skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, then the original problem (incorrect abstraction) does not exist, or at least does not get worse over time, and thus does not need fixing.
My parents lost a small fortune in 2001 riding the tech crash down (Nortel was a good chunk of that). I've been trying to explain to them (1st gen Chinese immigrants) for the past three years that Nortel was killed partly by focused Chinese spying and IP-theft by Huawei. CSIS has know about this for years. They (my parents) just wouldn't believe it until I showed them this article.

Their former university classmates (who also immigrated to Canada) are likely part of the 20 people that jumped ship to Huawei and implicitly may have leaked data before then.

I'm glad this article got through to them, that it isn't just politics and Huawei & the CCP really did go offside.
Probably the "healthy" part of red wine is resveratrol, but in this case you can just have resveratrol in red grape (whole or its juice) or even in supplements.
I was thinking about something very similar.
like, the teachers will get a lions share of the fee.
this will instantly motivate teachers to better themselves, and move the school away from for-profit model.

but there are some real problems to solve.
like,
1. how to get such school started ? who will provide initial capital ?
2. even if such a school is started, how to stop it from becoming for-profit again ?
3. is there a healthy balance between 'for-owers' and 'for-teachers' model ?
Nortel Market Cap Peak per year, in $USD Billions:

1997: $16

1998: $22

1999: $105

2000: $283

2001: $56

2002: $26

The dot com bubble produced insane valuations around the turn of the century. The run-up to the collapse was breathtaking.
Conscription isn’t related to the second amendment at all.

The US still has conscription. We haven’t called up a draft since the Vietnam war - but every adult male has to register, and there are consequences for failing to do so.
Postmates raised $903M since 2012: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/postmates

Not a 10x exit.
Oooh -- good idea. I don't think I have an instruction that quite matches. Retroputer's branch instructions are directly tied to the flags, so you can do `br !c(arry)`, but that doesn't rule out zero like `ja` does. At a quick glance I don't think that should rule something like this out, though. :-)

That looks like a really interesting book -- I think I shall add it to my reading list!
Azul / Brass / Flamme Rouge / Barenpark!
Did you even read the article?

Nortel built a lot of cellular networks and owned a huge chunk if IP for it (that was surprisingly valuable during the bankruptcy auctions). They also had quite the large long-haul fiber optic install base (which they bet the farm on, that quickly became commodified, which is really what bankrupted them). They also had one of the first commercially available DSL modems.

Sure, they built “bad” edge routers and switches (they came out of the telco industry, so focused too much on managed services for them, which caused headaches for end-customers), but the company was an engineering powerhouse ruined by hubristic businessmen.
I think it's a little more meta than that.

It's the hand-language interpretation process that's being hijacked here.

Instead of seeking an accurate interpretation we're seeking one that creates maximum drama, paints arbitrary targets in arbitrary lights and generates profits.

It's a biblical flood of bullshit.

Maybe it's an unavoidable outcome of this public service for amplifying the voices of bullshit-lovers. Social media, I mean.

Language decoupled from observation. Antiscience.
Will look at it, thank you.
writing was on the wall when they fired most of their city managers.

Hard business.
Agree. Most companies do not get this though, and think of this as an additional cost.
With the exception of board games that are related to existing games I already like, I treat Kickstarter as a negative signal for the first year.

Similar to a video game licensed movie, or a movie licensed video game; even if the title has elements I enjoy, I've been burned enough. Playing it is the only way I'll know I love it.

I can't even trust data collection on BGG, because typically the first wave of Kickstarter ratings are by people who have boarded the hype train.
Followed by a re-alignment when people who are playing friends' copies step in.

Component quality bias, as well as cost bias are related (and typically compounded by Kickstarter) phenomena.
> in the EU its often a three month contractual obligation

In which country is this? In most places I worked at it's been 4 weeks (and even this is often waived).
Rust will do that too. We're talking about micro-optimization-level details, not allocation of iterator objects and so forth.
Not yet, but I’ll revisit this thread eventually.
I worked on this problem for about a month straight a couple years ago (but didn't have any significant success). It's extremely draining on you; don't forget to take breaks. <3
Wrong. Objectively wrong. There have been multiple updates on this situation.

> At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, the suspect allegedly drove into a group of protesters on a section that the WSP had closed about midnight. Mead said a car drove around a series of “support vehicles” that protesters were using to block I-5 and protect themselves, and onto the shoulder of the freeway, where protesters were standing.

> “A vehicle drove through the closure and struck multiple pedestrians on the freeway,” Trooper Rick Johnson said in a tweet. [1]

Actual video of the murder in question [2]. The driver was driving on the wrong side of the road, drove past multiple barricades and swerved into protesters. He hit them and then fled the scene. I'm going to assume good faith and say you were not aware of these updates.

