skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These argumentative tactics are of poor conduct, and seem to be clearly made in bad faith.

Someone who disagrees with you is just someone who has a different opinion, and that does not make it appropriate for you to attack them.

In other words, what you are doing is wrapping your argument in argumentative tactics. Instead of acknowledging another user has a different conclusion than you, you assert that they "don't get your position." In this context, all you did was reiterate your disagreement, and so the personal attack comes across as either a put down or an statement of arrogance.

At the end of your statement about physics being a meritocracy, you again use argumentative tactics, suggesting that any disagreement is a conspiracy.

First of all, the poor results of physics as a field is not a conspiracy. And you do not need to be a conspiracy theorist to criticize the field of physics. That is just ridiculous. Did you even take a moment to look at the Paul Graham post I referenced? Something tells me you are more interested in broadcasting and arguing about your world view than you are in engaging in though-provoking discussion.

But finally, social justice in academia is blatantly obvious. For example, affirmative action awards up to a few standaDs deviations of promotion in rank alone in just undergraduate admissions. Also, the author of the OP has written about social justice in the field herself. It is just both dishonorable and disingenuous for you to ignore the truth and be so argumentative.
Ultimately, math is the only "explanation" that physics will ever offer.
Bryan Cantrill on Engineering Performance Management
Reinforcement learning without simulation is not feasible for complex problems.

If you can’t simulate, stick to multi-armed bandits.
You didn't ask me but I have a similar outlook and would appreciate reading suggestions.

Jordan Peterson talks about the diversity of opinion being important because there is no single or constant fitness function. His lectures on personality get into this a bit. His 12 rules book does not.

I believe he's informed a lot by the work of Jonathan Haidt. His book The Righteous Mind is good.
Do you think Github patents these new fabricated options or would a good old copyright be sufficient?
I don't know whether it's actually Chinese (OnePlus is by the way), not that it matters anyway. It has no business being on my phone and doesn't match with what most people seem to think Android One is.
Dolphin!
Man, I haven't heard someone talk about that browser in YEARS.

I used that ten years ago back when the play store was called Android Market because it had addons and I thought it was the bee's knees. I still rotate through chrome, chrome canary, Firefox, Firefox focus, opera, and sometimes nightly builds of Firefox just to see what's getting tinkered with lately. Firefox still my daily driver though.
VPN for that task seems overkill

If you can figure out another way to pull it off, I’d wager you could make a fair bit of cash. Or at least get a job offer at a lot of places you might like to work.
It does in this case. Champtar says it's something about the size of the matrix that makes it run out of space. The overhead of the double array is already paid for.
Curious what happens to options that are yet to vest when a company gets acquired like this? I had a potential offer from them and I'll be losing some sleep tonight :(
Completely agreed! A key portion of managing these platforms is understanding what should NOT go in them.

Because the products are designed for low or no code development they are inherently limited in what they are capable of doing. This is the obvious trade off for the simplicity of that platforms.

Initial analysis to make sure the platform fits the requirements is very important. Also important is understanding that many projects may start on this platform, grow in functionality over time, and eventually need to go beyond the limitations of the platform. I call these applications "graduates", and you need a method to manage the transition out of Low/No Code platform to something else.
At this point, what difference does it make? Visa can survive as an independent, profitable entity by your criteria.

> but there's no reason to sell if you have a solid business plan and a realistic vision for future profitability.

They had 5.3 billion reasons to sell. With an acquisition offer that high, it's not about the company's ability to survive independently. It's about doing what's in the best financial interests of the company and employees.

> i want to be a part of building something that can survive as an independent entity. selling is an admission that this is either not a goal or not possible given the current position of the company. both of these are against my ethics. why should i stay at a company that has openly admitted that they are incapable or unwilling to pursue independence?

Your distinction is a bit arbitrary. Plaid wasn't a fully independent company after they took significant money. Take a look at their board of directors. Only 2 out of 5 board members were Plaid executives. They had already "sold" part of the company when you applied.
> Or maybe atheists want to concentrate more resources on the upbringing of the child so that they have a competitive advantage.

If you have less than 3 children, investing more resources in each child doesn't matter. 2 children is break even from the standpoint of procreation. So purposefully limiting yourself to that many or fewer children is a losing procreation strategy.
It's an internal FB thing. But the post was about that, too.

