skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be that way, it's just because our existing language facilities don't have support for what we need them to do:

"Names are regularly repurposed to point to new definitions, even when the old definitions are still perfectly valid. For instance, a library author might make a function a bit more generic by adding an extra parameter, or decide to switch the parameter order. That's fine, but the old definition was not wrong, so should users be forced to upgrade? No.

Repurposing names is fine; it's hard to come up with good names for definitions, so using an old name for a related new definition often makes sense. The trouble is that existing tooling doesn't distinguish between repurposing a name and upgrading a definition. Unison changes that..."
https://www.unisonweb.org/2020/04/10/reducing-churn/#incompa...
It never ceases to flabbergast me that American civics has failed so utterly, for decades, to produce nominally functional adults that can somehow think that "clearly bad" and "objectively horrible" are Real Things That Exist and then say in the next breath, without a shred of self-awareness, things like True Objectivity Doesn't Exist or All Things Are Political.

Is everyone in America so ignorant that they don't know what happens when informal social standards become justifications for political suppression based on who the "public" and not the law deems to be "clearly bad" and "objectively horrible" people? You get lynchings and pogroms. You get informal show trials and massacres. You carve the stick that the next batch of self-righteous authoritarians stick up their ass to justify being inhuman, indecent, monsters.

I can already hear the response forming: "But we know that these people exist, are evil, and are harming people now! We have evidence!"

Yeah. That's what they always say.

I could list every group targeted throughout by self-righteous authoritarians through just Western history--Christians, Jews, Manicheans, heretics, lepers, Catholics, Protestants, witches, blacks, anarchists, communists, thugs, Muslims--and always find a justification that began with some variant of "But we have evidence that they were Clearly Bad People!"

All those other Devils were ridiculous, made-up nonsense. But not yours. Your Devil is real.
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Why not remove them?
We had this argument recently at my workplace and dug into the pros and cons of both, ultimately settling or regular merges and no squash.

The only real argument for squash-merges is that history remains linear and visually "clean", but if you want to see a "clean" history of only the merge commits, you just can just use the `--merges` option on the command line.

Squash locally if you really want to or need to, but I'm a firm believer of disallowing it as the merge method for a changeset.
It's been an M&A company for years now. Just look at its portfolio of ownerships in competing local leaders like Didi, Yandex and Grab. It's a perfect food delivery ride hailing super app investment fund!
I had a quarter Bitcoin and spent it all on a Humble Bundle.
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I use Grubhub most of the time, and I’ve found the thing that keeps me on the platform is 1) The $10 monthly credit on American Express Gold cards and 2) The 2% cash back from the Rakuten portal, which stacks with the 4x points from the Amex card.

Of course, a lot of restaurants end up increasing their prices on Grubhub to make up for their fees, and rightly so (I phone in using the number listed on Apple Maps). I still don’t understand how anyone expects these food delivery apps to be profitable. I’m also 95-99% certain once we feel safe dining at a restaurant again we wouldn’t be using these apps anymore.
Looks nifty. Seems to only compile on Win though:

$ xargo run
For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0463`.
error: could not compile `winapi`.

Still, probably good for interest/learning from. :)
I think it will make sense when cities will have a better infrastructure for targeted deliveries. I'm thinking routes for drones and clear delivery spots.

Would not be surprised 30y from now most homes won't have kitchen anymore. You'll have an access where a drone can come in an deliver whatever you ordered.
Seems to me this is really not as strong as an income tax.

The rich do not get their money selling hours to a company.

It should be called a "well compensated worker tax".
Quite so. 4chan is actually quite clever in that regard.

They have hypotheses, in this case that the media is both stupid, and has political biases that they will promote any level of foolishness to affirm.

They then develop simple plans to test these hypotheses. In this case it was as easy as making fake memes and spreading them to woke journalists. They then sit back and watch as they are proven correct. Now, making a hand symbol which has existed for generations is sufficient to get one cancelled and "deny listed".

Another recent example; they believed that wokies had an anti-white bias. So they made a very simple phrase. "It's okay to be white". They didn't say it was great to be white, or that whites are better. They didn't alter "black power" into "white power" or "long live the race" into "Viva la Raza Blanca", etc. Just that it was okay to be white. And they were quickly proven correct - academics and media types quickly pronounced outright that it was not okay. The more tolerant among them qualified that while it might be okay to be white, it's certainly not okay to say it aloud. And many eyes were opened to what those in power (and getting one fired, harassed, beaten, deplatformed etc while being supported by almost all media, big tech, woke capital, and academia IS true power) think of them.

