skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the proposal. I don't see what problem preferred stock for employees solves. I do see what problem preferred stock for investors solves. I do think employees should care about the preferences investors get, and judge their opportunities accordingly.
Opam has gotten quite good. When you set it up, you're being guided through all the steps. Works best on Mac, with Linux a close 2nd. Windoze may pose some extra challenges for setting up a working environment.
Molecular Gastronomy
You're right, growing capital but not growing income... I made a poor example.

(Imagining a bottom pricing scenario, while keeping a positive cashflow.)

Good point. At year 6 this logic breaks down. (Then again, no longer a 'startup' at that point.) Better hope the replacement equipment is double worth it's money. :)

Should make some spreadsheets with more scenarios.
Get them to use this, so they stop working long hours https://i.imgur.com/ia2s7AM.png
Frankly, because the team that sets policy is different from the team that makes the buttons. The policy has lots of exceptions - e.g. some categories can't be returned, like groceries. To disable that button, they'd have to check for all the exceptions and constantly update it whenever a policy changed.

They did change to automatically approving returns a few years ago, but with an opt-out ability. My guess is either OP's product fell into an obscure exception to that rule, or OP opted out, or something similar.
But that's why the quote was included. Who are you arguing with?

Newspapers do this sort of thing all the time. If some source used the phrase "latest Obama atrocity" the NY Times would never use that phrase--unless they framed it in a way to destroy the person making the quote. I don't get upset about this. It's just how journalism is.
I'm not sure in what world fraud is equivalent to a permanent debilitating injury, but even if it it was, that doesn't make it right.

And even if it did, how do you know it's the right person? There are 5 people in my house (and I regularly ship things to other addresses). Do you just pick one and hope for the best?
This is just a formalized and scientific equivalent to smelling marijuana
In fact there isn't any hardware to speak of (3 bits worth of architectural registers and bunch of trivial logic related to that?) to support vm86 mode, and that is to some extent the consequence of how true real mode is implemented. The combination of paging enabled (which is not strictly necessary), protected mode enabled, 16b code segment and real mode style segment loads gets you vm86 mode (complete with weird stuff on stack of exception handler vectors), in fact when you look at vm86 entry gate descriptor, this is exactly what it does. The microarchitecture essentially does not care about that.

edit: there is no documented direct way to flip the segment/selector bit, which is the reason why you need documented vm86 mode. The hardware always calculate the linear address according to whatever is in shadow descriptor of segment/selector register, difference between real/vm86 and protected mode is what happens when you store something into there.
Facebook Kicks All Ex-Facebook Employees Out of Messenger Group Chats
Do you see this happening in your group chats?
routers.
chainsaws.
pipe benders.
lathes.
plaster hawks.
thread tappers.

shall I go on?
> Also note that despite the "O" in the name, OOP in OCaml is rare (for instance, there isn't any in the code in the article).

Which is kinda sad, because it has one of the best OO type systems in the industry, in my opinion. The decoupling of inheritance and subtyping, in particular.
Ask HN: How to get DC rates for remote work?
Hi guys,

I'm based in the DC metro area and due to general life circumstances (sharing parenting responsibilities while spouse also works full-time, etc) I'm hoping to find a position where I can work remotely.

Thus far, companies I've talked to about remote work have generally not offered what I consider to be competitive salaries in this region.

For example, one such company had a remote senior Java engineer position, which apparently topped out around $160k plus stock valued ~$20k. The recruiter explained that they have a pay range for employees who live in and around NYC and another for "the rest of the East coast".

It seems crazy to me that they play the pay-based-on-location game, but yet would pay the same to an employee in DC or to an employee in Bangor, Maine (nothing against the lovely state of Maine!).

I know I'm not going to get SV rates for remote work here (although I wouldn't complain if I did!), but I'd expect the first digit of a senior Java engineer's salary around here to be a 2.

Is HN aware of any remote shops offering such rates to DC-area folks? Or maybe I'm currently overpaid and my expectations are out of line?
In california you can opt-out of binding arbitration.
Do you have a better option for the crooks?
I disagree. Local loop un-bundling does not solve the problem. You are still back to the same situation. A single pipe can only handle so many providers, thus limit local competition to 2 or 3 providers. So either all will collude, or the one with the deeper pockets will under-price the other ones until they go out of business. (sure you can add more "regulation", but this just throwing duct tape on a broken system)

Local infrastructure will always be a winner takes all economic game. So its pointless to play it. (side-note: Elon Musk's Starlink might change the economic game)

The only way for people to "vote with their wallets" on local communication infrastructure, is BEFORE the winner "settles in", not AFTER.

