skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes me as an emerging area for application trustworthiness and privacy issues.

In some ways it's an extension of This strikes me as an extension of the dark patterns work (https://www.darkpatterns.org/) or in a different way the work on addictive apps by Tristan Harris and his "Time Well Spent" (http://www.timewellspent.io/) efforts. Somewhat related from a self-help perspective is Clay Johnson's "Information Diet" (http://informationdiet.com/) model (See also and https://player.vimeo.com/video/63368251)
We have some enterprise level features that will only be accessible through partnerships, but the core product is free and open source.
> Most SWE jobs are in B2B, web development

Citation?

> embedded, etc fields. Which one of these sees a lot of MATLAB usage?

Both embedded and etc. MATLAB is used widely in signal processing and controls software.

> Maybe don't resort to insults straight away too.

Sorry. I get annoyed when someone pretends that Software==Websites as if any of our trusted electronics are designed or programmed in javascript.
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I haven't looked into this recently, but for a long time, I'd only buy Atheros cards, even for Windows machines, because I'd have an option of Windows support, and the Windows drivers always seemed less finicky. I think Windows even shipped with Atheros drivers, and Microsoft drivers tend to be more reliable than vendor ones.
To be honest, it does feel cult-ish from the outside. But as some other commenters have pointed out, they have their reasons, ideally to remove bias from hiring process.
Ireland gets its way: An unlikely diplomatic superpower
Perhaps they couldn't have made more money, but they could have devastated the global market with a few well placed rumors from "verified" tweets. That frightens me more.
IIRC there were two problems that were the hardest:

1. Naming things.

2. Cache invalidation.

3. Off by one errors.

Number 3 apparently the hardest one.
I find it interesting that there were at least 100 people who both had enough money lying about in BitCoin (or at least, where able to figure out how to buy bitcoin on short notice) who intersect with the group of people who will fall for something which has all of the hallmarks of a scam.
This is what I do, as well, plus taiji. I think of it as my "zombie apocalypse survival regimen."
Do you have examples of state level legislating in Oregon that you think needs to be changed? The big right-wing bugaboos in the PNW tend to be about federal policy (c.f. land use regulation), and the most impactful progressive laws tend to be at the city government level (Portland's $15 minimum wage, say).

I mean... what exactly are you complaining about? The straw ban?
Of course technology made us who we are today.
I will watch things in a "private window" if I don't want it affecting my recommendation or later go and remove it from my watch history.

This seems to help me. Also I will mark videos as not interested.

But yeah I notice I watch one video and then I get a lot of recommendations related to it. Sometimes I like it and sometimes I don't.
I've seen enough fascinating but impractical patents to be pretty skeptical of "big corp filed a patent, so their next product will definitely include it!"
Step 1: buy TSLA puts
Step 2: @elonmusk: "I'm retiring effective immediately. Don't believe what you read in the news tomorrow."
Step 3: Profit
Bugger. I think I messed up at least once by not asking. This is good advise!
> In the past they could get enough of the right people to move to China as they did with OLED.

TSMC was founded by a "returnee" as well. Obviously he and his family were rather anti-communist (his father was a ROC official) so he fled from mainland China to Hongkong then the US during the Chinese Civil War.
He built a career at TI then returned to China (Taiwan) and founded TSMC when the government was investing in the development of hitech industries. [1]

There are quite a few similar examples on both sides (communists and nationalists). For example, and that's quite a twist of history, the 'father' of the PRC missile and space program was an MIT professor, Caltech professor, co-founder of JPL and was even involved in project Manhattan... Then he returned to mainland China in 1955 [2].

These days there are many more mainland Chinese in the West and Taiwan who work in the semiconductor industry and it's not uncommon for them to return to mainland China to take key positions.

There is no doubt that they'll catch up. The only question is how fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
I think I could have rotated/edited the BTC addresses faster by editing or deleting/resending tweets and taking over new accounts in a random pattern. The money stopped flowing in pretty quick when the popular exchanges blocked sending to the destination address.
Trump messed up a ton in this crises, and has a lot to answer for. This is not one of them.