We ought to look forward to further 4chan experimentation - the results can be quite enlightening.
I interned at Nortel in early 2000's right before it all went down. I can tell you the engineering culture was rotten within. No-one was doing anything useful for years. Many orgs were built around milking the ancient layer 2 passport switch. The layer 3 router meant to compete with Cisco was 3 years late and only sold a few dozen units. There was accounting fraud going on at the highest level - delivery trucks circles around to pad the books.

I'm sure the hack happened. I just don't think it would had made any material impact - there was simply not much to steal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Two quick games that qualify, that are liked by people who like the games you have:

Azul: (lovely) tile laying reminiscent of stained glass. Games take 30-45 minutes and explaining the game takes just a few of those.

Kingdomino: tile laying around a castle to connect different types of lands for points. Has an effective mechanic to trade off getting better tiles against future opportunity. Children play this game easily but adults also like it.
Thanks, I appreciate the thought.

We felt really violated by this, and I ended up buying the marketing list in question for my zip code to understand what happened better. It’s unlikely anything will change for the better. The scrubbing of identity data is pretty easy to reverse engineer by design, as the stream of data is used by pharmaceutical companies, insurance subrogation, etc to do all sorts of things. A pharmaceutical sales rep has a scorecard for your doctor — they bpm now how many scripts were written and filled. The people who gather prescription data have your prescription before your pharmacy does.

Some states have fed things like Medicaid claim data to companies to mesh against data from insurers to build models designed to target opioid abuse. By correlating events or behaviors tied to abuse to diagnoses, predictive models can be built from unprivileged data. (Remember when Target predicted someone’s pregnancy before they knew a few years ago?)
That’s not really accurate. It has strict requirements about stack traversal required to appropriately trace memory roots. This is incidental to JIT vs AOT.
Maybe ghost kitchens will fix the unit economics.
Those who are tired of government blocking, make a $5 droplet in Germany or Netherlands and set wireguard.

When I was in India, I was getting much better speed on vpn compared to direct connection. How can this be possible? Page loads appeared significantly faster through digital ocean server.

I was under impression, VPN adds overhead and reduces speed?.

I often do market research and blocking gets in way, I can decide what website is good for me what isn't. Government shouldn't have any say in that.
Sure, but what's a better metric of the size of a company? Employees?
Yes, this very much so! Getting food provided for me at the office has more personal value than just the strict monetary benefit. Eating food that someone else bought for you just feels better than eating food you bought for yourself.

Try this experiment: pick a friend that you eat out with a lot and set up a system where you each alternate picking up the whole bill. You'll each spend the same amount of money on aggregate, but I am confident each of you will feel better every time you go out.
That link takes me to a spammy gaming site.
>And you left off that NYC's cases dropped the entire time those mask policies were in effect.

you're right. I somehow was under impression that the peak cases were a month later there. Lets see. I'm still really not optimistic giving the current scale of the spread.
So they can go to the restaurant and order for you? That's interesting. I can't imagine it being very efficient or very fast though, how do they manage to not lose tens of minutes per order on non partnered restaurants/stores?
What I find interesting about the food delivery business is that there's clearly a market for this but nobody's happy.

- Restaurants (rightly) complain that the drivers provide a poor service. For example, pizza delivered cold because the drivers have no heat bags. I've even heard of a pizza box mounted vertically on a delivery bicycle.

- Customers are unhappy because food can be delivered cold through no fault of the restaurant. To save money, multiple deliveries can be scheduled at once. You can see this as your assigned driver drives passed the restaurant when your food is ready, clearly they're on another delivery. They come back 20 minutes later and turn what should be a 10-15 minute delivery (from the time the order is ready) to a 45 minute disaster;

- And drivers don't seem happy, complaining about low pay.

Yet... people want food delivered. Is this really just a case of people not willing to pay what the service truly costs? If so, no consolidation will help. I imagine fairly small delivery areas is really the only thing that can be economical.
Until we have robots to do the labor I agree.
Most of that gear was likely bay networks kit, which was actually acquired by Nortel. I don’t disagree that it was crap, but it was cheaper than Cisco.

I grew up in the Ottawa area in the 1990s and my parents were in the tech scene there; the Copelands were rich and eccentric (and odd), but that’s no different than Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, or Steve Jobs.

My point isn’t that Nortel didn’t put out shit products, every large successful company has. It’s that Nortel was more than a crappy router company.
When you started looking around before or after Google?
> 1) The $10 monthly credit on American Express Gold cards

But the annual fee is $250, how is it worth it? At best if you use the $100 airline credit, which is now hard to "hack", and max out $10/mo on Grubhub, you're still paying $30 for the privilege...
Can search engines replace advertisement? Do we need to invent a way to compare options for consumers, or is it a dead end?
I think you are confused with Discourse Vs Discord
It’s actually more that “the vast majority of users do not care” and so go with the defaults.