(No, I don't work there... any more.)
Having 400 employees doesn't say much about how equity is distributed, though. E.g., (made up numbers, I know nothing about Plaid's comp specifically) if an employee gets 1 basis point over 4 years, that's 0.01% * $5.3 billion / 4 = $132,500, which combined with a startup salary might land you at around Google L4.
We don't care who you are or what your resume looks like. If your work is excellent and is what we need, we'll accept it.
Yes, given that back then people were typically working in assembler (with frequently changing platforms, to boot) and writing relatively simple data processing applications, the claim is somewhat understandable.

But I think the main thing it failed to take into account is more how hard it is to translate business requirements into complete and unambiguous instructions.
dreams into art
This made me think of the problem of highways: the more lane you add, the more cars come to use your road and congestion is not reduced.

This is a problem with computers in general. For example IDEs and simple electron apps taking huge amounts of memory.
One is data analysis. I often have data in two or three different datastores that I need to analyze together (a column-oriented DB, one or more row-oriented DBs, a key-value store, a document store, a Hadoop/Spark cluster) and it's nice to be able to use the same code to open and manage connections to any one of them. My queries are and always will be vendor-specific, but my connection handling is all just generic ODBC code.

It's also great for WYSIWYG BI tools like Tableau or Power BI, which can connect to and fetch results from anything that has an ODBC driver. Without that, the BI tool vendor would need to write their own driver specific to each datastore on the market. So if anyone ever wants to build a generic BI/analytics tool product in Rust, this is a prerequisite.
The person I'm responding to hasn't given any reason why the end result is meaningfully different. As far as we can tell, they just don't like the word "disable." If Android replaced the word with "uninstall," they would presumably be happy, which sounds like a minor complaint.
SO has had a very similar trajectory to Google search - getting worse over time because of some fundamental product decisions, no real hope for improvement in sight and somehow still the best product in their category.
Yes, or plain text. I would be fine just with a link to the Markdown text.
Not exactly only mathematical, though - you can feel it as you walk across.
No, it wouldn't. The user expects a fully functional phone out of the box, complete with web browser and mail client.
"You can have sex without getting STDs" also means it's a pain to study. Almost all mortality is statistical - you can smoke your whole life without getting lung cancer - but STDs are an even more random risk factor. There's no cumulative damage across events, detection and treatment are massively influential, and different populations have completely different risk profiles.

These findings are backed by two cohort studies, one on female nurses in the UK and one on male health professionals in the US. There's really not much chance their STD outcomes correspond to the general population.
Is there some reason that pandoc[1] won't work for your use case?

[1]https://pandoc.org/
> "Visual Basic makes 95% of your task easy and the other 5% impossible".

Think what you will of the readability of Perl, but it's hard to beat its motto: "making easy things easy and hard things possible."
My favorite example is some religions still forbidding pork even though our understanding of food safety has changed so dramatically.
My point was that the conservative approach puts the burden of proof on the new after setting up a bit of a straw man with the reformer. I like the marketplace of ideas instead which favors neither the new nor the old.
It wasn't even just "a thing", it was the main way to share video on the web before youtube made flash players ubiquitous.
There's some flexibility, but often the unvested options in the acquired company are converted into unvested options in the acquiring company on the same schedule.
To expand: a Forth machine or similar would be a stack based ISA. Using a stack is a different matters; Pretty much every ISA uses stacks.
I agree with your description. Torchlight II was a compromise - The original idea was to play Divinity Original Sins but I pushed us towards a simpler (and less expensive) game because I suspect neither of us would be able to devote enough mental effort and/or sustain interest for a long time.
If my suspect is wrong, we will try to move on to something more complex.
You're still doing exactly what I asked you not to do. What exactly is the "great surprise" that you mentioned? What exactly is it that you think my "asian friends" are going to see? Come on, spit it out, have the courage to own your opinions. And if it turns out that your opinion is something that would get you banned from HN for sharing, then maybe you should consider refraining from invoking that opinion via dog whistles and thinly veiled insinuations too.
UDP is a 4-page RFC that is pretty much a definition of IP with ports. You can easily imagine TCP as a bunch of algorithms on top of UDP. Knowing that I’m not sure what you don’t like about UDP?

Amplification attacks and spoofing are taken care of by QUIC, so these are not problems at the moment.
Making the files accessible with curl seems good too, and the web browser is too complicated. Actually, I generally make the documents I write available as plain text instead of HTML, in order to support this (and many other uses, some of which might not be immediately known). But at least you added a <noscript> block, so I am glad you did that at least.
In my experience, those networks only work if you are a Comcast subscriber. You have to have an account to authenticate.

There would be some kind of backlash if those TVs connected to one and was able to phone home. Don't know how bad, probably on the order of the smart TV that was phoning home with the name of the contents of and flash drives you connected.
Over the years I've considered switching to Android a few times but Apple's really locking in as my preferred device from their privacy work.