A bid system, allows 100's of companies to compete to set the price for 2-3 years. Rather than 2-3 companies competing to set the price for perpetuity. It also creates an incentive to produce quality service, because they will be competing for another contract in 2 to 3 years (i.e. they have 2-3 years to demonstrate they are a competent provider).
The article is wrong, AGU hasn't been used for LEA on mainstream Intel CPUs in a decade at least.

LEAs are calculated on ALU execution units like other ALU ops. r13 and rbp are special because the usual way of encoding those registers in an indexed addressing mode without an offset was repurposed instead for another mode: offset only or RIP-relative in x86-64.

This affected only ebp in x86-32 but also r13 in x86-64 because of the way the instruction was encoded.

As a result, if you want to use rbp as a base, you need to use an explicit offset (which can be zero) and that ends of triggering the "three source rule" for slow LEA in the case of indexed addressing, even though you have included any offset in the assembly.
Classic con-man tactic. "This is the NEW thing, it's a game-changer, you can get in on the ground floor"
Assuredly, but most people aren't actually that concerned about state sponsored attacks on their communications, and for those people Signal is still as good as (or better than) PGP email, but they can safely ignore these notifications because, well, the likelyhood (and the risk due to) a state sponsored attack is relatively low.
Whatever the merits of the parent comment, I think you're misinterpreting their intent.

Their stance is that the average citizen is made to jump through hoops to get their cash replaced, while major players are handed money freely. The "commoners" appellation is sarcastic.
I had the original GPD Win (second revision) and its a quite capable travel computer. I loved the using the two thumb typing grip (which I had perfected from the iPad mini and iPhone 3S ~ 5s landscape) even though the keyboard wasn't so great. My main other gripe was the low screen resolution. The keyboard has been improved in the GPD Win 2 but the resolution stayed the same (I understand why given the target audience but 720p limits it to gamers). I stopped using my GPD Win after the battery swelled up (and Chinese 'warranty' as my third complaint) but despite its flaws I miss it dearly and I'm considering getting a GPD MicroPC soon
This is fucked up. He's giving the advice because it's true (I've had the experience he's describing). Giving the true advice (or not!) isn't going to cost him a dollar, and, regardless:

* Accusing people of commenting in bad faith like this is against the HN guidelines, and

* Bringing personal details about commenters in threads into arguments is very against the HN guidelines.
Wow, looks like a great way to get free stuff on Amazon!
UConn students' arrest over racial slur prompts review of state's ridicule ban
This happened to me!
Gas chromatography is being miniaturized with MEMS sensors, https://www.bronkhorst.com/int/blog/mems-technology-to-suppo...

$50 spectrometers are already quite small, https://hackaday.io/project/143014-compact-25-spectrometer & https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/compact-as7265x-spe...

If portable analyzers inspired by Star Trek's tricorder become affordable, the transparency goes in multiple directions, e.g. analyzing food, liquids and other substances sold commercially.
I've added these parameters to my configuration, thanks!

Do you know of any other parameters like those, that can be safely removed? Maybe someone else here can list a few?
Is it just me or are other people sick of all the finger pointing at Facebook for the worlds ills. Sure FB isn’t perfect but it’s hard for me to believe they are solely responsible for Trump, Brexit, the end of democracy, and hell freezing over.
Were I to have ample ISP choices, I wouldn't want net neutrality as much. While the principle is still sound, the need for NN would be more reactionary and probably only in response to ISP collusion.
Stone age tech meant they didn't have time to worry about fake crises, life was hard enough, eh? They just took the warm weather that followed the ice age and invented farming. Not bad. Resources aren't declining. Energy is more abundant than ever. Crop yields are way up. The Earth is greener and has more trees than it did just a few decades ago. Basic necessities are covered. There's no basis for alarmism.
Yes, that's fair. I think the subtext of the OPs post is that drones are evil, but he didn't write that.
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>Not-installing-nor-configuring-anything is such a vastly superior UX that we need not unlock any more levels of discussion.

No doubt this is why Slack makes desktop and mobile app versions of its service, rather than rely on the browser. I'll give them credit - the browser is an option at least.

