skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and high speed limits are maintained. The poor still wind up with highways through their neighborhoods, and a blanket of noise covers the country. Everyone breathes vehicle exhaust, asbestos particulates from brake pads, and ground-up tire dust.
Source article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-you-cant-find-rubbing-alcoh...

Please also note that this is a raw opinion piece not linked to any news articles containing further details about the FDA’s actions.
"Because he didn't accept his mistreatment in silence, that proves his mistreatment is justified."
Saying "that's not rational" without stating why is rather hypocritical.
So the additional income is "nice", but wouldn't that mean it is improving your wellbeing? Removing the extra income would reduce your happiness, would it not?
>It's a waste to society to have someone like Musk working in finance where he would largely be working on financial gain for a small number of individuals.

Where on earth does this narrative come from that Musk isn't working for financial gain?

The guy rammed a pay package beyond anything the world has ever seen past a weak board, and just took his first payment, $700MM+ in equity, which is far beyond what the company has ever earned in GAAP profits in its entire existence.

If he doesn't care about money, how do you explain that?
Acknowledging that men and women are different, and that reverse discrimination is not an effective solution, is crackpot to you? I would contest that such a denial of reality is what is crackpot.

It’s hilarious that you call what he was doing activism.
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Except people are by default being told their opinions are incorrect because they disagree with the so called experts.

Experts in a soft, non experimental, survey based scientific discipline. Soft sciences are institutional dogma because by and large there is no way to experimentally verify anything. This is a particular debate in which the establishment is clearly in the wrong to anyone who isn't determined to believe in a nonexistent equality.
That's great, it's certainly something fascinating to explore, I'm happy you are working in this kind of ideas :). I'll have a look when I'll have a bit more time.

Edit: Remove the question about contact info since you already answered in your comment in another thread :)
> They simply throw way too much information on the screen

You can usually just hide them.
I hide everything but the file explorer, the code itself and recently I turned on line numbers but no tool bar or task bar or that distracting mini map which I feel it serves no purpose than being cool for some people.
I just told you why it isn't political, you literally just ignored my comment. The whole point of the memo is to attempt to explain a phenomenon that exists, thus it is not political. You can disagree with the contents of the memo, but that doesn't make it "political", or an expression of "opinions".
What's the minimal .html file required to turn the contents of the "svgs" key into something I can look at?
> Damore hasn't said much of his idealogical beliefs publicly

That’s all he needs to say to make his beliefs clear. If the whole country (minus some “open-minded” tech bros) thinks you’re a sexist jackass and you do nothing to correct them, I wonder...
It's also slow (5-6 cycle latency and 2 cycle throughput on Intel processors, compared to 4/0.5 for multiplication).
You’re wrong. There was a big drop in 2010-2012, but then it started rising again.

Can’t find it for the us, but you can see it rose consistently in ontario: https://www.ouac.on.ca/statistics/olsas-application-statisti...
Which OS? For macOS, Kaleidoscope is quite pretty.
Again, I only looked at the source - http://valleywag.gawker.com/fuck-bitches-get-leid-the-sleazy...

Which is what you should have linked and let people make their mind.

I agree it's pretty assy. What are you looking for me to say?

You are calling tech community toxic and frat boy asses because some billionaire ceo is a douche bag? I don't know how to reply to that. I already cleared that up. I am not defending him. I don't condone that behaviour but it's not far fetched for college students to be like that. It's not a disease specific to tech community. Tech bros are not special unicorns. Every field has those.
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> 2. The "outrage mob" isn't real.

How am I supposed to take you seriously when you're denying the sheer amount of negative media attention, all the outrage Tweets, and the general sentiment in online discussions like this one that are happening years later?

We can discuss the extent of the outrage mob, but your idea that there's no outrage mob at all is baffling.

> You know who got James Damore fired? Himself.

No, he didn't get himself fired. His employer fired him.

> It's especially telling that you, and people who defend him, attribute zero fault whatsoever to the person who actually wrote the memo.

"Zero fault"? Your telepathy is way off, because I didn't say once that Damore has no fault.

The outrage mob "isn't real", yet you are so quick to dismiss those who think that Damore is defensible.
For example, claiming that “women have higher rates of neuroticism” is debatable.

IMO, that kind of discussion is frankly uninteresting and unhelpful.
Encryption is active with a host you don't know. It's TOFU, which is OK if you can verify the identity through persistent uses (ie with SSH you'll have connections with the same server over a long period of time, or with IM you'll talk to those people over a long period of time). In the case of HTTP you'll only get the content now and potentially not visit the site anymore for a long time, especially if it's a personal site.