Not sure this moves the needle with consumers but it does for me.
The article entirely fails to render in Chrome, with JS disabled.

It entirely fails to render in text-mode browsers (I actually make heavy use of w3m).

It entirely fails to render in https://outline.com/, which otherwise is a good way to get fucked-up JS-dependent sites to render. I consider that stage of fuckwittedness either absolutely deliberate (which it appears to be in this case based on the authors defence of their practices), or utter incompetence. These are not mutually exclusive possibilities.

The fact that the article is apparently (I've still been unable to read it) a plea for base-level compatibility is, as initially noted, arch irony.
> I don't believe I've ever, once, in my entire history of browsing the internet, come across a direct hyperlink to a video file to play in the browser.

Here is one of many examples (look at the bottom):
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9462-what_the_fax

I see those all the time.
Thanks, I will have a look into this too as a possible option in the future.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Most of my male friends that fit under what the article is talking about have wants/desires. They're just covered up by crippling anxiety/depression.

Not to validate that men only have these traits. But ultimately most of the conversation on here comes from the stereotypes we as a society place on gender based off of a misunderstanding of evolution.
You can install whatever you want on the phone before you sell it to me as long as you let me delete it. A few exceptions could be made for the home screen, Google Play Services, and Google Play Store just because many users would have a hard time reinstalling them.
>we live in a time where you're branded a misogynist for even mentioning the possibility that men face some serious disadvantages in modern American society.

no we don't
Women have far more pressures than men, especially Asian cultures in comparison to modern western cultures.
beggars can't be choosers of course but i would prefer something to read rather than something to watch
I'm happy to post these things, without identifying companies. I'm sure you could find them on my resume or linkedin but there'll still be some ambiguity.

Company A, 0.05% or 9000+ options vested, IPO, post-lockout sale at net ~$300k, was an early engineering employee

Company B, <0.001% or 10000+ shares vested, very late engineering employee, not liquid yet, hypothetical value in low-mid 6 figures

Make sure you do proper tax planning, taxes take an enormous bite, even with long term capital gains.
It's the reverse of Moore's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Sure, I'm talking about the 25% of women and what the theory is for them that's analogous to the 10% of men that aren't working.
British-Trinidadian Dub Poet Roger Robinson Wins TS Eliot Prize
It probably depends on the terms of the acquisition, but here's one data point: when the company I work for was acquired, all options were vested immediately and purchased by the acquiring company. So, options => cash.
Student in speeding Uber furious company first offered her $5 voucher
I think their rates are high because they have one of the highest rates of both deer-vehicle hits and drunk driving.
Likewise. I still have some HD300's in my basement somewhere, along with a couple Hauppauge PCI capture cards, and a Silicondust HDHomerun.

Shortly after Sage was shut down my cable company started encrypting all their channels, rendering most of my PVR setup pointless. After chasing issues with Youtube breaking API changes, I finally and begrudgingly pulled the plug on Sage. Several HTPC iterations later I feel like only now (with the Shield + Plex) do I have a comparable setup.

I did briefly play with Plex PVR with my HDHomerun and an OTA antenna, but I don't get enough channels for it to be worthwhile, and never even bothered re-installing the antenna after my roof was re-shingled last year.
The Wikipedia article you read says the US maintains that is what happened. The settlement they paid was specifically worded so that they could maintain that position. Claiming self defense is them claiming Iran was attacking them, or at least "someone" that was implied to be Iran, making Iran the one to blame.
> foolish to disbelieve gravitational waves

How foolish of Newton!
This doesn't seem all that different from app engine or any other PaaS.

Even the example he wrote is similar (probably longer) to a small guide I wrote for deploying to gae.
When you build stuff, what to make it work with depend what it is, I think. HTML is not suitable for all uses, and URLs is not suitable for all uses, and PNG is not suitable for all uses, etc.
> It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

What does that mean? Supporting all the rest at 1970 first world living standards? And how is that a fact exactly?
Former Uber Ergonomist created a Startup to fix your horrible sitting position
Nobody argues that "all tradition is wrong." That would be silly. Obviously the processes of traditional and cultural evolution are going to produce many things that work.

Those who argue the "traditionalist" side are typically arguing much more than that. They're arguing that tradition should count alone as a form of evidence or proof.

There's a funny thing about that. I never see these types of arguments made for traditions that are neutral and innocuous, like the curious custom of decorating trees indoors in winter, or those that are obviously valid and beneficial. I only see it trotted out in support of traditions that are hard to defend without tortured arguments and special pleading.