Unemployment is almost all within the remit of the individual states. The government approved additional payments to each state, but the state government is responsible for dispersing and managing the unemployment system.
Sometimes better than Reddit
Thinking Fast and Slow - it helped me to understand cognitive biases. I think understanding these really helped to see what our lens does to how we see the world.
> you move on, searching for the true meaning

Which turns out to show up when you go beyond three dimensions. In two and three dimensions, numerical coincidence let you identify different grades of operation. In 3D space, i, j, and k are unit vectors...and unit bivectors. As soon as you hit 4D you have to separate that out, and things get a lot clearer. This is why people keep harping about geometric algebra.
Do you live in the same state? That is probably the difference :)
What makes the study invalid in your view aside from being published by the Washington Post?
Gosh, thanks. I never cease to be amazed at my own ignorance. So I guess that makes all the rhetoric about "the fourth branch of government" even sillier than I already thought it was. (If journalism were to be a fourth branch, then it ought to have some "checks and balances", but right now it seems to have about as many "checks and balances" as Xerxes the God-King of Persia...)
It's a chat client, it's really not complicated. Even if we take for granted that they genuinely had to ride on top of Electron to get to market (I think the back-end is probably much more complex), they have more than enough money at this point to rewrite from scratch.

Note that one person is literally doing that, with ripcord. Looks like shit but it illustrates the point.
Growing up I've watched quite a few family members fall apart mentally including mother and step father (they're ok right now), even ending up homeless in a couple scenarios. Usually they would be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.

It was always linked to some stressful event. Loosing a job, not being able to keep the lights on, loosing a partner, or an abusive partner....
Another thing I have noticed is that in a group meeting, you are not actually having 1 meeting with everyone in the group. But rather, you are having multiple individual meetings simultaneously. It is a weird meeting dynamic that is unnatural to the way we are use to in real life.
Right. For example, the lockpicking lawyer has millions of views. I have not seen every video, but the ones I've seen do not feature any faces, just lockpicking.
Rust is blocked on libffi, as are most things using Python (which includes cmake, and that precludes all of LLVM). I downloaded the Go bootstrap and it tried to link against crt0 directly and it's either looking up the wrong one or there is none for aarch64. It's also looking for a file called defs_darwin_arm.h which I don't have. Some warnings that will probably be problematic at the future related to the ABI defining char to be signed.
Ask HN: Who Runs HN?
I've done a little snooping and can't find information on the entire team. Who runs engineering? Infra? Product/front end (lol)?
Hey Nick,

Project looks great! I see on your README you're working on an LLVM backend. I'm doing the same for an unrelated language, would love to contribute to Muon if you're looking for extra hands.
It really isn't that much different or extra work to create a cross-platform app. They are rebranding a solution that already has Linux support. Besides, if larger companies started releasing on Linux first I'm sure those numbers would shift dramatically. Linux really is a superior desktop for developers and engineers.
As the article points out, if you do this in enough size to make serious money, you're highly likely to get caught.
Delta (at least) gives their elite members "Job Well Done" certificates every year they qualify for this reason - in a service oriented company, having a default currency for recognizing people going above and beyond is a great tool.

I'm not sure what benefit one of the certificates (they have serial numbers!) actually confers, but I imagine it's more about the emotional uplift than it is monetary value.

I've long wanted a way to bring this to more workplaces. In previous companies, we had shout-outs at our company all-hands, which were low-effort to write and a fantastic way to recognize a coworker. It didn't involve any $$ compensation, which made it all the more meaningful to me.
Yeah, you could argue that this means these people aren't that serious about us, and we should be looking for people who are dying to work for our company specifically. Those people will surely spend hours preparing specifically for our interview, and triple-check they have followed all of our preparation instructions.

The reality is that for the past few years at least in SF, hiring engineers has just gotten more and more competitive. Most people who pass our interview will have multiple other offers, often some from companies with a bigger name brand than our own. At least in my opinion, most companies in this environment can't afford to have such strict purity tests. It's supply and demand.

This balance may be changing now given the current recession, it seems even in tech things have cooled off a bit the past few months.
I took the class this book is based on (years ago), and it was great: after programming languages, it was the most philosophically mind-bending class I had in any technical subject.

There sure is a lot of mathematical content there; it's a graduate-level class in CS theory. The math is all there for a good reason if you want to understand precisely what's true in this area vs. what's too good to be true, or to be able to prove that it's true. But I think the key insights can be understood without much math.

The author discusses this all much better than I can in a comment, so I recommend reading the introduction and conclusion chapters. Or this other exposition by a different author, which I discovered through a reference in the intro:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/prg-primer.html

But here's an attempt at describing just one of the key insights: the right definition of "pseudorandom" is computational. Specifically, something that generates a bunch of data is pseudorandom if you can't tell it apart from genuinely random data, within feasible resources like polynomial time.

And one reason that's the right definition is: if you have such data, now you can plug it in literally anyplace you would use random data. Because if something would go wrong by doing so... well, that'd be a way to tell the difference! :-) There is no such way, so it must behave just like using the real thing.
Yeah, but Russia is so isolated these days that pitting anything non-Russian vs. something else non-Russian is almost guaranteed to be advantageous to Russia.