Yes, IRC has no code-formatting defaults because the culture of IRC is that you do not post code to a public channel. Would it be useful to sometimes paste directly into a private channel and not lose formatting? Sure, but compared to the formatting and highlighting options of pastebin and the like, it's not really a hardship and may even be a benefit.

I use Discord, but I live and work inside IRC. Discord feels like a candy-filled store compared to IRC. They both have their uses, but I am fairly certain that our IRC channel (both the public and private ones) would be less useful and accessible if we moved them to Discord.
As a descriptive matter, yes. But from an interpersonal perspective, it is the raw material of a large change.

Like a lot of tech, it favors those already in a powerful position. If you make it cheaper and easier for a nosy boss to be nosy, they will be nosier. Cops will have a field day figuring out exactly how far courts will let them push things. And so on.

The potential for surreptitious sampling also opens up new angles for general snooping and blackmail.
Yes, It is definitely a Net Neutrality violation, This type of zero rated discriminatory plans are illegal in some countries like in India.
The unhelpful comment: unwanted environmental effects have been going on for a long time, starting (possibly) with the Sahara Desert. People generally don't effectively combat problems unless they affect them personally in a scary way.

Examples: we combatted the 'hole in the ozone' problem, but probably only because skin cancer is scary. We sort of made hunting whales illegal, but some countries still do it. Despite efforts to protect western black rhinos starting in the 1930's, they still went extinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_black_rhinoceros#Popul...

So rather than joining a company which is trying to 'hold back the tide' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide), so to speak, you should try to get people to use a change that would lead to society actually fixing problems effectively: https://i.imgur.com/ia2s7AM.png
How about LLCs? Any guide?
Get a lawyer and don't post another word about it online.
We can see using ADD with EAX as dst register is 1-byte short than another, so that has higher code density and better cache-friendly.

The same for INC/DEC (1 byte!) vs ADD/SUB --- and if my years of experience writing Asm for x86 (and easily beating compilers at size, speed, often both) have any good advice to give, it's to optimise for size first and then only in specific and particular cases give up size for speed. While the size-optimised code might lose (sometimes a lot) in a microbenchmark, cache misses are extremely expensive (especially when "cache miss" actually means "swapped to disk") so unless it's a special tight loop that really needs the last few % squeezed out of it because it's a huge time-sink, trying to optimise for speed "everywhere" can actually be counterproductive overall.
Emulation is slow.
You are sincerely suggesting that means testing for 42% of the population is more costly than tracking if 100% of citizens got their UBI yet. The machinery costs the same per person whether it is dispatching a 1000 dollar check or 12000 dollar check, so fewer participants is better in optimization on that accord.
The reason I’m on my zillionth account isn’t because of comments of mine, but because somehow my ex-wife’s IP is radioactive and if I happen to load HN on my mobile while on her wifi and waiting for my kids the account I’m logged into gets silently hell-banned. Dang has promised it won’t happen again.

My first HN account name was my full real name. I have a three-digit slashdot user number and that account also uses my real full name. I believe in communities online.
I suppose because people _will_ get around these restrictions if they set their mind to it - so there may be slightly less spam, but at the cost of everybody's privacy.
Ah, yes that is 100% true and likely to be true of any VAT implementation that hits consumer goods. If a VAT could hit B2B transactions only, it could be possible to "tax the tech companies"
Those returns are because the Bitcoin price went to the moon, not because of the pot. This guy could've became equally rich had he just bought a small amount of BTC at the right time.
I've had the opposite experience though: they hemmed and hawed and then signed my redlined agreement. And I don't see why pointing out something that's in the user profile is "very" against the guidelines.

And "walk away" is a good advice for startups in general nowadays, for reasons outlined here: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/, even without abusive clauses in equity contracts. I did win the lottery in the end, but very few people do. Even fewer if they don't have their contracts reviewed by a lawyer.

I have similar experiences now as well, when doing consulting work: I have my lawyer redline nearly every single contract, as, I'm sure, you do as well. Not once have I lost any work because of this.
Obligatory link to solution that would let working less be something that would not deserve a news story: https://i.imgur.com/ia2s7AM.png
At any step of our descent from now on and for between one to two centuries, any fully accurate predictions on the state of the climate system twenty year hence will be seen as doomsday fear mongering by many.
However doom is never evenly distributed, unless you were in a few select Australian, Californian or African places this year, you missed it.