An opt-out is the way that makes sense.
Great suggestion, definitely something we can do – will work on it!
Attacking at-will employment whenever danger of Internet hate mobs is pointed out is a bit of a whataboutism. Not everyone worried about Internet hate mobs is otherwise a supporter of at-will employment.

But that's really a distraction from the core issue. The thing about at-will employment is the it presumes that the employment relationship is largely between the employer and the employee. That assumption breaks down in the face of an Internet mob. This is part of the reason why the proof standard for how you treat complete strangers is different than the proof standard for how you treat people you know, including employees.

Furthermore, in the theory that underpins American capitalism, employment is an economic relationship. For example, if a burger flipper is sufficiently bad at flipping burgers, he shouldn't be a burger flipper, because her status as a burger flipper is predicated on her ability to do that job. Even in the most socialist systems that I'm aware of, basic competence is considered a prerequisite for holding a job. Moral qualities are usually considered less important unless they impact the job. In the American system, people are theoretically hired and fired primarily based on their ability to do their job, but Internet mobs change this equation thoroughly. Now, your political opinions affect your employability as well.

I think that this has profound implications for democracy.
I can't imagine a Google offer for a T5 SWE in the US only having <$200k initial grant anytime in the last 5 years (and probably much longer than that).

So this would either have to be a different country or a non-SWE engineering ladder and I would guess that's the case here.
The Rolodex re-purposed, keeping track of all of our own identities instead of other's

I do think this is interesting as an adaption, though to have any coherence of identity then that identity will need to re-used. That makes an interesting game, where people effectively wager different amounts of reputation, while understanding that some or total loss of that reputation could also occur.

The natural advantage to having reputation is that you are better discovery status, more exposure. Imagine debating if the "top" tier identity or the "low" tier identity should be used to promote a new idea, as it is riskier.

Overall, I think this expansion of pseudonymity as a society would just lead to additional fragmentation of personality. The "coherence" of a person as one, consistent individual is an interesting breakdown of self. We see this already with "online" vs "real-life" personalities can be highly divergent (Insta-self vs actual-self).
He also hangs out here as lutusp IIRC.
Covid-Like Virus Was Sent to Wuhan in 2013, Sunday Times Says
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We're probably getting closer to some ground we do agree on. It sounds like we both support the ability for communities to form around a shared set of virtues, moderation philosophy, etc. Totally. And it's okay for those communities to moderate and police themselves. What I disagree with is the idea that it's healthy for speech platforms to operate in a mode such that certain speech universally constitutes e.g. violence and must be banned. I believe that mindset is destructive towards the relatively fair playing field we've laid down at least in the US where we are supposed to protect individuals' right to express themselves.

In Twitter's case I think you've nailed it. They're so big that effective moderation that pleases everyone is simply unmanageable. What that signals to me is that practically they should be considered a speech platform. Otherwise any attempts to moderate will feel like social cherry-picking. Once classified as a platform we should treat them differently, both legally and colloquially. Legally platforms would be absolved of taking responsibility for the content posted by individuals. And colloquially if people understand they're a platform, and platforms come with self-service tools to make sure unwanted content doesn't show up front and center in your feed, then I think we can collectively mature in our approach towards and response to "dirty" content.

Anyway I don't use twitter either and don't expect nor am I really all that interested in a twitter solution. I'm abstractly defending the social maturity required to tolerate diverging viewpoints without resorting to censoring and banning and extrajudicial mob justice because I believe required to prevent oppressive majority rule.
>> Rather, you would be cheating everyone that has purchased "insurance".

That is a very north american definition of insurance. But insurance companies are not collectives. They are for-profit corporations, probably with a PO box in Delaware. Buying an insurance plan isn't like moving into a commune. It is a risk-shifting arrangement with a corporation, a formalized financial hedge. When I buy insurance I don't much care about other customers. They aren't part of my transaction. Maybe I am the only customer for a product. That does happen. It doesn't impact the obligations of the parties.
In addition to the other suggestions, you can run Nextcloud on any machine you control and sync to computers, mobile devices, etc.

This is a well-solved problem.
> absurd, useless theatre.

It may be absurd, but it certainly isn't useless. Divide and conquer/rule has been an effective approach for ages, and the internet has made it even easier and more effective. And the beauty of it is that it seems to be almost impossible for the human mind to detect its presence, which is a big part of why it's so effective I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
To be fair, it was almost certainly the diamonds that brought the price to $1m. But in the words of David Lee Roth “who am I to get in the way of a good rumor”.
I had a few friends in customer support. This happened all the time.