A few years ago self-signed certificates made some sense, today with Let's Encrypt there is absolutely no good reason to continue doing this on the open web
>It also means that if these get popular they will coalesce into an oligopoly.

That's true of pretty much any system, though: The Iron Law of Oligarchy[0] always applies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
> That's not what he said at all

Those aren’t the words he used, but it’s exactly what he was saying.
Card counting is romanticized but really it is almost impossible to get away with now (while making any meaningful money). The whole premise of card counting is to vary your bets where you are betting more when the count is in your favor, and less when it isn't. Also "penetration" into the deck is important because the less cards there are remaining in the deck the probability of you getting the cards you want (positive count big cards) is higher.

So with that said:

- Casinos employ methods such as continuous shuffling machines that make counting impossible. Tables that have hand shuffling of 6-8 decks cut the deck and reshuffle with 2 decks remaining or so. So it is harder to get penetration.

- The way to be maximally profitable is to vary your bet very widely depending on how positive the deck is. This could be 30x your low bet. Behavior like this will get you detected.

- Security personnel and even dealers keep counts. It is not some savant activity. It is not hard especially since all these people do all day is look at cards. So they know when the deck is positive and if you are always betting big when that happens you will be detected.

So the people that are left counting have to avoid heat by "camouflaging" their actions. They don't vary their bet that widely and make purposeful bad decisions to make it appear they are not keeping a count. They want to appear like someone that does not know how to play basic strategy and raises and lowers their bets based on superstition (there's a lot of them). This all eats into their advantage substantially. Then in addition betting big at high limit tables is going to be more carefully scrutinized as well.

With that all added together the life for a modern card counter is grinding out for comps and very low player advantage for very long times. Casinos aren't dumb anymore. So while we watch the chronicles of the MIT team, and others, those days are long, long gone. Makes for great stories as people love Robin Hood like tales, but it just isn't happening like this anymore.

Edit: Also the tactic she mentions: Entering a game mid shoe after watching for a while, and waiting for a positive deck, is called "Wonging" After Stanford Wong a longtime gambling expert and advantage player. There is NO WAY you'd get away with "flashy big bettor Carlos" coming in after she counted detected a positive count. Tables with any meaningful limit usually do not allow mid shoe entry for this reason. It is one of the oldest tricks in the book and you wouldn't get away with that for long or at all.
No such memo exists. Why would you make that up?
Its use case is usually going to be sorting the output of other commands, I'm impressed it works at all.

If you want to test something meant to scale, feed everything into an sqlite database and read it back. Sqlite should chew through this without any problem.
> What is the 0.6% + 2%? Is that the currency conversion fee?

Yes, international card fee and conversion fee: https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing#pricing-details

Changing currencies would be a pain, not impossible though. Although, it doesn't solve my sales tax issues and the fact that it just pushes the currency conversion fee problem down the line.
Ok gotcha. I think you're asking a bit too much from them to give you personally tailored advice. Your interviewers most likely didn't even read your resume. Most companies will just send you pre-formatted email "sorry you weren't a fit".

If you're trying to parse their message "we're not sure you have enough practical experience programming - maybe try working on an open source project" then I would interpret it as I stated above - they didn't think you demonstrated the depth of experience that they were looking for, and were hoping that working on more types of projects, which you might not get at your job, but you might get by working on a whole bunch of different open source projects, might get you.
Personally, I’d rather use macOS Outlook or Outlook online than Outlook on Windows. And not because of Windows.
I disagree. If your automation isn't well thought out, edge cases might just screw every target and you might have hard time rolling it back.
>If he is making the workplace less comfortable for particular groups of people

Not just any group of people, naturally, but particular groups.

Politics necessarily makes certain groups uncomfortable. A discussion of wealth redistribution makes the rich incomfortable, should such things be impermissible? Politics enables certain groups to be favoured, and others to be disfavoured. This is a good reason to ban politics in general, but if you allow it, you need consistent rules regarding which sorts of views are permissible, rules that aren't themselves political.
The character assassination weapon was his own memo and opinions, stated over and over by himself.

It's character suicide.
I thought this would have mentioned live migration, which honestly solves a major pain point in aws.
One can file a case, sure. But even to get to discovery, let alone trial, the suit has to be about something for which one can actually sue. Emotional distress can be a factor in damages, but a judge would instantly throw out a case whose only basis was, "The bad man hurt my feelings."