[1] https://ktvz.com/news/national-world/2020/07/05/seattle-prot...

[2] https://twitter.com/4t4r11/status/1279470869774061568?s=20
As a peripheral point, I have witnessed an improved quality in conversations where certain ground rules are applied, and that the participants accept in good faith. There's a performative aspect to rhetoric that a well-developed system can disincentivize. For instance, on Twitter, there's always the peanut gallery cheering one side or another, which distorts participants' incentives completely. They cannot be honest with themselves because of the need to "perform", i.e. to say clever/snarky things.

This is why people who are truly interested in learning from others on Twitter open up their DMs -- one-on-one conversations produce much higher signal-to-noise because the performative aspect of a tweetstorm is removed and there's more of a desire to slow down and really address each other rather than the mob. (DMs aren't perfect -- trolls will DM too -- but OTOH you can get DMs that are in good faith).

I think it is possible to "design" a good conversation. To some extent many of the rules are self-evident and intuitive to most adults. The problem is that in the heat of debate, we forget them and need third party moderation as a form of accountability.

One of the main ways to improve adversarial conversations is to apply techniques to move conversations from the lower brain (which governs fight/flight responses) to the upper brain (executive functioning, neocortex). Books like Difficult Conversations, Nonviolent Communication, Imago technique, etc. all start from different priors but mostly converge to this prescription due to the commonality of human psychology. Most people just want to be heard and to be validated (as smart, socially "woke", etc.) -- some will resort to manipulation to get there, but if these things can be achieved without manipulation, then the desire for deploying rhetoric is reduced.

Having a system helps create a platform for civil discourse by allowing oneself to guided by a system, which frees one up from decisions and nudges one toward higher-order executive functioning.
Working for a salary, outside doing your job for the hours ageeed is free money for them.

I cook to relax, to get away from the computer.
Pretty slick tool. I look forward to using it in the event I manage to stumble my way through the interview grind and into multiple offers.

For now it looks like it treats stock compensation in private companies (eg. Stripe) as equivalent to public companies. Would be pretty damn helpful if it could expose some knob that could adjust for liquidity risk.

My current approach (working for private Unicorn) is to heavily discount the face-value, operating on received wisdom that most of the time you'll get next to nothing.

However anecdotally, this has proved far too pessimistic (like off by a factor of 10).
> All CEOs are essentially dictators.

No, they're not. Very few are. All CEOs serve at the mercy of the voting shareholders.

In a minority of companies, all of the votes are controlled by one person. Facebook is one of those.

Zuckerberg may be able and incentivized to think long-term, but that doesn't mean his vision is a good one. He isn't infallible just because his incentives are as good for the company as they can be.

And none of that even addresses the question of whether what is good for FB's bottom line is good for society.
It sounds like you know the workings of these drives. Any advice on getting "ATA CMD Tracing" working on them? I saw that string in the firmware but I'm not smart enough to enable it myself :)
Dang, so someone who invested in 1997 would have still made money in 2002, though they would have a lot of psychological pain from the ride down from the peak.
> their GNP per capita is now greater than all of western europe

What if Shenzhen didn't exist across the river? HK is part of a unique economic environment with significant externalities making it prosperous.
How do I combat loneliness after quitting TikTok?
Hong Kong security law: Pro-democracy books pulled from libraries
Ask HN: What’s your tech stack for API developments and front end?
Please share your backend (api), database or cloud you are using. What are you using for front-end?
Personal experience with multiple countries. Studied in both USSR and USA. Witnessed many students struggling in USA.

You are right though, many parents can’t teach. That’s the problem I am trying to solve - parents shouldn’t have to go to school with their children.
You can't, but from that fact you shouldn't just not bother to try. They offer a knob to adjust expected stock growth, so that you're able to make your best guess.
Zomato cut off from Chinese funding by India-China tensions
Hold on, "down-voting is censorship"? Since when? The content remains. No disciplinary action is taken against anyone who's comment starts to turn grey. It's simply a feedback mechanism members of this forum use to signal to each other the quality of the content being posted. The analog would be if people here started mass down-vote campaigns against a person because they posted something off-beat, or if we all started petitioning mods to remove content we found uncomfortable.

You generally gravitate towards down-voting unhelpful, out-of-place, or in some way inaccurate content not simply content you don't agree with, BTW. More often than not I see comments start to turn grey because they miss the point and/or aren't really useful contributions to the discussion. Good points, despite the position being argued, tend to remain opaque.
Yes, that is the general objection to taxes that are directly aligned to workers. "Taxing jobs" leads to those jobs going to other jurisdictions (like Redmond or Bellevue) where possible. I think they're hedging against this by attempting to cover any business in Seattle and levying the payroll tax on any employees who works or lives in Seattle city limits. See section 5.45.090.S.