From what I've seen over the past 5-10 years the latter are generally prejudices and caste systems under attack in liberal democracies.

Personally I take the position that if you're going to argue that some category of human being is less valuable or should have less rights than everyone else you'd better have a damn strong argument that goes way beyond "it's traditional."

I'm not necessarily insinuating anything about the author, but even if the author didn't intend to construct a rationale for a caste system that's usually where this goes. The reason is as I said above: only otherwise indefensible traditions require special pleading, so any such special pleading furnished tends to gravitate toward its market niche.
The installation from the docs on the readme is broken!
Evolutionary biology can only tell us the bare minimum about what we need to survive as a species. If you want anything more than that (say for example, a cushy third-world quality of life), evolutionary biology is the wrong field (or rather, not the complete set of fields) to look at.
That's how it works in Android. Per app, you can set to Always allow location, Always deny location, or Allow only when app is in use.
Kinda has hints of O. J. Simpson’s “If I Did It”, with a “having it both ways” finish.

It has always been the case that a paper will headline a damning take. Fact is, best I can tell from the interview and his words after, he did say such a thing, and I’m having difficulty even trying to imagine how it was taken out of context. That’s a live bomb, and you just don’t touch it. “We should have never taken that money” and then shut up.
Who won the battle of ideas in China?
You can choose the weather location manually. I have a list of cities and default to the one I live in. There’s absolutely no reason for the weather app to know my location down to the square metre.
I'll start worrying about HTTP/3 the same time I start worrying about IPv6, never.
Python with static typing wouldn't be python. It wouldn't even be python-adjacent.
Isn't this why most people (incl. women) work? We work because we want to pay for food/water/shelter. Then past that we work for things that we want.
On the other hand Apple has forced apps to use location data for purposes it should not be used for. Termius, for example, is my favorite iOS SSH app. But according to them, they can’t keep an SSH session running in the background unless they’re constantly tracking your location data. And somehow Apple approved this usage of location data.

I don’t want to give Termius my location. I don’t want them tracking me everywhere I go. But apparently that’s the only way they can keep my SSH session alive when I need to switch to Safari for a few minutes?
Almost all bugs could be called the result of "low effort development", but if there's a class of bugs that simply does not need to exist, why would you want to keep it around?

The reason to pull Null is that it's easy to forget to check, and it causes bugs. Lots of bugs. Lots of wasted developer time.

The real question is if there is any reason to keep it, and I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Expressing nullability in the type is an infinitely better solution.
Part of the reason the telecoms in the US were slow to upgrade was that they were originally forced to do local loop unbundling. Why invest if competitors could use those lines for cheap rates?

And the cable companies already had a high bandwidth (at least for ~2000) transmission line to most houses in America.

Notably, Verizon tried with FIOS, but it wasn't that profitable. Most people stuck with cable internet, even if it was slower.
better ads targeting based on user-generated audio/video?
They've been snarky for a long time
$100/mo is pretty compelling to lots of people. Why throw money away? My locale is even better because I pay $0.08/kwH (Portland, Oregon). We like to ski; every time we drive up the mountain was $50 in gas for our Ford Escape. Now it's roughly $5. That alone represents $180 a month. In the summer we have different hobbies that are equally travel intensive so it's a year-round win.
‘Ageotypes’ provide window into how individuals age, Stanford study reports
It might be my own pro-typed-language bias showing but this migration from byte strings to unicode strings is really where dynamically typed languages really don't shine.

If we imagine an alternative reality where Rust started only with byte-strings and added unicode as an afterthought like Python did, you'd definitely face a massive amount of churn but at least the compiler would yell at you every time you pass a byte string where unicode is expected and vice-versa. Once you'll have fixed all of the errors in the vast majority of cases there's a good chance that your program would work again. It would be very annoying but at least you know clearly where the problems occur.

In Python on the other hand this type of code refactoring is very painful in my experience. You may end up with the same function being called sometimes with unicode and sometimes with bytes. And then you have to look at the call stack to figure out where it comes from. And then you realize that you end up with, say, a list of records which sometimes contain unicode and sometimes byte arrays depending on whether the code that updated them used the old or the new version etc...

And if it turns out that you can't easily reproduce the problem and you just get a bug report sent from somewhere in production then Good Luck; Have Fun.
True, quality over quantity, investing more in few is a valid evolutionary advantage, both short and long. OP should've used the term "evolutionarily advantageous on the short term in some conditions" instead of "massive evolutionary advantage" if correctness is valued.