If people here are just saying Damore should just harass people by file frivolous lawsuits that will quickly be thrown out, then fine, let them say that. But the theory that there's legitimate grounds for a lawsuit that could actually succeed is ridiculous.
Prince Version 1 has passed on :(.
Thanks for the heads up about this!
It is, unfortunately, not revolutionary at all. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis won a Best Paper Award because the idea is very intuitive and elegant. However, the compression rates (9x) of this follow-up work on ImageNet are far from impressive. Take for example this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07378 that reaches 30x compression rate on ImageNet. (Disclaimer: I know the original author and co-published a paper with him - not this one however)
That's a rather pessimistic and evil stance to assume other people to have. At the same time: if that was someones incentive, wouldn't that also cause happiness or well-being to increase anyway?
The choice to sat “WiFi” rather than “internet” made me pause too, but in this case I think it is appropriate. If you only have access to a cheap laptop or tablet, a wired or cellular connection on its own won’t help you get to the information you need. WiFi is now the lowest common denominator of internet access, and that’s worth recognizing.
I would certainly include software in that same bucket. Not only would other fields be better served with more attention, but taking some of the noise out of these arguably over-crowded professions might allow for more innovation to take place within them.

With software specifically, it feels very much like a case of too many chefs in the kitchen at this point. Just look at facebook trying to build one website with 10000 engineers. It's some of the most ridiculous bullshit and it's incredibly distracting even as an outside observer. There are clean and reusable patterns that solve problems for 99.9% of use cases, but most of the discussion and energy these days is spent rehashing the same boring front-end UI story over and over and over.

Sure, I can ignore all the noise on HN, et. al. if I want to get work done, but then I risk missing out on the occasional insight that can potentially give me an integer factor increase in productivity or product quality. As it currently stands, I have to wade through a cesspool of the same boring amateur concepts on a daily basis in order to find the rare fundamental insights that meaningfully move the state of the art forward.
It's been under some form of heavily active development since 18 November 2011. (though it was in development by Notch since 2009 and he quit his job and lived on the revenues at that point)

At that time there were 25 employees, all living in Stockholm Sweden, the cost of a developer there in 2011 is roughly 60-75k SEK/mo (lets say 60).

(25x(60x12))x9 = 15M SEK in Salaries.

Not including: marketing (usually more than half the total cost of making a game), build servers, distribution servers.

To put that into context: Final Fantasy IX is on the list of most expensive games ever made and cost 40M EUR.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...
Ask HN: Best trivia/novel topic books?
Hi

Just saw "Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts: A review" in Ars Technica [0] and remembered how I enjoyed Nine Pints (a book about blood, [1]) and The Box (history of shipping containers, [2]).

I would love to hear about the best books you've read that cover some interesting topic!

Thanks!

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/05/if-you-like-weird-car-trivia-youll-love-sniff-petrols-new-book/,
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38232376-nine-pints, [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316767.The_Box
I think if you had a torrent with an HTTP seed, you could import it into PeerTube.
So, like the old 'Brick Game' ensembling a Tetris machine.

BTW, on portability, the Z-Machine has been ported even to "intelligent" pens. There is even a GameBoy, Amiga, Atari and C64 port.

Sorry Doom lovers, but your knowledge on portability is really low. The Z-Machine and the zillion of Infocom games/
homebrew can be run nearly everywhere. No display? Hook up a printer/serial device.

Have a wifi/internet client? Write a dumb gopher client, set
up a dumb server on a VPS/Rpi. You could set a Z-machine playing bot to even be able to play it via IRC.

Also, with a custom dfrotz and a FIFO file you may be able even play it over morse with some software which decodes
the morse input from radio and sends the commands to the interpreter, sending the game output back.
I gave it an updoot, at least. :)
Being rich isn’t a protected group in the workplace.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. aren't seeing a drop in the quality of applicants. I get the impression there's a very elite group that Musk would consider "smart" - and they have no issues getting into a T-14 law school.
Google solicited the feedback. This is the problem: companies want it both ways. An open culture where people tell the truth about what they think (so that you don't get the brilliantly dysfunctional organizations that suck up huge amounts of money in lost efficiency) but none of the messy discomfort that comes from people actually disagreeing in an open society.
Thanks for the (very detailed) answer.
Card security is broken by design. It can't be fixed without turning it into a fundamentally different payment mechanic.

What should be happening is that governments should be clamping down on the abusive practices of the financial services giants such that they can't push responsibility for anything that goes wrong onto merchants and/or their customers, thus making huge profits but sharing none of the risk created by the flawed system they control.

It messes with my mind that in 2020, one of the biggest practical problems we have with running an online business is the simple act of getting money reliably and permanently transferred from a legitimate customer to us.
We could use a lot more high-quality therapists and teachers to reduce the effective price of mental health and a good education.
Get over your fragility. I was specifically calling Snapchat and Uber toxic because of their Frat Bro leaders and culture, an undisputed fact which is very widely known and reported on.