I just skimmed the legislation but two relevant points for you are they've explicitly exempted a few business with classically high revenue and low margins, like grocery stores. The tax itself is also levied on employee payroll expenses starting at $150,000 when hte cities median income is about $65,000 last I looked. See section 5.38.030.
The author calls this "command line" pastebin. It uses curl and openssl to encrypt and submit. However it uses a Javascript-enabled web broswer to do the retrieval and decryption. Can we use the command line to do the retrieval and decryption?

This way, we are not restricted to the ciphers supported by the "Crypto-JS" NodeJS package. Not meaning to take anything away from the venerable Crypto-JS library of "standards" including RC4 and TripleDES.
You estimate.

Look at past 1yr then 5yr. get average per year. Then look at forward growth potential, maybe read the last two quarter prospectus... and kind of guess/ballpark. You could be wrong so come up with a lowest case scenario even if it's negative and a top and middle, based on best judgment.

...this all goes out the door if they are so new as to not have 5yr of stock performance or if their revenue is negative. In this case, if it was me, I wouldn't even count stock in the compensation unless I plan to sell right at each vesting.
This is specifically for a Facebook E4 [1] vs a Square L4 [2] offer package (originally had that in my title, but got pretty long)

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...

[2] - https://www.levels.fyi/company/Square/salaries/Software-Engi...
Surely Uber will be profitable with this addition.
CoreBGP – Plugging in to BGP
I don't understand why Uber has been so obsessed with buying another company in the US food delivery market.
You can see that the URL is specifying params to fill in values. I'm not sure where those values come from, but they're not 'default values'. They look like low-level FAANG offers.

If you reset the tool everything goes blank, and reselecting a company didn't fill in values for me.

$275,000/4 doesn't seem like an outlier package though, so you might be under compensated.
I would say it becomes an abstraction when it needs parameters in addition to the nominal arguments. So in the case of "addThreeTimes(i)", sure, that's just abbreviation, but "addNtimes(i,N)" is a bona-fide abstraction.

Edit: Reminds me of the distinction between inheritance and subtyping: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/InheritanceSubt...
Another problem: Windows support. Windows' file semantics are different and knowing when a file is closed becomes critical.
Will it simulate the thermal expansion when machining?
I frequently interview candidates who are 3-4 years out of undergrad for mid-level engineer positions (between junior and senior level). A typical stock package at this level is about $350k/4, give or take. If candidates have multiple competing offers, they can drive this number higher.
As a relatively young developer, I have to ask, are comments not a better place to document context? Commit messages are much less discoverable to me than comments when I'm looking at a piece of code. I usually put the "why" in comments and the "abstracted what" in commits. Enough info for someone to quickly rule whether or not a commit could have introduced a given bug, since that's usually what I'm looking for when I'm going through commit history.
For companies like FB and Google that's actually far below the level of a senior engineer (E5/L5), which is usually at around $350-500k range.

$280k sounds about right for someone who's about 3-5 years out of undergrad at these companies.
Plus it's a way to transfer money to employees without income taxes (if you assume that people are willing to accept slightly lower pay to get these benefits).
Forecasting Covid-19 deaths in Florida
Very interesting!

> Online Direct Democracy does not have any policies. Instead it has pledged to conduct an online poll for every bill that passes before Parliament. Anyone on the Australian electoral roll would be allowed to register to vote in these polls and will be allowed one vote per bill. The MPs would then be required to vote in accordance with the clear majority (55%-70% and more than 100,000 votes). If there is no clear majority they will abstain from voting. A beta version of the system is operating and available for public use. This system has been designed to highlight the possibilities on online democracy.[2]

"required to vote in accordance with the clear majority" seems a bit problematic (in the short term anyways) - in this case it is only on a per ODD-elected MP basis so that's probably fine, but jumping straight to a direct democracy based system from what we have now likely would be a bit messy.

What I have in mind is setting up a completely independent parallel political system, that has zero power (direct power anyways), which would allow time to work out the numerous kinks and complexities, while simultaneously allowing for the first time ever for the true (or, more true at least)will of the people to be known...as opposed to the obviously untrue "will of the people" we've been sold on for hundreds of years.

Someone will eventually see this elephant in the room and do something about it, and things should start to get pretty interesting then. Although, my spider sense tells me that time may be running out, the propaganda techniques seem to be becoming so effective that it's hard to find independent opinions on most any topic - framing direct democracy as dangerous and evil strikes me as something that would be a very easy sales job in the current state of collective consciousness.