If you spend too long going back and forth with a customer, the salary-based calculation of what it costs the company doesn’t make sense. So you give it to them free. But then it’s not like you have any margins that those come out of.
I am throwing money at the screen and nothing is happening!
You can have a hard time believing it, but it’s still true. And the point still stands if it’s 5%.

Most people just don’t care, and will go with the defaults.
I don't think people should try to price in stock value "growth" into the equation. The fair value today of the stock you're promised on the nth year is just the price of the stock today (for publicly traded companies).
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This sounds cool! Building Scientific Apparatus is a truly excellent resource.

Two questions: (1) Could you get away with an inert atmosphere? I'm not familiar with the pros and cons with respect to PVD.
(2) It sounds like your vacuum setup will have a long cycle time from vent to pumpdown to operation. A load lock with a (turbomolecular?) pump adds quite a bit of expense. What's your approach to achieving high throughput?
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This is what makes this rhetorical style so insidious — it should be reasonable and advantageous to have more sources, more depth, more counterpoints but when done in bad faith and weaponized it stifles any progress or real discussion grounded in an attempt to learn.
I actually specifically omitted the scare quotes since, in such a situation, from the perspective of the identity system creator, the victims would in fact be undesirables.

It's hard to give a reader a example of someone who they actually believe is a Evil Mutant(TM) who clearly (to that same reader) is a innocent victim, and I didn't bother to try in favor of "well obviouly a non-negligible portion of 1930s Germans agreed with the Nazis".
How fast does that setup run in practice? I have an odroid hc2 (which is a wholy different chipset than the h2plus, I know), and that's about as pokey as my pi4.
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But that's the thing though, that's a very small advantage when it comes to a cutthroat sector like food delivery imo. I know I just use whatever app has free delivery or 25% off at that particular moment since it's almost frictionless to switch between apps. Even using different messaging apps is much harder.

That applies to all delivery apps and access to capital is really the only determining factor of success in that industry, but Postmates was also lacking in that regard.
Why on earth would it estimate a 48% y/y growth forever for Square stock. That's insane. Past performance != future performance, yeesh. At that rate by the end of the 4 year estimation here, Square will be worth $240B (4.8X) -- or the market cap of Tesla. By year 2028, $1.150 TRILLION (23X) dollars, or just shy of an Apple.

Keeping in mind that they just divested a major business unit, point to where in [1] you think this is justified haha.

It's downright negligent to suggest people consider a 48% y/y growth in equity when figuring their future compensation. I mean Square's down 6% since July 2. Not to mention, Square stock saw zero or negative equity total return from September 2018 until this week. It trades like a penny stock. Can confirm, am shareholder.

If we're moving up 48% y/y forever, I'll quit my job as I'm going to be a billionaire by the turn of the decade.

I think it's also important to consider that at a company like Facebook, you won't stay an IC4 forever, and you will start seeing IC5 refresh grants that will be much more substantial. I don't know how Square's handling leveling these days, but comparing my time at both, Facebook's going to be much more structured. It's not enough to compare without factoring in expected time to next level and next level refresh grants, and promotion grants. And, of course, grounding your expectations for equity appreciation in something approaching reality.

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/114365585/files/doc_financials/2020/Q1...
I'm not a football expert, but the fact his throwing accuracy was poor and getting worse seems relevant here:
https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/234081/colin-k...
I find it hard to believe that the company was so incredibly fragile that it, uniquely among its competitors was killed by Huawei stealing some of its IP.

Far more likely, there's no shortage of other reasons that led to its downfall, but it's easier for the people responsible to blame spies.
My guess would be that they make up for it in lots of fees :) Our $6 purchase ended up being ~$25 (following a $150 precharge haha).
Are you bikeshedding bikeshedding??

Just kidding, I actually agree with your point that the term is just demonstrate that you don’t want to have a conversation by diminishing the value of anybody having it.
Be sure to explain to your parents that this particular news outlet (Bloomberg) has a history of playing fast and loose with reality, particularly in regard to supposed Chinese industrial espionage activities. [1]

Also you might point out that the company pays bonuses to its "journalists" for successfully affecting financial markets. [2]

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/04/editorial-a-year-...

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
EVO 2020 is canceled following the removal of CEO for sexual allegations
You gotta start somewhere. These days in these cities where starter homes are $1.3M, taxing people who make over $150k is just shifting the burden pn what is effectively the upper middle (of the working) class.
Still common in gaming circles. I've met some of my gaming friends many times and they're still their nick to me.
GrubHub is huge in Chicago, in fact it was started at University of Chicago and is still based in Chicago.