There is absolutely zero credible evidence that Evan Spiegel didn't write those misogynistic emails, and overwhelming credible evidence that he did, so you should stop believing and intimating that it's a hoax, if you can't prove it.

But yes, a lot of tech companies are terribly toxic, and a lot of Frat Boys are terrible asses, who graduate (but don't grow up) to be Tech Bros, and work in the tech industry. But they don't need you to deny it and rationalize it and protect their fragile feelings from criticism for them, they need to STOP.

If your only point is that "every field has those", and you think I disagree, then read my other postings about Jared Kushner's coronavirus "Frat Party".

Every field having those doesn't justify or counter tech having those, and if you don't have the time to read the source evidence that I linked to before you took the time to announce you didn't read it and then glibly asked for source evidence that will take you even more time to read, then you won't bother reading anything else, and you're not arguing in good faith.

The more frequently you reply, the more skeptical I become of your claim that you don't have the time to read the original evidence I posted. If you don't know how to reply to that, and didn't have the time to read the evidence, then you should not have replied in the first place, or again, and again. And especially not a fourth time.
Mostly I think it's just he started dating Grimes and doing a bunch of drugs
Author here - Thanks! You are absolutely correct there are several state machines (vga, sdram controler, framebuffer, texturing, divider, renderer, etc) and each with an active state index. The renderer is the biggest one with 69 states.

I agree the state index can be seen as an instruction counter, albeit into very specialized instructions: there are no two same instructions in a given module, each is uniquely implementing a precise subpart of the algorithm. Also the states decide the flow and select the next state, there is no list of instructions you could program or re-arrange. So I wanted to capture this idea that the algorithm is completely embedded into the circuit itself, which is not capable of doing anything else.

There is definitely a very interesting trade-off between a general instruction set and an extremely specialized state machine like here - combining both seems promising?
There are many, many problems with the idea, so it would be useful if you could lay out:

* Why you think this would be useful ... can you give a specific use case that people here would identify with?

* What problems can you see, and how would you overcome them?

* How would it work? How could you make it effectively friction-free?

You say:

> I know there are some where you can forward it to some place and then it becomes a web page.

I've never seen or heard of such a thing ... can you explain why this "seems non-ideal"?

In short, I'd be interested to see your thinking.
hi taylor, adafruit's products are open-source, all the board files are on github, check the open hardware certification listing with adafruit, which is currently the most certified (329 out of 783 certifications, are from adafruit) https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=adafruit

"cheap office space" is not a factor in our decision to be an open-source hardware company.
> "For instance, I don't believe that I'm conservative at all, but my liberal friends and family tend to classify me as "conservative"."

Rather than the old paradigm where political left == liberalism, I think there needs to be a distinction between the new progressive left and classical liberalism since both hold some views and philosophies that are incompatible with each other.

It may well be that, like me, it is not you that has changed necessarily but more that what is considered the left nowadays has drifted away from old school liberalism and you find yourself as alienated by progressives as you are by conservatives?
I think they would likely have more burnout from the academia job than the corporate job. And at least at my school, pretty much any professor that left could immediately get a higher paying job in industry.

You're right it's not "a priori guaranteed," but when talking about empirical realities, what is?
Little Richard was a true legend — there will never be another like him. I always can’t help thinking of this hilariously bonkers piece by John Waters about interviewing him:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/john-waters-me...

“I was in this hotel and I had a Chrysler my mother had mortgaged her home to get me. I went into the studio anyway, and they had me singing like Ray Charles, BB King. They wanted me to sing the blues and that was not me. I got on the piano and started singing: 'Woooooo!' They said: 'Oh boy, where did you get that voice?' 'A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-wop-bam-boom!' and they said: 'That's a hit'… and the rest is history.”
Construction, tunneling, automated manufacturing, vaccine creation
The Vectrex had a 6809...
You are being extraordinarily silly if you think what musk did there is the same as "going into finance."
Biotech! (witness the virus problem that we have known about for a while now, and did pretty much nothing about) Energy generation! Energy storage! Space exploration! New materials!

I feel like so many fields have fallen behind, because of the way incentives are set up. It pays better to be a banker, or a lawyer, developing antibiotics isn't profitable enough, it pays better to work at a company that gathers data about people and pumps advertisements to them. It's rather sad, really.
I'm not saying that he isn't motivated by his individual financial gain. I'm saying that the output of his work isn't for peoples' financial gain. He makes cars, not financial instruments. And cars, unlike financial instruments actually provide value to society.

I'm not saying that people don't care about money. I'm agreeing that they do. And thus that it is important that as a society we distribute our money to enterprises that are actually doing useful work. Precisely so that people who are money-motivated (which is basically everyone to a greater or lesser degree) will choose to work for these enterprises.
Medical devices, medtech, etc.