In order to confirm or deny the statements above you need to invest about ten hours of your time to get to the facts. The IPCC report's Working Group One output is a good start.
I agree with the sentiment of this answer.

While I think it could have been said better, we all need to quit feeling the need to have everything so perfectly connected all the time and feeling frustration when our tech gets in the way.
And when you don't find them because said civilizations were smart enough to just go build Dyson spheres around red dwarfs then what?
> They are pragmatic to a fault, and wouldn't make statements like these lightly.

The situation is dire, but lets not discount these are the very same people responsible for the derivatives scandal that plunged the global economy into disrepute, and profited very handsomely from it with bail outs and bonuses for their utter failure to exercise sound financial behaviour. So lets not place the very same people capable of creating their own catastrophic global crisis on pedestals.

With that said, consider how big their carbon footprint is in just the creation, maintenance and upkeep of their legacy system, which really only 'works' 5 days out of the week.

If they want to be taken serious, knowing they will never correct the malfeasance they call a business model, they should give little to no interest loans on startups and small businesses that help offset global climate change.

They won't and instead you'll see Jamie Diamond on TV alongside Blankfiend et al at Davos making these empty latitudes without so much as hesitating when they board their private jets whilst eating exotic food and drinks procured from all over the World.

Pragmatists? Hardly, opportunistic parasites willing to cling onto whatever narrative suits them, of course.
Then say that. What you said was not OK.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The thing to do here to course-correct is to apologize. That doesn't involve conceding your argument. In fact, it will make people take your argument more seriously.
Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f7dlec/do...

That thread title and posts were stunning!

This is a great niche for GPT-2
It’s not a threat to the human race.

It’s a threat to civilization and the current world order... which would lose JP Morgan a lot of money.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t care (and do something), but if you’re routinely accused of making the whole thing up... it helps not to make up scary claims.
Jesus, I live in Europe and reading this thread is absolutely insane, I have gig up/down for less than 20€/mo, no commitment and no data caps of any sort. It's absolutely insane reading about how bad the ISPs in US treat clients.
Just like https is dominated!!
As always, the best time to join a startup is when it’s raised several rounds and you are at least a staff engineer. You’ll get a million or more over a four year vest and much higher chances of IPO which if it’s good, it may 2-10x your stock.*

Unless your Uber and than a lot of those folks got fucked. Shrug.
So you see no problem with economic externalities and the drive to shorten the lifetime of all goods we produce in order to sell another one as quickly as possible? Pollution and limited resources are not a problem?
The last posting was more than a year ago, it's fine to re-post! Dang was merely providing the old thread as a reference.
At one point, ROS documentation touted its ablity to support multiple "ros_distros" on a single host. That developers are reduced to isolation via live USB is some pretty stark irony.
They are wrong.

The government is a threat.
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Weird, I had just discovered the subreddit /r/lastimages before checking HN and this article shows up. It's a morbidly fascinating view into people's very personal relationships with now-deceased friends and family. Made possible by the ubiquity of cameras today.
Maybe we could get some experts to quantify the costs and risks, then make a decision based on that?
But if you make it cheaper, then that tilts the balance slightly toward the less well off!

Not saying it's any thing equal, but imagine being able to 'get dirt' on those in power easily.
A few years ago I seriously contemplated changing professions, so my boss allowed me to switch from full-time to 20 hours/week spread across 2-3 days. One immediate upside was that I only took a ~35% paycut due to being in a different tax bracket. As I dove deeper into my new career, I realized it wasn't for me, so I stayed at my old job... and now I can't imagine ever going back to full-time, as my quality of life has risen exponentially and I finally have enough time and energy for my never-ending list of hobbies and side-projects.
> This totally ignores nuclear energy.

Yeah and it was a good comment without the us v them environmental bait. I say this as someone who supports nuclear but accepts the reality that building a new plant is essentially impossible to supply urban areas now. It has plenty of applications but we mostly live in democracies and even countries with strong nuclear support have been all cutting back after Fukushima, much to my dismay.

Small modular reactors should have a future for remote communities and a few other applications, space especially. The actual tech behind modern modular reactors is exciting[0]. Besides that the game is up for traditional nuclear plants that require decades to be built against horrendous public opposition in the face of a solar or wind farm that can be hooked up in a year for the same price. It's simply not viable anymore.

[0] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/built-for-resilience
Oh, humans, as a species, will survive. I don't think the race is in danger of dying out.

Our way of life? Billions of lives? Yea, those are in danger.