That also doesn't change the fact that long term, China is the biggest threat to liberal democracies. In terms of geopolitics, Russia is actually quite complementary to China due to its large area having an abundance of resources to feed Chinese factories and both countries being authoritarian governments.
Apparently this is the result of a May 15 rule change[0] to the Export Administration Regulations[1], which affect anything exported from the US.

The lesson here is that if you're a foreign company that buys US software and equipment, apparently the US government can tell you who you are and aren't allowed to do business with.

[0] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/commerc...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regula...

PS. Some hilarious quotes from the DoC announcement:

> "Huawei and its foreign affiliates have stepped-up efforts to undermine these national security-based restrictions through an indigenization effort. However, that effort is still dependent on U.S. technologies,” said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “This is not how a responsible global corporate citizen behaves. "

Maybe it's just me but the term "global corporate citizen" just seems so absurd and dystopian.
Step 4: go to jail
I mean, maybe if you plan ahead to make it look like you had bought the PUTs anyway as a hedge. Plus then you better hope it actually drops by the amount you think it will. Definitely less guaranteed.
I don't. Bitcoin as investment is already pretty scammy.
But until you did, you would have made more money than the Twitter hacker.
> You realize that UBI requires monies, right?

Like the $1.5trillion tax cut that had "no major impact on businesses' capital investment"?

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/1-5-trillion-tax-cu...
> States like California automatically register voters when they receive IDs, they allow noncitizens of any legal status to obtain IDs, and we're supposed to pretend this isn't an avenue for illegal voting?

Citation required. The California DMV's own website utterly contradicts what you say:

"The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is permitted to issue a driver license (DL) or identification card (ID) to an applicant who submits satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence in the United States (U.S.) is authorized under federal law...DMV will not let you start a DL/ID card application unless you present your social security number (SSN) and your valid BD (birthdate)/LP (legal presence) document...DMV will mail your photo DL/ID card after all tests and requirements have been met and USCIS has verified your legal presence status. "[1]

On a personal level, I know friends who suddenly couldn't drive because their visa expired, even though they were still in legal status while they awaited renewal. Because their license was set to expire the same day as the visa/I94. That's how hard-assed they are about it. (Btw, that's an additional non-citizen "tax" - having to renew your driver's license every 2-3 years, instead of 5 years like a citizen or permanent resident).

So definitely people without legal status can't register to vote this way. How many people with legal status do you think are going to try doing this? Like they went to all this trouble to come to the US legally, and now they'll commit a crime that has very little payoff for them personally and very high risk if they're caught? Remember these are people with a legal presence: they have jobs, USCIS knows where they live, they've been fingerprinted when applying for a visa, they're in the system. Are there FB/WhatsApp groups of non-citizens in legal status coordinating this stuff? Has anyone been arrested for this? Surely if it's going on for so long and at such a scale someone should have been caught right?

Where are your sources?

1. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/ed...
It is't about performance because array indexing also panics.
>Luckily, being the enterprising engineering that I am, I bounce an SSH session through my home server.

When you think about it he also bounced the sperm through the clinic.
> ARM stuff is well supported though

FYI Rust (and Go) currently don’t work on the new Apple ARM macs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23856806
Nit: closures are problematic when they escape. The ubiquitous ones that the functional constructs take (for example) are totally fine.
If we don't have metrics, how are we to fairly and objectively compare one worker's performance to another?
Yeah pretty much. Most of the poor are unbanked and every penny counts.
If I were the scammer I'd send some money to myself to make it look like more people were sending money than really were. Social proof, etc.
If people defer to the algorithm instead of sanity checking it the explanation works, but you're relying on some willful ignorance on part of the traders. Or perhaps massive disconnect from reality.
> Where the hell is anyone getting monies for UBI?!?!?!

In times of crisis like this you just print it and claw it back through higher tax rates .
Majority vote was not the deciding criteria, known to all well before the election. So this is an odd complaint - that somehow the majority needs to decide.

Also, the majority didn't vote for the Democrats either. Of those who voted, 48% voted D, 46% voted R, 3% voted Johnson, 1% voted Stein, misc voted to others.

So would a D win also have been somehow not deserved because they didn't get a majority?

And this is only of those who voted, which is only 55% of eligible voters. So D (and R) both got ~25% of the eligible vote. Some of this is because many people were disgusted by both parties. Trump and Hillary were the two worst Presidential candidates in history, as measured by unfavorability ratings [1]. Had the Dems run anyone with a somewhat normal rating, they would have likely trounced Trump.

We set up some rules that were not entirely unreasonable, and enough people did vote for the outcome that we got that the US does indeed deserve this. And both parties ran record level disliked candidates, so what did you expect would happen?