That said, there are also a massive number of obscure, disconnected communities who all seem to be coming to the same general conclusions about what is going on here on Planet Earth, perhaps the sum total of all these obscure groups is actually a very large number, it's just that they're undetectable.
Empirical study of proclivity to be offended vs. employees’ attitudes, behaviors
I was first introduced to Lua via World of Warcraft. It's the scripting language used for Interface Customization.

https://www.wowhead.com/guide=5338/comprehensive-beginners-g...
What's Postmates moat? Having never used it, I don't necessarily see the 2.6b$ value in a smaller delivery app that is only really used in some areas of the US. Though I'm sure there is something I'm missing and 2.6b$ is probably less expensive than the cost of pricing Postmates out of the market especially considering it's an all stocks deal. It's just that delivery seems to be easily scalable and easy to just dump money in to gain users (free delivery / delivery fees are much stronger factors than brand loyalty in my experience) so why acquire relatively minor players?

What's also interesting is that Postmates seems to have raised around 700m$, so chances are it's investors are probably the first to make an actual realized profit from food delivery ;).
The general issue with localized anonymity is it becomes a bulletin board rather than a discussion. In time this draws in drug dealers, prostitution, horny teenagers, and various sexual deviants (see also: whisper, craigslist and backpage forums). Gotta find a way to keep engagement up with the reduced volume of users.
Police don’t prosecute anything.

District attorneys conduct prosecutions.

Rape prosecutions are often difficult, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find a DA who would not bring charges if they thought they had any chance at a conviction.

In military courts prosecution is mandated by law and minimum charges and sentences are set by federal law.
Fair enough, I missed out the scenarios when I first try it since I just click on the link to download the PPT. It make sense now when I use it side by side with what I have created.

Interactive flow charts should be the main selling point, as for usage, it is up to the user.

Also the pricing model, restriction on frames and layers would chase free individual away but they are those who plays a main roles in making something mainstream. I would recommend removing the usage restriction but adding collaborative restriction. A good example for this is how Google Sheet works.

Good luck, hoping to see it being used everywhere someday.
I can think of one very good reason to have clients encrypt pastes for you as service provider:

If the pastes are encrypted by somebody else you simply have no idea what's inside them. You can easily find an expert who will explain to a jury, or a journalist, that you had no way to know it was an assassination plot / stolen bitcoin wallet / confession of child molestation. I'm sure you don't look (other people's business is quickly boring) but it may be difficult today to prove you didn't, because you could have.

But in terms of what I've used, in some tech jobs I've used in-house HTTPS pastebin sites. If we control the machine with the data in it then we get to decide what policies to apply, and if things go bad we know who (us) needs to fix that. In the last place I worked they used GitHub gists, so in principle Microsoft could snoop those and I'd have been uncomfortable seeing anything secret in them.
You can boot from USB now. No need for SD.
I think you're underestimating the perspective and feelings of the driver in that situation. It's easy to safely sit in the comfort of your home with a cuppa commenting on Hacker News, but imagine you're in the situation: you're driving home as usual, and suddenly your car is surrounded by a group of seemingly angry strangers shouting at you, trying to block your car, and do who-knows-what to you.

It's not like you know who those people are, why they're there, or what they want from you.

I'd be intimidated and scared as hell.

I certainly have no interest at all in driving through a crowd of protesters, and I hope I'd resolve the situation better than this driver, but I can't honestly tell you what I'd do in that situation. Panicking would be quite a normal human response.
They offered $5B for Grubhub who has 30% market share, and now $2.65B for Postmates who has just 8% market share.
Aka… Laban notation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laban_notation_symbols
yep.

Causes of this I've seen:

- sunk cost fallacy

- not spending enough time to understand the codes behaviour (and its side effects)

- code being written so it becomes hard to understand its behaviour and any side effects.

- trying to "win the PR game" by avoiding refactoring

- giving up on refactoring because thinking is too hard
I mean imagine a hypothetical language where it was idiomatic to let the GC close files for you and the language was specified in such a way that it was guaranteed to work efficiently and wasn't just an implementation detail.

Would code in that language have lower code quality than code in a language where files have to be closed manually? That's what the other poster seemed to be implying, but I think the opposite is true
Trans woman designed first ARM dies
> Christian Christensen, Professor of Journalism in Stockholm, argues that the accusation of whataboutism is itself a form of the tu quoque fallacy, as it dismisses criticisms of one's own behavior to focus instead on the actions of another, thus creating a double standard. Those who use whataboutism are not necessarily engaging in an empty or cynical deflection of responsibility: whataboutism can be a useful tool to expose contradictions, double standards, and hypocrisy

> Others have criticized the usage of accusations of whataboutism by American news outlets, arguing that accusations of whataboutism have been used to simply deflect criticisms of human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States or its allies. They argue that the usage of the term almost exclusively by American outlets is a double standard, and that moral accusations made by powerful countries are merely a pretext to punish their geopolitical rivals in the face of their own wrongdoing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism