outline responsibilities (especially if the responsibility is critical), but also describe unique accomplishments.

That's the main thing, but there are lots of other factors.

For your example, leading an SRE team for a busy site is a responsibility, and it's useful to know - it seems kinda important. If you actually built the team, established their processes, led changes to some of the processes, implemented new tools, etc. that resulted in increased site reliability, that would be an accomplishment.
Yes. Motion controlling a Mammography device of one of the largest healthcare companies with CANopen in the early 2000s where one of the selling point over Ethernet was that CAN allowed message prioritisation without collisions, so for example the “emergency stop” message would have the highest priority.
That's weird that you couldn't find the original Crossy Road. The website says it's available from Amazon.

I've played both games on iOS, and I haven't noticed a performance difference between them. Also, the original still gets some new characters every so often, while Disney Crossy Road hasn't gotten new characters in two years.

https://www.crossyroad.com
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Yea, I do wish Kayak had this,
on the search page (although they do have a color-coded grid illustrating how prices change if you adjusted your dates +-3 days).
I hope that the actual vulnerability is far more complicated. If we can't even get crypto libraries right (where you'd hope most of the formal verification folks are), then there's not much hope of security for the rest of the industry.

I'm normally not much of a pessimist but things like this really make me wish we could just burn all the things and start over.
This post seems to imply such unfair systems are emergent in nature. Possibly so. But is the system emergent among a group of human beings who are fully aware of the actions they are taking?

No. That's like saying global warming is an emergent phenomenon of human society.
It was Dual EC DRBG, a prng
Ask HN: What financial instrument are you missing?
> all I discovered is that my blog gets pathetically few hits.

Maybe you should look at the analytics and determine your traffic sources. What pages are the most popular and in what markets?

But of course, there goes that dirty word "analytics" which "does nothing to help the users of your site"...
Hey thanks for you comment.

The Ray-Tracing Extension is currently only available for Windows and Linux.

My next plan is to implement the extension into Dawn's D3D12 backend, so I can build chromium with my Dawn fork and have Ray-Tracing available directly in the browser (at least for myself) :)
It's the time investment. The dream, growing up, was to build some piece of software that made money for me passively, as a single-person shop. This used to be possible, in the pre-SaaS world of desktop software (or at least if you didn't want to release new versions constantly). Today, those opportunities seem to have dried up, and you have to maintain whatever you build, not the least because users now expect a level of support and maintenance that is constantly blessing them with new features and shiny things, whether-or-not the product actually needs it. As usual, competition has upped the pace to a level that locks out all but the most committed, and the democratisation of programming has made it so those committed folks are almost always type-A tryhards who have to turn everything into a business empire
Sigh... Not this again.

curl into a shell, because YOLO.

For the love of $deity, at least pass the -o option or do something like the following before running this - substitute in your editor of choice.

`curl -L https://install.pivpn.dev | bbedit`
I didn't actually read the article too thoroughly so I missed that quote, but that was essentially my thought when I read the other poster's complaint. "why is that a bad thing?".
If you want to get into philosophical questions you should get some actual philosophers on the show because right now it seems like most of your guests are just making up answers to your questions on the spot and it's not very insightful. At the very least keep the questions more open ended, ask them what are the biggest road blocks to AGI and how do we get over them, or if they have some contrarian opinions about AGI.

Joe Rogan got so popular because he lets his guests drive the conversation and allows them to talk about themselves and whatever it is that they're interested in. He seems to really follow Dale Carnegie's advice from How to Win Friends and Influence People (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...).
I've been promised many things by vendors and they always fall back to "hey! look! cool CS file system theory". I test my systems carefully and report the results back; they often don't agree.

I should point out again that I don't have enough direct experience with ZFS to say if this is the case, my experience was with an enterprise NetApp server at a large company that was filling the disk up (>95%) in addition to doing hourly snapshots.
If you want to truly use most bank API's you have to be audited heavily by them first.