[1] "Among U.S. adults, Clinton now has a 56% unfavorability rating, while Trump had 63%.

And with registered voters, the two are basically tied: Clinton has 59% unfavorability and Trump has 60%."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...
Basically every language with a vm with boxed types has to have this. Erlang has term_to_binary, which has some crazy superpowers, like I can serialize a lambda, put it on a pigeon, and have it run on an airgapped machine (assuming any module referenced in the lambda has an equivalently named version in the airgapped VM). Of course you can see how this could also be a security problem if you're not careful.

On the other hand, this is part of how erlang distributed systems (which is crazy easy) can communicate with extremely simple semantics, and the security model for erlang distribution is very explicitly "trusted only; locking down the cluster as a single security domain is YOUR responsibilty".
They can always sell their buildings, meh.
Obvious things that needed to be invented
The populous centers have more people, so it makes sense that they have more say.

Moreover, why does people's location on a 2d grid matter at all for grouping people under representatives? Why not the first letter of their surname? Their age? Maybe the altitude of their home? Seems just as arbitrary.
Vaccine researchers have had their systems infected with malware. At the minimum, they've lost time while IT has taken systems offline to research and resolve the issue. Potentially, the integrity of the data itself could be called into question. Regardless of the malware developers intentions, they have done harm just by the nature of their actions.
Completely agree. The term "experts" in that context frustrates me -- and I think you're highlighting this with "so called" -- because I want experts who actually fulfill that role responsibly. The only expertise which Twitter surfaces is "Twitter Expertise" and the other talents are incidental.

We don't want to be steered around by this, so how do we create mass-media that gives us the right properties, and what are those right properties in the first place?
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?

HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
Maybe it’s why so much business left the US for China and India.
And this is why we need bounds checking.
What makes you think the market wouldn't react positively to such news?
Hundreds of thousands may have long positions on HTZ, but the vast majority are all day trading punters with relatively small positions that wouldn't net all that much money. The intersection of those with large enough positions to yield a large profit and those who perfectly timed their sale at the very peak before the market realized it was a fake rumor would be a lot smaller than you might think.
It's very common for people on HN to tout the benefits of their ADHD diagnosis and I feel compelled to point out that getting on ADHD meds was one of the worst mistakes of my life. They triggered a manic episode. The psychiatrist solutions to all my problems was always more meds, different meds, etc. I've mentioned this a few times and I'm always accused of abusing them but the truth is I took a small dose as prescribed. Of course I was "pre-disposed" to mania but how was I supposed to learn that without finding out the hard way? I believe that if I just avoided all the psychiatric pill I never would have gone full manic (hypomanic, but not manic).

The article is right that "chemical imbalance" is a myth as there's no sort of blood tests or normative chemical ranges for any of these mental conditions that people get diagnosed because they are outside of. A quick Google search would show there's no scientific support for chemical imbalance theory, just some pills that affect brain chemicals that people report depression improvement on self-reported survey so a huge, unscientific leap is made that depression is some chemical shortage in the brain. All the psychiatrist diagnoses are basically glorified personality tests, and the criteria are based on the DSM-5 which was made closed door and with heavy influence from pharmaceutical company lobbying.

Mental health is probably one of the most complex aspects of health, things like placebo have a huge impact, it's hard to study, and there's huge bias introduced by a for-profit pharmaceutical industry that pushes treatments to pills.

The field of psychiatry is not that scientific, it's not so long ago it was forcing people into lobotomies and I see the unscientific rush to diagnose everyone into these boxes of depression and ADHD as a similar gaffe that will be looked back on poorly.

I am diagnosed with GAD, ADHD, and bipolar type 1 and I'm doing MUCH better since I went against-medical-advice and quit all meds. For bipolar disorder/anxiety, meditation, yoga, exercise, sobriety, journaling are my key treatments. Mindfulness is key, but not the Hacker News McMindfulness variety where you try to emulate a celebrity monk from Tibet so you can reach Zen all so you can write more code for your startup.

For ADHD, meditation, techniques like pomodoro, and most importantly, just accepting that maybe it's better to achieve less peak productivity than take prescription amphetamines.

I just wanted to provide some counter-perspective as someone who's followed advice like yours much to my detriment.
Or started WWIII by provoking North Korea into a first strike with a tweet from Trump.
I didn't see any links to these in the replies so I thought I'd share: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...

Twitter users are extremely unrepresentative of the US population.

>The analysis indicates that the 22% of American adults who use Twitter are representative of the broader population in certain ways, but not others.
>Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users

so 2.2% of Americans make 80% of the tweets lol